Kwame Nkrumah: Nkrumahism And Francophone Africa 6

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  READ: "...Houphouët-Boigny was in fact a proponent of tribalism, though he never admitted it. While he was loudly rejecting independence during the referendum instigated by General de Gaulle in 1958, he was engaged in an ult ...
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  READ: "...Houphouët-Boigny was in fact a proponent of tribalism, though he never admitted it. While he was loudly rejecting independence during the referendum instigated by General de Gaulle in 1958, he was engaged in an ultra-nationalist campaign against plans for a federal union of former colonies..."
  
  WE SAY: Surely!
  
  How else do you take $31 million of the peoples' money to build a cathedral in the bush of your hometown, using imported tiles and frescas from Italy and France?
  
  
  But Boigny was even worse for Africa.

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• YAW 10 years ago

  Prof.Lungu, $31 million was pocket money for Marie Therese H Boigny.The cathedral cost a mind-boggling sum of $300 million in 1989.

  Prof.Lungu, $31 million was pocket money for Marie Therese H Boigny.The cathedral cost a mind-boggling sum of $300 million in 1989.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  YAW,
  Thanks for the correction!
  
  Our rounding "error"!
  
  Imagine:
  $300,000,000.00 in 1989 has the same buying power as $584,594,190 today, in 2015, using an annual inflation rate of just 2.6%.
  
  Thanks.

  YAW,
  Thanks for the correction!
  
  Our rounding "error"!
  
  Imagine:
  $300,000,000.00 in 1989 has the same buying power as $584,594,190 today, in 2015, using an annual inflation rate of just 2.6%.
  
  Thanks.

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• YAW 10 years ago

  And yet the "airy-fairy" Danquah fawning underlings keep complaining about Nkrumah for using the same amount in building lasting infrastructure for Ghana.

  And yet the "airy-fairy" Danquah fawning underlings keep complaining about Nkrumah for using the same amount in building lasting infrastructure for Ghana.

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• Kwame Joe 10 years ago

  Hindsight is 20/20: if only Houphouet-Boigny and Kwame Nkrumah have devoted a little bit of their time thinking about the tomorrows of all their people and their aspirations, they would have done things differently, I beli ...
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  Hindsight is 20/20: if only Houphouet-Boigny and Kwame Nkrumah have devoted a little bit of their time thinking about the tomorrows of all their people and their aspirations, they would have done things differently, I believe.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Kwame Joe,
  Go read this at www.GhanaHero.com and come back again.
  
  www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/documents/deve_plans/7_Year_Dev_Plan-Ghana.pdf
  
  Go read this at www.GhanaHero.com and come back again.

  Kwame Joe,
  Go read this at www.GhanaHero.com and come back again.
  
  www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/documents/deve_plans/7_Year_Dev_Plan-Ghana.pdf
  
  Go read this at www.GhanaHero.com and come back again.

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