3 years today: Late Prez. John Evans Atta Mills – What to know about his early life

• Posted on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Today marks 3 years since the demise of the late President of Ghana, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills. He died at age 68.

www.233times.net as a way of remembering the late first gentleman of the land shares his early early with the world;

Atta Mills was born on 21 July 1944 in Tarkwa , in the Western Region of Ghana. A member of the Fante ethnic group, he hailed from the town of Ekumfi Otuam in the Mfantsiman East constituency of the Central Region of Ghana. He had his primary and middle school education at Huni Valley Methodist Primary School and Komenda Methodist Middle School respectively.

He then proceeded to the prestigious Achimota School for his secondary education, where he completed the Ordinary and Advanced-Level Certificates in 1961 and 1963 respectively, and the University of Ghana, Legon, where he completed a bachelor of law degree, LLB and a professional law certificate in 1967.

Mills studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he obtained an LLM in 1968 and earned a PhD in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London after completing his doctoral thesis in the field of taxation and economic development in 1971 at the age of 27. Even during his career in politics he was sometimes called by the nickname The Prof, a reference to his long academic career. His political supporters also called him Asomdweehene meaning ‘King of Peace’ in the Akan language.

-Wikipedia