There Was No "Dum-Sor" Under Kwame Nkrumah!

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Ada Boy 10 years ago

Grow up Pro Lungu. What was Ghana's population in 1966? Even Dr Nkrumah would be repentant communist if he was alive today. Get a life,poor revisionist!

Grow up Pro Lungu. What was Ghana's population in 1966? Even Dr Nkrumah would be repentant communist if he was alive today. Get a life,poor revisionist!
Mahmoud 10 years ago

Busia did not say that he was going to stay in power indefinitely as Nkrumah did, and he did not declare Ghana as a one-party state either. He was given a 5year mandate to deliver for Ghanaians to judge whether to extend his ...
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Busia did not say that he was going to stay in power indefinitely as Nkrumah did, and he did not declare Ghana as a one-party state either. He was given a 5year mandate to deliver for Ghanaians to judge whether to extend his tenure or go for a different leader. But the communist relicts that were still hiding in our midst got panicked and overthrew him prematurely because they were afraid of his achievements. Truly, the man was so good that he knew exactly what he was coming to do for his country, and hit the ground running from the first day he got into office.

On the other hand, Nkrumah had been in power for sixteen years and turned himself into a president for life when he realized that his popularity had waned. In the sixties and after he had squandered the huge reserve, the country started to go down the drain politically and economically and Ghanaians visibly yearned for a change. But since Nkrumah shut all the doors that would have enabled them to exercise their political will and change him democratically through the ballot box, they had no choice but to force him out through a military coup. Therefore, the coup that removed Kwame Nkrumah from office was the only legitimate coup in the history of Ghana.
Kojo T 10 years ago

Poor boy who cannot read. Your illiteracy stinks

Poor boy who cannot read. Your illiteracy stinks
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

He calls himself a professor, and he could not even factor in his useless article Ghana's population of 5 million at that time. All these communists trained arts people are useless in this modern era. All along I thought thi ...
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He calls himself a professor, and he could not even factor in his useless article Ghana's population of 5 million at that time. All these communists trained arts people are useless in this modern era. All along I thought this so called Prof. Lungu and Kojo T live and write from communist North Korea which practices the type of communism their idol Nkrumah almost introduced in Ghana if his sorry ass had not been kicked out by patriotic Ghanaians . Unashamed , both of them live comfortably in the heart of capitalist America. What irony.
Joe 10 years ago

Ada Boy and Mahmoud, you guys are just ignorant fools. Do you know the meaning of a communist? And what is wrong with being a communist. Are the Chinese not ruling the World now to such extent that USA even owes China and Gh ...
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Ada Boy and Mahmoud, you guys are just ignorant fools. Do you know the meaning of a communist? And what is wrong with being a communist. Are the Chinese not ruling the World now to such extent that USA even owes China and Ghana now being governed by Capitalist even import furniture, water, toothpick and coffins from China who you classify as communist. Arent you disgraceful? You can't even make sense let alone make socio-economic and political sense to call Nkrumah a communist. Go bury your sticking ugly faces in the sand and then drop yourselves in the sea for the sharks to make meal out of your useless selves.
SARPONG 10 years ago

Who told you Joe idiot the Chinese are practicing the discarded archaic communist economy?

Some of you dumb illiterates need to go back to school. China adopted the capitalist economic system more than twenty years ago aft ...
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Who told you Joe idiot the Chinese are practicing the discarded archaic communist economy?

Some of you dumb illiterates need to go back to school. China adopted the capitalist economic system more than twenty years ago after the death of Chairman Mao.

Even now that China has become economic power, the living standard of Chinese is less than almost every western European country. China GDP per person is less than that of Brazil, Jamaica, South Africa etc. The living standard of an average Chinese is worse than people living in Argentina and a lot of countries including Jamaicans.

The belief that USA owes China is a mirage and oxymoronic. Show me anywhere with evidence where USA government has gone to China and signed for a loan.

What USA government has done time immemorial is that, it sells USA government bonds to finance its infrastructure development and there was a time where Japan government held a lot of these bonds than any country.

The government of China now holds most of these bonds because of the stability of the dollar and the reputation of the USA government of always able to redeem these bonds when they are due. Of today China decides to redeem its bonds, the government of USA can print more dollars to buy the bonds back though doing that will bring the value of the dollar down but in an emergency situation, USA can redeem these bonds.

China is not all what you perceive it to be because the living standard of Chinese citizens is nowhere near citizens of Western Europe let alone USA.

China is only an economic power because of its large market, 1.4 billion citizens, with its shoddy products.
Okofo 10 years ago

Sarps, I thought you are lying about China's PPP but you are right, China is number 89 well below countries like Gabon, Mauritania, South Africa and Equatorial Guinea.

No wonder Chinese are still paying thousands of dollar ...
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Sarps, I thought you are lying about China's PPP but you are right, China is number 89 well below countries like Gabon, Mauritania, South Africa and Equatorial Guinea.

No wonder Chinese are still paying thousands of dollars to illegally migrate to Europe and America.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

A lot of ignoramuses do not know that China is becoming more capitalists than the USA. The greater part of the means of production in China is owned by the capitalists who have taken advantage of the cheap labor China has. C ...
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A lot of ignoramuses do not know that China is becoming more capitalists than the USA. The greater part of the means of production in China is owned by the capitalists who have taken advantage of the cheap labor China has. China on its own produces nothing of quality.
Shabi 10 years ago

Every time I read the opinions of the Schizophrenic Trinity, I feel more and more saddened and angry about how several hundred years of the brutal imperialist/capitalist tyranny of Africa has completely destroyed the minds an ...
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Every time I read the opinions of the Schizophrenic Trinity, I feel more and more saddened and angry about how several hundred years of the brutal imperialist/capitalist tyranny of Africa has completely destroyed the minds and brains of many of our brothers and sisters.

These delusional running dogs of racist capitalist imperialism have no other way of reasoning other than they ways which are instructed to them in detail by their slave masters. Having been reduced to become robotic morons, they are woefully trapped against their own interests in mental torment that can be professionally described as a condition of irredeemable psychosis.

The mentality of the Schizophrenic Trinity reveals the kind of Africans who still continue to say and think strange things - of course under strict instruction from their white racist masters. They still agree to and say things like like Europeans discovered Africa and the human beings in it. So naturally the Schizophrenic Trinity employ imperialist statistics and valuation methods to analyze everything from anywhere in the world - including Ghana.

An element of the Schizophrenic Trinity who goes by the name of Dr SAS or Sassabonsam, or Gye Nyame or Mahmoud, has the temerity to conclude that he has done better in life than Kwame Nkrumah did, simply because he owns a couple of 4x4 vehicles. That is the quality of their reasoning.

For the information of the Schizophrenic Trinity, there is no way that one can compare the standard of life of a communist society and that of a slave & exploitation-induced society of the West, where even the imprisonment of its citizens - at the latest count over 2 million, are held in privately run prisons. And by the way, as one would expect, an overwhelming number of those prisoners are Black and poor people. Those Black and poor people were at least, lucky enough not to have been shot in the back by the self-indicted racist white police or the increasing number of young adolescent terrorists roaming the streets.

Then this uneducated nonsense about China now having become a capitalist state. We have a country that calls itself the Communist Peoples Republic of China, yet out of sheer stupidity or dishonesty, these clowns, in defiance of the obvious truth, choose to refer to that country as a capitalist country.

They are so blinded by greed and dishonesty that they have boxed themselves in a corner where they now have to steal the merits of success of others and describe it as their own or that they had a hand in the success of others. Even when an African who lives n Africa does well in any undertaking, they will find a way of attributing that persons success to some remote cause that is related to themselves - even if it is the western educational training that the person benefited from.

Because unfortunate people like the Schizophrenic Trinity have been totally brainwashed to think that socialism/communism is the preserve of poverty, deprivation and general misery, they cannot bring themselves to understand that socialist/communist countries like China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union could, or, can achieve any level of appreciable development. Therefore when development is achieved in any of such socialist/communist countries, they then turn around to say that those countries have become ideologically compromised and capitalist in nature.

For the running dogs of capitalist/imperialism such as the Schizophrenic Trinity, success is measured or defined only in terms of material wealth. So an average Chinese or a North Korean citizen who is paid a seemingly paltry salary of lets say the equivalent of $500 per month but enjoys quality free education, free health services, free housing and utilities, next-to-free public transport services and so on, is termed in imperialist economic permutations, as a poor person.

After making a shameful U-turn to make amends with the tiny little Communist Republic of Cuba, after having imposed an illegal economic embargo on that country for several decades, Cuba still managed to become one of the most advanced countries in the world as far as medical expertise and health delivery is concerned. In fact, just last week, Cuba became the first country in the world to achieve the notable historical success of achieving the feat of producing a drug that prevents pregnant mothers from passing on the dreaded AIDS disease to their unborn or newly born children. Cuba exports with minimal financial benefit, thousands of medical doctors and other health personnel to many countries all over the world - including Ghana and the US whilst the US, the UK and other imperialist countries who have sucked our blood dry for many centuries, continue to steal our medical personnel who we have trained at great expense.

I dont believe that it is possible to find normal human beings in the socialist countries of China, North Korea or Cuba, eating from rubbish dumps or who live on the streets or in parks in abject poverty. Yet in Europe and in America, countries who tout their slave-induced capitalist successes as better than those of the hard-earned development of socialist countries, this is common practice.

Putting the econometrics aside, we are all witness to visual clips of citizens from all over the world on our TV screens and we can judge from their general demeanor, who is happier than who. We know the societies where almost all their citizens are carrying weapons around with them and we know the societies where people - human beings can still laugh without having to try or pretend to do so. Even we here in Ghana, where we don't have basic utilities like pipe borne water or toilets in many places, we can laugh to our hearts merriment on one-meal a day. Above-all we can still make and enjoy natural love to our partners without resorting to the imperialist/capitalist depravity of homosexuality
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Every time I read the opinions of the Nkrumaist do-heads, I feel more and more saddened and angry about how several hundred years of the brutal young pioneer indoctrination and tyranny of Ghana has completely destroyed the mi ...
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Every time I read the opinions of the Nkrumaist do-heads, I feel more and more saddened and angry about how several hundred years of the brutal young pioneer indoctrination and tyranny of Ghana has completely destroyed the minds and brains of many of our Nkrumaist brothers and sisters.

These delusional running dogs of Nkrumaism, traitors, ass-heads, town criers and nitwits have no other way of reasoning other than the ways which were instructed to them in detail by their slave master, Kwame Sasabonsam Ngoloma. Having been reduced to become robotic morons, they are woefully trapped against their own interests in mental torment that can be professionally described as a condition of irredeemable psychosis.

Shabi spoke about the Nkrumaist dog-heads when he inferred the above.

Joe 10 years ago

Kwasia SARPONG who are you to educate me on Bonds and Derivatives? You dont know or understands bonds so just shut your stinking mouth up. Continue cleaning toilets in the States and tell me when are you going to stop eating ...
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Kwasia SARPONG who are you to educate me on Bonds and Derivatives? You dont know or understands bonds so just shut your stinking mouth up. Continue cleaning toilets in the States and tell me when are you going to stop eating cow foot? useless BUSH man.
SARPONG 10 years ago

This shows that you have been educated. I asked you a simple question to show us where you have seen the USA government signing a loan contract with China and your response shows that you smelly trokosi incestuous daughter fu ...
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This shows that you have been educated. I asked you a simple question to show us where you have seen the USA government signing a loan contract with China and your response shows that you smelly trokosi incestuous daughter fucker is a mental midget not in my class.

I debate intelligent people not illiterate rapists like your type.

YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT CHINA IS MORE CAPITALISTIC THAN USA IN ITS ECONOMIC POLICIES.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Joe,

I think this beautiful piece by Dr. Christof Lehman might interest (you might get to the original article at: nsnbc.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/e-u-begs-china-for-dumb-money/, where you can click on his references w ...
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Dear Joe,

I think this beautiful piece by Dr. Christof Lehman might interest (you might get to the original article at: nsnbc.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/e-u-begs-china-for-dumb-money/, where you can click on his references which are embedded withing the article):

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The Wall Street and City of London attack on the Euro and the most recent fall of the Euro against the US-Dollar have forced the EU to beg China for a rescue package. China´s response, “we don´t hand out dumb money”. By Dr. Christof Lehmann

May be it is the recent attack on Russia and China via a coup d´etat in Ivory Coast, the war on Libya (1) and the covert war on Syria that have disgruntled the Chinese government. One thing is certain, China has reason to be reluctant when the the EU both wants to wage a war against China (2) and then ask China to finance it.

Last week the EU begged China for a substantial bailout loan. The response from Chinese officials was that they resent being perceived as “just a source for dumb money” and insisted that criticism of Chinese economic policies had to stop before offering any assistance to the EU.

Chief Executive of the European Financial Stability Facility, Klaus Regling visited Beijing for talks with Chinese officials, only one day after EU leaders had struck a last minute accord on the debt crisis that is shaking the EU´s economy.

French President and current EU President Nicolas Sarkozy said that he had spoken on the telephone with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Hu Jintao expressed his relief over that the EU had announced a deal that is supposed to tackle the ongoing Euro crisis that has the potential to collapse the world economy. In an interview on Chinese TV Hu Jintao said “China has a major role to play. China must deploy more resources to stimulate the world economy: If countries decide to invest in the Euro rather than the dollar, why reject that?” Hu´s statement on TV can be understood as a signal to the US as well as the EU to cease their military aggressions against nations that are dealing or attempting to deal in other currencies than dictated by the US or EU. Examples of these aggressions are the Ivory Coast and the ousting of Laurent Gbagbo earlier this year, after Gbagbo announced that Ivory Coast considered to leave the French controlled CFA Region. The war on Iraq after Iraq chose the Euro over the US-Dollar is another example, and the attack on Libya, with Libya lobbying for a Pan-African Gold Dinar a third.

The Chinese refusal to provide a substantial rescue package for the EU and Euro should also be seen within other important contexts. One of them is that both Russian and Chinese Intelligence Services fear NATO plans to implode the world economy and initiate a global conflict (3). A massive Chinese loan to the EU, which economy can not be salvaged unless programs nobody at Wall Street nor the City of London ever would agree to, would have seriously endangered the Chinese economy when the inevitable EU crash becomes imminent. At the latest Greek attempt to sale state obligations only about half were sold, and against an annual interest rate of 100 %. No economy in the world can carry that burden. To slash 50 % of Greece´s debt holdings does not cut it either.

Regling may have said that the bailout of Greece was an exceptional case and that he would not believe such bailout would be repeated for other nations, but no fund is big enough to cope with the very likely collapse of the Italian and Spanish economy. Italy´s borrowing costs have hit EU area high´s, and austerity cut´s are not cutting it either.

One might ask, whom was Regling trying to convince at a Beijing News Conference on Thursday, when he referred to China´s 3.2 Trillion USD of foreign exchange reserves and said that “we all know China has a particular need to invest surpluses”.

Regling is right, China needs to invest it´s surpluses. But then again, China does not invest dumb money. Chinese economists very well understand that investing in joint ventures in Africa is a far better idea than investing into EU and US Funny Papers. China would also know better than investing in economies that wage wars against it in Libya, Ivory Coast the African Continent and Asia. European Economist and politicians, including war mongering Sarkozy should know that a dog that bites the hand that feeds it is bound to starve. Late night calls to Hu won´t change that.

Christof Lehmann
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francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Joe,

I also thought this Wall Street article "Germany, France, Italy to Join China-Backed Development Bank" might interest:
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Dear Joe,

I also thought this Wall Street article "Germany, France, Italy to Join China-Backed Development Bank" might interest:
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Germany, France and Italy followed the U.K.’s lead in applying to join a China-led international development bank, lending the weight of Europe’s largest economies to the project despite U.S. opposition.

Europe’s four top powers have now broken ranks with Washington in moving to become founding members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The decision is expected to spur other U.S. allies to back the potential challenger to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, where Washington has significant influence.

It also comes as Obama administration officials warn that the U.S. is also losing clout through the world’s emergency lender, the International Monetary Fund.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Tuesday publicly aired growing tensions between the trans-Atlantic allies over the matter, criticizing European support for the China-led development bank and questioning the new institution’s anticorruption, labor and environmental standards.

“I hope that before the final commitments are made, anyone who would lend their name to this organization will make sure that the government is addressing [those issues],” Mr. Lew told lawmakers at a hearing on the international financial system.

Tuesday’s decision, announced by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble after a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai in Berlin, underscored the willingness of traditional U.S. allies to split with Washington on policy to curry favor in Beijing. The readiness of the U.K.—one of the U.S.’s closest allies—to defy Washington with its decision last week to join helped to clear the way for other Western economies to follow suit, a European diplomat said.

China launched the AIIB in October—one in a series of moves to boost its regional and global influence—and invited other countries to join as founding members by March 31. Endowed with an initial capitalization of $50 billion, the bank would have a mandate to finance infrastructure projects around the world.

While Beijing has said the bank will be open and inclusive—a promise repeated Tuesday—U.S. officials have cautioned allies against putting their imprimatur on an institution that could fall shy of Western standards. They worry about a new rival to the World Bank that might conduct itself by different standards amid already growing competition for development-project funding from the private sector. Officials have also expressed concern the bank could undercut U.S. influence through the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

Like the U.K., German officials said joining the China-led initiative while it is still being shaped would help ensure the development bank would operate under high lending and transparency standards. “We want to contribute our long-standing experience with international financial institutions to the creation of the new bank by setting high standards and helping the bank to get a high international reputation,” Mr. Schäuble said.

European officials also say that moving quickly to join the bank could benefit their economies. The British government has said it wanted to become the main European destination for Chinese investments, and China is Germany’s fourth-largest trading partner, accounting for 7% of Germany’s exports.

“This is basically about money,” said Ted Truman, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. “The Europeans figure they can affect the changes from the inside, and still get some of the contracts.”

Like Brazil and India, China has been lobbying for years to gain greater sway over the IMF, whose largest shareholder is the U.S. But while all IMF member countries have backed greater influence for emerging economies, GOP lawmakers have so far blocked the move.

Mr. Lew said the delay in the IMF-governance overhauls is causing other countries, including allies, to question U.S. commitment to the IMF and other multilateral institutions that Washington founded 70 years ago.

U.S. approval of the IMF governance reforms will help persuade emerging economies “to remain anchored in the multilateral system that the U.S. helped design and continues to lead,” he told lawmakers.

China issued a restrained welcome to the latest European applicants for the bank. The finance ministry said in a brief statement that Beijing would seek the opinions of other participating countries before deciding on whether to admit the three European countries. In practice, however, the approval is expected to be perfunctory, according to diplomats and academics in Beijing who have followed China’s efforts to form the bank.

Beijing has been lobbying countries to join, saying that the bank would fill an immense need for infrastructure financing and that founders would have input in setting the bank’s standards for transparency and other governance issues. Oxford Economics and consultancy PwC forecast global infrastructure spending of nearly $78 trillion between 2014 and 2025, with nearly 60% of that in the Asia-Pacific region.

China has focused particular attention on drawing in key U.S. allies in the region—South Korea and Australia—both of which have also come under pressure from Washington. The South Korean foreign ministry said Tuesday the decision requires a “time-consuming” review by the finance ministry, suggesting Seoul might not meet the March 31 deadline. Australian officials have said the government would decide soon whether to join the AIIB.

Chinese commentators read the decision by the Western European countries as a victory for Beijing that hastens the waning of U.S. influence.

“The U.S.-dominated world order has begun to collapse,” Wang Dehua, a former reporter with the Chutian Metropolis Daily, wrote on his verified account on Weibo Corp. ’s social-media service. “In the future, such a collapse will be like dominoes, quickly spreading tile by tile. Perhaps very soon, the U.S.-dominated world order will come to an end.”

China has sought to meet concerns by the U.S. and others that the development bank might become a Chinese foreign policy tool and contribute to indebtedness, waste and graft in borrowing countries.

“In designing its operation and governance structure, it will learn from the good practices of other multilateral development banks and avoid taking detours that these banks have made, so as to cut costs and increase efficiency,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters Tuesday at a daily news briefing in Beijing.

A European official close to the preparatory talks about the AIIB said the bank would likely be officially launched by early summer this year, with the first project to be selected at the end of this year.
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Gye Nyame 10 years ago

Kwarteng and Lungu, China is looking to hire teachers and some professionals from the West so if you love them so much why don't you all relocate. This is the same dishonestly of your idol Nkrumah, you live and enjoy the bene ...
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Kwarteng and Lungu, China is looking to hire teachers and some professionals from the West so if you love them so much why don't you all relocate. This is the same dishonestly of your idol Nkrumah, you live and enjoy the benefits of the US and yet you bash it every second you get. Why do you continue to stay in the US if you hate their system?
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Gye Nyame,

Well my idol Nkrumah is still one of the world's greatest leaders, having being ranked among the world's best 100 leaders in some studies?

Have you forgotten he is Africa's Man of the Millennium? Which other ...
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Gye Nyame,

Well my idol Nkrumah is still one of the world's greatest leaders, having being ranked among the world's best 100 leaders in some studies?

Have you forgotten he is Africa's Man of the Millennium? Which other Ghanaian or African leader has that noble title? Just give me one name, not two, three, or four, just ONE NAME!

I know Americans are recruiting teachers with proficiency in Mandarin (Chinese/Asian history and culture) to teach their kids because they know China is going to be where money and jobs are going to be in the 21st century?

Europe is doing the same. Do you have any skills in Mandarin (Chinese culture and history)? Well as the two articles I sent Joe ("E.U. Begs China for Dumb Money" and "Europe Joins China") indicate, Europe is running to join the Chinese even against American objections.

America is afraid the Chinese-founded bank is probably going to outcompete or overtake the IMF/World and therefore warned Europe not the join the bank? What happened? Europe ignored its traditional ally (America) and joined the Chinese.

Where is Ghana and Africa in all of these? China has transformed the world just in a generation. Unlike Nkrumah, what did Busia-Danquah bring to the table? It economy coughs, and the American economy shivers!

Please don't come back and tell me China is a Third World Country, because no country in African can compare itself to China in terms of industrialization, development, etc. China (and the Asian Tigers) took a generation to achieve what it took the West centuries to build.

For your information, I get to live wherever I want to live just as you have Americans (and Westerners) living all over Africa.

I personally know two White-Americans (one has bought a house at Trassaco Valley) who live in Ghana and criticize Ghana/Africa (leaders, etc) all the time and still enjoy our hospitality.

Is America for Europeans or Native Americans? Are you telling Franklin Cudjoe to go live in the West since he uses Western standards to critique Ghanaian and African governments?

Naturalized Whites (and others) in Africa critique African leaders and politics all the time in sociology, political eeconomy, and political science peer-reviewed journals/newspapers (Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, New African, the Economist, etc) all the time, are you telling them to leave Africa for the West? Or is it because you don't these things happen? Send me an email and I will send you tons of these criticisms!

Gye Nyame, do you have any skills in Mandarin, etc? Please do let me know. And don't forget that America also recruits teachers from the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, Australia, Asia (STEM teachers) and Africa to teach!

Two of my UST mates from Britain are teaching American kids today under the same program.

I also know Jamaicans in White Plains Road (New York) who were brought here to teach American kids under the same program... America even gives these foreign-trained teachers GREEN CARDS (residence permits).

America also recruits Asian STEM (science, technology, mathematics, and engineering) teachers and gives them GREEN CARDS too. Are you going to tell your African/Ghanaian friends in Asia to take advantage of this program? Please let me know!

SO IT IS NOT ONLY CHINA THAT IS DOING IT.

Thanks.
Joe 10 years ago

Thank you brother Francis

Thank you brother Francis
Ghanaba 10 years ago

Sarps, CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THESE FOOLS WHO CANNOT TELL north kOREA FROM Thailand.

Sarps, CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THESE FOOLS WHO CANNOT TELL north kOREA FROM Thailand.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Tell them, Joe!

Thanks.

Tell them, Joe!

Thanks.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Readers,

Please, go to Ghanahero.com/vision and look for the same title under Prof. Lungu, and there one should find a graph and a table of data, bot of which further go to explain important aspects of Prof. Lungu's e ...
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Dear Readers,

Please, go to Ghanahero.com/vision and look for the same title under Prof. Lungu, and there one should find a graph and a table of data, bot of which further go to explain important aspects of Prof. Lungu's essay.

That is to say the mathematical dimension of this essay is very important as it emphasizes the qualitative assumptions of Prof. Lungu's core arguments. Let's take note!

Have great weekend.

Thanks.

francis kwarteng 10 years ago

www.Ghanahero.com/vision

www.Ghanahero.com/vision
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Yes, a copy of the final essay, with charts, in PDF, is available at for FREE:
www.ghanahero.com/visions.
(See under "Prof Lungu Says....").

Yes, a copy of the final essay, with charts, in PDF, is available at for FREE:
www.ghanahero.com/visions.
(See under "Prof Lungu Says....").
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks.

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

The Nkrumaists ostriches, idolaters, nincompoops and ass heads will never get it into their rasta heads that Nkrumah is dead
and gone and his tyrannical ideologies expunged from the laws of the country.

The Akosombo dam ...
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The Nkrumaists ostriches, idolaters, nincompoops and ass heads will never get it into their rasta heads that Nkrumah is dead
and gone and his tyrannical ideologies expunged from the laws of the country.

The Akosombo dam operated under Nkrumah for only one month after it formally opened in January of 1966; how could it have been tested enough to determine if Nkrumah was not going cause dumsor for his opponents? That scenario is possible, given that the man was so vindictive and wicked.

In any case, nothing justifies dictatorship, and the mere provision of material things will not form any basis for the imposition of tyranny, except for retards like Lungu and his cronies.

So the Nkrumaist vagabonds, hoodlums, nincompoops, cuckolds and eunuchs should live up to the reality that Nkrumah was ignominously overthrown and died a paranoid and disillusioned man, his ideology now put in the dustbin of history.

Interestingly, when Samia Nkrumah ran Nduom out of the CPP, she was just re-enacting her father's treachery and ingratitude, but Ghanaians are wise, and will give CPP less than 0.5% of total votes should Samia run in the name of her father.

So the Nkrumaists should wake up and realize that the measure of their incessant noise is capsuled in the less than 0.50% vote share they regularly get; unless of course they acknowledge that the NDC is the custodian of the Nkrumah heritage, and not the CPP.

The question then is, what is the cacophony about Nkrumah if his notional share of party votes is under 1%? Isn't it sufficient evidence that Ghanaians have totally rejected him?
And if Nkrumah's cronies make all this noise about the scorned dictator, aren't they able to concede that the man, together with his ideas and party, is now non-existent in the present political dispensation?

Nkrumah was the evil demon of our national politics who is dead and gone. Live with it and stop litering these pages with bunkum that seems to suggest that the country should return to his dictatorship because he provided the necessary utilities. It will never happen my friend.
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
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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).
Nii Teiko 10 years ago

I Thought Nkrumah was booted from office under the soul comandeer of Afrifa, as Francis Kwarteng want his reafers to believe, little did I know Trokosi Kotoka and Ankrah were the main actors. Does it mean that some haters tr ...
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I Thought Nkrumah was booted from office under the soul comandeer of Afrifa, as Francis Kwarteng want his reafers to believe, little did I know Trokosi Kotoka and Ankrah were the main actors. Does it mean that some haters try to pin down Nkrumahs overthrow on Afrifa so that they can have grounds to insult and increase their hate for my Ashantis friends? By the way, enough thanks to Prof Lung for this eye opener.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Yes,

And since when did you become a Ga, Nii Teiko? Or you just chose that moniker! Well you quite know ethnicity means nothing to me really. Be yourself, that is all!

Go and read Godfrey Mwakikagile's "Western Involvem ...
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Yes,

And since when did you become a Ga, Nii Teiko? Or you just chose that moniker! Well you quite know ethnicity means nothing to me really. Be yourself, that is all!

Go and read Godfrey Mwakikagile's "Western Involvement in Nkrumah's Downfall" to know more about how Afrifa planned overthrowing Nkrumah in 1962 and 1964.

What are "soul comandeer" and "reafers"? Please I don't have "reafers" unless I don't know what I am talking about!

There is more surprising info on Afrifa for you to read. And he Afrifa was central in the 1966 coup.

In your haste to carry your prejudices into Prof. Lungu's comments you probably misread what the "hyphen" in Kotoka-Ankrah stands for. In other words, that "hyphen" you have in your head is not empty.

That "hyphen" is itself the long historical records leading up to the 1966 coup and a long list of "unnamed" names and external elements/forces involved in hatching out and executing the 1966 coup (Please go and read Chapter 1 (Volume Four) of the National Reconciliation Commission Report (for your education) for additional information on Afrifa's role in the 1966 coup. This recommendation is to put an end to your hallucinations).

And who led the fight in the takeover of the Broadcasting House when the announcement of Nkrumah's was finally declared? In fact Afrifa was not Kotoka's right-hand man but a central figure in the coup.

I have no idea what Kotoka and others were thinking when Africa contemplated Nkrumah's overthrow in 1962 and 1964.

The 1966 merely reinforced Afrifa's contemplations. So go back and read the National Reconciliation commission Report and Godfrey's book. This will nip your prejudices and uninformed conclusions in the bud.

I believe you have not learnt to read Prof. Lungu as I have done. The man has an extraordinary way of writing and leaving trains of thought and ideas behind his symbolic writing.

You shortchanged yourself by thinking the "hyphen" is your normal hyphen. Read Prof. Lungu critically.

All errors are mine.

Thanks.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Nii Teiko,
Afrifa was part of the junta!

Kotoka and "Bomb-Vietnam-Now-Ankrah" were the official faces of that military dictatorship, in international circles.

Thanks.

Nii Teiko,
Afrifa was part of the junta!

Kotoka and "Bomb-Vietnam-Now-Ankrah" were the official faces of that military dictatorship, in international circles.

Thanks.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

You see a typical diversionary tactics of a communist . It is no longer 'no dumsor under Nkrumah' but Nkrumah's legacy. He thought he could get away with lies if Dr. SAS had not corrected him. In any case quoting what Dr. SAS ...
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You see a typical diversionary tactics of a communist . It is no longer 'no dumsor under Nkrumah' but Nkrumah's legacy. He thought he could get away with lies if Dr. SAS had not corrected him. In any case quoting what Dr. SAS wrote several years ago about Nkrumah is irrelevant. The thrust of his ' anti Nkrumah ' rhetoric as I see it, is Nkrumah's blatant disregard for human dignity and rights and his style of government. Barring these wrongs , I think Nkrumah would have been his idol.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Nice try!

Looks like you did not even read the article, but found time to make so many "political" comments, without basis in fact.

Explain the gains in GDP!

We are talking about achievements of fundamental proportio ...
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Nice try!

Looks like you did not even read the article, but found time to make so many "political" comments, without basis in fact.

Explain the gains in GDP!

We are talking about achievements of fundamental proportions!

Ghana-centered achievements, that is!

Again, no Ghanaian government comes close to Nkrumah in this solitary area. (There is data to back up all our claims).

The days when governments and deluded officials destroyed property, hid data, and lied to the people about Nkrumah's legacy are over!

As we say in this essay, Kwame Nkrumah gave capacity, lots of power capacity, for Ghana's current needs, in addition to Ghana's future needs.

All governments after Nkrumah, including the NLC-NLM-UP-PP, Rawlings P/NDC, Kuffour's NPP, COASTED on the achievements of Nkrumah. In doing so, they failed to plan effectively for the future power needs of Ghana, thus persistent "Dum-Sor Bioyin". (In many cases, they were distracted counting the money they looted from liquidating Nkrumah-Chartered state enterprises, including the Black Star Line!

Go figure, partner!

GOLD COAST 10 years ago

(Akoa yi,wa gyimi paa!) You're a disgrace to the the law school that awarded you your degree.

Anyway,as they say in the HOOD:"You can take a man out of the ghetto,but you cannot take the ghetto out of him." KURASENI!

P ...
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(Akoa yi,wa gyimi paa!) You're a disgrace to the the law school that awarded you your degree.

Anyway,as they say in the HOOD:"You can take a man out of the ghetto,but you cannot take the ghetto out of him." KURASENI!

PEACE
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Let us remember,electricity started in Sekondi,produced by Railway in 1914.The British colonised Ghana for over 100 years but Nkrumah was able to devolop Ghana faster in a very few years.I remember when I was a kid in Sekondi ...
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Let us remember,electricity started in Sekondi,produced by Railway in 1914.The British colonised Ghana for over 100 years but Nkrumah was able to devolop Ghana faster in a very few years.I remember when I was a kid in Sekondi,we usuall called light poles as "gas pole".By that time,there was no Akosombo dam,we were using only thermal plants situated at Ketan,a surburb of Sekondi.I think that is the reason why we refered to light as "gas".Children used to meet there and some night commerce also took place under the "gas pole" in local parlance we called it "gas-ase",gone are the days.Thank you Prof.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Nkrumah was able to develop Ghana faster

Nkrumah was able to develop Ghana faster
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear BOY KOFI,

I believe you are right.

I also believe Paa Grant later did a lot in terms of having some form of "electricity" in Sekondi. I hope my recollection is right!

Thanks.

Dear BOY KOFI,

I believe you are right.

I also believe Paa Grant later did a lot in terms of having some form of "electricity" in Sekondi. I hope my recollection is right!

Thanks.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Yeah,Francis as a matter of fact,Paa Grant did a lot for us,including the lay out of potable water for the city.We need men of his caliber but no where to be found.
Have a nice bro.Thank you.

Yeah,Francis as a matter of fact,Paa Grant did a lot for us,including the lay out of potable water for the city.We need men of his caliber but no where to be found.
Have a nice bro.Thank you.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Boy Kofi,

Thanks for the info!

Take care.

Dear Boy Kofi,

Thanks for the info!

Take care.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

BOY KOFI
Hope you got a chance to read Professor Botwe-Asamoah's essay the other day.

But yes, those lights were powered by diesel generators.

Problem is, VRA de-commissioned the generators and never thought about ret ...
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BOY KOFI
Hope you got a chance to read Professor Botwe-Asamoah's essay the other day.

But yes, those lights were powered by diesel generators.

Problem is, VRA de-commissioned the generators and never thought about retrofitting them, as back ups. And that goes for Industry too!

We believe that that was a strategic error.
KKO 10 years ago

Selective amnesia? Acheampong built the 160MW Kpong Dam. If it had been managed properly, the Aboadze thermal plant was designed with a capacity of 922 MW. Kufuor did not only bring in expensive super light crude from Algeria ...
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Selective amnesia? Acheampong built the 160MW Kpong Dam. If it had been managed properly, the Aboadze thermal plant was designed with a capacity of 922 MW. Kufuor did not only bring in expensive super light crude from Algeria to power the Aboadze gas plant, he brought in extra diesel generators to ease the pain of Ghanaians. He then open the way for private participation in power generation.

But for the incompetence and corrupt deals of the useless Ata Mills-Mahama governments, the Bui and Atuabo plants would have been completed in 2009/2010.

Ghana is in this sorry state because even the "educated" among us think and behave along backward tribal and ideological lines!
KKO 10 years ago

Correction, "He then opened the way....."

Correction, "He then opened the way....."
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Not really, KKO!

Maybe you need to go back and read the article, "again"!

In part: "...Thereafter, it took practically 17 years before any government, military or civilian, would add to Ghana's electricity generation ca ...
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Not really, KKO!

Maybe you need to go back and read the article, "again"!

In part: "...Thereafter, it took practically 17 years before any government, military or civilian, would add to Ghana's electricity generation capacity. That occurred first via a World Bank loan for a second hydro power dam (Kpong). That contract was signed in 1977 by the Acheampong junta. That additional capacity came 5 years later, in 1982. However, the Kpong power project that was proudly commissioned by Mr. Jerry "Accountability" Rawlings merely added 160MW to Ghana's power generation capacity. Suffice to say that Kpong was never "an abundant and reliable source of water for power" by any standard, regardless of what Mr. Jerry "Accountability" Rawlings said during the commissioning of that project..."

So, now that you know, what do you have about that?

ITEM: Fire-fighting for the purpose of "easing" a situation is not a plan.

So, what is the record of Kuffour on RE, when Nkrumah was ordering action even in the 1960s?

And you call that "...backward tribal and ideological lines!..."

You do not have any idea about the facts, the context, and what Prof Lungu represents.

But take or leave it!

We are Ghana-centered, and Ghana-Proud!

Greetings!
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

If I understand well,the hydroelectric and the thermal plants already installed in the country have enough capacity to produce power for us without dumso.From technical perspective,we shouldn't have dumso at all but here we a ...
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If I understand well,the hydroelectric and the thermal plants already installed in the country have enough capacity to produce power for us without dumso.From technical perspective,we shouldn't have dumso at all but here we are saddled with unnecessary blackouts.I strongly believe,NDC is using the dumso as a gambit,a very risky strategy indeed.They should remember what happened to Goodluck of Nigeria,when he had all the opportunities to flush out Boko haram.He waited till the 11th hour and his defeat could have been avoided.Thank you.
Ghanaman THE REAL 10 years ago

Your article, sadly, is an exercise in futility! Ghana during Nkrumah's time, logistically, has no comparison in terms of population scenario with present day Ghana even in its current pitiful state. For a start, what was the ...
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Your article, sadly, is an exercise in futility! Ghana during Nkrumah's time, logistically, has no comparison in terms of population scenario with present day Ghana even in its current pitiful state. For a start, what was the size/population of Accra and how many towns and villages had electricity or were connected to our national grid? Please, don't compare apples with potatoes because it serves no useful purpose whatsoever. "Dumsor" is a recent phenomenon which can and must be tackled but needs competent and forward thinking leaders, not the current shallow and incompetent lot!!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear,

You probably skipped reading where Prof. Lungu discussed Nkrumah's strategy of using the outcome of research into solar/atomic energy to supplement energy from the hydroeletric project (among others).

And you thi ...
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Dear,

You probably skipped reading where Prof. Lungu discussed Nkrumah's strategy of using the outcome of research into solar/atomic energy to supplement energy from the hydroeletric project (among others).

And you think Nkrumah did not foresee population increase and how that might impact energy allocation?

Nkrumah also foresore the industrial base of Ghana's development economics expanding and therefore made other forms of energy (solar/atomic) research and acquisition strategic priorities in terms of reserach.

This is how you should have read Nkrumah's call for active reserach into solar/atomic energy. Nkrumah made this call before solar energy even became fashinable in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s.

You see how prophetic and imaginative the man was! His vision anticipated the crises Ghana and Africa have been experiencing!

Have you thought seriously about why Ghana continues to survive on Nkrumah's legacy, the foundations he laid for the new nation-state? How much has been added to that legacy by succeeding generations of Ghanaian leaders, as Prof. Lungu's article substantively asks?

Nkrumah's strategic planning accommodated population increase and its attendant complications, including the expansion of Ghana's industrial base.

In that sense, what do you make of the National Liberation Council's and their foreign sponsors' dismantling of Ghana's atomic program (after the 1966) only for us to go back to the dismantled program in hopes of reviving it once we began to face chronic energy problems?

Please go back and carefully read the article again. The answers to the questions you are grappling with are all there in BLACK and WHITE.

Have a great weekend.

Thanks.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Some people are just not serious!

Or, they are just plain ignorant of the history and the facts, having been deceived all their life.

They do not appreciate the difference between results-driven policy analysis and poli ...
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Some people are just not serious!

Or, they are just plain ignorant of the history and the facts, having been deceived all their life.

They do not appreciate the difference between results-driven policy analysis and politics!

ITEM: When you have capacity built for you that lasts almost as long as the average Ghanaian lives today, you have a legacy and a monumental achievement that was betrayed by Danquah-Busia Confederates, including Kofi Busia!

Peace!
Shabi 10 years ago

In your futile desperation to confront and retract truth, you resort to all sorts of shenanigans which make you look dumb.

Every era, period and age in time has its own peculiarities, challenges, populations and difficulti ...
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In your futile desperation to confront and retract truth, you resort to all sorts of shenanigans which make you look dumb.

Every era, period and age in time has its own peculiarities, challenges, populations and difficulties that must be addressed and dealt with. Kwame Nkrumah dealt perfectly well with all those problems of his time and and even excelled in excess.

The useless imperialist-controlled govts that we currently have foisted upon us, must also deal with the problems of our times so that in the next 30 to 50 years, our great-grand children will marvel at our efficiency in the same way that we applaud Kwame Nkrumah.

Spite and hatred will not get you anywhere. It can only make you look and sound as stupid as SAS, Mahmoud, Sarpong and yourself.
Nii Anyetei Blofobii 10 years ago

Stupid, stupid, stupid.Less that FIVE PERCENT of the whole of Ghana enjoyed electricity under Nkrumah.

Where there was electricity, individuals and town/city councils used Generators.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.Less that FIVE PERCENT of the whole of Ghana enjoyed electricity under Nkrumah.

Where there was electricity, individuals and town/city councils used Generators.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

We are talking about achievements of fundamental proportions!

Ghana-centered achievements, that is!

No Ghanaian government comes close to Nkrumah.

There is data to back up all our claims.

The days when governmen ...
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We are talking about achievements of fundamental proportions!

Ghana-centered achievements, that is!

No Ghanaian government comes close to Nkrumah.

There is data to back up all our claims.

The days when governments and deluded officials destroyed property, hid data, and lied to the people about Nkrumah's legacy are over!

As we say in this essay, Kwame Nkrumah gave capacity, lots of power capacity, for Ghana's current needs, in addition to Ghana's future needs.

All governments after Nkrumah, including the NLC-NLM-UP-PP, Rawlings P/NDC, Kuffour's NPP, COASTED on the achievements of Nkrumah. In doing so, they failed to plan effectively for the future power needs of Ghana, thus persistent "Dum-Sor Bioyin". (In many cases, they were distracted counting the money they looted from liquidating Nkrumah-Chartered state enterprises, including the Black Star Line!

Go figure, folks!
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

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Takpole 10 years ago

So Mr Ada Boy, you don't no that population goes with production?if at that time ghana was producing more than our population.Why we can do that after Kwame Nkrumah.if people like ada boy , mr Kuffour and mr Mahammah to be a ...
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So Mr Ada Boy, you don't no that population goes with production?if at that time ghana was producing more than our population.Why we can do that after Kwame Nkrumah.if people like ada boy , mr Kuffour and mr Mahammah to be a presdent, people will not get water even in raining season and you will heare ..'dum sor'.infact apart from Nkrumah no vision leader has come.These people vision is to build massion and enrich themselves.

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