Title: Ghana
Subtitle: The Struggle for Popular Power
First published: January 1991
Description: This book is about the 31st December, 1981 coup which brought Ft. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings to power and ushered in the administration of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). Zaya served as PNDC Secretary (Minister) for Youth and Sports, and was one of the founding members of the June 4 Movement in Ghana. Later became one of the most radical elements in the Rawlings regime. Disagreed over  several policy options and resigned from the Government. This book is about his experiences in the PNDC adminstration, the debates about development policy, and thedescent of the Rawlings government into a one man perssonalised dicatorship. This book is the only one writttren by an insider. Worth reading.
Subjects: Ghana, Revolution in Africa, coups in Africa, Rawlings, dictatorship, student movement.
Places: Ghana
People: Jerry Rawlings; Chris Atim, Kwesi Adu, Kwesi Pratt
Time periods: Politics in Ghana