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Details of the 1964 US telegram describing Nkrumah as ‘less of a monkey’

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  • KO 16 hours ago

    Hmmm.

  • FRANKIE 16 hours ago

    These Aryan Caucasian rascals!

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 16 hours ago

    Hello youth of Ghana..... You can take your own life with medicine...........for instance 15 paracetamol at once........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide...

  • SS 14 hours ago

    imbecile

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  • P Djamgbe 8 hours ago

    Who is surprised by this - we are in 2026 and today the White House just described Obama and his wife as monkeys, their own former president and First Lady for that matter.

  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • Common sense NO Common 9 hours ago

    Who are the spies of today. Ablakwa or addo or Ken or Kwasi pratt or acheampong Brian. It could be anyone. We don't know who but we know they are there. They recruited a lot of university students during the Kutu regime for ...
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  • Lord Sutch 3 hours ago

    Raving lunatic!

  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    In 1964, J B Danquah was caught conniving with the CIA to overthrow our democracy. J B Danquah had a speech prepared when Dr Kwame Nkrumah was nearly assassinated and bombed several times-leading to several Ghanaians dying th ...
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  • Common sense NO Common 9 hours ago

    You Asantie people some of you are special patriots. It was the Asantiehene during Nkrumah's who threw the might of the Asantie people behind the independence movement. Kutu Acheampong I think is by far the best leader afte ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    The White man and woman CAME TO AFRICA TO SCAM US, TO STEAL, TO DEPLETE OUR RESOURCES-MINERALS-HENCE GOLD COAST and THE SLAVE TRADE.
    The Whites or England left Ghana with NO EDUCATION FOR OUR MASSES AND MASSES OF OUR PEOPLE. ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    Indeed. Kotoka murdered Lt General BARWAH INFRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Kotoka was a TRAITOR and an UNPATRIOTIC EWE very inward looking EWE and selfish by collecting CIA bribes 10 million US dollars. The same applies to E ...
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  • THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED THEN, THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED NOW 10 hours ago

    Deal with them intelligently to derive maximum benefits for your people. They CANNOT see you as equals. Now need to fight openly, only secure the best interest of your people. If push comes to shove, cut all formal relations ...
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  • Eddy Bow Addmass 10 hours ago

    Some sick dick sucker calling my president what, criminals murders pigs in high offices i bet he is screaming in hell now

  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • TheGhTelegraph 16 hours ago

    Lecturers In Ghana Institutions Of Higher Education Has Questions To Answer/ There Job Is To Educate Young Ghanaians During The Four Plus Years They Spend

  • Osei Bonsu 16 hours ago

    They will have to instill nationalism into most of the Akyem lineage.

  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    In 1964, J B Danquah was caught conniving with the CIA to overthrow our democracy. J B Danquah had a speech prepared when Dr Kwame Nkrumah was nearly assassinated and bombed several times-leading to several Ghanaians dying th ...
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  • TheGhTelegraph 16 hours ago

    At Their Institutions/ So That When They Graduate &Enter Into The World Of Work They Can Put Their Higher Education To Solve Societal Problems

  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    The White man and woman CAME TO AFRICA TO SCAM US, TO STEAL, TO DEPLETE OUR RESOURCES-MINERALS-HENCE GOLD COAST and THE SLAVE TRADE.
    The Whites or England left Ghana with NO EDUCATION FOR OUR MASSES AND MASSES OF OUR PEOPLE. ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 16 hours ago

    Indeed. Kotoka murdered Lt General BARWAH INFRONT OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. Kotoka was a TRAITOR and an UNPATRIOTIC EWE very inward looking EWE and selfish by collecting CIA bribes 10 million US dollars. The same applies to E ...
    read full comment

  • TheGhTelegraph 16 hours ago

    This Is Not The First Time The African Is Being Called A Decorated Monkey/ The Most Recent Of This Phenomenon Was Experienced By The Ghana International Footballer Mr Muntari

  • JULOR CAESAR 2 hours ago

    Even that dumb asshole Hitler Trump yesterday made a post depicting former President Obama and his wife Michele as monkeys. Many of the very ones in Trump's party who were vocal in condemning Trump are merely doing so for hyp ...
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  • TheGhTelegraph 16 hours ago

    The Urgency(KSM Variant) Is Calling For Is No Joke/ On The Journey Of Africans Re/

  • THE LONE CRUSADER 16 hours ago

    I WONDER HOW GHS CRAVE FOR THESE SLAVES MASTERS COUNTRY FULL OF EVIL AND THE MOST RACIST ON THIS PLANET CLAIMING THAT THOU HOLLIER THAN EVERYTHIG GOD HAD CREATED TITLE! ARE THEY NOT THE SOURCES OF OUR TROUBLES?THATS WHY THEY ...
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  • Pelicles. 16 hours ago

    With all these revelations, why can't we be "Up and running"? Yes, the CIA did this and that but, in the end, what have we learned? You know who you enemy is so, what do you do about that, go to him/her for tutoring or you pu ...
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  • LA VÈRITÉ 16 hours ago

    10/10, the only sensible comment so far!

  • OGyam 15 hours ago

    @Pel, in case you missed my reply from your yesterday's comment. Read the comments below. After reading that, you can ontinue peddling your one sided crap. Read them and reply......

    Based on data from the Ghana Mining Re ...
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  • Kwame 14 hours ago

    @OGyam, thank you and this wicked unreasonable greedy people under the Elephant want has to believe that they were the best thing that has ever happened to Ghana. Tweaaa, they shall be in opposition for a very very long time ...
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  • OGyam 13 hours ago

    @Kwame, Pelicles is the sort of person who will blame Nkrumah and Rawlings if he does not get erection. In his mind, the thousands of licences issued by Akufo Addo were for the restoration of our rvers which were destroyed by ...
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  • SS 14 hours ago

    We cant put our acts together to avoid when we dont need remembering-why? Because to this day we have traitors amongst our mist cow-towing to them racist bad people who never want wjat is good for us. Infact as we speak now, ...
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  • I am beginning to understand how treacherous Nkrumah was 16 hours ago

    Anything from an Nkrumah supporter is pain and meant to destroy somebody. So was that how Nkrumah behaved then the people of his time really suffered. So Nkrumah never saw any goodness in any of his fellow citizens — this i ...
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  • Sibo 14 hours ago

    You're a whole lot less than a monkey!!! Akyem ape!!!

  • GOLDEN 15 hours ago

    LESS THAN A MONKEY?? BETTER A MONKEY LOOK THAN A SMELLY PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    LISTEN TO THE AMAZING SERMONS OF TRUSTWORTHY PASTOR OMAR THIBEAUX,GET SOME KNOWLEDGE AND DO NOT CONTINUE TO LIVE IN IGNORANCE,SO MUCH LIES!!!!!

  • I am beginning to understand how treacherous Nkrumah was 15 hours ago

    Whoever died and left behind hatred for others was treacherous while alive.

  • ALL WHITES ARE RACIST 15 hours ago

    You see where all the racism came down from?
    People who you thought were educated, calling an African president a monkey.
    I would put the death sentence on racism.

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  • Vaeda 15 hours ago

    White people are demons. I think the whites have been evil till date.

  • Judge not, condemn not — you just behaved like them 15 hours ago

    By calling them demons, you just behaved like them. When God leads you, you do not have these kinds of hatred in you. Someone calling you a monkey doesn’t make you a monkey. Why should expect anyone’s praises when life to ...
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  • Judge not, condemn not — you just behaved like them 15 hours ago

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  • Judge not, condemn not — you just behaved like them 15 hours ago

    Judge not, condemn not — you just behaved like them 1 minute ago
    By calling them demons, you just behaved like them. When God leads you, you do not have these kinds of hatred in you. Someone calling you a monkey doesn’t ...
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  • JM do your work in quiet and stop the rhetoric 15 hours ago

    You are an asset and so far getting Ghana back after the corrupt akuffo Addo.

    Concentrate on Ghanaians and stop fighting for all West Africa with accusing fingers... We all know what u are saying but we need you to be in p ...
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  • Wasteman 15 hours ago

    ENGLISH TEACHERS PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS

  • kwame 14 hours ago

    Why continue to dine with the Enemy???

  • Kanawu 14 hours ago

    A coup only succeeds if the condition on the ground is primed for it.
    Nkrumah was a dictator who declared himself president for life...That was his very first mistake. He created enemies for himself when he declared himself ...
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  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 14 hours ago

    THE PRESENT DAY JB DANKWA IS AFENYO MARKINS

  • Kofi 14 hours ago

    @ Kanewu. How many dictators are there in Africa now? Have they done coup there? Won't those dictators eventually die? So why coup?

  • owusu 10 hours ago

    no dictator in Africa currently,these tricksters have become wise they know that fake democracy is the only way to stay in power without coup so they hold fake elections instead

  • SA 13 hours ago

    What does this revelation means for todays Ghana? Ghana was and is important country of strategic interest to the United State and the world. Ghana's wealth and richness, black mans country, was mind blowing to the whiteman, ...
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  • K-Poku London only represents the worst side of Nkrumah 13 hours ago

    The worst side of Nkrumah he himself will reject now he has passed on. SHOULD YOU CONTINUE TO HATE OTHERS IN THIS MAN’S NAME? Leave Nkrumah to rest in peace, okay.

  • wofa yaw 11 hours ago

    Their categorization will be done on you too. We cannot leave it to rest until they change their views about us.

  • All die, who cares what some thinks of him or her 9 hours ago

    It is the insecure who worry about these things. I don’t need anybody’s respect. I know who I am

  • Kojo poku-London UK 6 hours ago

    @ whoever

    Do you see the hypocrisy of the white man and woman? Donald Trump has made a video depicting Ex President Barack Obama and his Wife Michelle Obama as Apes or monkeys to put it blunt. A WORD TO THE WISE IS ENOUGH ...
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  • Kwame 12 hours ago

    Yet we still allow US to set military Base in our country to continue their devilish agenda in Africa

  • Raskolonikov 12 hours ago

    White folks actually have features of apes then blacks. Thin lips, big ears, hair all over their.

  • Kwame Angel 11 hours ago

    Look at their dare faces!

  • Kwesi 10 hours ago

    It meant Nkrumah had become less problematic.

  • JULOR CAESAR 2 hours ago

    It shouldn't take recent US declassified documents to inform one that the CIA was behind Nkrumah's ouster in 1066. Some former CIA agents decades ago wrote books detailing the steps the America's CIA had taken to get rid of N ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 1 hour ago

    "It shouldn't take recent US declassified documents to inform one that the CIA was behind Nkrumah's ouster in 1966."

    Sorry, I never meant to bring the Norman Conquest to Ghana with my erroneous date of the year 1066 in my ...
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