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Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Was Not A Brutal Dictator

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  • Learner 10 years ago

    Good job, Clement. Next time find out who the major importers of rice etc are.

  • Yam 10 years ago

    Keep it up Clement

  • WUSUGWAA 10 years ago

    let them no the facts. Whether they like it or not Nkrumah was great, is great and will always remain great. Go to Malaysia, Malawi , Zimbabwe, to mention just a few he is remembered.

  • Ghanatta 10 years ago

    If Kwame Nkrumah was not a brutal dictator, then what was he? The adjective 'brutal' is not necessary. Kwame Nkrumah was a dictator to the strictest sense of word. That is mos important thing to discus.

    Who imprisoned and ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Please stop telling lies on white people as some angels. Most people who wrote about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and the rest did not write that they owned slaves, and those who wanted to preserve the sanctity of Pre ...
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  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    Bravo, you see Africans never know what is good for them. They rive each other to the bone due to their high inhuman content.

    To some, altruism or valor is dictatorial, yet will go by the exordium of others to fight vacuou ...
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  • Ghanatta. 10 years ago

    Everything bad about George Washington was written by white writers not black writers. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both had slaves. Thomas Jefferson in particular fathered some of his slaves females. These people t ...
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  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    Stupid fool, ashantis will forever be wronged, because you are pathetic ingrates.

    Why would you call Nkrumah dictatorial when Dankwa thought himself preordained to rule, could you ever guess his maleficent intents.

    Dur ...
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  • ASUBROFO 10 years ago

    IS IT WRONG IF WE CALL AKUFFO ADDO A
    DICTATOR IN NPP?

  • Amedeka Ashiavor 10 years ago

    Has Nana Akuffo Addo been president before? Don't come here and exhibit your trokosi stupidity.

  • Brother 10 years ago

    Thanks Elinam. U made my day

  • Kejetia Nkomo 10 years ago

    Who asked Nkrumah for independence? Are we not regarding Europe and America wealthier than Ghana? Who did we produce and keep producing ever since independence? Greedy, selfish Liars, Hatred, unpatriotic politicians and Leade ...
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  • Obournana 10 years ago

    Well done Clement. The UP/NPP will never see anything good from anybody, tribe or group except the NPP, Akyem and Ashanti. When Kuffour stole 3.5% of the oil deal worth over 300 million, they never spoke about it. When the Pr ...
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  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    Kwame Nkrumah's achievements in the struggle for independence was marred by his rugged dictatorship. I was sent home from school for several days - probably weeks - because my parents could not afford t pay for the Young Pion ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Sarpong thinks he can single handedly spread lies on Kwame Nkrumah especially at this time when what we called democracy is not growing the economy but rather taking the country back to the days of slavery.
    His antics are a ...
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  • Kojo 10 years ago

    This writer has done nothing. What political front did Adamafio, Ako Adjei and Coffie Crabbe come from? They were all CPP stalwarts who were dissatisfied with Nkrumah's dictatorship. Who was Corporal Amatepe who pulled the ...
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  • Kwesi Agbenu 10 years ago

    What has Ghana gained from -''Dr. Jerry John Rawlings adopted it and succeeded in becoming the longest ruling Head of State in Ghana.'' Did this cowdung rule benefit Ghana? How can I be proud of this nonsense. Yes it happened ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    People devalue Nkrumah by saying this dog rawlings is a good as him. I did not read the article past the first paragraph

  • FARRASINNO 10 years ago

    TRULY NKRUMAH NEVER DIES! NO MATTER WHAT THE ENEMIES OF GHANA DO, NKRUMAH WILL FOREVER BE BORN EACH DAY IN THE HEARTS OF EVERY GHANAIAN, OF EVERY AFRIKAN AND OF EVERY BLACK MAN. NO WONDER HE WAS VOTED AFRIKAN OF THE MILLENNIU ...
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  • The Mask 10 years ago

    Idiot he was taking Ghana into COMMUNISM.

  • Adongo Tongo 10 years ago

    Go back north and help your folks. You have lived in OBUASI for far too long. I want you to tell the whole world your contribution to the people of the north since you moved down south. Stop writing these stupid essays and ...
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  • Mike 10 years ago

    A BIG THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THESE FACTS OUT BROTHER
    THANK AGAIN

  • Nana Aba 10 years ago

    TRUE, TRUE!

    The most BRUTAL dictator in Ghana's history is JJ Rawlings, no question. JJ didn't put his perceived enemies in jail. It is on record that over 200 people disappeared in JJ's regime, but we always talk of the " ...
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  • JOE DEY (MATERIALS ENGINEER/FAILURE A 10 years ago

    Development under dictatorship is far better than degradation under so called Democracy. If fact with all this assassination attempt on his life, I think Kwame Nkrumah was fair being a dictator, and for good reasons too. Demo ...
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  • Kumasi man 10 years ago

    Well said. The youth of today don't even want to learn and will not pull away from negative politicians but will learn when it becomes necessary. your pieces are OK to those who want to learn to do the right things.

  • mensah abrampa 10 years ago

    You can airbrush history all you want but you will never succeed in changing the night to day. Nkrumah was not a brutal dictator so what type of dictator was he? A benevolent dictator?
    Your chronic sycophancy and communist ...
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  • Foxbat 10 years ago

    This guy is trying his hardest best to whitewash Dr Nkrumah.Like you rightly said,if he wasn't a brutal dictator who goaled every one opposed to his rule,changed the constitution and declared himself president for life,then w ...
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  • abuburoba anyansa 10 years ago

    Learn to say yea when it is Sista

  • Nee Adjei-Blebo 10 years ago

    Sir, I am sorry you have not set the records straight but rather you have sown the seeds of continuous distortion of facts. Messrs WA Wiafe, KA Gbedema, Tawia Adamafio, Cofie Crabbe and Ako Adjei you mentioned in your articl ...
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  • Nee Adjei-Blebo 10 years ago

    What happened to Messrs Tawia Adamafio, Coffie Crabbe and Ako Adjei after the Supreme Court found them not guilty of the attempt on Nkrumah's life at Kulungugu? The Supreme Court Justices, Arku Korsa (them the Chief Justice) ...
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  • Kalahariman 10 years ago

    Look around you today and tell me what progress Ghana has achieved after Nkrumah's over thrown.

    Everything around you that keeps Ghana moving forward has Nkrumah's stamp on it..Akosombo Dam, Refinery, Tema motor way, nucle ...
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  • Nee Adjei-Blebo 10 years ago

    Sir, the question you should ask yourself is where did the Nkrumah's Govt get the funds to found/build all these factories, motorway, airline, shipping line, etc. Certainly, it was the reserve Ghana was left with by the colon ...
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  • Kwadwo Poku 10 years ago

    Not a brutal dictator but a benevolent dictator

  • The Mask 10 years ago

    LOL. He he took the profits from the COCO FARMERS. He said all profits belong to the State.
    DICTATOR!!!

  • Sam Tackie(71 group "Bleoo2)YASHIN 10 years ago

    He was believe me. My father was a victim.

  • kaketonti 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH DOES NO WRONG.KWAME NKRUMAH IS OUR MESSIAH

  • Andrew Kyereh 10 years ago

    There is no doubt that Dr Nkrumah did much for Ghana but to say that he was not a brutal dictator is far from the truth. Most probably your family was favored but there were many families that were brutalized under his dicta ...
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