Nkrumah’s Young Pioneers: Villains or Angels?

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Adiza 9 years ago

Young boys were reporting their own parents o him etc. Not a brilliant move. Today I dare say many of these group of people would not openly come forward that they once belonged to that movement. Parents were imprisoned becau ...
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Young boys were reporting their own parents o him etc. Not a brilliant move. Today I dare say many of these group of people would not openly come forward that they once belonged to that movement. Parents were imprisoned because their sons and daughter were listening in and informing leaders of the young pioneers with the stories. Some parents were jailed.
CHAMPION ATTA 9 years ago

ADIZA, IT IS NOT TRUE, IF NKRUMAH HAD BEEN IN POWER FOR LONG AND YOUNG PIONEERS HAD STAYED LONG, WE WOULD NOT BE HAVENING SUCH MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN OUR SYSTEM TODAY. YOU UP GUYS ARE THE CAUSE OF GHANA'S DOWNFALL TODAY, YOUR ...
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ADIZA, IT IS NOT TRUE, IF NKRUMAH HAD BEEN IN POWER FOR LONG AND YOUNG PIONEERS HAD STAYED LONG, WE WOULD NOT BE HAVENING SUCH MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN OUR SYSTEM TODAY. YOU UP GUYS ARE THE CAUSE OF GHANA'S DOWNFALL TODAY, YOUR "FORCEFULLY FORCING" LIES AND DISTORTING OF FACTS BY YOUR GRANDFATHERS IS WHST HAS RESULTED IN BACK PEDDLING OUR PROGRESS, LET ME TELL YOU A TRUE STORY, THE BEST MATCHES WERE MADE FROM CHECKOSLOVAKIA BACK THEM, NKRUMAH BROUGHT THEM IN TO BUILD THE MATCH FACTORY HERE IN GHANA, AND OUR MATCHES WERE VERY GOOD THEN, WHAT DID THE SABOTEURS DO? MY GRANDMOTHER SAID OPPONENTS OF NKRUMAH MAINLY TRADERS AND IMPORTERS WHO WERE BRINGING IN SAME PRODUCTS FROM THE WEST WOULD ORDER LARGE QUANTITIES OF THE LOCAL MATCHES, STORE THEM IN WAREHOUSES NEAR THE BEACH IN JAMES TOWN FOR ABOUT 2 MONTHS, THEN RELEASE THEM UNTO THE MARKET, STORING THE MATCH NEAR THE SEA FOR THAT LONG RENDERED THEM USELESS, THEREBY DESTROYING THE MATCH FACTORY! WHEN CHARMAIN MAO OF CHINA DEVELOPED HIS 50 YEARS PLAN FOR CHINA HE WAS GIVING HIS CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN THE PATH TO FOLLOW TO PROGRESS, WHAT DO WE SEE OF CHINA NOW AFTER CHAIRMAN MAO'S DEATH? 40 YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN CAN NEVER BE SET IN A STONE, MEANING IT CAN BE VARIED AS WE MOVE ALONG, BUT IT GUIDES US TO SEE TO BUILDING OUR CAPACITY IN ALL AREAS THAT ARE VERY VITAL TO OUR PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT, ALL OF THESE VITAL AREAS HAS ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED BY KWAME NKRUMAH. BUT LIKE SOME OF OUR VISION LESS LEADERS, THEY THINK OF WHAT THEY CAN GET AND SEE NOW! AFTER THE JEWS HAD SUFFERED FOR CENTURIES IN THE POGROMS AND IN NAZI GERMANY, THEY CHARTED LONG TERM PLANS FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR GENERATIONS YET UNBORN, GET IN INDUSTRY, GET EDUCATION, MOVE INTO VITAL POLITICAL POSITION OF INFLUENCE, FINANCES ETC, TODAY THEY HAVE GREAT INFLUENCE IN AMERICAN POLITICS, BANKING, EDUCATION ETC, SEE HOW AMERICA BACKS THEM AGAINST THE ARABS.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 9 years ago

Ghana would have been like North Korea if Nkrumah had not been kicked out or Cuba where the people have no freedom and official killings. Was there any freedom in Ghana at Nkrumah's time? How many were sent to Nsawam for no c ...
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Ghana would have been like North Korea if Nkrumah had not been kicked out or Cuba where the people have no freedom and official killings. Was there any freedom in Ghana at Nkrumah's time? How many were sent to Nsawam for no crime? Even Gbedemah had to flee the country. He was a tyrant. That is why he declared himself President for life. Were pupils not drafted into his so called Young Pioneer? Tell the young ones the truth.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore was a tyrant as well, just as Dr. Nkrumah and incarcerated his political rivals just as Nkrumah did. Yet today Singapore is light years ahead of Ghana in every in all macroeconomic indices. Comparing ...
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Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore was a tyrant as well, just as Dr. Nkrumah and incarcerated his political rivals just as Nkrumah did. Yet today Singapore is light years ahead of Ghana in every in all macroeconomic indices. Comparing Singapore and Ghana is like comparing day and night, all because while one leader, Lee Kwan Yew dealt ruthlessly with political opponents in his country to achieve his goals, the other leader, Nkrumah, was soft on saboteurs and coup plotters that stood between him and the development of our country.

Today there are more millionaires per capita in Singapore than the rest of the world besides being the cleanest city state in the world. I prefer a tyrant as leader who can eradicate poverty and create millionaires to democratic suckers who come to power to steal from the people.

To compare Nkrumah's Ghana to North Korea and Cuba belies your faulty misconception of nation building in pre east and west divide. I blame Dr. Nkrumah for not dealing ruthlessly with the saboteurs and nation wreckers.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Half breed humans like you do not know the value of freedom.

The highest form of development, intellectual development, can only subsist in freedom and justice.

By this logic, there cannot be any true development in tyr ...
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Half breed humans like you do not know the value of freedom.

The highest form of development, intellectual development, can only subsist in freedom and justice.

By this logic, there cannot be any true development in tyranny.

What you need is to be locked up and bred for manual work.

Give me freedom or death!
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

There's absolutely no need to predicate your response with insults - it is a sign of immaturity and primitive disposition.

Ghana had its so called freedom after the 1966 coup led by the traitors, and what has that freedom ...
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There's absolutely no need to predicate your response with insults - it is a sign of immaturity and primitive disposition.

Ghana had its so called freedom after the 1966 coup led by the traitors, and what has that freedom done to our nation's well being? Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem? The African with with its destructive and malicious predisposition can only do well under a benevolent dictator or tyrant who has a conviction of purpose to build a nation, just as Lee Kwan Yew and Chairman Mao Tse-tung built Singapore and China respectively.

Think about it my friend.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Kwabena Yeboah

YOUR: "...There's absolutely no need to predicate your response with insults - it is a sign of immaturity and primitive disposition...".

WE SAY: We agree!

You see that same crass, ignorant, and abusiv ...
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Kwabena Yeboah

YOUR: "...There's absolutely no need to predicate your response with insults - it is a sign of immaturity and primitive disposition...".

WE SAY: We agree!

You see that same crass, ignorant, and abusive language against us further down.

And so, we move on!

In addition, we will take your critique of the "soft approach" of Nkrumah to subversives with a mighty grain of salt. Hindsight, they say, is 20/20.

When mighty nations sought to achieve its own strategic interests, and practically allowed rogue agents to do whatever they wanted as long as those interests were protected, there was not much a new nation on that corner of the world could do to remain independent.

Not for too long.

However, 50-plus years later, Ghanaians ain't got no excuse.

It ain't got nothing to do with Kwame Nkrumah.

In fact, but for Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana would most likely be a lot worse than we find today.

So, let's re-think, review, re-consider. Let's accept that as a baseline for civil/cordial discourse about these matters.

It is too important for so many reasons, not to!

We have an essay coming up this weekend on these same pages, never published, ever, detailing how a prominent member of the CPP, Komla Gbedemah, using public, international, and his own resources, was actually coordinating with Busia to undermine Ghana's independence to the benefit of the UK and the US.

Lee Kwan Yew, as we've said before, never had that type of unprecedented opposition. At bottom, the location of Singapore had a lot more strategic importance to Gbedemah's sponsors.

Greetings!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

I think your mind is too weak if you see an African as having malicious and destructive predisposition like your immature and primitive parents and yourself. The extent of your vision is to look into your own mirror to descr ...
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I think your mind is too weak if you see an African as having malicious and destructive predisposition like your immature and primitive parents and yourself. The extent of your vision is to look into your own mirror to describe all Africans as you see yourself.

In one fell swoop, you admonish against insults while dabbling subconsciously in it; so back to sender.......

People like you will not know the use of liberty and so will always be in chains, both physically and intellectually. Why on earth must liberty and your narrow notion of development be mutually exclusive? And why must Lee Kuan Yew by all means be your model?

Foolish Nkrumaists know no country that developed in freedom and democracy?
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

Most times we find that Ghanaians adrift in cognitive function, would rather resort to insults than use their brains to advance their point of view. Isn't it the common trait of most Ghanaians?

I am reproducing the point I ...
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Most times we find that Ghanaians adrift in cognitive function, would rather resort to insults than use their brains to advance their point of view. Isn't it the common trait of most Ghanaians?

I am reproducing the point I made earlier to give you another chance to use your brains for a change, "Dr.". I wrote this: 'The African with its destructive and malicious predisposition can only do well under a benevolent dictator or tyrant who has a conviction of purpose to build a nation, just as Lee Kwan Yew and Chairman Mao Tse-tung built Singapore and China respectively'. We have a palpable evidence to use Lee Kuan Yew and Mao Tse-tung as models because for the African and moreso the Ghanaian, liberty and development are mutually exclusive.

You must be obtuse and complete ignorant to suggest that freedom and democracy are the basis for development in Africa. Not so "Dr."
1 Loaf 9 years ago

So the UP/NPP minus Dombo forebears did not only sabotage Nkrumah but the development of Ghana. Bought the matches at Kade, store it along the sea shore to destroy its integrity then release so that the unsuspecting consumer ...
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So the UP/NPP minus Dombo forebears did not only sabotage Nkrumah but the development of Ghana. Bought the matches at Kade, store it along the sea shore to destroy its integrity then release so that the unsuspecting consumer will reject it? Oh yen akanfo and mischief. Just because they want to remain traders of finished products from western Europe. You know what, this time God has given power to mess up big time so Ghanaians can get rid of them FOREVER. By their schemes (npp), Ghana has become consumers of second hand (obroni waawu) goods

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Anyemi 9 years ago

I was a Young Pioneer. I started from the African Personality Group within the Young Pioneer and got promoted later.

It was a learning period and we learnt a lot about to be patriots.

This idea of reporting parents was ...
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I was a Young Pioneer. I started from the African Personality Group within the Young Pioneer and got promoted later.

It was a learning period and we learnt a lot about to be patriots.

This idea of reporting parents was all over the rumor mill just as it is happening today.

I would like to know the author of this piece.

I go on to pay tribute to Comrade Amoo Dodoo then Manpower Officer and one Comrade Quartey then at the Accra Regional Office.
drewss. 9 years ago

Anyemi, Young Pioneers was a feature of all communist parties of those days .Patriotism meant worship for the party and its leadership. My uncle was taken into preventive detention for insulting a minister,accusing him of cor ...
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Anyemi, Young Pioneers was a feature of all communist parties of those days .Patriotism meant worship for the party and its leadership. My uncle was taken into preventive detention for insulting a minister,accusing him of corruption. Something we all do today without being arrested. Nkrumah had two sides. A brilliant thinker he was and at the same time a ruthless wicked dictator ,who threw many people into prison because of reports delivered by young pioneers.....in most cases. Anyemi in the days of the almighty CPP you would surely have demanded the arrest of the author and he would certainly have been arrested for insulting Osagyefo Dr. KWame Nkrumah. Those were the days. That was why i refused to join the Young Pioneers.
Odiyifo Kwajo 9 years ago

After all these years, this CIA 'fake news' still continues unabated. I was a member of the Young Pioneers and I don't ever remember being conditioned to report my parents or any other person to the authorities to be jailed ...
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After all these years, this CIA 'fake news' still continues unabated. I was a member of the Young Pioneers and I don't ever remember being conditioned to report my parents or any other person to the authorities to be jailed or tortured.

I remember during the Coup de tat, a grizzly DRAWING of a fake god named KANKAN NYAME worshiped by Kwame Nkrumah was published in the news papers inciting the hypocritical Ghanaian religious public to want to burn him alive if they laid their hands on him.

One fact most people do not know about Nkrumah was that he was very religious and almost became a Roman Catholic Priest but for his rebellious spirit. He encouraged Christian and Muslim religious instructions in all Schools from Primary to High Schools. Yet this 'kankan nyame' meaning 'stinking god' image was concocted as a propaganda tool to lower Nkrumah to the status of a devil and bamboozle the innocent mind of the confused African.

Well, with this FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA still alive, it appears Nkrumah's ghost is still haunting the UP-NPP machinations to destroy all political opposition and keep in power for ever. Let's grow up folks for, the SANKOFA symbol teaches us a valuable history lesson in retrieving the discarded GOLDEN EGG for hatching to progress. Like we used to say in the good old Young Pioneers: NKRUMAH NEVER DIES and good deeds are never lost.
Asante,Yaw. 9 years ago

Stop telling lies you were never a young pioneer.

Stop telling lies you were never a young pioneer.
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

I was never a member of the Young Pioneers nor the Scout thugh my father wanted me to join one, though I, in fact, all of us, coveted very much their red tie. We had deposited money for the supply of the ties to all pupils wh ...
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I was never a member of the Young Pioneers nor the Scout thugh my father wanted me to join one, though I, in fact, all of us, coveted very much their red tie. We had deposited money for the supply of the ties to all pupils when the coup occurred.

Anyway, I guess I was just too much of a free spirit to be subjected to the kind of discipline I saw them instilling in members at close range, as both used to meet on our school compound and the Scouts used to march under our cocoa plantation just by the school. Occasionally, the Scouts would give us a chase when we stayed behind after school playing cards or that game with those black seeds we made round sand basin to role them into. Can't even remember the Ewe name. Damn! Now, I think it is called "atoklui". Or playing "alo koto".

However, from my vantage family connections, I can say that I knew very much about the Young Pioneers. I can say categorically that none of them were indoctrinated to report parents in Anloga; or anywhere. Not a single person detained from Anloga - and the town provided more detainees than any other town in Ghana, with my maternal side at one time providing as many as 6 or 7 - were reported by Young Pioneers. We knew who reported them, as even the Djabanor C'ttee found out. The Report is there for all to check. There is even a bigger report on those detentions. It is therefore mere concoction and propaganda that YPs were reporting being trained to parents.

However, if an innocent child over heard the parents saying some negatove things about the CPP or Nkrumah and reported it without any prodding, how can this be blamed on the YP Movt? After all, kids in the West often call the Police and Child Protection Units to report their parents who disciplined them, thanks to things told them in school.

A Ghanaian father found himself in hot soup years back in Norway for bathing the daughter and stupidly washing her private part the way Ghanaian women do (ok, I am an experrt on that too, you pervert reading this:-))! Phew! It took a lot of explaining to get him off the mess he found himself in.

Andy-K
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Another brilliant post Nyebro Yao.

Another brilliant post Nyebro Yao.
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Thanks, Nyebro Yaw, written hurriedly and full of typos though.

Andy-K

Thanks, Nyebro Yaw, written hurriedly and full of typos though.

Andy-K
Kasavubu 9 years ago

Excuse me Sir!
l remember that Nkrumah was said to have gone for a mystical god from Kankan in Guinea hence the god was termed Kankan Nyame. l recall the effigy in a female form with "Macho" arms and torso.
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Excuse me Sir!
l remember that Nkrumah was said to have gone for a mystical god from Kankan in Guinea hence the god was termed Kankan Nyame. l recall the effigy in a female form with "Macho" arms and torso.
Kankan Nyame was not any smelly god. It was a god from Kankan, a town in Sekou Nkrumah's Guinea.
Thanks.

1 Loaf 9 years ago

We were all witnesses to the funeral and burial of the Otumfuo's mom. Very primitive and full of evil, voodoo, even though all the Pentecostal churches in Ghana are led by 'akanfo'.

We were all witnesses to the funeral and burial of the Otumfuo's mom. Very primitive and full of evil, voodoo, even though all the Pentecostal churches in Ghana are led by 'akanfo'.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Kasavubu,
By your analysis, we can conclude that "Kankan Nyame" was actually a smear on Kwame Nkrumah, after his overthrow, after he got to Guinea.

Here is someone one's account:

"...The cartoonists also set to work gi ...
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Kasavubu,
By your analysis, we can conclude that "Kankan Nyame" was actually a smear on Kwame Nkrumah, after his overthrow, after he got to Guinea.

Here is someone one's account:

"...The cartoonists also set to work giving us vivid depictions of the horrors of the man’s regime. They drew him as a vampire bat feeding on the blood of Ghanaians. There was Nkrumah kneeling at the shrine of Kankan Nyame. A very popular one was that in which he asked us to tighten our belts from 1957 to 1966 and ghanaman had done that until he became emaciated. These drawings were made into black and white photos and sold all over the country. Grown-up people bought these photos and were looking at them and feeling satisfied. They showed them to us children too and we also looked at them. And everybody was laughing at Kwame Nkrumah..." (Kofi Amenyo, Feature: That day when Nkrumah was overthrown. Published On: August 22, 2010, 00:00 GMT (MYJOYONLINE))

Yes, Kankan is a city in Guinea. But, it was all a smear.

Or, maybe let's all ask Cameron Duodu, when he sat in London and wrote all that nonsense glorifying all those coup ploters and the power of their magic, way back then...

READ MORE: "...Fellow countrymen, if Kwame Nkrumah really believed in gods and idols then let us hear what he Osagyefo had to say in one of his books quoted by Michael Gyamerah on (page 105 of Dark Days In Ghana):

"A particularly nauseating part of the smear campaign was the putting of a dead woman and child into a refrigerator at Flagstaff House, saying that this was 'Kwame Nkrumah's juju', and inviting public inspection. The woman and child were among those murdered on 24 th February. But the public turned the open invitation to Flagstaff House into a kind of pilgrimage and the inspection offer had to be quickly withdrawn".

Contrary to claims by Nkrumah's opponents, it is the UP/NPP tradition that is superstitious and obsessed with "juju". Nothing is more revealing than the account in the London Observer from Cameron Duodu their correspondent after the coup describing the assassination of Major-General Barwah in the 1966 coup:

"When Colonel Kotoka's troops got to General Barwah's house, he was already in uniform and armed with a pistol. He tried to shoot Colonel Kotoka and the newborn legend has it that Colonel Kotoka, who is well versed in juju magic collected the pellets as they flew and threw them back at General Barwah. One of Colonel Kotoka's men meanwhile riddled General Barwah with machine-gun bullets".

As Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah pointed out in "Dark Days In Ghana" (page 22):

"When the counter coup of April 1967 took place Kotoka's 'magic' could not save him. Unlike Barwah he surrounded without protest or struggle to those who had captured him at his headquarters. His 'juju' did not prevent him being shot in his turn"..."

Peace and LearN, we must say!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Thank you Prof Lungu.

All these smear campaigns will fail to dent the man's global stature and achievements.

Thank you Prof Lungu once again.

Thank you Prof Lungu.

All these smear campaigns will fail to dent the man's global stature and achievements.

Thank you Prof Lungu once again.
NKWASEASEM 9 years ago

Bring back young pioneers to rebuild the country.

Bring back young pioneers to rebuild the country.
Kwame 9 years ago

Yes President Nana Akufo-Addo should bring back the Young Pioneers. They can properly educate the populace under the NPP. They can be taught patriotism by NPP regional party activists.

Yes President Nana Akufo-Addo should bring back the Young Pioneers. They can properly educate the populace under the NPP. They can be taught patriotism by NPP regional party activists.
Kwame 9 years ago

Comrade Ken Adjepong can be the organizing secretary. Dr Arthur Kennedy and Wreko Brobbey and mr Kwabena Agyepong are all excellent material for consideration for such a laudable national movements . We can continue where Nk ...
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Comrade Ken Adjepong can be the organizing secretary. Dr Arthur Kennedy and Wreko Brobbey and mr Kwabena Agyepong are all excellent material for consideration for such a laudable national movements . We can continue where Nkrumah left off
Jerry 9 years ago

I cannot but agree with you the more. The decadence in the youth of today is simply beyond imagination and such are those on whose laps the future of Ghana lies! Do we have any integrity left in them to be able to police the ...
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I cannot but agree with you the more. The decadence in the youth of today is simply beyond imagination and such are those on whose laps the future of Ghana lies! Do we have any integrity left in them to be able to police the nation's purse when they mature to leadership positions?
Bring back a national movement in the vein of the Young Pioneers as there lies the future prosperity of this nation of ours.
Wedam 9 years ago

Simple

Simple
Knockout 9 years ago

Nkrumah never dies

Nkrumah never dies
duodu 9 years ago

We must all pray that things like Young Pioneers never happen to us again.

We must all pray that things like Young Pioneers never happen to us again.

Prof Lungu 9 years ago

READ: "...'An Anglican Bishop criticized us and called the Ghana Young Pioneers ‘godless’. We ordered his deportation immediately...In all our struggle, we had avoided any ill feeling for the Church and the relations betw ...
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READ: "...'An Anglican Bishop criticized us and called the Ghana Young Pioneers ‘godless’. We ordered his deportation immediately...In all our struggle, we had avoided any ill feeling for the Church and the relations between Church and the State had been quite cordial. Now this Bishop was setting a new pattern which, if we allowed, might bring serious conflict between the church and state. I thought that, that should be avoided at all costs and we ordered the man’s deportation.'"

WE SAY: The shame is that the writer does not identify what country that clergyman came from. In the context of Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana of the latter 1950s, early-1960s, that would be important. That action was exactly what independent sovereign states are supposed to do.

ABOUT SCOUTING: The writer merely mentions Scout, but does not seem to understand its relevance to the Gold Coast, Ghana. Some of the more survival principles were actually developed in the Gold Coast, by Baden Powell in the early 1900s. (www.ghanascout.org/page-31).

That Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP people would seek to train youths in discipline, service to nation, survival, governance, etc., was not such an aberration given what even so-called "democratic countries" were doing with not only their children, but also with grown adults.

Read!

See all the connections and linkages!

Peace!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

"That Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP people would seek to train youths in discipline, service to nation, survival, governance, etc., was not such an aberration...."

There is nothing wrong with training our children in all the a ...
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"That Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP people would seek to train youths in discipline, service to nation, survival, governance, etc., was not such an aberration...."

There is nothing wrong with training our children in all the above...and indeed, we Danquists are willing and able to train the youth in these values for nation building.

But what Prof. Lungu and the Nkrumaist cronies fail to mention is that The Young Pioneers became Nkrumah's Little Birds (in The Game of Thrones) who were snitching on their parents within the context of Nkrumah's fascist regime. To this pack of toxic breed, Nkrumah never died; Nkrumah does no wrong!

So they served not the nation but their god Nkrumah and his totalitarian regime. They still can never think well!

That is why we unreservedly condemn the Young Pioneer notion as construed by Nkrumah and his cronies.

Fortunately, Nkrumah, his ideology and his party are all dead and gone as I correctly predicted here some time ago. Those Young Pioneer breeds will, luckily for our country, soon die off.

Today, it is the democratic principles of Osagyefo Dr. J. B. Danquah, as exemplified by Osagyefo President Akufo-Addo, that are guiding our great nation on to the path of progress and prosperity.

Kwame Nkrumah and his fascism are dead forever! So live with it!!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

"...BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW ON DR KWAME NKRUMAH...

"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others ...
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"...BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW ON DR KWAME NKRUMAH...

"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatness, power and wealth...

Therefore the defining variable in mental development is “opportunity” which establishes the most legitimate intellectual differentials in the cognitive abilities of groups and individuals.../

...\...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood.../

/...Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa.../

//...What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood. If ignorance makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation, then the survival of the nation is under serious threat. For a country to be a nation, her people will have to subsume ethnicity under the aegis of the national interest. The present conflicts amongst the tribes, though so far verbal, is a testimony that our country comprises nations within the state.../
/...In effect, we of this generation have repudiated the concept of nationhood with our ethnic animosity and undermined the very tenets under which the nation was founded..." (6 February 2007, Ghanaweb, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., AKA, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law).

WE SAY: Ha!

This guys always misses the boat.

READ HIS LATEST: "...There is nothing wrong with training our children in all the above...and indeed, we Danquists are willing and able to train the youth in these values for nation building...".

WE SAY: So, why all that venom!

Strangely, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., is totally is oblivious that we predicated our statement. Actually, in 2017, that is not appropriate language by any deep thinker of these things.

And so, today we get, "Osagyefo this, Osagyefo, that!", being in our opinion, another desperate attempt to measure their height against Kwame Nkrumah's

Nice try!

What a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wedam 9 years ago

Dr.SAS the headache of corruption today wouldn't have been a problem if some of our leaders enrolled in the young pioneers.Today Ghana looses $4bn to corruption as a result of their selfish n unpatriotic act.Ghana will never ...
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Dr.SAS the headache of corruption today wouldn't have been a problem if some of our leaders enrolled in the young pioneers.Today Ghana looses $4bn to corruption as a result of their selfish n unpatriotic act.Ghana will never move forward if we dont desist from these ungodly act.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Those engaged in high crimes against the country were Young Pioneers Bro.

If in doubt, ask yourself how many of those Young Pioneers have ever crusaded against corruption in Ghana. Young Pioneers are all intellectually and ...
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Those engaged in high crimes against the country were Young Pioneers Bro.

If in doubt, ask yourself how many of those Young Pioneers have ever crusaded against corruption in Ghana. Young Pioneers are all intellectually and morally corrupt!

I.K. Acheampong, J.J. Rawlings and all their cronies were Young Pioneers.

A Young Pioneer in those days worshipped Nkrumah and committed all other evils for free.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

The editors at Daily Guide could use some lessons and a whole lot of sense on principles and truthfullness. Who are those NPP and NDC foot soldiers? Is it safe to say that foot soldiers, creation of NPP and NDC, are gutter le ...
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The editors at Daily Guide could use some lessons and a whole lot of sense on principles and truthfullness. Who are those NPP and NDC foot soldiers? Is it safe to say that foot soldiers, creation of NPP and NDC, are gutter level edition of Nkrumah era Young Pioners? That is to say while the Young Pioners did not go seeking what the government can do for them or where their next meal will come from, the NPP and NDC foot soldiers are a bunch of aimless vagabonds and hooligans led by a few party manipulators and puppet masters willing to use those brain dead foot soldiers willing to die for meaningless party causes?
It's interesting, to me at the very least, that for over 50+ years we've come just a short distance in development, while we have created a few elite class of rich people in Ghana who stole from the country to become rich, would not know how to get their ivory filled heads out of brown paper bags to save themselves from suffocating while their lackies at worthless media houses promote ananse stories. If Nkrumah did not carve out a constitutional exemptions for himself, and for his institutions at a time people charactized him to be the evil dictator then why would the NPP and the NDC claiming to practice democracy have a history of more dead bodies, human misery not to mention corrupt institutions that starts with journalists, parliament, the courts and office of the president than Nkrumah ever did?
To date there is nothing the evil dictator Nkrumah put in place that is not practiced to the max in the USA, UK, Canada and civilized nations across Western Europe. But those civilized nations have more indoor plumbing facilities per 100 of its citizens than Ghana has with our more thieves, corrupt officials and occupied structures without indoor plumbing some 50+years we claim to be free.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Well said.

Thanks.

Well said.

Thanks.
Odikr@ 9 years ago

Any evidence of those imprisoned on the "evidence" of Young Pioneers?

Any evidence of those imprisoned on the "evidence" of Young Pioneers?

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