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'Memories of our father's passing 42 years ago' - Samia Nkrumah

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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    we dont need no messiah bullshit talk to mislead our people into fantasy , God has said there can be only one messiah and the rest are fakes and liars , only leaders who truly believe in justice and the rule of law will ensur ...
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  • SEIDU JOHNSON 9 years ago

    WITH ALL OUR GOLD, COCOA AND ALL OUR OTHER RESOURSES COULDN´T CHANGE THE COUNTRY BECAUSE NDC RAWLINGS AND HIS MAHAMA ARE DESTROYERS. RAWLINGS CAME AND KILL OUR BIG MEN AND WOMEN, MAHAMA IS NOW IN POWER TO DESTROY OUR RESOURS ...
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  • STOP AND THINK 9 years ago

    REST OF OUR LEADERS HAVE BECOME STOMACH DIRECTION LEADERS.

  • STOP AND THINK 9 years ago

    LEADERS AFTER NKRUMAH ALL CAME TO PLUNDER THE WEALTH OF OUR DEAR MOTHER LAND, HAVE NO BRAINS, OF UNITING THE COUNTRY, AND DEVELOPING IT, BUT BRAINS OF DRAINING IT FROM ITS SCARCE RESOURCE.

  • son of africa 9 years ago

    THE GREATEST AFRICAN WAS KILLED BY MATEMEHO TERRORISTS AND THEIR NEO-COLONIALIST MASTERS.
    THEY WERE TERRIFIED OF AFRICA UNITING.

  • Krikri 9 years ago

    Indeed after Dr Kwame Nkrumah, we have not had any Leader. all we have had are BOSSES whose only interest is to LOOT. The apogee of the LOOTING was between 2000 - 2008 when the gangsters who master-minded the CANCER OF BETRAY ...
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  • Nana Ansah 9 years ago

    Samia keep calm. I am loyal CPPian like a soldier and can feel your pains but always remember this: Heroes come and go; legend live forever. NKRUMAH NEVER DIES!

    Yes Osagyefo had died from 'the cancer of betrayal' but we ar ...
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  • GOLD COAST 9 years ago

    There's even Nkrumah University in Zambia. And he was on the cover of TIME Magazine(Feb 9,1953).

    LONG LIVE OSAGYEFO ! AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM.


    PEACE

  • ATWOMOH 9 years ago

    What ever your name is, you seemed to be perfectly groomed to wag your tail anytime the name of the Aryan race is mentioned!
    You're the most retarded fool on this planet to think the yardstick of establishing good governa ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    insults from worthless brainless retards like you dont impress me at all. no matter what these leaders did put in a good system for THEIR OWN PEOPLE unlike ours who focused on unity of the universe and threw away our future

  • ABU 9 years ago

    Pay no attention to the faggot,goon and son of a harlot and an unknown father.

  • Kwame Tutu 9 years ago

    May the Creator forgive you for spelling the name of your enslaver with captial letter and that of our Osagyefo in small letters.It is only brainwashed Africans like you under heavy Slave and Colonial Mentality with enough a ...
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  • wise 9 years ago

    your the person who know the meaning of human being and value of every race. thank you very much for your comment.

  • son of africa 9 years ago

    NKRUMAH'S MISTAKE WAS BEING TOO LENIENT WITH THE BOMB-THROWING MATEMEHO TERRORISTS.
    HE SHOULD HAVE TACKLED THEM LIKE BUSH TACKLED ALQAEDA.

  • ABU 9 years ago

    pay no attention to this faggot son of a harlot and unknown father

  • Afua 9 years ago

    Why not put you and your family in the frontline? Huh?

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    dont worry i believe in being in the front line of positive change , cowards never achieved anything but evil

  • ABU 9 years ago

    of course you're a product of evil as you were conceived with an unknown father with a prostitute mother.

  • wise 9 years ago

    i wonder why stupid people talk in this way , where were you when God said that,

  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    hysterical emotional reactions to the truth dont change the facts , in a revolution new leaders are born as this what we have now can never show remorse or do anything better

  • ABU 9 years ago

    TUUTUNI BA.ASHAWONI BA

  • Kwasipong 9 years ago

    Shallow talk is cheap indeed! Ghana and Africa in general is a natural resources battleground for already rich and powerful nations and no right thinking industrialised country in this world will sit idle for such a resource ...
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  • CELEBRIMS 9 years ago

    indeed u are mad

  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    We will keep the flame alive and succeed at last.
    "..we know we shall win as we're confident in a victory of good over evil"

  • ADONGO 9 years ago

    I CONCUR WITH ALL YOU WRITE EXCEPT THE BLOODY REVOLUTION PART.NOTHING BUT SOCIAL,ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RETROGRESSION CAME OF STUPID RAWLINGS REVOLUTION.

  • NANA 9 years ago

    THE GREATEST AFRICAN THAT HAS EVER BEEN AND WILL EVER BE.
    OSAGYEFO'S OVERTHROW EXPOSED THE USELESSNESS OF MILITARY OVERTHROW;ANY MILITARY OVERTHROW.
    SOLDIERS COME FOR SELFISH MEANS;TO ENRICH THEMSELVES AND THEIR PAYMASTERS
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  • Kofi Mensah 9 years ago

    I really remember OSAGYEFO as affectionately called on his visit to the science museum diagonally opposite the TUC headquarters. That was the only time I came face to face with the great man in his Chinese -style dress brimm ...
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  • sgt Doe 9 years ago

    Nkrumah may have his shortfall because he is human. but no one can deny that the course of Ghana was changed by this visionary man who was constantly under physical and spiritual attacks. he had to go to extremes to protect h ...
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  • Carl Graham 9 years ago

    Please spare a thought for those Ghanaians eho Nkrumah killed in Nsawam Prison for opposing him. Nkrumah was a cruel tyrant who declarecd hiself President for life without a Vice President and declared Ghana a one-party state ...
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  • K ASANTE 9 years ago

    So Bush was a tyrant as well for keeping terrorist in Guantanamo and killing some of them in Iraq to keep America safe. What do you do to someone who attempts to kill you? Grow up Carl

  • Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

    Carl Graham, I am calling you out so you can either stop being a coward and a hypocrite or intellectually unprincipled. Can you name one nation and a corresponding political leader in the history of the world who in the face ...
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  • Boateng 9 years ago

    Tell it to them, my friend. BRAVO!

  • DAVID OSEI 9 years ago

    HOW IGNORANT SOME PEOPLE ARE. THOSE HYPOCRITES, I MEAN.
    SO YOU ALSO WISHED THAT PRESIDENT NKRUMAH HAD BEEN KILLED BY THESE "MATE ME HO" PROPHETS INSTEAD OF THE MAKING AND BUILDING OF GHANA.YOU HAVE TO KNOW THAT GHANA IS NOT ...
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  • Sankofa 9 years ago

    Name me even one person whom Nkrumah killed.

    Which would you have - Nkrumah's 'cruel tyranny', 'one-party state', 'iron fist' and 'mad despotism' which gave us free education extended to all, industrial development, hydroe ...
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  • KANE 9 years ago

    SISTER SAMIA
    TAKE HEART. WE GHANAIANS AND EVEN A GHANAIAN ANIMAL KNOWS YOUR DAD, THE OSAGYEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH OF BLESSED MEMORY IS, AND WILL REMAIN THE GREATEST GHANAIAN AND AFRICAN HUMAN BEING ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

  • JB 9 years ago

    I'm grateful to ever have known that this great man was the President of Ghana. Even the walls he built with vision can't be maintained with a similar vision.All those who hated him, hated the development of Ghana.

  • Show boy 9 years ago

    Very strange! Did she actually write this?!!

  • k. amponsah 9 years ago

    Osagyefo wanted the best for Africa in general and Ghana in particular but he hardly tolerated other views especially at home. His was a benevolent dictatorship.He was truly a great leader.

  • Agyeman 9 years ago

    What do you do when your opponents throw bombs, attempt to assassinate you and kill innocent citizens? Have you heard of USA's detaining alleged terrorists in Guantanamo or UK's detaining Irish nationalists? Lets be fair to t ...
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  • Northern Concern 9 years ago

    Nkrumah's dictatorship was far better than our present day democracy. What is democracy when politicians don't know what they are doing and every idiot o the population is just shouting foul because they are political opponen ...
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  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 9 years ago

    Because you cannot write you think nobody can.

  • Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY. 9 years ago

    We will never forget. Africa would have been a better country by now. But neocolonialism has gained a strong foot and anybody that strives for Nkrumah's ideals is threatened or dies in office. But Nkrumah never dies. The more ...
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  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 9 years ago

    MAY HE REMAIN IN PEACE ,AMEEN. HISTORY HAVE PLACE HIM TO BE THE GREATEST AFRICAN EVER TO LIVE

    God bless Ghana & the ideals of Nkrumaism - Ameen

  • Owen,New York. 9 years ago

    For over 42 years now, we are wandering in the world like lost sheep on the desert,aimless. Even the few who claim to be rich ,are damn wicked to extent that, they still keep on exploiting the poor ones. Is this not a curse ? ...
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  • Kwame 9 years ago

    With all my heart
    With all my heart
    Osagyefo I wan to built the nation
    With all my heart.
    Osagyefo I want to join the battle with all my heart.
    Osagyefo I want to join AYC with all my heart.

  • Dr Robert Glah 9 years ago

    Osagyefo came, did and went

  • Charles Vandyck 9 years ago

    Nkrumah never dies

  • James 9 years ago

    A moving tribute from a loving daughter. Your father, having experienced the lot of the black man in the UK and America was determined to change things. He had vision. Sadly hardly any leaders after him though like him. They ...
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  • TEE 9 years ago

    WE LET SOMEBODY LIKE MAHAMA PEPENI FULANI BECOME PRESIDENT OF A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY LIKE GHANA. AN INCOMPETENT BY-FORCE PAID BRIBE TO JUDGES , USELESS AIMLESS CLUELESS VISIONLESS IDEALESS SENSELESS LEADERLESS LAWLESSNESS PLANLE ...
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  • TEE 9 years ago

    SAMIA OUR SYMPATHY GOES TO YOU ALL THE CHILDREN AND YOUR FATHER'S FAMILIES TOO. WE ALL ENJOYED THE FRUITS OF YOUR FATHER AND MAY HIS SOUL REST IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS AND HIS NAME WILL NEVER DIES ON OUR MINDS. LONG LIVE ...
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  • appiah 9 years ago

    WE have to learn our lesson from the successes and excesses of Nkrumah and move ahead as a nation and stop blaming foreigners for our self-inflicted problems. Nkrumah's selflessness and nationalism were wonderful but his inab ...
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  • K ASANTE 9 years ago

    It IS THE WICKED GHANAIAN MENTALITY OF PULL HIM DOWN THAT DESTROYED HIM. PLSE READ NKRUMAH'S BOOKS AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND. THOSE WHO OPPOSED HIM TRIED TO KILL HIM, WHO IS INTOLLERANT HERE.

  • Boateng 9 years ago

    How do you work with people who want nothing but to kill you? Would you ask the USA to work with sworn enemies?

  • MenayeAFUAforiwa 9 years ago

    Today,about 99.5% on this forum approved the work Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah did for the Nation and the people of Ghana and paying growing tribute to him. May His Soul Keep Marching On. RIP, Kwame

  • JK 9 years ago

    Think what you want about Kwame Nkrumah.

    Any honest person will admit that this woman can write!

    A great tribute to a father that she had for a short while. My sympathies to the family.

  • BrongAhafo 9 years ago

    Who gives a shit!? He is dead, move on

  • K ASANTE 9 years ago

    Where else will this come from?

  • Alex Kwofie New York 9 years ago

    This was a great man with a vision to propel Ghana to a well developed nation.His short time in office even produced a lot of industries and infrastructure for Ghana.The corner stone we rejected could have made Ghana shine mo ...
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  • truth 9 years ago

    samia, shut up your mouth. your father has done his part . what have you done? they gave you a seat in parliament bcos of your father,but in 2012, you could not retain the seat bcos you are so naive and clueless. shut up and ...
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  • K ASANTE 9 years ago

    Can we have a film on this great man. Samia, plse lead. There are numerous films on Mandela, and most leaders who fought for independence for their various countries, we are yet to see a film on the life of Osagyfor. This is ...
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  • Mark cape coast 9 years ago

    He attempted to use Ghana to gain the whole Africa.
    Samia if you want to continue your father's mission then change some of his ideologies. We love you. You are our daughter sister and friend but your dad did us wrong.

  • monkey man 9 years ago

    The next Dr. kwame Nkrumah is alive Ghana there is hope to stand once again,2020 if you Ghanaians listening to me and give me your vote to become your president you will never lived the miserable life you live today,I would d ...
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  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    What's this worth as news today? There is no lack of visions and dreams ever since God created Adam and Eve. Whatever his visions and dreams, Kwame Nkrumah was just another dictator at home who, like Jerry Rawlings, thought h ...
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  • Real African 9 years ago

    A well written tribute. Truly, Ghana will never forget President Kwame Nkrumah.

  • Nokware Ampa 9 years ago

    WE can say what we want about the noble man . HE is and will be the GREATEST man OF AFRICA to date- period. Can any Ghanaian tell me after Nkrumah, the rest of Ghana Presidents could be compared to him. Besides LIman,and pro ...
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  • Zip Up 9 years ago

    My Forever Condolence Goes ToThe Family And All Fellow Ghanaians For The Lost Of Our Forever Greatest Son Of Ghana And Africa Forty-Two Years A-Go And It Still Seems Just Like Today, Dr Ex-President Kwame Nkrumah Our Amicabl ...
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  • Nii Nortey 9 years ago

    The work of Matemihu, NLM,UP, Progress Party,NPP whatever you want to call it deprived and still depriving Ghanaians true meaning of FREEDOM.
    NKRUMAH never die

  • Adongo Tongo 9 years ago

    Nkrumah the power drunk dictator, the megalomaniacal coxcomb who called himself Osagyefo, is what I remember of your father's rule. Samia, do you realize how power drunk your father was? The constitution did not even have a p ...
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  • VAN 9 years ago

    Remember free education in the North, huh??? That is if you come from the North as your name suggests. I hope it is a pseudonym.

  • Sam 9 years ago

    How can any right thinking person make another person from a foreign country co - president?

  • Truth 9 years ago

    Hello Sam : If right thinking people of Ghana allowed # 1 Bastard (White man )-J.J.Rawlings to be President Of Ghana ,why not a true son of African descent be co -President in African country ?- Be your own judge Foool.

  • Truth 9 years ago

    The truth is that not only was he President Of Ghana for a year or two but 19 years, and ruled the true citizens of Ghana. with iron hands- killed innocent Ghanaians, naked women and flogged them for fun

  • Kwesi, Cape Coast 9 years ago

    This is a southerner who used northern name as camouflage.

  • ADONGO 9 years ago

    Well written Tongo.

  • Kojo 9 years ago

    Those with brain will understand this statement.

  • Wofa Koo 9 years ago

    Ghana need to focus and move forward for the better future.let history stayed in the history book.

  • kwame nkrumah. New York 9 years ago

    Samia your father never dies as we always said. i was named after your dad.and my father was the one who design a kente cloth which is known as Fathia fata Nkrumah meaning is your mum is compactable wife to your father. ...
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  • George Bush 9 years ago

    The coup that overthrew Nkrumah was organised by the CIA. Why does the USA think they have right to overthrow governments but other dont. Why are they complaining about Russia and Crimea. America should be ashamed of it's his ...
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  • CHE 9 years ago

    With the passage of time, we begin to understand his world view. Nkrumah was eons ahead of us and he continues to live in our hearts and minds.

  • Sandra 9 years ago

    They overthrew the only TRUE government we had and killed Nkrumah.

  • Nancy 9 years ago

    This is a man who did not steal a peswa of Ghana's money. Ghana is under a curse because of what was done to him and what we are doing to his party, the CPP.

  • agya koo 9 years ago

    may your great Soul rest in peace

  • Daniel 9 years ago

    Samia Yaba Nkrumah, there is no doubt that the pain I felt when I heard of your father’s passing on February 24, 1966. Oh, how time can fly so fast so innocently, yet we understand what this article mean to you, and to all ...
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  • Daniel 9 years ago

    You seem to be a selfless, and genuine person and can be a good leader. I believe that you deserve to become our leader in the next Presidential election. Can we all make this happen????

  • ATWOMOH 9 years ago

    Without a doubt, Samia is a great and a genuine individual! As to whether she can be a great president? I'm not so sure! She seemed to be too liberal to me! I may be wrong but she hasn't proved to me yet! She still needs to b ...
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  • Felix 9 years ago

    Massa, then you don't know what you are talking. Is this not the woman who shot some sense in Nduom's head? I have respected Samia ever since.

  • Potiphar 9 years ago

    My brother or sister,from the jokers we have had in the past and current who use tribalism to separate us so they take turns to take advantage of our trust with EPA and GMO,Samia cannot be worse than that.
    She is the ONLY po ...
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  • Uncle Mends, Western Region 9 years ago

    He sacrificed for his nation and continent. A courageous and great leader who was bent on making sure the black man not only manages his own affairs but also gets respect through education and industrialization. Nkrumah was t ...
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  • kb 9 years ago

    Nkrumah's overthrown has cause a great economic problem to our nation Ghana . shame to UP'S,and today here we are.

  • Dede 9 years ago

    Your dad,OUR DAD,was ahead of his time.
    Even in 2014,I experience debates with intellectuals who still do not understand what he stood for until I explain fully.
    If there EVER is any like him in Ghana's leadership again,the ...
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  • Baseti 9 years ago

    All those who justify the 1966 coup and any other coup that occurred in Ghana deserve to be sold to EPA and GMO.
    You gave up the only man who wanted to protect your dignity as an African but you were all blinded by baked bea ...
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  • Charles N.Kofi Nkrumah, London 9 years ago

    I believe that if the message being sent to all Ghanaians, especially, those politicians who call themselves Nkrumahist would create something positive for mother Ghana, if we really understand what coming together means.
    T ...
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  • SANTROFIE 9 years ago

    YABA, WELL DONE. BUT YOU NEED TO TALK SENSE THAT YOUR LITTLE BROTHER, SEKOU. HE NEEDS TO STOP SEEKING CRUMBS FROM THE TABLES OF THE NDC AND NPP AND TAKE UP OSAGYEFO'S MANTLE.WHY SHOULD SOMEONE LIVING BY THE RIVERSIDE WASH HIS ...
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  • JH New York 9 years ago

    These "Ma Te Meho" greedy bastards terrorist (present day Boko Haram) will always refused to see anything good in the person of Osagyefo, Dr Prof Kwame Nkrumah
    The man who devoted his entire life(body and soul) to the eman ...
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  • Mama K. 9 years ago

    May your soul rest in peace.

  • Goateater 9 years ago

    No African has left so much legacy as did The Osagyefo. Through his life's work, his writings, his incorruptible nature etc...etc... The Osagyefo has shown Africa and Africans what we can achieve by being true to ourselves. S ...
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  • FACT 9 years ago

    WE SHALL EVER BE GRATEFUL TO NKRUMAH. AT INDEPENDENCE, WE WERE WALLOWING IN ABJECT POVERTY BUT IN TIME, NKRUMAH CREATED MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR US. WE ALL BENEFITED IMMENSELY FROM YOUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAMME, FREE EDUCATION.

    T ...
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  • Kwabena, London 9 years ago

    Well said. I was in my fourth year at Ghana National College and young then in my understanding of politics and development at the time.
    Then coming to London to study Politics, Philisophy, and Development Economics, I came ...
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  • Samuel Asare-Nkansah(USA) 9 years ago

    Samia,May our great president rest in peace.His leadership can never be replicated.Mother Africa has lost a great soul and a son.
    Some of the old timers in America still remember "Kwame Nkrumah" and anytime these people real ...
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  • Alex Kojo Sammy-Paris!. 9 years ago

    Naana Nkrumah is the best with.....Amen in Jesus's name!, nd forward-ever oman Ghana with blessing with.....again Amen!, its Samms! nd babye from now!..

  • Komla - The Peace Broker 9 years ago

    Dr. Kwame Nkrumah never dies! The best Ghana and African ever had. Long live his memmories.Samia, thanks for sharing the memories of your father with us.

  • Nana Nkrumah 9 years ago

    Yes, some will cry foul when Osagyefo's name is mentioned, but whether you liked him or not, he is the ONLY leader Ghana has ever had and will ever have. The rest are RULERS.
    When he was overthrown his motto " Forward Ever b ...
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  • john Anandhua 9 years ago

    NKRUMAH GO NKRUMAH COME

  • anumnyam 9 years ago

    What many people do not know is that the first bomb against him exploded in his house in 1954; that is before we became independent. He liberated not only Ghana and Africa but the Black man on the global stage. May he find e ...
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  • Sky Chicago 9 years ago

    Samia,Your dad was loved by the lot and hated by the few. His was an era of misguided leadership and he happened to become the most Misunderstood. He Is Resting Peacefully and Watching over You.

  • Sankofa 9 years ago

    Kwame Nkrumah still lives in his ideas,principles, writings and achievements.

    Africa must unite. The imperative of continental unity is even greater now than it was when Nkrumah first espoused it. Nkrumah's promotion of th ...
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