Nkrumah’s letter to Busia post-1972 coup tells us more about the writer

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Concerned 8 years ago

There's more that unites the npp and cpp than divides them. Both want the wellbeing of the country but emphasis is placed on different strategies.
Even when it comes to ideology the differences are only superficial. For ins ...
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There's more that unites the npp and cpp than divides them. Both want the wellbeing of the country but emphasis is placed on different strategies.
Even when it comes to ideology the differences are only superficial. For instance, npp which is widely regarded as a capitalist government brought in more social interventions than the ndc which calls itself social Democrats managed to do in 30 years.
Why did you waste your time challenging the originators of korle bu and takoradi harbour only to concede Nkrumah was unrivalled when it comes to building of physical structures. When it comes to personal freedoms too you forgot to mention the fact that busia only became leader only after the largest party in the country was banned from competing in the election. Does your sense of fairness allow you see that as a major injustice or simply a minor indiscretion which effectively made the 1969 elections a coronation rather than a contest.
History does tell us Nkrumah started with the NPP and to a large extent the npp tradition made Nkrumah the political giant that he became. It looks like history is repeating itself since it's a well known secret another political giant in the making also started his political life with the cpp but will lead the npp to achieve great things for Ghana. Let's not forget history but let's not dwell on it but focus on the present especially since we by far have the worse government in the history of the country to deal with.
Nana Yaw 8 years ago

So where is de letter u are a big liar u are trying to smart with de cpp which will not work we are wild awake we will not gv in to ur lies anymore liars

So where is de letter u are a big liar u are trying to smart with de cpp which will not work we are wild awake we will not gv in to ur lies anymore liars
Yussif 8 years ago

You said nothing in all this lines you just wrote,you like going in circles,always go straight to the point,you most of the time bore readers with all your write ups.

You said nothing in all this lines you just wrote,you like going in circles,always go straight to the point,you most of the time bore readers with all your write ups.
Squirrel 8 years ago

Is your PhD fake? Even a well trained SSSCE/WASSCE graduate will write better! Only verbose, circumlucoting and making no real sense in expressing yourself.

Is your PhD fake? Even a well trained SSSCE/WASSCE graduate will write better! Only verbose, circumlucoting and making no real sense in expressing yourself.
k ntehua 8 years ago

Im told PhD means permanent head damage.......I think this writer just confirmed it.....what did he actually want to say??

Im told PhD means permanent head damage.......I think this writer just confirmed it.....what did he actually want to say??
Kotakopia 8 years ago

K. Ntehua you are spot on about your definition of 'PhD' reference to the author of this "anumakonikoni" piece. Well the world is a free space where you find a lot decorated madmen.

K. Ntehua you are spot on about your definition of 'PhD' reference to the author of this "anumakonikoni" piece. Well the world is a free space where you find a lot decorated madmen.
Akhnaten 3 8 years ago

What a stupid fool I have a qqd from the university of hard knocks n can do better than you idiot!!!!!!

What a stupid fool I have a qqd from the university of hard knocks n can do better than you idiot!!!!!!
Xxx 8 years ago

Stop your revisionist history , and stick you r
community college job.
Your infantile analysis lay best your ignorance of history. I have word for, use your summer vacation to upgrade your shallow history, by sitting. In ...
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Stop your revisionist history , and stick you r
community college job.
Your infantile analysis lay best your ignorance of history. I have word for, use your summer vacation to upgrade your shallow history, by sitting. In prof. Add o
fenning's classes at legon.
Gun 8 years ago

Hmmmm, intelligent psychopath or schizophrenic, driving by one of his hallucinations episode to put this words together. It's meaningless to history and fulfill nothing in today's world.

Hmmmm, intelligent psychopath or schizophrenic, driving by one of his hallucinations episode to put this words together. It's meaningless to history and fulfill nothing in today's world.
Reeep 8 years ago

Who calls this idiot a professor? He always hide his name from his articles unles you open it only to find out that it's the fool talking

Who calls this idiot a professor? He always hide his name from his articles unles you open it only to find out that it's the fool talking

Kas 8 years ago

U need psychiatric doctor to examine u . Wasting our time

U need psychiatric doctor to examine u . Wasting our time
Kutsii 8 years ago

Who else will write this nonsense about Nkrumah apart from this bestial troglodyte called Okoampa.

Stay in the US, eat all the junk food and post all the nonsense on the net, but make sure whilst in Ghana u don't reveal yo ...
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Who else will write this nonsense about Nkrumah apart from this bestial troglodyte called Okoampa.

Stay in the US, eat all the junk food and post all the nonsense on the net, but make sure whilst in Ghana u don't reveal your identity. I have reserved 2 dirty slaps for u. Fool

Here in Ghana I eat fresh meat and fresh kontomire, so I am fresh and not old as u look. Junk food my foot
James Appiah 8 years ago

Ahoofe,Kwasea,wake up! The Korle Bu hospital which was built by Guggisberg was like Nsawam hospital.Korle Bu hospital was transformed by Nkrumah when he came to power.The SURGICAL BLOCK,MATERNITY BLOCK,CHILDREN'S BLOCK and th ...
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Ahoofe,Kwasea,wake up! The Korle Bu hospital which was built by Guggisberg was like Nsawam hospital.Korle Bu hospital was transformed by Nkrumah when he came to power.The SURGICAL BLOCK,MATERNITY BLOCK,CHILDREN'S BLOCK and those tall modern buildings were constructed by Nkrumah's government.Guggisberg Korle Bu hospital was one small bulding.
Francis Kwame Oduro. 8 years ago

It is a fact that Guggisberg 1925 Korle sre Bu hospital was a small hospital serving a small population of Accra.Nkrumah embarked on a total transformation of Korle Bu hospital.It was Nkrumah who made Korle Bu what it is toda ...
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It is a fact that Guggisberg 1925 Korle sre Bu hospital was a small hospital serving a small population of Accra.Nkrumah embarked on a total transformation of Korle Bu hospital.It was Nkrumah who made Korle Bu what it is today.
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

NKRUMAH DID NOT SAY HE BUILT ACHIMOTA SCHOOL OR TAKORADI HARBOR.
HIS MENTO WAS DR AGGREY WHO TAUGHT AT ACHIMOTA SCHOOL.

NKRUMAH DID NOT SAY HE BUILT ACHIMOTA SCHOOL OR TAKORADI HARBOR.
HIS MENTO WAS DR AGGREY WHO TAUGHT AT ACHIMOTA SCHOOL.
Nana 8 years ago

...IF YOU DON'T GET TIRED. NKRUMAH LIVES STRONG FOREVER AND EVER ALL OVER AFRICA. NOT EVEN ALL GHANAIANS KNOW BUSIA - AND IT DOES NOT MATTER. COMPRADOR!!!!!

...IF YOU DON'T GET TIRED. NKRUMAH LIVES STRONG FOREVER AND EVER ALL OVER AFRICA. NOT EVEN ALL GHANAIANS KNOW BUSIA - AND IT DOES NOT MATTER. COMPRADOR!!!!!
Kweku Donsuro 8 years ago

Okoampa, it would have been proper to have availed your readers an exact copy of Nkrumah's letter here for them to have made their own independent judgements. As it were, you arrogated to yourself the powers to pontificate on ...
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Okoampa, it would have been proper to have availed your readers an exact copy of Nkrumah's letter here for them to have made their own independent judgements. As it were, you arrogated to yourself the powers to pontificate on the matter as judge, jury and prosecutor. For once you acknowledged Nkrumah's architectural works as without comparison. It is a pity that Mahama is being touted as a miracle worker. What has Mahama done? Nothing!
Ama Dorma 8 years ago

Really!! The attempts at changing history are so outrageous, they're almost "laughable"as someone would say..but hey, continue to believe what you want. It's a free world after all!!

Really!! The attempts at changing history are so outrageous, they're almost "laughable"as someone would say..but hey, continue to believe what you want. It's a free world after all!!
Pan-African school of taught 8 years ago

When you try to criticize the anointed,when you try to defend the indefensible,there is a show of weakness in your intellectual analysis.i was thinking you coul increase the circular area of your criticism to capture the deva ...
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When you try to criticize the anointed,when you try to defend the indefensible,there is a show of weakness in your intellectual analysis.i was thinking you coul increase the circular area of your criticism to capture the devaluation of the cedi by 10 % and the mass deportations of foreign businessmen under The genius Dr. K.A Busia
BERNARD 8 years ago

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Your piece lacks facts and is without 8 years ago

I am highly disappointed in your article which lasts basis. Infact, all you did was to advertise your blog which is in itself free. Next time you would think of wasting some of our quality time to read your shallow material, ...
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I am highly disappointed in your article which lasts basis. Infact, all you did was to advertise your blog which is in itself free. Next time you would think of wasting some of our quality time to read your shallow material, think that the world is now an advanced place and we can easily read between the lines. I have taken time to share my piece of advice with you. Hope you read it and take a cue from this. Write with substance and you shall be exalted. Good day
KOFI ALI. 8 years ago

Fellow Ghanaian's please the idiot alone.........why write all these for who garbage

Fellow Ghanaian's please the idiot alone.........why write all these for who garbage
Mick 8 years ago

One of the most useless articles I have ever read on this site.if you have nothing good to say about osagyefo please shut the fck up.don't take away anything from the man.we were under colonial rule for almost 100years and wh ...
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One of the most useless articles I have ever read on this site.if you have nothing good to say about osagyefo please shut the fck up.don't take away anything from the man.we were under colonial rule for almost 100years and what did the British leave behind
kwasi gh 8 years ago

Mmmm.....can we pls see d letter mr.PhD?
What at all are u trying to say..Busia and d NPP is better than Dr.Nkrumah,the CPP and d NDC or what?
Is that what u went to learn in the USA?
Waste of resources.... Smh

Mmmm.....can we pls see d letter mr.PhD?
What at all are u trying to say..Busia and d NPP is better than Dr.Nkrumah,the CPP and d NDC or what?
Is that what u went to learn in the USA?
Waste of resources.... Smh
read 8 years ago

SANKOFA: Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s letter to Dr. Busia…..(Please watch the three videos after reading the letter)
I do not know how you took this exhortation, but I could conjecture that you probably assumed that by exhorting t ...
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SANKOFA: Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s letter to Dr. Busia…..(Please watch the three videos after reading the letter)
I do not know how you took this exhortation, but I could conjecture that you probably assumed that by exhorting the people of Ghana to vote for you, I was placing you above other candidates. If this was your way of thinking, then I am sorry to say you miscalculated and misconstrued the motivation of my exhortation……My reason for exhorting them to vote for you (Busia) was that I knew that being a political weakling, you would sooner or later expose your shortcomings… from Kwame Nkrumah to Busia
My Dear Kofi:
The late :Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia (Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Ghana)
The late :Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia (Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Ghana)
I have just heard on the air that your government which came to power barely three years ago has been toppled by the Ghana Army. It is rather significant that most of the evils of which my government and I were accused and which were the main reasons for the overthrow of my administration were apparently the same reasons that motivated the army takeover of your regime.
I am sure that you now realize that those who criticise other people without bothering to assign good reasons for their criticisms eventually end up as victims of their own circumstances.
You will also appreciate the fact that those who sow a wind reap a whirlwind, and after you have finished spoiling other people, you will be surprised to find out that you have spoiled yourself.
Perhaps, you will agree with me in my assertion that during my tenure of office for 15 years, I did my best to improve the economic conditions of my people, although, admittedly, my policies brought unexpected difficulties which were inevitable and for which my people were unprepared.
Nevertheless, there is evidence of some of my achievements in Ghana, which you, of all people, can’t pretend to deny — the fact that I made Ghana what you found it when the same army overthrew my regime.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkruma -Fist President of the Republic of Ghana.
Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkruma -First President of the Republic of Ghana.
It would serve no useful purpose for me to recount some of these achievements, but suffice it to say that Akosombo Dam, Tema Harbor, Tema Oil Refinery, Korlc Bu Teaching Hospital, VALCO, to mention only a few are all my handwork.
But the most important contribution I have made to the personality of the black man was that during my tenure of office as President of the Republic of Ghana, I made the African proud of his heritage.Today, throughout the African world, many countries have attained political emancipation as a result of the torchlight I lit in Ghana which my own people including you (Kofi Abrcfa Busia) did not appreciate.Thus my government and I were accused of a host of unprintable evils which sought to discredit me and to pave the way for you to establish yourself as a successful leader on the African political scene.
Since my government was overthrown six years ago, and since you assumed the reins of authority in the latter part of 1969, I have been watching closely events in Ghana and I often felt that the way you were handling the affairs of the country, that is relying so much on colonialists, imperialists, capitalists and nco-colonialists, you will one day end up in the gutter with the same imperialists and capitalists nailing your coffin.
Your handling of the Aliens Compliance Order in which, for the first time in the history of Africa, a neighboring government drives out of its country fellow Africans like cattle and oxen in open trucks, your so-called DIALOGUE with the Apartheid regime in which you seek to create the impression that you are the only black man on earth who is capable of bringing pressure to bear upon the racists in South Africa and other diabolical policies too numerous to mention here.
You will recall that just before the general elections in 1969, I broadcast on Conarky Radio to my people in Ghana, exhorting them not to vote for any other candidate for the Premiership but you.
I do not know how you took this exhortation, but I could conjecture that you probably assumed that by exhorting the people of Ghana to vote for you, I was placing you above other candidates. If this was your way of thinking, then I am sorry to say you miscalculated and misconstrued the motivation of my exhortation.
I had imagined that you would have realized that the reasons for asking the people of Ghana to vote for you was not so much because I thought you were better than any or all the candidates involved in the electioneering campaign. My reason for exhorting them to vote for you was that I knew that being a political weakling, you would sooner or later expose your shortcomings.
Let me refresh your memory about some of the events which culminated in the overthrow of my legitimate Government on February 24, 1966, and relate them to the events which led to the overthrow of your imperialist and colonialist-orientated government with a view of drawing a logical conclusion as to whether your administration or mine was preferable.
You will recall that while I was away in Hanoi to effect a peaceful solution to the capitalist aggression against the freedom-loving people of North Vietnam, the Ghana Army, led by insignificant and virtually unknown soldiers in collaboration with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), conspired to overthrow my government.
You may also recall that the first thing these irresponsible soldiers did was to ransack my official residence and virtually steal my personal properties as well as cash I had left behind.
To justify their illegitimate and criminal action, the imperialist stooges claimed that my Government was corrupt; that my Ministers had acquired ill-gotten wealth; that my Government had dissipated public funds in establishing “prestige projects” and a host of other accusations against me without any proof whatsoever.
But any objective political observer would agree that the same evils of which you and your colonialist and neo-colonialist masters accused me, reared their ugly heads and assumed more heinous proportions during the days of government
Thus, within a span of three years, you and your Ministers became richer and acquired ill-gotten wealth more than could be said of the Ministers in my Government which ruled Ghana for 15 years.
It is regrettable that your government, which you claimed to comprise mainly of “intellectuals and honest men,” had to be toppled within three years after assuming office. This indeed is evidence of your political immaturity.
Now that your Utopia has crumbled under your feet, apparently due to the erratic policies you pursued with the assistance and full support of those who preach universal brotherhood yet supervise the obliteration of thousands of innocent souls throughout the world, may I offer you a few words of consolation.
I would therefore recommend to you, my dear Kofi, that you take a long rest from the exigencies of politics in which you woefully failed after pursuing it for nearly two decades in just the same way as you cancelled your engagements in Monrovia following our confrontation at the funeral of the late President William V. S. Tubman (of blessed memory).
I have the hope that when I return to Ghana, as I surely will someday in-the-not too distant future to help rebuild the nation from the ruins and chaos you left behind, the dignity of the African Personality which was one of the legacies I left behind and which you handed over to the die-hard racists on a golden platter, will be restored.
I commend you to the care of the Omnipotent God who has sustained me in my moments of isolation and reflection and hope that He will take very good care of you for the rest of your unsuccessful political life.
Perhaps, I might just as well point out to you that it won’t serve you any useful purpose to dream of staging a come-back into the arena of politics because I am aware that the colonialists and imperialists will only be too happy to support such an attempt.
reasons for this assertion is that from reports I have been receiving from our compatriots in Ghana, the reaction of the people to the February 24, 1966 coup was less stupendous than their reaction to the January 13 coup which toppled your unpopular and capitalist-backed government which ruled my people under the direction and advice of the imperialists and colonialists.
It might be a good idea if we were to meet face to face as we did in Monrovia last year; then I would have told you: “KOFI, I TOLD YOU THAT YOU WOULD BE A COMPLETE FAILURE ON THE POLITICAL SCENE.”
Finally, my dear Kofi, take heart and be of good cheer, for this is part and parcel of human life. But let the word go to all the imperialists, colonialists and neo-colonialists that my Ghana, with her Black Star of Africa, like Ethiopia and with Ethiopia, shall arise above the political horizon.
I wish you Godspeed as you make your well-deserved exit from the political arena in Ghana.
I remain
Faithful Yours
(signed) Kwame Nkrumah
Source KWAME NKRUMAH
The Black Scholar
Vol. 3, No. 9, BLACK BATTLES (May 1972), pp. 23-26
Published by: Paradigm Publish
abrantie 8 years ago

kwasia you called yourself phd and say Mr nkruma. you see writing that was even years back can you match it. Don't try.

kwasia you called yourself phd and say Mr nkruma. you see writing that was even years back can you match it. Don't try.
Abusua 8 years ago

You members of NPP fought Nkrumah when he was president. And after you overthrew him in a coup, you tried so hard to demonized him ever since but without success. This writer is just continuing with the lies of his evil ances ...
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You members of NPP fought Nkrumah when he was president. And after you overthrew him in a coup, you tried so hard to demonized him ever since but without success. This writer is just continuing with the lies of his evil ancestors. But your objectives for fighting against Nkrumah will never materialized. Amen.
Odom 8 years ago

Old boy u a not making any sense here though.

Old boy u a not making any sense here though.
peeeeee 8 years ago

Any good writer would have attached the letter or kept his mouth shut??

Any good writer would have attached the letter or kept his mouth shut??
sam t 8 years ago

You can see that this idiotic writer cant sleep because of Nkrumah. He can't accept the fact that Nkrumah is held up sooooo high than his beloved danquah , busia etc. Stupid writer:get it into your bigotic big ugly head that ...
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You can see that this idiotic writer cant sleep because of Nkrumah. He can't accept the fact that Nkrumah is held up sooooo high than his beloved danquah , busia etc. Stupid writer:get it into your bigotic big ugly head that as long as there is ghana and this world goes round the name kwame Nkrumah will forever be ahead of danquah, busia etc. Cry as much as you like nothing will change. There is a reason why nkrumah, s statue stands tall at addis ababa. Is busia there as well? If nkrumah likes the eastern block sorely as you foolishly claim it is because the eastern block never enslaved and exploited us for 400 years and when you gain freedom from same exploiters you are very careful dealing with them Because they are more prone to undermine you-okey. But nkrumah for business was not dealing with everyone and infact dealt with every nation-infact akosombo dam funds gave from usa- a western country-true or false? -but nkrumah will not be a stooge for any block. Busia and his UP and likes were just traitors who will undermine their own people for their masters. Why? Because they believe it will make them closer to their demi gods -percieved better human beings. They were just White wanabes-the black petty boshua who will side with the opressor when the going is tough. But i dont personally dont think you understand this stuff will never understand. YOU ARA JUST A GROWN MAN WITH PEA BRAIN. A TRIBAL BIGOT AS WELL WHO HAS NO PLACE IN THE MODERN CIVILISED WORLD.

NOBODY 8 years ago

Busia was a traitor while clueless incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo is apolitical weakling with the wimp and severely retarded Professor Luna-Tic Kwasia Biri Okoampa-Ahoofool acting as his fa ...
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Busia was a traitor while clueless incompetent monumental failure Serial Loser Banza Bakoi Akufo-Addo is apolitical weakling with the wimp and severely retarded Professor Luna-Tic Kwasia Biri Okoampa-Ahoofool acting as his false propaganda peddler.

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