What kind of background makes a good politician?

This is of course a subjective question, but there are probably two aspects which can contribute to being a good politician

- good education (either from a university or self-taught) about the history (both of country and of the world), economics politics and social studies

- good connection to the life of average people: being raised in a poor area, visiting poor areas more frequently: not to loose "contact with reality" and to know the citizens' actual needs.

Ghana, first of the great medieval trading empires of western africa (fl. 7th–13th century). it was situated between the sahara and the headwaters of the sénégal and niger rivers, in an area that now comprises southeastern mauritania and part of mali.