‘Ghana will not belong to any family’ – Koku Anyidoho

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Kwame 3 days ago

Of you Koku go smoke your things, it is only nonesense you keep talking about. Who said Ghana belongs to anyone?

Of you Koku go smoke your things, it is only nonesense you keep talking about. Who said Ghana belongs to anyone?
GHANA 3 days ago

THE CIA AGENTS ARE ON IT AGAIN:
GHANAIANS SAY NO TO NPP CIA TACTICS AGAINST MAHAMA/NKRUMAH GOVERMENT;
THIS IS EXACTLY THE TACTIC THE USED TO REMOVE NKRUMAH:
LETS SAY NO THIS TIME AGAINST THEIR USELESS JANDAM LIES TACKTIC ...
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THE CIA AGENTS ARE ON IT AGAIN:
GHANAIANS SAY NO TO NPP CIA TACTICS AGAINST MAHAMA/NKRUMAH GOVERMENT;
THIS IS EXACTLY THE TACTIC THE USED TO REMOVE NKRUMAH:
LETS SAY NO THIS TIME AGAINST THEIR USELESS JANDAM LIES TACKTICS
You are low in thinking 3 days ago

Can’t Mahama bring the country together? Do we always have to hate each other? And this time it has become too much. The demonization of certain groups must stop. We only need to be tolerant to develop. Nkrumah was very div ...
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Can’t Mahama bring the country together? Do we always have to hate each other? And this time it has become too much. The demonization of certain groups must stop. We only need to be tolerant to develop. Nkrumah was very divisive and Mahama is very divisive. It creates hatred. Should we continue to hate each other because of distrust. Treating each other well will curb any distrust. Ata mills government was that evil and people liked him as a person. Can’t Mahama resemble Ata mills a bit?
Nurse 3 days ago

You saw how a sitting MP was manhandled by mask wearing armed robbers organised by Azugu, Double and Bryan Acheampong at Ayawaso West Wagon and you were quiet. Please ask for repentance from God and bow down your head in sh ...
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You saw how a sitting MP was manhandled by mask wearing armed robbers organised by Azugu, Double and Bryan Acheampong at Ayawaso West Wagon and you were quiet. Please ask for repentance from God and bow down your head in shame
ONNIPANUA PAA 2 days ago

Wabodam asie ofui

Wabodam asie ofui
Mandela 2 hours ago

Very foolish talk by a frustrated traitor.

Very foolish talk by a frustrated traitor.
DOOBIA 3 days ago

Shut up as you did when Nana Addo and his family captured Ghana for eight years.

Shut up as you did when Nana Addo and his family captured Ghana for eight years.
Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 3 days ago

Ugly fool and see cow. Gbemela.

Ugly fool and see cow. Gbemela.
Patrick 3 days ago

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Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: Those Who Knew Him Both Loved Him and Feared Him — A Reflection on Ghana, 1957–1966**

The period between 1950 and 1966 remains one of the most defining eras in Ghana’s national story, and a ...
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Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: Those Who Knew Him Both Loved Him and Feared Him — A Reflection on Ghana, 1957–1966**

The period between 1950 and 1966 remains one of the most defining eras in Ghana’s national story, and at its center stood Dr. Kwame Nkrumah — a man whose presence evoked admiration, devotion, anxiety, and resistance in equal measure. To reflect on Nkrumah is to confront a leader who embodied the contradictions of a young nation struggling to define itself. Those who knew him closely often loved him deeply, yet many also feared the intensity of his convictions and the sweeping force of his political will. Ghana’s journey through these sixteen years cannot be separated from the personality, dreams, and miscalculations of the man who led it.

In the early 1950s, Nkrumah emerged as a symbol of hope for a colonized people yearning for dignity. His charisma electrified the masses; his speeches stirred imaginations; his certainty in Ghana’s destiny gave courage to millions. For many, he was not merely a political leader but a father figure, a liberator, and the embodiment of African possibility. The love people felt for him was rooted in gratitude — gratitude for independence, for national pride, for the belief that Ghana could stand tall among nations.

Yet this same intensity of devotion created an atmosphere where dissent felt dangerous. Nkrumah’s vision was grand, urgent, and uncompromising. He believed Ghana had a historic mission: to lead Africa toward unity and liberation. Those who worked with him admired his brilliance but feared his impatience. He demanded loyalty, speed, and sacrifice. His government’s Preventive Detention Act, though justified by him as necessary for national security, cast a long shadow over civil liberties. The fear people felt was not always of the man himself, but of the machinery of power that grew around him — a machinery fueled by his belief that destiny required discipline.

Between 1957 and 1966, Ghana experienced both exhilarating progress and painful strain. Nkrumah’s investments in education, infrastructure, and industrialisation were visionary. The Akosombo Dam, the expansion of secondary schools, and the establishment of state industries reflected a leader thinking decades ahead. But the economic pressures of rapid development, combined with political centralisation, created cracks in the national foundation. Love for Nkrumah persisted, but frustration grew. Fear deepened as opposition voices were silenced and the state tightened its grip.

By 1966, the contradictions reached their breaking point. The coup that removed Nkrumah was not merely a political event; it was the collapse of a dream that had been carried too heavily by one man. Yet even in exile, Nkrumah remained a figure of profound emotional complexity — loved by many who believed in his vision, feared by those who remembered the weight of his authority, and respected by all who recognized his historic significance.

Reflecting on Ghana from 1950 to 1966 is to acknowledge that nation-building is never simple. Nkrumah was a man of extraordinary gifts and human flaws, a leader whose love for Ghana was unquestionable, yet whose methods sometimes wounded the very people he sought to uplift. His legacy endures because it forces us to confront the delicate balance between idealism and power, freedom and control, vision and humility. Ghana’s story — and Africa’s — is richer because he lived.
Kwabee - shai 3 days ago

Thank you. Let's rise up and fight this political canker

Thank you. Let's rise up and fight this political canker

Kofi 3 days ago

Listen to who is talking of insults here. Wonders will never end

Listen to who is talking of insults here. Wonders will never end
Yaa 3 days ago

Mr. Koku Anyidoho. Please tell us why you were arrested during Akufo Addo and Bawumia government. What did you do wrong to warrant that arrest. Did you sleep in NIB cells? For how many days?

Mr. Koku Anyidoho. Please tell us why you were arrested during Akufo Addo and Bawumia government. What did you do wrong to warrant that arrest. Did you sleep in NIB cells? For how many days?
Kokui 3 days ago

This idiot keeps on disgracing we the ewes.What happened to him.He thinks he is the only one that has left the NDC party and is not happy.Koku can’t you move on and if you must make a comment can’t you think twice about i ...
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This idiot keeps on disgracing we the ewes.What happened to him.He thinks he is the only one that has left the NDC party and is not happy.Koku can’t you move on and if you must make a comment can’t you think twice about it or suggest it with someone sensible first before you spew nonsense.
Peter 3 days ago

Koku, I am surprised you are talking like this. I am asking you, is it your utterances against mahama what you will teach your children or elderly person? Desperate and disappointed sacked dep. general secretary.

Koku, I am surprised you are talking like this. I am asking you, is it your utterances against mahama what you will teach your children or elderly person? Desperate and disappointed sacked dep. general secretary.
Fowler 3 days ago

Gyimigyimi. KESE !

Gyimigyimi. KESE !
Frank 2 days ago

I am sorry Koku. That was not the national anthem at the time. The national anthem was 'Lift High The Flag Of Ghana'. 'God bless our homeland Ghana' was instituted after the 1966 coup.

I am sorry Koku. That was not the national anthem at the time. The national anthem was 'Lift High The Flag Of Ghana'. 'God bless our homeland Ghana' was instituted after the 1966 coup.
Paul Cepho 2 days ago

May The Great Mahama find solice in these pathetic words; words meant to scare our young into telling needless and damaging truths.

May The Great Mahama find solice in these pathetic words; words meant to scare our young into telling needless and damaging truths.
Tornado 2 days ago

Koku, but who has said that Ghana belongs to one family ? And we all know that Ghana doesn't belong to the Ashantis.

Koku, but who has said that Ghana belongs to one family ? And we all know that Ghana doesn't belong to the Ashantis.
Teddy Moore 2 days ago

Mr koku Anyidoho, to stop this nonsense is not about prison sentences. But the best way is about canning ( whipping at back) possibly 50 lashes in a public areas. Trust me these will stop immediately.
Sentencing those peo ...
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Mr koku Anyidoho, to stop this nonsense is not about prison sentences. But the best way is about canning ( whipping at back) possibly 50 lashes in a public areas. Trust me these will stop immediately.
Sentencing those people for number of years, giving them three square meals they will appreciate to carry on these nonsense. J J rawlings can be a witness. Period!!!!
Accra is dirty.com 1 day ago

Foolish man koku Anyidoho keep quiet and stop your nonsense because you are irrelevant

Foolish man koku Anyidoho keep quiet and stop your nonsense because you are irrelevant

Aloto, 17 hours ago

Koku is still hungry. All his money finished, he no even get common gari to chop. A hungry man is an angry man. You finish for life. Shame on you

Koku is still hungry. All his money finished, he no even get common gari to chop. A hungry man is an angry man. You finish for life. Shame on you

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