Founder’s Day celebration misleading – Prof. Mike Oquaye

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PRINCE KWASI ADADE (INVISIBLE FORCE) 8 years ago

##AUTHOR: SAFOA -------- There were campaign T-shirts and scarves with Lordina's portraits . Even the campaign song onaapo had Lordina mentioned in it. On voting day people went looking for Lordina on the ballot to vote for h ...
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##AUTHOR: SAFOA -------- There were campaign T-shirts and scarves with Lordina's portraits . Even the campaign song onaapo had Lordina mentioned in it. On voting day people went looking for Lordina on the ballot to vote for her and once she was not on it they went back home without casting their vote. Lordina should contest the next election . Bogus campaign with bogus campaign managers
moyo 8 years ago

Ghana was founded by Nkrumah and no one can change the facts. We the children of saboteurs who worked against Nkrumah in the days now think their parents were on the wrong side of history and instead of blaming them, they rat ...
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Ghana was founded by Nkrumah and no one can change the facts. We the children of saboteurs who worked against Nkrumah in the days now think their parents were on the wrong side of history and instead of blaming them, they rather want to change the facts. Impossible!!!!
Zagarolo 8 years ago

This man us just wasting of spend by his father

This man us just wasting of spend by his father
Miracle 8 years ago

YOU NEED TO READ MORE.
I WILL ASK YOU TO READ THE BOOK TITLED THE ROAD TO SELF GOVERNMENT.IT WILL ORIENT AND REORIENT YOU BETTER.

YOU NEED TO READ MORE.
I WILL ASK YOU TO READ THE BOOK TITLED THE ROAD TO SELF GOVERNMENT.IT WILL ORIENT AND REORIENT YOU BETTER.
be wise 8 years ago

You also, go and educate yourself very well about how those claiming otherwise of how Nkrumah changed the game and finally founded Ghana, factually objected the idea of independence for gold coast and how they did not even wa ...
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You also, go and educate yourself very well about how those claiming otherwise of how Nkrumah changed the game and finally founded Ghana, factually objected the idea of independence for gold coast and how they did not even want the name ghana for the nation (something they now want to claim ownership - cowards).

You will have no doubt, that those morons trying to rewrite history have deceived your stoned heart.
What their doing is like, rewriting the BIBLE to suite satan: of course if that is possible, it will only deceive block-headed individual like you.
DEAR 8 years ago

NPP SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON DELIVERING ON THEIR MANDATE AND STOP THIS DIVERSIONARY TACTIC. NKRUMAH DELIVERED SPLENDIDLY ON EDUCATION,HEALTH CARE,THE ECONOMY UNTIL YOUR FATHERS TOOK BRIBES FROM THE WESTERN COUNTRIES-CIA-AND TOPP ...
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NPP SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON DELIVERING ON THEIR MANDATE AND STOP THIS DIVERSIONARY TACTIC. NKRUMAH DELIVERED SPLENDIDLY ON EDUCATION,HEALTH CARE,THE ECONOMY UNTIL YOUR FATHERS TOOK BRIBES FROM THE WESTERN COUNTRIES-CIA-AND TOPPLED HIM, TOOK OVER OUR ECONOMY AND TURNED GHANA INTO THE DUMPING GROUND OF THEIR PRODUCTS.

NKRUMAH REMAINS THE ONLY FOUNDER OF GHANA.
KOFI AYIGBE 8 years ago

WE WANT A FOUNDERS' DAY NOT A DAY SET ASIDE TO WORSHIP A DICTATOR BY THOSE WALLOWING IN NOSTALGIA. KWAME NKRUMAH COULDN'T STAY IN A UNITED GOLD COAST CONVENTION.....HE COULD NOT ADD HIS ONE SENSE TO FIVE ADVANCED SENSES. HE P ...
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WE WANT A FOUNDERS' DAY NOT A DAY SET ASIDE TO WORSHIP A DICTATOR BY THOSE WALLOWING IN NOSTALGIA. KWAME NKRUMAH COULDN'T STAY IN A UNITED GOLD COAST CONVENTION.....HE COULD NOT ADD HIS ONE SENSE TO FIVE ADVANCED SENSES. HE PREFERRED KROBO ADUSEI & THOSE WHO COULDN'T SPEAK WHEN HE SPOKE. DOWN WITH COMMUNISM.
P Djamgbe 8 years ago

Why is that the npp hate Dr Kwame Nkrumah so much? I pray that one day there will come another Rawlings to teach you guys a lesson again - that is the kind of political opponent you people deserve. Descendants of terrorists! ...
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Why is that the npp hate Dr Kwame Nkrumah so much? I pray that one day there will come another Rawlings to teach you guys a lesson again - that is the kind of political opponent you people deserve. Descendants of terrorists!!!
Auntie Martha 8 years ago

How many people were dancing on the platform 6th March 1957 independent day? Was J.B Dankwa among them? Don't write wrong history as Prof Adu Boahene did. KWAME NKRUMAH is the founder of our mother land GHANA. As Jesus Chris ...
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How many people were dancing on the platform 6th March 1957 independent day? Was J.B Dankwa among them? Don't write wrong history as Prof Adu Boahene did. KWAME NKRUMAH is the founder of our mother land GHANA. As Jesus Chris is founder of the Christianity. There were great men beforehim but Jesus that the world registered.
PATRIOT 8 years ago

ANOTHER OLD FOOL! SERVANT OF HIS AMERICAN AND BRITISH MASTERS

ANOTHER OLD FOOL! SERVANT OF HIS AMERICAN AND BRITISH MASTERS

AJ 8 years ago

learn how to respect people who are better than all ur family put together. Mutumbanza

learn how to respect people who are better than all ur family put together. Mutumbanza
All die be die 8 years ago

The fact is that, out of greed and jealousy, JB Danquah and his colleagues dissociated themselves from the independence struggle, something that they started and brought Nkrumah into. They abstained in the parliamentary vote ...
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The fact is that, out of greed and jealousy, JB Danquah and his colleagues dissociated themselves from the independence struggle, something that they started and brought Nkrumah into. They abstained in the parliamentary vote for independence, and even went further to London to tell the British government that Ghana was not ready for independence. Read the Hansard. They went further to oppose Nkrumah's development programmes. For example, they travelled to London to tell the British government that Akosombo was not a priority for Ghana and that the British should not fund the project. Nkrumah had to get help from the USA. Then the numerous attempt to kill him, and finally their CIA-sponsored coup d'etat. JB Danquah and his colleagues are TRAITORS and should ONLY be remembered as such.
P Djamgbe 8 years ago

Buddy, they were not just TRAITORS, but also TERRORISTS, and these (the npp and their freaks) are their descendants. Today they want to take credit for something they vehemently opposed. Nkrumah is the sole founding father of ...
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Buddy, they were not just TRAITORS, but also TERRORISTS, and these (the npp and their freaks) are their descendants. Today they want to take credit for something they vehemently opposed. Nkrumah is the sole founding father of Ghana, period!
Jango Albert 8 years ago

Look, historians are supposed to be telling generations the truth. They are custodians of facts and accuracy. For politicians, we know what they can do. When you now have a historian-turned politician, you need to be mindful ...
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Look, historians are supposed to be telling generations the truth. They are custodians of facts and accuracy. For politicians, we know what they can do. When you now have a historian-turned politician, you need to be mindful of what he says,else you'll have nothing factual to tell your children and grandchildren.
Nyatefetor 8 years ago

Prof has said it all. Nkrumah is not the founder of Ghana. He was the first president, visionary and forceful man who worked with others to bring about Ghana. We can celebrate him as the first President of Ghana but the found ...
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Prof has said it all. Nkrumah is not the founder of Ghana. He was the first president, visionary and forceful man who worked with others to bring about Ghana. We can celebrate him as the first President of Ghana but the founders' day must recognize all those who put down their lives to make the nation Ghana free.
21st century boy 8 years ago

THEY ARE U TOO TRIBALISTIC TO BE GHANA'S FOUNDER. THEY LEAVE A BITTER MEMORY OF THEMSELVES ON THE SOUL AND HEART OF THEIR FELLOW AFRICANS, THAT CAN NEVER BE REWRITNG BY ANYONE. NKRUMAHS MEMORY WILL LEAVE FOREVER. NOT JUSTIN ...
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THEY ARE U TOO TRIBALISTIC TO BE GHANA'S FOUNDER. THEY LEAVE A BITTER MEMORY OF THEMSELVES ON THE SOUL AND HEART OF THEIR FELLOW AFRICANS, THAT CAN NEVER BE REWRITNG BY ANYONE. NKRUMAHS MEMORY WILL LEAVE FOREVER. NOT JUSTIN GHANA BUT THROUGH THE ENTIRE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND BEYOND.
M Shanunu 8 years ago

may be he should be talking about Bombing founders and leave nkrumah alone.the should not let the power at the flagstaff house delude them.it is very hot oooo,professor i am sorry for your thinking,it wont wash

may be he should be talking about Bombing founders and leave nkrumah alone.the should not let the power at the flagstaff house delude them.it is very hot oooo,professor i am sorry for your thinking,it wont wash
AKWE 8 years ago

GOOD

GOOD
boka 8 years ago

Is Rawlings the founder of NDC???? If yes then Nkrumah have that right has well, after all Rawling did not found the party alone.

Is Rawlings the founder of NDC???? If yes then Nkrumah have that right has well, after all Rawling did not found the party alone.
Kofi Thompson 8 years ago

Professor Mike Oquaye is a brilliant

Professor Mike Oquaye is a brilliant

GHANA FORAY 8 years ago

Tell us what you did to help in the struggle for independence. Not trying to steal from NKRUMAH.

Tell us what you did to help in the struggle for independence. Not trying to steal from NKRUMAH.
Kofi Thompson 8 years ago

Professor Mike Oquaye is a brilliant academic. No question about that.

However, when it comes to President Nkrumah he loses his marbles, alas.

Nkrumah is Ghana's founder for the simple reason that it was his vision of ...
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Professor Mike Oquaye is a brilliant academic. No question about that.

However, when it comes to President Nkrumah he loses his marbles, alas.

Nkrumah is Ghana's founder for the simple reason that it was his vision of the post-independence unitary republic in which there would be universal adult suffrage, which prevailed.

The opposing vision of Dr. J. B. Danquah & Co of a federation of pre-colonial tribal entities, dominated by their ruling elites' progeny, and in which the vote was restricted to property owners and wage-earners only, was roundly rejected by the ordinary people of the Gold Coast in the elections of 1951, 1954 and 1956.

How then can those who wanted post-independence Ghana to be a bastion of inherited privilege and tribal balkanisation, be truthfully regarded co-founders of Ghana, I ask?

And where in the world are traitors who during the struggle to free colonised peoples from colonial bandage, collaborated with Western intelligence agencies and were lackeys of British and American imperialism, regarded as co-founders of their post-independence states?

Nowhere is the simple answer to that one.

It is outrageous for President Nkrumah's detractors (specifically the 5 other members of the so-called Big Six) to insist that the traitors who denounced Nkrumah to the British colonial authorities (as evidenced in the Watson Commission's final report) should be honoured as co-founders of Ghana.

With respect, that is pure nonsense on bamboo stilts. Nkrumah is the founder of the Republic of Ghana - who completed the work began by many others long before he arrived on the shores of the Gold Coast from the UK, as he hinself admitted in his autobiography.

The Ghana that came into being after 6th March, 1957, was founded by him. Definitely. No question. Full stop.
Kofi Thompson 8 years ago

Typo:"And where in the world are traitors who during the struggle to free colonised peoples from colonial bondage, collaborated with Western intelligence agencies and were lackeys of British and American imperialism, regarded ...
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Typo:"And where in the world are traitors who during the struggle to free colonised peoples from colonial bondage, collaborated with Western intelligence agencies and were lackeys of British and American imperialism, regarded as co-founders of their post-independence states, I ask?"
EDUARDO DOMINGO 8 years ago

DO NOT BRING THE POSITION OF HONORABLE SPEAKER OF THE NATION INTO DISREPUTE SIR! HOW CAN YOU GO ON THAT TANGENT OF FALSEHOOD? DO NOT USE THE NPP'S VICTORY TO DISTORT HISTORY AND CAUSE CONFUSION THAT CAN NOT WIN ANY KIND OF AR ...
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DO NOT BRING THE POSITION OF HONORABLE SPEAKER OF THE NATION INTO DISREPUTE SIR! HOW CAN YOU GO ON THAT TANGENT OF FALSEHOOD? DO NOT USE THE NPP'S VICTORY TO DISTORT HISTORY AND CAUSE CONFUSION THAT CAN NOT WIN ANY KIND OF ARGUMENT ON THIS MATTER! THIS IS SHARE NAKED BIGOTRY AND NOTHING ELSE!! YOU HIT YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL IF YOU TRY TO CHALLENGE KWAME NKRUMAH'S FOUNDING FATHER OF GHANA'S STATUS, EVEN IF NO ONE CHALLENGES YOU THEY WILL LAUGH AT YOU IN SECRET AND OPENLY STOP IT NOW BEFORE IT DISGRACE YOUR TERM AS A LEADER! THE BEST SPEAKER I HAVE SEEN SO FAR HERE IS LATE HON.PETER ALA AGYETEY. HE WAS DEVOID OF PARTIALITY.

THE PROOF IS IN THE FACT THAT HIS PARTY SACKED HIM OUT OF DIRTY POLITCIS!!
Kobby Sarr 8 years ago

NPP what is wrong with you. Whether you like it or not Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the founder of the nation. Why the thing you have never work for you want to take credit. Where you not the same people you propose to the Queen, Gh ...
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NPP what is wrong with you. Whether you like it or not Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the founder of the nation. Why the thing you have never work for you want to take credit. Where you not the same people you propose to the Queen, Ghana is not ripe for self government .Again were you not the people you went to the Queen and inform her, Ghana was too small for the Akosombo dam. When Nkrumah was fighting for the nation to gain independence. J. B Danquah and the rest were opposing not to gain independence. Kwame Nkrumah is the Founder of the nation and the man of the Century. Mike Oquaye should come for history lessons and stop what he was saying.

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