In addition we need to pool our scientists together to find solutions. Markets need to be bigger so the new inventions can be sold at a profit. Steve Job and Carlos Smith and the soft ware guru do not grow cocoa nor have gol ... read full comment
In addition we need to pool our scientists together to find solutions. Markets need to be bigger so the new inventions can be sold at a profit. Steve Job and Carlos Smith and the soft ware guru do not grow cocoa nor have gold but are wealthy as they use their resource "THE BRAIN" to create products that have created jobs for millions.Osafo marfo and Prof Amoako Baah please take note and stop bleating nonsense.Africans need to unite and pool resources together to generate more
ADJOA WANGARA 8 years ago
Another release of the same NONSENSE and MADNESS from Francis Kwarteng. Copy and paste garbage which child can Google from the Internet.
Another release of the same NONSENSE and MADNESS from Francis Kwarteng. Copy and paste garbage which child can Google from the Internet.
BOAFO YENA 8 years ago
Both Kojo T & Adjoa Wangara don't have a clue about the article. Just shooting the breeze.
Both Kojo T & Adjoa Wangara don't have a clue about the article. Just shooting the breeze.
Cletus Kuunifaa 8 years ago
Africa needs to deal with the massive corruption as billion of dollars are starved for development. We are aware of tbe the quantities dollars starched in banks by some former francophone leaders. The culture of hanging on ... read full comment
Africa needs to deal with the massive corruption as billion of dollars are starved for development. We are aware of tbe the quantities dollars starched in banks by some former francophone leaders. The culture of hanging on to power is neither helpful and constitute a prolong siphoning of resources by political leadership.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Cletus Kuunifaa,
Dealing with corruption is a central component of of Faujas' article.
However, hanging on to power has not prevented Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore and China's Communist Party from being among the world ... read full comment
Dear Cletus Kuunifaa,
Dealing with corruption is a central component of of Faujas' article.
However, hanging on to power has not prevented Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore and China's Communist Party from being among the world's best.
The question is more complicated than your comments seem to indicate!
Thanks.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
READ: "....The battle is not yet lost for French-speaking Africans, as long as their governments, banks, teachers and elites understand the dynamics of openness and modernity.”''."
WE SAY: To all of that, we will add, "a ... read full comment
READ: "....The battle is not yet lost for French-speaking Africans, as long as their governments, banks, teachers and elites understand the dynamics of openness and modernity.”''."
WE SAY: To all of that, we will add, "and their under-dog relationship with France"
Unfortunately, Ghana has suffered a lot even aside from French responsibility for the overthrow of Nkrumah.
East African integration success?
Imagine Ghana is stuck right dead between these Francophone countries, from East (Togo), to North(Burkina Faso), to West(Ivory Coast). Explains in part why East Africans have had better success with respect to integration - they are all English-colonies, as a result, Swahili has even spread wider, faster.
We are guessing you can call it the 1st Curse of Ghana, if you want!
Cletus Kuunifaa 8 years ago
Hi Francis,
Am surprised that you hesistate on pinning down hanging on to power by leaders,
especially the francophone stooges as a recipe for retarded development in Africa.
Your example of late Lee Yew's Singapore and t ... read full comment
Hi Francis,
Am surprised that you hesistate on pinning down hanging on to power by leaders,
especially the francophone stooges as a recipe for retarded development in Africa.
Your example of late Lee Yew's Singapore and that of China might as well fall under outliers, in this case.
After all, are Singapore and China in the
brackets of developed nations?
I think they are grouped under emergent
economies, and surely not far from reach at
all.
The two nations operate not what is called
democracy, but a model crafted and suited
to their economies. So , they hanged on to
power, cracked down on corruption, the
people liked them.They brought fiscal sanity into their economies.
But , in our part of the world, hanging on to
power means stealing.
Hanging on to power means , a tiny
minority benefits from govt through
designed manipulated ways, otherwise known as state capture.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
It may be complicated, but gets less so when we analyze using simple Nkrumah precepts and the record, itself!
One of the things Lee Kuan Yes said at the beginning was something along the lines: I know the people of "new" ... read full comment
It may be complicated, but gets less so when we analyze using simple Nkrumah precepts and the record, itself!
One of the things Lee Kuan Yes said at the beginning was something along the lines: I know the people of "new" Singapore. They are of Chinese origin. They and an unruly bunch.
We are thinking maybe, just maybe, Ghanaians are a tad more unruly.
Even so, Ghana has always had the template - The Nkrumah record.
Nkrumah never stole from Ghana!
Nkrumah made serious effort to control corruption!
Nkrumah made sure Ghana had serious, long-term development plans!
Nkrumah instituted national plans with all regions as important stakeholders.
Nkrumah was for Regional-cum-African integration
Those Ghanaian leaders you mention, since the overthrow, have over the years, been coasting on the success of Nkrumah and the CPP.
Now Dom Sor is just the beginning of the reckoning for Ghana!
To the point, like Singapore, and China, Nkrumah understood that One-Unity government was the best at the start. (But the Danquah-Busia-Dombo confederates would not have none of that - thinking their Akyem Abuakwa ought to be the center of Ghana).
Happily, they lost!
In short, Nkrumah did not believe in a political "Spoils System" where people who win power divvy up state power, resources, and influence to their own kind.
Now, the NDC is proposing to set up an agency using public resources and public officials, that will benefit NDC part members and their "foot soldiers."
Well, that one is illegal under the laws of Ghana.
It is anti-Ghana!
It is anti-Nkrumah!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Brother Cletus,
Hi!
It has been a while!
As things stand, it appears we agree more than we disagree.
I have already dealt with some of your concerns in one of my essay that will appear this weekend on Ghana.
... read full comment
Dear Brother Cletus,
Hi!
It has been a while!
As things stand, it appears we agree more than we disagree.
I have already dealt with some of your concerns in one of my essay that will appear this weekend on Ghana.
Thanks for reading.
Have a great weekend!
Kwame Joe 8 years ago
Bogus article. In what way is Kwame Nkrumah connected to this Francophone Africa umpteen nonsense, Kwarteng? You and your Prof. Lungu comrade need to focus on Ghana's developmental challenges.
Bogus article. In what way is Kwame Nkrumah connected to this Francophone Africa umpteen nonsense, Kwarteng? You and your Prof. Lungu comrade need to focus on Ghana's developmental challenges.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
My Good Cowboy friend,
I guess you know what referent "cowboy" is doing in the salutation!
Thanks for your comments.
This article is much about the development challenges of Ghana as it is about classic Nkrumahism. ... read full comment
My Good Cowboy friend,
I guess you know what referent "cowboy" is doing in the salutation!
Thanks for your comments.
This article is much about the development challenges of Ghana as it is about classic Nkrumahism.
I don't think you have the impression that Ghana is not part of Anglophone Africa.
And did you read what Faujas said about Michel Barmiar, the European Commissioner? He said this in part:
"For West Africa, this means going beyond the mere removal of borders and rather into an integration of budgetary policies...Nonetheless, in an address made on 15 December in Geneva, European Commissioner Michel Barmier sought to give Africa his specialist viewpoint and CALLED ON THE CONTINENT TO ORGANIZE AND POOL ITS RESOURCES INTO COMMON MARKETS" (my emphasis).
Do you have any idea what the aboce statement means?
IT IS CLASSIC NKRUMAHISM.
Please go back and read the article again for your edification.
Thanks.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
We want to add that the solutions for Ghana's problems are all in the essays we present.
However, not being in government, that is all we can do at this point.
Educate, and get educated!
That said, we will say that ... read full comment
We want to add that the solutions for Ghana's problems are all in the essays we present.
However, not being in government, that is all we can do at this point.
Educate, and get educated!
That said, we will say that Michel Barmiar, the European Commissioner, ought to be talking to France, if he is really interested in solving those problems of "integration".
The European Commission itself should be investigating what exactly is responsible for the lack of "integration" in West Africa/Africa that think ought to be happening, but ain't.
Saint James 8 years ago
I hope the ignorant and conceited SARPONG is reading.
I hope the ignorant and conceited SARPONG is reading.
Shabi 8 years ago
Oh please leave Sarpong alone. As they say, 'let sleeping dogs lie'. I think Sarpong has taken the advice from that NDC guy who said that if the kitchen is too hot, leave.
Oh please leave Sarpong alone. As they say, 'let sleeping dogs lie'. I think Sarpong has taken the advice from that NDC guy who said that if the kitchen is too hot, leave.
In addition we need to pool our scientists together to find solutions. Markets need to be bigger so the new inventions can be sold at a profit. Steve Job and Carlos Smith and the soft ware guru do not grow cocoa nor have gol ...
read full comment
Another release of the same NONSENSE and MADNESS from Francis Kwarteng. Copy and paste garbage which child can Google from the Internet.
Both Kojo T & Adjoa Wangara don't have a clue about the article. Just shooting the breeze.
Africa needs to deal with the massive corruption as billion of dollars are starved for development. We are aware of tbe the quantities dollars starched in banks by some former francophone leaders. The culture of hanging on ...
read full comment
Dear Cletus Kuunifaa,
Dealing with corruption is a central component of of Faujas' article.
However, hanging on to power has not prevented Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore and China's Communist Party from being among the world ...
read full comment
READ: "....The battle is not yet lost for French-speaking Africans, as long as their governments, banks, teachers and elites understand the dynamics of openness and modernity.”''."
WE SAY: To all of that, we will add, "a ...
read full comment
Hi Francis,
Am surprised that you hesistate on pinning down hanging on to power by leaders,
especially the francophone stooges as a recipe for retarded development in Africa.
Your example of late Lee Yew's Singapore and t ...
read full comment
It may be complicated, but gets less so when we analyze using simple Nkrumah precepts and the record, itself!
One of the things Lee Kuan Yes said at the beginning was something along the lines: I know the people of "new" ...
read full comment
Dear Brother Cletus,
Hi!
It has been a while!
As things stand, it appears we agree more than we disagree.
I have already dealt with some of your concerns in one of my essay that will appear this weekend on Ghana.
...
read full comment
Bogus article. In what way is Kwame Nkrumah connected to this Francophone Africa umpteen nonsense, Kwarteng? You and your Prof. Lungu comrade need to focus on Ghana's developmental challenges.
My Good Cowboy friend,
I guess you know what referent "cowboy" is doing in the salutation!
Thanks for your comments.
This article is much about the development challenges of Ghana as it is about classic Nkrumahism. ...
read full comment
We want to add that the solutions for Ghana's problems are all in the essays we present.
However, not being in government, that is all we can do at this point.
Educate, and get educated!
That said, we will say that ...
read full comment
I hope the ignorant and conceited SARPONG is reading.
Oh please leave Sarpong alone. As they say, 'let sleeping dogs lie'. I think Sarpong has taken the advice from that NDC guy who said that if the kitchen is too hot, leave.