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Afrocentricity and the Future of Ghana

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  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    "Are there viable alternatives?
    Of course there are viable alternatives.
    We don't have to have three branches of government.
    We don't have to have a unicameral government.
    We have now very educated chiefs, more educated ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    every con man always useslong talk and plenty of bullshit to buttress his scam and thats what atuguba has done here in the hope that since most people can not follow up he can get away with murder. i am surprised he didn't wr ...
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  • GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    MAYELE AA VS MAHAMA?
    WHAT DO THESE 2 HAVE IN COMMON?
    FOLKS, WAT ARE THE COMMONALITIES BETWEEN BOTH PERSONS HERE? AA AND MAHAMA ARE BLESSED WITH A TAXABLE POPULATION, STAR PLAYERS, AMAZING POOL OF TALENT N RESORCES TO EASILY ...
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  • Sien 10 years ago

    If you really want people to read what you write, stop YELLING because no one wants to hear you shout.

  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    After being caught for "stealing" an Akan name to cause mischief here, you are trying hard too hard to disapprove that. What an idiot, Bokor!

    You know Prof Asare well, next time try to have some balls and debate him, inste ...
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  • Taharka 10 years ago

    What does using an Akan name have to do with the author's general points about Afrocentricity? What an idiot...

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Bokor can't write this English! This is scholar's brofo, not Bokor's journalese!

  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    I know unlike the NDC fool-soldiers, you have a mind of your own and you will be able to analyze issues. If you had read his piece "leave
    Tsatsu alone 1" on Sept 6th, you would have known why he was busted. Please, go back ...
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  • KB 10 years ago

    Oh come on,Akadu!Is that all you can say?You know better than that?!You immediately came to mind when I read this piece.I said to myself this is the kind of feature Akadu is capable of and was hoping that this would inspire y ...
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  • Kpengson Ray 10 years ago

    Akadu Mensema, I am still waiting for your poems. What is taking you so long? I like your poems. So don't disappoint me!

  • Sien 10 years ago

    Kwarteng,
    I love your piece on Ghana/African and how it showed everything we are doing wrong. Adopting someone's philosophy and not thinking like that person can never be good for the adopter. We adopted the western way of d ...
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  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    To be human is to be adaptable, so with time we need to refine and redefine our mindset.

    Indeed, we do need OUR own ways of doings. That indeed is human nature. We deserve our own ways of thinking, our effective brand of g ...
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  • Francis Kwarteng 10 years ago

    Tekonline.org,

    The issues you raise cover the defitinal spectrum of Afrocebtricity, Remember, "Afrocentrism" is not the same as "Afrocentricity." The former is a misnomer. In fact, it does not exist. And as I said before, ...
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  • KB 10 years ago

    Francis,quick question,why do you say Afrocentrism is a misnomer?And what makes you say it does not exist?I'd very much appreciate a clarification on this because I do not agree that it is a misnomer,unless I do not understan ...
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  • Kojo Billy Duncan 10 years ago

    Well said, but it is my view that we are where we are today because we do not teach our children and neither do we ourselves engage in critical thinking. We swallow hook line and sinker everything that is thrown at us. Our la ...
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  • Taharka 10 years ago

    At last a thinking Ghanaian! There is hope for Ghana and Africa with men like Kojo Billy Duncan.

  • KB 10 years ago

    Wow,Francis!Reading your piece,I find my blood boiling,my heart aflame and my soul on fire!!!Hm,I'd been wondering for sometime now whether the real role of Ghana in Africa's vis a vis the world's political evolution was fore ...
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  • Nkrumah Never Dies 10 years ago

    Nkrumah has illuminated our path, and given us the road map already. His thought and practice dealt with all the aspects of our national and continental social, cultural and political challenges.

    Long before "Afrocentrici ...
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  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    Our African historians should dig harder and make known our philosophers, poor record-keeping notwithstanding.

    Every other corner of he planet had one: Lao Tzu, Boethius, Epicurius, Santayana, Nietzsche, to name just a fe ...
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  • KB 10 years ago

    Nkrumah never dies,I see you're a die hard,dyed-in-the-wool Nkrumaist.I really appreciate that!Given my personal socio-political,cultural outlook,you may say that I am an unwitting Nkrumaist myself. Having said that,I believe ...
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  • Tekonline.org 10 years ago

    Definitely a scholarly piece, although I wish the author had expanded on some very interesting points.

    The mismatch between Africa's great intellectual past and current state remains a mystery. Francis wrote:

    "...Finall ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    Brother Francis, I agree with you on several points you've raised but, there is a 'hidden hand' in most of our demise.

    The most powerful one is our colonialists education we have adopted in Ghana and Africa on the whole... ...
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  • Francis Kwarteng 10 years ago

    Non-Aligned,

    Thanks for your input. Your views are very strong, and substantially recaps my arguments.

    Thanks.

  • Francis Kwarteng 10 years ago

    Tekonline.org,

    Thanks for your suggestions. Part of the solution to our problem is your suggestion that our historians have to do more serious digging. Anyway, I checked your website--tekonline.org. I went to KNUST. I read ...
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  • Kwobia,Toronto 10 years ago

    Mr.Kwarteng,your article is good,but you've destroyed it with too much Big Speak.The essence of communication is to be straight forward and simple.Also,keep in mind who your audience is.However,I credit you for your observati ...
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  • mubarik 10 years ago

    I beleive in G hana and bless Africa

  • hunya 10 years ago

    very impressive. My neurons are very much active after reading this article. thank you!