Mahama’s gov’t has been disappointing – Samia

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• Ghanaman 9 years ago

  What do you expect?

  What do you expect?

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• Mahmoud 9 years ago

  Mr. Mahama is exactly one of the visionless African leaders that have always been accused of misplacing their priorities and bad governance. Does the NDC government think, despite the massive corruption, they can borrow reckl ...
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  Mr. Mahama is exactly one of the visionless African leaders that have always been accused of misplacing their priorities and bad governance. Does the NDC government think, despite the massive corruption, they can borrow recklessly and spend their way foolishly into another mandate in 2016, when the nation is over burdened with HIPC and workers wallowing in hunger and over taxed?
  
  Governance under the NDC government is all about deceit and 'opium of the people'. They enjoy everything under the sun but ask us to wait for our basic needs in heaven, and as they ask us to tighten our belts for future betterment, they're loosening theirs for immediate consumption. They didn't even respect our intelligence when they asked us to wait for a paradise in three years. The truth is that, everything they promise is a mirage and we will never find comfort under them because; they are con-men with con plans.

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• Mahmoud 9 years ago

  Being in power for six years with high commodity prices including the newly found oil, and after recklessly borrowing more than 60.8% of the GDP or $27bn in six years for dubious contracts and "oil curse" expenses, forcing th ...
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  Being in power for six years with high commodity prices including the newly found oil, and after recklessly borrowing more than 60.8% of the GDP or $27bn in six years for dubious contracts and "oil curse" expenses, forcing the Cedi to depreciate to about 40% of its value and the administration rushing to IMF for a bailout, the NDC government is now propagating deceitfully that it's seeking to reduce Ghana's import bill on rice, sugar, tomatoes, among other items, by encouraging the production of those commodities locally.
  
  The question Ghanaians are asking is whether the NDC government thinks we believe they are serious and realistic about food production, when they have already squandered six years and have only two years to leave office? Agriculture, and food production in particular, is a priority that should've been started and concentrated on since 2009. But unfortunately, they said they were still looking for ways to start it next year or so. Even SADA as a policy initiative is no more on government's agenda for 2015. We know they can cook figures to deceive Ghanaians; but they can't cook figures to deceive the IMF. Can they?

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• Mahmoud 9 years ago

  The so-called professor that tried to embellish Nkrumah's economic record needs to go to School all over again. These types of socialist arguments could deceive Ghanaians in the 50s and 60s but, they cannot do so now. Nkrumah ...
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  The so-called professor that tried to embellish Nkrumah's economic record needs to go to School all over again. These types of socialist arguments could deceive Ghanaians in the 50s and 60s but, they cannot do so now. Nkrumah was the first leader to introduce unsustainable debt into this country by borrowing massively and unnecessarily to finance his whims and caprices. It was a misfortune that we had such a person as president immediately after the independence. He didn't lay a realistic economic foundation for sustainable development of the young nation at all, considering the amount of money that was at his disposal in those days.
  
  Ghana had about one billion dollars in reserve when Nkrumah took over the reins of government from the colonial master. Could you imagine what the value of 1bn dollars was in the early fifties? Again, after 2years of his rule, cocoa prices at the world market rocketed and increased four-fold. But contrary to any sound economic planning, he did not reserve any fraction of the windfall for a rainy day as the Whiteman had done with only one fourth of the revenues he got from cocoa. So, what did Nkrumah do with all the revenue he got from the astronomical cocoa prices, and the big reserve he inherited that took many years to build for our financial stability and sustainable development?
  
  The man just went on a spending spree both in Ghana and around the world, throwing his weight about and talking big. So when the cocoa prices fell close to the end of his rule, he was quick to point accusing fingers at the West, blaming them for manipulating cocoa prices to sabotage the economy of Ghana and overthrow his government. Finally, after misusing all the money mainly on useless prestigious projects, failed communist agricultural projects and whimsical mad rush industrialization projects that did not withstand the test of time, he also burdened the young nation with another billion dollars' debt before he was forced out of the country.
  
  The truth is that, Kwame Nkrumah met a rich, confident country with stable economy, and left it nearly bankrupt in some few years as a result of gross mismanagement.

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

  Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.
  
  “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s s ...
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  Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.
  
  “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s solidarity message to the NDC at the congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional Captial, Kumasi – stronghold of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
  
  In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”
  
  “Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”
  
  He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”
  
  “Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”
  
  “NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”
  
  The wheelchair-bound Politicians has been called names and criticised by leaders and supporters of the NDC after his bluntness. While Majority Leader Alban Bagbin has said he believed Greenstreet was possessed by some demons, which caused him to be “so emotional”, presidential staffer Sam George wrote on his Facebook wall that: “Ivor Greenstreet apparently needs elevation to see the Better Ghana.”
  
  However, Nkrumah said Greenstreet’s message was crafted by the CPP to capture the mood and mind of the entire country.

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• OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

  Author:-Close Observer...
  O Lord I pray for Mother Ghana, that you reduce the number of FOOLISH VOTERS in 2016. Father the small number that will be left, wash their faces with sea sand so that they would be able to see the ...
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  Author:-Close Observer...
  O Lord I pray for Mother Ghana, that you reduce the number of FOOLISH VOTERS in 2016. Father the small number that will be left, wash their faces with sea sand so that they would be able to see the predicament they have put Ghana in through their foolish action, and change for the better. I pray that you let them vote this USELESS and CLUELESS GOVERNMENT out. Let those who these FOOLISH VOTERS envy because they are prospering as a result of which they vote foolishly so that they will be equal with them prosper even more. Father let those who are sympathetic to these USELESS VOTERS stop giving them money when they come begging, so that they will realize 'Ghana is hard', and vote wisely this time round. Amen

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• kwabena ohemeng,london 9 years ago

  What is your source,Mahmoud?The British government left the Gold Coast 1 billion dollars?.The British government left the Gold Coast between 200 and 250 million pounds after colonizing us for over hundred years and carting ou ...
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  What is your source,Mahmoud?The British government left the Gold Coast 1 billion dollars?.The British government left the Gold Coast between 200 and 250 million pounds after colonizing us for over hundred years and carting our gold,diamond,timber,bauxite,manganese etc to Britain nonstop and determining what price it bought our raw materials.How many good roads,hospitals,schools,Universities etc did the British leave behind when it reluctantly left the Gold Coast?You are one of those who did not experience colonization and therefore did not experience the poor level of development the British left the Gold Coast in.Britain left the Gold coast undeveloped and poor.It was only interested in taking our resources almost for free to create wealth and jobs for British citizens.Thank God Ghana had Osagyefo, a development minded person as its first president.If you are proud to be an african or a ghanaian then you owe Osagyefo a huge debt of gratitude.Perhaps you might have even attended one of the secondary schools that he built to accelerate education in Ghana.Pepole who matter most recognize Osagyefo's huge contribution towards the development of Ghana.

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• OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

  Author:-GURUNDA...
  Ghanaians must desist from "worshipping" presidents and begin to hold presidents and leaders accountable. Bravo Greenstreet for showing Ghanaians the right way. Why bow to presidents when they are stealin ...
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  Author:-GURUNDA...
  Ghanaians must desist from "worshipping" presidents and begin to hold presidents and leaders accountable. Bravo Greenstreet for showing Ghanaians the right way. Why bow to presidents when they are stealing millions of dollars of tax payer's money. The NDC people are enjoying while the people are suffering. Is this the better Ghana agenda. Thank you Greenstreet and more grease. May the Lord protect you

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Kwabena Ohemang,
  
  Pump some sense into this guy.
  
  Thanks.

  Kwabena Ohemang,
  
  Pump some sense into this guy.
  
  Thanks.

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Mahmoud,
  
  This is one long piece that renders your historical misconsciouness null and void. It is taken from Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's book "Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Policies: An African-CeWilliam nter ...
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  Mahmoud,
  
  This is one long piece that renders your historical misconsciouness null and void. It is taken from Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's book "Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Policies: An African-CeWilliam ntered Paradigm for the Second Revolution."
  
  Read the chapter "Post-Independence Political Policies."
  
  Lest I am not misconstrued as being infatuated with Nkrumah and Botwe-Asamoah, make sure to verify all the references the former gives, primary, secondary, and tertiary. This is how I read. I always try to go further that what most writers I read!
  
  Once you are done reading this and the references, you should realize you have no idea what you are talking about! What you are advancing here is light-years from the truth. Unfortunatley what you say is not even false. It does not exist!
  
  Here are the facts (I provide some of the references after the quote):
  
  ....................................
  "In the light of hostilities, both internal and external, how did Nkrumah manage to embark on unprecedented massive social, economic, industrial and cultural developments in the country? At the time of Ghana’s independence, “Nkrumah had left $500 million of
  reserves, accumulated during the colonial period, in long-term, low-interest British securities,” on the advice of the British, but “this great source of productive investment
  Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural thought and policies 114 was unavailable in 1959” (Mahoney: 161). Thus, political independence did not mean economic independence.
  
  Between 1951 and 1955, Nkrumah’s administration raised the national income from £20 million to £65 million per annum, while
  expenditure rose from £14 million to £52 million. The country redeemed its external debts, whilst the country’s “assets from all sources” amounted to nearly £100 million by 1955 (Nkrumah, 1973b:45). The CPP government’s development concentrated on education, Africanization of civil and public personnel, construction of hospitals, health and sanitation, road and railways constructions. The Adomi Bridge, Tema Harbor and the present campus of the University of Ghana were part of this development plan.
  
  Nkrumah’s economic policies were, in large measures, shaped by the planned and developmental economic ideas of John Keynes, often called “mixed economy.” Keynes’ criticism of laissez-faire economic theory was that an unregulated market system—private ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange of goods and services—“was likely to be chronically unstable and incapable of assuring the fullrealization of productive resources” (William Barber, 1967:237–250). His General
  Theory of Employment, Interest and Money thus advanced the need for active government intervention in the economy through savings and investment towards planning and development, as well as full employment (Ibid: 250).
  
  In July 1957, the government established the Bank of Ghana to play a very important and decisive role in the national life, in terms of “the economic and financial self-government and independence” (Nkrumah, 1973b:111). The Second Five-Year Development Plan, code-named “Building A Welfare State,” was launched on July 1,
  1959. The major components of the plan were industrial development, communication,power and water (Volta Dam Project) health and sanitation, tourist industry, arts and culture and employment. In the plan, Nkrumah saw education as “one of the main, if not the main pillar” (Ibid: 121). Though the development was based on mixed economy, the government was apprehensive about the emergence of strong free-market economy to
  impede Nkrumah’s long term socialist objectives. This explains why the industrial sector of Ghana’s “economy was mainly a joint venture between” foreign investors and the government. By so doing, “the government retained control of the economy and to ensure
  that foreign investment “fitted in with Ghana’s development” plan (Krafona: 34). Loan
  agreements for the country’s development plan were concluded on Ghana’s own fiscal
  policy. Hence, “Nkrumah rejected outright the loan agreement” on the Volta project “that Gbedemah had concluded with World Bank;” Nkrumah charged that “it was improper for
  the bank to dictate Ghana’s fiscal policy” (Mahoney: 169).
  
  On March 11, 1964, the Five Year Development Plan was replaced by a Seven Year Development Plan. The goal was to “develop Ghana economically, socially, culturally, educationally, spiritually and technologically” (Nkrumah, 1973:185). Code-named,
  “Work and Happiness,” the aim, under the plan, was to transform Ghana into a socialist country, in which the government would accept full responsibility in promoting the well-
  being of the masses. Yet still, the economy remained a mixed one, in which the public and co-operative sector operated along with the private sector (Ibid: 191). And the
  development plan made room for all investors, including foreign investors, the central and local governments, and individual Ghanaians. The State retained control of certain Post-independence political policies 115 strategic sectors of the economy, such as
  public utilities, raw materials and heavy industry.
  
  The total expenditure of the Seven-Year Development Plan was over a billion [British] pounds sterling, with a total government investment of four hundred and seventy-six million pounds. As a state in transition to socialism, the state enterprises were made to set up yearly financial and production targets, so that they would work towards definite objectives and goals. To achieve the goals of the plan, a National Economic Planning Commission was set up under the chairmanship of J.H.Mensah, then a Marxist oriented Economist.
  
  In January 1966, the Volta Dam project, critical to Nkrumah’s development plan was completed sooner than expected. At a special ceremony on January 23, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah switched lights to signify the flow of electricity from the Volta dam. He had achieved one of his dreams, which were once criticized as impossible and “prestigious projects” by his foes. The electricity generated from the dam was to set the stage for
  Ghana’s industrial development. Unfortunately for the people of Ghana and Africa, the US government succeeded in timing the completion of the Volta project before its sponsored military agents went into action to overthrow Nkrumah’s government on February 24, 1966. One of the arduous problems ignored by critics of Nkrumah government, specifically as it relates to the coup, is the fact that Nkrumah faced
  “tremendous difficulties entailed in the effort to bend the colonial bureaucratic and military institutions to the service
  of Pan-Africanism (Agyeman, 1992:40)
  .....................................
  
  References:
  
  1) Richard D. Mahoney (Book: "JFK Ordeal in Africa")
  
  2) Kwesi Krafona (Book: "The Pan-African Movement: Ghana's Contribution")
  
  3) Opoku Agyemang (Books: "Pan-Africanism and its Detractors: A Response to Harvard's Race-Effacing Universalists and "Nkrumah's Ghana and East Africa: Pan-Africanism and African Interstate Relations")
  
  4)William Barber (Book: "A History of Economic Thought")
  
  5) Kwame Nkrumah (Book: "I Speak of Freedom")
  
  These authors also provide additional reference. I hope you get educated after reading this.

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• Afia Ntosi 9 years ago

  Asamoah who?

  Asamoah who?

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Afia Ntosi,
  
  Afia Ntosi, Adjoa Wangara, Akadu Mansema, GIRLS SP...Unfortunately your ad hominem emotion do not contradict or confirm Dr. Botwe-Asamoah's well-informed assertions.
  
  You are merely running away from your ow ...
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  Afia Ntosi,
  
  Afia Ntosi, Adjoa Wangara, Akadu Mansema, GIRLS SP...Unfortunately your ad hominem emotion do not contradict or confirm Dr. Botwe-Asamoah's well-informed assertions.
  
  You are merely running away from your own shadow. Like I said elsewhere, you haven't seen anything yet!
  
  Always running from incontrovertible facts and real history and using female name.
  
  Who is a scholar anyway? Are there certificates or license to prove one is a scholar?
  
  Why don't you provide counterevidence to what Dr. Botwe-Asamoah says if you are a real scholar?
  
  Why don't you tell us otherwise rather resorting to ad hominem attacks?
  
  How does your ad hominem attacks contradict or confirm what Dr. Botwe-Asamoah says or the hundreds of evidence he gives?
  
  Is this how scholars like you debate your colleagues? You will hardly see Dr. Botwe-Asamoah involved in any ad hominem attacks anywhere with anybody, ever!
  
  The man, Dr. Botwe-Asamoah, loves facts. Whenever he and I debate or have discussions it is always about facts and hardcore references.
  
  You have no idea how much I have learned from this great scholar and how many resources (references, books, etc) I have come to know since knowing him! Probably he is the most knowldgeable and well-informed scholar that I know of on Ghanaweb (More will come later).
  
  If you have a problem with the hard facts as revealed by Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, what have you done about the references he gives?
  
  Mind you, Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah is one of the most knowledgeable and well-informed scholars I have met on this planet!
  
  You haven't seen anything yet!

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Hello Mahmoud,
  
  
  
  This is one long piece that renders your historical misconsciouness null and void. It is taken from Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's book "Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Policies: An African-CeWi ...
  read full comment

  Hello Mahmoud,
  
  
  
  This is one long piece that renders your historical misconsciouness null and void. It is taken from Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's book "Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Policies: An African-CeWilliam ntered Paradigm for the Second Revolution."
  
  Read the chapter "Post-Independence Political Policies."
  
  Lest I am not misconstrued as being infatuated with Nkrumah and Botwe-Asamoah, make sure to verify all the references the former gives, primary, secondary, and tertiary. This is how I read. I always try to go further that what most writers I read!
  
  Once you are done reading this and the references, you should realize you have no idea what you are talking about! What you are advancing here is light-years from the truth. Unfortunatley what you say is not even false. It does not exist!
  
  Here are the facts (I provide some of the references after the quote):
  
  ....................................
  "In the light of hostilities, both internal and external, how did Nkrumah manage to embark on unprecedented massive social, economic, industrial and cultural developments in the country? At the time of Ghana’s independence, “Nkrumah had left $500 million of
  reserves, accumulated during the colonial period, in long-term, low-interest British securities,” on the advice of the British, but “this great source of productive investment
  Kwame Nkrumah's politico-cultural thought and policies 114 was unavailable in 1959” (Mahoney: 161). Thus, political independence did not mean economic independence.
  
  Between 1951 and 1955, Nkrumah’s administration raised the national income from £20 million to £65 million per annum, while
  expenditure rose from £14 million to £52 million. The country redeemed its external debts, whilst the country’s “assets from all sources” amounted to nearly £100 million by 1955 (Nkrumah, 1973b:45). The CPP government’s development concentrated on education, Africanization of civil and public personnel, construction of hospitals, health and sanitation, road and railways constructions. The Adomi Bridge, Tema Harbor and the present campus of the University of Ghana were part of this development plan.
  
  Nkrumah’s economic policies were, in large measures, shaped by the planned and developmental economic ideas of John Keynes, often called “mixed economy.” Keynes’ criticism of laissez-faire economic theory was that an unregulated market system—private ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange of goods and services—“was likely to be chronically unstable and incapable of assuring the fullrealization of productive resources” (William Barber, 1967:237–250). His General
  Theory of Employment, Interest and Money thus advanced the need for active government intervention in the economy through savings and investment towards planning and development, as well as full employment (Ibid: 250).
  
  In July 1957, the government established the Bank of Ghana to play a very important and decisive role in the national life, in terms of “the economic and financial self-government and independence” (Nkrumah, 1973b:111). The Second Five-Year Development Plan, code-named “Building A Welfare State,” was launched on July 1,
  1959. The major components of the plan were industrial development, communication,power and water (Volta Dam Project) health and sanitation, tourist industry, arts and culture and employment. In the plan, Nkrumah saw education as “one of the main, if not the main pillar” (Ibid: 121). Though the development was based on mixed economy, the government was apprehensive about the emergence of strong free-market economy to
  impede Nkrumah’s long term socialist objectives. This explains why the industrial sector of Ghana’s “economy was mainly a joint venture between” foreign investors and the government. By so doing, “the government retained control of the economy and to ensure
  that foreign investment “fitted in with Ghana’s development” plan (Krafona: 34). Loan
  agreements for the country’s development plan were concluded on Ghana’s own fiscal
  policy. Hence, “Nkrumah rejected outright the loan agreement” on the Volta project “that Gbedemah had concluded with World Bank;” Nkrumah charged that “it was improper for
  the bank to dictate Ghana’s fiscal policy” (Mahoney: 169).
  
  On March 11, 1964, the Five Year Development Plan was replaced by a Seven Year Development Plan. The goal was to “develop Ghana economically, socially, culturally, educationally, spiritually and technologically” (Nkrumah, 1973:185). Code-named,
  “Work and Happiness,” the aim, under the plan, was to transform Ghana into a socialist country, in which the government would accept full responsibility in promoting the well-
  being of the masses. Yet still, the economy remained a mixed one, in which the public and co-operative sector operated along with the private sector (Ibid: 191). And the
  development plan made room for all investors, including foreign investors, the central and local governments, and individual Ghanaians. The State retained control of certain Post-independence political policies 115 strategic sectors of the economy, such as
  public utilities, raw materials and heavy industry.
  
  The total expenditure of the Seven-Year Development Plan was over a billion [British] pounds sterling, with a total government investment of four hundred and seventy-six million pounds. As a state in transition to socialism, the state enterprises were made to set up yearly financial and production targets, so that they would work towards definite objectives and goals. To achieve the goals of the plan, a National Economic Planning Commission was set up under the chairmanship of J.H.Mensah, then a Marxist oriented Economist.
  
  In January 1966, the Volta Dam project, critical to Nkrumah’s development plan was completed sooner than expected. At a special ceremony on January 23, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah switched lights to signify the flow of electricity from the Volta dam. He had achieved one of his dreams, which were once criticized as impossible and “prestigious projects” by his foes. The electricity generated from the dam was to set the stage for
  Ghana’s industrial development. Unfortunately for the people of Ghana and Africa, the US government succeeded in timing the completion of the Volta project before its sponsored military agents went into action to overthrow Nkrumah’s government on February 24, 1966. One of the arduous problems ignored by critics of Nkrumah government, specifically as it relates to the coup, is the fact that Nkrumah faced
  “tremendous difficulties entailed in the effort to bend the colonial bureaucratic and military institutions to the service
  of Pan-Africanism (Agyeman, 1992:40)
  .....................................
  
  References:
  
  1) Richard D. Mahoney (Book: "JFK Ordeal in Africa")
  
  2) Kwesi Krafona (Book: "The Pan-African Movement: Ghana's Contribution")
  
  3) Opoku Agyemang (Books: "Pan-Africanism and its Detractors: A Response to Harvard's Race-Effacing Universalists and "Nkrumah's Ghana and East Africa: Pan-Africanism and African Interstate Relations")
  
  4)William Barber (Book: "A History of Economic Thought")
  
  5) Kwame Nkrumah (Book: "I Speak of Freedom")
  
  These authors also provide additional reference. I hope you get educated after reading this.

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• Mahmoud 9 years ago

  Russia, China and Cuba have all thrown all these useless ideas into the sea. Millions of people suffered for long years under them only to find out that they are behind and have to start all over again. China wouldn't have be ...
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  Russia, China and Cuba have all thrown all these useless ideas into the sea. Millions of people suffered for long years under them only to find out that they are behind and have to start all over again. China wouldn't have been where it is today if Mao was still alive with those antiquated ideas. Cuba has been courting America seriously with some face saving tactics since Castro stepped down to pave the way for that.

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Mahmoud,
  
  "But, to adapt a famous phrase of Winston Churchill about democracy (market in votes) to capitalism (market in goods), capitalism is the worst possible form of economic development save for all the rest.
  
  You th ...
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  Mahmoud,
  
  "But, to adapt a famous phrase of Winston Churchill about democracy (market in votes) to capitalism (market in goods), capitalism is the worst possible form of economic development save for all the rest.
  
  You think as someone who lives on another planet? What is your intellectual strength in the area of political economy? Do you have any expertise in political economy?
  
  Go read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," John Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," Cheryl Payer's "The Debt Trap: The International Monetary Plan and the Third World," Eric Williams' "Slavery and Capitalism," and try to read most of the 100-plus books of Noam Chomsky.
  
  These writers will give you firsthand accounts hundreds of million of people whose lives have been destroyed by capitalism (including environmental pollution, ozone depletion is just one).
  
  Did you ever hear of "Occupy Wall Street," watch the movies "Wolf of Wall Street" and "The Great Gatsby"?
  
  None of the countries (China, Russia, you mentioned is technically capitalist; they all practiced mixed economy. Who carries the burden of America's debt beside the American people? China, a mixed economy.
  
  Know that a "mixed economy" is neither socialism/communism nor capitalism! It is a mixture of so many things, hence "mixed."
  
  In case you don't also know Scandinavian countries are not capitalist either. And a brief history of the United States should have taught you how socialist/communist ideas contributed to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's so-called New Deal.
  
  You might also want to know how socialist/communist ideas contributed to unionization of America and many parts of the West.
  
  And you might want to know how socialist policies continue to shape Obama's thinking and his policies like his Affordable Care Act; see how the capitalist Republicans attacked him for introducing socialist policies in the America).
  
  And you might want to know how America has tried to unseat the leadership of Cuba but failed.
  
  Do you know how many times America tried to poison Fidel Castro's cigars (via the mafia) and still failed? Have you ever in your life heard or read about the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
  
  Have you any idea how long America has been longing to have Cuba in its sphere of influence, hence America's subversive attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro?
  
  Have you idea that Cuba, a communist country, has a better economy and health system (and has one of the highest literary rates in the world) than all the capitalist countries in African? How many Africans (including Ghanaians, Westerners, and Asians) are sent there every to train as doctors?
  
  Have you read Fidel Castro's and Nelson Mandela's books "Cuba and Angola: Fighting Africa's Freedom and Our Own" and "How Far We Slaves Have Come: South Africa and Cuba in Today's World" to see what the communist Cubans did for Africans while your capitalist West colonized and enslaved Africans? Have you read Adams Hochschild's "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" and CLR James' "The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution" too see the evils of capitalism?
  
  Have you any ideas why generations of American leaders tried to overthrow the Cuban leadership?
  
  Go and read the New York Times piece "US To Restore Full Relations With Cuba, Erasing a Last Chance of Cold War Hostility," Dec. 17, 2014 (Peter Baker).
  
  You might want to see Pope Francis' role in making it happen. And you might want to know has always been part of Obama's progressive orientation to do exactly that (if he ever became a president.
  
  Have you read any of Obama's books or any of his scholarly writings yet?
  
  Have you heard of South Africa's Dr. Death (Dr. Wouter Baason) and what his capitalist bosses did to Black South Africans?
  
  Don't demonstrate your ignorance on a public forum as Ghanaweb!

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• Afia Ntosi 9 years ago

  You need to think things through!

  You need to think things through!

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Afia Ntosi (Alias Mahmoud),
  
  Have you asked Mahmoud to give you one shred of evidence to back up his historical falsities? No wonder we are all sinking!
  
  And is always Afia Ntosi, Adjoa Wangara, GIRLS SP, Akadu Mansema.. ...
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  Afia Ntosi (Alias Mahmoud),
  
  Have you asked Mahmoud to give you one shred of evidence to back up his historical falsities? No wonder we are all sinking!
  
  And is always Afia Ntosi, Adjoa Wangara, GIRLS SP, Akadu Mansema...Running away from facts!
  
  Anyway this is for you as well. Read on:
  
  "But, to adapt a famous phrase of Winston Churchill about democracy (market in votes) to capitalism (market in goods), capitalism is the worst possible form of economic development save for all the rest.
  
  You think as someone who lives on another planet? What is your intellectual strength in the area of political economy? Do you have any expertise in political economy?
  
  Go read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," John Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," Cheryl Payer's "The Debt Trap: The International Monetary Plan and the Third World," Eric Williams' "Slavery and Capitalism," and try to read most of the 100-plus books of Noam Chomsky.
  
  These writers will give you firsthand accounts hundreds of million of people whose lives have been destroyed by capitalism (including environmental pollution, ozone depletion is just one).
  
  Did you ever hear of "Occupy Wall Street," watch the movies "Wolf of Wall Street" and "The Great Gatsby"?
  
  None of the countries (China, Russia, you mentioned is technically capitalist; they all practiced mixed economy. Who carries the burden of America's debt beside the American people? China, a mixed economy.
  
  Know that a "mixed economy" is neither socialism/communism nor capitalism! It is a mixture of so many things, hence "mixed."
  
  In case you don't also know Scandinavian countries are not capitalist either. And a brief history of the United States should have taught you how socialist/communist ideas contributed to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's so-called New Deal.
  
  You might also want to know how socialist/communist ideas contributed to unionization of America and many parts of the West.
  
  And you might want to know how socialist policies continue to shape Obama's thinking and his policies like his Affordable Care Act; see how the capitalist Republicans attacked him for introducing socialist policies in the America).
  
  And you might want to know how America has tried to unseat the leadership of Cuba but failed.
  
  Do you know how many times America tried to poison Fidel Castro's cigars (via the mafia) and still failed? Have you ever in your life heard or read about the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
  
  Have you any idea how long America has been longing to have Cuba in its sphere of influence, hence America's subversive attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro?
  
  Have you idea that Cuba, a communist country, has a better economy and health system (and has one of the highest literary rates in the world) than all the capitalist countries in African? How many Africans (including Ghanaians, Westerners, and Asians) are sent there every to train as doctors?
  
  Have you read Fidel Castro's and Nelson Mandela's books "Cuba and Angola: Fighting Africa's Freedom and Our Own" and "How Far We Slaves Have Come: South Africa and Cuba in Today's World" to see what the communist Cubans did for Africans while your capitalist West colonized and enslaved Africans? Have you read Adams Hochschild's "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" and CLR James' "The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution" too see the evils of capitalism?
  
  Have you any ideas why generations of American leaders tried to overthrow the Cuban leadership?
  
  Go and read the New York Times piece "US To Restore Full Relations With Cuba, Erasing a Last Chance of Cold War Hostility," Dec. 17, 2014 (Peter Baker).
  
  You might want to see Pope Francis' role in making it happen. And you might want to know has always been part of Obama's progressive orientation to do exactly that (if he ever became a president.
  
  Have you read any of Obama's books or any of his scholarly writings yet?
  
  Have you heard of South Africa's Dr. Death (Dr. Wouter Baason) and what his capitalist bosses did to Black South Africans?
  
  Don't demonstrate your ignorance on a public forum as Ghanaweb!

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• Kwodwo apedwa 9 years ago

  You are very dishonest persons and overly policitical. Boss do you know the reason the npp did less development in Ghana? Because they had no money. The money that they used for the presidential palace was a loan and the o ...
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  You are very dishonest persons and overly policitical. Boss do you know the reason the npp did less development in Ghana? Because they had no money. The money that they used for the presidential palace was a loan and the one for the N1 was from the Usa. Ghana needs money for development and in the absence of our abysmal tax system how do you expect us to develop. One is the short term way out to develop is by borrowing. Which is what government is doing. And here you sit casting aspersions on the president.( democracy huh)
  
  Do you know how much npp borrowed for the Ghana at 50 and used some of the money to award themselves? Mahama is not in that league and he has been shown to be apt when there is any whiff of corruption. He tackles it without and excuse and here we are casting aspersions on him. May god protect him and reward him for his service

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• EFO KOKU 9 years ago

  Fuck the so called president. He's a useless incompetent thief. Not ripe for even a class prefect.

  Fuck the so called president. He's a useless incompetent thief. Not ripe for even a class prefect.

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• Remove Indemnity Clause 9 years ago

  Ghana is a failed state taken over by corrupt politicians.

  Ghana is a failed state taken over by corrupt politicians.

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• mensa 9 years ago

  THE MAN IS A TOTAL FAILURE EVERY ONE HAD IT WITH HIM HE IS DONE

  THE MAN IS A TOTAL FAILURE EVERY ONE HAD IT WITH HIM HE IS DONE

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• daladam 9 years ago

  mahama destroyed Ghana and still destroying our country every day he is in power

  mahama destroyed Ghana and still destroying our country every day he is in power

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• jOEy lOndOn 9 years ago

  Only None kortibortors and non Adjusted puxxxxixxy (mutilated female gentiles )comments shall be responded...

  Only None kortibortors and non Adjusted puxxxxixxy (mutilated female gentiles )comments shall be responded...

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• The mask 9 years ago

  As we celebrate christmas the economy is hitting many families hard and many have run out of ideas.
  
  Boachsoft Finance 2012 software, developed in East Akim Municipality (Akyem-Maase and Bunso) in the Eastern Region of Ghan ...
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  As we celebrate christmas the economy is hitting many families hard and many have run out of ideas.
  
  Boachsoft Finance 2012 software, developed in East Akim Municipality (Akyem-Maase and Bunso) in the Eastern Region of Ghana and in Accra/Sakumono, is helping many families across the globe to balance the family budget, amortize loans and save for the future.
  
  The next version is set to be released in December 2015. Use only the 2012 version.
  
  For more information on managing family finances read the following page:
  
  boachsoft. com

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• ashantis and L & R 9 years ago

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• Ghanaba 9 years ago

  i will advice samia to go n purify d kankan nyame spirit mayb dats the cause of sufferin in gh if i were to b u samia i will back out of politics shame on u

  i will advice samia to go n purify d kankan nyame spirit mayb dats the cause of sufferin in gh if i were to b u samia i will back out of politics shame on u

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• Kofi Adoma 9 years ago

  I am ashamed you call yourself Ghanaba but lazy to learn, gather historical facts and read between the lines! You are not worth any intellectual discourse.
  take the name "Ghanaba" off you and work to earn to be called "Ghan ...
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  I am ashamed you call yourself Ghanaba but lazy to learn, gather historical facts and read between the lines! You are not worth any intellectual discourse.
  take the name "Ghanaba" off you and work to earn to be called "Ghanaba"!

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• JOSUAH 9 years ago

  SAMIA START CAMPAIGNING NOW FOR Convention People's Party TO WIN MORE PARLIAMENTARY SEATS FOR 2016 GHANA NEED SINCERE AND GREAT LEADER

  SAMIA START CAMPAIGNING NOW FOR Convention People's Party TO WIN MORE PARLIAMENTARY SEATS FOR 2016 GHANA NEED SINCERE AND GREAT LEADER

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• RAF 9 years ago

  Samia don't just talk. from your bitter end. Please give some example of the types of development YOU want which Kufuor and Co haven't pursue. It's true that present administration has it's pants in a twist and cant find her ...
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  Samia don't just talk. from your bitter end. Please give some example of the types of development YOU want which Kufuor and Co haven't pursue. It's true that present administration has it's pants in a twist and cant find her elbow from her rear end. Its not enough to be given a platform to speak and all you can say is ... wrong path of developments have been chosen without telling us which path is the right one!!! Only. I am opened to any sensible accessions from NDC, NPP, PPP, CPP etc members only when it makes sense.

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• Kwodwo apedwa 9 years ago

  Raf. Tell me which kind of development the NPP did that we aren't witnessing with the npp. Let's be honest. Have you heard of the various hospitals being built currently. Have you heard of the Nkrumah circle overpass, the k ...
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  Raf. Tell me which kind of development the NPP did that we aren't witnessing with the npp. Let's be honest. Have you heard of the various hospitals being built currently. Have you heard of the Nkrumah circle overpass, the kpong water works etc etc. This govt is doing so much as we speak. Let's not be overly political every time. The Ndc is not giving any excuse for talking corruption. They actually are

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• EFO KOKU 9 years ago

  My brother, the existing ones are collapsing under his watch & you're talking of building new ones. When will you people think? There are no beds for pregnant women and you're thinking of issuing contracts for new hospitals t ...
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  My brother, the existing ones are collapsing under his watch & you're talking of building new ones. When will you people think? There are no beds for pregnant women and you're thinking of issuing contracts for new hospitals to be built. Asem ni!

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• Kofi Adoma 9 years ago

  RAF, is the truth too ugly for you?
  kuffuor's policy formulation and implementation are not diff from Mahama's! they r all save face programs. they all are anti-domestic producers!
  Kuffuor had no sustainable long term proje ...
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  RAF, is the truth too ugly for you?
  kuffuor's policy formulation and implementation are not diff from Mahama's! they r all save face programs. they all are anti-domestic producers!
  Kuffuor had no sustainable long term project and so is Mahama. they are all army generals of the Worl bank/IMF.
  Samia and her CPP's song is local content import substitution to create jobs and generate revenue for sustainable development. Ghana Abr3!

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• Kwodwo apedwa 9 years ago

  look samia hasn't said anything new. Her cries are the usual Ghanaian cry of hypocrisy. Ask samia. What can she do different for Ghana y
  Than going back to the ideals of her father which is just a blue print. Ghana needs ...
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  look samia hasn't said anything new. Her cries are the usual Ghanaian cry of hypocrisy. Ask samia. What can she do different for Ghana y
  Than going back to the ideals of her father which is just a blue print. Ghana needs pragmatic steps and baby steps to put w lot of things into place. Would u want Mahama to just rush his government, blood the country with drug money leave so we come to square one? This is a new dawn, and a lot of countries are faced with economic instability. Mahama is not a magician to turn the economy in a day.
  
  Samia is a politician who hopes to be president so I don't expect her to praise Mahama and his Ndc.
  Let's look at recent devopments as Mahama has taken in his presidency and honestly ask ourselves if we are developing or not? The answer is there for all to see. Bring Npp to power today as they were For 8 yes and dumsor won't be over instantly.

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• CAPE COAST BOY 9 years ago

  GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

  GOD BLESS MY HOMELAND GHANA

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• MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

  An independent past, "as we did with the first republic", will not be enough Madam Samia.
  Ghana has changed so much, and the whole world has also undergone remarkable transformation that the CPP has to retool to lay out a ...
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  An independent past, "as we did with the first republic", will not be enough Madam Samia.
  Ghana has changed so much, and the whole world has also undergone remarkable transformation that the CPP has to retool to lay out a new vision of sustainable Ghana.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

  The husband says to wife: "My Olympic condoms have arrived. Think I will wear gold tonight."
  
  The wife says: "Why don't you wear silver and cum fuckin second for a change?"
  
  WE USE TO HAVE A STINKING DRY FISH CALLED EWURA ...
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  The husband says to wife: "My Olympic condoms have arrived. Think I will wear gold tonight."
  
  The wife says: "Why don't you wear silver and cum fuckin second for a change?"
  
  WE USE TO HAVE A STINKING DRY FISH CALLED EWURA EFUA NOW WE HAVE TILAPIA MOMONI FOR A CHANGE.

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• Nii Lante Okunka 9 years ago

  Could somebody please tell this Samia woman to STOP taking us back to what her father tried to do,geee!Enough already with these "sankofa mentalities".
  Like Macus wisely noted,Ghana has changed,the world has changed.We need ...
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  Could somebody please tell this Samia woman to STOP taking us back to what her father tried to do,geee!Enough already with these "sankofa mentalities".
  Like Macus wisely noted,Ghana has changed,the world has changed.We need not go back to State controlled economic policies that Samia's father tried to pursue.If she doubts me,she should take a hard look at China,Vietnam,Russia and others. They've aborted,to a large extent,State run economics and ushered in some variations of the free market systems and that has catapulted millions of their citizens from abject poverty to the middle income status.We can do same in Ghana instead of freezing our thinking,as suggested by Dr Kosah,and bringing prosperity to our teeming masses through the encouragement of innovations, that would be handsomely compensated and fostering an entrepreneurial spirit with less regulations,cumbersome taxation that are the sensible approaches to national wealth building which in turn would raise the standard of living of our people instead of the attitude that government knows what's best for us.Something Samia's father,the Osagyefo, was obsessed with and tried to institutionalized until his overthrow.
  If Kwame Nkrumah started with the construction of a national sewerage and drainage system way back then,it'll not only have created hundreds of thousands of jobs for many years in our early development but would have saved us billions of dollars in medical costs today as our nation grapples with attending to the very preventable diseases that are a bane on our national health system because of Nkrumah's misplaced and haphazard development plans.
  So please,Samia,if you want to wallow in your father's archaic economic policies,by all means do but DON'T DRAG ALL OF US INTO IT.WE KNOW BETTER.GHANA DOES NOT WANT TO BE LIKE CASTRO'S CUBA!!!!

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• MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

  Even the people of Cuba are yearning for free enterprise, and the Castro brothers are beginning to yield to changes.

  Even the people of Cuba are yearning for free enterprise, and the Castro brothers are beginning to yield to changes.

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Marcus,
  
  Ghana had never been a socialist or communist nation at any point in our political history. Therefore, I don't don't know why you compare Ghana and Cuba?
  
  Cuba has always done better than nearly every "free enter ...
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  Marcus,
  
  Ghana had never been a socialist or communist nation at any point in our political history. Therefore, I don't don't know why you compare Ghana and Cuba?
  
  Cuba has always done better than nearly every "free enterprise" country in Africa, including universal health care, literacy, crime rates, GDP, etc.
  
  And Cuba even train many of our doctors? Cubans were in West Africa fighting Ebola when our "free enterprise" African countries had no clue what to do?
  
  Cuba even helped many African countries gain independence, including destroying Apartheid....The list is endless. Yet Cuba does not have the wealth we Africans have. If there is one country on this planet Africans should learn from, it surely should be Cuba.
  
  Thanks.

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• Kofi Adoma 9 years ago

  is either u r ignorant, naive or a hypocrite in geopolitics that wil make you say Havana is calling for free enterprise. Go and read with objective lense on Castro's proposal to U.S.
  I am busy now to teach you, so go and le ...
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  is either u r ignorant, naive or a hypocrite in geopolitics that wil make you say Havana is calling for free enterprise. Go and read with objective lense on Castro's proposal to U.S.
  I am busy now to teach you, so go and learn. You are sounding literate ILLETRATE like Mahama, Rawlings and Kuffuor whose hypocricy drained their knowledge!
  When did import substitution becane outmoded? US/UK/GERMAN/CHINA depend on nationalistic consumption to keep job and revenue.

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• kwabena ohemeng,london 9 years ago

  That is why the imperialists did all they could to remove him.They never wanted Ghana to develop and use its resources for the benefit of ghanaians.To the imperialists Ghana should continue to be a market for their industrial ...
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  That is why the imperialists did all they could to remove him.They never wanted Ghana to develop and use its resources for the benefit of ghanaians.To the imperialists Ghana should continue to be a market for their industrial goods and a source for raw materials to feed their industries.Yes, Ghana is still a big warehouse and market for their indusrial goods.We have created wealth and jobs for their citizens and poverty and unemployment for ourselves.Ghana will never move forward as a nation unless radical measures are taken to decolonize the economy and use our resources to create jobs and wealth for ghanaians.Obama rightly said that it is ghanaians whose duty it is to develop the nation.Or ghanaians have forgotten this plain truth.

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• Paul 9 years ago

  By all means re-visit the ideas, ideals and actions of the past, learn lessons from them and avoid the mistakes of that period. I would rather that today's CPP was more constructive in their approach to contributing to Ghana' ...
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  By all means re-visit the ideas, ideals and actions of the past, learn lessons from them and avoid the mistakes of that period. I would rather that today's CPP was more constructive in their approach to contributing to Ghana's development and be more actively involved in supporting efforts to improve our current state.
  
  It is absolutely necessary to be critical of governments and their performance but not entirely helpful if the CPP expends a lot of its energy merely criticising and being negative, instead of joining in finding solutions to the problems.
  
  For starters, the CPP could embark upon a educational campaign in our schools to promote the philosophy of its founders (Civic Education), promote youth participation in national affairs and learning to contribute to their communities. The CPP could also be more objective in its assessment of government efforts and where good efforts are being made, support and promote them (irrespective of which party is running the country).
  
  It is at times heartbreaking to see, hear and read current interpretation of what the Osagyefo Dr Nkrumah actually stood for, and one wonders if Kwame Nkrumah would have used the same approach in the 21st Century. My advice to the CPP, don't allow the likes of Prof. Amoako Baah to 'lead your party', rather heed his criticisms, take stock and get your act together if you want to be taken seriously as an INDEPENDENT PARTY with an ambition to lead Ghana's TRUE INDEPENDENCE in the 21st Century.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago

  On hearing that her elderly grandfather who was a CPP member had just passed away, Katie went straight to her grandparent’s house to visit her 95 year old grandmother and comfort her. When she asked how her grandfather had ...
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  On hearing that her elderly grandfather who was a CPP member had just passed away, Katie went straight to her grandparent’s house to visit her 95 year old grandmother and comfort her. When she asked how her grandfather had died, her grandmother replied, "He had a heart attack while we were making love on Sunday morning." Horrified, Katie told her grandmother that 2 people nearly 100 years old having sex would surely be asking for trouble. "Oh no, my dear, " replied granny. "Many years ago, realizing our advanced age, we figured out the best time to do it was when the church bells would start to ring. It was just the right rhythm. Nice and slow and even. Nothing too strenuous, simply in on the Ding and out on the Dong." She paused, wiped away a tear and then continued, "And if that damned ice cream truck hadn’t come along, he’d still be alive today!"

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• KOFI 9 years ago

  You need help

  You need help

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• HUBERT 9 years ago

  SPOT ON! SAMIA.
  
  BOHOR BIOMM!
  
  ANYWAY, WHAT'S YOUR PERSONAL CELLPHONE NUMBER?
  
  SEND IT TO ME PLEASE.

  SPOT ON! SAMIA.
  
  BOHOR BIOMM!
  
  ANYWAY, WHAT'S YOUR PERSONAL CELLPHONE NUMBER?
  
  SEND IT TO ME PLEASE.

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• KOFI 9 years ago

  She was too young to know what happened in the first republic. Economic disaster and mismanagement. Socialism belongs to the dustbin of history

  She was too young to know what happened in the first republic. Economic disaster and mismanagement. Socialism belongs to the dustbin of history

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• obibini 9 years ago

  Human beings live in Cuba. But for the primitive economic embargo imposed on Cuba by imperialist America Cuba will be very advanced economically and with a more equitable society.

  Human beings live in Cuba. But for the primitive economic embargo imposed on Cuba by imperialist America Cuba will be very advanced economically and with a more equitable society.

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• Time Will Tell 9 years ago

  Let's all campaign against Mahama and NDC ahead of 2016.

  Let's all campaign against Mahama and NDC ahead of 2016.

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• Nii Nortey (New York) 9 years ago

  YOU STILL DID NOT SAY ANYTHINg WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT TO SUGGEST.ALL YOU DID WAS EMPTY TALK

  YOU STILL DID NOT SAY ANYTHINg WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT TO SUGGEST.ALL YOU DID WAS EMPTY TALK

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• Nana Wiafe 9 years ago

  One Party State or what?

  One Party State or what?

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• J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 9 years ago

  NDC is bad for GH

  NDC is bad for GH

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• J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 9 years ago

  GH is sinking

  GH is sinking

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• J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 9 years ago

  GH is sinking

  GH is sinking

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• J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 9 years ago

  GH is sinking

  GH is sinking

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• J.B. Rockson Washington D.C. 9 years ago

  GH is sinking

  GH is sinking

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• GBEWAA 9 years ago

  "THE NEW POWER BOSS warned that if the country did not resolve the power crisis within the next six months, he would authorise all power generators at the various VRA bungalows and chief executive officers residence, as well ...
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  "THE NEW POWER BOSS warned that if the country did not resolve the power crisis within the next six months, he would authorise all power generators at the various VRA bungalows and chief executive officers residence, as well as his own residence, to be disconnected so they would feel the pinch of having to sleep in darkness as being experienced by ordinary Ghanaians".
  
  WHY DID'NT HE DO THIS IMMEDIATELY THE PROBLEM STARTED AFTER HIS APPOINTMENT.
  
  HE LIVES IN GHANA SO HE KNOWS ORDINARY GHAANAIANS ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM.
  
  THESE UTILITIES BOSSES, INCLUDING "PRESIDENT" MAHAMA AND MANY OTHERS, GET ALL THESE UTIILITIES SUPPLIED TO THEIR FREE GOVERNMENT RESIDENCES FOR FREE.
  
  THOSE WHO PRE-PAY ARE RATHER EXPOSED TO THIS WICKED "DUMSOR" NONSENSE.
  
  THOSE WHO GET UTILITIES SUPPLIED FREE TO THEIR FREE GOVERNMENT RESIDENCES ALWAYS GET 24/7 ALTERNATIVE UNINTERRUPTED SUPPLY FREE, SO WHY WOULD THEY FEEL THE PINCH?
  
  GOD IS WATCHING!
  
  ONE DAY, GHANAIANS WILL RISE UP AGAINST THEIR FUCKING LEADERSHIP!

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• NICOLAS 9 years ago

  This prostitute 50/50 Ghanaian should stop disturbing our ears, where were you when your father brought the preventive detective act to kill innocent Ghanaians , why don,t you apologise to Ghanaians for all the pain cause th ...
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  This prostitute 50/50 Ghanaian should stop disturbing our ears, where were you when your father brought the preventive detective act to kill innocent Ghanaians , why don,t you apologise to Ghanaians for all the pain cause them by your father you better shut up or we will shut you up that have Arab blood is disturbing you you eehh IF IT HAD BEEN EGYPT YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN KILL BY NOW, I AM FULL BLOODED GHANAIAN ( SHIT) YOUR FATHER KILLED PEOPLES PARENTS

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• Kofi Adoma 9 years ago

  should this site screen its users, nonentities like you will be kept at where you belong!
  you are not diff from Bokoharam/ISIL/AL-NUSRA/ALQAEDA naive shallow minded members.
  Can't you people realise your consistent assassin ...
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  should this site screen its users, nonentities like you will be kept at where you belong!
  you are not diff from Bokoharam/ISIL/AL-NUSRA/ALQAEDA naive shallow minded members.
  Can't you people realise your consistent assassination of Nkrumah is taking you no where? It's about time you people talk with your heads!
  Is her alternative local content import substitution what Ghana needs to create Jobs and generate revenue for sustainable development?
  this is what you people should comment on. if u can't match her on that, keep mute!!!!

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• Afia Ntosi 9 years ago

  Mahama is a big failure!

  Mahama is a big failure!

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• Son Of Man 9 years ago

  IS NOT DISAPPOINTING ONLY BUT A TOTAL FAILURE AND IN A MESS.
  IS COMPLETELY UPSIDE DOWN.
  NKRUMAHIST HAVE A CLEAN OPPORTUNITY NOW BUT UNFORTUNATELY, YOU GUYS CANT JUST UNITE.
  THAT IS THE CAUSE OF YOUR FAILURE.
  PLEASE GET UN ...
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  IS NOT DISAPPOINTING ONLY BUT A TOTAL FAILURE AND IN A MESS.
  IS COMPLETELY UPSIDE DOWN.
  NKRUMAHIST HAVE A CLEAN OPPORTUNITY NOW BUT UNFORTUNATELY, YOU GUYS CANT JUST UNITE.
  THAT IS THE CAUSE OF YOUR FAILURE.
  PLEASE GET UNITED.

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• adanko 9 years ago

  SAMIA I AGREE WE CANNOT DEVELOP WITHOUT A PLAN. OUR DEVELOPMENT IS TOO PARTISAN . WE NEED A NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BLUE PRINT PLAN WHICH ALL PARTIES WILL FOLLOW BUT WITH DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. THIS IS WHY WE PUMP NATIONAL RESOU ...
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  SAMIA I AGREE WE CANNOT DEVELOP WITHOUT A PLAN. OUR DEVELOPMENT IS TOO PARTISAN . WE NEED A NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BLUE PRINT PLAN WHICH ALL PARTIES WILL FOLLOW BUT WITH DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. THIS IS WHY WE PUMP NATIONAL RESOURCES INTO A PROJECT AND ANOTHER GOVT COMES TO START ANOTHER ONE WAISTING SOMETHING ELSE AND ABANDONED IT. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING EVERY WHERE IS A DESTINATION! THAT IS OUR PROBLEM

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• SAY IT AS IT IS 9 years ago

  Samia and the CPP, must be truthfull to themselves that with all the governments Ghana as a nation has had apart from Nkrumah and the CPP during Nkrumah's time this is the only government that is trying to put things right.
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  Samia and the CPP, must be truthfull to themselves that with all the governments Ghana as a nation has had apart from Nkrumah and the CPP during Nkrumah's time this is the only government that is trying to put things right.
  To think as the new CPP, is thinking makes it a laughing stock in many eyes and makes Samia look a fool like her brother as at now but not when he joined the NDC eariler.
  The CPP, must try to find the real magic of the Great One and try to be true to itself than playing blind politics. This kind of politics will fail because people can see when they want to see when the time to see what is talked about.
  As a people we must learn to tying our belts to make it better for the fufutre.
  NKRUMAH, told us to TYING our belts when the west was trying to topple his works by making things hard for him. If those in the CPP has not read that or just playing fool then i want to remind them. In any society when you want to go forward you need to fight to move forward not to think of what you will eat today as Greenstrrt and the CPP is thinking and you SAMIA, thinks it is great. OH my GOD it is plain foolishness, we must think of the tommorow too, Blackman!

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• PN 9 years ago

  Samia, I beg to differ on your perspectives. Nkrumah's gov't pursued socialism, which has been proven to be the wrong pathway for economic dev't. The countries that pursued Capitalism, like Malasia, Korea etc are prosperous. ...
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  Samia, I beg to differ on your perspectives. Nkrumah's gov't pursued socialism, which has been proven to be the wrong pathway for economic dev't. The countries that pursued Capitalism, like Malasia, Korea etc are prosperous. If Nkrumah's gov't wasn't overthrown, Ghana would be in the same boat as Zimbabwe, or worse. That's the fact.

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• PN 9 years ago

  Look at what Kuffour's gov't achieved in 8 years. That's the prospects of Capitalism on display.That's also why America is prosperous, than Russia. That's why China is prosperous. That's why even Cuba is running away from Soc ...
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  Look at what Kuffour's gov't achieved in 8 years. That's the prospects of Capitalism on display.That's also why America is prosperous, than Russia. That's why China is prosperous. That's why even Cuba is running away from Socialism/ Communism to Capitalism. Socialism requires everyone to act same way, want same things etc. It's unnatural, that's why it doesn't work. Importing sanitary pads for school girls, that's socialist nonsense.

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• Naaba kugri 9 years ago

  Nkrumah government did not disappoint some people I guess
  Samia you are not relevant to some of us Ghanaians. Even your siblings could not see eye to eye with you. Because you think you better than all Ghanaians. Let it get ...
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  Nkrumah government did not disappoint some people I guess
  Samia you are not relevant to some of us Ghanaians. Even your siblings could not see eye to eye with you. Because you think you better than all Ghanaians. Let it get into your head
  Nkrumah that you claim to be your father is a spent force. All our woes started with him. A word to a wise . God bless our homeland Ghana

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• Agoo 9 years ago

  Samia paaa, apart form your Dad, which other government has been able to provide the needs of Ghanaians than president mahama, atlest two brand new universities, water to adentan and its environs, roads, electricity expansio ...
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  Samia paaa, apart form your Dad, which other government has been able to provide the needs of Ghanaians than president mahama, atlest two brand new universities, water to adentan and its environs, roads, electricity expansion, food, etc. I know the party do little but shout so much has succeded in clouding your mind. corruption is high in Ghana because now it is being exposed more now. How can anybody say Mahama is corrupt, unlike Kuffour who both NDC and NPP know that he is corrupt. Look, if you need attention, go to your grassroots ok, don't come and disturb our ears. Do you want us to leave this country in the hands of Akkufo Addo? no way, Coccaine will rain in this country. his brother inlaw, akkufo Addo's wife brother is cocaine dealer, his brother inlaw travelled on diplomatic passport. I cannot imagine us leaving this country in his hands, Cpp is no where near power, unless by miracle.

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• Kofi Adoma 9 years ago

  You have said it all, Samia. The direction of the boat should change now from compounding cummulative retrogressing development of all aspect of our lives. Active import substitution with local content now!!!! NPP/NDC we want ...
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  You have said it all, Samia. The direction of the boat should change now from compounding cummulative retrogressing development of all aspect of our lives. Active import substitution with local content now!!!! NPP/NDC we want our independence back RIGHT NOW!

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