Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s Scientific Thinking FINAL 2

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Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Brilliant treatise! One to be bound for current and future reference by the objective - from the novice to the serious scholar and researcher.

Entirely a great read!

A ground-affirming effort in strong defense of what ...
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Brilliant treatise! One to be bound for current and future reference by the objective - from the novice to the serious scholar and researcher.

Entirely a great read!

A ground-affirming effort in strong defense of what Dr. Kwame Nkrumah represented to Ghana, and his preeminent position in African and world affairs in the 20th and 21st centuries, and certainly beyond.

The ideas are all there - in the series!

And so is the scholarship.

Congratulations, Francis Kwarteng.

Go forth and accomplish higher heights with the best in the fields you chose to "endeavor".

Greetings!
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 10 years ago

Nkrumah is great and yet another great African, JJ Rawlings must not be forgotten.

JJ Rawlings saw, he came and he conquered. And now Ghana has been transformed after again from when Nkrumah's enemies overthrew him from po ...
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Nkrumah is great and yet another great African, JJ Rawlings must not be forgotten.

JJ Rawlings saw, he came and he conquered. And now Ghana has been transformed after again from when Nkrumah's enemies overthrew him from power and looted Ghana dry to the level of Kalabuley, Black markets ,....etc.

In fact, to me after Nkrumah, JJ Rawlings is the Giant of our time.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

There are great similarities between J.J. and Nkrumah. I agree.

There are great similarities between J.J. and Nkrumah. I agree.
GOLD COAST 10 years ago

Sarfo,a SLIP&FALL lawyer who calls himself "Dokita"(He was rescued from darkness and ignorance by Nkrumah. Today,he eats with a fork and knife in Austin,Texas - instead of unwashed hands. And he even speaks and writes the Que ...
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Sarfo,a SLIP&FALL lawyer who calls himself "Dokita"(He was rescued from darkness and ignorance by Nkrumah. Today,he eats with a fork and knife in Austin,Texas - instead of unwashed hands. And he even speaks and writes the Queen's English) should be ignored.No lawyer in America with just JD(LLB)calls himself/herself "Dr." Not even President Obama,a former Law Professor at Chicago, nor any of the Supreme Court Justices.But leave it to this KURASENI who's making too much noise on Ghanaweb,and ignorantly attacking the Great Osagyefo - with the hope of securing a job in Ghana - should Grandpa Addo and NPP win the 2016 elections.

Sarfo,a middle-aged man is just a village lawyer who recently got out of law school. At his age, Nkrumah(who went to PENN,an Ivy League school),had been a PRIME MINISTER of the Gold Coast and was the PRESIDENT of Ghana.The question is : what has this twerp done for Ghana and Africa,since he was taken out of the bush and educated by Nkrumah?(GET school, University of Cape Coast and Legon).

Sarfo cannot match the intellectual capabilities of most Nkrumaists,like Dompere and Kwarteng.He should shut the xxxx up and listen to VERY SMART people who can teach him a lot.

Yours truly pulls no punches.

HAPPY EASTER,FOLKS!!

PEACE
ADJOA WANGARA 10 years ago

francis kwarteng stop copying from other writers and write something on your own. All what you have been posting are extracts from different writers which other children like your type can equally Google and read, your essays ...
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francis kwarteng stop copying from other writers and write something on your own. All what you have been posting are extracts from different writers which other children like your type can equally Google and read, your essays are all already registered in the World Wide Web (www).

Stop fooling yourself and try to write something on your own without copying and pasting.
Kwame Joe 10 years ago

Madam, can you seriously pinpoint what Kwarteng copied & posted. Waiting for your response, you www police.

Madam, can you seriously pinpoint what Kwarteng copied & posted. Waiting for your response, you www police.
ADJOA WANGARA 10 years ago

Comment: Re: What is Nkrumahism?

Author: francis kwarteng
Date: 2015-04-05 01:57:24
Comment to:Re: What is Nkrumahism?

Dear Brother Yao,

Thanks for your remarks.

People like Truthiness have nothing substantia ...
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Comment: Re: What is Nkrumahism?

Author: francis kwarteng
Date: 2015-04-05 01:57:24
Comment to:Re: What is Nkrumahism?

Dear Brother Yao,

Thanks for your remarks.

People like Truthiness have nothing substantial to add FRUITFUL discussions and choose to dabble in irrelevances instead.

I wonder what Truthiness can tell us about Thatcherism, Leninism, Maoism, Reaganomics (which George W. Bush's father alternatively called "voodoo economics"), Gandhian economics, Stalinism, Trotskysm, Aristotelianism, Buddsim, Christianity, Darwinism, Pythagoreanism, Taosm, on and on and on and on...

Have a great weekend!

Thanks Nyebro Ya

Kwarteng has no plausible answer to the simple question "What is Nkrumahism." but this useless guy will copy and paste nonsense about Nkrumah and Kofi Dompre which he, personally has no clue.
BAD MOUTH 10 years ago

No one is doubting the political integrity of Nkrumah but we must all admit that the guy was an administrative failure who could not control his ignorant ministers and advisors. He lost touch with the ordinary Ghanaian and li ...
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No one is doubting the political integrity of Nkrumah but we must all admit that the guy was an administrative failure who could not control his ignorant ministers and advisors. He lost touch with the ordinary Ghanaian and listened only to his inner circle who were all pleasing him blind so that they could steal from the masses. Political imprisonment and unnecessary exhortations poured on him got him disconnected from appreciating the political oppression meted out to the people by his cronies in his name, though he was never part of it nor endorsed it. That is why there was massive jubilations when he was overthrown by ordinary idiots. Ghanaians at the time needed a breathing space to be free, real freedom after literally suffering back to back from the colonial masters and one of their own- Kwame Nkrumah. The comparison with JJ Rawlings is only valid on the grounds that both had vision and both oppressed the masses and ruled on fear. I excuse JJ because, he was barely educated enough to know what he was doing but they were both used by their ministers to enrich themselves. JJ realized the problem about the PV Obengs, Ahwois and Kwasi Botchway only when he was out of power and that is why he still call all of them thieves.
Imagine the wealth of people like Krobo Adusie after seducing Nkrumah with praises to loot the country. That is the point my FRIENDS. That is ANALYTICAL HISTORY and not NARRATIVE HISTORY
Thanks
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

And

If I may ask, when are you going to stop playing the role of a yobo on Ghanaweb, that's, if you have any class or good breeding to boast of and fall back on?

Author:
C.Y. ANDY-K
Date:
2015-04-05 01:31:03
Commen ...
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And

If I may ask, when are you going to stop playing the role of a yobo on Ghanaweb, that's, if you have any class or good breeding to boast of and fall back on?

Author:
C.Y. ANDY-K
Date:
2015-04-05 01:31:03
Comment to:
What is Nkrumahism?

I really found this pedestrian, knowing what I know. Karl Marx also didn't define Marxism, you know?

In fact, when he found out what his followers were doing in Germany which was at variance with what he was expounding, he famously remarked that if that was what they called Marxism, then he Karl Marx wasn't a Marxist!

After his death, his friend and co-author Engels spent most of his remaining life time trying to explain what they meant in their writings, trying to save their works from the many bastardisations like the Stalinist type which emerged much later.

You see, just as other people give names to others, your parents to you for example, so it is with the definitions given to a series of philosophical ideas expoused by thinkers. In some cases, students of such philos0phers synthesized the ideas into coherent wholes.
So be it with Nkrumahism, since it wasn't conceived as a dogmatic ideology. Nkrumah himself in exile revised his ideas a whole lot to fall in line with Marxist-Leninist teachings, some say, thereby rejecting his earlier Nkrumahist ideas. E.g., he changed his position on there being no classes in Africa. And happily for a non-believer like myself, as written by June Milne, he changed his belief on there being a supreme being which created the universe, blah, blah, blah, to the scientific positiion.

Andy-K
Shabi 10 years ago

Adjoa Wangara do you remember the local football maxim that says, "if you miss the ball dont miss your opponents legs"?

Well that is exactly what you are doing.

To begin with, I really dont get it. Why is it that a pres ...
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Adjoa Wangara do you remember the local football maxim that says, "if you miss the ball dont miss your opponents legs"?

Well that is exactly what you are doing.

To begin with, I really dont get it. Why is it that a presumably whole adult can persistently come on to this platform only with the intent to disgrace himself with inept and bland statements?

Now whether the above article is as a result of the writers initiative or not, he has done a good job by (re)producing something that can stimulate our imagination to think in the right direction.

Whatever it is, I think that it is the substance that you should be worried about - or in fact question, if you find any of it in bad taste.

If you cannot behave like an educated person then I think that this platform is not the place for you.

BOAFO YENA 10 years ago

SAS is an esquire who doesn't feel ashamed calling himself a doctor - a medical doctor, or a scholar, who worked hard to research and complete a doctorate, or earned one. Mr. SAS, daft we are not. Don't cheapen JD.

SAS is an esquire who doesn't feel ashamed calling himself a doctor - a medical doctor, or a scholar, who worked hard to research and complete a doctorate, or earned one. Mr. SAS, daft we are not. Don't cheapen JD.
Ekow Essamuah 10 years ago

Boafo Yena, please allow SAS to use the Dr. thing before his acerbic tongue is set in motion. By the way, can you tell him to read ;

" The highest educational attainment in terms of a degree is a doctorate. There are two ...
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Boafo Yena, please allow SAS to use the Dr. thing before his acerbic tongue is set in motion. By the way, can you tell him to read ;

" The highest educational attainment in terms of a degree is a doctorate. There are two level of doctorates. Research doctorates and professional doctorates which are equivalent to master's level degrees plus an internship. The highest doctorate is the Ph.D. which is immediately followed by other doctorates which require around 20 credits less such as DBA, EdD, etc. In most of the world Physicians and Lawyers receive a Bachellor's level degree as a first degree. Nevertheless, in the United States colloquial use of doctor for physicians was used as an excuse to make it a graduate degree leading to an MD. It should be noted that the MD is not a doctorate in the academic sense. The same is true of the JD, the DDS and other such "professional degrees". A clear indication that this is so is that holders of first professional degrees cannot use them as doctorates in Europe without further studies. MDs and DDS are qualified to practice their professional but are technically not qualified to do research. A clear proof of this is that most Nobel Prizes in Medicine are awarded to PhD holders in the Natural Sciences. In summary a doctorate is a degree that directly follows the master's degree and requires about four years of coursework in addition to the defense of a doctoral dissertation."
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Kola,

As for this, I disagree very much with you. JJ was a mediocre and pathetic figure compared to Nkrumah. Had Nkrumah half the luck and support of the Western powers as JJ did when he turned coat to support the kind of ...
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Kola,

As for this, I disagree very much with you. JJ was a mediocre and pathetic figure compared to Nkrumah. Had Nkrumah half the luck and support of the Western powers as JJ did when he turned coat to support the kind of economic policies that Busia was implementing when he was overthrown, Ghana would have become a paradise; of course, with the kind of econ. policies Nkrumah was implementing just as was being done in Singapore, Malaysia and the Asian tigers with iron fists which made PDA seem like a child's play!

What ideas has JJ left for us to guide Ghana? Has he written a single article in the Daily Graphic before? His own party even rejected him and the Jezebel of a wife!

Andy-K
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Keep the fire burning and it shall be well with you.Nkrumah was able to put up the Ghana National College in 1948 at the time he was just a General Secretary for UGCC.The big and rich men in UGCC could not do that but the poo ...
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Keep the fire burning and it shall be well with you.Nkrumah was able to put up the Ghana National College in 1948 at the time he was just a General Secretary for UGCC.The big and rich men in UGCC could not do that but the poor young man,Nkrumah made the difference.Today,we must take notice the name "Ghana" was first given to a college founded by Nkrumah in Cape Coast before Gold Coast became independent in 1957.Thank you.

My special greetings to Francis.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

READ: "...Nkrumah was able to put up the Ghana National College in 1948 at the time he was just a General Secretary for UGCC.The big and rich men in UGCC could not do that but the poor young man,Nkrumah made the difference... ...
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READ: "...Nkrumah was able to put up the Ghana National College in 1948 at the time he was just a General Secretary for UGCC.The big and rich men in UGCC could not do that but the poor young man,Nkrumah made the difference..."

OUR TAKE: What a difference of Mount-Afadjato-Generic-African-Elephantine (MAGAE) proportion!

Ha!
JOHN MOON 10 years ago

guys from the left should spend time making their message very clear or else it has no meaning for the target group.we too often get caught in the clouds and lose touch with the reality on the ground

guys from the left should spend time making their message very clear or else it has no meaning for the target group.we too often get caught in the clouds and lose touch with the reality on the ground
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Are you the real John Moon of Takoradi or John Star of Sekondi?We had some 2 big brothers who were seamen in Sekondi-Takoradi in the early 70s.One is called John Star the reserved and the other John Moon the talkative.Now lis ...
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Are you the real John Moon of Takoradi or John Star of Sekondi?We had some 2 big brothers who were seamen in Sekondi-Takoradi in the early 70s.One is called John Star the reserved and the other John Moon the talkative.Now listen,I think Francis is not on a campaign expidition but has more to do with political history of Ghana.Thank you.
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

The other day, I tried to calm the nerves of contributors who felt uncomfortable about the lengthy articles of Francis. I assured them that it was absolutely essential that articles of this nature ought to be lengthy by defau ...
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The other day, I tried to calm the nerves of contributors who felt uncomfortable about the lengthy articles of Francis. I assured them that it was absolutely essential that articles of this nature ought to be lengthy by default, in order to appropriately fit all related conjoining thoughts into it.

However I am not too comfortable with the kind of verbose that may sometimes retard and distract the average readers focus on an article. This is the problem that socialist ideologues and other unusually intelligent people have in trying to communicate their opinions and ideas across to us mortals. In the process they reduce their listening constituency to a few people of their kind.

The forces against socialism are vulgar and down to earth and that is why they have so far won the hearts and minds of the larger public across the world.

If the 'elect' would be a little more sympathetic and generous with the gift of cognizance, the primitive philosophy of capitalism and its associated ills of imperialism, colonialism and neocolonialism would have died long ago.
RINGO 10 years ago

In order not to lose touch with the realty on the ground,try to do your own research and ignore subjective and biased commentators like DR SAS.If you put in a little effort to do research based on facts an not HEARSAY,I promi ...
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In order not to lose touch with the realty on the ground,try to do your own research and ignore subjective and biased commentators like DR SAS.If you put in a little effort to do research based on facts an not HEARSAY,I promise you the message will be clear.
RINGO 10 years ago

based on facts and not HEARSAY

based on facts and not HEARSAY

Dr. SAS, Criminal Defense Attorney 10 years ago

No doubt, Nkrumah is the poison ivy of the African leadership conundrum, and even its educational failures. Having been extensively trained in the USA and in the UK, he returned to Africa without any intention to replicate th ...
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No doubt, Nkrumah is the poison ivy of the African leadership conundrum, and even its educational failures. Having been extensively trained in the USA and in the UK, he returned to Africa without any intention to replicate the best in those western civilizations, but rather to exploit the existing leadership culture of tyranny for the purpose of his own perpetual self- aggrandizement. Thus he appropriated for himself the title of the Osagyefo hitherto reserved for chieftains, and conferred upon himself the permanency of traditional rule; he also had a crier sing his appellations and describe his feats in super-human terms at functions. He abolished free speech and hence suppressed criticism of his flaws and instituted for himself some kind of one party state within which dissent became anathema in Ghana’s political context.

Meanwhile, he broached no competition from these traditional rulers, once threatening that he would make them run, leaving their sandals behind. For a person flaunting his scholarship to Africa and the world, he was the alter-ego of several characters in fictional narratives or tragic drama. In the first place, Nkrumah is pretty much like Kurtz, the character in Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” who set out to civilize the natives of Congo only to find himself sucked into the depth of their culture. The only difference is that Kwame Nkrumah was a Black man.......

And he left a bunch of militant followers who know how to criticize even Jesus Christ except Nkrumah himself. These follow a poisonous ideology in whose context Nkrumah does no wrong and never dies, and within which his ardent followers strain at the gnats of Nkrumah's perceived enemies and leave the log on Nkrumah's eye-balls intact.

But, in general, the Nkrumaist position is doomed ab initio: they must defend the misbehavior of an arrant tyrant and a blatant traitor...his imprisonment without trial, his declaration of one party state, his conferment of the power to overrule court judgments, his declaration of life presidency....

Even for an attorney professionally trained to defend both sides of an argument, I pity the awkward and contradictory position of the Nkrumaists. I really don't know of any leader that incarcerated both his foes and allies alike like Nkrumah, or went all out on a suicide mission to fatally doom his own presidency as Nkrumah did. And if any other leader committed one percent of Nkrumah's evil deeds, his followers would be up in arms against that person. Remember how they profusely cite the injustices under Busia and Kufuor's regimes to cast them as non-democrats and to justify Nkrumah's cruelty to Ghanaians?
But their position regarding Nkrumah is understandable because they were indoctrinated to imbibe the propaganda that Nkrumah does no wrong, and that Nkrumah never dies. Fortunately for all of us, these people who are old and decrepit will soon die off with their shibboleth.

But you and I, the younger generation, have a duty to dissect the truth, and let it guide our actions. We must confess that PDA was wrong, that life presidency was wrong, that dismissal of judges was wrong, that betraying friends who helped you was wrong, that indoctrinating children to snitch on their parents was wrong, that putting your effigy on a currency was wrong, that destooling chiefs and appropriating their titles was wrong.....If we don't do this, my greatest fear is that somebody else will find a "good excuse" to abolish our freedoms and hard-earned rights, citing Nkrumah as a glowing example. Remember that Rawlings has done it before; and that is why Kola has aptly stated how so similar JJ is to Nkrumah.....

For them to be taken seriously, the Nkrumaists must confess all Nkrumah's evil deeds here, or else make a fool of themselves by defending them. In the end, that is how they can gain salvation. This is because the typical Ghanaian's crippled intellectual ability, gullibility and vulnerability and lack of creativity all descend from the Nkrumah's heritage which indoctrinated us in early childhood and made us receptacles to fakery and bad doctrines and took away from us the ability to ask questions and analyze incisively. So when the Ghanaian is deceived by the fake pastors and political leaders or shamans and witchdoctors and online scammers, the source of his child-like faith and acceptance of all imposture is traceable to his young pioneer days, when the end all and be all of his life is to subject his intellect to the worship of a conceptual idol, and to praise and serve him for life.

This is the time to free ourselves from the psychological shackles imposed on our minds by the great impostor, and to analyze and criticize and scrutinize these old assumptions which the great deceiver has implanted in our genes, making it impossible for us to decipher the good from the bad, the ugly and the evil.
Desperate for truth 10 years ago

Or they did no wrong?

Or they did no wrong?
HANS 10 years ago

The foreign detractors who overthrew Nkrumah have achieved their objectives of changing the economy of Ghana from a self-reliance manufacturing/industrialized economy to an economy highly dependent on the West. Ghana is no ...
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The foreign detractors who overthrew Nkrumah have achieved their objectives of changing the economy of Ghana from a self-reliance manufacturing/industrialized economy to an economy highly dependent on the West. Ghana is now operating "buying and selling" economy by which Ghana buys from the West and sells for the West. Ghana is now beset with massive unemployment, poverty and ignorance,the ills Nkrumah eradicated to some extent. Nkrumah has struggled in vain.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Hans,
Don't You Give Up Now!

Hans,
Don't You Give Up Now!
Dr. SAS, Criminal Defense Attorney 10 years ago

Nkrumaism is the suspension of one’s analytical reasoning for the cultic worship of Kwame Nkrumah in the belief that he never dies or does no wrong. It is also the wholesale inheritance of Nkrumah’s friends (if any) as he ...
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Nkrumaism is the suspension of one’s analytical reasoning for the cultic worship of Kwame Nkrumah in the belief that he never dies or does no wrong. It is also the wholesale inheritance of Nkrumah’s friends (if any) as heroes and the constant criticism of his real or imaginary enemies.

Within this ideology, the elements of Nkrumah’s dictatorship: his imprisonment without trial, his self -aggrandizement, his one-party state and his life presidency all constitute a theology of faith which must be defended on grounds of opposition treason and extolled by reference to similar evils elsewhere. His disastrous economic policies which left a rich nation on its knees is seen as a great model, and his character as an ingrate is deemed worthy for emulation.

To the Nkrumaists, unanswerable questions are made simpler by postures of diversion and deviation or simple distraction and unspeakable insults. And the most straightforward questions are resolved by the statement that Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah was a CIA agent.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in
Retrospect, by Ama Biney

“Nkrumah is a reminder not of what Africa is, but of what Africa must become.” Kofi Hadjor, 1986.

READ:

ENDNOTES
"...lxxxvi It is known that Houphoue ...
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The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in
Retrospect, by Ama Biney

“Nkrumah is a reminder not of what Africa is, but of what Africa must become.” Kofi Hadjor, 1986.

READ:

ENDNOTES
"...lxxxvi It is known that Houphouet-Boigny and Nkrumah took a bet in the late 1950s as to which country would be the economic star of West Africa in a decade or two. In regards to political executions, it is apparent that Houphouet-Boigny won on this political front for in May 1963 Houphouet-Boigny sentenced 13 young members of the RDA to death.
See ‘Elite Ideologies & the Politics of the Media A Critical History of Ivorien Ideologies & their Press from the Brazzaville Conference to the December 24th 1999 Military Coup’
by M. J. Ahipeaud (doctoral thesis, University of London, 2003), p. 155. According to H. M. Basner, the only state execution that took place during Nkrumah’s period in power
was the execution of the policeman who shot Nkrumah in 1964 and killed his security guard;..."
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

We've argued this on many, many fronts!

We present below what others with neutral positions have also said.

READ: "...Nkrumah believed that the
formation of groups based on ethnic affiliation, religion, and region were ...
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We've argued this on many, many fronts!

We present below what others with neutral positions have also said.

READ: "...Nkrumah believed that the
formation of groups based on ethnic affiliation, religion, and region were illegitimate bases for the organisation of political groups as they threatened the unity of the nation. They were an impediment towards progress, modernity and nation building..."

SOURCE: The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah in Retrospect by Ama Biney
(www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol2no3/LegacyOfKwameNkrumah.pdf )
Nana Ansah 10 years ago

Wish you guys an exciting Easter holidays. Francis, as always brilliant stuff there. Keep it up!

Wish you guys an exciting Easter holidays. Francis, as always brilliant stuff there. Keep it up!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Nana Ansah,

Thanks.

Have an exciting Easter holidays too.

Dear Nana Ansah,

Thanks.

Have an exciting Easter holidays too.
Dr. SAS, Criminal Defense Attorney 10 years ago

Happy NKRUEASTER to you Prof. Ansah, although your Messiah died in Guinea, not on the cross.

Only fools will however believe that somebody who died over two thousand years ago died for their sins. But with the Nkrumaists l ...
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Happy NKRUEASTER to you Prof. Ansah, although your Messiah died in Guinea, not on the cross.

Only fools will however believe that somebody who died over two thousand years ago died for their sins. But with the Nkrumaists looking for things to worship, the cross-over from worship of the impostor, Kwame Nkrumah, to the worship of a foreign impostor called Jesus is not too difficult. So to combine the two religions inhabiting your stupid head (i.e. Nkrumaism and Jesusism) I, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Laws, wish you happy NKRUEASTER.

C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Ha! ha! ha! Careful oO! Your right wing Danquaist associates are invariably fools who believe that someone died 2000 yrs ago on a cross in Palestine for their sins today! Phews!

Andy-K

Ha! ha! ha! Careful oO! Your right wing Danquaist associates are invariably fools who believe that someone died 2000 yrs ago on a cross in Palestine for their sins today! Phews!

Andy-K
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks for the insightful reminder.

Well, Felix Houghouet-Boigny also sent troops (with mostly French mercenaries that protected his him, his government, and presidential palace) into certain Oppositio ...
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Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks for the insightful reminder.

Well, Felix Houghouet-Boigny also sent troops (with mostly French mercenaries that protected his him, his government, and presidential palace) into certain Opposition domains/regions (whose members did not belong to Houghouet-Boigny's ethnic group) and snuffued out their lives.

In other words, Houghouet-Boigny sometimes sent in troops to wipe out members of ethnic groups who opposed him (I will get you the references later). He was able to do this because he had France, America, Isreal, and Britain behind him!

Houghouet-Boigny bought out his "willing" political opponents and paid them more than was legally required; drove political opponents into exile; set them up and imprisoned them for trumped up charges; or killed them. Nkrumah did none of these.

Plus, the $260 million-plus basilica he [Houghouet-Boigny] built and later claimed the money has come from his onw private funds, still remains inadequately accounted for, questionable, and controversial.

At the time he died, he had $10 million in his banks and several expensive villas in France. Though he was a "wealthy" cash commidity farmer, many questions still remain unanswered how he came to be that wealthy!

Also he said: "HERE IN COTE D'IVOIRE THERE IS NO 1, 2, OR 3. I AM NUMBER 1, AND I DON'T SHARE MY DECISIONS."

And oh, Riccardo Orizio's essay "Dear Tyrant" has some interesting info on Houghouet-Boigny, Emperor Bokassa, and France.

Prof. Lungu, there is so much in and about Africa's political history that the citizens of Africa are not aware of or taught in our educational instutions for them to make informed critiques.

In fact, these Western-supported leaders from Lee Kuan Yew, Mobuto Sese Seko, Augusto Pinochet, Houghouet-Boigny, Yoweri Musveni, Gnassingbe Eyadema, PW. Botha (Apartheid South Africa), Ian Smith, Omar Bongo, Blaise Compaore, Paul Biya, etc., make Nkrumah look like an angel and a saint! And indeed, Nkrumah was an angel and a saint!

More of these will be forthcoming!

All errors are mine!

Have a great weekend!
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Thanks for the rundown!

Thanks for the rundown!
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

JB Danquah was never an Osagyefo. Nobody called him or referred to him as such it is only you who does so and you are a nobody. Danquah was definitely however a traitor and a CIA agent. Thanks to people like you, we all now k ...
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JB Danquah was never an Osagyefo. Nobody called him or referred to him as such it is only you who does so and you are a nobody. Danquah was definitely however a traitor and a CIA agent. Thanks to people like you, we all now know that there is now no doubt about this fact. Anybody who disputes this would be living in self-denial or in a fools paradise.

You say Nkrumahs "...disastrous economic policies (which) left a rich nation on its knees". Can you expatiate on what you mean by that? WHEN and HOW was Ghana rich and from when to when?

Your emotional outbursts have left you and your opinions isolated, despised and dismissed. Like an NDC politician, youn refuse to call a spade a spade. For you, goats can metamorphose into cows by optical illusion.
Dr. SAS, Criminal Defense Attorney 10 years ago

1. Does Nkrumah have copyright to the title "Osagyefo" which is an Akan term meaning "redeemer"?

2. Have you questioned where that title, which Nkrumah stole from a chief, originally comes from?

3. Have you questioned ...
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1. Does Nkrumah have copyright to the title "Osagyefo" which is an Akan term meaning "redeemer"?

2. Have you questioned where that title, which Nkrumah stole from a chief, originally comes from?

3. Have you questioned how Nkrumah stole a doctorate which he never earned?

4. Now go and study how much Ghana was worth when Nkrumah took over, and how much the country owed upon his glorious overthrow, and you will understand "disastrous economic policies".

5. Unlike Nkrumah, I am not one to be bothered about what people think or say about me; I am only concerned about what I think about myself, and I have a huge sense of my personal worth and wealth. Only remember that the NDC is the only political legacy Nkrumah left for Ghana. Most NDC politicians are actually proteges of Kwame Nkrumah!

6. But we Danquists regard the real "Dr", J.B. Danquah as our Osagyefo, i.e., our redeemer. Fortunately, nobody can put us in prison without trial. We are free born.
Fred Amoah 10 years ago

DR SAS' idiotic rantings clearly indicate his mental status.The earlier he seeks psychiatric attention the better.

DR SAS' idiotic rantings clearly indicate his mental status.The earlier he seeks psychiatric attention the better.
Kwame Appiah 10 years ago

It is not surprising that DR SAS has a bizarre mindset.All atheists are peculiar people.

It is not surprising that DR SAS has a bizarre mindset.All atheists are peculiar people.
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

My friend you are either a bad example of a trained lawyer (as you claim), or, you are a living proof of the fact that American trained lawyers are a shame to the profession.

Sometimes I am inclined to think that you are j ...
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My friend you are either a bad example of a trained lawyer (as you claim), or, you are a living proof of the fact that American trained lawyers are a shame to the profession.

Sometimes I am inclined to think that you are just messing about on this platform and that your real aim is to just want to tickle our sense of humour. Other times I also wonder how old you really are because some of your arguments are so so childish that it beggars belief that your opinions are coming from the mind of an adult.

1. No, Nkrumah does not have copyright to the title Osagyefo. Indeed nobody - including Chiefs, have that right either. Nobody has any title to any name or title. What we do have, as related to the matter at hand, are conventions, customary practice and affectionately imposed popular titular epithets (nicknames) which are widely applied in Ghana, perhaps throughout Africa and more especially among the African American population in North America.

2. As mentioned above, nobody has absolute prerogative of any office or title. The 'Dr' which you unjustifiably append to your name is not your property. In fact, many contributors to this forum who have understandably doubted your scholarship, have also insinuated that you also 'stole' the honor. Many people are conferred with that title by institutions who may simply wish to recognize and honour their effort in a certain area of academia or public accomplishment. In the public domain, people who simply show acumen of extraordinary gift and ability in any sphere of endevour, are slapped with such titles as terms of endearment. I admit that I do not know the circumstances under which Kwame Nkrumah came to be known as the Osagyefo but I can very well conjecture that either a Chief or a group of people from those areas might have added the title of that office to Kwame Nkrumahs name in appreciation of his good works which include effectively trouncing Danquah, an unpopular native son of that area, at the polls and his visionary development accomplishments.

3. Kwame Nkrumah properly, unlike you, earned many doctorates in his life-time for achieving what no other world leader had ever attained in world history to date.

4. Is there any need to go and study how much Ghana was worth when Nkrumah took over as the 1st President of the Republic of Ghana? Of course not! However if you insist I will attempt to give you an idea what Ghana was worth at the time, think about the following; Ghana was worth no more than 5 educational institutions, a couple of health posts, no decent housing schemes for the natives of the Gold Coast, no effective national transport system throughout the country and most importantly, no Democracy after over 500 years of ripping us off in a variety of ways. To prove that the Blackman is capable of managing his own affairs - at least better than what the white man can do for us, Nkrumah in less than 10 years, multiplied in quadruplet quantum leaps, what the white man could not do in over 500 years.

5. A man whose sense of reasoning and logic has been so severely mutilated by the whims and caprices of imperialism, would of course not be able to retain the values of pride, self-respect and dignity. That is why you are not bothered about what people think of you. If in spite of all these drawbacks you still continue to have a huge sense of personal worth and wealth about your worthless self, then one can only come to the unfortunate conclusion that you may be suffering from some acute form of schizophrenia. Then again how many NDC politicians are there? When you have done that you can then tell us how many of them are proteges of Kwame Nkrumah. And did Nkrumah really leave the NDC as a legacy? The NDC is pursuing neo-liberal policies which are actually what you Danquasiris aspire to do. So in this case, who is a natural ally of who?

6. Bro' isnt it unfortunate that today, nobody can put you in prison without trial and throw the keys away into the middle of the ocean?? What a glorious day that would be - especially for some of us on this platform.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Wow!

A super-strong, well-deserved, response!

We are with you, Nana Kasapreko III!

Wow!

A super-strong, well-deserved, response!

We are with you, Nana Kasapreko III!
YAW 10 years ago

Osagyefo J B Danquah or Otumfuo Adjei Sarfo can only be greeted with a snort of derision.

Osagyefo J B Danquah or Otumfuo Adjei Sarfo can only be greeted with a snort of derision.
Robert Cudjoe 10 years ago

The crazy ATHEIST called DR SAS is now a laughing stock.All his comments do not make sense.Please,ignore him.

The crazy ATHEIST called DR SAS is now a laughing stock.All his comments do not make sense.Please,ignore him.
Kwame Tawiah 10 years ago

J.B.Danquah was on CIA payroll.CIA declassified statements have confirmed the attempt this traitor,who is DR SAS' mentor made to have Nkrumah assassinated and have his government destabilised.

J.B.Danquah was on CIA payroll.CIA declassified statements have confirmed the attempt this traitor,who is DR SAS' mentor made to have Nkrumah assassinated and have his government destabilised.
Kwadwo 10 years ago

Brother SAS, I suggest you leave the Nkrumaist cult to worship their messiah. To them, you foul the air when you aptly argue that Nkrumah was not perfect and that he abused the civil rights of many. Let them hero Nkrumah bec ...
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Brother SAS, I suggest you leave the Nkrumaist cult to worship their messiah. To them, you foul the air when you aptly argue that Nkrumah was not perfect and that he abused the civil rights of many. Let them hero Nkrumah because they are entitled to do so. Unless you enjoy their abusive language directed at your comments, let them be. I have stopped commenting on Kwarteng and others' failed effort to deify Nkrumah.
Nana Kasapreko III 10 years ago

Yes, Brother SAS should leave us Nkrumaists alone to worship Nkrumah. It is our right to choose to do so. If the Nkrumah kitchen is too hot for you, please find the door. There is no way a terrorist sympathizer can find commo ...
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Yes, Brother SAS should leave us Nkrumaists alone to worship Nkrumah. It is our right to choose to do so. If the Nkrumah kitchen is too hot for you, please find the door. There is no way a terrorist sympathizer can find common ground with an Nkrumaist. Take note that any African who rises to the exalted level of an Nkrumaist is not one to be toyed with.

It is only because we Nkrumaists are sympathetic to the dangerous level of ignorance that is routinely exhibited by a small and insignificant section of Ghanaians, that makes us try to make these terrorist supporters see some sense. Any civilized person would happily give a hand to a drowning man and that in short is why we bother to respond to the treacherous and dim-witted Danquasiris. After-all, what are the credits of Danquah - if any? Zilch!

I think SAS and his ilk could find more profit by trying to find something useful to write about the squealer and traitor par excellence - Danquah. Ramming their heads against an unbreakable stone wall, will not do them any good - in fact it will cause them further brain damage.

And much as I think that this would be a tall order, I advise these ruffian Danquasiris to cease reading any article written about, by, for or on behalf of the invincible Osagyefo, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, one of the greatest leaders in world history. He is the one man who has achieved the unparalleled distinction of having liberated more human beings from the vile and vulgar wickedness of imperialist oppression, suppression, exploitation and dictatorship than any other leader in world history. Those who cant live with this fact can go and jump into the sea.

In fact I do not understand why they are so obsessed with their fruitless effort to undermine Kwame Nkrumah. Why do they waste so much of their time writing about a man they seem to hate so much that they even tried on several occasions to assassinate him?

Kwarteng will continue to write his highly intelligent articles whether you like it or not and we will continue to read them and discuss them with great enthusiasm, whether you spoilers like it or not.

If I were a Danquasiri, I would quietly go and find somewhere, where I can go and hide my shame and earned disrespect in pieces.

You Danquasiris are however warned that the slightest move you make towards disrespecting the man who gave you the gift of recognition as a human being from your imperialist oppressors, will be met with the full force of the weight of Kwame Nkrumahs name. I dare any of you to come again.
Kwadwo 10 years ago

Nkrumah does no wrong and Nkrumah never dies. He is god and the redeemer of your soul. Have fun.

Nkrumah does no wrong and Nkrumah never dies. He is god and the redeemer of your soul. Have fun.
Shabi 10 years ago

My Friend, does it worry you that "Nkrumah does no wrong and Nkrumah never dies and that he is god and the redeemer of my soul?

If it does, then I profusely apologize to you that my business - or more precisely, the way I ...
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My Friend, does it worry you that "Nkrumah does no wrong and Nkrumah never dies and that he is god and the redeemer of my soul?

If it does, then I profusely apologize to you that my business - or more precisely, the way I think, gets on your nerves. But as a well brought up person, I will however not stop minding my own business in so far as I and the rest of mankind, benefits from it.
YAW 10 years ago

I. Prohibition of organisations and associations of a political or quasi-military character and uniforms, etc.
II. Powers of preventive detention.
III. Special powers relating to subversive publications, etc.
IV. Control o ...
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I. Prohibition of organisations and associations of a political or quasi-military character and uniforms, etc.
II. Powers of preventive detention.
III. Special powers relating to subversive publications, etc.
IV. Control of entertainments and exhibitions.
V. Other powers for the prevention of subversion.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

The last thing I will attempt to do is to leave these treasonable adventurers alone. Forget it Bro.

The last thing I will attempt to do is to leave these treasonable adventurers alone. Forget it Bro.
warren 10 years ago

why doesn't these stupid nkrumaist dig up his grave and worship him? what kind of sycophancy is this? fools

why doesn't these stupid nkrumaist dig up his grave and worship him? what kind of sycophancy is this? fools

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