It may 'TARRY'

'Humility is not a weakness but power' President John Evans Atta Mills On tuesday the 24th of July,2012 the nation Ghana were befallen of a great man who was probably not well known before his death but is described to be decent man, modest and reticent to the point of dullness. John Atta Mills was born on July 21 1944 in the town of Tarkwa in what was then the British Crown Colony of Gold Coast. He was 13 when his homeland became the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve independence in 1957 as the new nation of Ghana. Mills was, at heart, an academic rather than a politician. After graduating in Law from the University of Ghana in 1967, he spent most of the 1970s in Britain, studying first at the London School of Economics and then taking a doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He returned home in the 1980's and joined the political which he later became the flagbearer. After that he went on to lose two presidential elections before gaining power in 2008. Mills was often accused of being a puppet of those more capable and outgoing than himself. He never quite emerged from the shadow of Jerry Rawlings, Ghana’s flamboyant military ruler for almost two decades, whom Mills served as a suitably deferential vice-president. Though infamous as a strong leader his words of wisdom made him perhaps the most humbled man one would ever know. Though 'it may tarry' his legacy will not be forgotten. He indeed stated that 'humility is not weakness but power' and that is the legacy which will lead on. Mills, who had been suffering from throat cancer, is survived by his wife, Ernestina, and one son. John Atta Mills, born July 21 1944, died July 24 2012 Siting from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/9427483/John-Atta-Mills.html