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The fall of Kwame Nkrumah

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  • Kwame 7 years ago

    ASP, Kindly go back and read your history. PDA was imposed in 1958 one year after independence. The bomb throwing incidents happened in 11 August 1962. Tawia Adamafio, Kofi Crabbe and Ako Adjei were tried and jailed. They wer ...
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  • Kwame 7 years ago

    A lie when even deodorized still remains a lie, thus the lies that local quislings tell about Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah still remain lies because they are not true. Kwame it is on record that the very people who were in char ...
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  • Immortal 7 years ago

    You should rather read before you comment. The attempts on Nkrumah's life started as early as 1952. In 1952, Nkrumah's house was bombed but he and his mother escape unhurt.

  • Danny, London 7 years ago

    Kwame, I believe you are too young to really know what went wrong at that period.

    The significant question is, who were the people throwing the bombs trying to kill Dr Nkrumah and his best friend Dr Ako-Adjei? The frank an ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 7 years ago

    Every last one of the living Nkrumah-hating brigade, particularly those now enjoying shelter in the Americas and Western Europe, are the ones who enjoy safety and security in those countries because of Nkrumah era PDA-like la ...
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  • Kwadwo. 7 years ago

    This is a rather pathetic attempt of a shallow minded Nkrumaist to whitewash the horrors of Nkrumah's reign.Makes me puke. The author needs a lesson in critical analysis.

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Kwadwo,
    Did it not occur to you the author wrote the essay in commemoration of the overthrow.

    And did you fail to notice the essay is not all kumbayah and rosy with respect to the Nkrumah record?

    And you are here tal ...
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  • King of powers 7 years ago

    This is a man who can bring back your life about all your spiritual problems spiritual diseases spiritual attacks problems madness child Barrens or you want to get quick riche search for positions and many more call for all h ...
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  • Kwame 7 years ago

    Kwadwo stop repeating the discorded note.
    Abeeku Mensah it is a fact that those who dangle the ruse of democracy about our eyes are not aware that when Germany joined NATO in 1948 it was still a fascist state. That NATO def ...
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  • Taabea 7 years ago

    My grandfather was sent to UK by Nkrumah to do law in the year 1964 and he is still there by now.

  • Paa Joe 7 years ago

    A BIG QUESTION HAS TO BE THROWN TO THE PRESENT SONS,DAUGHTERS AND GRAND CHILDREN OF NATIONAL MOVEMEMENT(NLM)LED BY BAFFOUR AKOTO,UNITED PARTY(UP)LED BY DOMBO,BUSIA AND R.R AMPONSAH,PROGRESS PARTY(PP)LED BY BUSIA, VICTOR OWUSU ...
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  • Paa Joe 7 years ago

    ASP ANNAN:

    PLEASE,YOU NEED TO KNOW, YOUR COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FALL OF OSAGYEFO DR LWAME NKRUMAH WOULD WRONGLY BE RECEIVED BY KOFI ANNAN, THEN A STUDENT AT MFANTSIPIM, KUFFOUR,AND ALSO STUDENT AT PRRMPEH IN 1957 DO ...
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  • Atumpam 7 years ago

    The IGP thingie was a post-coup promotion!

    Before Feb. 24 1966, he was the Commissioner of Police with 2 Deputy Commissioners!

  • Nii Okai 7 years ago

    Yes, it is good to write history to help those who never had the chance to know some of the wonderful histories of our nation. I just want to correct you that the one who announced the coup on the radio that day of 24 Febuary ...
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  • anyam kennedy 7 years ago

    Nana yaw
    anyam Kennedy

  • Frederick Acheaw 7 years ago

    My dear ASK you have made my day about Kwame. Thank you very much. I will send you an email later. IF everybody is seeing what you just wrote, like for us this country would be a better place

  • THE SENTINEL 7 years ago

    ASP JAMES ANNAN, THANK YOU, BUT FOR ONCE I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO REALLY WRITE A REJOINDER OR COMMENT TO SUCH A CONTRIBUTION. KWAME NKRUMAH! I WOULD HAVE WISHED WE WERE AT AN OPEN PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF A CONFERENCE TYPE FOR THAT M ...
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