Danny Boy, we might have trouble understanding the politics of Burkina Faso, and the reason why an international arrest warrant has been issued for the arrest of ex-leader Blaise Campaore by the current government. However, I ... read full comment
Danny Boy, we might have trouble understanding the politics of Burkina Faso, and the reason why an international arrest warrant has been issued for the arrest of ex-leader Blaise Campaore by the current government. However, I think there must be a reason why.
I don't think the new Burkinabe government just decided to concoct a 'conspiracy' to frame Blaise Campaore for the brutal assassination of Thomas Sankara. It has been alleged for years that Blaise Campaore was behind the coup and the assassination of Thomas Sankara.
The fact is that, for decades, Blaise Campaore was the President of Burkina Faso and if he was indeed involved the coup and assassination of Sankara, there was no way, those who were in the know would have come out to reveal all. Perhaps, some of the military officers/soldiers who were involved in coup have now decided to speak out now he's been overthrown.
Godd 8 years ago
Daniel may not know all the reasons why Campaore is being wanted. It may not only be for the assassination of Sankara. Campaore was in power for decades - enough time for him to do things for which he must answer. It is a pro ... read full comment
Daniel may not know all the reasons why Campaore is being wanted. It may not only be for the assassination of Sankara. Campaore was in power for decades - enough time for him to do things for which he must answer. It is a properly elected civilian government which wants him.
Burkina Faso may be in need of coming to terms with its past and itself. Campaore was an important part of that past for good or otherwise. Of course, Côté d'Ivoire will not hand him over but his absence will be symbolic in whatever soul searching the country goes through. This will be important for the future.
In our case Rawlings succeeded in manouevering himself out of a similar predicament by orchestrating a handover that was to his taste. Campaore never learnt a lesson from that. Rawlings is also lucky that Ghanaians are fed up with all these killings of former leaders. We also had a TRC that salved some of the wounds even though there's still a lot of anger in certain sections of the population.
I think Daniel also painted a picture of Sankara's rule that many will not agree with. The man was popular and brought about a few changes. He was more ideologically inclined than Rawlings. Maybe if he had not been killed he may have degenerated into something else, but that's a different story...
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
This Ewe baby Daniel K. Pryce is not a new kid on the block, he is as usual a typical show maker and an attention seeker hence his usual gargantuan words which ends him up with "no sense" in his essays.
This time around he ... read full comment
This Ewe baby Daniel K. Pryce is not a new kid on the block, he is as usual a typical show maker and an attention seeker hence his usual gargantuan words which ends him up with "no sense" in his essays.
This time around he has seriously misfired a big time quoting wrong dates of events. This tells you the Ewe boy Pryce, is only seeking attention and dedicating his newly acquired Ph. D degree.
See how too known the notorious Ewe Pryce is dranding himself at the end of his nonsense showing off and advertising: ..."Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D., is a Ghanaian American and a criminologist by profession. He can be reached at GoodGovernanceinGhana@yahoo.com."
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1: I am Daniel K. Pryce
2: I hold a Ph. D
3: I am a criminologist
4: My e-mail address is: GoodGovernanceinGhana@yahoo.com
You see! who wants to know all this crap?
Some Ewe guys like J.K. Bokor, Daniel K. Pryce and their co-equal morons are miserable.
Donald Trump 8 years ago
The article is off target but that doesnt mean a call to tribalism, the type tearing up the NPP. We dont need that crap in Ghana. And stop faking to be Andy!
The article is off target but that doesnt mean a call to tribalism, the type tearing up the NPP. We dont need that crap in Ghana. And stop faking to be Andy!
LONTO-BOY 8 years ago
GODD, I really like these lines:
"Burkina Faso may be in need of coming to terms with its past and itself. Campaore was an important part of that past for good or otherwise."
A nation can only learn from its past mistak ... read full comment
GODD, I really like these lines:
"Burkina Faso may be in need of coming to terms with its past and itself. Campaore was an important part of that past for good or otherwise."
A nation can only learn from its past mistakes. We don't understand the injustices/abuses Blaise Campaore was responsible for, and what people see as justice in Burkina Faso. We don't know what the new Government has uncovered. For whether Blaise Campaore could be identified as the one who killed Thomas Sankara or not, this could be a major step in search for the truth, justice and particularly necessary for that country's reconciliation. But time will tell if the government of Cote d'Ivoire will hand Campaore over to Burkina Faso. Given that France facilitated Campaore's escape to Cote d'Ivoire, it's highly unlikely French President Francois Hollande will exert any pressure on Alassane Ouattara.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
Pryce is a straightforward black inferiorist lackey!! Nothing further! Thanks to Lonto-Boy, Mr Berko and all for undressing this kwesibroni idolater masquerading as a serious intellectual!!
Pryce is a straightforward black inferiorist lackey!! Nothing further! Thanks to Lonto-Boy, Mr Berko and all for undressing this kwesibroni idolater masquerading as a serious intellectual!!
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
I don't know how old you guys were or whether you were then interested in International Politics when Sankara came upon the scene and later was Murdered in the Coup that brought Compaore to Power.
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I don't know how old you guys were or whether you were then interested in International Politics when Sankara came upon the scene and later was Murdered in the Coup that brought Compaore to Power.
It was immediately known after that Coup that it was Compaore who led it, and ordered the Murder of Sankara, who had since their Youth was his best friend.
Many believe that Compaore only wanted to use Sankara to claim the Presidency and its associated fame in Burkina Faso. Compaore was not that popular among the Military until he tied his apron strings to those of Sankara.
And once Compaore became better known alongside Sankara, he turned around to put his plot in motion to get rid of him.
A lot of folks who knew them both would tell you how vivacious and persuasive Sankara was versus how taciturn and reticent Compaore was.
There is plenty of vital signals to convince the open-minded that the French encouraged Compaore to get rid of Sankara, fearing the Nationalist fervor in the latter would undermine the long existing Economic control of the former French Colony by the French. That kind of control is what Dr. Nkrumah predicted as Neo-Colonialism.
Like all the other European Countries that owned and depended upon many Colonies to build their Countries, France never really in her heart of hearts wanted to relinquish total control of the Colonies, and Economic control, especially, was more important for them to keep than the mere Political control that some of us have recently dubbed as Electoral control. Electoral control in the sense that once that control was let go, folks could freely vote for whoever they chose. But that is how far the Democratic dispensation allowed to the former colonial Nations would go.
It is not by any accident that African Nations are still struggling Economically. Even the internal corruption by our native Governments are somehow facilitated by certain relics of Western control on the Nations.
That is not to excuse the crime among us by our own leaders. It is just to clarify and emphasize that the more vulnerable the West could keep us, the more they could manipulate us to fall in line with their ultimate desires.
I hope no one misconstrue this analysis to mean some heinous detest for the West. Rather, it is to point out that our interests are always of second importance to the West, perhaps, justifiably expected. Who would not seek his or her personal interests first before those of others, however amiable they are towards one another.
But it is such acknowledgment that we could also bargain harder to make the best possible out our relationship with the best. Even if the West would love to pump investments into our Economy as the French have been doing in their former Colonies, they know in the end they would benefit more from them. Our responsibility is to increasingly minimize the gap of profitability the West enjoys over us.
Ph.D. my ASS ! keep your neo con idears for yourself ! Africa is what it is cos of your kind.
Apau 8 years ago
You are absolutely right! Pryce is talking a whole lot of nonsense.These neo-cons are so obsessed with all the bunkum that comes from America.They even think slavery and manifest destiny was a blessing. What a bunch of capit ... read full comment
You are absolutely right! Pryce is talking a whole lot of nonsense.These neo-cons are so obsessed with all the bunkum that comes from America.They even think slavery and manifest destiny was a blessing. What a bunch of capitalist obsessed sell-outs! Pryce can stick his bogus article up his fucking arse! Let him go ahead and elect a complete "prick" like "Donald the Doughnut" as his president.
CORNEY 8 years ago
Danny,you are a big disappointment,first of all,Limann was not overthrown in 1979,he was overthrown on December 31st 1981.
If a smart person like you,a professor and now PhD cannot remember something that you witnessed,a dat ... read full comment
Danny,you are a big disappointment,first of all,Limann was not overthrown in 1979,he was overthrown on December 31st 1981.
If a smart person like you,a professor and now PhD cannot remember something that you witnessed,a date that everybody in Ghana can easily tell, then something is not right here.
All that you wrote here, to me is just a piece of crap you don't need to wrote,even the dogs of Ghana know the overthrow of Limann was the right thing and for you to describe that event as one of the darkest day in Ghana shows you don't really know the history of Ghana.
The 1966 coup was a popular event in Ghana which is on record,so don't tell us what you don't know,you can refuse to acknowledge that but that is the fact,that is the history.
ABU IDDRISU 8 years ago
I dont agree with u Dr Price. It appears u do not know the tremendous achievements of Thomas Sankara within his short spell in govt. He empowered women and led the people to launch an agric revolution which today is making Bu ... read full comment
I dont agree with u Dr Price. It appears u do not know the tremendous achievements of Thomas Sankara within his short spell in govt. He empowered women and led the people to launch an agric revolution which today is making Burkina self-sufficient in food production.
At any rate, any ordinary person who dies under the circumstances such as that of Sankara must be investigated.Campaore must answer questions .
Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor 8 years ago
I have a feeling Dr. Pryce just posted something anyhow only to get attention to displaying his newly acquired Ph.D because he has really written a trash.
I have a feeling Dr. Pryce just posted something anyhow only to get attention to displaying his newly acquired Ph.D because he has really written a trash.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 8 years ago
Danny, I usually enjoy reading your articles and contributions on Ghanaweb but I struggled to understand the object of this article. Are you suggesting that because Thomas Sankara was unelected and a military dictator, he des ... read full comment
Danny, I usually enjoy reading your articles and contributions on Ghanaweb but I struggled to understand the object of this article. Are you suggesting that because Thomas Sankara was unelected and a military dictator, he deserves no justice even if he was brutally executed on the orders of Blaise Campaore?
I am also concern that you seem not know much about the political history of the country and the period for which is the subject of your article and made a number of false allegations against Sankara. I can tell you for a fact that Sankara was more popular in Burkina Fasso than Rawlings in Ghana. He was also politically and perhaps, intellectually astute than Rawlings. In fact, I was highly impressed by him when we meet him on the first anniversary of his revolution when I was part of Ghana's delegation to Burkina Fasso, though my inability to speak French limited my interaction with our Burkinabe colleagues.
For your information, it was the French government that hated the fact that her former colony had a leader who wanted the country to acclaim her sovereignty so therefore encouraged Campaore, then Sankara's deputy to brutally murder Sankara. There were credible reports that when soldiers went to arrest Sankara he ordered the presidential guard not to fight, yet he was brutally executed and a story made up that he was killed for resisting arrest.
Danny, there some historical videos on the reign of Sankara on Youtube and I urge you to have a look at some and you might change your views on Thomas Sankara. Even if he was dictator, he deserves justice and Campaore must be held accountable for his role in the brutal execution of Sankara as well as his reign as leader of Burkina Fasso.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago
My brother Kofi Ata, Pryce is a thoroughgoing hypocrite! He should be aware that after the overthrow of Maurice Yameogo by Sangoule Lamizana around 69,the then Upper Volta had been governed by a series of military dictatorshi ... read full comment
My brother Kofi Ata, Pryce is a thoroughgoing hypocrite! He should be aware that after the overthrow of Maurice Yameogo by Sangoule Lamizana around 69,the then Upper Volta had been governed by a series of military dictatorships beholden to France. He has an issue with how Sankara came to office while supporting the Western stooge Compaore bloody putsch conveniently forgetting that Sankara shed no blood despite being a decorated war hero 77-78 conflict with Mali!! Imperialist lackeys of his ilk always celebrate the overthrow of progressive Afrikan leaders, condemn progressives when they unseat lackey regimes,while turning a resolute blind eye to the excesses, brutalities and down right murderousness of the neocolonial lackey regimes they hold up as exemplars!! Pryce is of the pseudo intellectual ilk who beliefs attitudes and world view are acquired by direct injection from the controlled western media!! Back to the neocolonial swamps with him!!
Samson 8 years ago
How sad Mr Price, I have on occasion admired your articles and opinion on national issues. On this occasion, I think you have misfired. So you think Campaore should get away with murder (if there is evidence to back the charg ... read full comment
How sad Mr Price, I have on occasion admired your articles and opinion on national issues. On this occasion, I think you have misfired. So you think Campaore should get away with murder (if there is evidence to back the charge) simply because he was a 'kid' adventurist that came to power to propagate Maoist ideology? Nobody should be allowed to get away with murder, whether you agree with coups or not, murder is murder and murders should be brought to court and tried.
Kofi UK 8 years ago
The author is very confused. He is not making any sense with his argument. All these big English words mean nothing. I am surprised that a person with such a high educational standing can write such a pointless article.
The author is very confused. He is not making any sense with his argument. All these big English words mean nothing. I am surprised that a person with such a high educational standing can write such a pointless article.
KUSASI KOKU 8 years ago
Folks,
But why won't you rather pay attention to the rots in the government of Ghana ?
Folks,
But why won't you rather pay attention to the rots in the government of Ghana ?
NiiBi 8 years ago
Pryce you are either an ignorant fool or an unrepentent imperialist.
You will never be half the man Sankara was in 3 lifetimes.
Pryce you are either an ignorant fool or an unrepentent imperialist.
You will never be half the man Sankara was in 3 lifetimes.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
Dr. Pryce, in spite of his newly earned PH.D, needs to update his global awareness. Letting us know how close he has rubbed shoulders with Washington insiders, or fellas in USA Government, does not earn him additional creden ... read full comment
Dr. Pryce, in spite of his newly earned PH.D, needs to update his global awareness. Letting us know how close he has rubbed shoulders with Washington insiders, or fellas in USA Government, does not earn him additional credentials that reflect his awareness of what is really going on in the World in general.
We have stepped over the threshold of Cold-War ideological contests into a new realm of realities where what matters most is what best suits a Country for a reasonable growth rate, and most effectively lifts her people out of poverty and paucity of knowledge.
It may sound palpable, attractive, and even melodious to the ears of the Western Democratic Authorities, that Scholars like Dr. Pryce who always look up to them for inspiration, and opportunities to walk among them, are lashing out at the Marxists and the Socialists and Dictators. Did I include Dictators? Oh, yes I did. But I need to make an exception with that since the West breeds its own Dictators it protects and encourages to brutalize, and steal from, their countries until they have no more use for them. And I guess Dr. Pryce would not admit Compaore was one of such Western stooges who betrayed his own folks.
However, today's average World Citizen cares less about which ideology prevails in his or her country, and more about how to get the most out of their resources, including Human Resources.
The wave of global yearning for Democracy is more for fairer distribution of Wealth without any unnecessary restrictions, political or otherwise, than the sheer towing of a Western-leading ideology. Nations are embracing Democracy not because of its implicit default Economic System, Capitalism, per se. But because People object to inimical Political imposition that restricts their liberties.
So, Dr. Pryce can scream all he likes about the value in Burkinabes seeking Compaore to stand Justice for Murdering Sankara and others. Dr. Pryce, with all his excellent mind, reserves the right to start any process to dismantle the Indemnity that protects Rawlings. I don't think many Ghanaians would care what would happen to the former President and Coup Leader, thereafter. But for a point of order, I would like to remind Dr. Pryce that the Indemnity Clause was not sneak into our Constitution as he claims. It was carefully deliberated upon before inserting into the Constitution. And if the omniscient Dr. was any old enough to know and understand what the undercurrents were in our Political and inter-ethnic environments at the time of transitioning from the Coup days, he might, perhaps, better appreciate the Indemnity Clause for all it was supposed to achieve. Surely, I, for one, believe there ought to have been an expiration time for the Clause. But I fully appreciate what it was meant to do. It may have well served its purpose and ought to be expunged from the Constitution. But that is the task Dr. Pryce and other Ghanaians would have to grapple with, and has nothing to do with Sankara or Burkina Faso.
Nevertheless, the living facts show the majority of Burkinabes miss Sankara, now, and despise Compaore for all he has done, or not done, to limit their Nation's well-being.
What the Burkinabes want may not exactly be in the best or even the ultimate interest of Dr. Pryce and his stiff-necked imperialist, cutthroat, laissez-fair oligarchs and bourgeoisie. But that is their Country and they decide what they want for themselves. The Burkinabes are the ones who ought to decide what level of relationship they could afford to keep with any Nation around the World. And they have to decide who they want for their leader. After all, isn't that Democracy George Bush (Jr.) and the Liar-in-Chief Cheyney claimed they were spreading around the World, especially the Mid-East?
Dr. Pryce seems to hate the fact that Sankara touted certain things he saw in what Rawlings had begun in Ghana. It is understandable that being a Ghanaian, and I hope Dr. Pryce still is, he might feel the impact of Rawlings' presence differently from what Sankara derived from him. That is not a good reason to deny Sankara any love his Nation now feels for him. If Dr. Pryce has any qualms with J. J. let him go up to him and sort things out with him, and leave the Burkinabes to sort their own issues out with Compaore, the best way they deem fit.
We have to appreciate the fact that vicissitude of time brings with it plausible reasons for changes that Citizens may demand. It is not strange that even if the majority Burkinabes approved of Compaore's elimination of Sankara earlier, they now see the situation differently. Just as in Ghana, many lauded Nkrumah at some time but later showed appreciation for his removal. Well, even, now, the tide is turning fast, again, to appreciate Nkrumah more posthumously.
Furthermore, many situations may look similar but not necessarily the same between Countries. What pertained in Ghana during the AFRC era under Rawlings may have similarities with what occurred in Burkina Faso leading to the emergence of Sankara. But we must note that Sankara did not supervise any such killings as J. J. was driven to undertake, wisely or unwisely. Therefore, it is most inapt for Dr. Pryce to use Rawlings to whip Sankara, and claim that there is no purpose in the Burkinabes' search for Compaore to stand trial.
For all incurable ideologues as Dr. Pryce has proven to be, there is no room for any reasonable attenuation of the prevailing circumstances, no matter how insufferable at the time, so long as their preferred political system is left to rule intact.
Well, many supple minds of today believe differently. They see a middle of the road in any set of political system, and they are malleable to new and fresh thinking and paradigm that may not strictly fit into the precise definition of Capitalism or Socialism or Communism.
So, I hope Dr. Pryce would be best helpful to all mankind to spare us the patronizing flogging of preaching the ills of Marxism and Socialism. I wish he would one day add to his credentials a thesis on how Capitalism has no inimical side at all, a complete utopian Political system, like Marxists were once accused of believing about their paradigm.
Danny Boy, we might have trouble understanding the politics of Burkina Faso, and the reason why an international arrest warrant has been issued for the arrest of ex-leader Blaise Campaore by the current government. However, I ...
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Daniel may not know all the reasons why Campaore is being wanted. It may not only be for the assassination of Sankara. Campaore was in power for decades - enough time for him to do things for which he must answer. It is a pro ...
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This Ewe baby Daniel K. Pryce is not a new kid on the block, he is as usual a typical show maker and an attention seeker hence his usual gargantuan words which ends him up with "no sense" in his essays.
This time around he ...
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The article is off target but that doesnt mean a call to tribalism, the type tearing up the NPP. We dont need that crap in Ghana. And stop faking to be Andy!
GODD, I really like these lines:
"Burkina Faso may be in need of coming to terms with its past and itself. Campaore was an important part of that past for good or otherwise."
A nation can only learn from its past mistak ...
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Pryce is a straightforward black inferiorist lackey!! Nothing further! Thanks to Lonto-Boy, Mr Berko and all for undressing this kwesibroni idolater masquerading as a serious intellectual!!
I don't know how old you guys were or whether you were then interested in International Politics when Sankara came upon the scene and later was Murdered in the Coup that brought Compaore to Power.
It was immediately known ...
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© The writer, Daniel K. Pryce, Ph.D., is a Ghanaian American and a criminologist by profession. He can be reached at GoodGovernanceinGhana@yahoo.com. He may be followed on Twitter: @DanielKPryce.
Ph.D. my ASS ! keep your ...
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You are absolutely right! Pryce is talking a whole lot of nonsense.These neo-cons are so obsessed with all the bunkum that comes from America.They even think slavery and manifest destiny was a blessing. What a bunch of capit ...
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Danny,you are a big disappointment,first of all,Limann was not overthrown in 1979,he was overthrown on December 31st 1981.
If a smart person like you,a professor and now PhD cannot remember something that you witnessed,a dat ...
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I dont agree with u Dr Price. It appears u do not know the tremendous achievements of Thomas Sankara within his short spell in govt. He empowered women and led the people to launch an agric revolution which today is making Bu ...
read full comment
I have a feeling Dr. Pryce just posted something anyhow only to get attention to displaying his newly acquired Ph.D because he has really written a trash.
Danny, I usually enjoy reading your articles and contributions on Ghanaweb but I struggled to understand the object of this article. Are you suggesting that because Thomas Sankara was unelected and a military dictator, he des ...
read full comment
My brother Kofi Ata, Pryce is a thoroughgoing hypocrite! He should be aware that after the overthrow of Maurice Yameogo by Sangoule Lamizana around 69,the then Upper Volta had been governed by a series of military dictatorshi ...
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How sad Mr Price, I have on occasion admired your articles and opinion on national issues. On this occasion, I think you have misfired. So you think Campaore should get away with murder (if there is evidence to back the charg ...
read full comment
The author is very confused. He is not making any sense with his argument. All these big English words mean nothing. I am surprised that a person with such a high educational standing can write such a pointless article.
Folks,
But why won't you rather pay attention to the rots in the government of Ghana ?
Pryce you are either an ignorant fool or an unrepentent imperialist.
You will never be half the man Sankara was in 3 lifetimes.
Dr. Pryce, in spite of his newly earned PH.D, needs to update his global awareness. Letting us know how close he has rubbed shoulders with Washington insiders, or fellas in USA Government, does not earn him additional creden ...
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I meant to say:
1). '..Clause was not SNEAKED..'