Jerry Rawlings award received Order of José Martí
Awards and honours
July 1984: the Order of Jose Marti by the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
October 2013: Honorary degree (Doctorate of Letters) from the University for Development Studies in northern Ghana.
This award recognised Rawlings's contribution to the establishment of the university. In 1993, he used his US$50,000 Hunger Project cash prize as seed money to sponsor the establishment of the state-owned university (founded in May 1992), the first of its kind in the three northern regions of Ghana.
October 2013: the Global Champion for People's Freedom award bestowed the Mkiva Humanitarian Foundation.
August 2014: Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa.
August 2018: Marcus Garvey Awards.
December 2018: Enstooled as the Togbuiga Nutifafa I of Anlo, a development chief in the Ghanaian chieftaincy system.
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