It is no other person than the "Mad" Francis Kwarteng being left hanging in the emotional cobweb of the People’s jaded imagination as to why the Kwartenteng guy can be that "Mad," writing such stupid articles.
It is no other person than the "Mad" Francis Kwarteng being left hanging in the emotional cobweb of the People’s jaded imagination as to why the Kwartenteng guy can be that "Mad," writing such stupid articles.
Kyeremeh Kwame 9 years ago
KWARTENG, I REALLY LIKE THE WAY YOU DEMOLISHED OKOAMPA IN THE NKRUMAH/DANQUAH DEBATE. YOU PROVED BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT DANQUAH WAS A MIDGET IN THE SHADOW OF THE OSAGYEFO.
YOU DID A GREAT JOB.
KWARTENG, I REALLY LIKE THE WAY YOU DEMOLISHED OKOAMPA IN THE NKRUMAH/DANQUAH DEBATE. YOU PROVED BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT DANQUAH WAS A MIDGET IN THE SHADOW OF THE OSAGYEFO.
YOU DID A GREAT JOB.
Ghanaba 9 years ago
boko haram scholar
boko haram scholar
NON-ALIGNED 9 years ago
And you call yourself Ghanaba?????
I'm sure you could not grasp what this whole article was about and as a result reduce it to the usual way out......labeling people who challenge your 'brains' (that is, if you have access t ... read full comment
And you call yourself Ghanaba?????
I'm sure you could not grasp what this whole article was about and as a result reduce it to the usual way out......labeling people who challenge your 'brains' (that is, if you have access to it)and refer to them as boko haram???
Why this easy way out of the issues at stake? Please try and contribute something positive to this forum and stop being...............em! I would not be surprised you are not even an African for that matter.
KWARTENG'S QUOTE: "Yet they all continue to ignore issues of national importance, environmental pollution from galamsey, say, while dabbling in useless questions as to which ethnicity should be made to bear the hegemonic brunt of ethnic nationalism."..............
Francis, that is what the nation has been reduced to, by the two USELESS parties - in NDC and NPP. They have NOTHING to offer Ghana but, their usual GREED of looting the nation to its knees.........
Unfortunately, we have the lazy, vision-less ones following them in the quest to loot OUR nation dry, to enrich themselves......and care less about our children's future.
It's also a shame how others are quick to rubbish the sense in your articles just because of their partisan bigotry or even more, being their lazy selves and bother to read them........
GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear good friend,
Long time no see!
Readers like ADJOA WANGARA, GH-Atheist, and Ghanaba don't read or don't know how to read. I don't really write for such readers.
They would have wished I had tailored my ideas exc ... read full comment
Dear good friend,
Long time no see!
Readers like ADJOA WANGARA, GH-Atheist, and Ghanaba don't read or don't know how to read. I don't really write for such readers.
They would have wished I had tailored my ideas exclusively to their partisan bigotry, as you say.
But I am as neutral as the word itself! I still these names, GH-Atheist, ADJOA WANGARA, Ghanabe, extolling the virtues of "tribalism" on Ghanaweb all the time. They certainly will not like this because it bashes ethnocentrism and "tribalists."
I don't mean this as an insult, however. Sometimes I am forced to say they don't read at all.
The two important views you took out of teh essay represent the crus of my argument. I am surprised these three did not get.
I am also happy you identify the national ailment, ethnocentrism, both attributable to the two parties.
Thanks.
GH-Atheist 9 years ago
Never look inward and realize you can neither write nor express your ideas in a coherent way. Also ignore the fact that all the praises you keep heaping on Nkrumah and his era is a clear denial and distortion of well-establis ... read full comment
Never look inward and realize you can neither write nor express your ideas in a coherent way. Also ignore the fact that all the praises you keep heaping on Nkrumah and his era is a clear denial and distortion of well-established historical fact. Just keep claiming that your critics can't or don't read and keep trolling the earth with your tedious revisionist propaganda horridly disguised as Anansesem.
PS: When have I said anything remotely tribal.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Yes,
You can't read critically. My primary issue with your rantings is your lack of appreciation of critical reading. Critical reading of this essay should have led you to the underlying assumptions.
Unlike YAW, Andy, a ... read full comment
Yes,
You can't read critically. My primary issue with your rantings is your lack of appreciation of critical reading. Critical reading of this essay should have led you to the underlying assumptions.
Unlike YAW, Andy, and Kyeremeh Kwame, you don't have what it takes to digest dense information. Your usleless rantings here speak of your lack of critical approach to critical theory.
Further, unlike those two fools, J.B. Danquah and K.A. Busia, Kwame Nkrumah has been globally acknowelged as being among the world's best in terms of prescience, strategy, development economics, postcolonial philosophy, etc.
Also unlike Danquah and Busia, the two important fools, Nkrumah is the focus of study (world politics, etc) in most of the worlds best universities.
Go back to my series "Dr. Kofi Dompere On Kwame Nkrumah's Scientific Thinking" and read what the world has to say about Kwame Nkrumah. Whites, Asians, Africans. Mathematicians, historians, literary critics, political scientists, philosophers, lawyers.
Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Yale University...the list is endless. Kwame Nkrumah is everywhere. You Danquah and Busia are dead.
Are you not surprised that scholars at Oxford University (Busia) and the University of London (Danquah), Black, White, and Asian, ignore Danquah and Busia to write about Kwame Nkrumah?
Do you think if Danquah and Busia are that important these important scholars will ignore them to write about Nkrumah?
You simply can't read critically.See what YAW has to say. He and NON-ALIGNED have written enough to show their grasp of the basic concepts and assumptions expressed in this essay without emotional interventions. There are so many unspoken assumptions propping up this essay. Critically unravel them and tell me just FIVE!
lEet me assure you I don't write for writing sake. There are so many unspoken assumptions I build my ideas on. It takes a critical reader to unravel them. Thus you seem not have wnything worthwhile to say, which is why you are all over the place beating about the bush and not demonstrating any superior grasp of the underlying assumptions. The underlying assumptions are more important that the facile concepts you see.
I just discussed some of these unspoken assumptions with a critical reader, a London-based Ghanaian economist, and Ghanaweb columnist. Thus I implore you to criticize the essay with facts and theories of literay criticism. Vague, clueless statements and emotionalism have no relevance in the marketplace of ideas.
Anyway I am not done with the series "Dr. Kofi Dompere On Kwame Nkrumah's Scientific Thinking" and "Fate Of A Sick Scholar." I am working on them severally.
Any if you want me to reply to your next comment, say something critical or intelligent. I hate it when people lallow emotions to trump their sense of critical thinking! Give me five unspoken assumptions.
Read Part 2. I just finished Part 3. Part 3 and Part 7 of "Fate of A Sick Scholar" may come next week.
GH-Atheist 9 years ago
You give yourself too much credit, thinking it takes critical analysis to to decipher what you write. Who do you think you are: Achebe, or Orwell? As I said on your other post a few months ago, your views and your writing sty ... read full comment
You give yourself too much credit, thinking it takes critical analysis to to decipher what you write. Who do you think you are: Achebe, or Orwell? As I said on your other post a few months ago, your views and your writing style are simplistic. Only the gullible, unread and/or those who already agree with you are impressed. Don't worry I got your underlying assumptions without difficulty and I already know how part 2 will end.
Unlike Yaw, Andy and Kyeremeh Kwame, I know what good writing looks like and I will not give up an undeserved pat on the back.
Stalin, Hitler, Mohammed, Thatcher, Nixon, Pol Pot etc are all focuses of study in most of the worlds best universities.
Why are you so impressed that people write about Kwame Nkrumah? He led the first sub-Saharan country to Independence, then poverty and championed the ill-intentioned "United States of Africa" movement. He was also the one earlist voices of pan-Africanism; of course he is going to be studied.
I never said I think Danquah or Busia are more important than Nkrumah. They aren't. They didn't abolish the constitution (setting the precedent for all the other times it happenen), turn Africa's richest country to the poorest in SIX YEARS and begin our current cycle of corruption [by putting their unqualified cronies in charge of the nation's development]. That was all Nkrumah. Ofcourse Nkrumah is more important because he doomed us the most.
I have seen what Yaw has written. He hasn't said anything new. We have heard all those things before. What I found ironic is when he said "The Bonsam"s[sic] are dismissive of history" while praising you. Funny as hell.
NON-ALIGNED doesn't know how to use full-stops..........Or does writing this way................show a higher lever of critical thinking??????? He also says noting specific about your article.All s/he said I see on Ghanaweb everyday. Really what's so special about it??????????..............Even your best examples of critical thinkers didn't grasp anything new...............
Also, stop trying to mask your inept writing by claiming I can't read critically. It's funny how you try to further this insult by telling me to unravel this manure on screen. Do you think changing the acronyms of NPP, NDC (negetively) and CPP is some kind of "unspoken assumption"? It's not. Really who do you think you are Tolstoy?
The fact that you are trying so hard to convince me that you are writing for a sophisticated audience should clue you in on how simple this is. You think if you were actually a good writer you would go around telling people how good you are? No, your work would speak for itself.
"I just discussed some of these unspoken assumptions with a critical reader, a London-based Ghanaian economist, and Ghanaweb columnist." Critical is now a title and something that can be quantified?
Seeing as how you respond to criticism (with insults and heavy handedness) and the people you cited as examples of people with the high level intelligence needed to understand you or critical readers as you call them, Yaw, NON-ALIGNED, unnamed Ghanaian critical reader economist, I can tell you are a dictatorial control freak who likes to surround himself with yes men who drown out any voices of dissent, so you can live in a bubble with an over-inflated ego that convinces you that you are perfect, Congratulations you are exactly like Nkrumah. [btw this is a run-on sentence can you spot the unspoken assumption?]
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Yes,
Have you bothered to find out a Special Session of the United Nations, an international organization, posthumously awarded Nkrumah a gold medal (1978) for his contribitions to human emancipation? Did the same body pos ... read full comment
Yes,
Have you bothered to find out a Special Session of the United Nations, an international organization, posthumously awarded Nkrumah a gold medal (1978) for his contribitions to human emancipation? Did the same body poshumously ward gold medals to Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Thatcher, etc? Do you see where you childish outpouring of emotions is leading you?
Where are the unspoken assumptions I asked for? That is the easiest of questions I had for you based on the article. I have more complicated ones for if you answer the previous question!
And who in his right mind won't like to be Nkrumah? Nelson Mandela and all good thinking people want to be like him. Look for Dr. Kofi Amoah's New African Magazine to see how Nelson Mandela wanted to be like Nkrumah.
Dr. Amoah is Mandela's son-in-law and a nuclear physcisist! Remember the entire African world celebrates Nkrumah. The world does too. Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, etc., do not have that degree of goodwill among men and women of conscience!
Please don't try to make yourself important by saying I am trying ti impress. Who are you? Do I know you? Does it matter who you are?
I don't have to prove a damn thing to you. You have already said enough to make me know your level of reasoning! You are not the type to take serious. You are just a regular commentator. Nothing mysterious. You will have proved to me how critical a reader by answering the simple question I asked you! And you want me to take you series!
Like I said, you are not a critical or good reader. You have not even given me THE FIVE UNSOPEKN ASSUMPTIONS I asked for. You know why? You have no clue what I am talking about!
And I don't have to mention the unnamed economist and Ghanaweb columnist to you. Besides, the level of understanding he demonstrates in regard to the issues I raise in the first part of this series is nothing like the childish emotions you pour out here. He is a critical reader!
He easily identifies many of the unspoken assumtions without swaet while you go back and forth repeating the same vague, clueless statements which have nothing to do with the essay. Are you for real?
Kwame Nkrumah is not studied in the same context as Pol Pot, Hitler, etc. For instance, Nrumah is studies along side leaders like Ghandhi, Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy, etc.
This is where you go wrong. Nkrumah is studied as a progressive thinker, not a mass murderer like Pol Pot or Hitler. And he is always included among the worlds greatest leaders. This is the context.
This is why I always say you have no clue what you are talking about. I have referred you to sources (primary, secondary, and tertiary) in my series "Dr. Kofi Dompere On Kwame Nkrumah Nkrumah's Scientific Thinking."
Take what Nkrumah did for Ghana, (Africa, and the world) and take what those who came after Nkrumah combined did. They don't come class. If Afrifa via President Mahama did a quater of what Nkrumah did in that short span of his presidency, Ghana wii not be where it is today.
It is sad you have no clue what I am discussing about when I give you all the clues, yet you claim to have an insight into how I am going to end this series. You seee how childish you are! You are behaving more like Danqua and Busia, those two fools.
GO BACK AND READ THE FIRST PART AGAIN AND AGAIN AND GIVE ME THE FIVE UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTION. That is when I will know the person I am dealing with is making use of my generosity.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
KWARTENG COME AND READ THE SORT OF NONSENSE WHICH UNDERLINES EVERY EVIDENCE AGAINST YOU AS A MAD PERSON AND SOMEBODY WHO IS CLEARLY SERIOULS UNDER HARD DRUGS.
NOW A SHORT "SENSELESS PARAGRAPH" FROM THE TOTAL IMBECILE KWART ... read full comment
KWARTENG COME AND READ THE SORT OF NONSENSE WHICH UNDERLINES EVERY EVIDENCE AGAINST YOU AS A MAD PERSON AND SOMEBODY WHO IS CLEARLY SERIOULS UNDER HARD DRUGS.
NOW A SHORT "SENSELESS PARAGRAPH" FROM THE TOTAL IMBECILE KWARTENG BESIDES HIS NASTY ENGLISH ->
"Kwame Nkrumah is not studied in the same context as Pol Pot, Hitler, etc. For instance, Nrumah is studies along side leaders like Ghandhi, Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy, etc."
SOMEBODY ELSE MUST PROOF ME WRONG THAT KWARTENG IS NOT A MAD GUY.
HIS ENGLISH CONSTRUCTION IS ALSO ANOTHER PROOF THAT HE IS NOT CONCENTRATED BECAUSE HE USE TO BRE UNDER HARD DRUG/DRUGS.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
You see,
Are you the Ghanaweb columnist someone referred to as a "basket-weaving scholar"? Besides, those who come to Ghanaweb to insult do not have anything substantial to say, like you are doing here.
You did the sam ... read full comment
You see,
Are you the Ghanaweb columnist someone referred to as a "basket-weaving scholar"? Besides, those who come to Ghanaweb to insult do not have anything substantial to say, like you are doing here.
You did the same thing, going back and forth aimlessly, when I did my series on the Porcupine. But you still see I have time for you! I am doing this because I have been waiting for you to tell me what the first part of "Is Democratic Imperialism The Answer?" is all about!
Are you a disciple of the sick "scholar"? I am not too sure why he does not come to face me directly when you have decided to be his ghostly spokeperson! Well, the sick "scholar" is a ghost!
Did you read Dr. Kofi Amoah's (Nelson Mandela's son-in-law) in the New African in which he said Nelson Mandela saw Nkrumah as his hero?
Do you know how many progressive leaders and scholars around the world that Nkrumah has influenced? Do you read my articles on Nkrumah at all? Well, my series on Nkrumah (and the sick "scholars") is not done yet!
You have nothing substantial to say except change your monikers and keep avoiding the central questions I have been asking you all along:
1) Kwame Nkrumah was posthumously given a Gold Medal (1978) by a Special Session of the United Nations for his central role in emancipating man from the shackles of colonialism.
Where is the Gold Medal for Pol Pot, Hitler, Thatcher?
Yes, Nkrumah, the Greatest African and one of the world's respected statemen, is not studied along Pol Pot, Hitler, etc. I have given you tons of references to that effect!
Nkrumah is studied alongside the greatest and most progressive! You have not given a shred of evidence to back up your emotional outpourings.
I have given tons of references (primary, secondary, tertiary) in most of my essays on Nkrumah! Where is yours?
All you commentators do about Nkrumah is to be emotional over topics that require some modicum of critical thinking to address! That is what you and other columnists do on Ghanaweb. You don't see this kind of emotional outpourings where Nkruah is studied alongside Gandhi and the long list of progressive leaders of the 20th century!
Nkrumah is even raised about Danquah and Busia, those two follish traitors!
2) Where are the five unspoken assumptions I asked for?
So, you see, I have time for you.
Forget the English construction because I do not read over my comments. And I care less. There are so many errors yet you understand what I am trying to say.
Could you go back to Part 1 of "Is Democratic Imperialism The Answer?" and tell me what it is about if you you claim understad it?
I want you to stop the sentimental outpourings and engage me and my articles in a manner befitting a critical reader who is interested in the elements of critical thinking, for none of the statements you make here and elsewhere has nothing to do with the issues you seem to be grappling with my writings!
Deal with the issues!
GH-Atheist 9 years ago
I went to the Oxford website and search for Kwame Nkrumah. This is the first thing that came up:
www(.)economics(.)ox(.)ac(.)uk/materials/papers/13330/paper701(.)pdf
[Remove the backets from the dots.]
You are not a ... read full comment
I went to the Oxford website and search for Kwame Nkrumah. This is the first thing that came up:
www(.)economics(.)ox(.)ac(.)uk/materials/papers/13330/paper701(.)pdf
[Remove the backets from the dots.]
You are not a good writer. That's all. Your writing style is quite dull. I have already read this drivel twice and will not go back and read again and again. You suck and your "unspoken assumptions" are not as unspoken as you think they are. Your problem is you have an image of yourself that is bigger than you actually are. You reject any kind of criticism by claiming your detractors are stupid - you do this in part 2 too. You will go quite far in the literary word. /s This comment further proves my last paragraph in the previous reply - which you didn't even read.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Yes,
Hahahahah...You are clueless as a nocturnal blind bat caught in the glare of the sunshine! Has the sick "scholar" contracted you defend him? Tell him to come face me!
Where are the FIVE UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS? Haven ... read full comment
Yes,
Hahahahah...You are clueless as a nocturnal blind bat caught in the glare of the sunshine! Has the sick "scholar" contracted you defend him? Tell him to come face me!
Where are the FIVE UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS? Haven't it you read the piece twice. It appears you found nothing. If you did, you will not be here pouring out your misdireted emotions! You are so lazy not to see some of these assumptions included in the comments of other readers. Go back, read it again for the third time, and come back again with something new no Ghanaweb reader of the essay has yet mentioned!
Here you go again. Another moniker. I am not a good writer. I acccept it. It is a relative remark. There are some who say Wole Soyinka is not a good writer. There are some who say Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is not a good writer.
Anyway Dr. Ama Mazama has asked me to write for Afrocentricity International. Milton Allimadi, one of America's New York-based African leading investigative journalsis (Allimadi owns his own paper in New York; a paper he established with seed funding from Bill Cosby; paper called "Black Star News"), has also asked me to write for his nespaper. Google them (both Dr. Mazama and Allimadi) discuss this with them. Allimadi is all over the place in America, radio, television, etc.
I have all their contact information (but I don't think I have to give them to you). Both are fabulous writers. Allimadi, for instance, wrote for the New York Times, the world's leading newspaper. In fact, Allimadi worked for the Times several years before setting up his own newspaper.
Then ask both why they asked me to write for their papers/websites! So, again, you see, what you say about my writings does not matter in the least. You hate them, others like them! That is how the world works! Go to the web and try to find some information on Dr. Mazama and Mr. Allimadi and then to contact them about what I am telling you now!
Dr. Mazama edits one of America's scholarly journals. You can also send me an email so I could share with you privileged information on American and international journals that have invited me to serve as editor for their papers or have my essays published there. I will give you the names, phone numbers, emails, etc., so that you can contact them (here is my email franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com). You have forced me to come across as boastful, something I don't like doing!
But I see them as two of the most gifted writers of all time. Some of those awful PhD writers who come to Ghanaweb boasting they are writers of some repute can't write as effectively as Soyinka or Ngozi.
I say this because I deal with the most important figures of African literature all the time. I have access to the major journals dealing with African and world literature. You will never find these bogus PhD Ghanaweb writers in any of these scholarly pages. The fact is that I know and read the best reviewers and critics of African literature on daily basis.
The highest I have in terms of Engish are those I took at O'level and the basic English class every first year American student takes at college, which is even lower or at par with my O'Level English class. I merely write for pleasure.
I know you have a problem understanding the piece. Where did I say in my remarks that my critics are stupid? So, you see, you could not grasp simple statements I made in respect of critical reading and critical thinking. This is the major problem our Ghanaian educational system largely has! Emotions. Emotions. Emotions.
Oh so you are even a detractor, not a critic? This is why I have consistently admitted having problems with the way you go about reading and digesting written materials.
You don't do criticism. You merely emotionalize and wrongly think you are committed to literary criticism and critical thinking. That is where you have it all wrong!
Again, what detractors do usually have more to do with emotionalism than critical thinking. Have you bothered to look for the difference between the two words, detractors and critics?
Have you noticed how Kwesi Atta Sakyi, an economist, professor (teaches English to undergraduate and graduate students) and writer, goes about critically approach my writings on Ghanaweb? Go back and read your comments again: You used the word DETRACTORS.
Interestingly YOU HAVE READ THE PIECE TWICE AND STILL CANNOT GIVE ME THE FIVE UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS? How do you read at all?
Is this another bucket of emotions? And if my unspoken assumptions are not what I think they are, then tell me what they are? Is this too much for you? Why can't you answer my questions when I try to answer yours?
In Part 2 I asked whoever this critic might be to go back to the essay and do a couple of things. I did so because he did not provide any concrete evidence for his claims. He said I used unneccessary "big words" and I replied that every "big word" I used was appropriate. The next task for him to prove me wrong was simply to cite just ONE, not FIVE, unnecessary "big word" in the essay. Is this simple task to difficult?
Go back and read my series on Kwame Nkrumah. Read particularly "What Amiri Baraka Said About Kwame Nkrumah" and "Dr. Kofi Dompere On Kwame Nkrumah's Scientific Thinking." They have all the sources, names of scholars, and the institutions these scholars who have been working on Nkrumah teach.
And forget your link. It is bogus. Finally, I personally know a few American professors (journal editors, head of history departments, etc) who are serving as external advisors to students doing their doctoral dessertations on Kwame Nkrumah at Oxford.
I have mentioned some of these professors consistently in my essays on Ghanaweb. I need not go to your bogus link to tell me that. Some of these doctoral dessertations on Kwame Kwame from some of the worlds leading universities have been published as books.
Do you want me to give you an exhaustive list of all the world'smajor universities where Kwame Nkrumah is studied?
You have access to the web, do it yourself! Use my essays as guides!
Finally, I will not respond to you if you fail to give me the five unspoken assumptions!
I am done!
GH-Atheist 9 years ago
I'm done. You have too big of an ego to be talked to. You choose to not listen to anyone who disagrees with you and respond with heavy handedness about a perceived luck of critical thought (the stupidity implied). You didn't ... read full comment
I'm done. You have too big of an ego to be talked to. You choose to not listen to anyone who disagrees with you and respond with heavy handedness about a perceived luck of critical thought (the stupidity implied). You didn't even reply to every point I talk about - you just picked and chose what you could talk about.
Good luck with your writing. I truly hope it's gets better.
But before I leave:
1) Bats are not blind. This is a myth.
2) You drop more names than a phone book. Comes across as whiny.
3) The link is not bogus, it is the Oxford University website.
4) Black Star News is lower ranked than GhanaWeb and even ModernGhana and has very little/nonexistant circulation. It's also Pan-Africanist so it's not shocking nor amazing they would be interested in you. Same for Afrocentricity International (which doesn't even have a website). Tell me when The Economist or even Daily Graphic calls you.
4) I have critiqued your work from a non-emotional standpoint through and through.
5) Nkrumah is not studied for his economic policies, his leadership skills nor his success in running a country - just his philosophy.
6) "In Part 2 I asked whoever this critic might be to go back to the essay and do a couple of things. I did so because he did not provide any concrete evidence for his claims. He said I used unneccessary "big words" and I replied that every "big word" I used was appropriate. The next task for him to prove me wrong was simply to cite just ONE, not FIVE, unnecessary "big word" in the essay. Is this simple task to difficult? "
Good writers don't have to force their readers to do this. Only obtuse literature needs multiple (4+) reads to get its message across. [This also applies to "FIVE UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS" you keep trying to bully me to find in this shallow piece of writing.]
6.2)"Use my essays as guides!" - HAHAHAHAHA. Why don't I just use the Bible and the Koran as unbiased sources to confirm Christianity and Islam.
7) This point was suppose to be advice on how to gracefully take criticism and handle opinions that you may disagree with, but why bother you are perfect and can do no wrong. /s
GOOD LUCK. Sincerely.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Yes,
You sound very much like one of those ethnocentric Ghanaweb columnists! I don't want to mention names but if you are, then, my friend, you one of thoe four ethnocentric Ghanaweb columnists whose writings I don't read! ... read full comment
Yes,
You sound very much like one of those ethnocentric Ghanaweb columnists! I don't want to mention names but if you are, then, my friend, you one of thoe four ethnocentric Ghanaweb columnists whose writings I don't read!
Meanwhile, I don't need your link. There are PhD holders in Ghana, Africa, and America who are or have done their doctoral/master's dissertations (Oxford, Cambridge, University of London (London School of Economics), etc)on Nkrumah.
Some of these works are published in scholarly journals around the world or in books. I have some of these books here. I am not ready to discuss those who have writtten theses on Kwame Nkrumah in America's elite institutions! That will be too much work. I would have invited you too see my personal library where some of these scholarly sit idle.
A couple of students from Oxford University have formally asked one of my American history professor friends (a major American scholar) to act as their external advisors on their doctoral dissertations on Kwame Nkrumah.
I have read some of these. Look at the two series I reccommended for you. Since you are in America, why don't you contact any of the leading scholars in Black Studies
1) Where are the FIVE UNSPOKEN ASSUMTIONS? My good friend, I forgot to mention another Ghanaian professor of English (European-trained; used to teach English and literature (and did translations (French, English) in a couple of Carlifornian Universities). She is a poet, a better and more sohisticated poet than the noise-making poets you have on Ghanaweb, who loves reading my essays. If she is not on Ghanaweb, she is on modernghana or spyghana reading articles. And she takes writing serious. She loves good writing and powerful topics. And she loves reading serious writers. I mean SERIOUS WRITERS! She is not youR kind of A reader.
2)The Black Star News has more respectability that Ghanaweb. The caliber of issues addressed there, though largely topically and philosphically different from Ghanaweb's, are better written, better reviewed, more philosphically complex, intellectually stimulating, mentally challenging, and what have you. Its seriousness of investigative journalism cannot be rivalled by Ghanaweb.
You see, you guys take Ghanaweb too serious. Many writers like me come to Ghanaweb to have fun for the most part. Black Star News is serious business. And circulation is not everything. Comparatively, New York Daily News and New York Post, for instance, have larger circulation but are dailies targeted largely at readers whose level of education do not go beyond high-school or community college.
Ghanaweb or the Daily Graphic is not the equal of New York Amsterdam News, one of New York's respected papers. Moreover, the breadth of topics covered at Black Star News surpasses those at New York Amsetrdam News. I have one or two frends with New York Amsterdam News (don't take this as a boast; I am only giving indirect evidence for my claims). We can discuss names privately!
On the other hand, most Ghanaweb readers who complain about easy writings like mine will have a hard time understanding Black Star News or the New York Times, though the New York Post and the New York Daily News will be easy reads for them. An Irish-American friend of mine, an English major (Arizona University), advised me to stop reading the New York Post and the New York Daily News as they were meant for readers with high-school education. That was in 1998.
He then introduced me to the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, and other quality newspapers. I have never regretted these papers to this day!Yet Black Star News is one of his favorites. He reads it when he wants authoritative news on Africa. Black Star News is tailored to a particular clientele; readers are largely middle-class American readers (Africans, White and Black Americans, Asians, etc) around Manhattan. Advertising spaces are bought largely by rich white folks and owners of white companies!
What is more, Black Star News have carried out high-profiled investigative headlines that have forced the British parliament to investigate Yoweri Museveni and his government. Allimadi's paper has forced the American government to take up (as well as reshape its policies) towards geopolitical areas like Congo (Easern Congo), and several other locations in the African world.
His peper has exposed high-level corruption in places like Ethiopia, Rwanda, etc., forcing some American states (and certain persons associated with the US Congress) to look at laws forbidding US companies to work with corrupt regimes! You don't see such seriousness with Ghanaweb. This level of investigation seriousness is sporadic with the Daily News. The Daily News is too partisan/bias depending on the government in power. Take time and compare the contents of Black Star News and the Daily Graphic (by contents, I mean quality of investigative journalism, breadth or range of topics discussed, etc).
There is another problem you seem to have. You know absolutely nothing about Black Star News. Yes, it is Pan-Africanist as you say, but have you had time to read about the paper's covering of issues relating exclusively to the West and Asia? Have you read book reviews in its pages? Have you read its covering of congressional proceedings that have absolutely nothing to do with the African world? Pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity are not about the African world per se. It is about the world. Both have opened my eyes to the world of science, world literature, world music, and what have you!
Have you read about American celebrities in its pages? How much do you learn about the world from Ghanaweb as opposed to Black Star News? How much does Ghanaweb and the Daily Graphic say about South America, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, etc? Read how much you are likely to learn about these regions in Black Star News and compare that with Ghanaweb and the Daily News!
Let me summarise it for you: Reading Black Star News or the New York Times is like being close to a textbook. The less said about Ghanaweb in this regard, the better. You practically learn nothing about the world from Ghanaweb. This is understandable because issues raised on Ghanaweb are primarily problems affecting Ghana. Have you googled Mr. Milton Allimadi to find out that he's a sought-after investigative journalist and public speaker across America (TV, universities, etc)?
3)I made it clear to you that I don't need the link. I have addressed questions the link raises in many of my articles. Kwame Nkrumah is studied alongside progressive leaders (20th centuy) across the world's major universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia, New York University, MIT, Cornell, Yale...
4)Again, this is my email (franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com). And let's talk some more about scholarly international journals that have sent me invitations that I told you about. Are you afraid of that too? How much do you know about the
5) These international journals have more credibility than The Economist. Forget the Daily Graphic. Some of my KNUST mates write for Daily Graphic AS I write. I used to help edit their essays for them while in the university (as a mathematics students).
6) I also visit the website of the Daily Graphic now and then. WThere are so many Ghanaweb columnists who can write for the Daily Graphic. I even helped one of these mates write his thesis. I even used to read the Daily Graphic and the Mirror as a child. There is nothing spectaclar going on there by way of writing style. I am not necessarily fascinated with the Daily Graphic as I am of, say, the New York Times, the New Yorker, or the Wall Street. Ghanaweb does not even have the credibility modernghana enjoys.
7) You see how emotions are ruining your sense of judgment. You said elsewhere my articles are simple to read. But now you are claiming my writings are obtuse. What sort of a thinker are you? And you see how YAW, Andy, and Abeeku Mensah read the same writings and easily communicates their understanding of them on Ghanaweb.
8) Again, you got it all wrong. I used the analogy of bat and blindess as metaphors! You see how uncritical you can be. Have you found out why I used the words "nucturnal" in relation to sunlight, bat, and blindness? This is why you have a problem dissecting the articles I write. I now see you just read words, sentences, and paragraphs without looking beyond what they mean!
9) Afrocentricity is not about critical theory, literature, literary criticism, etc. It is alos abou science, sociology, social science, archeology, paeontology, Egyptology, human relations, muical theoty, and what have you. It is why it is a fixture of the American education (Afrocentric concepts gaining ground in universities across South America, Africa, Europe, and even Asia). Some of the worlds leading scientists, like Dr. Chandra Kant Raju, publishes in the Journal of Black Studies!
Read about Dr. Raju to see how he ranks amongst the world's greatest physicists, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists. There are important white-American scholars who have argued for the Afrocentric method. They have even used the Afrocentric method to advance scientific work.
The late Dr. Martin Bernal (professor at Cornel University; Oxford University-trained Sinolohist) won an American Book Award for his work on classical civilizations; Dr. Ron Eglash, a mathematician, scientist, cyberneticist, and computer scientist (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), have used the Afrocentric method to trace modern computer to African fractals. He earned a Fulbright to do this research and was later invited to share his findings with the scientific and scholarly world (google him at TED.com); Richard Poe, a Greek-American scholar, has confirmed most of the claims made by Afrocentrists....the list is endless. The list is as tall as scholars from around the world whose research interests touch on the life of Kwame Nkrumah.
10) There is a website for Afrocentricity International (here is the link: afrocentricityinternational-paris.org/; it's still under construction; the english one is temporarily closed. It's undergoing a complete overhaul). You may not undertsand anything there if you are literate in French. I am.
I am done.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Ghanaba,
My series on the sick "scholar" is not done yet.
It is coming your way.
Thanks.
Ghanaba,
My series on the sick "scholar" is not done yet.
It is coming your way.
Thanks.
YAW 9 years ago
The only thing positive about your piece is your insult.Sadly,even your insult emanates from your nether regions.
The only thing positive about your piece is your insult.Sadly,even your insult emanates from your nether regions.
YAW 9 years ago
Uncle and Auntie Kweku Bonsam"s willing prayer...Thou shalt conform and hail the Insane Means of Freedom.The Bonsam"s have all the consistency of a chameleon just like the IMF.The people are treated like "chain gangs",standi ... read full comment
Uncle and Auntie Kweku Bonsam"s willing prayer...Thou shalt conform and hail the Insane Means of Freedom.The Bonsam"s have all the consistency of a chameleon just like the IMF.The people are treated like "chain gangs",standing in queue every four years,meek and humble before arbitrary power eager to enrich themselves.The Bonsam"s are dismissive of history.Propriety is a dwindling resource in the country.Veritable thieves and ruthless calculating sharks are the "Elite"To expect Kweku Bonsam to improve the life of the ignorant folk would be like asking "AL Shabaab" to restrain Wahabbism.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Say it again!
Andy-K
Say it again!
Andy-K
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
C.Y. ANDY-K, you idiots kwawukumes' can never make sense, so shut it !!!
C.Y. ANDY-K, you idiots kwawukumes' can never make sense, so shut it !!!
GH-Atheist 9 years ago
Long winded, bereft of historical fact, common sense or basic logic, but full of historical revisionism ultimately signifying nothing.
Long winded, bereft of historical fact, common sense or basic logic, but full of historical revisionism ultimately signifying nothing.
It is no other person than the "Mad" Francis Kwarteng being left hanging in the emotional cobweb of the People’s jaded imagination as to why the Kwartenteng guy can be that "Mad," writing such stupid articles.
KWARTENG, I REALLY LIKE THE WAY YOU DEMOLISHED OKOAMPA IN THE NKRUMAH/DANQUAH DEBATE. YOU PROVED BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT DANQUAH WAS A MIDGET IN THE SHADOW OF THE OSAGYEFO.
YOU DID A GREAT JOB.
boko haram scholar
And you call yourself Ghanaba?????
I'm sure you could not grasp what this whole article was about and as a result reduce it to the usual way out......labeling people who challenge your 'brains' (that is, if you have access t ...
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Dear good friend,
Long time no see!
Readers like ADJOA WANGARA, GH-Atheist, and Ghanaba don't read or don't know how to read. I don't really write for such readers.
They would have wished I had tailored my ideas exc ...
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Never look inward and realize you can neither write nor express your ideas in a coherent way. Also ignore the fact that all the praises you keep heaping on Nkrumah and his era is a clear denial and distortion of well-establis ...
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Yes,
You can't read critically. My primary issue with your rantings is your lack of appreciation of critical reading. Critical reading of this essay should have led you to the underlying assumptions.
Unlike YAW, Andy, a ...
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You give yourself too much credit, thinking it takes critical analysis to to decipher what you write. Who do you think you are: Achebe, or Orwell? As I said on your other post a few months ago, your views and your writing sty ...
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Yes,
Have you bothered to find out a Special Session of the United Nations, an international organization, posthumously awarded Nkrumah a gold medal (1978) for his contribitions to human emancipation? Did the same body pos ...
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KWARTENG COME AND READ THE SORT OF NONSENSE WHICH UNDERLINES EVERY EVIDENCE AGAINST YOU AS A MAD PERSON AND SOMEBODY WHO IS CLEARLY SERIOULS UNDER HARD DRUGS.
NOW A SHORT "SENSELESS PARAGRAPH" FROM THE TOTAL IMBECILE KWART ...
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You see,
Are you the Ghanaweb columnist someone referred to as a "basket-weaving scholar"? Besides, those who come to Ghanaweb to insult do not have anything substantial to say, like you are doing here.
You did the sam ...
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I went to the Oxford website and search for Kwame Nkrumah. This is the first thing that came up:
www(.)economics(.)ox(.)ac(.)uk/materials/papers/13330/paper701(.)pdf
[Remove the backets from the dots.]
You are not a ...
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Yes,
Hahahahah...You are clueless as a nocturnal blind bat caught in the glare of the sunshine! Has the sick "scholar" contracted you defend him? Tell him to come face me!
Where are the FIVE UNSPOKEN ASSUMPTIONS? Haven ...
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I'm done. You have too big of an ego to be talked to. You choose to not listen to anyone who disagrees with you and respond with heavy handedness about a perceived luck of critical thought (the stupidity implied). You didn't ...
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Yes,
You sound very much like one of those ethnocentric Ghanaweb columnists! I don't want to mention names but if you are, then, my friend, you one of thoe four ethnocentric Ghanaweb columnists whose writings I don't read! ...
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Ghanaba,
My series on the sick "scholar" is not done yet.
It is coming your way.
Thanks.
The only thing positive about your piece is your insult.Sadly,even your insult emanates from your nether regions.
Uncle and Auntie Kweku Bonsam"s willing prayer...Thou shalt conform and hail the Insane Means of Freedom.The Bonsam"s have all the consistency of a chameleon just like the IMF.The people are treated like "chain gangs",standi ...
read full comment
Say it again!
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K, you idiots kwawukumes' can never make sense, so shut it !!!
Long winded, bereft of historical fact, common sense or basic logic, but full of historical revisionism ultimately signifying nothing.