Text of Obama's tribute to Nelson Mandela

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• BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

  Mother Africa lost a great son again,my man,u have done a lot go and rest in a perfect peace till we meet again.During this difficult time in the whole Africa, Nana addo in his hidout in London and still singing his all die b ...
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  Mother Africa lost a great son again,my man,u have done a lot go and rest in a perfect peace till we meet again.During this difficult time in the whole Africa, Nana addo in his hidout in London and still singing his all die be die song. what a idiot this ugly man is?

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• N A L 10 years ago

  Grow Up!

  Grow Up!

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• CRAZY N WILD 10 years ago

  It was announced a few weeks back that the BNI had summoned Former Deputy High Commissioner to India, Mr Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong to be queried on his bizarre role in the import of rice from India in 2007. That fraudulent deal ...
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  It was announced a few weeks back that the BNI had summoned Former Deputy High Commissioner to India, Mr Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong to be queried on his bizarre role in the import of rice from India in 2007. That fraudulent deal alone cost the nation over four million dollars. A foreign minister Kwesi Osei adjei who was also questioned in connection with same rice imports together with a former Information minister Stephen Asamoah Boateng are all walking around freely without prosecution while the masses suffered high commodity prices. The sad part is some of these crooked politicians carry along with them British passports, claiming citizenship and travel at will in pursuit of their crooked dealings. My question therefore is : How could such diplomats representing Ghana become British citizens while serving this country as diplomatic emissaries ? The BNI musttruly investigate them and bring to justice these crooked politicians who continue to suck Ghana dry. Corrupt MPs and public officials must face the gallows !

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• Frank Bruno 10 years ago

  i will forever keep the records of this speech .

  i will forever keep the records of this speech .

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• GAWUKO 10 years ago

  This is a president whose rhetorics csnnot be surpassed! Did he learn anything from the great man Mandela? No! He is playing second fiddle to whites! What a great difference between the man of words and action Mandela and the ...
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  This is a president whose rhetorics csnnot be surpassed! Did he learn anything from the great man Mandela? No! He is playing second fiddle to whites! What a great difference between the man of words and action Mandela and the man of words Obama!

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• GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

  KWAME NKRUMAH INTL. AIRPORT:
  Now there is the Kotoka International Airport attesting to General Kotoka, who was the leader of the 1966 coup. Kotoka is now being honored for distracting Ghana from attaining her vision is now ...
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  KWAME NKRUMAH INTL. AIRPORT:
  Now there is the Kotoka International Airport attesting to General Kotoka, who was the leader of the 1966 coup. Kotoka is now being honored for distracting Ghana from attaining her vision is now a hero. Now that Ghana knows the truth, the question is, do we need to Honor a lie that abuses the collective sense of a nation. Should Kotoka be honored with a monument?. Another question, who is “Sankara”?. What did he do for Ghana that he as well deserves a circle to be named after him?. Why not after our heroes?. Don´t we have them?. This questions will be left as a chewing stick for our historians and nefarious politicians to chew and tell the nation the taste of it one day.
  So what must Ghana do now? Is it not justified to tell Ghanaians the Truth? nothing but the truth?. We cannot wage war against the world’s only superpower America but we shall not stop telling them the truth until they can bear it no more. We will let then understand that they can kill and oppress many nations as possible, but the “Truth will forever prevail” so long as some of them live.
  We all know that this coup was a serious lapse in judgment. It is a treason. Unfortunately, this admission has to be made, no matter how uncomfortable it is. Those perpetrators should be brought to book.
  We shall prove to those Ghanaians who still want to believe that February 24, 1966 was not a mistake, even after the evidence shows that the core reason was a lie that they have betrayed their motherland. The child has now found out that the tragedy of the period after independence was not the loss of power by Nkrumah and the CPP. The real tragedy was that an initial period of experiment in nation building was truncated prematurely, and thereby the calm for natural growth and development was denied the country.
  Today Ghanaians should accept the shame of embracing a coup that was fraudulent. If Ghana looks foolish now, imagine how it will feel like when history remembers that she participated in her own destruction, and 37 years later, still did not know what happened to her!. The man Kotoka who left Ghana naked on the stage is now the hero. General Kotoka is now named after an Airport which his hands and feet never touched.
  Fellow countrymen, one more thing is sure; we shall make sure that America renders an apology to Ghanaians one day. Kotoka International Airport and Sankara circle shall be renamed after a leader who deserves it in Ghana. God bless Ghana.
  26. WE NOW LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE DOCTORS DESTROY HEALTH, LAWYERS DESTROY JUSTICES, UNIVERSITIES DESTROY KNOWLEDGE, GOVERNMENTS DESTROY FREEDOM, MEDIA DESTROYS OUTFLOW OF INFORMATION, RELIGION DESTROYS MORALS, BANKS DESTROY OUR ECONOMY, FARMERS DESTROY OUR FOOD!......BY CHIS HEDGES

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• GAWUKO 10 years ago

  Kudos.

  Kudos.

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