Rwanda - Role Model for Ghana and Africa?

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Rocket 12 years ago

wo y3 Kurasini paaaaaa.... Just because you see a few nice building and some streets you call it a role model?? It is a shithole!!

wo y3 Kurasini paaaaaa.... Just because you see a few nice building and some streets you call it a role model?? It is a shithole!!
Floating Voter 12 years ago

Please Rocket it's not about few nice buildings but rather leaders with vision and zeal. You may not appreciate Rwanda's few nice buildings today but their future looks bright.

Please Rocket it's not about few nice buildings but rather leaders with vision and zeal. You may not appreciate Rwanda's few nice buildings today but their future looks bright.
AVATAR 12 years ago

I have said it many times tht democrazy will not work in most of Africa at this time. Democracy works well in more developed societies unlike the types in Africa.

It will only create chaos like it is doing in India where ...
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I have said it many times tht democrazy will not work in most of Africa at this time. Democracy works well in more developed societies unlike the types in Africa.

It will only create chaos like it is doing in India where bureacracy is killing everything whiles China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Singerpre etc are on the rise.

Controlled democracy is currently the best form of govt for most of Africa.
Frimpong Manso Dakabre 12 years ago

Why instead of appreciating his statement, you rather insulting. yooo go ahead so you will be give big position in gov''t next week. Saaaaaaaaaaachwe.

Why instead of appreciating his statement, you rather insulting. yooo go ahead so you will be give big position in gov''t next week. Saaaaaaaaaaachwe.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Thye cannot come up with innovation and they are ready to shoot down any positives. Tell rocket , shame on you

Thye cannot come up with innovation and they are ready to shoot down any positives. Tell rocket , shame on you
kojo 12 years ago

dimwit fool, have you been to kigali before?

dimwit fool, have you been to kigali before?
Niero 12 years ago

Everything in Ghana now is basically Chinese Standard;
Roads, houses, electrical cables, phones, clothes, and you name them.
And we all know what that means.

Everything in Ghana now is basically Chinese Standard;
Roads, houses, electrical cables, phones, clothes, and you name them.
And we all know what that means.
MUGU YARO 12 years ago

IS IT ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THEIR SUCCESS COMES FROM THE CIVIL WAR?

IS IT ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THEIR SUCCESS COMES FROM THE CIVIL WAR?
Kawaanopaado 12 years ago

The bible in Proverbs says go to the ant and learn of his ways. Even the giant elephant can learn a thing or two from a duiker or a mouse. Complacency is what is killing us in Ghana. They say travel and see. We do not need za ...
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The bible in Proverbs says go to the ant and learn of his ways. Even the giant elephant can learn a thing or two from a duiker or a mouse. Complacency is what is killing us in Ghana. They say travel and see. We do not need za civil war in Ghana to get better because we are above that. We can continue our war of words. Yes we need to diversify to the west and get the best because cheap Chinese things dont last. Our leaders need to act now.
Asem Pa Asa 12 years ago

We don't need any dictator in Ghana. And by the way, you kept mentioning Lusaka. That's the capital of Zambia. And what has that city got to do with your Rwanda glorification?

We don't need any dictator in Ghana. And by the way, you kept mentioning Lusaka. That's the capital of Zambia. And what has that city got to do with your Rwanda glorification?

etonam 12 years ago

For me its simple ,the level of corruption is too much

For me its simple ,the level of corruption is too much
Frimpong Manso Dakabre 12 years ago

Just too much to be controlled abai... hmmm

Just too much to be controlled abai... hmmm
Joe Canada 12 years ago

Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of ...
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Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of quote This is where I disagree with you. Because in Ghana's case it's the opposite. The well educated minority is ruling majority illiterate, and what we have is catastrophic results. What we need is for the citizens to take to the street and demand accountability from our elected official. On a good note replace them with people with less education but common sense and patriotism for their country. Trust me some of our farmers if given the chance will do ten times better our educated folks.
Frimpong Manso Dakabre 12 years ago

Joe you are perfectly right. this well educated guys are lording themselves on the majority poor to always cheat on the nation. Let us try the Farmers who are more patriotic than the mouth bragging thieves.

Joe you are perfectly right. this well educated guys are lording themselves on the majority poor to always cheat on the nation. Let us try the Farmers who are more patriotic than the mouth bragging thieves.
Joe Canada 12 years ago

Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of ...
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Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of quote This is where I disagree with you. Because in Ghana's case it's the opposite. The well educated minority is ruling majority illiterate, and what we have is catastrophic results. What we need is for the citizens to take to the street and demand accountability from our elected official. On a good note replace them with people with less education but common sense and patriotism for their country. Trust me some of our farmers if given the chance will do ten times better our educated folks.
USMAN 12 years ago

What you are saying is perfectly so.

What you are saying is perfectly so.
Joe Canada 12 years ago

Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of ...
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Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of quote This is where I disagree with you. Because in Ghana's case it's the opposite. The well educated minority is ruling majority illiterate, and what we have is catastrophic results. What we need is for the citizens to take to the street and demand accountability from our elected official. On a good note replace them with people with less education but common sense and patriotism for their country. Trust me some of our farmers if given the chance will do ten times better our educated folks.
Agyeman. 12 years ago

Rwanda is a good illustration that gold,oil or cocoa are not the most essential ingredients for a take off.It is human resolve,disciplined approach and visionary leadership with clear targets.Unfortunately in Ghana what we h ...
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Rwanda is a good illustration that gold,oil or cocoa are not the most essential ingredients for a take off.It is human resolve,disciplined approach and visionary leadership with clear targets.Unfortunately in Ghana what we have is a tribalistic,lethargic populace and corrupt visionless leaders both guided by an unholy treaty of looking the other way when either is wrong.Not so in Rwanda.
Joe Canada 12 years ago

Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In you article you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of qu ...
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Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In you article you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of quote. In Ghana's case is the opposite. The well educated minority is ruling majority illiterate and we have catastrophic results. What we need is for the citizens to take to the street and demand accountability from our elected official. On a good note replace them with people with less education but common sense and patriotism for their country. Trust me some of our farmers if given the chance will do ten times better our educated folks. this is form four English for you.
Joe Canada 12 years ago

Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In you article you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of qu ...
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Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In you article you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of quote. In Ghana's case is the opposite. The well educated minority is ruling majority illiterate and we have catastrophic results. What we need is for the citizens to take to the street and demand accountability from our elected official. On a good note replace them with people with less education but common sense and patriotism for their country. Trust me some of our farmers if given the chance will do ten times better our educated folks. this is form four English for you.

suzet 12 years ago

Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of ...
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Pardon my poor grammar because I don't have your level of education. In your article, you said and I quote "because if a majority illiterate lead a well-educated minority, we tend to have chaos and very poor results." end of quote This is where I disagree with you. Because in Ghana's case it's the opposite. The well educated minority is ruling majority illiterate, and what we have is catastrophic results. What we need is for the citizens to take to the street and demand accountability from our elected official. On a good note replace them with people with less education but common sense and patriotism for their country. Trust me some of our farmers if given the chance will do ten times better our educated folks.
USMAN 12 years ago

There is a story of a Nigerian lady who married an Israeli. The lady used to always pray thinking she is doing so to impress the husband but one day the husband told the lady she is just wasting her time because God has alrea ...
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There is a story of a Nigerian lady who married an Israeli. The lady used to always pray thinking she is doing so to impress the husband but one day the husband told the lady she is just wasting her time because God has already blessed her as stated in the bible and all she needs is to work hard and see how positive results will unfold instead of resorting to always disturbing the Old-man. This is the case of Ghana. We have been blessed by the maker and instead of developing our human resources to tap this wealth, we resort to empty aggrandization,pride and exhibition of ignorance. We have produced a lot of talkatives who call themselves journalists and the root cause is the way they are trained contrary to best practices elsewhere. In Nigeria and the UK for instance, journalism education is for one year duration and the entry requirement is HND, Academic or Professional Degrees, Certificate from the Police College or Military School. With this kind of training you can imagine the high quality of such journalists. This is in sharp contrast to the low quality of journalists we have in our midst who only talk about politics and nothing else. This is because the entry requirement into the Ghana Institute of Journalism is mostly the SSS or WASSSCE cert and these are people who studied the Arts subjects namely; Government, history,literature, Twi and so on. This is the reason why journalism in Ghana is not well balanced but skewed towards only politics rather than development. Secondly, the programmes offered by our universities are not relevant to our development aspiration. Consider programmes like NGO Studies, Gender Studies, Swahili, Chinese Studies,etc, with huge class sizes, offered by the University of Ghana as against activities happening within its catchment area like aviation, shipping, fishing, agro-processing, petrochemicals, metallurgy, real estate development, transport and telecommunication all happening within the Accra-Tema area. This developmental disjoint, created by the University of Ghana, is what is wasting our hard working youth. Another area of concern is how our polytechnic system is ran. The place has been hijacked by our useless university graduates. You have instructors who call themselves lecturers and instead of they running the collegiate system they are rather having the school system which is a clear manifestation that their programmes are academic rather than professional in nature. This is buttressed by the grading system of the polytechnics namely;1st class, 2nd class, 3rd class, etc, instead of Distinction, Credit and Pass as practiced worldwide and demonstrated by Dr Bawumia's banking cert from the UK. Folks, You can now see why we are not developed. This is how far our useless university system has confused us.
CONCERN CITIZEN 12 years ago

GOOD ARTICLE. GHANA IS SHIT LEADERS WHO ARE CORRUPT EXCEPT JJ. BIG TALK BOOK LONG GHANAIAN BUT IN PRACTICE KNOW FUCK ALL.

GOOD ARTICLE. GHANA IS SHIT LEADERS WHO ARE CORRUPT EXCEPT JJ. BIG TALK BOOK LONG GHANAIAN BUT IN PRACTICE KNOW FUCK ALL.
USMAN 12 years ago

Remember JJ is not a university graduate. If JJ had been a university graduate like Atta Mills, the corruption under him would have been gargantuan not withstanding his long reign. You can now see that our useless university ...
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Remember JJ is not a university graduate. If JJ had been a university graduate like Atta Mills, the corruption under him would have been gargantuan not withstanding his long reign. You can now see that our useless university education is breeding corruption.
Arrma 12 years ago

Ghana sure has soemthing to learn from Rwanda but all my watch a video on youtube called 'The Rwanda model: cross talk' or watch a movie called 'Rwanda gambit' to see the price to be paid. Will Ghanaians pay that price? The K ...
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Ghana sure has soemthing to learn from Rwanda but all my watch a video on youtube called 'The Rwanda model: cross talk' or watch a movie called 'Rwanda gambit' to see the price to be paid. Will Ghanaians pay that price? The Kwame Nkrumah story seems to suggest no!
Kwesi Atta sakyi 12 years ago

We need leaders woth vision.

We need leaders woth vision.
Frimpong Manso Dakabre 12 years ago

In fact its a master piece.

In fact its a master piece.
Zackus 12 years ago

Yes Presidents,MPs, ministers , DCE's all should tour Rwanda and see how they are wasting Ghana's resources. I participated in Ghana's census last 3 years and i wish these politicians had moved from house to house counting pe ...
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Yes Presidents,MPs, ministers , DCE's all should tour Rwanda and see how they are wasting Ghana's resources. I participated in Ghana's census last 3 years and i wish these politicians had moved from house to house counting people. Real abject poverty is what these politicians had given to Ghana.
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Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

Cousin,

This is one of your better articles loaded with facts instead of listology and vain quotation from textbook authors.

One of the things that you often overlook is the role "common sense" play in planned developme ...
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Cousin,

This is one of your better articles loaded with facts instead of listology and vain quotation from textbook authors.

One of the things that you often overlook is the role "common sense" play in planned developments around the world and few places you may find in Africa.

You tend to substitute "common sense" with "model", "paradigm" as if such theoretical devices were the ipso facto reasons why Kigali is wholesome than say our Accra.

Besides all that you heard, you'll not find filthy conditions in Kigali or pedestrians and hawkers outrightly seizing the roadway for their use.

Ghana govt doesn't need to send any delegation anywhere to study anything. It's all about common sense, which is absent in the governance system our dear nation.

Please stop viewing economic and planning success as text book models executed to perfection. Keeping tidy surrounding and cleaning gutters are not textbook models for anyone to emulate but common sense sanitation methods.

A good article that serves as a reminder to our hyper political governance ethos; that somewhere in a far away land where ignorance and genocide triumphantly defined a nation, there's a rebirth of common sense.

Greetings and a big salute from forehead to waist with thundering foot stomp, whaaaam.

Kwesi Atta sakyi 12 years ago

The only common sense lacking in Ghana is the ability to rise to the occasion and forget about self and vainglory and pander to the sommum bonom/ pro bono publicio or Stuart Mills greater good for the greater number. Ghanaian ...
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The only common sense lacking in Ghana is the ability to rise to the occasion and forget about self and vainglory and pander to the sommum bonom/ pro bono publicio or Stuart Mills greater good for the greater number. Ghanaians are very intelligent but sometimes very mischievious and negative. If we get our act together, no nation on earth can beat us. Thanks Cousin for your much awaited grandiose and insightful input which is much held with esteemed awe and hallowed awe. You are my God appointed
Kwesi Atta sakyi 12 years ago

You are my God- appointed adversary and antagonist who always provokes the issue to enervate churning of new ideas and thinking in n-dimensions. It takes great effort to make a serious and thoughtful rejoinder and you are one ...
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You are my God- appointed adversary and antagonist who always provokes the issue to enervate churning of new ideas and thinking in n-dimensions. It takes great effort to make a serious and thoughtful rejoinder and you are one of a kind with thought-provoking rejoinders. I appreciate you so much. home news. Hanson Prah the goalkeeper at Methodist Boys passed away. So also Eduafo, Joe Loss (FLETCHER), Willie Brown, Charlie Joe, Kofi John Bull the artist, Ebenezer Kofi Hanson, and Teacher Arkorful.
Agyeman. 12 years ago

You're diminishing the "Rwandan model" of success to mere sanitation.They're much more- their FDI is up,their high economic growth is not pinned on commodities,they're building one of the most successful airlines,their parlia ...
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You're diminishing the "Rwandan model" of success to mere sanitation.They're much more- their FDI is up,their high economic growth is not pinned on commodities,they're building one of the most successful airlines,their parliament is #1 in terms of women representation and you'll never ever see a motorcycle rider or passenger without a helmet as per their laws.Even maintaining those squeeky clean Rwandan streets is not a mean achievement in lawless,chaotic africa.I don my hat off to them.
Kwesi Atta sakyi 12 years ago

Greetings Cousin.

Greetings Cousin.
Salome Rwiliriza 12 years ago

Congratulations Kwesi! This is a wonderful article with deep insights. As a Rwandan who has just come back home after 30 years of forced absence, I cannot stop marveling at what I see! Discipline, hard work,people-centered la ...
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Congratulations Kwesi! This is a wonderful article with deep insights. As a Rwandan who has just come back home after 30 years of forced absence, I cannot stop marveling at what I see! Discipline, hard work,people-centered laws and policies, fierce fight against corruption etc... But, first and foremost, instilling in people and here I mean every Rwandan, a sense of dignity, trust, self-esteem! Once again, congratulations! You have understood it all! Can I have this article published in the English daily here in Rwanda?
Kwesi Atta sakyi 12 years ago

Welcome Madam Salome! Put it in as many sites as you want. We want to celebrate the good story coming out of Africa.

Welcome Madam Salome! Put it in as many sites as you want. We want to celebrate the good story coming out of Africa.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Well, well, I was contemplating writing another article - following the two part series on the Tutsi-Hutu conflicts - touching on Rwanda but this time on their visa policy. That was when I read about their no visa required t ...
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Well, well, I was contemplating writing another article - following the two part series on the Tutsi-Hutu conflicts - touching on Rwanda but this time on their visa policy. That was when I read about their no visa required to visit Rwanda policy. That was something I extensively argued for and defended on Okyeame in the mid-90s as a policy which Ghana must adopt. For that, Jerry Simpson of Africa_Think_Tank made me the Minister of Foreign Affairs in his brave new world of Govt in Cyberspace [in exile].:-)

There is certainly a lot Ghana can learn from Rwanda, just as from even our neighbouring countries. I was surprised to learn from even the Ghanaian agric teachers in Nigeria that they did not know of the yam, banana and plantain seedling multiplication technique involving the cutting of whole yams or the roots of the said fruits into pieces and covering them with a damp sack in a dark room, leading to the germination of those cut pieces. And yet, the practice was well known and in use in Nigeria. I sincerely hope it is in wide use in Ghana now, after some enterprising people introduced it.

And then, I recollect what one Dr Deng, a S. Sudanense, who became the UNDP Director for E. Africa told me when he was with the African Devt Bank and on a fellowship at CMI, Bergen, in the 90s. He said when he first arrived in Abidjan and toured the country, he saw lot of Ghanaians working as labourers on construction sites building roads and extending amenities before any buildings were put up, as the law required. This impressed him and gave him the false impression that Ghana must be infrastructurally more developed than IC. Upon visiting Ghana for the first time, he was shocked to see vast areas of new devts without even roads leading to them not to mention water and electricity. So, we don't really need to travel to faraway Kigali to learn what is just common sense and good econ. sense to stop the unplanned chaos going on in Ghana. What we need are leaders who have acquired civilised values and aesthetics, not the crude, semi-rural rustics in suits lording it over their fellow rural rustics who have flooded Accra and the other big towns.

Andy-K
koo frank 12 years ago

what do you expect from this nation full of bribery nd corruption everywhere u go. unless we stop this evil practises in our country we will always labour in vain. what a shame to us all. we cannot go to ghana from europe wit ...
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what do you expect from this nation full of bribery nd corruption everywhere u go. unless we stop this evil practises in our country we will always labour in vain. what a shame to us all. we cannot go to ghana from europe without fighting/quralling everyday especially wth the police and the so call bosses.
Kwesi 12 years ago

Prayer for your country and stop wishing it bad. You are stay outside the country that is why you think negatively but remember your relations are in Ghana. If Ghana experiences the Rwandan experience you think you are safe? ...
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Prayer for your country and stop wishing it bad. You are stay outside the country that is why you think negatively but remember your relations are in Ghana. If Ghana experiences the Rwandan experience you think you are safe? Idiot think positive for your country no matter what it is. Pray that things may be better and don't think ill for Ghana.
Puskas 11 years ago

kwesi,you are just too much

kwesi,you are just too much
Puskas 11 years ago

Long live kwesi.your articles always make my day.

Long live kwesi.your articles always make my day.

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