When will the idiot cut/copy master, francis kwarteng stop duplicating, misleading, polluting and write his own article?
When will the idiot cut/copy master, francis kwarteng stop duplicating, misleading, polluting and write his own article?
Kwamebeba 8 years ago
Is it true that you really attended any of the numerous schools that Nkrumah made available in any part of Ghana? If you did, did you read textbooks of quality which have always been reprinted over and over since those were ... read full comment
Is it true that you really attended any of the numerous schools that Nkrumah made available in any part of Ghana? If you did, did you read textbooks of quality which have always been reprinted over and over since those were the ones that had stood the test of time? Nkrumaism is an ideology that scares all that want the truth to be hidden else all of Nkrumah's works would have been compulsory to be read in all our schools and in all our languages.
Even Nyerere needed to remind us what we should have known long time ago and you may be thinking he had nothing else to talk about. He had a lot to talk about but as a sensible African, he decided to talk about what people like yourself would not accept except may be by submitting you to the the whip or rod.
Nkrumah was a reader of many works by others and that enabled him to know what is good for Africa and Africans.
Why don't you skip brother Kwarteng's works since hate knowledge?
Kojo T 8 years ago
Nii Teiko, Mahmoud and Bob are HATERS Their idols left nothing and they themselves are hollow.Like craps in a bucket they shoot down the good works of others. Who or what forces you to read these posts? If you chyoose to f ... read full comment
Nii Teiko, Mahmoud and Bob are HATERS Their idols left nothing and they themselves are hollow.Like craps in a bucket they shoot down the good works of others. Who or what forces you to read these posts? If you chyoose to follow wanabes like Akufo Addo who wrote nothing and cannot even produce their law certificates . then ;earn to live with it Bawumia should be in Beijing learning about economic solutions instead of taking about EC register Akufo Addo specializes in organizing strikes and demos.NPP is a model of chaos and dictatorship and its members blame Nkrumah for an orderly rule and progress.Francis now tell them about how they threw bombs
Shabi 8 years ago
Original Kojo T, have you not realized that Nii Teiko, Mahmoud and Bob are one and the same person? In his frantic desperation to earn the little crumbs of pay from his slave-masters, just like JB Danquah did, he keeps on ex ... read full comment
Original Kojo T, have you not realized that Nii Teiko, Mahmoud and Bob are one and the same person? In his frantic desperation to earn the little crumbs of pay from his slave-masters, just like JB Danquah did, he keeps on exposing himself as the one and the same idiot.
It seems like Mahama is not the only dead goat around. This person with multiple monikers - and others like him, are offering themselves to be belittled and insulted on a daily basis on this platform and strangely, they keep on coming back for more and more.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
Bob, you must be glad and grateful for what Kwarteng has been offering. The amount of time and resources he puts into all the research are worth something that most of us could not afford to expend.
His materials that you ... read full comment
Bob, you must be glad and grateful for what Kwarteng has been offering. The amount of time and resources he puts into all the research are worth something that most of us could not afford to expend.
His materials that you call 'cut/copy' are supplied in their original state intentionally to pre-empt those who might otherwise claim he made them all up. He produces them in their original form, unadulterated to support any personal comment he may add to explain a point or two. That, to me, is priceless.
One may say that it is easy for all to research for those materials in this day of the Internet and information highway. But one has to know or have an idea what one is looking for to support the purpose of one's communication with the Public.
So, I would entreat you to muster some patience, and if you are really hungry for truth and knowledge cherish these Articles of Kwarteng's.
Hindsight is always 20/20. We might have thought of something in the past in one way or another then later on look back to realize we made an error. That affords us the opportunity to correct ourselves and proceed more successfully with the lessons learnt. Such is what we all must humbly learn of these submissions of Kwarteng's about Nkrumah and other past Leaders.
What I would encourage Kwarteng to do at some point, or even simultaneously, is spend a little time to research on the contributions of Busia's and Danquah's to acknowledge the positive aspects of those to our Nation's growth, however little those may be.
In that case, the critics of Nkrumah's would not simply reject Kwarteng's point of view on Nkrumah's greatness but would have his work and those of his opponents side by side to compare, and appreciate, if they so desire. Kwarteng's work has been more objective, fact-based analysis, than the speculative emotionally-driven ones from the likes of Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. on Danquah's contributions. He may be a die-hard Nkrumahist. But only wants to establish the rationale behind his support for Nkrumah and why he believes we all must give the late President more credit than we have been given him. We should not only cite the ideological differences between Nkrumah and Danquah or Busia to judge what he really actually did or envisioned for us and the whole of Africa. Those animosities between the two past leaders did not erupt from nothing but emerged from substantial events. Often, we simply determine what emotions we have to wrap around an entity based on what that entity did. But we fail to reason why that entity did what he or she did. An honest assessment of all our Past Leaders must include the circumstances under which they did what they did. Period!
Note also that Kwarteng gives due acknowledgments to all the sources he draws his research materials from. What you must shameless appreciate about him is how he strings them all up to bring his point home. That is an Academic endeavor you must fully appreciate.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Bob 8 years ago
What kwarteng is doing is hiding or covering the original Story already in the www. to confuse, mislead, misinform through his constant duplication with half baseless stories.
What kwarteng is doing is hiding or covering the original Story already in the www. to confuse, mislead, misinform through his constant duplication with half baseless stories.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
I meant to say:
1). "..more than we have been GIVING him."
2). "..you must SHAMELESSLY appreciate.."
I meant to say:
1). "..more than we have been GIVING him."
2). "..you must SHAMELESSLY appreciate.."
Abra Kuma 8 years ago
G.K. Berko,
Your comments here are profoundly uplifting because you took into account the imports of Julius Nyerere's speech,the repeated and ever-increasing hostility developing among commenters on write-ups purposely des ... read full comment
G.K. Berko,
Your comments here are profoundly uplifting because you took into account the imports of Julius Nyerere's speech,the repeated and ever-increasing hostility developing among commenters on write-ups purposely designed to remind, teach and motivate us into a united fight for comprehensive national/continental progress; also you considered the author's time, effort and dedication to research which his detractors seem to overlook, and most importantly, I cannot help but conclude from your comments that the author's objective of uniting all his people cannot be attained without "respectable" compromise; after all, it is untenable to make descendants pay,into perpetuity, for mistakes made by forebears. Thank you for your insight, and love of country.
Bless you, bless Ghana!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
GK Berko is the only sane Nkrumaist here, that is if it is not an oxymoron to say that an Nkrumaist can be sane. Because the sanest Nkrumaist already has his/her brain tied up on a sequoia tree of propaganda birthed by that e ... read full comment
GK Berko is the only sane Nkrumaist here, that is if it is not an oxymoron to say that an Nkrumaist can be sane. Because the sanest Nkrumaist already has his/her brain tied up on a sequoia tree of propaganda birthed by that evil leader.
Having said that, I can find the space to love him a little because between the dark continuum of the Nkrumaist nonsense, Bro. Berko features menopausal flashes of lucidity which he periodically mouths even as a dreaming child utters some insomniac sense during his worst nightmare.
Now his flash of lucidity and periodic sense that have eluded the likes of Lungu, Kwarteng, Andy K and these other ambulatory sycophants and gendarme trolls have elevated him to the pedestal from where he can now glibly suggest that Bro. Kwarteng be more balanced in citing the good works of Danquah and Busia.
This is like asking the anus to stop producing putrid scent: It is Kwarteng that woke us Danquists from our slumber when he began his long runnng series whose sole aim was to discredit Danquah and Busia. His insults went on for eons to the applause of the now mollified Bro. Berko whose praise of Kwarteng's rogue writings is even evident in his ambivalent proposition that he be more balanced. At a point in time, I even called Bro. Kwarteng and politely asked him what Danquah did against him. His answer was that Danquah's people were taxed to finance his education. I was like in those days, which society was not taxed to support its brilliant members?
You may add your voice to ask Prof. Kwarteng what Danquah did to him or any Ghanaian to be insulted when he was the one who was incarcerated like a criminal without trial and left to die a martyr's death. Elsewhere, it is the tyrant who committed murder that is repudiated, not his victim. But to those walking on their heads, that logic is now upended. And simlarly lopsided illogic is Kwarteng's oft-repeated assertion that the PDA is the best legacy that Nkrumah gave to Ghana.
Now when I think of these Nkrumaists, I can only be modest in comparing them to satanists whose devotion to their god will nauseate Satan himself. They will forever remain the uncircumcised philistines of our times.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Abra Kuma $ SAS,
I don't think it is my responsibility to try to balance Nkrumah's legacy with Danquah's or Busia's. THAT IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.
Nkrumah's legacy is in and of itself balanced. It is not Danquah's or ... read full comment
Abra Kuma $ SAS,
I don't think it is my responsibility to try to balance Nkrumah's legacy with Danquah's or Busia's. THAT IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.
Nkrumah's legacy is in and of itself balanced. It is not Danquah's or Busia's that can balance it. It is people like SAS who should be trumpeting the legacy of Danquah or Busia--because on Nkrumah the world has already spoken and isolated voices cannot overturn the world's decsion.
Like I have said on numerous occassions, I have studied both Danquah and Busia (and theor colleagues) but I don't find much there that piques my intellect.
This is why the likes of SAS should bring out something radically new or intellectually on Danquah and Busia that will change my attidude toward them. Until that happens I remained glued to my position.
ANYWAY WHEN I POST THESE KINDS OF ARTICLES ON GHANAWEB I DON'T HAVE THE LIKES OF SAS IN MIND. NEVER. I HAVE MY TARGET AUDIENCE AND SAS IS NOT ONE OF THEM (I have so many close friends I discuss these kinds of articles with on Ghanaweb and outside Ghanaweb).
What SAS and his kind should be doing is educating their target audience with articles on Danquah and Busia. That should be their responsibility and not mind.
Finally, I will not respond to other issues SAS raises because he has left out so many layers of contexts and many other things I have said on Ghanaweb with regard to Danquah and his people taxed to support his education.
That has nothing to do with my attitude toward SAS. SAS obviously has forgotten the contex. I will not remind him of the context. The context is one he should not have forgotten.
He may also revisit one of my articles when I mentioned Danquah's people being taxed to support to support his education. The context is right there. It is the same context I mentioned and has nothing to do with what SAS is saying here. NONTHING WHASOVER.
In the end Nkrumah, his ideas, and legacy is where my intellectual is. It is what the intellectual community is interested in. I may later provide some information to explain how the scientific works of Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere is charting a methodological pathway in the world.
I have discussed this with Dr. Dompere and have all the necessary data on these questions. The world is interested in Nkrumah!
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Abra Kuma,
Please could you help me explain why some readers are still complaining when I have finally decided to concentrate more on promoting my hero, Nkrumah, while de-emphasizing my critique of his contemporaries? ... read full comment
Dear Abra Kuma,
Please could you help me explain why some readers are still complaining when I have finally decided to concentrate more on promoting my hero, Nkrumah, while de-emphasizing my critique of his contemporaries?
That is, hy wouldn't anyone want to promote his/her hero/heroine as I am doing in the case of mine, Nkrumah?
Please help me answer these questions (because I choose to do what I like with my times and intellectual resources)!
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Brother Berko & Abra Kuma,
I cherish your positive contributions and priceless wisdom. I have taken note of your advice.
Please have a great week.
Thanks.
Dear Brother Berko & Abra Kuma,
I cherish your positive contributions and priceless wisdom. I have taken note of your advice.
Please have a great week.
Thanks.
Nii Teiko 8 years ago
When is the atavistic nonsense gonna stop? Enough of this useless history lessons. Anyways I am waiting for Lungu and Kojo T for the summary of this boring piece before read
When is the atavistic nonsense gonna stop? Enough of this useless history lessons. Anyways I am waiting for Lungu and Kojo T for the summary of this boring piece before read
Shabi 8 years ago
You say that "When is the atavistic nonsense gonna stop? Enough of this useless history lessons." and then in the same breath, you say "Anyways I am waiting for Lungu and Kojo T for the summary of this boring piece before ... ... read full comment
You say that "When is the atavistic nonsense gonna stop? Enough of this useless history lessons." and then in the same breath, you say "Anyways I am waiting for Lungu and Kojo T for the summary of this boring piece before ...".
In short, you want what you refer to as the "nonsense" to stop but at the same time, you are waiting for Lungu and Kojo T to in addition give you a summary.
Im actually beginning to think that some of you nutcases are actually Nkrumaists who are acting as agents provocateurs to extract more information of the 'Greatest African and World Leader' from those of us who have made it a point to project those incomparable values of the man.
Dr. Otto 8 years ago
Shabi, b'cos of you short fall in I.Q. you will find it extremely very difficult to undersatand the simple message the Gentleman Nii Teiko is trying to singnal, In a nutshell, you are a ZERO.
Shabi, b'cos of you short fall in I.Q. you will find it extremely very difficult to undersatand the simple message the Gentleman Nii Teiko is trying to singnal, In a nutshell, you are a ZERO.
Mahmoud 8 years ago
African unity was a foreign idea started and implemented by the colonial masters in Africa. Before colonization, we were divided and separated from one another in our various tribes. Enzemas had nothing to do with Ewes and A ... read full comment
African unity was a foreign idea started and implemented by the colonial masters in Africa. Before colonization, we were divided and separated from one another in our various tribes. Enzemas had nothing to do with Ewes and Asantes had nothing to do with Farafras at the north. It was colonization that first brought us together under one umbrella to form a nation state like Ghana and Tanzania. The same thing applied to Nigeria and all the African Countries.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
A history non-lesson!
READ:
BY , DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
READ:
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more in ... read full comment
A history non-lesson!
READ:
BY , DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
READ:
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatness, power and wealth...Therefore the defining variable in mental development is “opportunity” which establishes the most legitimate intellectual differentials in the cognitive abilities of groups and individuals.../
\...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood . Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood. If ignorance makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation, then the survival of the nation is under serious threat. For a country to be a nation, her people will have to subsume ethnicity under the aegis of the national interest. The present conflicts amongst the tribes, though so far verbal, is a testimony that our country comprises nations within the state. In effect, we of this generation have repudiated the concept of nationhood with our ethnic animosity and undermined the very tenets under which the nation was founded..." ( 6 February 2007, Ghanaweb, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., AKA, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law).
Kwamebeba 8 years ago
Mahmoud, you are somebody who does not follow logic and that makes you contradict yourself which in turn incriminates you. If you have some little knowledge of mathematics then you would appreciate Nkrumah's African Continen ... read full comment
Mahmoud, you are somebody who does not follow logic and that makes you contradict yourself which in turn incriminates you. If you have some little knowledge of mathematics then you would appreciate Nkrumah's African Continental Unity program. If your so called colonial masters brought members of the tribes which could at best be termed as the subset of a nation and therefore deserve your praises, then what is it that you find wrong with Osagyefo who tried to be bring the subsets together to form a Universal set for all the members of the nations of Africa? Is big not better?
By the way who told you African tribes were not communicating and trading with one another? What do you think the size of the old Ghana empire was? You really lack direction and need direction from Nkrumah's ideas.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
Mahmoud is truly ignorant!! I understand that he is ideologically bankrupt, ethically bereft & in denial of historic facts. However his knowledge of Afrikan history is abysmal, this idea that before the advent of Akwasi Bron ... read full comment
Mahmoud is truly ignorant!! I understand that he is ideologically bankrupt, ethically bereft & in denial of historic facts. However his knowledge of Afrikan history is abysmal, this idea that before the advent of Akwasi Broni Ewes had nothing to do with Nzemas and so forth is just plain stupid and indicates his head is further up his rear passage than I thought possible!!
Afrikans have been moving and mixing either peacefully or in conflict.
My writ in the instant matter is not limited to Ghana. Exhibit 1 : Volta region, except for the extreme south i.e. Anloland, the various ethnic groups are intermixed. In many nominally Ewe areas upon close examination it is evident that the current population is composed of two often three different groups that have been coalescing over the last 3-400 years. Exhibit 2: The Bia subgroup of Akan languages are for practical purposes foreign to Asante Akyem Mfantsi etc. They have more in common with languages to the west, I speak of such languages like Baule,Aowin, Sefwi and to a lesser degree Brong. It is so because the immigrant from the Akan hearland met well established peoples speaking languages closer to Nafana, Gonja and other Guang languages, in the process of coalescing into new ethnicities, the numerically stronger " indigenes" have kept most of the original language while absorbing a not insignificant amount of Akan. That is why Baule, Sefwi etc are more akin to Nzema than Twi. Ahanta and Wassa people easily understand Mfantsi but not vice versa. To the " outsider" they sound very similar but are not.
The kingdom of Dahomey had many non Fon components like the Mina and Whydah. The same holds for the kingdom of Kongo, the Luba and Luba polities, the interlacustrine kingdoms of East Africa demonstrated the same characteristics!! Closer to home the kingdom of Benin and the great Empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai were composed of many peoples who freely moved among the various states and polities' within the empire. Granted that incoporation was often by war but also by voluntary accession. Finally the Ga kingdom of Ayawaso was composed of migrants from what is now Nigeria, the aboriginal Guan and Obutu/Effutu migrants also from Nigeria but who arrived several decades prior to the Ga-Dangbe and Akan speakers who had peacefully settled among the Guan and Kyerepong of the Akwapim Range.
PHEW!! WHAT MONUMENTAL IGNORANCE WRAPPED IN INSUFFERABLE ARROGANCE!!
Only an ignorant self abasing " SLAVE TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST GRIND" believes Afrikan history starts with the advent of Kwesi/Broni!! MMOAPANYIN!!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Gorgortudor,
Thanks for your brilliant expose.
As for what you are essentially driving at there is a large body of scientific and historical data to support your claim.
African human geography covers this area ... read full comment
Dear Gorgortudor,
Thanks for your brilliant expose.
As for what you are essentially driving at there is a large body of scientific and historical data to support your claim.
African human geography covers this area. The entire continent of Africa had had large number of states and ethnic groups living in empires, etc., before the advent of Arab-Muslims and Europeans in Africa.
For instance, Ghana Empire had numerous ethnic groups and states in it before its demise and subsequent emergence into Mali Empire, and so on. Ghana Empire was bigger than Western countries put together.
Yet there were equally vast empires in Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, and Southern Africa (with numerous states and ethnic groups), all of these before the arrival of Europe in Africa. And these empires were very advanced as any elsewhere (Asia, Europe, the Americas, etc).
Even as late as the 19th century and the early part of the 20th Bantus were still migrating to Southern Africa, other parts of East African and Central Africa.
There is a certain blood group of Ancient Egyptians that can only be found in the South of the Sahara. There are also certain blood groups in West Africa, say Ghana, that can only be found in certain Ethiopian ethnic groups.
Africans from ancient Egypt, Nubia, and West African were traveling to the Americas before Columbus (and even the Vikings). Africans traded with Asians going as far as China before the advent of Europeans in Africa. There have been elements of Black Africans within some of the ancient ruling dynasties of China. In fact Central African skeletal bones have been discovered in China, going all the way back to early Chinese history.
Ancient Egyptians said their forbears migrated from the South (Central Africa, parts of modern Ethiopia, Somalia, etc) to Northern Africa. The Birthplace of Humanity (South Africa's "Cradle of Humanity" and East Africa). How did we move from South Africa and East Africa to populate the rest of the world?
World-class linguists such as Cheikh Anta Diop, Theophile Obenga, and Joseph Greenberg, particularly the first two, have found common "biological" links among African languages.
Physical and cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, osteology, archeology, genetics (gene flow and genetic drift), etc., have added methodological richness to what you are and I are saying.
What am I saying? I am saying that states and empires (with various ethnic groups) existed across Africa before Arabs and Europeans came to Africa. The European concept of nation-state, nation versus state were merely superimposed upon ancient African states.
In fact some of the world's oldest models or examples of "state" come from Africa. Some of these pre-date even the earlist ones in Europe. Greek statesmen like Solon and writers like Herodotus, Homer, and others allude to these facts.
Having said all these, I will not provide any books or scientific papers on these questions. There are too many of them to keep track of. The interesting part of it all is that I studied some of these in secondary school Forms 1,2 and 3.
And research in modern times have even yielded more interesting revelations on the advanced and complex natute of pre-African states, kingdoms, and empires. A cursory look at the works of Adu Boahen, Kofi Awoonor, Kwame Nkrumah, Ivor Wilks, Jarle Simensen, etc (and our oral literature) says it all.
Usually it tempting to restrict discussions to West Africa because of our Ghanaian location. Of course even with the artificial borders in place human geography continues to make its impact today within and across Africa. The European nation-state model has not prevented African human geography from doing what it has since the days of the Birthplace of Humanity (South Africa and East Africa).
To sum it up, most of what Mahmoud says on Ghanaweb have no scientific and historical justification. In fact I have stopped reading Mahmoud and what I am saying here is based on what you said about his views. There are literally hundreds of books on these subjects and literally thousands of papers on these subject matters.
I will not list any of them of here as they are all over the place.
Thanks.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
Master Kwarteng, I had resolved to ignore the malodorous, odious and irrational fulminations' of THESE RABID QUADRUPEDS ON HIND LEGS!! However it is beyond my capacity to allow arrant nonsense from these WILFULLY BLINKERED SE ... read full comment
Master Kwarteng, I had resolved to ignore the malodorous, odious and irrational fulminations' of THESE RABID QUADRUPEDS ON HIND LEGS!! However it is beyond my capacity to allow arrant nonsense from these WILFULLY BLINKERED SELF DECEPTIVE BLOVIATING BLOWHARDS to go unchallenged lest they infect another generation with their destructive virus period!! Any uninterested observer will notice their glaring negativity compared to our side of the debate. THEY HAVE NOTHING POSITIVE TO PROPAGATE ABOUT THEIR SO-CALLED HEROES!!
So I will expose their dubious political heritage, stupidity and abysmal ignorance on regular basis. I take no pleasure in doing so but hope that well meaning people who may incline toward that side of the political spectrum will study the historical record and come to a realistic appraisal of Dr Nkrumah's achievements and the circumstances of his overthrow!! We have been tragically derailed once in our history. We cannot afford to repeat our history again as a farce per Karl Marx or is it George Santayana.
Our current crisis is too critical to permit NEOCOLONIAL RUNNING DOGS, DUPES & STOOGES to dominate our political discourse
Many thanks and much respect for your valuable contributions!! Please keep the Flame of Afrikan Liberty lit.
BEPOSO HAAN AFRICA WILL LIVE!! IN THE NOBLE COMPANY OF UM NYOBE, SOBUKWE, HANI, LUMUMBA, SANKARA, CABRAL, AMINU KANO KAMBARAGE NYERERE, SEKOU TOURE AND ALL THE AFRIKAN PANTHEON, KWAME NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!!!
FORWARD EVER!! BACKWARD NEVER!!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Gorgortudor,
Well said. Great wisdom.
I agree with every single word. I am indeed learning from you.
Thanks for setting the record straight. Let's continue the good work on our heroes.
Thanks.
Dear Gorgortudor,
Well said. Great wisdom.
I agree with every single word. I am indeed learning from you.
Thanks for setting the record straight. Let's continue the good work on our heroes.
Thanks.
Shabi 8 years ago
Thats right! Only an Nkrumaist can be so intelligent. Gorgordutor your submission is phenomenal. Thank you and by extension, many thanks also to the slimy imperialist slaves on this platform for sufficiently provoking you to ... read full comment
Thats right! Only an Nkrumaist can be so intelligent. Gorgordutor your submission is phenomenal. Thank you and by extension, many thanks also to the slimy imperialist slaves on this platform for sufficiently provoking you to come out with this very valuable information.
Bob, Mahmoud, Nii Teiko, Dr Otto, SAS Sarpong(missing in action), the fake Kojo T. Okoampa and all the other disappointed serfs of colonialism, please continue to titillate us with more of your hogwash. The reaction of it, brings out the best of the intelligent ones on this platform.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
I hear you my brother Shabi, "seke Ni Osagyefo tsele ame agbene etsey kpaa" we got to bang on these serfs they can't tell their ass from their elbow with their made-up nonsense cum acute Nkrumah Derangement Syndrome with Fals ... read full comment
I hear you my brother Shabi, "seke Ni Osagyefo tsele ame agbene etsey kpaa" we got to bang on these serfs they can't tell their ass from their elbow with their made-up nonsense cum acute Nkrumah Derangement Syndrome with Falsification Logorrhea attendant.
Thanks for your comment.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
The consistent braying, bleating and barking of the Nkrumaist (NCRIMINALISTS) donkeys, sheep and dogs comprise one further indication of the brain atrophy of these cultic mongers and ideological monsters. Thus apart from thei ... read full comment
The consistent braying, bleating and barking of the Nkrumaist (NCRIMINALISTS) donkeys, sheep and dogs comprise one further indication of the brain atrophy of these cultic mongers and ideological monsters. Thus apart from their usual apoplectic tantrums, none can point out any lie in my articles nor coherently debate any salient issue I have so far raised.
And so in abject frustration and searing rage, these Nkrumahist ideologues, action troopers, young pioneers, republican guards, praise singers, town-criers and death squads, with gnashing teeth and contorted visage, snarling and howling with air so foul, tearing their clothing in a fit of self-righteous rage, invoking dark curses from Kankan Nyame, ruing the glorious days of PDA, days of incarceration without trial, when the Fountain of Honor's word was law, when the redeemer dictated lore and gave them their folklore, ask with screeching voices and husky tones , when will you join our retinue of perpetual praise singers? When will you poke your eye-balls in order to bray our chorus of blind loyalty, or expectorate your brain matter in order to bleat our allegiances preserved for these donkey years? When will you be like us, unthinking, unquestioning, unfeeling, un-testing, and un-examining?
My answer: the day you will tell me of my lies in this series of articles; of the things I have alleged here that are not true…. tell me that Nkrumah was not the recipient of others’ benevolence; tell me that he did not repay them with imprisonment; tell me that there was no PDA; tell me that there was no imprisonment without trial; tell me that there was no removal of the franchise, nor declaration of one party state nor imposition of president for life!
Nkrumah did a nice job by screwing up his followers’ brains, but the extent of their brain atrophy is far more than initially thought or ever imagined when seen within the lenses of his followers’ incoherent expletives in substitute to genuine debate. No doubt, for another three hundred years, these somnambulist acolytes and their children's children's heads will remain deep-frozen with the shibboleth of Nkrumahism; they can never think, never debate, never reason….. . They come from an ideological proclivity to whom the Osagyefo is a saint and a god, a proclivity that makes them bury their heads in the sand and see nothing wrong, hear nothing wrong and say nothing wrong about the Great Redeemer.
When the issue of Nkrumah’s dictatorship is raised, all that the eternal minions do is to claim that the 1966 coup was CIA inspired. This begs the question of Nkrumah’s tyranny and consigns the wisdom of the popular masses that thronged the streets in jubilation into a deep-freezer. We could then argue that the CIA inspiration was a welcome intervention in the destiny of a people taken into hostage by a brutal dictator and thank the CIA for its work of liberation. Once the issue of Nkrumah’s dictatorship is confirmed, the manner of his overthrow is moot.
Also, they invoke American democratic credentials vis-a-vis its history of oppression to justify Nkrumah’s dictatorship. How the American democratic credentials impinge on Nkrumah's tyranny beats my imagination. We are accusing the head of our household of child abuse, and you are pointing to another household and saying that the head is also guilty of child abuse. How relevant is that?
Besides, we must draw a distinctive dichotomy between the natural trajectory of democracy and its use as a mantra to oppress and subjugate others. If we understand democracy as an evolution towards perfection in government, we will understand how its existence is a means, but not the end of human freedom itself. Thereafter, we will not justify authoritarianism because of the existence of injustices within a democratic dispensation somewhere. Instead, we will inquire into our system of government to determine if it is headed towards the right or wrong direction…from dictatorship into democracy or vice versa. If it is the latter, it must be terminated by all means possible, and never be sanctioned by any freedom-loving people.
The difference between the 1966 coup that toppled Nkrumah and all the other coups that happened in Ghana is that whereas by 1966, Ghana was heading towards imminent dictatorship with its appurtenant life president, one party state and PDA, in 1972, 1979 and 1981, the nation was heading in the direction of a democratic dispensation, and there was no need to overthrow these governments. This is the reason why the 1966 coup is the only justified and justifiable coup in the history of Ghana.
I would agree that Nkrumah lived ahead of his time. His record in the provision of infrastructure, healthcare, education and employment has not been matched by any government...and I don't agree with those who diminish his achievements in this respect by pointing to the availability of money. This is because subsequent governments have not done what Nkrumah did even in proportion with the resources they had. Indeed, I would go to the extent of agreeing that Nkrumah was the greatest African of the past millennium, but Nkrumah's achievements in these respects do not transmogrify into a democratic credential. Neither do they negate the fact that he was a brutal dictator. Indeed, Nkrumah’s history is never complete without commensurate references to his authoritarian leadership. I am not afraid to praise Nkrumah; at the same time, I am not afraid to condemn him. But for a man whose mantra for Ghana's independence was freedom and justice, he should be judged by the promise of his own words, and nothing lower.
Instead of pointing to Western imperfections as an excuse to justify Nkrumah’s dictatorship, nothing stops us Africans from building a model democracy for the world to emulate. That is what Nkrumah failed to do, and that is what this conversation should be about. True or not: Was Nkrumah a dictator? Did he abridge freedoms as enumerated in my articles? If so, what was the legitimacy of his moral compass in calling for the freedom of the African continent when he denied freedom for his own people? And why must we, as a sovereign nation, entertain a tyrant whose evolutionary trajectory was towards total and absolute dictatorship?
And why must the threat on Nkrumah’s life become a conduit for the channeling of his dictatorial propensities? If the assassination of American presidents and the terroristic activities of religious fanatics did not permanently alter the sovereign rights of the American people, why should these same factors lead to the permanent abrogation of the people’s rights and the resulting dictatorship under Nkrumah’s regime? If all that a dictator needs is security threat to abrogate the rights of his people, that dictator will always find the security threat one way or the other in order to abrogate the rights of the people.
But the chronology of Nkrumah’s draconian laws exposes his natural propensity for insidious tyranny: the PDA was enacted in 1958 and gave the President the right to incarcerate a citizen without trial for five years. In 1962, the law was re-enacted to incarcerate a citizen of Ghana for a period of ten years without trial. Nkrumah also amended the Criminal Procedure Act to empower him to quash court's decision retroactively and prospectively.
And so when we say Nkrumah achieved independence for Ghana, the natural question is what type of independence? Was it about flags, coat of arms, a national anthem and other insignia of state? Was it about the mere transposition of white oppression to black oppression, and the rearrangement of the political play-actors to empower a cabal of black oppressors instead of a white one?
We cannot separate true independence from its core element which is the sovereignty of the people: their rights within the democratic dispensation and their freedoms enshrined in proper law and lore. Nkrumah’s destruction of this element of independence makes him an enemy, and not the father of Ghana’s independence. He saw independence through a jaundiced view of his personality cult, and bequeathed to the nation a generation of indoctrinated Ghanaian acolytes whose thoughts are forever warped and reasoning circumscribed to feed the great Nkrumahist mythology. All these people can do is to shout shibboleths in praise of Nkrumah, or to insult those who dare to criticize him.
The worst of these empty slogans and insults emanated from a Ghanaian professor of Political Science who wrote these words to me:
It is a shame that you pride yourself as a lawyer who is knowledgeable enough to condemn Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, whom the AU was more than proud to honor because of his good services to Ghana and Africa by erecting his statue at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa. What have you as an individual done for Ghana or Africa worth a historical notation? Yet you take pride in condemning Africa's most illustrious leader. As someone who has researched and understand the "politics" at the time of Ghana's struggle for self-rule and economic freedom, I take issue with your rather shallow political analyses vis-à-vis the contribution of Dr. Nkrumah to Ghana and Africa in the midst of CIA collaborators who wanted to derail our hard won freedom in the 1950's and 1960's. Best wishes.
George A. Agbango, Ph.D.
Professor of Politics and Public Administration
US Institute of Peace Scholar
Department of Political Science
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
216-B Bakeless Center for the Humanities
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
USA
Friends, this is vintage Nkrumahist rant for you! In spite of all his education, he is just incapable of thinking beyond praise-singing. Is he truly interested in what I do for my country “ worth (sic) a historical notation”? If I were to narrate my contribution to my country, will he be convinced?
Ayikwei Armah, Africa’s foremost prose stylist, in his book called “The Healers” describes a festival within a certain African community in which all the people engage in a race only to crown a single person as the winner deserving of all honor. A better trope and mythical construct cannot be found to describe the hero-worshipping of the political illusionist of all time, Osagyefo Sasabonsam Kofi Kwame Nwiah Ngolomah Nkrumah, the Fountain of All Honor! But it is the work of real scholars to scratch the foil from the core and analyze the myth in order to expose the truth. This is what we will always do no matter the depth of the lies of the NCRIMINALIST
Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Law, is a general legal practitioner resident in the city of Austin, Texas. You can email him at sarfoadjei@yahoo.com.
Kojo T 8 years ago
This gives insight to the tragedy of you house niggers. Bythe way can you critique books of Busia, Danquah or Nana
This gives insight to the tragedy of you house niggers. Bythe way can you critique books of Busia, Danquah or Nana
C.K. Man 8 years ago
Kojo T(amakloe) aka dirty Ewe, first go to the bathroom and clean you entire mouth before joining entities to at least read something without joining the conversation. You dirty primitive creature.
Kojo T(amakloe) aka dirty Ewe, first go to the bathroom and clean you entire mouth before joining entities to at least read something without joining the conversation. You dirty primitive creature.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
There is something in psychology and psychiatry called "PROJECTION"!!
Briefly, this malady is described as the condition where a person attempts to attribute his motives, impulses, actions etc of which at the very least he ... read full comment
There is something in psychology and psychiatry called "PROJECTION"!!
Briefly, this malady is described as the condition where a person attempts to attribute his motives, impulses, actions etc of which at the very least he or she is aware is frowned upon by society at large, much of the time it is unconscious or subconscious. However there is a variety that is known as "conscious projection" where a person attributes his worst behavior to others, this is most often found in the sociopolitical arena!! SAS and his cohorts are a typical example of this malady. All the ills he attempts to tar Nkrumaists with are actually the defining characteristic of the NotoriousLiarsClique/ NeocolonialistLosersMovement people. For example one of the reasons the NPP is always going on about electoral fraud is simple; Back in the 50s they were notorious for stealing and or destroying ballot boxes and electoral intimidation!! Further the NLC prerigged the election of 1969 by banning the CPP, and then fixed the election for the American running dog " CIA controlled asset" Busia by ballot stuffing!! One of the means of intimidation employed by these oafs was invoking dire maledictions' misusing our local deities and shrines!! It is not surprising that they invented the myth of Kankan Nyame, in keeping with their own proclivities!! I will digress briefly here the black propaganda unleashed during the NLC years under the direction of the CIA funded Center for Civic Education was a carbon copy of the tactics employed in South Vietnam by the CIA under the guise of Civil Affairs!!
In conclusion every ill from closed mindedness thru a refusal to acknowledge the factual record to empty rants accurately describes SAS Ahoofe, Mahmoud and all the rest of the NOTORIOUS LIARS CLIQUE!! By the way Nlrumah was not recruited by the UGCC as an act of benevolence, simply put the leadership of the UGCC were in the main political dilettantes who did not have a clue about political organizing or felt to exalted to mix with the masses.
Finally I knew very intimately the longest serving PDA detainee, his verdict on Nkrumah can be paraphrased as follows: Nkrumah was right, he was ahead of his time, much of the opposition was composed of selfish parochialists who did not care for the masses and just wanted to succeed the colonialists!! The following if memory serves me is a direct quote: "Nkrumah was a great thinker, organizer and political leader, a very great man, deliberately misunderstood by many of his contemporaries!! This from a man who spent 7 years 2 months and 14 days in detention under the PDA from December 1958 till February 24 1966.!!! According to this man he had know doubt that Dr Nkrumah as he always called him would have won if the election of 1969 had been truly free and fair with the CPP participating!! When Dr Nkrumah died he paid his respects at State house with the present writer in tow at the tender age of 5. Later on when I discovered some of the black propaganda booklets published under the NLC, he had a bonfire made of them!! Many of his friends were prominent CPP members like the fiery Martin Appiah-Dankwa and A K Djin.
FOR THE PEOPLE. GORGORDUTOR
Kwamebeba 8 years ago
The true character of a true Nkrumaist is that, like Osagyefo, he or she does not mince words and does not beat around the bush but rather is not afraid to tackle the bull by the horns. As Nkrumaists, we follow the scientifi ... read full comment
The true character of a true Nkrumaist is that, like Osagyefo, he or she does not mince words and does not beat around the bush but rather is not afraid to tackle the bull by the horns. As Nkrumaists, we follow the scientific ideas of Nkrumah and we are therefore pragmatic. Nkrumah knew that by fighting for Africans all over the world and his insitence on the continental political and economic unity of Africa, he would face the wrath of the colonialists, neo-colonialists and their puppets both home and abroad yet, at any opportunity, he made is wishes clear. I say he made his wishes and doings clear implicitly and explicitly even in the face of death.
Why is it that you quislings and anti-Nkrumah are afraid to be like Nkrumah and justify your methods of fighting against the man and are always denying things that you did to get rid of him? Why do you deny that you tried to assassinate the man if you think that was the right way to achieve your aims when your methods became unsuccessful? For that matter, you do not stand up as "men" in the African sense.
The question for you Dr. SAS before I attempt to give you tangible answers for your questions to Nkrumaists in your comment is that: Did your people throw bombs at Nkrumah and other Ghanaians or not? Did the coup makers and their allies take bribes from foreign countries and their agents or not? Be brave and answer these close questions before any explanations if there are any at all for choosing clandestine methods to achieve your aims. So far what you are trying to tell the youth of Ghana and Africa is that your traitors were falsely accussed and did not need to be lightly punished as was the case. Nkrumah supported the armed struggle of African freedom fighters and did not deny that at any time.
Kwamebeba 8 years ago
Will Dr. SAS & co. arrange to let us get information about Danquah and Busia: their works, speeches etc. on Ghanaweb as we are getting on Nkrumah? People, especially the youth would be happy to compare and contrast. If you ... read full comment
Will Dr. SAS & co. arrange to let us get information about Danquah and Busia: their works, speeches etc. on Ghanaweb as we are getting on Nkrumah? People, especially the youth would be happy to compare and contrast. If you can't then be mute so that your ignorance will be hidden from others.
Shabi 8 years ago
Good point Kwamebeba. I would also suggest that these terrorist sympathizers, SAS and co, should get supportive speeches from their their allies such as Ian Smith, Hendrik Voerward and other Apartheid activists, Houphoet Boig ... read full comment
Good point Kwamebeba. I would also suggest that these terrorist sympathizers, SAS and co, should get supportive speeches from their their allies such as Ian Smith, Hendrik Voerward and other Apartheid activists, Houphoet Boigny and other anti-African allies.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
1. Today, in 2015, if we must apply futuristics per MARCUS AMPADU, we could say, with all due respect to other elders of the UGCC, that the Danquah-UGCC was actually a lobbying front: Danquah did not believe in a Unitary Ghan ... read full comment
1. Today, in 2015, if we must apply futuristics per MARCUS AMPADU, we could say, with all due respect to other elders of the UGCC, that the Danquah-UGCC was actually a lobbying front: Danquah did not believe in a Unitary Ghana. Danquah proposed that the colonizers postpone Ghana's independence until Danquah was ready to lead Gold Coast from Akyem Abuakwa!
2. As we all know, Danquah and Busia were taking money from foreign governments even before independence, than after, for political activities in Ghana. (We must be stupid to assume that the Nkrumah government had no clue).
Nkrumah was a lot smarter!
---And so, Mr. Inventor of Everything, J. B. Danquah, sans his Mabel, was detained under law, as any government would have done!
3. People like Attorney Dr. Adjei Sarfo, as some people have already observed on this and other pages, cannot disentangle politics from economics, from social imperatives, from educational imperatives, from personal religious proclivities, etc., and vice versa.
4. Just today, we are reading about NPP folks and an organization (AFAG) we thought was non-partisan, demonstrating for a new electoral register, for a new "start", they say!
What nonsense!
ITEM: We took a look at the Bawumia PowerPoint Slides and demolished it with our critique!
5. MESSAGE TO DR. SAS/MAHMOUD/NII TIEKO - Grab a copy of our PowerPoint slides in response to Bawumia and tell us why Bawumia/NPP are not full of gas, vice evidence.
Get a copy, gang!
Dr. SAS, go get a copy and come again!
www.GhanaHero/Com/Visions, see under
Prof Lungu says....
Peace!
Bob 8 years ago
francis kwarteng, I will advise you to quickly rush straight away to Dr. SAS with all of your followers to learn "free writing" of political (issues) articles where by you don't just cut and paste pages from other writers to ... read full comment
francis kwarteng, I will advise you to quickly rush straight away to Dr. SAS with all of your followers to learn "free writing" of political (issues) articles where by you don't just cut and paste pages from other writers to mislead Readers on Forums and platforms.
Kwarteng your game is to just cut and post any nonsense you see about Kwame Nkrumah to the Media Houses for publication, bearing your Name only to tell some few ignorant people that you are an intellectual, where as you cannot even write a simple meaningful English.
And just like your other followers like (the Ewes) Kojo T, C.Y. Andy-K, Self made Prof. Lungu and rest of those "blind Can of Worms" who use to back you for every useless essay pertaining to Nkrumah, (copied and) posted.
I think Dr. SAS will be ever ready to elevate you in terms of right thinking most especially writing creatively in proper English.
I will return!!!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
"Nyerere created a single-party system and used "preventive detention" to eliminate trade unions and opposition political forces. In 1964, Tanganyika united politically with Zanzibar and was renamed Tanzania, with Nyerere as ... read full comment
"Nyerere created a single-party system and used "preventive detention" to eliminate trade unions and opposition political forces. In 1964, Tanganyika united politically with Zanzibar and was renamed Tanzania, with Nyerere as president of the unified country. He was the sole candidate for president in the unified country's first election, in 1965, and was reelected unopposed every five years until his retirement in 1985."
Nyerere was as studious an Nkrumah minion as Mugabe.
Note: Nkrumah's template for African unity was a pathway to his signature dictatorship. Under Nkrumah, the notion of governance consisted in life presidency and imprisonment without trial. Under such morbid format of tyranny, exactly how did anybody come to reason that African unity had any benefit for the continent except to satisfy the megalomaniacal posturing of Nkrumah and his minions?
How can anybody talk of African unity without first laying the foundation for African democracy? The extent of Nkrumah's influence in African politics is that he lay the bedrock for its dictatorship, just as George Washington lay the bedrock of American democracy by turning his back on life presidency.
Now somebody tell me who destroyed the African leadership psyche and injected corruption in its fabric.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
SAS,
Is this the first tie you are learning these facts about Nyerere? I have addressed in some of my articles.
I raised these facts in some of my earlier articles because some of the leading Danguah scholars like to t ... read full comment
SAS,
Is this the first tie you are learning these facts about Nyerere? I have addressed in some of my articles.
I raised these facts in some of my earlier articles because some of the leading Danguah scholars like to taut Nyerere and discredit Nkrumah.
They discredit Nkrumah and praise Nyerere while refusing to discuss Nyerere's one-party state, use of PDA (which the West is using now. Remember the PDA originated with the West in the first place).
That said, like Nyerere and the West, there were many justifiable reasons why he used the PDA. As for the history of the one-party state, I have adequately covered. They had nothing to do with Nkrumah. If you want I may revisit this history again in several articles.
The one-party state was practiced in African, the West and other parts of the world before Nkrumah was born. Even so, Nyerere did not have to learn the one-party state model from Nkrumah. That is not what the historical say. Aside that, Tanzania today is less "tribal" than most African societies.
In sum, Nyerere's one-party state and use of the PDA is nothing new. Like I said before, I had discussed these in some of my articles going way back. The sad part is those Danquah historians and politicians are wont to praise the leadership of Nyerere (while disingenuously keeping mute over Nyerere's use of the PDA and one-party state).
They know by pointing out Nyerere's one-party state and use of the PDA they can't demonize Nyerere. You see where their political hypocrisies lie? Then there are Danquah followers (historians and writers) who say one thing about Nkrumah in their books and papers and come to Ghanaweb to say the exact opposite. I have the pages, chapters, and statements to that effect.
Some of these writers personally approached authors such as Wole Soyinka on certain things he has said in his book and Soyinka told them what he actually meant by so and so. Nyerere's use of the PDA and the one-party state is common knowledge.
Why did he use the PDA? Aren't American business onwers destroying labor unions? Haven't both the Republicans and Democrats taken third parties to court in an attempt to frustrate or try to suppress emergence of a third political force (when both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are essentially the same organizations controlled by the corporate class)?
Have the West not given support to one-party leaders like Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Augusto Pinochet, Mobuto Sese Seko, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, and several others? Did America,Britain and Israel not bring Idi Amin power?
These writers report what exactly Soyinka said to them in their books, yet they still come to Ghanaweb and say the opposite (though some of us have all the records from Soyinka and what these Danquah detractors of Nkrumah say in their books). Some of the shameless writers tell all these lies about Nyrerere and Nkrumah (but hide the former's use of the PDA and one-party state).
So what you are saying is nothing new. I am surprised you are putting them out here as though they are the first time you have come across them. You won't if you are familiar with some of my writings and the scholarship on them (particularly from the Danquah camp). Please go back and read my series on "Nkrumah Did Not Force His Ideas On African Leaders."
If you had read this series and checked out all the references I provided, then you would have known that George Washington was dead set against party politics (as with many of his influential colleagues. So too there were Americans including past presidents, Senators, and Constitutional scholars who opposed the two-term limit when it was first proposed. FDR served nearly four terms, dying in the first year of his fourth term...? I provided some useful info on all of these facts. In fact it was the issue of slavery and the moral and sociopolitical circumstances surrounding it (Civil War) that, among other things, made multipparty politics possible).
Beside, Goerge Washington was a slave holder for some 50 years and helped wtite slavery into the US Constitution (some historical records claim he was a slave owner at 11).
Nkrumah did not own slaves and endorsed party politics until opposition terrorism and subversion pushed parliament to say otherwise. Even Danquah hated party politics and said so in some of his writings.
In fact since I did this series I have come across wealth of information and data on this subject matter. You will be shocked should I bring them to your attention. It appears the information I provided in this series is nothing compared to what I have now!
Have a great day.
Thanks.
Bob 8 years ago
Author:
francis kwarteng
Date: 2015-09-16 20:05:12
Comment to: Guess Who Copied Nkrumah's Dictatorship
SAS,
Is this the first tie you are learning these facts about Nyerere? I have addressed in some of my articl ... read full comment
Author:
francis kwarteng
Date: 2015-09-16 20:05:12
Comment to: Guess Who Copied Nkrumah's Dictatorship
SAS,
Is this the first tie you are learning these facts about Nyerere? I have addressed in some of my articles.
That said, like Nyerere and the West, there were many justifiable reasons why he used the PDA. As for the history of the one-party state, I have adequately covered. They had nothing to do with Nkrumah. If you want I may revisit this history again in several articles.
KWARTENG'S PLEONASTIC AND TAUTOLOGICAL ENGLISH AMONG OTHERS: "If you want I may revisit this history again in several articles."
"Revisit again" Kwarteng,shame should cover your head for polluting Readers.
Shabi 8 years ago
Mark my word, the next thing we will hear from these epileptic clowns is that, they dont like Kwartengs haircut, Berkos shoes, Kojo Ts choice of underwear, Prof Lungus reading glasses (if any) or my mustachio.
My worry is ... read full comment
Mark my word, the next thing we will hear from these epileptic clowns is that, they dont like Kwartengs haircut, Berkos shoes, Kojo Ts choice of underwear, Prof Lungus reading glasses (if any) or my mustachio.
My worry is that who is it at all who gave them this task that they are finding so difficult to perform. If it is not by force, then why dont they quit and save themselves from an inevitable heart-attack?
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Shabi,
This is my primary concern too. In fact there are certain Ghanaweb columnists I don't read. There are some I have not read in a year; others in two years!
I only read them only when some of my core readers w ... read full comment
Dear Shabi,
This is my primary concern too. In fact there are certain Ghanaweb columnists I don't read. There are some I have not read in a year; others in two years!
I only read them only when some of my core readers want me to read them and to respond to them. Still, I can't fathom why they read the articles I post on Ghanaweb given that it can give them heart-attack, like you put it.
Shabi, Bob is Adjoa Wangara. The funny thing with him is that he sits in Germany and reads my articles even though he knows they are not for him to read since they contain facts he does not want to hear.
And when he does not get my attention he goes straight to Modernghana and complains there. Unfortunately no one pays him attention on Modernghana.
I wonder such readers can't get over the fact that this is what I have set out to do, perhaps until death or other unforseeable circumstances say otherwise.
And if they also care to know, I hardly complain about the accolades showered on Danauah, Busiah, etc., on Ghanaweb. Why? Because those writers who choose to do so have every right to do so.
In other words one has every right under the sun to promote one's heroes and heroines. Who am I to stop another from worshiping his/her hero?
Thus, what I post on Ghanaweb is strictly for a target audience. There are some among my core readership who sometimes suggest to me which topic areas I should cover for them, and I willingly oblige if I have the time. In most cases I don't have to do any serious research or reading of the subject matter because I already know where my sources are!
Therefore my articles are not every reader who visits Ghanaweb. Plus, I don't have any say over who chooses to read my articles. If I were any of such apprehensive readers, I would stop reading articles that are likely to trouble me in both the short- and long-term. Why they continue to read and still complain beats my imagination! I wish soneone will help me understand this complex phenomenon of human nature. It is like feeble individuals who are strongly attracted to diabolical bullies who always bully them no matter what! This is really strange!
Thanks.
Shabi 8 years ago
Like you Francis, I also find it difficult to understand why these enemies of Africa continue to read our stuff - when it offends and pains them so much.
In my frustration, I am tempted to suspect that somebody who is real ... read full comment
Like you Francis, I also find it difficult to understand why these enemies of Africa continue to read our stuff - when it offends and pains them so much.
In my frustration, I am tempted to suspect that somebody who is really evil, must be discreetly paying them to make such glamorous fools of themselves.
Nsia 8 years ago
No wonder JB Danquah wanted to transplant George Washington"s selective democracy onto Ghanaians. Do you think the vast majority of blacks who lived under his regime thought they were living under a democratic govt? They live ... read full comment
No wonder JB Danquah wanted to transplant George Washington"s selective democracy onto Ghanaians. Do you think the vast majority of blacks who lived under his regime thought they were living under a democratic govt? They lived under a tyrant. On what basis do you classify him as a democrat?.Did he abolish slavery as a true democrat? Please, do not insult us with your sterile logic! Do not bore us with the old tripe about his private thoughts on slavery.You can worship him just as you worship your ill-starred,lumpen,arrogant and insignificant Idol,JB Danquah. Now, you ought to bore a deep hole into your arrogant self and let the sap run out. No wonder Ghanaians rejected JB Danquah thrice.They will do the same to Nana Addo as well. G Washington, was the bedrock of US democracy just as HF Verwoerd was to S African democracy.You seem to produce the minimum intellectual output with the maximum Nkrumah bashing. By the way, Ngolomah and Nkrumah are the same in Nzima language. We do not buy your perverse verdict on a true Ghanaian patriot like Nkrumah.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
"The future of Africa, the modernization of Africa that has a place in the 21 st century, is linked with its decolonization and detribalisation. Tribal atavism would be given up any hope for Africa. And all of the sins tha ... read full comment
"The future of Africa, the modernization of Africa that has a place in the 21 st century, is linked with its decolonization and detribalisation. Tribal atavism would be given up any hope for Africa. And all of the sins that Africa can commit, the sin of despair would be the most unforgivable."
The future of Africa, the modernization & detribalisation the Mwalimu is talking about for 21st. century, is at the moment a pipe dream with no serious effort; especially, with the acerbic feud going on between the Nkrumahists & Danquahists.
This confirms my view that we have to embrace futurology, coupled with sustainability, to give us a fighting chance of crafting a strong nation.
Right now our country is too divided for our own good.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Marcus,
I have looked at Aylmer Von Fliescher's & Prof. Sohail Inayatullah's work.
There is not one single idea they advance that is new to me. Again there is nothing new there.
For instance, the Six Pillars con ... read full comment
Dear Marcus,
I have looked at Aylmer Von Fliescher's & Prof. Sohail Inayatullah's work.
There is not one single idea they advance that is new to me. Again there is nothing new there.
For instance, the Six Pillars contain certain ideas or allusions to Buddhist concepts (which go back to thousands of years). In other words these ideas are older than Christ.
I say there is nothing new because I (following my father) have been a Buddhist before, particularly of the Nichiren strand, and so such ideas do not come across to me as new. I have not ceased reading materials on comparative religion since I came of age.
In sum, whatever Fleischer says in Africa 2025 is nothing new. NOTHING NEW. This was why I asked you not to waste your time on ideas that are already in the public domain.
That said, the best way to convince me of your arguments is to demonstrate to me which aspects of futurology you think is totally new to me. You develop this argument in the form of an article (published on Ghanaweb, say).
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Onuah Francis, you cannot brush what I've been saying about futurology with your mantra "THER IS NOTHING NEW HERE"
I seriously would hate to make this into a back & forth contest with you, but you've got to convince me tha ... read full comment
Onuah Francis, you cannot brush what I've been saying about futurology with your mantra "THER IS NOTHING NEW HERE"
I seriously would hate to make this into a back & forth contest with you, but you've got to convince me that you are familiar with Aylmer's Futurology: Africa 2025 by giving the synopsis of what Aylmer's has to say Africa's Green Wall: the War Against Climate Change; or the Nuking of the tsetse flies. Ghanaweb audience might love to hear that.
Inyayatullah is a well-known futurist professor & futures researcher, and there is nothing Buddhist about his Six Pillars concepts. Tell us the Buddhist part.
Mr. Kwarteng I take up your challenge: I intend to develop an argument on Futurology & Sustainability in the form of an article to be
published on Ghanaweb.
Thanks for goading me on.
KBK 8 years ago
Ampadu it will be a total waste of time to let kwarteng assign you to produce an article. He himself knows nothing, he's a braggart, novice, attention seeker and pompose with high nose who must not be taken serious.
Ampadu it will be a total waste of time to let kwarteng assign you to produce an article. He himself knows nothing, he's a braggart, novice, attention seeker and pompose with high nose who must not be taken serious.
This is a summary of Prof. Inayatullah's Six-Point Plan. Now tell me what is new in this (Take note when he relias on Darwin anmd Darwinian concepts and ancient Greek writers like Homer to explain some of his ... read full comment
Dear Marcus,
This is a summary of Prof. Inayatullah's Six-Point Plan. Now tell me what is new in this (Take note when he relias on Darwin anmd Darwinian concepts and ancient Greek writers like Homer to explain some of his concepts. Also tell me when Darwin and Homer were born! Please go to the bottom of the summary where he reduces his Six-Point Plan to questions and read how he incorporates Buddhist concepts as a way of explaining his Six-Point Plan. Eben mentions Taoist ideas. Tell me when Tao was born and also tell me during which periods his ideas developed. There are even Hindu ideas. Finally, Prof. Inayatulla relies on Deepak Chopra's some of are Hindu in origin. Chopra himself has come under attack by scientists and physicists for some of his misplaced theories. I have combed through one of Prof. Inayatullah's major papers and I see nothing that strikes me as new. I provide the link at the end of this piece. PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU THINK I CAN FIND NEW IDEAS IN FUTUROLOGY)?:
Foundational futures concepts
There are six basic concepts of futures thinking: the used future; the disowned future;
alternative futures; alignment; models of social change; and uses of the future.
The first is the concept of the used future. Have you purchased a used future? Is your image
of the future, your desired future, yours or is it unconsciously borrowed from someone else?
When we look at Asian cities, we see that they tend to follow the same pattern of urban
development that western cities did generations ago (Inayatullah, 2004a).
And yet many, if
not most, western mayors now believe that they were mistaken. Instead of spending billions
on unplanned growth, development without vision, they should have focused on creating
liveable communities. They should have kept green public spaces separating developed
regions.
They now understand that their image the future – of unbridled growth without
concern for nature or liveability – led to the gigantic megacities where while many had jobs,
they suffered in almost every other way. Asian cities have unconsciously followed this
pattern.
They have forgotten their own traditions where village life and community were
central, where living with nature was important. Now they must have find ways to create new
futures, or continue to go along with the future being discarded elsewhere. This used future
is leading to a global crisis of fresh water depletion, climate change, not to mention human
dignity.
The second concept is the disowned future (see Stone and Stone, 1989; Inayatullah, 2007).
Our excellence is our fatal flaw, said the Greek writer Homer. What we excel at becomes our
downfall. And we do not see this because we are busy focusing on our strategic plans.
It is
the self disowned, the future pushed away, that comes back to haunt us. The busy executive,
focused on achievements, only in later life remembers his children. It is later in life that he
begins to think about work-life balance, about his inner life. The organization focused on a
strategic goal denies the exact resources it may need to truly succeed. In the story of the
tortoise and the hare; we often focus on the hare – wanting to be the quickest and the
smartest – but it is the tortoise, our reflective self that may have the answer to the future.
Plans go astray not because of a lack of effective strategy but because the act of creating a
particular direction ignores other personal and organizational selves. The challenge is to
integrate our disowned selves: for the school principal to remember what it was like to be a
child, to use her child self to create curriculum; for the army general to discover the part of
him that can negotiate, that can learn from others. This means moving futures closer: from a
goal oriented neo-Darwinian approach to a softer and more paradoxical Taoist approach.
The third concept is alternative futures. We often believe that there is only one future. We
cannot see the alternatives, and thus we make the same mistakes over and over. But by
looking for alternatives, we may see something new. We are not caught in the straitjacket of
one future. As well, if our particular future does not occur, we do not die from emotional
shock, rather, we learn how to adapt to changing conditions. Many in the former Eastern
Europe remain in a state of future shock. They believed there was only one future – the
socialist one. When that disappeared, they did not know what to do, where to look.
VOL. 10 NO. 1 2008
Alternative had not been mapped, the mind had become inflexible. Alternative futures
thinking reminds us that while we cannot predict a particular future always accurately, by
focusing on a range of alternatives, we can better prepare for uncertainty, indeed, to some
extent embrace uncertainty.
The fourth concept is alignment. We need to align our day-to-day problem-based approach
with strategy. And we need to align strategy with the broader bigger picture, and the bigger
picture with our vision and the vision with our day-to-day. Often we envision a particular
future, and yet how we measure this future, our organizational indicators, have no
relationship to that vision. Thus the vision fails, because everyone knows the vision is there
for show so as to appear to look modern. While enabling and ennobling us, the vision must
link to the day-to-day realities; our day-to-day measures must reflect the vision.
There is also inner alignment. Often an organization or individual has a particular strategy of
the future – to achieve a certain goal, but its inner map does not reflect that strategy. The
inner map may even be in direct contradiction to this external reality. Thus there is a
disconnect between what the leader may say or do or wish others to do and the inner map of
the organization. The challenge is first to discern the inner map – how the organization sees
itself. Is it youthful or mature? A tiger or an elephant? As well, how does the organization
imagine the future? Does your organization believe the future is random; or that you are
rushing down a rapid stream with rocks all around; or the future is like a game of snakes and
ladders; or like a family? The inner map needs to reflect the outer map, and visa versa.
The fifth concept is your model of social change. Do you believe that the future is positive
and you can do something about it? Or is the future bleak and there is nothing you can do
about it? Or is the future created by the 100th monkey? Or is the future already given, created
by prophecy? Or perhaps you believe that the future is cyclical, everyone has a turn and the
most effective strategy is to be patient. Or do you believe the future is not given, but created
by our daily actions, and thus we must take the ‘‘bull by the horns’’. Or . . .
The sixth concept is the use of the future. Futures thinking can simply be about foresight
training, helping individuals and organizations with new competencies and new skills. At a
deeper level, futures thinking can help create more effective strategy. By understanding the
alternative, used and disowned futures, organizations can become far more innovative. At a
deeper level, futures thinking can create capacity. It is not so much predicting correctly or
getting the right strategy, that is, using the right tools, but about enhancing our confidence to
create futures that we desire. Futures methods thus decolonize the world we think we may
want – they challenge our basic concepts. They deconstruct. Enhancing capacity
empowers individuals – this liberates and is scary for many as the safety of having others
make decisions for one is taken away.
The next deeper level is emergence. Futures thinking helps create the conditions for a
paradigm shift. The organization imagines a new future, creates a new strategy, enables
stakeholders, uses tools and then a new future emerges.
The final deeper levels are about meme (Dawkins, 1989; Blackmore, 1998, p. 2; www.
scholars.nus.edu.sg/cpace/infotech/cook/memedef.html)[2] and microvita change (Sarkar,
1991). Meme change is about changing the ideas that govern institutions and microvita is
about the non-local field of awareness that makes sense of reality. Futures thinking ultimately
can go far as mapping and changing memes and fields of reality.
Thus, uses of the future: training; strategy; creating capacity; emergence; new memes;
microvita change. There is a seventh concept, but that is the no-concept: that all listing of
concepts becomes yet another cookbook that limits creativity, instead of creating
innovation. Being present to changing sensitive conditions, allowing futures to emerge is
central here.
Along with these basic concepts, futures studies has six pillars. However, before we explore
these pillars, one way to create the future you may desire is to respond to these futures
questions.
PAGE 6
j
foresight
j
VOL. 10 NO. 1 2008
The six basic futures questions
1. What do you think the future will be like? What is your prediction? More and more progress
and wealth? Wealth for the view? A dramatic technological revolution? Environmental
catastrophe? Why?
2. Which future are you afraid of? Random acts of violence? Do you think you can transform
this future to a desired future? Why or why not?
3. What are the hidden assumptions of your predicted future? Are there some
taken-for-granted assumptions (about gender, or nature or technology or culture, or . . .)?
4. What are some alternatives to your predicted or feared future? If you change some of your
assumptions, what alternatives emerge?
5. What is your preferred future? Which future do you wish to become reality for yourself or
your organization?
6. And finally, how might you get there? What steps can you take to move in toward your
preferred future? As it says in ancient Buddhist texts, much of the solution to the challenge
of life is simply in being pointed in the right direction.
Futures questions are summarized thus: will; fear; hidden assumptions; alternative futures;
preferred future; and next steps.
The six pillars of futures studies
These six pillars of futures studies provide a theory of futures thinking that is linked to
methods and tools, and developed through praxis. They can be used as theory or in a
futures workshop setting. The pillars (MATDCT) are: mapping, anticipation, timing,
deepening, creating alternatives and transforming.
........................................................................................................................................................
I am afraid this does not constitute synopsis on futurology. And you chose to leave out commenting on Aylmer Von Fleischer's Futurology: Africa 2025, and the questions I posed.
Look for my paper on futuristics coming out ... read full comment
I am afraid this does not constitute synopsis on futurology. And you chose to leave out commenting on Aylmer Von Fleischer's Futurology: Africa 2025, and the questions I posed.
Look for my paper on futuristics coming out soon.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Marcus,
You mentioned the Six Point Plant by Inayatullah (REMEMBER YOU ASKED ME TO READ INAYATULLAH'S SIX POINT PLAN RECENTLY). What I gave you summarizes the Six Point Plan by him. I am still afraid there is nothing ... read full comment
Dear Marcus,
You mentioned the Six Point Plant by Inayatullah (REMEMBER YOU ASKED ME TO READ INAYATULLAH'S SIX POINT PLAN RECENTLY). What I gave you summarizes the Six Point Plan by him. I am still afraid there is nothing new. In fact I have checked all the links you provided.
Finally, Aylmer Von Fleischer's has not said one single thing in all the links you provided that is new to me. Both rehash ideas and concepts that already familiar in various disciplines. Many of such ideas are not even "scientific."
I hope you bring out something new in your article given that I am already familiar with the field and the tools the field endorses.
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
As I said, I'd hate to make this back & forth.
I disagree with your take on Inayatullah & Fleischer's futurology.
As I said, I'd hate to make this back & forth.
I disagree with your take on Inayatullah & Fleischer's futurology.
When will the idiot cut/copy master, francis kwarteng stop duplicating, misleading, polluting and write his own article?
Is it true that you really attended any of the numerous schools that Nkrumah made available in any part of Ghana? If you did, did you read textbooks of quality which have always been reprinted over and over since those were ...
read full comment
Nii Teiko, Mahmoud and Bob are HATERS Their idols left nothing and they themselves are hollow.Like craps in a bucket they shoot down the good works of others. Who or what forces you to read these posts? If you chyoose to f ...
read full comment
Original Kojo T, have you not realized that Nii Teiko, Mahmoud and Bob are one and the same person? In his frantic desperation to earn the little crumbs of pay from his slave-masters, just like JB Danquah did, he keeps on ex ...
read full comment
Bob, you must be glad and grateful for what Kwarteng has been offering. The amount of time and resources he puts into all the research are worth something that most of us could not afford to expend.
His materials that you ...
read full comment
What kwarteng is doing is hiding or covering the original Story already in the www. to confuse, mislead, misinform through his constant duplication with half baseless stories.
I meant to say:
1). "..more than we have been GIVING him."
2). "..you must SHAMELESSLY appreciate.."
G.K. Berko,
Your comments here are profoundly uplifting because you took into account the imports of Julius Nyerere's speech,the repeated and ever-increasing hostility developing among commenters on write-ups purposely des ...
read full comment
GK Berko is the only sane Nkrumaist here, that is if it is not an oxymoron to say that an Nkrumaist can be sane. Because the sanest Nkrumaist already has his/her brain tied up on a sequoia tree of propaganda birthed by that e ...
read full comment
Abra Kuma $ SAS,
I don't think it is my responsibility to try to balance Nkrumah's legacy with Danquah's or Busia's. THAT IS NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.
Nkrumah's legacy is in and of itself balanced. It is not Danquah's or ...
read full comment
Dear Abra Kuma,
Please could you help me explain why some readers are still complaining when I have finally decided to concentrate more on promoting my hero, Nkrumah, while de-emphasizing my critique of his contemporaries? ...
read full comment
Dear Brother Berko & Abra Kuma,
I cherish your positive contributions and priceless wisdom. I have taken note of your advice.
Please have a great week.
Thanks.
When is the atavistic nonsense gonna stop? Enough of this useless history lessons. Anyways I am waiting for Lungu and Kojo T for the summary of this boring piece before read
You say that "When is the atavistic nonsense gonna stop? Enough of this useless history lessons." and then in the same breath, you say "Anyways I am waiting for Lungu and Kojo T for the summary of this boring piece before ... ...
read full comment
Shabi, b'cos of you short fall in I.Q. you will find it extremely very difficult to undersatand the simple message the Gentleman Nii Teiko is trying to singnal, In a nutshell, you are a ZERO.
African unity was a foreign idea started and implemented by the colonial masters in Africa. Before colonization, we were divided and separated from one another in our various tribes. Enzemas had nothing to do with Ewes and A ...
read full comment
A history non-lesson!
READ:
BY , DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
READ:
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more in ...
read full comment
Mahmoud, you are somebody who does not follow logic and that makes you contradict yourself which in turn incriminates you. If you have some little knowledge of mathematics then you would appreciate Nkrumah's African Continen ...
read full comment
Mahmoud is truly ignorant!! I understand that he is ideologically bankrupt, ethically bereft & in denial of historic facts. However his knowledge of Afrikan history is abysmal, this idea that before the advent of Akwasi Bron ...
read full comment
Dear Gorgortudor,
Thanks for your brilliant expose.
As for what you are essentially driving at there is a large body of scientific and historical data to support your claim.
African human geography covers this area ...
read full comment
Master Kwarteng, I had resolved to ignore the malodorous, odious and irrational fulminations' of THESE RABID QUADRUPEDS ON HIND LEGS!! However it is beyond my capacity to allow arrant nonsense from these WILFULLY BLINKERED SE ...
read full comment
Dear Gorgortudor,
Well said. Great wisdom.
I agree with every single word. I am indeed learning from you.
Thanks for setting the record straight. Let's continue the good work on our heroes.
Thanks.
Thats right! Only an Nkrumaist can be so intelligent. Gorgordutor your submission is phenomenal. Thank you and by extension, many thanks also to the slimy imperialist slaves on this platform for sufficiently provoking you to ...
read full comment
I hear you my brother Shabi, "seke Ni Osagyefo tsele ame agbene etsey kpaa" we got to bang on these serfs they can't tell their ass from their elbow with their made-up nonsense cum acute Nkrumah Derangement Syndrome with Fals ...
read full comment
The consistent braying, bleating and barking of the Nkrumaist (NCRIMINALISTS) donkeys, sheep and dogs comprise one further indication of the brain atrophy of these cultic mongers and ideological monsters. Thus apart from thei ...
read full comment
This gives insight to the tragedy of you house niggers. Bythe way can you critique books of Busia, Danquah or Nana
Kojo T(amakloe) aka dirty Ewe, first go to the bathroom and clean you entire mouth before joining entities to at least read something without joining the conversation. You dirty primitive creature.
There is something in psychology and psychiatry called "PROJECTION"!!
Briefly, this malady is described as the condition where a person attempts to attribute his motives, impulses, actions etc of which at the very least he ...
read full comment
The true character of a true Nkrumaist is that, like Osagyefo, he or she does not mince words and does not beat around the bush but rather is not afraid to tackle the bull by the horns. As Nkrumaists, we follow the scientifi ...
read full comment
Will Dr. SAS & co. arrange to let us get information about Danquah and Busia: their works, speeches etc. on Ghanaweb as we are getting on Nkrumah? People, especially the youth would be happy to compare and contrast. If you ...
read full comment
Good point Kwamebeba. I would also suggest that these terrorist sympathizers, SAS and co, should get supportive speeches from their their allies such as Ian Smith, Hendrik Voerward and other Apartheid activists, Houphoet Boig ...
read full comment
1. Today, in 2015, if we must apply futuristics per MARCUS AMPADU, we could say, with all due respect to other elders of the UGCC, that the Danquah-UGCC was actually a lobbying front: Danquah did not believe in a Unitary Ghan ...
read full comment
francis kwarteng, I will advise you to quickly rush straight away to Dr. SAS with all of your followers to learn "free writing" of political (issues) articles where by you don't just cut and paste pages from other writers to ...
read full comment
"Nyerere created a single-party system and used "preventive detention" to eliminate trade unions and opposition political forces. In 1964, Tanganyika united politically with Zanzibar and was renamed Tanzania, with Nyerere as ...
read full comment
SAS,
Is this the first tie you are learning these facts about Nyerere? I have addressed in some of my articles.
I raised these facts in some of my earlier articles because some of the leading Danguah scholars like to t ...
read full comment
Author:
francis kwarteng
Date: 2015-09-16 20:05:12
Comment to: Guess Who Copied Nkrumah's Dictatorship
SAS,
Is this the first tie you are learning these facts about Nyerere? I have addressed in some of my articl ...
read full comment
Mark my word, the next thing we will hear from these epileptic clowns is that, they dont like Kwartengs haircut, Berkos shoes, Kojo Ts choice of underwear, Prof Lungus reading glasses (if any) or my mustachio.
My worry is ...
read full comment
Dear Shabi,
This is my primary concern too. In fact there are certain Ghanaweb columnists I don't read. There are some I have not read in a year; others in two years!
I only read them only when some of my core readers w ...
read full comment
Like you Francis, I also find it difficult to understand why these enemies of Africa continue to read our stuff - when it offends and pains them so much.
In my frustration, I am tempted to suspect that somebody who is real ...
read full comment
No wonder JB Danquah wanted to transplant George Washington"s selective democracy onto Ghanaians. Do you think the vast majority of blacks who lived under his regime thought they were living under a democratic govt? They live ...
read full comment
"The future of Africa, the modernization of Africa that has a place in the 21 st century, is linked with its decolonization and detribalisation. Tribal atavism would be given up any hope for Africa. And all of the sins tha ...
read full comment
Dear Marcus,
I have looked at Aylmer Von Fliescher's & Prof. Sohail Inayatullah's work.
There is not one single idea they advance that is new to me. Again there is nothing new there.
For instance, the Six Pillars con ...
read full comment
Onuah Francis, you cannot brush what I've been saying about futurology with your mantra "THER IS NOTHING NEW HERE"
I seriously would hate to make this into a back & forth contest with you, but you've got to convince me tha ...
read full comment
Ampadu it will be a total waste of time to let kwarteng assign you to produce an article. He himself knows nothing, he's a braggart, novice, attention seeker and pompose with high nose who must not be taken serious.
Kwarteng is a friend.
Oooops! Ahem! erm....erm, nice weather today ainit?
Dear Marcus,
This is a summary of Prof. Inayatullah's Six-Point Plan. Now tell me what is new in this (Take note when he relias on Darwin anmd Darwinian concepts and ancient Greek writers like Homer to explain some of his ...
read full comment
I am afraid this does not constitute synopsis on futurology. And you chose to leave out commenting on Aylmer Von Fleischer's Futurology: Africa 2025, and the questions I posed.
Look for my paper on futuristics coming out ...
read full comment
Dear Marcus,
You mentioned the Six Point Plant by Inayatullah (REMEMBER YOU ASKED ME TO READ INAYATULLAH'S SIX POINT PLAN RECENTLY). What I gave you summarizes the Six Point Plan by him. I am still afraid there is nothing ...
read full comment
As I said, I'd hate to make this back & forth.
I disagree with your take on Inayatullah & Fleischer's futurology.