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• Wiafe 12 years ago

  The states in Africa are basically weak. The private sector is also weak--or dependent on the government. The global capitalist system is structured in a way--that in Africa (except S. Africa)--the profit comes out through ...
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  The states in Africa are basically weak. The private sector is also weak--or dependent on the government. The global capitalist system is structured in a way--that in Africa (except S. Africa)--the profit comes out through the government sector.
  
  So the government sector will always be contested (because that's where the profits are located).
  
  Since the private sector is weak--there are no economic agents(or any credible institutions) strong enough to contest policymaking. So most governments become dictatorial--because there is no opposition.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  Thanks Bro Wiafe for your thoughtful input. This is why we need to create an enabling environment in Africa for businesses to thrive. We shall need the professionals to fill that gap by being entrepreneurial.

  Thanks Bro Wiafe for your thoughtful input. This is why we need to create an enabling environment in Africa for businesses to thrive. We shall need the professionals to fill that gap by being entrepreneurial.

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  Can you tell me Mobutu, Idi Amin, Sgt Doe, Eyadema, the host of Nigerian dictators were socialists. Cousin , free enterprise comes with have entrepreneuralship and CAPITAL. We have none. That is why Nkrumah went the way he di ...
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  Can you tell me Mobutu, Idi Amin, Sgt Doe, Eyadema, the host of Nigerian dictators were socialists. Cousin , free enterprise comes with have entrepreneuralship and CAPITAL. We have none. That is why Nkrumah went the way he did. Tell me which African country has succeded with free enterprise. That includes S Africa as the Nationalist party was a socialist party

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  Aaah, Cousin,
  
  Long time O, Omangye a.
  
  I miss you like the desert miss the rain.
  
  I patiently read through your long article and it bears your signature gripe and advocacy, urging the government to crack down on your ...
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  Aaah, Cousin,
  
  Long time O, Omangye a.
  
  I miss you like the desert miss the rain.
  
  I patiently read through your long article and it bears your signature gripe and advocacy, urging the government to crack down on your favorite whipping post-the Ghanaian media.
  
  Cousin, I am beginning to worry about the source of your worries, which is often other people's jaundiced political opinion.
  
  Why do you want to prevent people from calling radio stations or writing bad articles in the name of journalism?
  
  Your cares and worries aren't typical at all in Ghana. Most Ghanaians have tuned out of the tortuous political din and worry more about making three square meals and paying kids school fees among other things.
  
  Besides, your average hardworking Ghanaian is not connected to the Internet and probably cannot afford such service.
  
  The few political animals shouting at each other in Accra do not represent the rest of Ghana. You think the average Winneba fisherman knows the colors of NDC or PPP or cares about them? The average farmer from Kwadaso doesn't even know the colors of NPP or CPP either.
  
  All this loud shout about monitoring media houses and imposing fines are the tactics of a Gestapo State. Do you want Ghana to go that route?
  
  Do you know the number of "We need" I counted in your article? It makes you sound like a hungry wolf baying in front of a chicken coop. Who constitutes the "We" in "We need"? Is it you and your Dentsefo Asafo?
  
  I'll tell you what "We", the readers of Ghanaweb need from you: a well-written concise article about something we know nothing about. Spending over 10 paragraphs telling us African leaders are tyrants who stay too long and are also corrupt will earn you no applause. You're becoming a burdensome read and now represents the real mark of tedium!
  
  I know you can do better so cut out the Machiavelli's Prince and its implications and spare us the apocalyptic implications of the Supreme Court judgment which will neither be "cataclysmic" nor considered an "imbroglio" as you infer in your last sentence of your article.
  
  Welcome back cousin. Saalute from forehead to waist, with a right foot stomp, wham, yes saa.

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• srome 12 years ago

  Thank you Paa Kwasi, your post has summed up the response to this article, it is a good read but there are so many suggestions that makes one cringe, as it clearly yearn for a serious police state, this system can only be tol ...
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  Thank you Paa Kwasi, your post has summed up the response to this article, it is a good read but there are so many suggestions that makes one cringe, as it clearly yearn for a serious police state, this system can only be tolerated back in those days when 90% of the citizens were illiterates not now, the current prevailing system is more complex than it seems, and there is no quick fix, we the people of Ghana have succeeded in creating a very convenient system where everything can be obtained provided one is willing to go through the back door, everyone participate in this, either knowingly or knowingly, yet everyone complain bitterly about the corrupt nature of our system and do everything within ones limit to demonize the other party or tribe for our inconvenience. It is not a rocket science to figure out that it will take all of us to accept and acknowledge that we have serious problems in our hands and that we cannot outsource the solution if any meaningful headway can be accomplish, for start, it is important clean up our security and law enforcement apparatus, then clean up our judicial system.....

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• Kontopiaat Odomankoma Odapagyan 12 years ago

  This article is a forerunner of things to come and warning Ghanaians to take heed. Unigov all the way. Twaa Omangye aba!

  This article is a forerunner of things to come and warning Ghanaians to take heed. Unigov all the way. Twaa Omangye aba!

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• ted capwell kenya 12 years ago

  what u propose could possibly deny africa its one chanceof growth.we r already on a good path. both kenya and ghana have shown tremendous growth with election petitions being filed in the courts highlighting faith in the judi ...
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  what u propose could possibly deny africa its one chanceof growth.we r already on a good path. both kenya and ghana have shown tremendous growth with election petitions being filed in the courts highlighting faith in the judicial sytem. what we need now are laws that favour free enterprise. ghana has a relatively free press and that is not something u want to give up. do not incite authoritarian governance

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