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There is no Big Six…only a Big One – Kwesi Pratt

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  • Julor Agyekum Kwakwe (JAK) 10 years ago

    There is only one big thing and that is Nkrumah!

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    the pepeni is right , the verdict whatever the case can not throw the country into war rather can only be another nail in the coffin of already dead ghana . pepeni still has time till next year at least to start thinking of s ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    A Pratt indeed !!! Oh Awurade, all these people trying to speak for Ghana. This confirms how Ghana is a fake state carved out by the white man. Anybody, and I mean any human being can enjoy from the sweat of the poor in Ghana ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    YOU CANNOT RE-WRITE HISTORY, YOU CANNOT BE A REVISIONIST

  • BOY KUMASI 10 years ago

    Pratt must know that there are people in town who are clever than him and have seen many days than him as well but don't have the time to jump from radio station to radio station.

  • Nick, USA 10 years ago

    Pratt is out of his mind!!!

  • NKRUMAH WAS FIGHTE!! 10 years ago

    AKOMEA, How do you think DANQUAH and co founded Nkrumah? You think NKRUMAH was just walking the streets and they called him to come and organize the UGCC? Think abefore you talk. Nkrumah was like fire abroad. DANQUAH and co n ...
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  • NKRUMAH WAS FIGHTER, FIRE ABROAD! 10 years ago

    Please read the sense and ignore the error.

  • Nana 10 years ago

    I agree with all the intelligent brothers who know that there is only one big Nkrumah and not any big six. How can those who opposed electricity, free education, healthcare, respect for the blackman be big? They will tell you ...
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  • TRUTH 10 years ago

    Nkrumah used theft to destroy Ghana. He was craving more for power instead of development. If he had used the money you believed the British left For Ghana, Ghana wouldn't has been like this. Go to Cote D'Ivoire, even after l ...
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  • ATSU, HO 10 years ago

    THERE IS NO NEED DENYING THE FACT THAT NKRUMAH WAS A GREAT LEADER BUT AT LEAST HE WAS NOT HE FOUNDER ON THE NATION GIVEN THE FACTS THAT WE ALL KNOW. AS FRO KWESI PRATT HE IS STUCK IN HIS WAYS ..

  • IDRIS PACAS 10 years ago

    At least, for their part in inviting Nkrumah who eventually led Ghana to independence, I support the use of 'FOUNDERS'. But the shallow-minded people of nPP background should realise that Nkrumah was brought from abroad becau ...
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  • They Say They Say 10 years ago

    Do you think people voted for Obama because they were thinking about what Luther King said? You don't even know how much money the British left Ghana but you know where he kept them based on "they say they say". History is ha ...
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  • osei yaw - london 10 years ago

    It is a world wide knowledge that Kwame Nkrumah was the main and known colonial agitator for self-rule for colonised British Gold Coast

    - Kwame Nkrumah went on to found Independent (self-rule) Gold Coas/Ghana by winning el ...
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  • Samuel 10 years ago

    this osei yaw- london has said this several times that there was never a "Big Six"; but, only one big one who was Kwame Nkrumah

  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    KWAME NKRUMAH IS THE SPECIAL ONE. Lrt the Mate Mehu NPP face the Facts; It is a hopeless endeavor to try to asassinate Nkrumah's character. Nkrumah is still Standing tall in the forecourt of the AU in Addis Abeba.That is fore ...
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  • okyeame 10 years ago

    so if Nkrumah is that great how come Kotoka is been honored in the country? Kotoka International Airport ringing a bell?

  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    Nkrumah is the only big One, the NPP can do us a favor. We challenge them to restore order in the chaos that reigns in their enfeebled minds before they protest against that statement. The die is already cast, their fictive b ...
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  • Brute 10 years ago

    Kwasia Pratt and the rest of you who support his stupidity, your mothers!

  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    The Osagyefo's place in history is assured. His first place in Africa is unlikely to be challenged. Nkrumah never dies!

    Deal with it. This is just the plain honest truth!

  • Mahama & Afari Gyan go die 10 years ago

    This man be chameleon

  • william 10 years ago

    Giving the explanation, then the others were 'chicken'!No wonder they called him lONDON, recognising his bravery, power and energy, to lead them! Martin Luther King was not the coordinator/organiser of the freedom march 50 ye ...
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  • DARK DAYS IN GHANA 10 years ago

    Thank you brother William. These so called kookooase lawyers formed a political organization but did not know how to run or manage it.They did not know where they were going with it. Just form an organization and use it to ma ...
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  • KOKI 10 years ago

    Oh Kwesi, give credit where's it's due! They all contributed immensely to the birth and development of the nation.

    At any rate they did their part, Kwesi and all of us should think seriously of emulating their immense posi ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Obviously,
    Since you only got one "O" Level pass in Fanti, history, arithmetic and logic do not mean anything to you!

  • nana sefa. 10 years ago

    hi, kwesi pratt jnr, the big six or big one, it will not give food,water and money. you kwesi pratt must stop these things. and we think how to solve problems of the people.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    you cannot re-write history

  • Auntie Peace 10 years ago

    Pratt should desist from this divisive and immature politics and engage rather in the kind of politics that will unite Ghanaians and move the nation forward.

    Prof Ocquaye erred in starting this debate as did Samia in resp ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    you just cannot re-write history

  • Wiafe 10 years ago

    Kwesi 'Ablakwa Know-it-all' Pratt, you are now re-writing the history of Ghana. A classical case of living to his name as a prat!

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    Whatever it is, someone paid for Nkrumah's trip back home to join the independent struggle. Did he spearhead the independent movement alone? Who founded UGCC? Where was Nkrumah when people were knocking their head together t ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    you cannot be a revisionist; you cannot re-write history

  • Mimi 10 years ago

    Everywhere I have been in the World and introduced myself as a Ghanaian all I hear is oohh Kwami Nkrumah? and it's still so today. Don't get me wrong I am a conservative. Recently while in Ghana I happened to be at the State ...
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  • Wole TM 10 years ago

    Do you think they just plugged Nkrumah out of obscurity to make him the general secretary of the UGCC?
    Nkrumah already had international stature and that was why the innocuous UGCC recruited him.

  • OBTT 10 years ago

    HISTORY REPEATED ITSELF RECENTLY WHEN JJ WAS BROUGHT IN TO HEAD A GHANA AFTER A COUP. THOSE WHO REALLY FOUGHT FOR WHICH LATER BECAME PNDC ARE FORGOTTEN. GHANAIANS MUST GROW UP AND THINK.

  • OBTT 10 years ago

    KWESI PRATT IS JUST BEING SENSELESS.

  • Kojo USA 10 years ago

    The npp is famous for fact distortion and condescending, thank God, the likes of Kwesi Pratt are still alive. Even people living in caves know the Osagyefo as Dr Kwame Nkrumah. No matter what the inward looking npp cohorts d ...
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  • ICONIC-07 10 years ago

    I HAVE NEVER MINCED WORDS TO STATE UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT KWESI PLATT IS THE BEST JOURNALIST WHO "FEARLESS-FANG JOURNALISM" HAS EARNED HIM MORE ENEMIES THAN FRIENDS, AND SUCH IS THE SOCIETY WE LIVE IN.

    AMERICA EXISTED BEFORE S ...
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  • KWARNING,NJ 10 years ago

    KWASI PRATT IS AN ASS-HOLE. GHANAIANS ARE LUCKY TO HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO KNOW REALLY THE ENTIRE STORY OF OUR INDEPENDENCE. HOW OLD WAS THIS PIECE OF SHIT? YEAAAAAA WHAT DO I KNOW? MAYBE HE WAS ONE OF THE YOUNG PIONEERS WHO ...
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  • Yamba 10 years ago

    Rev. Do you really have to rewrite our polical history this way? A Priest, a Prof and.... Why should this be important at this time. We need to move forward not to carve places for Politicians.

  • OBTT 10 years ago

    READ YOUR HISTORY WELL. NKRUMAH TO ME WAS A DICTATOR. HE TRIED TO IMMORTALISE HIMSELF. I REMEMBER THE " NKRUMAH NEVER DIE, NEVER DIE, NEVER DIE, NKRUMAH NEVER DIE, HE FOREVER LIVE. WHERE IS HE? IT'S ONLY ONE PERSON WHO NEVER ...
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  • All die be die 10 years ago

    I think you did not understand what ,we mean by Nkrumah never dies,Hear you are debating about him,insulting each other etc,He will never die.No body remembers Busia for anything except he have thick lips!

  • NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

    UP NPP ARE ALL JEALOUS AND SKINPAIN COWS. THEY ARE ALWAYS JEALOUS OF NKRUMAH EVEN FIVE DECADES AFTER HIS DEATH THEY ARE STILL JEALOUS OF THE GREATEST MAN OF AFRICA.

  • JOHNNY 10 years ago

    IT WAS NKRUMAH WHO GAVE THE NAME,"GHANA" TO THE COLONY CALLED GOLD COAST. WHERE WERE THE MEMBERS OF UGCC WHEN NKRUMAH RENAMED THE GOLD COAST, "GHANA".WHY DID THEY NOT PROTEST WHEN NKRUMAH RENAMED GOLD COAST? INSTEAD, BUSIA & ...
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  • All die be die 10 years ago

    They steal,rob the nations wealth and now thy want even to steal the Legacy ofNkrumah,When the dam was being built in Akosombo,what did Bushman Busia say?"it was a too prestigious project for Ghana.The first thing he did as p ...
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  • Concerned citivzen 10 years ago

    Lets commend the efforts of the men and women who shaped what Ghana is today

  • KAB 10 years ago

    Let Kwesi Pratt & others like him labour under the communst style indoctrination forced down their throats as members of the Young Pioneers in the days of Nkrumah. There are many others who believe Nkrumah was not God or a sa ...
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  • HISTORIAN 10 years ago

    Ashanti's are not in the Big Six. Yes, apparently because they and the Northern Territories were not colonized. They were protectorates. They were not colonies.

  • ohenenana 10 years ago

    Did you know that Ashanti was not really colonized? Did you know when Ashanti really becam part of the crown colony? Did you ever know of Yaa Asantewaa? Please Hisotrian, you have never read a history book. Learn about the hi ...
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  • AKONFEM PRESIDENT 10 years ago

    HAHAHAHA

  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

    The Big Six was carved by Kufour,trying to honour the failed the UGCC leaders.Even if the others played some part, they can`t be part of the Big Six.Who in this world knows Busia,Danquah and all others apart from Nkrumah, who ...
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  • Dr Amuzu, Ho 10 years ago

    Independence took you to Germany where you've been working as a slave since the 60s. Think about that. foolish man.

  • KKO 10 years ago

    Just remain in Germany and kill the remnants of the Nazis! Ofui lost soul!

  • Dr kwadwo kufuor U.S of A 10 years ago

    very true indeed

  • ohenenana 10 years ago

    a curruptible man

  • JANE 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH WAS GHANA'S SAVIOUR, AND INDEED HE CONTINUES TO BE GHANA'S SAVIOUR TO THIS DAY, YEARS AFTER HIS DEMISE.

    IF NKRUMAH HAD THE NINDSET OF OTHER VISIONLESS USELESS GHANA OR AFRICAN LEADERS AFTER HIM, GHANA WOULD HAVE BE ...
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  • JANE 10 years ago

    DR. NKRUMAH WAS A SMART COOKIE!!!!

    NKRUMAH WAS A GOOD MAN.

    MAY HE REST IN PERFECT AND ETERNAL PEACE!!!

  • Mrs.Boateng 10 years ago

    Nkrumah never dies, yes what a power house, the brainless Ghanians in 1966 just threw this giant of Africa away who can match the white man toe to toe,in his time there is no filth in the streets and education was fun. There ...
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  • A very good old GSTS friend. 10 years ago

    ologe akomea, u are just talking nonsense. if you have nothing sensible to say then it will be good if you shut-up. the issue is who did what? and stop this your J B Danquah nonsense from your ashanti and akyem quarters.
    Ako ...
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  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    How

  • Komla 10 years ago

    another mad man......

  • JANE 10 years ago

    INDEED, NKRUMAH WAS NOT ONLY YEARS AHEAD OF THE SO-CALLED BIG 5, HE WAS CENTURIES AHEAD OF THEM ALL, INCLUDING EVEN WESTERN LEADERS IN HIS TIME.

  • JANE 10 years ago

    TODAY, I DO NOT THINK MANY GHANAIANS EVEN KNOW GHANA HAS A COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ESTABLISHED, OF COURSE, BY NKRUMAH.

    EVEN THE "WHITE ELEPHANTS" ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AND THOSE MONSTROUS ATOMIC R ...
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  • twum 10 years ago

    common sense: Nkrumah was a big one among the big six. liken this to G8 G20 and so on.

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    “We may never have known Nkrumah”, he said.......by Nana Akomea.

    Well Nana, let me enlighten you a bit here.....Danquah and a few of his cronies new Nkrumah very well for his firebrand approach and political astuteness ...
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  • prof ozxy 10 years ago

    wise up!you fool

  • Shamu 10 years ago

    It is true that it was only big one. Because, the rest of them were nearly about to disgrace Ghana and it`s people until Kwame Nkrumah stand for the Ghanaians. They were puppet of the British at that time and even plot to kil ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Abena had just got married and being a traditional Ghanaian, she was still a virgin. So, on her wedding night, staying at her mother's house, she was nervous. But her mother reassured her. "Don't worry,Abena,Kwame is a good ...
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  • Awuraba 10 years ago

    I wonder how dis man calls himself educated. He is such an illiterate. He talks too much Just for food

  • KKO 10 years ago

    Kobena Antobam wrote today ".......About eighteen months before Mandela was released, Oliver Tambo suffered a stroke which confined him to a wheel chair. At their first meeting in Sweden where Mr. Tambo was recuperating, Mr. ...
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  • PAAPA ATOBRAH 10 years ago

    Pratt is right, for once. I am persuaded by the historical record that the roles of the other 5 have been greatly exaggerated for political correctness and the fact Ghana has had no real heroes since Nkrumah. Truth be told, ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    K.A BUSIA WAS AMONG "THE BIG SEVEN".
    Who told you KWAME NKRUMAH IS THE "BIG ONE"?
    WHO BROUGHT HIM FROM ABROAD TO ATTAIN THAT "BIG ONE",YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

    Everybody is waiting for the WEIGHTIER MATTER AND NO TIME FOR ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    Your KWAME NKRUMAH entailed more than what any leader in Ghana did.
    NKRUMAH'S PERFORMANCE,TO ME,COULD BE JUDGED BY THE AMOUNT OF NATURAL RESOURCES LEFT BY OUR COLONIAL MASTERS,FOR HIM TO ENTAIL:

    TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN VA ...
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  • MAHLON PEE. 10 years ago

    kwesi pratt, who do you think you are ? you are the most corrupt journalist so please SHUT UP.

  • Sarkodie 10 years ago

    Otolege. Ogyimfo. Moole. Stupid fool. Non existent bull. Buulu. You don't deserve to be born to even be called a human being. go back to school and learn some sense. Animal

  • jerry 10 years ago

    Who the hell are you,Kwesi Pratt, to rewrite the history of Ghana?Your opinion cannot change the truth.

  • Me and u were not there 10 years ago

    Only one .

  • Me and u were not there 10 years ago

    Only one

  • P.K 10 years ago

    why are nation recker's making noise anytime nkrumah name is mention.posterity will always judge NPP.

  • Nana 10 years ago

    We are fed up with these NPP gurus and fools. They are always on the wrong side of the history.They believe that apart from them nobody knows anything, nobody is competent, nobody is intelligent, nobody is honest, nobody can ...
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  • Justman 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH WILL STILL EMERGE WITHOUT UGCC. WE KNOW THEIR CHARACTER-COWARDS AND STOMACH PEOPLE WHO THINK ABOUT THEIR OWN TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE POOR.THEY ONLY USE THE POOR TO ACHIEVE THEIR SELFISH AIMS. THERE IS NOTHING BIG ABOU ...
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  • IN GOD WE TRUST 10 years ago

    all over the world knows about Nkrumah nothing like big six is npp cheap politic.

  • paul 10 years ago

    There would have been no nkrumah without orko adjei and the UGCC. U should go to class one and learn history.

  • Abrantie 10 years ago

    Does Kwasi Pratt and co think this fight about the founder of Ghana very necessary when common water is hard to come by after over 54 yrs of Nkrumaism?
    Kwasi Pratt must focus his energy in fighting inequality and the naked c ...
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  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    This is positive stomach talk! 15yr olds who've read a bit of Ghana's history will certainly know that there was indeed the "Big Six" who helped make Ghana's independence a reality. Anyone can shout from their stomach into th ...
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  • Kankamea 10 years ago

    It is intriguing how Ghanaians always passionately discuss this issue.Dr. Nkrumah himself admitted to this in one of his interactions by indicating that 'we were at that time called the Big Six'. Let us wise up and concern ou ...
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