Could J.B. Danquah’s Father Have Committed Double Statutory Rape?

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Bob 10 years ago

The braggart cut and paste expert, francis kwarteng is now trying to make a kidding hypocrite U-turn in his cut and paste system but it's too late for the 4 squared blockhead.

The braggart cut and paste expert, francis kwarteng is now trying to make a kidding hypocrite U-turn in his cut and paste system but it's too late for the 4 squared blockhead.
Osae 10 years ago

Kwarteng is a moniker. This idiot is a veritable fool who has too much time on his hands because he is on welfare in USA due to mental problems.

Kwarteng is a moniker. This idiot is a veritable fool who has too much time on his hands because he is on welfare in USA due to mental problems.
All Die Be Die 10 years ago

dumbass, is Osae your real name? ever heard of pseudonym - pen name? don't we have many celebrated authors writing under pseudonyms? assuming Kwarteng is not his real name, is that a crime and what has that got to do with the ...
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dumbass, is Osae your real name? ever heard of pseudonym - pen name? don't we have many celebrated authors writing under pseudonyms? assuming Kwarteng is not his real name, is that a crime and what has that got to do with the real issue being tabled in the article? grow up, discuss issues of substance and stop being sheepish.
Bob 10 years ago

As I use to preach francis kwarteng is very very bad in English language, you all can bear with me and bail me out reading this very article he has to about 70% written on his own with the rest 30% cut and pasted.

You can ...
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As I use to preach francis kwarteng is very very bad in English language, you all can bear with me and bail me out reading this very article he has to about 70% written on his own with the rest 30% cut and pasted.

You can see clearly that kawrteng's English is very poor not even to talk about his bogus punctuation. In kwarteng has displayed a typical primary standard English.
All Die Be Die 10 years ago

"As I use to preach..."

ofui, it should be As I USED to..

and now this:-

"In kwarteng has displayed a typical primary standard English"

Kejetia teacher, what did you want to say up there? "In Kwarteng has displa ...
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"As I use to preach..."

ofui, it should be As I USED to..

and now this:-

"In kwarteng has displayed a typical primary standard English"

Kejetia teacher, what did you want to say up there? "In Kwarteng has displayed..."?

please, take your nkwasiasem to your kejetia because you are no better than the one you're scolding, fool.
Sly 10 years ago

By condemning Kwateng of poor english,yours should have been a perfect one! .Just read your own comment & see how horribly you have performed! .
There is absolutely nothing wrong with his english! .I would love to read his a ...
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By condemning Kwateng of poor english,yours should have been a perfect one! .Just read your own comment & see how horribly you have performed! .
There is absolutely nothing wrong with his english! .I would love to read his articles to replenish my english! .What a critique! .
ASABEA 10 years ago

bad english

bad english
Nyankatyi 10 years ago

The columnist is really bad in English Grammar.

The columnist is really bad in English Grammar.
Nyankatyi 10 years ago

Honestly the essay has been presented in a low English Standard in such a way that it makes the whole article a little bit difficult to understand.

I can now understand why People bash this particular writer as a cut & pa ...
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Honestly the essay has been presented in a low English Standard in such a way that it makes the whole article a little bit difficult to understand.

I can now understand why People bash this particular writer as a cut & paste columnist or something!
Bonnie 10 years ago

Kwateng,you're a professional intellectual,big time! .Kudos! !!!.
I will love to be your student!

Kwateng,you're a professional intellectual,big time! .Kudos! !!!.
I will love to be your student!

Amin Jamera 10 years ago

Frank, what's your point with this silly non-story? Who cares who did what? It seems you want recognition for something, but we do not get it. Write about something we can use, not name calling against people who cannot defen ...
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Frank, what's your point with this silly non-story? Who cares who did what? It seems you want recognition for something, but we do not get it. Write about something we can use, not name calling against people who cannot defend themselves right now. 'Cause they are all dead. There is nothing new in your story. Bye.
GORGORDITOR 10 years ago

CAPITAL FOOL JAMERA!! MUGWUMPS LIKE YOU ARE JUST IGNORANT SLAVES IN THIS MODERN PLANTATION!! SADLY FOR YOU THE SLAVEMASTER DOES NOT PROVIDE YOU WITH YOUR SLAVE SHANTY CLOTHES NOR FOOD!! HE JUST LEAVES YOU WALLOWING IN IGNORAN ...
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CAPITAL FOOL JAMERA!! MUGWUMPS LIKE YOU ARE JUST IGNORANT SLAVES IN THIS MODERN PLANTATION!! SADLY FOR YOU THE SLAVEMASTER DOES NOT PROVIDE YOU WITH YOUR SLAVE SHANTY CLOTHES NOR FOOD!! HE JUST LEAVES YOU WALLOWING IN IGNORANCE WHILE YOU CLAIM TO BELIEVE IN A PROPERTY OWNING DEMOCRACY; A CLASSIC INDICATOR OF YOUR IGNORANCE!! AN IDIOT WHO FOLLOWS AN IDEOLOGY THAT DENIES UNIVERSAL ADULT SUFFRAGE!! KWASEAPANYIN YOU LIKELY WOULDN'T QUALIFY TO VOTE IN YOUR SO-CALLED PROPERTY OWNING DEMOCRACY!!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Readers,

I will like readers to go to--www.ghanahero.com/Productions.html--and listen to Blakk Rasta's "Kwame Nkrumah," a very powerful tune.

Thanks.

Dear Readers,

I will like readers to go to--www.ghanahero.com/Productions.html--and listen to Blakk Rasta's "Kwame Nkrumah," a very powerful tune.

Thanks.
Bob 10 years ago

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Kwaku Bio 10 years ago

Oh Bob(Sponge Bob) and Amin Jamera, I pity you.

Oh Bob(Sponge Bob) and Amin Jamera, I pity you.
John Nkrumah 10 years ago

Does this Kwarteng has any productive thing to do?

Does this Kwarteng has any productive thing to do?
All Die Be Die 10 years ago

do you pay Kwarteng's rent? do you feed him? how productive are you to spend your "productive" time reading an unproductive article? you see how hate has rendered you stupid?

do you pay Kwarteng's rent? do you feed him? how productive are you to spend your "productive" time reading an unproductive article? you see how hate has rendered you stupid?
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

READ: "...J. B. Danquah’s father, Yao Boakye, aged 60, married J. B. Danquah’s mother, Lydia Okom Korantemaa, aged 15, and at age 16 gave birth to Kwame Kyeretwie (later J.B. Danquah) on December 21, 1895 (See “Danquah: ...
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READ: "...J. B. Danquah’s father, Yao Boakye, aged 60, married J. B. Danquah’s mother, Lydia Okom Korantemaa, aged 15, and at age 16 gave birth to Kwame Kyeretwie (later J.B. Danquah) on December 21, 1895 (See “Danquah: An Immortal of Ghana, Biographical Sketch, Compiled by Danquah’s Funeral Committee, 1968”)...."

WE SAY: That is the type of conumdrum societies and "conservatives" in particular must wrestle. What customs and traditions must be banished because they are, plainly, regressive, discriminatory, and antithetical to human progress.

So, we agree. That is a lot different than marrying a grown woman, even if the couple have never met. Fundamentally, the one is a juvenile. The other is an adult.

We are thinking our Ghanaweb resident lawyers must have a thing or two to say about "Double Statutory Rape", we, not being one of them.

Strong essay, we must say!
Ghanaman 10 years ago

Ok, now can any of you Nkrumah praise singers tell us the name of Kwame Nkrumah's father?

Ok, now can any of you Nkrumah praise singers tell us the name of Kwame Nkrumah's father?
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Ghanaman,
Next, you will be asking us what town Nkrumah came from!

Imagine you could not put "Ghana" and "man" together!

That is precisely what this "praise-singing" essay is about, if you will pay a little attention t ...
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Ghanaman,
Next, you will be asking us what town Nkrumah came from!

Imagine you could not put "Ghana" and "man" together!

That is precisely what this "praise-singing" essay is about, if you will pay a little attention to the content, one more time.

Nice try!

Somuah 10 years ago

I guess they cannot but they want to talk about Danquah whose father is known not like Nkrumah whose father is only known as a goldsmith without a name.

I guess they cannot but they want to talk about Danquah whose father is known not like Nkrumah whose father is only known as a goldsmith without a name.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

So then, we still could not put "Ghana" and "man" together, if those whose fathers' names were "known" had had their way.

And by your record, we know at least Nkrumah's father came from the working class, a tradesman, if y ...
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So then, we still could not put "Ghana" and "man" together, if those whose fathers' names were "known" had had their way.

And by your record, we know at least Nkrumah's father came from the working class, a tradesman, if you want to put it in terms of production economics. That is the type of man (and woman) in Akyem Abuakwa that paid and supported (under pain of arrest, imprisonment, and possibly death), J. B. Danquah's education in England.

So, we must repeat:"...had Danquah-Busia had their way, Ghana would never have been independent. More important, but for Dr. Nkrumah, Ghana would have had 12 or more chieftains of regional nonentities, hopeless quasi-states, to be sure. Those quasi-states, if they still existed today, would now be wallowing in wars, atrocities, and human vermin... today. Or worse!..."

In that spirit, enjoy Unitary Ghana. But, let's see you start preparing your letters of apology to Ghana so we can all move on, away from all that confusion!

Peace!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks for this brilliant response to these praise-singers of Danquah...I don't think there is more to add to Somuah's illogical tantrum...

Thanks once again.

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Thanks for this brilliant response to these praise-singers of Danquah...I don't think there is more to add to Somuah's illogical tantrum...

Thanks once again.
Lexus 10 years ago

Dumb ass "Francis Kwarteng", please take the log out of your apio-injected eyes first before......
What a freaky oxymoron!!
TOTALLY BEYOND REDEMPTON !!!

Why don't you try to memorize the entire contents of a Webster dict ...
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Dumb ass "Francis Kwarteng", please take the log out of your apio-injected eyes first before......
What a freaky oxymoron!!
TOTALLY BEYOND REDEMPTON !!!

Why don't you try to memorize the entire contents of a Webster dictionary if your stinky, idle ass has nothing better to do?
OOOPS!! Going by your phraseology you obviously dropped out of Kindergarten, Prof Cut-and-paste.
You wouldn't know where to begin with a dictionary.
Did you ever stop to think for a moment why your smelly mom, who happens to be only 13 years older than you, hates you so much and even tried to poison you as a toddler?
Do you know why you are missing three fingers, as well as three toes?
Do you know how you got that big scar on your forehead, or why you are always drooling?
I bet you don't!!
YOUR MOM, WHO HAPPENS TO BE YOUR BIG SISTER, GOT SIRED BY THE VILLAGE RETARD, WHO HAPPENS TO BE YOUR FATHER.
Go figure!!!

Btw if the bRack Pan-African Showboy decides to travel to Alexandria begging for a white girl and gets lucky with a Fulani Jinjaweed, 45 years his junior, despite the tons of Obuasi and Prestea gold he offered as dowry, what has that got to do with Kwame Kyeretwie or his father Yaw Boakye?

Boy, you are beyond redemption.

YGute Nacht, Arschlock!!
Sister Souljah 10 years ago

Lexus your obscenities and profane laden post shows your background and nature of upbringing. Your father might have wasted his sperm in bringing a NINCOMPOOP like you into this world. Bow down your head in SHAME you are such ...
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Lexus your obscenities and profane laden post shows your background and nature of upbringing. Your father might have wasted his sperm in bringing a NINCOMPOOP like you into this world. Bow down your head in SHAME you are such a disgusting, repulsive, and reprehensible human being.
GORGORDITOR 10 years ago

LEXUS ABUAPANYIN. Obviously you are the pedophile here and the village retard to boot. YOU ARE SUCH A PROUD AFRICAN, that you adopt as a moniker, an acronym coined by the Japanese to sell cars in the U.S. !!!
WHAT A MORON M ...
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LEXUS ABUAPANYIN. Obviously you are the pedophile here and the village retard to boot. YOU ARE SUCH A PROUD AFRICAN, that you adopt as a moniker, an acronym coined by the Japanese to sell cars in the U.S. !!!
WHAT A MORON Mr. LuxuryEXportUnitedStates or in your case Mr.LoserEXcrementUnitedStates!!
Thin-skinned son of a hyena, like all the other NeocolonialLosersClique idiots. You sons of traitors make absurd arguments based on your fantasies, when your logic is applied to facts and used to point out the absurdities of your nonfactual irrational rantings, y'all go beserk with insults and invective!!! After all you never have anything positive and factual about your traitorous antecedents, however since the historical record about Osagyefo is clear you are reduced to hurling insults in your vain attempts to obscure the treason committed by ABUAFREH busia & co. HAABAA!!

MUUN FRI YESU MBODAMFUOR AKRONFOUR EHNI MMOAKWASEAFOUR MANSUTWENEFOUR!!
NYEH DZEI MANOR NA'ANUNING OOH. DZULOI GBEI'AMALELOI MANSUTSORLOI ODONKPOI'ABII, MANDWALOI AHUUU !!
LIKE I GET I GO BE OBRONI ALOSSMINE PEOPLE. MAKE YOU TAKE YUA LIELIE TIEFTIEF GO NOW, OYAA NOW QUICK OMOTREASON!!
Jonas Ababio 10 years ago

BOB has a serious mental problem

BOB has a serious mental problem
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Readers,

Please, go ahead and replace Nkrumah's age at which he married at 47 (instead of the 40 at) in later paragraphs and then perform the approximation to the nearest tenth.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Dear Readers,

Please, go ahead and replace Nkrumah's age at which he married at 47 (instead of the 40 at) in later paragraphs and then perform the approximation to the nearest tenth.

Thanks.

Thanks.
Ghanaman 10 years ago

Kwarteng, tell us the name of Nkrumah's father and where he was from.

Kwarteng, tell us the name of Nkrumah's father and where he was from.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Ghanaman, tell us the name of Ghanaman's father and where he was from.

Thanks.

Ghanaman, tell us the name of Ghanaman's father and where he was from.

Thanks.

Aminu 10 years ago

I will advise you to find something better to do as to post irrelivant and uneducative articles to such sensitive platforms. You don't make sense.

I will advise you to find something better to do as to post irrelivant and uneducative articles to such sensitive platforms. You don't make sense.
GORGORDITOR 10 years ago

aminu MUST BE A FOOL EXCEPT THAT WOULD IMPLY HE ACTUALLY HAS A BRAIN!! ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD CONTINUE TO READ ARTICLES HE BELIEVES TO BE IRRELEVANT AND UNEDUCATIVE!!
NA LIE YOU DEY LIE YUASELEF NOW!! OMOTREASON, MAKE YOU COMO ...
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aminu MUST BE A FOOL EXCEPT THAT WOULD IMPLY HE ACTUALLY HAS A BRAIN!! ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD CONTINUE TO READ ARTICLES HE BELIEVES TO BE IRRELEVANT AND UNEDUCATIVE!!
NA LIE YOU DEY LIE YUASELEF NOW!! OMOTREASON, MAKE YOU COMOT DERE WITH YUA LIELIEMAN TING!! THIS NEOCOLONIAL SLAVE IS NAKED LIKE ALL THE REST WALKING DOWN HIGH STREET TINK SAY NA VELVET AN KENTE DEY COVER IN BODY WEY ALL DE PIKIN DEY LAFFLAFF AM CAUSE IN BELLY SO BIG EBE LIKE SAY ENO GET PRICK , WEY E DEY NAKED FOR STREET!!!
NA CRAZE DE MAN CRAZE NOW!! ABI?
GORGORDITOR 10 years ago

aminu MUST BE A FOOL EXCEPT THAT WOULD IMPLY HE ACTUALLY HAS A BRAIN!! ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD CONTINUE TO READ ARTICLES HE BELIEVES TO BE IRRELEVANT AND UNEDUCATIVE!!
NA LIE YOU DEY LIE YUASELEF NOW!! OMOTREASON, MAKE YOU COMO ...
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aminu MUST BE A FOOL EXCEPT THAT WOULD IMPLY HE ACTUALLY HAS A BRAIN!! ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD CONTINUE TO READ ARTICLES HE BELIEVES TO BE IRRELEVANT AND UNEDUCATIVE!!
NA LIE YOU DEY LIE YUASELEF NOW!! OMOTREASON, MAKE YOU COMOT DERE WITH YUA LIELIEMAN TING!! THIS NEOCOLONIAL SLAVE IS NAKED LIKE ALL THE REST WALKING DOWN HIGH STREET TINK SAY NA VELVET AN KENTE DEY COVER IN BODY WEY ALL DE PIKIN DEY LAFFLAFF AM CAUSE IN BELLY SO BIG EBE LIKE SAY ENO GET PRICK , WEY E DEY NAKED FOR STREET!!!
NA CRAZE DE MAN CRAZE NOW!! ABI?
YAW 10 years ago

I have always wondered why "blue-blood" aristocrat like Danquah named his son Vladamir. Glad you are giving the "fabricators" a good run for their money. I am pretty sure that Prof Mcshameless Ahoofe will come up with one of ...
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I have always wondered why "blue-blood" aristocrat like Danquah named his son Vladamir. Glad you are giving the "fabricators" a good run for their money. I am pretty sure that Prof Mcshameless Ahoofe will come up with one of his legendary tales to prove "Vladamir" has been a household name in the Akyem area since 1750.

Anyway, this was my response to his baseless article.

Author: YAW
Date: 2014-12-11 09:15:41
Comment to: Kwame Nkrumah And Our Culture Of Disrespect

Okoampa, in his desperate bid for recognition has not spared,most unjustly and cynically,to accuse Nkrumah of every crime regarding human nature,except necrophilia. Okoampa"s academic career, I regret to say,is a cause of unmitigated disappointment,failure and sheer vexation.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Namesake,

How are you?

And like you, this never occurred to me until one of Ghana's leading historians brought it (and other interesting topics) to my attention. I then decided to look into.

But it was an essay I ha ...
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Namesake,

How are you?

And like you, this never occurred to me until one of Ghana's leading historians brought it (and other interesting topics) to my attention. I then decided to look into.

But it was an essay I had long written last year, and decided to publish it now once I was done publishing the New African Magazine essays.

Can you believe some are saying this article is tribalistic and that I am also tribalistic? What happened to our sense of history and journalistic fairness?

Good day.

Thanks namesake!
KKO 10 years ago

Pure tribalist trash!

Pure tribalist trash!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear Social Democrat,

What is tribalistic about this piece? Well, were both Nkrumah and Danquah not Akans? Were their parents not Akans? And is this author an alien from outer space?

Anyway I never knew you were a socia ...
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Dear Social Democrat,

What is tribalistic about this piece? Well, were both Nkrumah and Danquah not Akans? Were their parents not Akans? And is this author an alien from outer space?

Anyway I never knew you were a social democrat! This is what you shared with Lexus--who is indirectly leveling a charge of tribalism---against me (see Yaw Ohemang's Sept. 21 Ghanaweb article "Can Dr. Arthur Kennedy See Another 'Truth' Besides What He Holds"):
........................................................................................................................................................
Lexus,

In 2007 I also thought Arthur Kennedy and Dr Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng had the best policies of the lot. As a SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, once the delegates made their choice, my sympathies went with that. My admiration Dr Frimpong-Boateng, the world-renowned heart surgeon, has grown several fold for the way he has conducted himself over the years.

But this Arthur Kennedy who couldn't even win a District Assembly election keeps bashing Nana Addo for no sensible reason whatsoever. Like the Democratic Party of the US, the position of the NPP Flagbearer is quite nebulous. A lot of Ghanaians who comment on Nana Addo do not seem to know that, but I expect Arthur Kennedy to know better.

Instead, he continues to spew pure hatred against the one person whose success could potentially change the lot of most Ghanaians.
........................................................................................................................................................

What sort of social democrat are you--the type I described in one of my series---"Re: Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened..."

Remember my series covered every strand of social democracy, including your type. I wish you had not said a damn thing about this article. Now explain to me what is tribalistic about this piece.

Thanks.
Kwame Abrokwa 10 years ago

My brother, have U taken your tablets this morning?

My brother, have U taken your tablets this morning?
GORGORDITOR 10 years ago

We don't take neocolonial meds or enemas unlike you MATEMEHO jackals and hyenas!! Thin-skinned slaves of the neocolonial grind. Fellators of imperialists always on your knees being pissed on deluding yourselves calling piss r ...
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We don't take neocolonial meds or enemas unlike you MATEMEHO jackals and hyenas!! Thin-skinned slaves of the neocolonial grind. Fellators of imperialists always on your knees being pissed on deluding yourselves calling piss rain.
MUUM TWENEMUHU WORHOR!!!
joe,boston 10 years ago

Like father like son. How many wives, concubines and children (both legitimate and illegitimate) did J. B. Danquah have and how come he always rented and never built a house?

Like father like son. How many wives, concubines and children (both legitimate and illegitimate) did J. B. Danquah have and how come he always rented and never built a house?
Yaa Yaa 10 years ago

Writing on Ghanaweb is for fun, not serious scholarship. Let us see your name in serious academic journals where your peers review your work!

Writing on Ghanaweb is for fun, not serious scholarship. Let us see your name in serious academic journals where your peers review your work!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Yaa Yaa,

Are you a coward?

Come back with your real name and I shall tell you the rest of the story.

Be bold.

Yaa Yaa,

Are you a coward?

Come back with your real name and I shall tell you the rest of the story.

Be bold.
YAW 10 years ago

You were spot on JB Danquah"s son was a poof!

Paul Danquah
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Danquah photographed in 1973.
Paul Danquah (born May 25, 1925) is a British film actor and lawyer, whose father w ...
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You were spot on JB Danquah"s son was a poof!

Paul Danquah
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Danquah photographed in 1973.
Paul Danquah (born May 25, 1925) is a British film actor and lawyer, whose father was the Ghanaian statesman J. B. Danquah. Paul presented Play School and is reported to be the first black presenter of a children's programme. Francis Bacon lived with Danquah and Danquah's partner Peter Pollock in their Battersea flat from 1956 to 1961. During this period, in late 1961, Danquah arranged for Don Bachardy to draw Bacon. In 1961, Danquah made his film debut in the British film A Taste of Honey, starring as Jimmy.] Danquah moved with Pollock to Tangier in the late 1970s. Danquah and Pollock discovered a suitcase containing drawings by Bacon in the late 1990s; these drawings were acquired by The Tate in 1996 and exhibited in 1999.
YAW 10 years ago

Peter William Pollock, restaurateur: born London 19 November 1919; died Tangier 28 July 2001.

Peter Pollock

Born in 1919, Pollock was part-heir to the Accles & Pollock empire – a Midlands-based and highly successful ...
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Peter William Pollock, restaurateur: born London 19 November 1919; died Tangier 28 July 2001.

Peter Pollock

Born in 1919, Pollock was part-heir to the Accles & Pollock empire – a Midlands-based and highly successful light engineering company co-founded in 1901 by his grandfather Thomas Pollock. In the 1950s the names Accles & Pollock were juxtaposed nationwide on massive hoardings, suggesting all manner of interesting spoonerisms – an innovative form of advertising considered quite racy in its day.

Spurning a possible "reserved occupation" career in light engineering, the young Peter Pollock was an eager volunteer for military service at the start of the Second World War. He gained a commission in the Gordon Highlanders and served, as a captain, both in North Africa and in Italy, where he was taken prisoner.

After demob, and despite his spending four humdrum years in a German POW camp, the idea of a career in Midlands light engineering seemed no more exciting to Pollock than it had done at the start of hostilities. Instead, he bought a farm in Flaunden, Hertfordshire, and took up the life of a gentleman farmer, combining a dairy herd with pig-farming, greyhound breeding and, in the lazy summer afternoons, idling through the leafy Hertfordshire lanes in his vintage Rolls.

Continually frustrated at what he considered to be his own lack of creative achievement, Pollock had an unquenchable passion both for the arts and the company of artists. Sundays provided open house at the Flaunden farm for painters, writers, actors and actresses.

A constant visitor was the then little-recognised painter Francis Bacon. Lacking a home of his own, Bacon enjoyed a come-and-go-as-he-pleased existence, both at the Flaunden farm and at a flat, overlooking Battersea Park in London, which Pollock also owned. Pollock allowed the young Bacon a rent-free life over the years 1955-61– a kindness which the painter acknowledged by leaving behind the occasional picture in unspoken payment.

Another young man whom Pollock took pity on and befriended – and who was destined to become his lifetime companion – was Paul Danquah. Danquah's father, J.B. Danquah, had been a minister in Kwame Nkrumah's government in Ghana, but a change in regimes had resulted in his temporary imprisonment. Paul Danquah, at that time studying for the Bar at the Inner Temple, was left unfunded. Pollock's generosity enabled Danquah to complete and pass his Bar studies – but the young Danquah, inspired perhaps by Pollock's artistic leanings, was temporarily to abandon his legal career when he was cast opposite Rita Tushingham in the Tony Richardson directed film of Shelagh Delaney's stage success A Taste of Honey (1961). (He was also to have parts in the Morecambe and Wise vehicle That Riviera Touch, 1966, and, as "2nd Exquisite", in the satire Smashing Time, 1967, written by George Melly.)

The fast life at Flaunden, slow greyhounds and an over-generous nature finally resulted in Pollock's selling up the farmstead and moving on. It was in the Colony Club in Soho, presided over by the redoubtable Muriel Belcher, that, with his artistic friends including Bacon and John Minton, Pollock had first heard tales of the exciting and exotic life that beckoned in Morocco. Upping sticks in the late 1970s, Pollock and Danquah set up home in Tangier, where notoriety was fast making Morocco fashionable.

Pollock acquired the Pergola, a bar and restaurant on the Tangier seafront, where word of the new owner's culinary skills soon spread. The "Flaunden set" of friends remained ever-faithful and followed Pollock and Danquah out to Tangier at holiday-times. John Lahr's 1978 biography of Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears, includes a photograph of the playwright with the Kenneths Halliwell and Williams enjoying themselves at the Pergola. Pollock's expertise in the kitchen was overshadowed only by his generosity of spirit. "No, my dear, I absolutely insist – this one's on me" might provide a fitting memorial.

Peter Pollock suffered a severe stroke in 1999, which left him an invalid. A second stroke, in July, ended his life.

The extent of Francis Bacon's gratitude for his mentor's hospitality came to light only a couple of years ago, when a suitcase, which had gathered dust for decades underneath a bed in a spare room at the Pollock and Danquah home in Tangier, was found to contain a hoard of the painter's early work. It was Peter Pollock's innate patriotism which ensured that those paintings were acquired by the Tate Gallery, rather than offered on the open market.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Dear YAW,

Thanks for this.

I have some additional facts on this matter. Let's wait and see.

Thanks for sharing.

Dear YAW,

Thanks for this.

I have some additional facts on this matter. Let's wait and see.

Thanks for sharing.

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