Our first president was a tyrant and a self-centered idiot. Why? The question is, who was his vice when he was our president? That alone tells all and sundry that the man had something sinister up his sleeve. I am throwing ... read full comment
Our first president was a tyrant and a self-centered idiot. Why? The question is, who was his vice when he was our president? That alone tells all and sundry that the man had something sinister up his sleeve. I am throwing a challenge to anyone to tell me who was Nkrumah's vice. Nobody should "beat about the bush" but should go straight and name his vice.
Here is a leader who thought that only his ideas matter. Imagine no one help secured his passage to the then Gold Coast to join the fight for independence, what would have been the story?
Kofi 9 years ago
Gaddafi and Saddam had vice... were they democrats?Houphouet-Boigny had no prime minister or vice from 1960-1990.Nkrumah was the worst.Make sure he is listed in the Guinness book of records.We need a break.
Gaddafi and Saddam had vice... were they democrats?Houphouet-Boigny had no prime minister or vice from 1960-1990.Nkrumah was the worst.Make sure he is listed in the Guinness book of records.We need a break.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Kofi,
The way you explain it and compare, "brutal" ought to be "introspective", if we are to take things serious.
We imagine few reasonable people in those other countries will want to "...swear a terrible oath, that neve ... read full comment
Kofi,
The way you explain it and compare, "brutal" ought to be "introspective", if we are to take things serious.
We imagine few reasonable people in those other countries will want to "...swear a terrible oath, that never again shall the people...allow the"(ier)"...likes...evil ideology... party, heirs and assigns and progeny to become leaders of...their...country...!
Least of all "country-centered" lawyers, if they actually care about freedom and democracy for all.
Kofi 9 years ago
Tongue in cheek.....If Nkrumah was such a brutal dictator,then they should forward his name to Guinness book of records.By no stretch of the English language can Nkrumah be classified as a "brutal" dictator.Unless you belong ... read full comment
Tongue in cheek.....If Nkrumah was such a brutal dictator,then they should forward his name to Guinness book of records.By no stretch of the English language can Nkrumah be classified as a "brutal" dictator.Unless you belong to the "CHICAGO BOYS" ....Kumasi 1954.The bombers who killed Krobo Adusei"s sister were saints and their heirs must{emphasis]must be allowed to rule Ghana because they love liberty.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
For more accurate and detailed info about Nkrumah call Francis Kwarteng in USA on: 001- 301 277 5871
Address: 4203 Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781-Maryland, USA.
His line might be busy, Keep on trying.
For more accurate and detailed info about Nkrumah call Francis Kwarteng in USA on: 001- 301 277 5871
Address: 4203 Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781-Maryland, USA.
His line might be busy, Keep on trying.
Baffour Agyemang 9 years ago
I would rather live under the tyrant Nkrumah at least I can plan my life rather than have the terrorist JB Danquah as a compatriot or as a nieghbour who may kill or maim me.
I would rather live under the tyrant Nkrumah at least I can plan my life rather than have the terrorist JB Danquah as a compatriot or as a nieghbour who may kill or maim me.
Paul 9 years ago
Pellicles, don't you think it is time to begin to take proper reflective stock and bring in some objectivity into your discourse?
Pellicles, don't you think it is time to begin to take proper reflective stock and bring in some objectivity into your discourse?
Yunah 9 years ago
Ironically, the brutal dictator and sanguinary tyrant didn't throw bombs at his opponents! The more democratic, liberal, and freedom-loving people like Danquah and co did throw bombs! How nice Sir!
Ironically, the brutal dictator and sanguinary tyrant didn't throw bombs at his opponents! The more democratic, liberal, and freedom-loving people like Danquah and co did throw bombs! How nice Sir!
INXS 9 years ago
Prof Lungu (he has always made it clear to us all that this is a moniker so we know he is not just throwing his weight about) has been one of the most sensible voices on ghanaweb - an avuncular voice that tries to call the "y ... read full comment
Prof Lungu (he has always made it clear to us all that this is a moniker so we know he is not just throwing his weight about) has been one of the most sensible voices on ghanaweb - an avuncular voice that tries to call the "young ones" to order, oftentimes. He hardly utters a harsh or insulting word. And he's been around for a long long long time, with a recent sojourn in Japan.
An interesting piece, this one, raising a few questions from those of us who don't have the "privilege" of living in the US of A - a superpower at the beginning of its decline.
What is all this about going to a black college? So is that school only for blacks? What will make a person want to go to a school only for blacks? I think from Prof Lungu's account, the school now has students of other colours - green, blue, yellow and the inevitable white. So what's still black about that college?
Is Prof Lungu arguing that the college made SAS think the way he does or is he arguing that having gone to that college, which is historically black, he should think differently - preferably in a better way?
So would SAS have been making a different type of argument if he had gone to another, preferably better known school to the rest of the world, rather than a historically black college? Ok, what kind of argument would SAS be making if he had read his law at our professional law school at Makola, which cannot be called a historically black school, for the reason that all the people in Ghana are black, which is the norm?
My questions may seem trivial but Prof Lungu expended a lot of energy on the school that SAS attended - a school that he, Prof Lungu, is proud to have attended and from which he obtained two Masters degrees (which, anyway, do not add up to a PhD, but Lungu does not go about calling himself "Dr", so he's excused) even though he never met SAS in any of the corridors of the school because he attended that school even before SAS arrived in the USA. (It seems SAS came to the USA not too long ago but that's not anything we can hold against him).
So what do all these have to do with Nkrumah? That's what I am asking myself too. Or did Nkrumah also attend a historically black college in the US long before any of us was born? And what has that got to do with the way we today perceive Nkrumah's leadership of our country?
I wish it had nothing to do with it, nothing at all.
I want to think SAS' obvious hatred of Nkrumah has anything to do with the historically black college he attended in the USA. I think he hates him simply because he (SAS) is a descendant of the party that opposed Nkrumah. It doesn't matter that SAS (born in 1964) may have fully benefited from Nkrumah's completely free (and compulsory) education policies that even those who overthrew him never dared touch or take away. It was only Busia who dared mess with that by his attempt to introduce fees in our universities in his ill-fated 27-month rule of our nation.
Nkrumah made his mistakes but it's way off the mark to call him a "brutal dictator". I said as much in my comment to SAS' original piece.
I'll stop here cos I don't want to take the word away from the chief protagonists in this part of the ongoing debate...
SARPONG 9 years ago
"What is all about going to a Black college. So is that school only for blacks?"
Texas Southern University is a predominantly a Black university, that does not mean only Black students attend that University. We have f ... read full comment
"What is all about going to a Black college. So is that school only for blacks?"
Texas Southern University is a predominantly a Black university, that does not mean only Black students attend that University. We have few whites, Hispanics and others including Vietnamese emigrants at the University.
There are few of such Universities, at least 50 of such Universities amongst the over 3000 Universities in USA.
There was a time, not too long ago where Blacks were not allowed into some Universities in USA especially inthe Southern part of USA and these Black universities helped to educate black people.
Most of these universities are still attractive to a section of Americans due to cost. There was a time in the eighties when TSU had about 25 percent of its students from Nigeria during Nigeria oil boom.
The best Black University and the Ivy league league of such school is Howard University in Washington D.C
INXS 9 years ago
Thanks for the info, especially that about Howard University as an Ivy League of historically black universities. Never knew that.
What would be a typically Ivy League white university in the southern states? Is there any ... read full comment
Thanks for the info, especially that about Howard University as an Ivy League of historically black universities. Never knew that.
What would be a typically Ivy League white university in the southern states? Is there anything like that?
SARPONG 9 years ago
The question should be, what is Ivy league school. Ivy league schools are known for the quality of the education they provide.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of schools that provide quality education than some of these Ivy ... read full comment
The question should be, what is Ivy league school. Ivy league schools are known for the quality of the education they provide.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of schools that provide quality education than some of these Ivy league schools who are not Ivy league members, few of such schools in the West Coast are Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Cal Tech, etc.
Even in the East Coast, a school like Massachusetts Institute of technology(MIT) far better than half of the Ivy league schools and the University of Virginia were left out.
You go to the Midwest and a University like University of Chicago known to produce the best Economic brains is left out so is Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.
You come to the South and you have to mention University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
INXS, there are many of such Universities all over USA that are not members of the Ivy league.
Bono 9 years ago
Baylor, Tx Rice, Tx
Baylor, Tx Rice, Tx
JOE 9 years ago
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
INXS,
We provided that pithy detail about the degrees, reluctantly, for context.
As you know, folks from the academy and professionals, generally, speak within their own groups, "schools of thought", so to speak.
And ... read full comment
INXS,
We provided that pithy detail about the degrees, reluctantly, for context.
As you know, folks from the academy and professionals, generally, speak within their own groups, "schools of thought", so to speak.
And SARPONG has provided some additional information about HBCUs.
So, "...having gone to that college..." our lawyer probably should be more measured and reflective in those matters more than 2 generations removed.
Also, we would not have cared, may not have written, but for the affiliations. And if we did, it would probably have been from a totally different perspective.
But yes, Nkrumah also attended an HBCU, Lincoln University, in Pennsylvania, completing his bachelor's degree in Sociology with honors ~1939.
But please note, we only speak about Nkrumah for what he represents for Ghana, the Nation-State he helped create and endow.
Dungeon Master 9 years ago
Of what purpose is this convoluted diatribe, with tangential ad hominem trajectories? Yes, Sarfo is an arrogant, politically incorrect twerp, with a penchant for obnoxious outbursts.
However, his take on the dictatorial p ... read full comment
Of what purpose is this convoluted diatribe, with tangential ad hominem trajectories? Yes, Sarfo is an arrogant, politically incorrect twerp, with a penchant for obnoxious outbursts.
However, his take on the dictatorial powers of Nkrumah was/is spot on. Tell us why a person, even if a CIA agent as JB Danquah was/is alleged to be, should be jailed for life without the agency of due process?
By the way, the overthrow of Nkrumah is the greatest thing ever to happen to Ghana. Take it or leave it.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
We dig that, Dungeon Master!
Your concept of "life" is a lot less that 12 months!
This is 2015!
We dig that, Dungeon Master!
Your concept of "life" is a lot less that 12 months!
This is 2015!
Dungeon Master 9 years ago
No where in my post did I bring up the concept of life. Perhaps you should get off the stupor-inducing stuff, the toxic soup of bizarreness that has characterized both your write-up and comment.
No where in my post did I bring up the concept of life. Perhaps you should get off the stupor-inducing stuff, the toxic soup of bizarreness that has characterized both your write-up and comment.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
"...Tell us why a person, even if a CIA agent as JB Danquah was/is alleged to be, should be jailed for life without the agency of due process?..."
"Life" is measured in months, right?
Nice "stupor-inducing stuff", forge ... read full comment
"...Tell us why a person, even if a CIA agent as JB Danquah was/is alleged to be, should be jailed for life without the agency of due process?..."
"Life" is measured in months, right?
Nice "stupor-inducing stuff", forgetful stuff, won't you agree?
Nice try!
Dungeon Master 9 years ago
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail
By the way, the concept of "life" sentence doesn't take its mea ... read full comment
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail
By the way, the concept of "life" sentence doesn't take its meaning from the reference point of how long the prisoner stays alive.
Nice try
INXS 9 years ago
Please, let's stick to historically accurate facts even as we hold different views.
Please, let's stick to historically accurate facts even as we hold different views.
Dungeon Master 9 years ago
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail.
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail.
Dungeon Master 9 years ago
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail.
Nice try!
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail.
Nice try!
JOE 9 years ago
Terrorist J.B Danquah was jailed just as those guys currently at Guantanamo detention camp.
Terrorist J.B Danquah was jailed just as those guys currently at Guantanamo detention camp.
INXS 9 years ago
Well, ok. But you know this is ghanaweb. Some people will take it literarily.
The PDA didn't quite stipulate that a person could be put away for life. "Let him rot in gaol" was just the interpretation some Ghanaians gave ... read full comment
Well, ok. But you know this is ghanaweb. Some people will take it literarily.
The PDA didn't quite stipulate that a person could be put away for life. "Let him rot in gaol" was just the interpretation some Ghanaians gave to it.
Kwesi Pratt was reported as saying Nkrumah wept on hearing of Danquah's death. He said people who were there reported it. It may or may not be true. But Nkrumah was known to fall in tears easily... I doubt if Nkrumah really intended to let Danquah die in prison or "rot in prison". He would've known it wouldn't have been good kuraa for his international image. Indeed, there was no rejoicing in the CPP camp over his death. Nkrumah, who addressed the nation on the occasion of the death of Patrice Lumumba, did not address the nation on account of JB's death. He may not have been feeling too good about it... Indeed, many Ghanaians didn't feel good about it.
JB Danquah was a towering figure in the opposition. I believe he would eventually have been released. We read that the conditions for the other detainees were improved after JB's death. It shows there was a lot of (or at least some) remorse after the death.
So, that "for life" can only be figuratively used...
And later...
Nkrumah himself was overthrown barely a year after JB's death. He would live "barely" for 6 more years, dying of natural(?) causes at an age younger than that JB reached when he died of natural(?) causes in gaol.
But aren't some people exploiting this unfortunate situation for their present political ambitions?
SARPONG 9 years ago
INXS, that was the problem. J.B Danquah was picked up, bundled to Nsawam without any charge or being put on trial.
He was just put in jail like a forgotten un needed used shirt and left to rot. That is not how any human be ... read full comment
INXS, that was the problem. J.B Danquah was picked up, bundled to Nsawam without any charge or being put on trial.
He was just put in jail like a forgotten un needed used shirt and left to rot. That is not how any human being should be treated. Even murderers are treated better than Nkrumah treated his political opponents.
Danquah in his letters pleaded to be told for his incarceration without being told.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
Dr. Nkrumah was too good for his own good. People who commit acts of treason are hung summarily. Nkumah should have hung JB Danquah by the ropes until he was dead in 1958 when he was found guilty by a competent court for atte ... read full comment
Dr. Nkrumah was too good for his own good. People who commit acts of treason are hung summarily. Nkumah should have hung JB Danquah by the ropes until he was dead in 1958 when he was found guilty by a competent court for attempting to overthrow the government, but he pardoned him.
I have always maintained that lack of knowledge is Ghana's Achilles heel. Those people in Ghana who are trying so hard to idolize JB Danquah should read, and read amply about similar circumstances and their outcomes in other civilized societies.
They should read about Canada's October Crises in 1970 and the action the Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau took. Canada with all its democratic credential, when FLQ attempted to set up a parrell government opposed to the Canadian government. Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspended civil liberties, and deployed the Canadian Armed Forces to go from house to root out the culprits and jailed them without trial. What is interesting in the action he took is that despite suspending civil liberties and unleashing the Canadian Armed Forces upon his own people, 85% Canadians supported his action. Just google, Canada October Crises.
Also read about the political struggle between Lee Kuan Yew and Lim Chin Siong both of Singapore, and the method by which Lee Kuan Yew eliminated Lim Chin Siong in order to build Singapore to the First World status.
History has taught us that politics is not for crying babies, for the faint of heart, but unfortunately Dr. Nkrumah was all of these. Perhaps that is why he could not achieve his political goals. JB Danquah and all the bomb throwers, including Kofi Abrefa Busia should have been completely eliminated or chased out of the country.
Suppose Dr. Nkrumah had taken care of the traitors, Danquah and Busia just as Lee Kuan Yew took care of Lim Chin Siong, I wonder what Ghana would be by now - perhaps a shinning star in a very dark continent.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
If this is your line of argument, then you should also be told that terrorists deserve to be put away for good. And those who resorted to bombings and various assassination attempts on democratically elected leaders who had ... read full comment
If this is your line of argument, then you should also be told that terrorists deserve to be put away for good. And those who resorted to bombings and various assassination attempts on democratically elected leaders who had not imposed the cessation of that political process, were nothing less than terrorists.
Have you asked yourself why the CIA did not attempt to overthrow Houphouet Boigny, or Mobutu, or the King of Morocco, or Lee Kuang Yew?
No one is claiming we ought to live in a dictatorship. But everything must be put in the proper context before you begin spewing your simplistic pontification.
If the best thing has already happened to Ghana, why in God's name would you and your cohorts be blaming the failure of Ghana to advance, 60 years onwards, on Nkrumah?
Long Live Ghana!!!
Dungeon Master 9 years ago
JB Danquah tried to personally assassinate Nkrumah? He personally tried to bomb Nkrumah or any of the national edifices?
The CIA did not overthrow Houphouet Boigney, or Mobutu, or the King of Morocco, or Lee Yew? Who are ... read full comment
JB Danquah tried to personally assassinate Nkrumah? He personally tried to bomb Nkrumah or any of the national edifices?
The CIA did not overthrow Houphouet Boigney, or Mobutu, or the King of Morocco, or Lee Yew? Who are you trying to impress? None of these people was Nkrumah, if you care to know. They had no appetite to export that communist and socialist nonsense to others.
"If the best thing has already happened to Ghana, why in God's name would you and your cohorts be blaming the failure of Ghana to advance, 60 years onwards, on Nkrumah?"
What we are suffering right now as a nation are the aftershocks of Nkrumah's policies, which have found a way into our political consciousness via the NDC and CPP. The worst case scenario was avoided when he was overthrown, for we were headed down the path of North Korea or Cuba, for the matter. Thank God for the CIA.
Yes, Nkrumah's overthrow will be celebrated now just as the nation did decades ago.
Frank Appiah 9 years ago
I am shocked at your simplistic statements.In fact your response is an indication that Dr SAS is not alone.There are too many subjective and biased writers on Ghanaweb who really need a dose of objectivity and fairmindedness ... read full comment
I am shocked at your simplistic statements.In fact your response is an indication that Dr SAS is not alone.There are too many subjective and biased writers on Ghanaweb who really need a dose of objectivity and fairmindedness in their criticism.You wrote
"J.B.Danquah tried to personally assassinate Nkrumah?.He personally tried to bomb Nkrumah or any of the national edifices?
"What we are suffering right now as a nation are the aftershocks of Nkrumah's policies which have found a way into our political consciousness via the NDC and CPP."
Your rather immature and infantile outbursts make G.K. Berko and otstanding writer on Ghanaweb.
JOE 9 years ago
The moniker "Dungeon Master" tells all you need to know about this individual, a wicked and heartless terrorist like his mentor J.B. Danquah.
The moniker "Dungeon Master" tells all you need to know about this individual, a wicked and heartless terrorist like his mentor J.B. Danquah.
??? 9 years ago
The moniker Dungeon Master and PHILTY McNASTY is used by Okoampa Ahoofe.What do you expect?
The moniker Dungeon Master and PHILTY McNASTY is used by Okoampa Ahoofe.What do you expect?
Frank Appiah 9 years ago
Your rather immature and infantile outbursts make G.K Berko an outstanding writer on Ghanaweb.
Your rather immature and infantile outbursts make G.K Berko an outstanding writer on Ghanaweb.
??? 9 years ago
Obama signs NDAA 2013 without objecting to indefinite detention of Americans.This is democratic America not evil Kwame Nkrumah in the 1950s.
Obama signs NDAA 2013 without objecting to indefinite detention of Americans.This is democratic America not evil Kwame Nkrumah in the 1950s.
SARPONG 9 years ago
G.K Berko, you and other Nkrumah apologists keep using Terrorist to define J.B Danquah but you all have not shown one shred of evidence that J.B Danquah was personally involved in any terroristic activity.
One's freedom fi ... read full comment
G.K Berko, you and other Nkrumah apologists keep using Terrorist to define J.B Danquah but you all have not shown one shred of evidence that J.B Danquah was personally involved in any terroristic activity.
One's freedom fighting activity is another man's definition of terrorism. The colonial masters used the same term terrorist to arrest Nkrumah and Danquah at a time when they were demanding their rights as free people.
Has anybody thrown a bomb at Nkrumah in 1958 when he brought his Prevention detention act(PDA) into our political system?
Tell me what J.B did personally to cause his arrest in 1963.
Tim Owusu 9 years ago
I agree with you Frank.The rantings of those non-factual,subjective and irrational writers namely Dungeon Master,SARPONG,Pelicles etc make G.K.Berko an INTELLECTUAL GIANT on Ghanaweb.The more they rant,the more they expose th ... read full comment
I agree with you Frank.The rantings of those non-factual,subjective and irrational writers namely Dungeon Master,SARPONG,Pelicles etc make G.K.Berko an INTELLECTUAL GIANT on Ghanaweb.The more they rant,the more they expose their folly.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
You are entitled to your view that Danquah died a natural death in a normal prison condition. You are also entitled to the view that under certain conditions, a government is justified to imprison its citizens without a charg ... read full comment
You are entitled to your view that Danquah died a natural death in a normal prison condition. You are also entitled to the view that under certain conditions, a government is justified to imprison its citizens without a charge or trial. You are also entitled to the view you expressed yesterday that Danquah was not tortured.
On the contrary, some of us strongly believe that Nkrumah's Imprisoning of Danquah on suspicion of treason without charge or trial was violative of his constitutional rights and must be condemned. We also hold the position that Danquah suffered a broken spirit because of the unbearable prison conditions and this proximately caused his death.To us, this constitutes torture. Additionally, we are strongly of the view that by declaring himself president for life and instituting a one party state, Nkrumah was dictator, and that we will make sure such a person never comes to power again. This is what SAS wrote about and he is correct. He doesn't have to be a lawyer to have such a principled stand. Incidentally, I happen to have met and read about Barbara Jordan, Justice Thurgood Marshall and Mickey Leland and I sincerely doubt any of them will disagree with what SAS wrote.
Additionally, you appear to be belittling SAS by referencing the year he graduated law school. I think that is uncalled for. We should stop getting personal and being dismissive of authors but rather debate them. SAS was debating a fundamental due process issue and if Nkrumah actually cried when he heard of Danquah's prison death, then SAS was on point.
Captan 9 years ago
From my graduate school is attempting to us look like douchebags off I will belittle him too. Bravo prof. Sas is an embarrassment to graduate school and waste of education.
From my graduate school is attempting to us look like douchebags off I will belittle him too. Bravo prof. Sas is an embarrassment to graduate school and waste of education.
SARPONG 9 years ago
This is the first time I have read something from Professor Lungu that seems to have been engineered from a point of personal hatred towards Dr.SAS maybe due to his love for Nkrumah for whatever reason.
There was no need f ... read full comment
This is the first time I have read something from Professor Lungu that seems to have been engineered from a point of personal hatred towards Dr.SAS maybe due to his love for Nkrumah for whatever reason.
There was no need for Professor Lungu to have brought Dr SAS previous article about his stolen vehicle. This time around, Professor Lungu got too emotional and personalfor somebody most of us at Ghanaweb depends for well thought comments and advice. I know PProfessor Lungu will read this article and regret for sending it for publication.
As human beings, not all of us are going to sing hossana praises for Nkrumah not because we hate him personally but due to some of the things he did and that does not make us CIA agents or unpatriotic.
Nkrumah as a human being was not perfect and we did not expect him to be. It is just that his supporters want to make him a Saint which he was not. Nkrumah was worse than Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Jamnmeh of Gambia combined in his quest to have absolute power and he did so by denying others their God given rights and some of us will continue to bring this to the fore so that the country we all love will not become a personal fiefdom of any brutal Dictator.
J.B Danquah was killed due to Nkrumah dictatorial rule. Torture is not only Physical but mental too. Mental torture is the worst and Nkrumah used mental torture to kill Danquah. What brought about Danquah's fit of rage that resulted in his death? Nkrumah's use of mental torture and the wise Professor Lungu knows this but is refusing to accept.
Ghana is big enough for us to accept all our heroes. Accepting that Danquah contributed towards our achievement of Independent will not diminish what President Nkrumah did. Nkrumah did not achieve the independence of Ghana by himself. Gbedemah held the mantle for him when he Nkrumah was incarcerated and carried the mantle gallantry but atthe end, Nkrumah chased him into exile. Nkrumah did a lot for Ghana but he was a power hungry Dictator, that is a fact.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
SARPONG,
We will not regret this essay.
In fact, it was one of the hardest essays we've had to compose. We thought about it a whole lot. There is nothing personal. It all about our expectations of the "professional".
... read full comment
SARPONG,
We will not regret this essay.
In fact, it was one of the hardest essays we've had to compose. We thought about it a whole lot. There is nothing personal. It all about our expectations of the "professional".
We are not praise-singers for Nkrumah! But we know where Ghana-centeredness ought to hold.
So lately, we've come to believe that it is the elites of Ghana, those from Legon in particular, who are failing Ghana.
ITEM: When we are blessed to have benefited from publicly-funded academies, we ought to be a lot more balanced in our pronouncements and agendas.
SARPONG 9 years ago
"We will not regret this essay"
Who is "WE"?
"When we are blessed to have benefited from publicly funded academies"
Professor, did you really write that or it was the "WE" that wrote that?
Publicly funded simply ... read full comment
"We will not regret this essay"
Who is "WE"?
"When we are blessed to have benefited from publicly funded academies"
Professor, did you really write that or it was the "WE" that wrote that?
Publicly funded simply means our tax dollars paid for those benefits we are getting, it was not manna from heaven and Nkrumah did not paid for it from his personal pockets and it is this mentality amongst Africans that when we get benefit from our own tax money, then we should praise somebody for it.
As somebody who has lived long in USA and educated here, I am surprised you believe we should thank somebody for using our tax money in doing what they are paid to do.
I don't see Americans worshipping their Presidents for unemployment benefits, section eight, food stamps, child nutritional benefits, free child care and other benefits their tax dollars provide them so why do we Ghanaians and for that matter Africans believe if we get something from our tax money, we should praise whoever is the President ?
We expect less from our leaders a little crumb from their dinning tables to us the proletariats are seen as blessings, Oh ye the sons of Africa, did God plant our brains upside down?
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
You are twisting our position and attempting to argue the trivial!
To the point, it may be your "tax dollars". However, not all citizens may have have the same/equal chance, even if qualified as you.
You are twisting our position and attempting to argue the trivial!
To the point, it may be your "tax dollars". However, not all citizens may have have the same/equal chance, even if qualified as you.
tHA 9 years ago
Everybody benefits from tax dollars including the rich. You may not have gained from education but water, electricity, good roads all come from our tax dollars and everybody enjoys that amenities.
Everybody benefits from tax dollars including the rich. You may not have gained from education but water, electricity, good roads all come from our tax dollars and everybody enjoys that amenities.
JOE 9 years ago
Nobody gets more personal on Ghanaweb than SAS, he is the only who goes around parading and proclaiming his law degree on this forum to the utter disgust of most discerning visitors to the site. How come it is only SAS's law ... read full comment
Nobody gets more personal on Ghanaweb than SAS, he is the only who goes around parading and proclaiming his law degree on this forum to the utter disgust of most discerning visitors to the site. How come it is only SAS's law degree that is been referenced here? Is he the only one with an academic qualification in the house? He is attracting all these attacks on his person because of his propensity to arrogantly flaunt his law degree given the least opportunity.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Pellicles, I think your insatiable hatred for Nkrumah is clouding your best judgment. If the Constitution of Ghana did not provide for a Vice Premier, why blame the Premier for not having one? On the other hand, if the Cons ... read full comment
Pellicles, I think your insatiable hatred for Nkrumah is clouding your best judgment. If the Constitution of Ghana did not provide for a Vice Premier, why blame the Premier for not having one? On the other hand, if the Constitution did provide that we should have one, when did anyone or the Parliament query the Prime Minister for not having any? Meanwhile, did you ever know of any suggestion by the CPP majority Party that any person in particular should have been the VP and Nkrumah rejected that nominee?
Let's grant that Nkrumah was a tyrant. He was not the first in Africa, nor the only one. The USA and the other Western Countries that encouraged us to hate Nkrumah's tyranny fully supported tyranny of Houphouet Boigny, Lee Kuang Yew of Singapore, Mobutu of Congo (Zaire), the Shah of Iran, the Monarchies of Saudi Arabia, and Morocco among many others.
Even you have indicated a soft spot in your heart for the imperial subjugation by our local Chiefdoms. So, since when did you truly abhor tyranny?
Hind-sight is 20/20. So, it is much easier for anyone to blame our past politicians for things that are more unacceptable today.
Surely, true Democracy should have been our form of Government from the very early days. But the circumstances that prevailed did not let us enjoy that. You cannot dodge the truth of those circumstances.
By the way, why don't you condemn retrospectively, all the brutal racist discrimination and tyranny of the British that were compelled to ease their hold on us to grant us our Freedom? They still control our Economy in various ways that denies us true Political freedom. Or, you do not see that?
There was no guarantee that if the UP had come to Power and the CPP had taunted them as the UP did to Nkrumah, that UP Regime would not have turned tyrannical like Nkrumah did. Have you forgotten Busia's repudiation of Judicial rights to the Workers who resorted to demonstration against his Regime?
For once, retire your old, tattered partisan cap and think purely objectively on these issues. After all, Nkrumah's dictatorial reign lasted only 2 years, from 1964-1965, given that the One-Party system he introduced took effect from 1964 and the Coup that overthrew him occurred in February, 1966. Remember, also that Ghana was not fully Independent until we became a Republic in 1960.
Meanwhile, the numerous attempts to assassinate Dr. Nkrumah predated his Presidency that began upon attaining a Republic. If you and your UP cohorts believed in Democracy, why would you not keep to the normal Electioneering process to change the reigns of power, but resort to murderous escapades, including bombing?
Quit your darn hypocrisy!! We all must learn honestly from the errors and excesses of both sides of our past Political aisle. Simple. Don't make Nkrumah the only scapegoat.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Kwadwo 9 years ago
This is the typical which came first argument. The chicken or the egg? Are you suggesting that the attempts on Nkrumah's life caused him to implement the imprisonment without trial, declare himself life president and institut ... read full comment
This is the typical which came first argument. The chicken or the egg? Are you suggesting that the attempts on Nkrumah's life caused him to implement the imprisonment without trial, declare himself life president and institute the one party? But for the activities of the opposition, Nkrumah's dictatorial policies may not have been instituted, per Berko. This is funny.
Onua Francis 9 years ago
Could you please elaborate on what you call "Nkrumahs dictatorial policies".I have more questions for you.
Could you please elaborate on what you call "Nkrumahs dictatorial policies".I have more questions for you.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Author: Onua Francis
Date: 2015-02-08 11:19:35
Comment to: Come on Berko, chicken or egg argument?
Could you please elaborate on what you call "Nkrumahs dictatorial policies".I have more questions for you.
Author: Onua Francis
Date: 2015-02-08 11:19:35
Comment to: Come on Berko, chicken or egg argument?
Could you please elaborate on what you call "Nkrumahs dictatorial policies".I have more questions for you.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
By Nkrumah's dictatorial policies. I mean detention without without trial, the one party state and the life presidency. But please don't respond by saying all these laws were passed by the legislature and that it wasn't Nkrum ... read full comment
By Nkrumah's dictatorial policies. I mean detention without without trial, the one party state and the life presidency. But please don't respond by saying all these laws were passed by the legislature and that it wasn't Nkrumah's doing. This will be a weak defense as Nkrumah' s Party had a super majority, and as Prime Minister, controlled what bill was introduced in Parliament.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago
Most Ghanaians who carry much hatred for Nkrumah and the CPP do have a tendency to be tribal while others yet talk without facts. Where do any of you who talk about democracy get your definition much less best practices and p ... read full comment
Most Ghanaians who carry much hatred for Nkrumah and the CPP do have a tendency to be tribal while others yet talk without facts. Where do any of you who talk about democracy get your definition much less best practices and procedures of true democratic governance?
Do people blame Nkrumah for not proposing an improved democratic governance at the time before implementation in Ghana or do we blame him because he did not adhere to democratic tennets? What were democratic practices at the time of Nkrumah's reign? USA where Nkrumah had his post secondary education had a constitution in place that spelt out boundaries of freedoms, liberties, pursuit of happiness, inalienable rights and others while it held blacks as slaves and native Americans in nothing more than prisons not free to roam the land. In the UK they held inhabitants of their colonies in check by creating second class citizen designation for locals. Americans with goodwill and moral core have argued that the national government had to maintain the status quo to hold the union together because most southern states would pull out of the union if forced to give up the lucrative slave trade, the abuse and misuse of its black residents; they were not citizens.
So for those who harp on values and tennets of democracy while clueless on application, conditions of the time and era I say to you there is no amount of revisionist history or history rewrites that facts could not put to shame. True democracy could not prevail in Ghana at the time of Nkrumah not because of his own temperament but because he had to deal with not only intellectual and morally bankrupt UP/UGCC leadership that could not accept defeat at the polls and thus incite their members to cause chaos and acts of terrorism coupled with an Ashanti and Kyebi tribes that were more loyal to tribal zealotry than to the nation. And so just as events over the last decade in the world have shown us that the best of nations sometimes do take drastic actions to ensure the health, safety and security of citizens so it was Nkrumah knew conditions in Ghana could not be ripe for true democratic principles, no not while there was chaos formentted by tribal zealots. Some 60 years after Ghana's independence and 45+years after Nkrumah left the scene South Africans enjoy a preferred status in most western nations despite their apartheid past while Ghana and all others who scream democracy without understanding practices our brand of delusional democracy that has not given us preferred status. Why and how could China enjoy preferred status nation in the USA, Canada, UK and other western nations while Ghanaians fight about advocates of democracy and Nkrumah era socialism? If China is now a power house and an envy of most nation despite communist rule then the fight in Ghana about what is best for Ghana boils down to either feeble intellectual capacity, which I believe is not the case, or loyalties to tribe and not to nation which makes governance difficult to attain while beholding to tribes and party.
Botha 9 years ago
Idiotic Abeeku, don't talk about tribalism because your own comment indicts you as a tribalist due to your own inferiority complex, so shut the hell up, you stupid asshole.
Idiotic Abeeku, don't talk about tribalism because your own comment indicts you as a tribalist due to your own inferiority complex, so shut the hell up, you stupid asshole.
YAW 9 years ago
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Those accused of a crime shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an
impartial jury and to be informed of the nature and cau ... read full comment
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Those accused of a crime shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an
impartial jury and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation.
These protections are guaranteed in the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America.
However, during 1942-46, some 77,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry and 43,000 Japanese nationals, most of
whom were permanent U.S. residents, were summarily deprived of liberty and property without criminal charges and
without trial of any kind. Several persons were also violently deprived of life. All persons of Japanese ancestry on the West
Coast were expelled from their homes and confined in inland detention camps. The sole basis for these actions was
ancestry; citizenship, age, loyalty, and innocence of wrongdoing did not matter. Japanese Americans were the only group
singled out for mass incarceration. German and Italian nationals, and American citizens of German and Italian ancestries
were not imprisoned en masse even though the U.S. was at war with Germany and Italy.
This episode was one of the worst blows to constitutional liberties that the American people have ever sustained.Kwadwo, Was the president a tyrant,brutal dictator or what?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
America, as a country, has extremely shameful past of racism, bigotry and discrimination. The difference here is that the country does not celebrate it, but condemns it. Then again, America's democratic credentials are never ... read full comment
America, as a country, has extremely shameful past of racism, bigotry and discrimination. The difference here is that the country does not celebrate it, but condemns it. Then again, America's democratic credentials are never perfect, but are geared towards improvement and self-correction....
Under Nkrumah's regime, the nation was headed in the wrong direction...from whatever it had of democracy to extreme totalitarianism .
Besides, citing evil in America to justify evil in Africa is per se stupid.
YAW 9 years ago
Happy is a nation without history.So stop harping on the same string.
Happy is a nation without history.So stop harping on the same string.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Balance and cool-headed reflection is all we ask.
For the US, it is "extremely shameful past" for "racism, bigotry and discrimination".
For Ghana's PDA and Nkrumah's goal to hold together the concocted state, it is "br ... read full comment
Balance and cool-headed reflection is all we ask.
For the US, it is "extremely shameful past" for "racism, bigotry and discrimination".
For Ghana's PDA and Nkrumah's goal to hold together the concocted state, it is "brutal".
So, to channel Yaw, you prefer to harp on a disharmonious "string", as a result, neglecting the facts.
QUESTION: What is "past" about "racism, bigotry and discrimination" in America? Is that one of your decrees?
ITEM: We still believe, even in 2015, that a centralized government was the best idea for a country that could be traversed on donkey buggies within 3 weeks, even back in 1957. Nkrumah was that champion. But the "NLM/NPP and its Traditions" seriously wanted a federal amalgam of regions/provinces.
(This same cohort of history shows that it is precisely federalism in the US that is in part responsible for what you call "extremely shameful...racism, bigotry and discrimination".
But for many still trapped, it is nowhere "past."
Reckon that!
So, we agree in part, "... America's democratic credentials are never perfect, but are geared towards improvement..."
ITEM: We do not see those "improvements" as automatic "self-corrections". Those "improvements" are secured with agitation and balanced reflection by individuals and groups who respect their history, warts and all. More important, those improvements are not "State Self-Corrections."
States (Regions/Provinces), have never led, period.
Significantly, among those "improvements" is the realization that (1) it is more important for the American Nation to celebrate the "Birth" of American leaders, that (2) solemn observations of the "Death" of heroes ought to be circumscribed, family affairs, in the main.
FOR THE HISTORY & RECORD:
1. "....The CPP pursued a policy of political centralisation, which encounted serious opposition. Shortly after the 1954 election, a new party, the Asante-based National Liberation Movement (NLM), was formed. The NLM advocated a federal form of government, with increased powers for the various regions. NLM leaders criticized the CPP for perceived dictatorial tendencies. The new party worked in cooperation with another regionalist group, the Northern People's Party. When these two regional parties walked out of discussions on a new constitution, the CPP feared that London might consider such disunity an indication that the colony was not yet ready for the next phase of self-government.....The British constitutional adviser, however, backed the CPP position. The governor dissolved the assembly in order to test popular support for the CPP demand for immediate independence. The crown agreed to grant independence if so requested by a two-thirds majority of the new legislature. New elections were held in July 1956. In keenly contested elections, the CPP won 57 percent of the votes cast, but the fragmentation of the opposition gave the CPP every seat in the south as well as enough seats in Asante, the Northern Territories, and the Trans-Volta Region to hold a two-thirds majority of the 104 seats...." (Ghanaweb History Select)
2. "....The National Liberation Movement was a Ghanaian political party formed in 1954. Set up by disaffected Ashantimembers of the Convention People's Party, who were joined by Kofi Abrefa Busia, the NLM opposed the process ofcentralization whilst supporting a continuing role for traditional leaders.[1] Its main founding member was linguist Baffour Akoto whilst J. B. Danquah served as leader.[2] The party gained some support in the Gold Coast legislative election, 1956 and became the third largest party in the Assembly with 12 seats, behind the Convention People's Party and theNorthern People's Party.[3]
The Avoidance of Discrimination Act, passed by Kwame Nkrumah in 1957 outlawed parties based on racial, regional, or religious differences and as such the NLM became part of the newly formed opposition group the United Party...." (WIKIPEDIA).
Your's in the spirit of the "Tiger"!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Prof.
Exactly what is your point here in relation to my reactions here?
Please, educate me.
I want to debate you but I don't know how to proceed, since you are talking cross-purposes to the issues I have raised.
Is ... read full comment
Prof.
Exactly what is your point here in relation to my reactions here?
Please, educate me.
I want to debate you but I don't know how to proceed, since you are talking cross-purposes to the issues I have raised.
Is it your proposition that Nkrumah became dictatorial by jailing his opponents, declaring himself life president and declaring the country one party state all in order to unite the country??
If so, you have tacitly agreed that:
1. Nkrumah was a bloody dictator with a reason; you are not disputing that he was a bloody dictator.
2. And if Nkrumah had any reason at all to be a dictator, he was neither a good nor intelligent leader.
3. A good or intelligent leader will have refrained from the very things that created disaffection for him and led to his overthrow and demise. A good leader does not unite a country by engaging in divisive and outrageous conduct.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
Our sense is, bashing Nkrumah in the 21st century continues to be a second religion for you and a minority, defining what you stand for, by what Nkrumah did in the early 1960s.
There is no logic ... read full comment
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
Our sense is, bashing Nkrumah in the 21st century continues to be a second religion for you and a minority, defining what you stand for, by what Nkrumah did in the early 1960s.
There is no logic or balance that will assist. This will not be a debate for us.
However, we thought it was important to provide another perspective for Ghanaweb readers given our "shared heritage".
In that sense, as we mentioned, your idol, Nana Akufu-Addo, appears to have become more level-headed as far as this one goes, lately. Maybe you want to take a leaf from that end.
With all the benefits of public education, let's all try to be "good" leaders, if we care as much as we say we do!
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago
Do You support what the Americans did to the Japanese? If the answer is negative then you need to apologize to Ghanaians,on behave of the mortal remains of Nkrumah, for what he did to his political opponents( who happened to ... read full comment
Do You support what the Americans did to the Japanese? If the answer is negative then you need to apologize to Ghanaians,on behave of the mortal remains of Nkrumah, for what he did to his political opponents( who happened to be native Ghanaians and not Japanese ) in the name of the PDA. Or are you suggesting that America did it so every other nation has the right to replicate that ? You and your jingoistic lots should spare us the incessant hypocrisy and self righteousness.
YAW 9 years ago
It requires a surgical incision for you to understand the hypocrisy of the American government.Was it tyranny or what? Will you apologize for the bombing of C.E Osei by NLM members?A fox should never be at the trial of a goo ... read full comment
It requires a surgical incision for you to understand the hypocrisy of the American government.Was it tyranny or what? Will you apologize for the bombing of C.E Osei by NLM members?A fox should never be at the trial of a goose.Enough of your polemic.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
Yaw, as you bash America and its past transgressions to justify Nkrumah's jailing of Danquah without due process, this is a small history for you.
On a visit to give a lecture in the U.S. on the Akosombo dam, Gbedemah was d ... read full comment
Yaw, as you bash America and its past transgressions to justify Nkrumah's jailing of Danquah without due process, this is a small history for you.
On a visit to give a lecture in the U.S. on the Akosombo dam, Gbedemah was denied service at a Howard Johnson restaurant in Deleware. When the news broke on this incident, Gbedemah was invited to the White House by President. In course of the meeting at the White House, the President learned of Nkrumah's difficulty in securing financing for the famous Akosombo Dam. The then Vice President Nixon was asked to help Nkrumah. Nixon contacted Edward Kaiser of Kaiser Aluminium and financing was secured. This is how the Akosombo dam came to fruition.
You see, America is not perfect, but from time to time it takes steps to correct its transgressions . So never use the past sins of America the justify Nkrumah's abuse of the rights of Danquah and others.
By the way, do you know why Ms Jacqueline did not open the Akosombo dam? I believe Nkrumah's name calling of America had a lot to do with it. Have a good day or night where ever you happen to be.
YAW 9 years ago
I Saw that in 1990.thanks
I Saw that in 1990.thanks
Kwadwo 9 years ago
That is America for you, buddy.
That is America for you, buddy.
YAW 9 years ago
Twisted logic.
Twisted logic.
perscoba 9 years ago
All bib big words for nothing--all wordy for nothing,In essence what was this bizarre lawyer talking about?
I hink he needs to go back to high school to learn expository writing.
All bib big words for nothing--all wordy for nothing,In essence what was this bizarre lawyer talking about?
I hink he needs to go back to high school to learn expository writing.
perscoba 9 years ago
///ofui he does not know how to write plain expository english,,all blah blah blah blah kwa! SHAME UNTO YOU LUGI
Besides your facts don.t add up.Lacks logic.
What was the ned for citing the blck scholars? show show ... read full comment
///ofui he does not know how to write plain expository english,,all blah blah blah blah kwa! SHAME UNTO YOU LUGI
Besides your facts don.t add up.Lacks logic.
What was the ned for citing the blck scholars? show show kwa!!!
let them say 9 years ago
Whiles the Chinese and Indians are thinking of how to influence the world through technology,Ghanaians are wasting their time searching through history to accuse and counter each other with cheap tribalistic and ethnocentric ... read full comment
Whiles the Chinese and Indians are thinking of how to influence the world through technology,Ghanaians are wasting their time searching through history to accuse and counter each other with cheap tribalistic and ethnocentric political ideologies.Ghanaians wake up from your sleep.Those we started the journey with are light years ahead of us.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Prof. Lungu should have shown the wretchedness and bizarreness of my case against Nkrumah, instead of engaging in ad hominem arguments that have nothing to do with anything.....
Prof. Lungu, G.K. Berko and some few others ar ... read full comment
Prof. Lungu should have shown the wretchedness and bizarreness of my case against Nkrumah, instead of engaging in ad hominem arguments that have nothing to do with anything.....
Prof. Lungu, G.K. Berko and some few others are the best commentators on Ghanaweb except on the issue of Nkrumah, when these others indulge in "bizarre and wretched" arguments.
And this demonstrates the extent to which Nkrumah screwed great minds with his brainwashing educational policy. For indeed, those purported to have been educated by Nkrumah's educational policy learned nothing of analyses except to worship and praise that tyrant forever. Thus if Nkrumah were to expectorate into their mouths, they would mistake his phlegm for ice cream.
And that also explains why our education has been useless in advancing the progress of our nation! It was never supposed to make us think properly; it was supposed to obnubilate our minds to become learned sycophants for a brutal dictator.
Frank Appiah 9 years ago
There are too many distortions,lies and half-truths in Dr SAS' response.For example,in the words of Dr SAS "And that also explains why our education has been useless in advancing the progress of our nation! It was never suppo ... read full comment
There are too many distortions,lies and half-truths in Dr SAS' response.For example,in the words of Dr SAS "And that also explains why our education has been useless in advancing the progress of our nation! It was never supposed to make us think properly;it was supposed to obnubilate our minds to become learned sycophants for a brutal dictator".After reading this statement,any sincere and candid reader will conclude that DR SAS needs psychiatric evaluation for even condemning the free education that has made him who he is,and which has produced thousands of scientists,doctors,engineers,economists,accountants etc who are serving in various capacities across the globe.Only SARPONG and his group of quasi-intellectuals appreciate his moronic mindset.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Frank Appiah,
Thanks for lending your voice!
Again, balance and somber reflection is all we ask in these matters.
It is simply absurd to blame Nkrumah for the failures of Ghana's educational system(s), in 2015.
Sam ... read full comment
Frank Appiah,
Thanks for lending your voice!
Again, balance and somber reflection is all we ask in these matters.
It is simply absurd to blame Nkrumah for the failures of Ghana's educational system(s), in 2015.
Same goes for the problems at Akosombo, as we discussed.
In short, those are wretched and bizarre mindsets, in our humble opinion.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Nkrumaists are fond of using the bomb-throwing incidents to justify his atrocious treatment of his political opponents. The first bomb-throw occurred at Kulungugu in 1963, while the Preventive Detention Act (PDA) was passed i ... read full comment
Nkrumaists are fond of using the bomb-throwing incidents to justify his atrocious treatment of his political opponents. The first bomb-throw occurred at Kulungugu in 1963, while the Preventive Detention Act (PDA) was passed in 1958. Thus the Nkrumaists are guilty of the fallacy of circular cause and consequence, where the consequence of the phenomenon is claimed to be its root cause. Truly, Nkrumah’s tyranny, as embodied in the passage of the PDA, was the cause of the armed struggle for freedom undertaken by certain patriotic citizens who clearly saw their freedoms appropriated according to the whims of a dictator.
When he became power drunk, and openly portrayed his communistic ideas, Nkrumah would not tolerate any dissent neither from the official opposition nor from his own party members. After the PDA was enacted in 1958, his finance Minister K.A. Gbedemah who introduced the bill in Parliament had to escape into exile in the USA, fleeing from the Act he gleefully spearheaded. When the people were overfed with Nkrumaism and were suffering under his tighten-your-belt Socialist policies, the bombs from his own camp became an option just as he himself was advocating violence as a strategy for freedom fighters elsewhere. And by the way, at the time of his overthrow, there were more CPP members in prison under the PDA than UP folks, just as Danquah had warned Gbedemah and his gaping sycophants.
Nkrumaists also raise negative sentiments against the glorious coup d'état that overthrew the dictator by associating it with the negative image of the CIA, as if the mass support for the coup was also engineered by the CIA. If the CIA overthrew Nkrumah, then they merely fulfilled our sacred national aspiration to "resist the oppressor's rule with all our hearts and minds forever more" and therefore are they our national heroes deserving of our eternal respect. But saying that Nkrumah's overthrow was the work of CIA merely turns our people into lobotomized idiots who did not have the courage to get rid of a dictator!! I do not subscribe to the idea that the colonial masters were responsible for giving us back our freedom from the tyranny of Kwame Nkrumah. The gallant men and women who overthrew Nkrumah should be credited with the greatest act of patriotism for our country. And if Nkrumah was so sure of the unpopularity of his overthrow, nothing prevented him from launching a triumphant return to reclaim his power. So this whole idea that the CIA engineered his overthrow is mere fiction, propagated by Nkrumah’s followers to contaminate the great euphoria brought upon the people by the dictator’s timely overthrow.
Nkrumaists claim that J.B. Danquah was a CIA agent. My question is, how can you prove this allegation when the man was never allowed to defend himself in a proper court? J.B. Danquah was incarcerated without trial and without due process, and as such, one cannot establish his guilt or innocence through hearsay!! But more importantly, 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 Ghana, I myself 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 the aspiration in our national anthem "to resist the oppressor's rule with all our will and mind”? After all, throughout history, people have been provoked to fight more for far less.
Nkrumaists are always saying that Nkrumah does no wrong, and go ahead to rationalize and justify all his patent crimes against humanity, summarily condemning all his opponents as nation-wreckers and extolling him as our Messiah, and when we raise the man’s faults, they turn around to say that fairness demands us to be balanced by discussing the man’s greater qualities. What are these qualities? Ingratitude, lies, blackmail, jealousy or overweaning ambition? And when have Nkrumaists said anything positive about the other great men who invited Nkrumah over to help in the independence struggle?
Ironically, Nkrumaists state that Nkrumah gave us freedom from the colonial masters. We should only be proud of our independence if it truly gave us true freedoms. But what do they mean by "freedom from colonial masters"? Are they here accepting oppression from our own kind as a good substitute for "oppression from colonial masters"? Do they again narrowly define "self-government" as Nkrumah's singular right to impose a totalitarian regime on our people? I believe that the better task for Nkrumah was to have sought first the solid principles for democratic governance and to spread these across Africa. All others would have been added unto him. But his simplistic faith in dictatorship and his effort to propagate same across Africa makes him a truly bad leader for all time.
Nkrumaists also claim Nkrumah founded Ghana, but Ghana had already been created long before Nkrumah came. Rather, he came to claim that he was giving the people freedom, liberation and justice, and that is where the problem is. He could have vividly put on the table before the people that he was going to imprison them without trial and abolish all opposition and declare himself president in order to build our country into a great nation, and if the people had accepted him and his message, then he would have been considered honest under the circumstances. But he promised freedom and justice from colonial oppression, only to turn around to inflict a worse form of oppression on the people. How can we say that Nkrumah gave us freedom and justice and liberation when he abolished all these forms?
And if all he accomplished were the huge infrastructural developments minus the freedom, the colonial masters could have achieved more with these same resources and kept us under less oppression than Nkrumah. Indeed, we should think about it, if we had asked for industries and huge buildings and roads and schools in order to agree to remain in bondage, our colonial masters would have done far better with the millions they left with Nkrumah. What is more, they would not have oppressed us as much as Nkrumah did, and they will not have given tens of millions away in advancement of a doomed cause to rule the whole of Africa.. At least, in their time, due process existed from which Nkrumah himself benefitted. Thus the notion that Nkrumah’s provision of infrastructure should mitigate his dictatorship is neither here nor there.
Nkrumaists also quote injustice in the US to justify Nkrumah’s injustice against the Ghanaian population. This is a fallacy of argument characterized as Tu Quoque. ("You Do it Too!"; also “Two Wrongs Make a Right”). This is a corrupt argument from ethos. It is no sign of intelligence to excuse one's own bad action by pointing out that one's opponent's acts are perhaps even worse than one's own. Such an argument has no substance in logic!
Nkrumah left no legacy for Ghana except that his brutal dictatorship has made us more committed in our present democratic dispensation, and to swear a terrible oath that "never again"!!
SARPONG 9 years ago
Preach on Dr SAS, preach on so that the deaf brainwashed Nkrumaist might drink from your fountain of wisdom. I am going to copy this comment and tuck away as point of reference.
Truly, whilst we were singing to resist opp ... read full comment
Preach on Dr SAS, preach on so that the deaf brainwashed Nkrumaist might drink from your fountain of wisdom. I am going to copy this comment and tuck away as point of reference.
Truly, whilst we were singing to resist oppressor's rule in our national anthem, we were being oppressed by the same brutal Dictator.
Whilst Nkrumah was sending our money to other Africa countries to fight for their independence with terroristic acts made fashionable by couching it as freedom fighters, Nkrumah was keeping his people in bondage.
What is the meaning of independence if one just change the slave master as we did when we gained our independence? During the rule of the colonial masters, one was not arrested for complaining and apart from being ruled by people who were not native Ghanaians, there was not much to complain about as everything one needs was available.
Our independence brought us a tyrant with despotic political agenda to rule Africa and nothing was going to impede his dreams if it meant suppressing the human rights of Ghanaians to achieve a personal ambition. Nkrumah was worse than the colonial masters with his rule by fear.
This is not a fable. During Nkrumah's regime, one could not even criticize Nkrumah behind closed doors with your own children in the room who Nkrumah has turned into snitches through the forced Young Pioneer indoctrination that made Nkrumah as the ALMIGHTY. These tattle snitches are the ones who have grown up to become the Nkrumaists of today. Hopefully after this generation of brainwashed robots passed on, the generation to come will study our independence history and give Nkrumah his due and also criticize where he went wrong without having to deal with the robotic lobotomized Nkrumaists.
I thought Nkrumah thought these people to look forward for progression and not backward. Unfortunately this is the message these snitches turned turned robotic singing machine did not imbibe.
Forward ever, backward never, did you hear that, Young Pioneer robots?
SARPONG 9 years ago
Taught, not thought, mistake regretted.
Taught, not thought, mistake regretted.
Onua Francis 9 years ago
Biased,anti-Nkrumah fool,DR SAS,the first attempt to overthrow Nkrumah was in 1958.Go back to do more research and stop misleading "babies" like SARPONG.
Biased,anti-Nkrumah fool,DR SAS,the first attempt to overthrow Nkrumah was in 1958.Go back to do more research and stop misleading "babies" like SARPONG.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Author: Onua Francis
Date: 2015-02-08 15:12:59
Comment to: Answering the Nkrumaist Arguments
Biased,anti-Nkrumah fool,DR SAS,the first attempt to overthrow Nkrumah was in 1958.Go back to do more research and stop mislead ... read full comment
Author: Onua Francis
Date: 2015-02-08 15:12:59
Comment to: Answering the Nkrumaist Arguments
Biased,anti-Nkrumah fool,DR SAS,the first attempt to overthrow Nkrumah was in 1958.Go back to do more research and stop misleading "babies" like SARPONG.
True African 9 years ago
WE STILL NEED REFERENCES FOR YOUR MISLEADING STATEMENTS ABOUT NKRUMAH AND FATHIA AFTER THE 1966 COUP.YOU WERE ASKED BY ONE OF THE READERS TO SUBSTANTIATE YOUR ALLEGATIONS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP AFTER THE 1966 AND COUP AND Y ... read full comment
WE STILL NEED REFERENCES FOR YOUR MISLEADING STATEMENTS ABOUT NKRUMAH AND FATHIA AFTER THE 1966 COUP.YOU WERE ASKED BY ONE OF THE READERS TO SUBSTANTIATE YOUR ALLEGATIONS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP AFTER THE 1966 AND COUP AND YOU SHAMEFULLY RAN AWAY.WHEN ARE YOU GETTING OUT OF YOUR IDIOTIC MINDSET,YOU SHEEPISH DISCIPLE OF DR SAS ?
SARPONG 9 years ago
Fathia Nkrumah was a very young wife and mother of three very young children when her husband was overthrown in Ghana's first successful military coup d'état on February 24, 1966. She had to take her children to Cairo, Egypt ... read full comment
Fathia Nkrumah was a very young wife and mother of three very young children when her husband was overthrown in Ghana's first successful military coup d'état on February 24, 1966. She had to take her children to Cairo, Egypt to be raised there while her husband went to exile.
A new chapter in Fathia's life opened after her husband, President Nkrumah, was overthrown. After six years of raising her three children virtually single-handedly, she learned of her husband’s death on April 28, 1972.
True African 9 years ago
SARPONG,why are you changing your story about Fathia and Nkrumah?
SARPONG,why are you changing your story about Fathia and Nkrumah?
JOE 9 years ago
Quasi intellectuals like Sarpong for whom half educated SAS is considered a fine scholar.
Quasi intellectuals like Sarpong for whom half educated SAS is considered a fine scholar.
SARPONG 9 years ago
Frank Appiah, if anybody has been mislead, it is you Young Pioneer tattle tale tellers who never grew out of your brainwashed stages.
R.R Amponsah and others were accused of coup plotting but the case was thrown out in 195 ... read full comment
Frank Appiah, if anybody has been mislead, it is you Young Pioneer tattle tale tellers who never grew out of your brainwashed stages.
R.R Amponsah and others were accused of coup plotting but the case was thrown out in 1958.
Do you know the eminent coup plotter in Africa was Nkrumah who helped others to plot the overthrow of other African leaders?
It's so sad you people have closed minds you don't do any research into what Nkrumah did. You don't have to live at the time of Nkrumah regime to know what went on. One has to read books written by Nkrumah supporters and those who did not like him. You also have to read books by independent observers who wrote objective account of what went on at that time.
Were you born when Jesus Christ waswalking the face of the earth? You're believe in the Bible, don't you?
The only people on the face of the earth who are so intransigent in their beliefs and stupid are Nkrumah apologists who have never accepted the fact that Nkrumah ever made a mistake, what a bunch of yahoos these Nkrumah supporters are.
Frank Appiah 9 years ago
Truth must be told.The commission chaired by English man Granville Sharp in 1958 found unanimously that R.R.Amponsah,Apaloo,Major Benjamin Awhaitey etc.had engaged in conspiracy to assassinate Kwame Nkrumah and carry out a co ... read full comment
Truth must be told.The commission chaired by English man Granville Sharp in 1958 found unanimously that R.R.Amponsah,Apaloo,Major Benjamin Awhaitey etc.had engaged in conspiracy to assassinate Kwame Nkrumah and carry out a coup d'etat.
INXS 9 years ago
"resist the oppressor's rule with all our hearts and minds forever more"
That line in our current national anthem came in the 1970s. It didn't exist in the old national anthem "Lift high the flag of Ghana" which we still ... read full comment
"resist the oppressor's rule with all our hearts and minds forever more"
That line in our current national anthem came in the 1970s. It didn't exist in the old national anthem "Lift high the flag of Ghana" which we still sang when Nkrumah was overthrown.
Using it to justify the 1966 coup as a fulfillment of our "sacred national aspirations" sounds anachronistic.
"Nkrumaists are always saying that Nkrumah does no wrong".
Are they really always saying that? I don't think so. That "messiah" thing was something recited by the Ghana Young Pioneers - kids who didn't know much.
This is for the records only.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
INXS, I don't believe the Kids got those phrases from nowhere. They were clearly indoctrinated to recite them. " Nkrumah does no wrong" and " Nkrumah never dies". Very catchy indeed. By the way, don't North Koreans recite si ... read full comment
INXS, I don't believe the Kids got those phrases from nowhere. They were clearly indoctrinated to recite them. " Nkrumah does no wrong" and " Nkrumah never dies". Very catchy indeed. By the way, don't North Koreans recite similar praises to their leader? Just asking.
Paul 9 years ago
Well said and about time too. I am glad you have exposed this unfortunate Ghanaian as he is. In my view the likes of Dr SAS are at the very heart of our chronic divisions and discord. Whilst others learn to say sorry to him ( ... read full comment
Well said and about time too. I am glad you have exposed this unfortunate Ghanaian as he is. In my view the likes of Dr SAS are at the very heart of our chronic divisions and discord. Whilst others learn to say sorry to him (even whilst he is busy threatening and giving them 1 hour ultimatums), he does not know what the word SORRY really means. Yes, he is full of himself and I am sorry to say, not worthy of the fraternity that is TSU!!! Shame indeed.
KKO 9 years ago
Seriously, did our lawyer check to see what kinds of political systems there were in 1957 in all corners of the world? Did he check to see Ghana was no island then, that Ghana with a unitary form of government strongly defend ... read full comment
Seriously, did our lawyer check to see what kinds of political systems there were in 1957 in all corners of the world? Did he check to see Ghana was no island then, that Ghana with a unitary form of government strongly defended by DR. Nkrumah, had adversaries - internal and external, even as the entire world wobbled between to antagonistic axis, from East to West?
Comment: Come on, Prof Lungu. How can you loop so low? How old are you? By 1961, there were democratic governments operating in ALL the former British colonies of Asia, the Caribbean and in fact, Africa. Does that really require rocket science to find out?
And did our lawyer forget TSU taught him that the first real responsibility of the leader of a country is the security of that country?
Comment: What kind of internal insecurity existed in Ghana in 1958 to warrant the passing of PDA under certificate of urgency?
Or does our lawyer need us to help him channel President Abraham Lincoln who ordered a Civil War to preserve America, a War that resulted in the death of over 640,000 Americans, for a reminder on that one?
Comment: The American civil war was fought by two nearly equal sides. Jailing people without trial under PDA, if you wish to compare it with the American civil war, is like tying someone’s hands behind his back and pushing him into a ring to fight a boxer with two free hands.
Or that, it takes considerate and fair-minded compatriots as a group to help institutionalize "the rule of law" in any country, most of all, in a new country that is frontally just a newly-concocted amalgam of tribal and national groups who just happen to have been pulled into one by colonial masters with their own permanent interests?
Comment: Which tribes in Ghana were tearing at each other in 1958? There are large Fanti and other tribal settlements in Ashanti, particularly Kumasi, that have been there for over a century and were going about the normal lives in 1958 without hindrance from anyone. And there were settled “zongo” communities all over the country. So which was the amalgam that required special draconian laws to deal with?
Then there is this other recent case where in one of the afore-mentioned essays on Ghanaweb, Lawyer Adjei Sarfo pasted text of an unauthenticated "letter....(J. B. Danquah) wrote to Dr. Nkrumah" about his "detention" at the Nsawam Prison in 1964-1965.
Why would a lawyer expect anyone to believe the "letter" is authentic when (1) text and words were selected and pasted and (2) the lawyer himself did not even bother to provide the date written/stamped on that same letter?
Comment: This is so infantile. Hundreds of such letters and more, were published by the commissions that were set up after the coup of 1966. It won’t take you too much effort to find out. Do you really believe that someone will concoct a serious letter like that. What kind of education did you acquire in America?
And with respect to many of his unreasonable claims against Dr. Nkrumah, how do we know (1) the "letter" was actually delivered to Dr. Nkrumah and (2) that Dr. Nkrumah actually read the "letter"? Further, why did our lawyer neglect to tell us there was actually a second "letter" that would have allowed readers to draw a more reasonable and objective conclusion? (We are sure hiding facts useful for analyses and prosecution, even in elementary cases, is not one of the principles they teach at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, Texas).
The letter did not reach Nkrumah? What pathetic reasoning?
Comment: Even assuming JB Danquah was planning against the state of Ghana, how about the TUC leaders, who had only a few years earlier organised to save Nkrumah’ arse, that were jailed under PDA for merely going on strike?
The most nauseating thing about this whole PDA issue is that while Kwame Nkrumah was jailing his opponents in Ghana for asking questions about governance, he was financing dissidents from Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo, Liberia, Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, and other places, to go and overthrow their governments. Did he really believe those other leaders could not plan against him? With such reasoning among our educated, is it surprising that we landed Mahama?
Akwasi Attah, NYC 9 years ago
Dear Prof Lungu:
Your article is baseless and lacks facts. Everything you said about Adjei Sarfo failed to be buttressed with the facts that Mr. Adjei Sarfo's article was based. Everything he said in the said article was f ... read full comment
Dear Prof Lungu:
Your article is baseless and lacks facts. Everything you said about Adjei Sarfo failed to be buttressed with the facts that Mr. Adjei Sarfo's article was based. Everything he said in the said article was factual beyond reasonable doubt. Yet you rambled around just to tell the world that you went to law school before Mr Adjei Sarfo. Big deal!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Come on, Akwasi Attah, NYC!
It appears your 60-word comment is more of a "ramble", without facts.
1. Where did we say we "went to law school before Mr Adjei Sarfo"?
2. And what is that about "factual beyond reasonabl ... read full comment
Come on, Akwasi Attah, NYC!
It appears your 60-word comment is more of a "ramble", without facts.
1. Where did we say we "went to law school before Mr Adjei Sarfo"?
2. And what is that about "factual beyond reasonable doubt."
Hoping the weather is kinder to NYC this time around.
Thanks.
Captan 9 years ago
Nkrumahs largesse. Instead of being grateful and whines like a bitch. He can mouth "nkrumah is a dictator" till he is blue in the face but using his criteria so was Abraham lincoln, Oliver Cromwell and great many leaders when ... read full comment
Nkrumahs largesse. Instead of being grateful and whines like a bitch. He can mouth "nkrumah is a dictator" till he is blue in the face but using his criteria so was Abraham lincoln, Oliver Cromwell and great many leaders when faced with terrorists and seditionists. Thanks to his danquah and busia messiah he's stuck in the usa, a nation that passed a law similar to pda in the 21 century. But you wouldn't hear a peak out of him on that because he's not who he claims to be. He''s a tribalistic fucker stuck in the first gear of stupidity. He's a nobody and no one will give a fuck about him. His busia and danquah tradition is the reason most of him are stuck in foreign lands cleaning toilets and wiping asses for a living. Kwame Nkrumah has been called worse by better people than this economic refugee call sas. It's unfortunate the space and time of such prestigious school was wasted on this piece of horse manure. I feel sorry for those who attended the same school with this useless excuse of human shit. But then the world is full of shit like him.
Nero 9 years ago
Professor Lingu, you must be wasting your breath if you spend so much time thrashing Adjei sarfo, JD, who is vying with Okoampa-Ahoofe, Ph. D., to become naughty boys on Ghanaweb. As you almost rightly suggest, no one should ... read full comment
Professor Lingu, you must be wasting your breath if you spend so much time thrashing Adjei sarfo, JD, who is vying with Okoampa-Ahoofe, Ph. D., to become naughty boys on Ghanaweb. As you almost rightly suggest, no one should pay attention to Dr. Adjei who has a penchant for picking up bimbos who're smarter than him and could have gotten that JD degree in 1/4 the time it took for him, Adjei, to be awarded it for merely having a nearly perfect attendance record. I guess those bimbos also have a right now to to be accorded the appellation of BT.aD (Better Than a Doctor) which is just a tard above what their patron Adjei acquired
Our first president was a tyrant and a self-centered idiot. Why? The question is, who was his vice when he was our president? That alone tells all and sundry that the man had something sinister up his sleeve. I am throwing ...
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Gaddafi and Saddam had vice... were they democrats?Houphouet-Boigny had no prime minister or vice from 1960-1990.Nkrumah was the worst.Make sure he is listed in the Guinness book of records.We need a break.
Kofi,
The way you explain it and compare, "brutal" ought to be "introspective", if we are to take things serious.
We imagine few reasonable people in those other countries will want to "...swear a terrible oath, that neve ...
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Tongue in cheek.....If Nkrumah was such a brutal dictator,then they should forward his name to Guinness book of records.By no stretch of the English language can Nkrumah be classified as a "brutal" dictator.Unless you belong ...
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For more accurate and detailed info about Nkrumah call Francis Kwarteng in USA on: 001- 301 277 5871
Address: 4203 Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781-Maryland, USA.
His line might be busy, Keep on trying.
I would rather live under the tyrant Nkrumah at least I can plan my life rather than have the terrorist JB Danquah as a compatriot or as a nieghbour who may kill or maim me.
Pellicles, don't you think it is time to begin to take proper reflective stock and bring in some objectivity into your discourse?
Ironically, the brutal dictator and sanguinary tyrant didn't throw bombs at his opponents! The more democratic, liberal, and freedom-loving people like Danquah and co did throw bombs! How nice Sir!
Prof Lungu (he has always made it clear to us all that this is a moniker so we know he is not just throwing his weight about) has been one of the most sensible voices on ghanaweb - an avuncular voice that tries to call the "y ...
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"What is all about going to a Black college. So is that school only for blacks?"
Texas Southern University is a predominantly a Black university, that does not mean only Black students attend that University. We have f ...
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Thanks for the info, especially that about Howard University as an Ivy League of historically black universities. Never knew that.
What would be a typically Ivy League white university in the southern states? Is there any ...
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The question should be, what is Ivy league school. Ivy league schools are known for the quality of the education they provide.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of schools that provide quality education than some of these Ivy ...
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Baylor, Tx Rice, Tx
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
INXS,
We provided that pithy detail about the degrees, reluctantly, for context.
As you know, folks from the academy and professionals, generally, speak within their own groups, "schools of thought", so to speak.
And ...
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Of what purpose is this convoluted diatribe, with tangential ad hominem trajectories? Yes, Sarfo is an arrogant, politically incorrect twerp, with a penchant for obnoxious outbursts.
However, his take on the dictatorial p ...
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We dig that, Dungeon Master!
Your concept of "life" is a lot less that 12 months!
This is 2015!
No where in my post did I bring up the concept of life. Perhaps you should get off the stupor-inducing stuff, the toxic soup of bizarreness that has characterized both your write-up and comment.
"...Tell us why a person, even if a CIA agent as JB Danquah was/is alleged to be, should be jailed for life without the agency of due process?..."
"Life" is measured in months, right?
Nice "stupor-inducing stuff", forge ...
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Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail
By the way, the concept of "life" sentence doesn't take its mea ...
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Please, let's stick to historically accurate facts even as we hold different views.
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail.
Perhaps I am short on diction, but tell me of a word that captures jailing of a person without trial, no terms of sentence, except to proverbially rot in jail.
Nice try!
Terrorist J.B Danquah was jailed just as those guys currently at Guantanamo detention camp.
Well, ok. But you know this is ghanaweb. Some people will take it literarily.
The PDA didn't quite stipulate that a person could be put away for life. "Let him rot in gaol" was just the interpretation some Ghanaians gave ...
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INXS, that was the problem. J.B Danquah was picked up, bundled to Nsawam without any charge or being put on trial.
He was just put in jail like a forgotten un needed used shirt and left to rot. That is not how any human be ...
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Dr. Nkrumah was too good for his own good. People who commit acts of treason are hung summarily. Nkumah should have hung JB Danquah by the ropes until he was dead in 1958 when he was found guilty by a competent court for atte ...
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If this is your line of argument, then you should also be told that terrorists deserve to be put away for good. And those who resorted to bombings and various assassination attempts on democratically elected leaders who had ...
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JB Danquah tried to personally assassinate Nkrumah? He personally tried to bomb Nkrumah or any of the national edifices?
The CIA did not overthrow Houphouet Boigney, or Mobutu, or the King of Morocco, or Lee Yew? Who are ...
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I am shocked at your simplistic statements.In fact your response is an indication that Dr SAS is not alone.There are too many subjective and biased writers on Ghanaweb who really need a dose of objectivity and fairmindedness ...
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The moniker "Dungeon Master" tells all you need to know about this individual, a wicked and heartless terrorist like his mentor J.B. Danquah.
The moniker Dungeon Master and PHILTY McNASTY is used by Okoampa Ahoofe.What do you expect?
Your rather immature and infantile outbursts make G.K Berko an outstanding writer on Ghanaweb.
Obama signs NDAA 2013 without objecting to indefinite detention of Americans.This is democratic America not evil Kwame Nkrumah in the 1950s.
G.K Berko, you and other Nkrumah apologists keep using Terrorist to define J.B Danquah but you all have not shown one shred of evidence that J.B Danquah was personally involved in any terroristic activity.
One's freedom fi ...
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I agree with you Frank.The rantings of those non-factual,subjective and irrational writers namely Dungeon Master,SARPONG,Pelicles etc make G.K.Berko an INTELLECTUAL GIANT on Ghanaweb.The more they rant,the more they expose th ...
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You are entitled to your view that Danquah died a natural death in a normal prison condition. You are also entitled to the view that under certain conditions, a government is justified to imprison its citizens without a charg ...
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From my graduate school is attempting to us look like douchebags off I will belittle him too. Bravo prof. Sas is an embarrassment to graduate school and waste of education.
This is the first time I have read something from Professor Lungu that seems to have been engineered from a point of personal hatred towards Dr.SAS maybe due to his love for Nkrumah for whatever reason.
There was no need f ...
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SARPONG,
We will not regret this essay.
In fact, it was one of the hardest essays we've had to compose. We thought about it a whole lot. There is nothing personal. It all about our expectations of the "professional".
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"We will not regret this essay"
Who is "WE"?
"When we are blessed to have benefited from publicly funded academies"
Professor, did you really write that or it was the "WE" that wrote that?
Publicly funded simply ...
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You are twisting our position and attempting to argue the trivial!
To the point, it may be your "tax dollars". However, not all citizens may have have the same/equal chance, even if qualified as you.
Everybody benefits from tax dollars including the rich. You may not have gained from education but water, electricity, good roads all come from our tax dollars and everybody enjoys that amenities.
Nobody gets more personal on Ghanaweb than SAS, he is the only who goes around parading and proclaiming his law degree on this forum to the utter disgust of most discerning visitors to the site. How come it is only SAS's law ...
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Pellicles, I think your insatiable hatred for Nkrumah is clouding your best judgment. If the Constitution of Ghana did not provide for a Vice Premier, why blame the Premier for not having one? On the other hand, if the Cons ...
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This is the typical which came first argument. The chicken or the egg? Are you suggesting that the attempts on Nkrumah's life caused him to implement the imprisonment without trial, declare himself life president and institut ...
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Could you please elaborate on what you call "Nkrumahs dictatorial policies".I have more questions for you.
Author: Onua Francis
Date: 2015-02-08 11:19:35
Comment to: Come on Berko, chicken or egg argument?
Could you please elaborate on what you call "Nkrumahs dictatorial policies".I have more questions for you.
By Nkrumah's dictatorial policies. I mean detention without without trial, the one party state and the life presidency. But please don't respond by saying all these laws were passed by the legislature and that it wasn't Nkrum ...
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Most Ghanaians who carry much hatred for Nkrumah and the CPP do have a tendency to be tribal while others yet talk without facts. Where do any of you who talk about democracy get your definition much less best practices and p ...
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Idiotic Abeeku, don't talk about tribalism because your own comment indicts you as a tribalist due to your own inferiority complex, so shut the hell up, you stupid asshole.
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Those accused of a crime shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an
impartial jury and to be informed of the nature and cau ...
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America, as a country, has extremely shameful past of racism, bigotry and discrimination. The difference here is that the country does not celebrate it, but condemns it. Then again, America's democratic credentials are never ...
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Happy is a nation without history.So stop harping on the same string.
Balance and cool-headed reflection is all we ask.
For the US, it is "extremely shameful past" for "racism, bigotry and discrimination".
For Ghana's PDA and Nkrumah's goal to hold together the concocted state, it is "br ...
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Prof.
Exactly what is your point here in relation to my reactions here?
Please, educate me.
I want to debate you but I don't know how to proceed, since you are talking cross-purposes to the issues I have raised.
Is ...
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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
Our sense is, bashing Nkrumah in the 21st century continues to be a second religion for you and a minority, defining what you stand for, by what Nkrumah did in the early 1960s.
There is no logic ...
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Do You support what the Americans did to the Japanese? If the answer is negative then you need to apologize to Ghanaians,on behave of the mortal remains of Nkrumah, for what he did to his political opponents( who happened to ...
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It requires a surgical incision for you to understand the hypocrisy of the American government.Was it tyranny or what? Will you apologize for the bombing of C.E Osei by NLM members?A fox should never be at the trial of a goo ...
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Yaw, as you bash America and its past transgressions to justify Nkrumah's jailing of Danquah without due process, this is a small history for you.
On a visit to give a lecture in the U.S. on the Akosombo dam, Gbedemah was d ...
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I Saw that in 1990.thanks
That is America for you, buddy.
Twisted logic.
All bib big words for nothing--all wordy for nothing,In essence what was this bizarre lawyer talking about?
I hink he needs to go back to high school to learn expository writing.
///ofui he does not know how to write plain expository english,,all blah blah blah blah kwa! SHAME UNTO YOU LUGI
Besides your facts don.t add up.Lacks logic.
What was the ned for citing the blck scholars? show show ...
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Whiles the Chinese and Indians are thinking of how to influence the world through technology,Ghanaians are wasting their time searching through history to accuse and counter each other with cheap tribalistic and ethnocentric ...
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Prof. Lungu should have shown the wretchedness and bizarreness of my case against Nkrumah, instead of engaging in ad hominem arguments that have nothing to do with anything.....
Prof. Lungu, G.K. Berko and some few others ar ...
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There are too many distortions,lies and half-truths in Dr SAS' response.For example,in the words of Dr SAS "And that also explains why our education has been useless in advancing the progress of our nation! It was never suppo ...
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Frank Appiah,
Thanks for lending your voice!
Again, balance and somber reflection is all we ask in these matters.
It is simply absurd to blame Nkrumah for the failures of Ghana's educational system(s), in 2015.
Sam ...
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Nkrumaists are fond of using the bomb-throwing incidents to justify his atrocious treatment of his political opponents. The first bomb-throw occurred at Kulungugu in 1963, while the Preventive Detention Act (PDA) was passed i ...
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Preach on Dr SAS, preach on so that the deaf brainwashed Nkrumaist might drink from your fountain of wisdom. I am going to copy this comment and tuck away as point of reference.
Truly, whilst we were singing to resist opp ...
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Taught, not thought, mistake regretted.
Biased,anti-Nkrumah fool,DR SAS,the first attempt to overthrow Nkrumah was in 1958.Go back to do more research and stop misleading "babies" like SARPONG.
Author: Onua Francis
Date: 2015-02-08 15:12:59
Comment to: Answering the Nkrumaist Arguments
Biased,anti-Nkrumah fool,DR SAS,the first attempt to overthrow Nkrumah was in 1958.Go back to do more research and stop mislead ...
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WE STILL NEED REFERENCES FOR YOUR MISLEADING STATEMENTS ABOUT NKRUMAH AND FATHIA AFTER THE 1966 COUP.YOU WERE ASKED BY ONE OF THE READERS TO SUBSTANTIATE YOUR ALLEGATIONS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP AFTER THE 1966 AND COUP AND Y ...
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Fathia Nkrumah was a very young wife and mother of three very young children when her husband was overthrown in Ghana's first successful military coup d'état on February 24, 1966. She had to take her children to Cairo, Egypt ...
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SARPONG,why are you changing your story about Fathia and Nkrumah?
Quasi intellectuals like Sarpong for whom half educated SAS is considered a fine scholar.
Frank Appiah, if anybody has been mislead, it is you Young Pioneer tattle tale tellers who never grew out of your brainwashed stages.
R.R Amponsah and others were accused of coup plotting but the case was thrown out in 195 ...
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Truth must be told.The commission chaired by English man Granville Sharp in 1958 found unanimously that R.R.Amponsah,Apaloo,Major Benjamin Awhaitey etc.had engaged in conspiracy to assassinate Kwame Nkrumah and carry out a co ...
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"resist the oppressor's rule with all our hearts and minds forever more"
That line in our current national anthem came in the 1970s. It didn't exist in the old national anthem "Lift high the flag of Ghana" which we still ...
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INXS, I don't believe the Kids got those phrases from nowhere. They were clearly indoctrinated to recite them. " Nkrumah does no wrong" and " Nkrumah never dies". Very catchy indeed. By the way, don't North Koreans recite si ...
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Well said and about time too. I am glad you have exposed this unfortunate Ghanaian as he is. In my view the likes of Dr SAS are at the very heart of our chronic divisions and discord. Whilst others learn to say sorry to him ( ...
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Seriously, did our lawyer check to see what kinds of political systems there were in 1957 in all corners of the world? Did he check to see Ghana was no island then, that Ghana with a unitary form of government strongly defend ...
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Dear Prof Lungu:
Your article is baseless and lacks facts. Everything you said about Adjei Sarfo failed to be buttressed with the facts that Mr. Adjei Sarfo's article was based. Everything he said in the said article was f ...
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Come on, Akwasi Attah, NYC!
It appears your 60-word comment is more of a "ramble", without facts.
1. Where did we say we "went to law school before Mr Adjei Sarfo"?
2. And what is that about "factual beyond reasonabl ...
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Nkrumahs largesse. Instead of being grateful and whines like a bitch. He can mouth "nkrumah is a dictator" till he is blue in the face but using his criteria so was Abraham lincoln, Oliver Cromwell and great many leaders when ...
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Professor Lingu, you must be wasting your breath if you spend so much time thrashing Adjei sarfo, JD, who is vying with Okoampa-Ahoofe, Ph. D., to become naughty boys on Ghanaweb. As you almost rightly suggest, no one should ...
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This settles the case.