Tear down the Gandhi statue [3]

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Readers,
  
  In the following paragraph I will like you to ignore "HUMANISM":
  
  "Finally, our post-Nkrumah leaders can learn from the modesty of Gandhi, including such concepts as Gandhian economics and HUMANISM, and sto ...
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  Dear Readers,
  
  In the following paragraph I will like you to ignore "HUMANISM":
  
  "Finally, our post-Nkrumah leaders can learn from the modesty of Gandhi, including such concepts as Gandhian economics and HUMANISM, and stop amassing wealth stolen from the people. As George Orwell put it, and aptly so (“Reflections on Gandhi”)..."
  
  Thanks.

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• Kojo T 9 years ago

  We have a country of pot hole, poor drainage,low power supply with fertile land in the tropics that imports $1.5bn worth of food annually. Universities are to come up with SOLTIONS and they cry about a statue? ...
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  We have a country of pot hole, poor drainage,low power supply with fertile land in the tropics that imports $1.5bn worth of food annually. Universities are to come up with SOLTIONS and they cry about a statue? Ghandi is not Cecil Rhodes so please find out solutions for energy, food security, low cost housing and propereduation

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• ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

  This Village confused Boy Kwarteng can't even differenciate his left from his right. He is so confused that he don't know what sortiert of weed to copy and paste. Useless Village grown nonentity.

  This Village confused Boy Kwarteng can't even differenciate his left from his right. He is so confused that he don't know what sortiert of weed to copy and paste. Useless Village grown nonentity.

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• Chief vandal 9 years ago

  you asre so right.i find the whole issue inuttile.

  you asre so right.i find the whole issue inuttile.

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• Chief vandal 9 years ago

  you asre so right.i find the whole issue inuttile.

  you asre so right.i find the whole issue inuttile.

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• $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 9 years ago

  Ghana's premier university will not prescribe nor entertain such scum. It's an eyesore. Why should students look up such a person for inspiration or reasoning in anything. The only difference between Ghandi and Hitler is..... ...
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  Ghana's premier university will not prescribe nor entertain such scum. It's an eyesore. Why should students look up such a person for inspiration or reasoning in anything. The only difference between Ghandi and Hitler is.......ghandi used peace to promote hate and sodomy whiles Hitler used war to promote hate and bigotry

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• ELINAM 9 years ago

  Gandhi is not Cecil Rhode? But Cecil Rhode founded Rhodesia and became an administrator to Cape Town and made sure whites benefited on the backs of Africans, therefore he deserved to be celebrated by whites until EFF rode in ...
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  Gandhi is not Cecil Rhode? But Cecil Rhode founded Rhodesia and became an administrator to Cape Town and made sure whites benefited on the backs of Africans, therefore he deserved to be celebrated by whites until EFF rode in town and made the black students to be proud of who they truly are with no apology.
  But the million cedi question is, what had Gandhi done for Ghana or UG?

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• Chief vandal 9 years ago

  Not are u demented but youb seem to have very selective memory on everthing. i learnt one thing today from you though.I never knew that Ghandi ever said those racist things of superiortity.I am sad tgo know that today

  Not are u demented but youb seem to have very selective memory on everthing. i learnt one thing today from you though.I never knew that Ghandi ever said those racist things of superiortity.I am sad tgo know that today

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• $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 9 years ago

  Replace this with a statute of mlk. Raze down this asshole, he hates and looks down on blacks as the filth of the Earth and he sleeps with little boys. Ghandi wo maame tw3 banza, kankan, laaka!

  Replace this with a statute of mlk. Raze down this asshole, he hates and looks down on blacks as the filth of the Earth and he sleeps with little boys. Ghandi wo maame tw3 banza, kankan, laaka!

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• k sowah 9 years ago

  Shit men in power and they doing no shit

  Shit men in power and they doing no shit

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• k sowah 9 years ago

  Incompetent shit in power

  Incompetent shit in power

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• THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

  Nyebo Yaw,
  
  As for this, you have finished them kpatakpata! When in Ghana and you see some machomen carrying gallons, take to your heels or else the gallons of acid they'd pour on you, you'd melt into atoms!
  
  This issue i ...
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  Nyebo Yaw,
  
  As for this, you have finished them kpatakpata! When in Ghana and you see some machomen carrying gallons, take to your heels or else the gallons of acid they'd pour on you, you'd melt into atoms!
  
  This issue is a big plus for the whole of Africa and Blacks everywhere. The abiding racism of Indians and other Asians against black people is now on the cutting block of intellectual discourse. We MUST NEVER RELENT in pursuing this matter.
  
  I recall a story told to us by my roommate during my undergrad days in Legon in the late '70s. According to him, one of their lecturers returned from a Conference in India with a sad a tale of an experience he had. During one of the breaks, he went to town with an Indian Professor and were accosted by a persistent beggar, among the many scores they saw who begged them for money. All along the Indian Prof was preventing him from giving money to the beggars but he couldn't resist that one, so he gave the man some loose change in his pocket. The man promptly made some signs on himself, which he thought was a show of gratitude. His now irritated escort, upon inquiry, told him that it was a sign for whatever of the millions of deities they worship to forgive him for accepting money from a black person, as the beggar was of a fairer complexion and no doubt in a higher caste than the Dalits. This furore is therefore good for the Indians themselves, to re-examine themselves and their abiding racism, caste system and bigotry, 'cos no one in Africa, except the likes of Adjoa Wangara, Prof Mike O and their ilk, henceforth is going to take that shit from them!
  
  Andy-K

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Thanks Nyebro Yao.

  Thanks Nyebro Yao.

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• ELINAM 9 years ago

  Thank you for exposing the brain dead prof.Aron Oqoye, and keeping on the fire until the disgraceful statue of racist Gandhi is pulled down.
  
  There's a science to erecting anything higher than the average human height. I ...
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  Thank you for exposing the brain dead prof.Aron Oqoye, and keeping on the fire until the disgraceful statue of racist Gandhi is pulled down.
  
  There's a science to erecting anything higher than the average human height. It makes you raise your head and pay homage and respect without knowing.
  And in ten years to come, those students would be in a leadership positions and won't have enough self esteem to thoroughly negotiate any trade in favor of Ghana with an Indian counterpart.
  Symbolisms had affected us negatively, either being a white Arab named prophet Mohammad that made us Muslim slaves to Arabs or white Jesus that made us Christian "cowards" when dealing with Europeans.
  All anti-African Euro-Asians go to our minds in order to control it so that it will be easy for them to steal our resources and build their economies on our backs while we continue to remain so poor. A situation they turned around and blamed on us that the reasons we're not able to rise and develop is because something is wrong with the way our God had created us. And we all know that's total lie.
  We're the first that God had created in his very image with a higher intelligence and devine wisdom and we have every reason to fight this blackmail from open enemies parading as "friends".

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear ELINAM,
  
  Thanks for your remarkable contributions in this forum. I couldn't agree with you more.
  
  It's been a while since I read anything from you. Since I began writing for Ghanaweb in 2012, I have never avoided yo ...
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  Dear ELINAM,
  
  Thanks for your remarkable contributions in this forum. I couldn't agree with you more.
  
  It's been a while since I read anything from you. Since I began writing for Ghanaweb in 2012, I have never avoided your commentaries whenever I saw one under your name.
  
  I say this because you are one of the few commentators in this forum with Afrocentric consciousness. I have been learning a lot from you if you care to know.
  
  Part 4, the concluding segment, should be published tonight. I have some final ideas about Prof. Oquaye. I hope you will make time to read it.
  
  Thanks for reading and sharing.
  
  Have a great weekend.

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• Prof Lungu 9 years ago

  This is precisely the type of issue best resolved by a Commission:
  
  1. No person's life is on the hook
  2. Ghana is not losing money with its presence
  3. No danger is involved - nobody's life is endangered
  Etc.
  Etc.
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  This is precisely the type of issue best resolved by a Commission:
  
  1. No person's life is on the hook
  2. Ghana is not losing money with its presence
  3. No danger is involved - nobody's life is endangered
  Etc.
  Etc.
  
  From where we come from, it falls in the case where, "By the way, it is not eating our food", aside from minimum maintenance for the small ground it occupies.
  
  Still, whoever paid for it, it is now occupying public space!
  
  All to say, the Commission to be stood up now have a set of questions from Francis Kwarteng, to begin.

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• confounding 9 years ago

  confused and totally wrong for one who claims to have completely read Gandhi's works and knows of his life and struggles. So many historical inaccuracies and parochial pseudo reasonings.

  confused and totally wrong for one who claims to have completely read Gandhi's works and knows of his life and struggles. So many historical inaccuracies and parochial pseudo reasonings.

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• Francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Confounding,
  
  Thanks for your observations.
  
  In any case this four-part series is not intended to be exhaustive scholarship on the subject matter.
  
  Ghanaweb is not an academic journal where I am required to be ...
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  Dear Confounding,
  
  Thanks for your observations.
  
  In any case this four-part series is not intended to be exhaustive scholarship on the subject matter.
  
  Ghanaweb is not an academic journal where I am required to be technically exhaustive of sorts on the subject matter. Of course, this four-part series is meant to scratch the surface for the lay reader.
  
  That said, I can assure you that I have spent a chunk of my life studying this subject matter.
  
  This is a topic I have thoroughly discussed with some of my Indian/Asian classmates and university professors here in the United States, New York and Massachusetts.
  
  As a matter of fact, I have read/proofread several academic texts, peer-reviewed papers, and master's/doctoral dissertations on the subject matter. I have formally even studied that as part of my "colonial studies" class in the United States.
  
  I also personally know of prominent professors and researchers (and their works) here in the United States who have collaborated with Indians-South African professors, researchers and authors and civil rights' leaders on the subject matter.
  
  What else can I say?
  
  Like I said before, this merely scratches the surface. I don't intend to return to subject in a more exhaustively academic way. Readers can do this themselves. There is enough information by way of resourceful references for readers who want to pursue the matter further.
  
  You should do exactly that.
  
  Thanks.

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