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President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009

For his son, the Ghanaian businessman, see John Addo Kufuor.

John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938)^[1] is a Ghanaian politiciana who served as the tenth president of Ghana from 2001 to 2009.^[2] He was the fifth chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008^[3] and his victory over John Atta Mills at the end of Jerry Rawlings' second term marked the first transition of power in Ghana from a democratic party to another democratic party.^[4]

Kufuor's career has been spent on the liberal-democratic^[2] side of Ghanaian politics, in the parties descended from the United Gold Coast Convention and the United Party.^[2] As a lawyer and businessman, he was a minister in Kofi Abrefa Busia's Progress Party government^[1] during Ghana's Second Republic, and a Popular Front Party opposition frontbencher during the Third Republic.

In the Fourth Republic, Kufuor