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Arthur K: Africa has a leadership crisis

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  • Guv 10 years ago

    ARTHUR K KNOWS ALL. GIVE HIM A CHANCE.

  • NPP Disillusioned Desperadoes 10 years ago

    Typical pull-him-down comment! This chap (despite the ideological leanings of the political party to which he belongs) has espoused a very broad and forward-looking outlook and the best encouragement(???) you can proffer is s ...
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  • Bibini-Akanfuo 10 years ago

    Align himself to a reactionary and pseudo-ideolology(property-owing democracy)when he seems to support the view(shared by many in academia) that the Age of ideology is dead?
    Not unlike Nkrumah,did he not accurately predict t ...
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  • OLD GOLD COAST BOY... 10 years ago

    Ghana has worst Leadership crisis. Indeed "charity begins at home".

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    These are all Theories and hard in
    practical,especially Unity.United we
    stand but Devided we fall, we have to
    learn more to help our dear Country
    than ME ME ME Style of leaving.

  • Barrister77 10 years ago

    I realize you're being facetious, but until Arthur Kennedy learns to understand the full import of what Osagyefo stood for and what he did (and still does even after his demise)
    for Ghana, Africa, and all oppressed peoples w ...
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  • ASWAB KEN 10 years ago

    THAT IS WHY I SAY THIS GUY IS TOO GOOD JUST LISTERN TO HIM,OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT.GOD BLESS YOU.

  • S Dalkman 10 years ago

    You have shown that you a ghanaian and not blind to good sides of best leaders of african nations and your choice of kwane Nkrumah make you a credible scholar and a leader ,who, when given a chance can effect the necessary ch ...
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  • MANTSE 10 years ago

    I am not sure what is considered in grading the Leaders of African States. But, no matter the criteria, I think Paul Kagame of Rwanda has demonstrated that type Leadership that should have earned him the MO IBRAHIM Prize.

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  • LINDA LEE 10 years ago

    ALL THESE STUPID WOMANIZER ARTHUR K NONSENCE! JUST SHUT UP!

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    It is easy to build a house with the tongue. Nkrumah made those speeches like we are speaking here not as Ghanaians etc but Africans and at the same time, he was imprisoning opposing views in his own back yard. Even if Nkrum ...
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  • Kontor Germany 10 years ago

    Dear bro. first time I read from such wise educated person in this web side. I would like to contact you and Mr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy. kbarffour@rocketmail.com.

  • OWEN, NEW YORK 10 years ago

    Anybody who was educated in America has the "CAN DO BLOOD", in him. Most guys who had their education in America go back home with open heart to help build the nation but the country Ghana is so corrupt that one should be ver ...
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  • NOKWARE 10 years ago

    And yet members of Congress and the Senate have not got the'CAN DO BLOOD' to steer the affairs of America.They are so dysfunctional and petty that they cannot avoid the american government being shut down.This is shameful.

  • OWEN, NEW YORK 10 years ago

    Don't get them wrong , congress always disagree and agree at long last with the best solution for the masses. The believe in America first no matter their parties. Steal government money and your own party members will make s ...
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  • Ben, U.S. 10 years ago

    The truth is light! Remember Arthur K is an NPP guru who was once Akuffo Addo's campaign manager. Finally, the truth will set us free.

    "It is a shame that more Africans know about Martin Luther King’s “I HAVE a DREA ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Part of the reason why Africans or Ghanaians know more about foreign history is our educational system. In history, I learnt more the the Kings and Queens of Europe than those in Ghana. No one ever taught me that Mrs Theodora ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Ghanaian history as portrayed by the likes of Prof. Adu Boahen was one-sided, myopic and very limited in depth and scope.

    You are likely to learn more about Ghanaian and African history including our traditional kings, le ...
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  • Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago

    Arthur K has started a debate; where from this accusation of him being afraid of his party bigwigs?

    I have never read anywhere that the NPP has denied the role of Dr Nkrumah in Africa or Ghana. The fight has always been ab ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Surely we are not stupid enough to think that there is no political expediency in Arthur K's opening statements? Come off it Yaw. Any how, there is a lot more in what I wrote than that and I believe you never read my whole co ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Paul, Kagame has poor human rights record and does not deserve the MO Ibrahim Leadership Award. The media in Rwanda is highly controlled and the opposition has been silenced. He is also accused of supporting rebel activities ...
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  • Paul Amuna 10 years ago

    Kofi, sorry I didn't see your comments on this yesterday. The issue of the DRC crisis and Rwanda is as complex as the Syrian crisis which has wider dimensions and I would argue in the case of the latter that the outside influ ...
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  • Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago

    The saying goes that charity begins at home. Dr Nkrumah did not do what he was preaching to the masses in Africa.

    His role though was important: his was a voice that was listened to; his was a voice that resonated across ...
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  • Alhaji Pope 10 years ago

    Africa would never unite in our century or may be the next to come. every one should get to know of, French connections in Africa. which was created by Charles De-Gaulle. And try to find out the meaning of American interest. ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Yaw,
    That was a good comment on a very good piece by Arthur K. Ironically, at the time Arthur K joined 17 other people to vie for the NPP Flag bearership contest, I read through all the manisfestoes and thought two stood out ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    Those escaping during Nkrumah's leadership through neighbours' borders into exile were the very people conniving with the colonialists and imperialist till today militating our collective liberation,emancipation and carting ...
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  • Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago

    I bet you have never lived in a country where freedom is curtailed; otherwise you will not be making these points. Who conspired with the colonialist looters? Did Nkrumah still not rely on these same colonialists to build Ako ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    We look neither left nor right but forward as Nkrumah prorhetically said.What did those people attempted doing as they couldn't find themselves rather in power but Nkrumah?.Didn't they set up and sent a delegation to fight ag ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Abu,
    People like you have set your minds on half truths and plain distortions of the history of Ghana. And that has been the bane of our underdevelopment. Do you know that the original plan for the Akosombo Dam was first co ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    CLAIM CREDITS WHERE THERE IS NONE FOR BUSIA.SOON YOU WILL EDUCATE ME BUSIA BUILT THE AKOSOMBO DAM AND THE OTHER MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURAL EDIFICES CONSTRUCTED IN THE 50S AND EARLY 60S

  • Ohene 10 years ago

    Busia never conceived any idea about the Akosombo dam. The original idea was from the british to help provide energy for VALCO. They abandoned the idea later and Nkrumah took and ran with it.Get your facts

  • RastafaraI 10 years ago

    Its easy to dig up history and provide commentary....historians do that for a living...You will help your credibility if you as a politician could lay out a vision for Ghana and Cape Coast where you live...Cape Coast has not ...
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  • kofi. mozano 10 years ago

    Stupid response if i may say. Your cape coast should have been the cradle of education but for selfish nature if its natives it would play a second fiddle to most towns in Ghana. From cape coast to Anomabu down to Saltpond, o ...
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  • solo 10 years ago

    So you mean to say multi-party state will bring development and prosperity to Africa uuhh? What a joker!Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, China, etc. did not develop with multi party democracy. Oh, what is wrong with these African ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifi. 10 years ago

    You are greedy

  • YAW 10 years ago

    African leaders knows all these history, yet they sit at AU meetings and think inferior. Amassing enough wealth into their pockets, always runs to some world powers for food to feed the hungry in Africa in the mist of abundan ...
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  • Ben, U.S. 10 years ago

    Kwame Nkrumah was a leader, a visionary, and a doer. He placed his words in action - infrastructure, education, helping African freedom fighters etc.

  • Nii Ashitey 10 years ago

    Well as an npp from the UP tradition I understand some of Arthur Kennedy's reservations about Dr Nkrumah though some of us will disagree with him on almost all those reservations.The truth of the matter is that those people ...
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  • zomabi 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH IS THE ONLY FOUNDER OF GHANA BECOS THE REST FIVE SAID THEY DID NOT WANT INDEPENDENCE AT THAT TIME THAT WE ARE NOT READY. ARTHUR K IF THERE IS NO INDEPENDENCE HOW CAN THERE BE A NATION.

  • Neither NDC Nor NPP 10 years ago

    People should not be fooled. Arthur Kennedy has not given up his reactionary political stance. He is merely resorting to demagoguery - appealing to the emotions of the people, expounding Nkrumah's ideas to tap into the undyin ...
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  • xhlemiso 10 years ago

    I have no time for NPP but I will support Arthur K. This is because he is asking the right questions. People who ask questions have ideas for answers.
    Won't it be nice to have a break-away 'Arthur K FOR PRESIDENT segment of ...
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  • Justman 10 years ago

    ARTHUR K UR POLITICAL LEANINGS HAVE MADE U AN IDIOT. U LOST ALL UR SENSES. NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OUT OF U.U ARE DEAD.

  • k.baah 10 years ago

    such vitriolic, empty headed and grossly stupid comment, from the anus comment from you. learn this proverb, "even a fools is considered wise when he keeps his mouth shut.

  • Owura Kofi 10 years ago

    "First, we should make that speech required reading and teaching in every Second-cycle institution and University in Africa AND BY EVERY AFRICAN LEADER. It is a shame that more Africans know about Martin Luther King’s “I ...
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  • BEPOSO 10 years ago

    ARTHUR K,YOU MAY NOT SHARE THE VIEW, BUT WHETHER YOU SHARE IT OR ACCEPT IT, THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT KWAME NKRUMAH WAS THE CATALYST AND FOUNDER OF GHANA - WHEN THE NEO-COLONIALIST STOOGES WERE DILLY-DALLYING, KWAME: AFR ...
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  • zomabi 10 years ago

    CAN AFRICANS ACTUALLY THINK? AS AN AFRICAN I AM BEFUDDLED BY THE STATE OF THE CONTINENT. IS WESTERN EDUCATION CAPABLE OF ASSISTING THE AFRICAN IN ORGANISING ITSELF? SO FAR I DONT THINK SO. THE WESTERN EDUCATED AFRICAN IS THE ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    MR.ARTHUR KENNEDY MAKES A WHOLE LOTS OF SENSE.
    I support and endorse every bit of what he has just said.
    What I do not support,is his constant conflict with the NPP that,he happens to be a member.
    I will advice him to refr ...
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  • Chamcham 10 years ago

    GOOD ARTICLE, DOC!! VERY INSPIRATIONAL!!
    ILOVE IT!!!

  • ABREWA 10 years ago

    All becos of greedy and selfish politicians plus all of us.Crisis in homes,work school and all institutions.
    'Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.' Oh Africa! when oh when?
    Ghana ! Daden?

  • Dr Robert K Glah 10 years ago

    AU: African industrialisation goal with the support of the BRICS in 2013 summit should be our focus and leadership goal.

    Dr Kobena Kennedy should think progressively about that and not play the ostrich to satisfy the rear ...
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  • nana kwaku 10 years ago

    Dear Arthur K, was Kufour not the president of Ghana some years ago? Were you not there with him? Did you try to advise him? Was he worth the Mo Ibrahim award? Didn’t you celebrate the Ghana @ 50? Did you not notice that ap ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    What we have are self-interested, elitist leaders who have managed to hoodwinked the people into giving them power so that they can sit atop their resources and together with their foreign collaborators, lord it over the peop ...
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  • Ebo Yawson 10 years ago

    am proud of you Dr

  • C.STEPHEN SACKEY 10 years ago

    If this bozo wasn't an African,I'll call him an idiot,but he is and he scares the dejesus out of me. Why? He wants to be president of Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. Folks, symbolism is everything.

    Can you imagine the snickerin ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    Arthur Kennedy go back to where you rightly belong,the Nkrumaist fold,and you will heartedly be welcome. You're unwelcome in the NPP and feeling terribly rejected why further waste of time.You are needed and counted in the Nk ...
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  • EMMA 10 years ago

    My brother you may be a president some day. You have kept your intelligence and visionary nature since university days.

    God bless

  • Atambila 10 years ago

    One part u said it was impossible to unite africa then and even now and in the concluding part u are calling For africa unity.
    Get yourself right.

    Everything nkrumah said is possible.

  • ARTHUR K MUST CHANGE COURSE 10 years ago

    ARTHUR CAN AND SHOULD CHANGE COURSE NOW. MAN LIVES ONLY ONCE. I KNOW ARTHUR K VERY WELL. WE WERE BLOCK MATES AT VANDALS' HALL, LEGON. ARTHUR K ONLY BECAME NPP BECAUSE OF JJ RAWLINGS. HE HATES JJ RAWLINGS FOR WHAT JJ DID TO US ...
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  • ABU 10 years ago

    Arthur K can never accept monetary enticements

  • OWEN, NEW YORK 10 years ago

    Ghanaians need a good, wise, intelligent guy as a president. A man with big heart and big vision. Not a man with abundant riches. After all Nkrumah was not swimming in money

  • peace 10 years ago

    warped thinking is your bane. keep it yourself. useless article. Nkrumah is in his grave and people like kennedy are still fighting him on daily basis. I learnt people with criminals records were the ones affected. are you im ...
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  • me 10 years ago

    The likes of you keep us where we are. If you have a counter view, please state it and stop this laziness.

  • KWAKU 10 years ago

    I LOVE YOU WITH THE LOVE OF GOD, SINCERE AND HONEST IN OUR PIECE.

  • TAMBRO 10 years ago

    WHAT ABOUT KUFUOR DECORATING HIMSELF WITH GOLD ORNAMENTS AT THE DETRIMENT OF GHANAIAN TAX PAYERS MONEY WHILST CHILDREN WERE STUDYING UNDER TREES AND SICK PEOPLE DIRELY IN NEED OF MONEY FOR HEART SURGERY ETC?

  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

    Great Arthur K. I think that if one reads Nkrumah's Dark Days in Ghana and the CPP's Seven Year Development, one would come to the conclusion that Nkrumah did his best for Ghana. With just 60,000 acres of rubber he establishe ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago

    Arthur .K, i have got a CPP membership card for you.I can see clearly that you are an Nkrumaist to the bone.You will be more comfortable with an Nkrumaist party than being in the discredited Busia/Danquah family.

  • Kay 10 years ago

    the kettle calling the pot black.

  • nii 10 years ago

    Nkrumah's Books were BANNED in Ghana.
    I bought mine in Vancouver, B.C. Canada
    in the 70's.

  • me 10 years ago

    Well said; I hate NPP but I love this guy. I'm yet to read something unreasonable from him. Kudos!!

  • Barrister77 10 years ago

    Until Arthur Kennedy learns to understand the full import of what Osagyefo stood for and what he did (and still does, even after his demise, through his written work) for Ghana, Africa, and all oppressed peoples worldwide, he ...
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