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I find it amazing that in this time and age, with all the information at our disposal, the writer can write a profile of J. B. Danquah and forget to mention the fact tha ... read full comment
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I find it amazing that in this time and age, with all the information at our disposal, the writer can write a profile of J. B. Danquah and forget to mention the fact that the guy was also a CIA asset!
Please, see below an article I wrote on the subject!
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J. B. Danquah Was A CIA Asset!
September 30, 2011 | Opinions
It is funny the way Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, writes to justify the insults heaped upon Dr. Omane Boamah, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, during last Saturday’s Newsfile, a live radio and TV programme on Joy FM and Multi TV. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., who has been sacked from the Danquah Institute as a member of its Governing Body, has every right to get at the Executive Director, Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko and to describe his insults as being a “rather startlingly infantile reaction”, even though he agrees with him! See: “Omane-Boamah Deserved that Bit of It”, Feature Article of Friday, 30 September 2011.
In his article titled, “Danquah was a Great Patriot, The Lie about being a CIA Agent must Stop!”, Ochere-Darko’s attempt to set the records straight, rather set out to bend the records. He would surreptitiously replace the CIA with the American Embassy as the source of the stipends, in order to argue later that Danquah had nothing to do with the CIA!:
In any case, all we need to satisfy ourselves here is whether or not the CIA was investing in Danquah with his consent. That is what makes one an asset or agent. We all know that the CIA is not a Father Christmas. There is always a quid pro quo in their expenditures. If the CIA is giving money to your wife without your knowledge, that could be a different thing. It is quite another issue, if one feels so entitled to the cash as to go and complain after it had ceased!
Did J.B. Danquah go to see the then US Ambassador to Ghana, after Nkrumah had pardoned him and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release”? Why is it that the Danquah Institute’s narrative of these events conspicuously omit the mention of the CIA, preferring to mislead the reader that:
“Dr Danquah’s family,… allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador”?
Is this what is written in the book? Did Richard Mahoney write that Danquah’s family was being paid by the CIA or “the American Embassy”? Is the Danquah Institute so ashamed to admit the fact that it was the CIA that was paying the stipends and not “the American Embassy” as they would want us to believe?
A very strange thing is happening. Just before writing this, I visited the site of Danquah Institute to check the link to the quote above, in which they attempted to rewrite Richard Mahoney’s book by replacing the “CIA” with “the US Embassy”. Strangely enough, they have done an IMANI! The article has been withdrawn, but the title is still there: “Was J.B. Danquah A CIA Agent? All You Need To Know”.
Fortunately, the story has been shared on several websites, that is why I was able to retrieve it! The hard facts in the book written by Professor Richard D. Mahoney do not explain why Danquah was expecting the CIA to continue to pay him. But the inference that Danquah must be seen as a CIA asset, after so much investments in him is certainly not as stupid as Ochere-Darko arrogantly and insultingly begs the question with.
The fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” which was paying the stipends is very clear in the book. What is also clear is the fact that Danquah was aware of this arrangement and liked it so much as to complain when it stopped! What made him feel so entitled to it, if Danquah did not consider himself as an agent?
The story in the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”, is very clear. According to Richard Mahoney, Danquah’s collaboration with the CIA became clear when he went to the US Embassy, after Nkrumah had pardon Danquah and other detainees on June 2, 1962, to ask “why the funds his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut after his release.” As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, correctly recounts, “This caused Mr. Mahoney, the new US Ambassador to Ghana to summon “the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency’s association with Danquah.” Displeased with the explanation, “Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter” (Mahoney).” – Feature Article of Monday, 25 September 2006, Columnist: Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Dr., Fallacies of J. B. Danquah’s Heroic Legacy (V)
It is very interesting that after a storm of criticisms of the ridiculous nature of this propaganda, Ochere-Darko had to reluctantly correct the anomaly of avoiding the embarrassing fact that it was the CIA and not “the American Embassy” that was paying Danquah. I have noticed that in his more recent submissions he concedes the fact that indeed, it was the CIA and not the US Embassy that was paying the stipends to J.B. Danquah’s family:
“I have had the opportunity to read the book by Richard Mahoney, whose father was US ambassador to Ghana between 1952-65, and nowhere in that book is Danquah described as a CIA agent. In fact, the younger Mahoney, who was not older than 10 years at the material time, refers to some financial support, stipends, that were allegedly offered to Danquah’s wife and 13 dependent children by an official at the embassy, who was the CIA local agent, when Danquah was first imprisoned by Nkrumah for 11 months between February 1961 and January 1962, without the prior knowledge of his father.”
The CIA does not go about pointing out who their agents are. Thus when there is a fortuitous and concrete proof of such payments, Ghanaians have every right to interrogate it! Is Mr. Ochere-Darko also interrogating the age of the father who must have passed on the information to his son? The issue is certainly not about the age of Richard Mahoney, nor at what time his father became the US Ambassador to Ghana. The issue is whether or not the CIA was paying stipends to Danquah’s wife with his knowledge and approval? And the answer is clear!
What is even more interesting about this is the fact that Ochere-Darko behaves as if he was learning about the dubious past of Dr. J. B. Danquah for the first time! That was certainly not the first time that he was reacting to those allegations that wont go away because they are from very credible sources. On Sunday, 13 February 2011 20:13, Ochere-Darko published an article on the website of the Danquah Institute, in which he attempted to debunk what he called “smear campaign that Joseph Boakye Danquah, the ‘doyen of Ghana’ and co-founder of Ghana’s first political party, the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), was a CIA spy.”
“WHAT STARTED THE LIE? Opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition in Ghana have in the last decade or so seized with glee and relish on a dubious information that came out of the book, “JFK: Ordeal in Africa”. This book, written by Richard Mahoney, son of the late William Mahoney, US Ambassador to Ghana (1962-65), in a paragraph mentions that Dr Danquah’s family, which at the time included 13 dependent children, allegedly received stipends from the American Embassy in 1961 during his first period in jail under the Preventive Detention Act. The issue was that this was done without the knowledge of the Ambassador.”
Who could have done this in the American Embassy without the knowledge of the American Ambassador, if it was not the CIA? Ochere-Darko’s attempt to edit or re-write a book in print which is still out there is a very daring act of stupidity, to borrow his own word!
Ochere-Darko deliberately chips in the number of Danquah’s dependants to give the impression that the CIA is a charity organisation! The mention of Mr. Richard Mahoney’s age of ten at the time of the incident, is also a deliberate ploy to give the impression of unreliability of the source. Ochere-Darko actually argues that “The reliability of the information in the younger Mahoney’s has certainly been interrogated. Since the author was at the material time barely 10 years old, we must assume that the information came to him much later from his father. This is because no declassified CIA records of the period contain any such reference.”
Richard Mahoney’s book was published in 1983. He was 31 years old when it was published, not a child. Richard Mahoney was an accomplished scholar in his own rights at the time of publication. He lectured as a visiting professor at Templeton College (Oxford University), The JFK School of Government (Harvard University), the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade, and the Universidad Del Pacifico – Ecuador (Quito, Campus). He was also professor emeritus at The American Graduate School of International Management.
Wikipedia provides a short biography on Richard D. Mahoney which describes Mahoney as “the author of three books, two on the John F. Kennedy administration: JFK: Ordeal in Africa (1983) and Sons and Brothers, The days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy (1999) and Getting Away with Murder on the War in Afghanistan, as well as numerous articles and monographs on presidential history, foreign policy, international trade, and political risk. He has also published a volume of poetry in Spanish entitled Pétalos (1995).”
Ochere-Darko must look for another argument other than the age of the historian! Is he going to ask archaeologists how old they were when the events they describe in their books occurred? No wonder he is left with nothing sensible to say other than “Would you stop this stupidity? Would you stop this stupidity? Why is he so stupid? You are sitting here and accusing somebody of being a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is that? What is this stupidity? This is stupidity…you consider a founder of Ghana as a CIA agent, what sort of stupidity is this? . ..this is pure stupidity.” “When you want us to have an intellectual programme like this, you don’t bring people like this. I am not going to apologise, I can apologise to the viewers and listeners but not him. He insults J.B. Danquah and you want me to apologise to him? …I am not going to do that. Why should I do that? … If that is what you want I will walk out on your programme, I won’t do it!”
“Also, spies, informants or double agents usually have their handlers.” Ochere-Darko argues pathetically, ” Why didn’t Danquah go to his ‘handler’ to complain but to the Ambassador who, as it turned out, knew nothing about the apparent arrangement? Or, are we not allowed to scrutinise the logicalities of claims made by so-called chroniclers of our history? Nowhere in that book or anywhere else, for that matter, has it been alleged that Danquah personally received money from any foreign power or agent.”
Danquah was in prison for eleven months before Nkrumah pardoned him. How would anyone know whether or not his “handler had been tranfered from Ghana? How could we tell if the CIA had rightly considered him as a pent force and dumped him? From the reports that Mahoney was in touch with some soldiers and police officers, thus the CIA had recruited new players and actors on their behalf, so why would they be bothred with Danquah?
As Paul Lee writes in “Documents Expose U.S. Role in Nkrumah Overthrow”, “In a reversal of what some would assume were the traditional roles of an ambassador and the CIA director, McCone asked Mahoney who would most likely succeed Nkrumah in the event of a coup.
Mahoney again correctly forecast the future: Ambassador Mahoney stated that initially, at least, a military junta would take over.” It comes out clearly that the CIA’s attention had shifted to somewhere else, and unkown to Danquah, he was no longer in the picture.
The only reason provided by Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute for angrily branding Dr Omane Boamah, as being “stupid” is because Gabby sees Danquah as a “founding father of Ghana”! We shall have another occasion to go into that ridiculous claim. For now, it suffices just to ask the question whether it is that stupid to consider a man who is a known CIA asset as “a founding father” of any nation in Africa?
What someone ought to make clear to Gabby is the fact that we do not consider CIA assets as our founding fathers. Indeed, anyone qualified to be a founding father can be disqualified on the basis of being an agent for a foreign country. So you cannot argue that because Danquah is esteemed by others to be a founding father, it is wrong to accuse him of being a CIA agent. On the contrary, the reverse is true. Danquah cannot even be considered as a founding father because he was an asset of a foreign intelligence organisation.
For those of us who know a little bit of our history, the revelations by Professor Mahoney only comes to confirm what we knew already.
As Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah rightly puts it, “Danquah’s detention under the PDA resulted from his involvements in coup plots in collaboration with the CIA. During the first treason trial of Awhiatey-Amponsah-Apaloo conspiracy of November 1958, after the passage of the PDA, J. B. Danquah was heard assuring a foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 (Bing). But the security forces did not act on it. They kept close eyes on him and other enemies of the State in order to gather hard evidence.”
“The grounds for the first detention of Danquah was submitted to him in writing that: ‘During the month of September 1961 YOU DID JOIN in a DESIGN for the subversion of the Government of Ghana PRESENTED to you at a meeting on the premises of Dr. J. B. Danquah in Accra, by ISMAILA ANNAN and ATTA BORDOH both now detained and you did ENCOURAGE this design and in furtherance of it DID ACT in a manner calculated to endanger the security of the State and to cause the overthrow of the Government of Ghana by unlawful means’” (see Danquah’s own Historic Speeches J. B. Danquah).
“Of course one should expect Danquah to craft his response like a defense attorney in order to accuse Nkrumah’s Government of unlawful detention without trial. Danquah’s claim was that the meeting was called in connection with the 1961 Takoradi Workers’ strike and the government’s budget. During this same strike, Komla Gbedemah, serving on the three-man presidential commission ruling the country, “saw his chance to seize power. Gbedemah had no problem in obtaining CIA backing for his conspiracy.” He “approached Ambassador Russell on September 6, 1961”and asked for US support; and “Washington gave an unequivocal yes.” Gbedemah and Busia went into exile together with the help of the CIA in October 1961 (see Mahoney, 1983 for details).
Now, given that Danquah, Busia, Obetsebi-Lamptey, R. R. Amponsah, Modesto Apaloo and the new comer Gbedemah were in one accord to overthrow Nkrumah’s government by violence, Danquah’s assurance given to the foreign diplomat that Nkrumah’s government would be overthrown in December 1958 and the meeting in his house in September 1961 cannot be seen as unrelated issues.”
Danquah who started his political carrier as a collaborator of the British colonial rule and a favourite, lost all the respect and support which the British transferred to Dr. Kofi Busia, must have become very useful to the CIA at that time. There were signs that he got on better with the Americans than with the British. It must be remembered that in 1954, just after losing the Parliamentary elections to his ex-wife, he took a trip, not to the UK but to the US.
The reason why the British develop a very low esteem of this individual was as a result of his deep involvement in the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa. It might have also been the case on Danquah’s part, who never forgave the British when the Privy Council, the final court of appeal, “sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until they died”. It must be noted that the culprits were his own relatives, namely, Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng.
As to his motivations for being a spy, Mr. Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko has given too many reasons for this to labour the point here. Suffice it to say that the reason why this is important is because it has implications on the loyalties of those who claim to be followers of the Danquah tradition. For instance, in arguing that President Mills must allow the Americans to establish military bases in Ghana in the wake of of President Obama’s visit to Ghana, Ochere-Darko quotes Nkrumah out of context to promote his evil Danquah-infested agenda.
One trick Ochere-Darko used which I have never forgiven was to make it look as though allowing our lands to be occupied by a foreign military power is a from of liberation! Here is what he wrote:
“Obama’s chief policy adviser assured Africans two months before the 2008 presidential race, “Barack Obama understands Africa, and understands its importance to the United States. Today, in this new century, he understands that to strengthen our common security, we must invest in our common humanity and, in this way, restore American leadership in the world.” Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs – but, crucially, Ghana must take up the opportunity provided by the state visit and the U.S.’s burgeoning strategic interest in us, to be the nation that demonstrates this. – Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko, ” (Obama’s Visit – What’s In It For Us And U.S.?”, Feature Article of Monday, 25 May 2009. “The author of the article is the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, a think tank based in Accra.”)
“Now is the chance for him to seek and effect the real change that will finally show the world that Africans are capable of more than managing their own affairs”? Does that sound familiar? It is obviously a sacrilegious reference to the Independence Eve declaration by the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah:
“And as I pointed out, I made it quite clear that from now on, today, we must change our attitudes, our minds! We must realize that from now on, we are no more a colonial people but a free and independent people! But also, as I pointed out, that also entails hard work!
That new African is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of managing his own affairs! We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our own foundation! Our own African identity!”
This is why we need to keep a close eye, not only on people like Gabriel Asare Ochere-Darko but also the man he represents, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo. This is why it is important not to trust the destiny of this nation in hands such as these! This is why it is important to expose these agents of imperialism who think that the only way “the black man can prove to the whole world that he is capable of managing his own affairs” is by allowing a foreign military occupation of our territories!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
By Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Email: nanaakyeamensah@gmail.com
Lexus 11 years ago
Mesmadi, to describe you as a RIGHTEOUSLY INDIGNANT AND A PERPETUALLY NAUSEATING OXYMORON would be too lenient, and actually, amount to pandering to a scumbag of your ilk.
Kiss my black ass, you by-product of an inbreed bet ... read full comment
Mesmadi, to describe you as a RIGHTEOUSLY INDIGNANT AND A PERPETUALLY NAUSEATING OXYMORON would be too lenient, and actually, amount to pandering to a scumbag of your ilk.
Kiss my black ass, you by-product of an inbreed between a philandering apostate and an exorcised whore of a niece.
With so much hate in your heart why don't you just join company with pickaxe-toothed Pratt, move to Northern Mali and join the Tuareg rebels to slaughter other Africans who don't buy into your 'Caliphate' nonsense.
WHAT A JACKASS!!!!
ps JB Danquah has been vindicated a thousand times and over. Get a grip of yourself, because, sooner or later, your dumbass is going to deal with such reality.
KOFI GHANABA 11 years ago
If the reputation and place of Dr J B Danquah in Ghana history can be destroyed, it would have happened in the First Republic. If the name and historic feat of Dr J B Danquah can be destroyed by Ali Masmadi Jehu Appiah, then ... read full comment
If the reputation and place of Dr J B Danquah in Ghana history can be destroyed, it would have happened in the First Republic. If the name and historic feat of Dr J B Danquah can be destroyed by Ali Masmadi Jehu Appiah, then the world is indeed coming to an end.
Dr J B Danquah was a stalwart in Ghana politics. I once read an article of KB Asante, describing the agony of Kwame Nkrumah in keeping Danquah in prison; he wanted him to renounce his political stand in exchange of his freedom from Prison. Dr Danquah later agreed by writing to Nkrumah that due to his diabetic condition he would wish to be freed to attend to his health...but it was too late and died in prison in melancholy. An innocent man imprisoned to death for no reason than same old communism! Communista! Dr Danquah predicted the downfall of communism. Where is communism now?
If Ghanaians had listened to Dr JB Danquah instead of fanciful Nkrumah and his irreverent CPP veranda boys, 5.4 Million Ghanaians wont be defacating in public almost 61 years of self government. Look at the state of Gomoa land: is it not the same state as when Danquah lived?
We know left-wing ideologues are talkative and loud mouthed; an electoral machine which bribes illiterate ignorant masses with pittances to gain political power. BUT what have they achieved in all these many, many years they have ruled Ghana.
As I keep saying, its the state of Ghana's economy, the poor sanitation, unemployment of so many, low agricultural produce, low industrial output, poor health facilities, destruction of basic secondary school system, Woyomisation/kalabule perpetuated by the socialist brigade, that will determine the efficiency of government than talking shop of socialist brigadiers as this Ali.
You cannot argue with madmen. They produce nothing, otherwise Ghana wont be in such sorry state.
Dr Danquah was preceded by Kobina Sekyi and Casely Hayford, who trusted him to lead our struggle for Independence, and will forever be spoken in real value. No one single liar can distort history!
As the elders say, if you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.
Once again, if this mate of mine, Ali, succeeds in destroying the imperial name of Dr J B Danquah, I will eat my head.
The befitting tribute of Dr Danquah was the quality government of his NPP descendants during their governance of Ghana between 2000 and 2008. For that was proper government of real performance and not the one we have seen under the same group of people who have ruled us forever as CPP/NDC/SMC/PNP.
Quality will always outshine rabble rousing!
God Bless Dr J B Danquah!
IDRIS PACAS 11 years ago
We don't need Danquah Hall at Legon at all. There was nothing Danquah did which didn't benefit him personally. Perhaps Nana Addo is a prize example of this ancestral trait of megalomania. Nkrumah's ideologies are the best. Un ... read full comment
We don't need Danquah Hall at Legon at all. There was nothing Danquah did which didn't benefit him personally. Perhaps Nana Addo is a prize example of this ancestral trait of megalomania. Nkrumah's ideologies are the best. Unitary Ghana is the best. The federal ideas still incubated in NPP is the cost their current and yet-to-come defeats.
Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr, Ph.D 11 years ago
joseph boakye danquah was a terrorist who was EXECUTED for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!! HE WAS LUCKY NOT TO HAVE BEEN SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD AT TESHIE FIRING RANGE.
danquah will for ever remain a TERRORIST AND A CIA SPY CRIMINAL ... read full comment
joseph boakye danquah was a terrorist who was EXECUTED for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!! HE WAS LUCKY NOT TO HAVE BEEN SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD AT TESHIE FIRING RANGE.
danquah will for ever remain a TERRORIST AND A CIA SPY CRIMINAL.
OGIDIGIDI 11 years ago
'Dr Danquah predicted the downfall of communism. Where is communism now?'
Capitalism has made 90% of the world bankrupt! Researchers (political & economic)are now saying communism would have saved the US and Western Europe f ... read full comment
'Dr Danquah predicted the downfall of communism. Where is communism now?'
Capitalism has made 90% of the world bankrupt! Researchers (political & economic)are now saying communism would have saved the US and Western Europe from the recession and economic retrogression they now find themselves in! Think again!!!!!!!!
S.Dikaini 11 years ago
Sometimes I dont understand the intellects of some of my Ghanaian people.For a man to remind us about the history of one of the heroes of the nation who worked tirelessly to create what is today morden Ghana,deserve our comme ... read full comment
Sometimes I dont understand the intellects of some of my Ghanaian people.For a man to remind us about the history of one of the heroes of the nation who worked tirelessly to create what is today morden Ghana,deserve our commendation not insult.If you have something to correct pls then do so.this is one educational piece i have come accross about this giant of a man and thank Mr.Sakyifor a brilliant job.
Sani 11 years ago
January 16, 2001 Daily Graphic – by Kojo Sam
We won?t spare ex-ministers, officials if...?
THE Chief of Staff of the Office of the President, Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, has stated that officials of the past government foun ... read full comment
January 16, 2001 Daily Graphic – by Kojo Sam
We won?t spare ex-ministers, officials if...?
THE Chief of Staff of the Office of the President, Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, has stated that officials of the past government found to have taken away public property would be dealt with according to law. He said even though 144 vehicles have so far been paid for by officials of the past government, his office is yet to go into how the cars were valued and paid for.
?We have asked the government valuer to tell us how the cars were valued and paid for.?
Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey was speaking on ?Kokorokoo?, a morning show programme of Peace FM, an Accra radio station, yesterday. He made it clear that under the transitional arrangement, government officials were entitled to only one car and that ?under no circumstances should anybody be allowed to buy multiple cars.?
He said in the meantime, his office is going through the list to check whether some officials took cars which are less than two years old. When we have done that and known the number of cars which were disposed of ?we will then ask the valuation officer to explain how he came by the prices put on the cars sold out.?
Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey gave the assurance that the list of those allocated vehicles under the transitional arrangement will be published by the end of this week.
He further emphasised that any property removed from public office without any authorisation would be treated as a case of stealing and the law will be made to take its course.
?We are not going to allow the wholesale looting of state resources and let me sound a note of warning that those who have stolen any public property should be prepared to face the law,? he stressed. Since the NDC Government handed over to the new NPP Government on January 7, there has been series of allegations that officials of the former government had stolen vehicles and other state properties such as fridges, air-conditioners, curtains, mattresses and other house hold appliances.
The issue has gained wide publicity in the private media to the extent that the NDC held a press conference last week to debunk such allegations.
The party?s General Secretary, Alhaji Huudu Yahaya, described the allegations as baseless, frivolous and calculated to tarnish the image of the past government in the eyes of the Ghanaian public. Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey said the government will not rush into a messy transition but that it would investigate thoroughly all allegations made against the former government officials.
?We need to be moving forward. The fact that a lot of wrong doing went on in the past should not occupy the time of the new government?. Mr Obetsebi-Lamptey was, however, quick to point out that the police will be made to follow all alleged cases of impropriety to establish the truth or otherwise against any government official.
K. Boateng 11 years ago
Sani, we all know that the NPP embarked on a nasty witch hunting in most part of their eight year rule but what is the purpose of your post here? Does it have anything doing with Mr. Atta Sakyi's post? Can you point out the c ... read full comment
Sani, we all know that the NPP embarked on a nasty witch hunting in most part of their eight year rule but what is the purpose of your post here? Does it have anything doing with Mr. Atta Sakyi's post? Can you point out the correlation? Thanks.
joey london! 11 years ago
Ghana was a Gold coast so why must Nkrumah wait we all know preku namm ye di nushi!
Ghana was a Gold coast so why must Nkrumah wait we all know preku namm ye di nushi!
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
I'd like to devote some space to deconstruct this wishful thinking that Ghana would have done better had Danquah-Busia-Dombo conservative and reactionary elements won the day to inherit the colonial legacy.
Kwesi wrote and ... read full comment
I'd like to devote some space to deconstruct this wishful thinking that Ghana would have done better had Danquah-Busia-Dombo conservative and reactionary elements won the day to inherit the colonial legacy.
Kwesi wrote and I quote:
"At one time, our distinguished son of the soil, Busumbrum Kofi Annan, offered the opinion that Nkrumah’s brash radicalism cost Ghana a lot. Perhaps, Kofi Annan would have loved Ghana to have gone the way of Botswana where Sir Seretse Khama worked steadily and closely with the former colonial master till the country attained independence in 1966. Botswana then was a very poor desert country. It was much later when diamonds were discovered by the De Beers Group from South Africa. Today, Botswana’s success story in Africa is well documented. At the time of Ghana’s indepence, it was estimated that a princely sum of 270 million pounds was left in the state coffers. Who would doubt that Nkrumah did not manage our economy prudently? Well, posterity is the judge."
I shall write a full rejoinder to attack these myths in their entirety.
Andy-K
Hamid 11 years ago
1. "Danquah and Busia belonged to the Dombo or Matemeho conservative and federalist school of thought in Ghana’s political history".
This gives the impression that the school of thought is known as "Dombo" and that Danq ... read full comment
1. "Danquah and Busia belonged to the Dombo or Matemeho conservative and federalist school of thought in Ghana’s political history".
This gives the impression that the school of thought is known as "Dombo" and that Danquah and Busia belonged to it. But it is better known as "Danquah-Busia (and at times also) Dombo" group (even if Dombo may have given rise to the tradition - doubtful). Many Asantes and Akyems readily forget to add the name Dombo probably because he was a northerner and did not attain a prominent status in the "group" as Busia and Daquah, latterly, did. "Dombo", thus, becomes the "junior" partner in the tradition.
2. The group was called "Matemeho" because of their craving for federalism not because they were violent, as your piece seems to suggest. Some people even argue they had wanted to break and form a different country (matemeho), and failing that get a federalist constitution. The violence came later on and was not so much linked with their "breakway" tendencies.
3. "He was rearrested in 1964 and sent to the condemned cells at the infamous Nsawam Maximum Security Prison, where he died of a heart attack on 4th February, 1962, aged 69 years.
Danquah was a prolife writer."
If he was arrested in 1964, then he couldn't have already died in 1962! And he was a "prolific" writer rather than a "prolife" writer? I don't think there were "pro-life" radicalists at that time. I guess it was a slip...
4. "Nkrumah also did his bit by using the 1956 Plebiscite to annex Trans Volta Togoland to become modern day Volta Region of Ghana. Nkrumah was vehemently opposed by secessionists such as Dr R.G. Armattoe and Kofi Anton."
The erstwhile Trans Volta Togoland is NOT modern Volta Region. Please, never repeat that misinformation again. Modern Volta Region is made up of large parts that were NOT Trans-Volta Togoland. From the coastal Denu, Anlo, through Sogakope up to Peki, Awudome are all parts of modern Volta Region which were never part of Trans-Volta Togoland. On the other hands, parts of Gonjaland, Dagombaland (and more) which are now parts of modern Northern and Upper-East regions were parts of Trans-Volta Togoland. TVT is not equivalent to Volta Region!!! Nkrumah DELIBERATELY carved up the TVT in order to stave off any sense of unity among them and a longing to break away to some "primordial" state. It would be very wrong to suggest that TVT was kept intact as today's Volta Region. The very essence of modern Volta Region is the opposite of that - that it is NOT coterminous with the erstwhile TVT!
The name is S. G. Antor (not Anton)
5. It can be misleading to try to pin down Nkrumah's radicalism to his US period as opposed to Danquah's conservatism being the result of his UK times. It may be too simplistic. It is true that Nkrumah had some radical ideas before he arrived in the UK but he became certainly more "radicalised" in the UK than he ever was in the US. There can be personality elements involved too. But that is a different story...
I suspect there may be a few more inaccuracies in the details that Danquah experts may point out for the avoidance of doubt. These are only the things that came directly to my mind.
Actually, I had decided not to comment on your articles any longer for the simple reason that you are not kind to those who criticize you and dare suggest that your writing may not be as perfect as you think (whose is, really?). Instead of meeting your critics by pointing out exactly where and how they are wrong, you rather call them names. I don't know what I am doing here again...
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Hamid,
Thanks so much for pointing out those errors. In fact, they were not few as you pointed out. They were legion, besides very misleading claims. At times, the sequence of events, as when he wrote about events in the 1 ... read full comment
Hamid,
Thanks so much for pointing out those errors. In fact, they were not few as you pointed out. They were legion, besides very misleading claims. At times, the sequence of events, as when he wrote about events in the 1940s, were jumbled up. It'd take too much time to straighten things out, as they stand. I shall therefore only mention a few false claims, in addition to what you pointed out. But let me point out this first.
The boycott organised against the AWAM (Assoc. of W. African Merchants) shops by Nii Bonne was independent of the UGCC and the march by the ex-servicemen. The Big Six had nothing at all to do with it and only milked it later when they got arrested erroneously by the British. The news of the shooting of the ex-servicemen by Capt. Imray, after the constables under his command refused to open fire, triggered the riots and looting of shops when the news spread to an already aggrieved populace.
Now:
1. Danquah did research in 1934 and came out with the finding that the ancestors of Ghana came from the old Ghana Empire, Wagadu, as the inhabitants themselves called it. It is not only false that Danquah was the first to come with that claim, it is equally false that the Akans, whom Danquah focused attention on, migrated from ancient Ghana. Ivor Wilks debunked completely that myth created by Danquah in Chpt II of his One Nation, Many Histories: Ghana Past and Present, being presentation of the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures for 1995. Printed by and available at Ghana Universities Press. The Reverend W.T. Balmer is credited with arguing that Ghana origin as far back 1926.
2. The British left us £270m as reserves and Nkrumah squandered it. Now, it is simply false that the British accumulated that money for the CPP to inherit. It was rather that Nkrumah regime that accumulated that reserve, thanks to Sir Arthur Lewis infamous "anchor of safety" advice in 1952 which led to the emergence of the NLM. The outbreak of Korean War coupled with the ravages of the swollen shoot disease, contrived to lead to record high prices for cocoa as well. Instead of passing on some of the price increase, Nkrumah was advised to save the money in Britain at a lower interest rate than the int. rate he was supposed to borrow money to finance the ambitious projects the CPP regime has already started in upon assuming office in 1952. Curbing inflation was also given as one reason for not passing on some of the windfall to the farmers, whose cocoa trees were being cut by heart by unscrupulous people hired to fight the disease. Readers shld refer to the Jibowu Commission Report for details of what went awry.
Anyway, when the West African Produce Marketing Board was dissolved to give way to the CMB in the early '50s at the instance of the CPP, not Danquah as claimed by Kwesi, Ghana got the lion's share, which was £19m, compared to only £9m for Nigeria. BTW, the WAPMB was formed in the 1930s in response to the cocoa hold ups. So, the CPP, in real effect, inherited only £19m from the British, which money they British even tried to cheat the Gold Coasters of, by suggesting that they contribute it to the war recovery effort of Britain!
The CPP made investments far in excess of that £270 by the time it was overthrown. That money couldn't even build Akosombo Dam, not to mention all that investment into factories, state farms, roads, schools, hospitals and health posts, infrastructure- roads, harbours, etc., etc How much has been realised so far from the divestiture of those state assets acquired by the CPP?
And the huge financial losses incurred due to the insane abandonment of many of those investments, some nearly completed. E.g., the gold refinery was 95% completed. Some machines for the oil exploration that started in the Keta Basin rusted in the boxes in which they came in my hometown of Anloga! Ghana was financing its own oil exploration and no Kosmos and E&OE Group shadowing hanky panky was going on!
I think I've said enough.
Andy-K
Lexus 11 years ago
.....The NLM was dubbed a federalist or Matemeho party because their political tactics were sometimes based on violence, hence the offshoot of the ‘All die be die’ of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo of the current NPP.......KWESI, ... read full comment
.....The NLM was dubbed a federalist or Matemeho party because their political tactics were sometimes based on violence, hence the offshoot of the ‘All die be die’ of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo of the current NPP.......KWESI, THAT IS AN UNFORTUNATE INFERENCE IN AN, OTHERWISE, EXCELLENT AND WELL-BALANCED ARTICLE. If in a battle you stupidly encircle a proud and determined opponent, without leaving him/her an escape route, you can take it to the bank that he/she is going to fight you till his/her last breath.
Wheras our Nzema brethren have been able to 'foist' FK Armah Buah on Ghanaians as the Energy/Oil Minister for obvious reasons; and, whereas the late JEA Mills castigated Kufour very vehemently for 'relocating' all Cold stores to interiorly located Kumasi, I find it very amazing how Osagyefo and his vociferous propaganda tools were able to paint JB Danquah and the UP/NLM as nation wreckers and saboteurs(..Matemeho..) as they (JB et al) in the same manner, tried to advocate for some 'fringe benefits' for the cocoa-producing indigenes.
THE YOUTHFUL, RADICAL AND ADVENTUROUS KWAME NKRUMAH REALLY CLOBBERED THE VERY FORMAL, TACTIFUL, AND, NOT-SO-YOUTHFUL JB DANDUAH AT THE POLITICAL GAME, FAIR AND SQUARE.....NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 11 years ago
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago
Lexus, I share your views on the reference to the "All die be die" unless the author was referring to J B Danquah and Nana Akufo Addo as "ad idem" (of the same mind).
Again, his suggestion that Nkrumah annexed Trans Volta ... read full comment
Lexus, I share your views on the reference to the "All die be die" unless the author was referring to J B Danquah and Nana Akufo Addo as "ad idem" (of the same mind).
Again, his suggestion that Nkrumah annexed Trans Volta is unfortunate because annexation often involves conquest or subjugation. That was not the case in what happened.
I did not read anything about the role Danquah played in the opposition to "independence now", including the delegation to Britain to ask the colonial power to delay granting independence. Otherwise, it a very good read. Ghana should recognise her forefathers' and mothers' contributions to nation building. They should never be forgotten, since a national that cannot honour her heroes and heroines is not worth dying for.
Nana Akuffo bin LAddo 11 years ago
I often disagree with your comments but for this one, I salute you.
The writer must have deliberately left out the role Danquah played in the opposition to "independence now", including the delegation to Britain to ask t ... read full comment
I often disagree with your comments but for this one, I salute you.
The writer must have deliberately left out the role Danquah played in the opposition to "independence now", including the delegation to Britain to ask the colonial power to delay granting independence and the suggestion to the British to grant 3 different independence dates – one for the Northern Territories, one for Ashanti and one for the Fantes and coastal arrears – thus, Ghana would have been 3 countries today. Busia led that delegation.
Ghana politics is nothing but Ashanti-Akyem Matemeho versus the rest of Ghana.
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
JB Danquah and Nana Ofori Attah II were not blood related. JB Danquah changed his real name because he adored his elder step brother, Eugene Danquah who later became Nana Ofori Attah II. He ochestrated the murder of Nana Akye ... read full comment
JB Danquah and Nana Ofori Attah II were not blood related. JB Danquah changed his real name because he adored his elder step brother, Eugene Danquah who later became Nana Ofori Attah II. He ochestrated the murder of Nana Akyea Mensah when he felt the Apedwahene as a senior and well educated chief had too much power and influence to pose a serious threat to the throne of his "brother" whom he adored so dearly!!!
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
Nana Akyea Mensah's death paved the way for JB Danquah to become the most powerful first hand man of Okyenhene which allowed him to institute draconian laws including the ban on CPP in Akyem Abuakwa and he also subjected the ... read full comment
Nana Akyea Mensah's death paved the way for JB Danquah to become the most powerful first hand man of Okyenhene which allowed him to institute draconian laws including the ban on CPP in Akyem Abuakwa and he also subjected the Kwahus, Krobos and Akwapim migrates in Akyem Abuakwa to constant extortion and terrorism!!!!
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
He was born in Bepong which is a joint town with Kwahu Mpraeso. He was so arrogant and ungrateful to the Kwahus during his reign of terror at Kyebi!!!!!
He was born in Bepong which is a joint town with Kwahu Mpraeso. He was so arrogant and ungrateful to the Kwahus during his reign of terror at Kyebi!!!!!
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
No such prominent person in those days failed to win the mandate to represent his people at the parliament. JB Danquah was an arrogant elitist tyrrant and a Kyebi Ahenfie royal wannabe who was rightfuly rejected by people of ... read full comment
No such prominent person in those days failed to win the mandate to represent his people at the parliament. JB Danquah was an arrogant elitist tyrrant and a Kyebi Ahenfie royal wannabe who was rightfuly rejected by people of Akyem Abuakwa during his days. His only reward was Twafohene his hometown of Old Akyem Tafo!!!
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
He took advantage of the special bond between Nana Ofori Attah II and Asantehe, then started calling himself Kwame Tweretwie. The only genuine and authentic thing about JB Danquah was his first name, KWAME. He was a chameleon ... read full comment
He took advantage of the special bond between Nana Ofori Attah II and Asantehe, then started calling himself Kwame Tweretwie. The only genuine and authentic thing about JB Danquah was his first name, KWAME. He was a chameleon and a confused con man. My uncle worked for that con man for many many years till his death in prison!!!!
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
Was JB Danquah poisoned to embarass Dr Kwame Nkrumah? The CIA did a lot of unthinkable horrors during the cold war. The CIA had unlimited access to him and could have easily carried out the murder.
Was JB Danquah poisoned to embarass Dr Kwame Nkrumah? The CIA did a lot of unthinkable horrors during the cold war. The CIA had unlimited access to him and could have easily carried out the murder.
Lexus 11 years ago
Keep tickling your empty cranium, it might grow some cerebrum, you toe-sucking dimwit.
Keep tickling your empty cranium, it might grow some cerebrum, you toe-sucking dimwit.
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
They are even known for killing American citizens to blame other countries. JB Danquah chose to do business with them and probably he got burnt!!! Bob Marley warned the black man not to work for the CIA.
They are even known for killing American citizens to blame other countries. JB Danquah chose to do business with them and probably he got burnt!!! Bob Marley warned the black man not to work for the CIA.
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
The colonial government never trusted JB Danquah from the day Nana Akyea Mensah was killed. JB Danquah became a murder suspect number one on the list of the UK and the US. In the eyes of the M16 and the CIA, he was a tribal J ... read full comment
The colonial government never trusted JB Danquah from the day Nana Akyea Mensah was killed. JB Danquah became a murder suspect number one on the list of the UK and the US. In the eyes of the M16 and the CIA, he was a tribal Jihadist double agent!
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
JB Danquah neglected his children and spent most of his money organising huge FREEMASON conferences and sponsoring terrorist organisation headed by Obetsebi Lamptey. His employees had to go three or four months to receive one ... read full comment
JB Danquah neglected his children and spent most of his money organising huge FREEMASON conferences and sponsoring terrorist organisation headed by Obetsebi Lamptey. His employees had to go three or four months to receive one month pay. He had no respect for the common man. He lost two parliamentary elections to his ex wife and his young nephew. The guy was never loved!!!!!
Nana Yaw 11 years ago
Whilst JB Danquah was wasting his money on FREEMASON conferences, elitist agendas and terrorism, his young nephew Aaron Kofi Asante Ofori Attah, CPP member of parliament from Tafo was busy building Abuakwaman.
Whilst JB Danquah was wasting his money on FREEMASON conferences, elitist agendas and terrorism, his young nephew Aaron Kofi Asante Ofori Attah, CPP member of parliament from Tafo was busy building Abuakwaman.
Mark 11 years ago
Both JB and Nkrumah were patriots of Ghana. They had their differences. They're both dead now. They didn't live long enough to reconcile their differences. I'm convinced had they the gift of time, they would've done that. Wit ... read full comment
Both JB and Nkrumah were patriots of Ghana. They had their differences. They're both dead now. They didn't live long enough to reconcile their differences. I'm convinced had they the gift of time, they would've done that. With old age comes wisdom. It is wrong for politicians to perpertuate the disagreement between JB and Kwame over 50 years later on a new generation of Ghanaians. Both JB and Kwame ended up sacrificing their lives for Ghana. If today's politicians are half the patriots those 2 were then they wouldn't fight to divide Ghana, they would fight to advance Ghana! That is what both JB and Nkrumah did!
K. Boateng 11 years ago
Mark, Nkrumah made several efforts towards reconciliation between him and JB Danquah and Busia but the two UP guys vehemently refused.
Mark, Nkrumah made several efforts towards reconciliation between him and JB Danquah and Busia but the two UP guys vehemently refused.
Mark 11 years ago
Neither JB nor Nkrumah would wish their dsescendants go to war over their dispute. Both Nkrumah and JB weren't perfect and made mistakes and neither would wish the country suffer because of them, infact they would wish that w ... read full comment
Neither JB nor Nkrumah would wish their dsescendants go to war over their dispute. Both Nkrumah and JB weren't perfect and made mistakes and neither would wish the country suffer because of them, infact they would wish that we learned from their mistakes and improve upon what they did. Anyone who tries to fan the flames by continuing to blame the other party to justify continued animosity against a new generation of Ghanaians is not worth being called a Danquah or Nkrumah follower. Stop the division now!!
Paa Kwesi Mintah 11 years ago
Champion Atta,
Did you write this from memory or culled the facts from some source? Can you please cite your sources then?
I can tell the paragraph fairy didn't visit you because you were too high on the Ahoofe brewed D ... read full comment
Champion Atta,
Did you write this from memory or culled the facts from some source? Can you please cite your sources then?
I can tell the paragraph fairy didn't visit you because you were too high on the Ahoofe brewed Danquah juice.
Anyway, I sense that you're bored and want to stay away from your usual listology of economic authors and a quotation from Das Kapital in colloquial German.
Can you please spare us these commonplace biographs of J B Danquah and Nkrumah? I learned nothing new here.
Please write a poem about tomatoes, I'll appreciate that better.
Saaalute, from forehead to waist, whaam.
Kojo T 11 years ago
You know cousin messed up with this one. There was no logic and correlation. He jumped from 1965 to 1954 . I did not major in English , that was for dad but he would have given a failing grade
You know cousin messed up with this one. There was no logic and correlation. He jumped from 1965 to 1954 . I did not major in English , that was for dad but he would have given a failing grade
OTCHERE DARKO 11 years ago
"I united the six, and one split".... by Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah.
This is what I always want to remember JB for.
He was the finest of his kind. Yet, people outside his political faith always saw [and continue to see] ... read full comment
"I united the six, and one split".... by Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah.
This is what I always want to remember JB for.
He was the finest of his kind. Yet, people outside his political faith always saw [and continue to see] him as a CIA agent.
Was JB indeed a CIA agent?
And how would politics and things in Ghana have been, IF ONE OF THE SIX HAD NOT SPLIT??
TWO QUESTIONS THAT WILL ALWAYS INTEREST STUDENTS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN GHANA !
LIFE IS AN IRONY OF CIRCUMSTANCE WHOSE JOURNEY LEADS ITS VICTIM TO AN END THAT IS NEVER DESIRED, LIKE A BLIND-MAN LED BY HIS EYE-LESS STICK.
The Sentinel 11 years ago
Ochere Darko:
Yes, The "FINEST" for cabling the colonial government: "THE GOLD COAST IS NOT YET READY FOR INDEPENDENCE"..
...."THE CPP DOES NOT COMMAND THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.ETC.." Put to the test, Nkrumah TROUNCED him and ... read full comment
Ochere Darko:
Yes, The "FINEST" for cabling the colonial government: "THE GOLD COAST IS NOT YET READY FOR INDEPENDENCE"..
...."THE CPP DOES NOT COMMAND THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.ETC.." Put to the test, Nkrumah TROUNCED him and his tribal NLM. How old are you? Know what it took to prevent the Akyem/Ashanti group from causing part of the country to secede from the rest of the Gold Coast? (for their own good - as they now command over 75% of the country's wealth.)
Know how many lives were lost through assassinations, murders, etc. by the Danquah's MATEMEHO group? Was there!
A shrewd politician, "YES", but NOT the "FINEST"! Of course.. from the SAME STOCK! I understand.
Iam not "promoting" Nkrumah. Nkrumah had his faults just as no human is infallible.
But I dare say:
THERE WAS NONE, THERE IS NONE, AND THERE WILL BE NONE, WHOSE FEET WILL FIT NKRUMAH'S SHOES!
Beats me
The Sentinel
Mark 11 years ago
The JB Vs Nkrumah dispute is old, boring and so colonial. Visiting that dispute upon a new generation of Ghanaians by politicians and scholars alike is a most unpatriotic act both JB and Nkrumah would frown on! If politicians ... read full comment
The JB Vs Nkrumah dispute is old, boring and so colonial. Visiting that dispute upon a new generation of Ghanaians by politicians and scholars alike is a most unpatriotic act both JB and Nkrumah would frown on! If politicians want a worthwhile fight then fight poverty, fight illiteracy and disease and sow seeds of peace where strife and dispute exists. This is what JB and Nkrumah would want.
Paul Amuna 11 years ago
Though the tip of the iceberg, very stimulating.
Though the tip of the iceberg, very stimulating.
MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago
In my humble opinion, Joseph Boakye Danquah was a Great Ghanaian, who left an indelible mark on our political culture.
I have always been fascinated by historical 'might-have-beens', and wondered what Ghana would have look ... read full comment
In my humble opinion, Joseph Boakye Danquah was a Great Ghanaian, who left an indelible mark on our political culture.
I have always been fascinated by historical 'might-have-beens', and wondered what Ghana would have looked like or would have ended up like if the Akans of Ghana had succeeded in implementing and actualizing Danquah' s Akan Doctrine of God, Akan Laws and Customs, or NLM's federalist politics?
Just as I occasionally wonder about where Africa would be now if Africans ever heeded Nkrumah's call to unite the continent.
We don't realize how blessed and fortunate we are to have these two Great Ghanaians.
It behooves all of us to pay attention to their writings; there's a lot we can learn from them.
JOMO 11 years ago
TRIBUTE TO A CIA AGENT?.
TRIBUTE TO A CIA AGENT?.
Pelicles 11 years ago
Whether he is a CIA agent or not, he is part of our history as history shows all over the world. Even Hitler is party of German history.
Whether he is a CIA agent or not, he is part of our history as history shows all over the world. Even Hitler is party of German history.
Krakye Kwakye 11 years ago
You said it right. J B Danquah is part of Ghanaian history as Hitler is part of German history. They both represent a blot of grease on the history of their respective countries. I find it offensive when the Akyem history rev ... read full comment
You said it right. J B Danquah is part of Ghanaian history as Hitler is part of German history. They both represent a blot of grease on the history of their respective countries. I find it offensive when the Akyem history reviosionist try to compare Danquah to Nkrumah.
Akyem Mafia 11 years ago
J.B. Danquah was a useless criminal who deserved to rot in hell as he is doing now. J.B Danquah was a CIA agent who has betrayed Ghana and desever to rot in hell.
J.B. Danquah was a useless criminal who deserved to rot in hell as he is doing now. J.B Danquah was a CIA agent who has betrayed Ghana and desever to rot in hell.
Crazyhorse 11 years ago
Those days it was common for people conjure gold ornaments from the sky because there was plenty of gold in the sky. If they could do conjure gold, then that is why they are not recognized among his tribes. May be they were ... read full comment
Those days it was common for people conjure gold ornaments from the sky because there was plenty of gold in the sky. If they could do conjure gold, then that is why they are not recognized among his tribes. May be they were “Azaar” men. Bye-bye.
ghanani 11 years ago
instead of saying things to convince many nkrumah supporters to join the npp, they will rather do all to down him (Nkrumah). nkrumah is dead, he's coming back to run for office so stop the hate and say things that will make y ... read full comment
instead of saying things to convince many nkrumah supporters to join the npp, they will rather do all to down him (Nkrumah). nkrumah is dead, he's coming back to run for office so stop the hate and say things that will make your party more that 2 region party. nkrumah popular all over the world, nobody knows and cares about danquah. if danquah was smart enough, why did he beg nkrumah to lead the independence movement? o i forgot, he wanted an articulate and smart person to do the work so he (they) could take the credit,ha.
osei yaw - london 11 years ago
J B Danquah was the Akyem who first sold the fantasy concept that the Akyems are not Akyems at all; but cloned Asantes; and that they and Asantes are same peoples in a tribe called "Akan"; that "Akans" are there to call the t ... read full comment
J B Danquah was the Akyem who first sold the fantasy concept that the Akyems are not Akyems at all; but cloned Asantes; and that they and Asantes are same peoples in a tribe called "Akan"; that "Akans" are there to call the tribe of Fantes, Gas and Ewes to order if need be by slaughtering them should they misbehave themselves
- in doubt, have a look at J B Danquah's blood relative dimwit Akyem Akufo Ado's "all die be die" slaughter threat
- J B Danquah was a murderer (Apedwa); a coward (Kumasi Fort); a terrorist (Kulungugu); who terrorised Kwame Nkrumah until he eventually killed him to set Ghana back a thousand years
- ignorants and misguided fools would concoct stupid reasons as grounds to pay tribute to this internationally unheard of and unknown Akyem J B Danquah
Osei Wusu-Khanin/osei yaw - london
ghanani 11 years ago
Danquah introduced terrorism to Africans. He invented it!
Danquah introduced terrorism to Africans. He invented it!
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
I find it amazing that in this time and age, with all the information at our disposal, the writer can write a profile of J. B. Danquah and forget to mention the fact tha ...
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Mesmadi, to describe you as a RIGHTEOUSLY INDIGNANT AND A PERPETUALLY NAUSEATING OXYMORON would be too lenient, and actually, amount to pandering to a scumbag of your ilk.
Kiss my black ass, you by-product of an inbreed bet ...
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If the reputation and place of Dr J B Danquah in Ghana history can be destroyed, it would have happened in the First Republic. If the name and historic feat of Dr J B Danquah can be destroyed by Ali Masmadi Jehu Appiah, then ...
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We don't need Danquah Hall at Legon at all. There was nothing Danquah did which didn't benefit him personally. Perhaps Nana Addo is a prize example of this ancestral trait of megalomania. Nkrumah's ideologies are the best. Un ...
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joseph boakye danquah was a terrorist who was EXECUTED for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!!! HE WAS LUCKY NOT TO HAVE BEEN SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD AT TESHIE FIRING RANGE.
danquah will for ever remain a TERRORIST AND A CIA SPY CRIMINAL ...
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'Dr Danquah predicted the downfall of communism. Where is communism now?'
Capitalism has made 90% of the world bankrupt! Researchers (political & economic)are now saying communism would have saved the US and Western Europe f ...
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Sometimes I dont understand the intellects of some of my Ghanaian people.For a man to remind us about the history of one of the heroes of the nation who worked tirelessly to create what is today morden Ghana,deserve our comme ...
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January 16, 2001 Daily Graphic – by Kojo Sam
We won?t spare ex-ministers, officials if...?
THE Chief of Staff of the Office of the President, Mr Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, has stated that officials of the past government foun ...
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Sani, we all know that the NPP embarked on a nasty witch hunting in most part of their eight year rule but what is the purpose of your post here? Does it have anything doing with Mr. Atta Sakyi's post? Can you point out the c ...
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Ghana was a Gold coast so why must Nkrumah wait we all know preku namm ye di nushi!
I'd like to devote some space to deconstruct this wishful thinking that Ghana would have done better had Danquah-Busia-Dombo conservative and reactionary elements won the day to inherit the colonial legacy.
Kwesi wrote and ...
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1. "Danquah and Busia belonged to the Dombo or Matemeho conservative and federalist school of thought in Ghana’s political history".
This gives the impression that the school of thought is known as "Dombo" and that Danq ...
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Hamid,
Thanks so much for pointing out those errors. In fact, they were not few as you pointed out. They were legion, besides very misleading claims. At times, the sequence of events, as when he wrote about events in the 1 ...
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.....The NLM was dubbed a federalist or Matemeho party because their political tactics were sometimes based on violence, hence the offshoot of the ‘All die be die’ of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo of the current NPP.......KWESI, ...
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Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Sorry for mix up. Danquah passed away on 4th February 1965.
Lexus, I share your views on the reference to the "All die be die" unless the author was referring to J B Danquah and Nana Akufo Addo as "ad idem" (of the same mind).
Again, his suggestion that Nkrumah annexed Trans Volta ...
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I often disagree with your comments but for this one, I salute you.
The writer must have deliberately left out the role Danquah played in the opposition to "independence now", including the delegation to Britain to ask t ...
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JB Danquah and Nana Ofori Attah II were not blood related. JB Danquah changed his real name because he adored his elder step brother, Eugene Danquah who later became Nana Ofori Attah II. He ochestrated the murder of Nana Akye ...
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Nana Akyea Mensah's death paved the way for JB Danquah to become the most powerful first hand man of Okyenhene which allowed him to institute draconian laws including the ban on CPP in Akyem Abuakwa and he also subjected the ...
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He was born in Bepong which is a joint town with Kwahu Mpraeso. He was so arrogant and ungrateful to the Kwahus during his reign of terror at Kyebi!!!!!
No such prominent person in those days failed to win the mandate to represent his people at the parliament. JB Danquah was an arrogant elitist tyrrant and a Kyebi Ahenfie royal wannabe who was rightfuly rejected by people of ...
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He took advantage of the special bond between Nana Ofori Attah II and Asantehe, then started calling himself Kwame Tweretwie. The only genuine and authentic thing about JB Danquah was his first name, KWAME. He was a chameleon ...
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Was JB Danquah poisoned to embarass Dr Kwame Nkrumah? The CIA did a lot of unthinkable horrors during the cold war. The CIA had unlimited access to him and could have easily carried out the murder.
Keep tickling your empty cranium, it might grow some cerebrum, you toe-sucking dimwit.
They are even known for killing American citizens to blame other countries. JB Danquah chose to do business with them and probably he got burnt!!! Bob Marley warned the black man not to work for the CIA.
The colonial government never trusted JB Danquah from the day Nana Akyea Mensah was killed. JB Danquah became a murder suspect number one on the list of the UK and the US. In the eyes of the M16 and the CIA, he was a tribal J ...
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JB Danquah neglected his children and spent most of his money organising huge FREEMASON conferences and sponsoring terrorist organisation headed by Obetsebi Lamptey. His employees had to go three or four months to receive one ...
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Whilst JB Danquah was wasting his money on FREEMASON conferences, elitist agendas and terrorism, his young nephew Aaron Kofi Asante Ofori Attah, CPP member of parliament from Tafo was busy building Abuakwaman.
Both JB and Nkrumah were patriots of Ghana. They had their differences. They're both dead now. They didn't live long enough to reconcile their differences. I'm convinced had they the gift of time, they would've done that. Wit ...
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Mark, Nkrumah made several efforts towards reconciliation between him and JB Danquah and Busia but the two UP guys vehemently refused.
Neither JB nor Nkrumah would wish their dsescendants go to war over their dispute. Both Nkrumah and JB weren't perfect and made mistakes and neither would wish the country suffer because of them, infact they would wish that w ...
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Champion Atta,
Did you write this from memory or culled the facts from some source? Can you please cite your sources then?
I can tell the paragraph fairy didn't visit you because you were too high on the Ahoofe brewed D ...
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You know cousin messed up with this one. There was no logic and correlation. He jumped from 1965 to 1954 . I did not major in English , that was for dad but he would have given a failing grade
"I united the six, and one split".... by Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah.
This is what I always want to remember JB for.
He was the finest of his kind. Yet, people outside his political faith always saw [and continue to see] ...
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Ochere Darko:
Yes, The "FINEST" for cabling the colonial government: "THE GOLD COAST IS NOT YET READY FOR INDEPENDENCE"..
...."THE CPP DOES NOT COMMAND THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.ETC.." Put to the test, Nkrumah TROUNCED him and ...
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The JB Vs Nkrumah dispute is old, boring and so colonial. Visiting that dispute upon a new generation of Ghanaians by politicians and scholars alike is a most unpatriotic act both JB and Nkrumah would frown on! If politicians ...
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Though the tip of the iceberg, very stimulating.
In my humble opinion, Joseph Boakye Danquah was a Great Ghanaian, who left an indelible mark on our political culture.
I have always been fascinated by historical 'might-have-beens', and wondered what Ghana would have look ...
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TRIBUTE TO A CIA AGENT?.
Whether he is a CIA agent or not, he is part of our history as history shows all over the world. Even Hitler is party of German history.
You said it right. J B Danquah is part of Ghanaian history as Hitler is part of German history. They both represent a blot of grease on the history of their respective countries. I find it offensive when the Akyem history rev ...
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J.B. Danquah was a useless criminal who deserved to rot in hell as he is doing now. J.B Danquah was a CIA agent who has betrayed Ghana and desever to rot in hell.
Those days it was common for people conjure gold ornaments from the sky because there was plenty of gold in the sky. If they could do conjure gold, then that is why they are not recognized among his tribes. May be they were ...
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instead of saying things to convince many nkrumah supporters to join the npp, they will rather do all to down him (Nkrumah). nkrumah is dead, he's coming back to run for office so stop the hate and say things that will make y ...
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J B Danquah was the Akyem who first sold the fantasy concept that the Akyems are not Akyems at all; but cloned Asantes; and that they and Asantes are same peoples in a tribe called "Akan"; that "Akans" are there to call the t ...
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Danquah introduced terrorism to Africans. He invented it!