And so far as you (Kwarteng) are concerned, your cut and paste bogus essay can neuer impune any right thinking person.
And so far as you (Kwarteng) are concerned, your cut and paste bogus essay can neuer impune any right thinking person.
Shabi 8 years ago
Wangara, does your statement imply that you actually read the article? I cannot for one minute believe that you have the capacity to read an article of this intellectual depth and even if you did, are you trying to insinuate ... read full comment
Wangara, does your statement imply that you actually read the article? I cannot for one minute believe that you have the capacity to read an article of this intellectual depth and even if you did, are you trying to insinuate that you actually did read it? You mean you actually and verily read a Francis Kwarteng article on Kwame Nkrumah? No kidding.
Kofi Badu 8 years ago
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THE HOMOSEXUAL ADJOA WANGARA HAS ESCAPED FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL.
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THE HOMOSEXUAL ADJOA WANGARA HAS ESCAPED FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
One of the more lighter moments of the Washington ascendancy to being the first "Mr. President", is the number and types of titles proposed by the members of the Continental Congress for the new leader of the United States of ... read full comment
One of the more lighter moments of the Washington ascendancy to being the first "Mr. President", is the number and types of titles proposed by the members of the Continental Congress for the new leader of the United States of America.
The record shows at least 8 other titles were proposed for the new leader/pacesetter:
1. His Elective Highness
2. Your Excellency
3. Your Highness
4. Your Most Benign Highness
5. His Exalted Highness
6. Most Illustrious and Excellent President
7. His Majesty the President
8. His Highness, the President of the United States, and Protector of the Rights of the Same
9. Mr. President.
(How do you like Numero 8?)
SOURCE: Harlow Giles Unger, "How 'His Highness' George Washington Became 'Mr. President', 02/14/2014,
www.huffingtonpost.com/harlow-giles-unger/how-his-highness-presidents-day_b_4784011.html.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Prof. Lungu,
I just finished reading the piece. Very interesting.
I am grateful you brought this to readers' attention!
But I wish readers will find time to read the piece in its entirety! Quite information!
... read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
I just finished reading the piece. Very interesting.
I am grateful you brought this to readers' attention!
But I wish readers will find time to read the piece in its entirety! Quite information!
It is quite interesting noting that other Senators also suggested "George IV," "General," and "Mr. President." It appears George Washington had more adulating titles than Nkrumah!
Well these paragraphs caught my attention:
"The Swiftian debate in Congress over titles was, but a prelude to a spate of Congressional incompetence that forced Washington to assume a range of powers -- over foreign affairs, defense, government finances, law enforcement and other functions -- not granted by the Constitution. In doing so, he transformed his office from that of a largely ceremonial post into what modern scholars call "the imperial presidency."
Americans responded to his firm leadership with an outpouring of gratitude and reverence and celebrated Washington's presidency with fireworks and festivities each year on the anniversary of his "birth night" -- February 22. Some 95 percent of Americans lived and worked on farms then, and few could take time from their daylight hours to fete his birthday. Washington's birth night thus became the nation's first national celebration, if not official 'holiday.'"
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
It is funny, bur nevertheless provides some insight into how thing really are, or work.
Sadly, "Some 95 percent of Americans" who do not now live "on farms" today do not know much about their history.
Fact it, it took ... read full comment
It is funny, bur nevertheless provides some insight into how thing really are, or work.
Sadly, "Some 95 percent of Americans" who do not now live "on farms" today do not know much about their history.
Fact it, it took "the imperial presidency" to begin to normalize America from the anarchy(incompetence, No!) built into the republican constitution. What might we expect, after all, about the governing document that represented human beings as 4/5th, did not see Women, and imagined the only role fit for their new government was national defense?
It has never been about the "Big 55" that were at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, as if everyone had the same conscience, responsibility, sense of purpose, and the same impact, in the 1770s.
Imagine, it took "imperial president" Johnson, of Texas, a southerner, with some prodding from "agitators" and "communists" like Martin Luther King, to secure voting rights for Blacks, and them some, nearly 200 years later (in the 1960s).
We are guessing, we can say that the poor, the dispossessed, and the powerless will always have a different conception of "the imperial presidency," from arm chair theoreticians sitting comfortably in the academy, who pretend "One Man One Vote" on paper is all that a "working democracy" requires.
But, you see, the "poor, the dispossessed, and the powerless" must know what might be/is good for themselves, first, by reason.
So, how funny and grave it is, that now we have a different kind of "imperial Supreme Court" chipping away at voting rights for minorities, even as they compensate their disuniting rulings with more freedom for those in the LGBT communities. But the last we surveyed, "imperial president" Barack Obama was standing for both.
And today, there are those in/from Ghana who will call Kwame Nkrumah a "communist".
What nonsense!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
READ:
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Rebecca.Klein@huffingtonpost.com
Email
61 Years After Brown v. Board Of Education, Many Schools Remain Separate And Unequal
Posted: 05/17/2015 9:14 am EDT Updated: 4 hours ago
SOURCE: www. ... read full comment
READ:
Rebecca Klein Headshot
Rebecca.Klein@huffingtonpost.com
Email
61 Years After Brown v. Board Of Education, Many Schools Remain Separate And Unequal
Posted: 05/17/2015 9:14 am EDT Updated: 4 hours ago
Decades after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling declared segregated schooling of black students unconstitutional, many American schools with high minority populations continue to receive fewer resources and provide an education that's inferior to schools with large white populations.
For Sunday's 61st anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which proclaimed "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," The Huffington Post takes a look at the state of education for black students in 2015.
In many states, there continues to be stark disparities in resources provided to black students and white students. In Nevada, for example, high-minority school districts receive significantly less state and local funding per pupil than low-minority districts.
(See the six graphs showing the disparities).
......As the US Supreme Court chips away voting rights!
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Largely impassioned, bold and constructively conceived; I am at loss at those who didn't make an effort to read through this, or didn't understand what they read.
It is time the whole of Africa and its islands summon the ... read full comment
Largely impassioned, bold and constructively conceived; I am at loss at those who didn't make an effort to read through this, or didn't understand what they read.
It is time the whole of Africa and its islands summon the political will to end what Tony Blair alluded to as Africa's artificial dismemberment.
Besides, the neocorporatocracy currently bedeviling the globe unleashing all kinds of ills in the global social-economic-political-ecological realms needs to be nip in the bud.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
READ: "...There is no denying the fact that political hypocrisy is the hallmark of the concept of democratic deficit. The situation is analogous to the French practicing “nominal” socialism and “liberal” democracy at ... read full comment
READ: "...There is no denying the fact that political hypocrisy is the hallmark of the concept of democratic deficit. The situation is analogous to the French practicing “nominal” socialism and “liberal” democracy at home but then changes the political dynamics to unfettered crony free-market capitalism and political authoritarianism in Africa..."
WE SAY: A ha!
We guess the French reasoned "political authoritarianism" better suited their appendages in Africa. After all, it is easier to deal with one illiterate, uneducated, selfish, "Strong Man".
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
"We say A ha !"
You and who? Please stop using the first person plural, difficult to surmise who is doing the talking.
"We say A ha !"
You and who? Please stop using the first person plural, difficult to surmise who is doing the talking.
Kwadwo 8 years ago
Lungu assumes all Nkrumaists think alike on every issue hence his use of the first person plural in his comments. Enjoy it Ampadu.
Lungu assumes all Nkrumaists think alike on every issue hence his use of the first person plural in his comments. Enjoy it Ampadu.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Not really!
So, what happened to freedom of choice?
But, no!
We do not speak for "all Nkrumaists", or any "Nkrumaists".
Rather, we speak for those who depend on us, for those who are voiceless, for those who can ... read full comment
Not really!
So, what happened to freedom of choice?
But, no!
We do not speak for "all Nkrumaists", or any "Nkrumaists".
Rather, we speak for those who depend on us, for those who are voiceless, for those who can benefit from the little we know.
That, we submit, is an important attribute of the Ghana-centeredness that we support and promote.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Readers,
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s book is correctly titled "THE DISUNITING OF AMERICA: REFLECTIONS ON A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY."
It is not "THE UNIFYING OF AMERICA"--(I left out the subtitle)--as I stated in the ... read full comment
Dear Readers,
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s book is correctly titled "THE DISUNITING OF AMERICA: REFLECTIONS ON A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY."
It is not "THE UNIFYING OF AMERICA"--(I left out the subtitle)--as I stated in the article. Actually the book sat on my desk as I wrote this article, and still mis-titled it.
It is still sitting on the desk right here with me, wide awake as I am.
My apologies.
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Also, if time will permit you, please read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine - Disaster Capitalism". A New York Times Bestseller.
Don't stop reading & researching!
Also, if time will permit you, please read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine - Disaster Capitalism". A New York Times Bestseller.
Don't stop reading & researching!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Brother Marcus,
Thanks for mentioning.
Anyway I have read Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" and referenced it in a number of my Ghanaweb articles.
I believe you may missed those articles! For instance, you might see ... read full comment
Dear Brother Marcus,
Thanks for mentioning.
Anyway I have read Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" and referenced it in a number of my Ghanaweb articles.
I believe you may missed those articles! For instance, you might see references to in the following articles:
1) RE: Nkrumah’s Socialism, Full of Ideas, But It Doesn’t Work (December 30, 2014)
2)A New Direction For Ghanaian Journalism 2 (October 24, 2014)
3)A Great Ghanaian Economist: Dr. Yaw Nyarko-Part ll (December 21, 2013)
4) Dr. Kofi Dompere On Nkrumah’s Scientific Thinking 9 (January 31, 2015)
5) Why Philip Kobina Baidoo, Jr.’s Approach To Nkrumahism Is Questionable! (January 30, 2015)
I hope this works, Brother Marcus. And please, do not hesitate to bring any useful text to my attention. It might be helpful to me personally and to my general readers.
Have a great weekend!
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Great if you are aware of it.
Would like for you to at some point soon reveal for you readers the role Belgium played in the "Belgium Congo" , and what Nkrumah's relations with Patrice Lumumba, that shouldn't go unnoticed.
... read full comment
Great if you are aware of it.
Would like for you to at some point soon reveal for you readers the role Belgium played in the "Belgium Congo" , and what Nkrumah's relations with Patrice Lumumba, that shouldn't go unnoticed.
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Brother Marcus,
I have done this in some of my pieces. I mentioned Adam Hochsclid's work "KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A STORY OF GREED, TERROR, AND HERORISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA," one of the authoritative texts on the Belgium ... read full comment
Dear Brother Marcus,
I have done this in some of my pieces. I mentioned Adam Hochsclid's work "KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A STORY OF GREED, TERROR, AND HERORISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA," one of the authoritative texts on the Belgium role in the Congo.
I have also addressed Patrice Lumumba's death and the legal tussles still going on between Lumumba's children and Belgian authorities, particularly Belgian citizens directly involved in Lumumba's death.
I mentioned another authoritative text on the question, Ludo De Witte's "THE ASSASSINATION OF PATRICE LUMUMBA, when I discussed Lumumba's relationship with Nkrumah and what that meant in terms of his assassination.
That said, I am grateful to you for bringing up these important questions. I am grateful because they fit the narrative of the current series. Since you brought them up, I have found a place for them in the series. Please feel free to share with me whatever you think I should include in the series!
I am grateful indeed.
Have a great weekend.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Maybe you have to close your two eyes while you are wide awake and reflect on some little things shaping to be great!
Take a breather in your mind's eye from all the superb work, we dare say!
We imagine students in Gh ... read full comment
Maybe you have to close your two eyes while you are wide awake and reflect on some little things shaping to be great!
Take a breather in your mind's eye from all the superb work, we dare say!
We imagine students in Ghana who have access to these records, or will, who are a tad inclined to be critical in their perspectives, will find these essays useful, to the extent they are useful alternatives to Prof. Amoako Baah-like teachings.
We are talking not just about History and Political Science students, but also those studying public administration, geography, city/town/urban/regional planning, philosophy, economics, government, law, education, sociology, art, ethics, and Writing and Research Methods, even.
For Ghana, it is all about Uniting under the precepts and development vision(s) of Kwame Nkrumah. In that sense, there is no "dis" in none of that.
Then also, it is about the "Record" and the "Reckoning".
Greetings!
cojo opoku 8 years ago
You and Nkrumah again? Haba. Get a life my brother and stop posting painful reads. Nkrumah and his benevolent dictatorship philosophy are dead and gone. Infact truth be told, country's that practices Nkrumah style governance ... read full comment
You and Nkrumah again? Haba. Get a life my brother and stop posting painful reads. Nkrumah and his benevolent dictatorship philosophy are dead and gone. Infact truth be told, country's that practices Nkrumah style governance in this day and age are failed states. Please this obsession will not ingratiate you to the family. Enough already.
Shoot Rawlings 8 years ago
The 'Nkrumah this','Nkrumah that' rubbish is really punching holes in my ears and eyes. We the young people don't give a shit about what Kwame Nkrumah was or never was anymore, even if we did care at all. Away with your old r ... read full comment
The 'Nkrumah this','Nkrumah that' rubbish is really punching holes in my ears and eyes. We the young people don't give a shit about what Kwame Nkrumah was or never was anymore, even if we did care at all. Away with your old rusted political mentality. We are in the age of Twitter, iPhones,fast internet and the like. Stop flooding here with nonsense.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Mr. Shoot Rawlings,
Good you mentioned Twitter, iPhones, fast internet and the like.
These resources have information on Kwame Nkrumah, the Greatest African of all time.
They also have information on George Wa ... read full comment
Dear Mr. Shoot Rawlings,
Good you mentioned Twitter, iPhones, fast internet and the like.
These resources have information on Kwame Nkrumah, the Greatest African of all time.
They also have information on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton...
Remember Spyghana, Modernghana, Opinion Ghana, Ghanaweb, Vibeghana, Myjoyonline, etc., all have Twitter accounts, etc.
In this connection they help us writers/columnists reach a wider readership. Threfore, you can rely on these resources you just mentioned to read more about Nkrumah.
In fact, the work of prominent Ghanaian scientists like Victor Lawrence and Thomas Mensah have impacted your Twitter, iPhones, fast internet and the like. These two scientists are products of Nkrumah's Ghana and educational policies! Do you see what I see?
More is coming your way. Do not sleep while the Twitters, iPhones, fast internets, and the likes...Hahahahaha...the likes...bring you more stuff on Nkrumah!
Have a great weekend!
Thanks for mentioning.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Shoot Rawlings,
I just remembered to mention this important fact to you:
1) Please go to the link [www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals?language=en] and watch Dr. Ron Eglash, one of America's leading p ... read full comment
Dear Shoot Rawlings,
I just remembered to mention this important fact to you:
1) Please go to the link [www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals?language=en] and watch Dr. Ron Eglash, one of America's leading public intellectuals explain to the world how the discovery of ancient African ideas, the so-called AFRICAN FRACTALS, led to what we call computer today.
2) From ancient Africans, the giant German scientist, philospher and mathematician Leibnez; English philosopher, logician, and mathematician George Boole, to John von Newmann (there is more additional names in the chain; we omit them for rhetorical simplicity), we have today's computer.
3) Read Dr. Eglash's book "African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Designs."
4) You can also read American Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.'s work to see how ancient African (Gold Coast/Ghana) ideas like "Adinkra" are appropriated to describe certain powerful concepts in theoretical physics.
Lest I forget, Dr. Gates, Jr. is a theoretical/mathematical physicist.
Finally, I am surprised you read my article (did you?) and yet did not see a direct connect between the "ancient" ideas of America's Founding Fathers and contemporary American realities, nor did you see that some of the books and source materials which America's Founding Father's relied to write the US Constitution, etc., predated the Founding Fathers themselves.
So you see how ancient ideas, like AFRICAN FRACTALS, are still living with us here today in the forms of iPhones, fast computers and the like, and Twitters!
Please go back and read the article again.
YAW 8 years ago
Kwarteng, keeps challenging readers with facts.In doing so, he has brought to our attention certain vital yet hidden gems about our historical leaders.
Kwarteng, keeps challenging readers with facts.In doing so, he has brought to our attention certain vital yet hidden gems about our historical leaders.
Abra Kuma 8 years ago
Summary: The Wheel of Politics:
1.(Western) political hypocrisy = deficient democracy =cronyism= liberal democracy = cronyism = economic elitists =political elitists = political authoritarianism = draconian laws =army form ... read full comment
Summary: The Wheel of Politics:
1.(Western) political hypocrisy = deficient democracy =cronyism= liberal democracy = cronyism = economic elitists =political elitists = political authoritarianism = draconian laws =army formation = creation of international elitist political & economic alliances & superstructures = electorate disenfranchisement = political hypocrisy!
2. Emergence of Nkrumah's regime:
A clear explanation given about the necessity for a unitary state, why Africa must unite and the emerging internal and external subversive elements bent on derailing Ghana's and Africa's economic progress thereby necessitating the establishment of a one party state.
3. Francis Kwarteng, I loved your conclusion to this part of your series; namely, Nkrumah's eerie account of the deliberate sabbotage of our new nation's business affairs by the departing expatriates. It brings feelings of humanness to your research account of historical facts.
Conclusion:
Great work here!In terms of style, you have a tendency to digress a little at times but content is always illuminating and I thank you for taking it upon yourself to edify us.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Abra Kuma,
What's up?
Thanks for your generous comments.
I also take your critique in good faith, and will begin working at it.
I have more coming!
Please have a great week.
Thanks.
Dear Abra Kuma,
What's up?
Thanks for your generous comments.
I also take your critique in good faith, and will begin working at it.
And so far as you (Kwarteng) are concerned, your cut and paste bogus essay can neuer impune any right thinking person.
Wangara, does your statement imply that you actually read the article? I cannot for one minute believe that you have the capacity to read an article of this intellectual depth and even if you did, are you trying to insinuate ...
read full comment
IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THE HOMOSEXUAL ADJOA WANGARA HAS ESCAPED FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL.
One of the more lighter moments of the Washington ascendancy to being the first "Mr. President", is the number and types of titles proposed by the members of the Continental Congress for the new leader of the United States of ...
read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
I just finished reading the piece. Very interesting.
I am grateful you brought this to readers' attention!
But I wish readers will find time to read the piece in its entirety! Quite information!
...
read full comment
It is funny, bur nevertheless provides some insight into how thing really are, or work.
Sadly, "Some 95 percent of Americans" who do not now live "on farms" today do not know much about their history.
Fact it, it took ...
read full comment
READ:
Rebecca Klein Headshot
Rebecca.Klein@huffingtonpost.com
Email
61 Years After Brown v. Board Of Education, Many Schools Remain Separate And Unequal
Posted: 05/17/2015 9:14 am EDT Updated: 4 hours ago
SOURCE: www. ...
read full comment
Largely impassioned, bold and constructively conceived; I am at loss at those who didn't make an effort to read through this, or didn't understand what they read.
It is time the whole of Africa and its islands summon the ...
read full comment
READ: "...There is no denying the fact that political hypocrisy is the hallmark of the concept of democratic deficit. The situation is analogous to the French practicing “nominal” socialism and “liberal” democracy at ...
read full comment
"We say A ha !"
You and who? Please stop using the first person plural, difficult to surmise who is doing the talking.
Lungu assumes all Nkrumaists think alike on every issue hence his use of the first person plural in his comments. Enjoy it Ampadu.
Not really!
So, what happened to freedom of choice?
But, no!
We do not speak for "all Nkrumaists", or any "Nkrumaists".
Rather, we speak for those who depend on us, for those who are voiceless, for those who can ...
read full comment
Dear Readers,
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s book is correctly titled "THE DISUNITING OF AMERICA: REFLECTIONS ON A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY."
It is not "THE UNIFYING OF AMERICA"--(I left out the subtitle)--as I stated in the ...
read full comment
Also, if time will permit you, please read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine - Disaster Capitalism". A New York Times Bestseller.
Don't stop reading & researching!
Dear Brother Marcus,
Thanks for mentioning.
Anyway I have read Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" and referenced it in a number of my Ghanaweb articles.
I believe you may missed those articles! For instance, you might see ...
read full comment
Great if you are aware of it.
Would like for you to at some point soon reveal for you readers the role Belgium played in the "Belgium Congo" , and what Nkrumah's relations with Patrice Lumumba, that shouldn't go unnoticed.
...
read full comment
Dear Brother Marcus,
I have done this in some of my pieces. I mentioned Adam Hochsclid's work "KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A STORY OF GREED, TERROR, AND HERORISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA," one of the authoritative texts on the Belgium ...
read full comment
Maybe you have to close your two eyes while you are wide awake and reflect on some little things shaping to be great!
Take a breather in your mind's eye from all the superb work, we dare say!
We imagine students in Gh ...
read full comment
You and Nkrumah again? Haba. Get a life my brother and stop posting painful reads. Nkrumah and his benevolent dictatorship philosophy are dead and gone. Infact truth be told, country's that practices Nkrumah style governance ...
read full comment
The 'Nkrumah this','Nkrumah that' rubbish is really punching holes in my ears and eyes. We the young people don't give a shit about what Kwame Nkrumah was or never was anymore, even if we did care at all. Away with your old r ...
read full comment
Dear Mr. Shoot Rawlings,
Good you mentioned Twitter, iPhones, fast internet and the like.
These resources have information on Kwame Nkrumah, the Greatest African of all time.
They also have information on George Wa ...
read full comment
Dear Shoot Rawlings,
I just remembered to mention this important fact to you:
1) Please go to the link [www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_on_african_fractals?language=en] and watch Dr. Ron Eglash, one of America's leading p ...
read full comment
Kwarteng, keeps challenging readers with facts.In doing so, he has brought to our attention certain vital yet hidden gems about our historical leaders.
Summary: The Wheel of Politics:
1.(Western) political hypocrisy = deficient democracy =cronyism= liberal democracy = cronyism = economic elitists =political elitists = political authoritarianism = draconian laws =army form ...
read full comment
Dear Abra Kuma,
What's up?
Thanks for your generous comments.
I also take your critique in good faith, and will begin working at it.
I have more coming!
Please have a great week.
Thanks.