If J.B Danquah hadn't been born at all patriotic Ghanaians would've still overthrown Kwame Nkrumah with or without the help of CIA because, his leftward tendencies had reached a point of no return. The Guy was a red sickle co ... read full comment
If J.B Danquah hadn't been born at all patriotic Ghanaians would've still overthrown Kwame Nkrumah with or without the help of CIA because, his leftward tendencies had reached a point of no return. The Guy was a red sickle communist of Stalin, Pol pot and Idi Amin type of human being.
Every Ghanaian cursed the day that this cunning, dishonest man was invited to join the UGCC as its secretary and he proved to be the mother of all traitors in Ghana. It was, therefore, legitimate and even desirable to get rid of that callous, one party state and president for life communist dictator. And I congratulate Kotoka and his friends once again for securing our true independence (after Nkrumah had hijacked the first one) and delivering us from the grips of Nkrumah; one of the most dangerous human beings that ever lived on the African continent.
Mahmoud 9 years ago
Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana ... read full comment
Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana was richer than Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia or Singapore. Today, those countries are at least ten times as wealthy.
Mahmoud 9 years ago
The so-called professor that tried to embellish Nkrumah's economic record needs to go to School all over again. These types of socialist arguments could deceive Ghanaians in the 50s and 60s, but they cannot do so now. Nkrumah ... read full comment
The so-called professor that tried to embellish Nkrumah's economic record needs to go to School all over again. These types of socialist arguments could deceive Ghanaians in the 50s and 60s, but they cannot do so now. Nkrumah was the first leader to introduce unsustainable debt into this country by borrowing massively and unnecessarily to finance his whims and caprices. It was a misfortune that we had such a person as president immediately after the independence. He didn't lay a realistic economic foundation for sustainable development of the young nation at all, considering the amount of money that was at his disposal in those days.
Ghana had about one billion dollars in reserve when Nkrumah took over the reins of government from the colonial master. Could you imagine what the value of 1bn dollars was in the early fifties? Again, after 2years of his rule, cocoa prices at the world market rocketed and increased four-fold. But contrary to any sound economic planning, he did not reserve any fraction of the windfall for a rainy day as the Whiteman had done with only one fourth of the revenues he got from cocoa. So, what did Nkrumah do with all the revenue he got from the astronomical cocoa prices, and the big reserve he inherited that took many years to build for our financial stability and sustainable development?
The man just went on a spending spree both in Ghana and around the world, throwing his weight about and talking big. So when the cocoa prices fell close to the end of his rule, he was quick to point accusing fingers at the West, blaming them for manipulating cocoa prices to sabotage the economy of Ghana and overthrow his government. Finally, after misusing all the money mainly on useless prestigious projects, failed communist agricultural projects and whimsical mad rush industrialization projects that did not withstand the test of time, he also burdened the young nation with another billion dollars' debt before he was forced out of the country.
The truth is that, Nkrumah's ideas were unsuitable for growing the economy since the communist system lucks mechanisms and incentives that release energies of the people to create wealth. He, therefore, met a rich and confident country with huge potentials, and left it nearly bankrupt in some few years as a result of gross mismanagement.
Nonesense. 9 years ago
Mahmoud, you MUST be a product of Rawlings'JSS/SSS system; no wonder you DONT read, CAN'T read and WONT read. Who brainwashed you with these garbage?
I thought I should engage you on Ghana's political economy from the 50' ... read full comment
Mahmoud, you MUST be a product of Rawlings'JSS/SSS system; no wonder you DONT read, CAN'T read and WONT read. Who brainwashed you with these garbage?
I thought I should engage you on Ghana's political economy from the 50's to present day, but that would be a waste of my time to do so considering your lack of comprehension. Your poverty of thought is alarmingly dangerous and you MUST seek help.
I would advice you to start reading instead of coming to this forum to disgrace yourself and the Nation's equivalent/proportion of budget spent on you to go to school.
Get this in your blockhead that Nkrumah was a founding member of the Non-Align movement. These leaders (including Nkrumah) believed and promoted a middle course for countries in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs.
You sound very daft and I don't think its worth my time or anybody's to take you to school. Have a good day.
Kowadis 9 years ago
IEA Survey: 63% of Ghanaians living in poverty NOW, 2015!!
IEA Survey: 63% of Ghanaians living in poverty NOW, 2015!!
Ray 9 years ago
Who will volunteer to take this crazy fool called MAHMOUD to a psychiatrist.I am prepared to make a monetary contribution towards his treatment.I am a humanitarian.
Who will volunteer to take this crazy fool called MAHMOUD to a psychiatrist.I am prepared to make a monetary contribution towards his treatment.I am a humanitarian.
I BIILION DOLLARS IN RESERVE.? 9 years ago
I AGREE WITH RAY.MAHMOUD NEEDS A PSYCHIATRIST a.s.a.p
I AGREE WITH RAY.MAHMOUD NEEDS A PSYCHIATRIST a.s.a.p
Akwesi 9 years ago
People who sees his over thrown as shame can continue because their family were enjoying from his rule. Just imagine one person ruling the country for life. This man used children against their parents and broke homes. How ca ... read full comment
People who sees his over thrown as shame can continue because their family were enjoying from his rule. Just imagine one person ruling the country for life. This man used children against their parents and broke homes. How can you use a children to spy on their parent and detain them because the says their are against your rule been it true or false. Imagine a non conforming child who sees his parent against his stubborn live taking as a spy in the same house
Robert Okine 9 years ago
Most of these writers who were not born in the Nkrumah regime always don't write anything sensible.Very few of them do thorough research.Everything they write is incomprehensible.Who is this Issah Imoro?
Most of these writers who were not born in the Nkrumah regime always don't write anything sensible.Very few of them do thorough research.Everything they write is incomprehensible.Who is this Issah Imoro?
Nonesense. 9 years ago
Waa look, another JSS drop out trying to do academic argument:
" People who sees"
"How can you use a children"
"Because they says"
You cant even use commas and fool stops. Such a person has the impudence to insult Nkru ... read full comment
Waa look, another JSS drop out trying to do academic argument:
" People who sees"
"How can you use a children"
"Because they says"
You cant even use commas and fool stops. Such a person has the impudence to insult Nkrumah. May God forgive you. You are a lost soul.
sense 9 years ago
And you say 'fool stop' and proud of it
And you say 'fool stop' and proud of it
Kowadis 9 years ago
If we accept that thousands of folks SUFFERED from 1957 -1966, how about the MILLIONS now SUFFERING after the 1966 coup, 49 fukking-years!
If we accept that thousands of folks SUFFERED from 1957 -1966, how about the MILLIONS now SUFFERING after the 1966 coup, 49 fukking-years!
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
No matter what you do,you cannot satisfy everybody.Abraham Lincoln fought to unite the Americans as we now have United States of America.He also fought for the freedom of African Americans who were still working under hard co ... read full comment
No matter what you do,you cannot satisfy everybody.Abraham Lincoln fought to unite the Americans as we now have United States of America.He also fought for the freedom of African Americans who were still working under hard conditions for the rich white Americans on the plantations in the South.This didn't go down well with many Americans so they killed him for that.This is exactly what happened to Kwame Nkrumah who fought for the total liberation of Africa from the European colonialists.Ofcourse,some Ghanaians will never agree with him for x,y,z reasons.Even in Ghana today,we still learn about Abraham Lincoln in our history books so shall it be with Nkrumah all over Africa.Thank you.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
First off, Traditional Rulers were not ordinary Citizens. Secondly, and more importantly, the UP/NLM Opposition to Nkrumah was supported more staunchly by the Traditional Chiefs than the ordinary Citizens. That is because th ... read full comment
First off, Traditional Rulers were not ordinary Citizens. Secondly, and more importantly, the UP/NLM Opposition to Nkrumah was supported more staunchly by the Traditional Chiefs than the ordinary Citizens. That is because the UP/NLM had coopted the Chiefs into believing that Nkrumah's Unitary Government proposal would deny them total control over their subjects, and share the proceeds of the Natural Resources of their areas with the less endowed areas in the Country.
Meanwhile, most lands, if not all, were considered properties of Stools, and the Government control over them, as the Colonial Masters had maintained over the ages, was going to be returned, at least, in part to the Traditional Authorities under the UP/NLM's Federalism option of governance, contrary to the status quo and under the Unitary Government Nkrumah offered.
Such is the more reason why Dombo, for one, aligned himself with the UP. The UP/NLM leaders, Dr. Danquah, Dr. Busia, and Chief Dombo and others were almost all aristocrats who wanted to have greater control of the Nation's Resources.
Ironically, apart from the subjects paying homage to the Chief, Federalism would have denied the less endowed regions of the Country, like Dombo's, as much development as Nkrumah's Regime offered them, including free Education up to the Secondary School level, even as the Southern part of the Country enjoyed free Education at only at the Elementary level. University Education was free to all who qualified.
So, our Traditional Chiefs who knew they could benefit more under the UP/NLM Federalism opposed Nkrumah vehemently. It was not surprising therefore, even though legally arguable, that some of the Chiefs were targeted by the CPP to be replaced by other Royals who were more sympathetic to the CPP.
The Traditional Chiefs were, thus, not simple, neutral bystanders in our Political activities of those days. You must, please, get your facts right.
Obviously, not every Chief was against Nkrumah to even be deserving of CPP surveillance and coercion. Yet, those who were, tended to force their preference upon the subjects in various ways. Paramount Chiefs antagonized their sub-chiefs who were in favor of the CPP, and orchestrated the destoolment of those Chiefs. The minor Chiefs fearing such antagonism, in turn, solicited the Nkrumah Regime for protection of some sorts, and that escalated to widespread CPP interference in the Chieftaincy affairs.
The very height of the Government's involvement in the Traditional Governance of those days was the creation of the Brong Ahafo Region and Government recognition of the Paramountcy of certain Chiefs in that Region who claimed to have been forced by the British Colonial Power to worship the Asantehene.
The Asantehene who had long contracted Dr. Busia, a fellow Royal, hailing from Wenchi, as his Chief Scribe, had all along thrown his unabashed support behind the UP/NLM Party. So, it was some kind of vengeful clipping of his wings by the CPP to help the Brong Ahafo Chiefs gain their autonomy. The Brong Chiefs had been agitating for that autonomy under the British without much success. So, they formed their own less conspicuous but potent confederation called the 'Brong Kyempim Duoduakwa' to protest the Asante dominion.
I was, personally, among a student Cultural group in as late as in 1968-69 that visited with the late Kukuomhene, Nana Frimpong Manso I and learnt first-hand how vehemently he had vowed to retain his Paramountcy which was under siege to be withdrawn by the anti-Nkrumah Governments of the NLC and Busia, and have him go back to serve the Asantehene.
That Kukuomhene took the opportunity to reveal to us how conveniently erroneous his District, the Ahafo area, had been characterized as the Asantehene's Hunting Grounds, out of which the name 'Ahafo' was claimed to have been coined by Asantes and the British.
Nana Frimpong Manso claimed that the real and truthful radix of the name 'Ahafo' lay in the fact that the area was widely perceived by the various and numerous traders who came there or passed through to and from the Coast as a very cheap marketplace for the products the area traded in. Those traders then often said "things are cheaper in the area" ('Aha 'ye fo'). Nana Frimpong Manso strongly challenged any historian to prove the so-called Hunting prowess of the Asantehenes, or any organized hunting department or expeditions the Asantes maintained. He said the trading in Ivory, in particular, by the natives of Ahafo, that portrays the area' ancient significance in Hunting was done by the folks themselves, and not controlled or managed in anyway by the Asantes, until the British forced them Ahafos to pay homage to the Asantehene who began demanding taxes from them.
Well, for time and space, let me end this rebuttal with the following. To sum up, you should understand that Nkrumah's CPP did not initiate the violence that escalated later in the post-Independence era. Contrary to what the eloquent UP die-hards like Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. and Dr. SAS, would have us believe, the CPP did not emerge with guns blazing and machetes brandished to force its separation from the UGCC. All truthful documented and first-hand analyses of those historical period in our Nation point to the fact that the Opposition, driven by elements who thought the suspended glory of their Chiefdoms, especially, the Asante Kingdom, could be reinstated with forceful removal of Nkrumah. The CPP reacted with matching ruthlessness.
This is what the unadulterated History really tells us. Both the UP/NLM and CPP then repeatedly perpetrated mutual violence until the bombs began killing people and Danquah got jailed under the PDA, and Nkrumah was eventually overthrown with the help of the CIA, MI5, and the French, among other less mentioned European Powers.
Folks do not need to be aligned with any one side to tell the truth.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
I see here that you have now elevated me from "ignoble scholar" to an "eloquent UP die-hard"; but you still pair me with the skunk Okoampa and concoct untruths that I imply some violence during the separation between the CPP ... read full comment
I see here that you have now elevated me from "ignoble scholar" to an "eloquent UP die-hard"; but you still pair me with the skunk Okoampa and concoct untruths that I imply some violence during the separation between the CPP and UGCC. To the extent that I commented on that separation, I only implied that Nkrumah had an agenda to use the UGCC in order to abuse it.
And all that you have written never answer the question of Nkrumah's dictatorship and economic mismanagement; your arguments simply excuse them. So how great is Nkrumah if we cannot cite his leadership principles or economic model in our present democratic dispensation?
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
I would like to know if your first name is George because one of my sons bears the same with you.He is pursuing his Masters at University of Lyon,France and I think he will be delighted to correspond with you.Thank you.
I would like to know if your first name is George because one of my sons bears the same with you.He is pursuing his Masters at University of Lyon,France and I think he will be delighted to correspond with you.Thank you.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Yes, my first name is George. I can be reached at marjorpres@gmail.com. (Pls., note. It's not 'major..'). Thanks for inquiring about me.
I go by my initials to spare my young son bearing the same first and last name, and ... read full comment
Yes, my first name is George. I can be reached at marjorpres@gmail.com. (Pls., note. It's not 'major..'). Thanks for inquiring about me.
I go by my initials to spare my young son bearing the same first and last name, and others like yours, from being hounded by nut-heads who resort to all kinds of harassment at others they suspect for challenging their opinions in our Social Media.
But I stand for the truth and real patriotism for Ghana that the long-standing enmity projected into our current Political discourse from our ugly mutual past attempts to hinder us from practicing.
If J.B Danquah hadn't been born at all patriotic Ghanaians would've still overthrown Kwame Nkrumah with or without the help of CIA because, his leftward tendencies had reached a point of no return. The Guy was a red sickle co ...
read full comment
Ghana epitomises much of the best of Africa, but also throws into relief the tragedy of the continent. It has maintained its higher education and has fewer extremes of wealth than elsewhere. But at independence in 1957, Ghana ...
read full comment
The so-called professor that tried to embellish Nkrumah's economic record needs to go to School all over again. These types of socialist arguments could deceive Ghanaians in the 50s and 60s, but they cannot do so now. Nkrumah ...
read full comment
Mahmoud, you MUST be a product of Rawlings'JSS/SSS system; no wonder you DONT read, CAN'T read and WONT read. Who brainwashed you with these garbage?
I thought I should engage you on Ghana's political economy from the 50' ...
read full comment
IEA Survey: 63% of Ghanaians living in poverty NOW, 2015!!
Who will volunteer to take this crazy fool called MAHMOUD to a psychiatrist.I am prepared to make a monetary contribution towards his treatment.I am a humanitarian.
I AGREE WITH RAY.MAHMOUD NEEDS A PSYCHIATRIST a.s.a.p
People who sees his over thrown as shame can continue because their family were enjoying from his rule. Just imagine one person ruling the country for life. This man used children against their parents and broke homes. How ca ...
read full comment
Most of these writers who were not born in the Nkrumah regime always don't write anything sensible.Very few of them do thorough research.Everything they write is incomprehensible.Who is this Issah Imoro?
Waa look, another JSS drop out trying to do academic argument:
" People who sees"
"How can you use a children"
"Because they says"
You cant even use commas and fool stops. Such a person has the impudence to insult Nkru ...
read full comment
And you say 'fool stop' and proud of it
If we accept that thousands of folks SUFFERED from 1957 -1966, how about the MILLIONS now SUFFERING after the 1966 coup, 49 fukking-years!
No matter what you do,you cannot satisfy everybody.Abraham Lincoln fought to unite the Americans as we now have United States of America.He also fought for the freedom of African Americans who were still working under hard co ...
read full comment
First off, Traditional Rulers were not ordinary Citizens. Secondly, and more importantly, the UP/NLM Opposition to Nkrumah was supported more staunchly by the Traditional Chiefs than the ordinary Citizens. That is because th ...
read full comment
I see here that you have now elevated me from "ignoble scholar" to an "eloquent UP die-hard"; but you still pair me with the skunk Okoampa and concoct untruths that I imply some violence during the separation between the CPP ...
read full comment
I would like to know if your first name is George because one of my sons bears the same with you.He is pursuing his Masters at University of Lyon,France and I think he will be delighted to correspond with you.Thank you.
Yes, my first name is George. I can be reached at marjorpres@gmail.com. (Pls., note. It's not 'major..'). Thanks for inquiring about me.
I go by my initials to spare my young son bearing the same first and last name, and ...
read full comment
Is Mahmoud a normal human being