Nkrumah destroyed Ghana TUC

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Ebo Letrik 9 years ago

How old were you in 1961?

If Nkrumah had turned Ghana into a "poor socialist state", then which
company workers formed the TUC?

Why was it not BANNED?

How old were you in 1961?

If Nkrumah had turned Ghana into a "poor socialist state", then which
company workers formed the TUC?

Why was it not BANNED?
Pee 9 years ago

The Idiot-in-chief Okoampa was born on the 8th of April 1963. He can never accept the fact that JB Traitor Danquah was a complete failure just like himself.

The Idiot-in-chief Okoampa was born on the 8th of April 1963. He can never accept the fact that JB Traitor Danquah was a complete failure just like himself.
Ebo Letrik 9 years ago

THX, Pee.

THX, Pee.
Guy 9 years ago

This is absolute madness. The writer is just hates everything about Dr Kwame Nkrumah. He's blind to reality and is entitled live in his world of small minds with big a mouth.

This is absolute madness. The writer is just hates everything about Dr Kwame Nkrumah. He's blind to reality and is entitled live in his world of small minds with big a mouth.
Douglas. Bristol-UK°` 9 years ago

Foolish man!

Foolish man!
hyiaman 9 years ago

u are such a liar

u are such a liar
Kato Guy 9 years ago

This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ( "Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.

"And here, it is signi ...
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This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ( "Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.

"And here, it is significantly instructive to observe that none of the myriad putsches and coup detats have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians are known to have staunchly backed regressivley Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned University-educated former prime minister. Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) won a landslide victory, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and Ghana's extant colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. He would, however, succeed ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny.

Indeed, it is interesting to observe that Ghana's major and, to-date, only international airport is named for General E.K. Kotoka, the very Darwinian outlaw who spearheaded the grossly unimaginative overthrow of the constitutionally elected government of the CPP. For many detractors and outright enemies of Nkrumah, Kotoka's greatest—if also sole—achievement was simply getting rid of an elected dictator. It has often been said, largely by Western academics, that Nkrumah was a heartless and fatuous dictator; these days, one hears Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, the career soldier who ran Ghana for twenty harrowing incontrovertibly bloody years, described as a "benign dictator." It is significant to observe that Mr. Rawlings, whose agnatic parentage is purported to be Scottish, presided over the dastardly kidnapping and summary execution of three Ghanaian supreme court judges, all of whom belonged to a single ethnic nationality.

When one agrees with the Western ideological mythology that Nkrumah was a raw-boned dictator bereft of vision, then it begins to make sense that Kotoka's statue should continue to command the august facade of Accra International Airport, thus perpetually humiliating those of us who incurably believe in democratic governance. Needless to say, the 1966 Kotoka-led coup initiated the barbaric, neo-colonial military dynasty that Ghanaian continue to suffer….

That Ghana's post-colonial political dilemma transcends military dictatorship cannot be honestly gainsaid. In fact, many of the most vociferous civilian opposition party leaders, some of whom are currently sitting in parliament, representing misguided and hoodwinked constituents, are known to have collaborated with Kotoka's so-called National Liberation Council to unseat President Nkrumah. It is also significant to observe that these largely superannuated rascals and executive national, fiduciary muggers continue to dominate whatever passes by the name of "the legitimate opposition." This state of affairs, coupled with a largely under-educated and under-informed electorate, has made it almost impossible to rectify the prevailing socioeconomic chaos ravaging the country.”

Taken from “SOUNDS OF SIRENS: ESSAYS IN AFRICAN POLITICS & CULTURE”, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr (2004)
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

A ha!

That is what we call, "The Proof", as they say in publishing and "recordation"!

Please help with the FTOS-Gh/PSA Petition/Campaign!

Thanks, Kato Guy!

A ha!

That is what we call, "The Proof", as they say in publishing and "recordation"!

Please help with the FTOS-Gh/PSA Petition/Campaign!

Thanks, Kato Guy!
yak 9 years ago

this is a total lie,those who were sabotaging Nkrumah were colonial beneficiaries who were against total emancipation..Ghana and Africa in a whole will never progress is we don't go back to Nkrumah's plan....

this is a total lie,those who were sabotaging Nkrumah were colonial beneficiaries who were against total emancipation..Ghana and Africa in a whole will never progress is we don't go back to Nkrumah's plan....
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 9 years ago

Read B. A. Bentum's "Trade Union in Chains," you barbarous ignoramuses!

Read B. A. Bentum's "Trade Union in Chains," you barbarous ignoramuses!

Suman 9 years ago

Your capitalist idol did this:

Aug 5, 2008 - On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers!

You must know that most Yankeee wage-earners have these payroll deductions:

S ...
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Your capitalist idol did this:

Aug 5, 2008 - On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers!

You must know that most Yankeee wage-earners have these payroll deductions:

Social Security, State Disability Insurance, Medicare, etc.

Ghana had free health care, free education, govt. paid Builders Brigade, City Guides, college interns at the Ministries, GET constructions, etc!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

You are fighting an already lost War, Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. Your dedicated onslaught on Nkrumah and his achievements is a sheer waste of time and resources. The World already knows the truth in what the late President stood ...
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You are fighting an already lost War, Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. Your dedicated onslaught on Nkrumah and his achievements is a sheer waste of time and resources. The World already knows the truth in what the late President stood for, what he achieved, and what his faults really were.

No one of serious studious mind could be fooled anymore into believing the litany of pure lies and oldfangled mischievous Cold-War propaganda that your newly found Political affiliation championed to topple Nkrumah, Lumumba, and many other visionary native Heads of States whose countries had been colonized, economically raped and socially dismembered by the imperialists.

Your persistence in modifying our History with the same obsolete, crude and incongurous methodology is at best sinking your Academic prowess into pointless atavism.

Thank God the very technological creation of the imperialists to concur the whole World with, the Internet, has so forcefully taken a form of its own to rather empower everyone in the World to demystify and effectively repel further subjugating schemes of these imperialists.

Hence, folks like you, Prof., do not enjoy any exclusive access to knowledge and truth about anything in the World anymore. So, you better re-channel your energies into something more resourceful for Ghanaians and others elsewhere, or you would soon be relegated into waste bin of intellectual corruption.

If it were not for Nkrumah's special contributions to the strengths of the Workers in Ghana, TUC would never have gotten any roots to grow on. And you know that. Don't let the lure of any empty promises by our detractors get the better of you.

It is shocking how you would author books to financially profit from with an honest adherence to the truth of how Nkrumah was betrayed by folks who cared more for their pockets than the Nation, and shortly later turn around to be one of the staunchest Academic crucifiers! Your Essays published in 2004 included some that gloriously lauded Nkrumah, and castigated his political enemies, especially the Coup-makers who overthrew him.

Now, you are all full of praises for the same villains you so strongly vilified, and condemnation of Nkrumah and what he stood for. Are we supposed to believe that when you wrote those Essays you were only half-baked Academically to know any better?

This is very sad of you!

I am one of the Ghanaians who would rather have us keep the truth untainted about our History. That would include acknowledging the achievements of both Nkrumah and his political foes when appropriate, even as we criticize their errors, which are just human. We do not have to sell our integrity in doing so for stipends or any selfish convenience at the expense of the truth.

Long Live Ghana!!!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

CORRECTION: Oops! I meant to say ".. CONQUER the World.."

(A typical woeful side-product of technology... as in the use of my
Apple OS Dictation feature that gets my no-so-perfect English phonetics confused now and then, ...
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CORRECTION: Oops! I meant to say ".. CONQUER the World.."

(A typical woeful side-product of technology... as in the use of my
Apple OS Dictation feature that gets my no-so-perfect English phonetics confused now and then, plus my little laziness at proofreading of course!).
Otsibu Darko 9 years ago

I am no poltician or man of 'letters' but I once asked this Dr. PhD what he would have differently for Ghana if he had been in Nkrumah's shoes. My second question now is;$240 billion of oil was lifted by Tullow oil company fr ...
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I am no poltician or man of 'letters' but I once asked this Dr. PhD what he would have differently for Ghana if he had been in Nkrumah's shoes. My second question now is;$240 billion of oil was lifted by Tullow oil company from the Jubilee oil fields, only $1 billion was given to ghana,what is your comment? REF: Ghana earns $1 billion from oil, ghanaweb news of Feb. 1st, 2015
Nima Boy 9 years ago

This stinking old drunkard thinks he has enough ink in his pen to change history.Just look at yourself, 30 good years in America and what have you achieved , what have you done for yourself not even for Ghana? BUUUULU

This stinking old drunkard thinks he has enough ink in his pen to change history.Just look at yourself, 30 good years in America and what have you achieved , what have you done for yourself not even for Ghana? BUUUULU
Ernest 9 years ago

Jealousy go shame. whether you like it or not Nkrumah was a great man.Your forefathers were terrorists finito!

Jealousy go shame. whether you like it or not Nkrumah was a great man.Your forefathers were terrorists finito!
NOBODY 9 years ago

Okoampa-Ahoofe, the Akufo-Addo anointed head of serial lies, never ceases to amaze at his continuous jealousy of Nkrumah. Here's a worthless English Professor who for many years has been churning out daily serial lies in the ...
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Okoampa-Ahoofe, the Akufo-Addo anointed head of serial lies, never ceases to amaze at his continuous jealousy of Nkrumah. Here's a worthless English Professor who for many years has been churning out daily serial lies in the form of opinion articles, all intended to bolster the clueless and incompetent Akufo-Addo. Contrary to Okoampa-Ahoofe's shameless lies, Nkrumah never destroyed Ghana TUC. This is the same serial liar Okoampa-Ahoofe who wrote most of the serial lies that clueless Akufo-Addo is now brandishing as a his book. Okoampa-Ahoofe is anothing but an evil and shameless serial liar and a worthless propaganda buffoon for clueless and incompetent Akufo-Addo.
Yaw Yeboah 9 years ago

President Nkrumah was no different than any other human being. He did make mistakes. However, I believe his positive achievements in Government outweighed the negatives.
His Government was overthrown 50 years ago (Half a Ce ...
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President Nkrumah was no different than any other human being. He did make mistakes. However, I believe his positive achievements in Government outweighed the negatives.
His Government was overthrown 50 years ago (Half a Century). Since then we have been ruled by Military and Civilian Regimes. I would like this Author of the article to provide us with a name or names of other Ghanaian Heads of State, list their achievements while in Government and explain what made them better leaders than Dr Nkrumah.
This should be an easy question to answer bearing in mind that the CPP Government led by President Nkrumah has been out of office since 1966.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Do not hold your breath.

Not necessary!

READ:

BY DR. KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE!

READ:
"....It is...instructive...that none of the...coup d'états have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian ...
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Do not hold your breath.

Not necessary!

READ:

BY DR. KWAME OKOAMPA-AHOOFE!

READ:
"....It is...instructive...that none of the...coup d'états have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians...staunchly backed regressively Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned...former prime minister (Busia). Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's...CPP...won a landslide victory... Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and...colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately... Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. (Busia)...however, succeeded ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny....\

\....Indeed...Ghana's major and...only international airport is named for...Kotoka....outlaw who spearheaded the grossly unimaginative overthrow of the constitutionally elected government of the CPP... Mr. Rawlings, whose...parentage is purported to be Scottish, presided over the dastardly kidnapping and summary execution of three Ghanaian supreme court judges, all of whom belonged to a single ethnic nationality....Needless to say, the 1966 Kotoka-led coup initiated the barbaric, neo-colonial military dynasty that Ghanaian continue to suffer….\

\... In fact, many of the most vociferous civilian opposition party leaders, some of whom are currently sitting in parliament, representing misguided and hoodwinked constituents, are known to have collaborated with Kotoka's so-called National Liberation Council to unseat President Nkrumah. It is also significant to observe that these...(Busia)...rascals and executive...muggers continue to dominate whatever passes by the name of "the legitimate opposition." This state of affairs, coupled with a largely under-educated and under-informed electorate, has made it almost impossible to rectify the prevailing socioeconomic chaos ravaging...(Ghana)...” (Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe's testament for the CPP and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was taken from “SOUNDS OF SIRENS: ESSAYS IN AFRICAN POLITICS & CULTURE”, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr (2004)," courtesy Atakora-Mensah, Ghanaweb, 2015-04-15 13:21:28).

PROF LUNGU SAYS:
That is Okoampa-Ahoofee in his own words!

So, what does Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe of the confederate, property-grabbing, matemeho party care about Trade Unions and worker bees?

Nada!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

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Fair-Trade Oil Share-Ghana (FTOS-Gh/PSA)!

Join the Fight For Ghana!

Sign the Petition For Ghana,
at:
www.change.org/p/ghana-fair-trade-oil-share-psa-campaign-ftos-gh-psa.

More FTOS-Gh info at:
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Thanks.

Amanfo 9 years ago

What you write of Nkrumah can never taints that enviable records of the African man of the millennium.
In any case, we think you can project your godfathers namely Dr JB Danquah, Dr Busia etc by writing on their works and t ...
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What you write of Nkrumah can never taints that enviable records of the African man of the millennium.
In any case, we think you can project your godfathers namely Dr JB Danquah, Dr Busia etc by writing on their works and their contributions. We hope that will rather fly than this article you have wasted your time writing.
Thank you

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