President
|
Tenure
|
Party
|
State
|
Elections
|
1
|
|
Kwame Nkrumah
(1909–1972)
|
20 October 1965 –
27 April 1972
(died in office)
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
|
N/A
|
1968
|
2
|
|
Ahmed Sékou Touré
(1922–1984)
|
27 April 1972 –
26 March 1984
(died in office)
|
|
African People's Party
|
Guinea
|
1972
|
1976
|
1980
|
3
|
|
Kojo Botsio
(1916–2001)
|
26 March 1984 –
1 July 1984
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
|
4
|
|
Hilla Limann
(1938–1998)
|
1 July 1984 –
1 July 1988
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
|
1984
|
5
|
|
Fela Kuti
(1938–1997)
|
1 July 1988 –
1 July 1992
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
(in exile from Nigeria)
|
1988
|
6
|
|
Kenneth Kaunda
(b. 1924)
|
1 July 1992 –
1 July 1996
|
|
African People's Party
|
Zambia
|
1992
|
7
|
|
Jerry Rawlings
(b. 1947)
|
1 July 1996 –
1 July 2000
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
|
1996
|
8
|
|
John Atta Mills
(b. 1944)
|
1 July 2000 –
1 July 2004
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
|
2004
|
9
|
|
George Hagan
(b. 1938)
|
1 July 2004 –
1 July 2008
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
|
2000
|
10
|
|
John Fru Ndi
(b. 1941)
|
1 July 2008 –
1 July 2012
|
|
African People's Party
|
Cameroon
|
2008
|
11
|
|
Aminata Touré
(b. 1952)
|
1 July 2012 –
1 July 2016
|
|
African People's Party
|
Guinea
|
2012
|
12
|
|
Samia Nkrumah
(b. 1960)
|
1 July 2016 –
present
|
|
African People's Party
|
Ghana
|
2016
|