My recollection of the illegal coup in Ghana, on 24th February 1966

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Kojo T 10 years ago

Just reading it alone brings back the nostalgia of the "Show Boy" Who can ever forget the endearing and enchanting infectious smile with his white handkerchief. As Shakespeare wrote "Here was a man ,when c ...
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Just reading it alone brings back the nostalgia of the "Show Boy" Who can ever forget the endearing and enchanting infectious smile with his white handkerchief. As Shakespeare wrote "Here was a man ,when comes such another?" Osagyefo never dies
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 10 years ago

Oh, so you are the news reader's daughter. Later he became Rev. Amamoo.

No one who was old enough on that day will ever forget it, no matter where you were. Everybody has his/her story of the day. I was old enough to know ...
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Oh, so you are the news reader's daughter. Later he became Rev. Amamoo.

No one who was old enough on that day will ever forget it, no matter where you were. Everybody has his/her story of the day. I was old enough to know what death was. What I and my classmates didn't know was what a "coup d'état" was. Well, we got to know that day...

Hope your old man is still alive. Cameron Duodu appears here now and then. I wonder about John Hammond who shared the news reading with your dad. And the ladies - Vida Koranteng Asante, and who else.

Those were the days. We are all old now.

Thanks for this, Ama
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Jean-Luc thanks for your comment. My dad passed away in Dec. 2004. Of all that generation of newsreaders, there is only Vida Koranteng Asante and Robert Owusu left. Their public service was unrivalled. It is our turn to carry ...
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Jean-Luc thanks for your comment. My dad passed away in Dec. 2004. Of all that generation of newsreaders, there is only Vida Koranteng Asante and Robert Owusu left. Their public service was unrivalled. It is our turn to carry the torch.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

Yes, Berko, I condemned the coup when I was still naive, poorly read and stupid like you.

Yes, Berko, I condemned the coup when I was still naive, poorly read and stupid like you.
America Man 10 years ago

Berko is highly respected here and 1000% more objective than you.

Berko is highly respected here and 1000% more objective than you.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Hello Grandson,
The excuses you are giving do not add up. Your article was written in 2004. Which means you were 44 years old! And we are talking of your comments on a ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
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Hello Grandson,
The excuses you are giving do not add up. Your article was written in 2004. Which means you were 44 years old! And we are talking of your comments on a coup that occurred in 1966.

I can understand that you would rather prefer to plead naivety, or even stupidity than to admit that you simply changed your opinions about the coup the moment you realised that Danquah was your uncle of sort!

Is this what you are trying to hide with your rather puerile confession of naivety and stupidity? Go and ask your mother very well, perhaps, Nkrumah was your step-father!

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Kweku Donsuro 10 years ago

We had Vincent Assiseh, Ghartey Tagoe, Robert Hammond, Farkye etc

We had Vincent Assiseh, Ghartey Tagoe, Robert Hammond, Farkye etc
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Yes, all brilliant newsreaders. Ghartey Tagoe died last month.

Yes, all brilliant newsreaders. Ghartey Tagoe died last month.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 10 years ago

Ok, they were all good but let's face the facts: Amamoo and Hammond were the very very best!!! The others came after. These guys read like Ghanaians should read English. They didn't try to pretend to be British but enunciated ...
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Ok, they were all good but let's face the facts: Amamoo and Hammond were the very very best!!! The others came after. These guys read like Ghanaians should read English. They didn't try to pretend to be British but enunciated the words correctly as someone who didn't have English as a first language would. They were clear and distinct with radio-genic voices.

Later I was hearing John Hammond on the external service of the Dutch radio. I think he also left the country for greener pasture.

Tagoe wasn't really my favourite. He read well but I don't think his voice was exactly fit for radio. There was a certain fleck in it that wasn't very radio friendly. Vincent Assisseh was also so so.

But Amamoo and Hammond ... perfect. I was too young for Cameron Duodu and can't judge.

Of the women, Vida and Emilia Eliot were not quite the same. I preferred one of them to the other. I can't now remember which one...

Well, we are all growing old. Nana Ama must be nearing 60 now. Cameron Duodu must be 80. Kwame Amamoo may have died a bit too early if he went in 2004. Tagoe too. May they all rest in peace. They will never be forgotten. And Nkrumah will never be forgotten too, no matter what his detractors say.
Nii Teiko 10 years ago

Nkrumah Never dies'.This is what is left for them to shout. The CPP is dead. Nkrumah Built Akosombo dam and supplied electricity to Togo when the entire 2/3 part of Ghana slept in Sea-bottom darkness for decades. Visionary in ...
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Nkrumah Never dies'.This is what is left for them to shout. The CPP is dead. Nkrumah Built Akosombo dam and supplied electricity to Togo when the entire 2/3 part of Ghana slept in Sea-bottom darkness for decades. Visionary indeed! Busia focused on housing and rural development his 3-year shot term. He achieved a lot on that score. Rawlings built Aboadze, and Kuffour built Bui, Mill did nothing, hence the term Professor 'Do Little'. This reminds me of the Doolittle algorithm for solving problems in Math and Computer and Solutions to Scientific Problems. Well, this is just by the way. Even INCOMPETENT Mahama is building hospitals and schools, at cut throat price though.
So what is the tooting and shouting of Nkrumah's name, as if all school children were not walking barefooted to school in his near 10-year rule.
What is probably notable is that, Kwame Nkrumah had money, right from the word go, to initiate projects. Cocoa industry was booming. We had good returns from Coffee and cotton plantations. He was cashing in big time on diamond, aluminium and bauxite mining.
What else did he need.
Yet, with all these abundant and flourishing resources, Kwame Nkrumah managed to bankrupt the nation before his much needed kick in the butt.
Mills and Mahama had lots of money from our oil wealth.

However, Busia met a bankruptcy nation; Rawling had every chance in his 19-year rule, of terror, to turn the economy around. Yet he sufficiently failed the people by handing over a HIPC nation to Kuffour.
And by his wisdom and vision, Kofi Diawuo - as Kuffour is known to his peers - did not kill Ghana, as the name Diablo seem to suggest. He worked hard to bring much soothing social interventions into the system which brought some relief to the poor and the oppressly depressed masses. CHOP MONEY FOR SCHOOL FEEDING, FREE MATERNAL CARE, NHIS, YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH GYEEDA AND SADA, among many other huge promotions which intervensionly alleviated the sweat of many. What is even more salient is the yeoman's job of Kuffour's administration to find oil for Ghana upon which revenue these Incompetent buffoons in government are looting and sharing with impugnity.
For real, Ghana could have been a sort of paradise on earth under Kuffour if was our first president. He deserved the 'Kuffour Chain'.

NANA BONSU 10 years ago

I still hear his voice announcing the Israeli forces capture of Sharm-el-sheik in the 1967 Arab Israeli
War with such commanding presence." Israeli commando captured Sharm-el -Sheik from where Egypt commanded the Gulf of Aq ...
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I still hear his voice announcing the Israeli forces capture of Sharm-el-sheik in the 1967 Arab Israeli
War with such commanding presence." Israeli commando captured Sharm-el -Sheik from where Egypt commanded the Gulf of Aqaba........" It was so captivating and magical it will forever stick in my big head.
Houdini 10 years ago

You got what? Goose bumps? Illiteracy indeed. Goose bumps, dumbass.

You got what? Goose bumps? Illiteracy indeed. Goose bumps, dumbass.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Kojo T, yes indeed, Nkrumah and his message will always be alive! The flame he lit will never go out!

Kojo T, yes indeed, Nkrumah and his message will always be alive! The flame he lit will never go out!
Kwadwo. 10 years ago

I am curious if u could share what your dad thought of the dictator, Nkrumah. I was a child then but I grew to love the way your dad, Kwame Amamoo delivered the news.

I am curious if u could share what your dad thought of the dictator, Nkrumah. I was a child then but I grew to love the way your dad, Kwame Amamoo delivered the news.
Kojo T 10 years ago

Can u not see the child admires the "dictator" You were a child .nincompoop who had NO connection with the GREAT mind called Nkrumah .So please SHUT your beak

Can u not see the child admires the "dictator" You were a child .nincompoop who had NO connection with the GREAT mind called Nkrumah .So please SHUT your beak
ABU 10 years ago

Kwame Amamoo was indeed a newsreader with an exceptional voice.We also rented a rediffusion box from the Broadcasting House in Salaga then at 50p. a month.Oh all those other great newsreaders Emilia Elliot,John Hammond,
Vida ...
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Kwame Amamoo was indeed a newsreader with an exceptional voice.We also rented a rediffusion box from the Broadcasting House in Salaga then at 50p. a month.Oh all those other great newsreaders Emilia Elliot,John Hammond,
Vida Koranteng Asante,Robert Owusu,Richard Kotey,Daniel Adjei,Albert Achulo etc. etc.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Those rediffusion boxes! Wooden cases with metal mesh fronts. The epitome of voice technology at the time. Then Nkrumah established a factory that made Akasanoma radio, plastic casing in two colours only, olive green and crea ...
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Those rediffusion boxes! Wooden cases with metal mesh fronts. The epitome of voice technology at the time. Then Nkrumah established a factory that made Akasanoma radio, plastic casing in two colours only, olive green and cream. I was so proud when my father bought one. Olive green.:)
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Nkrumah was not a dictator. My father greatly respected and admired him.

Nkrumah was not a dictator. My father greatly respected and admired him.
Kweku Donsuro 10 years ago

Naana Amamoo, mu nua kakraba, mbo na ka. Angels were guarding you on that day, innocent child as you were! Ghana fell into a deep hole ever since that fateful day and it will take the cranes used to build the ancient Pyramids ...
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Naana Amamoo, mu nua kakraba, mbo na ka. Angels were guarding you on that day, innocent child as you were! Ghana fell into a deep hole ever since that fateful day and it will take the cranes used to build the ancient Pyramids at Gizeh to pull her out. I love the vivid recollection of your story. Well done. Where is Kwame Amamoo from Winneba?
Kweku Donsuro 10 years ago

Ooops! I meant hole not whole!

Ooops! I meant hole not whole!

Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Kweku Donsuro, thank you for your compliment. Kwame Amamoo from Winneba joined his ancestors on 8th December 2004.

Kweku Donsuro, thank you for your compliment. Kwame Amamoo from Winneba joined his ancestors on 8th December 2004.
Kweku Donsuro 10 years ago

Oh may their souls rest in perfect peace. They were related to Amamoo Kaakrah and Amamoo Panyin off Fanbte section and Ama Sasaako. There used to be Kojo Halm also.

Oh may their souls rest in perfect peace. They were related to Amamoo Kaakrah and Amamoo Panyin off Fanbte section and Ama Sasaako. There used to be Kojo Halm also.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Wow!

A good, human-centered testimony 50-plus years in making.

'Nuff respect, Nana Ama!!!!!!!

Wow!

A good, human-centered testimony 50-plus years in making.

'Nuff respect, Nana Ama!!!!!!!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 10 years ago

Don't be shy, tell us. Pleeeeease...

Don't be shy, tell us. Pleeeeease...
Maame Adwoa 10 years ago

What is the meaning of nuff? So wee smokers in village use this term frequently. Can you please explain?

What is the meaning of nuff? So wee smokers in village use this term frequently. Can you please explain?
Yaw Yeboah 10 years ago

Ha, ha, ha, Maame Adwoa, Nuff Respect means is another way of saying a lot of respect to you.
Please I am not a village or wee smoker. It is common words spoken by Black Communities living in London (UK).

Ha, ha, ha, Maame Adwoa, Nuff Respect means is another way of saying a lot of respect to you.
Please I am not a village or wee smoker. It is common words spoken by Black Communities living in London (UK).
Nii Teiko 10 years ago

Maame Adwoa, 'nuff' is a slang word for enough, a popularly palance among Jamaicans and some weed smoking guys on the street. Probably Prof Lungu feels kinda 'yooyoo' today or he himself enjoy the scent small. Ya know me mean ...
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Maame Adwoa, 'nuff' is a slang word for enough, a popularly palance among Jamaicans and some weed smoking guys on the street. Probably Prof Lungu feels kinda 'yooyoo' today or he himself enjoy the scent small. Ya know me mean?
Yaw Yeboah 10 years ago

These appologists for the 1966 Military Coup, carried out by traitors financed by the Coup should provide us with details of acheivements achieved by successive Governments since the overthrow of the CPP. It is a question tha ...
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These appologists for the 1966 Military Coup, carried out by traitors financed by the Coup should provide us with details of acheivements achieved by successive Governments since the overthrow of the CPP. It is a question that they have consistently failed to answer everytime it has been asked. The state institutions & infrastructure introduced by the CPP Government is still relied on today. What achievements have been achieved by other Government's since 1966?
These appologists for the 1966 Military Coup, also like to point out the lack of press freedom that existed then and the authoritarian rule of Dr Nkrumah. It is a valid point until you remember how many years that the PNDC ruled Ghana. Was there press freedom during this era or democracy?
There is no valid reason for Nationals of a country taking money from the Intelligence Service of a foreign Government to carry out covert actions against their own country. The people who carried out this coup were traitors it is as simple as that.
Personally, I feel a great sense of pride every time that I travel from Kotoka Airport. My Father's friend from childhood (they both attended Dormaa Secondary School), Was the same late Lt General Moses Yeboah, who carried out the counter coup in 1967. Moses Yeboah shot and killed Kotoka on the runway after grappling with each other. I am proud that it was a childhood friend of my Father's that shot and killed this leading traitor. I have to thank J.J.Rawlings and Boakye Dyan for killing Afrifa, the other main traitor.
Ghana has made little economic progress since 1966, and today is faced with record debts and state corruption exists on unprecedented levels. This is the reality and only legacy of the 1966 Military Coup.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Thanks Prof Lungu, back atcha!:)

Thanks Prof Lungu, back atcha!:)
BAFO 10 years ago

Oh Nana!

You made my day by your scintillating narrative!

The harder question: Have we learned as a people from the bloody events of February 24, 1966?

God save us all.

Oh Nana!

You made my day by your scintillating narrative!

The harder question: Have we learned as a people from the bloody events of February 24, 1966?

God save us all.

Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

The people who gave us our freedoms and liberties from Nkrumah beg to differ, Nana Ama. You see to the those in lala land they can see our streets flowing with milk and honey and it's the blind who cannot see or find to scoop ...
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The people who gave us our freedoms and liberties from Nkrumah beg to differ, Nana Ama. You see to the those in lala land they can see our streets flowing with milk and honey and it's the blind who cannot see or find to scoop.

The shame of it all is that the shameless creature of the days gone by and of today wrapped in democratic slogans continue to ask voters to give them a third crack at the management of Ghana as if the previous two chances, the Busia era and Kufour era, were just practice runs. History repeats itself; it surely does in Ghana where common sense is at a premium and the folly of tribal preferences reign.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

Nana Ama, I had no idea you had a real life encounter on 24 February 1966. Thanks for sharing. I have sent the link to the family in the US - Herty & others).

Did not know that the family lived close to the city centre bef ...
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Nana Ama, I had no idea you had a real life encounter on 24 February 1966. Thanks for sharing. I have sent the link to the family in the US - Herty & others).

Did not know that the family lived close to the city centre before moving to Roman Ridge. I know from the family in the US that Sis is still in London with Araba and and you are in Ghana. We have not touched after our meeting in London.

My kind regards to the rest of the family and thanks for sharing your personal experience.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Bra Atta long time oo! Please get my number from Sister Mansa and let's link up.

Bra Atta long time oo! Please get my number from Sister Mansa and let's link up.
Gordon Sakyi 10 years ago

Nana, did you say some soldiers pointed their guns at you on the day Nkrumah was overthrown? And you were six or seven years old, and a policeman came from nowhere to save you? Were you one of Nkrumah's people who tried to pu ...
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Nana, did you say some soldiers pointed their guns at you on the day Nkrumah was overthrown? And you were six or seven years old, and a policeman came from nowhere to save you? Were you one of Nkrumah's people who tried to put up some resistance? Nana that part of your story is taller than mt. Everest
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

This is not a made-up story. My experiences from that day were traumatic enough to be etched in my memory forever! I was nearly six. And like I pointed out, I saw Osagyefo twice, walked past his statue on the way to school, a ...
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This is not a made-up story. My experiences from that day were traumatic enough to be etched in my memory forever! I was nearly six. And like I pointed out, I saw Osagyefo twice, walked past his statue on the way to school, and drove past it in the evening when my dad picked us up. Nkrumah was very real to me, an inquisitive bright child.
Amanfo 10 years ago

Very sad indeed. The day Ghana and Africa lost her way and started falling apart. For the past 50 years of his desposal, we are yet to witness a pragmatist and a visionary leadership.
Retrogression has been the other of the ...
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Very sad indeed. The day Ghana and Africa lost her way and started falling apart. For the past 50 years of his desposal, we are yet to witness a pragmatist and a visionary leadership.
Retrogression has been the other of the day and progress is now a scarce commodity in any part of this great continent.
Thank you
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Thank you. However, we cannot sit around, waiting for another leader of Nkrumah's calibre to achieve what he started. Each of us can help make progress in a little corner and join up the dots.

Thank you. However, we cannot sit around, waiting for another leader of Nkrumah's calibre to achieve what he started. Each of us can help make progress in a little corner and join up the dots.
kakabo 10 years ago

The only sensible thing about this your article is the fact that you are the child of Kwame Amamo ; one of the finest news readers the continent has and will ever produce. If it were to be these days, he might have have been ...
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The only sensible thing about this your article is the fact that you are the child of Kwame Amamo ; one of the finest news readers the continent has and will ever produce. If it were to be these days, he might have have been hired by BBC or CNN.However with that said, let me put you in the right place before you infect readers with your ignorance about the 1966 coup. In fact the 1966 coup is the only legitimate coup that occurred in Ghana.All the rest were fake in the sense that it was only the 66 coup that removed a dictator and lead us to the path of democracy. It was the coup that disbanded the one party rule of Nkrumah. It was the coup that liberated us from the tyranny of a megalomaniac called Nkrumah. Madam please for goodness sake don't bring yourself(As they say in Ghana). If you father had been languishing in jail without trial and with no meaningful offence except to be against the dictatorial rule of Nkrumah, you would never describe the 66 coup as illegal.It is the crazy policies of your beloved Nkrumah which is still hunting our march to prosperity. Go back and learn proper history and stop throwing your weightless body around.The 66 coup did not liberate only the opposition but even the die hard followers of Nkrumah. Go and ask Kwaku Boateng and other CPP stalwarts.
SARPONG 10 years ago

Thank you Kakabo. All those people here singing Nkrumah praises are just dumb followers who have ceased to exercise their brains.

As you rightly said and I have been saying on this site, the only legitimate coup ever to ha ...
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Thank you Kakabo. All those people here singing Nkrumah praises are just dumb followers who have ceased to exercise their brains.

As you rightly said and I have been saying on this site, the only legitimate coup ever to happen in Ghana was the Feb. 1966 coup that toppled that dictator called Fuhrer Nkrumah because he deprived the citizens the right to vote him out if they wanted to by declaring himself President for life with his one party state.

Let any Fuhrer Nkrumah apologist here give those of us who believed Fuhrer Nkrumah left us no other choice to remove him legally when he made himself a semi-god and no daughter of a newscaster can hide in their daddy's aprons to tell us differently.

I know this Ama Amamoo will be reading the comments. If she thought Nkrumah was illegally removed, maybe she can tell us the other choice Fuhrer Nkrumah left us if we later decided we don't want him anymore.
Koopiah 10 years ago

Why wouldn't she bemoan the overthrow of Nkrumah? Her parents were among the elite class with the privilege of access to power and didn't experience the hardships Nkrumah brought to the masses. Slavery under white slave maste ...
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Why wouldn't she bemoan the overthrow of Nkrumah? Her parents were among the elite class with the privilege of access to power and didn't experience the hardships Nkrumah brought to the masses. Slavery under white slave masters with no hardships was far better than slavery under a black megalomanic dictator with shortage of essential commodities where one has to join a line for hours to buy common soap.

This woman and her family did not endure that hardship.
Yaw Yeboah 10 years ago

Sarpong, are you really trying to claim that the 1966 Military Coup, that was fully sponsored by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), of the United States of America, was the only legitimate coup in Ghana? So spying for a ...
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Sarpong, are you really trying to claim that the 1966 Military Coup, that was fully sponsored by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), of the United States of America, was the only legitimate coup in Ghana? So spying for a foreign Government and being on their payroll to carry out activities to destabilise or overthrow your own country of birth is okay for you? I find your comments remarkable. Military Coups are not legally permitted under the Constitution of Ghana as I am sure you are aware?
The only legitimate coup in Ghana was the rather the 1972 Coup, led by General Acheampong which overthrew Dr Busia's Government and was carried out to bring Dr Nkrumah back to power. Unfortunately, 1972, was the year that Dr Nkrumah died in exile
SARPONG 10 years ago

That shows God did not want Ghanaians to suffer again and that is why Nkrumah was abandoned by even his own wife Fathia to die in a dingy Romania hospital. If that was Acheampong idea, thank God he did not succeed.

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That shows God did not want Ghanaians to suffer again and that is why Nkrumah was abandoned by even his own wife Fathia to die in a dingy Romania hospital. If that was Acheampong idea, thank God he did not succeed.

Thank God for CIA coming to rescue us from this brutal dictator, Fuhrer Nkrumah.

Are you even aware Fathia and her children did not for six years he was in Guinea never visited him?
Kakapo 10 years ago

Yes every coup was legal including the 1972, and 78 and 79!
No one was liberated except the CIA agents who were paid cheaply to stage the coup.

Kakabo, if liberation led to the de industrialisation of Ghana then you are r ...
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Yes every coup was legal including the 1972, and 78 and 79!
No one was liberated except the CIA agents who were paid cheaply to stage the coup.

Kakabo, if liberation led to the de industrialisation of Ghana then you are right. How many assembling cars plants did Ghana have by 1966? How many are operating today?Even the shoe and jute factories in Ashanti would not be allowed to operate efficiently after Nkrumah leading to severe unemployment in Coomase.

How many bombs were thrown at Ghanaians by the Opposition? In today's world they would be terrorists and part of Bin Ladin's circle.
Your parties were defeated at all elections the Whiteman organised, so it was only the coup process that you had.
Go read Dennis Austin's books, Politics in Ghana. Go see and read the CIA files on Ghana.
Kodjo 10 years ago

Your confusion is born out of greed and not love of country.Every young nation must begin its life with a strong leadership in order to lay the infrastructure and firm foundation that come with the beginning of anything worth ...
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Your confusion is born out of greed and not love of country.Every young nation must begin its life with a strong leadership in order to lay the infrastructure and firm foundation that come with the beginning of anything worthwhile.

It took Europe centuries to develop their concept of democracy even that, it started with strong leadership and many centuries under their tyrannical kings and rulers.What you call democracy as is practiced in Ghana is a foreign concept design to divide African and make them susceptible to foreign influence and manipulation.

History had shown us that we need sacrifices under strong leadership as we saw with Singapore and the Tiger economies then after that we can have the luxury of experimenting with foreign concepts and ideas very alien to us.Until we we go back to basic and study ideas and see where we went wrong,we will continue to wallow in the wilderness like a rudderless ship.

Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the real deal for Ghana and Africa.Whether you like it or not he stands tall in African political thought and the most influential African of all time.He can not be ignored.Nana Ama Amamoo is only reflecting her experience and those of you with no sense of history should leave her alone.Nkrumah will continue to influence generation of African for a long time whether you like it or not.
Americana 10 years ago

You are a very intelligent man and that's why Africa will never see progress with this thing they are practicing called democracy because the foundations that needed to be laid for democracy to properly function are simply no ...
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You are a very intelligent man and that's why Africa will never see progress with this thing they are practicing called democracy because the foundations that needed to be laid for democracy to properly function are simply non existence.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Your very acid comments are not worth responding to. The information is all there for you to educate yourself about the tragedy that befell Ghana and Africa that day. If you choolse not to read, the state of Ghana today shoul ...
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Your very acid comments are not worth responding to. The information is all there for you to educate yourself about the tragedy that befell Ghana and Africa that day. If you choolse not to read, the state of Ghana today should be enough testimony of how we have retrogressed. Being my father's daughter has nothing to do with the fact that those you extol set us back centuries with their treachery.
Americana 10 years ago

Tribalism and ethnic supremacist tendencies is their main driver and thats why it seems like the NDC will have to screw up so bad for the NPP to come to power.

Tribalism and ethnic supremacist tendencies is their main driver and thats why it seems like the NDC will have to screw up so bad for the NPP to come to power.
SARPONG 10 years ago

I guess so you couldn't answer a simple question so you have chosen to hide. The same way you imbellished your story about going to school on Feb.24 1966 after 6 am because the coup had not been broadcast when everybody who l ...
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I guess so you couldn't answer a simple question so you have chosen to hide. The same way you imbellished your story about going to school on Feb.24 1966 after 6 am because the coup had not been broadcast when everybody who lived at that time know the coup was announced earlier and you couldn't have gone to school that day.

I don't also believe soldiers will point guns at a six year old girl with school clothes on.

It is a lie that Ghana would have developed more than it is today if Fuhrer Nkrumah was not overthrow. Ghana started deteriorating from 1964 after Nkrumah has spent every pesewa he found in our vault that was given or handed to him after independence.

Sorry if you found my questioning you regarding Nkrumah's dictatorship as acidic. The events of Feb. 24, 1966 was only a tragedy to those elites who were enjoying Fuhrer Nkrumah brutal rule but for those people who did not want the change of slave masters from colonial masters to an African dictator, February 24, 1966 was a liberation day and real Independence Day. Nkrumah left us no other option but a military coup to get rid of him.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

If your father were JB Danquah or Obetsebi-Lamptey, you wouldn't call Nkrumah's auspicious overthrow a "dastardly" act. My uncle, Vincent Asiseh, was there too. I am exactly your age, and I witnessed a different Ghana. No int ...
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If your father were JB Danquah or Obetsebi-Lamptey, you wouldn't call Nkrumah's auspicious overthrow a "dastardly" act. My uncle, Vincent Asiseh, was there too. I am exactly your age, and I witnessed a different Ghana. No international and preparatory school for me. But guess, what, my grandfather's Presbyterian School did me just fine. Nkrumah was definitely a godsend to some of you, but to the rest of us, he decidedly a hellsend.
Kwame 10 years ago

Sarpong and Okoampa-Ahoofe on 24/2/1966 I was then in Middle School form 2, in Accra and was living near the Mamobi Polyclinic. It looks like your freedom would have keep the Ghanaian far away from the pologrounds, the Ridge ...
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Sarpong and Okoampa-Ahoofe on 24/2/1966 I was then in Middle School form 2, in Accra and was living near the Mamobi Polyclinic. It looks like your freedom would have keep the Ghanaian far away from the pologrounds, the Ridge Hospital and other places just as it keep the Negro in the U.S. and even Britain from their human dignity. Britain still have Queen Elizabeth since 1953 as her head of state. Charles de Gaulle was then the president of France in 1966 and he left office after 1980s. De Gaulle use Africans to guinea pigs to test his atomic bomb, yet to you people he was a member of NATO and not a dictator. The fact is that whatever Kwame Nkrumah did was through universal adult suffrage and that before he ask for one party state in Ghana it was already a norm in the Ivory Coast and it lasted till 1995.
SARPONG 10 years ago

You don't seem to be well educated and therefore no need to waste too much time on you.

Charles Degauile was President of France from Jan. 1959 to April 1969 and was not President into the 1980's.

Queen Elizabeth is a M ...
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You don't seem to be well educated and therefore no need to waste too much time on you.

Charles Degauile was President of France from Jan. 1959 to April 1969 and was not President into the 1980's.

Queen Elizabeth is a Monarch not with any political power or voted to be Queen and you really have to be slow to compare Queen Elizabeth monarchy to an elected Presidency.
Henry 10 years ago

Witty, witty Sarpong, hope Kwame doesn't become depressed and do the unthinkable by committing suicide.

Witty, witty Sarpong, hope Kwame doesn't become depressed and do the unthinkable by committing suicide.
Kwame 10 years ago

Queen Elizabeth has political power and is paid by the British Empire, though she has investments around the world. She is the commander in-chief of the British army and anything that both the British civil and public service ...
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Queen Elizabeth has political power and is paid by the British Empire, though she has investments around the world. She is the commander in-chief of the British army and anything that both the British civil and public service does is in her name.
Britain has a monarchy, thus it even advance the cause of any nation which want to establish monarchy through universal adult suffrage is is the case in Spain. The queen seems not to be living in society, but outside society according to your understanding of the monarchy. As we stated the queen and his family are members of society,thus weld political power. Charled De Gaulle tested nuclear weapons in the Sahara in the early 1960s that brought some sickness to the whole of western Africa. He brutally tried to suppress the national liberation struggle of the people of Algeria, but the French forces and their Islamic terrorist were defeated by the Cubans.
Yaw Mensah 10 years ago

Do you know the meaning of universal adult suffrage? I don't think so. Are you still insisting Charles De Gauile was President in the 1980's?

Queen Elizabeth has no political power, she is just a figurehead. She cannot mak ...
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Do you know the meaning of universal adult suffrage? I don't think so. Are you still insisting Charles De Gauile was President in the 1980's?

Queen Elizabeth has no political power, she is just a figurehead. She cannot make any law or veto any law.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., didn't you publish a book of Compiled Essays in which you praised Nkrumah and condemned the same Coup in 2004?

Do you remember this: 'SOUNDS OF SIRENES: Essays In African Politics and Culture' by Kwam ...
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Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., didn't you publish a book of Compiled Essays in which you praised Nkrumah and condemned the same Coup in 2004?

Do you remember this: 'SOUNDS OF SIRENES: Essays In African Politics and Culture' by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. (2004)?

Can you explain to the Public your 180-flip on that notion to become one of the most persistent demonizer of Nkrumah and a staunchest supporter of the same 1966 Coup?

Surely, if her (Ms. Amamoo's) father were a CIA stooge and tool as JB Danquah became to help unleash murderous violence on Ghanaians, or Obetsebi-Lamptey, the terrorist behind the Kulungugu fatal Bombing, she might still have called the Coup a 'dastardly' act, but still loved the father.

That is the difference between you and her. She is a pure-at-heart, honest heavenly Lady, who would stand by the truth, and call it as it is, unlike you, who wavers with the wind to your selfish convenience, dithering with the lure of some forlorn promise of ever evasive utopia.

You cannot change our History to suit only your whims, Sir! Your attempts at modifying Ghana's History to enhance the image of Danquah, whom you have come to claim as your relative, at the expense of Nkrumah or any other true Patriot will never succeed.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 10 years ago

Even Nkrumah was related to you...

Give us a break!!!

Even Nkrumah was related to you...

Give us a break!!!
Nii 10 years ago

What were your bomb throwers doing back then for Nkrumah to jail them? USA even kills such terrorists within her borders so Nkrumah should have killed them but he failed and that's why we are where we are. Stuck in hole dwell ...
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What were your bomb throwers doing back then for Nkrumah to jail them? USA even kills such terrorists within her borders so Nkrumah should have killed them but he failed and that's why we are where we are. Stuck in hole dweller and hole mentality
Paapa - Aayalolo 10 years ago

On that day I was also schooling at Derby Avenue Roman School near Korle Wonko, Arena while we were staying at Aayalolo just a stone throw from the school. We normally go to school early morning b'cos of sweeping the compound ...
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On that day I was also schooling at Derby Avenue Roman School near Korle Wonko, Arena while we were staying at Aayalolo just a stone throw from the school. We normally go to school early morning b'cos of sweeping the compound when suddenly our Headmaster , Mr Nuokpor ask all of us to go into our various classrooms. Not lonh we heard gun shots, the soldiers were around the area looking for one Madam Aadua, a suppose girl friend of Nkrumah and on and on.
I was also at that Samia party when I was at Queen Elizabeth Nursery.
Nana Ama may God bless you for this historical facts and I hope to see you one day.
Henry 10 years ago

In as much as I enjoyed reading Nana Ama Amamoo memory of events of 1966 coup, I think she embellished her story when she said soldiers pointed guns at a six year old girl going to school.

What time did her school start le ...
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In as much as I enjoyed reading Nana Ama Amamoo memory of events of 1966 coup, I think she embellished her story when she said soldiers pointed guns at a six year old girl going to school.

What time did her school start lessons? Nkrumah's overthrow was announced as early as 6am so I find it difficult to believe her story of going to school that day because her mother has not heard of the coup.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Paapa, I am glad to hear from another person who also remembers that party at Flagstaff House. Only one other person I know who was my classmate at QE Nursery and Bishop's Girls' remembers it! Incidentally, my mother taught a ...
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Paapa, I am glad to hear from another person who also remembers that party at Flagstaff House. Only one other person I know who was my classmate at QE Nursery and Bishop's Girls' remembers it! Incidentally, my mother taught at Aayalolo school. There was a rather obscene song about Madam Aadua. It was wicked gossip. She and other market queens were at the forefront of Nkrumah's economic empowerment programme. By 1964/65, he had broken the commercial monopoly of UAC and other western companies and GNTC was the main importer and distributor of consumer goods. The market women and their queens had filled the gap as wholesalers and retailers, leading to serious economic empowerment for women. When Nkrumah was deposed, the traitors and their western handlers went for the likes of Madam Aadua, Dede Shorshorshor, Esi Elluah. They were CPP stalwarts and important financiers of the Party too. Rawlings continued the vilification of market women, blaming them for all the country's economic problems. The result is the very poor status of women and girls in Ghana today, where the majority of them use 'bottom power' as their only currency!
Kweku Donsuro 10 years ago

Nana Ama, you have introduced me to a new term, BP Currency. What is the current exchange rate on the market? As an economist, I am interested.

Nana Ama, you have introduced me to a new term, BP Currency. What is the current exchange rate on the market? As an economist, I am interested.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Please I am not an economist, and I do not recall mentioning BP currency.

Please I am not an economist, and I do not recall mentioning BP currency.
samson 10 years ago

Aawww! how sad. Some people believe that Osagyefo cursed Ghanaians before he died, hence our woes and suffering.

Aawww! how sad. Some people believe that Osagyefo cursed Ghanaians before he died, hence our woes and suffering.
KKO 10 years ago

This is very fertile imagination! The coup announcement would have been made before 6 in the morning. Most people stayed indoors. One of the few civilian casualties of the day , was a CPP activist who defied the order to stop ...
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This is very fertile imagination! The coup announcement would have been made before 6 in the morning. Most people stayed indoors. One of the few civilian casualties of the day , was a CPP activist who defied the order to stop around Flagstaff House. He tires were shot at which caused him to lose control and therefore died in an accident with his daughter.

Were you really going to school or just being inquisitive? Is it really true that your mother could not have heard about the coup and saw you off to go to school?

Your father's was a very respected voice in broadcasting in Ghana, along with those of Emelia Elliott, Vida Koranteng Asante, Mary Yirenkyi and a few others. He nearly always, delivered "Yesterday at the Commission of Enquiry."

It is most unlikely that anyone would have threatened him, a well known civilian broadcaster at the time.

There is no need to embellish our history just to score political points!
Gordon Sakyi 10 years ago

Nana Ama Amamoo eii!!, stop making up stories as youg go. Don't do or say things to tarnish the name of your father. Your mother did not send you to go anywhere on the day of the coup.

Nana Ama Amamoo eii!!, stop making up stories as youg go. Don't do or say things to tarnish the name of your father. Your mother did not send you to go anywhere on the day of the coup.
Francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Long live the Great Nkrumah.

Nkrumah never dies. His unparalleled legacy still lives on.

Long live the Great Nkrumah.

Nkrumah never dies. His unparalleled legacy still lives on.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago

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Hello Nana Ama,

I have read over this twice. And on both occasions I was moved to tears at the end.

Thank you very much for the beautiful way you enable us mark su ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Hello Nana Ama,

I have read over this twice. And on both occasions I was moved to tears at the end.

Thank you very much for the beautiful way you enable us mark such a horrible way from the eyes of a child!

We are now grown up. Some of us are even older than Nkrumah at that time he led Ghana to Independence.

The ball is now in our court to save Ghana!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Pur'gu Saarpe!!! Esq.,
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Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Nana Akyea, many thanks for your comments. Indeed, Nkrumah left us a blueprint to follow. Each of us has a duty to carry his flame aloft and rebuild Ghana and Africa! Forward ever!

Nana Akyea, many thanks for your comments. Indeed, Nkrumah left us a blueprint to follow. Each of us has a duty to carry his flame aloft and rebuild Ghana and Africa! Forward ever!
ocsesay. 10 years ago

A good piece of writing.

A good piece of writing.
Nii Teiko 10 years ago

I like the flair of this write up. Prof Kwarteng should learn the writing style of this lady. By the way Nkrumah was necessary at that time. The only problem were those numerous military take overs that characterized the poli ...
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I like the flair of this write up. Prof Kwarteng should learn the writing style of this lady. By the way Nkrumah was necessary at that time. The only problem were those numerous military take overs that characterized the political landscape afterwards.
Kofi 10 years ago

It is easy to pull a fast story like this and everyone goes awwwwwwwww!

It is easy to pull a fast story like this and everyone goes awwwwwwwww!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

The Nkrumaists, like this stupid Ama Amamoo, are a despicable lot who live by the putrid farts of a mummified villain. They put a ceiling on their creative powers and circumscribe their thinking by reference to that tyrant's ...
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The Nkrumaists, like this stupid Ama Amamoo, are a despicable lot who live by the putrid farts of a mummified villain. They put a ceiling on their creative powers and circumscribe their thinking by reference to that tyrant's short-circuited brainwave. They tell themselves in glee, "Thus far shall we go and no farther".

No Nkrumaist will ever surpass Nkrumah who was no more than an average villain and a grandiose caricature in his own fairy tale of fame, grandeur and megalomania. In Nkrumah's concocted story, his million minions, like this stupid Ama Amamoo, will always be mere supernumeraries, filling the space of Nkrumah's stage, licking his rectum and asking compatriots for mutual enema with the Nkrumaist Rectal Bulb Syringe! Crass eproctophiliacs!!

This breed of brain dead mafia contribute nothing to the race except the mouthing of incoherent platitudes. But we understand that those trumpeters of dictatorship and copy-writers of archaic Nkrumaist articles never recovered from the shellshock of their demigod's overthrow in 1966. We also understand that they are forever doomed to worship that mummified dictator and gobble his phlegm for ice cream. That is why they daily troll the internet for all the good things said about him and ignore all the bad things recounted of him. When they became deprived of the muse to sing his praise, they parroted the dregs of what others have written and forgotten. They made up their own obscene folklore and gloated in its scatology, exposing themselves as nothing but crass eproctophiliacs.

So let it be with them forever.
The rest of us discerning Ghanaians know that the nation recovered from the pipedream of a mad dictator: There is the freedom of speech and expression. The people are fully enfranchised to determine their leadership. There is a vibrant multi-party democracy that empowers the people to elect their leaders. There is no one-party state; no incarceration without trial; no life presidency; no emblazonment of a feared dictator's effigy on our currency nor his images on our streets......

Thus none of those shellshocked minions of dictatorship can tell us exactly what good thing they want us to recover from the failed and dead leadership of the evil villain who plunged the country and Africa into the dark continuum of dictatorship and ripped us of our innocence. Maybe they want us to recover the PDA(imprisonment without trial) which Bro. Kwarteng considers the best of Nkrumah's legacy and which he truly misses. In this case, I can assure him and his star-struck trumpeters that their minds have already been imprisoned for life without trial by Nkrumah. Fortunately for them, they love and cherish their entombed psyche and can continue enjoying their fool's paradise of fond remembrance.

As for us Danquists, it is our generation that will confer intellectual powers upon our dear nation, and we will not be remiss in our duty to prosper the nation. While the Nkrumaists know nothing except being vuvuzelas of encomia daily bloviating and showboating in the name of the mummified tyrant, we Danquists speak truth to power without fear and take power in order to build, not to destroy. Our doyen taught us how to die for our convictions.

For the Nkrumaists, their convictions must be supplanted by a demigod who taught them to substitute their reasoning with the rant that he never does any wrong; that he never dies.......They might continue in their mental incarceration and pass on their genes and tall tales to their children up to the fifth or seventh generation.

We Danquists don't have to agree with Danquah on everything or worship him as a god. In fact he would be embarrassed if we were to deify him. We believe him to be just as we are because, unlike Nkrumah, he never thought of himself as superhuman. And unlike Nkrumah, Dr. Danquah wants his followers to exceed him in his achievements. He never said anywhere that he was anything. So we never have to mention him or adulate him or quote him or put him on a pedestal. We don't have to subserve our intellect to his at any time. Danquah is wise and humble enough to know that we now living can continue his work without referring to him or putting him at the center of our work.

But to be a Danquist is to be ready to die for the cause of freedom, to attack tyranny wherever it is found, to promote free thinking, to overthrow stupid ideology and to engender peaceful co-existence with those who disagree with us. And for the latter, we do not imprison our opponents; we reason with them to recruit them to our side.

To be an Nkrumaist is to gobble his phlegm and be intellectually entombed within the ideology of his praise, and it is the work of us Danquists to cure you Nkrumaists of the delusion and hatred you inherited from that great Deceiver.

But they should leave the rest of us alone to enjoy true freedom and justice bequeathed to us by the true Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah, the architect of Ghana, the martyr of freedom, and the doyen of our enduring democracy.
KKO 10 years ago

Wow, Dr SAS,
You have made my day!

Wow, Dr SAS,
You have made my day!
Ghana Man 10 years ago

The facts on the ground in Africa, the evidence from most of the so called democratic nations on the continent is nothing to write about, they are more confused and corrupt than when they had dictators. Nations like Ghana, Ni ...
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The facts on the ground in Africa, the evidence from most of the so called democratic nations on the continent is nothing to write about, they are more confused and corrupt than when they had dictators. Nations like Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya are no more better 20 something years down the road of democracy than they were before.

Things are more chaotic and crazier than they ever were at any point in time. It took the white man many years of trials and errors to some how perfect this democracy, more over the fact that it works for the white man does not mean it will work for all other races, culturally every race is different. By force democracy that doesn't take into account the culture, customs, and values of the people into consideration is another form of colonialism and sadly that's exactly what is going on in the continent.
Living in America for so many years shouldn't get you delusion that all of a sudden you had become a white man, after all how long ago did the black man become a human being in America?

Ability to write the queens language with fluidity doesn't mean we know it all and sadly that has been the issue with Africa. We have a lot of highly educated folks that cannot think and reason in the real world. No wonder we have so many PHDs and remain so fucked up as a people, no critical thinking or reasoning skills.
PDA1958. 10 years ago

A very stupid comment by a supporter of the CIA, who helped destroyed the nation, hence the various coups including 1972.
Your forefathers were the much earlier Osama Binladins. The CIA used and dumped, hence your inability ...
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A very stupid comment by a supporter of the CIA, who helped destroyed the nation, hence the various coups including 1972.
Your forefathers were the much earlier Osama Binladins. The CIA used and dumped, hence your inability to win elections without the support of the CPP, ie 2000 elections. JB was a CIA agent, google Kofi Nyarko for the details.
Kodjo 10 years ago

This sterile pedant SAS, who calls himself an intellectual is up to his funny old games again.I will ignore your childish tantrums and the trash above for now because to day is a sad day not only for Ghana and Africa but the ...
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This sterile pedant SAS, who calls himself an intellectual is up to his funny old games again.I will ignore your childish tantrums and the trash above for now because to day is a sad day not only for Ghana and Africa but the rest of mankind.

Yes Nkrumah as a human has his faults but who hasn't.What is important and which can not be taken away from him is that he is a colossus when it comes to Black and African political thought and philosophy.

In fact he is mentioned in the same breath as Karl Marx,John Locke,Adam Smith,David Hume and John Stuart Mill among others.Your class including your idol Danquah are mere pygmies when it come to his stature and weight in international relation.

That is Nkrumah's enduring legacy not only as the greatest African but recognized in the same category as the stalwarts mentioned above whether you like it or not he doth bestride the African continent like like the giant he was.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Stupid illiterate Nkrumaists who can't even write good English.

Like Trump, Nkrumah loved the poorly educated!

Stupid illiterate Nkrumaists who can't even write good English.

Like Trump, Nkrumah loved the poorly educated!
PDA1958. 10 years ago

Nonsense. You are bogus and fraudulent with your argument. Who set up Ghana National to help educate students and the Ghana Trust schools?

Nonsense. You are bogus and fraudulent with your argument. Who set up Ghana National to help educate students and the Ghana Trust schools?
Kenedy 10 years ago

SAS,Kodjo's grammar, expression and clarity was better and more advanced than yours.I read the two comments and I can I sure you his English is beautiful unlike yours which is full of insults.

People insult when they lose ...
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SAS,Kodjo's grammar, expression and clarity was better and more advanced than yours.I read the two comments and I can I sure you his English is beautiful unlike yours which is full of insults.

People insult when they lose the argument and it makes you look foolish.Your village upbringing is exposing you to ridicule no matter how long your sojourn abroad.Behave and stop being a vulgar buffoon.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

If you were to live for a thousand years, you would not know the differences in concord, punctuation and semantics, let alone discriminate between standards in English between two writers.

If in doubt, read your first sent ...
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If you were to live for a thousand years, you would not know the differences in concord, punctuation and semantics, let alone discriminate between standards in English between two writers.

If in doubt, read your first sentence and despair!

You senile mountebank.
Kenedy 10 years ago

The mad man is at it again,you are a vulgar buffoon.The man can leave the village but the village cannot leave you because it is ingrained in your DNA.

You write poorly and certainly don't make sense.The sad thing is that ...
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The mad man is at it again,you are a vulgar buffoon.The man can leave the village but the village cannot leave you because it is ingrained in your DNA.

You write poorly and certainly don't make sense.The sad thing is that you probably belong to the old school hence your emphasis on punctuation.

These days, the emphasis is on the content and substance of the essay that is why you write poorly.Misplaced priorities you village idiot.
Kenedy 10 years ago

Less I forget,I saw your picture on linked in and you know what,you are not only ugly but you have villager written all over your face.Village idiot.

Less I forget,I saw your picture on linked in and you know what,you are not only ugly but you have villager written all over your face.Village idiot.
Kenedy 10 years ago

My sources tell me that you come from a village near Koforidua and that you suffer from bad breath halitosis.With a a smelly bile and stupid and ugly face,I don't think you deserve my attention bye.I fart in your stinky mout ...
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My sources tell me that you come from a village near Koforidua and that you suffer from bad breath halitosis.With a a smelly bile and stupid and ugly face,I don't think you deserve my attention bye.I fart in your stinky mouth.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

You stated in your previous post:
"People insult when they lose the argument and it makes you look foolish.Your village upbringing is exposing you to ridicule no matter how long your sojourn abroad.Behave and stop being a vu ...
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You stated in your previous post:
"People insult when they lose the argument and it makes you look foolish.Your village upbringing is exposing you to ridicule no matter how long your sojourn abroad.Behave and stop being a vulgar buffoon.
" (Sic).

Now look at you and despair! You accused me of insulting another and then proceeded to insult me without knowledge of your own contradiction....

As for me, my father and mother were born in the middle of the forest, and neither attended any school. So I understand that I am a villager by default, no matter that I am a lawyer here in the USA. And of course I do have a mirror and understand that I may be ugly all right to some people like you who get paid and praised for being handsome.

But what does any of these facts have to do with your illiteracy and hypocrisy?

Look over what you have written and despair again, and consider that you appeared here first of all to adjudicate between my language and that of another, and you will despair further.

Now go with your tail between your legs and study to improve your lot like all of us have done, despite the misfortune that nature imposed on us, and stop insulting villagers and ugly people here! A man may be born in a village or be even ugly, and he cannot be blamed because he will not have any choice in the matter at all.

But to follow a traitor and a villain like Nkrumah is a matter of choice of which you can easily purge yourself. And so also is this inability to learn even when you have been taught for many years by good teachers.
Kenedy 10 years ago

I am glad you are back because I have more news for you.According to reports reaching me,you are a poof.I don't know whether that is true but my sources are authentic,can you confirm that or not.What about your halitosis,I am ...
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I am glad you are back because I have more news for you.According to reports reaching me,you are a poof.I don't know whether that is true but my sources are authentic,can you confirm that or not.What about your halitosis,I am glad I am not anywhere near you because i will surely not be ale to withstand that stink.

Now if you want the contest of ideas I will be ready to take you on because looking at your qualification in law,I am afraid your is inferior to mime.A first degree in law is not anything to shout about nincompoop, but am also at home to take you on on in your vulgarity.Meanwhile the reports are still coming in and please answer my question.
Nana Ansah 10 years ago

Thanks and well done Kennedy! Needless to say, the famous peers of Kwame Nkrumah are few and far between. The likes of village champions like Danquah are a dime a dozen. This sanqas, a descendant of Mate Meho falls into the s ...
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Thanks and well done Kennedy! Needless to say, the famous peers of Kwame Nkrumah are few and far between. The likes of village champions like Danquah are a dime a dozen. This sanqas, a descendant of Mate Meho falls into the same category like his roving about ilk on Ghanaweb. The only way/time they can prop up the image of the infamous Danquah is when Nkrumah's name is mentioned. Nkrumah Never Dies!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

This meanness of spirit exploding under a simple article recollecting a young girl's experience of that fateful day, is provides a peep into your own miserable soul!

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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

This meanness of spirit exploding under a simple article recollecting a young girl's experience of that fateful day, is provides a peep into your own miserable soul!

If by the end of my comment, I manage to convince you how stupid you are, you would have made my day! Please, in that case, kindly let me know!

You see, we do not worship Nkrumah. We show our appreciation for the great achievement he accomplished on our behalf as our Leader!

Of course, it is quite understandable if you Danquahists do not "deify Danquah", as you put it. It only tells me that you are smarter than you look! There is nothing to write home about Danquah, so why should anyone be expected even to adore such a buffoon? Tell me!

Apart from allowing himself to be used like a toilet paper by the CIA against the people of Ghana, and dropped like a piece of s**t, he was also famous as an accomplice in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro!

You see, when we are talking about Kwame Nkrumah, try to keep your disgusting Danquah as far away as possible! We are not discussing human sacrifice! This is not a roll-call of traitors to their own people!

I'll make this short. I hope I have managed to convince you that Nkrumahists are not "stupid" as you say, but rather, unknown to you until now, you are an idiot! I am putting it to you!

Please, kindly let me know if you want some more because you are not sure how stupid you are!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Pur'gu Saarpe!!! Esq.,
Secretary to The Odikro.

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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Nkrumah himself spoke and wrote in pidgin English and so his eunuch and town-crier, stupid Odikro is following in dumb Nkrumah's example even in his senile and octogenarian years.

Odwan!!

Nkrumah himself spoke and wrote in pidgin English and so his eunuch and town-crier, stupid Odikro is following in dumb Nkrumah's example even in his senile and octogenarian years.

Odwan!!
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
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Hey! My dear follower of a ritual murderer, let me tell you that no one is talking about pidgin English here!

We are talking about a traitor, a CIA disposable asset, ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Hey! My dear follower of a ritual murderer, let me tell you that no one is talking about pidgin English here!

We are talking about a traitor, a CIA disposable asset, and a savage buffoon who believed in human sacrifice!

With all your "Dr. SAS" even on a Ghanaweb comments section, it should not be difficult for you to see that you are deviating!

This is a sign of mental imbalance. When the subject is about apples and you begin to talk about bicycles, it does not matter if you are a Ph.D holder or not, you are just a genuine fool!

Hope this convinces you! You may come for more if not convinced enough!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Pur'gu Saarpe!!! Esq.,
Secretary to The Odikro.

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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

I choose to focus on your arrant illiteracy here, rotten-footed leper, and that of your irresponsible dictator and eternal slave-master....a cannibal who engaged in human sacrifices by sacrificing his mentors and benefactors. ...
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I choose to focus on your arrant illiteracy here, rotten-footed leper, and that of your irresponsible dictator and eternal slave-master....a cannibal who engaged in human sacrifices by sacrificing his mentors and benefactors.

I choose to talk of a megalomaniacal tyrant who met his just desserts fifty years ago today, and from whose oppression the nation breathed a sigh of great relief.

You and the million minions who benefitted from his brain-washing mis-education ought to be told the plain truth that you are all illiterates, mountebanks and simpletons.

This is my chosen subject for today.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago

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How very interesting! In that case why the deviation about "pidgin English"? And must you enter into a public forum insulting every Ghanaian who likes Kwame Nkrumah as " ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
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How very interesting! In that case why the deviation about "pidgin English"? And must you enter into a public forum insulting every Ghanaian who likes Kwame Nkrumah as "stupid"?

Where are your manners? As an "Attorney at Law" is that your preferred level of public engagements? Is that what you mean by multi-party democracy and tolerance?

You sound as if you have also been possessed by the same evil spirits that were haunting poor JB. If you are focusing on illiteracy, as you claim, have you succeeded to teach anyone on this thread how to read and write?

Of all the fools on this Earth, who would have thought that there exists someone who comes to the comments section of Ghanaweb to teach people how to read and write!

It is far better to engage in this quixotic mission that going around stark naked in the streets!

Please, keep on with your online literacy classes! I can't help laughing!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

When you were farting through your mouth about Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah, you were too dumb to realize your own inherent misadventure and the consequences thereof. Now all of a sudden, you are running away from your own insul ...
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When you were farting through your mouth about Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah, you were too dumb to realize your own inherent misadventure and the consequences thereof. Now all of a sudden, you are running away from your own insults, your own lack of English proficiency, and your own irresponsible accusations against the great martyr of our democracy, Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah, the fountain of wisdom and of honor.

I am a practising attorney at law here in the USA, the greatest country on earth, and in Austin, Texas, the greatest city under the sun. And on any ordinary day, nobody can debate my wisdom or intelligence because those are a given: People pay me good money to listen to my counsel and opinion on all manner of subjects......That is how I make my money.

But once a while, I like to mix it up with you idiots for you to realize that you have no monopoly over insults. However, if you care to state your arguments in any coherent or intelligent manner, I can measure up to your civility at any time.

But you are an ardent Nkrumaist, and therefore an idiot by birth and upbringing. You will therefore be treated in the language you understand best, which is the most convoluted of all insults.

Furthermore, were I to meet you anywhere in the future, I will beat you up severly and give you money for your silence......So disgusting and worthless are you to me.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago

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The reason why I started by convincing you that you are a fool is because, I wanted you to understand that you need help. Unless you yourself are convinced you are an id ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

The reason why I started by convincing you that you are a fool is because, I wanted you to understand that you need help. Unless you yourself are convinced you are an idiot, there is no point asking you to seek help.

You don't only insult, you are also a violent mad man. Why do you assume that you are stronger than me and that you'd even be able to beat me?

You appear to be coming to your senses on matters of civility. Your point would have been believable, if you had not entered into this thread shooting insults left and right!

You are a disgusting hypocrite and a liar! Attorney my foot! You are just a thug who is unable to understand and handle your emotions and ignorance! That is what I have been driving at all along!

You need help! Go for it!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

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America Man 10 years ago

" am a practicing attorney at law here in the USA, the greatest country on earth, and in Austin, Texas, the greatest city under the sun"

hahahaha, America dey sweet you ooo. I'm here laughing so hard.

The only village ...
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" am a practicing attorney at law here in the USA, the greatest country on earth, and in Austin, Texas, the greatest city under the sun"

hahahaha, America dey sweet you ooo. I'm here laughing so hard.

The only village doctor in Austin Texas. What would you have done if you had remained in Ghana?

By the way learn to spell well wai, the word is practicing and not practicing.
Kenedy 10 years ago

The problem with some of these idiots is that they look at where they came from and where they are and think that is the end of the world.

What a stupid mentality.The funny thing is that he has only a first degree in law.I ...
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The problem with some of these idiots is that they look at where they came from and where they are and think that is the end of the world.

What a stupid mentality.The funny thing is that he has only a first degree in law.In The US it called Juris Doctor JD which can deceive the innocent.Search for JD on the web and challenge him whether it is not a first degree.

Most of my friends have JD but they don't call themselves doctors,it is only the village buffoon who will do so.Hard life as a villager isn't it.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

You need some grammar exercise here.

Practice as both verb and noun is correct in American English, hence "practicing" is correct.

In British English, "practice" is a noun, and "practise" is a verb, hence under the Brit ...
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You need some grammar exercise here.

Practice as both verb and noun is correct in American English, hence "practicing" is correct.

In British English, "practice" is a noun, and "practise" is a verb, hence under the British scheme, you can never write "practicing". It has to be "practicing" all the time.

Among those of us caught midway between British and American orthography, both spelling will be excusable if not permissible.

Please note that in your excitement to fault me, you write, "....the word is practicing and not practicing."

That is problematic because you write the same word as being different, and yet you state they are not the same?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Under the British scheme, it has to be "practising" all the time.

Sorry. Computer was set at American auto-correct.

Under the British scheme, it has to be "practising" all the time.

Sorry. Computer was set at American auto-correct.
America Man 10 years ago

That was your word our great Doctor who knows it all, the Ghanaian Einstein, no one compares.

That was your word our great Doctor who knows it all, the Ghanaian Einstein, no one compares.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Folks, below is an excerpt from the Comment by one 'Kato Guy' on Ghanaweb.com 2 days ago, that reveals the two-faced Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. praising Nkrumah and Condemning the 1966, in his book he published in 2004 to prof ...
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Folks, below is an excerpt from the Comment by one 'Kato Guy' on Ghanaweb.com 2 days ago, that reveals the two-faced Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. praising Nkrumah and Condemning the 1966, in his book he published in 2004 to profit by.

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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) ']

So, how come the same Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. now sees the same Coup as a blessing, after writing against it to make money?

Long Live Ghana!!!
Nii 10 years ago

What profound truth. Afrifa and Kotoka gave us our day of infamy. A day we seem cannot ever get over

What profound truth. Afrifa and Kotoka gave us our day of infamy. A day we seem cannot ever get over
LetsBeTolerant 10 years ago

my goodness, this is the best article I've ever read on ghanaweb (to the author)you should write a book, if you already have let us know the title I'll get it.

my goodness, this is the best article I've ever read on ghanaweb (to the author)you should write a book, if you already have let us know the title I'll get it.
Kofi 10 years ago

It's not possible to fool the world with half baked truths.

It's not possible to fool the world with half baked truths.
Nana Ama Amamoo 10 years ago

Thank you. One in progress. Will let you know when it is ready.

Thank you. One in progress. Will let you know when it is ready.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 10 years ago

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Great Job, Nana Ama!

Okoampa's Feature Article of today, Wednesday, 24 February 2016, published far earlier than this, still has zero comments! See: Cut the cheap twe ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

Great Job, Nana Ama!

Okoampa's Feature Article of today, Wednesday, 24 February 2016, published far earlier than this, still has zero comments! See: Cut the cheap tweets and get to work, Messrs. Politicians!
It reads: « Prev Next » Comments (0)!

Your article attracted not only Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., but Kojo T, Prof Lungu, Kofi Ata (Cambridge, UK), Francis kwarteng, Nana Ansah, and several interesting people!

It is the most highly commented upon article I have seen for a while! Considering the fact that the others have only two or three comments, or zero, as in the case of Okoampa's article, 95 comments is phenomenal!

Keep it up! My sister and comrade!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

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Francis kwarteng 10 years ago

Yes Bro Odikro,

Our dear sister should not end it hear.

She should continue to educate us more. Like you rightly put it, I too have not read a good piece in a long time. This piece is one in a million per this year.

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Yes Bro Odikro,

Our dear sister should not end it hear.

She should continue to educate us more. Like you rightly put it, I too have not read a good piece in a long time. This piece is one in a million per this year.

Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Our dear sister should not end it hear.(Sic).

Heehehehe!!!

Ako te brofo.

Our dear sister should not end it hear.(Sic).

Heehehehe!!!

Ako te brofo.
Black Cat 10 years ago

I find it difficult to bring myself to believe Nana Ama Amamoo that some soldiers pointed their guns at her on the day Nkrumah was deposed. I don't think those soldiers were too mentally challenged to intimidate a six-year ol ...
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I find it difficult to bring myself to believe Nana Ama Amamoo that some soldiers pointed their guns at her on the day Nkrumah was deposed. I don't think those soldiers were too mentally challenged to intimidate a six-year old girl.
GORGORDUTOR 10 years ago

Dumbass!! Nuff respect ain't got nothing to do with weed smoking and if it did so what!! No I Teiko your small minded know nothingism is absurd!!

Dumbass!! Nuff respect ain't got nothing to do with weed smoking and if it did so what!! No I Teiko your small minded know nothingism is absurd!!

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