Prez Mahama makes a case for African renaissance

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ASEM BE BA DABI 10 years ago

Stop this nonsense and think better because you are about to leave your office for Nana Addo.

Stop this nonsense and think better because you are about to leave your office for Nana Addo.
KOFI WAYO 10 years ago

You are as stupid as your father.Nana will never be president

You are as stupid as your father.Nana will never be president
ASEM BE BA DABI 10 years ago

You can go to hell if you think what I am saying is not right

You can go to hell if you think what I am saying is not right
ROYAL AKANLAND 10 years ago

THINK ABOUT GHANA NOT AFRICA FOOL

THINK ABOUT GHANA NOT AFRICA FOOL
Jb 10 years ago

Yes Ghana first.

Yes Ghana first.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD...

WILLIAM ATUGUBA: Counsel, what is your name?
PHILIP ADDISON: Philip Addison, My Lord.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: Yes, my name is Philip Addison, my Lord.
ATUGUBA: I said ...
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*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD...

WILLIAM ATUGUBA: Counsel, what is your name?
PHILIP ADDISON: Philip Addison, My Lord.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: Yes, my name is Philip Addison, my Lord.
ATUGUBA: I said overruled; where do you come from?
ADDISON: I am a full-blooded Akan, My Lord.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: My Lord, I am a Ghanaian, My Lord.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled; what are you doing in this court?
ADDISON: I am representing the NPP, My Lord.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: My Lord, I mean Akufo-Addo, Dr. Bawumia and Obetsebi-Lamptey.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: Yes, I am representing all three, my Lord.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled
ADDISON: My Lord, is this the Supreme Court of Ghana?
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: Are you Justice Atuguba, My Lord?
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: My Lord, this is partisanship.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: My Lord, is overrule only your legal vocabulary?
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: My Lord this is partisanship and bias.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: My Lord, you are ANTI-NDC and PRO-NPP.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: This means that you are rather ANTI-NPP & PRO-NDC.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled; we are going for recession.
ADDISON: My Lord, for how long.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled.
ADDISON: My Lord, I say you are ANTI-NDC and PRO-NPP.
ATUGUBA: You are overruled...
Kwame Oppong, Germany 10 years ago

ANOTHER STUPID PERSON. HOW CAN HE THINK ABOUT GHANA, WITH AFRICA? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH INFLUENCE ECONOMICALLY AS WELL AS SOCIALLY AFRICA HAS ON GHANA? YOU ARE JUST LOKE YOUR SHORT SIGHTED NANA ADDO, WE AKANS.....CANT BE POLIT ...
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ANOTHER STUPID PERSON. HOW CAN HE THINK ABOUT GHANA, WITH AFRICA? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH INFLUENCE ECONOMICALLY AS WELL AS SOCIALLY AFRICA HAS ON GHANA? YOU ARE JUST LOKE YOUR SHORT SIGHTED NANA ADDO, WE AKANS.....CANT BE POLITICALLY UNITED.
GILLY 10 years ago

Fuck AU. We don't wanna hear about the suggestions of socio-autocrats and FOOLS who don't have the balls to fight corruption in Africa.

Fuck AU. We don't wanna hear about the suggestions of socio-autocrats and FOOLS who don't have the balls to fight corruption in Africa.
Repugnant. 10 years ago

What you are saying is right only in your stupid sub standard brain. Who invited you to this principled discourse of higher intelligence? Seek deliverance!

What you are saying is right only in your stupid sub standard brain. Who invited you to this principled discourse of higher intelligence? Seek deliverance!
KOMLA AGBESHIE 10 years ago

Mahama and his team z ministers,the NDC as well as you the so call Repugnant needs deliverance not Asem Be Ba Dabi.

Mahama and his team z ministers,the NDC as well as you the so call Repugnant needs deliverance not Asem Be Ba Dabi.
SuperShift 10 years ago

Nana wished he were the one there instead. He is having nightmares and he can't sleep no good.

As for Kufour, I don't know what is wrong with this megalomaniac bum. He acts like the pigs in Animal Farm. He likes pageantry, ...
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Nana wished he were the one there instead. He is having nightmares and he can't sleep no good.

As for Kufour, I don't know what is wrong with this megalomaniac bum. He acts like the pigs in Animal Farm. He likes pageantry, and he is always in the front line. What a sorry individual. I am going to tackle him next time he want to fly again to wherever.
Nana Ansah 10 years ago

INAUGURATION SPEECH OF THE FIRST OAU CONFERENCE IN ADDIS ABEBA ETHIOPIA 1963 BY;

His Excellency Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah

President of the Republic of Ghana

Your Excellences, Colleagues, Brothers and Friends,

At ...
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INAUGURATION SPEECH OF THE FIRST OAU CONFERENCE IN ADDIS ABEBA ETHIOPIA 1963 BY;

His Excellency Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah

President of the Republic of Ghana

Your Excellences, Colleagues, Brothers and Friends,

At the first gathering of African Heads of State, to which I had the honour of playing host, there were representatives of eight independent States only. Today, five years later, we meet as the representatives of no less than thirty-two States, the guests of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie, the First, and the Government and people of Ethiopia. To His Imperial Majesty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Government and people of Ghana my deep appreciation for a most cordial welcome and generous hospitality.

The increase in our number in this short space of time is open testimony to the indomitable and irresistible surge of our peoples for independence. It is also a token of the revolutionary speed of world events in the latter half of this century. In the task which is before us of unifying our continent we must fall in with that pace or be left behind. The task cannot be attached in the tempo of any other age than our own. To fall behind the unprecedented momentum of actions and events in our time will be to court failure and our own undoing.

A whole continent has imposed a mandate upon us to lay the foundation of our Union at this Conference. It is our responsibility to execute this mandate by creating here and now the formula upon which the requisite superstructure may be erected.

On this continent it has not taken us long to discover that the struggle against colonialism does not end with the attainment of national independence. Independence is only the prelude to a new and more involved struggle for the right to conduct our own economic and social affairs; to construct our society according to our aspirations, unhampered by crushing and humiliating neo-colonialist controls and interference.

From the start we have been threatened with frustration where rapid change is imperative and with instability where sustained effort and ordered rule are indispensable.

No sporadic act nor pious resolution can resolve our present problems. Nothing will be of avail, except the united act of a united Africa. We have already reached, the stage where we must unite or sink into that condition which has made Latin America the unwilling and distressed prey of imperialism after one and a half centuries of political independence.

As a continent we have emerged into independence in a different age, with imperialism grown stronger, more ruthless and experienced, and more dangerous in its international associations. Our economic advancement demands the end of colonialist and neo-colonialist domination in Africa.

But just as we understood that the shaping of our national destinies required of each of us our political independence and bent all our strength to this attainment, so we must recognise that our economic independence resides in our African union and requires the same concentration upon the political achievement.

The unity of our continent, no less than our separate independence, will be delayed if, indeed, we do not lose it, by hobnobbing with colonialism. African Unity is, above all, a political kingdom which can only be gained by political means. The social and economic development of Africa will come only within the political kingdom, not the other way around. The United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, were the political decisions of revolutionary peoples before they became mighty realities of social power and material wealth.

How, except by our united efforts, will the richest and still enslaved parts of our continent be freed from colonial occupation and become available to us for the total development of our continent? Every step in the decolonisation of our continent has brought greater resistance in those areas where colonial garrisons are available to colonialism.

This is the great design of the imperialist interests that buttress colonialism and neo-colonialism, and we would be deceiving ourselves in the most cruel way were we to regard their individual actions as separate and unrelated. When Portugal violates Senegal's border, when Verwoed allocated one-seventh of South Africa's budget to military and police, when France builds as part of her defence policy an interventionist force that can intervene, more especially in French-speaking Africa, when Welensky talks of Southern Rhodesia joining South Africa, it is all part of a carefully calculated pattern working towards a single end: the continued enslavement of our still dependent brothers and an onslaught upon the independence of our sovereign African States.

Do we have any other weapon against this design but our unity? Is not our unity essential to guard our own freedom as well as to win freedom for our oppressed brothers, the Freedom Fighters?

Is it not unity alone that can weld us into an effective force, capable of creating our own progress and making our valuable contribution to world peace? Which independent African State will claim that its financial structure and banking institutions are fully harnessed to its national development? Which will claim that its material resources and human energies are available for its own national aspirations? Which will disclaim a substantial measure of disappointment and disillusionment in its agricultural and urban development?

In independent Africa we are already re-experiencing the instability and frustration which existed under colonial rule. We are fast learning that political independence is not enough to rid us of the consequences of colonial rule.

The movement of the masses of the people of Africa for freedom from that kind of rule was not only a revolt against the conditions which it imposed.

Our people supported us in our fight for independence because they believed that African Governments could cure the ills of the past in a way which could never be accomplished under colonial rule. If, therefore, now that we are independent we allow the same conditions to exist that existed in colonial days, all the resentment which overthrew colonialism will be mobilised against us.

The resources are there. It is for us to marshal them in the active service of our people. Unless we do this by our concerted efforts, within the framework of our combined planning, we shall not progress at the tempo demanded by today’s events and the mood of our people. The symptoms of our troubles will grow, and the troubles themselves become chronic. It will then be too late even for Pan-African Unity to secure for us stability and tranquillity in our labours for a continent of social justice and material well-being. Unless we establish African Unity now, we who are sitting here today shall tomorrow be the victims and martyrs of neo-colonialism.

There is evidence on every side that the imperialists have not withdrawn from our affairs. There are times, as in the Congo, when their interference is manifest. But generally it is covered up under the clothing of many agencies, which meddle in our domestic affairs, to foment dissension within our borders and to create an atmosphere of tension and political instability. As long as we do not do away with the root causes of discontent, we lend aid to these neo-colonialist forces, and shall become our own executioners. We cannot ignore the teachings of history.

Our continent is probably the richest in the world for minerals and industrial and agricultural primary materials. From the Congo alone, Western firms exported copper, rubber, cotton, and other goods to the value of 2, 773 billion dollars in the ten years between 1945 and 1955, and from South Africa, Western gold mining companies have drawn a profit, in the four years, between 1947 to 1951, of 814 billion dollars.

Our continent certainly exceeds all the others in potential hydroelectric power, which some experts assess as 42 per cent of the world's total. What need is there for us to remain hewers for the industrialised areas of the world?

It is said, of course, that we have no capital, no industrial skill, no communications and no internal markets, and that we cannot even agree among ourselves how best to utilise our resources.

Yet all the stock exchanges in the world are preoccupied with Africa's gold, diamonds, uranium, platinum, copper and iron ores. Our capital flows out in streams to irrigate the whole system of Western economy. Fifty-two per cent of the gold in Fort Knox at this moment, where the U. S. A. stores its bullion, is believed to have originated from our shores. Africa provides more than 60 per cent of the world's gold. A great deal of the uranium for nuclear power, of copper for electronics, of titanium for supersonic projectiles, of iron and steel for heavy industries, of other minerals and raw materials for lighter industries - the basic economic might of the foreign Powers - come from our continent.
Experts have estimated that the Congo basin alone can produce enough food crops to satisfy the requirements of nearly half the population of the whole world.

For centuries Africa has been the milk cow of the Western world. It was our continent that helped the Western world to build up its accumulated wealth.

It is true that we are now throwing off the yoke of colonialism as fast as we can, but our success in this direction is equally matched by an intense effort on the part of imperialism to continue the exploitation of our resources by creating divisions among us.

When the colonies of the American Continent sought to free themselves from imperialism in the 18th century there was no threat of neo-colonialism in the sense in which we know it today. The American States were therefore free to form and fashion the unity which was best suited to their needs and to frame a constitution to hold their unity together without any form of interference from external sources. We, however, are having to grapple with outside interventions. How much more, then do we need to come together in the African unity that alone can save us from the clutches of neo-colonialism.

We have the resources. It was colonialism in the first place that prevented us from accumulating the effective capital; but we ourselves have failed to make full use of our power in independence to mobilise our resources for the most effective take-off into thorough going economic and social development. We have been too busy nursing our separate States to understand fully the basic need of our union, rooted in common purpose, common planning and common endeavour. A union that ignores these fundamental necessities will be but a shame. It is only by uniting our productive capacity and the resultant production that we can amass capital. And once we start, the momentum will increase. With capital controlled by our own banks, harnessed to our own true industrial and agricultural development, we shall make our advance. We shall accumulate machinery and establish steel works, iron foundries and factories; we shall link the various States of our continent with communications; we shall astound the world with our hydroelectric power; we shall drain marshes and swamps, clear infested areas, feed the under-nourished, and rid our people of parasites and disease. It is within the possibility of science and technology to make even the Sahara bloom into a vast field with verdant vegetation for agricultural and industrial developments. We shall harness the radio, television, giant printing presses to lift our people from the dark recesses of illiteracy.

A decade ago, these would have been visionary words, the fantasies of an idle dreamer. But this is the age in which science has transcended the limits of the material world, and technology has invaded the silences of nature. Time and space have been reduced to unimportant abstractions. Giant machines make roads, clear forests, dig dams, layout aerodromes; monster trucks and planes distribute goods; huge laboratories manufacture drugs; complicated geological surveys are made; mighty power stations are built; colossal factories erected - all at an incredible speed. The world is no longer moving through bush paths or on camels and donkeys.

We cannot afford to pace our needs, our development, our security to the gait of camels and donkeys. We cannot afford not to cut down the overgrown bush of outmoded attitudes that obstruct our path to the modern open road of the widest and earliest achievement of economic independence and the raising up of the lives of our people to the highest level.

Even for other continents lacking tile resources of Africa, this is the age that sees the end of human want. For us it is a simple matter of grasping with certainty our heritage by using the political might of unity. All we need to do is to develop with our united strength the enormous resources of our continent. A United Africa will provide a stable field of foreign investment, which will encourage as long as it does not behave inimically to our African interests. For such investment would add by its enterprises to the development of the national economy, employment and training of our people, and will be welcome to Africa. In dealing with a united Africa, investors will no longer have to weigh with concern the risks of negotiating with governments in one period which may not exist in the very next period. Instead of dealing or negotiating with so many separate States at a time they will be dealing with one united government pursuing a harmonized continental policy.

What is the alternative to this? If we falter at this stage, and let time pass for neo-colonialism to consolidate its position on this continent, what will be the fate of our people who have put their trust in us? What will be the fate of our freedom fighters? What will be the fate of other African Territories that are not yet free?

Unless we can establish great industrial complexes in Africa – which we can only do in united Africa – we must have our peasantry to the mercy of foreign cash crop markets, and face the same unrest which overthrew the colonialists? What use to the farmer is education and mechanisation, what use is even capital for development; unless we can ensure for him and a fair price and ready market? What has the peasant, worker and farmer gained from political independence, unless we can ensure for him a fair return for his labour and a higher standard of living?

Unless we can establish great industrial complexes in Africa, what have the urban worker, and all those peasants on overcrowded land gained from political independence? If they are to remain unemployed or in unskilled occupation, what will avail them the better facilities for education, technical training, energy and ambition which independence enables us to provide?

There is hardly any African State without frontier problem with its adjacent neighbours. It would be futile for me to enumerate them because they are already familiar to us all. But let me suggest to Your Excellences, that this fatal relic of colonialism will drive us to war against one another as our unplanned and uncoordinated industrial development expands, just as happened in Europe. Unless we succeed in arresting the danger through mutual understanding on fundamental issues and through African Unity, which will render existing boundaries obsolete and superfluous, we shall have fought in vain for independence. Only African Unity can heal this festering sore of boundary disputes between our various States. Your Excellences, the remedy for these ills is ready to our hand. It stares us in the face at every customs barrier, it shouts to us from every African heart. By creating a true political union of all the independent States of Africa, we can tackle hopefully every emergency, every enemy and every complexity. This is not because we are a race of superman, but because we have emerged in the age of science and technology in which poverty, ignorance and disease are no longer the masters, but the retreating foes of mankind. We have emerged in the age of socialized planning, when production and distribution are not governed by chaos, greed and self-interest, but by social needs. Together with the rest of mankind, we have awakened from Utopian dreams to pursue practical blueprints for progress and social justice.

Above all, we have emerged at a time when a continental land mass like Africa with its population approaching three hundred million are necessary to the economic capitalization and profitability of modern productive methods and techniques. Not one of us working singly and individually can successfully attain the fullest development. Certainly, in the circumstances, it will not be possible to give adequate assistance to sister States trying, against the most difficult conditions, to improve their economic and social structures. Only a united Africa functioning under a Union Government can forcefully mobilize the material and moral resources of our separate countries and apply them efficiently and energetically to bring a rapid change in the conditions of our people.

If we do not approach the problems in Africa with a common front and a common purpose, we shall be haggling and wrangling among ourselves until we are colonized again and become the tolls of a far greater colonialism than we suffered hitherto.

Unite we must. Without necessarily sacrificing our sovereignties, big or small, we can, here and now, forge a political union based on Defence, Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy, and a common Citizenship, an African currency, an African Monetary Zone and an African Central Bank. We must unite in order to achieve the full liberation of our continent. We need a common Defence system with an African High Command to ensure the stability and security of Africa.

We have been charged with this sacred task by our own people, and we cannot betray their trust by failing them. We will be mocking the hopes of our people if we show the slightest hesitation or delay by tackling realistically this question of African Unity.

The supply of arms or other military aid to the colonial oppressors in Africa must be regarded not only as aid in the vanquishment of the freedom fighters battling for their African independence, but as an act of aggression against the whole of Africa. How can we meet this aggression except by the full weight of our united strength?

Many of us have made non-alignment an article of faith on this continent. We have no wish, and no intention of being drawn into the Cold War. But with the present weakness and insecurity of our States in the context of world politics, the search for bases and spheres of influence brings the Cold War into Africa with its danger of nuclear warfare. Africa should be declared a nuclear-free zone and freed from cold war exigencies. But we cannot make this demand mandatory unless we support it from a position of strength to be found only in our unity.

Instead, many Independent African States are involved by military pacts with the former colonial powers. The stability and security which such devices seek to establish are illusory, for the metropolitan Powers seize the opportunity to support their neo-colonialist controls by direct military involvement. We have seen how the neo-colonialists use their bases to entrench themselves and attack neighbouring independent States. Such bases are centers of tension and potential danger spots of military conflict. They threaten the security not only of the country in which they are situated but of neighbouring countries as well. How can we hope to make Africa a nuclear-free zone and independent of cold war pressure with such military involvement on our continent? Only by counter-balancing a common defence force with a common defence policy based upon our desire for an Africa untrammelled by foreign dictation or military and nuclear presence. This will require an all-embracing African High Command, especially if the military pacts with the imperialists are to be renounced. It is the only way we can break these direct links between the colonialism of the past and the neo-colonialism which disrupts us today.

We do not want nor do we visualize an African High Command in the terms of the power politics that now rule a great part of the world, but as an essential and indispensable instrument for ensuring stability and security in Africa.

We need a unified economic planning for Africa. Until the economic power of Africa is in our hands, the masses can have no real concern and no real interest for safeguarding our security, for ensuring the stability of our regimes, and for bending their strength to the fulfilment of our ends. With our united resources, energies and talents we have the means, as soon as we show the will, to transform the economic structures of our individual States from poverty to that of wealth, from, inequality to the satisfaction of popular needs. Only on a continental basis shall we be able to plan the proper utilisation of all our resources for the full development of our continent.

How else will we retain our own capital for our development? How else will we establish an internal market for our own industries? By belonging to different economic zones, how will we break down the currency and trading barriers between African States, and how will the economically stronger amongst us be able to assist the weaker and less developed States?

It is important to remember that independent financing and independent development cannot take place without an independent currency. A currency system that is backed by the resources of a foreign State is ipso facto subject to the trade and financial arrangements of that foreign country.

Because we have so many customs and currency barriers as a result of being subject to the different currency systems of foreign powers, this has served to widen the gap between us in Africa. How, for example, can related communities and families trade with, and support one another successfully, if they find themselves divided by national boundaries and currency restrictions? The only alternative open to them in these circumstances, is to use smuggled currency and enrich national and international racketeers and crooks who prey upon our financial and economic difficulties.

No independent African State today by itself has a chance to follow an independent course of economic development, and many of us who have tried to do this have been almost ruined or have had to return to the fold of the former colonial rulers. This position will not change unless we have unified policy working at the continental level. The first step towards our cohesive economy would be a unified monetary zone, with, initially, an agreed common parity for our currencies. To facilitate this arrangement, Ghana would change to a decimal system. When we find that the arrangement of a fixed common parity is working successfully, there would seem to be no reason for not instituting one common currency and a single bank of issue. With a common currency from one common bank of issue we should be able to stand erect on our own feet because such an arrangement would be fully backed by the combined national products of the States composing the union. After all, the purchasing power of money depends on productivity and the productive exploitation of the natural, human and physical resources of the nation.

While we are assuring our stability by a common defence system, and our economy is being orientated beyond foreign control by a Common currency, Monetary Zone and Central Bank of Issue, we can investigate the resources of our continent. We can begin to ascertain whether in reality we are the richest, and not, as we have been taught to believe, the poorest among the continents. We can determine whether we possess the largest potential in hydroelectric power, and whether we can harness it and other sources of energy to our own industries. We can proceed to plan our industrialization on a continental scale, and to build up a common market for nearly three hundred million people.

Common Continental Planning for the Industrial and Agricultural development of Africa is a vital necessity.

So many blessings must flow from our unity; so many disasters must follow on our continued disunity, that our failure to unite today will not be attributed by posterity only to faulty reasoning and lack of courage, but to our capitulation before the forces of imperialism.

The hour of history which has brought us to this assembly is a revolutionary hour. It is the hour of decision. For the first time, the economic imperialism which menaces us is itself challenged by the irresistible will of our people.

The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity. The people of Africa call for a breaking down of boundaries that keep them apart. They demand an end to the border disputes between sister African States – disputes that arise out of the artificial barriers that divided us. It was colonialism’s purpose that left us with our border irredentism that rejected our ethnic and cultural fusion.

Our people call for unity so that they may not lose their patrimony in the perpetual service of neo-colonialism. In their fervent push for unity, they understand that only its realization will give full meaning to their freedom and our African independence.

It is this popular determination that must move us on to a Union of Independent African States. In delay lies danger to our well-being, to tour very existence as free States. It has been suggested that our approach of unity should be gradual, that it should go piece-meal. This point of view conceives of Africa as a static entity with “frozen” problems which can be eliminated one by one and when all have been cleared then we can come together and say: “Now all is well. Let us unite”. This view takes no account of the impact of external pressures. Nor does it take cognizance of the danger that delay can deepen our isolations and exclusiveness; that it can enlarge our differences and set us drifting further and further apart into the net of neo-colonialism, so that our union will become nothing but a fading hope, and the great design of Africa’s full redemption will be lost, perhaps, forever.

The view is also expressed that our difficulties could be resolved simply by a greater collaboration through cooperative association in our inter-territorial relationships. This way of looking at our problems denies a proper conception of their inter-relationship and mutuality. It denies faith in a future for African advancement, in African independence. It betrays a sense of solution only in continued reliance upon external sources through bilateral agreements for economic and other forms of aid.

The fact is that although we have been cooperating and associating with one another in various fields of common endeavour even before colonial times, this has not given us the continental identity and the political and economic force which would help us to deal effectively with the complicated problems confronting us in Africa today. As far as foreign aid is concerned, a United Africa would be in a more favourable position to attract assistance from foreign sources. There is the far more compelling advantage which this arrangement offers, in that aid will come from anywhere to Africa because our bargaining power would become infinitely greater. We shall no longer be dependent upon aid from restricted sources. We shall have the world to choose from.

What are we looking for in Africa? Are we looking for Charters, conceived in the light of the United Nations example? A type of United Nations organisation whose decisions are framed on the basis of resolutions that in our experience have sometimes been ignored by member States? Where groupings are formed and pressures develop in accordance with the interest of the group concerned? Or is it intended that Africa should be turned into a lose organization of States on the model of the organization of the American States, in which the weaker States within it can be at the mercy of the stronger or more powerful ones politically or economically or at the mercy of some powerful outside nations or group of nations? Is this the kind of association we want for ourselves in the United Africa we all speak of with such feeling and emotion?

Your Excellences, permit me to ask: is this the kind of framework we desire for our United Africa? And arrangement which in future could permit Ghana or Nigeria or the Sudan, or Liberia, or Egypt or Ethiopia for example, to use pressure, which either superior economic or political influence gives, to dictate the flow and the direction of trade from, say, Burundi or Togo or Nyasaland to Mozambique?

We all want a United Africa, united not only in our concept of what unity can connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together and dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

When the first Congress of the United States met many years ago at Philadelphia, one of the delegates sounded the first chore of unity by declaring that they had met in a “state of nature” in other words, they were not at Philadelphia as Virginians, or Pennsylvanians, but simply as Americans. This reference to themselves as Americans was in those days a new and strange experience. May I dare to assert equally on this occasion, Your Excellences that we meet here today not as Ghanaians, Guineans, Egyptians, Algerians, Moroccans, Malians, Liberians, Congolese or Nigerians but as Africans. Africans united in our resolve to remain here until we have agreed on the basic principles of a new compact of unity among ourselves which guaranties for us and future a new arrangement of continental government.

If we succeed in establishing a new set of principles as the basis of a new Charter or Statute for the establishment of a Continental Unity of Africa and the creation of social and political progress for our people then, in my view, this Conference should mark the end of our various groupings and regional blocs. But if we fail and let this grand and historic opportunity slip by then we should give way to greater dissension and division among us for which the people of Africa will never forgive us. And the popular and progressive forces and movements within Africa will condemn us. I am sure therefore that we should not fail them.

I have spoken at some length, Your Excellences, because it is necessary for us all to explain not only to one another present here but also to our people who have entrusted to us the fate and destiny of Africa. We must therefore not leave this place until we have set up effective machinery for achieving African Unity. To this end, I now propose for your consideration the following:

As a first step, Your Excellences, a Declaration of Principles uniting and binding us together and to which we must all faithful and loyally adhere, and laying the foundations of unity should be set down. And there should also be a formal declaration that all the Independent African States here and now agree to the establishment of a Union of African States.

As a second and urgent step for the realization of the unification of Africa, an All-Africa Committee of Foreign Ministers be set up now, and that before we rise from this Conference a day should be fixed for them to meet.

This Committee should establish on behalf of the Heads of our Governments, a permanent body of officials and experts to work out a machinery for the Union Government of Africa. This body of officials and experts should be made up of two of the brains from each Independent African State. The various Charters of the existing groupings and other relevant document could also be submitted to the officials and experts. A praesidium consisting of the Head of the Governments of the Independent African States should be call upon to meet and adopt a Constitution and others recommendations that will launch the Union Government of Africa.

We must also decide on allocation where this body of officials and experts will work as the new Headquarters or Capital of our Union Government. Some central place in Africa might be the fairest suggestion either at Bangui in the Central African Republic or Leopoldville in Congo. My colleagues may have other proposals. The Committee of Foreign Ministers, officials and experts should be empowered to establish:

1. A Commission to frame a Constitution for a Union Government of African States;
2. A Commission to work out a continent-wide plan for a unified or common economic and industrial programme for Africa; this plan should include proposals for setting up:
• A Common Market for Africa
• An African currency
• African Monetary Zone
• African Central Bank, and
• Continental Communications System;
3. A Commission to draw up details for a Common Foreign Policy and Diplomacy;
4. A Commission to produce plans for a Common System of Defence;
5. A Commission to make proposals for Common African Citizenship.

These Commissions will report to the Committee of Foreign Ministers who should in turn submit within six months of this Conference their recommendations to the Praesidium. The Praesidium meeting in Conference at the Union Headquarters will consider and approve the recommendations of the Committee of Foreign Ministers.

In order to provide funds immediately for the work of the permanent officials and experts of the Headquarters of the Union, I suggest that a special Committed be set up now to work a budget for this.

Your Excellences, with these steps, I submit, we shall be irrevocably committed to the road which will bring us to a Union Government of Africa. Only a united Africa with central political direction can successfully give effective material and moral support to our Freedom Fighters in Southern Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, South-West Africa, Bechuanaland, Swaziland, Basutoland, Portuguese Guinea, etc., and of course South Africa.

AFRICA@50MUST UNITE; IT IS A SIMPLE CALL AND ACHIEVABLE IF OUR SO CALLED LEADERS PUT THE PEOPLE AFRICA FIRST ON THE AGENDA.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

Thief Kuffour can't speak that smooth English, and also nana binladdo would never get close to that meeting in his life time.

Thief Kuffour can't speak that smooth English, and also nana binladdo would never get close to that meeting in his life time.
K. Boateng 10 years ago

He is about to leave his office for Nana who? hahaha, keep tickling yourself in your illusion.

He is about to leave his office for Nana who? hahaha, keep tickling yourself in your illusion.
Adolf Hitler 10 years ago

this is the kind of leader that we want. How can nana addo go and even climb a table b4 being seen

this is the kind of leader that we want. How can nana addo go and even climb a table b4 being seen
K. Boateng 10 years ago

hahaha

hahaha
THE---- PATRIOTIC AFRICAN UNITION !- 10 years ago

AFRICANS WILL NEVER THINK AND THINK DEEPLY THAT __ THE WESTERNERS OF THE AFRICAN COLONY COLONIAL LEADERS__ INCLUDING THE WORLDS POLICE__USA FOREIGN MINISTER_FOR THE FIST TIME COMMING TO ADIS ABBABA.. HAVE YOU SLAVES THAT T ...
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AFRICANS WILL NEVER THINK AND THINK DEEPLY THAT __ THE WESTERNERS OF THE AFRICAN COLONY COLONIAL LEADERS__ INCLUDING THE WORLDS POLICE__USA FOREIGN MINISTER_FOR THE FIST TIME COMMING TO ADIS ABBABA.. HAVE YOU SLAVES THAT THEY _**THE WEST** THINKS AFRICA IS STILL FREE? ? ** I DONT THINK SO THEY ARE IN ADIS ABABA TO DEVIDES THESE FOOLS _LEADERS OF AFRICA FOR THE FIRST TIME COS,, THE LEADER THAT THEY THOUGHT WILL BE A THREAT TO THE WEST WAS ASSASINATED BY THE FBI CIA AND THE BRITISH MI5 _ .. GADHAFFI SHOULDNT HAVE TO BE KILLED IN THAT UPRISING BUT _ THEY KILLED HIM COS HE IS USING ALL HIS MONEY TO UNITE AFRICA AND THEY **WEST** SAW THAT HE IS A THREAT TO THEIR ECO?OMY LIKE THE EEC -(EUROPIAN COMMUNITY COUNTRIES) -.I HOPE ALL THE AFRICAN LEADERS WILL KNOW THE REASONS WHY SOME OF THE WESTERN GREAT LEADERS IS PART OF THIS SYMPOSIUM OF AFRICAN AFFAIRS FOR THE FIRST TIME..THEY SMELLS WE ARE GETTING CLOSER AS THE GREAT LEADER__DR. KWAME NKRUMAH SAID ___--Viz:- GHANAS INDEPENDENT IS MEANINGLESS UNLESS AFRICAN UNITES-- ** THE WEST THOUGHT IT WISE TO COME TOGETHER TO A COMMON ECONOMICAL PURCHASING POWER_HENCE THE EURO CURRENCY .. SO AFRICA,, WHICH WAY ARE WE GOING NOW? ---ARE THE SUB SAHARAN OR THE SAHARAN LEADERS GOING TO MAKE IT POSIBLE TO A COMMON DENOMINATION OF A CURRENCY TO UNITE LIKE EUROPIANS ? ? .
asem beba dabi 10 years ago

Africa needs honest and visionary leaders not empty talk, Mr Contested Prez.

Africa needs honest and visionary leaders not empty talk, Mr Contested Prez.
K. Boateng 10 years ago

I feel your frustration and pains; I would feel the same if I had pumped a huge amount of money into a senseless and deceptive Akuffo Addo campaign hoping to have the chance to peddle your narcotics but that has eluded you. K ...
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I feel your frustration and pains; I would feel the same if I had pumped a huge amount of money into a senseless and deceptive Akuffo Addo campaign hoping to have the chance to peddle your narcotics but that has eluded you. Keep licking your wounds, sore loser. May be you can join him at his Kyebi village when he becomes the errand boy for the presiding member of their district assembly.
asem beba dabi 10 years ago

I am a taxpayer. So I should feel pain and frustration if thieves rule this country. Don't tell you r such a stupid imbecile that you see the ndc is looting our resources through fraudulent judgement debt, dubious afforestati ...
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I am a taxpayer. So I should feel pain and frustration if thieves rule this country. Don't tell you r such a stupid imbecile that you see the ndc is looting our resources through fraudulent judgement debt, dubious afforestation programs, collusion with the chinese to destroy our water bodies. Even the GYEEDA employees are being defrauded- listen to joy fm you depraved fool.

As for Narcotics dont even go there, Some of us are suspicious of what attah mills was being injected with. Especially after we learnt about his frustrations with the way ndc officials he appointed to guard the country against narcotic business, were rather colluding with drug barons.

Remember attah mills made a passionate appeal to the US officials.

Do you remember the incident of more 14 people being arrested with concaine on a single plane from Ghana?
Do you also remember the stupid explanation that crazy sarpong gave- that airline security officials prevented him from searching the plane?

What about the cocaine that turned to baking soda? Or the record 'Wee' smuggle that was stopped at the Heathrow airport?

So you see you could possibly pathetic errand boy in all these narcotic business going on under ndc.
That is why you will insult any body who criti izez our corrupt president.
KILO 10 years ago

YOU ARE 3X STUPID THAN UR FATHER NANA ADDO WHO DSE NOT HAVE A WORK TO DO; NANA WITHOUT CETI U CAN STILL WORK AT AGBOGLOSHIE MKT

YOU ARE 3X STUPID THAN UR FATHER NANA ADDO WHO DSE NOT HAVE A WORK TO DO; NANA WITHOUT CETI U CAN STILL WORK AT AGBOGLOSHIE MKT
Kwame Oppong, Germany 10 years ago

DAY DREAMER....DREAM, DREAM, DREAM......!!! NANA ADDO IS FINISHED, HE WILL NEVER BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF OUR BELOVED GHANA. CAN'T YOU READ BETWEEN THE LINES, ASEM BE BA...?

DAY DREAMER....DREAM, DREAM, DREAM......!!! NANA ADDO IS FINISHED, HE WILL NEVER BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF OUR BELOVED GHANA. CAN'T YOU READ BETWEEN THE LINES, ASEM BE BA...?
KK 10 years ago

Day dreamer asem be ba dabi

Day dreamer asem be ba dabi
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

How Nana Addo wishes he was the one in the show rather than JM!!!! So having lost at the pollshe is now relying on technicalities to disqualify votes from JM's stronghold in order to win.

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How Nana Addo wishes he was the one in the show rather than JM!!!! So having lost at the pollshe is now relying on technicalities to disqualify votes from JM's stronghold in order to win.

But someone should let Nana know (i.e. when he is sober and has not smoked wee for more than 6 hours) that his dream of being President of Ghana will just drift away like the marijuana smoke he k=normally puffs out!
Kofi 10 years ago

This AU conference will have no positive impact on Africans. They have never had so leave Nana Addo out.

This AU conference will have no positive impact on Africans. They have never had so leave Nana Addo out.
t.t 10 years ago

we must mind our words please,not only Gahanians are vewing this site.

we must mind our words please,not only Gahanians are vewing this site.
Ndc is a calamity to the development 10 years ago

Wa d+y

Wa d+y
PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI- McA 10 years ago

PEACE REQUIRES JUSTICE
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PEACE REQUIRES JUSTICE
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Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris 10 years ago

Papa...nd Amen!

Papa...nd Amen!
Amosah 10 years ago

You cheat your own nationals and talk about African Renaissance. How may times haven't people appealed to you for the Ghana International Refunds & they have all fallen to deaf ears.

You cheat your own nationals and talk about African Renaissance. How may times haven't people appealed to you for the Ghana International Refunds & they have all fallen to deaf ears.
Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

Mahama is not a president. He is a thief. What is he doing in Ehthiopia? I wonder why he is in a rush to go to this all important leaders' meeting. President Kuffour is there to represent Ghana, so what is that thief doing th ...
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Mahama is not a president. He is a thief. What is he doing in Ehthiopia? I wonder why he is in a rush to go to this all important leaders' meeting. President Kuffour is there to represent Ghana, so what is that thief doing there? He says he is going to spend as long as 14days over there. This is simply because his man-lizard Asiedu Nkatia has ruined his case and is shitting in his pants all over the court room while in the witness box. Mahama is well aware that he (jon Nkomfem dumsor dumsor thief Mahama) will be called to come and defend himself so all he has to do is to run away during that time. This is the reason why he is gone. A thief is a thief is a thief is a thief is a thief for ever and ever.
ASANTE 10 years ago

WHETHER YOU npp LIKE IT OR NOT GHANA HAVE ONE ELECTED PRESIDENT AND IS NOBODY APART FROM PROPER,CIVILIZED AND MAJORITY GHANAIAN PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA

WHETHER YOU npp LIKE IT OR NOT GHANA HAVE ONE ELECTED PRESIDENT AND IS NOBODY APART FROM PROPER,CIVILIZED AND MAJORITY GHANAIAN PRESIDENT JOHN MAHAMA
KT 10 years ago

Even ex-president Kufour likes how president Mahama talks and approaches problems.So you need to wake up and support our president.Whether we like or not he is the majority choice and nothing we can do about it. Absolutely no ...
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Even ex-president Kufour likes how president Mahama talks and approaches problems.So you need to wake up and support our president.Whether we like or not he is the majority choice and nothing we can do about it. Absolutely nothing, now that we all realized that the election was not stolen for him but he won it hands down, we need to only show him our support. God bless us all...
Efua Bloomberg 10 years ago

Africa leaders have reduced themselves as stooges of colonial masters. They mortgaged the Africa continent cheaply to developed countries.
Why does Africa need foreign aid? Foreign aid or development assistance is a toll of ...
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Africa leaders have reduced themselves as stooges of colonial masters. They mortgaged the Africa continent cheaply to developed countries.
Why does Africa need foreign aid? Foreign aid or development assistance is a toll of neo-colonisation. We are not our own; Wake up Africa.
Kofi 10 years ago

This day must be renamed African Spech Day. For the past 50 years, Africans are subjected to all forms of speeches on this day. Leaders gather make speeches, have a good time and pat themselves at the back for progress made t ...
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This day must be renamed African Spech Day. For the past 50 years, Africans are subjected to all forms of speeches on this day. Leaders gather make speeches, have a good time and pat themselves at the back for progress made towards a continental utopia. They get back to their countries and give press briefings. They then wait for the next speech day.
asem beba dabi 10 years ago

That is why I feel that the call by the president is complete rubbish. He doesnot even believe in what he is saying. He and his fellow african leaders are the problem.

That is why I feel that the call by the president is complete rubbish. He doesnot even believe in what he is saying. He and his fellow african leaders are the problem.
Tokyo !! 10 years ago

A grouping of thieves and plunders of the continent Africa. .. Leaders who should bow down their heads in shame. Look at the continent u stupid fools are presiding over. U should be ashamed to be there eating fine good and ...
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A grouping of thieves and plunders of the continent Africa. .. Leaders who should bow down their heads in shame. Look at the continent u stupid fools are presiding over. U should be ashamed to be there eating fine good and drinking fine wine and calling yourselves president. Stupid presidentss
Abba 10 years ago

You and your government have fail Ghana because you have looted the coffers of the nation. You have rendered the spirit of June 4th 1979 Revolution to be useless.

You and your government have fail Ghana because you have looted the coffers of the nation. You have rendered the spirit of June 4th 1979 Revolution to be useless.
Abba 10 years ago

Now the blood of those who were executed are innocent.

Now the blood of those who were executed are innocent.
NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

50 YEARS ON, AFRICA IS STILL CHASING THE GREAT DREAM OF THE GREATEST AFRICAN LEADER PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH, FOUNDER OF GHANA, FOUNDER OF AFRICA, AFRICAN CHILD OF THE MILLLENNIUM. WHAT A LEGACY! AFRIC WOULD HAVE FAR AHEAD BY NOW H ...
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50 YEARS ON, AFRICA IS STILL CHASING THE GREAT DREAM OF THE GREATEST AFRICAN LEADER PREZ KWAME NKRUMAH, FOUNDER OF GHANA, FOUNDER OF AFRICA, AFRICAN CHILD OF THE MILLLENNIUM. WHAT A LEGACY! AFRIC WOULD HAVE FAR AHEAD BY NOW HAD IT NOT BEEN THE RETROGRESSIVE DANQUAHBUSIA KUFUOR/NPP NATION-WRECKERS OF ASHANTI/AKYEM IDIOTS CUM THEIR CIA WORLD SPOILERS.
Pelicles 10 years ago

If Nkrumah was not kicked out of power, trust me, he couldn't unite Africa at that time in our history. During the time he was pushing for that useless "Unity", some leaders were at loggerhead with him and why do you think h ...
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If Nkrumah was not kicked out of power, trust me, he couldn't unite Africa at that time in our history. During the time he was pushing for that useless "Unity", some leaders were at loggerhead with him and why do you think he could have achieve that?

Even some African nations were under the clutches of colonialism and think of how those nations will react. Nkrumah was just making noise with the sense that he was ahead of his time. The best thing for him was to develop Ghana to the envy of all African leaders but he just wasted our monies in forming alliances like Ghana-Guinea-Mali whatever and what exactly did we gain from that alliance? Nothing.
Pontius Pilate 10 years ago

african leaders must stop these fantasies of unity blah blah blah. they all truly know that we are not ready in anyway for this giant step towards economic and social integration. most of the countries have more than half the ...
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african leaders must stop these fantasies of unity blah blah blah. they all truly know that we are not ready in anyway for this giant step towards economic and social integration. most of the countries have more than half their budgets donor driven.

poverty and stack illiteracy abound everywhere. basic necessities are a challenge. if you can't address these basic problems why look further. let's get the basic sorted out first cos without that, this talk will be cheap, shallow, hollow and a mirage than when it was first conceived.
NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

THESE GHANA MAFIA ARE NOW ALSO BENEFITING FROM NKRUMAH'S STANDING DREAM OVER 50 YEARS AGO.

THESE GHANA MAFIA ARE NOW ALSO BENEFITING FROM NKRUMAH'S STANDING DREAM OVER 50 YEARS AGO.
ghanaba 10 years ago

CONCENTRATE ON ECOWAS.WE WRITE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, WHEREAS THE ARABS DO THE OPPOSITE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT SKIN. THEIR PRIORITY IS THE ARAB LEAGUE. WHAT IS OUR PRIORITY, ENGLISH AGAINST FRENCH OR PORTUGUESE ON THE CONTINENT? H ...
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CONCENTRATE ON ECOWAS.WE WRITE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, WHEREAS THE ARABS DO THE OPPOSITE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT SKIN. THEIR PRIORITY IS THE ARAB LEAGUE. WHAT IS OUR PRIORITY, ENGLISH AGAINST FRENCH OR PORTUGUESE ON THE CONTINENT? HOW CAN YOU BE IN UNION WITH SOMEBODY, WHEN YOU DONT SHARE ANYTHING IN COMMON. WHY INDEPENDENCE A REFERENCE POINT.? THERE IS NO INDEPENDANCE. ARAFAT PREFERRED TO BE ASSASINATED IN FRANCE. KADAFOU'S PLIGHT STARTED IN A HOTEL IN SWITZERLAND, ALL BECAUSE OF A HOTEL ROOM ROAR AGAINST A JEW. FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS THE CAMEROUN PRESIDENT SPENDS 6 SOLID MONTHS EVERY YEAR IN A VILLAGE LIKE GENEVA. WE THANK GOD FOR THE TERRIBLE WEATHER WHICH COULD FRUSTRATE THIS AILING DICTATOR TO RESCHEDULE THIS YEAR'S VISIT. AILING ALGERIAN PRESIDENT IS IN A FRENCH HOSPITAL, AS IF ONLY HIS COLONIAL MASTER COULD SAVE HIM. I HOPE HE DOES NOT UNDERGO THE SAME FATE AS ARAFAT. WHICH INDEPENDANCE. IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU DANCE TO YOUR MASTERS' MUSIC, AFTER BETWEEN 50 TO 60 YEARS. AFRICAN MONKEYS GROWING INTO APES. GOD , HELP US BEFORE OUR GRANDCHILDREN GROW INTO DINOSAURS AND ATTACK LONDON OPEN ZOO OR JUNGLE. I HOPE THEY WILL OBSERVE A MINUTE SILENCE AT THE SITTING FOR ALL THE VICTIMS. WHAT A SAD FUTURE. THEY HAVE EVERY REASON TO IMPORT EXPENSIVE CHAMPAGNES FROM FRANCE, CAVIAR FROM RUSSIA AND SIGN ARMS AGREEMENT CONTRACTS WITH THE AMERICANS. WHILE MAKING MERRY, REMEBER EVERY SECOND AN AFRICAN CHILD MAY DIE FROM HUNGER OR A DISEASE. THIS IS THE HEART OF AN AFRICAN LEADER. IF YOU EARN 20 AND SPEND 19 IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU BROKE, THIS A WHOLE FINANCE MINISTER GOT TO SAY.TAKE COURAGE DEAR READER TAKE COURAGE, THAT IS WHY PAUL SAID WE ARE TO BE PITIED, IF OUR HOPE IN CHRIST IS CURTAILED ONLY FOR THIS LIFE.AMEN
Nick USA 10 years ago

50 years, and the vision is still a dream, African Leaders are still confused about African Unity. If they can ALL DISSOLVE THEIR NATIONAL SOCCER TEAMS TO FORM ONE UNITED AFRICAN SOCCER TEAM TO REPRESENT AFRICA AT THE WORLD C ...
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50 years, and the vision is still a dream, African Leaders are still confused about African Unity. If they can ALL DISSOLVE THEIR NATIONAL SOCCER TEAMS TO FORM ONE UNITED AFRICAN SOCCER TEAM TO REPRESENT AFRICA AT THE WORLD CUP, AFRICAN UNION WILL SUCCEED. We all know that soccer is a unifier. If we can't pass this simple test, we can unite. What divides us is the self identity. I am Ghanaian, I am Nigerian, I am Kenyan, etc. We fly different flag and hold allegiance to our national flag, not African flag. Look at the United States of America. They have 50 States, present a single team in any competition. When they win its USA.
OSEI STEPHEN,NORWAY 10 years ago

,NDC,NPP WE ALL ARE DIEN ,OUR PROBLEMS IN GHANA IS BIGGER THAN AFRICA,NO HELP FROM ANY AFRICAN COUNTRYS .STAY IN YOUR OFFICE AND THINK VERY GOOD ABOUT US ,WE NEED JOBS,MONEY IN OUR ...
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,NDC,NPP WE ALL ARE DIEN ,OUR PROBLEMS IN GHANA IS BIGGER THAN AFRICA,NO HELP FROM ANY AFRICAN COUNTRYS .STAY IN YOUR OFFICE AND THINK VERY GOOD ABOUT US ,WE NEED JOBS,MONEY IN OUR PORKETS ,LONG LIFE,THANK YOU.
James k. 10 years ago

Even in Ethiopia where the celebration of the anniversary is taking place, they are not shifting the holiday from sat to Mon.
We Ghana must change our attitude.

Even in Ethiopia where the celebration of the anniversary is taking place, they are not shifting the holiday from sat to Mon.
We Ghana must change our attitude.
Ohene. 10 years ago

Thank u.

Thank u.
Ohene. 10 years ago

Idiot leaders,,,,any bastard Can ruel africa,,,,the so Call AU cant even stop the killings in Mali ,Sudan ,,,,Idiots.

Idiot leaders,,,,any bastard Can ruel africa,,,,the so Call AU cant even stop the killings in Mali ,Sudan ,,,,Idiots.
chief amankwa 10 years ago

african leaders are crap

african leaders are crap
Kwame Aidoo 10 years ago

You are only making a joke of yourself, boy! The wise among the lot over there are not taking you serious b'cos they are aware you make noise and lie.My piece of advice to you John Mahama is resign to save yourself and any di ...
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You are only making a joke of yourself, boy! The wise among the lot over there are not taking you serious b'cos they are aware you make noise and lie.My piece of advice to you John Mahama is resign to save yourself and any dignity you may have before the SC case comes to an end.Read between the lines .You are going down as the first; as Agya Atta was the first sitting president to die in power; you shall be the first kicked out for election malpractices
BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, OF A TRUTH, "WITH GOD, NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE" TO A -UNITED PEOPLE. YES, AFRICA, UNITE IS THE KEY!! HOWEVER, WE KNOW, YEA, WE AR ...
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NOBLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, OF A TRUTH, "WITH GOD, NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE" TO A -UNITED PEOPLE. YES, AFRICA, UNITE IS THE KEY!! HOWEVER, WE KNOW, YEA, WE ARE NOT IGNORANT THAT, GOD PERMITTED -ISRAEL- TO WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS FOR 4O YEARS AND -ISRAEL- ENTERED -THE PROMISE LAND- AFTER GOD HAD GIVEN -THE LAW; THE COMMANDMENT TO HIS PEOPLE BY THE HAND OF MOSES. WHY? EVEN GOD, DOES NOTHING -WITHOUT-, THE LAW, "HIS WORD". NOW, LET MY PEOPLE THINK.
BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, IF THE GLOBAL -INJUSTICES, CREED AND THE LAWLESSNESS, SHALL GIVE WAY TO PEACE AND STABILITY, WHICH ARE NECESSARY KEYS FOR, PROGRESS, DEVELOPMENT, ADVANCEMENTS AND THE DESTINY OF -NATIONS- TO BE FULFILLED, -THE LAW- MUST HAVE IT'S RIGHTFUL PLACE IN ALL HUMAN SOCIETY. PULSE. A TIME TO THINK.
THEREFORE O' AFRICA, ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD, AND INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, TO -'JOSHUA' THE PRESIDENT OF GHANA, HIS EXCELLENCY -JOHN- DRAMANI MAHAMA, I SAY "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" WITH GOD ON YOUR SIDE AND UPHOLD -THE LAW- AGAINST , THE LAWLESSNESS OF THE BURNING DOWN OF OUR MARKET PLACE, AND THE THE RISINS -LAWLESSNESS-OF 'THE MOTOCYCLIST'. YOUR EXCELLENCY, "JOSHUA" AND INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, THE VOICE OF -"RACHAEL" THE NOBLE WOMAN I CALL, -"YAA ASANTEWAA" HER EXCELLENCY NANA YAA KUNADU AGYEMAN RAWLING, IS CRYING OUT IN AFFIRMING THE VOICE OF "JOSEPH" WHICH CALLS FOR THE PLACE OF-THE LAW- IN THE HUMAN SOCIETY. FOR WHY SHOULD, THE INNOCENT CHILDREN OF "RAHEAL" BE NO MORE AND WEEPING AND LAMENTATION TAKE THE PLACE OF -LOVE AND JOY? YEA, GHANA -WE SHALL NOT DIE BUT LIVE TO DECLARE THE WORKS OF THE LORD.PULSE. A TIME TO THINK.
YES, BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, THOU "THE DESTROYER" IS ROARING LIKE A LION IN THIS TIME OF GLOBAL MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE" SEEKING THE -NNOCENT CHILDREN- OF THE NATIONS TO DEVOUR, WE MUST; "BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS" AND UPHOLD, -THE LAW- AGAINST EVERY, LAWLESSNESS SEEKING TO TEAR DOWN NATIONS AND THE INNOCENT OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, -'RENAISSANCE?'THEN, -AFRICA UNITE!! FOR "WITH GOD, NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE" TO A -UNITED PEOPLE- WHO UPHOLD, -THE LAW. "IT IS FINISH" THERFORE, "OCCUPY TILL I COME".
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN! GOD BLESS AFRICA. GOD BLESS -'JOSHUA' THE PRESIDENT OF GHANA, HIS EXCELLENCY -JOHN- DRAMANI MAHAMA, TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE". GOD BLESS YOUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE TO SEEN THE NEED FOR THE PLACE OF -THE LAW- IN YOUR NATION AND OUR WORLD. AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ. 10 years ago

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From: benony amekudzi
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--- On Sat, 5/25/13, benony amekudzi wrote:

From: benony amekudzi
Subject: Fw: MESSAGE OF GOODWILL, GOOD SUCCESS, 50TH (GOLDEN JUBILEE) ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AND GOD BLESSINGS !
To: president@oop.gov.gh, chairperson@african-union.org, Vice@oop.gov.gh, president@whitehouse.gov, secretary@state.gov, ghmfa00@Ghana.co, inquiries@un.org, pm@pm.gc.ca, pm@pmo.gov.il, pm@pmo.gov.se, pm@pmo.gov.uk
Cc: press-editor@consilium.europa.eu, Press-accra@State.gov, Info@Pm.gov.au, "Benony Tony Amekudzi"
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013, 2:01 PM

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Date: Saturday, May 25, 2013, 1:46 PM

DEAR H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA & H.E. PRESIDENTS/HEAD OF STATES/PRIME MINISTERS OF AFRICAN UNION,
TO RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY SEND THIS MESSAGE OF GOODWILL, GOOD SUCCESS, HAPPY 50TH YEAR GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS OF THE AFRICAN UNION AND GOD BLESSINGS ON THIS HISTORIC DAY THAT MARKS THE GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS OF A CONTINENTAL ORGANIZATION WHICH STARTED AS ORGANIZATION FOR AFRICA UNITY AND NOW "AFRICAN UNION".
THAT AS ALL HIS/HER EXCELLENCIES THROUGHOUT THE CONTINENT AND ALL FRIENDS, ALLIES AND INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS GATHERED IN ADDIS-A-BABA, ETHIOPIA TO CELEBRATE THIS HISTORIC AND AUGUST GOLDEN JUBILEE THAT SIGHT SHOULD NEVER BE LOST OF THE NEW ERA OF 21ST CENTURY SMART DIPLOMACY DISPENSATIONS ONGOING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD WHEREBY THE CIVILIZED WORLD ADOPTED A STRATEGY OF INFORMATION SHARING TO HELP PROMOTE BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN COUNTRIES OF GOODWILL THEREBY ALSO HELP TO PROMOTE FRIENDSHIPS BETWEEN COUNTRIES THAT AFRICA CANNOT AFFORD TO BE LEFT OUT IN THIS NOBLE SMART DIPLOMACY DISPENSATIONS.
THAT ONE OF THE STRONG FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE THEN "ORGANIZATION OF AFRICA UNITY", THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF GHANA THE LATE PRESIDENT OSAGYEFO DR.KWAME NKRUMAH SAID AT THE VERY ONSET OF GHANA INDEPENDENCE DAY ON MARCH 6, 1957 THAT "THE INDEPENDENCE OF GHANA IS MEANINGLESS UNLESS IT IS LINKED UP TO THE TOTAL LIBERATION OF AFRICA". THAT HE FURTHER SAID AMONGST OTHERS, THAT "IN THE PAST THE SAHARA HAS DIVIDED US BUT TODAY IT UNITES US, AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL OF US".
THAT I RESPECTFULLY URGED ALL HIS/HER EXCELLENCIES TO PAUSE, TO REFLECT AND TO RESOLUTELY RESOLVE THAT "WHATEVER HAS BEEN THE PROBLEM{S} BETWEEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES THEMSELVES AND ALL OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD THAT I HUMBLY SUBMIT TO HIS/HER EXCELLENCIES THAT WITH GOODWILL AND DEEP SEATED GOD GIVEN UNDERSTANDING THOSE ISSUES CONSIDERED AS THE PROBLEM(S) WOULD BE THE SAME ISSUES THAT WOULD BRING FIRST THE AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND ALL OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD TOGETHER".
THAT I WOULD LIKE TO STATE CATEGORICALLY , CONCISELY AND PRECISELY THAT H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE CIVILIZED WORLD ARE VERY GOOD FRIENDS OF AFRICA AND HIS/HER EXCELLENCIES TO TRUST MY BEST PROFESSIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BEST JUDGEMENTS AND TO FEEL FREE TO SHARE INFORMATION AND TO UNDERTAKE CLOSELY SMART DIPLOMACY DISPENSATIONS OVERTURES WITH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CIVILIZED WORLD TO HELP AFRICA TO PROMOTE HER DEVELOPMENTAL AGENDA FORWARD TO HELP PROMOTE BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PEOPLE. THAT AFTER ALL, THE ESSENCE AND THE "SINE QUA NON" OF POLITICS ITSELF IS "TO PROMOTE THE QUALITY GOOD OF THE PEOPLE" AND AFRICA CANNOT RENEGE ON THIS NOBLE OBJECTIVES.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
GOD BLESS GHANA, AFRICAN UNION, AMERICA AND UNITED NATIONS !
VERY TRULY YOURS,
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI
INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT/ADMINISTRATOR

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HON. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY
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