With all the information given, what we Africans must realize is that, nobody(non-African) will fight for the African except by so doing it benefits the non-African the more. In fact, much relative freedom or rights came to ... read full comment
With all the information given, what we Africans must realize is that, nobody(non-African) will fight for the African except by so doing it benefits the non-African the more. In fact, much relative freedom or rights came to Africans in the diaspora-especially in North America because of what Nkrumah could achieve in Ghana in 1957. Had it not been for the fact that, the United States wanted to remain as a union so as to be economically strong, slavely would never have been abolished but rather ways and means would have been found to reinforce the system of slavery.
We Africans must do what is in our interest and allow others to do what is in their interest. At the moment, it is the other way round in the sense that we allow others to do what is in their interest whilse we aid and abet with them to supress our interest because of selfishness and slavish mentality. After all that we have practically seen due to our past mistakes, still people refuse to accept facts that resulted in our failure and pursue the old mistakes by foolishly rejecting the truths that Nkrumah through his tiring research revealed to us for our benefit and political and economic emancipation. Are we not right to term the person who still insists that Ghana's problems are the works of Nkrumah as a moron? That person is really a moron. After all this years that they betrayed the man. It means there is no need for them to be thinking of a 40 year development plan since, we have been moving backwards for more than 40 years after Nkrumah.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Kwamebeba, our nation at this very moment is in dire need of alternative Ghana.
Staring with possible futures, plausible futures, and ending with preferable future.
What we need right now, Kwamebeba is strategic forecast ... read full comment
Kwamebeba, our nation at this very moment is in dire need of alternative Ghana.
Staring with possible futures, plausible futures, and ending with preferable future.
What we need right now, Kwamebeba is strategic forecasting.
Amanfo 8 years ago
Well researched work, thank you. Just a reminder, a woute by Dr Tony Aidoo, Ghana's ambassador to The Netherlands. "The Whiteman doesn't have anything to offer the black except when his continuous association with him will f ... read full comment
Well researched work, thank you. Just a reminder, a woute by Dr Tony Aidoo, Ghana's ambassador to The Netherlands. "The Whiteman doesn't have anything to offer the black except when his continuous association with him will fetch him profit".
Abra Kuma 8 years ago
Prof.,
I haven't the foggiest how many people are reading your articles, the rebuttals to Mr. Baidoo's write-ups,or your insightful comments to his efforts; all I can say is thank you. Thank you for withstanding the insult ... read full comment
Prof.,
I haven't the foggiest how many people are reading your articles, the rebuttals to Mr. Baidoo's write-ups,or your insightful comments to his efforts; all I can say is thank you. Thank you for withstanding the insulting comments made by some readers; thank you for your untiring research and dedication to bringing us the truth, ugly as some of it may be. Your work teaches us not only how to recognize the enemy but also how to better understand,and deal with each other in our state of mis-education, whitewash, and indigence. So, My Brother, your efforts are never wasted.
The concluding section on Cuba I found extremely interesting because it explains the relationship of White Cubans to Blacks here in the Sunshine State (believe me, it ain't no picnic in the park), Castro's dedication to assisting neibouring Caribbean and South American countries particularly in the education and medical fields, as well as militarily in Angola and South Africa's ANC. Thanks for informing, thanks for sharing!
Abra Kuma 8 years ago
Also, the info you provided on Slavery and Capitalism (comments section) on Mr. Baidoo's article of similar topic is a gem. I hope those who missed it will read it. Dr. Molefi Asante's speech in Liverpool was poignant. The in ... read full comment
Also, the info you provided on Slavery and Capitalism (comments section) on Mr. Baidoo's article of similar topic is a gem. I hope those who missed it will read it. Dr. Molefi Asante's speech in Liverpool was poignant. The intro gave me goose bumps!
Bless!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Abra Kuma,
Thanks.
Please do make time to read Part 3 of the series.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks.
Dear Abra Kuma,
Thanks.
Please do make time to read Part 3 of the series.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks.
YAW 8 years ago
Thanks for broadening our scope of knowledge on such an important topic.
Thanks for broadening our scope of knowledge on such an important topic.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear readers,
I am grateful to you all.
I have read every single comments here, and I am happy to say you have made my day. And as I have repeatedly said, I am not doing this alone. We are all in this together.
YAW ... read full comment
Dear readers,
I am grateful to you all.
I have read every single comments here, and I am happy to say you have made my day. And as I have repeatedly said, I am not doing this alone. We are all in this together.
YAW, thanks for the information you provided on my previous article (also for our Brother Berko).
Abra Kuma, I am happy your provide a critical perspective (happenings in the Sunshine State) to back up my claims. Castro and race relations across the Western Hemisphere has been close to my heart. It is a scholarly debate I have been following for more than ten years. There is so much I did not say on this as I did not want the article to be too long.
Amanfo, Kwamebeba, and Marcus, thanks for your critical perspectives. They strengthen my resolve and push me to research and research and research...and write and write and write...
I thank you all. Please Part 3 has already been sent. It is probably the most important in the series on slavery and racism. I hope you read it.
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
The problem I'm having with these ongoing debates is that they rarely deal with the future of obtaining a sustainable Ghana. And that worries me a great deal.
The problem I'm having with these ongoing debates is that they rarely deal with the future of obtaining a sustainable Ghana. And that worries me a great deal.
amanfo 8 years ago
The problem shouldn't be about the debate ongoing but, the agenda behind people who are elected with the hope of turning the future of Ghana around. They just come and focuss on their stomach and promote all sorts of cronyism ... read full comment
The problem shouldn't be about the debate ongoing but, the agenda behind people who are elected with the hope of turning the future of Ghana around. They just come and focuss on their stomach and promote all sorts of cronyism, nepotism and praise incompetencies at their apex. Sometimes, they end up being worst than a religious capitalist and they succeed in messing up the educational system to keep the ignorance of the populace at a very height they find exciting. 21st century and Ghana can't refines her own produce. Leaders go to the west to beg for alms and come to rule with uttermost awkwardity. First, we must see ourselves as such. Secondly, restructure our educational system with particular emphasis on science and technology and history. Thirdly, the electorate must assess the records of gluttons who comes as servants to be voted for into political offices, their records and competencies. I honestly knew the latter will be very hard because the political elites have succeeded in destroying the common reasoning of an average Ghanaian.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
When it is all said and done, the record will show that Phillip Kobina Baidoo's essays are mostly recollections of stuff learned in a good high school, influenced by a touch of self doubt and a perplexing loss of the natural ... read full comment
When it is all said and done, the record will show that Phillip Kobina Baidoo's essays are mostly recollections of stuff learned in a good high school, influenced by a touch of self doubt and a perplexing loss of the natural African familial connection we'd expect.
Same goes for the few individuals many of whom typically assume more than one moniker in support of Baidoo. Those voices never offer anything substantive, never!
There are no critical thoughts as foundation anywhere, wherever they rear their heads.
In short, what we are getting from Phillip Kobina Baidoo and company is a Donald Trump blow job:
NO FACTS!
JUST HYPE!
On the other hand, Kwarteng's work on these topics are the substance of serious work and scholarship. His opinions are reflective. His theses are always sourced so respectable individuals and entities.
1. As we've said more than once recently, for an adult and African (Baidoo) to claim that tribalism in Ghana originated from socialism is the height of ignorance, notwithstanding all that flowery prose.
There is nothing critical there!
2. READ BAIDOO:
"...There is no sane mind in this 21st century that can mount a barricade in...defense (of slavery)...It was an evil system that is why the British stamped it out at a huge cost to their economy, and, in America, one life for every six slaves freed.
WE SAY: Those are two false points in a fell swoop!
Suffice for us to say that "one life for every six slaves freed", was never about freeing slaves "in America". That is what racist confederate flag-waivers and the Ku Klux Klan will tell people "in America", as they did in the "Birth of the Nation", and when they shot Abraham Lincoln.
So, even if the data is accurate, it was merely an effect, NOT A CAUSE!
Phillip Kobina Baidoo has been corrected more than once on this item, to no effect!
And the humanitarian British who stamped out evil slavery?
With all the information given, what we Africans must realize is that, nobody(non-African) will fight for the African except by so doing it benefits the non-African the more. In fact, much relative freedom or rights came to ...
read full comment
Kwamebeba, our nation at this very moment is in dire need of alternative Ghana.
Staring with possible futures, plausible futures, and ending with preferable future.
What we need right now, Kwamebeba is strategic forecast ...
read full comment
Well researched work, thank you. Just a reminder, a woute by Dr Tony Aidoo, Ghana's ambassador to The Netherlands. "The Whiteman doesn't have anything to offer the black except when his continuous association with him will f ...
read full comment
Prof.,
I haven't the foggiest how many people are reading your articles, the rebuttals to Mr. Baidoo's write-ups,or your insightful comments to his efforts; all I can say is thank you. Thank you for withstanding the insult ...
read full comment
Also, the info you provided on Slavery and Capitalism (comments section) on Mr. Baidoo's article of similar topic is a gem. I hope those who missed it will read it. Dr. Molefi Asante's speech in Liverpool was poignant. The in ...
read full comment
Dear Abra Kuma,
Thanks.
Please do make time to read Part 3 of the series.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks.
Thanks for broadening our scope of knowledge on such an important topic.
Dear readers,
I am grateful to you all.
I have read every single comments here, and I am happy to say you have made my day. And as I have repeatedly said, I am not doing this alone. We are all in this together.
YAW ...
read full comment
The problem I'm having with these ongoing debates is that they rarely deal with the future of obtaining a sustainable Ghana. And that worries me a great deal.
The problem shouldn't be about the debate ongoing but, the agenda behind people who are elected with the hope of turning the future of Ghana around. They just come and focuss on their stomach and promote all sorts of cronyism ...
read full comment
When it is all said and done, the record will show that Phillip Kobina Baidoo's essays are mostly recollections of stuff learned in a good high school, influenced by a touch of self doubt and a perplexing loss of the natural ...
read full comment