"Edifices" of What Vision, Dr. Aidoo?

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• KOLA, LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

  It is on record that Busia cancelled and aborted the then teacher training colleges allowance which enabled the poor Ghanaian to also get some education so it is risible hearing you that your unpopular Busia championed a spon ...
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  It is on record that Busia cancelled and aborted the then teacher training colleges allowance which enabled the poor Ghanaian to also get some education so it is risible hearing you that your unpopular Busia championed a sponsorship scheme to Educate Ghanaians.
  
  You really suck!!

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• Zuri 12 years ago

  Some of you are just displaying "fat" English without any sense.What has been your contribution to the development of Ghana apart from senseless articles & more so a faceless writer hiding behind names. Aren't you a coward in ...
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  Some of you are just displaying "fat" English without any sense.What has been your contribution to the development of Ghana apart from senseless articles & more so a faceless writer hiding behind names. Aren't you a coward in the highest order?. Illiterate literate calling himself a professor.

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• Roland 12 years ago

  Busia was no match to the great Nkrumah,the greatest African of all time.The evidence is overwhelming.Don't waste your time with your senseless articles.

  Busia was no match to the great Nkrumah,the greatest African of all time.The evidence is overwhelming.Don't waste your time with your senseless articles.

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• Kwame 12 years ago

  Dr. Kwame Okuampa Ahoofe, weapons of labour are produced to enhance the labour of man and make labour less laboureous.
  Busia and Danquah are of the view that they are less animal than the white man's do and labour is for rea ...
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  Dr. Kwame Okuampa Ahoofe, weapons of labour are produced to enhance the labour of man and make labour less laboureous.
  Busia and Danquah are of the view that they are less animal than the white man's do and labour is for reasonable beings. Busia and Danquah could not liberate themselves from mental slavery.

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• Chop chop 12 years ago

  Nkrumah's contribution was not just a rhetoric one. He put it in practice and it worked. Busia was only good at blowing HOT AIR. The only plan that he executed was the alien compliance law for which thousands of Ghanaians we ...
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  Nkrumah's contribution was not just a rhetoric one. He put it in practice and it worked. Busia was only good at blowing HOT AIR. The only plan that he executed was the alien compliance law for which thousands of Ghanaians were killed in Nigeria as reprisal

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• Concerned 12 years ago

  Just my sentiments. Talking is not the same as doing. The average Ghanaian academic is a jack ass who has no practical sense.Nkrumah did not just talk but he delivered.
  I however feel the likes of Tony aidoo should shut u ...
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  Just my sentiments. Talking is not the same as doing. The average Ghanaian academic is a jack ass who has no practical sense.Nkrumah did not just talk but he delivered.
  I however feel the likes of Tony aidoo should shut up as they are the very ones destroying Nkrumah's work. His party felt free SHS was a waste of time and he has alot in common with busia. Hot air merchants

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• Yawose 12 years ago

  This Tony Aidoo man does not seem to understand what he talks about. He uses flowery language to bamboozle people. When you examine the contents carefully they are empty and meaningless. I have many times pointed this out to ...
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  This Tony Aidoo man does not seem to understand what he talks about. He uses flowery language to bamboozle people. When you examine the contents carefully they are empty and meaningless. I have many times pointed this out to him. His new word he is using to confuse people is 'phylosophical foundation' which has no bases in fact as far as the contents of his submission are concerned. Kudos Okoampa for exposing the empty braggart

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• Jojo Hammond, New Jersey 12 years ago

  According to Prof Okoampa-Ahoofe, the only way one can make an intelligent/informed contribution to any discourse/discussion on Ghana's socio-economic development and political history is to read Dr. Busia and Dr. J. K. K. Bo ...
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  According to Prof Okoampa-Ahoofe, the only way one can make an intelligent/informed contribution to any discourse/discussion on Ghana's socio-economic development and political history is to read Dr. Busia and Dr. J. K. K. Boakye-Danquah.
  Otherwise "don't waste our eyes". Yea, right!!!
  
  My father used to say God is stupid to put wisdom in the head of only one person. No political tradition - CPP mor UP has a monopoly over good ideas in our society. To me, this is where Prof. Okoampa-Ahoofe's extremism in political discourse has no equal.

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• Jojo Hammond, New Jersey 12 years ago

  I meant to write "God is NOT stupid" ......

  I meant to write "God is NOT stupid" ......

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• YAW 12 years ago

  I hope your little dose of "educated insolence" will get into the concrete mind of that "repulsive creep" aka Oko-ma-pa Ahoofe.His job is the orderly management of the decline and distortion of Ghanaian history to suit his us ...
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  I hope your little dose of "educated insolence" will get into the concrete mind of that "repulsive creep" aka Oko-ma-pa Ahoofe.His job is the orderly management of the decline and distortion of Ghanaian history to suit his useless academic ego.He writes more rubbish than most people pick up with their brooms in the gutters of NIMA.

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• Okyenhene 12 years ago

  Dishonest Okoampa-Ahoofe
  This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ("Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.
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  Dishonest Okoampa-Ahoofe
  This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ("Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.
  
  "And here, it is significantly instructive to observe that none of the myriad putsches and coup detats have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians are known to have staunchly backed regressivley Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned University-educated former prime minister. Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) won a landslide victory, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and Ghana's extant colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. He would, however, succeed ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny.
  
  Indeed, it is interesting to observe that Ghana's major and, to-date, only international airport is named for General E.K. Kotoka, the very Darwinian outlaw who spearheaded the grossly unimaginative overthrow of the constitutionally elected government of the CPP. For many detractors and outright enemies of Nkrumah, Kotoka's greatest—if also sole—achievement was simply getting rid of an elected dictator. It has often been said, largely by Western academics, that Nkrumah was a heartless and fatuous dictator; these days, one hears Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, the career soldier who ran Ghana for twenty harrowing incontrovertibly bloody years, described as a "benign dictator." It is significant to observe that Mr. Rawlings, whose agnatic parentage is purported to be Scottish, presided over the dastardly kidnapping and summary execution of three Ghanaian supreme court judges, all of whom belonged to a single ethnic nationality.
  
  When one agrees with the Western ideological mythology that Nkrumah was a raw-boned dictator bereft of vision, then it begins to make sense that Kotoka's statue should continue to command the august facade of Accra International Airport, thus perpetually humiliating those of us who incurably believe in democratic governance. Needless to say, the 1966 Kotoka-led coup initiated the barbaric, neo-colonial military dynasty that Ghanaians continue to suffer….
  
  That Ghana's post-colonial political dilemma transcends military dictatorship cannot be honestly gainsaid. In fact, many of the most vociferous civilian opposition party leaders, some of whom are currently sitting in parliament, representing misguided and hoodwinked constituents, are known to have collaborated with Kotoka's so-called National Liberation Council to unseat President Nkrumah. It is also significant to observe that these largely superannuated rascals and executive national, fiduciary muggers continue to dominate whatever passes by the name of "the legitimate opposition." This state of affairs, coupled with a largely under-educated and under-informed electorate, has made it almost impossible to rectify the prevailing socioeconomic chaos ravaging the country.”
  
  Taken from “SOUNDS OF SIRENS: ESSAYS IN AFRICAN POLITICS & CULTURE”, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr (2004)

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• G. K. Berko 12 years ago

  I remember a few pieces that Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. PhD. wrote in praising, or, at least, in approval of Dr. Nkrumah. But this one totally escaped me.
  
  This is so much unlike the Professor. What changed in him to t ...
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  I remember a few pieces that Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. PhD. wrote in praising, or, at least, in approval of Dr. Nkrumah. But this one totally escaped me.
  
  This is so much unlike the Professor. What changed in him to take such an 180 degree turn on Dr. Nkrumah, then? Not even the most avowed Nkrumahists that I know, today, could have showered these implied accolades on the late President, and vilify the late Prime Minister Dr. Busia so scathingly.
  
  Nevertheless, we probably have to concede the fact that people do undergo many transformations in their lifetime for various reasons, and we must not rush to judge their motives for succumbing to resultant changes.
  
  However, given the fact that by his professorial clout Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. might have easily captured the trust of many a student that passed through his classes, there would be huge numbers of folks who his diametrically opposing views on our pioneer Political leaders might have divided into opposing camps.
  
  So, how does the Prof. intend to bridge the gap between the two different groups of his old students? I suggest if the Prof. could come out and explain to us all the basis for his drastic change of view on these leaders, it could add to his lessons to all those he impacted in the past regarding the need and freedom to change one's opinions.
  
  It would be a bold effort on his part, too. We have to note that the Prof. could be so persuasive that he could literally present a rebuttal to his own Doctoral thesis that earned him the PhD, to either have his Doctorate overturned, or earn him a second PhD on the same theme.
  
  How fair would it be that students of the same Professor would be going for each other's throat in an intellectual debate religiously drawing on the knowledge the Professor fed them with? Isn't there a moral obligation here for the Prof. to clear up the confusion in the supple minds he captured?
  
  I have stated elsewhere in consonance with the Prof.'s other view, though, that these meritorious comparisons of our pioneers ought to be handled under their special contexts or abandoned totally, because they do not do Justice to the leaders. All of them had laudable attributes that uniquely must add to our National pride but might have been perceived wrongly otherwise.
  
  We must find a way to celebrate their qualities, and understand to forgive their shortfalls, or we will forever be debating inconclusively as to who trumps who. And that almost always drives a wedge between us to detract from what we need to build consensus on to grow our Nation.
  
  If we need to assess these leaders, we must be truthful and not emotionally charged to overlook the facts and circumstances.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• KK 12 years ago

  We understand busia and j.b are your relatives.Unfortunately, they could not come close the Dr Kwame; so please like it or not he is the greatest of all. You can not change history.

  We understand busia and j.b are your relatives.Unfortunately, they could not come close the Dr Kwame; so please like it or not he is the greatest of all. You can not change history.

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• Okyenhene 12 years ago

  "What changed in him to take such an 180 degree turn on Dr. Nkrumah, then?"
  
  "When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah."

  "What changed in him to take such an 180 degree turn on Dr. Nkrumah, then?"
  
  "When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah."

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• G. K. Berko 12 years ago

  Mr. Arhin, many of us share your disapproval with the Professor, every now and then, and you are free to express your views, but could you please spare the Prof. these body parts insults? They kind of sour the taste for cons ...
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  Mr. Arhin, many of us share your disapproval with the Professor, every now and then, and you are free to express your views, but could you please spare the Prof. these body parts insults? They kind of sour the taste for constructive arguments like the way you provided Baraka's piece. Help keep the ideas clean but strong.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• Kwadwo Arhin 12 years ago

  Ok.

  Ok.

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• mpaibu 12 years ago

  you Okoampa or whatever..
  
  you fool too much
  
  why is the webmaster entertaining this annoying daily gibberish?
  
  senseless

  you Okoampa or whatever..
  
  you fool too much
  
  why is the webmaster entertaining this annoying daily gibberish?
  
  senseless

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