“I’m here to represent Africa’s greatest hope,” Nana Kwame Bediako told an audience in a Palace of Westminster committee room in central London in October, referring to younger people on the continent. Bediako had arrived on the political scene earlier this year when he revealed himself as the man behind the mysterious, masked figure who was appearing on billboards across the country. Already a well-known businessman, he is running as an independent candidate with the backing of New Force Movement, a party he has set up to support his attempt. Though seen as a long-shot candidate, his campaign, which echoes the pan-Africanism of the country’s first leader, Kwame Nkrumah, is credited with tapping into the aspirations of younger voters in a country where the median age is 21.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
