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When The Oxford University Educated President Lee Kuan Yew Visited Ghana During The Administration Of President Kwame Nkrumah He Put It Bluntly To His Counter/Part President Nkrumah That His(Dr Kwame Nkrumah) Experiment With ...
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&He Was Not Alone In The Observation That The Socialist System Dr Kwame Nkrumah Had Adopted As A Path/Way For The Nations Industrialization Was Flawed &Was Bound To Fail/The London School Of Economist Educated Dr J.H Mensah M ...
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The Democratic System Of Governance Which Dr Kwame Nkrumah& The Nation Adopted Pivots On Equal Rights& Holding Elected Officials To Account But The Socialism System Pivots On The Collective
As Defined By A Senior Official That Served In The Administration Of Dr Kwame Nkrumah As The Common Ownership Of The Means Of Production/ Distribution &Exchange
Goes Against The Tenets Of The Democracy System Of Governance / That Advocates For Self Determination& Personal Responsibility
Again The Reason The Ghanaian Telegraph Likes To Remind It's Readers Of Past Events Is That As The Old English Saying Goes A People Who Don't Know Where They Are Coming From Won't Know Where They Are Going
Prior To Attaining Independence The Economy Of The Gold Coast Renamed Ghana Was Largely That Of An Exporter Of Gold/Timber& Cocoa
Mining Gold In Commercial Quantities Requires Deploying Heavy Equipment/& Gold Coasters Didn't Have Access To The Heavy Equipment So Are Limited To Artisan Mining& Harvesting Timber For Exports Also Requires Heavy Equipment
Leaving The Cocoa Sector As The Sector The Native/Indigenous Gold Coaster Can Fully Participate &Take Full Advantage
Going On To Master The Cocoa Sector/ The Ability Of The Natives/ Indiginous To Master How To Grow Cocoa Was What Catapulted Ghana To Be The Worlds Top Cocoa Producer
But Then The Nation Was Given Independence By The Colonial Administration &Dr Kwame Nkrumah Introduced Social System Of Managing The Economy Of A Nation &Leading To The Cocoa Sector To Be Nationalized
Making It Un/Lawful For Cocoa Farmers To Sell Their Farm Produce Directly To The European Off Takers They've Been Conducting Commerce With Over The Years
The Government Becoming A Sort Of Middleman Between The Cocoa Farmers In The Nation &Their European Offtakers &The Chocolate Factory They Go On To Supply Almost Triggered A Civil War Between The Farmers &Government
The Nationalization Of Ghana's Cocoa Sector Impaired The Cocoa Sector To Develop Thereby Removing The Bridge That Will Have Connected The Cocoa Farmers To Processing Units/Value Addition
&The Cocoa Sector Was Not Alone In The Sectors Whose Growth Was Impaired By The Social System Dr Kwame Nkrumah Introduced Many Other Sectors Were Affected& Their Growth Has Been Stunted
The Nation Is Almost Clocking Seventy Years As An Independent Nation &When The Question Is Asked Of What Ghanaian Did With The Freedom
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