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• kWADWO AMPONSH (GHANA) 12 years ago

  WHAT ON EARTH DID WE LEARNED FROM LAST WEEK ITS TIME AFRICAN LEADERS LEARN MORE.
  
  tHIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THIS. WHO EVER IS TRYING TO BRING IN THIS TOPIC SEEMS TO BE BRINGING IT OUT AT THE WRONG TIME. wE KNOW AND BELIEVE W ...
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  WHAT ON EARTH DID WE LEARNED FROM LAST WEEK ITS TIME AFRICAN LEADERS LEARN MORE.
  
  tHIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THIS. WHO EVER IS TRYING TO BRING IN THIS TOPIC SEEMS TO BE BRINGING IT OUT AT THE WRONG TIME. wE KNOW AND BELIEVE WE HAVE ALL AS AFRICAN LOST A GREAT HERO. A GOOD STATES MAN OF AFRICA. WHAT DID NKRUMAH DO? HE PLAYED A TACT FOR TACT GAME. HE IMPRESION ALL HIS ENEMIES, EVEN HIS OWN PARTY MEMBERS. HE KICKED THE WHITE MAN OUT OF GHANA AND WAS EVEN TRYING TO GET THEM OUT OF AFRICA AND RULE BY HIME SELF. WHAO WAS NKRUMAHS VICE PRESIDENT? DID HE EVER HAD ONE? FINALLY HOW LONG DID HE RULED? WAS HE THE ONLY BEST BRAIN IN AFRICA AND IN GHANA DURING THOSE TIMES? SO THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SPEAKING OF NELSON MANDELA AS THE BEST. HE ONLY RULED FOR 5YRS AND PASSED ON THE SEAT TO HIS VICE PRESIDENT THIS IS THE MAN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. WHO ON EARTH IN AFRICA, IS ABLE TO DO THIS. WELL LET ME TELL YOU ALL GHANAIANS THAT COME JESUS CHRIST IS MANDELA.

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• TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

  Well,it might interest you to know that Nelson Mandela relied mostly on leaders like Nkrumah and others in Africa for his fight against Apartheid South Africa.
  Whilst Nkrumah fought for total liberation of the entire contin ...
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  Well,it might interest you to know that Nelson Mandela relied mostly on leaders like Nkrumah and others in Africa for his fight against Apartheid South Africa.
  Whilst Nkrumah fought for total liberation of the entire continent of Africa including South Africa,Mandela`s fight was for the black South Africans.A fight he fought so bravely to defeat what he called,the system,Apartheid.
  Mandela was a selfless man who worked hard to free his people from white domination,whilst Nkrumah fought against white colonization in Africa which brought independence to the continent.
  Why are you against Nkrumah?

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• NAKED 12 years ago

  Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch ...
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  Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.
  
  Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by Algeria to its north, Mauritania to its west, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger to its southern part. People I know who have spent time there before the recent US-led efforts at destabilization called it one of the most peaceful and beautiful places on earth, the home of Timbuktu. Its people are some ninety percent Muslim of varying persuasions. It has a rural subsistence agriculture and adult illiteracy of nearly 50%. Yet this country is suddenly the center of a new global “war on terror.”
  
  On January 20 Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron announced his country’s curious resolve to dedicate itself to deal with “the terrorism threat” in Mali and north Africa. Cameron declared, “It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months, and it requires a response that…has an absolutely iron resolve…” [1] Britain in its colonial heyday never had a stake in Mali. Until it won independence in 1960, Mali was a French colony.
  
  On January 11, after more than a year of behind-the-scenes pressure on the neighboring Algeria to get them entangled in an invasion of its neighbor Mali, Hollande decided to make a direct French military intervention with US backing. His government launched air strikes in the rebel-held north of Mali against a fanatical Salafist band of jihadist cutthroats calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic-Mahgreb (AQIM). The pretext for the seemingly swift French action was a military move by a tiny group of Islamic Jihadists of the Tuareg people, Asnar Dine, affiliated with the larger AQIM. On January 10 Asnar Dine – backed by other Islamist groups – attacked the southern town of Konna. That marked the first time since the Tuareg rebellion in early 2012 that Jihadist rebels moved out of traditional Tuareg territory in the northern desert to spread Islamic law to the south of Mali.
  
  As French journalist Thierry Meyssan noted, French forces were remarkably well prepared: “The transitional President, Dioncounda Traore, declared a state of emergency and called to France for help. Paris intervened within hours to prevent the fall of the capital, Bamako. Far-sightedly, the Elysée had already pre-positioned in Mali troops from the 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (“the Colonials”) and the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, helicopters from the COS (Special Operations Command), three Mirage 2000D’s, two Mirage F-1’s, three C135’s, a C130 Hercules and a C160 Transall.” [2] What a convenient coincidence.
  
  By January 21 US Air Force transport planes began delivering hundreds of French elite soldiers and military equipment to Mali, ostensibly to roll back what we were told was an out-of-control terrorist advance south towards the Mali capital. [3] French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told media the number of its ‘boots on the ground’ in Mali had reached 2,000, adding that “around 4,000 troops will be mobilized for this operation,” in Mali and outside bases. [4]
  
  But there are strong indications the French agenda in Mali is anything but humanitarian. In a France 5 TV interview, Le Drian carelessly admitted, “The goal is the total reconquest of Mali. We will not leave any pockets.” And President Francois Hollande said French troops would remain in the region long enough “to defeat terrorism.” The United States, Canada, Britain, Belgium, Germany and Denmark have all said they would support the French operation against Mali. [5]
  
  Mali itself, like much of Africa is rich in raw materials. It has large reserves of gold, uranium and most recently, though western oil companies try to hide it, of oil, lots of oil. The French preferred to ignore Mali’s vast resources, keeping it a poor subsistence agriculture country. Under the deposed democratically-elected President Amadou Toumani Toure, for the first time the government initiated a systematic mapping of the vast wealth under its soil. According to Mamadou Igor Diarra, previous mining minister, Malian soil contains copper, uranium, phosphate, bauxite, gems and in particular, a large percentage of gold in addition to oil and gas. Thus, Mali is one of the countries in the world with the most raw materials. With its gold mining, the country is already one of the leading exploiters directly behind South Africa and Ghana. [6] Two thirds of France’s electricity is from nuclear power and sources of new uranium are essential. Presently, France draws significant uranium imports from neighboring Niger.
  
  Now the picture gets a little complex.
  
  According to usually reliable former US military experts with direct familiarity with the region, speaking on condition of anonymity, US and NATO Special Forces actually trained the same “terrorist” bands now justifying a neo-colonial US-backed invasion of Mali by France. The major question is why would Washington and Paris train the terrorists they are now acting to destroy in a “war on terror?” Were they really surprised at the lack of NATO loyalty from their trainees? And what is behind AFRICOM’s American-backed French takeover of Mali?

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• GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 12 years ago

  GOODLOOKING OUT ON YOUR PIECE. WHEN DO U THINK GH COULD LOOK ANYWHERE LIKE S AFRICA? IT WONT HAPPEN IN UR LIFETIME OR UR KIDS. COMMON IDEAS LIKE BASIC CITY PLANNING IS A MYSTERY TO US. IN THIS 21ST CENTURY, WHEN WE HAVE SAT T ...
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  GOODLOOKING OUT ON YOUR PIECE. WHEN DO U THINK GH COULD LOOK ANYWHERE LIKE S AFRICA? IT WONT HAPPEN IN UR LIFETIME OR UR KIDS. COMMON IDEAS LIKE BASIC CITY PLANNING IS A MYSTERY TO US. IN THIS 21ST CENTURY, WHEN WE HAVE SAT THERE FOR S AFRICA. THE LAST SUB SAHARAN NATION TO ATTAIN FREEDOM TO LEAP AHEAD OF US IN PRACTICALLY EVERYTHING. GH OUGHT TO BOW HER HEADS IN ABSOLUTE SHAME! EGYPT, NAIJA, S AFRICA HAVE ALL HOSTED MAJOR GLOBAL SOCCER TOURNAMNTS. WHEN WILL GH DO SO?...WMNS U17 MPO WE CANT HOST.

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• Mallam Kankane. 12 years ago

  You seem to be an NDC apologist by your writings.The election petition was not necessary so perhaps you wanted us to fight each other just as a whole community fought over one akomfem? With all the three visits you never hear ...
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  You seem to be an NDC apologist by your writings.The election petition was not necessary so perhaps you wanted us to fight each other just as a whole community fought over one akomfem? With all the three visits you never heard of the messive corruption GYEEDA, WOYOME etc. Let us see something positive and objective in your analysis as a PhD holder unless yours is the cheap Professional Doctorate type.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  Yes, an academic like you can observe and report factually. I buy all your observations, except that you did not touch on indiscipline in Ghana and corruption. These two things are bringing our country down. Corruption in sma ...
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  Yes, an academic like you can observe and report factually. I buy all your observations, except that you did not touch on indiscipline in Ghana and corruption. These two things are bringing our country down. Corruption in small places such as harbours, customs, lands, courts, schools, hospitals etc. Indiscipline in media concerning peddling of lies upon lies to vilify political opponents. Your observation on crime abatement is spot on, and kudos to Ghana Police who are among the best in Africa. Thank you and more of Eyes, Ears and Thoughts from Afar

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• KOFI 12 years ago

  LOVELY ARTICLE BY A LEARNED MAN.DOC,BMW STANDS FOR BAVARIA MOTOR WORKS NOT BREMEN MOTOR WORKS.THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE BREMEN IS IN THE NORTH AND BAVARIA IS IN THE SOUTH.FOR EXAMPLE,CALLING VALCO, ANKOBRA ALUMINIUM COMPANY I ...
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  LOVELY ARTICLE BY A LEARNED MAN.DOC,BMW STANDS FOR BAVARIA MOTOR WORKS NOT BREMEN MOTOR WORKS.THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE BREMEN IS IN THE NORTH AND BAVARIA IS IN THE SOUTH.FOR EXAMPLE,CALLING VALCO, ANKOBRA ALUMINIUM COMPANY IN GHANA.

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• Dr Akwetey 12 years ago

  Thanks Kofi. I should have known hat because I have been to both states, Bremen in the North, and Bavaria in Munich. Dr

  Thanks Kofi. I should have known hat because I have been to both states, Bremen in the North, and Bavaria in Munich. Dr

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