When did Akufo-Addo and his NPP discover that socialism works?

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ISSA ABONGO 8 years ago

IS IT NOT FUNNY TO HAVE GHANA'S VERSION OF ABBOT AND COSTELLO DISPLAYING THEIR TALENT AT WRITE FUNNY JOKES??????????????? THIS IS REALLY HILARIOUS!!!!!!!! I HAVE NOT STOPPED LAUGHING AND I AM BURSTING WITH SO MUCH LAUGHTER. R ...
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IS IT NOT FUNNY TO HAVE GHANA'S VERSION OF ABBOT AND COSTELLO DISPLAYING THEIR TALENT AT WRITE FUNNY JOKES??????????????? THIS IS REALLY HILARIOUS!!!!!!!! I HAVE NOT STOPPED LAUGHING AND I AM BURSTING WITH SO MUCH LAUGHTER. REALLY FUNNY.
King Bright 8 years ago

When you come across any long but shitty article you trace the source from either this Lungu or the shitty al hajj. What is wrong at all with the ndc? The gods seek to destroy them and hence are made totally gaga, bunkum, com ...
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When you come across any long but shitty article you trace the source from either this Lungu or the shitty al hajj. What is wrong at all with the ndc? The gods seek to destroy them and hence are made totally gaga, bunkum, complete.
Kojo T 8 years ago

I cannot fathom how the tribal and partisan gay partners Lungu and Kwarteng are looking like. All what I know is, Kwarteng looksy a bit ugly, use to wear over size spended suits, lives in Maryland-USA and Lungu has a bad set ...
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I cannot fathom how the tribal and partisan gay partners Lungu and Kwarteng are looking like. All what I know is, Kwarteng looksy a bit ugly, use to wear over size spended suits, lives in Maryland-USA and Lungu has a bad set of disjoint brown teeth and calls himself a professor without a Ph. D. Certificate and also leaves in the USA.
A ABU 8 years ago

YOU PEOPLE ARE DAFT , COMPARE HIM THE CAPITALIST AND SO CALLED SOCIALISTS LIKE KWESI PRATT THE AHWOIS MAHAMA AND YOU WILL SEE THAT NANA AND KUFUOR AND NPP WHO BROUGHT SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS ARE BETTER SOCIALISTS AND WELFARE PEO ...
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YOU PEOPLE ARE DAFT , COMPARE HIM THE CAPITALIST AND SO CALLED SOCIALISTS LIKE KWESI PRATT THE AHWOIS MAHAMA AND YOU WILL SEE THAT NANA AND KUFUOR AND NPP WHO BROUGHT SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS ARE BETTER SOCIALISTS AND WELFARE PEOPLE WHO SYMPATHIZE WITH THE PEOPLE
Kojo T 8 years ago

Fake Kojo T post please ignore

Fake Kojo T post please ignore
Kojo T 8 years ago

Abongo you are an illiterate .The jist is clear in 3rd world development socialism is a key player .The truth about NPP is your tribalist foundation that stops you from analyzing ISSUES .You hated Nkrumah ...
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Abongo you are an illiterate .The jist is clear in 3rd world development socialism is a key player .The truth about NPP is your tribalist foundation that stops you from analyzing ISSUES .You hated Nkrumah not for his ideology but because he was neither an Asante not Akyem and socialism did not further your desire for hegemony .Osafo Marfo stated it that the spoils must be appropriated to those from areas with "resources"
ISSA ABONGO 8 years ago

YOU ARE JUST DISPLAYING YOUR IGNORANCE AND BIAS HERE. HOW CAN MY NAME ABONGO BE AKYEM, FANTI, TWI.?????? YOU THINK IT IS ONLY AKANS, WHO SUPPORT LIBERAL POLITICS IN GHANA???????? HAVE YOU HEARD OF S D DOMBO, YAKUBU TALI, THE ...
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YOU ARE JUST DISPLAYING YOUR IGNORANCE AND BIAS HERE. HOW CAN MY NAME ABONGO BE AKYEM, FANTI, TWI.?????? YOU THINK IT IS ONLY AKANS, WHO SUPPORT LIBERAL POLITICS IN GHANA???????? HAVE YOU HEARD OF S D DOMBO, YAKUBU TALI, THE TOLON NA, ABAYIFA KARBO, C K TEDAM, JATO KALEO, ALIU MAHAMA AND MANY OTHER GREAT NORTHERNERS WHO SUPPORTED LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICS IN GHANA AND ARE STILL SUPPORTING THE SAME IDEOLOGY IN GHANA TODA?????? MY NAME IS ABONGO, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT AND AM PROUD OF MY NAME AND LIBERAL POLITICS TRADITION IN GHANA.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Don't fool anyone here.

"Liberal democratic politics" does not exist anywhere.

What you call "liberal democratic politics" merely is a cover for a turbulent dispensation that saw a scale of political terrorism never w ...
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Don't fool anyone here.

"Liberal democratic politics" does not exist anywhere.

What you call "liberal democratic politics" merely is a cover for a turbulent dispensation that saw a scale of political terrorism never witnessed anywhere in Ghana's modern political history.

You call some of these political terrorists and thieves and opportunists liberal politicians?

Stop throwing meaningless words, phrases and concepts about.

Thanks.
Dr. Otto 8 years ago

Kwarteng knows everything better yet apart from cutting and pasting, he cannot write a simple sentence in English correct. This is the guy who claims to be a columnist and looks for attention everywhere.

Kwarteng knows everything better yet apart from cutting and pasting, he cannot write a simple sentence in English correct. This is the guy who claims to be a columnist and looks for attention everywhere.
yanks 8 years ago

ndc socialism means steal the public money to enrich yourself. npp socialism means people should use the brains and strength to make money to enjoy quality life.

ndc socialism means steal the public money to enrich yourself. npp socialism means people should use the brains and strength to make money to enjoy quality life.

Kojo T 8 years ago

Your capitalism is very conservatism .In the UK they are Conservative party so liberal is no where associated with you human leeches Of course Issa Abongo is not your name but Kwesi Ahyia Boakye

Your capitalism is very conservatism .In the UK they are Conservative party so liberal is no where associated with you human leeches Of course Issa Abongo is not your name but Kwesi Ahyia Boakye
DEAR 8 years ago

Nkrumah was toppled in 1966 and capitalism, as an economic system replaced socialism. Akuffo Addo's "one district,one factory" plan is symptomatic of socialism ushered in by Nkrumah.
Is Akuffo Addo taking us back to Nkrumah ...
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Nkrumah was toppled in 1966 and capitalism, as an economic system replaced socialism. Akuffo Addo's "one district,one factory" plan is symptomatic of socialism ushered in by Nkrumah.
Is Akuffo Addo taking us back to Nkrumah socialism? Has he considered a possible backlash from the capitalist nations who have turned Ghana into the dumping ground of their products?
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

DEAR,
Your's is an important question.

We will note, however, that Nkrumah had a mixed practice and vision, even just as the US and the social democratic states in Europe have, even today.

What happened after the over ...
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DEAR,
Your's is an important question.

We will note, however, that Nkrumah had a mixed practice and vision, even just as the US and the social democratic states in Europe have, even today.

What happened after the overthrow was a total re-orientation to the West. That constituted a loss to Ghana on so many fronts. There are official records that support this "truth".

ITEM: That is one reason why we say it may be time for Akufo Addo and the NPP to apologize to Ghanaians for what their forebears did to Ghana.

Peace!!!!!!!
Ghanaba 8 years ago

Foolish argument. Nation-building comes with dynamic ideas. And even ideologies change

Foolish argument. Nation-building comes with dynamic ideas. And even ideologies change
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Ghanaba,
Ordinarily, we do not respond to comments laden with insults. However, for the sake of the discourse, we will make an exception in this case since you in addition state a fundamental point.

So, send this to Serio ...
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Ghanaba,
Ordinarily, we do not respond to comments laden with insults. However, for the sake of the discourse, we will make an exception in this case since you in addition state a fundamental point.

So, send this to Serious Akufo-Addo, on behalf of all Ghanaians and Africans and send us a note when you have additional information:

"...(3)...(S)houldn't Serious Akufo-Addo apologize to Kwame Nkrumah, and to all Ghanaians, on behalf of himself, his father, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, and the entire New Patriotic Party?.../

/...When will Serious President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo make that big announcement?
The late Akua Donkor 8 years ago

The bane of Ghana's forward march has been such so-called intellectuals who demonstrate no real intelligence but skill at writing the English language.

The bane of Ghana's forward march has been such so-called intellectuals who demonstrate no real intelligence but skill at writing the English language.
Concerned 8 years ago

This particular article cannot be compared to your typical Ahonfee article. The article speaks for itself so there's is no need for me to repeat anything. Lungu is clearly endorsing the current policies of the NPP and Nana bu ...
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This particular article cannot be compared to your typical Ahonfee article. The article speaks for itself so there's is no need for me to repeat anything. Lungu is clearly endorsing the current policies of the NPP and Nana but just couldn't help having a little dig at them for getting it wrong for a long time. Let's move forward now. "Forward Ever Backwards Never" Hope I got it right
Kwame change. 8 years ago

Spot on!

Spot on!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

This is a joint paper with Francis Kwarteng, as you can see.

Sure, we are inclined to be supportive of the proposals. Even so, the proposals ought to be developed and executed with better logic, according to law, fairness, ...
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This is a joint paper with Francis Kwarteng, as you can see.

Sure, we are inclined to be supportive of the proposals. Even so, the proposals ought to be developed and executed with better logic, according to law, fairness, and improved communication.

Plainly, Akufo-Addo and Bawumia need to be more candid about those plans given the ideology they still claim to represent.

Greetings to all.
THE REAL ANDY-K 8 years ago

Prof L,

You guys are spot on with your observations. As far back as 21 Dec. 2012, I had noted in my Staying in the Frying Pan aticle the shift of the NPP even under Kufuor into embracing left of centre policies. I wrote as ...
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Prof L,

You guys are spot on with your observations. As far back as 21 Dec. 2012, I had noted in my Staying in the Frying Pan aticle the shift of the NPP even under Kufuor into embracing left of centre policies. I wrote as the 2nd of my Xmas wishess from the incoming Mahama administration:

"Second on my list is bringing out the social in the claimed social democracy of the NDC. This is what shall create the industries and the jobs which are critically needed in the country. With the Rawlings factor, which is undoubtedly populist and right-wing, drown, we expect to see unfolding the left of centre which represents the Nkrumahist tradition the NDC has clearly captured. I personally do not expect much in that direction but the NDC must wake up to the fact that even the NPP in office was more to the left in its socio-economic policies than them, even though the political rhetoric of the NPP is right-wing, market oriented, private enterprise and property grabbing in practice, by the way!"

There you have it! I didn't do an evaluation of the inept Mahama regime but it doesn't need any analysis to know that the NDC under Mahama failed woefully to do what I tasked them to do. Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP want to do exactly that: the industries and the jobs! Kudos to them!

How are they going to do it? They claimed through private enterprise initiatives. I can smell a mile away what they intended to do. If they let themselves be overcome by private greed and tendency towards crony capitalism, grabbing community resources and opportunities Mugabe socialism style, instead of foster a communal ownership and benefit, they'd be in for a spate of conflicts. I have ideas which can make them popular and ensure they stay in power for 20 years! I am certainly not sharing! Let their greed consume!

I just want to end by saying a big shame to the CPP and the other so-called Nkrumaist parties for abusing the legacy Kwame Nkrumah. As for the NDC, they have no clue what social democracy means and entails. I wrote that I didn't expect much but to be so vampid and clueless is beyond pardon.

Andy-K

francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Nyebro Yao,

What you have given is great food for thought.

Thanks.

Nyebro Yao,

What you have given is great food for thought.

Thanks.
KWESI 8 years ago

TRASH.NO SENSE BUT PERSONAL HATRED EXHIBITED BY SOMEONE WHO WOULD PREFER GHANA SHOULD BE AT A STANDSTILL

TRASH.NO SENSE BUT PERSONAL HATRED EXHIBITED BY SOMEONE WHO WOULD PREFER GHANA SHOULD BE AT A STANDSTILL
Kwadwo. 8 years ago

The industrialization Nana and Bawumia are talking about is not government controlled socialist factories Nkrumah bequeathed to Ghana. These will be Privately owned factories with the government creating the enabling business ...
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The industrialization Nana and Bawumia are talking about is not government controlled socialist factories Nkrumah bequeathed to Ghana. These will be Privately owned factories with the government creating the enabling business environment for econnomic activities to thrive. We are not going back to Cuban or Soviet style wasteful, inefficient and non profitable factories. Make no mistake about that.
ISSA ABONGO 8 years ago

THESE TWO JOKERS MAKE ME LAUGH. SOCIALISM IS DEAD AND NOT COMING BACK. IT IS DEAD, GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

THESE TWO JOKERS MAKE ME LAUGH. SOCIALISM IS DEAD AND NOT COMING BACK. IT IS DEAD, GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
PaganAfrikan 8 years ago

Sucg an idiot

Sucg an idiot
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

Kwadwo, you can say, write or fantasize all you want or lie if you must to delude yourself that socialist proposals by the NPP under the Akufo-Addo administration is different from Nkrumah era socialism. There are no better ...
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Kwadwo, you can say, write or fantasize all you want or lie if you must to delude yourself that socialist proposals by the NPP under the Akufo-Addo administration is different from Nkrumah era socialism. There are no better or worse socialism but socialism. There are socialism-ills just as democratic practices always leave a path of destruction creating slave masters or employers and slaves called labor. After all socialism offers a take it or leave it option just as in democracies the slave masters/employers tell the slaves/employers to take what they offer or leave because there is no room for union bargaining. After all, Kwadwo, cannot name one of your favorite democratic nations where governments gave each district/region/state a factory from the government neither can you conjure it. In the best of democracies government can take tax payer money to retain important institutions as America did under ex-President Bush in the bailout of banking and financial institutions or ex-President Obama did with bailout of GM. What you cannot find is government telling any district or region to create a factory, build a damn or give same amount to each district. In capitalism funding is by need and justification and the return of taxpayer money to districts, regions, or states are based on their need and or size. Simply put, Nana Akufo-Addo is engaged in socialist practices and advocacy and denying it will not make his socialism any more democratic than you Kwadwo becoming a Caucasian.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Ha! ha! ha!

READ: "...Simply put, Nana Akufo-Addo is engaged in socialist practices and advocacy and denying it will not make his socialism any more democratic than you Kwadwo becoming a Caucasian".

WE SAY: The irony of ...
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Ha! ha! ha!

READ: "...Simply put, Nana Akufo-Addo is engaged in socialist practices and advocacy and denying it will not make his socialism any more democratic than you Kwadwo becoming a Caucasian".

WE SAY: The irony of ironies from property-owning democrats!!!!!!

Greetings.
Kwadwo. 8 years ago

If you Nkrumaist really believe Akuffo Addo is going to embark on government controllled factories, then you are wet dreaming. And I believe at your age that is impossible, Abeeku.

If you Nkrumaist really believe Akuffo Addo is going to embark on government controllled factories, then you are wet dreaming. And I believe at your age that is impossible, Abeeku.
Paul Binder 8 years ago

If not socialism what is then?If these district factories were viable the so called self-made men of Danquah/Busia spectrum would have established these After all they had the chance to do that in 2002-2009 Ironically Alan Ca ...
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If not socialism what is then?If these district factories were viable the so called self-made men of Danquah/Busia spectrum would have established these After all they had the chance to do that in 2002-2009 Ironically Alan Cash said they were on it short before Kuffour left office.It took Kyeremanteng 8 to realise his fallacies.Pwalugu tomatoe factory's demise nails the coffin of their dead ideas.Alan could have revived it.He is impotent
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Paul Binder,
Thanks for your historically-informed comment.

Peace.

Paul Binder,
Thanks for your historically-informed comment.

Peace.

Dr. J. K. Bokor & C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago

Long last the 2 Homos (gays), Lungu and Francis Kwarteng have indirectly made themselves open to the public, presenting a silly booklet to wasting space instead of an article.

Long last the 2 Homos (gays), Lungu and Francis Kwarteng have indirectly made themselves open to the public, presenting a silly booklet to wasting space instead of an article.
JB 8 years ago

I really can't understand why Africans can't use so called PHDs profitably. How can a PHD holder think and write this and claims to be a Ghanaian. Are you not disgracing yourself? Can't you Lungu or whoever. For god sake, y ...
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I really can't understand why Africans can't use so called PHDs profitably. How can a PHD holder think and write this and claims to be a Ghanaian. Are you not disgracing yourself? Can't you Lungu or whoever. For god sake, you claim to be a PHD holder. Waaaat! How did you get your PHD? Terribly Terrible.
Concerned 8 years ago

Jake / Koo, what is your point. Can I suggest you read the article over and over again until you understand it.

Jake / Koo, what is your point. Can I suggest you read the article over and over again until you understand it.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

We agree!

Person JB needs to read the essay a few more times, and more, if Person JB still can't understand.

We imagine there are persons in the world who never put their foot in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, who never had an ...
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We agree!

Person JB needs to read the essay a few more times, and more, if Person JB still can't understand.

We imagine there are persons in the world who never put their foot in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, who never had any sibling or family relations, but have helped Ghana a lot more than many people who call themselves Ghanaians. That is the other issue with Person JB's comment.

Go figure!
coolmann 8 years ago

the playing cards is mixed again,watch it very very careful,we are goimg back to our roots

the playing cards is mixed again,watch it very very careful,we are goimg back to our roots
Kojo T 8 years ago

Lack of knowledge stinks .Define for yourselves socialism and social democracy Question who is paying for Free SHS, factory dams Sada, NHIS All are State interventions .That is socialism Laor party in ...
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Lack of knowledge stinks .Define for yourselves socialism and social democracy Question who is paying for Free SHS, factory dams Sada, NHIS All are State interventions .That is socialism Laor party in the UK and Democrats are variants of socialism .Obama applied socialism to get USA out of the doldrums .WAKE UP GUYS .Stop burying your heads in the sand
Kojo T 8 years ago

I typed laor it should be labor party

I typed laor it should be labor party
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akwajiram 8 years ago

I have read Cameron Duodu's article which is quoted in this article and |I am puzzled. If Mr Duodu is as "rabid" a critic of Nkrumah's policies as is claimed, then when did he get "cured" of that rabidity enough so as to ma ...
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I have read Cameron Duodu's article which is quoted in this article and |I am puzzled. If Mr Duodu is as "rabid" a critic of Nkrumah's policies as is claimed, then when did he get "cured" of that rabidity enough so as to make him cite Nkrumah's development plans as an inspiration to the Akufo Addo Government?

This mindkess labelling of peope is what is preventing Ghana from going forward. As far as I know, Duodu's criticism of Nkrumah relattes to the Preventive Detention Act and other authoritarian measures. Does it mean that he shoud also condemn every one of Nkrumah's actions even if he admires them?

That shws a one-dimensional aproach to life and issues. A proper intellectual attitude is one which can be objective aboutissues and draw the line to show what is good in one's eyes and what is not sogood. You guys are pathetically moribund in your thought processes. Admiration of totalitarianism died many years ago. Wake up fromnyour torpor!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

akwajiram,
Why?

Why would you suppose just one article by anyone would always be sufficient to draw a fundamental conclusion about an author?

What do you know now in 2017 that you did not know in 1966, with all that ...
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akwajiram,
Why?

Why would you suppose just one article by anyone would always be sufficient to draw a fundamental conclusion about an author?

What do you know now in 2017 that you did not know in 1966, with all that flourish of Coup-Plotter narratives?

Must we all not "grow" when we have new, more objective, information and data?

And you are talking about the PDA?

We have several Definitive essays on that topic. Get them at "Visions", at GhanaHero.com, read, and come back again.
KB 8 years ago

To the extent that socialism is better than stealing a country's resources for self, family and friends. ie Cocobod sole sourcing scandals vrs Nana Addo's free SHS.

To the extent that socialism is better than stealing a country's resources for self, family and friends. ie Cocobod sole sourcing scandals vrs Nana Addo's free SHS.
Mr. Mister 8 years ago

Socialism works??? Where? Rubbish. Where do such idiots that wrote this article have their heads? Up their commie arses? Socialism has never and will never work...ANYWHERE. It has already been demonstrated. Madness has been d ...
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Socialism works??? Where? Rubbish. Where do such idiots that wrote this article have their heads? Up their commie arses? Socialism has never and will never work...ANYWHERE. It has already been demonstrated. Madness has been defines as trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Socialists 100 years ago may have been fools. Today after 100 years of failures everywhere anybody who still trumpets socialism is a mental case.
ghanani 8 years ago

Did you expect Cameron Duodu an akyemkwaa like J.B.Danquah to like Osagyefo?Never!!!

Did you expect Cameron Duodu an akyemkwaa like J.B.Danquah to like Osagyefo?Never!!!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

ghanani,

You don't say!

To be honest with you, we've never thought about that matter using that perspective.

We did not know and never cared on those grounds.

But obviously, it is very important to some people, ...
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ghanani,

You don't say!

To be honest with you, we've never thought about that matter using that perspective.

We did not know and never cared on those grounds.

But obviously, it is very important to some people, including the few who hurl invectives at people simply because they are from other places. Or, those who expect others to behave a certain way regardless of the merits because they're from a certain part of Ghana.

Or, people who steal other peoples' names and monikers to misrepresent them online.

Its all connected, we are sorry to say.

Thank, ghanani.

Greetings!!!!!!!!!!
DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 8 years ago

The full extent of Kwame Nkrumah's understanding of socialism was one-party state, incarceration without trial, life presidency, suppression of the freedom of speech and of association; and the cultic worship of the President ...
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The full extent of Kwame Nkrumah's understanding of socialism was one-party state, incarceration without trial, life presidency, suppression of the freedom of speech and of association; and the cultic worship of the President as immortal, as fountain of wisdom, and as infallible. That was Nkrumah's brand of socialism which is now irreversibly repudiated.

Under the despotic rule of Kwame Nkrumah, free education, free health care and free housing were all provided to the extent that they will make the people regard Nkrumah as some sort of a demigod worthy of worship.

Everything was therefore polluted to create the great infallible and immortal image of Nkrumah himself, and never done in the interest of the people. This toxic kind of illiterate socialism was what Nkrumah proffered, all geared toward his own self-aggrandizement and personality cult.

The more educated and civil alternative of socialism operates within the context of a free democratic societies such as in Europe and elsewhere, and is acceptable as the social tool for balance and equanimity. And within this admixture of the social/democratic principles, socialism operates to mitigate the residual harshness of the capitalist/democratic system and gives it a humanitarian face and phase.

We Danquists have always projected this version from the very beginning under our "development in freedom" mantra. Our property-owning democratic principle assumes universal opportunities for the citizenry so that they can evolve their talents and circumstances toward economic well-being in order for them to be sufficiently endowed to acquire their own properties. This actually means starting them off with those socialist provisions that will lay the foundation of their financial welfare and well-being, leading to their development in the context of true freedom and justice.

Nkrumah's fake and illiterate socialist principle required him to deprive of all the people of their freedoms and justice in order to substitute these deprivations with a set of free resources: free education, free housing free health etc. In other words, Nkrumah asked the people to give up their freedoms and justice for freebies! And that was his own brand of fake and toxic socialism!

Under the Akufo-Addo government, we purvey all the universal freedoms and justice together with the very best of the socialist principles: free education, health and housing........
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

You are late to the party, vulture-fashion!

This essay must have bothered you a lot seeing you did not know how to respond intelligently to the arguments we make.

It took you this long to come out with this bizarre rend ...
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You are late to the party, vulture-fashion!

This essay must have bothered you a lot seeing you did not know how to respond intelligently to the arguments we make.

It took you this long to come out with this bizarre rendition and all that chest-pounding chutzpah.

Imagine traitor Busia, the Danquist, just one more example!

We just came across information, data from official records, FACT, that attests that Busia (and Gbedemah) were going to be very disappointed the US had decided to go forth with the Akosombo-Valco project, and not withdraw support, in the interest of the US.

Think about that.

Busia (and Gbedemah) preferred the US nix the Akosombo-VALCO project to punish Nkrumah for the independence he sought strongly for Ghana and Africa.

Go deal with that and write a detailed account why you've changed, and why you want anybody to believe what you now write will mean anything to you, DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 2, 5, 10, 20 years removed from today.

Nice try fuming on the dregs!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

....vulture-fashion!

This essay must have bothered you a lot seeing you did not know how to respond intelligently to the arguments we make.

It took you this long to come out with this bizarre rendition and all that ches ...
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....vulture-fashion!

This essay must have bothered you a lot seeing you did not know how to respond intelligently to the arguments we make.

It took you this long to come out with this bizarre rendition and all that chest-pounding chutzpah.

Imagine traitor Busia, the Danquist, just one more example!

We just came across information, data from official records, FACT, that attests that Busia (and Gbedemah) were going to be very disappointed the US had decided to go forth with the Akosombo-Valco project, and not withdraw support, in the interest of the US.

Think about that.

Busia (and Gbedemah) preferred the US nix the Akosombo-VALCO project to punish Nkrumah for the independence he sought strongly for Ghana and Africa.

Go deal with that and write a detailed account why you've changed, and why you want anybody to believe what you now write will mean anything to you, DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 2, 5, 10, 20 years removed from today.

Nice try fuming on the dregs!
DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW 8 years ago

Bro.

I was late to the article because I was busy elsewhere throughout the day. Believe me, I always like to cut your articles to size and would not have missed the chance if I had seen this one earlier.

Nonetheless, yo ...
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Bro.

I was late to the article because I was busy elsewhere throughout the day. Believe me, I always like to cut your articles to size and would not have missed the chance if I had seen this one earlier.

Nonetheless, your response does not, and cannot dispute the fact that to Nkrumah's diminutive mind, socialism was a convenient means to impose tyranny on the country and to perpetuate his own rule and foolish self-aggrandizement.

Your strident utterances here do nothing to dispute this fact or alter that historical record. You yourself often quote the Singaporean dictator's style of leadership as Nkrumah's own template for Ghana's development, as if the only way a country can prosper like Singapore is when it is under a totalitarian regime!

We Danquists however project the view that freedom and development are not mutually exclusive. And that a social responsibility principle can work well with democracy to achieve national progress and development.......

Live with our triumphant and prevailing view and stop your diversionary tactic of introducing the Akosombo Dam which would not be in existence without the hard work of Gbedemah, who wicked Nkrumah later betrayed.

Foolish boy!!!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Hi Bro

You are saying, Prof Lungu "often quotes the Singaporean dictator's style of leadership as Nkrumah's own template for Ghana's development".

I am very familiar with Lungu's papers. How did you arrive at that conc ...
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Hi Bro

You are saying, Prof Lungu "often quotes the Singaporean dictator's style of leadership as Nkrumah's own template for Ghana's development".

I am very familiar with Lungu's papers. How did you arrive at that conclusion? Can you prove that?
Issa 8 years ago

This is not socialism, dont be supid no nothing cant.

This is not socialism, dont be supid no nothing cant.

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