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Mr Mahama has been skilful, not least in handling his own people and in gently but firmly neutralising Mr Rawlings, who likes to give populist advice from the sidelines of the president's own party.

Ibrahim Mahama, a 28-year-old from Tamale, Ghana, will have the largest work in the Biennale.

Then, after Mr Mahama won the election, by a margin of only 325,000 votes out of 11m, the Supreme Court took until August this year to uphold the original result.

Even though the polls are two-and-a-half years away, it feels as if a starting-gun has been fired.Ghana has had six fair elections since 1992, with power twice changing hands between the two main parties, Mr Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) and President John Dramani Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC).For Mr Mahama, Mr Akufo-Addo, now 70, is a familiar foe.

But now Mr Mahama must prove he has both integrity and courage.

The front page of a pro-opposition newspaper, the Daily Guide, gave twice as much prominence to this brewing Ghanaian scandal as to the news of Nelson Mandela's death.Mr Mahama, who published a thoughtful autobiography before his election, lists the salient issues facing his country with candour, conviction and charm.

| Oct. 10-11 at 8: "Njagnaan" (1974, Mahama Johnson Traoré; in Wolof and French).

But on July 24th, within hours of the sudden end from cancer of Ghana's president, John Atta Mills, his deputy, John Mahama, was sworn in with impressive constitutional calmness to replace him.The most unusual sight was the square outside the country's parliament filled with 48 large ambulances.

Yet its president, John Mahama, worries about the knock-on effect of Islamist militancy.

The communications minister, John Mahama, said the government would not "dance to the tune of foreigners".But the government got its voice heard a few days later when Mr Atta Mills organised a solo performance to set out his agenda on television, and answer questions from journalists.

"It would have been a crime to confine such an intellectual man to two or three minutes," explained Mr Mahama.