Ghana: Politics of the belly

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• ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

  Kwarteng! you bloody fool, have you now realized that the NDC is doing politics of belly? You silly billy goat!

  Kwarteng! you bloody fool, have you now realized that the NDC is doing politics of belly? You silly billy goat!

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• Dr. Otto 9 years ago

  Francis kwarteng, fuck off with your copied and pasted weed, you obviously don't make a tincture of sense in anyway. "Do you fetch water after the rain has stopped"? It has seemly taking your "bird-brain" a very long time to ...
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  Francis kwarteng, fuck off with your copied and pasted weed, you obviously don't make a tincture of sense in anyway. "Do you fetch water after the rain has stopped"? It has seemly taking your "bird-brain" a very long time to know this.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

  Tweah! I only have regrets for joining other Nkrumaists to urge voting for Kufuor in the round off. This time around, even Dead Goat Mahama is better than this rabid, dirty, ethnocentric, acid throwing lot!
  
  Andy-K

  Tweah! I only have regrets for joining other Nkrumaists to urge voting for Kufuor in the round off. This time around, even Dead Goat Mahama is better than this rabid, dirty, ethnocentric, acid throwing lot!
  
  Andy-K

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• Dr. Otto 9 years ago

  C.Y. ANDY-K, think about your criminal Ewe father who stole cars from Tema Harbour and make small mouth, because you and your entire family have a dented record. You people are thieves!

  C.Y. ANDY-K, think about your criminal Ewe father who stole cars from Tema Harbour and make small mouth, because you and your entire family have a dented record. You people are thieves!

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• Rash 9 years ago

  This whole article is too wordy. He's thrown too many uncommonly used words, which in my opinion does't make the article a thought-provoking one. However, the content is great.

  This whole article is too wordy. He's thrown too many uncommonly used words, which in my opinion does't make the article a thought-provoking one. However, the content is great.

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• Akoloogo fra fra 9 years ago

  Agree entirely with you

  Agree entirely with you

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• Johnson 9 years ago

  what's all this. Are you educating us or displaying your ability to use words. Couldn't make a head and tail of this whole article. Your choice of words does not encourage reading.

  what's all this. Are you educating us or displaying your ability to use words. Couldn't make a head and tail of this whole article. Your choice of words does not encourage reading.

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• Prof Lungu 9 years ago

  Francis Kwarteng has touched on a super important topic 4-square in the public policy domain, and needing fixing with speed.
  
  A critical perspective asks who benefits from all that, how, and why.
  
  With respect to the curr ...
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  Francis Kwarteng has touched on a super important topic 4-square in the public policy domain, and needing fixing with speed.
  
  A critical perspective asks who benefits from all that, how, and why.
  
  With respect to the current situation of electoral votes and how people "perform", we have lots of answers in this essay.
  
  Yes, "illiteracy and poverty...can necessarily make people seem/(feel) hopeless and helpless, even vulnerable to the insidious dictates of political manipulation..."
  
  And journalism and media are of no help, because, guess what, they also have stomachs. Many of them are in fact part of the wheel "Boss Hog" has created since 1966.
  
  Imagine the Fair Trade Oil Share Ghana (FTOS-Gh) campaign agreeing to pay transportation and other "per diem benefits" to invited Ghanaian media to go report on Ghana Oil contract from Tema, them agreeing, and all of them backing out at the last minute because they received calls from someone in government warning them not to attend the event whose only agenda was to discuss Ghana's oil contracts.
  
  So, we have first hand experience -----"...rather than being a vigilant watchdog...(the media)...becomes a drooling poodle..."
  
  In addition, we will also chalk some of the failures to Civic Organizations, including the Electoral Commission itself, particularly agencies funded by the People of Ghana. To stop "...Pieces of cloth, cutlasses, bags of rice, cooking oil and the like...", for ballots, they must show, with data, how their efforts have contributed to public awareness about the nature of the "SECRET BALLOT".
  
  "Hungry" and "illiterate" citizens can take, but they do not have to vote for the "giver". Nor, do they have to blindly vote for the "giver" simply because the person seeking office is from their neck of the woods. (So, it would be interesting to see what the Center for Democratic Governance (CDG) actually said about this other factor, and how Francis Kwarteng might address the record).
  
  Greetings, on Memorial Day, USA, 2016!

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• Prof Lungu 9 years ago

  Support Ghana Today!
  
  Fair Trade Oil Share Ghana (FTOS-Gh)
  
  Join Campaign/Sign Petition:
  
  www.change.org/p/ghana-fair-trade-oil-share-psa-campaign-ftos-gh-psa/

  Support Ghana Today!
  
  Fair Trade Oil Share Ghana (FTOS-Gh)
  
  Join Campaign/Sign Petition:
  
  www.change.org/p/ghana-fair-trade-oil-share-psa-campaign-ftos-gh-psa/

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

  Prof Lungu,
  
  Thanks for your learned comments. It is a breath of fresh air in the midst of the rotten eggs the uneducated hoi polloi above have been throwing above. Phew! Ghana is indeed in big trouble!
  
  I've been trying ...
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  Prof Lungu,
  
  Thanks for your learned comments. It is a breath of fresh air in the midst of the rotten eggs the uneducated hoi polloi above have been throwing above. Phew! Ghana is indeed in big trouble!
  
  I've been trying to comment long before yours. Compatriot has indeed touched again on serious issues which are topical. HKP had be bemoaning the failure of the Ghanaian media in his speech at the launch of the Adu Boahen Foundation, so would have be forgiven to expect these Matemeho retrogrades might understood Nyebro Francis; but no! Francis had already covered extensively the failure of media in Ghana in a series.
  
  And one thing too, he is touching on aspects of the African [mis]educated "elite" the like of Bayart, Jean Paul Sartre and others had written about in dismay. Indeed, they are a phalanx of unconscionable and insensitive rogues, rascals, "thieves and thiefettes" we should no longer show any respect! Some of us have known this for decades but there were redeeming features. Now, it seems just like a mass of fertid morass sweeping all down the river! Oil money "splashing about like confetti" and buying up the media (journalists) and anything that can breathe a foul air against them in officialdom is just a new dimension. Even Kwesi Pratt who took interest and was giving us publicity now didn't want to know. Word is that "he has also been seen". He prefers to devote his columns to the glorious Cuban Revolution!
  
  It is clear the tactics of engagement and dialogue we have adopted in the FTOS-Gh Campaign is just playing into the hands of the charlatans in power and in the opposition camp who all have the same agenda - create, loot and share. We have to move to the Politics of Confrontation, politics of attrition in the adversarial sense, which, by themselves, are truly democratic. The totally shocking and unnerving facts we have uncovered about that farce of a contract with that Swiss Africa whatsoever to explore oil in the Keta Basin dictate that we halt, re-grouped, re-armed and attack these modern day slave raiders and traders from another angle.
  
  Andy-K

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Nyebro Yao, Prof. Lungu Et. Al:
  
  Thanks for your insightful commentaries.
  
  To Nyebro Yao, I can always sense the insightful fire in your commentaries. I think you two and I have a great deal to write about these que ...
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  Dear Nyebro Yao, Prof. Lungu Et. Al:
  
  Thanks for your insightful commentaries.
  
  To Nyebro Yao, I can always sense the insightful fire in your commentaries. I think you two and I have a great deal to write about these questions.
  
  To Prof. Lungu, I am enjoying your new series on Nkrumah. I just read the Part 4 on Modernghana. This is great.
  
  And to my other readers, I have corrected some of the typos/grammatical errors in this particular piece.
  
  Just so you know, in this very article I have followed the word "media," a plural noun with a singular verb rather than a plural verb.
  
  In one such instance I even placed "becomes"--instead of "become"--a few words after "media."
  
  And we may all know these are appropriately applicable to "medium."
  
  Elsewhere I have also written "that" instead of "than" and vice versa. I have corrected some of these on modernghana. Readers can go there and read it.
  
  Thanks.

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• Prof Lungu 9 years ago

  READ re Fair-Trade Oil Share Gh:
  
  "...Even Kwesi Pratt who took interest and was giving us publicity now didn't want to know. Word is that "he has also been seen". He prefers to devote his columns to the glorious Cuban Revo ...
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  READ re Fair-Trade Oil Share Gh:
  
  "...Even Kwesi Pratt who took interest and was giving us publicity now didn't want to know. Word is that "he has also been seen". He prefers to devote his columns to the glorious Cuban Revolution!..."
  
  WE SAY: You don't say, PRATT!
  
  Begins to make sense now.
  
  But yes, while the FTOS-Gh campaign has achieved some successes, the strategy and techniques must change, and will change, as people head to the polls in November.
  
  On the other side, we've been treating the case of the Kwabena Yeboah's with all the seriousness they deserve also, for like-minded people. No insults just data and facts, and a certain level of assertiveness. They are the type of people who have not even bothered to sign the FTOS-Gh petition, even to say a word about what is in the best interest of Ghana, regarding the oil contracts. And the first to attempt to banish people for merely speaking or writing, about 21st century Ghana.
  
  (We have another "Mad 60-year olds) piece coming today, or tomorrow right here, already on ModernGhana, regarding that Singapore-Ghana nonsense and Kwame Nkrumah).
  
  Greetings!

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• Amanfo 9 years ago

  The reality of this whole nonsense about Ghanaian politicians failing to recognize or give room in their heads to common reasoning and most at times the blame having to do with their education in the west and east is so annoy ...
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  The reality of this whole nonsense about Ghanaian politicians failing to recognize or give room in their heads to common reasoning and most at times the blame having to do with their education in the west and east is so annoying as frustrated. The common reason one can squarely give to these gluttonous greedy empty headed politician is their unsatifiable materialism and Darwinism quests. In any case, notable figures such as Cheikh Anta Diop, Kwame Nkrumah, W. E. Dubois and many others at one point in their lives tested foreign education but, didn't behave so ignorantly than what these latter day unpatriotic politicians who got most of their degrees on silver platter are doing. Perhaps, then the appetite for patriotism was of much higher value than pure materialism as we witnessing currently.
  We have no qualms if they are misruling their various households or homes but, sometime to travel under the title of "honorable", "his excellency" in the name of Ghana calls for much to be desired especially, when pregnant women have to be in labour on floors of hospitals, infant mortality rates are doubling by the day, unemployment souring fearfully and insecurity hovering around us.
  The sad point in these whole misfortune is their unshameful temerity of telling the "ignorant", "partially educated and full illiterate" their ever working hard to improve their "lives", when in actual facts their problems keep compunding each passing day.
  In the final analysis, it seems to us that, "Democracy" has given power to hard core criminals to misrule and misgovern the critical masses and making them worse off than what they actually deserved. We are not saying, democracy is bad in its sense but, the rates at which it is allowing crimes to be perpetuated to innocent citizens are so appalling and disgraceful.
  It's time the epoch of these greedy and empty headed politicians are brought to end.
  Thank you

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