The colonial DNA of the African state

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The Freedom Newspaper 1 week ago

When I Tell Our Brothers That Do The Maternal System Of In/Heritance That For Those Of Us That Do The Paternal System/ Ones Big Brother Is Almost Like Ones Father

When I Tell Our Brothers That Do The Maternal System Of In/Heritance That For Those Of Us That Do The Paternal System/ Ones Big Brother Is Almost Like Ones Father
The Freedom Newspaper 1 week ago

Their Advise/Counsel Carrys Weight And The Submission By The Legend Here Is One And Should Dissected And Deliberated Upon

Their Advise/Counsel Carrys Weight And The Submission By The Legend Here Is One And Should Dissected And Deliberated Upon
Stop disturbing us with this AI slop! 1 week ago

Ben Brako
Go and sing some songs and stop disturbing us with ai slop that you downloaded from the web. OK?

Ben Brako
Go and sing some songs and stop disturbing us with ai slop that you downloaded from the web. OK?
Why 1 week ago

sometimes i read some comments from people and wonder how their brains work. Is it the sense of anonymity? Would you be proud to say something like this in public after reading the write-up?

sometimes i read some comments from people and wonder how their brains work. Is it the sense of anonymity? Would you be proud to say something like this in public after reading the write-up?
Nsia 1 week ago

@ Why, for how long can we keep crying over spilt milk? Were Asian countries colonised? Yes! were South american countries colonised? Yes! Have they moved on and prospered? Yes!
What good were our pompous slave raiding and t ...
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@ Why, for how long can we keep crying over spilt milk? Were Asian countries colonised? Yes! were South american countries colonised? Yes! Have they moved on and prospered? Yes!
What good were our pompous slave raiding and trading chiefs to our ancestors in terms of human development? Zero!
Even when the British abolished slavery and human sacrifice in the Gold Coast in the 1830s, or own human sacrificing and slave trading Kings in Ashanti were up in arms and continued slave trading with the Portuguese, Brazilians etc until useless Prempeh 1 got his comeuppance in 1896. These are facts not rumours.
Now, what good are our chiefs today? have you not seen the effect of galamsey and the wholesale destruction of our forests and rivers under their watch? They are all useless. From Kwaku Dua to Yaa Naa to whatever. He has written Nkwaseasem and I will be glad to tell him straight to his face.Cheers!
Lori 5 days ago

Exactly what I was thinking. What incoherent nonsense is this? Well, let us allow him to demonstrate his madness like this otherwise he may subject us to the nakedness of his small prick

Exactly what I was thinking. What incoherent nonsense is this? Well, let us allow him to demonstrate his madness like this otherwise he may subject us to the nakedness of his small prick
Fante Kenkey 1 week ago

Ben are you still smoking the tomato leaves. Go get a decent job and stop sponging on that poor Medical Doctor. She must be fed up by now.

Ben are you still smoking the tomato leaves. Go get a decent job and stop sponging on that poor Medical Doctor. She must be fed up by now.
Mawuetornam 1 week ago

Wow! Is this the Ben Brako I listened to in my . . . ? youth years of . . . ?

Mr. Brako,

You have articulated a position that makes more sense to many than the average African politician of the modern era, including Jo ...
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Wow! Is this the Ben Brako I listened to in my . . . ? youth years of . . . ?

Mr. Brako,

You have articulated a position that makes more sense to many than the average African politician of the modern era, including John Mahama. Thank you.

In faith,
Mawuetornam
Atinga 1 week ago

Ai Ai AI

Ai Ai AI
??? 1 week ago

how does this advance the conversation?

how does this advance the conversation?

Bryan Nii Kpakpo Brown 1 week ago

I find it deeply unfortunate that, instead of consolidating our modest gains and deliberately building a resilient future, much of our leadership attention is directed toward seeking reparations and restitution for past injus ...
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I find it deeply unfortunate that, instead of consolidating our modest gains and deliberately building a resilient future, much of our leadership attention is directed toward seeking reparations and restitution for past injustices.

Yes, history matters—and the colonial legacy has undeniably shaped our institutions, governance structures, and socio-economic realities . But the more pressing question is this: if such reparations were to come, what systems are we truly prepared to channel them into?

Without strong, accountable, and functional institutions, any gains—no matter how significant—risk being absorbed by the same fragile structures that continue to hold us back.

Perhaps the greater urgency is not what we can claim from the past, but what we are actively building in the present to sustain the future.
Pelicles. 1 week ago

Our mindset is killing us more than what the European did to us. It seems we are emotionally cursed not to think as humans, but some programmed objects that cannot leave where they have told to stay put.

How many of us wer ...
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Our mindset is killing us more than what the European did to us. It seems we are emotionally cursed not to think as humans, but some programmed objects that cannot leave where they have told to stay put.

How many of us were around that time, and what about today? Every continent has its history, but they have moved on.
Ben Adarkwa Dwamena 1 week ago

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For a scholarly and detailed discussion consider getting a copy of my book

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GND884B1
For a scholarly and detailed discussion consider getting a copy of my book
solomon 1 week ago

the most honest,observable and prolific colunm i have read so far this year. nice piece legend.

the most honest,observable and prolific colunm i have read so far this year. nice piece legend.

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