The best coup d’etat in Ghana. Part two

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mohammed 11 years ago

what about the June 4 and 31 December? You may be entitle to your ideas. however, the Rawlings's first coup was justifiable. if you were in Ghana reflect on our predicaments before and after the coup.

what about the June 4 and 31 December? You may be entitle to your ideas. however, the Rawlings's first coup was justifiable. if you were in Ghana reflect on our predicaments before and after the coup.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

So will it be justified to remove Mahama now because our suffering now is worse than in June 1979 and at that time, the country was three months away for voters to vote for a civilian administration unlike Nkrumah who had mad ...
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So will it be justified to remove Mahama now because our suffering now is worse than in June 1979 and at that time, the country was three months away for voters to vote for a civilian administration unlike Nkrumah who had made himself President for life and disenfranchised the electorates.
Repugnant. 11 years ago

By animals!! Sedulously, by puppies whose eyes needs time to open.

However much we may differ in our opinions, we can both agree that if that sub-standing Nkrumah hating, turbid, confused, preposterous and vain ilk could ...
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By animals!! Sedulously, by puppies whose eyes needs time to open.

However much we may differ in our opinions, we can both agree that if that sub-standing Nkrumah hating, turbid, confused, preposterous and vain ilk could be excused from the normal, Good and well evolved Ghanaians could not be blamed for it.

Indeed to what mental measure, did Kufuor suggest that we go for 7yr term of office for our presidency? If that wasn't more fruitive? You are excused. Thanks
CARDINAL 11 years ago

When the evidence is not on your side, according to one Philosopher, you have to resort to "confusuonist" diatribe. When you are an after thought after God has created vermins, ticks, house flies, toilet maggots, mosquitoes, ...
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When the evidence is not on your side, according to one Philosopher, you have to resort to "confusuonist" diatribe. When you are an after thought after God has created vermins, ticks, house flies, toilet maggots, mosquitoes, leeches and intestinal parasites and then lower his standard to create repugnant things like this repugnant, then such fruitless nonsense coming from where 'feacal' deposits exit body without the use of a brain matter with an IQ of rotten egg, then you can be excused as a mental deficient challenged.
Kwame Buor 11 years ago

Criticise your God,Otumfuo,the Asantehene for his misdeeds and leave Kwame Nkrumah,the universally acknowledged GREATEST AFRICAN.Don't pretend you didn't hear the BBC POLL of December,1999.

Criticise your God,Otumfuo,the Asantehene for his misdeeds and leave Kwame Nkrumah,the universally acknowledged GREATEST AFRICAN.Don't pretend you didn't hear the BBC POLL of December,1999.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

The only God I know is my creator and not any self acclaimed redeemer like Nkrumah. Asantehene is a respected King but not a God.

You are the one looking for a hero, I am not. I need an intelligent person to refute what Dr ...
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The only God I know is my creator and not any self acclaimed redeemer like Nkrumah. Asantehene is a respected King but not a God.

You are the one looking for a hero, I am not. I need an intelligent person to refute what Dr Sarfo wrote and not yahoos changing the subject because everything in Dr SAS article is true.
Charlie King Addo 11 years ago

The length people will go to discredit the dead and buried Nkrumah. Nkrumah has been out of Ghana’s body politics since 66 so why the need to bash the man after all these years? We know the services Nkrumah did for us and t ...
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The length people will go to discredit the dead and buried Nkrumah. Nkrumah has been out of Ghana’s body politics since 66 so why the need to bash the man after all these years? We know the services Nkrumah did for us and the pride he instilled in all Africans and all that aspired to the black cause.

For almost 50 years after Nkrumah what else has Ghana achieved worth writing home about? Ghana flipped on its head as things are today must appeal to your warped state of mind but to the true Ghanaian, it is a living night mare.

If you are here to make a mockery of us, you just hit a home run. You picked a very good time when nobody recognizes our country any longer to kick us when we have fallen flat and cannot even stand up on our own.

You do not need education to be a mean spirited person. We do have a dime a dozen of those lost in the pan-cake so Mr. Socrates, been a mean spirited individual as you are, does not separate you from the husk. We have never seen Ghana this bad in times of peace so my dear scholar, your timing is off the hook. Are you not the least faced by the predicament we are in? It must be ideal to you I would like to guess, as selfish and wicked as you are considering our present conditions to feel the need to turn the heat on Nkrumah just to touch a nerve.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

I willk just deal with your second paragraph. First, do you know what a nightmare is? A nightmare is when as a parent you were a prisoner in your own house your own young pioneer son who was ready to report you to the Kwame ...
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I willk just deal with your second paragraph. First, do you know what a nightmare is? A nightmare is when as a parent you were a prisoner in your own house your own young pioneer son who was ready to report you to the Kwame Nkrumah stooges to arrest you for saying anything bad about Nkrumah administration. A nightmare worse than hunger is when you are a mental prisoner and Nkrumah made Ghanaians mental prisoners worse thousand times under colonial rule. Ghanaians never qued for essential commodities like sugar, soap etc until Nkrumah became President.

Secondly, you asked what Ghana has achieved since Nkrumah was removed. My simple answer is; FREEDOM TO EXPRESS OUR OPINIONS. At least now everybody can express his or her opinion without fear of being arrested and imprisoned without trial. It was not like manna was falling from heaven during Nkrumah's rule. Starting from 1963, our economy was falling apart. Our gdp per person was decreasing whilst that of Malaysia and Singapore were going up. Nkrumah had spent every dime of the 400 million pounds he took in 1957 and was running a budget deficit. We were quing for every essential commodity under the sun and even complaining of these shortages was a crime that could send you to prison for life.

Give me freedom or death, have you heard that saying before? Nkrumah denied us freedom and gave us death and you think all of us should march in tandem and praise this dictator because we want heroes in our lives?

People like you are doing a very good job of everything that was good about Nkrumah, let the other side of the coin be described, ok?
Charlie King Addo 11 years ago

My father hated politics in Nkrumah’s time with passion and I was whipped when I attended young pioneer meetings at Tema. My father never saw any prison walls. If I should follow you blindly and say Nkrumah was the worst Af ...
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My father hated politics in Nkrumah’s time with passion and I was whipped when I attended young pioneer meetings at Tema. My father never saw any prison walls. If I should follow you blindly and say Nkrumah was the worst African ever would you be at peace with yourself?

Nkrumah had no right to be paranoid no matter how many bombs were thrown at him. His life did not matter, rather that of his detractors did. I am not mad at you just because you will sell your country. I know for a fact at the end of the day the joke will be on you. Your take on history, thank God is not the only truth that is.

You have the right by all means to hate a good man if that is what massages your ego. Now you as an individual are uninhibited to make an impact to take our country where Nkrumah with all his shortcomings left off. Do it positively for that is what Ghana needs right now.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Never said Nkrumah was the worst African leader because he was not. Nkrumah did his best and he was a patriot too but he as a human being made mistakes that led to his downfall.

There was no reason in declaring himself Pre ...
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Never said Nkrumah was the worst African leader because he was not. Nkrumah did his best and he was a patriot too but he as a human being made mistakes that led to his downfall.

There was no reason in declaring himself President for life and for that particular decision, the coup in 1966 was justifies. I will not respond to your subtle insults because it says more about what kind of person you are with weak brains.

Koo 11 years ago

Hi Mohammed or what you call yourself, the June 4th and the Dec 31st uprisings were the worst coups and the uncalled for coups in Ghana. It was uncalled for. I WILL PUT THIS WRITINGS IN BLOCK LETTERS FOR YOU TO KNOW. THOSE CO ...
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Hi Mohammed or what you call yourself, the June 4th and the Dec 31st uprisings were the worst coups and the uncalled for coups in Ghana. It was uncalled for. I WILL PUT THIS WRITINGS IN BLOCK LETTERS FOR YOU TO KNOW. THOSE COUPS WERE STAGED BY CRIMINALS WHO COULD NOT MAKE ENDS MEET WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE MIGHT OF GHANA-OUR OWN MILITARY TO ROB THE CITIZENS OF THEIR JOY AND LIFE. ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE ABOVE COUPS WILL DIE BEFORE THEIR TIME AND WILL END UP IN THE HELL OF FIRE. THEIR LEADER IS A THIEF, A MURDERED, NATION WRECKER AND INSENSITIVE MAN WHO SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO LIVE FOR A DAY. RAWLINGS COUPS BROUGHT ABOUT TRIBAL BOUNDARIES IN GHANA, AND HAS GIVEN WAY TO INSENSITIVITY ON THE PART OF HIS PARTY THAT USES TH HOOK AND CROOK MEANS TO RIDGE ELECTIONS. LET ME TELL YOU THAT GHANA IS HEADING TO THE BURUNDI ERA WHEE THE MINORITY ETHNIC GROUP TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE MAJORITY TRIBE ONLY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEIR TRIBE DOMINATE THE GOVERNMENT. WHAT HAPPENED THEN?????????????? IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, THEN WAIT FOR IT. THAT YOUR RAWLINGS IS BANZA KAWEY.
GOLD COAST 11 years ago

In the early morning of February 24,1966,yours truly's great aunt( and seven other Ghana Airways workers)- on their way to work at the then Accra International Airport - were cowardly and mercilessly mowed down by Afrifa and ...
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In the early morning of February 24,1966,yours truly's great aunt( and seven other Ghana Airways workers)- on their way to work at the then Accra International Airport - were cowardly and mercilessly mowed down by Afrifa and Kotoka's soldiers - near Flagstaff House.The reason for their deaths was that the driver(not knowing there was a coup),did not come to a complete stop - as ordered.With the exception of the families,most Ghanaians did not know that many innocent civilians perished at the hands of Afrifa and Kotoka.

And now,here comes a fool with a cheap law degree from a middling school in South-west Texas(and he calls himself "Dr."(whereas 99.9% of American lawyers and judges,including Harvard law professors and Supreme Court Justices,don't use that appellation), calling the 1966 coup the best in Ghana.Which of the coups(including attempted)in Ghana was good or not good?

For too long the progeny and sympathizers of the backward-thinking Mate Meho terrorists and traitors (Danquah,Busia,Obetsebi-Lamptey, Bafour Osei-Akoto - then the Asantehene's chief linguist - Mallam Tula and a host of others),have tried to whitewash the undemocratic and violent past of the Mate Meho,pre and post independence - but to no avail.

Their objective now is to use the new technology in the media to demonize the the best African leader and the "Man of the Millenniun". This,they WILL fail because the young generation
is smarter than what Sarfo and his cohort think of them.

As someone who lives in the U.S(in the conservative and racist state of Texas),and an "attorney" to boot - Sarfo should know better and stop rambling circuitously about CIVIL and HUMAN RIGHTS infringements during the Nkrumah days.This is nauseating,to say the least. Nkrumah did not execute the above traitors,despite the fact that their nefarious activities led to the murdering of hundreds of innocent Ghanaians in Ashanti,Eastern Region and Brong Ahafo(including Krobo Edusei's sister in Kumasi) - for the simple reason that they were associated with CPP.

In fact,the "ideal democratic" state of Texas executes more prisoners than all other states in the U.S and Western Europe.Texas also has laws on its books preventing a large segment of the minority population(African-Americans and Latinos)from voting.So don't give us this crap about democratic values.

For homework,Sarfo should compare the draconian anti-terrorism laws in the U.S(PATRIOT ACT)and Britain,where citizens are detained or prosecuted for "belonging" to or "suspected" to have contacts with terrorists - to the PDA in Ghana after independence.Does lawyer Sarfo think the governments of these two liberal democracies will sit around and let their citizens throw bombs and attempt to assassinate their elected leaders? What happened to Timothy Mcveigh,the Oklahoma City bomber? As of now,two US citizens have been "liquidated" outside the U.S,(by drone attacks).Were they afforded due process? Don't even talk about the Snowden case.

The British brought us the PDA. India,Malaysia,Singapore and other colonial territories had them before and after independence. In fact,most former colonies still have them and are either strengthened or modified.

In post-independence Malaysia,the Prime Minister,Tunku Abdul Rahman used the PDA to detain hundreds of terrorists and secessionists who bombed government offices,killed Security personnel and tried several times to assassinate him.The opposition parties which lost the elections supervised by the British,heaped all kinds of invectives on Rahman.Like Nkrumah,the terrorists called him a dictator,a murderer and "Hitler".More than 3,000 Malaysians perished in the the civil war which the British had to intervene,to save the democratically elected government from being overthrown.With his foresight and determination,Tunku Abdul Rahman built Malaysia into a modern state envied by all developing countries,including Ghana.Today,Rahman is revered as the founder of Malaysia.

In Singapore,after independence,Lee Kuan Yew faced the same terrorism by the opposition parties,whom he defeated in elections.He used the PDA to cut-off their legs. And again,today Singapore is the envy of developing countries(even the Mate Meho progeny in Ghana laud the achievements of Singapore).

Sarfo and his cohort need to open their eyes and be enlightened more.Tribal kinship and crying "democracy","democracy", while murdering fellow Ghanaians and throwing bombs to undermine democratically elected governments(Danquah-Busia-Tulla Tradition),will not work anymore.

PEACE

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C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

Gold Coast,

Thanks for your spirited rebuttals to what is essentially Azar's writing, in response to the piece by Mike and Ekow, a piece I had the privilege of reading through for them.

It is too late to write and exten ...
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Gold Coast,

Thanks for your spirited rebuttals to what is essentially Azar's writing, in response to the piece by Mike and Ekow, a piece I had the privilege of reading through for them.

It is too late to write and extended contribution, so I'd leave it for another day.

Andy-K
Ben, Maryland, US 11 years ago

Poor Samuel you still believe in such lies. I thought you are now exposed and educated enough to distinguish between truth and lies.

Poor Samuel you still believe in such lies. I thought you are now exposed and educated enough to distinguish between truth and lies.
Ras Mojah 11 years ago

SAS,u are an idiot of an idiot,a fool of a fool and a bastard without equal.You are definately in the position you are simply because Dr Kwame Nkrumah raised his voice when millions were merely whispering,he stood up fir the ...
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SAS,u are an idiot of an idiot,a fool of a fool and a bastard without equal.You are definately in the position you are simply because Dr Kwame Nkrumah raised his voice when millions were merely whispering,he stood up fir the African when other leaders chise to kneel before the colonialist,He sought solutions to the African problems when other leaders were content with our plight.You are so stupid to have the education yiu have.bastard.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You sound like an idiot. Nkrumah turned out to be worse than the colonial masters. He enslaved Ghanaians and made them mental prisoners. We got independence from the colonial masters and put back in prison mentally by a black ...
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You sound like an idiot. Nkrumah turned out to be worse than the colonial masters. He enslaved Ghanaians and made them mental prisoners. We got independence from the colonial masters and put back in prison mentally by a black dictator.
Mensah 11 years ago

why respond to such braindead fool

why respond to such braindead fool
Ras Mojah 11 years ago

SAS,u are an idiot of an idiot,a fool of a fool and a bastard without equal.You are definately in the position you are simply because Dr Kwame Nkrumah raised his voice when millions were merely whispering,he stood up fir the ...
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SAS,u are an idiot of an idiot,a fool of a fool and a bastard without equal.You are definately in the position you are simply because Dr Kwame Nkrumah raised his voice when millions were merely whispering,he stood up fir the African when other leaders chise to kneel before the colonialist,He sought solutions to the African problems when other leaders were content with our plight.You are so stupid to have the education yiu have.bastard.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

See how the CPP apologetics are descending heavily on hewriter .What lies are you talking about ? Is it not true that , Nkrumah used the PDA to suppress the opposition , that the CPP had the Action Troopers as their terror gr ...
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See how the CPP apologetics are descending heavily on hewriter .What lies are you talking about ? Is it not true that , Nkrumah used the PDA to suppress the opposition , that the CPP had the Action Troopers as their terror group, that his own party members including member of his own security were arrested for throwing bombs at him , that he doled out our monies like a drunken sailor to other countries to satisfy his ego? Nkrumah was so paranoid he even did not have a deputy. Ho would like a type of person like North Korea's Kim Il Sung to be his head of state and Nkrumah woud have been worse .The hypocrisy of these CPP apologetics knows no boundaries . Hey don't they ass luggage and go live in Cuba or North Korea and spare ur ears ?
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

Correction : why don't they pack luggage and go live in Cuba or North Korea and spare our ears ? I would add that Nkrumah' s overthrow was the best thing that happened to Ghana.

Correction : why don't they pack luggage and go live in Cuba or North Korea and spare our ears ? I would add that Nkrumah' s overthrow was the best thing that happened to Ghana.

123 11 years ago

Tell us the lies in this article.

Tell us the lies in this article.
Pelicles 11 years ago

Why don't you counter with the truth that you only know? The writer did not incriminate JB Danquah and others so, the article seems stupid to you. We are not children to be fed with "candies". Those of you who see Nkrumah as ...
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Why don't you counter with the truth that you only know? The writer did not incriminate JB Danquah and others so, the article seems stupid to you. We are not children to be fed with "candies". Those of you who see Nkrumah as a "god" who did no wrong are similar to those who are propagating lies that JJ brought democracy to Ghana forgetting that the first republic was a civilian government.

Nkrumah was maniac who deserve what came to him. And as the writer says, our national anthem says that "we must resist oppressors rule with all our might" that means in any way possible.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

Of course Samuel is rewriting history. This is because it favoured his party if Nkrumah were gotten rid of. It is only Samuel who can see Rawlings' coup as better than any coup in Ghana.
In my mind, some have resorted to r ...
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Of course Samuel is rewriting history. This is because it favoured his party if Nkrumah were gotten rid of. It is only Samuel who can see Rawlings' coup as better than any coup in Ghana.
In my mind, some have resorted to rewriting history, picking and choosing which part they reproduce.
It is the height of academic dishonesty, if one writes without a reference. Unbelievable.
Daniel Somuah 11 years ago

I am not surprised you have already made it known to us that you were three years old when Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966.Apparently,you have been completely misinformed and disinformed by Nkrumah's enemies.Your subjective an ...
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I am not surprised you have already made it known to us that you were three years old when Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966.Apparently,you have been completely misinformed and disinformed by Nkrumah's enemies.Your subjective and non-factual write-up is laughable.
Francis Kwame Oduro. 11 years ago

Samuel Adjei Sarfo,as a Legal practitioner,your justification for coup d'état is rather surprising.Go back to Law school.

Samuel Adjei Sarfo,as a Legal practitioner,your justification for coup d'état is rather surprising.Go back to Law school.
ghana 11 years ago

Tell us one lie in this article. You Nkrumah apologists keep saying the Author lied in this article without disputing one lie in this article.

Tell us one lie in this article. You Nkrumah apologists keep saying the Author lied in this article without disputing one lie in this article.
Ringo 11 years ago

One your lies is that there was unemployment in Ghana in 1966.Read the confused Dr SAS previous article.

One your lies is that there was unemployment in Ghana in 1966.Read the confused Dr SAS previous article.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Trash posing as scholarship! This is standing history on his head! Where will you be without Nkrumah!

Trash posing as scholarship! This is standing history on his head! Where will you be without Nkrumah!
Vuvuzela 11 years ago

You should probably yell your message at him; maybe he will understand.

These days, every "learned" Ghanaian tends to write their own history, tailored to match the size of their tummy, i.e., according to whom they want t ...
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You should probably yell your message at him; maybe he will understand.

These days, every "learned" Ghanaian tends to write their own history, tailored to match the size of their tummy, i.e., according to whom they want to play servility to.
Moses 11 years ago

His categorical history is from his research or just what others had written. It is essential to sift through history carefully to arrive at what can be purported to be the true account of events. This is not an easy task.

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His categorical history is from his research or just what others had written. It is essential to sift through history carefully to arrive at what can be purported to be the true account of events. This is not an easy task.

SAS was 2 or 4 years when Nkrumah was overthrown. He fully enjoyed Nkrumah's free education policy. Well, that doesn't mean he shouldn't see anything wrong about Nkrumah but it must be based on incontrovertible facts and not just easy (mis)representation. Nkrumah was not a God but he was not a devil either.

MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
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The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
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The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
ROBERT ARHIN 11 years ago

Dr Sarfo,listen! your personal biased opinion about the greatest African Kwame Nkrumah,cannot trump the BBC poll of December,1999.Nkrumah's name went down into history as "AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLENIEUM"in that BBC poll.Nothi ...
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Dr Sarfo,listen! your personal biased opinion about the greatest African Kwame Nkrumah,cannot trump the BBC poll of December,1999.Nkrumah's name went down into history as "AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLENIEUM"in that BBC poll.Nothing can change it.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
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The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
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The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
Ekow 11 years ago

Leave this ignorant fool(Samuel Adjei Sarfo) to rot in abject poverty of mind. Such people are a disgrace to civilization and academia. Stupidity, they say, is as stupid does. I hope he is reading these comments. No one has t ...
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Leave this ignorant fool(Samuel Adjei Sarfo) to rot in abject poverty of mind. Such people are a disgrace to civilization and academia. Stupidity, they say, is as stupid does. I hope he is reading these comments. No one has the time to email you, Sarfo. That person would have brought him/herself to your idiotic level. God save you.
kwame Buor 11 years ago

Dr Sarfo,your reference to Thomas Jefferson has rather exposed your ignorance and stupidity.Blacks were suppressed and oppressed for years when Thomas Jefferson was preaching DEMOCRACY.I am surprised you still don't know how ...
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Dr Sarfo,your reference to Thomas Jefferson has rather exposed your ignorance and stupidity.Blacks were suppressed and oppressed for years when Thomas Jefferson was preaching DEMOCRACY.I am surprised you still don't know how hypocritical the WHITEMAN is,if you do you will stop writing NONSENSE about Nkrumah and focus on your bogus Law practice..
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
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The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
read full comment

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
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The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a ...
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The CPP apologetics such as Clement Sangaparee portray the CPP as party of angels and the UP the devil incarnate but indeed his darling parties ,theCPP nd the AFRC/ PNDC were parties formed by Satan himself. The CPP had a terror branch called the Action Troopers which visited mayhem on any Ghanaian who did not tow the CPP line. I call on CPP apologetics to deny that this group ever existed and if existed ,what was it's job ? The best thing that ever happened in Ghana was the overthrow of this brutal dictator. He was so paranoid he did not have deputy, and when his own people threw bombs at him for which they were arrested and tried, the surrogates of the CPP blame the UP . The problems we are facing now as a nation had it's genesis from Nkrumah's time and exarcerbated by the AFRC/ PNDC.
DJ FIRE 11 years ago

O what a glorious day it was
When the traitor was brought onto the firing range
The youth cried
let the blood flow
the squad complied
Pow! Pow! Pow!
Ra-ta-ta-ta, ra-ta-ta-ta
tah-tah-tah-tah

O what a glorious day ...
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O what a glorious day it was
When the traitor was brought onto the firing range
The youth cried
let the blood flow
the squad complied
Pow! Pow! Pow!
Ra-ta-ta-ta, ra-ta-ta-ta
tah-tah-tah-tah

O what a glorious day
O what a glorious day
No pity for the coward
who tried to flee
the traitor's fate
No pity for the coward
who saw his death coming
and begged for rescue
to come
in vain
a self-fulfilling prophecy
it became
Ho ho ho
Ho ho ho
low low low
low low low
Afrifa's body lies
rotting in the grave
Ho ho ho
ho ho ho
low low low
low low low
Afrifa's body lies
rotting in the grave

O what a glorious day!
The best execution ever in Ghana!
mallam obuasi 11 years ago

Na these one be book book no wisdom too much pizza in your brain

Na these one be book book no wisdom too much pizza in your brain
Nii Ashitey 11 years ago

I am not surprised by the trash coming from some one who is a typical example of a western stooge.This is the same man who has been advocating in his numerous write ups that the African culture is inferior to white culture so ...
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I am not surprised by the trash coming from some one who is a typical example of a western stooge.This is the same man who has been advocating in his numerous write ups that the African culture is inferior to white culture so we must all adopt it.This is the man who said Africans are so primitive that we must accept western values to civilize us.

With this mindset it is not surprising that a lost soul like SAS should raise his voice against the man who stood for black culture and black emancipation and had been touted as one of the main authorities who had done so much for the dignity of the African and the black man.Nkrumah's credentials as a proud African and scholar has never been in doubt for a minor like SAS to question. I would not normally respond to such a trash but just to set the records straight.SAS is a confused man.
JAMES 11 years ago

This is a complete trash written with hatred, and worthless of comments. We know the true colour of this so self proclaimed Dr. Asare. Where was he hiding all along? Is this not the man who was jubilating for verdict in favou ...
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This is a complete trash written with hatred, and worthless of comments. We know the true colour of this so self proclaimed Dr. Asare. Where was he hiding all along? Is this not the man who was jubilating for verdict in favour of Akufo Addo, when the verdict was yet to be announced? Assre, aka Azar, we know you very well. You can throw dust into the eyes of your guillible ignorant ones, but not Ghanaians. You talk bla, bla, bla as if Ghanaians are ignorant. Today, Nkrumah, according to you people, was the worst dictator Ghana has ever had. And no more Jerry Rawlings as you people have been drumming all over for all this time. You see how hypocrite you are? No amount of your rubbish can erase what the grerat Nkrumah as done for Ghana and African as a whole. You talk of Nkrumah rejecting verdicts of rulings that did not favoured him. What about Busia and his cronies? Give us a break!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

The braying, bleating and barking of the Nkrumahist donkeys, sheep and dogs is one further indication of their brain atrophy, bequeathed unto them by their divine mentor. Thus apart from their usual apoplectic tantrums, none ...
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The braying, bleating and barking of the Nkrumahist donkeys, sheep and dogs is one further indication of their brain atrophy, bequeathed unto them by their divine mentor. Thus apart from their usual apoplectic tantrums, none can point out any lie in my article nor coherently debate any salient issue I have raised.
Vuvuzela 11 years ago

Dude, read something interesting from Kwarteng Francis that will make your day sad.

"Interestingly, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana’s former Finance Minister, from 1982-1995, has formally acknowledged the reason behind Nkrumah ...
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Dude, read something interesting from Kwarteng Francis that will make your day sad.

"Interestingly, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana’s former Finance Minister, from 1982-1995, has formally acknowledged the reason behind Nkrumah’s overthrow, thus writing: “He was forthright in his view about which side in the Cold War favored the conditions for the consolidation of African independence and development. Imperialism was decidedly unforgiving in these tense times and Nkrumah paid dearly for his trenchant criticism of colonial and post-colonial exploitation. The publication of his book on Neo-colonialism in 1965 met with a hostile reaction from the West. The American government withdrew $35 million in aid earmarked for Ghana, and we know that Nkrumah paid the ultimate price in Feb. 24, the following year (1966) when a Western-backed coup d’état overthrew him (See “The Relevance of Kwame Nkrumah’s Legacy in Ghana’s Contemporary Political Economy”)"

Now, pray, who is braying, bleating and barking as donkeys, sheep and dogs?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

Kwarteng, my good friend and brother, will be the first to ask you which aspect of my article you are disputing or debating.

Kwarteng, my good friend and brother, will be the first to ask you which aspect of my article you are disputing or debating.
Vuvuzela 11 years ago

You see, the promptitude and avidity with which you responded to my comment shows how much you thrive on feedback generated by your polemical subjectivity.

You see, people underestimated Nkrumah's genius so they were wron ...
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You see, the promptitude and avidity with which you responded to my comment shows how much you thrive on feedback generated by your polemical subjectivity.

You see, people underestimated Nkrumah's genius so they were wrong to have fomented nefarious agitations against him.
On the other hand, those idiots who were power-thirsty and had very little brains had their spleens already deeply anchored against the greatest acknowledged African in contemporary history of the dark continent.

Let me give you this comparison: Ivory Coast has almost the same landscape and natural endowments equaling in magnitude to Ghana's. That country was led by the France-leaning Felix Houphouet-Boigny who took all those number of years as he did as president but who couldn't match Nkrumah's oeuvres that took him only some 9 years to accomplish. But Houphouet-Boigny wasn't ever contested until his death. Do you see what peace could achieve in a state? The Ivorian lived and died in quietude. Wouldn't it have been better to have allowed Nkrumah some peace for his sacrifices? Wouldn't Nkrumah have performed better than then type of Ghana unleashed on us by those who took over, taking into consideration the quality job he did?

But there is one thing so many people didn't know of Houphouet-Boigny. He fed people to crocodiles, but know one talks about that.

Personally, I believe erecting platforms to vilify a leader such as Nkrumah whose achievements still tower so much over those of all the succeeding heads of state we had/have combined long after he was overthrown is clearly not being smart!

You have to appreciate the fact that we in Ghana have never changed, and the type of wicked leadership too hasn't changed. With the kind of people like you in Ghana, nothing will happen better for the country; I am sorry but that's the apex truth, the crux of the matter.
Social Justice 11 years ago

Any fool with 400 million pounds at his disposal in 1957 with a population of 6 million could have done more than what Nkrumah did. You don't know what you are talking about. Ivory Coast even with just cocoa unlike Ghana with ...
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Any fool with 400 million pounds at his disposal in 1957 with a population of 6 million could have done more than what Nkrumah did. You don't know what you are talking about. Ivory Coast even with just cocoa unlike Ghana with many natural resources is more developed than Ghana.

Ghanaians started going to Ivory Coast for economic reasons in 1963 when Ghana economy started going into the toilet. You don't know what you are talking about.
Vuvuzela 11 years ago

Did you understand my point at all? What are the developments in Ivory Coast? Are you one of those satisfied with mediocrity? Ivory Coast is Abidjan, point barre.

When Ghana railways were commissioned how many countries h ...
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Did you understand my point at all? What are the developments in Ivory Coast? Are you one of those satisfied with mediocrity? Ivory Coast is Abidjan, point barre.

When Ghana railways were commissioned how many countries had such projects in Africa? And how many years did Boigny take to put this up?

Take you time to read the post below from someone who replied to Sarpong when he caressed the same thought. I hope it will edify you so you'd see if you know what you're talking about:

"Barima Sarpong,

In the first place, please do justice to your name by getting your facts and figures right. The British blew all our monies during the second World War which resulted in veterans who served in Burma and elsewhere during WWII being rendered unemployed after they returned home. This led to the looting in 1948. The 200 million pounds (not 250 millions pounds) was accrued between 1951 and 1957 when Nkrumah was head of government in Business. The British were broke after the WWII and were bailed out with the rest of Europe by the US Marshal plan. It was our own money not what the British left us. Sarpong, does it make sense to you that after over 100years British rule all they leave us was a mere 200 million pounds?

Secondly, using the rate of inflation, 200 million British pounds would be worth nearly $6 billion at most in today’s money and NOT $20 billion as you would have gullible starters to believe. You can check this out on the following web site: This is money.co.uk for real figures. Sarpong, as you know you can have your own opinion but cannot manufacture your own facts.

Thirdly and by no means the least. Nkrumah had to start from the scratch. Look, when Nkrumah took over, Ghana had to import everything, there was not a single factory in Ghana. I don’t know whether you are aware of this fact. Nkrumah started from putting numerous institutions in place which most them recently celebrated their 50th anniversary to building power plants to jump start our economy.

Sarpong, the building of the Akosombo dam and townships alone took a chunk of 35 million pounds. That was Ghana’s contribution to Volta River Project. The Adomi bridge to connect Volta region took over a million pounds. Building of Kumasi nurses training college, building KNUST, building of Cape Coast University. Adding more dorms to Legon university, Medical school, free education and healthcare. Meanwhile teachers, nurses, police service and army are being paid. On top of that building over 69 SOEs(State owned enterprises) Housing estates in all regions, more secondary schools and adding more teachers training apart from infrastructure. A dozen trawlers for state fishing corporation, 14 ships paid for BSL, new planes for VC10 for Ghana Airway,. Bank of Ghana, Ghana Commercial Bank. Tema townships , motorway, railway for commuters from Accra to Tema. The first double track rails from Kotoku to Takoradi to cut short the journey to Takoradi which use go through Kumasi before reaching your destination. Buying of the Blue train express train in addition to ply this new route. Superb Public transport with Agogi (Benz buses) in urban cities, State Transport Corp with comfortable German Setra buses for long distance journey, Telecommunications, roads and building of clinics all over the country,GNTC etc was a Hercules task. Those who came after Nkrumah had a cold chop. Very easy job but all failed!

Sarpong, do you deduct the amount spent i.e. the huge investment made from this 200 million pounds you make a fuss about? Kufuor and Rawlings are nowhere near Nkrumah. They came and met institutions in place which today still hold Ghana administratively together.

Rawlings, went through SAP to solidify the fundaments of our economy, Ghana was growing under his administration and in Africa the IMF hailed his administration. Whether Sarpong likes it or not it was Rawlings who opened up the press with private radio and TV stations, the internet, the advent of mobile phones and more travelling of Ghanaians abroad and with their remittance which in effect eased the economic burden of many families. Rawlings administration had to absorbed hundreds of thousands of displaced Ghanaians from Nigerian this is no easy task. Rawlings did a lot on water supply and rural electrification.

Kufuor, inherited a debt of $ 6,2 billion of which Ghana got a debt relief of $4.2 billion after going HIPC. On top of it another $565 million was awarded to Ghana by the US government after meeting the MCA requirements. For so much money and the few projects undertaken which left Ghana again broke after Kufuor’s tenure of office to a total tune of over $8 billion leaves much to be desired. The corruption level under kufuor’s watch is the worse ever seen in Ghana. E.g. The Taj Mahal which cost $100 million and counting remains an uncompleted project. The Ghana@50 was a farce. From my humble point of view history will not be kind to Kufour as to which position he would be holding after the great Kwame Nkrumah.

My favourite ratings of Ghanaian politicians are in this order: Kwame Nkrumah, Kofi Annan, Rawlings, Afari K. Gjan, Kufuor. The position of Mills can only be determined after his tenure in office. As for Kofi Busia the least said about him the better. Limann was blackmailed by PFP which prompted the second coming of Rawlings. My judgement though is the Feb 24th 1966 coup took us aback and Ghana has ever since been taken hostage. Nkrumah Lives! We still face forward. Long live Maame/Daavi Ghana in Freedom and Justice.
Vuvuzela 11 years ago

Sorry, I should have just included the cost to Nkrumah's project without the unnecessary story about Rawlings and Kufuor.

Have a nice weekend, though.

Sorry, I should have just included the cost to Nkrumah's project without the unnecessary story about Rawlings and Kufuor.

Have a nice weekend, though.
Kwame Buor 11 years ago

The British left 140 million pounds and not 400 milliom pounds.Nkrumah was depending mostly on loans for the Seven Year Development Plan.You are A STUPID liar.

The British left 140 million pounds and not 400 milliom pounds.Nkrumah was depending mostly on loans for the Seven Year Development Plan.You are A STUPID liar.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You are an idiot. 140 million pounds in 1957 is more than 10 billion dollars in today's currency. Why will Nkrumah give 10 million pounds to Guinea if all he got was 140 million pounds? Does it make any sense?

You are an idiot. 140 million pounds in 1957 is more than 10 billion dollars in today's currency. Why will Nkrumah give 10 million pounds to Guinea if all he got was 140 million pounds? Does it make any sense?
RINGO 11 years ago

Cardinal lied that the British left 400 million pounds instead of 140 million pounds.When he was challenged on this web,he responded with insult. I hope this idiotic Cardinal knows the difference between 140 and 400.

Cardinal lied that the British left 400 million pounds instead of 140 million pounds.When he was challenged on this web,he responded with insult. I hope this idiotic Cardinal knows the difference between 140 and 400.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You are a fool. Where is your evidence that it was 140 million pounds and not 400 million pounds. You are a dolt my sarcasm escaped you.

You are a fool. Where is your evidence that it was 140 million pounds and not 400 million pounds. You are a dolt my sarcasm escaped you.
Ringo 11 years ago

Thank you,Vuvuzela for your impressive responses on this forum.Dr SAS,Cardinal etc.are all too narrow-minded and biased to understand you message.

Thank you,Vuvuzela for your impressive responses on this forum.Dr SAS,Cardinal etc.are all too narrow-minded and biased to understand you message.
Ras Mojah 11 years ago

Dr SAS.u are just a useless legal practitioner whithiut any brains of your own.Ghana has no use for your type.Both you and K. Asare have nothing to offer OMAN GHANA.

Dr SAS.u are just a useless legal practitioner whithiut any brains of your own.Ghana has no use for your type.Both you and K. Asare have nothing to offer OMAN GHANA.
Kwame Buor 11 years ago

In February 1966 unemployment in Ghana was zero,but you stated in your previous article that Nkrumah created unemployment in Ghana.Since you were only three years old,you better ask your father.All the factories Nkrumah estab ...
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In February 1966 unemployment in Ghana was zero,but you stated in your previous article that Nkrumah created unemployment in Ghana.Since you were only three years old,you better ask your father.All the factories Nkrumah established were manufacturing at full capacity.I remember vividly well Kumasi was a bubbling city with the Kumasi Shoe Factory,Jute Fibre Bag factory Tomos bicycle factory,City Hotel etc. which were all built by the Nkrumah regime.Kumasi was a very attractive city.Even armed robbery was non-existent in Kumasi.You are a damn idiotic and confused liar.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Was that $35 million America withdrew a loan owed to Ghana? Why should America give Nkrumah $35 million when he was publicly denouncing them as imperialist and behind the scenes begging them to finance his budget.

Does it ...
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Was that $35 million America withdrew a loan owed to Ghana? Why should America give Nkrumah $35 million when he was publicly denouncing them as imperialist and behind the scenes begging them to finance his budget.

Does it make sense for one person to aid his enemy to kill him? If you need $35 million dollars, don't you think the best person to get it from is your friend and not your enemy? Why didn't Nkrumah ask the Soviet Union to give him $35 million. You wanted the Americans to help Nkrumah to destroy them? You are not suggesting America should have committed political suicide to help Nkrumah, are you?
Vuvuzela 11 years ago

Sarpong, denouncing imperialism is NOT support for communism! In case you missed it - and if no one told you before - Nkrumah was strictly nonaligned despite his leanings. He declared himself nonaligned.
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Sarpong, denouncing imperialism is NOT support for communism! In case you missed it - and if no one told you before - Nkrumah was strictly nonaligned despite his leanings. He declared himself nonaligned.
Why should America fear him and Africa turning into socialism? It would never have weighed in much in the world's eventual direction.

And I can continue to attest that political ideologies aren't inherently faulty. It is the disciples of the ideologies that mould oddities out of them and make them look like monsters.

You see, sometimes to weaken even your enemy isn't to deny him water when he is thirsty, deny him of food when he is hungry. Not only does it take away your credibility and the very core values you defend, it makes you a vile manipulator whilst fortifying your enemy. Everyone is prone to fruitful discussions instead of aggressions that hardly mitigate grievances.
Nkrumah did have assistance from the Soviets and from even communist China just as he had help from the West.

The issue about the West which tipped leaders like Nkrumah and his contemporaries against imperialism was that, the USA and allies had tasteless palpable vestiges all over Africa, much of which remain till today throughout the wretched continent.
When Nkrumah took power, the West including Britain, France and the USA were already supporting the Apartheid regime in South Africa and brewing conflicts in the whole South African sub-region, undermining Congo and the whole Central African belt in the name of their ideologies.

I am not saying Nkrumah was 100 percent right just as Clinton and Bush weren't, but the West's hatred shouldn't be edified on someone's perceived ideological leanings.
Nkrumah was human and could have been talked reasonably down.

On the other hand, we shouldn't also take every unnecessary occasion to run him down. Those we have now are worse even if they are showing what they know.

Do you see how Africans are flocking to Europe despite the great risks of getting drowned in the Mediterranean? There are some 40000 in the region between Maroc and Spain waiting to go, apart from the huge numbers arriving in Italy every day.
Last week, Dulles Airport in Washington had their fair share of surprises mounted when they discovered a dead body in the undercarriage of South African Airways arriving from the Senegal. That was the third after two previous arrivals (who arrived as passengers with the same airline) who had no documents and the US is pretty vexed over the issue.
Now, if they don't take care, all Africa will be heading towards America and the West.

Won't it have served the West better to help Africa have self-sufficiency decades ago than face mass exodus in years to come when they themselves are barely sticking their necks over the waves?
Mensah 11 years ago

were you a propagandist for the young pioneers?

were you a propagandist for the young pioneers?
gg 11 years ago

Why shoud usa give ghana $35 million? Are you serious?

Why shoud usa give ghana $35 million? Are you serious?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

That is exactly true Doctor. I have asked countless times for these atrophied looking for hero to worship Nkrumah factotums to point out one lie in this article and so far none of these brain washed brain decifient Nkrumah ac ...
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That is exactly true Doctor. I have asked countless times for these atrophied looking for hero to worship Nkrumah factotums to point out one lie in this article and so far none of these brain washed brain decifient Nkrumah acolytes has taken me on.
joe 11 years ago

PLEASE NEVER INSULT ANYBODY BCOS U HV A DIFFERENT OPINION.JESUS SAID WHATEVER U SAY U WILL GIVE ACCT ONE DAY.

PLEASE NEVER INSULT ANYBODY BCOS U HV A DIFFERENT OPINION.JESUS SAID WHATEVER U SAY U WILL GIVE ACCT ONE DAY.
Pelicles 11 years ago

Opinion is like a nose that comes in different forms or shapes . The writer is entitled to his opinion about Nkrumah and the best to do is to counter with facts. Insulting him is not helping.

Opinion is like a nose that comes in different forms or shapes . The writer is entitled to his opinion about Nkrumah and the best to do is to counter with facts. Insulting him is not helping.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

If only the writer had shown us where he got those information from instead of distortions.
Were he to show us, we could interogate the evidence ourselves.

If only the writer had shown us where he got those information from instead of distortions.
Were he to show us, we could interogate the evidence ourselves.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Why don't you tell us what you think is a distorted fact. Where he got the information from is not even important because if you want to dispute his assertions, you can easily do your research on line and come up with facts t ...
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Why don't you tell us what you think is a distorted fact. Where he got the information from is not even important because if you want to dispute his assertions, you can easily do your research on line and come up with facts to make your point.

So far none of you Nkrumah apologists have been able to point out even one thing from this article as being a lie. Just point out what you think is being distorted and let's put it under microscopic examination.
Kwaku Atta-krufi 11 years ago

The most briliant and revealing political history of Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah. Thanks a lot for this piece. May Nananom bless you and all those who seek to present the truth as it was under the most zealot, and upstart polit ...
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The most briliant and revealing political history of Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah. Thanks a lot for this piece. May Nananom bless you and all those who seek to present the truth as it was under the most zealot, and upstart political leader in the period before and after independence till his overthrow. May we all ask the blessings of Nananom for the souls of the great and patriotic men of Ghana- Kwasi Kotoka and Akwasi Amankwa Afrifa of blessed memory for their sacrifices for this nation on February 24, 1966.
Moses 11 years ago

"Soon after winning the 1951 elections, Nkrumah outlawed the UGCC"

He didn't have the power to do that. He was only Leader of Government Business and the British Governor still had the power to sanction final laws. Somethi ...
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"Soon after winning the 1951 elections, Nkrumah outlawed the UGCC"

He didn't have the power to do that. He was only Leader of Government Business and the British Governor still had the power to sanction final laws. Something like banning a political party would have been beyond the powers of Nkrumah. He could do that only after independence in 1957 even though the Queen was still the titular head of state (until 1960) and couldn't interfere in internal legislation.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

The Nkrumahist ideologues, action troopers, young pioneers, republican guards, praise singers and ass wipers of his pampered butt, with gnashing teeth and contorted visage, snarling and howling with air so foul, tearing their ...
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The Nkrumahist ideologues, action troopers, young pioneers, republican guards, praise singers and ass wipers of his pampered butt, with gnashing teeth and contorted visage, snarling and howling with air so foul, tearing their clothing in a fit of biblical rage, invoking dark curses from Kankan Nyame, ruing the glorious days of PDA, days of incarceration without trial, when the Fountain of Honor's word was law, when the redeemer dictated lore and gave them their folklore,

ask with screeching voices and husky tones , when will you join our retinue of perpetual praises? When will you poke your eye-balls in order to join our chorus of blind loyalty, or expectorate your brain matter in order to proclaim our sheepish allegiance preserved for these donkey years? When will you be like us, unthinking, unfeeling, un-testing, and un-examining?

My answer...the day you will tell me of my lies in this article; of the things I have said here that are not
true: that there was no PDA, that there was no imprisonment without trial, that there was no removal of the franchise, nor declaration of one party state nor life president!

If you are not brave enough to dissemble our history or distort the truth for the love of the Messiah, keep your white matter brewed in a cauldron of Nkrumah's ideological furnace! Then ossify same in the polar ice of a never-changing mind.
Ekow 11 years ago

“Soon after winning the 1951 elections, Nkrumah outlawed the UGCC".

This statement right at the beginning of your ill-hearten write up gave you up. You're a pathological liar and its characterized in your article. That i ...
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“Soon after winning the 1951 elections, Nkrumah outlawed the UGCC".

This statement right at the beginning of your ill-hearten write up gave you up. You're a pathological liar and its characterized in your article. That is a shame and most disgraceful on your part. As I said earlier on, you’re a disgrace to civilization and you should bury your head in hot ashes in shame. Your hatred for Nkrumah and whatever he stood for will not take you anywhere. Go to Ethiopia, Botswana, Tanzania and dozens of African countries to see the works of Nkrumah. India, China and many many countries respected and still respect him and what he stood for. Even in your own backyard of Chicago and other States in USA, Nkrumah is honoured. The Europeans are laughing for stealing a political ideology from Nkrumah (EU Model)

For Nkrumah standing against crimes against humanity in the raping of Africa’s resources, the dehumanization of Africans and Black people all over the World, he paid the price. But over 95 percent of Africans appreciate what he did for them, except a block-headed person like you.
MINOR CASE 11 years ago

While he was busy shoring up his image around the world by doling our resources at the behest of his KGB masters , his own people were hungry.Look at your post,foreigners were more important than his own people.

While he was busy shoring up his image around the world by doling our resources at the behest of his KGB masters , his own people were hungry.Look at your post,foreigners were more important than his own people.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

You are an idiot. You wish Nkrumah was all that. You have not disputed any fact in this article but rather dancing in polemics.

You are an idiot. You wish Nkrumah was all that. You have not disputed any fact in this article but rather dancing in polemics.
BOY KOFI 11 years ago

Mr Sarfo,tell me what Nation in this world was built without agitation,wars and political tensions?Was the Ashanti Kingdom built with saints from above without wars and agitations?Yet you are proud of it despite all the atroc ...
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Mr Sarfo,tell me what Nation in this world was built without agitation,wars and political tensions?Was the Ashanti Kingdom built with saints from above without wars and agitations?Yet you are proud of it despite all the atrocities.A good Doctor will not reason like this,I sorry for you.
Kwame Antwi 11 years ago

Slaves who do not want to be free will always be slaves. You are ignorant of what it takes to free Africa. Nkrumah did in 6 years what you enjoy in Ghana now after 50 years, from education and infrastructure development, to p ...
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Slaves who do not want to be free will always be slaves. You are ignorant of what it takes to free Africa. Nkrumah did in 6 years what you enjoy in Ghana now after 50 years, from education and infrastructure development, to providing basic necessities to all.

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