Great Lessons From Dr. Yaw Nyarko’s Work

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• insight to the bone 12 years ago

  our so called fake president and his idiotic fools continue to display to the whole world their incompetence and stupidity. he goes running around looking for investors or money when all it takes is prudent and sound macroeco ...
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  our so called fake president and his idiotic fools continue to display to the whole world their incompetence and stupidity. he goes running around looking for investors or money when all it takes is prudent and sound macroeconomic policy implementation. we shall list a few examples so its even clear to the sick warped minded ndc agent provocateurs here. we borrow billions to procure finished products or give the juiciest parts of contracts to foreigners instead of just taking a little effort and organize our economy better. instead of building modern 100 meter fishing boats for our fishermen , manufacturing our own tractors for our farmers , mining equipment and trucks for galamsay miners and so on . we choose to import 2 thirds of our fish requirement , hand over these gold and other mineral concessions to foreigners who dont invest in our economy , deny the farmers the over half a million tractors and other agric mechanization needed because are leaders are too selfish and lazy to take the well-being of our people to heart . instead of encouraging and facilitating the return of our diaspora so they give our ailing economy the boost and capital we can surely count on , we treat them dirt and frustrate them so much that most return . they would rather have Chinese , Arab/Muslim money as there they get a kickback. they can not understand the need to unite all potentials in order to attain development , industrialization and new 21st century jobs for OUR own people , rather prefer that we import everything and keep our people in poverty as in their wicked hearts saturated and drenched with hatred of the Akans , hegemony , tribalism , favoritism and material greed. the only consolation we have is that today our people now see very clearly what these political impostors are all about and are getting more and more determined to get rid of them either by war or a revolution. all the institutions of the state have failed us including the judiciary , parliament . they have secured a privileged status for themselves and deny the majority free education although its within our reach as a 20 pesewa levy on petrol would secure the funds for this in less than 6 months so its started now and not vaguely postponed to the indefinite future . how can these fools think we should sit aside and applaud their non action ? we live in this purgatory of despair and now they want to force down our throats gay sodomizing perverse morals as their ideal . each day they continue with this jolly ride of profound stupidity they earn our deeper resentment and hate of their actions . our day will come soon , long live the republic of Akan

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• Tom. 12 years ago

  Bad language

  Bad language

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• DOUBLE STANDARDS 12 years ago

  REPUBLIC OF AKAN???!!! YOU NEED MORE THAN ORDINARY HELP...YOU NEED JESUS!!!

  REPUBLIC OF AKAN???!!! YOU NEED MORE THAN ORDINARY HELP...YOU NEED JESUS!!!

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• insight to the bone 12 years ago

  no we need to chop off your stupid heads and put you out of your misery , kwasea like you

  no we need to chop off your stupid heads and put you out of your misery , kwasea like you

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• abra kuma 12 years ago

  @ Insight to the Bone:
  Sir/Madam,
  I applaud you for enumerating the many ways in which Ghana’s successive governments have been failing our country; also for supplying concrete possible solutions to our problems, albeit ...
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  @ Insight to the Bone:
  Sir/Madam,
  I applaud you for enumerating the many ways in which Ghana’s successive governments have been failing our country; also for supplying concrete possible solutions to our problems, albeit (and understandably so) without providing specific details to them. However, your response to the essay evidently takes on a partisan-like approach whereas Mr. Kwarteng’s article reflects the similarities and sometimes-conflicting views of various economists, analysts, historians, and literary experts regarding Africa’s way forward to creating wealth and happiness. Certainly, he is entitled to disagree with any of the expert views in his exposition, with the understanding he substantiates his stance; this he apparently does in a non-partisan way. In contrast, your essentially noteworthy commentary goes awry - you conclude with an emotionally charged, non-ethnocentric, separatist solution for a country that comprises varying ethnicities.
  
  At some point in time, we must recognize to put aside party politics for the good of the Nation. I wish us well!

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• Turn $ 1.75 into $ 100,000.00 12 years ago

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• ~The Truth 12 years ago

  You have the ideas but you need to find a better way to present your ideas on internet. Trying to cite many references and names to validate or clarify your points actually digress your article. At the end of your article, on ...
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  You have the ideas but you need to find a better way to present your ideas on internet. Trying to cite many references and names to validate or clarify your points actually digress your article. At the end of your article, one hardly understand what you are trying to convey to the reader.

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• Silas Ababio 12 years ago

  Francis Kwarteng,what is Dr Yaw Nyarko's prescription for Ghana's economic disease? Please,be specific.

  Francis Kwarteng,what is Dr Yaw Nyarko's prescription for Ghana's economic disease? Please,be specific.

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• Clement Apprey 12 years ago

  Readers,what lessons have you learned so far.I don't get it.

  Readers,what lessons have you learned so far.I don't get it.

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• Silas Ababio 12 years ago

  Francis Kwarteng,what is Dr Yaw Nyarko's prescription for Ghana's economic disease? Please,be specific.

  Francis Kwarteng,what is Dr Yaw Nyarko's prescription for Ghana's economic disease? Please,be specific.

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• Kwadwo Arhin 12 years ago

  "The answer to the question above is not as straightforward as a linear question"
  
  I got to this point after your first useless paragraph.
  
  Go straight to Yaw Nyarko's thesis to make it interesting.

  "The answer to the question above is not as straightforward as a linear question"
  
  I got to this point after your first useless paragraph.
  
  Go straight to Yaw Nyarko's thesis to make it interesting.

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• James 12 years ago

  You lost me along the way, a third of the way. There were too many unfamiliar word, idioms, etc that I couldn't follow what you were trying to say.
  I thought the purpose of communication is not only to be heard/read by your ...
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  You lost me along the way, a third of the way. There were too many unfamiliar word, idioms, etc that I couldn't follow what you were trying to say.
  I thought the purpose of communication is not only to be heard/read by your audience but more importantly to be UNDERSTOOD.

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• abra kuma 12 years ago

  Mr. Kwarteng,
  
  Indeed, given the essay’s lengthy and many-sided views besides Dr. Nyarko’s, a more succinct title was needed.

  Mr. Kwarteng,
  
  Indeed, given the essay’s lengthy and many-sided views besides Dr. Nyarko’s, a more succinct title was needed.

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• Kwaku 11 years ago

  Ghanaweb - Kagame - Mwakikagile
  
  Francis,
  
  Interesting analysis.
  
  I just want to say this:
  
  Some of the harshest critics of Africa's inept leaders - incompetent governments - are also some of the most ardent Pan-Afri ...
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  Ghanaweb - Kagame - Mwakikagile
  
  Francis,
  
  Interesting analysis.
  
  I just want to say this:
  
  Some of the harshest critics of Africa's inept leaders - incompetent governments - are also some of the most ardent Pan-Africanists. Here, I have in mind Wole Soyinka and Godfrey Mwakikagile. George Ayittey also qualifies, as a harsh critic, although I am not sure about his Pan-Africanist credentials. He has nothing good to say about Nkrumah. On the contrary, Godfrey Mwakikagile whose harsh criticism of African leaders has been compared to Ayittey's has tremendous respect and admiration for Nkrumah and other great Pan-Africanists such as Nyerere and Sekou Toure. Ayittey has nothing good to say about any of them.
  
  Just read a review by Mwakikagile of Ayittey's book, "Africa in Chaos," on amazon.com to see how he defends Nkrumah and Nyerere.
  
  I have even read where Ayittey says he is not sure the CIA was actively involved, if at all, in Nkrumah's ouster. Godfrey Mwakikagile has, on the contrary, bitterly condemned CIA involvement in Nkrumah's ouster, contending that it was the CIA that was behind Nkrumah's downfall. He has written about that in his books, "Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era," "Africa is in A Mess," and I believe in his other works including "Africa After Independence: Realities of Nationhood," and "Africa 1960 - 1970: Chronicle and Analysis," if I remember correctly.
  
  Ayittey is a darling of conservatives, black and white, who despise and hate Africa. Mwakikagile, on the other hand, is highly critical of conservatives and has even written books about them and their negative attitude towards Africans.
  
  And nowhere does he say he wants Africa to be recolonized, as alleged by some of his critics. From what I have read, their criticism is based on his book, "Africa is in A Mess: What Went Wrong and What Should be Done," which is even on the reading list of one of the UN websites - I don't remember exactly which one, besides being in university libraries - as an ardent appeal by an African to fellow Africans to do something about the condition of their continent. He has, instead, cited a number of reports in which some Africans including African diplomats and some cabinet members in Sierra Leone during the civil war, as well as some politicians in Gabon, said, in effect, that the former colonial powers should assume full responsibility of their former colonies, as rulers, because things were so bad in most of those countries. That is not his position. He just cited those reports in his analysis of the African predicament.
  
  Misconceptions about Godfrey Mwakikagile's position on the subject are also probably a result of the glowing reviews of his book, "Africa is in A Mess," on amazon.com by fellow Africans who are thoroughly disgusted with the way things are in Africa and how our leaders have mismanaged our countries since independence. But who has not said that? Mandela said the same thing. Wole Soyinka, probably more than any other African writer and scholar, has said the same thing - about Africa as a whole - for decades since Nigeria won independence in 1960 and has even risked his life for being so brutally honest about our condition as Africans. Even Bishop Tutu said he was ashamed to know that he was safer and had more freedom under apartheid than his fellow Africans were in many countries on the continent in spite of the fact that they have been under black rule for decades since independence.
  
  Therein lies the difference between the two scholars, Mwakikagile and Ayittey. Both are highly respected - Ayittey is now an informal adviser to Obama's admnistration on Africa, as much as he was to Bush and Clinton; so it's not just conservatives who want to hear what he has to say about our continent, although some of us may disagree with him.
  
  And do you remember the lecture the venerable professor, Ali Mazrui, gave at the University of Ghana, in which he said Nlrumah was a great African but not a great Ghanaian? Some Nkrumaists walked out. Just food for thought.

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• Kwaku 11 years ago

  It is encouraging that Paul Kagame has learned something from Dambisa Moyo's work. But it is equally important that he should learn something from the works of other African scholars - Godfrey Mwakikagile, Wole Soyinka, Georg ...
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  It is encouraging that Paul Kagame has learned something from Dambisa Moyo's work. But it is equally important that he should learn something from the works of other African scholars - Godfrey Mwakikagile, Wole Soyinka, George Ayittey, Ngugi, Achebe among them - about the imperative need for tolerance of dissent. Wasn't Kwame Nkrumaha who said if you eliminate your opponents, it's because you have failed to convince them?

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