Special Tribute to Dr Kwame Nkrumah

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BE BOLD 12 years ago

The like of Dr. Nkrumah will never happen in Ghana. We are retrogressing instead of moving forward, given tribalism, thievery, corruption, stupidity, illiteracy, poor leadership etc etc. Ghana lost its very best and replaced ...
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The like of Dr. Nkrumah will never happen in Ghana. We are retrogressing instead of moving forward, given tribalism, thievery, corruption, stupidity, illiteracy, poor leadership etc etc. Ghana lost its very best and replaced him with a womanizer and a thief preferred by the people
Conventional Youth. 12 years ago

Quote of the week
In this country, we spend so much time paying people to talk; we don’t pay people to think.

– Benjamin Kumbuor

Quote of the week
In this country, we spend so much time paying people to talk; we don’t pay people to think.

– Benjamin Kumbuor
THE MASK 12 years ago

You would be living under a dictatorship if he continued. It was all about him.

You would be living under a dictatorship if he continued. It was all about him.
Uncle Mends, Western Region 12 years ago

From Kuffour till now we are living under massive corruption and nepotism.

From Kuffour till now we are living under massive corruption and nepotism.
Sankofa 12 years ago

And your post is all about your ignorance.

And your post is all about your ignorance.
K. Boateng 12 years ago

Such ignorat yahoos are best left to their foolishness; any, thanks for your apt response to this dummy.

Such ignorat yahoos are best left to their foolishness; any, thanks for your apt response to this dummy.
NYARKO U.S.A. 12 years ago

THANK YOU MR. SAKYI AKWASI ATTA FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL ARTICLE ABOUT OSAGYEFO DR. NKRUMAH.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
OSAGYEFO IS FRESH ON OUR MINDS. HE WILL BE REMMEMBERED AT ALL TIME UNTIL THE END OF OUR LIVES FOR ALL ...
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THANK YOU MR. SAKYI AKWASI ATTA FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL ARTICLE ABOUT OSAGYEFO DR. NKRUMAH.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
OSAGYEFO IS FRESH ON OUR MINDS. HE WILL BE REMMEMBERED AT ALL TIME UNTIL THE END OF OUR LIVES FOR ALL THE GOOD THINGS HE DID FOR US WHICH ARE BEING USED UNTIL TODAY IN GHANA..
HE WAS THE BEST AND THE GREATEST PRESIDENT WE EVER HAD. WE DEARLY MISSED DR. NKRUMAH. NOTHING ON THIS PLANET CAN REPLACE OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH
HIS SOUL WILL REST IN EVERLATING PEACE
AMEN.
K. Boateng 12 years ago

Though disjointed, repetition and incoherent sometimes, I think the historical account of the article was great and kudos to the writer. I would have hoped he had thrown more light on what happened to the guy (Amatewee) who k ...
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Though disjointed, repetition and incoherent sometimes, I think the historical account of the article was great and kudos to the writer. I would have hoped he had thrown more light on what happened to the guy (Amatewee) who killed Nkrumah's body guard, the aftermouth of the Big Six (did the other five stand by him or not) and why as a Catholic, he chose to preach in Presby churches in NY.

I met one of his UPENN classmates ( he was very old then) in 1998 in York Pennsylvania. He recounted Nkrumah's oratory and debating skills, compelling many African-Americans yearing to listen to him on weekends when they had to discuss Africa and wide range of liberiation issues, vis-a-vis the "Negro" struggles in the Americas. It's too bad some of us were not born to meet him but we take inspiration in the great legacy of books he left behind. There is no doubt that no amount of distortions can debase this great son of the Black Race.
4 Year Old 12 years ago

This is a masterpiece! A great historical and unadulterated account of Ghana. It's quite an expose`

This should correct the misguided and self-serving historical fabrications by the Danquah Institute. Okoampah Ahoofe and c ...
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This is a masterpiece! A great historical and unadulterated account of Ghana. It's quite an expose`

This should correct the misguided and self-serving historical fabrications by the Danquah Institute. Okoampah Ahoofe and company should take note.
4ward Ever 12 years ago

The terminology and the notion that Nkrumah was a "megalomaniac" was part of the demonization campaign devised by the ideologues of the imperialist mercenaries that were used in the coup against Nkrumah - namely Busia and oth ...
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The terminology and the notion that Nkrumah was a "megalomaniac" was part of the demonization campaign devised by the ideologues of the imperialist mercenaries that were used in the coup against Nkrumah - namely Busia and others. It was repeated ad infinitum in the post-coup era. Considering that the very Western European countries that financed this campaign of vilification and demonization against Nkrumah would go ahead and form a European Union, it is not worth the while of any progressive African to debate your characterization of Nkrumah's push for an African Union as "megalomaniacal"! Pity, you have not liberated yourself from the neocolonialist indoctrination of the Danquah-Busia clique after 1966!

You state that Danquah wanted independence for the Gold Coast in 1954?!?! Prove it!

And finally in the so, so, stereotypical style of the post-coup Danquah-Busia ideologues, you glibly mention the overthrow of Nkrumah as a consequence of Nkrumah's policies being "too much for Ghanaians to embrace." The majority of Ghanaians are better informed and have been exposed to the truth from the horse's own mouth. You are the only stranger in Jerusalem, as it were, who has not heard of the declassified CIA documents, nor of the revelations of Houphouet Boigny about the plotters meeting several times in the Cote d'Ivoire with his connivance and collaboration and that of Intelligence Services of the major Western powers. You have also not heard of the price of cocoa being manipulated to fall to its lowest while at the same time the World Bank refused any aid to Nkrumah. Sorry, the worn-out Western media cum Danquah-Busia propaganda and mythology won't work this time! We've come too far and have had access to the facts than to be the fools you take us for!

Out of respect for the memory and sacrifice of the many African freedom fighters in training who were handed over by the imperialist mercenaries of the NLC junta to the settler-colonialists and their allied intelligence agencies to be tortured and even killed, I will not touch on that other sick lie about Nkrumah training saboteurs to overthrow legitimate African governments. Today Mozambique, Angola, Guine-Bissau, Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa are free of white settler colonialism, thanks in no small measure to Nkrumah. Today the danger to Africa comes from those who have taken Nkrumah's idea of an African High Command and carry out such textbook neo-colonial assaults on the continent as in reconquest of Libya and its oil and pristine water and the murder of her patriotic leader, Gaddafi.

Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 12 years ago

Can Akufo Addo....can tackel this Angel?, nd Oyiwa!....that town in that!....in down-town Ghana,the great Assin Gomoa!, again u can never change the individual's mind from Osagefo Dr,....never, even a child bone today will ne ...
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Can Akufo Addo....can tackel this Angel?, nd Oyiwa!....that town in that!....in down-town Ghana,the great Assin Gomoa!, again u can never change the individual's mind from Osagefo Dr,....never, even a child bone today will never...in the great Jesus Christ of Narzereth, nd ....Ogyamanase speaking nd babye from now, its Samms!...
owusu 12 years ago

The man is dead...in fact he died a long time ago stop the stupid sycophancy. If you want you can dig up his grave and worship him...idiots

The man is dead...in fact he died a long time ago stop the stupid sycophancy. If you want you can dig up his grave and worship him...idiots
Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

Cousin, greetings.

I know you produced this from the sources you referenced but I was getting worried a bit, halfway through your article.

It seems you were only interested in Nkrumah's schooling and degrees upon degree ...
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Cousin, greetings.

I know you produced this from the sources you referenced but I was getting worried a bit, halfway through your article.

It seems you were only interested in Nkrumah's schooling and degrees upon degrees etc.

The man was more than an educational track and academic letters, as you made him to be in the first half of your long article.

I think there's more to Nkrumah than the usual biographical sketches found in books. I hope someday someone will research his life and put all the pieces together.

The man was quite unusual in his time. What motivates such an individual to leave Ghana on a precarious trip of unknown destination and agenda?

His outlook and motivation to better the lot of his people came from somewhere and I hope it'll be revealed by someone someday.

Cousin, do you know about the disturbances that occurred in Winneba and it's associated murders at that time? It had huge political dimensions to it that led to the agitation for Independence.

Anyway, saaalute from forehead to waist with a thundering foot stomp amid wild cheering, whaaaam.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

Thanks Cousin, you should also research what motivates your Cousin to produce these articles, despite his heavy work schedule. Saaaaaaalute, whaaaaaam!

Thanks Cousin, you should also research what motivates your Cousin to produce these articles, despite his heavy work schedule. Saaaaaaalute, whaaaaaam!
Prosam 12 years ago

A prophet is not accepted in his own country

A prophet is not accepted in his own country
aj-usa 12 years ago

wow,well articulate but i have something to say.if Dr Kwame Nkrumah were to be live today to see how the so called npp and ndc have turn the whole nation into tribal chaos,he will cry a hole river.i rest my case.

wow,well articulate but i have something to say.if Dr Kwame Nkrumah were to be live today to see how the so called npp and ndc have turn the whole nation into tribal chaos,he will cry a hole river.i rest my case.
JAMES Y 12 years ago

There are few distortions in history and incongruous words, nevertheless, it is a good piece in its own right.

There are few distortions in history and incongruous words, nevertheless, it is a good piece in its own right.
Nenyi 12 years ago

His unbeatable legacy & vision is spread all over the landscape of Ghana he was driven & left behind.
Thanks for your blueprint article with full list of books he wrote (I think perhaps some of the books he wrote ar ...
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His unbeatable legacy & vision is spread all over the landscape of Ghana he was driven & left behind.
Thanks for your blueprint article with full list of books he wrote (I think perhaps some of the books he wrote are not even listed here).
Well these books will still serve as handbooks for our future generation leaders with similar visions.
I'm still wondering how he got devoted time to write all these lot of books whiles he was under bloody pressures & deadly attemps on his development visions from within & outside.
Well done for refreshing our aging history & mindsets.
ahmed samdert 12 years ago

Nkruma the greatest African LEADER

Nkruma the greatest African LEADER
ahmed samdert 12 years ago

no one like him

no one like him

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 12 years ago

Nkrumah's story is never complete without reference to his tyranny, chicanery and crass ingratitude which hatched military adventurism and political cultism in the country. He must be fully revealed!

Nkrumah's story is never complete without reference to his tyranny, chicanery and crass ingratitude which hatched military adventurism and political cultism in the country. He must be fully revealed!
Boat 12 years ago

You have been revealed. After so many attempts on his life by your folks what did you expect? You created the man you have described. The majority see a different man in the great African.

You have been revealed. After so many attempts on his life by your folks what did you expect? You created the man you have described. The majority see a different man in the great African.
Kawaanopaado 12 years ago

Every nation has its saint klike the Mandelas, Abraham Lincolns and Gandhis of this world. Could Nkrumah be a saint? We need his revelation! Association of West Afrcan Merchants- AWAM

Every nation has its saint klike the Mandelas, Abraham Lincolns and Gandhis of this world. Could Nkrumah be a saint? We need his revelation! Association of West Afrcan Merchants- AWAM
Pelicles 12 years ago

After telling us this nice story about our first leader, what did he do wrong? Or he was without blemish? I doubt. Why did he declare himself president for life and turn Ghana into one party state? Is the nation for him? ...
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After telling us this nice story about our first leader, what did he do wrong? Or he was without blemish? I doubt. Why did he declare himself president for life and turn Ghana into one party state? Is the nation for him? Those were some of the pomposity and haughtiness of a black man who is of the view that he can walk barefooted on a burning coal.

Yes, he was great but he should have slowed down a little bit because doing things gradually and systematically, always bring fruitful results.

He should have focused his attention on Ghana only and forget about Africa. If he was alive, his dream of United States of Africa, would be nothing more than farce.
Kojo T 12 years ago

" Let the one who never sinned cast the first stone. And they all went away one by one" Pellicles are you without blemish?

" Let the one who never sinned cast the first stone. And they all went away one by one" Pellicles are you without blemish?
Rukaya 9 years ago

Ghanaian leaders can be better than him if they try

Ghanaian leaders can be better than him if they try
Delta 8 years ago

No country in the world ever started with democracy as Masks seems to suggest.
Never was it always about Him. Show me what he has as compared to those we have today.

No country in the world ever started with democracy as Masks seems to suggest.
Never was it always about Him. Show me what he has as compared to those we have today.

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