The family of former President Flt Lt has expressed gratitude to the government and people of Burkina Faso for naming a street after him, describing it as an honour not only to the family but also to the people of Ghana.
In a statement read on behalf of the family by Ms Yaa Asantewaa Agyeman-Rawlings, Executive Director of the JJ Rawlings Foundation, during the ceremony in Ouagadougou on Sunday, May 18, she said: "This is a huge recognition of the legacy of a man who dedicated his life to social justice, a man who gave his life in service to ordinary people." "For Jerry Rawlings, the pursuit of a just society - the socio-economic liberation of the ordinary African from poverty, food insecurity, underdevelopment, and global marginalisation - was not a political ambition.
It was a calling, a duty.
In the same vein, Thomas Sankara dedicated his life to the ideal of a self-sufficient Africa, free from the shackles of neo-colonialism.
