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Here is what Dr. Kwame Nkrumah said after his overthrow in 1966

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  • Water Yam 2 months ago

    Neo colonialists' conspirators, who was he referring to? The Ashanti-Akyem saboteurs. Without the Ashantis Ghana would have made significant progress than where we are today. Self-centered individuals who contributed little t ...
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  • FRANKIE 2 months ago

    The Busia/Danquah/Dombo/NPP/Matemeho brigands and bandits and buccaneers are a curse to Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. What happened to the legendary Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Africa's greatest personality of the last millennium is ...
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  • Akuffo Adoo (the monkey) 2 months ago

    That was the beginning of our destruction. They had only one motive: to loot and enrich themselves. Look at them today!

  • Who killed Mills 2 months ago

    They are even hungrier now. Look at short addo, where does he think he is going with all that money. Okro dick so he can't even enjoy the loot so he is now forcing us all to be lgbt. Foolish Addo, you were born with it as yo ...
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  • Kubut3 2 months ago

    Kotoka and Gen Ankrah were from kumasi. YES.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 2 months ago

    I very much like your response. You should have added that Officer Harley who planned everything with the CIA is also an Akyem or Asante.
    I was quite young when Nkrumah was kicked out of office. We’re Ghanaians so naive t ...
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  • JJ Kuffour Akufo Addo 2 months ago

    Mr. Agyena -Karikari, you're very old and still here spewing garbage

  • Bubra 2 months ago

    It is 2024 and we still call bomb throwers and agitators terrorsts. But it appears you will rather call them bishops and saints.

  • Who killed Mills 2 months ago

    Bubra, what the bomb throwers failed to do was achieved by Rawlings. He destroyed the only truly progressive party in Ghana so now the CPP is in total disarray. For the Nkrumah spirit to be revived , we need to kill off NDC. ...
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  • Joeboy 2 months ago

    We now know they were all lies! The lies told in 1966 were no different from the lies told in 2016. Nkrumah was building a meritocracy of Nationalists. Under- achievers find no place in such a system.

  • be wise 2 months ago

    Where did you learn all these made up lies from? God have mercy on your soul.

  • Kk 2 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah alias Francis Kofi Nweah was bloody communist dictator.

  • Kotibrim 2 months ago

    I doubt if you understand the English you just wrote

  • Onion 2 months ago

    ...He was over-ambitious and his sense of reasoning was mediocre, to say the least.

  • Northern star 2 months ago

    Water Yaw is 100% right with this wonderful submission. When I look in the eyes of these two tribes descendants, then l see evil written all over them. The Ashanti and Akyem tribes have really destroyed the future of Ghana fo ...
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  • Onion 2 months ago

    Senseless and tribal-filled comments without truth.

  • ZT 2 months ago

    He brought a law to cage hundreds of people with little to know reason and declared himself president for life that was one of the biggest reasons they kicked him out not because they were working for the worst

  • ZT 2 months ago

    West *

  • Viper 2 months ago

    ZT go and read your history books well and stop misleading Ghanaians.

  • Kofi Adu 2 months ago

    Viper, what ZT is saying is true. The reason why Nkrumah built the Nsawam prison was for anyone who speaks against the government. I was in elementary school during his time. We were told to that Nkrumah never dies. Because h ...
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  • Kotibrim 2 months ago

    Only an ignorant asante will write such a comment

  • Joeboy 2 months ago

    Well, you've got the shithole country you've always wanted! Get sick- no hospital beds, but your servants fly out for care. Your schools, overcrowded and underfunded, yet your servants' children study abroad in well-resource ...
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  • Take this! 2 months ago

    Nkrumah was full of himself thinking he was so important when fooled to believe he could bring peace between the US and Vietnam, poor sole. His absence allowed the CIA to kick his ass off without much bloodshed.
    Viper, the ...
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  • Ashua Bodey 2 months ago

    Smart Brain of The Country. After His Overthrow, the country has been going through HELL with Uneducated little Brains looting the nation Coffers. Politicians with Fake Academic Background and has NO knowledge of Nation Build ...
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  • kanewu 2 months ago

    He was a dictator and had to be kicked out

  • Viper 2 months ago

    That's all you know. His dictatorship made us got Okomfo Anokye teaching hospital, Akosombo dam, knust..Tell me one tangible thing those who overthrew him built from 1966 to 1972.

  • SENDERO 2 months ago

    Viper. Go and read the Watson Commission Report. Tech was announced in 1948 and construction started in 1949. It was opened 6 January 1952 and Nkrumah was not even at the opening ceremonial.

    Same with Gee. It was started i ...
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  • Nsia 2 months ago

    @Sendero, you can right off with your incessant bullshit! To you, Kwame Nkrumah, never did anything in Ghana. You have been telling us the same crap for decades. The fact remains the same, Gee, Tech, UCC, Tema etc were all ...
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  • Accra is dirty.com 2 months ago

    He was a dictator?You see how China has become one of the world greatest Nation because of Dictatorship?See how the so called Democracy has made Ghana a laughing nation, Africans needs Dictatorships to rule them especially G ...
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  • Nana 2 months ago

    See how America has become because of democracy and individual freedoms and liberty?

  • Nsia 2 months ago

    @Nana... You are one of those ignorant farts who praise the flawed democracy of America without knowing much about it. Now, to cure your ignorance, kindly Google.. The Palmer Raids. There, it will be as plain as the nose on y ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 2 months ago

    Of dictatorship is good, why don’t you move to settle in China or North Korea with your family. Every normal Human Being wants freedom. Imagine how Ghanaians complained when Jeremiah John Rawlings put the whole of Ghana und ...
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  • Who killed Mills 2 months ago

    Why did you not add the names of the countries that kill black people just because they are black. They refuse to employ or promote you just because you are black. They told us when to sleep and wake during covid and you thin ...
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  • Old CPPist 2 months ago

    A day of eternal shame and curses. But surely we shall overcome the betrayal of the fake, infiltrated, rump CPP, and the treason and corruption of the 2 leading neo-colonialist parties - NPP and NDC.

  • NANA SERWAA BRONI ADDO 2 months ago

    AKUFFO ADDO IS WORST , CORRUPT AND MOST USELESS PRESIDENT EVER IN THE HISTORY OF GHANA

  • Obrempong 2 months ago

    Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Abransam Adu,
    Bonsuoboa , bravo!!. His achievements like
    building infrastructures ; roads educational
    Institurions and so forth were fundations to
    Steer ghana into socio-economic growth and
    Devel ...
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  • Nsia 2 months ago

    @Obrempong.... Your fanciful name does not do credit to your mindset. And, since ignorance is a curable disease, I will knock a modicum of sense into your head. It will stop you from believing the pack of lies that we have al ...
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  • THE BEST LEADER EVER EXISTED IN GHANA 2 months ago

    NO ONE WILL EVER COME CLOSE TO ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAI MAN DID FOR GHANA

  • The best president ever folks 2 months ago

    he was no dictator don't ever believe this lies

  • Macdonald 2 months ago

    Nkrumah never dies

  • Sam 2 months ago

    And who was his Vice President?

  • Dickson 2 months ago

    Fine question, tell us if you know

  • Foools 2 months ago

    Bawumia your morda !!!

  • Joeboy 2 months ago

    He didn't need an aplanke!

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 2 months ago

    Well, all sensible Ghanaians have by now realised the real truth behind this great setbacks of our Development as an independent nation. The interference and performance of some foreign powers against our country with the co ...
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  • Kofi Ghanaba 2 months ago

    Kwama Nkrumah caused his own overthrow.He alienated himself from the people of Ghana.J..B.Danquah,Obetsebi Lamptey,Ako Adjei and others suffered jail terms under his P.D.A.The soldiers under his regime removed him from power. ...
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  • Nsia 2 months ago

    @Kofi Ghanaba..... The losers you have just mentioned never won any of the elections conducted in Ghana in 1951 & 1954. In early 1955, yes, 1955, these losers bombed Kwame Nkrumah at his home in Accra Newtown. That was was e ...
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  • Spio 2 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah party cpp does not have even one seat in paliament. Please give us break, ndc has collapse Nkrumah party

  • Accra is dirty.com 2 months ago

    Afrifa also got his fair share of the reward at Teshie military range, while Kotoka was brought down at airport by Lt.Moses Yeboah and Lt.SB Arthur

  • Joy 2 months ago

    The only thing about Kwame nkrumah was that he was not a thief. He wanted to make Ghana a happy place for foreigners to come and enjoy. Our modern day politicians are all thieves

  • Nana 2 months ago

    He could not be a thief because he declared himself president for life in a one party dictatorship. He was going to live in Flagstaff House till he died with one of his children becoming the next president for life. That is w ...
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  • Foools 2 months ago

    It’s better that way than to have the likes of akuffo Addo and Bawuliar

  • Nana 2 months ago

    Dr Nkrumah should have admitted the PDA was a mistake. Some Ghanaians whose family members suffered detention with some dying there and others dying shortly after their release after the coup will never forgive him even afte ...
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  • be wise 2 months ago

    PDA was not a mistake. It was drafted by the Queen of England. Amazingly, your JB Danquah didn't see anything wrong with it when it was a white person ruling Ghana. What a hypocrisy.

    Nkrumah only enforced that law as envio ...
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  • Eric Fynn 2 months ago

    Those who named the airport after Kotoka all because he was killed there by his junior officers are evil like Kotoka.How come as a nation we don't like coup but have named our national airport after a coup man Kotoka.like how ...
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  • Nana 2 months ago

    Rawlings, Kojo Tsikata, Kofi Awoonor and the PNDC were Nkrumaists. Why didn’t they change the name of the airport from Kotoka to Nkrumah? Would they have if Kotoka was not Anlo but Asante?

  • Samtee, USA 2 months ago

    Once in a million" years, a country is blessed with such generational thinkers of great leaders. Unfortunately, when the Ultimate Decide blessed Mother Ghana with such a leader, sadly, we allowed the Western World to use our ...
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  • Kubut3 2 months ago

    NKRUMAH THIS , NKRUMAH THAT. HE CLAIMED TO LOVE BLACK PEOPLE, BUT HE MARRIED WHITE, RIGHT AFTER HE GOT POWER.

  • Kubut3 2 months ago

    NKRUMAH made some people very lazy. ALL THE HARD WORKING COCOA FARMERS WERE AGAINST HIS STUPID COMMUNIST AGENDA.

  • be wise 2 months ago

    wodi3 wo gyimiee no. You've been writing nonsense here and there as if you got no brains or gumption...Gyimiee saaaa na wodi awu ako hell..Silly.

  • Foools 2 months ago

    Fatiha is from Egypt ,a full African and not a white person dummy dick head

  • Nsia 2 months ago

    We do not expect a fool calling himself "Kubut3" to make an ounce of sense. Obetsebi Lamptey married a white Dutch Woman. Joe Appiah married a white English woman. Yet, dickhead like you cannot see beyond your fat ugly nose ...
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  • Anton Rhule, Cape Coast 2 months ago

    I can't read from any one commenting and bashing Ashantis and Akyims that Kotoka's name should be removed from our only international Airport. After all he was the mastermind. Why are we so eaten by tribal bigotry like that? ...
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  • Anonymous 2 months ago

    One Man Show. Was his Weakness. Taking the Pride alone for himself. What about his fellows. They never gave him Peace. Their last resort was the 24 February Coups.

  • SIMANCO 2 months ago

    Preventive detention Act was what Nkrumah introduced and there was no free speech. The Ghana young Pioneers could even report anyone who criticized Nkrumah.. Nkrumah detained many chiefs from the Volta region and thousands ...
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  • Kweku Tsin. 2 months ago

    24th February 1966 ,a day not to be forgotten in the annals of Ghana.

  • Stone Age AfricansnSe 2 months ago

    Does prosperity mean throwing your political opponents into jail without due process of the law? Nkrumah was a communist dictator.

  • Nsia 2 months ago

    @'Does rejection at the polling station means going round and bombing the winners? That is precisely what the losers did: O Lamptey, Busia, Danquah etc. And, they started in 1955 - 1956. Yes, the PDA was meant for terrorist ...
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  • Kubut3 2 months ago

    We simply hate dictators. Whether they're black or white. Nkrumah might be a hero to you . But to some of us he was a tyrant. Bring Mahama if he act stupid , we will not support him even if he pave the streets of kumasi with ...
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  • Spinoza 2 months ago

    Nkrumah,may your soul rest in the bossom of Abraham for you have proven to all mankind that you were right. All the nations that took their destiny in their own hands like Singapore, China and Korea are reaping bumper from th ...
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  • Nsia 2 months ago

    @Spinoza.... Just look at the hopelessness of the fatuous and odious Danquah Busia Detritus who detested Nkrumah so much at the calling if hypocritical America. Whereas, Nkrumah, left us solid infrastructural base which is st ...
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  • Zionism is racism 2 months ago

    The U.S., which gave 600k dollars to overthrow Nkrumah are now pouring billions to assist the racist zionist state of Israel in its bid to eliminate the Palestinians. They also supported apartheid South Africa.

  • Kubut3 2 months ago

    Nkrumah,s. BIGGEST MISTAKE : FIGHTING AGAINST AMERICA,S INTERESTS. NKRUMAH WANTED TO BE BIGGER THAN HE REALLY WAS. OURS IS A VERY SMALL COUNTRY. WE SHOULDN'T MEDDLE IN BIG WORLD GEO POLITICS. THATS FOR THE BIG BOYS. DID HE ...
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  • Kubut3 2 months ago

    THOSE IDIOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA , ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH THE ISRAELI /PALESTINIAN ISSUE. WHERE IS THE ARAB LEAGUE ? MEANWHILE SOUTH AFRICA IS GRADUALLY FALLING APART , IDIOTS LIKE MELEMA AND LUMUMBA MAKING STUPID SPEECHES I ...
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  • be wise 2 months ago

    Kabut3, you made me laugh but "w'agyimi ooo" heeerh! You've really shown your cowardice hiding behind asante as though you got balls...
    heeerh na adwen b3n kraa nie..eeeeih!

  • be wise 2 months ago

    Kabut3, you made me laugh but "w'agyimi ooo" heeerh! You've really shown your cowardice hiding behind asante as though you got balls...
    heeerh na adwen b3n kraa nie..eeeeih!

  • Babs 2 months ago

    The greedy Ashanti's and their so call Npp have done great harm to this Nation by collaborating with the American CIA to eliminate this great Man

  • Kubut3 2 months ago

    Really we should collaborate with the Americans. Even the Chinese collaborate with the Americans. WHERE DO YOU THINK MAHAMA HAD HIS LAST BABY ? CERTAINLY NOT RUSSIA OR CUBA. Guess WHERE.? THE USA.

  • Boachie 2 months ago

    Yes he led Ghana to get independence but arrested and jailed all who criticised him, it's what he sowed is what he reaped, jailed those who fought to get independence with him, and the Karma paid him for what he did against ...
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  • Nsia 2 months ago

    Boachie, ....another ignorant fart spewing rubbish from his ignorant head! Nkrumah, was in prison when the sensible people of Ghana voted form him. They rejected Obetsebi Lamptey, J B Danquah in all the elections. Their respo ...
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  • Gbagba 2 months ago

    Singapore and countries we always referred to as develop countries started as a one party state. They followed their development plans patiently. Now we are spending billions of money we don't have on partisan useless democra ...
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  • Fuego 2 months ago

    What was your saint Nkrumah afraid off inprisoning everybody let and right ,feeding his opponents to lions and Crocodiles and brainwashing children in primary and middle schools(his so-called young pioneers) to spy on their o ...
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  • OGyam 2 months ago

    Fuego, indeed, your ignorant head is on fire. Let RR Amponsah, Busia, Danquah, Baffour Akoto, Obetsebi Lamptey etc also come back from their graves and start bombing and maiming again. When you bomb innocent people and your p ...
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  • Jerry 2 months ago

    Dr Nkrumah is such a great leader whose charismtic leadership Rose was jalously by Busia and UP party where they Nkrumah to US and CIA

  • Theophilus Botchwey 2 months ago

    United africa . africa most united . O A U . All this is kwame n'krumah creat this peaceful and so many things Dr n'krumah for africans . if you go to country's like east africa or any country
    they respect . Dr N'krumah ...
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  • Henry Nikoi Kotey 2 months ago

    We African people who are darker than blue with not have peace until we come out of our slave minds