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RE: Lessons from Nkrumah’s fallout with his economic adviser

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  • UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN CHILD. 7 years ago

    To love,understand and respect Kwame(today) in 2016 one must try and find an answer to the perennial questions that he(Kwame )left for us to graple with
    "Why are we (Africans)so
    impoverished?

    "why are ...
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  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Yes, quite a number of questions "Nkrumah's ardent enemies must try and answer."

    And that also goes for Professor Tignor and others, as we note.

    ITEM: Vietnam...and how many died after Nkrumah's mission was aborted by ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 7 years ago

    The issue is not Professor Tignor and his writings but with Ghanaians and or Africans in general; we accept anything written about us from anywhere in the world but from our own. We tend to forget that communist and socialis ...
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  • Yaw 7 years ago

    Keep deceiving yourself but the fact remains that the predicament and appalling conditions Ghana finds itself in are as a result of Nkrumah's poor foresight coupled with his over ambitious idea to rule the whole of Africa by ...
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  • ndc is out! 7 years ago

    I concur. I was in secondary school. He was a big dictator. He wouldn't name anything after Gbddemah or anybody else. Selfish dictator

  • Yaw Yeboah 7 years ago

    Yaw, are you seriously arguing that the economic & social problems faced by Ghana today are the fault of President Nkrumah? Despite the fact that his CPP Government has been out of power for 50 years?
    The CPP Government le ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

    The whole crap is irrelevant, baseless and pointless. Nkrumah started, and where is Mahama heading us to? That's what the people of Ghana wants to know now and no thah garbage you are spewing there.

  • samson 7 years ago

    Oh come on you ignoramus, why Mahama in this discourse. We are making serious intellectual discussions here so don't bring in your block headed stupid and cheap politics into the discourse.

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    samson,
    Ignore those comments. They are not from the real C.Y. ANDY-K. It is merely another case of theft of a moniker by that "ignoramus".

    Greetings!

  • Mumuni 7 years ago

    Compare the Populltion of Ghana and that of today,if you write there was no Dumsor in the days of Nkrumah.The Population of Ghana has increased.

  • RINGO 7 years ago

    Ghana had a smaller population in the days of Nkrumah but Ghana didn't have oil.We are now producing oil and making billions of dollars in oil revenue and we have DUMSOR.The problem is gross mismanagement of the Mahama admini ...
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  • KKO 7 years ago

    If your father is still alive, ask him why he jubilated in the streets or else denounced Nkrumah on 24th February 1966.
    Kweku Baako may be of help!

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

    You are damn right. People poured on the streets of Ghana on 24th Feb 1966 because of Nkrumah's oppressive and arbitrary rule. I very much remember that day when people from many walks in life composed funny songs about Nkrum ...
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  • Straight Talk 7 years ago

    The problem with people like President Mills and Prof Lungu etc. who were indoctrinated as Nkrumah's young pioneers, is that they lost their objectivity and sense of reasoning. It is also a historical fact that Ghana's econom ...
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  • Yaw Yeboah 7 years ago

    Straight Talk, I think that you have made some good points with your criticisms. However, please also provide me with examples of successful African Economies that have followed a Capitalist Economic System? I do not think th ...
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  • KKO 7 years ago

    Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya and Nigeria, but for state corruption!

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Yaw Yeboah,
    Thanks for your comment.

    Tell us, though, what is that about "some good points with your criticisms", by Straight Talk.

    What evidence/data does Straight Talk offer, except references to newspaper headlines. ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

    You are right. He was president for life, had no Vice President, and never trusted people from his own party. How many political opponents did he imprison? Even parents were afraid of their own children who belonged to the Yo ...
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  • Dr. Otto 7 years ago

    Lungu is not a professor, he holds no single degree. He is an Asante boy, in USA who has hidden his identity because he licks the Ass of Ewes and the NDC Party.

  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    You wrote: "In fact, we will posit that Kwame Nkrumah was a well-rounded critical rationalist who was always ready to adjust to conditions and demand signals, if usefully and effectively communicated, except his beliefs in th ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    Pardon the error!

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Kwabena Yeboah,
    Thanks for your comments.

    We are no philosophers, or full of "knowledge of the philosophy of rationalism."

    Seems to us you neglected an important artifact to our statement. It is the qualifying word, "c ...
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  • Francis kwarteng 7 years ago

    Dear Prof Lungu/Kwabena Yeboah,

    I think I will have to agree with Prof Lungu's response here.

    But I think will have to take up parts of Prof Lungu's response in an essay in the coming days.

    Thanks to you both.

  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    You are right, let's not bore our readers with philosophical exposition, rather let's focus our attention on the issues before us.

    First, the Thurgood Marshall example in Brown vs. Board of Education was exposition of rat ...
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  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Sure, there is always a better way!

    As such, we will now leave this matter alone.

    It has little to do with the thesis of our paper about Professor Tignor's "fallout."

    For instance, we gave the increase in per capi ...
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  • ghananiba 7 years ago

    I WEEP FOR GHANA: A COUNTRY OF STOMACH POLITICS.

  • samson 7 years ago

    Thank you very much prof Lungu for enlightening us once again. These neo-colonialist agents and imperialists have learnt nothing over the years. Their lies will be exposed always by the forces of light.