Policy Harmonization: CPP Keys to African Unity 2

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• Kojo T 10 years ago

  Nana has just endorsed Nkrumaism , but the main point now is the African Common market At the current AU conference in Josie 26 countries are pooling to form a free trade zone.Basic to that should be an agric revolution.We i ...
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  Nana has just endorsed Nkrumaism , but the main point now is the African Common market At the current AU conference in Josie 26 countries are pooling to form a free trade zone.Basic to that should be an agric revolution.We in Africa import $36bn worth of food a year .Next should be industrialization .Transportation is just a means to an end ,The aim should be exchange of goods and services.For too long Africans have been trooping to be "slaves"This must end .Ghana cannot do it alone , which is why the CPP must forge alliances with progressive Pan Africanist organizations.Aluta Continua

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• 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."

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• Osei Kodjo 10 years ago

  You speak as an ignorant student of international politics and its achievements.In politics visions are started for others to continue,So is democracy or any political thought.
  
  The persuasive vision of Nkrumah lives on and ...
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  You speak as an ignorant student of international politics and its achievements.In politics visions are started for others to continue,So is democracy or any political thought.
  
  The persuasive vision of Nkrumah lives on and his agenda is now the focus of any progressive African.No wonder that this vision is now the focus of intellectual debates not only in political corridors but the universities and academic circle.Any good university in the world with a black or African studies has Nkrumah's thoughts and vision as the preeminent point to start with.He is indeed a colossus of African politics and thought.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  YOUR: "...Any good university in the world with a black or African studies has Nkrumah's thoughts and vision as the preeminent point to start with.He is indeed a colossus of African politics and thought..."
  
  WE SAY: Precise ...
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  YOUR: "...Any good university in the world with a black or African studies has Nkrumah's thoughts and vision as the preeminent point to start with.He is indeed a colossus of African politics and thought..."
  
  WE SAY: Precisely! And they teach that at Texas Southern University (TSU), in the School of Public Affairs that has joint programs with the School of Law.
  
  But the African student must be smart and willing to be even smarter in these African-centered ideas in order to avail themselves of the opportunities, at TSU and other such institutions.
  
  Above all, they must have just one voice in the same forum, for honesty, at the minimum.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  "....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 de ...
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  "....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).

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