Nkrumah, the unmatchable and big one

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• Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 12 years ago

  Amen nd Amen!....from Samms!..
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  Amen nd Amen!....from Samms!..
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• 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

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• AMADU SEIDU 12 years ago

  very funny, if nkrumah is unmatchable then why is his cpp party so dead, yes very dead indeed?......NKRUMAH WAS JUST A DREAMER WHO THOUGHT LIFE WAS SO EASY.....HOW DID HE EXPECT ILLITERATE AFRICA AND GHANA FOR THAT MATTER TO ...
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  very funny, if nkrumah is unmatchable then why is his cpp party so dead, yes very dead indeed?......NKRUMAH WAS JUST A DREAMER WHO THOUGHT LIFE WAS SO EASY.....HOW DID HE EXPECT ILLITERATE AFRICA AND GHANA FOR THAT MATTER TO BE ABLE TO GOVERN AND MANAGE ITSELF SO EFFICIENTLY AND ACCOUNTABLY AND TRANSPARENTLY?.....VERY FEW GHANAIANS WERE EDUCATED AT HIS TIME AND YET HE THOUGHT WE COULD MANAGE OUR OWN AFFAIRS WITHOUT EDUCATION AS IF GOVERNANCE IS A SMALL BUSINESS....NOW LOOK ACROSS GHANA AND THE WHOLE AFRICA, WE ARE SO UNPATRIOTIC, SO CORRUPT, SO GREEDY AND EVEN WE LOOT OUR SCARCE RESOURCES AND RELOCATE TO THE WHITEMAN'S LAND,,,THE VERY WHITEMAN WE DROVE AWAY AND MADE SO MUCH NOISE ABOUT INDEPENDENCE.....NO WONDER NKRUMAH IMPRISONED HIS OPPONENTS WITHOUT TRIAL, THIS WAS BCOS NKURMAH COULD NOT STAND DISSENTING VIEWS AND DIFFERENT OPINIONS.....HE WAS RUSHING TOOOOO MUCH,,,WHY..NOW LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE AND HOW PATHETICALLY OUR LEADERS A CREATING LOOTING AND SHARING...ide biiii keke..

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• Repugnant. 12 years ago

  Which zongo, let you out this early? As a northerner if not a fake asante nkramo, you will appreciate Nkrumah's merit, without any contemptible perfidy. Considering the haste he carried you through to attain normal humane int ...
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  Which zongo, let you out this early? As a northerner if not a fake asante nkramo, you will appreciate Nkrumah's merit, without any contemptible perfidy. Considering the haste he carried you through to attain normal humane intrinsic parity. How absent minded could you be to supplant amnesia with the free and compulsory education he gave you. Regrettably, all is not lost yet, since illiterate you, cannot manage itself revert to your preliterate self and become the smelly goat herder your destiny purports. ASSHOLE!

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• YB 12 years ago

  So any person with a northern name who does not buy Nkrumahism is Asante kramo,eh? You are the reason why many think Nkrumahism is dead, why?.. because an Nkrumahist like you can't tolerate another Ghanaian, casting tribal sl ...
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  So any person with a northern name who does not buy Nkrumahism is Asante kramo,eh? You are the reason why many think Nkrumahism is dead, why?.. because an Nkrumahist like you can't tolerate another Ghanaian, casting tribal slurs, yet you speak about African unity. Deal with the problems at your backyard before you start tackling the problems of your distant neigbours. Perhaps the late Prez Mills saw the light when he declared "dzi wo fie asem" when Ivory Coast was burning.
  
  I think you resorted to insults because you couldn't find reasonable answers to his questions, and that is very unfortunate.

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• 4ward Ever 12 years ago

  A slave begging to be kept in slavery is essentially what your twisted logic and argument make you. Your own lack of confidence in yourself as a human being with infinite capabilities is what keeps you from accepting Ghana's ...
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  A slave begging to be kept in slavery is essentially what your twisted logic and argument make you. Your own lack of confidence in yourself as a human being with infinite capabilities is what keeps you from accepting Ghana's independence in 1957. No doubt you would rather prefer Ghana being a colony with white men owning everything, black men serving as yes-sir-massa servants, and white men coming down, as it is now, to build a even a toilet for you. Before you repeat the lie that Nkrumah was intolerant, count yourself lucky that you were not one of the school children blown to pieces at Kulungugu or one of the young pioneers and spectators blown to bits at Accra Sports stadium. In fact, Nkrumah was very generous to the violent, opposition terrorist. Not a single person was executed under Nkrumah except for Ametewi, the policeman that tried to assassinate Nkrumah and killed a bodyguard instead. Go and tell the leaders of the USA and UK that they are intolerant of other views and opinions for jailing terrorists who either killed hundreds or thousands or were plotting to!
  
  The CPP, despite the good intentions of many, is full of moles, outright traitors and saboteurs. Read Amilcar Cabral's eulogy at Nkrumah's funeral in Conakry, Guinea, and you will understand better what went wrong to allow the success of the coup against Nkrumah and what is going wrong now. in Ghana. Treachery and corruption are not hereditary traits! The cancer of betrayal - from the Pratts, the Baakos down to the Tsatsus...that is what has caused the marginalization of the CPP.

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• Kweku 12 years ago

  Amadu Seidu, I really feel pity for you, seek salvation NOW

  Amadu Seidu, I really feel pity for you, seek salvation NOW

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• YB 12 years ago

  All those insulting Seidu should try and put away emotional sentiments and analyze his comments. Who doesn't know the fact that the average Ghanaian is corrupt and unpatriotic?...that the average Ghanaian would bribe his way ...
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  All those insulting Seidu should try and put away emotional sentiments and analyze his comments. Who doesn't know the fact that the average Ghanaian is corrupt and unpatriotic?...that the average Ghanaian would bribe his way to the white man's land? It is not Seidu's comments that will make you a slave but your refusal to accept your problems and deal with them.
  
  Nkrumah is great but he was no saint. Stop behaving like hypocrites and be tolerant of other people's views!

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• Obeng Rago 12 years ago

  WITHOUT KWAME NKRUMAH GHANA WILL BE LIKE SINGAPORE...NKRUMAH'S SOCIALISM HAS DELAYED THE PROGRSS AND DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA AND AFRICA AND NO LIE FROM THE R ED ARMY WILL CONVINCE US AS BOOK TELLS NO LIE...
  
  KWAME NKRUMAH is ...
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  WITHOUT KWAME NKRUMAH GHANA WILL BE LIKE SINGAPORE...NKRUMAH'S SOCIALISM HAS DELAYED THE PROGRSS AND DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA AND AFRICA AND NO LIE FROM THE R ED ARMY WILL CONVINCE US AS BOOK TELLS NO LIE...
  
  KWAME NKRUMAH is perhaps the most overrated politician that ever lived. There is a TV programme on Joy News about Economic History of Ghana that showcase the flamboyance and celebrity lifestyle of this man and his veranda boys. Then as the Film goes on, you notice the reason for his downfall: the corruption, incompetence and dictatorship. The truth is laid bare how he and his greedy chums blew our fortune on utopian schemes, which were all sold by his own Nkrumaist PNDC in their thieving Divestiture programme, with over 8.1 Billion unaccounted for to date!
  
  There is Brian Mitchell's Book called "International Historical Statistics" which publishes empirical data of Ghana's GDP and GNP as well as production figures of every item, and one weeps to uncover the paucity of economic activity under this bogus CPP Government and rest of the Nkrumaist governments that have plagued our beautiful country. In fact Nkrumah comes out so poorly it shocks.
  
  Then a click on the Google of these words "GHANA'S GDP" will reveal all the facts about our Economic History from 1951 to 2005 detailing all the economic indicators that belie the loquacious tale of the loud mouthed talkative Nkrumaist ideologues who never allow us a sleep over their lies and lies of the bad government we had from 1951 to 1966.
  
  We do not need to discuss the bull shit about the most corrupt Government of Africa. CPP and Nkrumah sought to liberate Africa from colonialism but then taught African governments CORRUPTION. Each of these thieving CPP Ministers built over 30 Mansions with the resources of Ghana. Their families including all these web writers continue to benefit from the sale of these properties to pocket untold wealth they use to display their buffoonery around and publish their tales.
  
  Who cares what ignorant Nkrumaists say now: They have destroyed a fine country with their covetousness of political power for selfish economic gains. The Nkrumaists of Ghana have ruled us as...
  
  CPP from 1951 to 1966 - 15 years
  
  They have ruled us with Kutu Acheampong and Akuffo from 1972 to 1979
  
  They have ruled us as PNP from 1979 to 1981
  
  The same group of power hungry Nkrumaists ruled Ghana with JJ Rawlings from 1981 to 2000;
  
  and from 2008 to 2013 under Nkrumaists Atta Mills and John Mahama, one of the 19 children of Nkrumah's First Northern Regional Minister...
  
  It's the same group of talkative thieving Nkrumaists who have taken turns to rule Ghana and exhausted all our God given resources.
  
  Last but not the least, the independence of Ghana was not fought for by Dr Kwame Nkrumah alone. It began before Francis Ngolomma Kofi Nwiah was born to Aba Nyenba in Nzema. The struggle began with the resistance of local Gold Coasters: Ekem Gerguson, Kwamena Asameni, Kwami Karikari, Osei Kwame Bonsu, Kwegyir Aggrey, Thomas Barber, Kwaw Swanzy, Mensah Sarbah, and many others who fought by word and heart to persuade the Colonisers to go. The British would never have gone without the outbreak of the Nazi Second World War and the rise of Clement Attlee's Labour Party to government. Nkrumah was only an opportunist who jumped on the bandwagon to seek political power, and everything that was added to it as they sang
  
  Ghanaians are the best Judges of this Nkrumah and this was clearly demonstrated when he was overthrown to a most popular acclaim...SINGING SONGS LIKE
  
  'KWAMW NKRUMAH OYE ABOWA NE BA SEN HAGAN, IF YOU FOLLOW HIM...
  
  OOR
  
  'FATHIA NE TWE SO, ODZE TON KOKO, ME FRA NO WOAMMBA'

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• Pelicles 12 years ago

  Their idol was reckless, irresponsible, dishonest and power-drunk. Tweakai. You have said it all. Those insulting you are dwelling on emotion and not fact. Nkrumah used money meant for our development to support stupid fr ...
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  Their idol was reckless, irresponsible, dishonest and power-drunk. Tweakai. You have said it all. Those insulting you are dwelling on emotion and not fact. Nkrumah used money meant for our development to support stupid freedom fighters across Africa. He was the only leader who inherited no debt but left debt for those followed him. He even borrowed to build Akosombo Dam will supporting that senseless Ghana-Guinea-Mali alliance with million of dollars.
  
  Why can't his supporters say with bravado that we are capable of managing our own affairs. Look at us, are we independent? While his nation was not that developed, he was trying vainly to unite Africa at a time he knows it was impossible. What sort of stupidity is that? We are in the year 2013 and are we that united in Ghana let alone Africa? Nkrumah was rushing as if someone was following him to take something valuable from him.
  
  Nkrumah's supporters will tell you that he owns nothing but the money he spent outside Ghana was more than what he should have stolen. What his supporters do not understand was that the money left for us was for Ghana's development only but this man used some of it towards Africa as if the continent was under his watch.

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  So where are they who went slowly. Are they first class? With the little he had he did his best. How myopic a person you are

  So where are they who went slowly. Are they first class? With the little he had he did his best. How myopic a person you are

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• Kwesi Mends, Takoradi 12 years ago

  -You still stand tall despite all efforts by your enemies to bring you down
  
  -You stand tall because you fought for our independence
  
  -You stand tall because you fought for the poor and downtrodden
  
  -You stand tall bec ...
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  -You still stand tall despite all efforts by your enemies to bring you down
  
  -You stand tall because you fought for our independence
  
  -You stand tall because you fought for the poor and downtrodden
  
  -You stand tall because you fought against tribalism
  
  -You stand tall because you fought for unity
  
  -You stand tall because you fought for education for all Ghanaians whether poor or rich
  
  -You stand tall because you created jobs for all Ghanaians
  
  -You stand tall because you gave us Akosombo, Tema Harbor, Tema motoway, all the factories, Cape Coast University, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, etc. ALL IN NINE YEARS...YOU WERE RELENTLESS
  
  -You stand tall because of your energy and vision
  
  -You stand tall because you died poor and left nothing for yourself or family
  
  -You stand tall because none of our subsequent leaders could achieve one-tenth of what you did
  
  -May you rest in Peace Kwame.

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• Nenyi 12 years ago

  He's unbeatable & unmatchable.
  Ghana's landscape is fully spread with his legacy, vision & landmarks which is a record no other leader after him has beaten, despite the fact that he was deadly opposed.

  He's unbeatable & unmatchable.
  Ghana's landscape is fully spread with his legacy, vision & landmarks which is a record no other leader after him has beaten, despite the fact that he was deadly opposed.

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• 4ward Ever 12 years ago

  People have to be judged by their actions and not where they went to school etc, etc. The Ideological Institute was sadly a means by some opportunists to get an education and a party or government post afterwards. In any case ...
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  People have to be judged by their actions and not where they went to school etc, etc. The Ideological Institute was sadly a means by some opportunists to get an education and a party or government post afterwards. In any case, no one has ever offered proof that Acheampong went to the Ideological Institute.
  
  It is a fact, however, is that Lt. General I.K. Acheampong was appointed Western Regional Commissioner by the NLC that overthrew Nkrumah. He neither rejected that post nor denounced the NLC - ever - for overthrowing Nkrumah. Kotoka Airport remained Kotoka Airport under his regime, as it does now under the allegedly-Nkrumahist NDC. Acheampong did not originally agree to allowing Nkrumah to be buried in Ghana. Indeed, he was approached after his coup in January 13th, 1972 to allow a dying Nkrumah to come home as a private citizen to spend his last days in his beloved homeland. Acheampong refused this humanitarian request. After Nkrumah died he still refused to allow the return of the body for burial. It took intense diplomatic negotiations behind the scenes by the OAU before Acheampong agreed to allow the burial of the founder of Ghana in Ghana!

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• Kweku 12 years ago

  We need Nkrumah's 5 and 7 year development plans to salvage the country or we are doomed. The CPP has that document to implement, vote them into power, its as simple as that

  We need Nkrumah's 5 and 7 year development plans to salvage the country or we are doomed. The CPP has that document to implement, vote them into power, its as simple as that

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• owusu 12 years ago

  The man is dead and buried...move on please and stop this nonsense....why don't you people dig up his grave and worship him? Haba

  The man is dead and buried...move on please and stop this nonsense....why don't you people dig up his grave and worship him? Haba

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• MR ODI ASEMPA 12 years ago

  OWUSU, PLS THINK! AMERICANS DO THE SAME TO WASHINGTON,BRITISH TO CHURCHILL,TURKS TO ATARTURK, EGYPTIANS TO NASSER,VENEZUELANS TO BOLIVAR,VIETNAMESE TO HO CHI MINH,INDIANS TO GHANDI YET IN YOUR TWISTED AND CONSIDERED OPINION A ...
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  OWUSU, PLS THINK! AMERICANS DO THE SAME TO WASHINGTON,BRITISH TO CHURCHILL,TURKS TO ATARTURK, EGYPTIANS TO NASSER,VENEZUELANS TO BOLIVAR,VIETNAMESE TO HO CHI MINH,INDIANS TO GHANDI YET IN YOUR TWISTED AND CONSIDERED OPINION ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS, EXCEPT YOU.ISN"T LIFE GRAND!THE WORD MY DEAR OWUSU, IN PLAIN ENGLISH IS CALLED "HOMAGE" NOT IDOCY.

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• YB 12 years ago

  Mr Asempa, all these nations you mentioned pay homage to their past heroes as you claim, but the difference is that they are progressing very fast. Here, we are using the name of Nkrumah to divide ourselves by calling people ...
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  Mr Asempa, all these nations you mentioned pay homage to their past heroes as you claim, but the difference is that they are progressing very fast. Here, we are using the name of Nkrumah to divide ourselves by calling people both living and dead all kinds of names. If you continuously site the wrongs of others, certainly they will also drum the wrongs of your hero.
  
  Finally, I will like to associate myself with one of the "twisted and considered" opinions of Owusu that we should move on. If Nkrumah's ideologies are are still real in contemporary Ghana and Africa, why can't our leaders, many of whom portray themselves as Nkrumahist put them into practice instead of the daily speeches and proclamations? My guess is that such leaders don't believe in Nkrumahism but use him for propaganda. Even those ordinary folks who oppose Nkrumah's ideas are more prosperous than those who claim to believe them.
  
  I suggest you think deeper about the realities instead of the dreams.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

  A man is driving along a highway and sees a rabbit jump out across the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car.The driver, a sensitive man as well as an ...
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  A man is driving along a highway and sees a rabbit jump out across the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid hitting it, but unfortunately the rabbit jumps right in front of the car.The driver, a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulls over and gets out to see what has become of the rabbit. Much to his dismay, the rabbit is dead.
  The driver feels so awful that he begins to cry. Another car arrives on the scene, and the driver sees the man crying on the side of the road and pulls over. She steps out of the car and asks man what's wrong.
  "I feel terrible," he explains, "I accidentally hit this rabbit and killed it."
  The newcomer says, "Don't worry." She runs to her car and pulls out a spray can. She walks over to the limp, dead rabbit, bends down, and sprays the contents onto the rabbit.
  The rabbit jumps up, waves its paw at the two of them and hops off down the road. Ten feet away the rabbit stops, turns around and waves again, he hops down the road another 10 feet, turns and waves, hops another ten feet,turns and waves, and repeats this again and again and again, until he hops out of sight.
  The man is astonished. He runs over to the woman and demands, "What is in that can? What did you spray on that rabbit?"
  The woman turns the can around so that the man can read the label. It says....
  "Hair restorer.......adds permanent wave."
  
  KWAME NKRUMAH IS THE RABBIT THAT NEVER DIES.

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• Explorer 12 years ago

  Nkrumah made a political statement with his life, he believed in the African, but when it comes down to survival each individual must be given the opportunity to honour the heritage that has sustained him or her.

  Nkrumah made a political statement with his life, he believed in the African, but when it comes down to survival each individual must be given the opportunity to honour the heritage that has sustained him or her.

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• Densu, Asamoah 12 years ago

  Yes, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was and still is 'The unmatchable and the big one'. May His Soul Rest In Peace. Amen.

  Yes, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was and still is 'The unmatchable and the big one'. May His Soul Rest In Peace. Amen.

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• Abdallah Smith 12 years ago

  this article doesnt do justice to Nkrumah. It doesnt even touch the surface on how much of a visionary nkrumah was in his writings and philosophies, not only on the African stage,but worldwide. There is a lot of information o ...
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  this article doesnt do justice to Nkrumah. It doesnt even touch the surface on how much of a visionary nkrumah was in his writings and philosophies, not only on the African stage,but worldwide. There is a lot of information on Nkrumah, but it hasnt been substantially used with what he stood for to create the impression for the readers of what he was, as a symbol. Where is the discussions on positive action? Where is Nkrumah's thoughts on treating people as an ends in themselves, and not a means? Where are the words that Nkrumah followed and stood by religiously, to have him act out these great deeds? Maybe the amount of space in the article didn't permit such expansions, but as a Nkrumahist myself, I must speak out on what I see as below par written piece on an exceptional Leader.

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• VICKY LEE BENTON 12 years ago

  YOU CAN GIVE HIM ALL THE CREDIT YOU WANT AND I AM NOT BUYING IT.
  I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT NORTH KOREA AND TELL ME IF THIS IS WHAT GHANA WOULD HAVE WANTED.
  HE MARRIED FATIAH NOT FOR LOVE BUT FOR HIS STUPID PLAN THAT HE ...
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  YOU CAN GIVE HIM ALL THE CREDIT YOU WANT AND I AM NOT BUYING IT.
  I WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT NORTH KOREA AND TELL ME IF THIS IS WHAT GHANA WOULD HAVE WANTED.
  HE MARRIED FATIAH NOT FOR LOVE BUT FOR HIS STUPID PLAN THAT HE COULD WIN THE EGIPTIANS OVER AND LURE THE REST OF THE AFRICAN NATIONS SO HE COULD RULE OVER THEM.
  MY POINT IS: KWAME NKRUMAH WAS A TYRANT & A DICTATOR!

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• Whatever 12 years ago

  When it comes to passion to build, when it comes to intensity to develop, when it comes to vigour, when it comes to drive, when it comes to finding solution to systemic problems, there is no african who comes close to Nkrumah ...
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  When it comes to passion to build, when it comes to intensity to develop, when it comes to vigour, when it comes to drive, when it comes to finding solution to systemic problems, there is no african who comes close to Nkrumah.

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• Nana Konadu 12 years ago

  Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Oh i thank you once again. At last i can go to sleep peacefully knowing that someone also has the same mind and has said it all. You have hit the nail on its head.I grew up during Nkruma's time and i ...
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  Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Oh i thank you once again. At last i can go to sleep peacefully knowing that someone also has the same mind and has said it all. You have hit the nail on its head.I grew up during Nkruma's time and iam a witness to everything.I wept like a baby for Ghana when he was overthrown and i still weep whenever i think of how deep down Ghana has plunged into.I always say to myself 'only if' Nkrumah was given a little more time Ghana would not have been the way it is now.Most of the youth have been mislead and dont know exactly what went on.Please educate them now about Nkrumah's ideals to be put into practice like 'work and happiness', patroitism, discipline and respect for ourselves and all Ghanaians. Thank you and please do write more often.

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