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Our Leaders Are A Reflection Of Ourselves

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  • Asiwome 9 years ago

    It is about time we stopped this pity party. Our leaders don't encourage us to take pride in what we have and to develop our potential. All great leaders have one thing in common, they encourage the masses to be proud of who ...
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  • onetribe 9 years ago

    Until we see the good in all of our past leaders we will be condemned to doing the wrong things. Current leaders are scared to embrace General Acheampongs self reliance policy, but would rather lecture the populace about buyi ...
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  • Kwaku Asante Gyeabour 9 years ago

    I must thank Philip for this wonderful piece. I am also proud of all the commentaries I have read so far. No insults, interesting revelations, display of wisdom befitting for an intellectual discourse. Folks let's stay this c ...
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  • Boat, NY 9 years ago

    The man who once said, "the black man is capable of managing his own affairs couldn't practice what he preached himself. He was a megalomaniac and every political system he created such as one party system, press censorship, ...
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  • PhiIip Kobina Baidoo 9 years ago

    You couldn't have said it better.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Lincoln and Kennedy paid with their lives because they were upsetting people with vested interest....yet you discount the fact that seven attempts were made to blow up Nkrumah by people of vested interest.It is a shame the th ...
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  • Boat, NY 9 years ago

    @Kofi, your reference to Rockefeller, JP, Carnegie to educate me is out of place. It would have been better for you to refer to The Founding Fathers as mentioned by Baidoo. That way, you avoid comparing apples with oranges. T ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    The bombs started in 1954.Nkrumah"s president for life started in 1964.So don"t fob me off! Surely,Nkrumah was not president when Krobo Edusei"s sister was blown up Kumasi or when
    his Accra newtown house was bombed in 1954 ...
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  • Spiky 9 years ago

    Don't be simplistic. Perhaps, Nkrumah's only fault was that he did not factor in his thinking that traitors are not capable of managing their own affairs and he also did not think there were traitors in black skin in his own ...
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  • Military Man 9 years ago

    If it weren't for Nkrumah, a lot of these current day 'detractors' of his wouldn't have set foot in the classrooms to have had an education.
    Education they are now using to undermine his great work. Very ironic, isn't it?
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Nkrumah has been gone since 1966, and you still pin your problems on him. Nkrumah and his team had good agendas for the nation, but some folks felt entitled to governning, hence they resorted to all devious and evil means to ...
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  • NUMBER-NINE DEMOCRATIC CRIMINAL 9 years ago

    The entire Ghanaian community is wrapped in contagious acts of corruption, greed, deceit, intra-community animosity and disharmony and inbuilt inter-ethnic hatred. We need to destroy these chronic negative behavioral instinct ...
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  • Humanity 9 years ago

    Black people, we are the bane of our own development. Because, we are not patriotic enough. We don't have the development of our country at heart. We always pretend.

    We are so obsessed with our tribe at the expensese of ou ...
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  • jk Atta 9 years ago

    This article should be read by everyone calling himself or herself a Ghanaian.The important deduction from the article is that the Development of our country rests on the shoulders of all Ghanaians. This is the reason why so ...
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  • Chief amankwa 9 years ago

    We are not correct so we vote for incorrect guys.
    And we cry wolves ...I think our leaders should punish more until we learn sense .
    So I support all the corruption ,nepotism etc bcos we are all like that or 90% are like th ...
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  • Spiky 9 years ago

    You couldn't have said it better. If leaders upon leaders, chosen over time, behave in the same way it is fair to assume that they represent the values of the society. If we want to see leaders who behave differently from tho ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 9 years ago

    Philip,…..You have made some good points but I will only touch on your quote below.

    YOUR QUOTE: “As human beings, it’s been a perpetual quest, and rightly so, to dissect the problem and identify the root cause, which ...
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  • Military Man 9 years ago

    Good and factual points in there.

    My one area of disagreement is:

    "That is, by learning in our own ‘lingo’ or more importantly an AFRICAN ‘lingo’ just as they do with theirs."

    My question here is how many sc ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 9 years ago

    Military Man, good to share positive ideas..... .........................

    However, I strongly believe that the 'lingo' itself, we have imposed on ourselves is suppressive. It lingers in the minds of ours, as being EDUCATIO ...
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  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Your article makes a lot of sense. I however have to dis agree with the statement that "We are in danger of substituting political opponents into mortal enemies, which if not surgically removed is going to overwhelm us". That ...
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