1980s in Ghana

Incumbents

• President: Hilla Limann
• President: Jerry Rawlings

  Events

• 27 November 1981 - British synth pop band Soft Cell released their debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
• 31 December 1981 - in another Jerry Rawlings -led coup the Hilla Limann government is overthrown.
• 31 December 1981 - the Provisional National Defense Council forms a new government.
• 5 January 1982 - Jerry Rawlings presents a detailed statement explaining the factors that necessitated the termination of the Third Republic in a radio broadcast.
• June 1982 - an attempted coup attempt discovered, those implicated are executed.
• 1983 - more than one million Ghanaians return to Ghana after being expelled from Nigeria.
• 1983-84 - widespread bush fires devastate crop production.
• 1987 - economic progress results in a drop of inflation to 20 percent.

  National holidays

• January 1: New Year's Day
• March 6: Independence Day
• May 1: Labor Day
• December 25: Christmas
• December 26: Boxing day