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Nkrumah On Solar Energy, Scientific Research, & Science Education

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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    READ:

    25TH NOVEMBER, 1964

    "...I have also recently directed the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission to investigate and expand research on the possibilities of solar energy, which is already going on at the Kwame Nkrumah Univ ...
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  • MODIN SANE 8 years ago

    THE MAN'S ERROR WAS BRING TOO FAR AHEAD OF HIS PEERS.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    MODIN SANE,
    Well, that is the mark of a genius, if there ever was one.

    Hope you get a chance to read more in the coming days. weeks, and months.

    Greetings!

  • Nii Teiko 8 years ago

    The idea of photovoltaic effect was discovered by one Edmund Becquerel in 1939 when Nkrumah's parents even never exist. And the first solar cell was invented in 1941 so what is the noise making. Nkrumah only tried to repli ...
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  • Bob 8 years ago

    Nii Teiko I am equally of the opinion, the 2 "mind-retarded" pensioners or retirees, Francis Kwarteng and the self-claimed, Prof Lungu can have a better way to enjoy their bogus and primitive life-style than this daily nonsen ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    Nii Teiko wrote nothing sensible to congratulate him about, but as you are just as foolish as him, you think he wrote something wise.

    You should have corrected him by telling him that Nkrumah was born, officially 21 Sept. ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    ..so for allegedly writing that Nkrumahists WANT TO RE-invent the wheel.

  • Shabi 8 years ago

    Good one Andy-K.

    These uneducated morons are abusing the privilege of a free internet forum to defecate where better people of higher mental stature and superior dignity than their parents, congregate.

    If they truly be ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Dear Shabi & Andy-K,

    What can I say?

    You both tear into Nii Tieko, a wandering caricature who has lost his way in the thick forest of ignorance.


    Hahahahaha...my ribs are hurting again! Some hate Nkrumah to the ext ...
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  • Nana 8 years ago

    Danquah was the greatest African. Nkrumah cant come closer to Danquah. Nkrumah was a commie.

  • Ampau 8 years ago

    Francis, don't you think that it is enough of your mess? What sense are you making there at all apart from repeating speeches and stories about Nkrumah?

  • Doris 8 years ago

    Where is the so-called Solar Energy now? You will always prompt get syndicates like the self acclaimed bush Prof Lungu throwing his weight on such useless and rubbish articles.
    Can't you guys be a little bit realistic and be ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Sorry!

    Let's be real.

    Actually, you sound like a guy impersonating a woman!

    Is that reasonable?

    Yes, "Doris"!

  • Doris 8 years ago

    NKRUMAH IS DEAD AND GONE... so you People must stop your whole lot of nonsensicals and lets us as a People find the way forward for now.

    If you People have any brains up there in your heads make plausible suggestions to th ...
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  • Robert Cudjoe 8 years ago

    Nkrumah is dead but his IDEAS are not dead.Man-woman DORIS,you a big fool.

  • Kofi Badu 8 years ago

    Nkrumah lived many,many years ahead of his time and the imperialists and neo-coloniaists acknowledged it.On his death in 1972,Queen Elizabeth II acknowledged the fact that he lived many years ahead of his time.

  • MODIN SANE 8 years ago

    I NEVER KNEW NKRUMAH SAID ALL THIS. kWARTENG, GOD BLESS U FOR SHARING THIS POWERFUL SPEECH.

  • MODIN INSANE 8 years ago

    MODIN SANE, you sounds rather like an insane who lives in Hinterland.
    What is WOW! about a speech Nkrumah made over a Solar Energy that is and never came to exist? And ask yourself where Nkrumah is...

  • MODIN SANE 8 years ago

    DR MARTIN LUTHER KING , MALCOLM X, NELSON MANDELA WERE ALL GREAT MEN, THEY ALSO MADE MISTAKES. NKRUMAH WAS NO SAINT. HE MADE HIS SHARE OF MISTAKES BUT HE WAS THE GREATEST AFRICAN.

    IT IS NO ACCIDENT THAT HE IS REVERED BY MA ...
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  • Sankofa 8 years ago

    Without a shadow of a doubt!

    Show me a greater in terms of thought and achievement.

  • Francis Kwame Oduro. 8 years ago

    Fake Ampau,don't be stupid,you better learn from Kwarteng.You are stupid and ignorant.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Are today's Ghana Officials Stuck on Stupid?

  • E. Obeng-Gyimah 8 years ago

    Is this really a true report from the Osagyefo himself? How amazing and full of foresight? I never knew he was thinking about all these possibilities. Dumber is a disgrace of our dear country. I'm quite amazed that the both ...
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  • Johnson Tunu, @johnsontunu2 8 years ago

    Sad we lost him so early, we'll realise his plans nevertheless. Countries sometimes develop fast, under the right leadership and historical circumstances; often there is stagnation. Kwarteng is raising consciousness to help o ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    Yes, he was a visionary extraordinaire! World class and top of the league, towering above even many First World leaders of his times. And even now, that speech resonates with much energy and force, even if nuclear energy is n ...
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  • Kojo T 8 years ago

    C.Y. ANDY-K, is itv really true that your Ewe Daddy stole cars from the Habour(Tema), during his time as an Officer?

  • Kojo T 8 years ago

    not the real Kojo T Ignore it bra

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    I know. Kojo T is my cousin. I could have been Andy-T if that great grandma was rather a great grandpa.

    Anyway, I don't miss the opportunity to diss out such sods like this impostor. And to think that a T was at the inaugu ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    You these Akan NPP supporters from the NLM tradition are demonstrating to the whole world that you are slimy, odious, uncouth, vulgar, utterly ignorant and vile ethnocentric bigots and jerks of the worst kind that afflict Gha ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Nyebro Yao,

    You see how such readers can skirt important issues and then concentrate in irrelevancies.

    What have these irrelevancies this fake Kojo T is wallowing in got to do with Nkrumah's great vision, achievements, ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    Nyebro Yaw,

    It is the diversionary ploy they deploy anytime they don't have anything worthwhile to write in response to points we make.

    If I have time to spare, I never hesitate to jump into their mud-pit to thump their ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Nyebro Yao,

    Great!

    If they are any wiser they will humble themselves and learn from your vast encyclopedic knowledge as I have been doing.

    I am glad you straightening them up!

    Thanks.

  • Anlovi 8 years ago

    C.Y. Andy-K, what do you say about the fact that you father is a thief who stole Cars shipped to Tema by Ghanaians abroad, because of unbearable Duties imposed on the Cars.

    Why have you Anlo/Ewes turned to thieves and gree ...
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  • Dodovi 8 years ago

    If you see C.Y. Andy-K or whatever as a thief it dosen't reflect all Ewes, some of us are clean.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    Oh! I see. That's all you have to say in response to that slimy Akan bastard pretending to be Anlovi?

    Did you read what I wrote above?

    Btw, were cars being stolen from Tema Harbour indeed? And, as far back as the late ...
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  • Dodovi 8 years ago

    C.Y. ANDY-K, how do you know...about that Story of your, I am told you were Born after 1960?

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    C'mmon, there is something called institutional memory, its storage, retrieval and passing it on. If u really know me, then you must also know that we are an institution.

    Btw, I was born, walking and talking before indep ...
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  • Dodovi 8 years ago

    Sorry! Anyway.

  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Sorry for yourself!

    Leave one of our great intellectuals alone. You can learn a lot from Andy-K. Well the your sorry cannot be for Andy-K. Take it hope and sleep with it.

    Thanks.

  • Dodovi 8 years ago

    KWARTENG! FUCK YOU WITH YOUR BLOODY ROTTEN ENGLISH!


    Author: francis kwarteng

    Date: 2015-09-06 04:48:03

    Comment to: Re: C.Y. ANDY-K, how do you know...


    Sorry for yourself!
    Leave one of our great intellectuals ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Your English is so so up there. Read yourself:

    "C.Y. ANDY-K, how do you know...about that Story of your, I am told you were Born after 1960?"

    "STORY OF YOUR." What is that?

    Well, unlike you, I am not one of those wh ...
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  • alfa-alfa 8 years ago

    In hindsight, it is such a pity that Ghanaians threw away the baby and the bath water!!!

    I agree with 'MODIN SANE' that "Nkrumah was far ahead of his peers". Ghanaians and, indeed, the world, is sadly trudging back to 1964 ...
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  • Ken Ababio 8 years ago

    Nkrumah is the greatest African and the evidence is overwhelming.Is it not surprising that Nkrumah had a vision of solar energy even before the WHITEMAN embraced it?

  • Nana 8 years ago

    Nkrumah hated Danquah bcos he was afraid of him. Danquah was the greatest African.

  • Sankofa 8 years ago

    Check your facts.

    Nkrumah had wanted to appoint Danquah as chair of the board of one of our state institutions. THis met with resistance from UGCC.

    Nkrumah was far too wise to hate anyone.

  • Kwaku Bio 8 years ago

    Where is Okoampa(Dankwah)

  • Kofi Amponsah 8 years ago

    The great Nkrumah had the vision of Solar Energy 51 years ago,even before the WHITEMAN thought about it.Nkrumah was a political genius who was bent on closing the gap between the WHITEMAN and the BLACKMAN,and turning Africa i ...
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  • Kwame Appiah 8 years ago

    There has never been any African with the calibre of the great Nkrunah.His vision,wisdom,selflessness and his burning desire to uplift the BLACKMAN made him an exceptional African.

  • fatawu 8 years ago

    it is sad and unfortunate that the enemies got rid of him before he achieved all these.

  • k, no problem, a 8 years ago

    If we do not realise our mistake as a nation, and correct it we will never progress. Nkrumah was on top. We can take some of his schemes , plans and idead witjout necessarily being CPP but acknowledging that it is from Nkruma ...
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  • Kwame Amoafo 8 years ago

    All anti-Nkrumah writers will certainly bow down their heads in shame after reading Nkrumah's thought-provoking speech of November 24th,1965.I hope SARPONG,DR SAS and Phillip Kobina Baidoo are reading.

  • Francis Kwame Oduro. 8 years ago

    The great prophet Nkrumah's speech he made 51 years ago is a MUST READ.What a wonderful man! He thought about SOLAR ENERGY even before the WHITEMAN did.

  • Yvonne 8 years ago

    Yes he thought of solar energy before the white man did but look at what we have done about it. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!! Just stop living in the past and do something vital for the future.

  • Shabi 8 years ago

    'Yvonne' why dont you make the first move about 'doing something' about it as you have stated in your contribution, and stop pouring mud on our pride and acting like a spoilt child.

  • Asaase 8 years ago

    A true prophet, Osagyefo!

  • Yvonne 8 years ago

    Solar energy is one of Africa's most prized possession and freely available resource. Look at how South Africa has made it a point to provide their country with a constant supply of energy thus furthering their economy throug ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 8 years ago

    If death can be exchanged i will die for Osagyefo to be ressurected to continue from where he left things after the CIA/Busia coup of 1966.

  • Opium Wars 8 years ago

    "The Ghana Academy of Sciences should not be just a body of learned men elected for their distinction and eminence. It should be a part of our national life, serving the people of Ghana, working with them and helping to bring ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Who?

    What?

    YOUR: "...Francis Kwarteng, it is not enough to merely reproduce what Nkrumah or somebody said at such and such a time. But rather, you must show how what was said is relevant today and how they enable us to ...
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  • Abra Kuma 8 years ago

    After such powerfully uplifting words of encouragement, love and hope, is this the response - the bickering, name calling and downright disrespect of each other and therefore of ourselves - is that truly the only kind of ener ...
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  • kwame Buor 8 years ago

    Thank you Francis for educating the academic IDIOTS who have been spewing nonsense and hiding their identity.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

    Abra, thanks for your most uplifting words too. As one person who is involved in the negatives you enumerated, I think I need to respond to yours.

    If you have followed the trajectory of the whole fracas, you'd have noticed ...
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  • Abra Kuma 8 years ago

    My Brother,

    Please accept my sincere apology on behalf of those among us who would seek to bring into disrepute your father's name. None of us should sit idle and allow that our parent(s) be vilified.I do appreciate your a ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Dear Abra Kuma,

    I think I have to agree with you here on this one.

    Sometimes the Malcolm X formula is the way to go. Andy-K is defending the dignity of his family. I side with him too as you do.

    And like you, it is ...
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