Nkrumah towered over Mandela; comparison “useless” – KB Asante

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kojo 10 years ago

i agree with intoto sir kb

i agree with intoto sir kb
Ewuradi Kasa 10 years ago

Yes there is absolutely no need for comparison. It makes no sense. But if you do compare the 2, know the difference:
1. Mandela served 27yrs in prison, Nkrumah didnt.
2. Mandela won the heart of all BLACKS globally, and has ...
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Yes there is absolutely no need for comparison. It makes no sense. But if you do compare the 2, know the difference:
1. Mandela served 27yrs in prison, Nkrumah didnt.
2. Mandela won the heart of all BLACKS globally, and has been know globally by both whites and blacks. NKrumah didnt, he was not that known.
3.Mandela was elevated so high by his own people, Nkrumah was brought down by his own people.
4. Madiba was recognized and won the Nobel Peace Prize, Nkrumah has not won even any West African prize
4. Mandela HAS ACHIEVED HIS GOALS, Nkrumah DID NOT ACHIEVE HIS GOALS.

So Yes, you cannot compare the two.
Sethoo 10 years ago

You forgot to add this one,Mandela married three women Nkrumah had only 1 and half.All the wives of Mandela were also blacks Nkrumah went in for an Arab when he didn't get a proper white.Mandela had more children too.

You forgot to add this one,Mandela married three women Nkrumah had only 1 and half.All the wives of Mandela were also blacks Nkrumah went in for an Arab when he didn't get a proper white.Mandela had more children too.
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OYOKOBA 10 years ago

Enough of this self-induced hypnotic bull crap...Kwame Nkrumah this, Kwame Nkrumah that. Why will anybody in his right mind inject such nonsense at the time we are mourning the passing of a great man such as Mandela?

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Enough of this self-induced hypnotic bull crap...Kwame Nkrumah this, Kwame Nkrumah that. Why will anybody in his right mind inject such nonsense at the time we are mourning the passing of a great man such as Mandela?

Is it necessary for dead brain Nkrumacrats to come out at this time to make such comparisons? Trust me, if you feel compelled to come out to defend Nkrumah because the whole world is memorializing and honoring Mandela, then either you are an idiot or Nkrumah was not great after all. What have this attention seeking Nkrumacrats done for themselves and the country since Nkrumah passed? You are behaving like Kwame Nkrumah, in one fell sweep, collected all the wisdom in Ghana and put them in a pot and took them to a tree top. Get real, Kwame Nkrumah trampled upon the rights of his fellow citizens, made himself a secular monarch and set the tone for autocratic rules all over Africa, the debilitating consequences of which we are still reeling off. Not one political prisoner was recorded under Mandela's rule; can we say the same for Nkrumah? Stop irritating our ears. If Kwame Nkrumah was good he wouldn't have been overthrown by the army. Get on with it; you cannot force Nkrumah's "greatness" down our throats.

If one has to come out at this particular time while we are mourning the loss of Mandela, to assert or push Nkrumah's greatness down our throats, then I am afraid he was not greater than Mandela. Nkrumah died alone in exile, the world barely blinked at his passing. Compare that with Mandela, not even close.

There are two observations that can be said of the CPP and Nkrumah; firstly they are intolerable of sharing the limelight or power with anybody or party. Secondly, that dictatorial and autocratic tendencies have reduced their so-called populist party to single digit opinion polls and if at all, one-member MP in parliament. So much for the legacy of Africa's "Showboy" greatness. Unlike Nkrumah, Mandela's greatness is spoken in superlative terms and not confined to Africa alone, but the whole wide world. Nkrumacrats are just envious someone else is stealing the spotlight. Just stop it, the timing of this comparison is just so inappropriate, it is comparable to somebody pissing on your parade.
Kobooh 10 years ago

Very well said- I am with you 1000%. Bravo!

Very well said- I am with you 1000%. Bravo!
Shame to most of our leaders in Ghana 10 years ago

This once again shows how our leaders are not sensitive in any way. How can you do such comparism? Can not our leader wait untill the funeral ceremony of Mandela is over, before starting the discussion about the greatest of t ...
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This once again shows how our leaders are not sensitive in any way. How can you do such comparism? Can not our leader wait untill the funeral ceremony of Mandela is over, before starting the discussion about the greatest of the greates in Africa? This is big disgrace to our nation Ghana. It is another example that we have chose many unfit leaders in to some position they do not deserve.

What bunch of fools!!!
It is sad to see Ghana this way because believed that we have the most intelligent personnel in Ghana but unfortunately they are not gaven the chance to proof their compentencies.
Most of the recent ones can be thrown into toleit.

Disgrace leaders!!!
Shame for the untimely discussion about Mandela who saved South Africa!!!
4ward Ever 10 years ago

Other than talk, talk, talk, what has K.B. Asante done for the Nkrumahist movement in Ghana in the past 47 years (since the NLC coup in 1966)?

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Other than talk, talk, talk, what has K.B. Asante done for the Nkrumahist movement in Ghana in the past 47 years (since the NLC coup in 1966)?

It is useless to dwell on Obama's hypocritical speech in South Africa. He didn't apologize for the US role in the imprisonment of Mandela and the existence of apartheid. Obama also maintains the "Terrorist Watchlist" of several ANC veteran freedom fighters. Tokyo Sexwale, the former SA Housing Minister, was detained because of this list when he arrived in JFK Airport, New York on October 28th! It is clear Obama's words don't match his deeds.

Asante should stop seeking attention in the media and use his wisdom and experience to help current generation Nkrumahists to organize and save the country from the corrupt NDC and NPP.
KWARNING NJ 10 years ago

HEY YOU NKRUMAHIST WHY DON'T YOU CRAW BACK TO DEEP HOLE YOU CRAW OUT FROM. NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU NOW.

HEY YOU NKRUMAHIST WHY DON'T YOU CRAW BACK TO DEEP HOLE YOU CRAW OUT FROM. NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU NOW.
OZA 10 years ago

Yes, apples and oranges are all fruits but you can never compare the two in terms of taste and usefulness. It is silly to compare Mandela with Nkrumah. They are all great men in their own era.

Yes, apples and oranges are all fruits but you can never compare the two in terms of taste and usefulness. It is silly to compare Mandela with Nkrumah. They are all great men in their own era.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

Who brought the subject up at this particular moment anyway?

Who brought the subject up at this particular moment anyway?
Mahmoud 10 years ago

Nkrumah died in shame at Guinea and Mandela died with his glory intact. Nkrumah was a political "Maradona" who cornered his colleagues and slap from behind to take power. Mandela got power unopposed and all the blacks were be ...
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Nkrumah died in shame at Guinea and Mandela died with his glory intact. Nkrumah was a political "Maradona" who cornered his colleagues and slap from behind to take power. Mandela got power unopposed and all the blacks were behind him. He did not betray any anyone. Mandela relinquished power voluntarily at the hight of his glory. Nkrumah ruled for 16 years and finally turned Ghana into a one party state and make himself a president for life.
Nkrumah sacked the whites and Mandela welcomed them. Nkrumah was a show boy and Mandela was a humble man. Mandela preached democracy and Nkrumah preached dictatorship and one man show.
nana 10 years ago

well said my brother,i strongly second your sensible analysis.

well said my brother,i strongly second your sensible analysis.
Elder Tettey 10 years ago

WHY IS A MAN WHO WAS CALLED A TERRORIST BY THE WEST, IS NOW A HERO TO THE SAME PEOPLE. BECAUSE HE LEFT THE WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE RACIST WHITE MINORITY?

WHY IS A MAN WHO WAS CALLED A TERRORIST BY THE WEST, IS NOW A HERO TO THE SAME PEOPLE. BECAUSE HE LEFT THE WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE RACIST WHITE MINORITY?
Odasanyi, London 10 years ago

one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Mandela did nothing spectacular. Other African leaders, including Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyattah, had come out of prison to reconcile with the white exploiters and oppressors. But his posture was just like that Jomo Kenyattah. He ...
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Mandela did nothing spectacular. Other African leaders, including Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyattah, had come out of prison to reconcile with the white exploiters and oppressors. But his posture was just like that Jomo Kenyattah. He appeased and sold out to the whites for what the ANC elite could grab for themselves! Practically all of them have become multi-millionaires, as they were co-opted into what had become Global Apartheid based on wealth, with blacks in the bottom.

Yeah! What they fail to point out is there is no black in the colour rainbow in the Rainbow Nation they were creating.

Nkrumah, on the other hand, lived and died for the emancipation of the whole of Africa and Africans not only from colonial yoke but also neo-colonialism. His writings shall outlive Mandela, whom posterity will remember as the Great Appeaser who bought some more time for the exploitation of Africans by foreigners and the black elite, the new Buthelizis in the era of Global Apartheid with jet planes when the roads to their villages are not tarred.

Andy-K
AFEVIA 10 years ago

I AGREED THAT THE COMPARISON IS USELESS. PEOPLE ARE RESPONDING TO WHAT OBAMA AND OTHER LEADERS SAID ABOUT MANDELA BEING THE GREATEST AFRICAN. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YARD STICK THEY USED BUT THE REASONS YOU GAVE AS WHY MANDELA OVE ...
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I AGREED THAT THE COMPARISON IS USELESS. PEOPLE ARE RESPONDING TO WHAT OBAMA AND OTHER LEADERS SAID ABOUT MANDELA BEING THE GREATEST AFRICAN. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YARD STICK THEY USED BUT THE REASONS YOU GAVE AS WHY MANDELA OVERSHADOWS NKRUMAH ARE RATHER CHILDISH. WHAT MATTERS MOST IS NOT WHAT AN OUTSIDER SAYS ABOUT AFRICA BUT WHAT AFRICANS THEMSELVES ARE SAYING. WAS MANDELA NOT THERE WHEN NKRUMAH WAS VOTED THE GREATEST AFRICAN OF THE MILLENIUM? NKRUMAH AND MANDELA HAD THEIR SHORTCOMINGS. THE QUESTION WE MUST BE ASKING OURSELVES IS; WHICH OF THE TWO HAD THE GREATEST INFLUENCE ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT TO MERIT THE TITLE "GREATEST AFRICAN"?
Ewurade Kasa 10 years ago

And what is your answer??? Foolish. My "childish"answer is straight forward and true. Your "mature" answer is foolishness. The question is clear but you have no answer. Who is greatest? What is your answer???
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And what is your answer??? Foolish. My "childish"answer is straight forward and true. Your "mature" answer is foolishness. The question is clear but you have no answer. Who is greatest? What is your answer???
AFEVIA are you one of those weak-minded haters who are always on the fence??? I guess so.
kosoko 10 years ago

Ewurade kasa, you don't make sense! Shut up and let who can debate do.

Ewurade kasa, you don't make sense! Shut up and let who can debate do.
zorro 10 years ago

kosoko I like your answer.

kosoko I like your answer.
william 10 years ago

Between BBC survey and the opinion of a leader and his speech writers who is the greatest African of the 20th Century? Compare Mandiba to Aggrey of Africa, not Nkrumah! Senior citizen Asante is speaking sense.And always remem ...
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Between BBC survey and the opinion of a leader and his speech writers who is the greatest African of the 20th Century? Compare Mandiba to Aggrey of Africa, not Nkrumah! Senior citizen Asante is speaking sense.And always remember the great Madiba,ANC,South Africa and others were all beneficiaries of Nkrumah's engagement!
Frank Appiah 10 years ago

BBC survey made Nkrumah the greatest African who lived within he last 1,000 years when Mandela was alive(AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLENIUN. Now Obama's white American Speech writer who wrote the speech for him to read in South Af ...
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BBC survey made Nkrumah the greatest African who lived within he last 1,000 years when Mandela was alive(AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLENIUN. Now Obama's white American Speech writer who wrote the speech for him to read in South Africa says Mandela is the greatest African liberator of the 20th Century,so which is authentic? Is it the opinion of Obama's white speech writer or BBC survey.Nkrumah remains the greatest African of all time.No more argument!
Frank Appiah 10 years ago

Mandela was called a terrorist by both United States and Britain when he was struggling to liberate his people.Mandela's ANC took over and allowed the whites to remain in control of the economy while the blacks are still suff ...
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Mandela was called a terrorist by both United States and Britain when he was struggling to liberate his people.Mandela's ANC took over and allowed the whites to remain in control of the economy while the blacks are still suffering in poverity,with lack of education,no decent housing and very deplorable living conditions so the whites claim he is the greatest.The hypocrisy of the whiteman is once again exposed.Obama was misled by his white speech writer.
Abeoku Yanka 10 years ago

Didn't dictator Kwame Nkrumah drive his political opponents out from Ghana? Why did Nkrumah political opponents fled from Ghana? Was he not trying to kill his political opponents?. Who killed JB Danquah? Wasn't Kwame Nkrumah? ...
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Didn't dictator Kwame Nkrumah drive his political opponents out from Ghana? Why did Nkrumah political opponents fled from Ghana? Was he not trying to kill his political opponents?. Who killed JB Danquah? Wasn't Kwame Nkrumah? Have you heard any political opponent Mandela killed?

Didn't Kwame Nkrumah surround himself with uneducated people like Krobo Adusei so that Nkrumah would be 'god' among his cabinets and receive no opposition from his uneducated cabinet? Nkrumah was selfish and mean politician. If Nkrumah had implored the help of few educated Ghanaians in his administration at the time of our independence, Ghana would have been better than this. Nkrumah and his CPP elites looted the treasury of Ghana like P/NDC are doing now. If any other person had been in the helms of affairs of Ghana political affairs at that time, I bet you Ghana might be like Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan etc. These countries were not better than Ghana at that time. For the simple reason they had well meaningful leaders to lead them, look at where they are now.

Nkrumah did something good for Ghana. No doubts about that. Every district in Ghana had a secondary school. But we should not forget to talk about his bad sides. I believe, if it had been any other person like JB Danquah or Busia who had led Ghana at that time, Ghana would have been in a better place.

Nkrumah behavior made 1966 coup justified. Nkrumah dictatorial behavior paved way for these useless soldier to taste power, and saw that power was sweet. These useless Ghanaian soldiers continued to staged coup, which has rendered our country in a deplorable conditions now. If Nkrumah had been inclusive, perhaps Ghana wouldn't have seen any coup.

It was Nkrumah disastrous governance that pave way for tribal king like Rawlings to steal power for further destruction of Ghana. So, Nkrumah worshippers should know that Nkrumah was not so good for Ghana. The decadence and bad corruption in Ghana can be traced back to Nkrumah era.
Elder Tettey 10 years ago

THE WESTERN POWERS DID NOT HAVE DEMOCRACY THEN. THEY WERE SOLIDLY BEHIND APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. THEY WERE AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN AMERICA. THEY WERE AGAINST NKRUMAH AND AFRICAN LIBERATION.

THE WESTERN POWERS DID NOT HAVE DEMOCRACY THEN. THEY WERE SOLIDLY BEHIND APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. THEY WERE AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN AMERICA. THEY WERE AGAINST NKRUMAH AND AFRICAN LIBERATION.
dankaloma 10 years ago

Asem kese yi na waboso yi. Agyei ma wuooo

Asem kese yi na waboso yi. Agyei ma wuooo
Kponyo 10 years ago

Good one Elder Tettey. You can add this one too; For the over 400 years that they were here, our oppressors from the West never ever found the sense or the need to introduce democracy in Africa. It was Kwame Nkrumah who taugh ...
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Good one Elder Tettey. You can add this one too; For the over 400 years that they were here, our oppressors from the West never ever found the sense or the need to introduce democracy in Africa. It was Kwame Nkrumah who taught them how and it was he who also brought democracy to Black Africa. We are eternally grateful to him for this.

Today they and their local puppets the UP/ NPP, claim that Nkrumah killed democracy in Ghana. Kwame Nkrumah did not only introduce democracy for the first time in Ghana and Black Africa but he went beyond that old form of slave & master democracy in which the masses are fooled into voting for liars and tricksters every four years whilst they the people get poorer and poorer every four years. For doing this, the enemies of true democracy accuse Kwame Nkrumah for killing their decadent kind of democracy in Ghana.

Kwame Nkrumah attempted to introduce a kind of socialist democracy, a more decent and sensible kind of democracy in which there is only one national party like in China and all eligible citizens of the country vote for any aspiring presidents, ministers all the way right down to District Assembly Executives and other public office holders. In this way, no section of the people will be isolated and harassed when their particular party is not in power as happens in Ghana and elsewhere. In this way, all members of society will not and cannot be ostracized or ignored because their party will always be in power.

Another advantage of this is that development continues and thrives uninterrupted and unabated. There is no undermining of the achievements and development projects of one political party by another as has continued to happen in Ghana much to our collective disadvantage. Also there can be no dangerous tribal politics and there can be no NDC Police, NPP church, NDC Judges, NPP Civil Service, NPP Medical doctors or even hospitals and all those stupid politicization of public institutions that continue to hamper and stifle our much-needed development.

Because of the harsh and unfortunate consequences of 400 years of slavery and colonialism, it is only the Black man who will continue to practice a system that has not worked for us, 50 whole years after it was introduced, without considering the necessity of change. This is not only because we cannot seem to think for ourselves, but it is also because we are afraid of change for the better.

60 years ago, Kwame Nkrumah saw that the old western type of slave democracy which we still continue to practice today, and in which only a handful of people gain to the disadvantage of the majority, cannot possibly promote national development or the ultimate well-being of Africa. Africans are by nature a socialistic or a Christian-like race of people. We care - or we used to care about each other and even other races of people. Today we have adopted the ways of the devil / Satan. We worship only mammon (money or material) and any kind of vice which can enable us acquire mammon, so that like our slave masters, we too can pompously and arrogantly lord it over our own brothers and sisters.

We are beginning to lose that divine exquisite quality that distinguished the God-like superiority of the African race from all other decadent races of some other people on earth.

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread." – Richard Wright (African-American writer 1908 - 1960)
william 10 years ago

On Ghana's 50th anniversary why did NPP government and Kufuor join African leaders to celebrate Nkrumah? Why was the government excited to display a giant poster at Tetteh Quarshie interchange opposite Kufuor's residence with ...
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On Ghana's 50th anniversary why did NPP government and Kufuor join African leaders to celebrate Nkrumah? Why was the government excited to display a giant poster at Tetteh Quarshie interchange opposite Kufuor's residence with Kufour, (from where he could feast on the picture!) happily and proudly seated next to Nkrumah to bask in his glory? Wisen up!
Nyansasem 10 years ago

The whites all over the world are praising the greatest human being that ever lived. And the Nkrumahists are throwing fit all around. They are criticizing and blaming the whites for doing so because Mandela dance to their tun ...
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The whites all over the world are praising the greatest human being that ever lived. And the Nkrumahists are throwing fit all around. They are criticizing and blaming the whites for doing so because Mandela dance to their tunes.

Yet, the same people are happy that a BBC (white establishment) decided to do a survey about "who is the greatest African" And we have the Afrikanists and Nkrumahists who have accepted this stupidity or "divide and rule" because it fits into their diabolical agenda. I am restraining myself here for not calling them names. But can you believe the illogical nonsense here. What they are saying is this- we will accept the whiteman's opinion or undertaking if it favors us, but we are Afrikanists and Nkruamahists (whatever that is) and will only believe something that comes from Africa and Africans. What a hopeless bunch.

Yes, a hopeless bunch who live in whitemans land and keep on with such nonsense about Afrikanists and Africa for Africans nonsense. Can't even live in the so called called continent that their god (Nkrumah) changed. What a logic!

I am embarrassed. Can you imagine this idiot, I mean a useless stupid womanizer like that wanted to be the head of our Country?

The nation that was "founded" by Nkrumah still does not have water and electricity for its people after 50 years. We still shyt on our beaches.

The Party that was "founded" by Nkrumah was even lucky to have one MP in the parliament.

The people that were "educated" are so useless and corrupt that they don't even know where this country is heading to.

So United States of Africa that Nkrumah proposed was rejected in 1963 and by 1965, the idea was dead.

So tell me why should we even have this comparison about the 2 men? I have said that, Ghana is cursed to have idiots as leaders and that is why Nkrumah still remains significant in our world.

Does anyone think there would be a comparison among the two men in any country aside of Ghana?
kosoko 10 years ago

Nyasasem and misinterpretation of facts. It always amazes me when I read his contribution in this forum. Anybody who does not take his position must be abused.

Nyasasem and misinterpretation of facts. It always amazes me when I read his contribution in this forum. Anybody who does not take his position must be abused.
RJ 10 years ago

What else do you expect from such a brainless idiot like "Nyasasem" sorry
Kwaseasem.

What else do you expect from such a brainless idiot like "Nyasasem" sorry
Kwaseasem.
yaa 10 years ago

Good one

Good one
mugu1 10 years ago

get back to your writings you will notice it coming from dead brain

get back to your writings you will notice it coming from dead brain
Yiadom 10 years ago

Great one there Nyaansasem. You hit the name right on the head. The question is why is it that Nkrumah's party continues to be rejected by Ghanaians in every election if he was the best? Even in Ghana he is only appreciated i ...
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Great one there Nyaansasem. You hit the name right on the head. The question is why is it that Nkrumah's party continues to be rejected by Ghanaians in every election if he was the best? Even in Ghana he is only appreciated if his name can be used for propaganda by greedy politicians, but dumped afterwards. Mandela symbolizes love, forgiveness and peace and so I find it quite insulting to compare Nkrumah to him.
william 10 years ago

Both NDC and NPP have claimed Nkrumah, along with smaller parties!.have claimed him along with the others!!!!Nkrumah is too big for one party and for Ghana!

Both NDC and NPP have claimed Nkrumah, along with smaller parties!.have claimed him along with the others!!!!Nkrumah is too big for one party and for Ghana!
JH New York 10 years ago

I equally don't want to be bellicose on this good for nothing debate.But some of you say things which one is compelled to post the truth.
Nkrumah never "trampled on the right of his fellow citizens" as you said.
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I equally don't want to be bellicose on this good for nothing debate.But some of you say things which one is compelled to post the truth.
Nkrumah never "trampled on the right of his fellow citizens" as you said.
Nkrumah build the Nsawam Medium prison only when the "mate me ho" Ashante-Any in" Busia,Danquah,Dunno(present APP)started numerous assassination attempt on his life with bombs to destabilize the country.
OYOKOBA,ask yourself does it make Sense
to used a bomb on one?.Would you as a leader not put the culprits in prison ? Did any of Mandela's South Africans made a attempts
to eliminate him from office with Arms?.
Like the present propaganda manoeuvres,all those negativevitie was a ploy to hype the man of the millennium,Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah,the black Star of Africa.
I find your arguments to be weak in reasonig
Busy Bee 10 years ago

Nkrumah was president for life with no vice-president. One party state with no free elections meant when he was wreaking the nation with his megalomaniac programs, a change of government simply meant ending his life

Nkrumah was president for life with no vice-president. One party state with no free elections meant when he was wreaking the nation with his megalomaniac programs, a change of government simply meant ending his life
JH New York 10 years ago

"a change of government simply meant ending his life".
I do not agree with you on this,as other appropriate means like, Civil Disobedience could be employed to force the ruling govt to make necessary changes, if any.
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"a change of government simply meant ending his life".
I do not agree with you on this,as other appropriate means like, Civil Disobedience could be employed to force the ruling govt to make necessary changes, if any.
Again how much difference is between the
Indemnity Clauses and the One Party State aside from other people having the chance to ascend the throne to acquire wealth and fool about to the detriment of majority of the people,as have been the case since the overthrow of Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
During his rule in Late Cote d'Ivoire,the late President Houphet Boinne(excuse my spelling,please) never stop by saying:
"He was not afraid to died, but his concerns and worry was the person who has a good balance of intuitive Senses and reasoning,to take over from him".The question is,what has become of once Petty-France(Ivory Coast)after his passing to eternity.
Nkrumah's ideas and ideals were far in advance of his generation at the time.Though he didn't not personally said that himself,I suspect that might have been the reason behind his idea of One Party State.
After the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah,what has Ghana become.
Has those Vice president been proven to put the President in order ?.
When Kofi Abrefa Busia later became the leader,what did he do on record.
He devalued the Cedis immediately,
Transfered his 1 full year's Salary in bulk
from Jan-Dec(which is not yet due)to Britain,
Expelled foreigners from Ghana,most of them from neighboring African Countries (Nigerian) etc.
What Kofi Abrefa Busia did was just what
Nelson Mandela refused to do but rather used
Common Sense approach to resolve issues.
Though that was the only sensible solution available to him,if he did not want his Country to suffer Resections and Economic Collapsed.And now we call him a hero!
So,I personally see Mandela as a Sensible person.
JH New York 10 years ago

Phone auto.changes.
Ashanti-Akyim.
present NPP
bomb on one man?.

Phone auto.changes.
Ashanti-Akyim.
present NPP
bomb on one man?.
MenayeAFUAforiwa 10 years ago

Oyokoba! Skin pain. Why is it that you "mate me ho" people panic whenever Nkrumah's name is mentioned? Whether you accept it or not Nkrumah's name will ever reign supreme when it comes to "who is who" in Africa. Oyokoba,are y ...
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Oyokoba! Skin pain. Why is it that you "mate me ho" people panic whenever Nkrumah's name is mentioned? Whether you accept it or not Nkrumah's name will ever reign supreme when it comes to "who is who" in Africa. Oyokoba,are you so myopic to forget so soon that Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was voted the African of the Millinnium in a pool conducted last year? This pool was not conducted in Ghana but the whole of Africa.So what is your beef? You should do away with your bias about Nkrumah and all his name stands for.
Yaw Poku, USA 10 years ago

Oh man, Oh man, Oh man thanks for setting the record straight. Besides Mandela liberated a whole nation of South Africa from the apartheid rule. Kwame Nkrumah was not one who liberated Ghana from colonial rule but the concert ...
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Oh man, Oh man, Oh man thanks for setting the record straight. Besides Mandela liberated a whole nation of South Africa from the apartheid rule. Kwame Nkrumah was not one who liberated Ghana from colonial rule but the concerted effort of J.B. Danquah and others.
YOOMOBEGA 10 years ago

We know you and your ilk. Several of them showed themselves with their antiNkrumah posts. The Omanhene prof. is right you can't compare the Osagyefo to Madiba.

We know you and your ilk. Several of them showed themselves with their antiNkrumah posts. The Omanhene prof. is right you can't compare the Osagyefo to Madiba.
Kwabena Atta 10 years ago

Oyokoba, for once get real.Everybody knows Nkrumah was the Greatest African who ever lived.It is because of this "MYOPIC" attitude of you and your ilk that the NPP can not win Elections in Ghana. Unless you acknowledge the tr ...
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Oyokoba, for once get real.Everybody knows Nkrumah was the Greatest African who ever lived.It is because of this "MYOPIC" attitude of you and your ilk that the NPP can not win Elections in Ghana. Unless you acknowledge the truth that Nkrumah was great we will never vote for you.
NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY 10 years ago

If nothing at all, after Mandela stayed jail for 27 years and served as president from 1994 to 1999, the vast majority of African went ahead and chose Nkrumah as the African of the millennium in 2000. That is a clear manifest ...
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If nothing at all, after Mandela stayed jail for 27 years and served as president from 1994 to 1999, the vast majority of African went ahead and chose Nkrumah as the African of the millennium in 2000. That is a clear manifestation that those Africans recognise Nkrumah more than Mandela.

Mandela is endowed with a rare ability to forgive, he served 27 years in jail, became president of South Africa for only 1 term and handed over power. Sterling qualities that we can find in other African leaders.

But how does these beautiful qualities emancipates the continent from the shackles of colonialism, and develop a nation? Show me one economic developmental thing that Mandela did for South Africa, let alone the rest of the African continent?

Have you read the black Harvard professor's (Henry Gates') article that claims Ashantis traded in slaves, used the proceeds to buy gold for themselves and used the rest of the money to educate their children abroad? You know this assertion is not true but it is being propagated by a Harvard professor who happens to be an African-American.

nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Educated blacks like you sit back and allow the uninformed to distort your history.
Brahabebome 10 years ago

Oh my brother OYOKOBA, your mind need to be really washed. You are still an educated but ignorant African, like most Africans are.

1.Nkrumah knew Mandela and the ANC was an appeaser to white supremacy so refused to meet wi ...
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Oh my brother OYOKOBA, your mind need to be really washed. You are still an educated but ignorant African, like most Africans are.

1.Nkrumah knew Mandela and the ANC was an appeaser to white supremacy so refused to meet with Mandela when he visited Ghana. After 27 years of hard labor in prison, Mandela comes out waving the white flag of surrender to the racist white oppressors, even stood side by side with his white oppressor to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

2. On the night of the declaration of our independence of Ghana on March 6, 1957, Nkrumah stood on the podium and announced the freedom of the entire black race, not just that of Ghana, or Africa, but the entire black race of the world.

Nkrumah formed the Non-Aligned Movement to fight colonialism anywhere in the world by supporting every nation under colonialism at the time, and there were many, especially in Africa.

3. You talk about political prisoners under Nkrumah's rule? Of course, if anyone destabilizes or even attempt to destabilize a nation that person must be arrested and imprisoned. There is nowhere in the world that a political party can form a terrorist group for the purpose of destabilizing a nation and the government will not do anything about it, not even in the so called democratic societies.

4.Some of you opponents of Nkrumah always try to doctor the history of Ghana to favor your argument.Set the record straight that Nkrumah offered the idea of a union government to the United Party and they refused and walked out of Parliament whereby Nkrumah declared a "One Party State". The opposition was bitter because they could not defeat the CPP due to Nkrumah's organizational skills, so Kofi Abrefa Busia and J.B Danquah appraoched firs the Queen of England and the American CIA to help them overthrown Kwame Nkrumah. If you look the trend in removing African leaders from office, the west will first create a situation by supporting dissent in the particular country and use that as a pretext to overthrow the leader.They did that in The Congo to overthrow and even kill Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba using an African General Mobutu Sese Seko. They are still doing and using the same tactics today.

5. I could go on and on, but you will never accept the fact Africa's problems are that we are not united on anything for the progress of our people. South Africa under the African National Congress is now one of the leading corrupt governments in Africa. The crime rate is so high brother due to unemployment. Nothing has changed for the blacks except a few blacks siphoning and looting all the money into their private offshore accounts.The litany of the conditions prevailing in Ghana at the time that you have listed here is just the smoke the west blew into our eyes to camouflage the progress a young nation was making towards industrializing its economy. If Nkrumah succeeded in making Ghana a model of the African renaissance, the west was finished. Ghana will be drilling our own oil today with our equipment and engineers. The EO Group, consisting of President Kuffour, Edusei, and Owusu, could not have pocketed $200 million dollars by themselves. That could never had happened under Kwame Nkrumah.
Mr.N 10 years ago

What is wrong with you people let face it Kwame Nkrumah was brutal dictator he jailed everyone who disagrees with him and let them die in jail. If Kwame Nkrumah had spent 27 years in jail like Nelson Mandela did Kwame Nkrumah ...
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What is wrong with you people let face it Kwame Nkrumah was brutal dictator he jailed everyone who disagrees with him and let them die in jail. If Kwame Nkrumah had spent 27 years in jail like Nelson Mandela did Kwame Nkrumah would have killed everyone hold on to power till dead.

If you want to know how Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah would have looked like if February 24,1966 did not happen don't look far just look at Robert Gabriel Mugabe and Zimbabwe.
SGT ANANI FDIADZOE 10 years ago

Nelson Mandela when was released from prison by his captives, did not act upon any form of vengeance, even he went as far as to appointed he who jailed him as
a Deputy President in his administration, he appointed Nkata Free ...
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Nelson Mandela when was released from prison by his captives, did not act upon any form of vengeance, even he went as far as to appointed he who jailed him as
a Deputy President in his administration, he appointed Nkata Freedom Fighter his bitter political opponent as his Minister of Foreign Affairs and he even extended his invitation to his Prison Warder when
he was being inaugurated as First African President of South Africa,
but Nkrumah what did he do, he arrested and imprisoned all his political opponents until some of them even met their death while in prison,
that is the difference between Nkrumah
and Mandela.
UN HAS MANDELA DAY NOT NKRUMAH 10 years ago

Many generation of AFRICAN and students of the independence have not forgive Nkrumah for supporting opponents in other countries to overthrow leaders who did not support his USA of Africa project He is even suspected of assas ...
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Many generation of AFRICAN and students of the independence have not forgive Nkrumah for supporting opponents in other countries to overthrow leaders who did not support his USA of Africa project He is even suspected of assassination of other leaders, Hisotrians like Ali Mazrui say he migh have been a ggod african but a bad Ghanaian for his dictatorhip. In the international community even in Africa opinion is widely divided over the palce of Nkrumah becuase of his suspected sabotage of other leader as he gave Ghana's moneys in support of only fatcions in a ny given country which supported his communist tendencyies. He did not even support ANC but PAC because PAC was not willing to admit whites and was more pro Soviet and refused to support Mnadela That is why Mandela went to Cote d'Ivoire first before coming to Ghana because Houphouet Boighy supported ANC AND NOT PAC be Ivory Copat was not pro Communist. OBAMA DID NOT SAY GREATES LIBERATOR HE SAID ONE OF THE GREAT LIBERATORS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Ewurade Kasa 10 years ago

I like Nkrumah's vision but I am sorry to tell you that, the more I think abou thi spersonality and tactic, he would have been like Robert Mugabe, Hosni Mubarak, or former Ivorian president Felix Houphouet-Boigny. He is very ...
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I like Nkrumah's vision but I am sorry to tell you that, the more I think abou thi spersonality and tactic, he would have been like Robert Mugabe, Hosni Mubarak, or former Ivorian president Felix Houphouet-Boigny. He is very entitled and, unlike Nelson Mandela, would NEVER leaver office after just one term. Nkrumah would surely have made himself a life president of Ghana.
Mr.N 10 years ago

He surely did that he called himself President for life and named everything after himself things he had used the state money to build.

He surely did that he called himself President for life and named everything after himself things he had used the state money to build.
Kponyo 10 years ago

Is it now some kind of credit to leave govt after one term in office? Is there something wrong about being a life-term President like the Head of State of England Queen Elizabeth?

My friend, dont you think that with the sh ...
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Is it now some kind of credit to leave govt after one term in office? Is there something wrong about being a life-term President like the Head of State of England Queen Elizabeth?

My friend, dont you think that with the shameful level of development of our country and continent we should rather be thinking about who can raise us from the depths of poverty rather than how long people stay in power?

Any African or Black man would be proud to be compared to Robert Mugabe who is the only African leader who is fighting to keep the lands and the wealth of his country for the citizens of his country.

Brainwashed feeble-minded Africans like you Ewurade Kasa who cannot think for themselves or see anything in this world until your evil oppressors tell you what to think or see, of course will not see any merit in the kind of Africans who have achieved the little that we have gained for Africa so far.
Ewurade Kasa 10 years ago

The queen is not a president. Monarchs and dynastic systems like you see in Syria or Saudi Arable are a real problem. That was what Quadafi was trying to do.
So there is a problem with a lifelong presidency. I thought you a ...
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The queen is not a president. Monarchs and dynastic systems like you see in Syria or Saudi Arable are a real problem. That was what Quadafi was trying to do.
So there is a problem with a lifelong presidency. I thought you already know this since this Ghanaweb platform for discussing democracy, not promoting or endorsing monarchy.
Brahabebome 10 years ago

Thank you Kponyo. Ewurade Kasa by his name most likely is a member of the tribe in Ghana whose only concern in life is the clothes that go on their body and the food that in their stomach. He wakes up in the morning and only ...
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Thank you Kponyo. Ewurade Kasa by his name most likely is a member of the tribe in Ghana whose only concern in life is the clothes that go on their body and the food that in their stomach. He wakes up in the morning and only think about having his tea and cheese to eat. That is all they care about. After 100 years of colonial rule Gold Coast had only a few elementary schools in the country. Let me ask Ewurade Kasa where he went to secondary school and most like he attended one of the several schools Nkrumah built.Ghanaian children are still going to school under trees 56 after our independence. Isn't that a shame. Indeed Ewurade Kasa cannot think for himself, just like a whole lot of our so called leaders in Africa.
Ewuradi Kasa 10 years ago

I FILL SORRY FOR YOU. ANSWER ME: WHY IS IT THAT NKRUMAH'S PERTY HAS NOT WON ANY ELECTIONS IF HE HAS THE BEST IDEAS IN THE WORLD??

I FILL SORRY FOR YOU. ANSWER ME: WHY IS IT THAT NKRUMAH'S PERTY HAS NOT WON ANY ELECTIONS IF HE HAS THE BEST IDEAS IN THE WORLD??
KB 10 years ago

Madiba is taller than Nkrumah,but only in physical appearance.Not being known does not neccesarily mean not greater.There are many great people who have contributed in more ways to humanity's progress but are little known.And ...
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Madiba is taller than Nkrumah,but only in physical appearance.Not being known does not neccesarily mean not greater.There are many great people who have contributed in more ways to humanity's progress but are little known.And yet there are very well known people who rather impacted the world negatively.Your analysis are flawed,but yes,there is absolutely no need for comparison.
Kobooh 10 years ago

Another senseless 'contribution' for lack of a better word). How do you claim to be great when your actions are not even known to the people supposed to judge your actions? - stupid analogy indeed, mere academics.

Another senseless 'contribution' for lack of a better word). How do you claim to be great when your actions are not even known to the people supposed to judge your actions? - stupid analogy indeed, mere academics.
Suberu Salam 10 years ago

Mandela din not achieved the goal of any one, he bacame a symbol for what we are struggling to achieve and not yet achieved.
We hope Winne Mandela and others left behind will hepl to take us the goal.
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Mandela din not achieved the goal of any one, he bacame a symbol for what we are struggling to achieve and not yet achieved.
We hope Winne Mandela and others left behind will hepl to take us the goal.
No African leaders was greater thán Kwame Nkrumah, no African at the moment is greater, and nothing indicates that in future we shall have any leader greater than Kwame Nkrumah.
Rest in Peace Mandela.
Suberu Salam-------Stockholm Sweden
Ewurade Kasa 10 years ago

I dont know what you are talking about but every country has a challenge to deal with in the future. So the fight for economic and political freedom is an endless one for any country, even the so-called developed ones. Mandel ...
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I dont know what you are talking about but every country has a challenge to deal with in the future. So the fight for economic and political freedom is an endless one for any country, even the so-called developed ones. Mandela's main goal of claiming their destiny from whites, asserting democracy and political justice, and ultimate self-determination for blacks in South Africa have been largely achieved. You remember the days when blacks cannot vote???
Elder Tettey 10 years ago

BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL ANGRY IN SOUTH AFRICA. NOW THAT HE IS DEAD WE SHALL SEE IF THE GOAL WAS ACHIEVED. ALL THE WEALTH IS IN WHITE HANDS, BLACKS ARE STILL POOR. IT IS A TIME BOMB WAITING TO EXPLODE IF THE WEALTH DISPARITY IS ...
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BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL ANGRY IN SOUTH AFRICA. NOW THAT HE IS DEAD WE SHALL SEE IF THE GOAL WAS ACHIEVED. ALL THE WEALTH IS IN WHITE HANDS, BLACKS ARE STILL POOR. IT IS A TIME BOMB WAITING TO EXPLODE IF THE WEALTH DISPARITY IS NOT ADDRESSED.
Kponyo 10 years ago

So as for you Ewurade Kasa, you think being able to vote alone is such a great achievement? No wonder politicians continue to use your votes to cheat you and mess up the country. You have a long way to go before you will be a ...
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So as for you Ewurade Kasa, you think being able to vote alone is such a great achievement? No wonder politicians continue to use your votes to cheat you and mess up the country. You have a long way to go before you will be able to understand why the world is the way it is.

Judging from the likes of you, it would appear that the average voter cannot think and is therefore a complete fool who is not qualified to vote.

Ewurade Kasda, the very fact that you can post your illiterate comments on Ghanaweb means that at least you are internet literate. Please, I therefore beg you to use the same medium to find out a little bit more about the socio-economic conditions of South Africa. If you can, you will be pleasantly surprised to find out that the economic conditions of the Black majority population in South Africa begun to get even worse and the settler white racists gained even much greater socio-economic advances when Mandela was made President till the present.

If you are really an African, you are a disgrace to the African race because your ignorance continues to justify the problems that undermines our progress.

Nelson Mandela is not really a bad person as such but his only real achievement was that he spent 27 years in jail and allowed his evil oppressors to gain even greater advantages over him and his people when they finally decided to release him at the time he had become a broken man. That is why for the first time in human history, we have white people and their Black puppets praising Mandela.
Ewurade Kasa 10 years ago

It is not just being able to vote. Blacks voting in South Africa has tilted the balance of power and has put them in charge of their own destiny. There will always be problems in any country but this is a huge step.

It is not just being able to vote. Blacks voting in South Africa has tilted the balance of power and has put them in charge of their own destiny. There will always be problems in any country but this is a huge step.
Jarto, Jarto R. 10 years ago

Thank you sir, According to a Phd. friend of mine, world view or opinion matters. The world recognizes Mandela as the greatest. Period!!

Thank you sir, According to a Phd. friend of mine, world view or opinion matters. The world recognizes Mandela as the greatest. Period!!
mugu1 10 years ago

if nkrumah had chosen to lick & suck the whiteman ass he will remain presidend of ghana till today.we can't build even simple nation with you people and yourstomack mentallity.this sucks

if nkrumah had chosen to lick & suck the whiteman ass he will remain presidend of ghana till today.we can't build even simple nation with you people and yourstomack mentallity.this sucks
Kwaku, Bern 10 years ago

this shows how ignorant and the mental challenge that you have. Go read history, that is if u can read and you will know the difference between the two.

this shows how ignorant and the mental challenge that you have. Go read history, that is if u can read and you will know the difference between the two.
tohugu 10 years ago

Mandela took a cue from Kwame Nkrumah.In fact we can safely say Kwame Nkrumah was his teacher in terms of strategies for emancipation.
Mandela capitulated to the West so he became their pal. Kwame Nkrumah on the other hand s ...
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Mandela took a cue from Kwame Nkrumah.In fact we can safely say Kwame Nkrumah was his teacher in terms of strategies for emancipation.
Mandela capitulated to the West so he became their pal. Kwame Nkrumah on the other hand stood up to them and the overthrew him. No leader of the so called third world would be honored by the West until they capitulate. Kwame Nkrumah is above Mandela period!
Mina 10 years ago

Mandela forgave the whites who imprisoned him Nkrumah did not, Mandela lived in peace with the whites, Nkrumah sent them back, Mandela treated his people with love, Nkrumah imprisoned his own people so you can't compare the t ...
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Mandela forgave the whites who imprisoned him Nkrumah did not, Mandela lived in peace with the whites, Nkrumah sent them back, Mandela treated his people with love, Nkrumah imprisoned his own people so you can't compare the two and make Nkrumah the greatest because when Nkrumah died the whole world didn't shake like Mandela, I don't know how many presidents came to Nkrumahs funeral but it wasn't like Mandela.Ghanaians plse close that chapter of comparisons so we don't expose ourselves as being hateful, jealous and envious.
Abena 10 years ago

Sometime of these book long people just love to talk and in the end do not make sense. Do some homework and put your critical thinking hat on before you come go on radio to say anything.
Talk is cheap and freedom of speech i ...
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Sometime of these book long people just love to talk and in the end do not make sense. Do some homework and put your critical thinking hat on before you come go on radio to say anything.
Talk is cheap and freedom of speech is free so people just say anything they feel like saying without any merit.
Ako 10 years ago

Those disagreeing with kb are those who see nothing positive with Nkrumah's vision for Africa and the black race which he championed like no other.Nkrumah created the awareness of african liberation and the madibas were mere ...
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Those disagreeing with kb are those who see nothing positive with Nkrumah's vision for Africa and the black race which he championed like no other.Nkrumah created the awareness of african liberation and the madibas were mere students in that theatre.

What Mandela stood for was clearly captured in the S African Ambassador’s speech at his memorial service in Ghana where he said Mandela's dream is for equality, human rights for all races, children and women, and the abolishment of sexism in all its forms in S Africa which he by and large succeeded.

That was what history will remember Mandela for.
Togbe-Toronto 10 years ago

Is this topic necessary than coming up with ideas to fix our-everything-poor economy? Wake up somebody!!

Is this topic necessary than coming up with ideas to fix our-everything-poor economy? Wake up somebody!!
Kwame 10 years ago

They have nothing else to tell Ghanaians other than Nkrumah.

They have nothing else to tell Ghanaians other than Nkrumah.
kofi 10 years ago

If Nkrumah was so great why is his party in tatters?

If Nkrumah was so great why is his party in tatters?
Tete 10 years ago

K. B. Asante does not appreciate what is in his own house. I am really surprise. If has nothing to say about Nkrumah then better for him not to comment. When we talk about Ghana as the black star of Africa, what does it me ...
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K. B. Asante does not appreciate what is in his own house. I am really surprise. If has nothing to say about Nkrumah then better for him not to comment. When we talk about Ghana as the black star of Africa, what does it mean to him? Whose presidency was that a talk about? He should stop this and appreciate his own back yard items.
Meshack 10 years ago

Madiba wins my vote hands down as the "Greatest African Liberator of the 20th Century."No beneficiary of Kofi Nwiah's reckless mismanagement of our country's finances can rewrite history.

Madiba wins my vote hands down as the "Greatest African Liberator of the 20th Century."No beneficiary of Kofi Nwiah's reckless mismanagement of our country's finances can rewrite history.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

It is because you don't know what to compare.

We don't compare someone who fought for ONLY his country to another who fought for the whole continent.

It is because you don't know what to compare.

We don't compare someone who fought for ONLY his country to another who fought for the whole continent.
Positve- 10 years ago

Vuvu, hold your peace and breath. We know where these unfortunate agents of imperialism are coming from.If the star is not shinning from their quarters, their negative tendency has always been to dim it!There is no way the tw ...
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Vuvu, hold your peace and breath. We know where these unfortunate agents of imperialism are coming from.If the star is not shinning from their quarters, their negative tendency has always been to dim it!There is no way the two can be compared because Mandela just does not measure up to the status of Nkrumah. Why argue unnecessary over the obvious? It's like a soccer coach being asked, once upon the time, about his opinion as to who the greatest footballer was, Pele of Brazil or Maladona of Agentina
KB 10 years ago

Thanks,Positive.You've said it all.

Thanks,Positive.You've said it all.
KB 10 years ago

Circumstances and timing have a way of highlighting some people's influence,but that may not neccesarily be greater than those whose impact are not highlighted.

Circumstances and timing have a way of highlighting some people's influence,but that may not neccesarily be greater than those whose impact are not highlighted.
JB Ansong 10 years ago

How can you really compare two people who excelled in their specific areas?

Both you and Kwesi Pratt who started this nonsense are out of your minds. Kwsei Prat shouldnt have compared them at all.

How can you really compare two people who excelled in their specific areas?

Both you and Kwesi Pratt who started this nonsense are out of your minds. Kwsei Prat shouldnt have compared them at all.
Kponyo 10 years ago

JB, please tell us or explain to us the specific area in which Nelson Mandela excelled. As far as some of us are concerned, he was just simply part of the group of Africans in South Africa who were fighting for independence o ...
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JB, please tell us or explain to us the specific area in which Nelson Mandela excelled. As far as some of us are concerned, he was just simply part of the group of Africans in South Africa who were fighting for independence of their country from genocidal tyrants, murderers and oppressors. Mandela was not a particularly outstanding personality until he was jailed. And for your information whilst he was in jail for the 27 years leading to the independence of South Africa, many of his Comrade colleagues contnued the struggle under the supervision, direction and assistance of people like Kwame Nkrumah, Fidel Castro as well as the then Soviet Union and China.

It was these same people and countries who made so much noise in the world about Mandela and the Apartheid system. And again, it was them who provided all the wherewithal for the Black African liberation fighters to continue the struggle that America in particular, which was fiercely against the release of Mandela and also Black African rule, was forced to give in and tell their racist white brothers and sisters in South Africa to release Mandela.

The comparison betweenn mandela and Nkrumah has come in because the global white imperialist hegemony want to use Mandela as the paragon or icon of excellence of what African leaders should be like or behave like, so that with weak African leaders, they can continue to rip us all off like they are continuing to do in South Africa. It will not happen.

Much as we are not opposed to Mandela, we must expose this fraudulent attempt to raise him above his station in this yet another imperialist scheme to emasculate African leadership in the same way as they did to Mandela in prison before they released him so that they can use him to continue to exploit us more and more whilst we get poorer and poorer in spite of all our abundant raw materials.
Keep on talking 10 years ago

We castigate our heroes like Nkrumah, Rawlings,Kuffuor,Mills Mahama, Akoffo Addo and the rest. Now others are projecting theirs and we are crying foul. We better shut up and respect our leaders and the ourside world will resp ...
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We castigate our heroes like Nkrumah, Rawlings,Kuffuor,Mills Mahama, Akoffo Addo and the rest. Now others are projecting theirs and we are crying foul. We better shut up and respect our leaders and the ourside world will respect them also.
Bonti 10 years ago

@tete did u read the content of this article well,the man is saying Nkrumah is above Mandela and you are here fuming up for nothing.abeg read well oo.

@tete did u read the content of this article well,the man is saying Nkrumah is above Mandela and you are here fuming up for nothing.abeg read well oo.
Shanana 10 years ago

This is SYCOPHANCY at its apex. Mahama can't be a hero...and even Lordina will agree with me on this. Look at all the money that has disappeared under his watch to the extent that he has appointed a certain sole commissioner ...
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This is SYCOPHANCY at its apex. Mahama can't be a hero...and even Lordina will agree with me on this. Look at all the money that has disappeared under his watch to the extent that he has appointed a certain sole commissioner to see if he can get some back knowing that most of the money ended up in the pockets of family like the E&P guy and his political operators?

You dirty the word hero by associating him with that word ok? Nkrumah and mandela, yes, yes but not just everybody who was ever a head of state in Ghana.
Big Alex Aluta.Hamburg. 10 years ago

Lets face facts,no one can compare Nkrumah to Mandela.Mandela is not hailed as the becon of Africa not only in Africa but whole world.There is no where in the world that one will not hear of Mandela.A man who after his death, ...
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Lets face facts,no one can compare Nkrumah to Mandela.Mandela is not hailed as the becon of Africa not only in Africa but whole world.There is no where in the world that one will not hear of Mandela.A man who after his death,almost every country flew their national flags at half mask.Please do not allow us to decieve ourselves,especially our children and tell them the truth that Mandela is tall above Nkrumah.despite he was my hero.Kwasi Pratt and others should not fool us.
JB Ansong 10 years ago

I don't know how and why people should compare people who lived during different epoch of time?

On achievements, both were excellent in their respective are.

On populariry : During Nkrumahs time, both S. Africa and Ghan ...
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I don't know how and why people should compare people who lived during different epoch of time?

On achievements, both were excellent in their respective are.

On populariry : During Nkrumahs time, both S. Africa and Ghana may have had just two radio stations that broadcast only essential news. During Mandelas time, every idiot has TV, Internet( Facebook, Twitter etc ) bringing news to almost EVERY HOME in the world, thus contributng to the spread about his achievements and popularity. ...

For instance, as far back as 1990, the whole world watch the Free Mandela Concert held in Wembley Stadium ....
KB 10 years ago

Let us excuse Obama.He is pretty ignorant about certain issues.He only says what he's been told to say in a lot of instances,so relax,guys.

Let us excuse Obama.He is pretty ignorant about certain issues.He only says what he's been told to say in a lot of instances,so relax,guys.
Kwame Owusu-Acheaw 10 years ago

An objective mind shall compare apple to another apple, not to a orange.

Prez Obama is a Human being, never shall any rational man take Obama as God. His opion shall be based on facts and probably emotions.
Therefore, Pre ...
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An objective mind shall compare apple to another apple, not to a orange.

Prez Obama is a Human being, never shall any rational man take Obama as God. His opion shall be based on facts and probably emotions.
Therefore, Prez Obama's view should be respected but not all in all.

The days of Nkruma and Mandela are not the same, and i expect wisedom to be applied if Mandela had face Nkruma's day. Definitely, for ANC to succed, ANC could not have allowed the white to enjoy as they do if it were the days of Nkruma.

Africa is probably well organised before Mandela while as Africa was virtually non existing in terms of political, civil structures during Nkrumah. Any wise comment MUST consider this before making any judgement over who is great or greatest.

Considering the infruture Nkruma that he made and our current infrusture under NDC and NPP.
Nkruma was great and remains great.

Leave Obama, Because Mandela have tolled their line than Nkruma could be his basis of conclusion.

Nkruma shall remain greatest; chrisma, fearless, timeliness, against all odd.
prempeh 1. 10 years ago

The whole world is hailing Mandela, simple because after being released from prison his mentors knew he will take revenge against them, but he just make peace with them, thats why they are hailing him. So you can´t just comp ...
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The whole world is hailing Mandela, simple because after being released from prison his mentors knew he will take revenge against them, but he just make peace with them, thats why they are hailing him. So you can´t just compare him to Nkrumah, and Obama as a president of America also knew that America had hands in bringing Nkrumah´s downfall, and `so he cant praise Nkrumah as the greatest man in Africa, but I think, in his own HEART he knows very well that the man Nkrumah was the greatest, that all the reason
Gerald 10 years ago

Is undeniable fact that Kwame Nkrumah was a mad dictator who systematically killed all his political opponents in Nsawam Prison without trial and wickedly denied them decent burial by the relatives. Thousands died in exile be ...
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Is undeniable fact that Kwame Nkrumah was a mad dictator who systematically killed all his political opponents in Nsawam Prison without trial and wickedly denied them decent burial by the relatives. Thousands died in exile because of Nkrumah.

Nkrumah declared himself a messiah and President for life withot a Vice President, the only president in the history of mankind to do that. Even Hitler had Hess. He turned Ghana into one-party state

Africa is suffering because of Nkrumah's diabolical legacy. Go to Zimbabwe, Gambia and many other countries and see the harm Kwame Nkrumah has caused
Albert 10 years ago

If you are a great man and you have no love for humanity, where then is your greatness. Nkrumah kill a lot of people and had no sympathy for those who had divergent views to his thought. Nkrumah would have than more harm to M ...
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If you are a great man and you have no love for humanity, where then is your greatness. Nkrumah kill a lot of people and had no sympathy for those who had divergent views to his thought. Nkrumah would have than more harm to Mandela had he been a Ghanaian. Consider those nkrumah threw into Nsawam prison and stop this stupid comparison.
Elder Tettey 10 years ago

YOU CALL NKRUMAHA TYRANT JUST AS THEY CALLED MANDELA A TERRORIST.

YOU CALL NKRUMAHA TYRANT JUST AS THEY CALLED MANDELA A TERRORIST.
zomabi 10 years ago

NKRUMAH WAS NO MAD DICTATOR, THE OPPOSITION WAS IN COLLUSION WITH WESTERN FORCES BURNT ON KILLING NKRUMAH BY ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS(KULUNGUGU BOMBING,AMETEPEY ATEMPT TO ASSASSINATE NKRUMAH ETC'). WHAT WILL U DO IF IT WERE Y ...
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NKRUMAH WAS NO MAD DICTATOR, THE OPPOSITION WAS IN COLLUSION WITH WESTERN FORCES BURNT ON KILLING NKRUMAH BY ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS(KULUNGUGU BOMBING,AMETEPEY ATEMPT TO ASSASSINATE NKRUMAH ETC'). WHAT WILL U DO IF IT WERE YOU? HOLD A CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU?
GHANANI 10 years ago

A'tyrant'who loved his country and liberated blacks from white colonial rule.He never sold his principles and conscience for bread and butter.BBC voted him as the most influential political figure of the 20th century.Osagyefo ...
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A'tyrant'who loved his country and liberated blacks from white colonial rule.He never sold his principles and conscience for bread and butter.BBC voted him as the most influential political figure of the 20th century.Osagyefo's enemies are slaves of the colonialists and the imperialists.
wassam jones 10 years ago

the old man said the truth. in the time of Kwame Nkrumah there was no African leader who could stand in the way of the western powers because they did not have the courage to do so. Kwame Nkrumah stood up as the shining star ...
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the old man said the truth. in the time of Kwame Nkrumah there was no African leader who could stand in the way of the western powers because they did not have the courage to do so. Kwame Nkrumah stood up as the shining star of Africa and instigated other African leaders including the good old nelson Mandela to stand up fight for the total liberation of Africa. he paid the ultimate prize with his life when fellow Ghanaians and Africans like prof abrefa busia,jb danquah,edward akuffo addo,jake obetsebi lamptey.ic quaye,teigoe tagoe,malam tula,general kotoka,general afrifa and their likes connived with the cia to boot Kwame Nkrumah out of power on 24th February 1966 in a bloodiest coup d'état ever to have happened on the continent of Africa.
wassam jones 10 years ago

correction " the old man said lies. in the time of Kwame Nkrumah there was no African leader who could stand in the way of the western powers because they did not have the courage to do so"

correction " the old man said lies. in the time of Kwame Nkrumah there was no African leader who could stand in the way of the western powers because they did not have the courage to do so"
mawu 10 years ago

look at this nonsense.. first of all if it wasnt for his pan-african i want to rule africa dream ghana will have had some money to progress ...

nonsense....

i hear some mumuu is comparing nkrumah to mandela..

trul ...
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look at this nonsense.. first of all if it wasnt for his pan-african i want to rule africa dream ghana will have had some money to progress ...

nonsense....

i hear some mumuu is comparing nkrumah to mandela..

truly truly i say unto you if afrifa and kotoka have not done what they did..

ghana will have our own version of Mugabe...

immortal invincible most eternal president
KOSI 10 years ago

In many respect the western leaders found in Mandela a compromised African leader. Mandela was a great liberator but left the core business of delivering the greater mass of the African people from humiliation in their own la ...
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In many respect the western leaders found in Mandela a compromised African leader. Mandela was a great liberator but left the core business of delivering the greater mass of the African people from humiliation in their own land virtually untouched. Mugabe, with all the economic circumscription, appears to be doing well building authentic Black empowerment in Zimbabwe. Friends it must be obvious that Mandela traded too much of his people rights for true freedom in South Africa
Sappey-Aglagoh, Atsiame-Avenorpeme 10 years ago

The reality that most fellow Ghanaians are missing is: anyone courted by the imperialist West had always been someone who sold his nation for a pittance. Mandela was the hero of the west because he accepted their terms, which ...
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The reality that most fellow Ghanaians are missing is: anyone courted by the imperialist West had always been someone who sold his nation for a pittance. Mandela was the hero of the west because he accepted their terms, which had rendered South Africa politically black but economically white. The person who wields economic power, wields the true political power. Blacks in South Africa are not better now than they were under apatheid. They may be politically free, but the meaning of freedom is relative and subjective. Kwame Nkrumah was a true Pan-African, a man who fought to liberate the whole of Africa. The man who built the international students hostel for students from South Africa, Zimbabwe and other African coutries with full scholarships to study in Ghana. Was he a friend of the West, or celebrities, oh hell not. There's no comparison between Kwame Nkrumah and Mandela, that's why the African Union had honoured Nkrumah with a statue at their headquarters. Kwame Nkrumah still towers over any dead or living Blackman. Not even Obama.
zomabi 10 years ago

HOW CAN YOUR PEOPLE BE LANGUISHING IN JOBLESSNESS, POVERTY, CRIME, DISEASE AND THE GHETTO AND YOU WILL BE THE GREATEST LIBERATOR. WHAT DOES LIBERATION MEAN TO OBAMA? IS IT THE ABOVE? OBAMA IS A JOKE.WE AFRICANS DONT NEED WHIT ...
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HOW CAN YOUR PEOPLE BE LANGUISHING IN JOBLESSNESS, POVERTY, CRIME, DISEASE AND THE GHETTO AND YOU WILL BE THE GREATEST LIBERATOR. WHAT DOES LIBERATION MEAN TO OBAMA? IS IT THE ABOVE? OBAMA IS A JOKE.WE AFRICANS DONT NEED WHITE PEOPLE TO COME AND TELL US WHO IS THE GREATEST. MANDELA IS WHITE PEOPLE'S MAKING, NKRUMAH IS AFRICAN BRED DEEP ROOTED IN THE LIBERATION OF AFRICA. KWAME NKRUMAH IS THE GREATEST AFRICAN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AS CONFIRMED BY A BBC POLL IN ABOUT 2000
Kofi UK 10 years ago

My brother you have said it all. Mandela was alive when such poll was conducted. He himself adored Nkrumah

My brother you have said it all. Mandela was alive when such poll was conducted. He himself adored Nkrumah
workhard 10 years ago

MAY BE NKRUMAH IS THE GREATEST EVER, NOT JUST THE CENTURY! GHANA IS GREAT!

MAY BE NKRUMAH IS THE GREATEST EVER, NOT JUST THE CENTURY! GHANA IS GREAT!
THE TRUTH 10 years ago

HOW CAN YOU COMPARE A PAWPAW AND A COCONUT.NKRUMAH FOUGHT FOR AFRICA AND MADIBA FOUGHT FOR SOUTH AFRICA , NOT EVEN SOUTHERN AFRICA.

HOW CAN YOU COMPARE A PAWPAW AND A COCONUT.NKRUMAH FOUGHT FOR AFRICA AND MADIBA FOUGHT FOR SOUTH AFRICA , NOT EVEN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
Atsu Tsatsu 10 years ago

what a useless comparison especially from a academic!!!!!
What rubric has he used!!!!

Is this fufu and koliko comparison!!!!

Who cares, get a life.

what a useless comparison especially from a academic!!!!!
What rubric has he used!!!!

Is this fufu and koliko comparison!!!!

Who cares, get a life.
OBIBINI 10 years ago

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.
JB Ansong 10 years ago

Obibini,

One of the good things about freespech is that everybody can say express his view.

Comparing the views of the entire African population (and of course that of the entire world) you will agree with me that your ...
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Obibini,

One of the good things about freespech is that everybody can say express his view.

Comparing the views of the entire African population (and of course that of the entire world) you will agree with me that your opinion is infinitesimally very small and does not count, if only you have the ability to conscientoulsy judge yourself.
OBIBINI 10 years ago

You have said nothing.I have every right to express my views on Mandela and whether it is infinitesimally small or not is irrelevant.There are people who hold the same view as mine.Western PR has turned somebody they hated in ...
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You have said nothing.I have every right to express my views on Mandela and whether it is infinitesimally small or not is irrelevant.There are people who hold the same view as mine.Western PR has turned somebody they hated into a 'saint'.What is honourable with allowing criminals to get away with their crimes unpunished?
Shabi 10 years ago

Obibini, tell that fool that all great opinions are always in the minority. Sometimes they are even in the minority of 1 to millions and that is why they are great meaning that they are exceptional not ordinary or mundane suc ...
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Obibini, tell that fool that all great opinions are always in the minority. Sometimes they are even in the minority of 1 to millions and that is why they are great meaning that they are exceptional not ordinary or mundane such as his which is directed by his oppressors.
OBIBINI 10 years ago

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.
OBIBINI 10 years ago

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.
OBIBINI 10 years ago

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.

Mandela sold his conscience for bread and butter.He came out of prison as a slave of the whiteman.
OKOROMANSA 10 years ago

SO WHY ARE YOU ALSO COMPARING THE TWO? HOW MANY GHANAIANS HATED NKRUMAH, AND HOW MANY SOUTH AFRICANS HATED MANDELA? HOW CAN YOU COMPARE GHANA'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE TO SOUTH AFRICA'S STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID? NKRUMAH W ...
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SO WHY ARE YOU ALSO COMPARING THE TWO? HOW MANY GHANAIANS HATED NKRUMAH, AND HOW MANY SOUTH AFRICANS HATED MANDELA? HOW CAN YOU COMPARE GHANA'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE TO SOUTH AFRICA'S STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID? NKRUMAH WAS DICTATOR, BUT MANDELA WAS A FREEDOM FIGHTER. HOW MANY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD KNEW ABOUT NKRUMAH, AND HOW MANY KNEW ABOUT MANDELA? MANDELA'S DEATH BROUGHT THE WORLD TO ITS FEET - STOP THIS USELESS DEBATE.
OYOKOBA 10 years ago

Mandela stands tall, and greater than Nkrumah period.

Mandela stands tall, and greater than Nkrumah period.
ONUA 10 years ago

OYOKOBA, this is one of few occasions I disagree with you. You don't have to be pro CPP or NDC to recognize what Nkrumah did for the Black race, Africa and Ghana in particular, his socialist economic policies not withstanding ...
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OYOKOBA, this is one of few occasions I disagree with you. You don't have to be pro CPP or NDC to recognize what Nkrumah did for the Black race, Africa and Ghana in particular, his socialist economic policies not withstanding. People like Dr. King, Mandela and others were emboldened after Ghana's successful run for independence, also if you consider the amount of economic and political capital he expended on African Independence.
For the 'total liberation of the Black Race and Africa' in particular Dr. King and Mandela share a distant second to Kwame 'Ahoohuwaa'.
4ward Ever 10 years ago

As a known ("too-known", I should say) constantly re-gurgitating state NLC-era Danquah-Busia propaganda, what else is new?

I put it to you that it's your hypocrisy - in the face of the historical record of the Danquah-Busi ...
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As a known ("too-known", I should say) constantly re-gurgitating state NLC-era Danquah-Busia propaganda, what else is new?

I put it to you that it's your hypocrisy - in the face of the historical record of the Danquah-Busia tradition's opposition to the African Liberation struggle and its most shameful, treasonous collaboration with Southern African white racists. Busia was financially backed by these racists in what is now Zambia and he also met secretly with Botha in Cote d'Ivoire while Mandela was wasting away in jail. Tell us just one benefit of Busia's dialogue with the devil? How many ANC freedom fighters were released as a result of Busia's betrayal disguised as "dialogue"? Did Busia's betrayal stop the executions, torture, imprisonment of SA freedom fighters and even peaceful activists? Did it stop Apartheid SA's military aggression against frontline African states or the assassination of ANC members living in exile? Shame unto Danquah-Busia alliance with Apartheid and imperialism!
OBINNA 10 years ago

HATRED WON'T TAKE YOU ANYWHERE. LEARN TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR OWN; KWAME NKRUMAH TOWERS OVER MANDELA

HATRED WON'T TAKE YOU ANYWHERE. LEARN TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR OWN; KWAME NKRUMAH TOWERS OVER MANDELA
THE TRUTH 10 years ago

MOGABE BETTER THAN MADIBA. ONLY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND TOTAL LIBERATION WOULD AGREED.

MOGABE BETTER THAN MADIBA. ONLY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND TOTAL LIBERATION WOULD AGREED.
JB Ansong 10 years ago

Of course Mugabe is greater in destroying than building.

Some of you take some shots of "apio" (70% alcohol) before making comments on this forum, I presume.

Of course Mugabe is greater in destroying than building.

Some of you take some shots of "apio" (70% alcohol) before making comments on this forum, I presume.
Shabi 10 years ago

JB Ansong. The following is a quote from Harriet Tubmann an African woman who was a slave in America. She died in 1913.

"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves.

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JB Ansong. The following is a quote from Harriet Tubmann an African woman who was a slave in America. She died in 1913.

"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves.

Dont you JB Ansong feel ashamed of yourself that one hundred years after this former slave died, there are still Black Africans like you, who ostensibly have had some kind of education and even-still, more social leg-room to think properly but who are still so so happy to continue being slaves for others? Shame on you!
Asiwome 10 years ago

What did Nkrumah do except to win back the land for the people. The white man has his ways of surviving. Do we have our ways of surviving except to copy copy a world that is constantly out of our reach? Mandela said he was no ...
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What did Nkrumah do except to win back the land for the people. The white man has his ways of surviving. Do we have our ways of surviving except to copy copy a world that is constantly out of our reach? Mandela said he was not free unless all prisoners were liberated, so if you have gained economic freedom what are you as an individual doing to gain economic freedom for all. Yen asem Enu nie!
Sani not Abacha 10 years ago

They both were great in whatever they did. Nkrumah faught internal saboteurs so called better Ghanaians. While trying to emancipate the WHole of Africa into one government, he was deposed. He has therefore failed. Mandela set ...
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They both were great in whatever they did. Nkrumah faught internal saboteurs so called better Ghanaians. While trying to emancipate the WHole of Africa into one government, he was deposed. He has therefore failed. Mandela set out to obtain freedom from oppression and a peaceful transition to a democratically elected government with everyone taking part. He succeeded in it. This dream was not aborted by any. He has succeeded He succeeded, not so?
Nii Lartey Nartey 10 years ago

The harder they come the harder they fall. The enemies of unity of Africa and social economic emancipation shamelessly tried to take advantage to use Nelson Mandela's funeral to distort political history of Africa and possib ...
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The harder they come the harder they fall. The enemies of unity of Africa and social economic emancipation shamelessly tried to take advantage to use Nelson Mandela's funeral to distort political history of Africa and possibly create confusion in our mind set as to who is the greatest African leader of the 21st century.

Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah take his rightful place among leaders like Abraham Lincoln of America and Wilson Churchill of the United Kingdom as the undisputed greatest leader of Africa.

Certainly, Osagyefo is the unchangeable tall pillar of hope and light of Africa even long after his death. Nelson Mandela could be respected as the last of the reliably trustworthy great African leader but I'm afraid not the greatest leader in the 21st century of Africa, he is not.

Our great heroes like the Lumumbers, Steph Bikoes, Amilcar Cabrals, Muarmar Gaddafis, Chris Hannis and co they murdered in cold blood are those we buried with pain still burning within our hearts.

Osagyefo was the only African leader who created a special outfit close to his heart under presidential supervision and scrutiny, the Bureau of African Affairs with Mr. Kofi Batsa as its head from where financial and material support was sent to most African states which were under colonial white oppression and domination, including all the South African states, now SADEC.

Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah delegated most of his time and political attentions to the support for the total freedoms of Africa. Strongly proposing for Africa Unity, Africa without boundaries, Africa High Command, Africa common currency, Africa common market and the common Africa common communication which are all adopted and being used by the European countries today in a Union.

Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah won the first African country south of the Sahara independence (Ghana) and never failed on his promise to his fellow members who included Jomo Kenyatas, Julius Nyereres, Dr. Kaundas, Awolowos and many of the Pan-Africa Student Movement memberships who eventually by the support of Osagyefo won their countries freedom.

Africa and world leaders should just think about the enormous energy, the huge moral and spiritual support Osgayefo Kwame Nkrumah gave against all the attacks by local enemies and internal traitors sponsored by foreign imperialists on his person yet resisted to support the liberation struggles in Africa for total political ans social economic emancipation.

Nelson Mandela himself on his visit to Ghana, paid a profound ans respected tribute to the greatest among Africa leaders when he visited Ghana as President of South Africa at Nkrumahs historical burial grounds with a humble solemned respect and we should not allow these same international political charlatans and cacophonouses crooks to use Nelson Mandela's death to create enemity among us when they have branded Mandela a terrorist and call for him to be hanged.

Asawaba! Uhuru! Amanla Ngewethu.

Great Africa is the next world!!!
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

THE WESTERN WORLD IS ALWAYS A PIMP.
THEY WILL MAKE THEIR WHORES TO DO ANYTHING TO PLEASE THEM.
MANDELA WAS USED AS A DESPERATE BITCH TO SUIT THEIR INTEREST.
A TERRORIST ANC IS NOW THEIR HERO?

THE WESTERN WORLD IS ALWAYS A PIMP.
THEY WILL MAKE THEIR WHORES TO DO ANYTHING TO PLEASE THEM.
MANDELA WAS USED AS A DESPERATE BITCH TO SUIT THEIR INTEREST.
A TERRORIST ANC IS NOW THEIR HERO?
Kwaku 10 years ago

Ghanaians are at it again; Useless argument. Nkrumah was his own man;to liberate Africa from colonia rule including South Africa: Mandela was his own man;to bulid a united South Africa. Ghanains should remember, The West rule ...
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Ghanaians are at it again; Useless argument. Nkrumah was his own man;to liberate Africa from colonia rule including South Africa: Mandela was his own man;to bulid a united South Africa. Ghanains should remember, The West rule the world if you satisfy them your a HERO, otherwise your nothing.Nkruman has been voted Millenium man
ONUA 10 years ago

It is unfortunate that we are having this debate at this particular time of grieving for one of Africa's best [Mandela].For such a debate chips away at the honor and respect due this man for what he achieved for his country, ...
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It is unfortunate that we are having this debate at this particular time of grieving for one of Africa's best [Mandela].For such a debate chips away at the honor and respect due this man for what he achieved for his country, Africa and the black race as a whole. Like Dr. King, Rosa Parks and all the others who stood up against white injustice on blacks, their victories won any where was black victory every where. Therefore Mandela also won a big one for the Black Race in general and South Africa in particular. Now, if you bring in the issue of African Liberation, then truly, truly[verily, verily, courtesy Jesus Christ] I ONUA say unto you there will never be another DR. KWAME NKRUMAH, period.
agbodo 10 years ago

people must understand first what it meant when APARTHEID is mentioned , it was easy to liberate rest of Africa south of Sahara because the colonial masters were soft enough to hand over independence to Africans especially af ...
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people must understand first what it meant when APARTHEID is mentioned , it was easy to liberate rest of Africa south of Sahara because the colonial masters were soft enough to hand over independence to Africans especially after the United Nations were formed but in SOUTH AFRICA apartheid was dreaded criminal government organization which the whole Africa and world fought for 5 decades to bring , Nkrumah would run away in the face of the apartheid challenge Mandela faced at that time , the rest Africa apart from ANGOLA, ZIMBABWE ,MOZAMBIQUE had it independence cheap and that is why we do not know how to cherish it and protect and as result we lost to soldiers and former colonial masters in disguise , SOUTH AFRICA WAS TOUGH SO ANYBODY WHO LED THE OVERTHROW OF APARTHEID MUST BE CONSIDERED VERY TALL, IN FACT MANDELA IS NOW COMPARE TO WORLD GREAT LEADERS SO HE IS BEYOND AFRICA GREAT NOW,HE WAS BORN GREAT AND HE FUNERAL MEMORIAL RECENTLY JUSTIFY IT ALL, MADIBA WE AFRICANS ARE PROUD OF YOU
nana 10 years ago

thank you very much for your intelligent analysis,well said.

thank you very much for your intelligent analysis,well said.
KK 10 years ago

In this time of mourning for another great son of Africa, when stupid, insecure people raise such benign, silly arguments, it makes you wonder whether as a African people, we have really made any kind of progress as conscient ...
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In this time of mourning for another great son of Africa, when stupid, insecure people raise such benign, silly arguments, it makes you wonder whether as a African people, we have really made any kind of progress as conscientious, loving, civilized people.
Kwame Safo 10 years ago

KK right you are it is insidious to learn that in these sombre moments small minds fail to appreciate the significance of Mandela's historic role and would rather resort to vain arguments and comparisons. This is totally unne ...
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KK right you are it is insidious to learn that in these sombre moments small minds fail to appreciate the significance of Mandela's historic role and would rather resort to vain arguments and comparisons. This is totally unnecessary.
RastafaraI 10 years ago

compare how ghanaians live to how South African live..not dead people.....what has ghana achieve after 55 years?

compare how ghanaians live to how South African live..not dead people.....what has ghana achieve after 55 years?
Asare Konto 10 years ago

Do not mind Baako for his senseless comparison. He puts his NPP voice, tone and sound everywhere unnecessarily.

Do not mind Baako for his senseless comparison. He puts his NPP voice, tone and sound everywhere unnecessarily.
Odasanyi,London 10 years ago

You should have rested your case at your statement that the comparison was useless but you erred when you went on to say that Nkrumah towered over Mandela.

You should have rested your case at your statement that the comparison was useless but you erred when you went on to say that Nkrumah towered over Mandela.
Nelson Kwame Mandela Nkrumah 10 years ago

Nkrumah was the greatest pan-Africanist and Mandela was the greatest global icon

Nkrumah was the greatest pan-Africanist and Mandela was the greatest global icon
Odasanyi, London 10 years ago

well said!!

well said!!
GOWAN 10 years ago

This comparison is as petty as petty can be. For us to even engage in this kind of exercise is such a colossal waste of time. Both men left their footprints in the sands of time, with each working assiduously to make society ...
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This comparison is as petty as petty can be. For us to even engage in this kind of exercise is such a colossal waste of time. Both men left their footprints in the sands of time, with each working assiduously to make society a much better place. Africa is extremely proud of the efforts of such noble men and those who preceded them and those, who would most definitely come after them and so it shall be, that we would continuously emulate their positive and life transforming attributes for the greater good of society, instead of such childish comparisons.
KA NA WOU 10 years ago

DR NKRUMAH HAS NO EQUAL ON THE AFRICAN LIBRATION STAGE. THE WESTERN HISTORIANS KNOW THAT VERY WELL. HOW OLD WAS OBAMA WHEN THE AFRICAN LIBRATION STARTED. HE MAY NOT EVEN HAVE NEVER HEARED OF OSAGYEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH. SO FOR ...
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DR NKRUMAH HAS NO EQUAL ON THE AFRICAN LIBRATION STAGE. THE WESTERN HISTORIANS KNOW THAT VERY WELL. HOW OLD WAS OBAMA WHEN THE AFRICAN LIBRATION STARTED. HE MAY NOT EVEN HAVE NEVER HEARED OF OSAGYEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH. SO FOR HIM TO CALL MANDELA THE GREATEST AFRICAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY IS UNDERSTANBLE. AS LATE AS 2008 THE POOR MR MANDELA WAS STILL ON THE TERRORIST LIST OF THE UNITED STATES, CHECK THAT OUT.
Akwasi 10 years ago

Make the comparison better. Mahama is greater than Mandela. Mahama towers over Mandela in deeds and presides over a country naturally endowed with rich natural resources and has complete control over his men in looting the co ...
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Make the comparison better. Mahama is greater than Mandela. Mahama towers over Mandela in deeds and presides over a country naturally endowed with rich natural resources and has complete control over his men in looting the country's resources. Mandela was a warrior, statesman and a lawyer. Mahama is soft spoken, clueless and schizophrenic. Mahama has made Ghana great and strong and takes pictures in front of billboards in the USA. Mahama's accomplishments is unending and one cannot enumerate all his great works here. Mahama is truly great indeed.
RastafaraI 10 years ago

Look at the sorry-ass economy and standard of living of the people in Ghana. That is what is important. Stop comparing dead men and compare the welfare of those living....South Africa will laugh at this comparison because the ...
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Look at the sorry-ass economy and standard of living of the people in Ghana. That is what is important. Stop comparing dead men and compare the welfare of those living....South Africa will laugh at this comparison because they will say even Accra looks like a rural village compare to their cities....focus on raising the standard of living of ghanaians
pala 10 years ago

africa was already liberated before mandela was released from prison.

africa was already liberated before mandela was released from prison.
Skains 10 years ago

Mandela's memorial service is just over. Meanwhile, Ghanaians who claim to be educated have already started comparing Mandela with Nkrumah, trying to find out who was greater. What a stupidity? Instead of using the time to ...
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Mandela's memorial service is just over. Meanwhile, Ghanaians who claim to be educated have already started comparing Mandela with Nkrumah, trying to find out who was greater. What a stupidity? Instead of using the time to talk about such superfluous things, why not use it to create something or encourage productivity. Are such Ghanaians merely paid to talk as one Ghanaian politician has said? What a joke!!!!!!!!!
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

A woman suspects her husband is cheating on her. One day, she dials her home and a strange woman answers. The woman says, " Who is this?" "This is the maid," answered the woman. "We don't have a maid", said the woman. The mai ...
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A woman suspects her husband is cheating on her. One day, she dials her home and a strange woman answers. The woman says, " Who is this?" "This is the maid," answered the woman. "We don't have a maid", said the woman. The maid says, "I was hired this morning by the man of the house. The woman says, "Well, this is his wife. Is he there?" The maid replied, "he is upstairs in the bedroom with someone who I figured was his wife." The woman is fuming. She says to the maid, "Listen, would you like to make $50,000?" The maid says, "What will I have to do?"The woman tells her, "I want you to get my gun from the desk, and shoot the jerk and the witch he's with." The maid puts the phone down; the woman hears footsteps and the gun shots. The maid comes back to the phone, "What do I do with the bodies?" The woman says, "Throw them in the swimming pool." Puzzled, the maid answers, "But there's no pool here." A long pause and the woman says, "Is this 832-4821?"

MANDELA WAS THE WRONG MAN BEING PIMPED .
Chiga 10 years ago

towering over is comparison. Which to KB is useless. So his own comparison must be describe as useless!

towering over is comparison. Which to KB is useless. So his own comparison must be describe as useless!
WHO CARES 10 years ago

COME ON. HOW CAN ANYONE SAY THAT NKRUMAH WAS BIGGER THAN MANDELA? NKRUMAH WAS SELF-CENTERED OPPORTUNIST BUT MANDELA WAS SELFLESS. PERIOD.

COME ON. HOW CAN ANYONE SAY THAT NKRUMAH WAS BIGGER THAN MANDELA? NKRUMAH WAS SELF-CENTERED OPPORTUNIST BUT MANDELA WAS SELFLESS. PERIOD.
EGYA BLAY 10 years ago

Obama’s full speech at Mandela's memorial service

Date Posted: December 10, 2013: 13:09
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Date Posted: December 10, 2013: 13:09
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To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests - it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. To the people of South Africa – people of every race and walk of life – the world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph. Your dignity and hope found expression in his life, and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy.

It is hard to eulogise any man – to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person – their private joys and sorrows; the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul. How much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process moved billions around the world.

Born during world war one, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by elders of his Thembu tribe – Madiba would emerge as the last great liberator of the 20th century. Like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success. Like King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed, and the moral necessity of racial justice. He would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached the final days of the Cold War. Emerging from prison, without force of arms, he would – like Lincoln – hold his country together when it threatened to break apart. Like America's founding fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations – a commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power.

Given the sweep of his life, and the adoration that he so rightly earned, it is tempting then to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene, detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men. But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait. Instead, he insisted on sharing with us his doubts and fears; his miscalculations along with his victories. "I'm not a saint," he said, "unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection – because he could be so full of good humour, even mischief, despite the heavy burdens he carried – that we loved him so. He was not a bust made of marble; he was a man of flesh and blood – a son and husband, a father and a friend. That is why we learned so much from him; that is why we can learn from him still. For nothing he achieved was inevitable. In the arc of his life, we see a man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness; persistence and faith. He tells us what's possible not just in the pages of dusty history books, but in our own lives as well.

Mandela showed us the power of action; of taking risks on behalf of our ideals. Perhaps Madiba was right that he inherited, "a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness" from his father. Certainly he shared with millions of black and coloured South Africans the anger born of, "a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments … a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people".

But like other early giants of the ANC – the Sisulus and Tambos – Madiba disciplined his anger; and channelled his desire to fight into organisation, and platforms, and strategies for action, so men and women could stand-up for their dignity. Moreover, he accepted the consequences of his actions, knowing that standing up to powerful interests and injustice carries a price. "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination," he said at his 1964 trial. "I've cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Mandela taught us the power of action, but also ideas; the importance of reason and arguments; the need to study not only those you agree with, but those who you don't. He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper's bullet. He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and passion, but also his training as an advocate. He used decades in prison to sharpen his arguments, but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others in the movement. And he learned the language and customs of his oppressor so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depended upon his.

Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough; no matter how right, they must be chiselled into laws and institutions. He was practical, testing his beliefs against the hard surface of circumstance and history. On core principles he was unyielding, which is why he could rebuff offers of conditional release, reminding the Apartheid regime that, "prisoners cannot enter into contracts". But as he showed in painstaking negotiations to transfer power and draft new laws, he was not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal. And because he was not only a leader of a movement, but a skilful politician, the Constitution that emerged was worthy of this multiracial democracy; true to his vision of laws that protect minority as well as majority rights, and the precious freedoms of every South African.

Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit. There is a word in South Africa – Ubuntu – that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. We can never know how much of this was innate in him, or how much of was shaped and burnished in a dark, solitary cell. But we remember the gestures, large and small - introducing his jailors as honoured guests at his inauguration; taking the pitch in a Springbok uniform; turning his family's heartbreak into a call to confront HIV/AIDS – that revealed the depth of his empathy and understanding. He not only embodied Ubuntu; he taught millions to find that truth within themselves. It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailor as well; to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion, generosity and truth. He changed laws, but also hearts.

For the people of South Africa, for those he inspired around the globe – Madiba's passing is rightly a time of mourning, and a time to celebrate his heroic life. But I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time for self-reflection. With honesty, regardless of our station or circumstance, we must ask: how well have I applied his lessons in my own life?

It is a question I ask myself – as a man and as a president. We know that like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation. As was true here, it took the sacrifice of countless people - known and unknown - to see the dawn of a new day. Michelle and I are the beneficiaries of that struggle. But in America and South Africa, and countries around the globe, we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact that our work is not done. The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality and universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important. For around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger, and disease; run-down schools, and few prospects for the future. Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are still persecuted for what they look like, or how they worship, or who they love.

We, too, must act on behalf of justice. We, too, must act on behalf of peace. There are too many of us who happily embrace Madiba's legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality. There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba's struggle for freedom, but do not tolerate dissent from their own people. And there are too many of us who stand on the sidelines, comfortable in complacency or cynicism when our voices must be heard.

The questions we face today – how to promote equality and justice; to uphold freedom and human rights; to end conflict and sectarian war – do not have easy answers. But there were no easy answers in front of that child in Qunu. Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done. South Africa shows us that is true. South Africa shows us we can change. We can choose to live in a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes. We can choose a world defined not by conflict, but by peace and justice and opportunity.

We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. But let me say to the young people of Africa, and young people around the world - you can make his life's work your own. Over thirty years ago, while still a student, I learned of Mandela and the struggles in this land. It stirred something in me. It woke me up to my responsibilities - to others, and to myself - and set me on an improbable journey that finds me here today. And while I will always fall short of Madiba's example, he makes me want to be better. He speaks to what is best inside us. After this great liberator is laid to rest; when we have returned to our cities and villages, and rejoined our daily routines, let us search then for his strength - for his largeness of spirit - somewhere inside ourselves. And when the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts, or our best laid plans seem beyond our reach - think of Madiba, and the words that brought him comfort within the four walls of a cell:

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

What a great soul it was. We will miss him deeply. May God bless the memory of Nelson Mandela. May God bless the people of South Africa.
Kofi UK 10 years ago

What at all did Mandela do for Africa. He sat down for Mugabe and his country to be destroyed by the West. He did not criticise the slaughter of Gaddafi by the West. He appeased the Whites by forgiving them but he did not for ...
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What at all did Mandela do for Africa. He sat down for Mugabe and his country to be destroyed by the West. He did not criticise the slaughter of Gaddafi by the West. He appeased the Whites by forgiving them but he did not forgive his two former wives. He had not vision for Africa and in fact he was a crap president. He could not change the lives of his own black South Africans. The whites got richer and the blacks got poorer. He was a stooge for the West. Ask yourself why president Putin did not attend his funeral. He knew this man was a puppet adored by the West. Mandela could not even help his neighbour Zimbabwe when the West gang up against them. He forgot the support Mugabe gave to ANC when they were banned from South Africa. He forgot the number of times Zimbabwe was bombed for helping ANC. President Samora Mashal was killed by South Africa and all he could do was to marry his wife. Let face it this man is not a saint. He contributed nothing to Africa other than becoming a president of his country. Being in prison for poltical stance is nothing new. Aun San suu Chi was in prison for many years. Some even died of the course. Lumumba,Malcom X and Dr King died for their people.
RastafaraI 10 years ago

gadaffi was removed by his people.....he was a gangster who kept a stable of teenage girls in his house for sex

gadaffi was removed by his people.....he was a gangster who kept a stable of teenage girls in his house for sex
Kofi UK 10 years ago

I don't know about this. Is it not one of the Western propaganda?

I don't know about this. Is it not one of the Western propaganda?
RastafaraI 10 years ago

do not blame every thing on the West...look around you in Accra and compare how ghanaians live with how the South Africa blacks live...after 20 years, they already live better than 55 years of independent Ghana..you cannot bl ...
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do not blame every thing on the West...look around you in Accra and compare how ghanaians live with how the South Africa blacks live...after 20 years, they already live better than 55 years of independent Ghana..you cannot blame the West for that...
Kofi UK 10 years ago

I have been to the townships and they don't live good at all. But one advice I will give you is that whenever the West sings blackman's praises there is always a hidden gains for them.If you don't dance to their tune you are ...
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I have been to the townships and they don't live good at all. But one advice I will give you is that whenever the West sings blackman's praises there is always a hidden gains for them.If you don't dance to their tune you are a tyrant.
RastafaraI 10 years ago

You do not need the West to tell you that African leaders are screwballs and thieves...you do not need the West to tell you that Mahama and his brother are stealing a whole merchant bank in broad daylight...that after 55 year ...
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You do not need the West to tell you that African leaders are screwballs and thieves...you do not need the West to tell you that Mahama and his brother are stealing a whole merchant bank in broad daylight...that after 55 years, ghana has nothing to show for it.... JJ and Kufuor are fingerpointing about who was the bigger thief...I have been to South Africa a number of times myself...even before 1990 , black south Africans lived better than ghanaians, that was why many ghanaians graduates were working in the South Africa "homelands"...Ghanaians need to focus on improving the lot of its people and not indulge in the nostalgia of the Nkrumah days...I am sure Nkrumah ghost will have pity on ghana today..Ghana was compared to South Korea in late 1950s Ghana's classmate is South Korea, and see where South Korea is. South Korea is not in the West..
Kofi UK 10 years ago

Rasta. We are comparing two people not two countries. You and I know that Jesus Christ was poor by the account of the bible. What ever Jesus achieved cannot be linked with his poverty. We are talking about great leaders in w ...
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Rasta. We are comparing two people not two countries. You and I know that Jesus Christ was poor by the account of the bible. What ever Jesus achieved cannot be linked with his poverty. We are talking about great leaders in which one achieved higher than the other. Have you read about BBC poll 2000? Nkrumah was declared as the best African leader in terms of achievement. Mandela was around but he did not get it. We are not compering countries. In this world people sing your praises only when you are dead.
Gorbachov brought pease to this world and liberated East Germany. He also gave independent to former Soviet countries and transformed Russia. He brought cold war to and end by signing treaties for world peace. He is alive now but nobody is singing his praises. The day he dies you will hear what the whole world will say.
RastafaraI 10 years ago

I actually got ahead of this argument ...and started posting that Nkrumah is my greatest Africa before these guys started talking about it today and yesterday.....
However, I will not compare Nkrumah and Mandela..because it ...
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I actually got ahead of this argument ...and started posting that Nkrumah is my greatest Africa before these guys started talking about it today and yesterday.....
However, I will not compare Nkrumah and Mandela..because it would be like comparing Abraham and Moses...God use them at different times and for different roles.....I am just offended that the ghanaian political class joined that argument....What has ghana done to build on Nkrumah's achievement is my question?

It is like the non-achieving kid who always points to his father's achievement but not his own accomplishment....It really does not matter whether its Nkrumah or Mandela....it is how the individual country build on the achievement....If racial war breaks out in South Africa in 5 or 10 years, it will negate all that Mandela is said to have achieved....that is my point...long live Africa
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

Rastafaral or......Ireading your responses indicates that you have a lot to learn to embark on responding to such articles. It is the myopic minds who can't read in between the lines and just listen to the lies being told the ...
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Rastafaral or......Ireading your responses indicates that you have a lot to learn to embark on responding to such articles. It is the myopic minds who can't read in between the lines and just listen to the lies being told them.

Is your name really an expression of who you are? I doubt it so much. Most of the likes of you are very open-minded and knows what the world is all about. It is not about how you see it. Please listen and learn.......And I can assure you, your mind will be open to world events. It's not just about black or white. There is more to it than the answers you have been made to give.

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

THE IS A SAYING THAT THE BEARD CAME TO MEET THE CHIN.WHAT EVER THEY DO,ITS NKRUMAH'S STATUE THAT'S IN ADIS ABABA NOT MANDELA'S

THE IS A SAYING THAT THE BEARD CAME TO MEET THE CHIN.WHAT EVER THEY DO,ITS NKRUMAH'S STATUE THAT'S IN ADIS ABABA NOT MANDELA'S
FII 10 years ago

Mandela stands very tall. He did not jail anyone but rather reconciled with his enemies. The number of people Nkrumah jailed were countless, He did not have that forgiving spirit. However he was not as corrupt as NDC Mahama.

Mandela stands very tall. He did not jail anyone but rather reconciled with his enemies. The number of people Nkrumah jailed were countless, He did not have that forgiving spirit. However he was not as corrupt as NDC Mahama.
MENSAH 10 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah's tyrannical act,cancels everything he ever acieved.
THERE WAS NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN GHANA,THOUGH HE FOUGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE BLACK FROM THE WHITE.
So what makes this guy,the greatest?
IF HE DIDN'T HAV ...
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Kwame Nkrumah's tyrannical act,cancels everything he ever acieved.
THERE WAS NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN GHANA,THOUGH HE FOUGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE BLACK FROM THE WHITE.
So what makes this guy,the greatest?
IF HE DIDN'T HAVE WALLOWED/MEDDLED/PARTICIPATED,ENGROSSED IN DICTATORSHIP,THEN I COULD HAVE SUPPORTED WHAT YOU PEOPLE CLAIM,HE WAS THE TOPMOST OF ALL AFRICAN LEADERS.
I always love the freedom of speech, BUSIA brought back to Ghanaians,that KWAME NKRUMAH took away from us.
NELSON MANDELA,never killed anybody.
He could have imprisoned DECLARK,but never tried,rather bonded with him,to rule.
THAT IS WHAT WE CALL PATRIOTISM.
NKRUMAH PRACTISED ONE-PARTY RULE,THAT MANDELA DETESTED.
I WILL ALWAYS HAIL MANDELA,TO BE THE GREATEST AND VALUABLE FIGURE,AFRICA HAS EVER PRODUCED.
afia 10 years ago

U are r8ght Mr.K B Asante...comparison is useless

U are r8ght Mr.K B Asante...comparison is useless
Terrible Terror Amsterdam 10 years ago

HOW CAN YOU COMPARE A DICTATOR TO MANDELA

HOW CAN YOU COMPARE A DICTATOR TO MANDELA
Ghanaba 10 years ago

Nkrumah foughtagainst colonial rule and thus gave us our independence. South Africa has been independent since 1910, Mandela fought against apartheid or white supremacist rule in South Africa, more like Martin Luther King in ...
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Nkrumah foughtagainst colonial rule and thus gave us our independence. South Africa has been independent since 1910, Mandela fought against apartheid or white supremacist rule in South Africa, more like Martin Luther King in the USA. So their trajectory is quite different.
Nkrumah is the greatest leader from Africa and forged the path for the independence of the rest of black Africa. Mandela is our present day light showing our current crop of leaders how to rule in our present day independent Africa.
Believing in ourselves and living above corruption which is lacking in virtually all black African leaders. Look at how our infrastructure lacks behind but we have funds for useless visciuos election campaigns. My take
Ama 10 years ago

Mr. K.B. Asante is indeed a sensible man! The comparison is very childish, we are all unique; Nkrumah did what he was brought on this earth to do and so did Mandela, they were both great men! Those in power should not forget ...
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Mr. K.B. Asante is indeed a sensible man! The comparison is very childish, we are all unique; Nkrumah did what he was brought on this earth to do and so did Mandela, they were both great men! Those in power should not forget, we will all one day give account to what we do on this earth, no discrimination there!!
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

BLACKS AROUND THE WORLD REMEMBERED NKRUMAH'S WORDS. "BLACKS CAN DO" OR BLACK IS CAPABLE. THAT WORDS BE BECAME 'SPIRIT' DWELL IN EVERY BLACKS AROULD THE WORLD, AND OBAMA IS INCLUDED. IF OBAMA BELIEVES MANDELA WAS GREATEST OF A ...
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BLACKS AROUND THE WORLD REMEMBERED NKRUMAH'S WORDS. "BLACKS CAN DO" OR BLACK IS CAPABLE. THAT WORDS BE BECAME 'SPIRIT' DWELL IN EVERY BLACKS AROULD THE WORLD, AND OBAMA IS INCLUDED. IF OBAMA BELIEVES MANDELA WAS GREATEST OF AFRICA, WAS A BIG MISTAKE US PRESIDENT HAS MADE. "HOLY SPIRIT" LET' BLACK CAN DO' SPIRIT MOVE ON AROUND THE WORLD. AAAAAAAAAAA AMEN.
MADIBA 10 years ago

Honestly mandela towers above Nkrumah, because madiba is all over the world.He even saw the need to reconcile and forgo the presidency.

Honestly mandela towers above Nkrumah, because madiba is all over the world.He even saw the need to reconcile and forgo the presidency.
Pancho 10 years ago

Nkrumah was power hungry and a dictator

Nkrumah was power hungry and a dictator
bigoak 10 years ago

PANCHO, WHO MADE HIM SO IF HE REALLY WAS?
READ PLEASE YOUR POLITICAL SPECTRUM SEEMS KNITWIT

PANCHO, WHO MADE HIM SO IF HE REALLY WAS?
READ PLEASE YOUR POLITICAL SPECTRUM SEEMS KNITWIT
Onslopogas 10 years ago

Our late Pres.Atta Mills will say 'Dzi wo fi asem'.All is balony and doesn't help anyone!!!

Our late Pres.Atta Mills will say 'Dzi wo fi asem'.All is balony and doesn't help anyone!!!
wubei 10 years ago

k.b ashant you are useless man in the world you can never be a leader in your life,what you said

k.b ashant you are useless man in the world you can never be a leader in your life,what you said
KAUNDA 10 years ago

Mandela liberated a country.
Nkrumah liberated a continent.
Mandela was a product of the liberation process initiated by Nkrumah.
The two were Africa's two greatest prophets.
The difference is that while Mandela was a pr ...
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Mandela liberated a country.
Nkrumah liberated a continent.
Mandela was a product of the liberation process initiated by Nkrumah.
The two were Africa's two greatest prophets.
The difference is that while Mandela was a prophet accepted and revered by his people, Nkrumah was a prophet rejected and disgraced by an ungrateful country ..... In a way, just like Jesus was rejected and disgraced by ungrateful Israel. Had Ghanaians allowed the great Nkrumah to die honorably in his own country the world would have accorded him the praise and honour he deserved. It is interesting to note that notwithstanding his rejection by Ghanaians, he was adjudged the greatest African of the past millennium and his statue rightly towers over the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Shame on Ghana, the ungrateful country.
KOFI OWUSU 10 years ago

Whereas both Nkrumah and Mandela were freedom fighters that helped to liberate their people, they operated in different eras and under different circumstances. Mandela's era was paved by the successes of Nkrumah and earlier f ...
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Whereas both Nkrumah and Mandela were freedom fighters that helped to liberate their people, they operated in different eras and under different circumstances. Mandela's era was paved by the successes of Nkrumah and earlier freedom fighters, however, Mandela and other southern African leaders were faced with whiteb settler domineers who were entrenched and philosophicall were not and had no intention to leave or move from the Southern Africas. Hence, the liberation of South Africa, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and even Kenya were more bloody than Gold Coast (Ghana). Under the circumstace where we had a white dominant settlers who had no place to depart to, Mandela's racial reconciliation policy was more welcoming and solidified the South Africa industrially and politically than Nkrumah and others whose philosophies were Africanization of their nations. In the longer run South Africa, Namibia, Losotho, Kenya are better with political and industrial democracies than Ghana and others. Hence, Mandela inherited a situation that required a much more bloddy revolution and guerrila fighting than Ghana. Today South Africa is more of a tecnological partner to Ghana even though we were first to achieve independence. They are both liberators of their nations with differing nationalist ideas.
Ben Cool 10 years ago

NKRUMAH IS THIS ; NKRUMAH WAS THAT ...NKRUMAH HAD A GRAET VISION FOR GHANA AND AFRICA but my question is : what have we achived since hIS no longer with us ? have we used his advice to create something profitable to GHANA ? I ...
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NKRUMAH IS THIS ; NKRUMAH WAS THAT ...NKRUMAH HAD A GRAET VISION FOR GHANA AND AFRICA but my question is : what have we achived since hIS no longer with us ? have we used his advice to create something profitable to GHANA ? IF HE WAS SO GOOD , WHY STUPID GHANA CITIZENS GOT RID OF HIM IN A COUP D,ETAT ?.OUR ARROGANCE ATTITUDE WILL KILL US ...DO LET US SHUT UP ::::
belgium 10 years ago

thank you NANA ASANTE
you are too wise

thank you NANA ASANTE
you are too wise
DONT MISQUOTE OBAMA TO ARGUE 10 years ago

PEOPLE ARE MISQUOTING OBAMA to make a misleading POINT OBAMA SAID MANDELA WAS THE LAST GREAT LIBERATOR NOT THE GREATEST LIBERATOR, OF THE 2OTH CENTURY

PEOPLE ARE MISQUOTING OBAMA to make a misleading POINT OBAMA SAID MANDELA WAS THE LAST GREAT LIBERATOR NOT THE GREATEST LIBERATOR, OF THE 2OTH CENTURY
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

NZEMAS SPIRITS OF OKOFO ANOKYI(E),PAA GRANT, KWAME NKRUMAH WILL PUNISH NPP UNGRATEFUL PARTY FOREVER AND THEY WILL BE A LOOSER ALL THE ELECTIONS.

NZEMAS SPIRITS OF OKOFO ANOKYI(E),PAA GRANT, KWAME NKRUMAH WILL PUNISH NPP UNGRATEFUL PARTY FOREVER AND THEY WILL BE A LOOSER ALL THE ELECTIONS.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

I rest my case....................
Mandela stood up against white oppression for as long as he could and eventually; he humanly tolerated everything just for the sake of peace in only South Africa without considering the di ...
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I rest my case....................
Mandela stood up against white oppression for as long as he could and eventually; he humanly tolerated everything just for the sake of peace in only South Africa without considering the dignity of all Africans against racism, oppression and mental enslavement.

He eventually kowtowed for white minority say but, black majority rule. Which has kept many black South Africans still in bondage today.
They are still suffering as we write.
He only saved South Africa from bloodshed not from white oppression. It still goes on there..............

Osagyefo was against racism, colonialism, imperialism, oppression of the black race and believed that we can handle our own affairs, hence his overthrow to bring in puppets of imperialism and colonialism.

Osagyefo stood for the dignity of ALL AFRICANS and laid positive foundations to be built upon.....but unfortunately, the AFROPEANS amongst us, have destroyed and derailed all his positive efforts and achievements; and as such, we sadly remain mentally enslaved. Hence, selling ourselves to all foreigners and continue to beg and import toothpicks from China??????

It's so obvious to all AFRICANS, what Nkrumah stood for.....AFRICAN UNITY AND BLACK DIGNITY! PERIOD!

OSAGYEFO FOREVER!
MANDELA - R.I.P
AFRICAN FOREVER!
AFRICAN DIGNITY 10 years ago

Although NKRUMAH was not perfect, no one on earth has ever defended the AFRICAN CONTINENT, AFRICAN LIBERATION AND AFRICAN DIGNITY.
Mandela was a hero who fouhgt against apartheid in his Country, and became an icon in the w ...
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Although NKRUMAH was not perfect, no one on earth has ever defended the AFRICAN CONTINENT, AFRICAN LIBERATION AND AFRICAN DIGNITY.
Mandela was a hero who fouhgt against apartheid in his Country, and became an icon in the world, but Mandela could have use his noble status to help the people in the towship, there is still racism in South Africa, the blacks are still suffering. The good economy of South Africa has nothing to do with Mandela. It is still the white minority who controls the Financial network. Mandela fought before going to prison, but when released did les in terms of human rights and dignity to the laymen and women in South Africa.
I've stayed in most African Countries, most African nationals will never compare the 2. Mandela is an anti-apartheid icon, but never fought for African dignity in any international circles when released while NKRUMAH, maybe with dictator character fought against imperialism and to implement the dignity of Africans. NKRUMAH IS THE GREATEST MAN OF AFRICA while MANDELA is an anti-apartheid icon who reconciliated for peace IN HIS COUNTRY South Africa(and nothing to Africans). NKRUMAH INITIATED or INVENTED AFRICAN LIBERATION AND AFRICAN UNITY while MANDELA continued with the spirit of NKRUMAH to fihgt against apartheid in South Africa.
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

Nkrumah towered over Mandela; comparison “useless”

How can you be for something and be against in the same one short line expressed opinion

Nkrumah towered over Mandela; comparison “useless”

How can you be for something and be against in the same one short line expressed opinion
OTCHERE DARKO 10 years ago

Why compare Nkrumah and Mandela at this time of mourning of Mandela?

I THOUGHT K.B. ASANTE IS MATURE ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WE DO NOT DO THIS EVEN IN ANY GHANAIAN CULTURE.

Let us wise up and.....

LEARN TO RESPECT OUR PA ...
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Why compare Nkrumah and Mandela at this time of mourning of Mandela?

I THOUGHT K.B. ASANTE IS MATURE ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WE DO NOT DO THIS EVEN IN ANY GHANAIAN CULTURE.

Let us wise up and.....

LEARN TO RESPECT OUR PAST DISTINGUISHED AFRICAN LEADERS OF ALL CLASSIFICATION AND NATIONALITY.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

Hmmm......you are such a funny character, Mr. Darko. Was it not yesterday that you were also comparing the same 'apples with mangoes'?
What has changed now?

Did you just realized Mandela has passed away today? Weren't we ...
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Hmmm......you are such a funny character, Mr. Darko. Was it not yesterday that you were also comparing the same 'apples with mangoes'?
What has changed now?

Did you just realized Mandela has passed away today? Weren't we mourning Mandela yesterday and when he died?What a shame! PLEASE WISE UP AND STOP THE DOUBLE STANDARDS!!!!!!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

Good one there.

Good one there.
peeeeeeeeee 10 years ago

Oh Ghana.get something better to do.man has not even been buried yet.idle tongue

Oh Ghana.get something better to do.man has not even been buried yet.idle tongue
Hazor 10 years ago

Comparison between Nkrumah and Mandela is a disgrace to black race.Why woun't the rest of the world call us useless people.The world media television is my witness and world Vision international proved it.Folks who thinks am ...
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Comparison between Nkrumah and Mandela is a disgrace to black race.Why woun't the rest of the world call us useless people.The world media television is my witness and world Vision international proved it.Folks who thinks am kidding just watch or view jungle gold and look at the roads,pridges and houses just to memtion a few i feel embarrassed to continue.
LEG-FOOT 10 years ago

The answer is very simple. Nkrumah was for Africa, Mandela was for the whole world. Nkrumah was a dictator and a murderer like JJ Rawlings. He was more inclined towards projecting himself. MADIBA TATA showed the way for t ...
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The answer is very simple. Nkrumah was for Africa, Mandela was for the whole world. Nkrumah was a dictator and a murderer like JJ Rawlings. He was more inclined towards projecting himself. MADIBA TATA showed the way for the emancipation of the oppresed in both SA and world. Hence the world has lost a light that shone on the oppressed. How popular was Nkrumah at the time of his removal from office? Do not forget how Ghanaians celebrated his removal from office clearly attests to the factthat he was nobody in his own country. Mandela like Princess Diana have great impact with their lives on millions and millions of people all over the world. MADIBA IS FAR GREATER THAN Nkrumah. Just think of Nsawam Prison for his political opponents and you will understand. Nkrumah is at par with JJ Rawlings in criminality - their hands are full of innocent blood. Uncle KB you are a Very Very Senior Statesman so be careful of some of your utterances. Thank you.
Nasir Dabo 10 years ago

Both Mandela and Nkrumah were heros in their rights.

Both Mandela and Nkrumah were heros in their rights.
BBC 10 years ago

in south Africa Mandela is their hero, if you Came to Ghana Nkrumah Did A lot for Ghanaian,(1)AKOSOMBO (2) Tema harbor (3)KNUST and more, Tele me apart of he refuse to punish the south African White what again?

in south Africa Mandela is their hero, if you Came to Ghana Nkrumah Did A lot for Ghanaian,(1)AKOSOMBO (2) Tema harbor (3)KNUST and more, Tele me apart of he refuse to punish the south African White what again?
zomabi 10 years ago

SINCE 1642 WHEN THE DUTCH INVADERS GOT HOLD OF SOUTH AFRICA, IT HAS NEVER BELONGED TO BLACK S. AFRICANS.THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL POWER IS THE BONAFIDE PROPERTY OF WHITES. BLACKS ARE THE SLAVES-DOMESTIC SERVANTS, FAR ...
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SINCE 1642 WHEN THE DUTCH INVADERS GOT HOLD OF SOUTH AFRICA, IT HAS NEVER BELONGED TO BLACK S. AFRICANS.THE ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL POWER IS THE BONAFIDE PROPERTY OF WHITES. BLACKS ARE THE SLAVES-DOMESTIC SERVANTS, FARM HANDS, SECURITY GUARDS,COOKS, DRIVERS, MINERS ETC. BLACKS DONT OWN ANYTHING. ANY BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN LEADER IS JUST A PAWN IN THE WHITE GAME. BUT IT IS THIS KIND OF LEGACY THEY SAY MAKES MANDELA THE GREATEST AFRICAN LIBERATOR. LIBERATOR INDEED.
Teacher Awo 10 years ago

You cannot compare Nkrumah with Mandela. In Mandela's country he was cherished till he died. Nkrumah was sacked because his people were fed up with him at the time that is why the CIA was aided by his own people to overthro ...
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You cannot compare Nkrumah with Mandela. In Mandela's country he was cherished till he died. Nkrumah was sacked because his people were fed up with him at the time that is why the CIA was aided by his own people to overthrow him which was a disgrace or failure. Mandela had the power and he did not put anyone under protective detention so he could cling on to power. Nkrumah was over ambitious and bit too much which is causing us today to some extent. If we had a very good foundation they why are we suffering today. Please let look forward for change in our attitudes and anyone can lead us successfully.
amoah wadee 10 years ago

1st Nkrumah
then Mandela

1st Nkrumah
then Mandela
Daniel 10 years ago

Both Nkrumah and Mandela, are great Africans who brought better understanding and respect to all human beings around the world over, and thought White people to behave as human beings, but not wicked, reckless tugs. I certain ...
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Both Nkrumah and Mandela, are great Africans who brought better understanding and respect to all human beings around the world over, and thought White people to behave as human beings, but not wicked, reckless tugs. I certainly agree with KB Asante
Anger 10 years ago

Nkrumah is nowhere near Nelson Mandela who was forward looking and pragmatic, he brought his country together across race lines,Nkrumah was a very corrupt power hungry,egocentric lilliputian, who divided his country along tri ...
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Nkrumah is nowhere near Nelson Mandela who was forward looking and pragmatic, he brought his country together across race lines,Nkrumah was a very corrupt power hungry,egocentric lilliputian, who divided his country along tribal lines,he was only after grandiose recognition when the world was still dark,he declared himself life president of Ghana,he called himself messiah,Mandela gave up power even after people were urging him on, Nkrumah jailed and drove into exile many of his political contemporaries, Madiba praised his own,Nkrumah died in exile surrounded by strangers,Madiba died in his home country surrounded by his children and grandchildren, Nkrumah's burial attracted nobody, Madiba's attracted the highest gathering of world leaders in history,how can any sane person make this comparison,maybe that old man is senile
Say the TRUTH 10 years ago

A GREAT MAN IS ABLE TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN WHAT HE'S BUILT?????

A LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE CPP THE PARTY HE BUILT & THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY HE FOUGHT TO ACHIEVE INDEPENDENCE ..GHANA WHAT IS IT'S STATE AND STATUS ...
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A GREAT MAN IS ABLE TO PRESERVE AND MAINTAIN WHAT HE'S BUILT?????

A LOOK AT THE CURRENT STATE OF THE CPP THE PARTY HE BUILT & THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY HE FOUGHT TO ACHIEVE INDEPENDENCE ..GHANA WHAT IS IT'S STATE AND STATUS...WHAT ARE THE FOUNDATIONS HE BUILT FOR BOTH GHANA AND HIS CPP NOW ...IF WE ARE TO ACCESS CRITICALLY NKRUMAH'S SUCCESSES.....VERY VERY WEAK AND MISERABLE FOR BOTH GHANA & HIS CPP!!!!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!!!!
Mike Gizo 10 years ago

How on east can any serious mind compare nkrumah to mandella? Lazy minds, hypocrites n cowards. Who is nkrumah n how many people's lives have been affected by nkrumah. I can't imagine the way some socalled learned people have ...
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How on east can any serious mind compare nkrumah to mandella? Lazy minds, hypocrites n cowards. Who is nkrumah n how many people's lives have been affected by nkrumah. I can't imagine the way some socalled learned people have become cowards n bias contributing to important global issues.
Who is this kb asante always disturbing our ears with midieval kindergarten analysis?
This man has never touched me with any issue that he has contributed on since i heard of him.
He is always discussing nkrumah n defending the corrupt ndc regime together with kwesi pratt n is high time ghanaians stopped listening to these selfish people. We've had enough of their apple -pie comparisons. Abba!!!
Kanawu 10 years ago

This is NAIVETY in the first order

This is NAIVETY in the first order
Say the TRUTH 10 years ago

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

THE SELFLESS...GAVE UP JUST ON ONE TERM...DID NOT SEE THE COUNTRY HE SACRIFICED FOR IN PRISON FOR 26 YEARS, AND COULD HAVE TAKEN IT AS HIS OWN FOR THE PRESIDENCY..EVEN THOUGH HE HAD IT ON PLATTER TO RULE ...
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

THE SELFLESS...GAVE UP JUST ON ONE TERM...DID NOT SEE THE COUNTRY HE SACRIFICED FOR IN PRISON FOR 26 YEARS, AND COULD HAVE TAKEN IT AS HIS OWN FOR THE PRESIDENCY..EVEN THOUGH HE HAD IT ON PLATTER TO RULE AS LONG AS HE WISHES IF HE WANTED!!!!

THE SELFISH...WAS BROGHT INTO HELP WHAT HAS BEEN INITIATED BY THE THOUGHTFUL ONES...BACK-STABBED THEM...ACCUSED THEM OF BEEN TRAITORS AND FALSELY TOLD THE MASSES AS THEY NOT BEEN PATROTIC TO THE CAUSE (WHEN STRATEGICALLY THEY KNEW WHAT WAS TO BE DONE & HAD A GAME PLAN WITH A ROAD PLAN TO A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH)...DECEIVED THE INGNORANT & ILLITERATE MASSES TO GO FOR HIS PUPULIST IDEAS.....AFTER WINNING ... ABANDONED THE CAUSE TO DEVELOP HIS NATION AS A MODEL FOR AFRICA.....NAIVELY RUSHED TO TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF THE CONTINENT AFRICA...IN THE CAUSE OF THAT WASTED HIS MOTHERLAND GHANA'S RESOURCES WITHOUT ANY SUCCESS TO ACHIEVE NOTHING FOR AFRICA & GHANA...TODATE 2013 AFRICA STILL IN THE STRUGLE TO ACHIEVE ONE AFRICA AS A NATION..IMPOSED ONE PARTY STATE, ELECTED HIMSELF AS LIFE PRESIDENT OF GHANA....CAUSING CHAOS AND STRUGGLE AGAINST ONE PARTY STATE/FIGHT TO SURVIVE AGAINST THAT.... IN THE LONG RUN GOT OVERTHROWN FROM OFFICE......NOW THE POLITICAL PARTY HE BUILT IS IN SHAMBLES, HIS OPPONENTS HE IMPRISONED AND KILLED'S PARTY UNDER THEIR IDEOLOGY IS GROWING STRONGER & STRONGER .........THE NATION HE RUSHED TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE FOR GHANA & AFRICA HE TRIED TO INCLUDE WITHOUT ANY STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN INTO A SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND UNITY GOAL IS STILL IN THE STRUGGLE TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE FROM THE SHACKLES OF NEO-COLONIALISM DOMINATION AND SUPPRESSION.

WHO SHOULD BE JUDGED AS THE GREATEST AMONG THE 2 DESCRIPTIONS ABOVE??????

FOOD FOR THHOUGHT!!!
KING 10 years ago

BUT KB YOU ARE COMPARING?

BUT KB YOU ARE COMPARING?
Ashootings 10 years ago

Mandela and co got their inspiration from Kwame Nkrumah as Oliver Tambo states. Who is greater, the inspirer or the inspired?
Kwame Nkrumah was the first liberator in black Africa. Even a fool knows that!!!

Mandela and co got their inspiration from Kwame Nkrumah as Oliver Tambo states. Who is greater, the inspirer or the inspired?
Kwame Nkrumah was the first liberator in black Africa. Even a fool knows that!!!
Private Eye 10 years ago

Why does KB Asante find it necessary to cast his vote in the very debate he claims is useless?. His mentality is reflective of the shallow thinking of Ghanaians. At the very least, Ghana owes Mandella the respect and the dign ...
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Why does KB Asante find it necessary to cast his vote in the very debate he claims is useless?. His mentality is reflective of the shallow thinking of Ghanaians. At the very least, Ghana owes Mandella the respect and the dignity while lying in state.
B.K SMIALIA 10 years ago

WHO IS COMPARING WHO ? SHUT UP.GA-ADANGBE YOUTH TALIBAN LEADER....REPORT TO THE ICC IN PRAGUE.

WHO IS COMPARING WHO ? SHUT UP.GA-ADANGBE YOUTH TALIBAN LEADER....REPORT TO THE ICC IN PRAGUE.
Jeff, UK 10 years ago

Too much of this useless talk. There are better things to talk about

Too much of this useless talk. There are better things to talk about
Canadasheabutter(GhUWR) @ Abudu ibn a 10 years ago

A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA , FAMILY , REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA , AFRICA & THE WORLD

Abudu I. Adam &

May Hyacenth Abudu,& Family
2 Secord Avenue # 2313,
M4C-2C3
Toronto, Ontario
Telephone: 416-429-834 ...
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A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA , FAMILY , REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA , AFRICA & THE WORLD

Abudu I. Adam &

May Hyacenth Abudu,& Family
2 Secord Avenue # 2313,
M4C-2C3
Toronto, Ontario
Telephone: 416-429-8344, Fax : 416 -429-8346
Email : canadasheabutter@look.ca

“ RECOGNITION " A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA 1918- 2013

A PEOM “ BY OSBOURNE HENRY KWESI BREW - RIP “reproduced"

ARE YOU ACCEPTED AND KNOWN BY MANKIND

ARE YOU RECOGNISED AND LOVED BY THEM ?

OH WHAT GREAT ECSTASY IS THERE IN THE CURSE OF FAME

BUT WHAT GREATER HAPPINESS IS THERE TO BE ACCEPTED .

KNOWN , RECOGNISED AND LOVED BY

THE COW , THE SHEEP , THE DOG , THE HORSE , THE BIRDS .

FOR IN THEM IS NEITHER ENVY NOR HATRED ,

TO REWARD YOUR LABOR AND KINDNESS NELSON M. MANDELA ,

AS THERE IS IN SOME MEN ,

BUT HERE AGAIN IS NO CAUSE FOR GRIEF, FOR THE GREATEST STATESMEN OF ALL TIMES MANKIND HAVE EVER WITNESSED IN THE 20TH, CENTURY INCLUDING THE LIKES OF FIDEL CASTRO , JIMMY CARTER , DR KWAME NKRUMAH , MARTIN LUTHER KING ; MOHAMMED ALI , JEAN CHRETIAN.

TAKE YOUR ROYAL SEAT IN THE KINGDOM OF ALLAH - AMEEN - RIP

HISTORY AND MANKIND SHALL EVER REMEMBER YOUR IDEALS , PATROTISM , SELF SACRIFICE TO AFRICA & THE WORLD OVER

A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA , FAMILY , REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA , AFRICA & THE WORLD
Lamin 10 years ago

Those who have the guts to compare mandela to osagyefo are either not african patriots or not concious politically or both,osagyefo did not only set the pace for african libration,he also went foward to help other african cou ...
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Those who have the guts to compare mandela to osagyefo are either not african patriots or not concious politically or both,osagyefo did not only set the pace for african libration,he also went foward to help other african countries gain their freedom and propose what would have been the most effective way of safeguarding real indepencence, union government of Africa....Mandela of course did something for just south Africa,not Africa...but what is the result of his policies...after hundreds of years of struggle,he was only able to transform real apartheid into economic apartheid...he was bought in jail by the apartheid authorities and he came out to give the economy back to them...how can in a country with 90% black population,50% of the wealth is with 10% of the population that is white..the west praise mandela because his economic policies protected their intrests...not because he served south Africans well...the haters of Nkrumah who think is is not known worldwide are saying so because they have not travelled...the should cneck the records well
' And Jesus wept ' 10 years ago

And that's the plain truth!

And that's the plain truth!
Paa Kodwo 10 years ago

NO ONE ON EARTH CAN BE IN THE POSITION TO TWIST HISTORY.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

IN ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA OSAGEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY IS REMEBERED AS THE GREATEST POLITICIAN IN THE 20th CENTURY.

WHY ...
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NO ONE ON EARTH CAN BE IN THE POSITION TO TWIST HISTORY.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

IN ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA OSAGEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY IS REMEBERED AS THE GREATEST POLITICIAN IN THE 20th CENTURY.

WHY BREAK YOUR HEADS,
Nana 10 years ago

Whilst Nkrumah was jailing, torturing and killing his own people, Mandela was forgiving and reconciling. Which of the two is BETTER? Please judge for yourself

Whilst Nkrumah was jailing, torturing and killing his own people, Mandela was forgiving and reconciling. Which of the two is BETTER? Please judge for yourself
prempeh 1. 10 years ago

Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah never kill and never tortured any Ghanaian, it was your forefathers U.P who were bombing Ghanaian society and also targeting Nkrumah, and therefore he has no choice to brought those terrorist to boo ...
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Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah never kill and never tortured any Ghanaian, it was your forefathers U.P who were bombing Ghanaian society and also targeting Nkrumah, and therefore he has no choice to brought those terrorist to book, that is the law, that is the fact.
Anes Wiesbaden German 10 years ago

Neck off

Neck off
Nyorkopio 10 years ago

Nkrumah coined the term neocolonialism more than50 years ago. He stood on the shoulders of other great African forebears to project the Black Star across the globe and far across time. Mandela stood on the shoulders of great ...
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Nkrumah coined the term neocolonialism more than50 years ago. He stood on the shoulders of other great African forebears to project the Black Star across the globe and far across time. Mandela stood on the shoulders of great Africans of old, but lived the life of forgiveness - an essential building block for peace. Nkrumah sowed the seeds of African advancement by creating and inspiring a critical mass of leader liberators, Mandela included.
Nyorkopio 10 years ago

Ghana was emancipated politically long before South Africa, and Nkrumah was the spearhead. Nkrumah is a pathfinder (Osabarimah - master of the forest - trailblazer). The third verse of our national anthem reads: Raise high t ...
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Ghana was emancipated politically long before South Africa, and Nkrumah was the spearhead. Nkrumah is a pathfinder (Osabarimah - master of the forest - trailblazer). The third verse of our national anthem reads: Raise high the flag of Ghana
And one for African advance
Black Star of hope and honour to all who thirst for liberty
Where the banner of Ghana freely flies
May the way to freedom truly lie
Arise, arise oh sons of Ghanaland
And under God, march on forever more.

Ankrumah saw accross the parapet, great Africans emerging on all fronts and in all fields of endeavour, including Nelson Mandela. Nkrumaism is an ideology in itself- an inner guide and poise for the proud African. Mandela's example is a way of live - choosing a path to peace even with oppressors.
EGYA BLAY 10 years ago

You have said it all-but how many people like you have this common sense.We have a problem with some black people. They will never read and will just just spew nonsense.

Obama never compared them. Here is the
full speec ...
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You have said it all-but how many people like you have this common sense.We have a problem with some black people. They will never read and will just just spew nonsense.

Obama never compared them. Here is the
full speech of Obama:

Obama’s full speech at Mandela's memorial service

Date Posted: December 10, 2013: 13:09
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To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests - it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. To the people of South Africa – people of every race and walk of life – the world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph. Your dignity and hope found expression in his life, and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy.

It is hard to eulogise any man – to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person – their private joys and sorrows; the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul. How much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process moved billions around the world.

Born during world war one, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by elders of his Thembu tribe – Madiba would emerge as the last great liberator of the 20th century. Like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success. Like King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed, and the moral necessity of racial justice. He would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached the final days of the Cold War. Emerging from prison, without force of arms, he would – like Lincoln – hold his country together when it threatened to break apart. Like America's founding fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations – a commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power.

Given the sweep of his life, and the adoration that he so rightly earned, it is tempting then to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene, detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men. But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait. Instead, he insisted on sharing with us his doubts and fears; his miscalculations along with his victories. "I'm not a saint," he said, "unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection – because he could be so full of good humour, even mischief, despite the heavy burdens he carried – that we loved him so. He was not a bust made of marble; he was a man of flesh and blood – a son and husband, a father and a friend. That is why we learned so much from him; that is why we can learn from him still. For nothing he achieved was inevitable. In the arc of his life, we see a man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness; persistence and faith. He tells us what's possible not just in the pages of dusty history books, but in our own lives as well.

Mandela showed us the power of action; of taking risks on behalf of our ideals. Perhaps Madiba was right that he inherited, "a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness" from his father. Certainly he shared with millions of black and coloured South Africans the anger born of, "a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments … a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people".

But like other early giants of the ANC – the Sisulus and Tambos – Madiba disciplined his anger; and channelled his desire to fight into organisation, and platforms, and strategies for action, so men and women could stand-up for their dignity. Moreover, he accepted the consequences of his actions, knowing that standing up to powerful interests and injustice carries a price. "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination," he said at his 1964 trial. "I've cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Mandela taught us the power of action, but also ideas; the importance of reason and arguments; the need to study not only those you agree with, but those who you don't. He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper's bullet. He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and passion, but also his training as an advocate. He used decades in prison to sharpen his arguments, but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others in the movement. And he learned the language and customs of his oppressor so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depended upon his.

Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough; no matter how right, they must be chiselled into laws and institutions. He was practical, testing his beliefs against the hard surface of circumstance and history. On core principles he was unyielding, which is why he could rebuff offers of conditional release, reminding the Apartheid regime that, "prisoners cannot enter into contracts". But as he showed in painstaking negotiations to transfer power and draft new laws, he was not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal. And because he was not only a leader of a movement, but a skilful politician, the Constitution that emerged was worthy of this multiracial democracy; true to his vision of laws that protect minority as well as majority rights, and the precious freedoms of every South African.

Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit. There is a word in South Africa – Ubuntu – that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. We can never know how much of this was innate in him, or how much of was shaped and burnished in a dark, solitary cell. But we remember the gestures, large and small - introducing his jailors as honoured guests at his inauguration; taking the pitch in a Springbok uniform; turning his family's heartbreak into a call to confront HIV/AIDS – that revealed the depth of his empathy and understanding. He not only embodied Ubuntu; he taught millions to find that truth within themselves. It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailor as well; to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion, generosity and truth. He changed laws, but also hearts.

For the people of South Africa, for those he inspired around the globe – Madiba's passing is rightly a time of mourning, and a time to celebrate his heroic life. But I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time for self-reflection. With honesty, regardless of our station or circumstance, we must ask: how well have I applied his lessons in my own life?

It is a question I ask myself – as a man and as a president. We know that like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation. As was true here, it took the sacrifice of countless people - known and unknown - to see the dawn of a new day. Michelle and I are the beneficiaries of that struggle. But in America and South Africa, and countries around the globe, we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact that our work is not done. The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality and universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important. For around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger, and disease; run-down schools, and few prospects for the future. Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are still persecuted for what they look like, or how they worship, or who they love.

We, too, must act on behalf of justice. We, too, must act on behalf of peace. There are too many of us who happily embrace Madiba's legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality. There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba's struggle for freedom, but do not tolerate dissent from their own people. And there are too many of us who stand on the sidelines, comfortable in complacency or cynicism when our voices must be heard.

The questions we face today – how to promote equality and justice; to uphold freedom and human rights; to end conflict and sectarian war – do not have easy answers. But there were no easy answers in front of that child in Qunu. Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done. South Africa shows us that is true. South Africa shows us we can change. We can choose to live in a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes. We can choose a world defined not by conflict, but by peace and justice and opportunity.

We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. But let me say to the young people of Africa, and young people around the world - you can make his life's work your own. Over thirty years ago, while still a student, I learned of Mandela and the struggles in this land. It stirred something in me. It woke me up to my responsibilities - to others, and to myself - and set me on an improbable journey that finds me here today. And while I will always fall short of Madiba's example, he makes me want to be better. He speaks to what is best inside us. After this great liberator is laid to rest; when we have returned to our cities and villages, and rejoined our daily routines, let us search then for his strength - for his largeness of spirit - somewhere inside ourselves. And when the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts, or our best laid plans seem beyond our reach - think of Madiba, and the words that brought him comfort within the four walls of a cell:

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

What a great soul it was. We will miss him deeply. May God bless the memory of Nelson Mandela. May God bless the people of South Africa.
Nyorkopio 10 years ago

Thanks for posting President Obama's speech. This helps to stem rumour and innuendo. There is a reason why we refrence God, followed by ALL our forebears when we we pray and give thanks. Mandela has risen to join Nkrumah and ...
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Thanks for posting President Obama's speech. This helps to stem rumour and innuendo. There is a reason why we refrence God, followed by ALL our forebears when we we pray and give thanks. Mandela has risen to join Nkrumah and many men and women before them in our illustrious history.
shokolokobankoshey 10 years ago

Monkey no fine e country people like him

Monkey no fine e country people like him
Abrante 10 years ago

Sometimes I wish people will listen carefully before making comments. Barack said Mandela was " the LAST greatest...." in other words, he recognizes there has been other great African leaders. Pls lets stop all these and pay ...
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Sometimes I wish people will listen carefully before making comments. Barack said Mandela was " the LAST greatest...." in other words, he recognizes there has been other great African leaders. Pls lets stop all these and pay tribute to the man lying in state.
mugu1 10 years ago

mandela is pure traitor that is the point

mandela is pure traitor that is the point
NOT GREATEST USELESS DEBATE 10 years ago

OBAMA BEING MISQUOTED he said Mandela was last great liberator not greatest

OBAMA BEING MISQUOTED he said Mandela was last great liberator not greatest
Comrade 10 years ago

I think is useless for these comparison to even start just after a half baked African, Obama spoke out of momentous sentiments. It is clear that Obama is very ignorant on and about Africa and issues that has to do with our hi ...
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I think is useless for these comparison to even start just after a half baked African, Obama spoke out of momentous sentiments. It is clear that Obama is very ignorant on and about Africa and issues that has to do with our history, politics and social well being, because he is not one of us and of course considers himself as such. No African after Marcus Garvey has ever walk the surface of the earth coming from Africa is greater than the Osagyefo, not because he is a Ghanaian but that is the fact.
EGYA BLAY 10 years ago

Obama’s full speech at Mandela's memorial service

To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests - it ...
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Obama’s full speech at Mandela's memorial service

To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests - it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. To the people of South Africa – people of every race and walk of life – the world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph. Your dignity and hope found expression in his life, and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy.

It is hard to eulogise any man – to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person – their private joys and sorrows; the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul. How much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process moved billions around the world.

Born during world war one, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by elders of his Thembu tribe – Madiba would emerge as the last great liberator of the 20th century. Like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success. Like King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed, and the moral necessity of racial justice. He would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached the final days of the Cold War. Emerging from prison, without force of arms, he would – like Lincoln – hold his country together when it threatened to break apart. Like America's founding fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations – a commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power.

Given the sweep of his life, and the adoration that he so rightly earned, it is tempting then to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene, detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men. But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait. Instead, he insisted on sharing with us his doubts and fears; his miscalculations along with his victories. "I'm not a saint," he said, "unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection – because he could be so full of good humour, even mischief, despite the heavy burdens he carried – that we loved him so. He was not a bust made of marble; he was a man of flesh and blood – a son and husband, a father and a friend. That is why we learned so much from him; that is why we can learn from him still. For nothing he achieved was inevitable. In the arc of his life, we see a man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness; persistence and faith. He tells us what's possible not just in the pages of dusty history books, but in our own lives as well.

Mandela showed us the power of action; of taking risks on behalf of our ideals. Perhaps Madiba was right that he inherited, "a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness" from his father. Certainly he shared with millions of black and coloured South Africans the anger born of, "a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments … a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people".

But like other early giants of the ANC – the Sisulus and Tambos – Madiba disciplined his anger; and channelled his desire to fight into organisation, and platforms, and strategies for action, so men and women could stand-up for their dignity. Moreover, he accepted the consequences of his actions, knowing that standing up to powerful interests and injustice carries a price. "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination," he said at his 1964 trial. "I've cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Mandela taught us the power of action, but also ideas; the importance of reason and arguments; the need to study not only those you agree with, but those who you don't. He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper's bullet. He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and passion, but also his training as an advocate. He used decades in prison to sharpen his arguments, but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others in the movement. And he learned the language and customs of his oppressor so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depended upon his.

Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough; no matter how right, they must be chiselled into laws and institutions. He was practical, testing his beliefs against the hard surface of circumstance and history. On core principles he was unyielding, which is why he could rebuff offers of conditional release, reminding the Apartheid regime that, "prisoners cannot enter into contracts". But as he showed in painstaking negotiations to transfer power and draft new laws, he was not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal. And because he was not only a leader of a movement, but a skilful politician, the Constitution that emerged was worthy of this multiracial democracy; true to his vision of laws that protect minority as well as majority rights, and the precious freedoms of every South African.

Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit. There is a word in South Africa – Ubuntu – that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. We can never know how much of this was innate in him, or how much of was shaped and burnished in a dark, solitary cell. But we remember the gestures, large and small - introducing his jailors as honoured guests at his inauguration; taking the pitch in a Springbok uniform; turning his family's heartbreak into a call to confront HIV/AIDS – that revealed the depth of his empathy and understanding. He not only embodied Ubuntu; he taught millions to find that truth within themselves. It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailor as well; to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion, generosity and truth. He changed laws, but also hearts.

For the people of South Africa, for those he inspired around the globe – Madiba's passing is rightly a time of mourning, and a time to celebrate his heroic life. But I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time for self-reflection. With honesty, regardless of our station or circumstance, we must ask: how well have I applied his lessons in my own life?

It is a question I ask myself – as a man and as a president. We know that like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation. As was true here, it took the sacrifice of countless people - known and unknown - to see the dawn of a new day. Michelle and I are the beneficiaries of that struggle. But in America and South Africa, and countries around the globe, we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact that our work is not done. The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality and universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important. For around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger, and disease; run-down schools, and few prospects for the future. Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are still persecuted for what they look like, or how they worship, or who they love.

We, too, must act on behalf of justice. We, too, must act on behalf of peace. There are too many of us who happily embrace Madiba's legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality. There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba's struggle for freedom, but do not tolerate dissent from their own people. And there are too many of us who stand on the sidelines, comfortable in complacency or cynicism when our voices must be heard.

The questions we face today – how to promote equality and justice; to uphold freedom and human rights; to end conflict and sectarian war – do not have easy answers. But there were no easy answers in front of that child in Qunu. Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done. South Africa shows us that is true. South Africa shows us we can change. We can choose to live in a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes. We can choose a world defined not by conflict, but by peace and justice and opportunity.

We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. But let me say to the young people of Africa, and young people around the world - you can make his life's work your own. Over thirty years ago, while still a student, I learned of Mandela and the struggles in this land. It stirred something in me. It woke me up to my responsibilities - to others, and to myself - and set me on an improbable journey that finds me here today. And while I will always fall short of Madiba's example, he makes me want to be better. He speaks to what is best inside us. After this great liberator is laid to rest; when we have returned to our cities and villages, and rejoined our daily routines, let us search then for his strength - for his largeness of spirit - somewhere inside ourselves. And when the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts, or our best laid plans seem beyond our reach - think of Madiba, and the words that brought him comfort within the four walls of a cell:

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

What a great soul it was. We will miss him deeply. May God bless the memory of Nelson Mandela. May God bless the people of South Africa.
Nigerian 10 years ago

Ghanaians are always arguing about trivial things. Even Kofi Annan was even bigger than Dr Nkrumah, He had the ideas but most of them were utopia and some where borrowed from human right activists in US

Ghanaians are always arguing about trivial things. Even Kofi Annan was even bigger than Dr Nkrumah, He had the ideas but most of them were utopia and some where borrowed from human right activists in US
NKRUMAH BE OGBO!!!! 10 years ago

I wished Azikiwe was alive to tell you who Nkrumah was and what he is for the continent. Am sure you are a toddler still nipping at your mothers nipples. I doubt if you even know about your own country's history either.

I wished Azikiwe was alive to tell you who Nkrumah was and what he is for the continent. Am sure you are a toddler still nipping at your mothers nipples. I doubt if you even know about your own country's history either.
AKAKPO 10 years ago

1 -Kwame Nkrumah
2 -Nelson Mandela
3 -Kofi Annan
4 -Jomo Kenyatta
5 Kenneth Kaunda
6 -Haille Selassie
7 Julius Nyerere
8 - Desmond Tutu
9 - Leopold Sedar Senghor
10 -Felix Houphoüet-Boigny

1 -Kwame Nkrumah
2 -Nelson Mandela
3 -Kofi Annan
4 -Jomo Kenyatta
5 Kenneth Kaunda
6 -Haille Selassie
7 Julius Nyerere
8 - Desmond Tutu
9 - Leopold Sedar Senghor
10 -Felix Houphoüet-Boigny
bigoak 10 years ago

THANKS BRO. MANDELA HIMSELF ACKNOWLEDGED THAT NKRUMAH IS FAR TALLER THAN HIM. WAS HE NOT THERE WHEN THE MAN OF THE MILLENIUM WENT TO NKRUMAH? AH GYS B REALLISTIC

THANKS BRO. MANDELA HIMSELF ACKNOWLEDGED THAT NKRUMAH IS FAR TALLER THAN HIM. WAS HE NOT THERE WHEN THE MAN OF THE MILLENIUM WENT TO NKRUMAH? AH GYS B REALLISTIC
Nigerian 10 years ago

Get your facts right, Have you seen world leaders gather in one Funeral?

Get your facts right, Have you seen world leaders gather in one Funeral?
RastafaraI 10 years ago

nigeria choice

nigeria choice
Victor Damanka 10 years ago

You are all greedy bastards and idiots to compare Nkrumah the bastard to Mandella. Nkrumah just misused our money for nil achievement.Wanted to rule the nation till death. Selfish, idiotic principles were the order of the day ...
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You are all greedy bastards and idiots to compare Nkrumah the bastard to Mandella. Nkrumah just misused our money for nil achievement.Wanted to rule the nation till death. Selfish, idiotic principles were the order of the day. You must shut up!!
Kontoa 10 years ago

Your comparison are like Is the type writer better than the desktop? Note: Each was the best at its era and each was useful for the purpose.Nkrumah was also granted the accolade as the best in his time. Mandela went to see Nk ...
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Your comparison are like Is the type writer better than the desktop? Note: Each was the best at its era and each was useful for the purpose.Nkrumah was also granted the accolade as the best in his time. Mandela went to see Nkrumah because of his greatness. Nkrumah was not alive to see Mandela Leaders like Obama visited Mandela and made that comment. Both Nkrumah and Mandela had their weaknesses, each contributed to the eveolution of the Africa. None is better than the other and non towers above the other.
OBINNA 10 years ago

LONGEVITY HAS ITS ADVANTAGES AND SO DID MANDELA. KWAME NKRUMAH WAS VOTED BY THE AU AS THE GREATEST AFRICAN FOR THE 20TH CENTURY FOR THE ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN AND THE BLACK CAUSE. YOU MAY CONSIDER MANDELA FOR TH ...
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LONGEVITY HAS ITS ADVANTAGES AND SO DID MANDELA. KWAME NKRUMAH WAS VOTED BY THE AU AS THE GREATEST AFRICAN FOR THE 20TH CENTURY FOR THE ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN AND THE BLACK CAUSE. YOU MAY CONSIDER MANDELA FOR THE NEXT. BUT THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT KWAME NKRUMAH TOWERS OVER MANDELA.
bigoak 10 years ago

GUYS KNOW THE HISTORY INTO DETAILS.THESE TWO AFRICAN LEADERS DID NOT TOW THE SAME LINE IN THE POLITICS THAT THEY DID.
NKRUMAH FOUGHT FOR ALL AFRICANS ALL BLACK MEN AND WOMEN
MANDELA FOUGHT FOR SOUTH AFRICANS
NKRUMAH FOUGHT ...
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GUYS KNOW THE HISTORY INTO DETAILS.THESE TWO AFRICAN LEADERS DID NOT TOW THE SAME LINE IN THE POLITICS THAT THEY DID.
NKRUMAH FOUGHT FOR ALL AFRICANS ALL BLACK MEN AND WOMEN
MANDELA FOUGHT FOR SOUTH AFRICANS
NKRUMAH FOUGHT FOR AFRICAN UNITY WHICH WAS AIMED AT DEMOLISHING THE APHARTIED THAT MANDELA FOUGHT AGAINST.
MANDELA WAS MOTIVATED BY NKRUMAH AS HE STATED IN HIS BOOK 'LONG WALK TO FREEDOM PAGE 279.
ANC AS A PARTY LOOKED AT KWAME NKRUMAH FOR THE STRUGGLE TO THE EXTENT THAT OR TAMBO OPENED AN ANC OFFICE IN ACCRA UNDER THEPOWER OF NKRUMAH
MANDELA AND OTHERS WERE IMPRISONED BECAUSE AFRICANS DID NOT UNDERSTANT NKRUMAH.
MANDELA IS CONTEMPORARY AND MOST YOUTH DID NOT SEE, HEARED OF, AND READ ABOUT OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH.
MANDELA TOWED THE LINE OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA WITHOUT ANY SIDE LOOKS SO THEY MADE MANDELA THAT POPULAR BUT NKRUMAH WATCHED ALL AROUND BEFORE HANDLING THE WEST SO THEY DIDNT LIKE HIM.
THE TWI SPEAKING GHANAIANS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA DESTROYED NKRUMAH BECAUSE OF HIS VISIONARY PROWESS WHICH NO OTHER AFRICAN LEADER HAS EVER COME CLOSE.
IF GHANAIANS DONT CELEBRATE NKRUMAH, WHO ELSE? THAT IS THE MISTAKE OF GHANA.MANDELA DOES NOT COME CLOSE TO DR. NKRUMAH IN ANY WAY.THE YOUTH MUST READ AND BE INTELLECTUALS.
OSAGYFO LIVES ON

OSAGYFO LIVES ON.
bigoak 10 years ago

THANKS BRO. MANDELA HIMSELF ACKNOWLEDGED THAT NKRUMAH IS FAR TALLER THAN HIM. WAS HE NOT THERE WHEN THE MAN OF THE MILLENIUM WENT TO NKRUMAH? AH GYS B REALLISTIC.
GUYS READ

THANKS BRO. MANDELA HIMSELF ACKNOWLEDGED THAT NKRUMAH IS FAR TALLER THAN HIM. WAS HE NOT THERE WHEN THE MAN OF THE MILLENIUM WENT TO NKRUMAH? AH GYS B REALLISTIC.
GUYS READ
osei yaw - london 10 years ago

No one is comparing apples with peas

- KB Asante's contibution is too simple and obtuse

- ridding South Africa of apartheid is not a heavy burden as riddig entire sub-Saharan Africa of colonial domination

- Mandale d ...
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No one is comparing apples with peas

- KB Asante's contibution is too simple and obtuse

- ridding South Africa of apartheid is not a heavy burden as riddig entire sub-Saharan Africa of colonial domination

- Mandale does not measure up to Nkrumah

Osei Wusu-Khanin/osei yaw - london
Nigerian 10 years ago

Ghanaians should let the world black & white decide

Ghanaians should let the world black & white decide
RastafaraI 10 years ago

ibi?

ibi?
RastafaraI 10 years ago

u no gree?

u no gree?
nana 10 years ago

mandela in short focused to lead, train and to stabilize peace and equallity in S.Afria whiles Nkrumah after,archiving it for Ghana, also exteded it continentally.so AFRICA is NKRUMAH. So be it

mandela in short focused to lead, train and to stabilize peace and equallity in S.Afria whiles Nkrumah after,archiving it for Ghana, also exteded it continentally.so AFRICA is NKRUMAH. So be it
appiah 10 years ago

How can you seriously describe Nkrumah
as a freedom fighter when he only replaced white domination with black oppression. Nkrumah's repressive regime and the many attempts on his life shows that he did not bring freedom to h ...
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How can you seriously describe Nkrumah
as a freedom fighter when he only replaced white domination with black oppression. Nkrumah's repressive regime and the many attempts on his life shows that he did not bring freedom to his people. He talk about freedom and justice but he did not understand that. "Nsawam" is an index to his accomplishment
NKRUMAH BE OGBO!!!! 10 years ago

No one is saying Mandela isn't great but for any human being, including Obama, to say Mandela is the greatest African, it means that person is short on Africa's history.

Nkrumah personifies the liberation of the African c ...
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No one is saying Mandela isn't great but for any human being, including Obama, to say Mandela is the greatest African, it means that person is short on Africa's history.

Nkrumah personifies the liberation of the African continent. His vision too is unmatched, even in contemporary times.

Nkrumah is light-years ahead of even any of today's world leaders.
konkonsa toronto 10 years ago

Hey guys the comparison b/n Nkrumah and Madela doesnt add up. Howe many of u these writers lived during the time of Kwame Nkrumah. Freedom never existed in the country. u r either for him or against him. He jailed all his pol ...
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Hey guys the comparison b/n Nkrumah and Madela doesnt add up. Howe many of u these writers lived during the time of Kwame Nkrumah. Freedom never existed in the country. u r either for him or against him. He jailed all his political opponents. My father was arrested and sent to jail cos he wa
BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF AFRICA AND BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, YEA, NOBLE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA- BEHOLD, IT IS REVEALED, -PAUL PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED AND GOD GAVES THE INCREASE. PELSE. A ...
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DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF AFRICA AND BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, YEA, NOBLE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA- BEHOLD, IT IS REVEALED, -PAUL PLANTED, APOLLOS WATERED AND GOD GAVES THE INCREASE. PELSE. A TIME TO THINK. YES, IT IS WRITTEN; "HE MUST INCREASE BUT I MUST DECREASE". SELAH. FOR, "IT IS FINISHED", THEREFORE, "OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" THAT -THE MISSION- MIGHT COUNTINUE TO -GREATER HEIGHTS- IN LINE WITH -"THE VISION". AFRICA, UNITE!! PULSE. A TIME TO THINK. GOD BLESS THE DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF -SOUTH AFRICA- TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AND LET -THE MISION- CONTINUE TO -GREATER HEIGHTS- IN THE LAND TO -THE JOY OF AFRICA AND HUMANITY. GOD BLESS THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO 'BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" THAT -THE MISSION- LIVES ON IN -'GREATER HEIGHTS'. FOR TOGETHER, AND WITH GOD, WE CAN! AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
NOTE
MUCH THANKS TO GHANAWEB FOR THE SPACE. AND TO MIGHTY GOD RADIO FOR THE LORD'S SONGS DURING THE POSTING.
JAMES Y 10 years ago

Nkrumah had done more for Africa and the black race than Mandela. This is a fact. It is also a fact that he singlehanded opened the floodgate for Africa emancipation through which also South Africa passed. The fact that no on ...
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Nkrumah had done more for Africa and the black race than Mandela. This is a fact. It is also a fact that he singlehanded opened the floodgate for Africa emancipation through which also South Africa passed. The fact that no one mentioned him in Mandela's tributes was due to that fact. He was a hated man because he showed the way of freeing the black race from white domination across Africa. Not only that, he proposed practical ideas and strategies which could be used to make Africa progress. Most of these ideas have been adopted by Europe. Mandela was great in two aspects; he stoically absorbed incarceration for his belief and reconciliation advocate. But, let us face the fact; what else could he do in prison or outside it? War would have been suicidal as the enemy enjoyed superiority in armament. Gorilla warfare would take years to achieve its aim with untold loss of life. So, all in all, forgiveness was the only solution to getting power back to the black people in South Africa, ultimately.
Nii Akwei 10 years ago

Like it or not, he was well respected. It is time most of you start thinking about how fix the mess in your own backyard now. Leave Nkrumah and Mandela alone.

Like it or not, he was well respected. It is time most of you start thinking about how fix the mess in your own backyard now. Leave Nkrumah and Mandela alone.
Oheneba osei Yaw Akoto 10 years ago

osagyefo is the greatest African ever

osagyefo is the greatest African ever
Nicholas Osei Kyeretwie-Chicago 10 years ago

The difference between the two great Africans is that one could not stand any opposition,while the other lived in peace with the opposition.K.B.Asante should tell the whole world what Nkrumah did to those who he perceived as ...
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The difference between the two great Africans is that one could not stand any opposition,while the other lived in peace with the opposition.K.B.Asante should tell the whole world what Nkrumah did to those who he perceived as opponents.While Mandela forgave and lived in peace with his jailers and also was the first African leader to step down voluntariry,Kwame Nkrumah killed his fellow ghanaians and would have ruled for life against the wishes of many ghanaians.I wonder what will be said about Mugabe who has turned the people of Zimbabwe to mere humans,sure if the Kotokas had not risen,ghana would be in a differnt state now.Mandella is way above the hypocrite Kwame Nkrumah whose ambition was to rule over all Africa.
still rastafari 10 years ago

the end justifies & nkrumah failed..come thru the ballot & introduce hell

the end justifies & nkrumah failed..come thru the ballot & introduce hell

Nkrumah towered over Mandela; comparison “useless” – KB Asante

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