Nkrumah’s Enduring Importance And Legacy

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• Bob 10 years ago

  francis kwarteng, I dare you to write an article on your own like the following self written article by Emmanuel asakinaba and stop your cheap cut and paste nonsense. You are doing more harm than good to be misleading and mis ...
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  francis kwarteng, I dare you to write an article on your own like the following self written article by Emmanuel asakinaba and stop your cheap cut and paste nonsense. You are doing more harm than good to be misleading and misinforming the public especially the ignorant and ýoung ones with your copied and pasted nonsense.
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  Modernghana:
  
  Nkrumah: Demystify Him!
  
  By Emmanuel Asakinaba
  
  In Tanzui, a vibrant suburb of Bolgatanga, where I grew up, every grown-up had some considerable knowledge about Dr Kwame Nkrumah . They knew varied stories about him. As a child, I was completely captivated by the mystery surrounding his life as a child in Nkroful. I marvelled at how he rose from such obsecurity to world prominence.
  
  The older folk related stories about Nkrumah with all the pride and vehemence they could express through words and gestures. With rehearsed elocution, they spoke about Nkrumah’s precocious and mysterious childhood; about his extraordinary exploits as a student and teacher; about his perilous journey abroad; about how the imperialist became helpless when he confronted them; about how he won independence for Ghana.
  
  They eulogised his intellectual, political and oratorical skills as president, his unrelenting energy and drive, his genuine commitment to Ghana and Africa’s development, his honesty and incorruptibility and his phenomenal greatness. And they spoke movingly as if they had been eyewitnesses at every point in time. Their descriptions were so apt that I was literally watching a movie as the spoke.
  
  Sadly they had different versions of Nkrumah’s biography. Each stage of the statesman’s life had several versions. Some accounts were so crudely exaggerated that they sounded outright incredible. As it was said at the time no one was prepared to buy such stories for a pesewa because the narrators merely tried ‘to put their listeners into Guinness bottles

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• BIG JOE 10 years ago

  NKRUMAH, DR KING, MALCOLM X, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, MANDELA ETC WERE ALL COMMUNISTS WHO HATED FREEDOM, FREE ENTERPRISE AND DEMOCRACY.
  
  COMMIES ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE. COMMIES HATE FREEDOM.

  NKRUMAH, DR KING, MALCOLM X, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, MANDELA ETC WERE ALL COMMUNISTS WHO HATED FREEDOM, FREE ENTERPRISE AND DEMOCRACY.
  
  COMMIES ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE. COMMIES HATE FREEDOM.

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• francis kwarteng 10 years ago

  Dear Sarpong,
  
  You see why it is not worth my time responding to your ignorance and insult-laden twaddle?
  
  Did you go through the list I gave you? If you had gone through that list, at least you would have put our hands o ...
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  Dear Sarpong,
  
  You see why it is not worth my time responding to your ignorance and insult-laden twaddle?
  
  Did you go through the list I gave you? If you had gone through that list, at least you would have put our hands on info dealing with Nasser, Fathia, and Nkrumah.
  
  But I will not tell where exactly to go in order to secure what you want on Nkrumah, Fathia, and Nasser--I mean the behind-the-scenes role Nasser played in Fathia's marriage to Nkrumah. Therefore, I can't cut and paste for you. You can read, can't you? You can do basic research, can't you?
  
  Now what is this misplaced infatuation with Arab history? Did you not read where I mentioned DNA? Linguistics? Upper Egypt? Jew (Chinese, Lemba, pre-columbian Native Amricans)? "Arab" as a linguistic, political, cultural, religious, geopolitical, etc., construct? Arab and geography?...
  
  If you want to know about the behind-the-scenes role Nasser played in Nkrumah's marriage, then go to the list I gave you. I will not tell excatly where to go to.
  
  I already have promised you more if you can get what yu want. Just tell me what you want and I will give additional references if you can get what you want from what I have already given you. For now what you want about Nasser's behind-the-scenes is right before you.
  
  So you see who is actually behaving like a child? You can't even tell Arab history from science, archeology, geography, linguistics, Upper Egypt, and what have you! You can't understand anything I write when you can't make this elementary distinction.
  
  Go do your homeback and come back. Please don't impose your confusion on me. Go to the list. Be reminded that I will not respond to you if you don't come back with the answers. Then also learn to distinguish between Arab history and the other scientific things I talked about (IN FACT YOU WILL NOT BE MAKING THOSE UNINFORMED STATEMENTS IF YOU KNEW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ARAB HISTORY).
  
  Was my refernce to "classical" about Arab history? What are you talking about? Did you look up "classical"? And do you think "classical" has to do with Arab history as I mentioned or implied in my original response to you? Since you seem not to have a grasp of what I wrote, I better end here. AGAIN WILL NOT CUT AND PASTE ANYTHING FOR YOU, CHECK THE LIST.
  
  Thanks.

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• SARPONG 10 years ago

  I am not on welfare. I work for a living and don't have time to waste on non-productive ventures that does not benefit society like this nonsense you have time doing.
  
  As a matter of fact, I don't even know what list you ar ...
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  I am not on welfare. I work for a living and don't have time to waste on non-productive ventures that does not benefit society like this nonsense you have time doing.
  
  As a matter of fact, I don't even know what list you are talking about because I don't have time to read your crap responses.

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• Joe Mensah 10 years ago

  Give your master Francis Kwarteng the due respect.KWASEA,why are you hiding?

  Give your master Francis Kwarteng the due respect.KWASEA,why are you hiding?

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• PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 10 years ago

  A man goes to the famous Lucas Carton restaurant in Paris with his girlfriend and orders the 1966 Mouton. The waiter returns with a bottle full of wine, pours a small amount in the glass for tasting. The customer picks up the ...
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  A man goes to the famous Lucas Carton restaurant in Paris with his girlfriend and orders the 1966 Mouton. The waiter returns with a bottle full of wine, pours a small amount in the glass for tasting. The customer picks up the glass, smells the wine, and puts it down on the table with a thud.
  
  "This is not the 1966 Mouton."
  
  The waiter assures him it is, and SOON there are another twenty people surrounding the table, including the chef and the manager trying to convince the man that the wine is the 1966 Mouton.
  
  Finally someone asks him how he knows that it is not the 1966 Mouton.
  
  "My name is Phillipe de Rothschild, and I make the wine."
  
  Finally, the original waiter STEPS forward and admits that he poured the Clerc Milon 1966.
  
  "I could not bear to part with our last bottle of 1966 Mouton. You know Clerc Milon, it is in the same village as Mouton, you pick the grapes at the same time, the same cepage, you crush in the same way, you put them into similar barrels. You bottle at the same time, you even use eggs from the same chickens to fine them. The wines are the same, except for a small matter of geographic location."
  
  Rothschild beckons the waiter forward, and whispers to him, "When you return home tonight, ask your girlfriend to remove her underwear. Put one finger in one opening, another finger in the other, then smell both the fingers. You will understand what difference a small distance in geographic location makes."

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