Legacy of the Danquah-Busia and Nkrumah traditions

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• Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

  You write that:
  
  "Nkrumah, like Hitler, used the megaphone of the radio to win followers to his ideals."

  You write that:
  
  "Nkrumah, like Hitler, used the megaphone of the radio to win followers to his ideals."

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• AYI 12 years ago

  AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICAL MEANS OF U ...
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  AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT USE ALL/EVERY MEANS, /AT ALL COST/BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY RADICAL MEANS TO UNITE. AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, USE YOUR RESOURCES TO FUND YOUR RADICAL MEANS OF UNITY.
  
  
  PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH MADE A SPEECH DURING GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY THAT “FROM NOW ON WE MUST CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE AND MINDS”. THAT IS, WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE RULED/GOVERN/DOMINATE BY ALIENS/FOREIGNERS.
  
  
  GHANA DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, GHANA MUST REPENT QUICKLY AND EMBRACE DR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND HIS VISIONS ABOUT GHANA / AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, TO HELP GHANA AND AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/MOVE TO THE TOP.
  
  AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOPMENT PATHS IS, AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT MUST QUICKLY EMBRACE HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT, WITHOUT DELAY TO HELP AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT DEVELOP/ MOVE TO THE TOP. IT IS TOO FRAGILE/DANGEROUS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT TO WASTE TIME IN EMBRACING HON MARCUS GARVEY, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, MALCOM X AND THEIR VISIONS FOR AFRICA/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT. EVERY AFRICAN/STUDENT/ALL PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT FROM THE LOWEST GRADE/KINGDERGARDEN TO THE MOST HIGHEST EDUCATION/UNIVERSITY/PAU AND EVERY PROFESSOR MUST/COMPULSORY STUDY HON MARCUS GARVEY’S, DR. KWAME NKRUMAH’S, MALCOM X’S TEACHINGS/IDEAS/VISIONS ABOUT AFRICA . GOD BLESSES AFRICA AMEN.

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• asa 12 years ago

  there is no nkrumah tradition. Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana and govervened on policies and took necessary actions to safe guard the peace of Ghana. the busia-dankwa tradition is a tribal group and should not be co ...
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  there is no nkrumah tradition. Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana and govervened on policies and took necessary actions to safe guard the peace of Ghana. the busia-dankwa tradition is a tribal group and should not be compared to nkrumah. We are where we are today because of its tradition of entitlement. It is wrong to talk of Nkrumah's tradition.

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• VINCEY,NJ 12 years ago

  Matemeho Busia sold much of Nkrumah planned Tema Housing to cronies.And thus started the Ghana Workers accommodation blues.

  Matemeho Busia sold much of Nkrumah planned Tema Housing to cronies.And thus started the Ghana Workers accommodation blues.

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• Nana Yaw 12 years ago

  Busia is the second best leader after Kwame Nkrumah in my book!!!

  Busia is the second best leader after Kwame Nkrumah in my book!!!

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• Nana Yaw 12 years ago

  Like Israel, South Korea's economy was built by the Japanese and the Americans. The amount of money Japan paid to South Korea in the early 60 was more than all combined aid Africa received from 1960 to the early 2000. Japan p ...
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  Like Israel, South Korea's economy was built by the Japanese and the Americans. The amount of money Japan paid to South Korea in the early 60 was more than all combined aid Africa received from 1960 to the early 2000. Japan paid many of the Asia countries a lot of money that no black African country to was privileged to receive one thousandth of it from our oppressors and exploiters. The West, led by the US decided which puppet countries received the money from Japan. It is a secret many Africans do not know. What happened when Britain promised to give Zimbabwe huge funds for land buy back programe? They are hypocrites and vampires bent on making Africans forever dependent on them!!!!

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• JUDA 12 years ago

  FREEDOM FIGHTERS & EXILES DOMINATE THE AMERICAN SOCIETY. OH! IT ALSO MEANS NKRUMAH DID A LOT FOR GHANA.

  FREEDOM FIGHTERS & EXILES DOMINATE THE AMERICAN SOCIETY. OH! IT ALSO MEANS NKRUMAH DID A LOT FOR GHANA.

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• TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

  "It was rather Kufuor, from the Danquah-Dombo-Busia stable of politics who did a lot for the Nkrumah family."
  
  Rubbish!!
  Perhaps you were not aware that it was Kuffor who as a junior Foreign Secretary wrote and refused the ...
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  "It was rather Kufuor, from the Danquah-Dombo-Busia stable of politics who did a lot for the Nkrumah family."
  
  Rubbish!!
  Perhaps you were not aware that it was Kuffor who as a junior Foreign Secretary wrote and refused the request of Dr.Nkrumah`s wish to be returned to die in Ghana.
  Even in death Kuffor as president of Ghana never sent a single foreign visitor to sign the book of condolence at Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra.
  The "Matemehu" GOONS never liked the man,perior.

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  You are trying to satisfy every one. Sorry it does not work that way. The ma te me ho goons have been Ghana's downfall. Danquah was not involved in Legon. UG started from Achimota College campus before moving there It was Gor ...
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  You are trying to satisfy every one. Sorry it does not work that way. The ma te me ho goons have been Ghana's downfall. Danquah was not involved in Legon. UG started from Achimota College campus before moving there It was Gordon guggisberg who started this in 1927 .Nkrumah was NOT like Hitler who slaughtered 6 million Jews. How many of your tribe did Nkrumah slaughter ? Rather the first President of the Un from ghana Alex Quayson Sackey came from Winneba and he built Panbros salt works close to Winneba with the training college and Ideological Institute. He took money from the West as he was neutral . Hewanted to build Africa. If Kennedy was running UNITES States of America of 50 states why could there not be UNITED States of Africa? Come on cousin, use your logic. The mate me ho have been the bane of Ghana politics with the divisions and the wish to revert to 18th century

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  What garbled logic. You don't know the history of Ghana. The establishment of the University of Ghana in 1947 was all down to JB Danquah. It was about the same time the the British Colonial Government established University o ...
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  What garbled logic. You don't know the history of Ghana. The establishment of the University of Ghana in 1947 was all down to JB Danquah. It was about the same time the the British Colonial Government established University of Lagos in Nigeria and Makerere University in Uganda.
  
  Quayson-Sackey was not the first President of the UN General Assembly. We was the FIRST AFRICAN, and therefore first Black President of the Asembly. He defintely did NOT establish Panbros. Ever heard of the great industralist, SG Apenteng of Koforidau intravenous infusions fame? He established Panbros. His children and nehphews still run it.
  
  Yes, Kwesi's sentence about the use of the megaphone for rabble rousing was awkward, but that does not detract anythng from its being a brilliant historical piece!

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• Brother 12 years ago

  Why will you call or virtually call Nkrumah Hitler?

  Why will you call or virtually call Nkrumah Hitler?

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• DARK DAYS IN GHANA 12 years ago

  A very fine article, but that very first paragraph hit me like a thunderbolt;
  
  "Nkrumah, like Hitler, used the megaphone of the radio to win followers to his ideals".
  
  The author could have simply edited that comparison t ...
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  A very fine article, but that very first paragraph hit me like a thunderbolt;
  
  "Nkrumah, like Hitler, used the megaphone of the radio to win followers to his ideals".
  
  The author could have simply edited that comparison to Hitler, and that would have earned him a very high grade.
  
  We need strong institutions in every aspect of our body politi. But coincidentally, this is exactly what we Africans are not used to having.We believe our "freedom" is an opportunity to find ways and means to weaken the law and make life easier for us to manipulate. We are yet to understand that government property no more belongs to the European but to the African, and not placing any value and responsibility to the destruction and pilfering of government property is the norm.
  
  In as much as we must appreciate Nkrumah for the several industries and institutions he set up to develop the economy of Ghana, the one most important thing we must regret was short lived was the short term life of his ideological education that would have cleaned our minds of the colonial mentality we still carry today. That is what is regrettable. We still keep putting our new wine into old wine bottles.

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• Okoe 12 years ago

  If you want to know Nkrumah, read this piece regarding what would have been Ghana. I take exception that Dr. Nkrumah is not in the company of Hitler, never!!!

  If you want to know Nkrumah, read this piece regarding what would have been Ghana. I take exception that Dr. Nkrumah is not in the company of Hitler, never!!!

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• NON-ALIGNED 12 years ago

  Kwesi, you come across as an admirer of Osagyefo but, at the same time sympathetic to the coup-plotters.
  
  You are obviously trying to make amends by mixing facts with fantasises trying to justify the coup-plotters' Uncle ...
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  Kwesi, you come across as an admirer of Osagyefo but, at the same time sympathetic to the coup-plotters.
  
  You are obviously trying to make amends by mixing facts with fantasises trying to justify the coup-plotters' Uncle Tom attitudes and mission - to sell Ghana on the cheap to their 'masters'.
  
  Firstly, Osagyefo cannot be compared in any way to Hitler...............
  
  Osagyefo, did not take fools gladly at all. His vision for Ghana and Africa was constantly being disrupted by the Danquah-Busia extremists so, he dealt with them accordingly.
  
  In this day and age, such acts are referred to as terrorism - which is punished with drone bombs against the terrorists!
  
  Secondly, Nkrumah as you rightly put it,knew how to network and as a result was developing our nation rapidly for our own good. He achieved all this because he worked selflessly, with honesty for our dear nation. He inherited millions and made GOOD use of it for Ghana. Some of the good we are still enjoying today in Ghana.
  
  Unfortunately, the coup-plotters (aided by their 'masters') came in and inherited 100% profit making exportation of all our rich natural resources that benefitted our nation.
  Please gather the facts from 1966 onwards, through to Busia's regime, all the way through to the Rawlings and Kuffour's regimes to this present day and you will realize how 'USELESS' they have all left Ghana.
  
  We, in 2013, rather go around begging for aid and politicians 'pocketing' 10%s of projects being carried out by foreigners in our nation.
  
  That is the state in which Rawlings's PNDC, NDC and Kuffour's NPP have left our dear nation. These vision-less leaders continually copied everything Nkrumah was doing or planned to do in his time but yet, NOTHING to show for.
  
  All their networking opportunities at their time of office led to running Ghana short in everything - because their approach was that of greed, personal gains and selfishness. Yes! by that I mean Rawlings, Kuffour and even now, this present government.
  
  Who in their right frame of mind negotiate an oil deal - for an entire nation like Ghana receive only 11% and two of his cronies receive 1% of all oil produced and sold in Ghana?
  
  And who would in their right frame of mind allow the sale of our national heritage like ASHANTI GOLDFIELDS to Anglo Ashanti Gold and takeonly less than 3%?(PLEASE THINK DEEPLY ABOUT IT).
  
  Osagyefo will NOT do such a thing....... that's why his overthrow.
  
  YOUR QUOTE: "Had it not been for the unnecessary military interventions and ill-advised outright sale and hiving off (privatization) of those state-owned enterprises after 1966, Ghana would have gone far in her development agenda, and perhaps, would have been at par with countries such as Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore and Indonesia."...........
  
  No sir! You are wrong! We were way ahead of the nations you have outlined in your article. Please go check your facts.
  
  Finally, as I said then at the time of his speech in Ghana.......Obama was wrong in saying that - 'Africa does not need strong men but strong institutions.'
  
  I am afraid to say, Africa needs STRONG, selfless, articulate, sensible leaders of VISION......... to create STRONG institutions to stand up for AFRICA, as was created by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah - (who was ironically overthrown by this same 'voices' echoing what Africa needs???????)
  
  This is beyond me....well, then again it's not. Because that is how the imperialists and neo-colonialists operate - to confuse the minds of gullible Africans for their own benefits, with the support of some of our own (the Danquah-Busia, NDC and NPP lot who do not have our country's interest at heart but, their own personal gains).
  
  GOD BLESS GHANA!
  AFRICAN FOREVER!

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• MoK 12 years ago

  It was JJ who rather made Nkrumah's name unquenchable by initiating, planning and financing the huge Kwame Nkrumah memorial park where today all school children and students learn of the great Osagyefo. Of the so-called Big S ...
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  It was JJ who rather made Nkrumah's name unquenchable by initiating, planning and financing the huge Kwame Nkrumah memorial park where today all school children and students learn of the great Osagyefo. Of the so-called Big Six Kufuor named or renovated roundabouts with five of the six, leaving out Nkrumah.

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• Kwame 12 years ago

  I am of the view that if Obama were to be lying on a sick bed no one will elect him as the president of the U.S. Barack Obama is strong, healthy and wicked, he kills presidents of other countries with his army, which is not w ...
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  I am of the view that if Obama were to be lying on a sick bed no one will elect him as the president of the U.S. Barack Obama is strong, healthy and wicked, he kills presidents of other countries with his army, which is not weak and led by strong commanders.

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• Whatever 12 years ago

  Anytime there's a debate and the talk is about Nkrumah and the things he did, I cry silently in my heart. Indeed sometimes I lose myself in a trance melancholically, thinking about how Ghana will be like had he continue to ru ...
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  Anytime there's a debate and the talk is about Nkrumah and the things he did, I cry silently in my heart. Indeed sometimes I lose myself in a trance melancholically, thinking about how Ghana will be like had he continue to rule beyond 66. Ghana hasn't recovered from his fall because Ghana was his brain child. And you know what happens to children whose father die and leave them behind. It's just misery and wandering

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  Kwesi,
  The coup of 1966 was welcomed by 95% of Ghanaians, including a majority of Nkrumahn's own ministers and party apparatchicks. In the Western Region where Kwame Nkrumah hailed from, there were demonstrations in Sekondi ...
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  Kwesi,
  The coup of 1966 was welcomed by 95% of Ghanaians, including a majority of Nkrumahn's own ministers and party apparatchicks. In the Western Region where Kwame Nkrumah hailed from, there were demonstrations in Sekondi-Takoradi every Saturday for three months.
  
  Perhaps if you meet a student from one of the secondry schools in the Metropolis, they will sing you the famous anthem about Kwame Nkrumah and Esi Elluah!
  
  This is a very good article generally, but when we talk about the political history of Ghana, we need to put things in their right perspectives. One of the reasons why successive Ghanaian leaders have always taken the people of Ghana for rough rides is that as a people we tend to take the position of "See no evil, hear no evil, talk no evil" , when it comes to our favourites.
  
  You yourself mentioned the fact that from a high of £250m in 1954, Ghana was actually in debt to the tune of £60m, after only 12 short years, when according to Arthur Lewis's "Blueprint for Ghana's Industrial Take-off," the country could have developed on its own resources for a century, even if it was not selling anything in the meantime!
  
  Certainly, the "Import Substitution" Model that formed the bulwark of Ghana's industrialisation policy was not working by 1962/63 or there abouts, and I had personal experiences doing vacation training at two or three of those instituions/establishments in the early 1970s.

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• VINCEY,NJ 12 years ago

  Odartey-Wellington

  Odartey-Wellington

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• Nusex A 12 years ago

  STOP CONFUSING YOURSELF. THERE IS NO LEGACY FROM THE DANQUAH-BUSIA TRADITION. "BOMB THROWERS". NKRUMAH MUST BE REVERED AND NOT MENTIONED ANY HOW. WE ARE YET TO HAVE HIS EQUAL IN THE WHOLE OF AFRICA.

  STOP CONFUSING YOURSELF. THERE IS NO LEGACY FROM THE DANQUAH-BUSIA TRADITION. "BOMB THROWERS". NKRUMAH MUST BE REVERED AND NOT MENTIONED ANY HOW. WE ARE YET TO HAVE HIS EQUAL IN THE WHOLE OF AFRICA.

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• CAPII 12 years ago

  DO NOT BE AFRAID OF RAWLINGS AND WRITE BOLDLY ABOUT AFRC/P-NDC TRIBALISTIC,SALE OF STATE PROPERTY (NSAWAM CANNERY) TO THEMSELVES & FRIENDS. BE FAIR AND SPEAK THE TRUTH (NATIONAL DEBT 9.5 BIL. 2008; NOW 39.1 BIL.CEDIS) WHAT DO ...
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  DO NOT BE AFRAID OF RAWLINGS AND WRITE BOLDLY ABOUT AFRC/P-NDC TRIBALISTIC,SALE OF STATE PROPERTY (NSAWAM CANNERY) TO THEMSELVES & FRIENDS. BE FAIR AND SPEAK THE TRUTH (NATIONAL DEBT 9.5 BIL. 2008; NOW 39.1 BIL.CEDIS) WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THAT !!!

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