Partisanship and patriotism

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• Nana Yaw 10 years ago

  Without PDA, Osama Bin JB Danquah and his tribalist jihadists would have unleashed horrendous carnage in Dr. Nkrumah's Oman which would make the situation in Iraq look like a vacation in Disney world!

  Without PDA, Osama Bin JB Danquah and his tribalist jihadists would have unleashed horrendous carnage in Dr. Nkrumah's Oman which would make the situation in Iraq look like a vacation in Disney world!

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Dear Brother Kennedy,
  
  How are you?
  
  What if Thomas Jefferson (and his "Founding Fathers" colleagues) had a version of the PDA in the colony, which targeted White males who enslaved, terrorized, and raped Native Americans ...
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  Dear Brother Kennedy,
  
  How are you?
  
  What if Thomas Jefferson (and his "Founding Fathers" colleagues) had a version of the PDA in the colony, which targeted White males who enslaved, terrorized, and raped Native Americans and Africans and?
  
  A PDA for people like Thomas Jefferson who said blacks were inferior to whites?
  
  What if that PDA version held traitors like Benedict Arnold in preventive detention?
  
  I hope you still recall Elizabeth Asante and others like her!
  
  Thanks.

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• Mahmoud 10 years ago

  Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice one party state, and indulge in leftist a ...
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  Strong partisanship started in Ghana when Kwame Nkrumah divided the nation into patriots and traitors. Patriots were those who accepted that he should be president for life, practice one party state, and indulge in leftist anti-Western propaganda, using the small country's meager resources to challenge centuries' old, well-established Western countries. They even accepted that he should act as the savior of Blackman around the world, while tyrannizing his own Black people at home just because they had alternative views for development of their own country.
  
  Those who wanted him to concentrate more on the basic needs of the young nation and tone down his rhetoric against the powerful were called traitors, reactionaries, and agents of imperialism that should be liquidated and imprisoned dead or alive. Could you believe that the opposition members he was tyrannizing were the very people who started the struggle for our independence? They employed Nkrumah and paid for his ticket from the UK to come and work as a general secretary of the group, saving him from the humiliation and tyranny of being unemployed in London. The independence struggle vanguards were senior civil servants in the Gold Coast. And as their struggle was gaining momentum and the scope of their activities widening, they needed someone to work full-time for the group; free from official work constrains to further spread message of the struggle to the people.
  
  Under their responsibility and protection, Nkrumah used the platform to become a public face of the group and his popularity soared. This was because; many of the people in those days could not differentiate between spokespersons and leaders, and therefore saw him as the leader or the only person fighting for our independence. On the other hand, Nkrumah also used the platform to drum up support for himself underground, scheming to betray the group because he was a communist and they were democratic liberal conservatives. Subsequently, when he heard from the Governor General's female secretary, who was later sacked, that the British had been preparing to grant us independence, he increasingly used needless militant tactics to provoke the Whiteman when the wind of change was already blowing, and to embarrass his employers in order to outfox them. He then used the opportunity to break away from the group, formed his own party, and slapped them from behind to take power.
  
  This explains the strong partisanship in the country and why Nkrumah didn't want the Liberation Vanguards to ever come to power in his life time. Maybe he was afraid of his own ghost, or because he was a sickle communist. Unfortunately, despite all these plain facts, his supporters still want us to believe that he initiated, headed, and single handedly fought for our independence, and name every national project after him as if we were in a kingdom.

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• osman 10 years ago

  Great write up and inspiring. It is my prayers that gradualy we will get people like you with clear understanding of the root cause of our woes in charge

  Great write up and inspiring. It is my prayers that gradualy we will get people like you with clear understanding of the root cause of our woes in charge

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• DEE 10 years ago

  Our nation existed before any political party known today.We have politicians who are ready to create divisions in their pursuit for power.They are in it for their selfish interests and not for the good of our wonderful coun ...
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  Our nation existed before any political party known today.We have politicians who are ready to create divisions in their pursuit for power.They are in it for their selfish interests and not for the good of our wonderful country.Let's get rid of all these political parties.We need another system of governance.

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• kutsii. 10 years ago

  If Arthur Kennedy had a gari processing small scale factory and doing some poultry in Ghana , at least 40 jobs would have been created. But he sits in US and eats well and deinks and after he writes stories of comedy, fantasy ...
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  If Arthur Kennedy had a gari processing small scale factory and doing some poultry in Ghana , at least 40 jobs would have been created. But he sits in US and eats well and deinks and after he writes stories of comedy, fantasy, fear and panic and provocations and confusions. Arthur Kennedy shd come home and help. After all u are an old man.

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