Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute talks on Africa

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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

When we wanted independence they said NO ,Republic NO ,Atomic Energy NO ,Ghana Airways NO ,Ghana Telecom NO ,Akosombo NO ,Thermal Energy NO ,Tema Harbour and dry Docks NO ,Oil exploration NO ,Sugar Factory NO ,Constitution NO ...
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When we wanted independence they said NO ,Republic NO ,Atomic Energy NO ,Ghana Airways NO ,Ghana Telecom NO ,Akosombo NO ,Thermal Energy NO ,Tema Harbour and dry Docks NO ,Oil exploration NO ,Sugar Factory NO ,Constitution NO ,Constitutional Reform NO n
,Economic Forum NO ,Ministerial Appointment NO ,They pulled down the then Flag staff house because Nkrumah lived there; only to rebuild the same place with a 419 loan from India. These Dankwa/ Busia’s have sold everything we have and have contributed nothing. When have they said yes or done something which is good to be emulated or beneficial.What do they say yes?Cocaine activities YES ,Womanising YES ,Insults and Backbiting YES ,Shallow Litigation YES ,Boycotting YES ,Selling state Assets YES ,Stealing State assets YES
DARK DAYS IN GHANA 11 years ago

And the sad thing is the people of Ghana continue to vote for these fools. So who do we blame?

And the sad thing is the people of Ghana continue to vote for these fools. So who do we blame?
Prempeh 1 11 years ago

Even Adolf Hitker who was a dictator in Germany and sent over 6 million Jews and other nationals to concentration death camps, after his fall, the very good things he brought to Germans, like VW cars, Concret Motoways, Metal ...
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Even Adolf Hitker who was a dictator in Germany and sent over 6 million Jews and other nationals to concentration death camps, after his fall, the very good things he brought to Germans, like VW cars, Concret Motoways, Metal works, and strong determination Unity and Industries, Germans today has observed those good things Hitler instituted and now adopting them. In International events Germans are mostly always the best, In footbal, like world cup, almost all the world good teams exit in the first round, but Germans alwyas stay in to either semi finals or finals, its all about determinations Hitler put them through, they still have that strength in everything they do. But for Ghana all the good ideas and good things Nkrumah brought to Ghana, the leaders who came after him have undoubteldy destroyed all of them. Nkrumah infrastructures like, Kade matches factory, Asutuare sugar factory, Komenda sugar factory, Akasanoma radio, Vehicle Assembly plant at Tema, Jute factory, Shoe factory, ceramics factory at saltpond, Silos, Bonsa Tyre factory, GTMC factory, Wench Tomanto factory sold by Busia, Tamale Meat factory, Sanyo Tv, Nsawam cannery bought by Rawlings family, Crocodie matchet, State farms, workers Brigade workers, PWD, Meridian Hotel at Tema, Takoradi Atlantic Hotel all destroyed, city and star hotel, State fishing , Ghana Airways, Black Star shipping Lines, Tema Township, Tema motoway, Akosombo Dam, Adomi Bridge, Job 600, Cape Coast University, Ghana Nationals, Tema secondary school, Tema general Hospital, all these were instituted by osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for the best interest of all the people of ghana, but the terrorist criminal groups of Busia-Danquah and co, never, never accepted thus worked day and night to destroy Nkrumah, hence the suffering we are encountering today. we should all swallow the pills. Unless the leaders get-to-gether and adopted most of good Nkrumah's ideologies and implement them for our own good, Ghana will destroyed very soon, as Nkrumah himself said that Ghana will take touch light to look for me, but in most cases they wouldn't find me.
Repugnant. 11 years ago

African leaders must get off their sorry lazy mental propensities, and find the intestinal fortitude, to seek the etiology of the EBOLA disease.

After SEVERAL years of having this disease contained in Central Africa i.e t ...
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African leaders must get off their sorry lazy mental propensities, and find the intestinal fortitude, to seek the etiology of the EBOLA disease.

After SEVERAL years of having this disease contained in Central Africa i.e the Congo! Why the sudden out break in West Africa and not the Congo??

GENERALLY SPEAKING 90% OF ALL AFRICANS ARRIVING IN THE USA IN THE LAST TEN YEARS ARE FROM WEST AFRICA COUNTRIES.

With this fishy outbreak of this disease, West Africans are going to be subjected to undue discriminatory practices respecting this disease.

We should all swallow the pills, for circumventing the normal growth of our human intellect, our brains have been on vacation for far too long. This disease is suspicious at best.

By the way, what African life style could have led to this outbreak? We beg to ask.

Your presences which has been gentlemanly acceptable in various not so welcoming countries in the past, will now be openly questionable.

I don't blame good Ghanaians for having more scrofulous men of god, instead of scientists, and the silly Ghanaians particularly, who shut down Nkrumah's Center for scientific research and institute where the origin of this thing could have traced, so don't tell me "Jesus might soon be arriving in the clouds for being the reason, you are being sacrificed."

The economic strain this is going to impose on all is unfathomable, which will also present you a unique kind of enslavement in the commercial world of today. Your vegetables a few weeks ago before this surreptitious outbreak was even embargoed to EU. Need i say more?

African life is all too often depreciated.
ELINAN 11 years ago

Please read my respond to news headline "ebola reach 4,000 plus" on today's Ghanaweb when reasoned that it is one stone killing two birds. Some ppl want to replace our population growth with rubber plantation and in the heat ...
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Please read my respond to news headline "ebola reach 4,000 plus" on today's Ghanaweb when reasoned that it is one stone killing two birds. Some ppl want to replace our population growth with rubber plantation and in the heat of that sneak in a military base they have been trying for years to plant in Africa. Over 4,000 US troops are going to be stationed with a headquarters planned to coordinate their activities.
BEHOLD THE TROJAN HORSE OF AFRICOM.
Nigeria is one of the main opposition to AFRICOM and she had been stung with twenty deaths to back off?
ELINAN 11 years ago

I should have written ..where I reasoned...

I should have written ..where I reasoned...
Mahmoud 11 years ago

If I may ask, is the NDC new party school another communist ideological institution? The Young Pioneers implanted by Nkrumah in our midst did more harm than good to the development of this country when they usurped power from ...
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If I may ask, is the NDC new party school another communist ideological institution? The Young Pioneers implanted by Nkrumah in our midst did more harm than good to the development of this country when they usurped power from 1972 to 2001.

Our experience with the quack neo-communists is that, they seize power unjustifiably through coups and counter coups, and Ghanaians only suffer dictatorship, tyranny, corruption and economic mismanagement under them. The NDC being in power now for six years has again failed to improve the economy simply because their fundamentals are wrong. In fact, they don't have what it takes to salvage the sinking economy.

Under normal circumstances, political parties are formed to produce leaders democratically. But in the case of NDC, a tyrant created the party with state power and resources to legitimize his illegitimate regime and cling to power fraudulently. NDC is therefore, an artificial and illegitimate party followed by stomach politicians and sycophants.
okukuseku 11 years ago

MAHMOUD, YOU ARE SO BIASED TO BLEND OUT, THAT NAKED CORRUPTION, RAMPANT ECONOMIC MISSMANAGEMENT; LOOTING AND SHARING OF STATE PROPERTY, ECONOMIC WOES OF THE CITIZENRY WERE THE ORDER OF THE DAY UNDER THE NARCOTIC PSYCHOPATHIC ...
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MAHMOUD, YOU ARE SO BIASED TO BLEND OUT, THAT NAKED CORRUPTION, RAMPANT ECONOMIC MISSMANAGEMENT; LOOTING AND SHARING OF STATE PROPERTY, ECONOMIC WOES OF THE CITIZENRY WERE THE ORDER OF THE DAY UNDER THE NARCOTIC PSYCHOPATHIC PARTY WITH K4 AS THIEF OF STATE, WHO SAID "CORRUPTION STARTED FROM ADAM". WHAT A SHAME FOR AN APARTHEID BHUNCH OF PSYCHOPHANTS!
African Patriot 11 years ago

Thank you for your observation that those inside Africa don't want to see. Those neo-colonial economy can be distroy overnight. Lets see how the elite African avoid the pressue that will come from their former colonial master ...
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Thank you for your observation that those inside Africa don't want to see. Those neo-colonial economy can be distroy overnight. Lets see how the elite African avoid the pressue that will come from their former colonial masters. African government better eliminate all those artificial borders and work with each other cause they nwill eventually only have each other when the world turn non them all. African states will fall one at a eime.
DARK DAYS IN GHANA 11 years ago

"Nana" Prempeh 1, you made me shed tears of sadness.I was in secondary school when Nkrumah was overthrown. I had my hopes and plans all worked out. After Ideological Institute i will get a job and settle somewhere in Ghana an ...
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"Nana" Prempeh 1, you made me shed tears of sadness.I was in secondary school when Nkrumah was overthrown. I had my hopes and plans all worked out. After Ideological Institute i will get a job and settle somewhere in Ghana and become a productive Ghanaian citizen. Together with thousands of students our hopes and aspirations were dashed by the NLC of Ankrah, Kotoka, Harley and Afrifa.Can the we imagine how the youth of Ghana will look like today with all the factories you have listed above operating at full capacity providing employment for the youth of Ghana? Who will be sleeping in the streets of Accra or Kumasi or Takoradi today. Now the leadership of Ghana cannot even pay workers for the shoddy jobs they provide. NSS leadership have stolen all the money, politicians continue to fight with no plans for even cleaning the city of Accra. No jobs. Imagine what Nkrumah would do with the money the NDC paid to Woyome? Nothing is working in Ghana. These are Dark Days In Ghana indeed.

okukuseku 11 years ago

SIMPLY SAID: NATIONAL WRECKERS THIEVES,
LOOTERS; THUS. WHAT A SHAME TO THE NARCOTIC PSYCHOPATHIC PARTY!

SIMPLY SAID: NATIONAL WRECKERS THIEVES,
LOOTERS; THUS. WHAT A SHAME TO THE NARCOTIC PSYCHOPATHIC PARTY!
Susuka 11 years ago

What was Busia's reaction to Kwame Nkrumahs lofty proposals? Did he take a plane to Britain to go and report to the Queen of England? Or did he (Busia) react by consulting with the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa and ...
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What was Busia's reaction to Kwame Nkrumahs lofty proposals? Did he take a plane to Britain to go and report to the Queen of England? Or did he (Busia) react by consulting with the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa and agreeing to throw more non-Ghanaian Africans out of the country?

And by the way, does anyone know why Nkrumah has that funny look on his face in the above picture? Look behind him.
African Patriot 11 years ago

Dismantling the neo-colonial states in Africa and distroying the neo- colonized African mentality amongst the elite will not be an easy task.This is a prerequiste to unity of Afican states. These neo- colonial structures were ...
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Dismantling the neo-colonial states in Africa and distroying the neo- colonized African mentality amongst the elite will not be an easy task.This is a prerequiste to unity of Afican states. These neo- colonial structures were set up by the former colonizers to protect their interest and the Afican elites role is to be their buffer. There was no development in Ghana after Nkrumah because the system was design to benefit the elite and not the masses. The system will explode one day when the elite can't borrow funds from the west any longer. If there is no development then the needs of the population will not be met. Ghana like all of Africa will have to undergo a cleaning of the leadership and bring in those dedicated, patriotic individuals who is not afraid to educate the people and take on the class elites in these neo-colonial states. All servants of the people should be required to attend classes in Afican history before Europe, decolonization of the African mind and a class in dialectical materialist philosophy. A new African consciousness must replace elite neo-capitalism to guide the people towards liberation.
Frank 11 years ago

Is undeniable fact that Nkrumah was a dictator who had no Vice President because he was such a brutal tyrant. He made himself President for life and killed all his political opponents in Nsawam Prison.

The Kulungugu bomb w ...
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Is undeniable fact that Nkrumah was a dictator who had no Vice President because he was such a brutal tyrant. He made himself President for life and killed all his political opponents in Nsawam Prison.

The Kulungugu bomb was planted by his own CPP man Tawiah Adamafio and Ametepe who tried to kill Nkrumah at Flagstaff was a CPP man. It was all because Nkrumah's tyranny was getting worse. Thousands went into exile and died there.

Nkrumaism became a religion in Ghana and children were taught to recite 'Nkrumah never dies' 10x daily.The Young Pioneers were very much hated. The best thing that has ever happened to Ghana was the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah the monster
Prempeh 1 11 years ago

When people were writing something sensible here you son-of-bitch son's wake up and write useless comments, just like your forefathers (Busia-Danquah)terrorist criminals did, hence our suffering in Ghana.

When people were writing something sensible here you son-of-bitch son's wake up and write useless comments, just like your forefathers (Busia-Danquah)terrorist criminals did, hence our suffering in Ghana.
OLIVER TWIST 11 years ago

KWAME NKRUMAH NEVER DIES...KWAME NKRUMAH SHOW BOY!!

KWAME NKRUMAH NEVER DIES...KWAME NKRUMAH SHOW BOY!!
Mahmoud 11 years ago

The sycophant KB Ashanti is a disgrace. How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did, except that he was preparing the ...
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The sycophant KB Ashanti is a disgrace. How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did, except that he was preparing the ground with a series of unprovoked actions to create one party state and declare himself president for life.

The Communist ideology doesn't have a place for opposition in the system. Have you ever heard of a communist democratic country with opposition to check excesses of the government? Nkrumah chose communism as a means of keeping himself in power forever. He therefore imposed the Detention without Trial Act only to gag everybody, create a communist dictatorship and turn himself into a president for life. This is because, communists don't share power.
Susuka 11 years ago

Some of you rabid anti-Nkrumaists are now beginning to sound so ridiculous in your hatred and lies against Nkrumah that it is as if you have just been released from a high security mental hospital for the criminally insane.
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Some of you rabid anti-Nkrumaists are now beginning to sound so ridiculous in your hatred and lies against Nkrumah that it is as if you have just been released from a high security mental hospital for the criminally insane.

It is this same strange behavior that led people like you to become senseless terrorists whose actions led to the deaths of so many innocent Ghanaians in your stubborn and criminal bid to unjustifiably murder Kwame Nkrumah.

Now whether you like it or not, whether it gives you sleepless nights or not, it was Kwame Nkrumah who gave Ghana independence - you included. It was Kwame Nkrumah who established virtually everything that an idiot like you have been benefiting from and enjoying in this country called Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah had a hand in the liberation, independence and democratization process of virtually every African country that had been held under colonial dictatorship by those who taught weak-minded people amongst us like you, Frank, to hate him so that they can use you like a puppet to obstruct our struggle for greater independence and development.

If you do not like Kwame Nkrumah and therefore you would rather choose to idolize and continue serving your slave-masters as a puppet or a loudspeaker of their dislike of everything that is good for Africa and the Blackman, I can only wish you good luck in your doomed endeavors.

Needless to say, swimming against the tide of world history and the vital process of universal human development - especially for the interests of the much abused Blackman, cannot be an easy task and I do not envy you for willfully putting yourself in that unfortunate category.

If you do not like the incontrovertible fact that 'Nkrumah never dies' and that he is the greatest African ever and one of the greatest personalities in world history, you can go and throw yourself into the Atlantic Ocean to save Ghana and the world the trouble of having to cope with your nonsense and rubbish.

Like Danquah, Busia, Afrifa, Kotoka, Harlley and other such nauseous clowns before you, the specter of Kwame Nkrumah, shall send you early to your grave in the most dishonorable, disgraceful and shameful manner.
Patriotic Ghanaian 11 years ago

I am surprised the institute sill exists. I thought it was thrown was out as being too good for Africans. SAD.

I am surprised the institute sill exists. I thought it was thrown was out as being too good for Africans. SAD.
MenayeAFUAforiwa 11 years ago

The Institute does not exist any more but these are the ideas of some of its past students. Isn't nice to hear from them for all these years?

The Institute does not exist any more but these are the ideas of some of its past students. Isn't nice to hear from them for all these years?

OKOE 11 years ago

FORGET WHAT YOU THOUGHT ALL THESE YEARS. THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF DR. NKRUMAH WILL NEVER DIE. NEVER FORGET!!!

FORGET WHAT YOU THOUGHT ALL THESE YEARS. THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF DR. NKRUMAH WILL NEVER DIE. NEVER FORGET!!!
Kofi Virginia 11 years ago

Absolute waste of time. There were no African leaders to work with Nkrumah then, and there are no African leaders to consider his thoughts today. Just vote and hold those you have fully responsible for your development.

Absolute waste of time. There were no African leaders to work with Nkrumah then, and there are no African leaders to consider his thoughts today. Just vote and hold those you have fully responsible for your development.
Tokugawah 11 years ago

Why are we so stupid? We cannot feed our selves and import tooth picks and yet people talk about African unity, unity of what, of nations unable to govern themselves whose leaders, both political and religious rape their peop ...
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Why are we so stupid? We cannot feed our selves and import tooth picks and yet people talk about African unity, unity of what, of nations unable to govern themselves whose leaders, both political and religious rape their people of their present and future. The answer is not in useless rhetoric and insults, we just cannot do it. If we accept the reality then we can start to develop realistic policies, until then it is like pissing up a rope.
Kokonsa 11 years ago

You have indeed spoken well, and taken the wind out of my sail. If Africans can do an introspection and realise our weaknesses then we can move forward. We have to first admit that we are different from others in so many way ...
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You have indeed spoken well, and taken the wind out of my sail. If Africans can do an introspection and realise our weaknesses then we can move forward. We have to first admit that we are different from others in so many ways but also have our strength and we have to be able to identify them and build on them.
Until then we are are not going anywhere soon.
Efo 11 years ago

Is the Greedy leaders PERIOD.

Is the Greedy leaders PERIOD.
Tanam 11 years ago

Nkrumah had his good side but also a lot of bad side.His reign in today's world of democracy minded people could have lasted even a day.Yes he was good but was of an idealist not collaborative.He believed only in his ideas an ...
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Nkrumah had his good side but also a lot of bad side.His reign in today's world of democracy minded people could have lasted even a day.Yes he was good but was of an idealist not collaborative.He believed only in his ideas and when you act that way then you are dictator which does not augur well for any nation.You have to allow the ordinary folks to speak up their minds and even the ordinary folk given freedom can do extraordinary things his way of governing was like the dark days of JJ's PNDC whereby if you dare talk you are gone.Just sit back and think about it.He set up institutions such Nkrumah Ideological institute,Ghana Young Pioneers and just read through the pledge today and think about that it goes like this"I sincerely promise to live by the ideas of Osagyefo Dr.Kwame Nkrumah the founder of the Ghana Nation and to Inculcate into the Youth the ideas of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah"so just those lines alone speaks volumes of who he was so just think about this and ask yourself if that is the type leader you want today.Then also just say anything negative against him or his regime then you know where you will be and that was Nsawam prisons which he said somebody is being kept there for protection so he called Nsawam "Protective Custody".The good side of him was just look back in those days for a leader such as him to come up with such big projects such Akomsombo Dam,G.E.T Schools,Korlebu Hospital,Komfo Anokye Hospital,Tema Motorway,Nkrumah University Kumasi,Cape Coast University etc.are all feats you look at today and really give him kudos because our knowledge back then was just no where to talk about.So add his bad and good and be the judge.When it comes corruption I will give him an A+ he never thought about material gains because just travel to his own town in Nzema and you will atest to that or if there is anybody in Ghana who can point to any property that belongs to Nkrumah I will be amazed.
tanaman 11 years ago

The institute is like a toothless bulldog.full of grammar but nothing.

The institute is like a toothless bulldog.full of grammar but nothing.
Nii Okai 11 years ago

Brothers of higher dreams, your dreams will never come to pass if even unity in your house, GHANA is lost, how much more in Africa.

What you are talkig about is a great thing that when we are able to obtain will surely gr ...
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Brothers of higher dreams, your dreams will never come to pass if even unity in your house, GHANA is lost, how much more in Africa.

What you are talkig about is a great thing that when we are able to obtain will surely grant us our goal of economic indepehdence that Nkrumah cried for like what China has today.

Keep in mind that the whiteman who sees your nations/continent as his property will never sit and wait till you finish your good agenda and impliment it. He will act quickly against you. Over thrown you, frustrate your econmy, he will spend billion of monies to instigate people to revolt against you etc.

Do you not think he will be a loser since he depends on your raw resources. This was what happened to Nkrumah. Besides can your fellow citizens with lowlevel mindset coperate with you on this issue you are wailing for.

In reality first Africans ought to suffer and realise that their only property is their nations/continent before at a certain point they could know of themselves of what they have.

The Chines reached that level when they were strucked with famine and the whole developed world and even we of the third world were brainwashed to laugh at the Chines too in those times.

It was that situation that made them to know themselves thus realising that China is for chines. Have Ghanaians realised their nation as theirs? They fight over politics and betrayed themselves to the IMF/ WORLD BANK that the figures the govt is coming with is fake so upset them and possibly do not give them the help they need.

African leaders can not sit down to talk with themselves because some of them are saying YES to the neo-colonialist and the imperialist. The one saying NO, where will he be? You must know; where are the ff Nkrumah, Lubumba, Samora Machelle, Sankara whom the French and the Ivorian leader at that time used Campoare to kill him period.

You guys may have good minds for Africa unity Africa, but never under rate the white man's interest in your interest. They chased Gadaffi because of similar thoughts he had for Africa unity.

First preach unity and make sure our people understand our MAIN problems and had been convinced that UNITY is what we need to achieve our dreams, if not then we have a long way; just like Nkrumah fought and all became nothing. All the same I wish Africa the best journey to victory one day.
MAHAMA 11 years ago

THE BEST AMONG THE FEW.Great man are born oness a century were give you salute for the wonderful and outstanding political and economic devepment you gave Ghana and Africa.You did not build hotels and award contracts to your ...
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THE BEST AMONG THE FEW.Great man are born oness a century were give you salute for the wonderful and outstanding political and economic devepment you gave Ghana and Africa.You did not build hotels and award contracts to your family,no house for family .you look first for Ghana any other thing was secondary to you.The terrorist with they financers bomb you in ,God bless you,we honour you in the highest heaven,you Akosombo is still there ,only is sick and you motorway has developed fishponds.
WORLANYOR 11 years ago

HOW can we proceed with leaders of selfish individual interest? We need a change of government now to move GHANA and AFRICA at large foward!!!

HOW can we proceed with leaders of selfish individual interest? We need a change of government now to move GHANA and AFRICA at large foward!!!

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