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More than 20 years ago, a Baylor economics professor delivered an open lecture for the campus community entitled \u201cThe Economy and Political Change in Ghana<\/a>.\u201d It was a speech that proved to foreshadow the future; this month, that professor — Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia<\/a> — begins his second term as vice president of Ghana.<\/p>\n Bawumia, born the 12th of 18 children in Ghana, spent four years as an economics professor in Baylor\u2019s Hankamer School of Business<\/a> from 1996-2000 and quickly established a reputation as a popular professor and scholar. In 1998, he won the Hankamer Young Researcher Award<\/a>; that same year, he\u00a0authored a chapter in a comparative economics textbook. But heeding the call to put his expertise into action for his home country, Bawumia left Baylor in 2000 to work for the Bank of Ghana.<\/p>\n Since that time, Bawumia has served in various banking roles in both Ghana and Zimbabwe, eventually finding his way into politics. He was the New Patriotic Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 2008 and 2012, but his party lost each election. In between, he served as a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia and as a senior research associate at Oxford.<\/p>\n In 2016, he was again named the NPP’s vice-presidential candidate, and this time, the ticket (led by\u00a0presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo) won the election, winning 54% of the vote to beat the incumbent president.\u00a0Akufo-Addo and Bawumia were re-elected last fall, and began their second terms earlier this month.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Vice-President Bawumia!<\/p>\n More than 20 years ago, a Baylor economics professor delivered an open lecture for the campus community entitled \u201cThe Economy and Political Change in Ghana.\u201d It was a speech that proved to foreshadow the future; this month, that professor — Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia — begins his second term as vice president of Ghana. Bawumia, born […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[updated Jan. 13, 2021]<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"