For detailed stuff about J.B. Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah call Francis Kwarteng (USA) on 001-301 277 5871 in 4230-Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781-Maryland, USA.
For detailed stuff about J.B. Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah call Francis Kwarteng (USA) on 001-301 277 5871 in 4230-Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781-Maryland, USA.
Asem 9 years ago
Danquah could not even argue successfully at court against brainy Kwaku Boateng. He lost case after case.
Danquah could not even argue successfully at court against brainy Kwaku Boateng. He lost case after case.
Mahmoud 9 years ago
Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana ... read full comment
Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana was richer than Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia or Singapore. Today, those countries are at least ten times as wealthy.
HANS 9 years ago
JB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST WHO CONSPIRED WITH THE CIA TO DESTABILIZE GHANA AFTER FAILING TO WIN INDEPENDENCE FOR GHANA. HE WAS JEALOUS OF NKRUMAH. HE WAS ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CIA BEING BRIBED TO CREATE MAYHEM IN GHANA. HE DI ... read full comment
JB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST WHO CONSPIRED WITH THE CIA TO DESTABILIZE GHANA AFTER FAILING TO WIN INDEPENDENCE FOR GHANA. HE WAS JEALOUS OF NKRUMAH. HE WAS ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CIA BEING BRIBED TO CREATE MAYHEM IN GHANA. HE DID NOT MAKE ANY POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA. HE WAS A NATION WRECKER.
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 9 years ago
How can JB Danquah be regarded as the Doyen of democracy in Ghana when all he did was appointed into some position which existed before him?
Kwagir Aggrey, Mensa Sabba, and a host of academics had taken the lead before JB ... read full comment
How can JB Danquah be regarded as the Doyen of democracy in Ghana when all he did was appointed into some position which existed before him?
Kwagir Aggrey, Mensa Sabba, and a host of academics had taken the lead before JB Danquah so what actually did JB Danquah do to merit his so called doyen of African Democracy if not Ghanaian democracy?
There is only one thing that can be credited to JB Danquah, which is his effort to bring the Asantes to the Gold Coast. As for the Northern Territories by the the UN Plebiscite 1956 agreement, it was all Dr. Nkrumah and there is nowhere that JB Danquah was mentioned to have fought for it.
INXS 9 years ago
Kwesi Sakyi, this is not good enough. No, it isn't good.
If you want to write a tribute to Danquah 50 years after his death, you should do that. You should tell us about the man, his time and life, his positive and negativ ... read full comment
Kwesi Sakyi, this is not good enough. No, it isn't good.
If you want to write a tribute to Danquah 50 years after his death, you should do that. You should tell us about the man, his time and life, his positive and negative attributes, etc. and leave out your own partisan views. Present the facts so that the reader will judge for himself even though the reader will still know where your sympathies lie. It is wrong for you to attack others who have written their opinions about Nkrumah and Danquah. That attack should not be part of what you call a tribute to Danquah.
If you want to write a piece challenging the views of SAS and Okoampa on Nkrumah and Danquah, then do so but don't call it a tribute to Danquah. And when you critique the views of the said gentlemen, stick to the facts and stop calling them names. Let the way you argue your points talk to the reader who is capable of making his own judgments based on facts, not on your descriptions of the people who are making the arguments you are attacking.
Sakyi, you belong to the older generation of Ghanaians on ghanaweb and I expect you to show a better example in your argumentation than what you've done above.
Your present piece is not a tribute to Danquah. The article is very jerky and you were moving from point to point in a haphazard manner with a few unnecessary repetitions. At the same time you left out many things in the man's life almost jumping from when he finished "San Seven" to his university days.
Some of your facts are not even accurate or conveyed the wrong conclusions. For instance, you talked about Danquah's efforts to bring the people of the colony together. But, actually, Danquah was in favour of letting the people of TVT go if they (the TVT people) so wanted to. It was in line with his so called liberal credentials that people should not be forced against their will and he didn't quite like Nkrumah's activities in the TVT prior to the plebiscite since the issue really didn't concern Nkrumah. Later on, the Togoland Congress would become supporters of Danquah in the UP days and voted for him when he stood against Nkrumah in the presidential elections.
I don't think Nkrumah's US training contra Danquah's British training had anything to do with the stands they took later in the politics of the Gold Coast. Nkrumah was attracted to socialist ideals. It had nothing to do with his stay in the US which at that time was trying to establish itself as the foremost capitalist nation on earth - which it succeeded in doing after the second world war. There must have been personality differences between the two that went beyond what was dictated by their ideological inclinations.
Please, let us argue on the facts and the facts alone. Even if you support Nkrumah in this Danquah vrs Nkrumah debate, you must let your support rest on the facts you can deploy to lend weight to your arguments. For instance, I will choose Nkrumah over Danquah any day, but that does not give me the right to twist the facts anyhow at all.
On a personal note, Kwesi Sakyi, do you remember the day Danquah died? In 1965 you may have been in Middle School so you remembered. I don't remember much but it seems it was not a highly publicized information. There was no rejoicing in the CPP camp either and I suspect Nkrumah may not have quite like it that his opponent died in prison.
I take it you were not a member of GYP so I won't ask you any questions about that.
You have promised us a tribute to Nkrumah. I hope very much it won't be like what you have written above on Danquah. I expect something more analytical than who have presented us now.
Perhaps you will do better to tell us about Quaison-Sackey than another one-sided tribute to Nkrumah.
Kenyatta 9 years ago
The name, " Ghana " came from the old Ghana Empire which existed long before Ghana was founded.That empire was located in the West African sub-region north and west of the current boundaries of Ghana.
It had nothing to do ... read full comment
The name, " Ghana " came from the old Ghana Empire which existed long before Ghana was founded.That empire was located in the West African sub-region north and west of the current boundaries of Ghana.
It had nothing to do with names like Ghartey,Ghansah etc.. as you mentioned. Nkrumah used that name to make the switch from Gold Coast to Ghana.
Dr. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago
Explain to me your ad hominem argument against me.
The thesis of my articles is that Nkrumah was a bloody dictator. Instead of debating my assertions and critiquing my conclusions, you are merely stating "....so who is the s ... read full comment
Explain to me your ad hominem argument against me.
The thesis of my articles is that Nkrumah was a bloody dictator. Instead of debating my assertions and critiquing my conclusions, you are merely stating "....so who is the so-called ‘Dr’ Samuel Adjei Sarfo, JD, to make bones about these independent and impartial non-Ghanaian verdict on Nkrumah? , " Is it the verdict of those "non Ghanaians" that Nkrumah was a great democrat?
I have always thought of you as a fairly stupid old man. Today, you have shown that you are an extremely stupid old man!!!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Prof. Sakyi,
Thanks for this piece.
Unfortunately you did not mention Danquah's connections to the CIA( as per Mahoney's book "JFK: Ordeal in Africa").
This is very important if we want to have a fuller pictur ... read full comment
Dear Prof. Sakyi,
Thanks for this piece.
Unfortunately you did not mention Danquah's connections to the CIA( as per Mahoney's book "JFK: Ordeal in Africa").
This is very important if we want to have a fuller picture of the man and some of the decisions he took.
Danquah's connections to the CIA (as revealed to us by Richard Mahoney) sheds light on some of the questions that may have forced Nkrumah to institute certain policies to make Ghana safe.
Posterity has to know about this (This Mahoney revelation and what declassified info says; a Freedom of Information request is also required in this matter).
I shall provide them in two parts for your readership. We shall also return to have a fuller discussion with you and your readership again.
Thanks.
We have forgiven the CIA coup makers 9 years ago
Dear Dr. Kennedy, can you go and sue the CIA for saying JB was on their payroll?
Your integrity is on the line.
Dear Dr. Kennedy, can you go and sue the CIA for saying JB was on their payroll?
Your integrity is on the line.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Dr. Kennedy,
Come and sue me!
Next time use your real name. Hiding under this name will do you no favor.
Call on Gabby and the Danquah Institute to sue Richard Mahoney and his book "JFK: ORDEAL IN AFRICA." You ... read full comment
Dear Dr. Kennedy,
Come and sue me!
Next time use your real name. Hiding under this name will do you no favor.
Call on Gabby and the Danquah Institute to sue Richard Mahoney and his book "JFK: ORDEAL IN AFRICA." You can also sue his father. Tell Gabby to go and sue Nana Akyea Mensha (Odikro) too!
You are talking about integrity? You know what this word means? You think I am an ant!
This childish pranks will not work. Go and sue Richard Mahoney and his late Father William Mahoney!
Go and sue!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Sakyi,
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, duri ... read full comment
Prof. Sakyi,
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday's Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a "rather startlingly infantile reaction", even though he agrees with him! See: "Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It", Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.
In his article titled, "Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!", Ochere-Darko's attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:
In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute's narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:
"Dr Danquah’s family,... allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador"?
Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah's family was being paid by the CIA or "the American Embassy"? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not "the American Embassy" as they would want us to believe?
A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney's book by replacing the "CIA" with "the US Embassy". Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: "Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know".
Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.
The fact that it was the CIA and not "the American Embassy" which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?
The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney)." - Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)
It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah's family:
"I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”
The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah's wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!
What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called "smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy."
"WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador."
Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko's attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!
Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah's dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney's age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney's has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference."
Richard Mahoney's book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico - Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.
Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”
Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity." “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”
"Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers." Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, " Why didn't Danquah go to his 'handler' to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent."
Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his "handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?
As Paul Lee writes in "Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow", "In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.
Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over." It comes out clearly that the CIA's attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.
The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding *Dr Omane Boamah*, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?
What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.
For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.
As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”
“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: 'During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means'” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).
“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).
Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”
Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.
The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah's part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, "sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died". It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.
As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.
One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:
“Obama's chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.'s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. - Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, " (Obama's Visit – What's In It For Us And U.S.?", Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. "The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)
“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs"? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:
“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!
That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”
This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way "the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs" is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro,
Member, Pan-Africanist International -*a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! **(also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.)
Dr. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago
How does Danquah being a CIA asset answer the question of the brutal dictatorship of Kwame Nkrumah?
Today, if anybody were to impose Nkrumah's type of dictatorship on my country, I will be working with the CIA to ship arms t ... read full comment
How does Danquah being a CIA asset answer the question of the brutal dictatorship of Kwame Nkrumah?
Today, if anybody were to impose Nkrumah's type of dictatorship on my country, I will be working with the CIA to ship arms to Ghana to fight to restore democracy. And who will blame me for working closely with a foreign government to fulfill our aspiration "to resist the oppressor's rule?
Please, answer my question because I will be debating you tonight.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Brother SAS,
Calling Nkrumah a “dictator” is nothing new, Brother SAS. It is even a relative terminology, concept. There are many Americans who have called George W. Bush a “dictator.” So who is a “dictator ... read full comment
Dear Brother SAS,
Calling Nkrumah a “dictator” is nothing new, Brother SAS. It is even a relative terminology, concept. There are many Americans who have called George W. Bush a “dictator.” So who is a “dictator” and who is not is not the issue on my mind.
There are others who see JB Danquah as a “dictator” because he once wrote suggesting that Abuakwa State (ethnocracy) would be the model for the new “independent” state without regard for ethnic diversity, for the diversity of ethno-states in the colony, and for using the National Liberation Movement rather than constitutional means to seek redress in the courts. Finally, others have also called Busia a “dictator” because he had no respect for the courts, etc.
The West consistently refers to Felix Houphouët-Boigny’s and Leopold Senghor’s one-party state a democracy when the former could sent Ivory Coast’s military into areas in the north and wipe out a whole people who threatened his government. Houphouët-Boigny even had an elite French soldiers (or a mercenary of French soldiers) that protected him during this period (so was Omar Bongo; Omar is celebrated in France as he went on to bankroll the presidential campaigns of Jacque Chirac, Francois Mitterrand, etc)!
Did you watch how the French government and the French people celebrated Senghor’s birthday in France? Houphouët-Boigny’s exclusionary politics provided the philosophical foundation of “Ivoirité,” a policy that largely excluded or restricted Northern Ivoirians (and “foreigners” who had lived in Ivory for God knows when) and led to Ivory Coast’s civil war after Houphouët-Boigny’s death.
Do you recall President Ronald Reagan referring to Mobuto Sese Seko as “a friend of democracy, of freedom”? Do you recall President Ronald Reagan also referring to Jonas Savimbi as a “freedom fighter”? Yet when you go to Angola they have a different opinion of Savimbi. Most Angolans I know of see Savimbi as a “dictator.” Yet Reagan saw him differently. This world is not as simplistic as we are willing to see it.
Then again, FBI boss JE Hoover has been called a “dictator” by several American writers, professors, historians, the lay public and politicians. Thus, I have never argued against anybody who has called Nkrumah a “dictator.” Why? Because I don’t see him or I have never seen him as a “dictator.” It is all a matter of personal perspective.
Another example is also that some of those who read your articles agreed with you that Nkrumah was/is a “dictator.” Many others also did not. Again it is a question of perspective. And the question of perspective on a particular issue(s) isn’t “universal.”
That aside, even when the CPP thrashed the Opposition in 1951, Brother SAS, leading members of the Opposition referred to Nkrumah as "a dictator, a Fuehrer.” This was when the one-party state, the PDA, etc., were not even in existence.
The leadership of the Opposition allowed that label to stick even as the CPP continued to thrash them in subsequent elections. So without the PDA, the one-party state, and the like, the Opposition saw Nkrumah as a “dictator.” Since when did genuinely winning elections make someone a “dictator, a Fuehrer”?
Thus, the “dictator, a Fuehrer” label preexisted the one-party state, PDA, etc? Put simply, I don’t take umbrage at your position that Nkrumah was/is a “dictator,” for he had been a “dictator” right since the leadership of the UGCC forced him out of the organization after the enormous success of the Positive Action! I hope you get my drift?
This was after the Colonial Government had done what it could to help the Opposition to win elections at all cost. Anyway, just as it is important to let posterity know about the strengths and weaknesses of Kwame Nkrumah, so it is for posterity to know this shameful aspect of Danquah's legacy. Here is the context:
The point is, why did the Danquah Institute and Gabby Ochere-Darko try to re-write the page mentioning Danquah and his dealings with the CIA as told to the world by William Mahoney's son Richard Mahoney?
Why did Gabby Ochere-Darko have to go back and re-state the exact wording of the book after public criticism of him and the Danquah Institute, even going to the extent of removing the said article from the website of the Danquah Institute (according to Nana Akyea (Odikro))?
Brother SAS, these are questions I want you to help Gabby answer? If Danquah's association and dealings with the CIA was a good or noble thing, why is he beating about the bush in futile attempts to question American sources (this controversy later came to involve John F. Kennedy, the American Ambassador at the time (William Mahoney), and the CIA bosses both in Accra and US)?
In other words, why should Gabby Ochere-Darko (and the Danquah Institute) get outraged when that noble act of Danquah is mentioned? In fact, why don’t the Danquah Institute, Gabby, and several others take this matter lightly whenever it is invoked? Don’t you think they should rather be promoting it? Don’t you think the Danquah Institute and the leadership of the UP tradition (the NPP) give a posthumous national honor to Danquah for that noble act? Why brush it aside? This is the first time I am witnessing a family resisting what is a noble act!
Brother SAS, why didn’t the leadership of the NPP make that noble act part of the accolades of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Danquah’s death? Why did they all shy away from it? In fact, you have made up your mind about Nkrumah and that is fine with me, Brother SAS, just as I have made my mind about so many things in life. You and I know this.
But help me answer why the Danquah Institute and Gabby Ochere-Darko are desperately trying to keep this shameful history from the public when, as it stands, it is already part of public records in Ghana, Africa, and the United States? In other words, you Dr. SAS views Danquah’s dealings with the CIA as a positive, noble thing, but then again, why does Gabby Ochere-Darko (and the Danquah Institute) see it as a negative even for Gabby to develop tantrums on national television when Danquah and the CIA connection came up!
This is what I want somebody like you to help me understand. Why are so many important people associated with the UP tradition uncomfortable about this noble act of Danquah? Like I said before, the sources are there and they are irrefutable. Again, I hope you get my drift? Whatever else you think about Nkrumah is beside the point. I want to know why the leadership of the UP tradition is uncomfortable with this question, this noble act of Danquah.
Please help me with this question. That is all I need. As for Nkrumah I can’t change your mind. It is like asking the world to change its mind about Nkrumah. That is not going to happen, at least not in our lifetime!
Thanks Dr. SAS.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Kwarteng, can't you get it that because of your stupidity and baseless lengthy copy and past nonsense nobody is finds it expedient engaging you in discussion? You are simply an idiot!!!
People who may like to call Kwarten ... read full comment
Kwarteng, can't you get it that because of your stupidity and baseless lengthy copy and past nonsense nobody is finds it expedient engaging you in discussion? You are simply an idiot!!!
People who may like to call Kwarteng and advise him can reach him on the following Tel. number in USA: 001-301 277 5871, (4203-Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD-Maryland 20781 (USA)
P/S: If you call and you are told, "the number you've dialed is not in service, keep on trying, Kwarteng might have switch his (fixed) Telephone off.
YAW 9 years ago
Main article: Palmer Raids
Fueled by labor unrest and the anarchist bombings, and then spurred on by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's attempt to suppress radical and non-radical labor organizations, it was characterized ... read full comment
Main article: Palmer Raids
Fueled by labor unrest and the anarchist bombings, and then spurred on by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's attempt to suppress radical and non-radical labor organizations, it was characterized by exaggerated rhetoric, illegal search and seizures, unwarranted arrests and detentions, and the deportation of several hundred suspected radicals and anarchists. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, twice targeted by anarchist bombs, organized the nationwide series of police actions, known as the Palmer raids, in November 1919 and January 1920. Under suspicion of violating the Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, and/or the Immigration Act of 1918,[11] approximately 10,000 people were arrested, of which 3,500 were held in detention.[12] Of those held in detention, 556 resident aliens were eventually deported.[11] The bombing campaign added to the Red Scare of 1919–1920, a widespread fear that radicals planned to overthrow the United States government and replace it with a Bolshevist dictatorship like that established by the Russian Revolution.
Dr. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 9 years ago
Akora Sakyi,
I am giving you one hour ultimatum to retract your gratuitous insult against my person or else be prepared for my eternal wrath. What did I ever say against you for you to write the following:
"Only sobs an ... read full comment
Akora Sakyi,
I am giving you one hour ultimatum to retract your gratuitous insult against my person or else be prepared for my eternal wrath. What did I ever say against you for you to write the following:
"Only sobs and puerile, infantile, juvenile, and bantamweight academic lowbrows and dimwits like DR SAS and cohort/clique dwell on the trivialities and negatives of the past to pollute the body polity in Ghana." ???
Remember, you have only one hour to swallow you vomit!
Kwadwo 9 years ago
Sakyi, although I like your tribute, I however, believe that you stooped low in insulting and belittling SAS. Please be advised millions of Ghanaians like SAS are not amused by Nkrumah's dictatorial policies and are willing ... read full comment
Sakyi, although I like your tribute, I however, believe that you stooped low in insulting and belittling SAS. Please be advised millions of Ghanaians like SAS are not amused by Nkrumah's dictatorial policies and are willing to condemn him for imprisoning people without trial. If that makes you uncomfortable , is your cup of tea. Like SAS, I believe in due process and unlike the dictator Eyadema, I am unwilling to have Nkrumah stay in power because he built a power dam, an 18 mile four lane highway and a habor with the people's money? Your nostalgia of Nkrumah is not mine so buzz off. You are not the smartest guy in the room, and please be reminded that I would attack Danquah if he had imprisoned Nkrumah without trial or had declared himself president for life.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
Sakyi, although I like your tribute, I however, believe that you stooped low in insulting and belittling SAS. Please be advised millions of Ghanaians like SAS are not amused by Nkrumah's dictatorial policies and are willing ... read full comment
Sakyi, although I like your tribute, I however, believe that you stooped low in insulting and belittling SAS. Please be advised millions of Ghanaians like SAS are not amused by Nkrumah's dictatorial policies and are willing to condemn him for imprisoning people without trial. If that makes you uncomfortable , is your cup of tea. Like SAS, I believe in due process and unlike the dictator Eyadema, I am unwilling to have Nkrumah stay in power because he built a power dam, an 18 mile four lane highway and a habor with the people's money? Your nostalgia of Nkrumah is not mine so buzz off. You are not the smartest guy in the room, and please be reminded that I would attack Danquah if he had imprisoned Nkrumah without trial or had declared himself president for life.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dr. SAS,
Let's keep this cool.
Thanks.
Dr. SAS,
Let's keep this cool.
Thanks.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
I do not want to hurt a fly but got so I incensed by your one-sided bashing of Nkrumah that I lost my cool. I will like you Dr SAS to accept my unreserved apology of using harsh words on you. First and foremost I thought you ... read full comment
I do not want to hurt a fly but got so I incensed by your one-sided bashing of Nkrumah that I lost my cool. I will like you Dr SAS to accept my unreserved apology of using harsh words on you. First and foremost I thought you should not have worn tainted glasses and should have balanced your article with objectivity. Besides, both Nkrumah and Danquah are dead and cannot answer for themselves. Furthermore, you or your relatives may one way or the other may have been beneficiaries of Nkrumah's policies or largesse from his eleemosynary economics. I hate insulting people and believe in decency and transparent academic discourse and intercourse. Akora, kafra!
KKO 9 years ago
Yes, your attack on Dr SAS was uncalled for. You have done the gentlemanly thing for apologising to him. I hope he accepts it in good faith.
Sorry is one word that most people on this web do not seem to have in their voca ... read full comment
Yes, your attack on Dr SAS was uncalled for. You have done the gentlemanly thing for apologising to him. I hope he accepts it in good faith.
Sorry is one word that most people on this web do not seem to have in their vocabulary.
Paul 9 years ago
I just wished that Dr SAS himself would have that same spirit, sense of decency and magnanimity in his dealings with others, but I rather doubt it. It is simply not in his genes to say sorry and admit his own wrongdoing.
I just wished that Dr SAS himself would have that same spirit, sense of decency and magnanimity in his dealings with others, but I rather doubt it. It is simply not in his genes to say sorry and admit his own wrongdoing.
Yaw Boakye 9 years ago
Bokor is going to get a heart attack if he reads this oooo.He thinks JB should be confined to the dustbin.Check his write ups on Ghanaweb.
Bokor is going to get a heart attack if he reads this oooo.He thinks JB should be confined to the dustbin.Check his write ups on Ghanaweb.
C.K. Man 9 years ago
Bokor can never be taken serious, the guy is filled with tribal and partisan that make him a typical Ewe.
Bokor can never be taken serious, the guy is filled with tribal and partisan that make him a typical Ewe.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago
Wrote as if you were trying your utmost to please the Danquahists, and avoid displeasing the Nkrumahists; in the end your historical account was sacrificed trying not to hurt anyone's feelings.
Would have liked to know why ... read full comment
Wrote as if you were trying your utmost to please the Danquahists, and avoid displeasing the Nkrumahists; in the end your historical account was sacrificed trying not to hurt anyone's feelings.
Would have liked to know why the Watson Commission honoured him with the accolade Doyen of Gold Coast politics.
The Old Ghana Empire was to the west of where you placed it, in the Niger bend of present day Timbuktu in Mali, historians have located ancient Ghana near to Walata, closer to the gold bearing province of Wangara.
Had problem with your references, You should have cited Adu Boahen's "Topics in West African History.
F.K. Buah's "A History of Ghana"
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
Yes F.K. Buah;s and Adu Boahen are well read by me, I could have also cited Agbedeka, Ivor Wilks, Fage ( A Short History of Ghana), Ajayi and Webster's A Thousand Years of
Yes F.K. Buah;s and Adu Boahen are well read by me, I could have also cited Agbedeka, Ivor Wilks, Fage ( A Short History of Ghana), Ajayi and Webster's A Thousand Years of
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 9 years ago
Yes F.K. Buah;s and Adu Boahen are well read by me, I could have also cited Agbedeka, Ivor Wilks, Fage (A Short History of Ghana), Ajayi and Webster's A Thousand Years of West African History, Dike's, Basil Davidson, Ibn Khal ... read full comment
Yes F.K. Buah;s and Adu Boahen are well read by me, I could have also cited Agbedeka, Ivor Wilks, Fage (A Short History of Ghana), Ajayi and Webster's A Thousand Years of West African History, Dike's, Basil Davidson, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Battuta, Al Khadir, etc
Yaw 9 years ago
Brilliant article and I do not think you should have given okompa ahoofe any premium. He has lost the academic turf war with sarfo. Nobody can change the fact that Dr. Nkrumah is ranked higher than Dr. Danquah not only in Gha ... read full comment
Brilliant article and I do not think you should have given okompa ahoofe any premium. He has lost the academic turf war with sarfo. Nobody can change the fact that Dr. Nkrumah is ranked higher than Dr. Danquah not only in Ghana but globally. Nkrumah's fame always precedes him wherever he went.
Kwame 9 years ago
J.B. Danquah is an error in Ghana's history and can not be righted even when his followers deodorize him, will still remain an absurd person. A person who prefer the servitude of his people under British colonialism. Danquah ... read full comment
J.B. Danquah is an error in Ghana's history and can not be righted even when his followers deodorize him, will still remain an absurd person. A person who prefer the servitude of his people under British colonialism. Danquah and Busia are being said by their followers that they love Ghana with all their heart. Where were they on 6th March, 1957 when Ghana the new nation was born.
People are still claiming that Danquah was arrested unjustifiably and keep in detention by Kwame Nkrumah. Investigations were conducted prior to the arrest and detention of Danquah and those documents should be lying somewhere if they were not burned by the Judiciary soon after the coup of 1966 as the works of Marx, Engles and Kwame Nkrumah were torched after the coup. I wrote that I was in Middle School Form 2 when the coup took place and when soldiers and their intellectual advisers who do not know that the history of arms started with the stone, which every soldier should know burn books because they do not read military materials. It is a fact that you will not see a security material in the rooms of our retired security officials.
I wrote yesterday that the fact that remains is, and to emphasize is that were did the killing, maiming and vile rumors deserted the Ghanaian society as soon as Danquah and his group of hatchet men were put behind bars at Nsawam. Was it just a coincident and is it a fact that Danquah was providing the bombs to the hatchet men who were arrested together with him. One of such people I.C. Quaye is still alive and a member of the New Patriotic Party. As for they illusion by the opponents of Kwame Nkrumah that he was a dictator the facts are there for all to see that there was a multiparty capitalist parliamentary system in Ghana up to 1964 when the people of Ghana through a referendum decided to have a one party state.
There is another myth that socialism is not a progressive socioeconomic system. If the opponents of socialism are perhaps warms without eyes that can at least see the difference between Russia and Finland which got independence at the same time, or China and India. We can also compare Cuba's education and health index with that of the United States of America.
The fact is that those who come in the net to deodorize imperialist and neocolonialism are not aware that a human waste when deodorized still remains a human waste. Thus Danquah and Busia were human wastes because they did not redeem their people from the cruel age of imperialism. They feared that they will be injured by the imperialist. When Busia was the prime minister from 1969 to 1972 he never negotiated anything with his country men and women with him he relate to with contempt and arrogance. When Busia could not negotiate with 518 civil and public servants whom he dismissed from state employment because to him they are animals less than the white man's dog he went to South Africa to have dialogue with Apartheid South Africa and even supported racial segregation in the U.S.
Danso 9 years ago
Doyen of Gold Coast was the accolade not Doyen of Ghana.Get it right.He did his best for Gold Coast not Ghana.He tried to undermine it because his vaulting ambition was not fulfilled.
Doyen of Gold Coast was the accolade not Doyen of Ghana.Get it right.He did his best for Gold Coast not Ghana.He tried to undermine it because his vaulting ambition was not fulfilled.
Paul 9 years ago
Actually these articles and sources are on Wikipedia. Also note, not all sources are necessarily accurate or even reliable.
Actually these articles and sources are on Wikipedia. Also note, not all sources are necessarily accurate or even reliable.
REM 9 years ago
Paul,
This is from the other day
Nkrumah started work on his PhD thesis and had a topic. But he never completed it and certainly never defended any PhD thesis. He left the US before he could finish work on it. Some repo ... read full comment
Paul,
This is from the other day
Nkrumah started work on his PhD thesis and had a topic. But he never completed it and certainly never defended any PhD thesis. He left the US before he could finish work on it. Some reports say he left the US principally due to financial reasons.
Nkrumah was brilliant enough and fully capable of completing his PhD thesis (the thesis works in those days were not many pages long) but the fact still remains that he did not finish work on it. He was never awarded an earned PhD title. He was called 'Dr' because he was awarded an honorary doctorate title.
Like SAS, Nkrumah could not write "PhD" after his name.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Hello,
You don't need a PhD to be smart, intelligent, or wise. You don't need a PhD to make an impact on the world.
Regarding the preceding, Nkrumah (without a PhD) impacted the world in a way that the combined PhDs of ... read full comment
Hello,
You don't need a PhD to be smart, intelligent, or wise. You don't need a PhD to make an impact on the world.
Regarding the preceding, Nkrumah (without a PhD) impacted the world in a way that the combined PhDs of Busia and Danquah could not have achieved.
Nkrumah's great ideas have created international institutions, impacted institutions around the world, and opened major academic studies in many universities around the world, particularly here in America.
How about Wole Soyinka or Chinua Achebe? Neither had a PhD. Yet their impacts, individual and collective, on the world surpass any of either Dr. Busia’s or Dr. Danquah’s. What PhD dissertations did either Soyinka or Achebe influenced the world with?
And not all PhD dissertations are even relevant. In fact, there are tons of PhD dissertations that have added nothing to human knowledge. In other words, there are tons of PhD dissertations that sit in academic dustbins. How have PhD dissertations on Ghanaian poetry, for instance, alleviated the burden of mass poverty on the continent, or produced the necessary technologies to deal with human problems on the continent?
There are also PhD dissertations that one department may approve of but another won't, either because one university department has low academic standards or the other has high standards, among many other reasons. The manuscript of Chinweizu’s doctoral PhD dissertation was rejected until he took it to Random House which published. The high caliber of Random House and the popular reception of the book later earned him his doctorate. The dissertation in question is the book “The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite.” There are also PhD dissertations that have brought international repute to departments and universities.
And there are PhD dissertations that are only known among the candidates, dissertation advisors, and candidates’ friends. That is how far some PhD dissertation goes. And yet there are also PhD dissertations that can be written without the benefit without the benefit of graduate education. Some have written PhD dissertations in less than or little bit more than a hundred pages. John Nash’s Nobel-winning (Economics) PhD dissertation came in less than 30 pages. And it changed the face of mathematics and economics.
Besides, most of the great men in history did not have PhD until Germany introduced to start with. Thus, you are not necessarily intelligent, influential, wise, or prescient because you have a PhD. Look at how many PhDs Nkrumah has impacted around the world? Which Ghanaian PhD holder has achieved more for human beings than Nkrumah?
Go to American tertiary institutions and international think tanks like the Molefi Kete Asante for Afrocentric Studies and see yourself the caliber of renowned international scholars (PhDs) Nkrumah had influenced. Therefore, it is not holding a PhD per se but what positive impact one can exert on the world that matters. What did Charles Wereko-Brobbey’s PhD do for Ghana’s “dumsor”?
Finally, Nkrumah's or Winston Churchill's example calls this PhD nonsense into question. Churchill won a Nobel Prize in Literature with a formal education that did not even go beyond the high school level. How many of our Ghanaian PhD holders (in English and literature) have been awarded this prestigious prize?
Don't we know of useless PhD holders on Ghanaweb and on other portal! In the end one of America's influential scholars is planning to work on Nkrumah's doctoral (at the University of Pennsylvannia)!
Thanks.
Paul 9 years ago
You are right. Nor is a PhD a panacea for wisdom or success in any endeavour. Many are those who have influenced change and impacted the world without a PhD. It is however noteworthy that Nkrumah's body of work merit more tha ... read full comment
You are right. Nor is a PhD a panacea for wisdom or success in any endeavour. Many are those who have influenced change and impacted the world without a PhD. It is however noteworthy that Nkrumah's body of work merit more than one PhD!
Kwadwo 9 years ago
Francis, to you, Nkrumah walks on water and we all get it. He is the political black messiah and we get that from you too. But I am curious why you keep heckling people with his work if he is that great. A work of beauty stan ... read full comment
Francis, to you, Nkrumah walks on water and we all get it. He is the political black messiah and we get that from you too. But I am curious why you keep heckling people with his work if he is that great. A work of beauty stands convincing without praise singers pointing at it. Like a beautiful woman walking down the street, she gets unsolicited attention just like the one in NY who was harassed by several onlookers on you tube. I believe your persistent heckling of Nkrumah's critics on this forum is a turn off and shows that the emperor is indeed naked. We are talking about politics not the invention of the automobile. Saint Nkrumah has faults and please be assured he will attacked till Jesus comes. Don't be such a thin skulled. Have a great weekend.
By the way, what are your thoughts on Pete Carrol's one yard line play call in the super bowl? I think it is as regrettable as Nkrumah's imprisonment of Danquah without trial, and I don't think Nkrumah would have done that if he had to do it over. But that is how life "go". Lol
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Kwadwo,
Hahahahahaha...That was a good one.
I wished Nkrumah had walked on water! Of course Danquah and Busia did. Did Jesus truly walk on water? I want to know!
When am I getting the girlfriend you promised me even ... read full comment
Kwadwo,
Hahahahahaha...That was a good one.
I wished Nkrumah had walked on water! Of course Danquah and Busia did. Did Jesus truly walk on water? I want to know!
When am I getting the girlfriend you promised me even while you walked on water? Hahahahahaha
How are you?
Kwadwo 9 years ago
There is a quite storm passing over Nkrumah and Danquah tonite. I guess we flogged the horses to death on this issue. I give you credit for calling the truce between SAS and Sakyi. Bravo. Have a great week end.
There is a quite storm passing over Nkrumah and Danquah tonite. I guess we flogged the horses to death on this issue. I give you credit for calling the truce between SAS and Sakyi. Bravo. Have a great week end.
REM 9 years ago
Francis, take note that Paul and I are trying to establish the accuracy of a historical fact: whether or not Nkrumah wrote a PhD thesis and if that work is to be found in the museum dedicated to him.
Paul and I agree that ... read full comment
Francis, take note that Paul and I are trying to establish the accuracy of a historical fact: whether or not Nkrumah wrote a PhD thesis and if that work is to be found in the museum dedicated to him.
Paul and I agree that, no, he did not. Paul accepts that what is in the museum is his MPhil thesis, not his PhD thesis.
Francis, that is the argument. We are NOT discussing the need to get a PhD to be able to do great things. Paul and I know that a PhD is not a sine qua non for greatness and we are not disputing that fact. Your contribution is a bit off the mark here.
Nkrumah was brilliant. Any one of the numerous books he wrote later in life could have formed the basis of a successful PhD thesis. Nkrumah did not need a PhD to prove his mettle. But the fact still remains that he did not get one. It is, therefore, ironical (and unfortunate) that he insisted on, and revelled in, being addressed as "Dr" at all times.
This set a bad tone for Ghanaians, who, unfortunately, think a PhD sets you far and above your fellow citizens. The implications of this are numerous but that is NOT the subject of discussion between Paul and I, which discussion has been resolved.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Paul & REM,
You can requisition for Nkrumah's doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania. The school has a copy.
In fact, Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere once told me he was planning to obtain a copy on which h ... read full comment
Dear Paul & REM,
You can requisition for Nkrumah's doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania. The school has a copy.
In fact, Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere once told me he was planning to obtain a copy on which he hopes to work on as he has already done with "THE THEORY OF CATEGORICAL CONVERSION: ANALYTIC FOUNDATIONS OF NKRUMAHISM" and "THEORY OF CATEGORICAL CONVERSION," both based on Nkrumah's "Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology of Decolonization."
REM, I strongly believe your last statement is not factual. You have not given me sufficient evidence, if any at all, to support your claim that Nkrumah insisted on being addressed as “Dr.” all the time, and how that has created problems for Ghanaian PhD holders. This is patently false, I believe in my opinion. I wish your last comment was factually historical rather than anecdotal. Here is a little info I have about Nkrumah's doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania:
"In his cautionary note, Dr. Morrow, Nkrumah’s doctoral dissertation advisor at the University of Pennsylvania, informed Dr. Flowers that “No matter what a paper was supposed to be on, Nkrumah always twisted it around to write on Africa freedom and anti-colonial struggle. Otherwise, his papers were excellent. He could have been a brilliant scholar if he’d stuck to the topic” (Ibid: 63). A manifestation of his commitment to African liberation is contained in a letter he wrote to Dr Morrow suggesting “The Philosophy of Imperialism, with Special Reference to Africa” as his doctoral degree dissertation. Nkrumah rationalized the topic he had suggested by stating that “for many years, I have accumulated material to that effect, and consequently should like to make a more detailed study of it with reference to the major thought-trends of Europe in the 19th and 20th century” (Ibid: 63)."
Nkrumah did finish his doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania and had a couple of months to defend it, but he refused to change the content of the last chapter or so because that would have undermined his Pan-African goals. Like the above quote says, he wrote a dissertation on “THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMPERIALISM, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AFRICA” but was advised (by his thesis advisor) to change certain aspects (the last chapter or so) which may have completely ended up being another dissertation subject matter altogether.
His fear was that once he had successfully defended it it certainly would have been published and therefore he had had to go about defending why his dissertation subject matter contracted his Pan-African beliefs, yet unlike Cheikh Anta Diop who agreed to change certain aspects of his doctoral dissertation, and upon receiving his doctorate, went ahead to publish the original dissertation instead. In other words, Nkrumah refused to budge and left for England. He could have used a couple of months to make the necessary changes (but he didn’t).
That said, you can go the University of Pennsylvania to look at Nkrumah's complete dissertation. It has been framed for viewing. In fact, one of the leading Nkrumah scholars (in America) I spoke to before coming back to write these comments told me the University of Pennsylvania has posthumously awarded Nkrumah a honorary doctorate for his doctoral work apart from Lincoln University’s (this is hardly known; I heard it only today). Also the same person assured me that the University of Pennsylvania has named an award after Nkrumah for “best dissertation” (this is also hardly known; I heard this only today).
I hope this piece of information helps. I am sorry if I misunderstood you both.
I thank you both.
REM 9 years ago
The point about my last statement is that because of the use of the "Dr" title by Nkrumah as an accolade, Ghanaians have come to view the title as a hallowed thing. This is something they share with other Africans who think, ... read full comment
The point about my last statement is that because of the use of the "Dr" title by Nkrumah as an accolade, Ghanaians have come to view the title as a hallowed thing. This is something they share with other Africans who think, falsely, that a person with the title is necessarily a genius or a very accomplished person. Your previous argument shows that this is not the case. But that notion is still with us in today's Ghana which is why people strut about with their PhD titles before (and after) their names to distinguish them from the "masses".
Kwame Nkrumah had a strong personality who had control over his staff. The many appellations that were heaped on him came from his supporters. He had the chance to have some of this (or all of them) dropped. He did not do that. He must have found some need to keep them. His official title was "Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, President of the Republic of Ghana". Other titles were added to this. Remember the old socialists and communists tried to avoid this distinction by calling everybody "Commrade". Nkrumah allowed everybody to call him "Dr".
One can speculate at length as to why Nkrumah did not ask not to be identified as "Dr". But that is a different story.
As for Nkrumah's doctoral dissertation, the point is that the man had the intellectual capacity to do a good doctoral work. That is not in dispute and your argument suggests that he had even completed all the necessary work. But a PhD requires a formal defense of your thesis and a formal investiture of the title. Some of these are just purely ceremonial. Nkrumah did not do this. He may have had good reasons for not doing it but he still did not do it and a PhD thesis was not formally conferred on him. He would later get many honorary phd titles but that's beside the point of the argument here.
Paul 9 years ago
I think you have just confirmed here that indeed Nkrumah (for whatever reason) did not in fact defend, and therefore did not OBTAIN his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
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I think you have just confirmed here that indeed Nkrumah (for whatever reason) did not in fact defend, and therefore did not OBTAIN his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Their "posthumous" award is but one of numerous honorary doctorates he obtained throughout his career and life.
I think we should take REM's point about the award of a doctorate although he also admits that indeed Nkrumah's body of work was far more than even one PhD. I think we are all agreed that PhD is not the only measure of intellectual stature and / or accomplishment.
For REM, the question as to whether Nkrumah "insisted on being called a Dr" is really neither here nor there and should not be the basis of any attempt to condemn him or belittle his intellect and achievement. On a lighter note, I remember one of my own PhD graduates who just minutes after defending her thesis (which we had worked very hard to prepare her for), INSISTED that we called her DR!!! That was even before she had done her corrections to the thesis - straight after the Viva Voce. Can you believe this???
Any way gentlemen, enjoy your weekends!!! Chao.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Passion, benevolence, humility, and properly balanced Ghana-centeredness.
We see all of that in your comments!
Let's be even stronger in those common, human traits, as we follow our individual paths for the common g ... read full comment
Passion, benevolence, humility, and properly balanced Ghana-centeredness.
We see all of that in your comments!
Let's be even stronger in those common, human traits, as we follow our individual paths for the common good, for knowledge and egalitarian public policy sake.
Thanks REM, francis kwarteng, Paul!
Thanks,
Paul 9 years ago
You are right, with all the pressure on pursuing the Pan-Africanist agenda and his recall to the Gold Coast, that did not materialise but his MPhil Thesis is displayed at the Museum.
His body of work however is worth far ... read full comment
You are right, with all the pressure on pursuing the Pan-Africanist agenda and his recall to the Gold Coast, that did not materialise but his MPhil Thesis is displayed at the Museum.
His body of work however is worth far more than a PhD. He had well over 10 Honorary Doctorates which reflect his standing in politics and world affairs, not to talk of hi intellect which many of our so-called PhDs are lacking.
KKO 9 years ago
Kwesi,
You have destroyed an otherwise brilliant article with a dismal conclusion (emphasis mine). Thus” Power games are always dangerous and Danquah sadly enough paid the price of playing that game, leading to his untimel ... read full comment
Kwesi,
You have destroyed an otherwise brilliant article with a dismal conclusion (emphasis mine). Thus” Power games are always dangerous and Danquah sadly enough paid the price of playing that game, leading to his untimely demise in the cold and dank torturous dungeons of Nsawam Maximum Security Prison.” That is why those of us in Science and Technology disciplines sometimes have problems with the social sciences. If anyone did an experiment in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering and came to such a conclusion, he would score E- or worse.
PDA was odious, inhuman and dishonest. It was a major blot not only on the Ghanaian, but the Black Man in general. That is why the White man still likes to take us for granted. That is why an ordinary American clerk can still have the impudence to place our president in from of a CNN signboard and photograph him, as he grins from ear to ear!
PDA was as infantile as the young boy who catches his ball on the playing field because either a goal had been scored against his team or else someone has booted him, except that in this case the ball belonged to the people of Ghana!
The father of my best friend in secondary school died a broken man in London because he burnt my friend’s Young Pioneer uniform. He did so because at the age of 14 all they were doing was sleeping with the young girls at the back stage and contracting gonorrhoea. The man was going to be arrested at dawn when ‘Old Moke’ who knew him, managed to smuggle him through Togo to England.
Others were sent to jail merely because agents of the CPP wanted their wives and concubines.
In a by-line on the first page of one of his book, Ayi Kwei Armah quoted an ancient sage, “The traveller asked where the people were and was told: ‘ They forgot their history and so they died’.” PDA was a terrible phase of our history as a people. We have to see it exactly as it was and purge our nation of its consequences. It is because we do not learnt from history that a we could elect a man who even as Vice President (away from real power) went to Brazil and inflated the price of aircraft by 300%!
You wrote, “However, had Ghana followed Danquah’s conservative and constitutional step-by-step process, Ghana’s independence could have delayed by 10 years or more.”
This is what JB Danquah wrote in his petition that was published on the web a few days ago,
“Secondly, you will recall that barely a month after our detention in the North in 1948 we were brought down to Accra and released to appear before a Commission of Enquiry set up to investigate the justice or otherwise of our arrest of our arrest and detention. We duly appeared before the Watson Commission and made history for Gold Coast and Ghana. It resulted in the finding that the Burns Constitution was outmoded at birth, with a recommendation that our country should attain its independence within ten years, and that a Constitutional Committee (the Coussey Committee) should be set up to lay down the foundations of such independence and the steps to be taken towards its attainment.”
Unless simple mathematics has gone viral, that would have been independence in 1958 at the latest!
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lankwei 9 years ago
Error. He was not sponsored by the Abuakwa state. He was sponsored by Nana Ofori Atta
I who reformed the State apparatus, by disposing of the illiterate members and filling the various positions with his children, siblings a ... read full comment
Error. He was not sponsored by the Abuakwa state. He was sponsored by Nana Ofori Atta
I who reformed the State apparatus, by disposing of the illiterate members and filling the various positions with his children, siblings and other literate family members. In essence it became a family enterprise with little or no accountability.
J.B. Danquah was a huge beneficiary of the Okyenhene’s largesse. One of the first two sent to England. The second, being George Twum Ampofo, son of the Okyenhene. Danquah returned home in September 1927 with both a law degree and a PhD from London University. He received a grand total of 3,460 pounds during this period.
Danquah broke with the Okyenhene in 1934, claiming political reasons. He apparently did not like cosy relationship, his half-brother had with the colonial administration. He then joined the camp of the enemy, The Aboriginal Rights Protection Society., led by Sekyi Hughes.
He resigned as the legal counsel to the Stool in 1935, as well as membership of the Okyeman Council.
"He failed to be elected in the 1954 and 1956 elections. When he lost, he claimed the elections were rigged."
This sounds familiar!
PRO CO 26th August 1954.
"Dr. Danquah is regarded with intense suspicion not unmixed with contempt by Gold Coast ministers.... he now commands no political following and cannot be taken of the Gold Coast"
Danquah and William Ofori Atta, in 1954 campaigned under the banner of the Ghana Congress Party (GCP). Only Busia won the Wenchi West constituency
by eleven votes!93765 to 3754)
Ofori Atta II was removed from office by then CPP in 1958. Amoako Atta IV was subsequently installed.
After the coup in 1966, Ofori Atta II was re-installed and died in 1973.
"He served as the Secretary of a delegation to London in 1934 which was to petition the Colonial Office against the introduction of the obnoxious Sedition Bill and the Water Bill."
refused to return unless certain financial demands he made were addressed; 1. A freehold house in Accra. 2 . A credit of 200 pounds. 3. Debts slightly over 100 pounds to be paid. 4. A sum of 1 pound sixteen shillings be paid weekly for rent and additional sum for buying food and personal care. He eventually, had to settle for less. He returned on October 14, 1936. He eventually, was reinstated as legal adviser.
A sense of entitlement!
The relationship between him and his half-brother was never the same as before He continually asked for money from the Council. His legal practice in Accra was not overly successful, though he continued to live in Accra.
IMHO JBD had a bloated ego, which did not win him many friends.
Paa Joe 9 years ago
AN IRRELEVANT TRIBUTE WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MODERN ECONOMIC POLITICS OF THE 21st CENTURY.
DANQUAH WAS ANTI-ELEMENT TO THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE IN GHANA.
YOU FOLKS SHOULD CONTINUE TO ADORN MAN WHO ONLY STOOD ... read full comment
AN IRRELEVANT TRIBUTE WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MODERN ECONOMIC POLITICS OF THE 21st CENTURY.
DANQUAH WAS ANTI-ELEMENT TO THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE IN GHANA.
YOU FOLKS SHOULD CONTINUE TO ADORN MAN WHO ONLY STOOD FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF GHANA.
THE NATION IS HAPPY THAT HE IS GONE.
Barnes, T'di 9 years ago
Ei so JBD went to England and instead of concentrating in his study, he was bonking the ladies. He came back home to continue this nefarious womanizing activities, bonking more women and not even marrying them. Now I know wh ... read full comment
Ei so JBD went to England and instead of concentrating in his study, he was bonking the ladies. He came back home to continue this nefarious womanizing activities, bonking more women and not even marrying them. Now I know where NANA ADDO inherited his loose-flap life style from.
Kwesi Paul Ajiro 8 years ago
If you want to write about someone, just write the truth and don't link them to things theyre not linked to... You can be a better writer if you stick to facts and move away from stomach writing, where you write to destroy ot ... read full comment
If you want to write about someone, just write the truth and don't link them to things theyre not linked to... You can be a better writer if you stick to facts and move away from stomach writing, where you write to destroy others in other to gain from another
For detailed stuff about J.B. Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah call Francis Kwarteng (USA) on 001-301 277 5871 in 4230-Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781-Maryland, USA.
Danquah could not even argue successfully at court against brainy Kwaku Boateng. He lost case after case.
Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana ...
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JB DANQUAH WAS A TERRORIST WHO CONSPIRED WITH THE CIA TO DESTABILIZE GHANA AFTER FAILING TO WIN INDEPENDENCE FOR GHANA. HE WAS JEALOUS OF NKRUMAH. HE WAS ON THE PAYROLL OF THE CIA BEING BRIBED TO CREATE MAYHEM IN GHANA. HE DI ...
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How can JB Danquah be regarded as the Doyen of democracy in Ghana when all he did was appointed into some position which existed before him?
Kwagir Aggrey, Mensa Sabba, and a host of academics had taken the lead before JB ...
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Kwesi Sakyi, this is not good enough. No, it isn't good.
If you want to write a tribute to Danquah 50 years after his death, you should do that. You should tell us about the man, his time and life, his positive and negativ ...
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The name, " Ghana " came from the old Ghana Empire which existed long before Ghana was founded.That empire was located in the West African sub-region north and west of the current boundaries of Ghana.
It had nothing to do ...
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Explain to me your ad hominem argument against me.
The thesis of my articles is that Nkrumah was a bloody dictator. Instead of debating my assertions and critiquing my conclusions, you are merely stating "....so who is the s ...
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Dear Prof. Sakyi,
Thanks for this piece.
Unfortunately you did not mention Danquah's connections to the CIA( as per Mahoney's book "JFK: Ordeal in Africa").
This is very important if we want to have a fuller pictur ...
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Dear Dr. Kennedy, can you go and sue the CIA for saying JB was on their payroll?
Your integrity is on the line.
Dear Dr. Kennedy,
Come and sue me!
Next time use your real name. Hiding under this name will do you no favor.
Call on Gabby and the Danquah Institute to sue Richard Mahoney and his book "JFK: ORDEAL IN AFRICA." You ...
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Prof. Sakyi,
Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, duri ...
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How does Danquah being a CIA asset answer the question of the brutal dictatorship of Kwame Nkrumah?
Today, if anybody were to impose Nkrumah's type of dictatorship on my country, I will be working with the CIA to ship arms t ...
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Dear Brother SAS,
Calling Nkrumah a “dictator” is nothing new, Brother SAS. It is even a relative terminology, concept. There are many Americans who have called George W. Bush a “dictator.” So who is a “dictator ...
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Kwarteng, can't you get it that because of your stupidity and baseless lengthy copy and past nonsense nobody is finds it expedient engaging you in discussion? You are simply an idiot!!!
People who may like to call Kwarten ...
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Main article: Palmer Raids
Fueled by labor unrest and the anarchist bombings, and then spurred on by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's attempt to suppress radical and non-radical labor organizations, it was characterized ...
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Akora Sakyi,
I am giving you one hour ultimatum to retract your gratuitous insult against my person or else be prepared for my eternal wrath. What did I ever say against you for you to write the following:
"Only sobs an ...
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Sakyi, although I like your tribute, I however, believe that you stooped low in insulting and belittling SAS. Please be advised millions of Ghanaians like SAS are not amused by Nkrumah's dictatorial policies and are willing ...
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Sakyi, although I like your tribute, I however, believe that you stooped low in insulting and belittling SAS. Please be advised millions of Ghanaians like SAS are not amused by Nkrumah's dictatorial policies and are willing ...
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Dr. SAS,
Let's keep this cool.
Thanks.
I do not want to hurt a fly but got so I incensed by your one-sided bashing of Nkrumah that I lost my cool. I will like you Dr SAS to accept my unreserved apology of using harsh words on you. First and foremost I thought you ...
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Yes, your attack on Dr SAS was uncalled for. You have done the gentlemanly thing for apologising to him. I hope he accepts it in good faith.
Sorry is one word that most people on this web do not seem to have in their voca ...
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I just wished that Dr SAS himself would have that same spirit, sense of decency and magnanimity in his dealings with others, but I rather doubt it. It is simply not in his genes to say sorry and admit his own wrongdoing.
Bokor is going to get a heart attack if he reads this oooo.He thinks JB should be confined to the dustbin.Check his write ups on Ghanaweb.
Bokor can never be taken serious, the guy is filled with tribal and partisan that make him a typical Ewe.
Wrote as if you were trying your utmost to please the Danquahists, and avoid displeasing the Nkrumahists; in the end your historical account was sacrificed trying not to hurt anyone's feelings.
Would have liked to know why ...
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Yes F.K. Buah;s and Adu Boahen are well read by me, I could have also cited Agbedeka, Ivor Wilks, Fage ( A Short History of Ghana), Ajayi and Webster's A Thousand Years of
Yes F.K. Buah;s and Adu Boahen are well read by me, I could have also cited Agbedeka, Ivor Wilks, Fage (A Short History of Ghana), Ajayi and Webster's A Thousand Years of West African History, Dike's, Basil Davidson, Ibn Khal ...
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Brilliant article and I do not think you should have given okompa ahoofe any premium. He has lost the academic turf war with sarfo. Nobody can change the fact that Dr. Nkrumah is ranked higher than Dr. Danquah not only in Gha ...
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J.B. Danquah is an error in Ghana's history and can not be righted even when his followers deodorize him, will still remain an absurd person. A person who prefer the servitude of his people under British colonialism. Danquah ...
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Doyen of Gold Coast was the accolade not Doyen of Ghana.Get it right.He did his best for Gold Coast not Ghana.He tried to undermine it because his vaulting ambition was not fulfilled.
Actually these articles and sources are on Wikipedia. Also note, not all sources are necessarily accurate or even reliable.
Paul,
This is from the other day
Nkrumah started work on his PhD thesis and had a topic. But he never completed it and certainly never defended any PhD thesis. He left the US before he could finish work on it. Some repo ...
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Hello,
You don't need a PhD to be smart, intelligent, or wise. You don't need a PhD to make an impact on the world.
Regarding the preceding, Nkrumah (without a PhD) impacted the world in a way that the combined PhDs of ...
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You are right. Nor is a PhD a panacea for wisdom or success in any endeavour. Many are those who have influenced change and impacted the world without a PhD. It is however noteworthy that Nkrumah's body of work merit more tha ...
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Francis, to you, Nkrumah walks on water and we all get it. He is the political black messiah and we get that from you too. But I am curious why you keep heckling people with his work if he is that great. A work of beauty stan ...
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Kwadwo,
Hahahahahaha...That was a good one.
I wished Nkrumah had walked on water! Of course Danquah and Busia did. Did Jesus truly walk on water? I want to know!
When am I getting the girlfriend you promised me even ...
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There is a quite storm passing over Nkrumah and Danquah tonite. I guess we flogged the horses to death on this issue. I give you credit for calling the truce between SAS and Sakyi. Bravo. Have a great week end.
Francis, take note that Paul and I are trying to establish the accuracy of a historical fact: whether or not Nkrumah wrote a PhD thesis and if that work is to be found in the museum dedicated to him.
Paul and I agree that ...
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Dear Paul & REM,
You can requisition for Nkrumah's doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania. The school has a copy.
In fact, Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere once told me he was planning to obtain a copy on which h ...
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The point about my last statement is that because of the use of the "Dr" title by Nkrumah as an accolade, Ghanaians have come to view the title as a hallowed thing. This is something they share with other Africans who think, ...
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I think you have just confirmed here that indeed Nkrumah (for whatever reason) did not in fact defend, and therefore did not OBTAIN his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Their "posthumous" award is but one of numero ...
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Passion, benevolence, humility, and properly balanced Ghana-centeredness.
We see all of that in your comments!
Let's be even stronger in those common, human traits, as we follow our individual paths for the common g ...
read full comment
You are right, with all the pressure on pursuing the Pan-Africanist agenda and his recall to the Gold Coast, that did not materialise but his MPhil Thesis is displayed at the Museum.
His body of work however is worth far ...
read full comment
Kwesi,
You have destroyed an otherwise brilliant article with a dismal conclusion (emphasis mine). Thus” Power games are always dangerous and Danquah sadly enough paid the price of playing that game, leading to his untimel ...
read full comment
Error. He was not sponsored by the Abuakwa state. He was sponsored by Nana Ofori Atta
I who reformed the State apparatus, by disposing of the illiterate members and filling the various positions with his children, siblings a ...
read full comment
AN IRRELEVANT TRIBUTE WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MODERN ECONOMIC POLITICS OF THE 21st CENTURY.
DANQUAH WAS ANTI-ELEMENT TO THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE IN GHANA.
YOU FOLKS SHOULD CONTINUE TO ADORN MAN WHO ONLY STOOD ...
read full comment
Ei so JBD went to England and instead of concentrating in his study, he was bonking the ladies. He came back home to continue this nefarious womanizing activities, bonking more women and not even marrying them. Now I know wh ...
read full comment
If you want to write about someone, just write the truth and don't link them to things theyre not linked to... You can be a better writer if you stick to facts and move away from stomach writing, where you write to destroy ot ...
read full comment