Kwame Nkrumah And Our Culture Of Disrespect

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Mahmoud 11 years ago

Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice one party state and communism, and indulge ...
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Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice one party state and communism, and indulge in Leftist anti-Western propaganda using the small country's meager resources to challenge centuries' old, well-established Western countries. They even accepted that he should act as a savior of the Blackman around the world, while tyrannizing his own Black people at home because they have alternative views for development of their country.

Those who wanted him to concentrate more on basic needs of the young nation and tone down his rhetoric against the powerful were called traitors, reactionaries, and agents of imperialism that should be liquidated and imprisoned dead or alive. Could you believe that the opposition members he was tyrannizing were the very people who started the struggle for our independence? They employed Nkrumah and paid for his ticket from the UK to come and work as General Secretary of the group, saving him from the tyranny of unemployment in London. The independence struggle vanguards were senior civil servants in the Gold Coast. And as their struggle was gaining momentum and scope of the activities widening, they needed someone to work full time for the group; free from official work constrains to further spread message of the struggle.

Under their responsibility and protection, Nkrumah used the platform to become public face of the group and his popularity soared. This was because, many people in those days perceived him as the person or the only person that was fighting for our independence. Subsequently, when he heard from the Governor General's female secretary, who was later sacked, that the British had been getting ready to grant us independence, he increasingly used needless militant tactics to provoke the Whiteman, when it was clear that the wind of change was blowing, and also embarrass his employers in order to outmaneuver them. He then used the opportunity to break away from them, forming his own party and slapping them from behind to take power.

This might explain the strong partisanship in the country and why Nkrumah didn't want the Liberation Vanguards to ever come to power in his life time. Maybe, he was afraid of his own ghost. Despite the facts, his supporters still want us to believe that he initiated, spearheaded and single handedly fought for our independence, and therefore name every national project after him as if we were in a kingdom.
Kojo T 11 years ago

The bomb throwing CIA traitors divided the country and their greed and selfishness brought the moral decay

The bomb throwing CIA traitors divided the country and their greed and selfishness brought the moral decay
HAN 11 years ago

MATE MEHO TRAITORS AND ERRAND BOYS BUSIA, JB DANQUAH AND AFRIFA WREAKED HAVOC ON GHANA THROWING BOMBS KILLING INNOCENT GHANAIANS IN THE PROCESS OF CAUSING PERMANENT DIVISION OF GHANA INTO POLITICAL/TRIBAL GROUPS.

MATE MEHO TRAITORS AND ERRAND BOYS BUSIA, JB DANQUAH AND AFRIFA WREAKED HAVOC ON GHANA THROWING BOMBS KILLING INNOCENT GHANAIANS IN THE PROCESS OF CAUSING PERMANENT DIVISION OF GHANA INTO POLITICAL/TRIBAL GROUPS.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

So far so good. But point of correction here: Nkrumah NEVER claimed to have singularly started the struggle for Gold Coast's independence. He broke away from the pioneers to quicken the independence struggle.

If this or th ...
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So far so good. But point of correction here: Nkrumah NEVER claimed to have singularly started the struggle for Gold Coast's independence. He broke away from the pioneers to quicken the independence struggle.

If this or that is named after Nkrumah, you should know it was not for nothing. I can understand your unhappiness and anger with Nkrumah was due to the fact that he jailed your parents ("the traitors") and made sure they died in detention at Nsawam.

Do you think it was fools who voted Nkrumah as AFRICAN OF THE MILLENIUM?
Mike Olongo, USA 11 years ago

Yes, Vodoo, you got that right! Those stooges referred to as Nkrumah's employers were kowtowing and butt-licking their colonialist masters and calling that acion dialogue towards self government.The more sagacious Nkrumah, kn ...
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Yes, Vodoo, you got that right! Those stooges referred to as Nkrumah's employers were kowtowing and butt-licking their colonialist masters and calling that acion dialogue towards self government.The more sagacious Nkrumah, knowing the cunning colonialists would not succumb to the feeble pressures from those stooges took a more drastic and dynamic approach of "SELF GOVERNMENT NOW!"
Atikopo#6 11 years ago

Kwasea Mahmoud:

You are seriously mis-educated!!

Ko te bo to!!

You need a wansam for your brain!!

Kwasea Mahmoud:

You are seriously mis-educated!!

Ko te bo to!!

You need a wansam for your brain!!
Asiwome 11 years ago

It is the school system that tells children that they have skills their parents lack, when these technical skills have little to do with survival skills.

It is the school system that tells children that they have skills their parents lack, when these technical skills have little to do with survival skills.
Kwesi Yeboah 11 years ago

You never cease to amaze me. Having been an ardent Nkrumaist in your past life, you now accuse Kwame of pedophilia. When you become a JJ enthusiast in your next life, what you gonna do, accuse boakye danquah of bestiality. Yo ...
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You never cease to amaze me. Having been an ardent Nkrumaist in your past life, you now accuse Kwame of pedophilia. When you become a JJ enthusiast in your next life, what you gonna do, accuse boakye danquah of bestiality. Your inconsistency is quite atrocious
PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 11 years ago

HE MAD WHO NEED TO GO TO ANTOAH

HE MAD WHO NEED TO GO TO ANTOAH
Balderash 11 years ago

How does IMF protege Mahama become a leftist? Enough of your slogans and labeling. There can be no respect when there is injustice. The problem with Ghana is those who call themselves conservatives and those who call themsel ...
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How does IMF protege Mahama become a leftist? Enough of your slogans and labeling. There can be no respect when there is injustice. The problem with Ghana is those who call themselves conservatives and those who call themselves leftists are one of the same racketeering caste who only satisfy their avaricious appetites. Sometimes you go so overboard with your philosophical homilies. Your so called conservatives are often a bunch of fascists only interested in keeping the status quo. NPP or NDC, as Mugabe aptly describes only take instructions from their masters in the West. That is why we are losing it. Leave Nkrumah out of this.

k, no problem, a 11 years ago

You are a very brilliant man/woman .

You are a very brilliant man/woman .
NANA YAW 11 years ago

You are hell bent on feeding the base of your bogus property owning NPP; unfortunately, the fool soldiers don't understand your bombastic lingo.

You are hell bent on feeding the base of your bogus property owning NPP; unfortunately, the fool soldiers don't understand your bombastic lingo.
GOLD COAST 11 years ago

This crazy Community College teacher once said Nkrumah had an incestuous relationship with his wife,Madam Fathia. Waaa look! A psycho in the house.

PEACE

This crazy Community College teacher once said Nkrumah had an incestuous relationship with his wife,Madam Fathia. Waaa look! A psycho in the house.

PEACE
k, no problem, a 11 years ago

This man I find you so stupid why?

This man I find you so stupid why?
Kwasi Dwom 11 years ago

Idiot

Idiot
Kweku Ananse 11 years ago

This puerile presumption of yours that Nkrumah is the genesis of all Ghana's problems does not wash because you see everything Nkrumah to be red from your tainted glasses. You are no academic to be so biased this way.

This puerile presumption of yours that Nkrumah is the genesis of all Ghana's problems does not wash because you see everything Nkrumah to be red from your tainted glasses. You are no academic to be so biased this way.
YAW 11 years ago

Okoampa, in his desperate bid for recognition has not spared,most unjustly and cynically,to accuse Nkrumah of every crime regarding human nature,except necrophilia.Okoampa"s academic career,I regret to say,is a cause of unmit ...
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Okoampa, in his desperate bid for recognition has not spared,most unjustly and cynically,to accuse Nkrumah of every crime regarding human nature,except necrophilia.Okoampa"s academic career,I regret to say,is a cause of unmitigated disappointment,failure and sheer vexation.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago

This Akyem dog and bastard must be killed like a dog to stop him from peddling his half-truths.

This Akyem dog and bastard must be killed like a dog to stop him from peddling his half-truths.
kobina 11 years ago

This is monumental scholastic nonsense. It's baseless and inflammatory. No self-respected intellectual would spew out such trash. No wonder the author of the myopic piece has always come across as a pseudo intellectual desper ...
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This is monumental scholastic nonsense. It's baseless and inflammatory. No self-respected intellectual would spew out such trash. No wonder the author of the myopic piece has always come across as a pseudo intellectual desperately begging for attention and recognition.
essien 11 years ago

I think this scribe always get it wrong..you are too much of npp minded and as a matter of fact you dont appreciate anything good.
every man is fallible and so was nkrumah but if u dnt knw those ur beloved UGCC party members ...
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I think this scribe always get it wrong..you are too much of npp minded and as a matter of fact you dont appreciate anything good.
every man is fallible and so was nkrumah but if u dnt knw those ur beloved UGCC party members were just "konogo kaya“ likewise u.
Its high time u wrote something good for d wise than always writing untouching stories for d blocked minded.

Atikopo#6 11 years ago

This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ( "Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.

"And here, it is signif ...
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This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ( "Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.

"And here, it is significantly instructive to observe that none of the myriad putsches and coup detats have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians are known to have staunchly backed regressivley Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned University-educated former prime minister. Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) won a landslide victory, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and Ghana's extant colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. He would, however, succeed ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny.

Indeed, it is interesting to observe that Ghana's major and, to-date, only international airport is named for General E.K. Kotoka, the very Darwinian outlaw who spearheaded the grossly unimaginative overthrow of the constitutionally elected government of the CPP. For many detractors and outright enemies of Nkrumah, Kotoka's greatest—if also sole—achievement was simply getting rid of an elected dictator. It has often been said, largely by Western academics, that Nkrumah was a heartless and fatuous dictator; these days, one hears Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, the career soldier who ran Ghana for twenty harrowing incontrovertibly bloody years, described as a "benign dictator." It is significant to observe that Mr. Rawlings, whose agnatic parentage is purported to be Scottish, presided over the dastardly kidnapping and summary execution of three Ghanaian supreme court judges, all of whom belonged to a single ethnic nationality.

When one agrees with the Western ideological mythology that Nkrumah was a raw-boned dictator bereft of vision, then it begins to make sense that Kotoka's statue should continue to command the august facade of Accra International Airport, thus perpetually humiliating those of us who incurably believe in democratic governance. Needless to say, the 1966 Kotoka-led coup initiated the barbaric, neo-colonial military dynasty that Ghanaian continue to suffer….

That Ghana's post-colonial political dilemma transcends military dictatorship cannot be honestly gainsaid. In fact, many of the most vociferous civilian opposition party leaders, some of whom are currently sitting in parliament, representing misguided and hoodwinked constituents, are known to have collaborated with Kotoka's so-called National Liberation Council to unseat President Nkrumah. It is also significant to observe that these largely superannuated rascals and executive national, fiduciary muggers continue to dominate whatever passes by the name of "the legitimate opposition." This state of affairs, coupled with a largely under-educated and under-informed electorate, has made it almost impossible to rectify the prevailing socioeconomic chaos ravaging the country.”

Taken from “SOUNDS OF SIRENS: ESSAYS IN AFRICAN POLITICS & CULTURE”, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr (2004)
Kowadis 11 years ago

Atikopo: KUDOS for EXPOSING the convenient DELUSIONAL ramblings of this pseudo-intellectual KNAVE!

Atikopo: KUDOS for EXPOSING the convenient DELUSIONAL ramblings of this pseudo-intellectual KNAVE!
Kobina 11 years ago

Thank you for exposing the hypocrisy, the intellectual dishonesty, and the abject immorality of Okoampa-Ahoofe, a pompous and a vain pseudo intellectual who is a laughing stock among his peers. This guy has no shame about bei ...
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Thank you for exposing the hypocrisy, the intellectual dishonesty, and the abject immorality of Okoampa-Ahoofe, a pompous and a vain pseudo intellectual who is a laughing stock among his peers. This guy has no shame about being an ideological fraud. I dare him to react to your comment. Over to you Dr. Fraudster.
Krobo Edusei 11 years ago

Okoampa Ahuotan when did you learn to respect anyone?

You lugubriously unleash bombastic hyperbole and malapropic tautology on anyone that has a better brain than your. And you want others to show respect? I don't think a ...
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Okoampa Ahuotan when did you learn to respect anyone?

You lugubriously unleash bombastic hyperbole and malapropic tautology on anyone that has a better brain than your. And you want others to show respect? I don't think anyone is stupid enough to ape you, but, really, do you ever ruminate over what you indite?

By your own words, you have pulled down the shutters over your sanity, such that 99% of those who read your articles comment in an unflattering manner about the articles. Just read some of those appended to the current article. Go'way you, o dear punk.
Jomo Kenyatta 11 years ago

Stupidity is as stupid does. A fool is always a fool. Mentally sick man Okoampa is at it again.

Stupidity is as stupid does. A fool is always a fool. Mentally sick man Okoampa is at it again.
Kwame 11 years ago

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe is a faded reason. Let one take a look at Washington and Moscow and see were tradition is well preserved. Just take a look at the Red Square and you will see tradition in action under socialism. When Akpe ...
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Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe is a faded reason. Let one take a look at Washington and Moscow and see were tradition is well preserved. Just take a look at the Red Square and you will see tradition in action under socialism. When Akpese was danced Kwame Nkrumah admired it and call it Borborbor and the name remain up to date. I was in the classroom before independence and saw how our rightist intellectuals and clergy were then destroying our tradition and culture. You are canned on Monday parade if you danced a traditional dance during the week-end and when independence came on 6/3/1957 Kwame Nkrumah put a stop to that.
Augustine Acquah-Quayson 11 years ago

The author x completely naive n doesn't know hot he's talking abt. Dat moral decadent today was cos by Kwame Nkrumah....u need to revive ur history note. May b u were orally told den i am sorry. It was J. B. danquah n Edward ...
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The author x completely naive n doesn't know hot he's talking abt. Dat moral decadent today was cos by Kwame Nkrumah....u need to revive ur history note. May b u were orally told den i am sorry. It was J. B. danquah n Edward Akufo Ado the two Akyim tried their best to silence Nkrumah 1. betrayed Nkrumah dat he ingeneered de 1948 riots. 2. Nkrumah was removed from ugcc general secretary. They did dis for j.b. to be president.
Who betrayed d other? u fumed n ignorant. jealousy against Nkrumah began by ur so called American cia agent j.b. Danquah. The youth rada demanded Nkrumah to leave n form a party.
essien 11 years ago

mahmoud !!!
Si vous ne avez jamais su alors je vous dis aujourd'hui que vos ancêtres ont été raccordés au Ghana en raison de Kwame Nkrumah et ils ont été rejetés, abandonnés et ignorés par seulement vos Patriots.
I ...
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mahmoud !!!
Si vous ne avez jamais su alors je vous dis aujourd'hui que vos ancêtres ont été raccordés au Ghana en raison de Kwame Nkrumah et ils ont été rejetés, abandonnés et ignorés par seulement vos Patriots.
Il semble que vous ne lis pas, si ce ne est sur la terre alors comment voulez-vous ouvrir vos vieilles dents âgés au monde contre un rassembleur légendaire non seulement le Ghana, mais l'Afrique comme un.
Vous avez perdu votre histoire, vous êtes perdu bro !!!

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