President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe
is expected in Ghana for a four-day state visit next week.
Mr Mugabe will be in Ghana from August 18 - 22 for a visit that is
expected to open corporate Ghana to opportunities in Zimbabwe.
President John Mahama is expected to
confer on Africa's longest serving President, the Millennium Life Time
Achievement award for his role in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle from British
colonial rule.
President
Mugabe has "a special soft spot" for Ghana. His first wife Sarah
Francesca (Hayfron) Mugabe was a Ghanaian who was much loved in
Zimbabwe. She was the First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1987 until her death in 1992.
She was popularly known as Amai (Mother).
The 92-year-old president will also
meet with the Zimbabwean community in Ghana. President Robert Mugabe's last
visit to Ghana was in 2007.
Mugabe rose to prominence in the
1960s as the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) during the
conflict against the conservative white minority government of Rhodesia now
Zimbabwe.
He has been President of the country
since 1987.
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