Ghana has not had a visionary leader after Kwame Nkrumah – Nyaho-Tamakloe

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KD 10 years ago

I think its time NPP ignore people like Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe and Wereko Brobbey. They're only distractions.

I think its time NPP ignore people like Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe and Wereko Brobbey. They're only distractions.
OBIBA JUDAS 10 years ago

NPP Were you leaving in space when NPP buried the late president Mills, when he was still alive with your Akufo Addo leading the way? Sometimes you people think this country is for fools and stupid primitive species like you ...
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NPP Were you leaving in space when NPP buried the late president Mills, when he was still alive with your Akufo Addo leading the way? Sometimes you people think this country is for fools and stupid primitive species like you animal shit eaters! Look, that useless and arrogant tribal bigot,Akufo Addo can die and Ghana lose nothing.Mother fucker idiots.Why did he go to the UK and not Korle Bu,something they have accussed Mills of? Never will these criminals rule this country again.What about that your equally hopeless and dirty black thief man Kufour who, before the elections told NPP supporters that they shouldn´t vote for a sick man like Mills? Because you people are animals, you have no sense of memory.Swine!
ATSU, HO 10 years ago

THIS CAN BE VERY DEBATABLE, BUT A VISIONARY PRESIDENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE NEEDS OF THE CITIZENS TODAY WITHOUT FORGETTING ABOUT HE NEEDS OF THE FUTURE GENERATIONS. THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH WE OPERATE OUR POLITICS NOW ...
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THIS CAN BE VERY DEBATABLE, BUT A VISIONARY PRESIDENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE NEEDS OF THE CITIZENS TODAY WITHOUT FORGETTING ABOUT HE NEEDS OF THE FUTURE GENERATIONS. THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH WE OPERATE OUR POLITICS NOW UNFORTUNATELY PRODUCE ONLY SHORT SIGHTED LEADERS WHO ONLY THINK OF HOW TO BE REELECTED
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

DR. PAA KWESI NDUOM “I saw many “forgotten” communities with no drinking water, no real schools, no electricity, no jobs, with very little to live for. I resolved that win or lose, I would spend my time trying to help s ...
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DR. PAA KWESI NDUOM “I saw many “forgotten” communities with no drinking water, no real schools, no electricity, no jobs, with very little to live for. I resolved that win or lose, I would spend my time trying to help some of these communities. I have been working to give support where I can, find money to lend to very small business people, and have started a foundation that will focus on financing initiatives to educate brilliant needy children and provide facilities,” he stated in an exclusive telephone interview...
ZoRRo 10 years ago

I have time and again written on Ghanaweb that: GHANA HAS NOT HAD A VISIONARY LEADER SINCE OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH. That is the fact and we need to accept it.

I have time and again written on Ghanaweb that: GHANA HAS NOT HAD A VISIONARY LEADER SINCE OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH. That is the fact and we need to accept it.
Benony 10 years ago

It was Kwame Nkrumah who first imported dictatorship, one party state and communism into Africa and this evil is still causing havoc on the continenet. Kwame Nkrumah was the only leader in Ghana who imprisoned all political o ...
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It was Kwame Nkrumah who first imported dictatorship, one party state and communism into Africa and this evil is still causing havoc on the continenet. Kwame Nkrumah was the only leader in Ghana who imprisoned all political opponents including children (ask Boye-Boe) and tortured them to death and he was so wicked that he even denied them decent burial by the relatives.

He declared himself President for life and he was the only President who never had a Vice President. Even Hitler had Hess. Nkrumah controlled the perss and the judiciary. No more Young Pioneers. No more Nkruamism.
facts 10 years ago

Kufour was far better than Nkrumah who took Ghana to the present poor economic state. He had the best opportunity to carry the country ahead of all other african countries in all fields but failed miserably.His concern was al ...
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Kufour was far better than Nkrumah who took Ghana to the present poor economic state. He had the best opportunity to carry the country ahead of all other african countries in all fields but failed miserably.His concern was always on the independence of other african countries.The next to Nkrumah to have opportunities was Mills but for his personal health problems the children with sharp teeth took over and derailed his moves.He saw everything but was too weak to take any meaningful action. His own assistant was involved in corruption. Kufour had no good heritage but he could do something out of nothing.
ELINAM 10 years ago

Nkrumah ruled for seven years and owned nothing for himself or children,and Ghana airways and black star lines were respected and envied.
K4 on other hand, ruled for eight years and all his children are now wealthy and K4 h ...
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Nkrumah ruled for seven years and owned nothing for himself or children,and Ghana airways and black star lines were respected and envied.
K4 on other hand, ruled for eight years and all his children are now wealthy and K4 himself, the least speak of him the better.Ghana airways's fund was a personal money bag for his health minister,Ananee who used it to cater for his American girlfriend he had a child with, and eventually ran the company to the ground.
Please, how do you judge success and vision? BE HONEST TO YOURSELF AND KIDS.
Neither NDC Nor NPP 10 years ago

Funny how the Danquah-Busia forces after decades of continuous vilification and demonization of the Osagyefo are now trying to equate him with one of their most prolifically corrupt leaders, ex-President Kufuor!

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Funny how the Danquah-Busia forces after decades of continuous vilification and demonization of the Osagyefo are now trying to equate him with one of their most prolifically corrupt leaders, ex-President Kufuor!

The Osagyefo (Liberator) was the only leader to never have acquired luxury cars and mansions, kickbacks from state projects and self-profiting hidden businesses. Nkrumah's happiness came - not from material acquisitions - but from helping his people in Ghana and elsewhere in the African continent and diaspora to be free and prosperous. And to this end, he sacrificed everything: his studies abroad, his family, and finally his very own life itself.

It is a great insult actually for Nyaho-Tamakloe to compare Kufuor with the Osagyefo!
ELINAM 10 years ago

When your grandfathers thought only colonialist, who hate Africa but wants its resources by any means, are the only who can help us and not ourselves, and helped kicked him out, what has been the results in industries and edu ...
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When your grandfathers thought only colonialist, who hate Africa but wants its resources by any means, are the only who can help us and not ourselves, and helped kicked him out, what has been the results in industries and education? ZERO!!
Yea, some fools need to be detected to and if they failed to listen, be put to jail before they spoil it for the rest of us. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT NKRUMAH DID.
VINCEY,NJ 10 years ago

Ku4 has also admitted that, the great Osagyefo is the overall best. So you see how an idiot triabalistic you are?

Ku4 has also admitted that, the great Osagyefo is the overall best. So you see how an idiot triabalistic you are?
EBO KOBINA 10 years ago

WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION IN GHANA , WHERE EVERY GHANAIAN BOOKLONG IS WASTING OUR TIME WITH HIS SHALLOW MINDED KNOWLEDGE ,I WOULD HAVE BEHAVED LIKE KWAME NKRUMAH FOR THE SAKE OF DEVELOPMENT . PLEASE , LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENN ...
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WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION IN GHANA , WHERE EVERY GHANAIAN BOOKLONG IS WASTING OUR TIME WITH HIS SHALLOW MINDED KNOWLEDGE ,I WOULD HAVE BEHAVED LIKE KWAME NKRUMAH FOR THE SAKE OF DEVELOPMENT . PLEASE , LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENNING TO OUR DEAR COUNTRY .EVERY FAKE "DR" IN GHANA NOW HAS A PUBLIC FORUM TO SAY ANY NONSENSE WITHOUT THINKING TWICE . LAWLESSNESS HAS OVERTAKEN GOODSENSE AND REASON . PLEASE , STOP THIS UNNECESSARY BICKERING AND DRAMA FOR DEAR GHANA TO PROGRESS . I DON'T BLAME NKRUMAH FOR JAILING DETRACTORS LIKE KWESI LAMPTEY (WATCH YOUTUBE KWESI LAMPTEY'S CRITICISM ON AKOSOMBO HYDRO-ELECTRIC PROJECT). SUCH A FOOL . IN FACT , OUR DEAR COUNTRY NEED SPECIAL LAWS ON SLENDER AND LIBEL . PEOPLE SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT THEY SAY AND PUBLISH TO STIR UP PUBLIC DISCONTENT .
Templar 10 years ago

My brother you are right and to add to it, the right was right about acknowledging Dr KN for his achievements and also right about the failure of JAK. How can he compare JAK to our most productive President we have ever had?

My brother you are right and to add to it, the right was right about acknowledging Dr KN for his achievements and also right about the failure of JAK. How can he compare JAK to our most productive President we have ever had?
Symbiosis 10 years ago

By the way, what does Nyaho Tamakloe mean by the word 'visionary'. Does he mean that the man Kwame Nkrumah was a good leader or what?

If that is what he meant, then he needs to be educated that Nkrumah did not operate in i ...
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By the way, what does Nyaho Tamakloe mean by the word 'visionary'. Does he mean that the man Kwame Nkrumah was a good leader or what?

If that is what he meant, then he needs to be educated that Nkrumah did not operate in isolation of certain principles and ideology. If he Nyaho Tamakloe thinks that they the NPP should emulate and follow the exemplary achievements of Nkrumah, then it is not hard to go and look for those principles and adopt them. Are the chickens coming home to roost?

Then again how can one compare Kufuor to Nkrumah? How? It is a laughable suggestion.

I do think that Kufuor was/is a good leader but how can you compare him to the man (Nkrumah) who accomplished one of history's greatest feats of liberating the entire Black race from over 500 years of oppression and colonial dictatorship from the friends of Kufuor and the NPP?

Kwame Nkrumah is one of history's greatest statesmen and achievers. For Africa and the Blackman - at least those who have, thanks to Nkrumah, managed to exorcised themselves from mental slavery, he is without doubt the greatest ever.
Kojo T 10 years ago

But he brought you education and 400+ factories. Compare with what the colonialists did in 300+years.It is fools like you who retard our progress. K4 could not be a visionary as he had the vision of a village leader.

But he brought you education and 400+ factories. Compare with what the colonialists did in 300+years.It is fools like you who retard our progress. K4 could not be a visionary as he had the vision of a village leader.
GHFUO, LOVE YOURSELF! 10 years ago

WHERE IS KWAME NKRUMAH INTL AIRPORT? LOCATE THIS IN KUMASI....

TO THOSE IDIOTS WHO THINK NKRUMAH WAS A DICTATOR. THROUGHOUT WORLD POLITICAL HISTORY, NO CIVILIAN HAS EVER BEEN A DICTATOR. SO HOW CAN U PUT DR. NKRUMAH IN THA ...
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WHERE IS KWAME NKRUMAH INTL AIRPORT? LOCATE THIS IN KUMASI....

TO THOSE IDIOTS WHO THINK NKRUMAH WAS A DICTATOR. THROUGHOUT WORLD POLITICAL HISTORY, NO CIVILIAN HAS EVER BEEN A DICTATOR. SO HOW CAN U PUT DR. NKRUMAH IN THAT CATEGORY? WHILES DR NKRUMAH WAS JAILING TERRORISTS N DISSIDENTS WHO WANTED TO HALT GH'S PROGRESS. JJ RAWLINGS INSTEAD KILLED THEM. SO ELL ME, WHO ISMORE OF A DICTATOR HERE? FUNNY ENUFF,THE SAME DUMB FAGGOTS WHO SAY NKRUMAH WAS A DICTATOR WERENT EVEN ALIVE IN THOSE GLORY DAYS OF GH. THEY BASE EVERYTHING ON A BOOK AN NKRUMAH HATER HAS WRITTEN. USE UR COMMON SENSE. THATS WHY GOD GAVE U A FRIGGIN BRAIN! JJ WOULD HVE KILLED DANQUAH, BUSIA, THE GCPP PPL ALL OF THEM.
GHFUO, LOVE YOURSELF! 10 years ago

1. THE SO CALLED 1 PARTY STATE WAS VOTED ON THRU A REFERENDUM BY THE PPL
2.EVIL HE CAUSED ON THE CONTINENT? WHO SPEARHEADED THE OAU? ABOA!
3. JJ KILLED HIS OPPONENTS AND EVEN INNOCENT DISSIDENTS. U WOULD RATHER WANT DR. NKR ...
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1. THE SO CALLED 1 PARTY STATE WAS VOTED ON THRU A REFERENDUM BY THE PPL
2.EVIL HE CAUSED ON THE CONTINENT? WHO SPEARHEADED THE OAU? ABOA!
3. JJ KILLED HIS OPPONENTS AND EVEN INNOCENT DISSIDENTS. U WOULD RATHER WANT DR. NKRUMAH TO KILL THESE DISSIDENTS AS WELL? THESE SAME PPL NKRUMAH JAILED WANTED TO KILL HIM, IN CASE U ARE CONFUSED. LOOK AT THE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE? JESUS CHRIST, U ARE A HUMONGOUS FOOL...

U CANT EVEN START UR OWN BUSINESS BUT HVE THE NERVE TO CALL SOMEONE A DICTATOR. IN 7 YRS, THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS UNDER NKRUMAH HASNT BEEN EQUALED OR SURPASSED THOSE OF HIS FELLOW PREDECESSORS...COMBINED. MIND YOU, THRU ALL THIS DR. NKRUMAH SPLIT HIS TIME N ATTENTION BETWEEN GHANA N AFRICA. HE DIDNT STEAL A PENNY!
Neither NDC Nor NPP 10 years ago

Nkrumah's leniency and compassion was his undoing. No one was killed in Ghana under Nkrumah, with the exception of the policeman who shot at Nkrumah in an assassination attempt commissioned by the usual suspects. There were a ...
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Nkrumah's leniency and compassion was his undoing. No one was killed in Ghana under Nkrumah, with the exception of the policeman who shot at Nkrumah in an assassination attempt commissioned by the usual suspects. There were a whole bunch of African puppet states such as Ivory Coast, Kenya, Gabon...Congo/Zaire etc whose governments simply declared those countries one-party states without referenda. In any of these states, opposition was met with executions not imprisonment!The South African, Genoveva Marais, (now Genoveva Kano), who was recruited by Nkrumah to work for GBC after she got her master's from Columbia U, has written in her memoir, "Kwame Nkrumah: As I Knew Him", that Nkrumah even had cancer medication provided to Obetsebi Lamptey, the terrorist bomber, and he was kept in a special detention cell with all medical assistance required by his condition!
krikri 10 years ago

Nyaho Nyaho, I have always been saying what you just said. You are right to a point. My position is that after Dr Kwame Nkrumah, WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY LEADER IN THIS COUNTRY. All the others are bosses (the military group) prete ...
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Nyaho Nyaho, I have always been saying what you just said. You are right to a point. My position is that after Dr Kwame Nkrumah, WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY LEADER IN THIS COUNTRY. All the others are bosses (the military group) pretenders (Busia/Atta Mills) and LOOTERS (Kuffour)
Kwesi 10 years ago

Oh, Ghanaians dont need help. We have everything we need including all the raw materials.
We will be ok. Lets do some more stupid politics and food will come to our tables.
Our children will go to school without preparati ...
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Oh, Ghanaians dont need help. We have everything we need including all the raw materials.
We will be ok. Lets do some more stupid politics and food will come to our tables.
Our children will go to school without preparations nor exams.
Ethics 10 years ago

Brain gone down into the Sewer,KD remove the Cotton pillows you have been sleeping on, it is stocking your brain cells, I therefore prescribe that you use Books as Your therapeutic Pillows now onwards KD or whatever, Dr Nyaho ...
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Brain gone down into the Sewer,KD remove the Cotton pillows you have been sleeping on, it is stocking your brain cells, I therefore prescribe that you use Books as Your therapeutic Pillows now onwards KD or whatever, Dr Nyaho is too much Academic for you to read and understand what he meant by saying We are lack of visionary Leaders since our Founder Ex-President Dr Nkrumah.
Sikamanba 10 years ago

This nyaho-Tamakloe guy is not alright. What did kuffour do for Ghana?
The truth is Nkrumah and Rawlings were God' s gifts to us as nation.The two are far ahead of all.They were and are patriots par excellence. They had visi ...
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This nyaho-Tamakloe guy is not alright. What did kuffour do for Ghana?
The truth is Nkrumah and Rawlings were God' s gifts to us as nation.The two are far ahead of all.They were and are patriots par excellence. They had vision and boldness to do great things for this nation.They were fearless and wise.May the good Lord bless them.
Aba 10 years ago

I agree he should be ignored and treated with the contempt he deserves! Prez Mahama is related to him because Nyaho is Ibrahim's mother!!! He messed up as Ambassador! How can he critique anyone!

I agree he should be ignored and treated with the contempt he deserves! Prez Mahama is related to him because Nyaho is Ibrahim's mother!!! He messed up as Ambassador! How can he critique anyone!
Adwoa 10 years ago

BY SAYING THAT OKROMFUO KUFFUOR IS THE ONE WHO COMES CLOSE TO NKRUMAH IS AN INSULT TO KWAME NKRUMAH. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU COMPARE THIS OKROMFUO WITH OUR KWAME. YOU ARE ONLY DOING WHAT THE NPP PEOPLE DO BECAUSE ANYTHING ELSE W ...
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BY SAYING THAT OKROMFUO KUFFUOR IS THE ONE WHO COMES CLOSE TO NKRUMAH IS AN INSULT TO KWAME NKRUMAH. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU COMPARE THIS OKROMFUO WITH OUR KWAME. YOU ARE ONLY DOING WHAT THE NPP PEOPLE DO BECAUSE ANYTHING ELSE WOULD RESULT IN INSULTS BEING HEAPED ON YOU JUST LIKE THEY ARE DOING TO TARZAN. IF YOU ARE REALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF I AM SURE YOU WOULD GATHER COURAGE AND TELL KUFFUOR IN THE FACE THAT HE WAS A REAL FAILURE AFTER BUILDING AN FAMILY ECIONOMIC EMPIRE.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

There are some NDC monkey supporters
who always does not want to speak the
truth and it is by the activities of
such NDC crooks such as you hence we are going through dumso-dumso, corruption, incompetency, deceitful, disho ...
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There are some NDC monkey supporters
who always does not want to speak the
truth and it is by the activities of
such NDC crooks such as you hence we are going through dumso-dumso, corruption, incompetency, deceitful, dishonesty, arm robery, murder, judgement debt, cocaine trafficking,
smuggle of boxes of Gold through our
International Airport only to be arrested outside world port of calls.

Better learn how to speak the truth
so as to help our nation not to be
wrecked because it is NDC liars
who are wrecking our nation. Kwasea
like you who does not want to see our
nation to be progressed instead encouraging NDC thieves and cocaine
trafickers to ruin our nation.

Today under NDC Ghana is a hopeless
State and our sovereignty is totally
disgraced. NDC has pulled Ghana's
progress backwards 20,000%, today NDC
has chopped all the meat out of the bones leaving the bones behind, if you
are a human being with senses and you
still supports someone who can say
this, then you are the most hopeless
and useless monkey in the bush.
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

IT IS ONLY AN IDIOT WHO WILL POST SUCH A BRAINLESS ARTICLE ON THIS FORUM. IF YOU HAVE EVIDENCE AS REGARDS TO YOUR SO-CALLED PRESIDENT KUFFOUR'S STEALING ACTIVITIES AND YOU
CANNOT ARREST AND PROSECUTE HIM THEN
YOU INDEED TH ...
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IT IS ONLY AN IDIOT WHO WILL POST SUCH A BRAINLESS ARTICLE ON THIS FORUM. IF YOU HAVE EVIDENCE AS REGARDS TO YOUR SO-CALLED PRESIDENT KUFFOUR'S STEALING ACTIVITIES AND YOU
CANNOT ARREST AND PROSECUTE HIM THEN
YOU INDEED THE MOST SENSELESS VULTURE
IN OUR COUNTRY. WHY SHOULD YOU EXPECT
YOUR SO-CALLED THIEF TO HELP YOU TO
SWORNE IN AN IDIOT WHO NEVER WON THE
ELECTION? ABOA, ANIMAL.
Kwaku 10 years ago

Thank you doc despite the fact I am a fan of NPP.We have never had a good leader after Nkrumah,Kufour tried his best but there were some shortcomings.As for Rawlings may God forgive him and his followers.

Thank you doc despite the fact I am a fan of NPP.We have never had a good leader after Nkrumah,Kufour tried his best but there were some shortcomings.As for Rawlings may God forgive him and his followers.
ZoRRo 10 years ago

Yes, we need to accept that Nkrumah is the ONLY leader who had a vision for Ghana. The others were just there to accept their pay check, including Mr. Revolution who sold all the state enterprises to his wife.

Yes, we need to accept that Nkrumah is the ONLY leader who had a vision for Ghana. The others were just there to accept their pay check, including Mr. Revolution who sold all the state enterprises to his wife.
' and Jesus wept ' 10 years ago

The NPP needs to be overhauled and visionary leaders put in place to steer its course.

The NPP needs to be overhauled and visionary leaders put in place to steer its course.
NAA4U 10 years ago

NICE ONE THERE ADWOA. I DONT THINK DR NYAHO SHOULD HAVE COMPARED KUFOUR TO NKRUMAH AND THE MOST UNFORTUNATE THING IS THAT NKRUMAH WAS OVERTHROWN BY THE BUSIA DANQUAH(NOW NPP) WHO SEES NOTHING GOOD IN ANYBODY BUT FOR THEMSEL ...
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NICE ONE THERE ADWOA. I DONT THINK DR NYAHO SHOULD HAVE COMPARED KUFOUR TO NKRUMAH AND THE MOST UNFORTUNATE THING IS THAT NKRUMAH WAS OVERTHROWN BY THE BUSIA DANQUAH(NOW NPP) WHO SEES NOTHING GOOD IN ANYBODY BUT FOR THEMSELVES.
Frimpong, USA 10 years ago

Don't forget Rawlings took this country from it's lowest ebb and managed to restore a permanent democracy. Rawlings may have made mistakes here and there but let's face it his O'Level leadership was by far more inspiring, dis ...
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Don't forget Rawlings took this country from it's lowest ebb and managed to restore a permanent democracy. Rawlings may have made mistakes here and there but let's face it his O'Level leadership was by far more inspiring, disciplined and less incorruptible than Kuffour who stole everything including presidential armored car for use only by the president.
AFEVIA 10 years ago

AFTER NKRUMAH WAS RAWLINGS. EVEN KUFFFOUR AGREED WITH THIS FACT.

AFTER NKRUMAH WAS RAWLINGS. EVEN KUFFFOUR AGREED WITH THIS FACT.
Dr Kofi Nartey 10 years ago

Nyaho Tamakloe, you cannot compare the thief, Kronfuor Kufuor anywhere near the character and achievement of the Great Osagyefo, Dr Kwame Nkrumah so be realistic in your assessments.

Nyaho Tamakloe, you cannot compare the thief, Kronfuor Kufuor anywhere near the character and achievement of the Great Osagyefo, Dr Kwame Nkrumah so be realistic in your assessments.
Good citizen 10 years ago

I strongly have to disagree with the point raised by the good old Dr. In my opinion after Nkrumah the next spot should go GEN I K Acheampong of SMC 1, who was murdered by Rawlings for nothing

I strongly have to disagree with the point raised by the good old Dr. In my opinion after Nkrumah the next spot should go GEN I K Acheampong of SMC 1, who was murdered by Rawlings for nothing
Yaw(Virginia) 10 years ago

Dr. Nyaho has made an error in his reasoning making him to put Kwame Nkrumah in a category all by himself. It's an error most people make if you do not critically analyze the achievements of Kuffour and Nkrumah. These two men ...
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Dr. Nyaho has made an error in his reasoning making him to put Kwame Nkrumah in a category all by himself. It's an error most people make if you do not critically analyze the achievements of Kuffour and Nkrumah. These two men are the only pillars under whose administration Ghana saw some modicum of development but i think Kuffour by far did better than Kwame Nkrumah. I'm saying this because in analyzing the achievements of the two men one also has to factor into consideration the times in which both men ruled the country.

Nkrumah came right after colonization at a time in which the country had enormous resources with a population of only 3million, no foreign debt that had become an albatross around our neck, economy on sound footing etc. Nkrumah inherited an economically vibrant Ghana from the Colonial masters, not so with Kuffour. Kuffour took over from Rawlings Military dictatorship of 19years. Prior to Rawlings the country had been badly managed by military dictator after military dictator and the problem was exacerbated by Rawlings 19yr rule. It was amazing that by the second term of Kuffour he had manage to turn Ghana into a middle-income economy with several social programs designed to help the masses--NHIS,Mass metr Transport, Free JHS, the discovery of Oil in commercial quantities, etc. So, in my view, if you do a critical comparative analysis between Nkrumah and Kuffour, Kuffour wins hands down. The man is the best thing that ever happened to Ghana,period! If he had stayed on longer than the 8yrs he would have become the Ghana's Lee Kwan Yew.
KANAWU 10 years ago

KUFFUOR DID FAR BETTER THAN NKRUMAH. NKRUMAH, RAWLINGS, MAHAMA ETC DID NOT BRING UNITY AMONGST GHANAIANS. HE WASTED OUR RESOURCES FOR HIS BIGGER AMBITION TO BE PRESIDENT OF AFRICA.

KUFFUOR DID FAR BETTER THAN NKRUMAH. NKRUMAH, RAWLINGS, MAHAMA ETC DID NOT BRING UNITY AMONGST GHANAIANS. HE WASTED OUR RESOURCES FOR HIS BIGGER AMBITION TO BE PRESIDENT OF AFRICA.
bewise 10 years ago

what did Kuffuor do better than Nkrumah. the hatered that your fore fathers planted in you still exist today, You fail to see anything that is good, just like them, they only saw the bad in Nkruman but not the great, selfless ...
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what did Kuffuor do better than Nkrumah. the hatered that your fore fathers planted in you still exist today, You fail to see anything that is good, just like them, they only saw the bad in Nkruman but not the great, selfless, dedicated, honest leader that he was. They have failed to have his books use in schools so that the future generation can have someone to look up to and emulate. All the kids sees, these days, are corrupted leaders with no vision for their communities, towns, the country and Africa
Kojo T 10 years ago

When K4 left the country was divided. Ga Adangbe youth, Ahanta Youth, Asante youth were all on the rampage. Such was his divisive tribalism all became conscious of their tribal origins

When K4 left the country was divided. Ga Adangbe youth, Ahanta Youth, Asante youth were all on the rampage. Such was his divisive tribalism all became conscious of their tribal origins
Kay 10 years ago

Most of the things that you wrote were true but if we should admit Kufour made some errors.First the building of flagstaff house was wrongly timed,ordering of presidential plane was also bad.The country needed those things bu ...
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Most of the things that you wrote were true but if we should admit Kufour made some errors.First the building of flagstaff house was wrongly timed,ordering of presidential plane was also bad.The country needed those things but looking at the shape of the economy he shouldn't have gone ahead.Again allowing some of his men to buy state assets was in bad taste,knowing where the NPP was coming from he shouldn't have allowed them to that.The NDC party leadership which was full of criminals and greedy people took advantage of some these shortcomings to topple him.The nation at this period needs a govt that will stay in power for at least 4terms i.e.16yrs to turn the shape of the economy.I write as a fan of NPP who has seen some bits about what is going on in the outside world particularly Eastern Europe.
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 10 years ago

Dear Yaw,comparing Kufuor with Dr. Nkrumah is just like comparing a mouse with a jumbojet.Dr. Nkrumah demanded our 200 million pounds from the British after Independence and with this amount,he started with the nationbuilding ...
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Dear Yaw,comparing Kufuor with Dr. Nkrumah is just like comparing a mouse with a jumbojet.Dr. Nkrumah demanded our 200 million pounds from the British after Independence and with this amount,he started with the nationbuilding.How many day secondary schools , hospitals, factories,roads, universities,Akosombo,Tema Hbr.plus township,Black Star line, Ghana Airways, just to mention a few, weren`t built by Dr. Nkrumah within 9 years?Kufuor opted for HIPC because Rawlings has destroyed our economy after 19 yrs. of brutal rule.Opting for HIPC, cancelled most of our debts.Kufuor tried a bit but his achievements are far below that of Prez. Nkrumah.Have you forgotten the thousands of students with scholarships Dr. Nkrumah sent to Europe?Also the free and compulsory elementary school education?What about the Accra-Tema Motorway?We have never had a President who did much for our country like Dr. Nkrumah.I am 74 years old and happy to have enjoyed the time Dr. Nkrumah ruled.We shall never have someone like Dr. Nkrumah again!Why was Dr. Nkrumah voted "The best African Personality of the 20th. Century" by the UNO? This shows that your argument doesn`t wash.Kufuor tried his best but that can`t be compared with what Dr. Nkrumah achieved.Oil was discovered under Kufuor but we have only 10% share!What a cheat!During Dr. Nkrumah`s time, our population was 6 million and not 3 Million.Have a nice day!
ADABRAKA 10 years ago

How close were you to K4 than Nyaho? Nyaho was GFA chair under K4. He said K4 was 1% to Nkrumah. You are here noising abt.

How close were you to K4 than Nyaho? Nyaho was GFA chair under K4. He said K4 was 1% to Nkrumah. You are here noising abt.
Symbiosis 10 years ago

Obviously Yaw and Kanawu are so illiterate that they do not even know that Kufuoor and his UP/NPP people Danquah, Busia etc, fought hard to break up Ghana into federal states. Nkrumah smartly resisted and fought against them ...
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Obviously Yaw and Kanawu are so illiterate that they do not even know that Kufuoor and his UP/NPP people Danquah, Busia etc, fought hard to break up Ghana into federal states. Nkrumah smartly resisted and fought against them on this issue.

Kwame Nkrumah even proposed that the CPP and UP form a national Party, that was also opposed by the terrorists in the UP. Kwame Nkrumah built hundreds of factories, schools and state enterprises in all the regions of Ghana so that there would be equal social development across the country. What did the Danquah-Busia terrorists do after they ganged up with other terrorists around the world to overthrow Nkrumah? They either sold or collapsed all those institutions.

Today, unless you come to Accra, you will be left out of development opportunities.

It is unforgivable for any sane person to follow the Danquah-Busia gang today after all the misery they have caused this country. For crying out loud, they are even worse than the NDC.
JEFF 10 years ago

WHEN WE TALK OF LEADERSHIP, KUFOUR WAS NOWHERE NEAR NKRUMAH. WHEREAS NKRUMAH HAD A VISION OF MAKING GHANA A SELF-RELIANT COUNTRY AND INSPIRING HIS COUNTRYMEN IN VARIOUS WAYS TO ACHIEVE THAT VISION, KUFOUR WAS VISIONLESS AND W ...
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WHEN WE TALK OF LEADERSHIP, KUFOUR WAS NOWHERE NEAR NKRUMAH. WHEREAS NKRUMAH HAD A VISION OF MAKING GHANA A SELF-RELIANT COUNTRY AND INSPIRING HIS COUNTRYMEN IN VARIOUS WAYS TO ACHIEVE THAT VISION, KUFOUR WAS VISIONLESS AND WAS MAKING OVERSEAS TRIPS TO MAXIMISE HIS PER DIEM ALLOWANCE. AT BEST, KUFOUR WAS A MANAGER NOT A LEADER; HE DOES NOT POSSESS THE ATTRIBUTES OF A LEADER.

EVEN TODAY WHEN NKRUMAH HAD LONG LEFT THE POLITICAL SCENE, GO TO ANY COUNTRY AND DECLARE YOUR GHANAIAN NATIONALITY, YOUR HOST WOULD, IN ALL PROBABILITY, MENTION YOU COME FROM NKRUMAH'S NAME.
Kofious2 10 years ago

Mahama's step brother Ibrahim is your nephew so who's side are you really on ? I don't blame you. If I were in your situation, I will take Mahama's side too. Your are caught between a rock and a hard place !!! You and Randy A ...
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Mahama's step brother Ibrahim is your nephew so who's side are you really on ? I don't blame you. If I were in your situation, I will take Mahama's side too. Your are caught between a rock and a hard place !!! You and Randy Abbey are in the same boat.
TAMBRO 10 years ago

THE GREAT OKOMFO ANOKYE CURSED THE AKYEM TRIBE OF WHICH AKUFU ADDO IS ONE THAT THEY WOULD NEVER BE LEADERS IN THE NATION,SO NPP SHOULD FORGET ABOUT THEIR VICTORY IN THE SUPREME COUR CASE.

THE GREAT OKOMFO ANOKYE CURSED THE AKYEM TRIBE OF WHICH AKUFU ADDO IS ONE THAT THEY WOULD NEVER BE LEADERS IN THE NATION,SO NPP SHOULD FORGET ABOUT THEIR VICTORY IN THE SUPREME COUR CASE.
Otoo 10 years ago

The late President Atta Mills was 100 times better than that corrupt and tribalistic John Kufuor. Kufuor will go down in Ghanas history as the most corrupt President. Kufuor was just a THIEF.

The late President Atta Mills was 100 times better than that corrupt and tribalistic John Kufuor. Kufuor will go down in Ghanas history as the most corrupt President. Kufuor was just a THIEF.
Zip Up 10 years ago

Well said , almost everybody in Ghana Knows that The Ex-President Dr Kwame Nkrumah is undisputedly out Standing Phenomena and as such incomparable.just imagin from 1960 Ghana attained Republic then he was over thrown and out ...
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Well said , almost everybody in Ghana Knows that The Ex-President Dr Kwame Nkrumah is undisputedly out Standing Phenomena and as such incomparable.just imagin from 1960 Ghana attained Republic then he was over thrown and out of Government 24 February 1966 in such a short time Ghana did witness
Massive Fast Track Developments it was Enormous,Intellectually till now can not be Compreheneded why, but the Finest Son Of Ghana did fast track the development of our sole Infrastructures, Theologies were written down,Ideologies Turned into Faculties,Human,potentials Empowered and To ready be Exploited Ghana In the sixties Stood as a Miraculous Country of Ideals And Pragmatists,all done and articulated by this Miraculous Man Dr Kwame Nkrumah what an Intutive Brain
Honesty-the best policy! 10 years ago

Thank you Dr. Nyaho for your objective opinion. We need more of your type to move Ghana forward the sake of not only ourselves but for generations yet to come.

Thank you Dr. Nyaho for your objective opinion. We need more of your type to move Ghana forward the sake of not only ourselves but for generations yet to come.
Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

Now we know who is burning the markets. Asiedu Nkatia has just confirmed that his foot soldiers must keep on burning the fire. NDC want to destroy the country before jon mahama goes to jail after the court case. Ghanaians mus ...
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Now we know who is burning the markets. Asiedu Nkatia has just confirmed that his foot soldiers must keep on burning the fire. NDC want to destroy the country before jon mahama goes to jail after the court case. Ghanaians must be vigilant so that those foolish foot soldiers will be caught even before they set those fires. NDC is evil, NdC is criminal, NDC is murderous, NDC must be destroyed because they are destructive
Kwame Aidoo 10 years ago

Well said, Nyaho! Sad to say these "latter day presidents"have come only to steal, chop and destroy"Ghana.They enjoyed what Dr Nkrumah did, but have no sense of emulating him; especially the current administration.So sad.

Well said, Nyaho! Sad to say these "latter day presidents"have come only to steal, chop and destroy"Ghana.They enjoyed what Dr Nkrumah did, but have no sense of emulating him; especially the current administration.So sad.
KANAWU 10 years ago

RWANDA AFTER THE GENOCIDE WITH COMMITTED LEADERS WHO WANT TO UNITE THE PEOPLE AND DEVELOP THEIR COUNTRY, ARE DOING FAR BETTER THAN GHANA.

RWANDA AFTER THE GENOCIDE WITH COMMITTED LEADERS WHO WANT TO UNITE THE PEOPLE AND DEVELOP THEIR COUNTRY, ARE DOING FAR BETTER THAN GHANA.
Asea Ho 10 years ago

Why the apology to JAK?

Why the apology to JAK?
Nana Yaw 10 years ago

After Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Dr Busia comes close second, hands down. Kuffour came for himself and his croonies! Dr Nkrumah gets A+, Dr Busia gets B, Kuffour and prof Mills get C. JJ Rawlings gets C-!!!!!

After Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Dr Busia comes close second, hands down. Kuffour came for himself and his croonies! Dr Nkrumah gets A+, Dr Busia gets B, Kuffour and prof Mills get C. JJ Rawlings gets C-!!!!!
Analyst 10 years ago

The judgment of Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe has been clouded by at least two factors. First factor is party coloration. This is why he sees only former President Kufour as the only president that is close to Nkrumah in terms of vision. ...
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The judgment of Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe has been clouded by at least two factors. First factor is party coloration. This is why he sees only former President Kufour as the only president that is close to Nkrumah in terms of vision.
The second factor is what normally affects all shallow analysts to always think of the past as the "good old days".
As Nkrumah and almost all the adults who lived in his era are now dead, it is more likely to gloss over his mistakes unlike the leaders of modern Ghana.
Nobody can take anything away from the achievements of Nkrumah as the true founder of Ghana. But the truth is that, today's Ghana is more sophisticated, more democratic and freer than Nkrumah's Ghana. It is therefore not going to be possible to find a leader of today's Ghana like Nkrumah. Nevertheless all the leaders of democratic Ghana have their own peculiar greatness. A few examples here will do.
JJ Rawlings in spite of all his shortfalls, had the vision to lay a very solid foundation for democracy to thrive in Ghana - Nkrumah could not do this.
Kufour had the vision to implement the National Health Insurance scheme and the school feeding programme as a stimulus to develop the Ghanaian human resource.
Attah Mills had the vision to break the cycle of persecuting political opponents hence his accolade "asomdwehene".
John Mahama has just started his leadership but it is obvious he has set his focus on taking Ghana's infrastructural development to greater heights.
Kwesi Ampofo-Illford,Essex 10 years ago

WELL SAID BUT NYAHO SHOULD KNOW THAT VISION IS INBORN AND NOT ACQUIRED AND IT SHOWS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING. MAHAMA,S BEGINNING ALONE WITH SEVERAL FAILED PROMISES/MISPLACED PRIORITIES
AND DISHONESTLY STEALING VOTES GIVES
H ...
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WELL SAID BUT NYAHO SHOULD KNOW THAT VISION IS INBORN AND NOT ACQUIRED AND IT SHOWS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING. MAHAMA,S BEGINNING ALONE WITH SEVERAL FAILED PROMISES/MISPLACED PRIORITIES
AND DISHONESTLY STEALING VOTES GIVES
HIM AWAY AS A ALREADY FAILED LEADER WITH NO VISION.ALL THE PROJECTS AND PLANS HE IS IMPLEMENTING WERE MOOTED OUT BY HIS FOREBEARS.THOUGH AM AN NDC VOTER,AM UTTERLY DISAPPOINTED IN HIM
KOJO AMPOFO,MIAMI-FLORIDA,USA. 10 years ago

AM RIGHT WHEN I SAY THAT PRESENT DAY GHANAIANS,BOTH LITERATE/ILLITERATE ARE GETTING STUPID BY THE DAY.HOW COULD NYAHO,WHO CALLS HIMSELF A DOCTOR,CLOSELY COMPARE KUFOUR TO NKRUMAH.THIS SHOWS HOW EMPTY,NAIVE AND STUPID HE IS ON ...
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AM RIGHT WHEN I SAY THAT PRESENT DAY GHANAIANS,BOTH LITERATE/ILLITERATE ARE GETTING STUPID BY THE DAY.HOW COULD NYAHO,WHO CALLS HIMSELF A DOCTOR,CLOSELY COMPARE KUFOUR TO NKRUMAH.THIS SHOWS HOW EMPTY,NAIVE AND STUPID HE IS ON THE GHANAIAN POLITICAL,ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCENES.ITS A PITY SUCH PEOPLE ARE GIVEN SPACE TO WRITE SUCH GABBAGE.
OO7 10 years ago

Nkrumah inherited £380m. in 1957:Rawlings borrowed over $20billion in 19years but did little or nothing to improve the life of average Ghanaian. Kufour met -$10billion(negative $10billion) at the office but was able to init ...
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Nkrumah inherited £380m. in 1957:Rawlings borrowed over $20billion in 19years but did little or nothing to improve the life of average Ghanaian. Kufour met -$10billion(negative $10billion) at the office but was able to initiate many social interventions;school feeding,free maternal care,debt waving,stabilization of local currency,from poor country to middle income. Mills was useless. He inherited 'sound economy' from Kufour with about $600m.which Mills ad used it for judgment debts. Mahama is an apprentice who cant drive the economy to fruition.
Nana Yaw 10 years ago

Unless you accept the simple truth that Dr Nkrumah's legacy is a settled issue which no African must attempt to dispute, whatever you say, will not be taken seriuosly!!!

Unless you accept the simple truth that Dr Nkrumah's legacy is a settled issue which no African must attempt to dispute, whatever you say, will not be taken seriuosly!!!
Symbiosis 10 years ago

As I have said above it is only ignorance and illiteracy that can keep anybody in the NPP. From whom did Nkrumah inherit the £380 million? I dare you to prove this obvious lie if you think you are an educated human being.

As I have said above it is only ignorance and illiteracy that can keep anybody in the NPP. From whom did Nkrumah inherit the £380 million? I dare you to prove this obvious lie if you think you are an educated human being.
OO7 10 years ago

The British left £380m after independence. You are a stupid fool. The wise people do not associate with ndc party. Nkrumah did little in terms of development. He used Ghana money as his OWN pocket money. Gave £10m to Seiku ...
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The British left £380m after independence. You are a stupid fool. The wise people do not associate with ndc party. Nkrumah did little in terms of development. He used Ghana money as his OWN pocket money. Gave £10m to Seiku Ture;built offices for some Africa countries. Fool like symbiosis does not know.
Symbiosis 10 years ago

You made the claim now prove it and stop trying to escape from the responsibility of proof by pretending to be a jackass. Just prove it

You made the claim now prove it and stop trying to escape from the responsibility of proof by pretending to be a jackass. Just prove it
Neither NDC Nor NPP 10 years ago

They have repeated this nonsense and lie - as you correctly point out - ad nauseam since 1966. First, let the Danquah-Busia retards provide the accounting books from the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Danes, and finally the Briti ...
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They have repeated this nonsense and lie - as you correctly point out - ad nauseam since 1966. First, let the Danquah-Busia retards provide the accounting books from the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Danes, and finally the British, if they kept any. Second, lets then ask how much did the colonial powers invest in our land and how much wealth did they take out!

It is only a pathetic boot-licker of slavery and colonialism who will fawn over his very oppressors and exploiters and bandy around the measly sum of 380 british pounds as some sort of achievement. Nevertheless, we can actually see with our own bloody eyes what Nkrumah did with paltry sum left by the British colonialists. Nkrumah did more in his short period of governance than all the centuries the colonialists combined spent on our land plundering our resources without accounting to anybody.

There hasn't been any gold mined in Britain since the Roman era when a trifle little bit was found in Wales. But Wikipedia states: "The gold exported to Britain in the 1850s paid all her foreign debts and helped lay the foundation of her enormous commercial expansion in the latter half of the century."
Nana Yaw Effah 10 years ago

Nyaho, why did you not join the CPP?
That is where you can find leaders with vision.

Nyaho, why did you not join the CPP?
That is where you can find leaders with vision.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

I hate to make comments on posts on Ghanaweb these days but can't help this.

In my opinion, President Mahama has started very poorly, without any vision at all except fulfilling the so-called Better Ghana Agenda of Mills! ...
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I hate to make comments on posts on Ghanaweb these days but can't help this.

In my opinion, President Mahama has started very poorly, without any vision at all except fulfilling the so-called Better Ghana Agenda of Mills! Certain actions by him, such as the pre-occupation with sending pastors to Israel and the appointment of the beleagured impostor to the Anlo Awoamefia post, Patrick Agboba, arraigned before an Accra Fast Track Court, to the Council of State, has shown him to be a person who lacks intuitive judgement, a pre-requisite for a visionary leadership. A visionary leader must be able to see into the future and plan accordingly towards that. Now, what the heck was he thinking when he took such ill-thought of actions??

On the previous leaders, I agree with others who said none is incomparable to Nkrumah. None! Ankrah, Afrifa and Busia were some of the most dim-witted reactionary leaders we ever had. Their inspiration was a previous status quo. School projects were stopped, factories near completion closed down, newly opened ones sold off, etc.

Kutu and his cohorts including Akuffo started with some promise but quickly sank Ghana into the abyss of debauchery and outright lechery when kalabule reigned supreme yet unknown in Ghana. They were the worst leaders we ever had.

Rawlings came in and aroused as much expectation and hope as Nkrumah did, being hailed as Junior Jesus. But he has not a clue as to how to achieve his pro-people, populist rhetoric. But in persona and ideals, he is a conservative with a limited vision of restoring a mythical moral order, after which everything else would fall into shape. When that plan failed, he fell on the Terrible Twins for salvation from the low levels and shortages by mid-1983. What we saw in the shape of SAP was a right-wing economic orthodoxy which even the proponents cannot implement in the West, not to mention Latin America, where it was first tried. Nothing at all visionary about that! Education was neglected to stupendous levels. No new state sponsored housing schemes, as even under Kutu, who built Dansoman, started Adenta, etc! State enterprises started by the CPP were sold on the cheap to foreigners or allowed to be run down and shut down! Support for private businesses and support (subsidies) for agric inputs withdrawn except for cocoa! The Asians were doing exactly the opposite! In spite of a modicum of econ. recovery, living standards did not even climb to 1960s levels! Failure to reform the existing corrupted institutions of state to implement their agenda, doing that thru parallel bodies in the Castle, etc, and the restoration of const'nal order and same unreformed insts. meant the re-emergence of the old bad corrupt ways, as the "bureaubrats" and "technorats" made up for lost ground rent under the rule of the PNDC.

In came Kufuor with HIPC, promising to implement same SAP policies, since the NPP claimed it was Busia's stillborn baby anyway. Believers in the state being the c'ttee for managing the affairs of the whole bourgeoisie, they set out to use their incumbency to enrich themselves, as one of their key ideologues I was close to said must be done, just as the Indians did! Corruption is ok, except when the proceeds are sent abroad, and not invested in the country, as Indians reportedly do! After all, as one of their key ideologues, Prof. Maxwell Owusu, tried to instill in us in his Pol. Science lecture in Legon, corruption is simply the lubricant which oils the wheels of bureaucracy. Phew! From what they did, looting left and right, I'd say they achieved a modicum of success in living their dreams. K4s, family, for instance, is now rich beyond their wildest dream! To say that such a person comes close to Nkrumah is such an insult to Nkrumah's memory!

Nobody has come close to Nkrumah among the lot and I doubt very much if Mahama will. He simply hasn't got what it takes. After all, he was an accidental President who rode to power on the back of Mills demise and Mills Better Ghana agenda. What's his agenda? Hobnobbing with the likes of convicts like Agboba and kowtowing to dubious pastors proclaiming salvation from an imaginary god in this age of science and technology when people are searching for the Higgs Particle? Tweah!

Andy-K
Humility 10 years ago

Like your comment Nyaho.We can only build mother Ghana by constructive criticisms of this nature but not by criticisms of hate, lies and conceived idea of destruction.Thank you one more time Mr Nyaho.

Like your comment Nyaho.We can only build mother Ghana by constructive criticisms of this nature but not by criticisms of hate, lies and conceived idea of destruction.Thank you one more time Mr Nyaho.
NANA IS USING BAWUMIA 10 years ago

HOW THIS FOOL TRY TO EQUATE KUFUOR TO NKRUMAH? WHAT DID KUFUOR DO FOR GHANA ASIDE FROM TAKING GHANA TO HIPC, LOOTING THE NATIONAL COFFERS, AND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE WITHOUT JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES? WHAT A ...
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HOW THIS FOOL TRY TO EQUATE KUFUOR TO NKRUMAH? WHAT DID KUFUOR DO FOR GHANA ASIDE FROM TAKING GHANA TO HIPC, LOOTING THE NATIONAL COFFERS, AND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE WITHOUT JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES? WHAT ABOUT THE PLANNED KILLNGS OF THOSE PEOPLE AND KILLING OF THE KING OF THE DAGOMBA PEOPLE AND SEVERAL OTHEN MURDERS.
ed 10 years ago

Excellent observation

Excellent observation
Aba 10 years ago

Go back to your books, I am not a politician or a fun of politics, but Nkrumah had no vision and he did more harm than good. I think you should do more research. The man built the O. A. U Headquarters in Addis Ababa with Ghan ...
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Go back to your books, I am not a politician or a fun of politics, but Nkrumah had no vision and he did more harm than good. I think you should do more research. The man built the O. A. U Headquarters in Addis Ababa with Ghana money, I will add more if you want,
Mekameka Daa 10 years ago

How can we have or produce visionary leaders when you being a leader of NPP is DUMP AND DUMMY? What best comes from you at all. You are right about that because you being dummy leader has infested your colleagues and so the ...
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How can we have or produce visionary leaders when you being a leader of NPP is DUMP AND DUMMY? What best comes from you at all. You are right about that because you being dummy leader has infested your colleagues and so the school of dummy leadership goes on and on.
Why don't you hung yourself up? You just bogging out things.
Agyaku NYC 10 years ago

The government is too corrupt and avarice and visionary leader is the one who has the tendency to uproot corruption and make every workers depend on their salary. Late Nkrumah was no nonsense when it comes to corruption. Reme ...
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The government is too corrupt and avarice and visionary leader is the one who has the tendency to uproot corruption and make every workers depend on their salary. Late Nkrumah was no nonsense when it comes to corruption. Remember Nkrumah`s phrase: Don`t accept gift is bribery! People are trying to get into politics as a good source of richness.
Kwesi Mends, Takoradi 10 years ago

Blame your Matemeho underwear bombers who always swear not to accept any gov't other than theirs.

Blame your Matemeho underwear bombers who always swear not to accept any gov't other than theirs.
moni 10 years ago

Disgraceful to these ex Presidents.

Disgraceful to these ex Presidents.
kojo 10 years ago

Nkrumah had to hide some NPP fathers before progress was made.

Nkrumah had to hide some NPP fathers before progress was made.
kb 10 years ago

Thank you Dr Nyaho Tamakloe.

Thank you Dr Nyaho Tamakloe.
JEFF 10 years ago

THOSE OF US WHO LIVED UNDER NKRUMAH AND POLITICALLY HONEST, WILL ATTEST TO THE FACT NKRUMAH WAS,INDEED, A VISIONARY LEADER. AT INDEPENDENCE, MOST GHANAIANS WERE POOR BUT AS LONG AS YOU COULD USE YOUR BRAINS, NKRUMAH WOULD CRE ...
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THOSE OF US WHO LIVED UNDER NKRUMAH AND POLITICALLY HONEST, WILL ATTEST TO THE FACT NKRUMAH WAS,INDEED, A VISIONARY LEADER. AT INDEPENDENCE, MOST GHANAIANS WERE POOR BUT AS LONG AS YOU COULD USE YOUR BRAINS, NKRUMAH WOULD CREATE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO PROGRESS IN LIFE.

NKRUMAH WAS NOT A DICTATOR. THE TRUTH WAS THAT NKRUMAH WAS FAR AHEAD OF US SO HE HAD TO FORCE US TO DO THINGS WE DID NOT KNOW WOULD BENEFIT US IN FUTURE; FOR EXAMPLE, THE AKOSOMBO DAM FOR ELECTRICITY, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOL, UNIVERSITIES OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AND CAPE COAST UNIVERSITY TO NAME ONLY A FEW; THE OPPOSTION CLAIMED GHANA WAS TOO YOUNG TO EMBARK ON THESE PROJECTS BUT NKRUMAH COULD FORESEE THEIR FUTURE BENEFITS AND WENT AHEAD AND EXECUTED THEM AND HE WAS BRANDED "DICTATOR".

AS FOR THE PASSING OF THE PDA, IT WAS DONE TO ARREST THE "TERRORISTS'OF THOSE DAYS WHO WANTED TO MAKE GHANA UNGOVERNABLE THROUGH THROWING OF BOMBS ETC

NKRUMAH NEVER DIES. NKRUMAH WILL LONG BE REMEMBERED. NKRUMAH DIED BEFORE SOME OF THESE SO-CALLED LEADERS OF GHANA DIED BUT THE WORLD AND GHANA REMEMBER NKRUMAH ALWAYS AND THESE SO-CALLED LEADERS ARE NOT REMEMBERED.
Kaduna Mafia 10 years ago

Ghana will never have a visionary leader so far as we have people like nyaho tamakloe in ghana...

Ghana will never have a visionary leader so far as we have people like nyaho tamakloe in ghana...
GHFUO, LOVE YOURSELF! 10 years ago

IM GLAD I WENT TO GHANA NATIONAL COLLEGE. TOO MANY PPL IN GH HAVE BEEN MISEDUCATED ON DR. NKRUMAH.

1. THE SO CALLED 1 PARTY STATE WAS VOTED ON THRU A REFERENDUM BY THE PPL
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IM GLAD I WENT TO GHANA NATIONAL COLLEGE. TOO MANY PPL IN GH HAVE BEEN MISEDUCATED ON DR. NKRUMAH.

1. THE SO CALLED 1 PARTY STATE WAS VOTED ON THRU A REFERENDUM BY THE PPL
2.EVIL HE CAUSED ON THE CONTINENT? WHO SPEARHEADED THE OAU? ABOA!
3. JJ KILLED HIS OPPONENTS AND EVEN INNOCENT DISSIDENTS. U WOULD RATHER WANT DR. NKRUMAH TO KILL THESE DISSIDENTS AS WELL? THESE SAME PPL NKRUMAH JAILED WANTED TO KILL HIM, IN CASE U ARE CONFUSED. LOOK AT THE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE? JESUS CHRIST, U ARE A HUMONGOUS FOOL...

U CANT EVEN START UR OWN BUSINESS BUT HVE THE NERVE TO CALL SOMEONE A DICTATOR. IN 7 YRS, THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS UNDER NKRUMAH HASNT BEEN EQUALED OR SURPASSED THOSE OF HIS FELLOW PREDECESSORS...COMBINED. MIND YOU, THRU ALL THIS DR. NKRUMAH SPLIT HIS TIME N ATTENTION BETWEEN GHANA N AFRICA. HE DIDNT STEAL A PENNY! WOMP3 WEI?
Komla 10 years ago

I could not agree more. All the leaders after Kwame Nkrumah lack superior leadership skills and vision for that matter.

I could not agree more. All the leaders after Kwame Nkrumah lack superior leadership skills and vision for that matter.
Joe 10 years ago

Will this Nyaho Tamakloe keep his mouth sht?

Will this Nyaho Tamakloe keep his mouth sht?
ASEM WO MANO 10 years ago

In life and in death, Nkrumah is the best.
What A Nation?

In life and in death, Nkrumah is the best.
What A Nation?
....... 10 years ago

Kwame nkrumah was the most useless one for creating ur region. He in bell for murdering ghanaians at nsawamu.may he perish in hell.Mr tamakloe your respect ended today

Kwame nkrumah was the most useless one for creating ur region. He in bell for murdering ghanaians at nsawamu.may he perish in hell.Mr tamakloe your respect ended today
Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

WHAT ARE YOU TALKINING-ARE YOU DREAMING

WHAT DID KUFFOUR ACHIEVE FOR GHANA.

KUFFOUR AND HIS NPP GOVERNMENT ONLY CORRUPTED THE NATION IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF ADMINISTRATION.

NO GHANAIAN POLITICIAN CAN EVER BE COMPAR ...
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WHAT ARE YOU TALKINING-ARE YOU DREAMING

WHAT DID KUFFOUR ACHIEVE FOR GHANA.

KUFFOUR AND HIS NPP GOVERNMENT ONLY CORRUPTED THE NATION IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF ADMINISTRATION.

NO GHANAIAN POLITICIAN CAN EVER BE COMPARED TO WHAT OSAGYEFO DR KWAME ACHIEVED FOR GHANA.

SIMLPY GET A COPY OF ARTHUR KENNEDY'S BOOK-CHASING THE ELEPHANTS INTO THE BUSH-FOR YOUR READING INFORMATION AND ATTENTION.
Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

KUFFOUR AND HIS NPP STOLE THE IDENTITY OF GHANA AND SQUANDERED THE FUTURE OF THE pRESENT AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF ADMINISTRATION.

HE CORRUPTED THE ONLY AN UNKNOWN AND NAMELESS GRAVE FITS TO THE MESS ...
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KUFFOUR AND HIS NPP STOLE THE IDENTITY OF GHANA AND SQUANDERED THE FUTURE OF THE pRESENT AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF ADMINISTRATION.

HE CORRUPTED THE ONLY AN UNKNOWN AND NAMELESS GRAVE FITS TO THE MESS HE COMMITTED IN THE COUNTRY.
Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

KUFFOUR AND HIS NPP STOLE THE IDENTITY OF GHANA AND SQUANDERED THE FUTURE OF THE pRESENT AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF ADMINISTRATION.

HE CORRUPTED THE NATION AND ONLY AN UNKNOWN AND NAMELESS GRAVE FITS ...
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KUFFOUR AND HIS NPP STOLE THE IDENTITY OF GHANA AND SQUANDERED THE FUTURE OF THE pRESENT AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS IN THEIR EIGHT YEARS OF ADMINISTRATION.

HE CORRUPTED THE NATION AND ONLY AN UNKNOWN AND NAMELESS GRAVE FITS TO THE MESS HE COMMITTED IN THE COUNTRY.
Naijaman 10 years ago

Kufour ruled for 8 years and has swelling foreign Bank Accounts as well as Hotels and Filling Stations

Kufour ruled for 8 years and has swelling foreign Bank Accounts as well as Hotels and Filling Stations
KWAME 10 years ago

The statements from Dr Nyaho Tamakloe is partially true to the extent that after Dr Nkrumah, none of the leaders has been visionary. The part that Mr Kuffour was close to Dr Nkrumah is not true.
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The statements from Dr Nyaho Tamakloe is partially true to the extent that after Dr Nkrumah, none of the leaders has been visionary. The part that Mr Kuffour was close to Dr Nkrumah is not true.
Mr Kuffour has benefitted from his long association with politics which informed most of his decisions. This appear to Dr Nyaho Tamakloe that he was close to Dr. Nkrumah. Mr Kuffour has learned from the mistakes and wisdom of the past, which he utilised somehow to project himself. From this background, I expected Mr Kuffour to exemplify lots more wisdom in his style of leadership. He was vindictive, nepotic and corrupt which cannot be said about Dr Nkrumah. His decisions were very much informed about personal and group benefit of the group he led.
Mr Kuffour was not a ''national'' figure as was known of Dr Nkrumah. He was silently wicked which many people did not know about him. A clear example of this character was the way some operatives of the NDC were hounded especially Mr Tsatsu Tsikata. It was also due to the hatred for his predecessor, President Rawlings.
B. Ghanattah 10 years ago

DR N.N.T, I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED YOU FROM AFAR FOR SPEAKING AS IT IS. I DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU BUT YES NKRUMAH IS THE GREATEST VISIONARY YET GHANA HAS SEEN. WHY? BECAUSE HE WAS A TRUE PATRIOT WHO HAD THE COUNTRY AT HEART ...
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DR N.N.T, I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED YOU FROM AFAR FOR SPEAKING AS IT IS. I DON'T HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU BUT YES NKRUMAH IS THE GREATEST VISIONARY YET GHANA HAS SEEN. WHY? BECAUSE HE WAS A TRUE PATRIOT WHO HAD THE COUNTRY AT HEART. HE WAS A PRESIDENT WHO SOUGHT THE INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE FIRST; UNLIKE THE BANDITS WHO ROAM THE HALLS OF POLITICS TODAY. AND YES, KUFFUOR DID PRETTY WELL FOR EIGHT YEARS COMPARED TO THE MURDEROUS TWENTY SOMETHING YEARS THAT BRAGGART J.J LORDED OVER GHANA. BUT IT IS THE CHARACTER TRAIT OF THE NDC. THE COUNTRY WILL BE PLUNDERED AND THEN THEY LEAVE THE DAMAGED GOODS FOR SOMEONE TO CLEAN IT UP; AND THE CYCLE GOES ON AGAIN. TODAY THE COUNTRY IS BEING FRACTURED ALONG TRIBAL LINES AND THIS IS DANGEROUS. BUT FOR ALL YOUR GOOD THOUGHTS WHY DONT YOU CONTEST THE NPP FLAGBERERSHIP . I HLGHLY BELIEVE YOU WILL BE AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT, AND LISTEN I AM NOT FROM YOUR TRIBE. WHAT MATTERS HERE IS THAT YOU ARE A GHANAIAN, AND WE ARE ALL ONE PEOPLE ONE NATION. KEEP TALKING THE TRUTH DR. IT MIGHT COME INTO FRUITION. GOD BLESS YOU FOR STANDING UP AND SPEAKING THE TRUTH.
Kwame 10 years ago

On this count you are right Doc. That's why we are suffering.

On this count you are right Doc. That's why we are suffering.
Dr Robert K Glah 10 years ago

Osaggyefo was the greatest visionary politician of the 20th century.
His blueprint for the development of Africa was classic.
His struggle against colonialism and its legacies in Africa was second to none.
He cared for the ...
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Osaggyefo was the greatest visionary politician of the 20th century.
His blueprint for the development of Africa was classic.
His struggle against colonialism and its legacies in Africa was second to none.
He cared for the African citizen and integrated development of Africa second to none.
If he was a dictator, he was also a saint.
We hope John Dramani Mahama will excel Nkrumah by implementing Nkrumah's blueprint for the development of Africa where there will be freedom of speech, movement of persons, goods, services and capital and development: that takes leadership to happen and Mahama has got that leadership to lead Africa to the promised land of honey and milk for all in the context of technology which the Osagyefo lacked.
John Mahama can learn from China to flood Ghana and Africa with foreign investors (regulated new scramble for Africa)
That is my brief for Prez Mahama
SolJa 10 years ago

now you are also talking anyhow.why politicans of today dey too talk anyhow ah?visionary leader?ghana was like a sea wave when rawlings calmed the waters.which man is perfect?why dont ghanaians ever see the good side of anyon ...
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now you are also talking anyhow.why politicans of today dey too talk anyhow ah?visionary leader?ghana was like a sea wave when rawlings calmed the waters.which man is perfect?why dont ghanaians ever see the good side of anyone?he killed.it was a revolution.he had to.but that the only thing rawlings ever did for ghana.at least thats the only thing some of you confused and direction-free politicians in fancy suits think rawlings ever did for ghana.hey dont get me wrong.im all for education.the man is responsible for the uprading of all polytechnics in the country to tertiary level and not some training center.what again?nigga go sleep.
scarecrow 10 years ago

JJ RAWLINGS IS THE MAN AFTER DR. KWAME NKRUMAH,NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT PRIDE FROM HIM,IT IS HE WHO HAD BUILT THE FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRACY WE ARE ALL ENJOYING TODAY,EVEN NKRUMAH NEVER BUILT DEMOCRACY IN GHANA,DEMOCRACY ITSELF IS A ...
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JJ RAWLINGS IS THE MAN AFTER DR. KWAME NKRUMAH,NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT PRIDE FROM HIM,IT IS HE WHO HAD BUILT THE FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRACY WE ARE ALL ENJOYING TODAY,EVEN NKRUMAH NEVER BUILT DEMOCRACY IN GHANA,DEMOCRACY ITSELF IS A VISION AND IF YOU BELIEVED IN IT WHERE DO YOU STAND NOW?
Sikamanba 10 years ago

No one has time for people like you - swim in your own vomit Nyaho Tamakloe!!

No one has time for people like you - swim in your own vomit Nyaho Tamakloe!!
Nii Lante Okunka 10 years ago

Ghana has never had any visionary leader notwithstanding what so called "doctors" would say or claim.Our problem is that we've not had any leader so far to lay the strong foundation for a prosperous nation and that has been t ...
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Ghana has never had any visionary leader notwithstanding what so called "doctors" would say or claim.Our problem is that we've not had any leader so far to lay the strong foundation for a prosperous nation and that has been the crux of our endemic problems
It's difficult to discern accurately our national leadership effectiveness due to the unequal circumstances characterizing their respective tenures.But the truth still is that neither Nkrumah and all that came after him had any tenable vision for our dear country that has God-endowed resources and yet many of her citizenry wallow in abject poverty.
What our first leader did unmistakably leave behind is the horrible template of governance that government knows what is best for all of us.
Dr Robert K Glah 10 years ago

Nii Lante Okunka stop pulling the wool over our eyes.
The Osagyefo laid down the Foundation for our development but our civil society let us down. Every citizen was looking to Government to do it and not the citizen to do it ...
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Nii Lante Okunka stop pulling the wool over our eyes.
The Osagyefo laid down the Foundation for our development but our civil society let us down. Every citizen was looking to Government to do it and not the citizen to do it.

The Government lent money for individual business initiatives. Is that a template of misgovernance?

Face the intellectual honesty!
Symbiosis 10 years ago

Dr Glah why do you bother to respond to the dishonest and illiterate grumblings of an African whose distorted and mutilated mind is trapped in the evil excrement of western imperialism?

Dr Glah why do you bother to respond to the dishonest and illiterate grumblings of an African whose distorted and mutilated mind is trapped in the evil excrement of western imperialism?
Abongo 10 years ago

Kufuor came closer to Nkrumah when he sold GTC and took a bribe of one million dollars. You are sick

Kufuor came closer to Nkrumah when he sold GTC and took a bribe of one million dollars. You are sick
ERROR PREZ 10 years ago

CRIMINAL MAHAMA,THIEFS MAHAMA,GOLD DIGGER MAHAMA,ATOPAHENE WOMANIZER MAHAMA,BAD AND FAKE MAHAMA,GOD WILL PUNISHED HIM AND HIS IDIOTS NDC

CRIMINAL MAHAMA,THIEFS MAHAMA,GOLD DIGGER MAHAMA,ATOPAHENE WOMANIZER MAHAMA,BAD AND FAKE MAHAMA,GOD WILL PUNISHED HIM AND HIS IDIOTS NDC
Dr Robert K Glah 10 years ago

Nkrumah was not a thief.
The rest after him are called thieves.
Let us uphold the Osaggyefo and be free and prosperous.

Nkrumah was not a thief.
The rest after him are called thieves.
Let us uphold the Osaggyefo and be free and prosperous.
WIAFE 10 years ago

Even Mandela could NOT beat the Great Kwame Nkrumah in the BBC's African of the century survey.

Even though I am a staunch NPP supporter, I think we should all be thankful for the many things Nkrumah did for Ghana. Only a ...
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Even Mandela could NOT beat the Great Kwame Nkrumah in the BBC's African of the century survey.

Even though I am a staunch NPP supporter, I think we should all be thankful for the many things Nkrumah did for Ghana. Only a hypocrite will deny that Nkrumah stands taller than the rest.
Agonaba 10 years ago

Trodooo

Trodooo
john 10 years ago

Nkrumah indeed the best ever.

Nkrumah indeed the best ever.
john 10 years ago

Still Nkrumah.

Still Nkrumah.
john 10 years ago

He is African number 1

He is African number 1

Ghana has not had a visionary leader after Kwame Nkrumah – Nyaho-Tamakloe

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