KNUST Prof. Amoako Baah's Teaching is Almost Useless (3)

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MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

As the bona fide head of the History dept, of a reputable university in the country, Dr. Amoako Baah should not have come out to say that "Lincoln never built anything".
President Lincoln did build the transcontinental rai ...
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As the bona fide head of the History dept, of a reputable university in the country, Dr. Amoako Baah should not have come out to say that "Lincoln never built anything".
President Lincoln did build the transcontinental railroads which helped open up the interior regions of the US to exploration and settlement, and made America the global power it is today.

And this is something Dr. Baah is obliged to communicate to his students who are studying the history of U.S.
Dr. Otto 10 years ago

Lungu, if you! have a degree! which I don't think, what are you doing with your degree, posting NONSENSE to Ghanaweb and Modernghana?

If you have a heard with brain to reason and eyes to see, can't you realise and see that ...
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Lungu, if you! have a degree! which I don't think, what are you doing with your degree, posting NONSENSE to Ghanaweb and Modernghana?

If you have a heard with brain to reason and eyes to see, can't you realise and see that Mahama is killing Ghana?

Do you have time only to peddle bullshit?
Thommy 10 years ago

What I can see the last time is that, the so-claimed "Prof" Lungu now counts to the useless, if you like, primitive writers on Ghanaweb.

What I can see the last time is that, the so-claimed "Prof" Lungu now counts to the useless, if you like, primitive writers on Ghanaweb.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Thommy,
"...the last time...?

Which one?

Do you mean our Part 1, 2, or 3?

And..."...reduced to dogs...?

Not really!

ITEM: What we are thinking, however, is maybe assembling our 3-part series into one essay ...
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Thommy,
"...the last time...?

Which one?

Do you mean our Part 1, 2, or 3?

And..."...reduced to dogs...?

Not really!

ITEM: What we are thinking, however, is maybe assembling our 3-part series into one essay - so all that we've said on this one can be easily available for review by all.
Jean-Renard De-Gaulle 10 years ago

That man travelled 6,000 miles to study a rudimentary subject like history.What a waste of time and money. I hope he spent no government money in doing that.

He is like several so-called professors in Ghana who do nothing ...
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That man travelled 6,000 miles to study a rudimentary subject like history.What a waste of time and money. I hope he spent no government money in doing that.

He is like several so-called professors in Ghana who do nothing but talk, talk and talk with no practical solutions to the various problems facing the country.

They add no value to the development of the country. Ask Amoako-Baah what benefit he is to Ghana.

Yaka Gbomo professor.
Kofi 10 years ago

Trouble is, you are so blinkered in your views that you cannot see the hopelessness of Amoako Baah. What exactly has Wreko Brobbey contributed to Ghana"s energy problems with his Ph.D in solar energy? Doctorate in solar scien ...
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Trouble is, you are so blinkered in your views that you cannot see the hopelessness of Amoako Baah. What exactly has Wreko Brobbey contributed to Ghana"s energy problems with his Ph.D in solar energy? Doctorate in solar science only for him to sit in plush office of[VRA] Nkrumah built hydro electric dam.That said,the same useful idiots go about bashing what Nkrumah did.They can worship Danquah the "traitor" without rubbing it in our faces.
NOKWARE ASA 10 years ago

Dr. Otto, do you have something worthwhile to contribute to the debate at hand. Insulting Prof. Lungs shows that your degree is fake, prove me wrong.

Dr. Otto, do you have something worthwhile to contribute to the debate at hand. Insulting Prof. Lungs shows that your degree is fake, prove me wrong.
mojingles 10 years ago

"Dr" Otoo, hurling bucket-loads of pure hogwash at Lungu does not serve any useful purpose at all. Rather, it exposes your absolute lack of sincerity vis a vis Baah's constant snipping at the government and offering half-bake ...
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"Dr" Otoo, hurling bucket-loads of pure hogwash at Lungu does not serve any useful purpose at all. Rather, it exposes your absolute lack of sincerity vis a vis Baah's constant snipping at the government and offering half-baked and archaic solutions to problems that have their genesis in times past.

Why don't you counter Lungu's views constructive views of your own? Then we can draw conclusions.
OKOE 10 years ago

ARE YOU A DOCTOR? IF YOU ARE, THEN IT SHOULD BE HEAD AND NOT HEARD. IN ANY CASE, ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE A DEGREE IN ORDER TO CONTRIBUTE IN THIS FORUM. THERE ARE MANY PERSONS IN THE WORLD WITHOUT DEGREES WHO HAVE HELP MANKI ...
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ARE YOU A DOCTOR? IF YOU ARE, THEN IT SHOULD BE HEAD AND NOT HEARD. IN ANY CASE, ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE A DEGREE IN ORDER TO CONTRIBUTE IN THIS FORUM. THERE ARE MANY PERSONS IN THE WORLD WITHOUT DEGREES WHO HAVE HELP MANKIND THAN THOSE WITH DEGREES. DEGREE IS IMPORTANT BUT NOT NECESSARY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY.
OKOE 10 years ago

it should be have helped not have help.

it should be have helped not have help.

Prof Lungu 10 years ago

OKOE,

YOUR: "...IN ANY CASE, ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE A DEGREE IN ORDER TO CONTRIBUTE..."

WE SAY: 'Nuff said!

OKOE,

YOUR: "...IN ANY CASE, ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO HAVE A DEGREE IN ORDER TO CONTRIBUTE..."

WE SAY: 'Nuff said!
IDRIS PACAS 10 years ago

Thanks for the insight.

The problems of Ghana are caused by our copy-and-paste professors. The political leanings of these book professors have taken away their sense of logic; hence, all of Ghana's current problems.

Thanks for the insight.

The problems of Ghana are caused by our copy-and-paste professors. The political leanings of these book professors have taken away their sense of logic; hence, all of Ghana's current problems.
Sister Souljah 10 years ago

"If you have a heard with brain...." this coming from one Dr. Otto I doubt if this impostor even possess a high school diploma

"If you have a heard with brain...." this coming from one Dr. Otto I doubt if this impostor even possess a high school diploma
KKD 10 years ago

Amoako Baah is indirectly telling us that he's one of the academic fools in KNUST, PERIOD.

Amoako Baah is indirectly telling us that he's one of the academic fools in KNUST, PERIOD.
Kumasi to Texas 10 years ago

Outstanding article. Those of us who knew Richard from elementary school to secondary school to Knoxville College and beyond are not shocked by his behaviour. The question is did KNUST do any due deligence when Richard was h ...
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Outstanding article. Those of us who knew Richard from elementary school to secondary school to Knoxville College and beyond are not shocked by his behaviour. The question is did KNUST do any due deligence when Richard was hired or made the head of the department? The prestige of an institution is tied to the head of that institution. The larger question is what premium does the world put on the history/political science department at KNUST because of its association with Richard?
The other point is the cynical news media always touting Amoako Baah as the head of political science department. When this guy appeared on Newsfile he was a HUGE disappointment.
Kojo T 10 years ago

I pity NPP and Ghana .The NPP seems to collect people with disjointed thought processes and herald them as saviors.Baah cannot see the role OPEC an oil cartel played in the middle East Silos were used by Pharoah to propel E ...
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I pity NPP and Ghana .The NPP seems to collect people with disjointed thought processes and herald them as saviors.Baah cannot see the role OPEC an oil cartel played in the middle East Silos were used by Pharoah to propel Egypt as a world power without firing a short.Then he misuses an institution built by the man he detests to propel himself to stardom. I bet he went to School free curtesy Nkrumah.Baah concentrate on design of a better democratic system for Africa
ICONIC-07 10 years ago

AMOAKOH BAAH OBTAINED HIS PHD IN ONE OF THE MUSHROOM UNIVERSITIES SCATTERED
IN TENNESSEE.

HE CONTRADICT HIMSELF, BY PRAISING LIN QUAN YU, WHO RELISHED ONE-PARTY STATE TO FOR THE MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELO ...
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AMOAKOH BAAH OBTAINED HIS PHD IN ONE OF THE MUSHROOM UNIVERSITIES SCATTERED
IN TENNESSEE.

HE CONTRADICT HIMSELF, BY PRAISING LIN QUAN YU, WHO RELISHED ONE-PARTY STATE TO FOR THE MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPEMENT, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CRITICIZING OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH FOR RULING THE COUNTRY UNDER ONE-PARTY GOVERNMENT, AS LIN QUAN YU DID. IS THIS A PROFESSOR? NO!

ALUTA CONTINUA !!!!!!!
mensah abrampa 10 years ago

Are you satisfied with the performance of the NDC since 2008 when they took over the administration of the nation? Is your situation better or worse now than it was between 2000 and 2008? If better in what ways have you seen ...
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Are you satisfied with the performance of the NDC since 2008 when they took over the administration of the nation? Is your situation better or worse now than it was between 2000 and 2008? If better in what ways have you seen improvements in your personal life?
Don't just yell at Amoako Baah but tell Ghanaians why Mahama and the NDC deserve commendation rather than condemnation after borrowing more than all previous administrations combined from Nkrumah to Kuffuor while receiving revenue from the oil industry for the first time in the nation's history? Will you retain Mahama as your MD if Ghana was your personal business?
Kumbour 10 years ago

You knew Amoako Baah from Kumasi to Texas but what surprises you is how he set himself apart from you lot especially in the US. While some of you were fooling around he took his studies rather more seriously and now reaping ...
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You knew Amoako Baah from Kumasi to Texas but what surprises you is how he set himself apart from you lot especially in the US. While some of you were fooling around he took his studies rather more seriously and now reaping the benefit which some of you cannot fathom. He should be an inspiration to you and those colleagues you make reference to.
Kumbour 10 years ago

You knew Amoako Baah from Kumasi to Texas but what surprises you is how he set himself apart from you lot especially in the US. While some of you were fooling around he took his studies rather more seriously and now reaping t ...
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You knew Amoako Baah from Kumasi to Texas but what surprises you is how he set himself apart from you lot especially in the US. While some of you were fooling around he took his studies rather more seriously and now reaping the benefit which some of you cannot fathom. He should be an inspiration to you and those colleagues you make reference to.

Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Kumasi to Texas,
Unlike you, we do not have a personal record. But, it is good to know a record from all angles.

YOUR: "...The other point is the cynical news media always touting Amoako Baah as the head of political sc ...
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Kumasi to Texas,
Unlike you, we do not have a personal record. But, it is good to know a record from all angles.

YOUR: "...The other point is the cynical news media always touting Amoako Baah as the head of political science department..."

WE SAY: That is one of our points. It behoves Prof. Amoako Baah to expend some of his energy to inform them that those are his opinions alone, and not KNUST's, or even that of the department of which he is the head.

Thanks.
KKD 10 years ago

Expose all of them, Prof. Lungu. This foolishman is of the npp lawyers who don't speak english, but lectures students in english. He was hiding in a hole like a rat when we needed lawyers with brains to come out to fight nd ...
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Expose all of them, Prof. Lungu. This foolishman is of the npp lawyers who don't speak english, but lectures students in english. He was hiding in a hole like a rat when we needed lawyers with brains to come out to fight ndc in court.
Joe Turkey 10 years ago

Amoako Baah is a bad professor because he is critical of the ruling government. Some of you will lick anything in your pursuit of money and some small recognition.

Amoako Baah is a bad professor because he is critical of the ruling government. Some of you will lick anything in your pursuit of money and some small recognition.
Ronnie 10 years ago

Of course this dribble wouldn't pass without the standing ovation courtesy the other brown-noser Francis Kwarteng. Like clockwork, this lungu dude and Kwarteng fawn over each other whether their various posts are of relevance ...
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Of course this dribble wouldn't pass without the standing ovation courtesy the other brown-noser Francis Kwarteng. Like clockwork, this lungu dude and Kwarteng fawn over each other whether their various posts are of relevance to the development of Ghana or coherent. What a bunch of JJs.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks for this piece.

I hope Amoako-Baah is reading this. His students should make time to read this too. You have given me enough to reflect on this weekend.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks Prof ...
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Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks for this piece.

I hope Amoako-Baah is reading this. His students should make time to read this too. You have given me enough to reflect on this weekend.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks Prof. Lungu, and have a great weekend.
Nana Ansah 10 years ago

Their Mate Meho forebears lost the race to lead Ghana because they could not debate CPP led by Kwame Nkrumah. They lost the debate ön 18 words Motion of destiny and their descendants cannot debate us today because we have t ...
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Their Mate Meho forebears lost the race to lead Ghana because they could not debate CPP led by Kwame Nkrumah. They lost the debate ön 18 words Motion of destiny and their descendants cannot debate us today because we have the facts and they operate with fiction.

Tell Baah to read the following by Abraham Lincoln before he opens his gob next time:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln

I am loving it Prof Lungu. Please tell that half-baked Prof. Baah that he cannot be a successful liar with his bird brain or Ph.D. on lies. Tell this lowbrow Baah to visit Licoln Memorial mall in Washington DC and read the wrintings on the wall to fully appreciate the works of Abraham Lincoln. Besides he should read the following favourite quote of President Lincoln to fully understand the great vision of the man who held America together and set black slaves free.

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Abraham Lincoln
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Nana Ansah,

How effective you reiterate the facts. I think Prof. Lungu has given us a lot to reflect!

Anyway, we have more coming!

Stay safe.

Have a great weekend!

Thanks.

Dear Nana Ansah,

How effective you reiterate the facts. I think Prof. Lungu has given us a lot to reflect!

Anyway, we have more coming!

Stay safe.

Have a great weekend!

Thanks.
Kyeremateng 10 years ago

francis kwarteng your English is extremely very bad, besides you supports blindly just like an illiterate.

francis kwarteng your English is extremely very bad, besides you supports blindly just like an illiterate.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Brother or Sister Kyeremateng,

How are you GIRLS SP?

Please make time to read over your comment again! That will help greatly!

Thanks.

Dear Brother or Sister Kyeremateng,

How are you GIRLS SP?

Please make time to read over your comment again! That will help greatly!

Thanks.
Sister Souljah 10 years ago

Apt response Bro. Francis

Apt response Bro. Francis

francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Sister Souljah,

Good day.

How are you?

Still waiting. My email address is (franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com). You can send me yours and I surely will get in touch.

Please get in touch!

Thanks.

Dear Sister Souljah,

Good day.

How are you?

Still waiting. My email address is (franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com). You can send me yours and I surely will get in touch.

Please get in touch!

Thanks.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Nyebro Yaw,

Let me come out of my bunker to join you in saying thanks to Prof Lungu for devoting his valuable time to exposing and debunking this academic fraud and intellectual bankrupt mis-educating students at KNUST and ...
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Nyebro Yaw,

Let me come out of my bunker to join you in saying thanks to Prof Lungu for devoting his valuable time to exposing and debunking this academic fraud and intellectual bankrupt mis-educating students at KNUST and deceiving the Ghanaian public! I was shocked when I saw him on MyJoynews making those outlandish, uneducated, uninformed claims.

As you know, I had thrown in the towel and declared them all as intellectual bankrupts.

Andy-K
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Nyebro Yaw,

You always make me laugh with your frankness.

On the other hand, I have no reservations about your throwing in the towel and declaring these Confederate federalists "intellectual bankrupts."

I have ...
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Dear Nyebro Yaw,

You always make me laugh with your frankness.

On the other hand, I have no reservations about your throwing in the towel and declaring these Confederate federalists "intellectual bankrupts."

I have no problems with your diagnosis either, "intellectual bankrupts." Your diagnostic label is apt!

I know a few too who have given up on them. The entire exercise looks like an incurable disease!

My brother, have a a great weekend!

Thanks.
BOB 10 years ago

Please stop condemning Dr. Amoako Baah. At least he was in the US like you and has gone back home to help build the nation. You must give it to him for all his contributions in the Political arena of the country. We need ...
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Please stop condemning Dr. Amoako Baah. At least he was in the US like you and has gone back home to help build the nation. You must give it to him for all his contributions in the Political arena of the country. We need to be challenging the status quo if we want to grow as a society.

Nkrumah etc. were all humans and they were not perfect. Pointing out imperfection of some of our leaders are the only way to learn lessons so we do not repeat the mistakes they made going forward.

Dr. Amoako Baah has also put KNUST in the lime light. Our engineers there are the ones to link this fine Nkrumah University to the public with their inventions and creation, but they are unable to do so.

We need practical political scientists to play the role been played by Dr. Amoako Baah currently.

What Dr. Amoako Baah has done within the short period of time he has been in Ghana is not only to educate the few political science students at KNUST. What he has done uniquely, is to teach the whole Ghanaian public politics in simple ways that can be understood by the even the common man on the street. He has brought the classroom to the public which never existed before using the media and ICT.

How then can his teaching be almost useless?

In fact, he is the best political scientist in the country at the moment. He was the first to boldly forecast that, the government will seek the support of the IMF. And what happened? When he did so, how many of us believed him?

What is wrong with Ghanaians is that we have been brought up not to challenge the status quo, but if we continue to follow this wrong training, we will never become a force to be reckoned within the global socio-economic and political circles.

Bravo to Dr. Amoko Baah, the best type of professional will need in the country - The pragmatic political scientist for all Ghanaians.
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

Prof Amoako Baah may be the best history lecturer Ghana has ever known but that is not saying much. Most of our classroom educated elite love the unbridled ignorance with which the uneducated and under-educated worship at the ...
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Prof Amoako Baah may be the best history lecturer Ghana has ever known but that is not saying much. Most of our classroom educated elite love the unbridled ignorance with which the uneducated and under-educated worship at their feet. And it is the respect we offer the educated elite that spurs on acts of mediocity and wanton foolishness of the elite class. Did Dr. Amoako Baah invent computers, history, black and or white board or any of the tools he uses in the classroom? Dr. Amoako Baah is a jackass and he knows it (having studied in a souther state in the USA where prejudices and discrimination based on race is the order of the day because of ignorance and a majority of uneducated citizenry) to stoop to gutter level espousing suppositions he knows good and darn well are not supported by facts and theory but by tribal and political party envy. Dr. Amoako Baah chose the limelight and social importance he enjoys in a fish bowl rather than play in the open sea where his U of Tennessee earned PhD in history command swagger. He is a disgrace to classroom education and his students are more likely to carry with them the ignorance of carrying classroom earned education but with little to show in the way of logical thinking and debate positions based on facts and principled adherence to standards.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

BOB,
You've written a lot up there.

YOUR: "...Dr. Amoako Baah has also put KNUST in the lime light..."

WE SAY: Sure, it may be "lime light". "Lime light" headed to disrepute, possibly!

FURTHER, given circumstances a ...
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BOB,
You've written a lot up there.

YOUR: "...Dr. Amoako Baah has also put KNUST in the lime light..."

WE SAY: Sure, it may be "lime light". "Lime light" headed to disrepute, possibly!

FURTHER, given circumstances and context, we really do not believe one has to be in Ghana 100% of the time to contribute to Ghana's nation building effort. In fact several years ago, we donated books and professional journals to one of the departments at KNUST - while we were residing outside Ghana.

So, you can say that probably we started contributing to KNUST/Ghana, before Prof Amoako Baah got into the Chairman's chair in that department.

Still, our hats are off to those in Ghana 100%!

But, not to those in government (politicians, civil servants, teachers, etc.), stealing from the people and/or riding roughshod over the people with lies, half-truths, conjectures, and self-serving political messages hat have no basis in fact and detract from the Unitary Vision that was chartered by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for Ghana.

YOUR: "...What Dr. Amoako Baah has done within the short period of time he has been in Ghana is not only to educate the few political science students at KNUST..."

OUR COMMENT: We hope it will remain "a few", given the "train wreak" that is developing.

More important, tell your hero to get his data straight, and to fix that 2007-2008-era webpages for the Department of History and Political Studies, KNUST. That department's current online profile is a poor reflection on all of us. After all, you never know who wants to assist and may need accurate information about that department, and KNUST.
Nana Amihere 10 years ago

Please try to also respond to some of the positives things BOB mentioned in is commentary.

Please try to also respond to some of the positives things BOB mentioned in is commentary.
Kwame 10 years ago

Twisting Amoako's for your selfish interest is clear from any SHS student that reads your write up. I guess you should grow up from your myopic political views

Twisting Amoako's for your selfish interest is clear from any SHS student that reads your write up. I guess you should grow up from your myopic political views
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Keep on guessing!

Keep on guessing!
ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

you are referring to his politics, not his teaching!

you are referring to his politics, not his teaching!
Emml 10 years ago

Amoako Baah is just a fooliah Ashanti/npp tribal idiot ut they will period. Now he has managed to convience some mf his Ashanti dogs to openely declare for the npp, but there is no way Ghanaians will give power to these dogs. ...
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Amoako Baah is just a fooliah Ashanti/npp tribal idiot ut they will period. Now he has managed to convience some mf his Ashanti dogs to openely declare for the npp, but there is no way Ghanaians will give power to these dogs. A dirty and unkept lunatic like him.He is more tribalistic than Akufo Addo. Swines.
LEZO. EU. 10 years ago

Prof. Lungu, I doff my hat for you. You have systematically taken this educated illiterate to the cleaners and put him where he really belong. It is only those with serious celebral deformities, who would insult you as has al ...
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Prof. Lungu, I doff my hat for you. You have systematically taken this educated illiterate to the cleaners and put him where he really belong. It is only those with serious celebral deformities, who would insult you as has always been their behaviour. If there is any single and confused and frustrated man who, due to his low esteems, needs attention, it's this so called prof. Amoako Baah. He has demonstrated over the years that he is not fit the least, to head such important department of that University. The guy is openely bias to the extend that he will never see anything positive about people who don't think like him. Sometimes I pity students who may not tow his tribalistic and shallow thinking lines. He has every right as a Ghanaian, to support any political party of his choice.But he shouldn't do it in the name of the University. More important but sadly, he is doing a lot of harm to the students by infesting them with lies for his own parochial interest. How can such a character head such important department like the KNUST? This is the guy who is making ugly noise all over the place that he can perform better as the EC than Dr.Afari-Djan. With things like Amoako Baah, we have a long way to go. Well done prof. Lungu.Keep them coming. Show them their true pictures.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

LEZO. EU.,

Thanks so much for your comments.

We believe Dr.Afari-Djan being human, everything Dr.Afari-Djan has done as the head of the EC has reflected positively on the EC, and Ghana.

Let's hope Professor Amoako ...
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LEZO. EU.,

Thanks so much for your comments.

We believe Dr.Afari-Djan being human, everything Dr.Afari-Djan has done as the head of the EC has reflected positively on the EC, and Ghana.

Let's hope Professor Amoako Baah, with so many students and workers under his care/tutelage, will find some time to clean up that website within the next week or two.

Now, that would be a good start, an improvement!

Greetings!
Ghanaman 10 years ago

Ghanaian brothers and sisters please do not be misled by this so-call professor Lungu. He is not in the Washington area as he professes. In fact he is a lecturer in an unknown Community College ( a 2-year college) in Illino ...
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Ghanaian brothers and sisters please do not be misled by this so-call professor Lungu. He is not in the Washington area as he professes. In fact he is a lecturer in an unknown Community College ( a 2-year college) in Illinois.

Please stop following his political analysis of the country which will lead us to nowhere.

George Lungu

Professor in the Political Science department
at Oakton Community College, Skokie, IL
Kay 10 years ago

You are so stupid.Prof Lungu is just an assumed/pen name used by the writer.He made that clear ages ago on Ghanaweb.So Mr Ghanatwat, stop your rot.

You are so stupid.Prof Lungu is just an assumed/pen name used by the writer.He made that clear ages ago on Ghanaweb.So Mr Ghanatwat, stop your rot.
Ghanaman 10 years ago

Then Prof. Lungu is a disgruntled man, afraid man and not to be taken seriously. Interestingly, his cites some of the books written by Dr. Amoako Baah in his article. Come out from your hiding place and contribute your quot ...
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Then Prof. Lungu is a disgruntled man, afraid man and not to be taken seriously. Interestingly, his cites some of the books written by Dr. Amoako Baah in his article. Come out from your hiding place and contribute your quota towards national development as Dr. Baah is doing and I believe that will go a long way to benefit all Ghanaians in a positive way.
Kay 10 years ago

Eric Arthur Blair wrote under the name George Orwell.Nothing wrong with that.He has the write to criticise A Baah when he start talking complete bollocks! Is Ghanaman your family name or a moniker?

Eric Arthur Blair wrote under the name George Orwell.Nothing wrong with that.He has the write to criticise A Baah when he start talking complete bollocks! Is Ghanaman your family name or a moniker?
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Thanks, Kay, for the assist!

Ghanaman's "In fact" quickly turned into, "Then Prof. Lungu is a disgruntled...", with your "fact", Kay!

So, we must channel (Kay) your query:
"Is Ghanaman...(Ghanaman's)...family name or ...
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Thanks, Kay, for the assist!

Ghanaman's "In fact" quickly turned into, "Then Prof. Lungu is a disgruntled...", with your "fact", Kay!

So, we must channel (Kay) your query:
"Is Ghanaman...(Ghanaman's)...family name or a moniker?
Charles Owusu 10 years ago

Ghanaians don't give a fuck where prof.Lungu lives or teach. What they are interested in is what he has put up. Give us a break. If you don't see anything good about this article, then you are a solitary exception.

Ghanaians don't give a fuck where prof.Lungu lives or teach. What they are interested in is what he has put up. Give us a break. If you don't see anything good about this article, then you are a solitary exception.
K Boye 10 years ago

Incoherent gibberish! No head or tail to this argument.

Incoherent gibberish! No head or tail to this argument.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

K Boye,
Brilliant!

You have confirmed that our plan will be "useful".

WE will next compose this 3-part essay into one volume, and publish it as 1-piece on these same pages.

It may be a very long essay, but then, yo ...
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K Boye,
Brilliant!

You have confirmed that our plan will be "useful".

WE will next compose this 3-part essay into one volume, and publish it as 1-piece on these same pages.

It may be a very long essay, but then, you will be able to tell the "head" from the "tail".

That, we can promise.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

You see, Lungu, you have to understand what Nkrumah's Marxist Materialist debate with Danquah's Philosophy of Personhood or Individual Liberty was about before you can presume to take on Dr. Amoako-Baah.

I will deal with ...
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You see, Lungu, you have to understand what Nkrumah's Marxist Materialist debate with Danquah's Philosophy of Personhood or Individual Liberty was about before you can presume to take on Dr. Amoako-Baah.

I will deal with this when I have time. But let's get this straight and out of the way: Abraham Lincoln is more remembered for his unification of modern United States and the Abolition of Slavery, as well as his most profound and simple rhetorical truths about democratic cultural praxis, and not the building of mansions and monuments.

You see, it was this same subliminal quality of thought that differentiated Dr. Danquah from Mr. Nkrumah. Unfortunately, Nkrumaists are not very well-trained philosophers and thinkers to appreciate this reality.

I am also profoundly sorry that Prof. Lungu has decided to irreparably embarrass himself this way.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Imagine yourself among "well-trained philosophers and thinkers".

You must be in good company.

So, come with all you've got/want, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

From what you have written, we imagine you did not even rea ...
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Imagine yourself among "well-trained philosophers and thinkers".

You must be in good company.

So, come with all you've got/want, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

From what you have written, we imagine you did not even read this Part 3.

YOUR: "...Abraham Lincoln is more remembered for his unification of modern United States and the Abolition of Slavery..."

OUR COMMENT: Done that! Significantly, Lincoln's primary objective was that Unitary thing, the Nkrumah way.

1. The slavery thing was a secondary objective - but just for those secessionist states in the south: Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves.

In fact, it just so happened the South over played their hand.

2. We are saying Nkrumah is the George Washington of Ghana, that Nkrumah was a Pacesetter for Ghana/Africa. (If you know US history you will know some of the titles proposed for George. Washington:
"Your Excellency"
"Your Highness"
"Your Most Benign Highness."
"His Exalted Highness."

Even John Quincy Adams proposed "His Highness, the President of the United States, and Protector of the Rights of the Same."

4. Therefore, it is pathetic that same Confederate traitors will stoop to complain that Nkrumah was called "Osagyefo". And so, even as they were all crying under that death-knell pallanquin about that title, they thought is was a great idea to appropriate that same title and bestow on the dead man.

Nice try!
STEVE 10 years ago

Okoampa, it will be better you don't waste your useful time arguing with those aimless guys peddling garbage on Ghanaweb.

Okoampa, it will be better you don't waste your useful time arguing with those aimless guys peddling garbage on Ghanaweb.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Prof. Lungu,

The quote below summarizes Abraham Lincoln's position on the relationship between preserving the American unitary state (Union) at all cost and the status of American slavery as it related to his unificat ...
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Dear Prof. Lungu,

The quote below summarizes Abraham Lincoln's position on the relationship between preserving the American unitary state (Union) at all cost and the status of American slavery as it related to his unification project.

This is what he wrote:

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause."

I have provided a number of authoritative sources (mostly primary and some secondary and tertiary) already on this question, yet some readers can here to misquote or misrepresent Lincoln's position on these matters.

People will be shocked to learn about Lincoln's position on slavery should I begin to outline them here. I will not finish today or in the next few months to come. Neither am willing to recall all the primary (secondary/tertiary) sources here!

Fact is, "freeing" slavery was merely incidental to Lincoln's overriding desire to prevent the Union from breaking up. This is one such area I have spent considerable time studying. Let us not try twisting data here.

I will take up this question at the appropriate time!

Thanks.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

And that paved the way for the Jim Crow laws which made the situation of the so-called freed slaves worse than when they were slaves! There is so much ignorance about these historical facts among Africans.

Andy-K

And that paved the way for the Jim Crow laws which made the situation of the so-called freed slaves worse than when they were slaves! There is so much ignorance about these historical facts among Africans.

Andy-K
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Brother Andy K,

How are you?

Thanks for your insightfully succinct remarks, Brother Andy K. Let me add my own take on the debate:

"RE: OKOAMPA AHOOFE: "Abraham Lincoln is more remembered for...the Abolition of ...
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Dear Brother Andy K,

How are you?

Thanks for your insightfully succinct remarks, Brother Andy K. Let me add my own take on the debate:

"RE: OKOAMPA AHOOFE: "Abraham Lincoln is more remembered for...the Abolition of Slavery"

A "PROCLAMATION" to outlaw in certain parts is not equal to "ABOLITION" in all parts.

The "Proclamation" was issued 1 Jan., 1863. But word did not get to Texas/Galveston until 2-and-half years later, on 19 June, 1865. That is why in Texas, Louisiana and other places, the "Proclamation" is actually celebrated on 19 June (Juneteenth).

In fact, when Lincoln was murdered by the confederates DC, in April, 1865, the "Proclamation" itself had not even reached Texas.

The US did not abolish slavery until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified 6 Dec. 6, 1865, 8 months after the death of Lincoln.

Some References:

1) Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II).

2)Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream ( Lerone Bennett Jr.)

3) The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War (Thomas DiLorenzo)

4) Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe (Thomas DiLorenzo)

5) War Crimes Against Southern Civilians (War Crimes Against Southern Civilians).

I wish I had time to provide a long list of all the authoritative sources on the question. This will surely come later! Fact is, Lincoln ("Emancipation Proclamation") did not "free" any slave. It is all revisionist history!

Thanks.
Kyeremateng 10 years ago

How can somebody like Kwarteng with big mouth and sharp teeth be writing such bad English? Sometimes I have the feeling Adjoa Wangara is right that Kwarteng can only copy from people and paste as essay for novice readers.

How can somebody like Kwarteng with big mouth and sharp teeth be writing such bad English? Sometimes I have the feeling Adjoa Wangara is right that Kwarteng can only copy from people and paste as essay for novice readers.
Daniel 10 years ago

Prof Lungu is as pointless and unreasonable as Kwarteng. They only want to be heard irrespective of the kind of stuff they post to Ghanaweb.

Prof Lungu is as pointless and unreasonable as Kwarteng. They only want to be heard irrespective of the kind of stuff they post to Ghanaweb.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

And when you have time to "deal with this", remember Nana Ansah has already beaten you to Lincoln's ''...most profound and simple rhetorical truths about democratic cultural praxis...":
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And when you have time to "deal with this", remember Nana Ansah has already beaten you to Lincoln's ''...most profound and simple rhetorical truths about democratic cultural praxis...":

1. "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

2. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

3. "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
GOLD COAST 10 years ago

Listen to Ahoofe whose applications for graduate studies at Harvard, Columbia and NYU were rejected.He had to travel to Pennsylvania to get a doctorate from the African American Studies Department,Temple University.Imagin ...
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Listen to Ahoofe whose applications for graduate studies at Harvard, Columbia and NYU were rejected.He had to travel to Pennsylvania to get a doctorate from the African American Studies Department,Temple University.Imagine this half-baked professor with a degree from Harvard. Oh,no! The gods of Africa saved us from SEVERE MENTAL ABUSE.

This benighted instructor at Nassau County Community College(he has been prohibited from using the College's name on Ghanaweb and others)is so jealous of Nkrumah's educational achievements(MS,MA University of Pennsylvania,an Ivy League school,and courses at London School of Economics)that he goes bonkers when the Founder of Ghana's name is mentioned. However,when you mention Danquah's name,he will kiss you "where the sun don't shine" - as many times as you want. What a mess!

PEACE mention School I an I -an Ivy League shool
GOLD COAST 10 years ago

*sorry for the error.

PEACE

*sorry for the error.

PEACE
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Ah! You should have also mentioned that Nkrumah actually completed all course works and submitted his PhD dissertation but it was rejected on ideological grounds, being considered as too "Marxist". The signs of MCarthyism to ...
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Ah! You should have also mentioned that Nkrumah actually completed all course works and submitted his PhD dissertation but it was rejected on ideological grounds, being considered as too "Marxist". The signs of MCarthyism to come after the war.

Instead of reviewing it and giving some breathing room to the imperialists, he chose to leave the US to start a new one in the UK. Marika dealt with this issue in her book on Nkrumah.

In my opinion, he should have refused the honorary one they decided to give him later to pacify him, and re-submit his dissertation again with some slight changes for approval and the award of an academic PhD. After all, Einstein reputedly re-submitted his rejected one again with only some cosmetic changes to lengthen it, as the first one was rejected for being too short! Imagine that!

Andy-K
Emmanuel Adu Aniboye-fofie 10 years ago

Thank you, so much, for setting the Records straight! What the people of Ghana should know is that it is not everybody who did his/her studies in the USA, or better still, not all the people who obtained their PhD's in the US ...
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Thank you, so much, for setting the Records straight! What the people of Ghana should know is that it is not everybody who did his/her studies in the USA, or better still, not all the people who obtained their PhD's in the USA who are worthy of being called 'Intellectual' judging by the reasoning and thought; and Amoako Baah is one of such people. He is indeed an apology of an academician!

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