The IMANI president wrote that he is back in his apartment and expects two weeks of healing after surgery in Chicago.

Published 7 Nov 2026, 06:47 GMT

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Franklin Cudjoe, founding president of IMANI Africa, says he has left hospital in Chicago after surgery and will spend the next two weeks recovering.

"Discharged and back in my apartment. Next 2 weeks of healing and then the magic will happen," he wrote on Friday.

On Thursday he had asked for prayers before the operation at RUSH University Medical Center. He asked people to pray for the neurosurgeons there and for a medical team in San Antonio, Texas.

He has been preparing for deep brain stimulation as treatment for Parkinson's disease. On November 3 he wrote that a test in San Antonio was to check that dementia would not block the procedure.

He has said Ghana has about 12 general neurologists and none who specialises in deep brain stimulation. In January he said he had lived with Parkinson's for eight years. "Parkinsons has no cure but it won't kill you. It can only be managed with expensive medication and lifestyle adjustment," he wrote then.

He wrote on Thursday that, after the surgery, IMANI would host neurosurgeons and neurologists in Ghana to widen access to specialists, equipment, medicines and care. He thanked businessman Ibrahim Mahama, and said that support would let people watch a documentary of his travel from Ghana.

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Franklin Cudjoe says he is out of hospital after Chicago surgery

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