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MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

There is no question that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was prophetic in his actions and writings, and Molefi Kete Asante is right in describing him as "Prophet of reality".

The bone I will continue to pick with you, brother Kwarteng ...
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There is no question that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was prophetic in his actions and writings, and Molefi Kete Asante is right in describing him as "Prophet of reality".

The bone I will continue to pick with you, brother Kwarteng is twofold:
That many of your audience will have a hard time understanding what you are writing about.
Secondly, you keep emphasizing historicity, rather futuristics.

Of course history is important, however, because we now living in an age of accelerating change, we have to be conscious of our tomorrows and proper for them. In other words, Onuah Francis, we have to engage in rational thinking that allows us to craft Africa's possible futures, probable futures, and preferable tomorrows.

Irrationalists in most of us, in my opinion, is what continues to sideline Pan-Africanism.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

I mean plan for them, not prepare for them.
Sorry.

I mean plan for them, not prepare for them.
Sorry.
ADJOA WANGARA 10 years ago

Just as Francis Kwarteng has suceeded in forcing IDIOTISM on himself, so did Nkrumah try to force his selfish views on African leaders.

But how can you explain that to an idiot like Kwarteng, who will copy and paste all n ...
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Just as Francis Kwarteng has suceeded in forcing IDIOTISM on himself, so did Nkrumah try to force his selfish views on African leaders.

But how can you explain that to an idiot like Kwarteng, who will copy and paste all nonsense for readers to read.
Mahmoud 10 years ago

"Aspirations for African and World Leadership

Nkrumah, who is driven by ambition to be far more than Ghana's leader, aspires to be recognized not only as the predominant African political personality but as a man to be rec ...
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"Aspirations for African and World Leadership

Nkrumah, who is driven by ambition to be far more than Ghana's leader, aspires to be recognized not only as the predominant African political personality but as a man to be reckoned with on the international stage. His dreams of grandeur have led to a number of attempts to make Ghana the focal point of wider African political entities -- the abortive Ghana Guinea-Mali union, the defunct Joint African High Command, and his current project of a united Africa -- all of which have foundered in the face of reality and because of the refusal of other African leaders to accord Nkrumah the position of predominance implicit in all of his schemes. Instead, Ghana has become increasingly isolated, and Nkrumah has •earned the distrust of most African leaders and has even alienated his erstwhile radical cronies in Guinea, Mali, and the UAR.

On the international scene, Nkrumah's conception of himself as a world leader has led him to make contacts with other leaders whose real or fancied friendship he values highly. His self-created role has also resulted in frequent offers of gratuitous advice in resolving non-African problems, the details and complexities of which he is largely ignorant. He has thus attempted to insert himself in the Cuban missile crisis, the Sino-Indian border conflict, the Arab-Israeli dispute, the nuclear-disarmament question, and the Vietnamese situation. Nothing has come of any of these efforts.

Although he has succeeded in projecting himself into the African and international scene to a greater extent than most African leaders, Nkrumah is considered by most world leaders to be more of a nuisance and a figure of ridicule than a statesman. These rebuffs, and Nkrumah's consequent sense of extreme frustration, are in part responsible for his policy of encouraging and abetting subversion in Africa, activity which he also rationalizes on the grounds that many African nations -- including all of his close neighbors-- do not support the radical policies which he advocates and are followed by his government."
Mahmoud 10 years ago

That was a sincere and objective analysis of that despot called Nkrumah, and we thank all those who supported or participated in getting rid of the egocentric cunning dictator. As one writer rightly put it, "we don't care abo ...
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That was a sincere and objective analysis of that despot called Nkrumah, and we thank all those who supported or participated in getting rid of the egocentric cunning dictator. As one writer rightly put it, "we don't care about the colour of the leg that is pressing against our neck, we just want to get rid of it," and that was exactly what patriotic Ghanaians did for their country. Moreover, how could someone who was considered by most world leaders to be more of a nuisance and a figure of ridicule demand respect for Ghanaian/African interest? Kwarteng can go daydreaming like Nkrumah before him, and the looser will always be our dear country and its people.
UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN CHILD 10 years ago

Any better ideas Adjoa Wangara?
please come up with something new,Mahmoud.....cos we are so far behind as a RACE.

Any better ideas Adjoa Wangara?
please come up with something new,Mahmoud.....cos we are so far behind as a RACE.
Kwame Joe 10 years ago

Mahmoud, stop exhibiting your ignorance, " ..and the looser will always be our dear country and its people." The correct word is loser, not looser. Moronic Mahmoud, our dear country and its people are losing big time because ...
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Mahmoud, stop exhibiting your ignorance, " ..and the looser will always be our dear country and its people." The correct word is loser, not looser. Moronic Mahmoud, our dear country and its people are losing big time because of jerks of your ilk.
Shabi 10 years ago

Frankly, lets admit that the kind of people who would normally be inclined to read anything on or about Kwame Nkrumah are the liberated African who clearly, are on a higher plane of thought.

Those who do not read or even w ...
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Frankly, lets admit that the kind of people who would normally be inclined to read anything on or about Kwame Nkrumah are the liberated African who clearly, are on a higher plane of thought.

Those who do not read or even worse-still, understand the subject about Kwame Nkrumah, Pan Africanism and the urgent need for the African to become his own man, but who out of some kind of idleness of mind, stray into such areas where the more intelligent ones converge, are apt to end up like the Schizophrenic Trinity, i.e. Wangara/Mahmoud/Sarpong. They stick out like sore thumbs, making fools of themselves every day without a tinge of guilt or sorrow.

They have the morbid mentality of those African house-niggers who had become so comfortable by the corrupt handouts exclusively given to them by their White slave masters that, they actually fought against the abolition of the slave trade and eventually the independence of Ghana.

They cannot understand why any African would want to lift the oppressive pains of white imperialist tyranny from our societies and race.

It is a pity, but we have to put up with their vulgar, illiterate and obstructive gate-crashing interventions.

For now, we can only sympathize with their unfortunate state of mind and hope that someday, they will regain their proper human composure. God dey.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Readers,

Thanks to you all for reading.

We shall surely come back again with more interesting and enlightening articles. Continue reading!

Have a great week.

Thanks.

Dear Readers,

Thanks to you all for reading.

We shall surely come back again with more interesting and enlightening articles. Continue reading!

Have a great week.

Thanks.
Kojo T 10 years ago

Start where you are, use what you got , get where you want to.Africa needs to start with like minded leaders NOW. After all neither the USA nor EU started with the full membership as at now. When the Union begins and others ...
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Start where you are, use what you got , get where you want to.Africa needs to start with like minded leaders NOW. After all neither the USA nor EU started with the full membership as at now. When the Union begins and others see the benefits they will join.At the moment the whole thing is abstract to many. We can even see the fear it evokes among tribalists like the NPP who fear losing influence and identity .Yes bro Francis cut the essays short as most people are not at your intellectual level which is why the Wangara and Mahmoud type take swipes at you

Kofi B 10 years ago

Kojo T, it is the highest time you begin writing your comments in Ewe for you Ewe people to understand.

Your English is more than serious, trust me!!!

Kojo T, it is the highest time you begin writing your comments in Ewe for you Ewe people to understand.

Your English is more than serious, trust me!!!
Kojo T 10 years ago

Did you read your post? You should write in Twi. Trust me, my English is far better than yours. What is "your highest time"? Sorry if you cannot read Queen's English .You know when you drink coconut juice, it polishes your e ...
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Did you read your post? You should write in Twi. Trust me, my English is far better than yours. What is "your highest time"? Sorry if you cannot read Queen's English .You know when you drink coconut juice, it polishes your every aspect of life .Try it
zantoda 10 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah had his shortcomings but not on the subject of African Unity or common market, if unity is not good, why didn't the US stay as 13 states? and why are Europeans uniting in the 21st century when each of them can ...
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Kwame Nkrumah had his shortcomings but not on the subject of African Unity or common market, if unity is not good, why didn't the US stay as 13 states? and why are Europeans uniting in the 21st century when each of them can stand on their own than any African country? -read "African must Unite" by Kwame and Nkrumah and tell me the arguments he made are stupid? and other books on Pan African and stop the "mante meho" and imperialist propaganda of Nkrumah trying to be African president.
UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN CHILD 10 years ago

"Africans still travel to fetch the family water on their heads.

"y3so ne yawiaa na 3bo y3n no"

Most of Kwame's ardent enemies have not even read a book by his....and Kwame wrote as many as 20 books and other publ ...
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"Africans still travel to fetch the family water on their heads.

"y3so ne yawiaa na 3bo y3n no"

Most of Kwame's ardent enemies have not even read a book by his....and Kwame wrote as many as 20 books and other publications.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

Waiting anxiously to hear from either the writer or Prof. Lungu.

Waiting anxiously to hear from either the writer or Prof. Lungu.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

MARCUS AMPADU,

We have been on travel!

YOUR: "...many of (Kwarteng's) audience will have a hard time understanding..."

WE SAY: We've agreed!

We agree!

ITEM: There are several challenges to Nkrumah legacy defen ...
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MARCUS AMPADU,

We have been on travel!

YOUR: "...many of (Kwarteng's) audience will have a hard time understanding..."

WE SAY: We've agreed!

We agree!

ITEM: There are several challenges to Nkrumah legacy defenders, to include the Unitary Ghana legacy engineered and founded by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

The defenders must speak at the level of average reader, especially on a forum such as this.

YOUR: "...Secondly, you keep emphasizing historicity, rather futuristics...we have to engage in rational thinking that allows us to craft Africa's possible futures, probable futures, and preferable tomorrows.

WE SAY: We will never use those 2 words, (historicity, futuristics), practically, in any forum.

But, we agree!

"(R)ational thinking" (NOT IGNORANCE) can allow us "to craft Africa's possible futures, probable futures, and preferable tomorrows."

But, those outside government(s) who have useful knowledge and understand perfectly the role of religion(s) and symbols may only be able to envision, rather than craft, for Ghana (let alone Africa).

To channel Attorney Adjei Sarfo, "(I)gnorance (after all) makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation.." It is even worse when the ignorant takes hook, line, and sinker, the perspectives of a bygone era when foreign government succeeded in defaming and overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana/Africa's "Prophet of reality". (The Mahmoud postings on this and the previous essay are examples of the anti-Ghana, anti-African, perspective).

ITEM: Rational thinking tells us we may forgive, but we can never forget THE SMEAR, as we envision and craft for today and the future. That, to us, is the usefulness of "history", as far as we can see.

Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

I pray to the Almighty that Prof. Lungs cease using "WE SAY" ..."but, we agree". You and who, may I ask?

And what do you mean by "We will never use those two words, (historicity, futuristics), practically, in any forum?
B ...
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I pray to the Almighty that Prof. Lungs cease using "WE SAY" ..."but, we agree". You and who, may I ask?

And what do you mean by "We will never use those two words, (historicity, futuristics), practically, in any forum?
But we agree. Please explain professor.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

CRITICAL OBSERVERS REFLECT ON THE LEGACY OF KWAME NKRUMAH & THE FORCES BEHIND HIS OVERTHROW IN 1966 BY THE KOTOKA MILITARY JUNTA THAT ESTABLISHED A DICTATOTSHIP THROUGH MILITARY RULE...ALL THE WAY TO JERRY "ACCOUNTABILITY" RA ...
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CRITICAL OBSERVERS REFLECT ON THE LEGACY OF KWAME NKRUMAH & THE FORCES BEHIND HIS OVERTHROW IN 1966 BY THE KOTOKA MILITARY JUNTA THAT ESTABLISHED A DICTATOTSHIP THROUGH MILITARY RULE...ALL THE WAY TO JERRY "ACCOUNTABILITY" RAWLINGS AND HIS P/NDC, INDEMNITY-CLAUSE-REGIME

BY , DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
READ:
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatness, power and wealth...Therefore the defining variable in mental development is “opportunity” which establishes the most legitimate intellectual differentials in the cognitive abilities of groups and individuals.../
\...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood. If ignorance makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation, then the survival of the nation is under serious threat. For a country to be a nation, her people will have to subsume ethnicity under the aegis of the national interest. The present conflicts amongst the tribes, though so far verbal, is a testimony that our country comprises nations within the state. In effect, we of this generation have repudiated the concept of nationhood with our ethnic animosity and undermined the very tenets under which the nation was founded..." ( 6 February 2007, Ghanaweb, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., AKA, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law).

BY, DR. KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE!

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"....It is...instructive...that none of the...coup d'états have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians...staunchly backed regressively Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned...former prime minister (Busia). Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's...CPP...won a landslide victory... Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and...colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately... Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. (Busia)...however, succeeded ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny....\

\....Indeed...Ghana's major and...only international airport is named for...Kotoka....outlaw who spearheaded the grossly unimaginative overthrow of the constitutionally elected government of the CPP... Mr. Rawlings, whose...parentage is purported to be Scottish, presided over the dastardly kidnapping and summary execution of three Ghanaian supreme court judges, all of whom belonged to a single ethnic nationality....Needless to say, the 1966 Kotoka-led coup initiated the barbaric, neo-colonial military dynasty that Ghanaian continue to suffer….\

\... In fact, many of the most vociferous civilian opposition party leaders, some of whom are currently sitting in parliament, representing misguided and hoodwinked constituents, are known to have collaborated with Kotoka's so-called National Liberation Council to unseat President Nkrumah. It is also significant to observe that these...(Busia)...rascals and executive...muggers continue to dominate whatever passes by the name of "the legitimate opposition." This state of affairs, coupled with a largely under-educated and under-informed electorate, has made it almost impossible to rectify the prevailing socioeconomic chaos ravaging...(Ghana)...” (Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe's testament for the CPP and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was taken from “SOUNDS OF SIRENS: ESSAYS IN AFRICAN POLITICS & CULTURE”, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr (2004)," courtesy Atakora-Mensah, Ghanaweb, 2015-04-15 13:21:28).

PROF LUNGU SAYS:
Proper reflection and perspective shall always set you free!

When Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe and Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D, said all that, what exactly did they mean?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

I have always admired Nkrumah's vision of Ghana as one nation, indivisible but condemned him for proscribing liberty and justice for all.

In my pseudepigraphical writing dubbed "Nkrumah's Lamb", I was explicit that Ghana w ...
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I have always admired Nkrumah's vision of Ghana as one nation, indivisible but condemned him for proscribing liberty and justice for all.

In my pseudepigraphical writing dubbed "Nkrumah's Lamb", I was explicit that Ghana was well united as one nation under Nkrumah. The boarding school system was a great opportunity for us to stay together and appreciate each other, and I always refer to my happy times at Sectech when the tribes were as one.
Also, Nkrumah's notion of African unity is well appreciated but tainted with his ambition and tyranny.

In the same way, I am even here proposing that the Young Pioneer idea in and of itself was excellent if its purpose were to produce men and women of high moral principles and patriotism. The idea became morbid smply because it produced citizens whose brain is restricted to praising Nkrumah and rationalizing his dictatorship.

Nkrumah is an arrant demon of the Ghanaian political culture, but even a demon deserves his due; and I am happy that you implicitly agree that I have praised Nkrumah whenever he has even envisaged the right ideas. But I will always condemn him for being a classic dictator. And here, I see only objectivity and goodwill on my part.

As regards Okoampa, I can definitely not hold brief for him. He was a strong Nkrumaist before he was not, and his fictional narrative about how he became a turncoat is upon his own head.

...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
We are thinking one of your problems is, you do not appreciate differences in "ideas".

Let's not confuse the minor, with the major!

In all our readings of your essays, and given the expansi ...
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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
We are thinking one of your problems is, you do not appreciate differences in "ideas".

Let's not confuse the minor, with the major!

In all our readings of your essays, and given the expansive scholarship at Texas Southern University, an "Urban University", it has become painfully obvious to us that you did not adequately utilize facilities at TSU to internalize and clearly understand what education, development, and progress actually means for the disenfranchised, the poor, the powerless, Ghanaians, and Africans in the World.

We see a bright shiny line separating your thought processes from those of Mickey LeLand, Barbara Jordan, Kwame Nkrumah, and Justice Thurgood Marshall, of blessed memory (Nkrumah's friend and fellow student in Pennsylvania).

You may have gotten a law degree at TSU, but we see you sorely lacking critical faculties in your conflation of the minor with the major. (We say this, not because we are jealous of your accomplishments and law degree).

For instance, if you had bothered to take a course by Dr. Walter J. McCoy, in the School of Public Affairs, you would clearly understand the differences between the major and the minor in the grand scheme of development/things.

To the point, if you, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, in 2015, actually believe that "Nkrumah is an arrant demon of the Ghanaian political culture", you cannot at the same time tell us you still believe that "... Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood..."

You told us elsewhere you "spit on Nkrumah"!

THEREFORE, you are not making sense!

You may be confessing by your response(s)!

Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Attorney at Law, you are basking in the trivial, if we can be charitable to you at this point.

Greetings!

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

I personally don't see any problem with Nkrumah as a demon with some strains of vision, or even goodness.

Remember that he was charismatic enough to attract all the largesse and freebies from friends whom he later incarcer ...
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I personally don't see any problem with Nkrumah as a demon with some strains of vision, or even goodness.

Remember that he was charismatic enough to attract all the largesse and freebies from friends whom he later incarcerated without trial.

In the apex of his demonic posture, he took millions from America and ran to the Soviets for a communist cover. He thought he could pull on Americans the treachery he pulled on his friends and benefactors. He was wrong.

You may see "minor" in crass dictatorship and "major" in some abstract vision of national or continental unity, or even a presumed elevation of a people's confidence, but it so happens that to me, the two are indeed morphed. For example, I don't see how a dictator who claims life presidency and imprisons without trial can even effectively unite a continent or give confidence to the people. That is why I stated beforehand that Nkrumah had a vision tainted with his tyranny.

But you may keep your opinion of my brain to yourself, since the disgust I have of yours makes this mutual. And as I always say, Nkrumah failed his law exams. I passed mine the first time and practice law here in the USA, the most powerful country under the sun. If I wrote a three-day Bar comprising eighteen hours, over a hundred essays of analyses and 260 multiple choice questions based on analyses....if I have twelve Supreme High Court judges attest on my certificate that I qualify to practice in all the courts of the land, maybe you could say that they were in no doubt about my critical analyses as a lawyer.

And if so, how much is your opinion worth?
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

You've proven my point and we can now move on beyond the "brain"!

But, you are the lawyer!

What is that about "twelve Supreme High Court judges" attest on (your) certificate?

Where in "the land" you reference does t ...
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You've proven my point and we can now move on beyond the "brain"!

But, you are the lawyer!

What is that about "twelve Supreme High Court judges" attest on (your) certificate?

Where in "the land" you reference does that body (12 Supreme High Court judges) sit, who agreed that you, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, "qualify to practice in all the courts of the land".

You are not attempting to tell us you have a license to practice law in all the 50 States, plus Territories, of the land, are you? In other words, are you attempting to represent that you have a license to practice law in Virginia, Louisiana, New York, California, Florida, etc? Or before the 9 Justices of the US Supreme Court, where Justice Thurgood Marshall, Nkrumah's friend and supporter, once sat?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

You are too clueless.

I am barred in Texas; but can practice anywhere in the USA by pro hac vice, if you know what I mean.

I cannot educate you on how you get to be licensed here, but I can tell you that the law exams a ...
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You are too clueless.

I am barred in Texas; but can practice anywhere in the USA by pro hac vice, if you know what I mean.

I cannot educate you on how you get to be licensed here, but I can tell you that the law exams are fully standardized in the USA, and you can practice in all the States once you are barred in one state. What you need is to apply for pro hac vice, or if you want to be a resident practitioner, write a little state exam comprising twenty per cent of the original bar exam. Also, there are nine (not twelve) Supreme Court judges who attested to my law license....I can't help you if you don't know because you have never seen a US law license in your life and you will never see one.

Your mind is too narrow to understand these concepts.

I qualify to be a Supreme Court Judge here in the USA, and also qualify to argue before the Supreme Court in the USA. In fact, all those who sit on the Supreme Court here and argue before the Supreme Court have my exact law license and qualification, no more. And all law professors in this country require only my qualification to teach law; no more.

You sit here to question my credentials and critical faculties when I make my living by thinking for others and analyzing their legal problems. Yet you will be the first to say that I am boasting. Of course, I am, if only to shed light on your own supreme ignorance. Lazy boy; you can't even research well.

And an ignorant goon like you think that you know anything!
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

YOUR EARLIER:
"...if I have twelve Supreme High Court judges attest on my certificate that I qualify to practice in all the courts of the land, maybe you could say that they were in no doubt about my critical analyses as a l ...
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YOUR EARLIER:
"...if I have twelve Supreme High Court judges attest on my certificate that I qualify to practice in all the courts of the land, maybe you could say that they were in no doubt about my critical analyses as a lawyer..."

YOU, attorney Adjei Sarfo wrote that. We did not write that.

NOW YOU SAY: "...Also, there are nine (not twelve) Supreme Court judges who attested to my law license....I can't help you if you don't know because you have never seen a US law license in your life and you will never see one..."

We've always known better, the actual conditions.

Now, we see that you've had to qualify your "qualification" and statement about ability to practice law "in the land".

OUR CONCLUSION: You are wasting our time and shifting positions and data, all in a futile attempt to be appear important.

ITEM: The Bar exam in the US is not standardized, contrary to what Attorney Samuel Adjei Sarfo will attempt to say on these pages. That is a mis-representation, nearly tantamount to a lie!

READ:

FROM THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION:

"...Bar Admissions Basic Overview
In order to obtain a license to practice law, almost all law school graduates must apply for bar admission through a state board of bar examiners. Most often this board is an agency of the highest state court in the jurisdiction, but occasionally the board is connected more closely to the state's bar association. The criteria for eligibility to take the bar examination or to otherwise qualify for bar admission are set by each state, not by the ABA or the Council for the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

Licensing involves a demonstration of worthiness in two distinct areas. The first is competence. For initial licensure, competence is ordinarily established by a showing that the applicant holds an acceptable educational credential (with some exceptions, a J.D. degree) from a law school that meets educational standards, and by achieving a passing score on the bar examination.

The most common testing configuration consists of a two-day bar examination, one day of which is devoted to the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), a standardized 200-item test covering six areas (Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts). The second day of testing is typically comprised of locally crafted essays from a broader range of subject matters; however, in a growing number of states, two nationally developed tests, the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) and the Multistate Performance Test (MPT), may be used to round out the test.

In addition, almost all jurisdictions require that the applicant present an acceptable score on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE), which is separately administered three times each year.

The second area of inquiry by bar examiners involves the character and fitness of applicants for a law license. In this regard, bar examiners seek background information concerning each applicant that is relevant to the appropriateness of granting a professional credential. Because law is a public profession, and because the degree of harm a lawyer, once licensed, can inflict is substantial, decisions about who should be admitted to practice law are made carefully by bar examining boards.

Boards of bar examiners in most jurisdictions expect to hear from prospective candidates during the final year of law school....

...As state-specific information is so important (and so variable) in the lawyer-licensing process, law students should contact the board of bar examiners in the jurisdiction(s) in which they are most likely to practice law..."

RE-READ: "....As state-specific information is so important (and so variable) in the lawyer-licensing process..."

ITEM: That is not evidence of a STANDARDIZED process by any stretch on the imagination.

Further, contrary to the mis-representations (and hot air), Attorney Samuel Adjei Sarfo has failed to tell us he has a license to practice law in New York, California, Louisiana, etc., other than Texas.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

It is a useless exercise to argue with an idle non-lawyer like you.

After you read all the standardized information on becoming a lawyer in the USA, what you depend on to state that I cannot practice anywhere I want in the ...
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It is a useless exercise to argue with an idle non-lawyer like you.

After you read all the standardized information on becoming a lawyer in the USA, what you depend on to state that I cannot practice anywhere I want in the USA is ""....As state-specific information is so important (and so variable) in the lawyer-licensing process..."

You are so clueless. You started today with an argument that I once praised Nkrumah in other issues so I cannot criticize him in other issues. And now you are arguing with me about a profession in which I qualify to counsel you and all the Nkrumaist bunch, just to prove that I am somewhat limited to Texas in my practice, and do not qualify to practice in the whole of the USA. And now how can you, in your wildest dreams tell me what my skills and practice consist in when you are too daft to understand or write basic English?

The Nkrumaists have a habit of pretending to know more about everything and everybody, just like their god, Nkrumah. Nkrumah came to Ghana with a single portmanteau after spending fourteen years abroad. He had no leadership experience nor any idea about the law, and yet he found himself superior to everybody and had the ire to imprison Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah whose death he later caused. Now you are behaving as a typical Nkrumaist, pretending to know how to become a lawyer more than a lawyer, and what to do with a law license more than a holder of a law license.

Such a charlatan in the tradition of Nkrumah!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

After noting the extensive multstate exams one has to write (i.e. Multistate Bar Examination, Multistate Essay Examinations, Multistate Performance Examination and Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, you
can ...
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After noting the extensive multstate exams one has to write (i.e. Multistate Bar Examination, Multistate Essay Examinations, Multistate Performance Examination and Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, you
cannot even wrap up your head around the concept that the expression "Multistate" denotes a nationally standardized testing and evaluation which all prospective lawyers in the USA write.

And you would argue that I am wrong in telling you that Bar Exams here in the USA is nationally standardized, and that once you are barred in one state, you can fully practice in all other states on either pro hac vice or by a fringe state exam, the latter in the case where you want to be permanently barred in a particular state.

You make reference to states like California, New York and Louisianna in some presumption that these states have some superiority in training lawyers. You should understand that unlike many other states, one can even be admitted to the bar in California and New York without a JD (i.e. with some inferior certificate) whereas in most states, the JD ( a full doctorate) is the basic academic requirement. And the only peculiar thing about Louisianna is that the state practices the Napoleonic Code, and you cannot tell me how that code is any more superior to the Anglo-Saxon Law. In sum, once barred in one state, you are a lawyer in all the states. The only point that may confuse you is that you discussed all the national exams that are had on two days but failed to acknowledge that the third day exam is the state-specific variant; and that segment of the exam, comprising not more than thirty percent of the total, is what one writes in case one wants to be permanently associated with a particular state. Otherwise, one can practice in all states with a pro hac vice, a term whose meaning you have not bothered to search.

You must stick to your life as a failed felon, daily puffing weed and hiding in the shadows of the real world. You are a criminally minded individual who supports arrant dictatorships and uses an intractable moniker to hide his identity while surfing the net for information on others. You are ironically advocating for feedom for information from all others except yourself. What are you afraid of? You are not morally or intellectually fit to rant about the legacy of the law in which we are the duly certified experts. Neither are those mediocre apparitions infesting these hallowed pages.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Y'all should understand that having reached the apex of the food chain with my education, profession and intelligence, I have the responsibility to tell the truth as it is no matter the cost. And if I criticize Nkrumah, it is ...
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Y'all should understand that having reached the apex of the food chain with my education, profession and intelligence, I have the responsibility to tell the truth as it is no matter the cost. And if I criticize Nkrumah, it is simply because of his misbehavior that destroyed the country and himself, not because I am steeped in some ideological concrete like the Nkrumaist minions.

Fortunately, none of these Nkrumaist acolytes have ever engaged me in any frontal argument about the salient issues I have raised about Nkrumah's misbehavior. They simply try to sweep them under the carpet by reciting slogans and jargons. They rue Nkrumah's glorious overthrow by reference to the CIA and by insult against Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah, the leader that died in the quest for true independence.

They have the affect of transcendental oblivion about the euphoria that attended Nkrumah's demise and would even argue that the CIA choreographed it!

One day, when I asked a leading Nkrumaist why they answer every claim against Nkrumah with insult of Danquah, he answered that Danquah committed great evil by allowing himself to be educated with his people's taxes. I was like: Who did not?

In any case, if I find any redeeming qualities in Nkrumah, I would be the first to acknowledge them. Unfortunately, that search so far has been akin to a needle in a haystack.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Is that you, or is someone impersonating you, Attorney Samuel Adjei Sarfo (SAS)?

Your cannot be serious with this "Addendum"?

YOUR: "...if I find any redeeming qualities in Nkrumah, I would be the first to acknowledge t ...
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Is that you, or is someone impersonating you, Attorney Samuel Adjei Sarfo (SAS)?

Your cannot be serious with this "Addendum"?

YOUR: "...if I find any redeeming qualities in Nkrumah, I would be the first to acknowledge them. Unfortunately, that search so far has been akin to a needle in a haystack..."

WE SAY: See our response to your first comment, above!

For this....

"...if you, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, in 2015, actually believe that "Nkrumah is an arrant demon of the Ghanaian political culture", you cannot at the same time tell us you still believe that "... Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philostophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood..."

WE SAY: That is a Mt. Afadjato-sized evidence, right?

But we see, that was before you changed your "needle in a haystak" mind.

ITEM: Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Attorney at Law, do not allow "basking in the trivial" to become one of your major attributes.

Come on, SAS, do not push into the gutter!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

You are bothered that I consider Nkrumah as a demon and still believe that he had a vision to elevate the confidence of the African, to unite Africa or to unite Ghana?

I have never faulted Nkrumah for his vision in these r ...
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You are bothered that I consider Nkrumah as a demon and still believe that he had a vision to elevate the confidence of the African, to unite Africa or to unite Ghana?

I have never faulted Nkrumah for his vision in these respects, but will forever criticize him for incarcerating people without trial, for making himself life president and Ghana one party state, for his abridgement of due process, dismissal of judges, disastrous economic policies, his delusion of grandeur and his creation of a personality cult....

I don't see how these ill-fated measures can contradict with any vision of unity, especially where this unity is later construed within the scheme of Nkrumah's over-weeing ambition.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

Just listen to what you are saying. The sad fact is having reached the "apex of the food chain with my education, profession and intelligence ", you still don't realize the depth of your irrational thinking Dr. SAS.

Irrati ...
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Just listen to what you are saying. The sad fact is having reached the "apex of the food chain with my education, profession and intelligence ", you still don't realize the depth of your irrational thinking Dr. SAS.

Irrational thinking stems from one' cognitive biases, and I am afraid that you are up to your neck with them.

The first step toward overcoming bias, trust me, is to recognize and accept your fallibility.

YAW 10 years ago

Winston Churchill,F D Roosevelt,Hillary Clinton all failed their exams at some point.

Winston Churchill,F D Roosevelt,Hillary Clinton all failed their exams at some point.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

It should strike you as significant that all those people you mention wrote and failed the same Bar exams which I passed the very first time, despite that apart from Law School, I had all my education in Ghana, a third world ...
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It should strike you as significant that all those people you mention wrote and failed the same Bar exams which I passed the very first time, despite that apart from Law School, I had all my education in Ghana, a third world country.

And if somebody like Lungu doubts the power of my brain, this fact alone should suffice to remove any shadow of a doubt. I am the best here Bro, and you can pretend that you don't know.
YAW 10 years ago

It proves how ingrained your hatred for Nkrumah is.So what is your point in telling us Nkrumah failed his exams? Did Nkrumah start his education in Eton or Harrow in [Great Britain] prior to going to United States or Gold Coa ...
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It proves how ingrained your hatred for Nkrumah is.So what is your point in telling us Nkrumah failed his exams? Did Nkrumah start his education in Eton or Harrow in [Great Britain] prior to going to United States or Gold Coast/Ghana like you? That said, Einstein,Newton,Ben Franklin,Edison just like Nkrumah all failed their exams yet went on to achieve greatness.Trouble is, there is always two sides to every question- and all-knowing Dr. SAS always take both.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

YAW,
YOUR: "...Trouble is, there is always two sides to every question- and all-knowing Dr. SAS always take both..."

WE SAY: We've taken Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, to task on multiple fronts/multiple times on his two-fac ...
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YAW,
YOUR: "...Trouble is, there is always two sides to every question- and all-knowing Dr. SAS always take both..."

WE SAY: We've taken Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, to task on multiple fronts/multiple times on his two-facedness. We've never received a satisfactory answer. Instead, we get even more mis-representation of simple ideas and facts.

We are done with this!

Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

What a pathetic display of pompous self adulation. What makes you think "I am the best here..., and you can pretend that you don't know".

That is exactly what I meant when I described you as an irrational thinker. Waiting ...
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What a pathetic display of pompous self adulation. What makes you think "I am the best here..., and you can pretend that you don't know".

That is exactly what I meant when I described you as an irrational thinker. Waiting for your response bro SAS.
YAW 10 years ago

He constantly acts in an arrogant and high-handed manner.He has more negative views about Nkrumah than a dog has fleas.

He constantly acts in an arrogant and high-handed manner.He has more negative views about Nkrumah than a dog has fleas.
YIKRA 10 years ago

The world has moved on, if you believe in God why don't you try the God-solution?
Afterall, God is stronger than men who are nothing but evil snakes.

The world has moved on, if you believe in God why don't you try the God-solution?
Afterall, God is stronger than men who are nothing but evil snakes.
YAW 10 years ago

Francis,can you possibly contact the publishers to rectify this error about the year of death. REF: 100 Leaders in world history.Thanks in advance.

FACTS ABOUT
Kwame Nkrumah

Born: September 21, 1909 Birthplace: Nkroful ...
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Francis,can you possibly contact the publishers to rectify this error about the year of death. REF: 100 Leaders in world history.Thanks in advance.

FACTS ABOUT
Kwame Nkrumah

Born: September 21, 1909 Birthplace: Nkroful, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) Died: January 24, 1965 Sphere of Influence: Africa , Europe Type of Leader: Political

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