Labeled the writer a CIA agent but answer the question put forward. A nation with a shaky foundation like ours is the result of Nkrumah's self-centered stinking ego. My question to his admirers is, why was he trying to unite ... read full comment
Labeled the writer a CIA agent but answer the question put forward. A nation with a shaky foundation like ours is the result of Nkrumah's self-centered stinking ego. My question to his admirers is, why was he trying to unite Africa at a time he knew was impossible? Nkrumah threw our money all over the continent while Ghana remains like a pig pen. Trying to convince the then leaders of the various nations on the continent, he should have developed his own nation to stand the "test of time" by building roads, etc and instituting democratic principles with the rule of law at its zenith. None of these was done but being reckless and hungry for power, he was forcing himself to be viewed as the only man on the continent with two eyes. Those who were agitating for the gradual process of independent were right as well as the formation of the African Union. As we speak, our independent is just on paper. Why? Because we still depend on "donor nations" to support our budget and what is the sense in it? With all the natural resources, we cannot generate revenue to support ourselves. Nkrumah messed up big time and the ripple effect is what we are going through today.
The man did well with the money left for the nation during independent but he could have done more than to set his eyes on the entire continent of Africa.
PROPHET 9 years ago
KOTOKA WAS JUST A STOOGE, THE MILITARY DID NOT OVERTHROW NKRUMAH, THE CIA DID. THE SAME CIA THAT WAS AGAINST NELSON MANDELA AND THE ANC. THE SAME CIA THAT WAS AGAINST DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, MALCOLM X, PAUL ROBESON. THE SAM ... read full comment
KOTOKA WAS JUST A STOOGE, THE MILITARY DID NOT OVERTHROW NKRUMAH, THE CIA DID. THE SAME CIA THAT WAS AGAINST NELSON MANDELA AND THE ANC. THE SAME CIA THAT WAS AGAINST DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, MALCOLM X, PAUL ROBESON. THE SAME CIA THAT WAS SOLIDLY SUPPORTIN THE APARTHEID REGIME IN SOUTH AFRICA.
ANYONE WHO THINKS THE CIA OVERTHREW NKRUMAH BCOS HE WAS A DICTATOR IS YOU VERY NAIVE.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
All that you are doing here is to raise sentiments against a glorious coup d'état by associating it with the negative image of the CIA, as if the mass support for the coup was also engineered by the CIA...
If the CIA overth ... read full comment
All that you are doing here is to raise sentiments against a glorious coup d'état by associating it with the negative image of the CIA, as if the mass support for the coup was also engineered by the CIA...
If the CIA overthrew Nkrumah, then they merely fulfilled our national aspiration to "resist the oppressor's rule with all our minds and hearts forever more" and therefore are they our national heroes deserving of our eternal respect.
But saying that Nkrumah's overthrow was the work of CIA merely turns our people into mere idiots who did not have the courage to get rid of a bloody dictator!! I do not subscribe to the idea that the colonial masters were responsible for giving us back our freedom from the tyranny of Kwame Nkrumah.
PROPHET 9 years ago
u raise sentiments against a glorious coup d'état by associating it with the negative image of the CIA
SAS, I KNOW YOU ARE PLAYING IGNORANT HERE, WHICH U R NOT. DECLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENTS HAVE PROVEN THAT THE COUP WAS TH ... read full comment
u raise sentiments against a glorious coup d'état by associating it with the negative image of the CIA
SAS, I KNOW YOU ARE PLAYING IGNORANT HERE, WHICH U R NOT. DECLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENTS HAVE PROVEN THAT THE COUP WAS THE JOB OF THE CIA. THE SAME CIA
HUNTING DOWN LIBERATION FIGHTERS ALL OVER AFRICA.
as if the mass support for the coup was also engineered by the CIA...
OF COURSE, THE WHOLE THING WAS PLANNED AND EXECUTED AT THE CIA HQTRS IN THE USA. EVERY COUP HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY GHANAIANS- KUTU, RAWLINGS ONE AND TWO. IF THERE IS A COUP IN GHANA TODAY AND THE GUY IS ELOQUENT ENOUGH GHANAIANS WOULD POUR INTO THE STREETS AND SUPPORT THE COUP MAKERS. WE ARE A THIRD WORLD NATION WITH MANY PROBLEMS, ANY 'SAVIOUR' IS WELCOME.
If the CIA overthrew Nkrumah,
THERE IS NO IF. THE CIA OVERTHREW NKRUMAH. THE COUP MAKERS WERE JUST STOOGES, USED AND DUMPED.
and therefore are they our national heroes deserving of our eternal respect.
STOOGES ARE NEVER HEROES. THESE WERE IGNORAMUSES WHO HAD NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE DOING. THESE WERE BRAINLESS PUPPETS.
But saying that Nkrumah's overthrow was the work of CIA merely turns our people into mere idiots
SAS, GHANA IS NOT THE ONLY VICTIM OF THE MACHINATIONS OF THE CIA. READ SOME HISTORY, MY BROTHER. THERE ARE EXAMPLES ALL OVER THE WORLD. THESE DOCUMENTS ARE NOT CLASSIFIED ANYMORE.
who did not have the courage to get rid of a bloody dictator!!
THE CIA GOT RID OF A MAN THEY DID NOT LIKE AND THEY USED STOOGES WHO BELIEVED THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM. THE SAME CIA SUPPORTED DICTATORSHIPS ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE SAME CIA TOPPLED DEMOCRATIC GOVNMNTS THEY DID NOT LIKE. NKRUMAH WAS NOT TOPPLED BCOS HE WAS A DICTATOR. THIS IS A VERY NAIVE WAY OF LOOKING AT OUR HISTORY.
I do not subscribe to the idea that the colonial masters were responsible for giving us back our freedom from the tyranny of Kwame Nkrumah.
IM TEMPTED TO CONCLUDE THAT YOU BELIEVE YOUR OWN MISINFORMATION OR LACK OF INFORMATION. WHY WOULD THE CIA OVERTHROW NKRUMAH? THEY WANTED DEMOCRACY IN BLACK GHANA? THEY WERE OPPRESSING AFRICAN-AMERICANS AT THE SAME TIME. THEY WERE IN SUPPORT OF THE EVIL REGIMES ALL OVER SOUTHERN AFRICA. THEY KILLED STEVE BIKO, LUMUMBA ETC.
YET THEY LOVED GHANA SO MUCH THEY WANTED US TO BE FREE? THEY WANTED FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY FOR US. THINK, THINK, THINK.
THE SAME PEOPLE WHO PROPPED UP MOBUTU AND OTHER DICTATORS WANTED DICTATOR NKRUMAH OUT OF POWER BCOS THEY LOVED BLACK AFRICANS IN GHANA SO MUCH? THINK, MY BROTHER THINK !
Captain Canada 9 years ago
And yes the CIA used the traitors like two bit whores to get rid of Nkrumah.
And yes the CIA used the traitors like two bit whores to get rid of Nkrumah.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
I wonder why the full idiot, Francis Kwarteng is lost his compass on such a topic about Nkrumah.
What is the PIG afraid of, someone should call him and ask why he is staying out of this Topic.
His Tel numbers in the US ... read full comment
I wonder why the full idiot, Francis Kwarteng is lost his compass on such a topic about Nkrumah.
What is the PIG afraid of, someone should call him and ask why he is staying out of this Topic.
His Tel numbers in the USA,Hyattsville, MD-Maryland are 001-301 2775871 and 001-240 770 7573
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
Nation building is not for pigs, and unless we Ghanaians cure crass ignorance and self deception, we will remain like pigs with pearls in our pigs' pen. You or perhaps your older siblings, if not, then perhaps your father an ... read full comment
Nation building is not for pigs, and unless we Ghanaians cure crass ignorance and self deception, we will remain like pigs with pearls in our pigs' pen. You or perhaps your older siblings, if not, then perhaps your father and mother benefited from Nkrumah's education policy. Who built Akosombo dam, and the largest man-made harbour in Africa? Nkrumah built the Tema and Takoradi harbours. Who built the consolidated schools, the polytechnics and the universities - you Ghanaians are like chickens; you eat to your fill and then wipe your beak on the floor. Why am I so surprised of the behaviour of the black man? Ignorant and perfidy are the black man's stock in trade - so destructive and narcissistic in their makeup.
Find out what Nelson Mandela said about Nkrumah and his contribution in fighting apartheid. Nkrumah not only built roads to open up the country, he built rail, a whole Tema township and Tema motorway (the first of its kind in Africa). Ghana had its own airlines and shipping lines.
It is true that if you want to hide information from a black man, hide it in a book because blacks don't read. Crass ignorance has always been the black man's undoing.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
Kwabena Yeboah, we are talking about the brutal suppression of human rights by a dictator and you trying to mitigate this with development projects the dictator embarked on? Hitler, Mao and Stalin developed their countries to ... read full comment
Kwabena Yeboah, we are talking about the brutal suppression of human rights by a dictator and you trying to mitigate this with development projects the dictator embarked on? Hitler, Mao and Stalin developed their countries too and are you suggesting that we should not critique their atrocities? I also get tired of the Nkrumahists argument that Ghanaians would have been ignorant and uneducated without his educational policies. This is crap because although Nigerians never had Nkrumah they were equally educated like Ghanaians. In fact on a visit to Nigeria, Nkrumah was proud of the local government schools that were established in that country. Nkrumah did good things for the country, but his repressive and dictatorial much be condemned in no uncertain terms.
Additionally, he had in excess 250 million pounds left by the colonial Government to spend which he did on those projects and had to even spend to destabilize neighboring governments. In end he bankrupted the country and our foreign reserves stood at a meager 500, 000 pounds when he was overthrown.
We should stop hero worshiping Nkrumah.
Nkrumah on a visit to Nigeria speaking proudly of the local community schools
MINOR CASE 9 years ago
Thank you Bro.There is this saying that if you inherit a fortune and at the end you become bankrupt and go borrowing, then you are more than a fool. That was Nkrumah for you. The amount of money he spent to deify himself loca ... read full comment
Thank you Bro.There is this saying that if you inherit a fortune and at the end you become bankrupt and go borrowing, then you are more than a fool. That was Nkrumah for you. The amount of money he spent to deify himself locally and splashed about in Africa ,could have been used on mass education of Ghanains on patriotism .selflessness etc. Corruption started from Nkrumah era and has been the albatross around our necks since then.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
My people perish without knowledge, so says the bible. Kwadwo, whoever you are, seek true knowledge before you perish in your crass ignorance. As I have always said, the African is the most dangerous specie with his half bake ... read full comment
My people perish without knowledge, so says the bible. Kwadwo, whoever you are, seek true knowledge before you perish in your crass ignorance. As I have always said, the African is the most dangerous specie with his half bake education, and no doubt, you are a sample of my belief.
I will not waste my time responding to your outrageous comments. Instead, I will ask you to google Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, and the action in the October crises. Go ahead and look for it and let's see if you can learn some sense. Despite the fact that Canada is a full fledged democracy, when there was an insurrection in the Canadian federation just as in Ghana in 1970, Pierre Elliott Trudeau suspended civil liberties, brought in the Canadian army and the army went house to house arresting and jailing people without trial. But in spite of the extreme measures taken by the Prime Minister, no Canadian refers to him as a dictator, in fact 85% of Canadians approved of his action. But the backward and devious black man, so ignorant and destructive by nature would always want to destroy his fellow black man.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
This is the usual name calling of an idealogue. Pathetic. A couple of weeks ago you were commending for giving some credit to Nkrumah on what of Francis Kwarteng's pieces.
This is the usual name calling of an idealogue. Pathetic. A couple of weeks ago you were commending for giving some credit to Nkrumah on what of Francis Kwarteng's pieces.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
Kwadwo, my apology! I came on too harsh on your response - forgive me.
Kwadwo, my apology! I came on too harsh on your response - forgive me.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
Let's keep the debate going, Kwabena.
Let's keep the debate going, Kwabena.
Pelicles 9 years ago
Nkrumah did nothing in Ghana with his own money. Whatever project he did come from the money left by our colonial masters right? So, what is your point? My beef with your idol was he misuse the money in trying to unite the c ... read full comment
Nkrumah did nothing in Ghana with his own money. Whatever project he did come from the money left by our colonial masters right? So, what is your point? My beef with your idol was he misuse the money in trying to unite the continent which he knew was impossible.
Does it make sense for him to use our money to educated some people in other African countries and what benefit did we get from that? By the way, who was the vice to Nkrumah when he was in power?
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
You can accuse Nkrumah of everything but a thief. Kufuor stole and pillaged, yet the mindless African dubious in character is wont to taut Kufuor more than Nkrumah.
You little minds, the fact that Nkrumah tried but failed ... read full comment
You can accuse Nkrumah of everything but a thief. Kufuor stole and pillaged, yet the mindless African dubious in character is wont to taut Kufuor more than Nkrumah.
You little minds, the fact that Nkrumah tried but failed to unite Africa should count as a remarkable achievement. How did United States become United States of America? How did the 10 provinces in Canada become a federation? And how did the European community become EU. Somebody might have mooted the idea of bringing all the states together before it became the United States of America. It was one gallant Canadian who saw the benefit of a federation and convinced his fellow provincial counterparts to meet at Charlottetown in PEI to form the Canadian federation.
But the stupid African, selfish, self-destruct, and ignorant fool who cannot see beyond his nose, would want to thwart every effort of a very selfless man, Nkrumah.
Who says uniting the continent was impossible? Afterall, the Americans did it; the Canadians also did it; the Europeans have also done it. The question you should ask yourself is: why did Africa failed to unite and you will know how stupid and destructive the African is.
James Okine 9 years ago
Pelicles' statements are rather naive.For your information,the British Government left only 140 million pounds but Nkrumah borrowed millions for Development.His Seven Year Development Plan which was cut short by his detractor ... read full comment
Pelicles' statements are rather naive.For your information,the British Government left only 140 million pounds but Nkrumah borrowed millions for Development.His Seven Year Development Plan which was cut short by his detractors was estimated at over one billion pounds sterling over fifty years ago.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Thank you, Mr. Yeboah! The loudest, ultra-selfish elitist demagogues, who have always thought they and their families alone have been ordained by the Omnipotent to rule all others and the Nation in perpetuity would never forg ... read full comment
Thank you, Mr. Yeboah! The loudest, ultra-selfish elitist demagogues, who have always thought they and their families alone have been ordained by the Omnipotent to rule all others and the Nation in perpetuity would never forgive Dr. Nkrumah for disrupting their agenda to fill in the despotic gap that the Colonial imperialists had left behind, and acknowledge anything positive and constructive the late President helped to build.
It is the avowed ultimate goal of such hypocritical, narcissistic scaramouchs to wipe out any trace of Nkrumah's positive contribution to the Nation. They are the very worst of foes any humans could encounter. They have hearts of stone and have not an iota of compunction for anyone they have the slightest reason to brand as their enemy. They are infinitely incapable of the subtle but most relevant human attributes for reconciliation and progressive inter-relational reconstruction. They are ruthless, insensitive masters of distortions of facts to cover their own nefarious behaviors and activities, while bellowing the shortcomings of their perceived enemies.
It is not surprising that they do not hesitate to brandish their academic prowess in our faces at every little opportunity, and even, moronically, fight among themselves to claim superior scholastic clout because they use that to impress on our many less educated that they alone have exclusive access to any knowledge that is worth anything, including our History.
They are infuriatingly snobbish and nauseatingly arrogant and impudent. They rain dehumanizing insults on all who oppose their opinions and still have the brazen audacity to call others dictatorial and attempt to educate us on Democracy. Ironically, when given the opportunity, they fail equally miserably to put their own lessons in Democracy to practice, hypocritically resorting to much of the same dictatorial tendencies they fault Nkrumah for.
No one claims Nkrumah was infallible or a saint. But the masses, in those days, believed in his cause and followed him voluntarily. It is common human nature that when people badly expect a leader to succeed and consider verbal inspirations to whip up the leader's going-power, they tend to shower that leader with accolades. That does not make the people dumb or any less intelligent than the opponents of those leaders. But such is what the likes of Nkrumah's enemies would think of all who sympathize with him at any level.
We must all acknowledge that there are some folks who hate ferociously and would not stop at anything to act viciously towards their foes, no matter the circumstances. It is unfortunate that many of these dedicated Nkrumah lifelong haters belong to that group of haters. So, maybe we would have to live with that. But what I vehemently disapprove of these people and hope to help effectively mitigate is their deliberate tactical misinforming the young, just so our future generations would have no trace of the man's positive contributions to the Nation's History.
I do believe that each of the Big 6 deserve some credit in our match to freedom. We should not take that away from them. But so should we acknowledge whatever good Nkrumah did as well.
The now-horribly-unacceptable faults in governance by Nkrumah were not exclusive to newly independent Nations fearing a sneaky reclamation by the powers that were forced out via proxies. Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore was no different in that regard. Houphouet Boigny's Cote d'Ivoire was no different either. Neither were the Marcos of Philippines, Mobutu of Zaire or Kinshasa, now D. R. Congo.
Many other Nations in similar circumstances shared Nkrumah's governing attributes and yet never were undermined from the more powerful Western Nations as they did to Nkrumah. Show me a dictator the West supported and I would show you a Nation's Citizens he brutally suppressed to get his agenda fulfilled. It is laughable how Dr. SAS corrupts our conscience in claiming that all the infrastructure Nkrumah built amounted to nothing more than mere ephemeral edifices, while lament that our Economic and Standard of Living collapsed with his exit.
The success in every Nation's development is seen not necessarily in how much Democracy the People could claim to have as much as the physical manifestation in infrastructural achievements that touch on their basic lives, with any such proper organization and discipline to make those advancements. If we were only interested in moral expediency and puritanically pious Society, we would have invested in creating a Religious State like in Tibet, ruled by Monks. This insulting self-adulatory pontification by Dr. SAS only reminds me of the slavery-minded Southern USA Politicians who tout their Evangelical Christian background but share bedding with the KKK, and treat the poor with disdain.
Therefore, if anyone wants to know why our Democracy did not start off with stronger foundations, we should ask the author of this article and his cohorts who left no stone unturned to usurp the democratically elected Nkrumah's regime even before the full reins of Government were handed over to him.
Dr. SAS cannot stand the truth. He fails to acknowledge the genesis of the violent distraction that pushed Nkrumah to take those unpleasant dictatorial measures but is only interested in condemning the symptomatic outcome of Nkrumah's reaction. That is pure academic corruption!
J. B. Danquah and his pseudo-democracy advocates did not suffer any brutal suppression from Nkrumah until they resorted to fatal violence to get rid of the late President's regime. In fact, Nkrumah's move to tighten his grip on the Nation, up to his declaration of an One-Party State, all happened within a couple of years, 1963-1965.
If the Opposition was so disruptive that they would not let Democracy find a footing after the Elections that saw them lose hugely, how does the dear Dr. SAS, in all his socratic verve for
democracy expect the Nation to have cemented the system in place?
Let no Ghanaian be fooled, it is all in plain view for readers to see that Dr. SAS is no true advocate for Democracy but a sordid, disgruntled advocate for Aristocracy.
Surely, Mr. Yeboah, the likes of Dr. SAS play on our relative handicap in Academic research that he brags about as being a guru of. But God has his way of exposing such intentions in folks of that nature. He allows others of lesser 'recognition' and Academic laurels rise to the occasion and take them to task for greater transparency on the whole truth, not a half-truth.
It is time we quit the game of relative morality crap and seriously concentrated on applying lessons in those dark days of our Nation to rebuild Ghana. The credits Danquah and Busia and the Big 6 deserve must be duly acknowledged but so should the good people of Ghana not allow the credits due Nkrumah be covered up with vicious hatred and lies by his enemies and their vengeful offspring, even as we identify the human frailties all of these laudable children of Ghana showed in their quest for what we all cherished.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Apart from downplaying the bloody dictatorship of Nkrumah and excusing it, I don't see any relevance your post brings to this debate, except that you tacitly agree with me that Nkrumah was a dictator (but with good reasons). ... read full comment
Apart from downplaying the bloody dictatorship of Nkrumah and excusing it, I don't see any relevance your post brings to this debate, except that you tacitly agree with me that Nkrumah was a dictator (but with good reasons). As I pointed out, exemplary leadership has nothing to do with excused tyranny, and for someone whose mantra was "freedom and justice", Nkrumah should be judged on his stewardship of these qualities, nothing else.
Kosoko 9 years ago
Of course, someone like you would never grasp the import of what Berko posted. You do not have the wit and the maturity to understand. Intellect is not about plugging unfamiliar vocabularies from the thesaurus and use them to ... read full comment
Of course, someone like you would never grasp the import of what Berko posted. You do not have the wit and the maturity to understand. Intellect is not about plugging unfamiliar vocabularies from the thesaurus and use them to construct any thrash. It's about facts, reasoning and sound judgment and I'm afraid you have never achieved that in any of your articles posted on this forum. Most of the time you ignorantly discuss issues you have a scanty knowledge and it's very annoying sometimes when you seek to challenge those who are well informed like Berko.
Bonsu 9 years ago
G.K. Berko is in a class of his own.His reasoning ,logic and presentation marks him out as a true scholar and the man SAS a first degree holder but who claims he is a Doctor of law because he holds a JD is but insignificant b ... read full comment
G.K. Berko is in a class of his own.His reasoning ,logic and presentation marks him out as a true scholar and the man SAS a first degree holder but who claims he is a Doctor of law because he holds a JD is but insignificant before him.
One would have thought that even a first degree holder like him but experienced must know the tenets of intellectual discourse of objectivity and balance but not SAS who wants to come out as elitist but always fall short.
The annoying thing is that even though Nkrumah's place in history stands tall-see the academic books at all major universities-these people still denigrate him just in an attempt to distort history.The GK Berkos have a mightier pen and with others they would not allow these distorters of history to have their way.Thanks G.K. Berko.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
The most serious problem we have in that continent, and Ghana especially is intellectual dishonesty. You can teach the black man to the phd. level, he will still be a black man - devious, narcissistic, and immoral. The Ghana ... read full comment
The most serious problem we have in that continent, and Ghana especially is intellectual dishonesty. You can teach the black man to the phd. level, he will still be a black man - devious, narcissistic, and immoral. The Ghanaian is a true specimen of moral decay and no academic training can change that. The fact that they flaunt their academic achievement everywhere they go belies their insecurity and authenticity. I have concluded it is a waste of ones time engaging in intellectual discourse with the pseudo African intellectuals.
Paul 9 years ago
Kwabena, I think a number of people (you included) u=have made good points on our deficiencies, but your generalisation about the "black man" is also part of the problem don't you think? In other words, we are doomed by fate. ... read full comment
Kwabena, I think a number of people (you included) u=have made good points on our deficiencies, but your generalisation about the "black man" is also part of the problem don't you think? In other words, we are doomed by fate. If so, why bother laud the likes of Nkrumah?
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
Paul, pardon my generalization but when you sample black intellectuals and extrapolate their binomial distribution, one conclusion always emerges. Don't get me wrong, there are outliers on the African continent who exhibit t ... read full comment
Paul, pardon my generalization but when you sample black intellectuals and extrapolate their binomial distribution, one conclusion always emerges. Don't get me wrong, there are outliers on the African continent who exhibit true scholarly excellence, but they are only far and between. Nkrumah was an outlier.
Take for instance this garbage this guy who prefixes his name with Dr. has produced. People who bother to flaunt their credentials in other people's faces should display cognitive adroitness, which preserves their integrity, objectivity, and balance. The intellectual is trained to be objective and balanced in exposition of knowledge and skills. His worldview must be exquisitely balanced devoid of emotions to allow the reader to make his own decision or assumptions - that is intellectualism.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Fake Apothecary,
What really can you "extrapolate" in your miserable life if you cannot "extrapolate" "in order" from "in other"; and if your identity which you try to hide so well is so discoverable by your overuse of the c ... read full comment
Fake Apothecary,
What really can you "extrapolate" in your miserable life if you cannot "extrapolate" "in order" from "in other"; and if your identity which you try to hide so well is so discoverable by your overuse of the cliché "cognitive adroitness"?
Look over your self-abnegating verbiage against Blacks, and you will acknowledge your own inferiority complex and inherent illogic. Where is your own objectivity and balance here? Where is the pseudo science that convinces you so much that Blacks are intellectually inferior to Whites? Even this equally stupid mooncalf of a doctor had to take exception from your rotten tirade against the Black man. Does he know that you are extremely ethnocentric against Ewes like himself? Think about it!
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
What are you trying to say here, Dr. SAS? Cool down because intellectualism is devoid of emotional outburst. State your views lucidly so the ordinary person can understand - that is the hallmark of intellectualism. I will a ... read full comment
What are you trying to say here, Dr. SAS? Cool down because intellectualism is devoid of emotional outburst. State your views lucidly so the ordinary person can understand - that is the hallmark of intellectualism. I will address any concerns you have here if you can articulate your views as expected of a doctor of letters.
Kosoko 9 years ago
Kwabena,
Sarfo doesn't even have a Master's degree. He only has a JD degree--an equivalent of English LLB degree with law certificate from Lincoln's Inn or the Temple to practice as a barrister or solicitor
Kwabena,
Sarfo doesn't even have a Master's degree. He only has a JD degree--an equivalent of English LLB degree with law certificate from Lincoln's Inn or the Temple to practice as a barrister or solicitor
Paul 9 years ago
Sarfo is trying too hard to be noticed which only betrays his own insecurities and 'intellectual dwarfism'. It is very childish to think that only your views, (usually not supported by hard facts) and lacking any objectivity ... read full comment
Sarfo is trying too hard to be noticed which only betrays his own insecurities and 'intellectual dwarfism'. It is very childish to think that only your views, (usually not supported by hard facts) and lacking any objectivity or good balance, is the best 'bread in town'. Until, and unkless you learn the art of intellectual discourse, you will remain a minnow.
Clearly you did not benefit from Nkrumah's MASSIVE educational programme for a nation whose population at the time of independence had less than 30 per cent national educational coverage.
You must also be careful to accord respect to those 'intellectuals' who even care or bother to engage with you in the discussions. Mind you, ordinarily these folks whould not engage in debates with except for the fact that the majority are compelled to do so because of your ignorance and penchant for half-baked articles full of propaganda and your constant attempts to distort the facts especially about our history.
By the way do you have to tell us you are a "certified high school English tutor"? What about those who are certified University Teachers but don't even bother to advertise it here?
SAS has a lot of growing up to do. Sad really!!!
Kwadwo 9 years ago
All SAS said in this piece is that by declaring himself president for life, instituting a one party state and imprisoning his opponents without charge or trial, Nkrumah was a dictator. Unless you are a thin skulled NKrumaist ... read full comment
All SAS said in this piece is that by declaring himself president for life, instituting a one party state and imprisoning his opponents without charge or trial, Nkrumah was a dictator. Unless you are a thin skulled NKrumaist, SAS has a point and I can't understand all this ball scratching responses against SAS. Majority of the comments against SAS is saying SAS, why have you fouled the air towards St NKrumah. My final response is that St Nkrumah had skeletons in his closet and what SAS has done is though blasphemous to diehard Nkrumaist, the truth needs to be told. Period.
Son of man 9 years ago
Mr Berko, kindly make this an article and post for us to read. Been in the US for sometime now has exposed me to both the beauty and the ugly side of democracy. Democracy in itself isnt without its challenges but it takes a l ... read full comment
Mr Berko, kindly make this an article and post for us to read. Been in the US for sometime now has exposed me to both the beauty and the ugly side of democracy. Democracy in itself isnt without its challenges but it takes a lot to run a Western style democray then and now. We just dont have the tools hence some form of dictatorsihp is very necessary for us at that and also at this point of our development. Not everyting that works for the white man wil work for all humans. Our morals, customs, values, and resources are simply not the same. The white man will son be allowed to be marrying Goats and Cows, should we also do so in the name of democracy?
Those opposing and critisizing Kwame Nkrumah and Jerry Rawlings have a right to do so, if JB Danqua and or Afrifa were my relatives i will do the same. I however detest their blatant display of lies when they cry about democracy cos even some of things they do and say both in the open and behind close doors do not show this people as believeing in any form of democracy. Their ony obstacle was that political power wasnt avaliable to them when they needed it the most cos they would have done worst than Nkrumah and Jerry Rawlings combined.
Take some one like Okaomapa and his constant pouring of vernom on those he disagrees with. The man would do worse than all the dictators in history combined should he be given acess to political power. Nkrumah and Rawlings werent perfect but i doubt if their opponents would have done any better.
INXS 9 years ago
G. K. Berko, this is one of your best. A great post that SAS could not adequately respond to.
Your post is far more valuable than any longueurs Kwarteng can write in defence of Nkrumah.
The point, as you rightly state ... read full comment
G. K. Berko, this is one of your best. A great post that SAS could not adequately respond to.
Your post is far more valuable than any longueurs Kwarteng can write in defence of Nkrumah.
The point, as you rightly stated, is to point out what Nkrumah did, under the circumstances, to move the entire nation forward. Implicit in this is what his opposition could have done if they had had the power. It would not have reached Nkrumah's achievements. No way!!!
To call Nkrumah a brutal dictator is to miss the point. SAS is the descendant of the opposition to Nkrumah and everything he says is in that vein. SAS has to oppose everything Nkrumah stood for so that NPP, the party SAS supports, will look favourable. But that doesn't gain traction with those of us who know more and lived some of the time of the Nkrumah regime.
I am NOT Nkrumaist, but I will choose Nkrumah any day, any time, WITH ALL HIS FAULTS (yes, he had them), rather than the opposition he faced at that time.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Thanks, INXS! I am tired of the endless raw hatred that many of these pseudo-renaissance, History-modifiers infuse into our Political discourse just so one side would outshine the other.
The Nation is undergoing a seriou ... read full comment
Thanks, INXS! I am tired of the endless raw hatred that many of these pseudo-renaissance, History-modifiers infuse into our Political discourse just so one side would outshine the other.
The Nation is undergoing a serious spate of economic and social convulsions, induced mostly by incurable, heartless, corrupt and inept Officials. And what we can do about it is reach back 50-60 years ago to find someone to blame for that?
Right now, I do not care if others would brand me a die-hard Nkrumahist or some forest monkey in NPP with a little education. I dare challenge the claimants of apex Academics, with long trailing higher Degrees to come down to Earth to us 'little bodies' to show us what is most practical in solving our Nation's predicament.
The answer does not necessarily lie in who wins the next Elections. The answer I strongly believe lies in how we re-think our response and treatment to the numerous cases of corruption and incompetence by our Officials. Let's not be side-swiped with the notion that only a particular Party could save us. It is our attitudes, our determined efforts to not only expose the hooligans and charlatans looting us but comprehensibly deal with them in the Courts to retrieve our stolen assets.
If in doing so the incumbent Administration is caught in the whirlwind because it simply just sat on the fringes to watch our Nation ravaged, so be it. The salvation of Ghana does not necessarily lie in the hands of any of the flagbearers. It lies in the hands of the people. We must pressure the Judiciary and the Legislature to act now. And we need every discerning, caring and patriotic Ghanaian on board. The Danquah and Nkrumah bashing contests would never get us there. But we should not take those modest achievements Nkrumah made for granted. They should be a reference point for our comparison with where we are now and could have been.
Long Live Ghana!!!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
G.K. Berko,
I support your position wholeheartedly particularly on the last two statements. You have spoken well.
It is why I have been exploring with my readers the specific ares of Nkrumah's holistic thinking that ov ... read full comment
G.K. Berko,
I support your position wholeheartedly particularly on the last two statements. You have spoken well.
It is why I have been exploring with my readers the specific ares of Nkrumah's holistic thinking that overlap with the developmental methodology of the leadership of the so-called Asian Tigers. This is why I have not argued for any policy strategies specific to the NPP or the NDC.
On the other hand I have hardly concentrated on the CPP, except to harp on those innovative ideas of Nkrumah, that, I think, can help grow the economy of Ghana. Strategically and tactically, our leaders of today appear less focused than Nkrumah, I think.
What is more, I have concentrated on Nkrumah in my many articles because, unlike the leaders we have today who think about Ghana in strict partisan terms, Nkrumah concentrated his ideas on building Ghana.
What if Ghana's leadership learns to think more about developing Ghana than stealing in turns after 4 or 8 years?
Having said that, I don't think I will take to your statement "some forest monkey in NPP with little education." No one needs degrees or any specific amount of education to to debate these questions.
Time, ability to perform basic research, proper and factual presentation of analyis, and dialectic rhetoric delivery are what one actually needs. Nkrumah did not have a doctorate but his ideas are more insightful, international, provocative, scientific, and philosphical (as far as development economics and nation-building goes) than his PhD-holding contemporaries.
Moreover, his ideas have impected the world than his contemporaries who had advanced multiple degrees. Nkrumah (and his ideas) remains one of the most studied African today around the world.
Thus, I strongly object to any discussion that makes degrees or "quantity" of education a measure of intelligence or knowledgeability unless, of course, it is neccessary for the context of a discussion.
I don't think you or Dr. SAS would have been unintelligent without degrees or education. Degrees and education are merely one means to an end. They are not in and of themselves everything.
In my case I don't rely on degrees or "quantity" for self-identity or for self-affirmation. I can hold my own against anybody without the chains of degrees a person has, or his/her expertise. Degrees or "quanity" of education mean nothing to me, in fact. We are all intelligent one way or the other even without the trappings of degrees or education. I find you, G.K. Berko particularly intelligent, so do I find Dr. SAS.
Well, I hope I have not taken your statment out of context.
As for me I shall continue to harp on the good ideas of Nkrumah and his relative goodness. I say this because I have closely studied him and his contemporaries and, thus, consider him the best Ghana and Africa ever had (in spite of his shortcomings). This is what I hope to do till death!
Also I pay close attention to the trend of development economics, the Asian Tigers, and economic theory and, lo and behold, the very ideas Nkrumah pursued are more or less what these Asian Tigers have used to develop their societies. Why can't our leaders do the same today?
Thanks to you both.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Brothers,
How are you?
There is nothing G.B. Berko has said here that I have not said before.
In fact I have advanced similar arguments several times over, unless you have not been reading my articles (there ar ... read full comment
Dear Brothers,
How are you?
There is nothing G.B. Berko has said here that I have not said before.
In fact I have advanced similar arguments several times over, unless you have not been reading my articles (there are also others who have made similar arguments). Unfortunately, the only part I may have to disagree with Berko is who to include in the so-called "Founding Fathers" label.
Which nation has ever included CIA agents, saboteurs, and traitors like Danquah and Busia in its “Founding Fathers”? Didn’t this two alone do more to destroy the Gold Coast’s-Ghana’s budding democracy than any other individuals in our political history?
Has anyone bothered to closely study Danquah’s undemocratic, intolerant, and dictatorial personality as he served in his capacity as the Ofori Attas’ Attorney General? Are we asking ourselves what Danquah’s and Busia’s terroristic NLM did to children and innocent men and women? Have we asked ourselves why shady characters like Busia rejected Nkrumah’s offer to join his government even when the people had rejected them at the polls, only for them to go into hiding, collaborate with foreign intelligence organizations to topple a democratically elected government, and resort to terrorism where democracy had failed them? What respect did Busia give the courts when he became the Prime Minister? In fact, Danquah’s own writings demonstrate how intolerant, undemocratic, and dictatorial he was. Who knows what he would have been in the arms of a national constitution.
Has anyone wondered why Danquah’s own people ignored him to vote for his own relative, and why did he lose all elections? What are the reasons for his fall from grace to grass, a sad situation of which his own people’s salient contribution is undeniable?
Have we researched Danquah’s possible role in the ritual murder of his own relative Nana Akyea Mensah, given his portfolio as the Attorney General, a position that put him squarely in the know of high-level decisions affecting the kingdom, including discussion leading up to Nana Akyea Mensah’s ritual murder?
Do we have any idea how Danquah’s association with this controversial case led to his fall-out with the colonial government, which until this period, had always doted on him (and the Ofori Attas)? These are some of the questions whose answers we must seek as we discuss those who must be included in the label “Founding Fathers.”
Regrettably it is never done anywhere to recognize CIA agents as Founding Fathers. We have all the records on Busia and Danquah working with the CIA and the British intelligence to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nkrumah. You can never give such traitors that national recognition. Again it is never done anywhere. You just can’t get up one day and recognize any human being as a Founding Father.
What is more, didn't they (the BIG SIX) all reject Nkrumah and some among them even went ahead to oppose our independence? Why should traitors, saboteurs, fifth columnists (and a known CIA agent like Danquah) who vigorously opposed independence be recognized for playing a role that got us the same independence, something Danquah and Busia were against?
I can't seem to get the logic behind Berko's argument on this question, however. Let me give you an indirect example: A few American veterans have had their national laurels revoked because it apparently became clear later upon investigation that they had collaborated with American "enemies" and so forth.
And who says they have the other five in the Big SIX has not recognized? Are members of the BIG SIX not on Ghanaian currencies? Haven’t our leaders named landmarks after them? What more do they need when some of them resisted independence for the Gold Coast?
In fact there is nothing called the BIG SIX when they disowned Nkrumah after the Positive Action, with Danquah even saying he wished Nkrumah would pay with his head? THE BIG SIX IS A MYTH. THERE WAS/IS NOTHING LIKE THE BIC SIX.
This is why I agree with Kwame Botwe-Asamoah when he wrote: "By their imprudent logic, all leaders of the anti-European intruders, anti-Gold Coast Crown colony, pro-self-government Fante confederation, anti-AWAM (European merchants), anti-draconian indirect rule, cocoa hold-up, as well as ethnocentric, terrorist and secessionist crusaders, from 1482 to March 6, 1957, are “founding fathers.”
Finally, I have not commented on these articles by Dr. SAS because I already know his position on Nkrumah, and should I even decide to debate him on his two articles, I will have to write series of articles to debunk all his arguments.
I can assure you that the arguments Dr. SAS advances in both articles are not strong at all, very weak and ahistorical in most aspects. Besides, his ideas are not anything new. I have seen, heard, and read these revisionist accounts in several places. And they are not even the first time Dr. SAS is advancing them on Ghanaweb.
Moreover, these revisionist sentiments are also part of the general narrative of the ideological enemies of Nkrumah. Nothing substantial there. They are ideas that have been debunked in many serious scholarly works. Dr. SAS knows my position as well when it comes to these questions, and therefore, it will serve no purpose on my part to try to go over what he already knows my thinking as regards the questions he raises. In other words, there is nothing new or extraordinary in what Dr SAS is advancing here and in the first article in particular.
However, my only concern is, how does one include agents, say Busia, Gbedemah, and Danquah, of foreign intelligence organizations in the label "Founding Fathers"? I asked this because no intelligent or progressive nation has ever done this (I stand to be corrected if I am wrong).
Should we also include Kodjo Botsio, Sgt. Agyetey, Archie Casely-Hayford, WE. Pietersen, H. van Hien, JW Sey, Nii Kwabena Bonne (11), Komla Gbedemah, Krobo Edisei, Kobina Sekyi, John Mensah Sarbah (whose work influenced Danquah’s doctoral dissertation among others), JP Brown, JE Casely-Hayford, the United Nations, the chiefs and kings associated with the Gold Coast Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society, and all others like Marcus Garvey, WEB Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwegyir Aggrey who directly and indirectly played some role in Ghana’s founding? How about the Queen of England who granted the Gold Coast’s independence?
So, you all see, how stupid, nonsensical, and outright foolish the argument gets. Let us go all the way back and include all the names that played roles eventually leading to the Gold Coast’s independence. Are we even aware that the “constitution” of the Gold Coast Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society goes all the way back to the constitutions of Liberia and Sierra Leone? Go and ask JE Casely-Hayford! ARE WE GOING TO INLUDE THE NAME OF DR. AFRICANUS HORTON (JAMES BEALE), WHOSE WORK MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR AFRICA’S DECOLONIZATION, IN OUR FOUNDING FATHERS? ARE WE EVEN AWARE HOW DR. AFRICANUS HORTON’S WORK INFLUENCED JE CASELY-HAYFORD AND FIRED HIS IMAGINATION AND POLITICAL-INTELLECTUALISM TO SEEK WEST AFRICA’S DECOLONIZATION? ARE WE ALSO AWARE THAT JB DANQUAH HIMSLEF SAID EVERYTHING HE KNEW ABOUT NATIONALISM AND DECOLONIZATION HE LEARNED FROM CASELY-HAYFORD IN 15 YEARS? ARE WE ALSO GOING TO INCLUDE EDWARD W. BLYDEN WHO INFLUENCED CASELY-HAYFORD?
Then we can include CIA agents like Busia and Danquah. This can only happen in Ghana where CIA agents are worshipped.
LET ME ADD THAT AMERICAN SOURCES HAVE EXPOSED DANQUAH AND HIS WORK WITH THE CIA. THESE SOURCES ARE PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS AND I DON'T HAVE TO DISCUSS THEM HERE. IT DOES NOT SEND THE RIGHT SIGNALS TO PROSPERITY TO ASSIGN ANY SUCH RECOGNISION TO A CIA ASSET AS DANQUAH.
Read this “JB DANQUAH WAS A CIA ASSET” (the evidence in this essay indicting Danquah and his shady dealings with the CIA is part of the American public records):
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Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.
In his article titled, "Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!", Ochere-Darko's attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:
In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute's narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:
"Dr Danquah’s family,... allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador"?
Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah's family was being paid by the CIA or "the American Embassy"? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not "the American Embassy" as they would want us to believe?
A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney's book by replacing the "CIA" with "the US Embassy". Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: "Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know".
Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.
The fact that it was the CIA and not "the American Embassy" which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?
The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)
It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah's family:
"I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”
The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah's wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!
What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called "smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy."
"WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador."
Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko's attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!
Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah's dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney's age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney's has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference."
Richard Mahoney's book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.
Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”
Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity." “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”
"Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers." Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, " Why didn't Danquah go to his 'handler' to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent."
Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his "handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?
As Paul Lee writes in "Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow", "In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.
Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over." It comes out clearly that the CIA's attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.
The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding *Dr Omane Boamah*, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?
What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.
For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.
As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”
“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: 'During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means'” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).
“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).
Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”
Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.
The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah's part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, "sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died". It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.
As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.
One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:
“Obama's chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.'s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. - Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, " (Obama's Visit – What's In It For Us And U.S.?", Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)
“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs"? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:
“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!
That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”
This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way "the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs" is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro,
Member, Pan-Africanist International -*a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! **(also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.)
Kwarteng, you see! because of you stupidity no forumer is interested to engage you in commentary.
You are the only idiot who posting a copied lengthy empty nonsense instead of a comment. Can't you realise how stupid you ar ... read full comment
Kwarteng, you see! because of you stupidity no forumer is interested to engage you in commentary.
You are the only idiot who posting a copied lengthy empty nonsense instead of a comment. Can't you realise how stupid you are?
If anybody wants to tell Kwarteng on phone how silly he is, the following are his private Telephone numbers in USA-Hyattsville, MD-Maryland. Tel: 001-301 277 5771 and 001-240 770 7573
Paul 9 years ago
I personally find it just incredible that the likes of SAS can continue to propagate such one-sided vitriolic falsehood, whilst remaining so intolerant of others who disagree with them. If, even on this medium SAS can be so i ... read full comment
I personally find it just incredible that the likes of SAS can continue to propagate such one-sided vitriolic falsehood, whilst remaining so intolerant of others who disagree with them. If, even on this medium SAS can be so insulting and intolerant of others, can anyone imagine what he would do in Nkrumah's place at a time of organised and well orchestrated efforts to make our country ungovernable and to overthrow the very democratic processes, the foundations of which were being laid at the time, but which he laments were not properly established?
Perhaps SAS is now too old to even try, but yes, sound minds and true intellectuals need to sand up to such crass nonsense and blatant insult to academia. I seriously doubt is he ever realises that this is what the likes of Berko are trying to do here.
Captain Canada 9 years ago
can appreciate wisdom such as yours.
can appreciate wisdom such as yours.
Mike Olongo, USA 9 years ago
All that you have listed as achievements of Kwame Nkrumah (with the exception of the building of the Takoradi Harbor) are correct and are acknowledged and appreciated by most Ghanaians. However there was one dark spot in his ... read full comment
All that you have listed as achievements of Kwame Nkrumah (with the exception of the building of the Takoradi Harbor) are correct and are acknowledged and appreciated by most Ghanaians. However there was one dark spot in his Administration's modus operandi which raised eyebrows and which tends to be obscured by the overt glorification his ardent supporters accord him. That dark spot which was "His way or the Highway" with dire and sometimes lethal consequences in the event of any real or imagined opposition is what this writer and others are trying to highlight for the benefit of contemporary History. I think it is good for posterity to know that Nkrumah had some good socioeconomic policies for Ghana but also had a bad side when it comes to human right issues and the basic freedoms.
Paul 9 years ago
The trouble is how you present such failings on the part of the Nkrumah government in a factual, balanced way without trying to discredit of person and entire body of work. Don't you think a sound intellectual analysis includ ... read full comment
The trouble is how you present such failings on the part of the Nkrumah government in a factual, balanced way without trying to discredit of person and entire body of work. Don't you think a sound intellectual analysis including the underlying antecedents and the flaws on either side of the divide leading to some of these aberrations would be a better way of establishing good dialogue on these matters?
The trouble with the author in question is that he is one of the most intolerant people you come across even on this medium, yet he is selective in his reference to history and how he tries to paint the picture. I believe in the general principle that cause and effect, exposure and outcome or action and reaction are real and constant aspects of our human existence, not just in science, and that if we truly want to move forward (which incidentally the author in question seems reluctant to do by his own admission), then we need to study all sides of the coin very carefully, critically and fairly.
I believe this is what Berko is trying to get across and I support him wholeheartedly. It has nothing to do with those who support or defend Nkrumah merely for the sake of it. True intellectuals should never do that. I certainly don't.
mensah abrampa 9 years ago
I don't know about you but as a Ghanaian who lived through Nkrumah's repressive and dark era, it behooves on my conscience to speak the truth and debunk the falsehood that has been successfully peddled over time to obscure th ... read full comment
I don't know about you but as a Ghanaian who lived through Nkrumah's repressive and dark era, it behooves on my conscience to speak the truth and debunk the falsehood that has been successfully peddled over time to obscure the contributions of Dr Danquah in order to elevate Nkrumah to the high pedestal of sole architect of Ghana's independence, the founder and builder of our nation.
You can sycophantishly sing the praises of Nkrumah while glossing over the unparalleled contributions of Dr J.B.Danquah all you want but, fyi, while you're sleeping the sleep of death, the veil of ignorance and deception is broken by a new age of knowledge and enlightenment.
Put exquisite lipstick on the pig all you want but it's still a pig. Until we deviate from the path of untruth and deception to acknowledge the truth, we will remain in the prison of under-development, deprivations and poverty and we will continue to walk the slippery downward slope because we are cursed or cocooned in an intricately woven web of lies. Only truth breaks the shackles of untruth. Only the truth shall unite us as a people and as a nation. Only the truth and unity of purpose can widen our horizon and cause us to lengthen our stride. Only then can we take our rightful place in the comity of nations. Only the truth shall set us free. Truth is eternal. Truth is divine.
SARPONG 9 years ago
The positive side of Nkrumah's government and his personal patriotism of Ghana has been pontificated and sermonized a lot of People think he did not make some mistakes.
I don't hate the man at all but he made some mistakes ... read full comment
The positive side of Nkrumah's government and his personal patriotism of Ghana has been pontificated and sermonized a lot of People think he did not make some mistakes.
I don't hate the man at all but he made some mistakes his admirers don't want to accept.
Turning children into tattle snitchers on their parents and neighbors is not what a foundation of a country should be built on.
As many good deeds that he did, he did as many bad things that Ghana has not recovered from and both sides of the coin should be told.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Sarpong, now I can be more accepting of your views. For the very first time ever, I have seen you acknowledge something positive about your political foe. To that, I will give you big Kudos. I won't even address the irrefut ... read full comment
Sarpong, now I can be more accepting of your views. For the very first time ever, I have seen you acknowledge something positive about your political foe. To that, I will give you big Kudos. I won't even address the irrefutable negatives of your side, the UP or Danquah-Busia side.
You could still maintain your political favorites. But what I have always been admonishing us all in is exactly what you just did here. Let us acknowledge the credits of each of our past leaders, recognize their mistakes along with the contexts in which those errors were made, and work hard to avoid repeating those mistakes again.
There is even a good overriding reason why we are always advised to find closure to our mourning of loved ones. It is not because our sages want us to forget them or love them less. But it is only so we can resume our lives to do better ourselves to honor the memory of the lost ones.
I have always said that I wish to see a government of Ghana in my lifetime that would boldly attempt to reconcile with our political past to allow a remix of the people's opinions across the board, even in partisan environment.
It is only when we learn to forgive the past violent errors on both sides of the aisle and proudly honor the contributions of all of these past leaders, from Danquah through Busia and Nkrumah, and not try to portray either as the devil incarnate, while we suppress the evils of the other we are singing praises of, that Ghana would be enjoying a great health for reconstruction.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
You state my mission in life when you wisely state:
"Let us acknowledge the credits of each of our past leaders, recognize their mistakes along with the contexts in which those errors were made, and work hard to avoid repe ... read full comment
You state my mission in life when you wisely state:
"Let us acknowledge the credits of each of our past leaders, recognize their mistakes along with the contexts in which those errors were made, and work hard to avoid repeating those mistakes again."
That is what we have been saying all along; but the Nkrumaists are always saying something different. They are saying that Nkrumah does no wrong, and go ahead to rationalize and justify his evils, condemning all his opponents as nation-wreckers and extolling him as our Messiah....and you, Dr. Berko, never call them to order but encourage their acts of historical dissembling....
My greatest fear for my country is that the Nkrumaists are selling their lies to Ghanaians and creating the impression that the man is a model for good governance. We do not want Ghana to ever to return to the crass dictatorship of Nkrumah, hence our effort to reveal the truth.
INXS 9 years ago
SAS, you're being plain deceitful here. What you write here is not what you have been saying all along in your pieces on Nkrumah. If it is, you wouldn't even call him a "brutal dictator".
Even a revisionist history should ... read full comment
SAS, you're being plain deceitful here. What you write here is not what you have been saying all along in your pieces on Nkrumah. If it is, you wouldn't even call him a "brutal dictator".
Even a revisionist history should be based on the correct interpretation of the facts. All you have done is to go soooo hard against Nkrumah without ever acknowledging the man's admittedly great achievements.
In that way, you're no different from those who you claim to be writing against...
And you enjoyed Nkrumah's free education policy from the day you went to Class One!!!
MINOR CASE 9 years ago
Has any of you Nkumahist ever acknowledged the positive sides of Danquah, Busia and other opposition members ? To you these people are nothing but traitors. With the amount of money bequeathed to Ghana at independence, any o ... read full comment
Has any of you Nkumahist ever acknowledged the positive sides of Danquah, Busia and other opposition members ? To you these people are nothing but traitors. With the amount of money bequeathed to Ghana at independence, any other sensible leader could have equalled or done better than what Nkrumah did without being a brutal dictator.
INXS 9 years ago
You think everybody who recognises the achievements of Nkrumah, necessarily denigrates the contributions of his opponents. And you also think anybody who says Nkrumah did well does not recognise his shortcomings. That is why ... read full comment
You think everybody who recognises the achievements of Nkrumah, necessarily denigrates the contributions of his opponents. And you also think anybody who says Nkrumah did well does not recognise his shortcomings. That is why you call me Nkrumahist even though I am NOT. You just assume that everybody who says something favourable about Nkrumah is Nkrumaist.
The real thing is to show nuance in your argument, to acknowledge even your opponents' strong points. If you write for ghanaweb, you should know there are many people who come to read things here who have different views some of which are complex.
SAS is arguing that he is condemning those people who think Nkrumah is a god. How does he go on as if people like G. K. Berko, who acknowledge Nkrumah's greatness, think he is a god? Or think that Danquah didn't do anything for our nation?
It is easy to hold an absolutist position. It's more difficult to be more discerning...
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Dr. SAS, I am glad you share those hopes of mine and many other Ghanaians who prefer not to eternally vilify our past leaders, however intense their mutual antagonisms were but to put all their actions and reactions in contex ... read full comment
Dr. SAS, I am glad you share those hopes of mine and many other Ghanaians who prefer not to eternally vilify our past leaders, however intense their mutual antagonisms were but to put all their actions and reactions in context.
I have reasoned to believe that such context as we would need to fairly assess these leaders would entail partly their temporal equilocation and partly, the psychological mindset they might have carried over into Politics from their varied social backgrounds.
I have come to notice significantly how easily our folks would resort to high-handedness, in protecting and demanding any right they envisaged was theirs.
The UP leaders mostly came from a Traditional Royalty System where their sympathies for a Federal Governance that would allow their lines of inheritance play major roles in the governance of the Country as a whole. Concomitant with that thought is how difficult it might have been for them to accept sharing the natural resources our ancestors had fought and died for with others we had little in common with, and had never helped us secure those resources, all under the scheme of Nation building.
On the other hand, Nkrumah's folks somehow preferred the Unitary system that would attempt to place the young Nation's resources on the table for all to share in as a way to encourage the newer entrants into the fold stay and also to help them match along with the more fortunate of us. Both sides therefore had a very strong survivalist sentiment brought to bear on their demands.
Often such logical reasoning is lost in our emotional outbursts. But if we think about these underlying interests of the two political streams, we could more understand why many Nkrumahists would dole appellations on Nkrumah and regard him as some Messiah of some sorts. We must acknowledge that when Busia returned to campaign for the Premiership, similar accolades and appellations were often heaped on him. In fact, it is a Ghanaian cultural thing that we put our leaders, both traditional and secular, on pedestal when we think they are doing what we want them to do, or expect them to do us some favors. We worship authority when things seem to be going on well between us. But when we detect any disharmony our response to them is viscerally ravaging.
Having said all that, I would beg to admonish you and others sharing your line of reasoning to reconsider toning down the insults and even dismissing the Messianic lauding of Nkrumah as nothing more than a superfluous self-inspiring adulation of their leader.
Surely, such overly subscribed attribution of prowess to Nkrumah could be irritating to you, you should not let that alone nudge you off the rational track of fair assessment of all.
I hope we all will soon come to sort things out in mutual respect for one another and give fair credit to our past leaders where due, while we acknowledge and learn from their errors. Everyone would always have a way to turn a positive attribute of his or her enemy into some atrocious negative with words. All it takes is an eloquent labeling. But that does not take away the real nature of that attribute. We must not engage in mutually destructive contests for fame that may have nothing substantial to back it.
Our departed Leaders, in whose name we would be fighting to accord prestige to their causes would not be content to see their ultimate goal always postponed by our silly pseudo-intellectual machismo puttering that gets nothing concrete accomplished.
Long Live Ghana!!!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Brothers,
How are you?
There is nothing G.B. Berko has said here that I have not said before.
In fact I have advanced similar arguments several times over, unless you have not been reading my articles (there are ... read full comment
Dear Brothers,
How are you?
There is nothing G.B. Berko has said here that I have not said before.
In fact I have advanced similar arguments several times over, unless you have not been reading my articles (there are also others who have made similar arguments). Unfortunately, the only part I may have to disagree with Berko is who to include in the so-called "Founding Fathers" label.
Which nation has ever included CIA agents, saboteurs, and traitors like Danquah and Busia in its “Founding Fathers”? Didn’t this two alone do more to destroy the Gold Coast’s-Ghana’s budding democracy than any other individuals in our political history?
Has anyone bothered to closely study Danquah’s undemocratic, intolerant, and dictatorial personality as he served in his capacity as the Ofori Attas’ Attorney General? Are we asking ourselves what Danquah’s and Busia’s terroristic NLM did to children and innocent men and women? Have we asked ourselves why shady characters like Busia rejected Nkrumah’s offer to join his government even when the people had rejected them at the polls, only for them to go into hiding, collaborate with foreign intelligence organizations to topple a democratically elected government, and resort to terrorism where democracy had failed them? What respect did Busia give the courts when he became the Prime Minister? In fact, Danquah’s own writings demonstrate how intolerant, undemocratic, and dictatorial he was. Who knows what he would have been in the arms of a national constitution.
Has anyone wondered why Danquah’s own people ignored him to vote for his own relative, and why did he lose all elections? What are the reasons for his fall from grace to grass, a sad situation of which his own people’s salient contribution is undeniable?
Have we researched Danquah’s possible role in the ritual murder of his own relative Nana Akyea Mensah, given his portfolio as the Attorney General, a position that put him squarely in the know of high-level decisions affecting the kingdom, including discussion leading up to Nana Akyea Mensah’s ritual murder?
Do we have any idea how Danquah’s association with this controversial case led to his fall-out with the colonial government, which until this period, had always doted on him (and the Ofori Attas)? These are some of the questions whose answers we must seek as we discuss those who must be included in the label “Founding Fathers.”
Regrettably it is never done anywhere to recognize CIA agents as Founding Fathers. We have all the records on Busia and Danquah working with the CIA and the British intelligence to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nkrumah. You can never give such traitors that national recognition. Again it is never done anywhere. You just can’t get up one day and recognize any human being as a Founding Father.
What is more, didn't they (the BIG SIX) all reject Nkrumah and some among them even went ahead to oppose our independence? Why should traitors, saboteurs, fifth columnists (and a known CIA agent like Danquah) who vigorously opposed independence be recognized for playing a role that got us the same independence, something Danquah and Busia were against?
I can't seem to get the logic behind Berko's argument on this question, however. Let me give you an indirect example: A few American veterans have had their national laurels revoked because it apparently became clear later upon investigation that they had collaborated with American "enemies" and so forth.
And who says they have the other five in the Big SIX has not recognized? Are members of the BIG SIX not on Ghanaian currencies? Haven’t our leaders named landmarks after them? What more do they need when some of them resisted independence for the Gold Coast?
In fact there is nothing called the BIG SIX when they disowned Nkrumah after the Positive Action, with Danquah even saying he wished Nkrumah would pay with his head? THE BIG SIX IS A MYTH. THERE WAS/IS NOTHING LIKE THE BIC SIX.
This is why I agree with Kwame Botwe-Asamoah when he wrote: "By their imprudent logic, all leaders of the anti-European intruders, anti-Gold Coast Crown colony, pro-self-government Fante confederation, anti-AWAM (European merchants), anti-draconian indirect rule, cocoa hold-up, as well as ethnocentric, terrorist and secessionist crusaders, from 1482 to March 6, 1957, are “founding fathers.”
Finally, I have not commented on these articles by Dr. SAS because I already know his position on Nkrumah, and should I even decide to debate him on his two articles, I will have to write series of articles to debunk all his arguments.
I can assure you that the arguments Dr. SAS advances in both articles are not strong at all, very weak and ahistorical in most aspects. Besides, his ideas are not anything new. I have seen, heard, and read these revisionist accounts in several places. And they are not even the first time Dr. SAS is advancing them on Ghanaweb.
Moreover, these revisionist sentiments are also part of the general narrative of the ideological enemies of Nkrumah. Nothing substantial there. They are ideas that have been debunked in many serious scholarly works. Dr. SAS knows my position as well when it comes to these questions, and therefore, it will serve no purpose on my part to try to go over what he already knows my thinking as regards the questions he raises. In other words, there is nothing new or extraordinary in what Dr SAS is advancing here and in the first article in particular.
However, my only concern is, how does one include agents, say Busia, Gbedemah, and Danquah, of foreign intelligence organizations in the label "Founding Fathers"? I asked this because no intelligent or progressive nation has ever done this (I stand to be corrected if I am wrong).
Should we also include Kodjo Botsio, Sgt. Agyetey, Archie Casely-Hayford, WE. Pietersen, H. van Hien, JW Sey, Nii Kwabena Bonne (11), Komla Gbedemah, Krobo Edisei, Kobina Sekyi, John Mensah Sarbah (whose work influenced Danquah’s doctoral dissertation among others), JP Brown, JE Casely-Hayford, the United Nations, the chiefs and kings associated with the Gold Coast Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society, and all others like Marcus Garvey, WEB Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwegyir Aggrey who directly and indirectly played some role in Ghana’s founding? How about the Queen of England who granted the Gold Coast’s independence?
So, you all see, how stupid, nonsensical, and outright foolish the argument gets. Let us go all the way back and include all the names that played roles eventually leading to the Gold Coast’s independence. Are we even aware that the “constitution” of the Gold Coast Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society goes all the way back to the constitutions of Liberia and Sierra Leone? Go and ask JE Casely-Hayford! ARE WE GOING TO INLUDE THE NAME OF DR. AFRICANUS HORTON (JAMES BEALE), WHOSE WORK MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR AFRICA’S DECOLONIZATION, IN OUR FOUNDING FATHERS? ARE WE EVEN AWARE HOW DR. AFRICANUS HORTON’S WORK INFLUENCED JE CASELY-HAYFORD AND FIRED HIS IMAGINATION AND POLITICAL-INTELLECTUALISM TO SEEK WEST AFRICA’S DECOLONIZATION? ARE WE ALSO AWARE THAT JB DANQUAH HIMSLEF SAID EVERYTHING HE KNEW ABOUT NATIONALISM AND DECOLONIZATION HE LEARNED FROM CASELY-HAYFORD IN 15 YEARS? ARE WE ALSO GOING TO INCLUDE EDWARD W. BLYDEN WHO INFLUENCED CASELY-HAYFORD?
Then we can include CIA agents like Busia and Danquah. This can only happen in Ghana where CIA agents are worshipped.
LET ME ADD THAT AMERICAN SOURCES HAVE EXPOSED DANQUAH AND HIS WORK WITH THE CIA. THESE SOURCES ARE PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS AND I DON'T HAVE TO DISCUSS THEM HERE. IT DOES NOT SEND THE RIGHT SIGNALS TO PROSPERITY TO ASSIGN ANY SUCH RECOGNISION TO A CIA ASSET AS DANQUAH.
Read this “JB DANQUAH WAS A CIA ASSET” (the evidence in this essay indicting Danquah and his shady dealings with the CIA is part of the American public records):
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Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.
In his article titled, "Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!", Ochere-Darko's attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:
In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute's narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:
"Dr Danquah’s family,... allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador"?
Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah's family was being paid by the CIA or "the American Embassy"? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not "the American Embassy" as they would want us to believe?
A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney's book by replacing the "CIA" with "the US Embassy". Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: "Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know".
Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.
The fact that it was the CIA and not "the American Embassy" which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?
The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)
It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah's family:
"I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”
The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah's wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!
What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called "smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy."
"WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador."
Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko's attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!
Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah's dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney's age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney's has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference."
Richard Mahoney's book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.
Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”
Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity." “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”
"Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers." Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, " Why didn't Danquah go to his 'handler' to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent."
Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his "handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?
As Paul Lee writes in "Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow", "In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.
Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over." It comes out clearly that the CIA's attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.
The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding *Dr Omane Boamah*, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?
What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.
For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.
As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”
“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: 'During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means'” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).
“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).
Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”
Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.
The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah's part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, "sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died". It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.
As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.
One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:
“Obama's chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.'s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. - Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, " (Obama's Visit – What's In It For Us And U.S.?", Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)
“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs"? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:
“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!
That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”
This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way "the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs" is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro,
Member, Pan-Africanist International -*a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! **(also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.)
Kwarteng, you see! because of your stupidity no forumer is interested to engage you in commentary.
You are the only idiot who is posting a copied lengthy empty nonsense instead of a comment. Can't you realise how stupid yo ... read full comment
Kwarteng, you see! because of your stupidity no forumer is interested to engage you in commentary.
You are the only idiot who is posting a copied lengthy empty nonsense instead of a comment. Can't you realise how stupid you are?
If anybody wants to tell Kwarteng on phone how silly he is, the following are his private Telephone numbers in USA-Hyattsville, MD-Maryland. Tel: 001-301 277 5771 and 001-240
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
If anybody wants to tell Kwarteng on phone how silly he is, the following are his private Telephone numbers in USA-Hyattsville, MD-Maryland. Tel: (001)-301 277 5771 and (001)-240 770 7573
If anybody wants to tell Kwarteng on phone how silly he is, the following are his private Telephone numbers in USA-Hyattsville, MD-Maryland. Tel: (001)-301 277 5771 and (001)-240 770 7573
Paul 9 years ago
Yes, for once Sarpong is giving me cause to value him as worthy of serious dialogue. I hope he applies it throughout.
Yes, for once Sarpong is giving me cause to value him as worthy of serious dialogue. I hope he applies it throughout.
mensah abrampa 9 years ago
Is this all you can say? Everything the author is saying is nothing but the truth. If you don't know the truth, "seek and ye shall find".
Is this all you can say? Everything the author is saying is nothing but the truth. If you don't know the truth, "seek and ye shall find".
REM 9 years ago
They both love(d) to be called "Dr." even though neither of them wrote a doctoral (as in PhD) thesis...
In that sense, they are both pepeeepe...
Lol, lol, lol...
They both love(d) to be called "Dr." even though neither of them wrote a doctoral (as in PhD) thesis...
In that sense, they are both pepeeepe...
Lol, lol, lol...
Paul 9 years ago
Please visit the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum and museum in Accra, near the Arts Center and you will find a copy of his thesis.
Please visit the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum and museum in Accra, near the Arts Center and you will find a copy of his thesis.
sam 9 years ago
Honestly when i started reading this piece, i had no doubt in my mind that it was authored by Okoampa Ahoofe until i decided to crosscheck. It could be his twin brother.
But what was the state of the UGGCC before Nkrumah cam ... read full comment
Honestly when i started reading this piece, i had no doubt in my mind that it was authored by Okoampa Ahoofe until i decided to crosscheck. It could be his twin brother.
But what was the state of the UGGCC before Nkrumah came to join it, and which UGCC resources did Nkrumah use to form the CPP
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
...and you call yourself Dr. Tweaaaaaaa!!
...and you call yourself Dr. Tweaaaaaaa!!
Jojo Hammond, New Jersey 9 years ago
So these brilliant and clever well established leaders of UGCC needed someone who had achieved nothing and was frustrated in the UK and USA to come home and part of their budding organization hah? And that Nkrumah's dictators ... read full comment
So these brilliant and clever well established leaders of UGCC needed someone who had achieved nothing and was frustrated in the UK and USA to come home and part of their budding organization hah? And that Nkrumah's dictatorship led to the 1966 coup which then opened the floodgates for subsequent coups from 1972 to 1981 which then gave us Jerry Rawlings. Whew. What warped political facts and logic. And also that according to Dr. SAS, Jerry Rawlings is a product of Nkrumah's young pioneers. Really? Jerry is no Nkrumahist !!! Please don't even go there. Jerry's
most admired people are/were Harley and Kotoka, among the traitors who staged the CIA-inspired coup against President Nkrumah.
And another fact: Please don't tell us Busia was a democratic. Democrats respect court decisions, and you know he did not in the famous Sallah case. Of course that was a precursor to the behavior of NPP when they got into power and told a lot of people to "Proceed on Leave" without recourse to democratic norms established in civilized society.
Next time you want to misinform Ghanaweb readers, please don't do that under the guise of being objective, because you are not. You are an ideologically blinded political hack.
If you think your side of the political divide is inhabited by angels, think again.
KADEMA 9 years ago
Thanks alot for your OBSERVATION of this skewed and twisted LIES by DR SARPONG.The PDA was an ACT by the parliament of GHANA with opposition REPRESENTATIVES to help STOP the TERRORIST ACTIVITIES of some PEOPLE in GHANA THEN.L ... read full comment
Thanks alot for your OBSERVATION of this skewed and twisted LIES by DR SARPONG.The PDA was an ACT by the parliament of GHANA with opposition REPRESENTATIVES to help STOP the TERRORIST ACTIVITIES of some PEOPLE in GHANA THEN.LET NO ONE DOUBT THE POWER OF THE STATE TO INITIATE SUCH LAWS even NOW SHOULD THE SECURITY OF OUR COUNTRY BE THREATENED{with bombs throwing and murder}.PDA WAS LOUDABLE THEN and it will be NOW SHOULD THE NEED BE.
YAW 9 years ago
Seeing a so-called scholar/lawyer parading on Ghanaweb embellishing historical facts is a sickening sight.Where in the annals of history has terrorism "strengthened" a new and democracy? nothing can be more fantastical than ... read full comment
Seeing a so-called scholar/lawyer parading on Ghanaweb embellishing historical facts is a sickening sight.Where in the annals of history has terrorism "strengthened" a new and democracy? nothing can be more fantastical than the "pyramid of piffle" being peddled by Adjei Sarfo.In his infinite wisdom,the numerous bombings were mere transgressions.Terror as deployed by UP/NLM defied logic...it challenged the category of ethics prompting the nation state to produce a new set of laws such as PDA.When will the self proclaimed apostle of liberty and justice,tell us about the brutal atrocities of the UP/NLM? To quote Benjamin Franklin...you should never choose between liberty and security,but society under attack always do,and they always put security first.
YAW 9 years ago
a new and fragile democracy
a new and fragile democracy
Jojo Hammond, New Jersey 9 years ago
Thank you Wofa YAW. You put it better than I could.
Thank you Wofa YAW. You put it better than I could.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear YAW & Jojo Hammond,
How are you?
I am surprised no one is discussing Danquah's shameful dealings with the CIA as revealed by Richard Mahoney (courtesy "JFK: Ordeal in Africa"), the son of the American Ambassador (W ... read full comment
Dear YAW & Jojo Hammond,
How are you?
I am surprised no one is discussing Danquah's shameful dealings with the CIA as revealed by Richard Mahoney (courtesy "JFK: Ordeal in Africa"), the son of the American Ambassador (William P. Mahoney) at the time.
Yet we want a traitor like Danquah, a CIA agent, to be made a Founding Father. Which intelligent and progressive nation has ever done this? Why should a man who vigorously campaigned against (and terrorized children and innocent men and women ) Ghana's independence be made a Founding Father? Are we of a sick society?
This is one of my major disagreements with G.K. Berko (See my response to him and others "INXS & G.K. BERKO & DR. SAS").
Thanks.
Mr. Smith 9 years ago
SAS, if you ever present such an article in the US, you will be surprised at the attack from your employers. You will be kicked out in no time. Your display of such ignorance will shock almost every American. Are you telling ... read full comment
SAS, if you ever present such an article in the US, you will be surprised at the attack from your employers. You will be kicked out in no time. Your display of such ignorance will shock almost every American. Are you telling us that the Rastafarian community who have so much respect for Nkrumah don't know what they are about? JOKER!!
At least they know that the Black Star Line that Nkrumah introduced to Ghana was "stolen" from the same Black Star Line that Marcus Garvey wanted to introduce to the Blacks to come back to Africa, when the white man did not seem to need the blackman any longer? JOKER again!
mensah abrampa 9 years ago
You're funny. Many Americans who really care about Ghana know the intricacies of its history. Isn't it absurd that a "literate" Ghanaian needs to learn his history from second- hand Rastafarian sources? I live in the "Smith" ... read full comment
You're funny. Many Americans who really care about Ghana know the intricacies of its history. Isn't it absurd that a "literate" Ghanaian needs to learn his history from second- hand Rastafarian sources? I live in the "Smith" country, have read intensively about the life and works of Marcus Garvey, have acquaintanceship with several Jamaicans and can assure you that their knowledge about Ghana's pre and post independence history and Kwame Nkrumah is sketchy indeed.
The truth hurts so I'm not surprised you're calling Dr SAS, the messenger of truth a joker. That has only a band-aid effect for you.
Spin and lies no longer hold sway in this new age of transparency, widespread information and knowledge. Those who value and care about the truth will find it because truth is eternal. It was quite easy to keep the truth about Danquah and Nkrumah obscured or hidden temporarily but it's only jokers like you who peddle and glorify falsehood think the truth shall never be known.
solomon 9 years ago
Absolute rubbish
Absolute rubbish
Mark Essien 9 years ago
CIA declassified documents exposed J.B.Danquah and K.A.Busia as CIA agents who were hired to destabilise the newly independent Ghana through a series of bomb explosions and assassination attempts on NKRUMAH.
CIA declassified documents exposed J.B.Danquah and K.A.Busia as CIA agents who were hired to destabilise the newly independent Ghana through a series of bomb explosions and assassination attempts on NKRUMAH.
James Obeng 9 years ago
DR SAS,check CIA declassified documents and come back.
DR SAS,check CIA declassified documents and come back.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago
Nkrumah was a paid communist surrogate of the Soviet Union . He was on the pay roll of the KGB. Of course in the period of the old war, the Americans would not sit down for the Soviet Union to take over the world hence they h ... read full comment
Nkrumah was a paid communist surrogate of the Soviet Union . He was on the pay roll of the KGB. Of course in the period of the old war, the Americans would not sit down for the Soviet Union to take over the world hence they had to fight this evil communists. Thank God Nkumah was booted out with his evil ambition. Nkumah had wanted to take advantage of the uneducated Ghanaians to perpetuate himself in power similar to what is happening in Zimbabwe . Now that Ghanaians are more sophisticated , we see how evil Nkrumah was..
PROPHET 9 years ago
WHEN WE WERE FIGHTING THE COLONIAL POWERS FOR FREEDOM, THE ONLY FRIEND WE HAD WERE THE SOVIETS AND EASTERN BLOCK NATIONS. BEING A COMMUNIST WAS GOOD IN THE TIME. IT WAS THE OPPOSITE OF OUR OPPRESSORS.
DO YOU EVER WONDER W ... read full comment
WHEN WE WERE FIGHTING THE COLONIAL POWERS FOR FREEDOM, THE ONLY FRIEND WE HAD WERE THE SOVIETS AND EASTERN BLOCK NATIONS. BEING A COMMUNIST WAS GOOD IN THE TIME. IT WAS THE OPPOSITE OF OUR OPPRESSORS.
DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY DR MARTIN LUTHER KING DR, MUHAMMAD ALI, MALCOLM X, MARCUS GARVEY, NELSON MANDELA ETC WERE ALL LABELLED COMMUNISTS?
MINOR CASE 9 years ago
Just a simple question ? Where do you live now ? Certainly not in Cuba,Russia or North Korea where the ideology they propagate turns people into unproductive zombies .
Just a simple question ? Where do you live now ? Certainly not in Cuba,Russia or North Korea where the ideology they propagate turns people into unproductive zombies .
James Okine 9 years ago
"THE AMERICANS WOULD NOT SIT DOWN FOR THE SOVIET UNION TO RULE THE WORLD".
The above statement has clearly confirmed the fact that Americans overthrew Nkrumah not in the interest of Ghanaians or Africans but for their sel ... read full comment
"THE AMERICANS WOULD NOT SIT DOWN FOR THE SOVIET UNION TO RULE THE WORLD".
The above statement has clearly confirmed the fact that Americans overthrew Nkrumah not in the interest of Ghanaians or Africans but for their selfish interest.Is Ghana not not an independent nation? Minor Case,you have now exposed your stupidity and immaturity to all readers.
Kofi Baffour 9 years ago
The summary of this post is that Nkrumah did not believe in the Independence and democratic Ghana. We should all take a serious look at what this writer is impressing on our intelligence and not just insult and be subjective. ... read full comment
The summary of this post is that Nkrumah did not believe in the Independence and democratic Ghana. We should all take a serious look at what this writer is impressing on our intelligence and not just insult and be subjective. And even if the CIA classified documents indicates that the opposition party was involved in the throwing of bombs then. The questions we should ask our selves is what prevented Nkrumah from using the institutions of law to solve the problems of the day. I guess it the same Nkrumah who stated that " the independence of Ghana is meaningless until the Ghanaian is free..." so what happened. Why did he detain people in the prisons without trail till their death. These questions need to be asked though.
Paul 9 years ago
Have you asked yourself what the judiciary's own agenda was at the time and which side of the political divide they were on when in fact they were supposed to be neutral?
Have you asked yourself what the judiciary's own agenda was at the time and which side of the political divide they were on when in fact they were supposed to be neutral?
Otsibu Darko 9 years ago
Mr.lawyer Sarfo, as far as I know Unigov. was initiated by the late Lt. Col. Kutu Acheampong and not Nkrumah and I do not think Nkrumah was dictatorial somewhat he was power hungry just like any other African leader past/pre ... read full comment
Mr.lawyer Sarfo, as far as I know Unigov. was initiated by the late Lt. Col. Kutu Acheampong and not Nkrumah and I do not think Nkrumah was dictatorial somewhat he was power hungry just like any other African leader past/present who hangs on to power by any means until overthrown by the military!
James Obeng 9 years ago
What crime did Nkrumah commit to warrant the five assassination attempts on his life,which were engineered by the DANQUAH-BUSIA group with the assistance of CIA and British Intelligence? Dr SAS,how many relatives did you lose ... read full comment
What crime did Nkrumah commit to warrant the five assassination attempts on his life,which were engineered by the DANQUAH-BUSIA group with the assistance of CIA and British Intelligence? Dr SAS,how many relatives did you lose in the series of bomb explosions in Ghana? We are still mourning our relatives who died as a result of the atrocities of the DANQUAH-BUSIA group.Biased Dr SAS,why can't you address the circumstances that led to the Preventive Detention Act?
James Okine 9 years ago
The controversial and biased writer who writes with venom and bigotry DR SAS, is now leading the LEAGUE OF QUASI INTELLECTUALS (LQI) on Ghanaweb.He beat AHOOFE by five points on monday.
The controversial and biased writer who writes with venom and bigotry DR SAS, is now leading the LEAGUE OF QUASI INTELLECTUALS (LQI) on Ghanaweb.He beat AHOOFE by five points on monday.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago
Like a typical classroom educated Ghanaian lacking in apolitical valuation skills Samuel Adjei Sarfo spews the kind of diatribe that is free food for tribal zealots and political party animals needing no independent thinking ... read full comment
Like a typical classroom educated Ghanaian lacking in apolitical valuation skills Samuel Adjei Sarfo spews the kind of diatribe that is free food for tribal zealots and political party animals needing no independent thinking processes of their own. Why did you Samuel Adjei Sarfo not state a time in the history of Ghana, from British colonial rule till now and or government leadership when "strict democratic principles" have been or were at play? I may not be a lawyer but thank God my parents did not allow classroom education to elude me and I made use of those very important years of my life to acquire what true values of being educated is all about. Should in case you missed or misunderstood best practices and procedures of strict democratic governance, Adjei Sarfo, the success of "strict democratic principles" start with effective government institutions formulated out of a meaningful constitution. Tell me Adjei Sarfo which practices at the three branches of government passes your muster under your loose definition of strict principles? As a so-called lawyer in good standing in the UK or in Western Europe would you care to explain the legal doctrine behind renditions and the holding of suspected terrorists indefinitely without charge or trial? You are either a hypocrite, Adjei Sarfo or an apologist seeing value in what was done in Ghana under colonial rule but take exception for what Nkrumah did during his time in office to check acts of terrorism and chaos which is being practiced today some 40 years after his death. In the United States of America some worship the late president Ronald Reagan because he acted in the interest of America even in violation of due process. With Ghanaians like you, a preferred delusional practices of democracy will do just as long as chaos rules and classroom educated but unprincipled elite core gets to steal, mismanage and sell Ghana piece by piece all in the name of your watered-down version of democratic governance. Ghana deserve classroom educated citizenry with ideas, ideals, foresight, wisdom and above all principled moral stance.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
You sound like you attended the Nkrumah Ideological institute. That is why you see nothing wrong with Nkrumah imprisoning people without trial and declaring himself president for life. America may not have a perfect civil rig ... read full comment
You sound like you attended the Nkrumah Ideological institute. That is why you see nothing wrong with Nkrumah imprisoning people without trial and declaring himself president for life. America may not have a perfect civil rights record, but from time to time it corrects its transgressions. That is all we can hope for in every decent society. But to you Nkrumahists, "Nkrumah does no wrong".
YAW 9 years ago
This letter is fake.It was posted on the web ages ago by Okoampa.Ever wondered why he has not commented on it? Tell Gabby Darko to post that letter in its original form with Danquah"s signature on it.
This letter is fake.It was posted on the web ages ago by Okoampa.Ever wondered why he has not commented on it? Tell Gabby Darko to post that letter in its original form with Danquah"s signature on it.
Hass 9 years ago
Gyimii fante idiot, you don't have any intelligence.
Gyimii fante idiot, you don't have any intelligence.
Baffour Agyemang 9 years ago
Haas Nkrumaphobia is killing you. Please search for treatment.
Haas Nkrumaphobia is killing you. Please search for treatment.
Nyansasem 9 years ago
"..what Nkrumah did during his time in office to check acts of terrorism and chaos which is being practiced today some 40 years after his death."
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You are either an idiot or illiterate to compare the PATRIOT ACT t ... read full comment
"..what Nkrumah did during his time in office to check acts of terrorism and chaos which is being practiced today some 40 years after his death."
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You are either an idiot or illiterate to compare the PATRIOT ACT to PDA. You live in America but you don't know seem to know anything about America.
Why are you not in CUBA or RUSSIA but in the United States of all places? This is what I have observed from those idiotic followers of Nkrumah who support communism, socialism and dictatorship; they are always in the WEST. They have become PAPA SAMO, can't go home but won't keep their mouth shut about the barbaric practice they admire so much. Just like Nana Ansah who live in Germany and yet want to see people arrested and detained indefinitely.
Nana Ansah said the same thing and you are repeating that stupid statement. Can anyone of you give us example where a U.S Citizen had been arrested and detain indefinitely for any acts of terrorism? It has never happened and will never happen in any civilized society.
I know you are an idiot living the USA, but don't come back here and talk about Guantanamo bay because there aren't any American Citizen there. And like I said, unless some of you idiots think JB Danquah was a foreigner.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago
Wow ! Aren't they big time disgusting hypocrites ?. Thank God we have people with fine brains like you able to lay bare their hypocrisy with such effortless and simple reasoning .Thank you.
Wow ! Aren't they big time disgusting hypocrites ?. Thank God we have people with fine brains like you able to lay bare their hypocrisy with such effortless and simple reasoning .Thank you.
KKO 9 years ago
“Should in case…” Your writing portrays your idiocy.
Everything that Adjei Sarfo has said in these two pieces, apart from one or two things about Nkrumah’s person, has been the absolute truth, unless you were too y ... read full comment
“Should in case…” Your writing portrays your idiocy.
Everything that Adjei Sarfo has said in these two pieces, apart from one or two things about Nkrumah’s person, has been the absolute truth, unless you were too young in 1962-65 to understand what was going on.
Whatever assassination attempts that were made on Nkrumah began in 1961 or there about, but the PDA was passed under a “certificate of urgency” in 1958. So what exactly was it for? Granted that there were assassination attempts on Kwame Nkrumah’s person, mostly by his own “verandah boys” henchmen anyway, how about the TUC leaders that were jailed under PDA? How about those who landed in jail merely because they were reported by party men, mostly because they wanted their wives? The reports of the Commissions of Enquiry of 1966 are still in the archives.
As a fourteen year old in secondary form two, I cried when Mr Grant, the former head of the TUC narrated his experience under the PDA. He was with Kwesi Lamptey at that lecture. Kwesi Lamptey broke down soon after the lecture began and took no further part. Mr Grant recounted his experience when on Christmas day 1961, they were supposed to be given a special treat from “the great one.” It was plain rice mingled with sea sand with a splash of pale tomato soup and no meat or fish.
They had not eating all day, but Kwesdi Lamptey being a graduate of Biology and a former teacher at Fijai Secondary School, advised his colleagues not to eat it as the sand particles could hurt their intestines. And their crimes? Mr Grant had led a democratically balloted TUC strike in 1960, being the head of the Railway Union and the TUC in general. Kwesi Lamptey was arrested and jailed under PDA because his relative and a member of the TUC leadership had visited him the day before the strike.
When it suited him, Kwame Nkrumah used the TUC to call a general strike in 1948 and by 1960, he was jailing TUC leaders for calling legitimate strikes.
Just look around, the parties formed by the leaders of the British Empire who began their rules under democratic principles and rule of law – Pandit Nehru, Lee Kuang Yew, Sukarno, Jomo Kenyatta, Kaunda – still have the legacies of their independent parties winning elections in their respective countries. Does the state of the CPP today not reflect its founder and his adherents?
Let us be humble enough to learn from our history and begin to do the right thing for the sake of generations unborn!
KKO 9 years ago
Correctio; "...they had not eaten all day" oops!
Correctio; "...they had not eaten all day" oops!
YAW 9 years ago
Sukarno"s autocratic "guarded democracy" ruled by presidential decrees from 1945-1967 is applauded by you.You are a gem!
Sukarno"s autocratic "guarded democracy" ruled by presidential decrees from 1945-1967 is applauded by you.You are a gem!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
You never fail to amaze me in your depth of stupidity and your dearth of analyses....
Something bad happened in America so it is also good for Africa? Or because problems exist today, we must justify problems that existed in ... read full comment
You never fail to amaze me in your depth of stupidity and your dearth of analyses....
Something bad happened in America so it is also good for Africa? Or because problems exist today, we must justify problems that existed in the past?
You are not a lawyer. Your parents only taught you to gobble Nkrumah's shit and accept that as Ice cream!
Zeus 9 years ago
Every head of state in his right mind would have done the same. The bomb throwers and others just wanted to destabilize Ghana as they are still doing and Nkrumah could not have sat down for this to happen. Do you really kno ... read full comment
Every head of state in his right mind would have done the same. The bomb throwers and others just wanted to destabilize Ghana as they are still doing and Nkrumah could not have sat down for this to happen. Do you really know Nkrumah or have you read other literature about him apart from the CIA shit you are reading?
daavi 9 years ago
Why won't Ghana be in a messy state as we're in now if you and your cohorts are ruling Ghana? People with jaundiced minds and deserve to be living in the bush.
I am sure you would proffer the same stupid argument when your ... read full comment
Why won't Ghana be in a messy state as we're in now if you and your cohorts are ruling Ghana? People with jaundiced minds and deserve to be living in the bush.
I am sure you would proffer the same stupid argument when your 'bomb throwers' get the chance to form a new government and decide to handle your good-for-nothing goons ruling now in a similar manner.
Charlie King Addo 9 years ago
Even our doctors behave like market women when it comes to peddling lies.
When an educated individual will find time to deceive himself thinking he can hoodwink us all at this day and age, we should all know our country is ... read full comment
Even our doctors behave like market women when it comes to peddling lies.
When an educated individual will find time to deceive himself thinking he can hoodwink us all at this day and age, we should all know our country is not going to get any better any time soon.
When I was a kid they said they overthrew the Nkrumah regime because he worshiped Kankan Nyame and that he Nkrumah had stolen eggs and that his eyes shall never close when he died. They called him “egg thief man”.
That was brains at work.
Today old men with gray hair are gossiping and bragging about the tactics the CIA used to tell the world how stupid we could be and that we deserved everything they threw at us.
Our education is no education if our rationale is this low. We have been spoon-fed with gibberish and that is the language we proudly speak.
Speaking in tongues indeed. A whole continent in stupor and we elbow our way to display who is more ignorant and naïve amongst the lot.
You mount a platform on a garbage dump and you will still find audience in their thousands. They would not even notice they stand in filth if only the subject matter is how to wipe the memories of Nkrumah permanently from our minds.
How that can be possible beats the hell out of me.
My question is even if you should achieve that, what do you replace his achievements with?
You cannot hide the physical monuments erected by the man to showcase Ghana that still stand as evidence till this very day.
That no one threw bombs at the man?
That the west did not want him eliminated and or liquidated as they did Lumumba?
You are old enough to do something to better the lives of needy Africans. If that is too much to ask, at least you could liberate yourself from mental bondage, that is to strive for consciousness that stretches beyond the periphery of academia.
Writing stupid essays will not help us get to the Promised Land, we so seek.
Doc, shouldn’t you be at work attending to afflicted spirits? You are such a bore.
Appiah 9 years ago
Mr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo is NOT a Doctor. His JD is the same as LLB and NOT a doctorate degree like PhD or JSD. What a dishonest man!
Mr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo is NOT a Doctor. His JD is the same as LLB and NOT a doctorate degree like PhD or JSD. What a dishonest man!
Nyamah 9 years ago
Whatever the writer is what he has written is the truth nothing but the truth about the Kwame Nkrumah era.
How can some people sing his praises and justify what he and his CPP did in this country.At least now everybody can ... read full comment
Whatever the writer is what he has written is the truth nothing but the truth about the Kwame Nkrumah era.
How can some people sing his praises and justify what he and his CPP did in this country.At least now everybody can write or go to an FM station and say whatever they like without looking at your shoulder if somebody is watching you.
The country was a one party state there was no freedom of speech,Kwame Nkrumah was a life president and a dictator full stop. Please let us forget about him and let us get on with our lives and hope this country will get better one day.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
I have raised several issues which you must contest intelligently. You have not...
And so what is your point in insulting me? That Nkrumah raised physical monuments to showcase Ghana and therefore he must remain untouchable? ... read full comment
I have raised several issues which you must contest intelligently. You have not...
And so what is your point in insulting me? That Nkrumah raised physical monuments to showcase Ghana and therefore he must remain untouchable? Sorry; I do not subscribe to that kind of servile mentality! Like all the rest, you cannot think.
Ben, US 9 years ago
Ha! Ha! Ha! this SAS guy is working hard to appease his NPP counterpart Prof.Okoampa who thinks he's fake. Mr. Sarfo, go fight your battle woth Okoampa and leave Nkrumah alone. Remember the NLC, Busia and Afrifa tried and we ... read full comment
Ha! Ha! Ha! this SAS guy is working hard to appease his NPP counterpart Prof.Okoampa who thinks he's fake. Mr. Sarfo, go fight your battle woth Okoampa and leave Nkrumah alone. Remember the NLC, Busia and Afrifa tried and were unsuccessful.
Kwame 9 years ago
Charles King Addo, you wrote it philosophically and brought forward the mindset of people who want to be called the dog of a person just because he or she is white, even if he is mentally retarded and can not mention a word, ... read full comment
Charles King Addo, you wrote it philosophically and brought forward the mindset of people who want to be called the dog of a person just because he or she is white, even if he is mentally retarded and can not mention a word, or the mental retardation is as a result of he or she been on drugs.
History have it that people are at times consumed by the monster they created. History had it that Socrates was the victim of his own student who forced him to drink hemlock because the former said that the gods do not exist.
J.B.Danquah was a victim of his own creation, the national liberation and liberation of the Negro that he spoke of but decided to like in tranquility in servitude. Tranquility in slavery was what national liberation opposed. National liberation is about being your own master in your own country, assessing your human dignity, self respect and freedom of action to chose your own friends.
Danquah was a man who took a pot to fetch freedom, but left it by the side of the sea because he was afraid of the roar of the sea and the turbulent waves. Thus he spoke of freedom only in his mother's kitchen and when freedom called at him he took to his heals.
The break-up of Nkrumah with the United Gold Coast Convention (the only political party in Gold Coast then) was when J.B. Danquah and Busia gave Dr. Kwame Nkrumah the hemlock to drink by telling the British colonial authorities that all the political agitation for independence were all the creation of Nkrumah.
Thus whiles Danquah took refuge away from the monster he created Nkrumah took the monster, chained it and use it to scare away colonialism.
It is on record that Komla Agbeli Gbedema assisted Kofi Abrefa Busia to escape from Ghana and financially assisted him whiles the latter was in Togo.
In 1969 whiles Busia was the leader of government business and Gbedema the leader of the opposition Busia does not want to see the face of his friend, now seen as his foe in parliament, because Gbedema propagated the ideas of socialism, which are words Busia the so-called democrat does not want to hear, as the democrats and republicans in the U.S. Congress do not want to hear the words socialism and communism. So it turned out that Busia has to give his friend in need a hemlock to drink by driving him out of parliament.
Rightist believe that they are the only people living on Earth and that others do not matter. They have it as an ordained right as they see it to kill and cause harm to others. But they as hatchet men fear seeing the hark man's machete.
It is on record that when Jake Obetseby Lamptey was under threat of death in Liberia during that country's civil war Mr. Portuphey took him from Liberia and brought him home, accommodate, feed him and gave him job. It seems as I have been writing for sometime, rightist have the memory of wasps as Ewhes say.
In 2001 when NPP was in power Jake Lamptey caused his grating in time of owes to be dismissed as head of the Ghana disaster organization. NPP ministers including Nana Akuffo Addo made sure that people who have been of help to them one or the other way are all imprisoned. I am yet to be made to know that whiles Tsatsu Tsikata, Selomey, Sipa Yankey, Kwame Pepra and others while in Nsawam were not given conditions better than what Danquah lived under, and I wish to add that during the time of Danquah's imprisonment Ghana was in transition to socialism and food in the prison was no problem as was under Rawlings and Kufuor's capitalism.
It is also on record that ministers and members of the CPP spend up to 7 years imprisonment under the NLC which adviser was Kofi Abrefa Busia and under his Progress Party government from 1969 to 13/1/1972. Communist literature and Nkrumah's books were banned by the NLC as well under Busia' PP regime. When my mother saw me reading books with the picture of Kwame Nkrumah on it she use to say so you are reading your fathers' books again. My father also happened to be called Kwame but was 3 years younger than Kwame Nkrumah. We wrote yesterday that under the directives of Dr. Kofi Busia, Boye Moses was caged like a wild animal and paraded through all the regional capitals of Ghana. S.S.Baffour-Awuah was put in a prison filled with water to his chin and mosquitoes were let into the sell to bite his head and face.
You see how these rightist do not have human feeling toward people who do not share the shameful sheepish, slavery in tranquility, demeaning of human dignity and rightist Neo-colonial ideas with them. They always think that it is only them that matter and others are just the cursed of the Earth.
Kissiedu 9 years ago
You don't get it all? Why do you expect Nkrumah to cuddle bombthrowers! answer is PDA. Nkrumah didn't kill anyone, his liberal opponents tried to!
You don't get it all? Why do you expect Nkrumah to cuddle bombthrowers! answer is PDA. Nkrumah didn't kill anyone, his liberal opponents tried to!
Kwame 9 years ago
It is on record that when Comrade Patrice Lumumba was arrested by the agents of NATO in 1961 they did not spare his life, not even his body. The agents of the CIA killed members of the Black Panther Movement in their sleep. A ... read full comment
It is on record that when Comrade Patrice Lumumba was arrested by the agents of NATO in 1961 they did not spare his life, not even his body. The agents of the CIA killed members of the Black Panther Movement in their sleep. Amical Cabral, Mutarla Mohammed, Murmur Ghadafi and Osaman Bin Laden were not taken to court they were all shot without question at the order of various U.S. presidents and NATO leaders. J.B.Danquah was a terrorist and if he were to be fighting against his doll masters even his dust will not be seen. Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo you are a mud fish a taboo which should not even speak, moreover bite us.
obroni 9 years ago
If you start as a dictator and become a democrat people will always consider you a dictator and a coup comitter.
If you start democratic and become a dictator you will always be respected, even Nkrumah, Mugabe and other Afri ... read full comment
If you start as a dictator and become a democrat people will always consider you a dictator and a coup comitter.
If you start democratic and become a dictator you will always be respected, even Nkrumah, Mugabe and other African dictators.
Kweku Ananse 9 years ago
SAS, if you have nothing sensible to write, don't write it here. Boys abr3. You are committing acts of treason, sedition and first degree felony by writing in a jaundiced way to inflame passions. You are a nation-wrecker.
SAS, if you have nothing sensible to write, don't write it here. Boys abr3. You are committing acts of treason, sedition and first degree felony by writing in a jaundiced way to inflame passions. You are a nation-wrecker.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
All nations without exception are built on brutality.Dr SAS,did you not read history at school?Nation building is not for jokers like Danquah and Busia and the likes who are ready to lick the asses of European colonial master ... read full comment
All nations without exception are built on brutality.Dr SAS,did you not read history at school?Nation building is not for jokers like Danquah and Busia and the likes who are ready to lick the asses of European colonial masters.This is the difference.Thank you.
Kofi 9 years ago
1918 - The Sedition Act, a further refinement of the Espionage Act, was passed. This wide-ranging law made it illegal to criticize the government or hamper the war effort in almost any manner. Thus many labor activists, dissi ... read full comment
1918 - The Sedition Act, a further refinement of the Espionage Act, was passed. This wide-ranging law made it illegal to criticize the government or hamper the war effort in almost any manner. Thus many labor activists, dissidents and radicals became the targets of government prosecutors. To be a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union put one at the risk of deportation. Anyone found violating these acts could be fined up to $10,000 and/or sentenced up to twenty years in jail. Rose Pastor Stokes, Eugene V. Debs, Victor Berger and Emma Goldman were notable individuals that were arrested and charged under these laws.
MUSAH OSMAN 9 years ago
My heart bleed profusely when i hear people like this try to distort history for their parochial political interest.What is this man talking about? Nkrumah a dictator? Yes, we agree if Nkrumah was a dictator but at least he h ... read full comment
My heart bleed profusely when i hear people like this try to distort history for their parochial political interest.What is this man talking about? Nkrumah a dictator? Yes, we agree if Nkrumah was a dictator but at least he has been able to use his dictatorial regime to make life better you and i to enjoy today.Take a look at the numerous developmental projects undertook by this very dictatorial regime you are talking about.If you claim to know much about Ghana and Nkrumah,then tell us what your Busia/Danquah has done for Ghana after his overtrown.
Please you cannot throw dust into our eyes or twist history to your advantage,so please go and come again.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
State anything I have said about Nkrumah that is not true.
You somewhat agree now that he was a dictator but you somewhat think that his developmental projects must override and excuse his dictatorship. I respectfully disagr ... read full comment
State anything I have said about Nkrumah that is not true.
You somewhat agree now that he was a dictator but you somewhat think that his developmental projects must override and excuse his dictatorship. I respectfully disagree.
Mr. Smith 9 years ago
SAS, what would you say of people like Muammar Ghaddafi?
SAS, what would you say of people like Muammar Ghaddafi?
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
A hero is credited for the good and great things he or she has done for humanity.This is where Kwame Nkrumah's greatness is extraordinary above all other African politicians.He stood not only for the freedom of Ghana butthe t ... read full comment
A hero is credited for the good and great things he or she has done for humanity.This is where Kwame Nkrumah's greatness is extraordinary above all other African politicians.He stood not only for the freedom of Ghana butthe totally liberation of Africa.Let me give the lazy Dr SAS a bit history of Gold Coast.When Caseley-Hayford handed over the mantle of political leadership to J.B.Danquah in 1930.Apparently,Danquah could not continue the struggle for the freedom of West Africa as Caseley-Hayford was advocating.J.B.Danquah found the West African freedom struggling to be unrealistic in his interest or above his capacity.When Nkrumah came to take the leadership role,he rather extended Caseley-Hayford and John Sarbah's vision to the whole Africa.This is how great Nkrumah is to humanity.The credit for African Totally Liberation goes to Nkrumah and SAS or whoever cannot dispute it.Dr SAS should have known that Nation building is not for jokers.He must read the wicked history of United States of American,the home of democracy.Thank you.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Please, define the "freedom" and "liberation" Nkrumah gave to Ghana.
Please, define the "freedom" and "liberation" Nkrumah gave to Ghana.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
Now listen Doc.,Kwame Nkrumah gave us independence;that in itself is the "liberation" from colonialism.Number 2.Kwame Nkrumah established lot of schools,free health policy and lot of free professional training,that is also fr ... read full comment
Now listen Doc.,Kwame Nkrumah gave us independence;that in itself is the "liberation" from colonialism.Number 2.Kwame Nkrumah established lot of schools,free health policy and lot of free professional training,that is also freedom of illiteracy and poverty.You can also tell me the defination of the freedom and liberation that you want,please.Thank you.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Freedom and liberation is the rule of law and the existence of human and people's rights: due process of law, universal adult suffrage, freedom of speech and association and religion, freedom from oppression and fear, freedom ... read full comment
Freedom and liberation is the rule of law and the existence of human and people's rights: due process of law, universal adult suffrage, freedom of speech and association and religion, freedom from oppression and fear, freedom to think and reason without fear, freedom to agree or disagree with government without being imprisoned, etc., etc.
Nkrumah abolished all these freedoms and made them mere slogans, that is why our independence became an empty shell. His misrule has led to the present constitutional changes wherein the one-party state and life presidency have been constitutionally abolished, and wherein the people have been given the right to take up arms and rebel against a government attempting to take the sovereignty from the people. Today, by law, every Ghanaian has the right to take up arms and overthrow any government that tries to repeat Nkrumah's nonsense. These things are entrenched in our present democratic dispensation. Now, you could say that the total repudiation of Nkrumah's brutal dictatorship is the only good legacy Nkrumah left Ghana.
Challenge any of the issues I have raised here. I could even agree with the achievements you credit Nkrumah with, but these do not disturb my core argument that he was a brutal dictator. However, you stand a chance to convince me if you can point out anything I have said here that is not true.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
We all know what Nkrumah did right and wrong in the past yet he stands tall above all leaders in Africa.That is the point I am making.You can give him whatever adjective you want but he is still the greatest.All the kingdoms, ... read full comment
We all know what Nkrumah did right and wrong in the past yet he stands tall above all leaders in Africa.That is the point I am making.You can give him whatever adjective you want but he is still the greatest.All the kingdoms,empires and great nations around the world were built by brutal dictators.See how the ancient Asantes created their kingdom through atrocities yet the modern Asantes are also proud of it.So shall Ghanaians will always be proud of Kwame Nkrumah so be it.Thank you.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
As long as you agree that Nkrumah was a brutal dictator, I will have no beef with you. But Ghana had already been created long before Nkrumah came. He came to claim that he was giving us freedom, liberation and justice, and t ... read full comment
As long as you agree that Nkrumah was a brutal dictator, I will have no beef with you. But Ghana had already been created long before Nkrumah came. He came to claim that he was giving us freedom, liberation and justice, and that is where the problem is. He could have vividly put on the table before the people that he was going to imprison them without trial and abolish all opposition and declare himself president in order to build our country, and if the people had accepted him, then he would be considered honest under the circumstances.
But he promised freedom and justice from colonial oppression, only to turn around to inflict a worse form of oppression on the people. That is where Nkrumah showed himself to be an arrant fraud.
How can we say that Nkrumah gave us freedom and justice and liberation when he abolished all these forms?
The Sentinel 9 years ago
Tell me -- past and present -- about an infallible leader.
Heart rending and equally disgusting as these breeds of primitive tribalists sound, their hypocricy will not obliterate "the little" that Nkrumah did and left behi ... read full comment
Tell me -- past and present -- about an infallible leader.
Heart rending and equally disgusting as these breeds of primitive tribalists sound, their hypocricy will not obliterate "the little" that Nkrumah did and left behind!
This CHEAP, pithless "Teacher of Lore" is just one of the ungrateful humans in an ungrateful nation.
Some of you with candor, including Okine, Obeng and Abeeku Mensah, have said it ALL!
THERE WAS NONE, THERE IS NONE, AND THERE WILL BE NONE WHO's FEET WILL FIT NKRUMAH' SHOES!
What a shame and shammmmmmmm!
Beats me.
The Sentinel
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
The more one reads the responses from these Nkrumaist air-heads, the more one comes to the conclusion that they were indeed screwed up forever, deprived of all abilities to think. They are like a flock of sheep who have been ... read full comment
The more one reads the responses from these Nkrumaist air-heads, the more one comes to the conclusion that they were indeed screwed up forever, deprived of all abilities to think. They are like a flock of sheep who have been led to the slaughterhouse. Apart from ad-hominem arguments, these can never reason on any of the issues raised. They don't know the meaning of words like "freedom", "justice", "independence" or even "dictator" or "good leader".
The Nkrumaists mooncalves are the toxic elements undergirding our national retrogression; they are not capable of a single day of mature, intellectual reasoning or simple logic. All they know is to shout slogans like "Nkrumah never dies" or "Nkrumah does no wrong". If our nation is ever to make any intellectual progress, these Nkrumaist leeches must be extirpated like maggots by all means necessary. These Nkrumaist Pavlov's dogs react like hounds whenever their god is mentioned....The more reason they must all be impaled by the application of higher level reasoning.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
I am not Nkrumahist in anyway or Danquahist or Busiaist.Whence you are dealing with the history of Ghana,I deem it necessary to contribute the facts that I know about the topic.Nkrumah stood for Africa's liberation from Europ ... read full comment
I am not Nkrumahist in anyway or Danquahist or Busiaist.Whence you are dealing with the history of Ghana,I deem it necessary to contribute the facts that I know about the topic.Nkrumah stood for Africa's liberation from European colonial and no matter how hard you try,you cannot take that credit from him.If you read European,American and Asian history;you will understand that founding fathers of every nation have their bad and good sides.What is important for humanity is the positive impact they able to contribute but not because Mr x,y,z was killed or died in the process so we should belittle them.No way,I think nobody will agree with you in this aspect.Thank you.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
But what positive impact did Nkrumah make in any liberation struggle if he merely established a totalitarian regime whose talons he wanted to spread to the whole of Africa?
I see that you narrowly construe "liberation" to be ... read full comment
But what positive impact did Nkrumah make in any liberation struggle if he merely established a totalitarian regime whose talons he wanted to spread to the whole of Africa?
I see that you narrowly construe "liberation" to be the substitution of white oppression with Black oppression....I have defined for you what I understand by "liberation" in my previous post. And I am happy that you are now attempting to disavow your sympathies for Nkrumah. Understand that too much of his good sides have been propagated by his mooncalves; it is now time to balance the books a bit.
My respects.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
I was born in 1954 and I saw Nkrumah with my own eyes.I did not join Ghana Young Pioneers,I did not even pay for their scarf which was compusory for school children.Ofcourse,I did so without any hatred but I will not say that ... read full comment
I was born in 1954 and I saw Nkrumah with my own eyes.I did not join Ghana Young Pioneers,I did not even pay for their scarf which was compusory for school children.Ofcourse,I did so without any hatred but I will not say that our Independence is an "empty shell" because lot of people sacrificed for our freedom from the colonial masters.I am beginning to think you prefer the European colonial masters to self government.Ofcourse,majority of Nkrumah's critics believe Ghana should not have demanded independence from the British.What you are saying confirms it.You cannot wake up oneday and become like America,you should know that.Thank you.
KKO 9 years ago
Come on, be real!
Have you read anything about Danquah or Paa Grant, people who devoted their adult lives and personal resources to the course of Ghana? Where did any of them ever say they did not want independence for Ghana ... read full comment
Come on, be real!
Have you read anything about Danquah or Paa Grant, people who devoted their adult lives and personal resources to the course of Ghana? Where did any of them ever say they did not want independence for Ghana?
I guess at age 3 in 1957, 12 in 1966 you really did not understand what was going on!
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
Knowledge has nothing to do with age but with education both in the formal and informal.Remember,I had my parents who were both educated and could pass on important information.Danquah and Grant were not looking for the immed ... read full comment
Knowledge has nothing to do with age but with education both in the formal and informal.Remember,I had my parents who were both educated and could pass on important information.Danquah and Grant were not looking for the immediate independence from the British because they did not believe to carry on the management of Gold Coast looking at the low human resources and their own economic interest.They had the opportunity to do it without Nkrumah so why couldn't they do it?Nkrumah came from a very poor background and has nothing to lose from the British colony but all to gain.He was down to earth with the ordinary people more than these 2 gentlemen,making it easy for him to organise the poor masses.Even today,those in the Danquah's camp still believe that Ghana was better under colonial government and will not mind if Ghana is recolonised,that's the difference.I quiet remember what my mother told me about Danquah's dishonesty.Don't forget when the Bond of 1844 was signed,the Fanti chiefs gave the British 100 years to stay here and trade,a renewable contract with the chiefs.The British did not renew the contract in 1944 so Danquah was sent by the Fanti Chiefs to go and ask for renewal of the contract in England or the British leave the Gold Coast.Do you know what happened?Danquah came back from England saying he has brought documents for a new contract that never was.From that point,the Fanti Chiefs asked Danquah to present the documents but he failed to do so.For the Fantes chiefs,it was a sheer display of dishonesty and vowed not to take him serious anymore.So this is one of the reasons why Danquah and Paa Grant agreed to bring in Nkrumah,a new face.This must tell you that Danquah lost his credibility.You see now,I have told you what you did not learn at school.Find out for yourself.Thank you.
KKO 9 years ago
Oh Come on, I am a Fanti and I know Fanti history, and particularly the history of education in Ghana. Fanti Chiefs sending Danquah to England to plead on their behalf? What a joke. Mfantsipim School was established on 3rd Ap ... read full comment
Oh Come on, I am a Fanti and I know Fanti history, and particularly the history of education in Ghana. Fanti Chiefs sending Danquah to England to plead on their behalf? What a joke. Mfantsipim School was established on 3rd April 1876 and it already had graduates establishing schools in the southern parts of Ghana.
When the British passed the Land Grant Law in 1821, it waa a private citizen, Kwaw Ebonyi who paid for Mensah Sarbah and two other lawyers to go to London to argue successfully against that law. Which Fanti Chief would dream of going "out there to find a krakye" when there were five for tuppence locally?
In Danquah's prison letter which was published on the web a few days ago, he reminded Kwame Nkrumah of the 1948 agreement which set a ten year period for independence, which meant 1958. Does that make Danquah somebody who did not want independence for Ghana? Danquah researched and suggested the name Ghana for the independent Gold Coast. Does that sound like someone who did not want independence for Ghana?
Paa Grant paid for the stranded Kwame Nkrumah to come to Ghana, housed and fed him for three years. Does that make him someone who did not want independence for Ghana?
Our forebears sacrificed their comfort for our future. Undoubtedly there were mistakes along the line. We ought to humbly learn from their mistakes and build a better Ghana rather than distorting history and covering wrong-doing, just for the purpose of scoring cheap political points.
Adjei Sarfo's article is an excellent food for thought. We ought to debate it with candour!
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
Now tell me,on what basis did the British and the Gold Coasters agree for independence in 1948?Mind you, the UGCC was formed in 1947 at Saltpond because the Fantis Chiefs were the only ones who signed a treaty for the British ... read full comment
Now tell me,on what basis did the British and the Gold Coasters agree for independence in 1948?Mind you, the UGCC was formed in 1947 at Saltpond because the Fantis Chiefs were the only ones who signed a treaty for the British to stay for 100 years renewable trade agreement.I have given you the option to find out from any educated Fanti chief.Good luck.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago
To All Danquahserie Liars!
We need a whiff of fresh air in this forum after the Mate Mehu NPP spate of fart lies on Nkrumah from “Dr. SAS”. You bragarts are bankrupt of fresh ideas so you appeal to the barest instincts ... read full comment
To All Danquahserie Liars!
We need a whiff of fresh air in this forum after the Mate Mehu NPP spate of fart lies on Nkrumah from “Dr. SAS”. You bragarts are bankrupt of fresh ideas so you appeal to the barest instincts of your kinsfolk in a primitive emotional bath to invoke your latent Asafo tribal bigotry. You guys dwell on Nkrumah to make headlines otherwise there is nothing to write home about your hero Danquah. Can you guys for once write about the lazy mind Danquah without mentioning Nkrumah’s name? No? Then he is not worth mentioning.You guys have been fed on travesty of truth so all you do is to tell lies as ugly as the devil. Dr. SAS you cannot be the Judge and jury at same time.
Talking about devil, in fact the devil as they say lies in the details. You guys cannot blind out sequence of events to suit your whims and caprices. It will not work! The atrocious crime Danquah, Baafoe Akoto, R,R. Amponsah, UP mole Tawiah Adamarfio is by any measure less than the sentences they got. The vigilance and determination of Nkrumah’s government cemented and brought stability to the new nation Ghana.
Those who beg colonist to stay to perpetuate their arbitrariness on us cannot be trusted. Who knows Danquah better than his first wife who jumped ship to the CPP? So Nkrumah knew his secrets and his intentions. Stop portraying Danquah and cohorts as angels. They were the devil incarnation. The Mate Mehu was a criminal deviant terrorist group. Baffoe Akoto Hello! Their target was Nkrumah but they didn’t care how many died in the process. They will walk over dead bodies if that served their evil ways. And indeed they did it in the bloodiest coup ever in Ghanaian history on 24th Feb. 1966. Thousands of lives were lost for these belly thinkers.
So stop tormenting us with perennial lamentations of cry baby cry what Nkrumah did to Danquah nonsense. He wouldn’t have found himself behind bars if he was law abiding. Danquah cannot have his own way. He is not above the law. The PDA did not come like a bolt from the blue sky. He knew about it. As a lawyer by trade Danquah knew the rules of the game. He cannot be a judge and plaintiff to legitimate his crime. Danquah was a victim of his folly. He crossed the red line twice and was pardoned twice but each time he never kept his word. Nkrumah is nobody’s fool not for the third time. And by the way politics is as murky and as clear as mud. Not for faint heart Dandy and sunny weather province politician like Danquah.
The prerequisites under which a nation functions is law and order otherwise there will be anarchy. The interest of a nation come first not that of a disgruntled few sour losers. The Mate Mehu violence was quenched in a short and sweet way with the introduction of the PDA.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes
In the absence of law and order mankind is worst than animals. Left to their own devices mankind is violent/hostile by nature which is why s/he ought to be tamed by rule of law as well as regulations. The law is as old as mankind.
A fool he never learns. Now let me give you knucklehead some nuggets of wisdom. You eggheads must once and for all reject the idea every time a law is broken, somebody (in this case Nkrumah) is guilty rather than the lawbreaker (Danquah and cohorts). It is time for you brutes to recognize the highest precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. You guys claim to be Christians. Why do you think the Ten Commandments were made and presented to mankind? Not for the sheer fun of it. Without law and order, the only alternative is chaos. So learn to obey laws. Just deal with it!
I hope it is as clear as mud now, isn’t it? Since when did you blind bats that sleep upside down became wise? Now you notorious foolish stalker who goes by the name “Nyansasem”, you seem to have been dropped on your head as a baby, I don’t give a flying rat’s fart about mindless savages like you. By the count of three run as fast as you can, before I set my drones on you. Bo!
Nana Ansah 9 years ago
Those who beg colonialists
Danquah was a victim of his own folly
A fool will never learn
Those who beg colonialists
Danquah was a victim of his own folly
A fool will never learn
MUSAH OSMAN 9 years ago
It appears to me that doctor has a personal hatred for Nkrumah and so whoever appears to speak good about this African hero,he or she is seen as being myopic and does not know anything.Well,doctor is entitled to his own opini ... read full comment
It appears to me that doctor has a personal hatred for Nkrumah and so whoever appears to speak good about this African hero,he or she is seen as being myopic and does not know anything.Well,doctor is entitled to his own opinion,but one thing is certain which i think doctor cannot run away from.At least Nkrumah was able to use his dictatorial regime to build the Akosombo dam which doctor is today benefiting from.I suspect doctor is one of those who are today blaming the current administration of "Dumsor" "Dumsor".The question i am asking doctor is,apart from this dictator's administration,which of the past governments have added megawatts comparable to the Akosombo dam? none!
At least Nkrumah deserved our commendations.
Baffour Agyemang 9 years ago
SAS you are the one who shivers with Nkrumaphobia whenever you hear the name of the Africa man of the millennium.
SAS you are the one who shivers with Nkrumaphobia whenever you hear the name of the Africa man of the millennium.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago
Remember, most of them are products of Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute where they were taught to bray even in sleep that "!Nkrumah never dies " . Such people 's minds are seared with the hot rod of communist ideology tha ... read full comment
Remember, most of them are products of Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute where they were taught to bray even in sleep that "!Nkrumah never dies " . Such people 's minds are seared with the hot rod of communist ideology that they are incapable of any rational reasoning. That is the problem Ghana faces now?
LONTO-BOY 9 years ago
A very revealing piece. Dr SAS, though, I do not agree with all your critique of Nkrumah but I am struck by the oppression, cruelty, and brutality he unleashed on members of the 'Big Six'. Certainly, lessons must be learnt fr ... read full comment
A very revealing piece. Dr SAS, though, I do not agree with all your critique of Nkrumah but I am struck by the oppression, cruelty, and brutality he unleashed on members of the 'Big Six'. Certainly, lessons must be learnt from these important historical lessons: Democratic Politics, Civil Liberties, and Rule of Law.
MINOR CASE 9 years ago
And they think his achievements negate the brutality and evil nature of his dictatorial regime.
And they think his achievements negate the brutality and evil nature of his dictatorial regime.
OKOE 9 years ago
DID DR. NKRUMAH ALLOW ELECTIONS DURING HIS TIME. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WRITER. THEY ARE FEELING THE DEFEAT THEY SUFFERED FROM THEIR INABILITY TO WIN IN THE ELECTIONS. THESE PEOPLE WRITING ALL THESE ABOUT DR. NKRUMAH ARE THE BOM ... read full comment
DID DR. NKRUMAH ALLOW ELECTIONS DURING HIS TIME. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WRITER. THEY ARE FEELING THE DEFEAT THEY SUFFERED FROM THEIR INABILITY TO WIN IN THE ELECTIONS. THESE PEOPLE WRITING ALL THESE ABOUT DR. NKRUMAH ARE THE BOMB THROWERS. THEY KILLED INNOCENT SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING DR. NKRUMAH'S PRESIDENCY. THEIR TIME HAD PASSED AND FEELING THE HUMILIATION AND HARPING ON THE PAST.
Bonsu 9 years ago
SAS lacks balance and objectivity as an analyst when it comes to political discourse.Every African intellectual who has read what the Osagyefo stood for in his political life both in Ghana and Africa will strike that balance ... read full comment
SAS lacks balance and objectivity as an analyst when it comes to political discourse.Every African intellectual who has read what the Osagyefo stood for in his political life both in Ghana and Africa will strike that balance of fairness by acknowledging his greatness when it comes to commentary about him.SAS has failed in all his comments about Nkrumah to be classified as a progressive African because his white education has made him a puppet of white influence and submissiveness so he sees nothing positive about the Osagyefo.
I will personally not take him seriously because he is a lost cause and a mental case.Until he starts telling us the other side of the story for balance even though he will be looking at things from his myopic angle,he would have struck the balance and met the test of the true academic and not a pseudo.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
I don't know of any single positive idea that Nkrumah stood for which I can validate here. His rule was no model for any African state, and yet he was trying to unite Africa under his rule.? Which African people were ready to ... read full comment
I don't know of any single positive idea that Nkrumah stood for which I can validate here. His rule was no model for any African state, and yet he was trying to unite Africa under his rule.? Which African people were ready to countenance his imprisonment without trial? And which leader would cede grounds to him knowing that he had imprisoned all his cronies?
Did Nkrumah stand for freedom or liberation or justice or independence? I sincerely believe the man did not understand any of these words.
EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago
WHEN IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO SHOW RESPECT FOR YOUR ENEMY OF AFRICANS IN THE FORMS OF JB DANQUAH AND DR BUSIA , KNOWN CIA AGENTS AND OPERATIVES AGAINST AFRICA , YOU AMAZE EVERY ONE!! YOU CAN NOT SAY ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT THEM UNLE ... read full comment
WHEN IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO SHOW RESPECT FOR YOUR ENEMY OF AFRICANS IN THE FORMS OF JB DANQUAH AND DR BUSIA , KNOWN CIA AGENTS AND OPERATIVES AGAINST AFRICA , YOU AMAZE EVERY ONE!! YOU CAN NOT SAY ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT THEM UNLESS YOU STEAL SOME INFLUENCE OF DR KWAME NKRUMAH'S POPULARITY ETC, TO ROB ON YOUR SPINELESS HEROES WHY? KWAME NKRUMAH CAN NOT BE PERFECT OR HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HUMAN! BUT HE IS THE BEST WE EVER HAD AS A BLACK MAN!! SO YOUR ATTEMPTS TO DENE GRADE HIS IMAGE WILL ONLY DRAW ANGER FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, EVEN YOUR COLONIAL MASTERS WHOM JD DANQUA SERVED , COULD NOT HELP BUT EXPOSE JB DANQUAH FOR WHAT HE IS A TRAITOR, HE DID NOT KNOW THE WHITE MAN , THEY WILL BLOW THE COVER , AS THEY KNOW THAT ONCE YOU CAN BETRAY YOUR PEOPLE YOU ARE MOST HOPE LESS TO MAN KIND . THEY IN TURN SHOW KWAME NRUMAH MORE RESPECT THAN JB DANQUAH, CAN'T YOU SEE? ITS NOT ME, THEY RESPECT EXCELLENCE, THAT IS OUR WHITE FOLKS FOR YOU ! AND THEY PUT NUISANCES IN THEIR DUE PLACES.
Captain Canada 9 years ago
He will rather blame Nkrumah for the coups in Ghana but not blame those who actually introduced it to the country? See. That what revisionism does to you mind? It eats away at it until you start spewing garbage. Samuel Adjei ... read full comment
He will rather blame Nkrumah for the coups in Ghana but not blame those who actually introduced it to the country? See. That what revisionism does to you mind? It eats away at it until you start spewing garbage. Samuel Adjei Safo you are a fucking idiot!. Nkrumah was a man and therefore fallible. No sensible being will make that claim that he was infallible. Your straw man argument just fell flat on it face. So attempt to blame him for a coup arranged between the asantes and the cia is rich. Busia government was democratically elected but nkrumahs was not? Whatever cheap weed you are smoking is eating away your brain. Now fuck off.
SOM-II 9 years ago
WOW. I would prefer to NOT have read your article, however as an open minded individual of african descent, I was curious about what you had to offer and I am very much disappointed and saddened by your biased views ,My broth ... read full comment
WOW. I would prefer to NOT have read your article, however as an open minded individual of african descent, I was curious about what you had to offer and I am very much disappointed and saddened by your biased views ,My brother Dr, SAS. Nkrumah is gone so is Danquah, Busia, Acheampong, Kotoka, Akuffo, Limman and others who graced the Political landscape of Ghana. The legacy is what it is today. So what solutions does the current generation of Political leaders in Ghana recommend to solving the SINS and shortcomings of our FORE-MENTIONED Political leaders. They are no longer with us and whether we agree to disagree or vice versa, the baton of their political legacy is now in the hands of the current generation.Your article does not even attempt to shed a sliver of solution to problem resolution, rather you tend to lay the blame of Ghana's current problems solely at the feet of Nkrumah. Really? Seriously? We all know Nkrumah was not a God, never has and Never WILL.
Nkrumah was an idealistic pan-africanist and human and therefore prone to err.
So was Danquah and Busia and other reactionaries. How can you attribute the mistakes of any government after Nkrumah to Nkrumah? Really? Seriously?
Massa I think U need to CHECK yourself B4 U wreck yourself. Hmm? I am beginning to question the authenticity of your doctorate and attorney certifications.
Please let sleeping DOGS lie wai. aaaba!!!
FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER!!! ALUTA CONTINUA!!!
Lexus 9 years ago
I have nothing but 'love' & respect for you, Dr SAS.
Thank God for the Godly-intervention by the immortalized souls from Alakple, Krobo/Mampong, Keta etc. For,without such timely intervention, Oman Ghana would currently be u ... read full comment
I have nothing but 'love' & respect for you, Dr SAS.
Thank God for the Godly-intervention by the immortalized souls from Alakple, Krobo/Mampong, Keta etc. For,without such timely intervention, Oman Ghana would currently be under the regime of some rascal called Kim Jung Sekou Un, and the riff-raffs currently paLading in the corridors of the Jubilee House would be gladly kissing his stinky behind.
Dr SAS, keep the Torch of Truth constantly burning.
James Okine 9 years ago
ONLY A BLIND MAN LIKE LEXUS SEES DR SAS' NONSENSE AS FACTUAL.
ONLY A BLIND MAN LIKE LEXUS SEES DR SAS' NONSENSE AS FACTUAL.
Kweku Ananse 9 years ago
JD is no doctorate. No wonder crap literature and lowbrow writing. Sham doctor.
JD is no doctorate. No wonder crap literature and lowbrow writing. Sham doctor.
James Okine 9 years ago
G.K.You have reduced Dr SAS to the level of a Kindergarten student.
G.K.You have reduced Dr SAS to the level of a Kindergarten student.
Captain Canada 9 years ago
This asshole lives in the US and claims he hasn't heard of the patriot act? Hey efuom doctor why don't you try and pull the crap your ancestors pulled in US and see how fast you end up in Guantanamo or with a hellfire missile ... read full comment
This asshole lives in the US and claims he hasn't heard of the patriot act? Hey efuom doctor why don't you try and pull the crap your ancestors pulled in US and see how fast you end up in Guantanamo or with a hellfire missile fired from a drone. I think you are either being mischievous or you are really very stupid. Going by you insidious argument, it is the fault of anyone who gets robbed because they had stuff. It was never the fault of the thieves. You as a sad excuse of a Ghanaian.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
You rightly state:
"Going by your insidious argument, it is the fault of anyone who gets robbed because they had stuff. It was never the fault of the thieves."
You Nkrumaists place the fault on the opposition for being robb ... read full comment
You rightly state:
"Going by your insidious argument, it is the fault of anyone who gets robbed because they had stuff. It was never the fault of the thieves."
You Nkrumaists place the fault on the opposition for being robbed of their lives and freedoms. In this instance, the one doing the robbing is Kwame Nkrumah, and yet the true freedom fighters are to blame for protecting their freedoms by the only means available.
Captain Canada 9 years ago
They were the robbers trying rob Nkrumah of his life. How did your reckon he was the wrong one? Your view is upside down. It is why all your arguments are upside down. The criminals are the good guys and the lawful leader of ... read full comment
They were the robbers trying rob Nkrumah of his life. How did your reckon he was the wrong one? Your view is upside down. It is why all your arguments are upside down. The criminals are the good guys and the lawful leader of the country, who was elected for your information, is the bad guy? Get real. The democracy you claim and due process didn't exists in colonial Ghana and didn't exist under your troop of baboons under busia. You guys don't believe in democracy stop pretending you do. If JB Danquah is your idol then your are a terrorist apologist. The nerve of you calling yourself a Ghanaian when you spew garbage about the very person for which you owe that identity to. Danquah was a traitor and a terrorist and he deserves worse than he got. Those innocent people who perished from his bomb throwing deserve better. Her let me clear it for you. With Danquah there wouldn't have been Ghana or anything close to a country. Except a backwater piece like akyem abuakwa. As a Ghanaian I say fuck Danquah and his followers. May they suffer wherever they are. Yes enjoy you stay in the US and remember your so called glorious coup of 1966 is the reason you and you asante people are the majority of Ghanaian cleaning toilets and wiping shitty bottoms abroad. Enjoy it.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
There is no gainsaying the fact that the cabal of Nkrumaist scream-heads are mentally screwed, and trying to reason with them is like speaking to a tree-head. But I choose to answer some of their arguments if only because a t ... read full comment
There is no gainsaying the fact that the cabal of Nkrumaist scream-heads are mentally screwed, and trying to reason with them is like speaking to a tree-head. But I choose to answer some of their arguments if only because a tree-head may also bow to a fresh waft of morning breeze…
Nkrumaists are fond of using the bomb-throwing incidents to justify his atrocious treatment of his political opponents. The first bomb-throw occurred at Kulungugu in 1963, while the Preventive Detention Act (PDA) was passed in 1958. Thus the Nkrumaists are guilty of the fallacy of circular cause and consequence, where the consequence of the phenomenon is claimed to be its root cause. Truly, Nkrumah's tyranny was the cause of the armed struggle for true freedom.
When he became power drunk, and openly portrayed his communistic ideas, Nkrumah would not tolerate any dissent neither from the official opposition nor from his own party members. After the PDA was enacted in 1958, his finance Minister K.A. Gbedemah who introduced the bill in Parliament had to run away into exile in the USA, fleeing from the Act he gleefully spearheaded. When the people were overfed with Nkrumaism and were suffering under his tighten-your-belt Socialist policies, the bombs from his own camp became an option just as he himself was advocating violence as a strategy for freedom fighters elsewhere. And by the way, at the time of his overthrow (God Bless Kotoka and Afrifa) there were more CPP members in prison under the PDA than UP folks, just as Danquah had warned Gbedemah and his gaping sycophants.
Nkrumaists also raise negative sentiments against the glorious coup d'état by associating it with the negative image of the CIA, as if the mass support for the coup was also engineered by the CIA. If the CIA overthrew Nkrumah, then they merely fulfilled our sacred national aspiration to "resist the oppressor's rule with all our will and minds forever more" and therefore are they our national heroes deserving of our eternal respect. But saying that Nkrumah's overthrow was the work of CIA merely turns our people into lobotomized idiots who did not have the courage to get rid of a bloody dictator!! I do not subscribe to the idea that the colonial masters were responsible for giving us back our freedom from the tyranny of Kwame Nkrumah. The gallant men and women who overthrew Nkrumah should be credited with the greatest act of patriotism for our country.
Nkrumaists are always saying that Nkrumah does no wrong, and go ahead to rationalize and justify his evil deeds against humanity, summarily condemning all his opponents as nation-wreckers and extolling him as our Messiah, and when we raise the man’s faults, they turn around to say that fairness demands us to be balanced by discussing the man’s great qualities. What are these qualities? Ingratitude, lies, blackmail, jealousy or ambition? And when have Nkrumaists said anything positive about the others who helped in the founding of the nation?
Nkrumaists state that Nkrumah gave us freedom from the colonial masters. We should only be proud of our independence if it truly gave us true freedoms. But what do they mean by "freedom from colonial masters"? Are they here accepting oppression from our own kind as a good substitute for "oppression from colonial masters"? Do they again narrowly define "self-government" as Nkrumah's singular right to impose a totalitarian regime on our people? I believe that the better task for Nkrumah was to have sought first the solid principles for democratic governance and to spread these across Africa. All others would have been added unto him. But his simplistic faith in dictatorship and his effort to propagate same across Africa makes him a truly bad leader for all time.
Nkrumaists claim Nkrumah founded Ghana, but Ghana had already been created long before Nkrumah came. Rather, he came to find it (not to found it) and to claim that he was giving us freedom, liberation and justice, and that is where the problem is. He could have vividly put on the table before the people that he was going to imprison them without trial and abolish all opposition and declare himself president in order to build our country into a great nation, and if the people had accepted him, then he would have been considered honest under the circumstances. But he promised freedom and justice from colonial oppression, only to turn around to inflict a worse form of oppression on the people. How can we say that Nkrumah gave us freedom and justice and liberation when he abolished all these forms? And if all he accomplished were the huge infrastructural developments minus the freedom, the colonial masters could have achieved more with these same resources and kept us under less oppression than Nkrumah.
Nkrumaists quote US to justify Nkrumah’s terror against the Ghanaian population and also quote the USA to condemn Nkrumah’s overthrow. This is a fallacy of argument characterized as Tu Quoque. ("You Do it Too!"; also “Two Wrongs Make a Right”). This is a corrupt argument from ethos. It is no sign of intelligence to excuse one's own bad action by pointing out that one's opponent's acts are perhaps even worse than one's own. Such an argument has no substance in logic!
mensah abrampa 9 years ago
Dr SAS, you're awesome and such a breath of fresh air. Neither will your detractors stand the truth nor can they match your mesmeric logic. They are incoherent or illogical in thought. Their attempt to air-brush Ghana's pre ... read full comment
Dr SAS, you're awesome and such a breath of fresh air. Neither will your detractors stand the truth nor can they match your mesmeric logic. They are incoherent or illogical in thought. Their attempt to air-brush Ghana's pre and post independence history with deception, inconsistencies and lies falls flat on its face. When Nkrumaists claim that Nkrumah is the de facto founder of Ghana, they don't really understand how ridiculous and how ludicrous they sound. These are no different from those who have consistently peddled the erroneous claim that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Thanks for standing up courageously to parry their attacks. Rest assured that you're not and will never be alone because the cause is just.
francis gunaah 9 years ago
With the greatest sense of respect to Dr.even class one chap will not advance such argument.As a matter of fact there is no aota of truth in all that Dr has chronicled.your article is bogus and blatantly lie.
With the greatest sense of respect to Dr.even class one chap will not advance such argument.As a matter of fact there is no aota of truth in all that Dr has chronicled.your article is bogus and blatantly lie.
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
James Okine 9 years ago
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ... read full comment
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and establishing a Detention camp in GUANTANOMO BAY to detain suspected terrorists without trial.To him detaining people who made five assassination attempts on Nkrumah under the Preventive Detention Act(PDA),which was passed in Parliament was BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP.What an idiot!
Joe 9 years ago
Look the point is the culture has not changed. In Ghana we glorified wrong doing or evil doing. That is reason why our legal institution is weak. The law is only for poor people. At that time democracy was very young. Even no ... read full comment
Look the point is the culture has not changed. In Ghana we glorified wrong doing or evil doing. That is reason why our legal institution is weak. The law is only for poor people. At that time democracy was very young. Even now we are in democratic process, democracy that doesn't recognise the social justice of it citizens, democracy that doesn't listen to the voice of the people, democracy without local participatory, Let's move on and stop dwelling on the past. Ghana is going downhill. Legal point Dr Sarfo you're right but you're wrong on developmental point. There are a lot that has gone wrong.... in terms of development the fundamentals was there..... but corruption, incompetence and nepotism from successive kleptocratic governments. Our institutions are chaos and anarchy, Institutional failure. We have a long way to go now that our country is infected with kleptomaniacs... Economic genocide...
Mind you they still glorify JJ. Look less think of how we can put the country in a better form for our future generations. Because their time they will have less opportunity in the west than we had.
The impact of power cut is immeasurable. If it continues it will put Ghana 30years behind....
king arthur 9 years ago
To the best of my knowledge if Nkrumah, had centered,developing our nation Ghana with the huge resources he met,it would have been one of the kind on this continent.why on earth would he think of becoming an African presiden ... read full comment
To the best of my knowledge if Nkrumah, had centered,developing our nation Ghana with the huge resources he met,it would have been one of the kind on this continent.why on earth would he think of becoming an African president...post conscious indeed.
Captain Canada 9 years ago
president? He was friends with ben bella and other leaders. So was he planning to overthrow them? These are some of the lies your danquah revisionsits have filled your head with. For once please read a history book and stop e ... read full comment
president? He was friends with ben bella and other leaders. So was he planning to overthrow them? These are some of the lies your danquah revisionsits have filled your head with. For once please read a history book and stop eating but the shit Sarfo and the rest of his apologist are offering.
Captain Canada 9 years ago
Danquah couldn't accept the will of the people so he became a terrorist and a seditious bastard. He deserves worse than a timeout at Nsawam. He should have been shot and his body dropped and the ocean for the fishes. Nkrumah ... read full comment
Danquah couldn't accept the will of the people so he became a terrorist and a seditious bastard. He deserves worse than a timeout at Nsawam. He should have been shot and his body dropped and the ocean for the fishes. Nkrumah was too nice and naive. He would have saved lots of lives by getting rid of the akyem/asante cabal that thought the nation belonged to them. He should have acted like the great Abraham Licoln and sent the soldiers to the asanteman land and massacred them. Just to send a message to the hoodlum. To be an effective leader you have to be a bit Machiavellian. Shooting Danquah/Busia/Apaloo/Amponsah would have curb the rest of the terrorists.
Captain Canada 9 years ago
on SAS's logic. No leader should allow bastards like Danquah to destroy its people with acts of terrorism. Lincoln took the confederate states to the woodshed. Danquah and his band of traitors deserved nothing less. Perhaps a ... read full comment
on SAS's logic. No leader should allow bastards like Danquah to destroy its people with acts of terrorism. Lincoln took the confederate states to the woodshed. Danquah and his band of traitors deserved nothing less. Perhaps a bullet in their heads would have calm the rest of the troublemakers down. SAS you are a terrorist apologist!
Robert 9 years ago
It is obvious the writer doesn't knw anything as far as the independence and freedom of Ghana is concerned. He is just throwing dust and lies. UP tradition connived with de CIA and in some were de CIA agents themselves who pe ... read full comment
It is obvious the writer doesn't knw anything as far as the independence and freedom of Ghana is concerned. He is just throwing dust and lies. UP tradition connived with de CIA and in some were de CIA agents themselves who perpetuated huge attrocities on this nation. To them Nkrumah was a Nobody nd doesn't to lead Ghana after their failed attempts to gain independence. In fact the truth was dat they never meant when they purport to be fighting for the freedom of Ghana. Why did they write to de queen not to grant us freedom because we are ready? The so called Dr of Laws is now singing their praise. The history of Ghana can never be rewriten by ppl like this man. Nkrumah is and was de Greatest African ever to live. They opposed the construction of de Akosomo Dam, the tema motorway and many of such projects which today are serving as de fibre optic bck bone of our economy. The enemies of Nkrumah were rather de self bigotry men who only were interested in themselves controlling the Resources of ghana. They claimed to de elites for which they shld be the ones to lead and control like they r doing today. The truth is just one Dr!!
CI A agent
Labeled the writer a CIA agent but answer the question put forward. A nation with a shaky foundation like ours is the result of Nkrumah's self-centered stinking ego. My question to his admirers is, why was he trying to unite ...
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KOTOKA WAS JUST A STOOGE, THE MILITARY DID NOT OVERTHROW NKRUMAH, THE CIA DID. THE SAME CIA THAT WAS AGAINST NELSON MANDELA AND THE ANC. THE SAME CIA THAT WAS AGAINST DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, MALCOLM X, PAUL ROBESON. THE SAM ...
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All that you are doing here is to raise sentiments against a glorious coup d'état by associating it with the negative image of the CIA, as if the mass support for the coup was also engineered by the CIA...
If the CIA overth ...
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u raise sentiments against a glorious coup d'état by associating it with the negative image of the CIA
SAS, I KNOW YOU ARE PLAYING IGNORANT HERE, WHICH U R NOT. DECLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENTS HAVE PROVEN THAT THE COUP WAS TH ...
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And yes the CIA used the traitors like two bit whores to get rid of Nkrumah.
I wonder why the full idiot, Francis Kwarteng is lost his compass on such a topic about Nkrumah.
What is the PIG afraid of, someone should call him and ask why he is staying out of this Topic.
His Tel numbers in the US ...
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Nation building is not for pigs, and unless we Ghanaians cure crass ignorance and self deception, we will remain like pigs with pearls in our pigs' pen. You or perhaps your older siblings, if not, then perhaps your father an ...
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Kwabena Yeboah, we are talking about the brutal suppression of human rights by a dictator and you trying to mitigate this with development projects the dictator embarked on? Hitler, Mao and Stalin developed their countries to ...
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Thank you Bro.There is this saying that if you inherit a fortune and at the end you become bankrupt and go borrowing, then you are more than a fool. That was Nkrumah for you. The amount of money he spent to deify himself loca ...
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My people perish without knowledge, so says the bible. Kwadwo, whoever you are, seek true knowledge before you perish in your crass ignorance. As I have always said, the African is the most dangerous specie with his half bake ...
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This is the usual name calling of an idealogue. Pathetic. A couple of weeks ago you were commending for giving some credit to Nkrumah on what of Francis Kwarteng's pieces.
Kwadwo, my apology! I came on too harsh on your response - forgive me.
Let's keep the debate going, Kwabena.
Nkrumah did nothing in Ghana with his own money. Whatever project he did come from the money left by our colonial masters right? So, what is your point? My beef with your idol was he misuse the money in trying to unite the c ...
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You can accuse Nkrumah of everything but a thief. Kufuor stole and pillaged, yet the mindless African dubious in character is wont to taut Kufuor more than Nkrumah.
You little minds, the fact that Nkrumah tried but failed ...
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Pelicles' statements are rather naive.For your information,the British Government left only 140 million pounds but Nkrumah borrowed millions for Development.His Seven Year Development Plan which was cut short by his detractor ...
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Thank you, Mr. Yeboah! The loudest, ultra-selfish elitist demagogues, who have always thought they and their families alone have been ordained by the Omnipotent to rule all others and the Nation in perpetuity would never forg ...
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Apart from downplaying the bloody dictatorship of Nkrumah and excusing it, I don't see any relevance your post brings to this debate, except that you tacitly agree with me that Nkrumah was a dictator (but with good reasons). ...
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Of course, someone like you would never grasp the import of what Berko posted. You do not have the wit and the maturity to understand. Intellect is not about plugging unfamiliar vocabularies from the thesaurus and use them to ...
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G.K. Berko is in a class of his own.His reasoning ,logic and presentation marks him out as a true scholar and the man SAS a first degree holder but who claims he is a Doctor of law because he holds a JD is but insignificant b ...
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The most serious problem we have in that continent, and Ghana especially is intellectual dishonesty. You can teach the black man to the phd. level, he will still be a black man - devious, narcissistic, and immoral. The Ghana ...
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Kwabena, I think a number of people (you included) u=have made good points on our deficiencies, but your generalisation about the "black man" is also part of the problem don't you think? In other words, we are doomed by fate. ...
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Paul, pardon my generalization but when you sample black intellectuals and extrapolate their binomial distribution, one conclusion always emerges. Don't get me wrong, there are outliers on the African continent who exhibit t ...
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Fake Apothecary,
What really can you "extrapolate" in your miserable life if you cannot "extrapolate" "in order" from "in other"; and if your identity which you try to hide so well is so discoverable by your overuse of the c ...
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What are you trying to say here, Dr. SAS? Cool down because intellectualism is devoid of emotional outburst. State your views lucidly so the ordinary person can understand - that is the hallmark of intellectualism. I will a ...
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Kwabena,
Sarfo doesn't even have a Master's degree. He only has a JD degree--an equivalent of English LLB degree with law certificate from Lincoln's Inn or the Temple to practice as a barrister or solicitor
Sarfo is trying too hard to be noticed which only betrays his own insecurities and 'intellectual dwarfism'. It is very childish to think that only your views, (usually not supported by hard facts) and lacking any objectivity ...
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All SAS said in this piece is that by declaring himself president for life, instituting a one party state and imprisoning his opponents without charge or trial, Nkrumah was a dictator. Unless you are a thin skulled NKrumaist ...
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Mr Berko, kindly make this an article and post for us to read. Been in the US for sometime now has exposed me to both the beauty and the ugly side of democracy. Democracy in itself isnt without its challenges but it takes a l ...
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G. K. Berko, this is one of your best. A great post that SAS could not adequately respond to.
Your post is far more valuable than any longueurs Kwarteng can write in defence of Nkrumah.
The point, as you rightly state ...
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Thanks, INXS! I am tired of the endless raw hatred that many of these pseudo-renaissance, History-modifiers infuse into our Political discourse just so one side would outshine the other.
The Nation is undergoing a seriou ...
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G.K. Berko,
I support your position wholeheartedly particularly on the last two statements. You have spoken well.
It is why I have been exploring with my readers the specific ares of Nkrumah's holistic thinking that ov ...
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Dear Brothers,
How are you?
There is nothing G.B. Berko has said here that I have not said before.
In fact I have advanced similar arguments several times over, unless you have not been reading my articles (there ar ...
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Kwarteng, you see! because of you stupidity no forumer is interested to engage you in commentary.
You are the only idiot who posting a copied lengthy empty nonsense instead of a comment. Can't you realise how stupid you ar ...
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I personally find it just incredible that the likes of SAS can continue to propagate such one-sided vitriolic falsehood, whilst remaining so intolerant of others who disagree with them. If, even on this medium SAS can be so i ...
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can appreciate wisdom such as yours.
All that you have listed as achievements of Kwame Nkrumah (with the exception of the building of the Takoradi Harbor) are correct and are acknowledged and appreciated by most Ghanaians. However there was one dark spot in his ...
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The trouble is how you present such failings on the part of the Nkrumah government in a factual, balanced way without trying to discredit of person and entire body of work. Don't you think a sound intellectual analysis includ ...
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I don't know about you but as a Ghanaian who lived through Nkrumah's repressive and dark era, it behooves on my conscience to speak the truth and debunk the falsehood that has been successfully peddled over time to obscure th ...
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The positive side of Nkrumah's government and his personal patriotism of Ghana has been pontificated and sermonized a lot of People think he did not make some mistakes.
I don't hate the man at all but he made some mistakes ...
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Sarpong, now I can be more accepting of your views. For the very first time ever, I have seen you acknowledge something positive about your political foe. To that, I will give you big Kudos. I won't even address the irrefut ...
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You state my mission in life when you wisely state:
"Let us acknowledge the credits of each of our past leaders, recognize their mistakes along with the contexts in which those errors were made, and work hard to avoid repe ...
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SAS, you're being plain deceitful here. What you write here is not what you have been saying all along in your pieces on Nkrumah. If it is, you wouldn't even call him a "brutal dictator".
Even a revisionist history should ...
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Has any of you Nkumahist ever acknowledged the positive sides of Danquah, Busia and other opposition members ? To you these people are nothing but traitors. With the amount of money bequeathed to Ghana at independence, any o ...
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You think everybody who recognises the achievements of Nkrumah, necessarily denigrates the contributions of his opponents. And you also think anybody who says Nkrumah did well does not recognise his shortcomings. That is why ...
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Dr. SAS, I am glad you share those hopes of mine and many other Ghanaians who prefer not to eternally vilify our past leaders, however intense their mutual antagonisms were but to put all their actions and reactions in contex ...
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Dear Brothers,
How are you?
There is nothing G.B. Berko has said here that I have not said before.
In fact I have advanced similar arguments several times over, unless you have not been reading my articles (there are ...
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Kwarteng, you see! because of your stupidity no forumer is interested to engage you in commentary.
You are the only idiot who is posting a copied lengthy empty nonsense instead of a comment. Can't you realise how stupid yo ...
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If anybody wants to tell Kwarteng on phone how silly he is, the following are his private Telephone numbers in USA-Hyattsville, MD-Maryland. Tel: (001)-301 277 5771 and (001)-240 770 7573
Yes, for once Sarpong is giving me cause to value him as worthy of serious dialogue. I hope he applies it throughout.
Is this all you can say? Everything the author is saying is nothing but the truth. If you don't know the truth, "seek and ye shall find".
They both love(d) to be called "Dr." even though neither of them wrote a doctoral (as in PhD) thesis...
In that sense, they are both pepeeepe...
Lol, lol, lol...
Please visit the Kwame Nkrumah mausoleum and museum in Accra, near the Arts Center and you will find a copy of his thesis.
Honestly when i started reading this piece, i had no doubt in my mind that it was authored by Okoampa Ahoofe until i decided to crosscheck. It could be his twin brother.
But what was the state of the UGGCC before Nkrumah cam ...
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...and you call yourself Dr. Tweaaaaaaa!!
So these brilliant and clever well established leaders of UGCC needed someone who had achieved nothing and was frustrated in the UK and USA to come home and part of their budding organization hah? And that Nkrumah's dictators ...
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Thanks alot for your OBSERVATION of this skewed and twisted LIES by DR SARPONG.The PDA was an ACT by the parliament of GHANA with opposition REPRESENTATIVES to help STOP the TERRORIST ACTIVITIES of some PEOPLE in GHANA THEN.L ...
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Seeing a so-called scholar/lawyer parading on Ghanaweb embellishing historical facts is a sickening sight.Where in the annals of history has terrorism "strengthened" a new and democracy? nothing can be more fantastical than ...
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a new and fragile democracy
Thank you Wofa YAW. You put it better than I could.
Dear YAW & Jojo Hammond,
How are you?
I am surprised no one is discussing Danquah's shameful dealings with the CIA as revealed by Richard Mahoney (courtesy "JFK: Ordeal in Africa"), the son of the American Ambassador (W ...
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SAS, if you ever present such an article in the US, you will be surprised at the attack from your employers. You will be kicked out in no time. Your display of such ignorance will shock almost every American. Are you telling ...
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You're funny. Many Americans who really care about Ghana know the intricacies of its history. Isn't it absurd that a "literate" Ghanaian needs to learn his history from second- hand Rastafarian sources? I live in the "Smith" ...
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Absolute rubbish
CIA declassified documents exposed J.B.Danquah and K.A.Busia as CIA agents who were hired to destabilise the newly independent Ghana through a series of bomb explosions and assassination attempts on NKRUMAH.
DR SAS,check CIA declassified documents and come back.
Nkrumah was a paid communist surrogate of the Soviet Union . He was on the pay roll of the KGB. Of course in the period of the old war, the Americans would not sit down for the Soviet Union to take over the world hence they h ...
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WHEN WE WERE FIGHTING THE COLONIAL POWERS FOR FREEDOM, THE ONLY FRIEND WE HAD WERE THE SOVIETS AND EASTERN BLOCK NATIONS. BEING A COMMUNIST WAS GOOD IN THE TIME. IT WAS THE OPPOSITE OF OUR OPPRESSORS.
DO YOU EVER WONDER W ...
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Just a simple question ? Where do you live now ? Certainly not in Cuba,Russia or North Korea where the ideology they propagate turns people into unproductive zombies .
"THE AMERICANS WOULD NOT SIT DOWN FOR THE SOVIET UNION TO RULE THE WORLD".
The above statement has clearly confirmed the fact that Americans overthrew Nkrumah not in the interest of Ghanaians or Africans but for their sel ...
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The summary of this post is that Nkrumah did not believe in the Independence and democratic Ghana. We should all take a serious look at what this writer is impressing on our intelligence and not just insult and be subjective. ...
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Have you asked yourself what the judiciary's own agenda was at the time and which side of the political divide they were on when in fact they were supposed to be neutral?
Mr.lawyer Sarfo, as far as I know Unigov. was initiated by the late Lt. Col. Kutu Acheampong and not Nkrumah and I do not think Nkrumah was dictatorial somewhat he was power hungry just like any other African leader past/pre ...
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What crime did Nkrumah commit to warrant the five assassination attempts on his life,which were engineered by the DANQUAH-BUSIA group with the assistance of CIA and British Intelligence? Dr SAS,how many relatives did you lose ...
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The controversial and biased writer who writes with venom and bigotry DR SAS, is now leading the LEAGUE OF QUASI INTELLECTUALS (LQI) on Ghanaweb.He beat AHOOFE by five points on monday.
Like a typical classroom educated Ghanaian lacking in apolitical valuation skills Samuel Adjei Sarfo spews the kind of diatribe that is free food for tribal zealots and political party animals needing no independent thinking ...
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You sound like you attended the Nkrumah Ideological institute. That is why you see nothing wrong with Nkrumah imprisoning people without trial and declaring himself president for life. America may not have a perfect civil rig ...
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This letter is fake.It was posted on the web ages ago by Okoampa.Ever wondered why he has not commented on it? Tell Gabby Darko to post that letter in its original form with Danquah"s signature on it.
Gyimii fante idiot, you don't have any intelligence.
Haas Nkrumaphobia is killing you. Please search for treatment.
"..what Nkrumah did during his time in office to check acts of terrorism and chaos which is being practiced today some 40 years after his death."
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You are either an idiot or illiterate to compare the PATRIOT ACT t ...
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Wow ! Aren't they big time disgusting hypocrites ?. Thank God we have people with fine brains like you able to lay bare their hypocrisy with such effortless and simple reasoning .Thank you.
“Should in case…” Your writing portrays your idiocy.
Everything that Adjei Sarfo has said in these two pieces, apart from one or two things about Nkrumah’s person, has been the absolute truth, unless you were too y ...
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Correctio; "...they had not eaten all day" oops!
Sukarno"s autocratic "guarded democracy" ruled by presidential decrees from 1945-1967 is applauded by you.You are a gem!
You never fail to amaze me in your depth of stupidity and your dearth of analyses....
Something bad happened in America so it is also good for Africa? Or because problems exist today, we must justify problems that existed in ...
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Every head of state in his right mind would have done the same. The bomb throwers and others just wanted to destabilize Ghana as they are still doing and Nkrumah could not have sat down for this to happen. Do you really kno ...
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Why won't Ghana be in a messy state as we're in now if you and your cohorts are ruling Ghana? People with jaundiced minds and deserve to be living in the bush.
I am sure you would proffer the same stupid argument when your ...
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Even our doctors behave like market women when it comes to peddling lies.
When an educated individual will find time to deceive himself thinking he can hoodwink us all at this day and age, we should all know our country is ...
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Mr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo is NOT a Doctor. His JD is the same as LLB and NOT a doctorate degree like PhD or JSD. What a dishonest man!
Whatever the writer is what he has written is the truth nothing but the truth about the Kwame Nkrumah era.
How can some people sing his praises and justify what he and his CPP did in this country.At least now everybody can ...
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I have raised several issues which you must contest intelligently. You have not...
And so what is your point in insulting me? That Nkrumah raised physical monuments to showcase Ghana and therefore he must remain untouchable? ...
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Ha! Ha! Ha! this SAS guy is working hard to appease his NPP counterpart Prof.Okoampa who thinks he's fake. Mr. Sarfo, go fight your battle woth Okoampa and leave Nkrumah alone. Remember the NLC, Busia and Afrifa tried and we ...
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Charles King Addo, you wrote it philosophically and brought forward the mindset of people who want to be called the dog of a person just because he or she is white, even if he is mentally retarded and can not mention a word, ...
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You don't get it all? Why do you expect Nkrumah to cuddle bombthrowers! answer is PDA. Nkrumah didn't kill anyone, his liberal opponents tried to!
It is on record that when Comrade Patrice Lumumba was arrested by the agents of NATO in 1961 they did not spare his life, not even his body. The agents of the CIA killed members of the Black Panther Movement in their sleep. A ...
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If you start as a dictator and become a democrat people will always consider you a dictator and a coup comitter.
If you start democratic and become a dictator you will always be respected, even Nkrumah, Mugabe and other Afri ...
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SAS, if you have nothing sensible to write, don't write it here. Boys abr3. You are committing acts of treason, sedition and first degree felony by writing in a jaundiced way to inflame passions. You are a nation-wrecker.
All nations without exception are built on brutality.Dr SAS,did you not read history at school?Nation building is not for jokers like Danquah and Busia and the likes who are ready to lick the asses of European colonial master ...
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1918 - The Sedition Act, a further refinement of the Espionage Act, was passed. This wide-ranging law made it illegal to criticize the government or hamper the war effort in almost any manner. Thus many labor activists, dissi ...
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My heart bleed profusely when i hear people like this try to distort history for their parochial political interest.What is this man talking about? Nkrumah a dictator? Yes, we agree if Nkrumah was a dictator but at least he h ...
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State anything I have said about Nkrumah that is not true.
You somewhat agree now that he was a dictator but you somewhat think that his developmental projects must override and excuse his dictatorship. I respectfully disagr ...
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SAS, what would you say of people like Muammar Ghaddafi?
A hero is credited for the good and great things he or she has done for humanity.This is where Kwame Nkrumah's greatness is extraordinary above all other African politicians.He stood not only for the freedom of Ghana butthe t ...
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Please, define the "freedom" and "liberation" Nkrumah gave to Ghana.
Now listen Doc.,Kwame Nkrumah gave us independence;that in itself is the "liberation" from colonialism.Number 2.Kwame Nkrumah established lot of schools,free health policy and lot of free professional training,that is also fr ...
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Freedom and liberation is the rule of law and the existence of human and people's rights: due process of law, universal adult suffrage, freedom of speech and association and religion, freedom from oppression and fear, freedom ...
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We all know what Nkrumah did right and wrong in the past yet he stands tall above all leaders in Africa.That is the point I am making.You can give him whatever adjective you want but he is still the greatest.All the kingdoms, ...
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As long as you agree that Nkrumah was a brutal dictator, I will have no beef with you. But Ghana had already been created long before Nkrumah came. He came to claim that he was giving us freedom, liberation and justice, and t ...
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Tell me -- past and present -- about an infallible leader.
Heart rending and equally disgusting as these breeds of primitive tribalists sound, their hypocricy will not obliterate "the little" that Nkrumah did and left behi ...
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The more one reads the responses from these Nkrumaist air-heads, the more one comes to the conclusion that they were indeed screwed up forever, deprived of all abilities to think. They are like a flock of sheep who have been ...
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I am not Nkrumahist in anyway or Danquahist or Busiaist.Whence you are dealing with the history of Ghana,I deem it necessary to contribute the facts that I know about the topic.Nkrumah stood for Africa's liberation from Europ ...
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But what positive impact did Nkrumah make in any liberation struggle if he merely established a totalitarian regime whose talons he wanted to spread to the whole of Africa?
I see that you narrowly construe "liberation" to be ...
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I was born in 1954 and I saw Nkrumah with my own eyes.I did not join Ghana Young Pioneers,I did not even pay for their scarf which was compusory for school children.Ofcourse,I did so without any hatred but I will not say that ...
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Come on, be real!
Have you read anything about Danquah or Paa Grant, people who devoted their adult lives and personal resources to the course of Ghana? Where did any of them ever say they did not want independence for Ghana ...
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Knowledge has nothing to do with age but with education both in the formal and informal.Remember,I had my parents who were both educated and could pass on important information.Danquah and Grant were not looking for the immed ...
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Oh Come on, I am a Fanti and I know Fanti history, and particularly the history of education in Ghana. Fanti Chiefs sending Danquah to England to plead on their behalf? What a joke. Mfantsipim School was established on 3rd Ap ...
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Now tell me,on what basis did the British and the Gold Coasters agree for independence in 1948?Mind you, the UGCC was formed in 1947 at Saltpond because the Fantis Chiefs were the only ones who signed a treaty for the British ...
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To All Danquahserie Liars!
We need a whiff of fresh air in this forum after the Mate Mehu NPP spate of fart lies on Nkrumah from “Dr. SAS”. You bragarts are bankrupt of fresh ideas so you appeal to the barest instincts ...
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Those who beg colonialists
Danquah was a victim of his own folly
A fool will never learn
It appears to me that doctor has a personal hatred for Nkrumah and so whoever appears to speak good about this African hero,he or she is seen as being myopic and does not know anything.Well,doctor is entitled to his own opini ...
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SAS you are the one who shivers with Nkrumaphobia whenever you hear the name of the Africa man of the millennium.
Remember, most of them are products of Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute where they were taught to bray even in sleep that "!Nkrumah never dies " . Such people 's minds are seared with the hot rod of communist ideology tha ...
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A very revealing piece. Dr SAS, though, I do not agree with all your critique of Nkrumah but I am struck by the oppression, cruelty, and brutality he unleashed on members of the 'Big Six'. Certainly, lessons must be learnt fr ...
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And they think his achievements negate the brutality and evil nature of his dictatorial regime.
DID DR. NKRUMAH ALLOW ELECTIONS DURING HIS TIME. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WRITER. THEY ARE FEELING THE DEFEAT THEY SUFFERED FROM THEIR INABILITY TO WIN IN THE ELECTIONS. THESE PEOPLE WRITING ALL THESE ABOUT DR. NKRUMAH ARE THE BOM ...
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SAS lacks balance and objectivity as an analyst when it comes to political discourse.Every African intellectual who has read what the Osagyefo stood for in his political life both in Ghana and Africa will strike that balance ...
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I don't know of any single positive idea that Nkrumah stood for which I can validate here. His rule was no model for any African state, and yet he was trying to unite Africa under his rule.? Which African people were ready to ...
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WHEN IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO SHOW RESPECT FOR YOUR ENEMY OF AFRICANS IN THE FORMS OF JB DANQUAH AND DR BUSIA , KNOWN CIA AGENTS AND OPERATIVES AGAINST AFRICA , YOU AMAZE EVERY ONE!! YOU CAN NOT SAY ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT THEM UNLE ...
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He will rather blame Nkrumah for the coups in Ghana but not blame those who actually introduced it to the country? See. That what revisionism does to you mind? It eats away at it until you start spewing garbage. Samuel Adjei ...
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WOW. I would prefer to NOT have read your article, however as an open minded individual of african descent, I was curious about what you had to offer and I am very much disappointed and saddened by your biased views ,My broth ...
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I have nothing but 'love' & respect for you, Dr SAS.
Thank God for the Godly-intervention by the immortalized souls from Alakple, Krobo/Mampong, Keta etc. For,without such timely intervention, Oman Ghana would currently be u ...
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ONLY A BLIND MAN LIKE LEXUS SEES DR SAS' NONSENSE AS FACTUAL.
JD is no doctorate. No wonder crap literature and lowbrow writing. Sham doctor.
G.K.You have reduced Dr SAS to the level of a Kindergarten student.
This asshole lives in the US and claims he hasn't heard of the patriot act? Hey efuom doctor why don't you try and pull the crap your ancestors pulled in US and see how fast you end up in Guantanamo or with a hellfire missile ...
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You rightly state:
"Going by your insidious argument, it is the fault of anyone who gets robbed because they had stuff. It was never the fault of the thieves."
You Nkrumaists place the fault on the opposition for being robb ...
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They were the robbers trying rob Nkrumah of his life. How did your reckon he was the wrong one? Your view is upside down. It is why all your arguments are upside down. The criminals are the good guys and the lawful leader of ...
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There is no gainsaying the fact that the cabal of Nkrumaist scream-heads are mentally screwed, and trying to reason with them is like speaking to a tree-head. But I choose to answer some of their arguments if only because a t ...
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Dr SAS, you're awesome and such a breath of fresh air. Neither will your detractors stand the truth nor can they match your mesmeric logic. They are incoherent or illogical in thought. Their attempt to air-brush Ghana's pre ...
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With the greatest sense of respect to Dr.even class one chap will not advance such argument.As a matter of fact there is no aota of truth in all that Dr has chronicled.your article is bogus and blatantly lie.
DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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DR SAS' definition of Democracy is for United States to set up an organization called CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY(CIA) to destabilise progressive foreign nations whose leaders refuse to become puppets of Western Nations,and e ...
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Look the point is the culture has not changed. In Ghana we glorified wrong doing or evil doing. That is reason why our legal institution is weak. The law is only for poor people. At that time democracy was very young. Even no ...
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To the best of my knowledge if Nkrumah, had centered,developing our nation Ghana with the huge resources he met,it would have been one of the kind on this continent.why on earth would he think of becoming an African presiden ...
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president? He was friends with ben bella and other leaders. So was he planning to overthrow them? These are some of the lies your danquah revisionsits have filled your head with. For once please read a history book and stop e ...
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Danquah couldn't accept the will of the people so he became a terrorist and a seditious bastard. He deserves worse than a timeout at Nsawam. He should have been shot and his body dropped and the ocean for the fishes. Nkrumah ...
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on SAS's logic. No leader should allow bastards like Danquah to destroy its people with acts of terrorism. Lincoln took the confederate states to the woodshed. Danquah and his band of traitors deserved nothing less. Perhaps a ...
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It is obvious the writer doesn't knw anything as far as the independence and freedom of Ghana is concerned. He is just throwing dust and lies. UP tradition connived with de CIA and in some were de CIA agents themselves who pe ...
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