Danquah Institute gets New Executive Director

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Boko Dan 12 years ago

At last they realize the harm caused.

At last they realize the harm caused.
TerriblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

Who cares about this?

Who cares about this?
asantehene 12 years ago

these crazy bunch of gay dick suckers have decided to elect their chief idiot and you bring this as news? fucking bitch!

these crazy bunch of gay dick suckers have decided to elect their chief idiot and you bring this as news? fucking bitch!
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VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR. 12 years ago

How to 'Africanise' democracy
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Those who disagree with or criticise our development and governance options do not provide any suitable or better alternatives” they have ...
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How to 'Africanise' democracy
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Those who disagree with or criticise our development and governance options do not provide any suitable or better alternatives” they have the alternatives, until you disrupt them, removing the finest brains from power for the suck ups.This is coming from hacker intrusions into my computer. Now you own the world with your developments.

Paul Kagame
President of Rwanda
Speaking this year on the death of Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame was clear about both countries' lukewarm relationship with a Western version of democracy.

"Invariably, the question has been raised about whether the emphasis on development and the role of the state in it is not done at the expense of democracy and people's rights.

"Those who disagree with or criticise our development and governance options do not provide any suitable or better alternatives. All they do is repeat abstract concepts like freedom and democracy as if doing that alone would improve the human condition. Yet for us, the evidence of results from our choices is the most significant thing."

President Kagame is not alone in questioning multi-party democracy in the African context. Indeed, US historian William Blum in a recent book describes democracy as a Western imposition on Africa - "America's deadliest export" and foreign policy tool.

Consequently, there has been some discussion as to how to "Africanise" democracy. Mr Zimba suggests incorporating traditional power structures into formal government.

"At the moment chiefs are seen as political footnotes, even though they are often more effective and revered than politicians. Politicians recognise the influence of traditional leaders on how communities vote during elections and try to manipulate this. A better system would be some kind of bicameral government, even giving traditional leaders legislative powers."

As with any healthy democracy, there is a range of opinions and robust debate, but the consensus seems to be that whilst democracy is not delivering as well as it could be for Africa, it remains the most viable form of government for the continent.

Mr Ngoma sums it up: "Democracy on paper is very beautiful, but the practice depends on what practitioners actually do - and often they're not doing very well."
A view from Zambia

Pamela Chisanga
ActionAid Zambia
Following the return to multi-party democracy in 2001, Zambia has held successful elections with peaceful leadership transition, earning the country the reputation of a "blossoming democracy" in Africa.

Unfortunately, successful elections are as far as democracy goes in Zambia. Successive governments have remained largely unresponsive to the demands of citizens. In 2011 the Patriotic Front won the presidential elections and ascended to power, promising changes within 90 days. The slogan of "more money in your pockets" was obviously very appealing to many Zambians desperate for a better life.

Unfortunately Zambia's democracy is now under threat as constitutional breaches abound, freedom of expression and of assembly are being harshly curtailed. I have personally been threatened with arrest for holding a meeting without "permission". I have worked in the development sector in Zambia for close to 15 years and I had never experienced this even under leadership that was thought to be very difficult. Subtle threats for many civil society leaders are now the order of the day. The legislature is in turmoil with endless by-elections.

With poverty levels as high as 70%, Zambians now know elections are not enough and can no longer continue to watch as leaders fail to deliver on promises and on basic social services.
william 12 years ago

This one man political campaign body should rethink itself to be a think tank that can be taken seriously!

This one man political campaign body should rethink itself to be a think tank that can be taken seriously!
TEDDY 12 years ago

HAAAHAA GABBY COULDNT THE KITCHEN FIRE HE HAS VAMOOSED BACK TO UK HOW MANY TIMES WAS HE IN COURT . JOBLESS AND WITH NANA HAVING NO CHANCE BECOMING A PRESIDENT WHERE HE CAN GET AN UNDESERVED APPOINTMENT HE DECIDED WISELY TO VA ...
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HAAAHAA GABBY COULDNT THE KITCHEN FIRE HE HAS VAMOOSED BACK TO UK HOW MANY TIMES WAS HE IN COURT . JOBLESS AND WITH NANA HAVING NO CHANCE BECOMING A PRESIDENT WHERE HE CAN GET AN UNDESERVED APPOINTMENT HE DECIDED WISELY TO VAMOOSE
Odias3mpa 12 years ago

NPP foot-soldiers have to realize,because what these people do best is to pack up their luggage and disaapear with their families when the going gets tough. After mudding the waters for the past 8 months,where are many of the ...
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NPP foot-soldiers have to realize,because what these people do best is to pack up their luggage and disaapear with their families when the going gets tough. After mudding the waters for the past 8 months,where are many of the principals?
ABRAMPA 12 years ago

You mean going out like Atuguba?

You mean going out like Atuguba?
K.K 12 years ago

Good move by the institude; gabby best of luck for your studies / research and come back home stronger than ever.

Good move by the institude; gabby best of luck for your studies / research and come back home stronger than ever.

KWASI JUNIOR 12 years ago

AS FOR ABROAD YOU CAN'T FAIL AND BE GIVEN OR AWARDED A CERTIFICATE. WE ALL KNOW HOW GABBY BECAME A LAWYER IN GHANA.
I HOPE HAMID MUSTAPHA HAS NOW GOTTEN CREDIT IN O LEVEL MATHEMATICS. THANKS TO LATE BELKO (FORMER HEADMASTER ...
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AS FOR ABROAD YOU CAN'T FAIL AND BE GIVEN OR AWARDED A CERTIFICATE. WE ALL KNOW HOW GABBY BECAME A LAWYER IN GHANA.
I HOPE HAMID MUSTAPHA HAS NOW GOTTEN CREDIT IN O LEVEL MATHEMATICS. THANKS TO LATE BELKO (FORMER HEADMASTER OF TAMALE SEC. SCH.) PEOPLE LIKE MUSTAPHA CAN NOW MAKE NOISE. One cheat handing over to failed considered 'student'.
BOY KOFI 12 years ago

We shall miss you Gabby,I hope you return with fresh administrative measures.By the way,I appreciate your contribution to some electoral reforms in Ghana.It was rather unfortunate that NPP did not train their polling stations ...
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We shall miss you Gabby,I hope you return with fresh administrative measures.By the way,I appreciate your contribution to some electoral reforms in Ghana.It was rather unfortunate that NPP did not train their polling stations agents well thus causing their lost miserably in 2012.Thank you.
Jude 12 years ago

OOOOOH! Gabby, we miss you.

OOOOOH! Gabby, we miss you.
King Gezo 12 years ago

Funny! Gabby feeling the heat and exiting through the back door. Will he have gone back to the UK if Nana was declared the President of Ghana? This move is indicative of the fact that its all over for Nana's presidential ambi ...
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Funny! Gabby feeling the heat and exiting through the back door. Will he have gone back to the UK if Nana was declared the President of Ghana? This move is indicative of the fact that its all over for Nana's presidential ambitions. l urge the NPP foot soldiers to watch out and shine their eyes because they will soon be abandoned when the going gets tougher
Danso TDOT 12 years ago

"l urge the NPP foot soldiers to watch out and shine their eyes because they will soon be abandoned when the going get tougher"

You mean when life become difficult in Ghana? If so, how do you expect the NPP leaders to help ...
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"l urge the NPP foot soldiers to watch out and shine their eyes because they will soon be abandoned when the going get tougher"

You mean when life become difficult in Ghana? If so, how do you expect the NPP leaders to help their foot soldiers when they are not the ones governing?

How exactly are they going to abandon them and what material things can their leaders provide them?

My friend, politics is just competition of ideas and ideals and has nothing to do with provision of material things....the latter happens when the economy is good or the country is governed successfully to meet the needs of the people.
j gian 12 years ago

may the almighty God see you through, i hope the idiots criticising akanfoo will learn from this, Mustapha Hamid is a typical northener as i am and the akanfoo has offered him a big seat in DI, thanks to DI for putting your e ...
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may the almighty God see you through, i hope the idiots criticising akanfoo will learn from this, Mustapha Hamid is a typical northener as i am and the akanfoo has offered him a big seat in DI, thanks to DI for putting your enemies to shame.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Oh! Yeah? So you are elated cos the "Akanfoo" has seen it fit to put one of you at the head of that visceral "Akanfoo" institute? Obviously you don't know your history otherwise you'd know how much your people had contributed ...
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Oh! Yeah? So you are elated cos the "Akanfoo" has seen it fit to put one of you at the head of that visceral "Akanfoo" institute? Obviously you don't know your history otherwise you'd know how much your people had contributed in human tolls and in slaves in advancing the agenda of that "Akanfoo", and despoiling and underdeveloping your own backyard. But since you no doubt belong to the overlord ethnic groups, just like this new appointee, responsible for conscripting and raiding your "minorities" for the slave armies and markets of Salaga and the Gold Coast, I expect you to keep your solidarity with your former "akanfoo" overlords, hoping some dregs might drop on you, as it just did for Hamid! Good for you.

As for me, when I see on TV pictures of the crass backwardness in Ghana, courtesy of Joynews,the northern regions in particular, I wonder why some people can be so conservative to embrace a party like the NPP, and not a state-centred party like the pro-Nkrumahist parties. In fact, the NDC is even too conservative for me!

The mantra of private enterprise, property grabbing democracy CAN NEVER solve the problems of underdevt I see in Ghana. Major state intervention is seriously needed.

Andy-K
Symbiosis 12 years ago

This Andy CY chap, in spite of your protestations, you must definitely be NDC. Your warped logic is synonymous with all NDC people that I know of.

Your random tendency to also cut-and-paste and misquote, history merely to ...
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This Andy CY chap, in spite of your protestations, you must definitely be NDC. Your warped logic is synonymous with all NDC people that I know of.

Your random tendency to also cut-and-paste and misquote, history merely to suit or advance your bigoted narrow ethnic proclivities is another syndrome of the NDC psychosis which it seems, has afflicted you in a bad way.

Much as I agree with you that the so-called property grabbing democracy can never solve the problems of under-development, I also think that isolating oneself from a problem and standing on the sidelines to give disjointed, incompatible and provocative social commentary also does not help. In fact it is counter-productive.

It is of no use cooling off in the bosom of the arch-enemy and throwing stones at your potential allies who are the only ones who you can depend on to improve what you describe as conditions of "crass backwardness in Ghana". We need all hands on deck, not on the lifeboat.

Whether Asantes enslaved Northerners centuries ago or are doing so today is not what the major problems of Ghana are today. Even if that was the case, any wise person would know that the best way way to go around it would be to attempt to solve that problem and not to worsen it by applying provocative jibes and commentary.

Tribalism, of the sort you suffer from, is like being high on booze or cocaine. It is an imaginary condition borne from unreal delusions of a persecution complex. All tribes and indeed all human beings have all got their behavioral traits which may not go well with others at any one time or the other. As civilized beings we all have to comport by accommodating and smoothening off our rough edges.

Now instead of wasting all your time and energy fomenting such provocative rubbish, you could put the better part of your good mind to more productive sentiments. Its even better fro your health.

Life is short and we should try our possible best to sift out our real problems from the petty ones and deal with them as such - with real solutions.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Andy is not a tribalist. NPP is a tribalist party. The trouble with you is that anytime some one opposes NPP then that person is an Ewe or a tribalist. Does some one who opposes the KKK become a racist? That person opposes ra ...
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Andy is not a tribalist. NPP is a tribalist party. The trouble with you is that anytime some one opposes NPP then that person is an Ewe or a tribalist. Does some one who opposes the KKK become a racist? That person opposes racism . Your logic is warped. Read what he said " even the NDC is too conservative for me" . Stop jumping into tribal arguments everytime NPP is opposed
Danso TDOT 12 years ago

If you had just taken your time to read symbiosis response to what Andy wrote, you wouldn't have written your usual gibberish. Man, after 70+ years on earth you are still bitter. Please Repent!

If you had just taken your time to read symbiosis response to what Andy wrote, you wouldn't have written your usual gibberish. Man, after 70+ years on earth you are still bitter. Please Repent!

Symbiosis 12 years ago

Either you went to a bad school or your English comprehension is just simply poor, or you didnt even read my presentation. Perhaps you can ask someone to read it and explain it to you

Either you went to a bad school or your English comprehension is just simply poor, or you didnt even read my presentation. Perhaps you can ask someone to read it and explain it to you
Kojo T 12 years ago

As for me, when I see on TV pictures of the crass backwardness in Ghana, courtesy of Joynews,the northern regions in particular, I wonder why some people can be so conservative to embrace a party like the NPP, and not a state ...
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As for me, when I see on TV pictures of the crass backwardness in Ghana, courtesy of Joynews,the northern regions in particular, I wonder why some people can be so conservative to embrace a party like the NPP, and not a state-centred party like the pro-Nkrumahist parties. In fact, the NDC is even too conservative for me!

The mantra of private enterprise, property grabbing democracy CAN NEVER solve the problems of underdevt I see in Ghana. Major state intervention is seriously needed.This sums it all up
Symbiosis 12 years ago

j gian, you are happy that your fellow-northerner has been appointed to head that institute that promotes the memory and the thoughts of one of Ghana's foremost sponsors of terrorism and an avid imperialist errand boy?

So ...
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j gian, you are happy that your fellow-northerner has been appointed to head that institute that promotes the memory and the thoughts of one of Ghana's foremost sponsors of terrorism and an avid imperialist errand boy?

Some of you Northerners are either ungrateful or plain stupid.

Had it not been Kwame Nkrumah, the man who Danquah and his clique tried so hard to demonize and assassinate, the entire Northern territory would have continued to remain under-developed and backward. As you should very well know, it was Kwame Nkrumah who single-handedly opened up the North to real development and civilization. Even 50 years after Kwame Nkrumah had been unceremoniously overthrown by the joint criminal effort of foreign intervention and the Danquah-Busia gang, what has been added to the development of the entire North that can be compared to what Nkrumah achieved in less than 10 years?

Danquah and his lot had no respect whatsoever for ordinary people, they contemptuously referred to them as 'veranda boys' meaning that like street children, they were so useless and unproductive that they slept on peoples verandahs. How much more Northerners at the time?

I am not a Northerner, I am surely not an NDC supporter and I am also definitely not an NPP suporter either. But I cringe at the way Ga's and especially Northerners shamelessly allow themselves to be used by these two particular political parties without getting much in return.

As for Othcere Darko, I think that whoever gave him that new job outside the country, should be profusely thanked for making it possible for us to get rid of him.
SHEIK 12 years ago

IS HE NOT PEPENI?YOU FULL OF BASTARDS

IS HE NOT PEPENI?YOU FULL OF BASTARDS
ISSIFU 12 years ago

HE WILL COME BACK WITH A PHD, MARK MY WORDS

HE WILL COME BACK WITH A PHD, MARK MY WORDS
Ben 12 years ago

So what! Does it bring food on my table?

So what! Does it bring food on my table?
JOG 12 years ago

this is good news.kindly propel this noble institute to another new height.GOD be with you.

this is good news.kindly propel this noble institute to another new height.GOD be with you.
Nana K Ampadu 12 years ago

It is in the right direction. No other person appointed could have beenbette and prudent. I heartily congratulate the incoming versatile Executive Director, and give my farewel to Gabby.

It is in the right direction. No other person appointed could have beenbette and prudent. I heartily congratulate the incoming versatile Executive Director, and give my farewel to Gabby.
El solo 12 years ago

Congrat maaaaannnnn

Congrat maaaaannnnn
PLUMBER 12 years ago

Long time no hear, Mr You and I were not there, as on the face of the pink sheet desrved to be considered for ED of DI, having lost out on the African Bank position. As for Gabby, he would be back after 2016 to instigate anot ...
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Long time no hear, Mr You and I were not there, as on the face of the pink sheet desrved to be considered for ED of DI, having lost out on the African Bank position. As for Gabby, he would be back after 2016 to instigate another election petition. That is if the serial loser is allowed a third time. Wow. What a party, what an institute, what pretenders!

godfried donkor 12 years ago

Good riddance to a horrible joke. He was an arrogant son of a bitch. He and Ken Ofori Atta, made Nana unpopular. They were 'too know' forgetting that elected officials always had to 'woo' the electorate not 'lord' over them. ...
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Good riddance to a horrible joke. He was an arrogant son of a bitch. He and Ken Ofori Atta, made Nana unpopular. They were 'too know' forgetting that elected officials always had to 'woo' the electorate not 'lord' over them. Like JB Danquah they learnt nothing and still thought we were varander boys in need of 'cleansing' He come back to London to suck cock. He is a homosexual.
Kaaley 12 years ago

From Gabby to Mustapha as Head of Research? What a joke.

From Gabby to Mustapha as Head of Research? What a joke.
Lt. Cpt Obiri Yeboah(rtd) 12 years ago

These guys will keep on selling snake oil to Ghanaians.

These guys will keep on selling snake oil to Ghanaians.
Obols 12 years ago

What useless news

What useless news
Ekuma 12 years ago

Sir John shd also be replaced . Gabby Otchere 'BENTOA' is a celebrated foul mouth and an addicted stooge of an arrogant evil dwarf .

Let the NONSENSE in the NPP cease and all will be fine.

Sir John shd also be replaced . Gabby Otchere 'BENTOA' is a celebrated foul mouth and an addicted stooge of an arrogant evil dwarf .

Let the NONSENSE in the NPP cease and all will be fine.
Mawusi from tefle 12 years ago

congrats, Mustapha. We are proud of Danquah Institute

congrats, Mustapha. We are proud of Danquah Institute
Northerner 12 years ago

Mustapha or who go get the director of Dombo institute not this. Check yourself and your identity.

Mustapha or who go get the director of Dombo institute not this. Check yourself and your identity.
Idjal 12 years ago

He did well

He did well

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