RE: Richard Mahoney On Danquah’s CIA Connections

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CHE 9 years ago

Whoever gave Danquah the accolade "doyen of Gold coast politics" had a machiavellian agenda in mind For how can somebody who lost the 1954, 1956 elections, and attained 10% of the vote in the 1960 elections be properly labell ...
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Whoever gave Danquah the accolade "doyen of Gold coast politics" had a machiavellian agenda in mind For how can somebody who lost the 1954, 1956 elections, and attained 10% of the vote in the 1960 elections be properly labelled as the doyen.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Readers,

Please bear in mind that we sought Mr. Nana Akyea Mensah's (Odikro) permission to re-pulblish this, and he gave us his full consent.

Of course, I have been posting this and the one published yesterday on t ...
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Dear Readers,

Please bear in mind that we sought Mr. Nana Akyea Mensah's (Odikro) permission to re-pulblish this, and he gave us his full consent.

Of course, I have been posting this and the one published yesterday on the COMMENT SECTION until some commentators/readers asked me if I could seek Mr. Nana Akyea Menshah's formal permission to re-publish them for the general readership.

I since agreed and sought out Mr. Nana Akyea Mensah's consent. And this is the outcome of our request to Mr. Nana Akyea Mensah (Odikro). I hope this does not breed any more misunderstanding. FOR THAT REASON EVERY CREDIT FOR RESEARCH AND AUTHORSHIP GOES TO MR. NANA AKYEA MENSAH (ODIKRO).

Thanks, and have a great weekend.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

KWARTENG YOU STUPID FOOL WHAT IS THIS FOLLOWING NONSENSE, CAN YOU SON OF A BITCH, THINK FROM A to B AT ALL?

THE LAST PARAGRAPH FROM THE IDIOT KWARTENG: --> "Let's talk about that, Baby! Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!! N ...
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KWARTENG YOU STUPID FOOL WHAT IS THIS FOLLOWING NONSENSE, CAN YOU SON OF A BITCH, THINK FROM A to B AT ALL?

THE LAST PARAGRAPH FROM THE IDIOT KWARTENG: --> "Let's talk about that, Baby! Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!! Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, is a member of the Social Media Outreach Programme of the Pan-Africanist International - a grammar of Pan-Africanism and its manners of articulation! And is also known to Kwame Okoampa, the notorious assassin of character, as: "Ali Masmadi Sasabonsam Jehu Shoaboni Appiah, who now presumptuously and conveniently goes by the name of Nana Akyea-Mensah, the name of a historic man the likes of whose dignity and ineffable cynosure that SOB would never encounter among the male members of his largely pathologically skirt-chasing and pedophiliac family." See: A Typical Ghanaian Prophet, Feature Article | Thu, 21 Jul 2011, by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D."
LARYEAH 9 years ago

NDC ARE SABOTEURS!

NDC ARE SABOTEURS!
Amegaxoxo 9 years ago

Where does this long narrative leave us Ghanaians, in the light of the present difficulties we are going through.We are contending with hunger,lack of electricity,inadequate medical services and a host of problems we are not ...
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Where does this long narrative leave us Ghanaians, in the light of the present difficulties we are going through.We are contending with hunger,lack of electricity,inadequate medical services and a host of problems we are not supposed to face after these long years of "independence".These two stupid political camps in Ghana think they have the right to mess up our lives.One day,one day in the not too distant future,Ghanaians will get to a point where their eyes will be opened and then we will find a way to govern ourselves better.For now they can play soccer with the Nation but Ghana will rise again.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Readers,

A reader who goes by the moniker (Akwasi Prempeh) attached following information to Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy's article "The Villification of J.B. Danquah Continues" posted on Ghanaweb, February 11, 2015.

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Dear Readers,

A reader who goes by the moniker (Akwasi Prempeh) attached following information to Dr. Arthur Kobina Kennedy's article "The Villification of J.B. Danquah Continues" posted on Ghanaweb, February 11, 2015.

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Dr Arthur Kennedy writes: “There is no record of either the CIA station chief or CIA Director ever confirming that the CIA ever paid any money to Danquah or that he was a spy. Added to that is the fact that Danquah was never in a position to provide any state secrets to anybody. In other words, there is no iota of evidence backing the charge that Danquah was a CIA agent.”

Mahoney’s book titled JFK: The Africa Ordea l lm Africa was by the son of a late former diplomat, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana.

This is what Professor Mahoney wrote in his book (pages 184 - 185):

"The matter concerned Dr. J.B. Danquah, Nkrumah's opponent in presidential elections of 1960, who was released from prison a few months after Mahoney's arrival as ambassador. Danquah paid a visit one November day to the embassy to ask Mahoney why the FUNDS [my caps]his family had been receiving during his imprisonment had been cut off after his release. This was the first time that Mahoney had heard of the arrangement. After Danquah left, he summoned the CIA chief of station to ask why he had not been advised of the agency's association with Danquah. Dissatisfied with the explanation, Mahoney flew to Washington two days later and personally informed Kennedy about the matter.

The President reacted sharply to the news and told Mahoney that he had sent a letter to all ambassadors in May 1961 making it clear that their authority extended to all phases of embassy decision making. Kennedy then telephoned CIA Director John McCone and told him that he was sending Mahoney over to CIA headquarters and wanted the matter resolved immediately. The understanding that emerged from the meeting at Langley was that 'no undertakings of any kind, even remotely involving our situation in Ghana, would either be continued or launched without the ambassador's knowledge and approval'"(Ref 149).

Ref 149: "This account is drawn from OHWPM [Oral history of William P. Mahoney], JFKL [John F. Kennedy Library] and William P. Mahoney Jr. to the author, July 21, 1977.

What work did Danquah do for the US Embassy in Ghana to receive funds that had been cut off about which he complained to Ambassador Mahoney?

Dr Kennedy you will be naïve to think that the CIA or its agent will confirm or deny paying any money to Danquah or anyone else in Ghana.

Documentary evidence reveals that the United States and Britain first discussed the possibility of a coup d'état in Ghana in the spring of 1961, prior to John F. Kennedy's June 29 letter that committed the United States to fund the VRP. The Kennedy Administration further explored the possibility in the fall of 1961, after Nkrumah's trip to the East and China, and the President's issuance of National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) No. 96, stating his desire to review the decision to fund the VRP. During both of these periods, documents that make reference to a possible coup have been heavily censored, or removed from files, opening the possibility that the United States did far more than discuss the coup in theory. The Administration apparently hoped that their support for the Volta would provide assistance to the people of Ghana, and that the Nkrumah administration would soon be replaced. References to a coup continue throughout 1962-1963 during bilateral talks with the United Kingdom and in CIA assessments of the political climate in Ghana. In October 1962 an offhanded reference in a telegram from the British High Commission in Lome, Togo to the British Foreign Office in London notes contacts between Americans and Ghanaian exiles. Ghanaian exiles in such contacts included Obetsebi Lamptey and R. E. Amponsah among others.

Nkrumah always suspected CIA involvement with exiles in Lome, and the British were certainly aware of these contacts. Documents in 1962-1963 also attest to the meetings between the United States, Britain and exiled Ghanaians K.A. Gbedemah and K.A. Busia, both of whom sought Western aid for their ill-conceived plans to stage a coup in Ghana. The sum of these leads suggests a longer history of US attempts at subversion in Ghana than currently declassified documents reveal. The attempts at subversion included economic sabotage through, for example, US.UK and France led orchestrated rapid fall in the world price for cocoa, and US withholding of economic aid to Ghana.

In the Cold War atmosphere of the 1960s and the alleged growing Soviet influence in the newly independent African countries, the Volta River project was to be used by the U. S. with the help of British “Prime Minister Macmillan in attempting to turn Nkrumah in a reasonable course.” (Notes for Record: National Security Council Meeting on Volta Dam, The White House, 12/5/61, p. 1.) Irving L. Markovitz (Power and Class in Africa, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977, p. 80.) writes that: “Since his pro-Algerian independence speech as a senator, President Kennedy has been considered as a friend of nationalist regimes. He pursued a foreign policy that was disguised by its sophistication from the crude Dulles-Eisenhower era. Yet he sent several missions to Ghana headed by men such as Henry McLoy, Head of the Chase Manhattan National Bank, to find out whether Nkrumah was or wasn’t a communist.”9 Following the Cuban missile crisis, Nkrumah was considered “a Castro” rather than “a Nasser,” and it was felt that if the U. S. “should go ahead [to fund the project] we ought to get something in return” (“Imperialism and the Volta Dam,” West Africa, 3/31/80, p.520).

Some African leaders like Liberia’s William Tubman, Ivory Coast’s Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria’s Tafewa Balewa and Ghana’s K. A. Gbedemah and K. A. Busia lobbied against U. S. funding of the Volta scheme. Busia was the leader of opposition in the Ghana Parliament at the time Ghana was negotiating with the U. S. for funding. He testified before the U. S. Internal Security Sub-Committee against U. S. support for the project. His testimony was released with other documents under the title “Is U. S. Money Aiding Another Communist State?” with a three-page introduction by Senator Dodd on July 15, 1963. Busia became Prime Minister of Ghana (October 1969-January 1972) after the CIA-backed military coup overthrew Nkrumah’s government in February 1966. These African leaders were not opposed to the imperial design of the Volta scheme, they wanted Nkrumah chastised by U. S. withdrawal; otherwise, they “would feel indignant that Ghana had been accorded the priority in assistance which they believed they had earned.”11 But the U. S. reasoned that these African leaders who opposed Nkrumah “would have to realize that U. S. backing for the Volta project would be needed to counter-balance Ghana’s increasingly close relations with the {Soviet] Bloc.”12

It is evident from the above discussion that from the very inception of the Volta River project the industrialization of Ghana was not the concern of the British and U. S. governments and the aluminum companies involved. Britain was more interested in harnessing Ghana’s water and mineral resources to meet Britain’s aluminum needs. The U. S. government wanted a vehicle to carry out its Cold War against the Soviet Bloc. Ghana became a pawn in the hands of external forces (THE EYES OF THE WORLD WERE WATCHING: GHANA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES, 1957-1966 by Mary E. Montgomery. Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2004).

Also, in a statement before the United States Committee on Foreign Affairs, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen Williams explained: "... it is our estimate that in the long run there are favorable factors that will prevail. This is an area where the British developed a very soundly based civil service, a well-trained military... I think when you put the thing in balance, that over the long run we could hope for a government which would at least be non-aligned" (Allen and Johnson, 1970, p. 263). What a prophecy! A month after power from the hydroelectric plant was switched on, Nkrumah's government was toppled by the "well-trained military."
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Akwesi Prempeh 9 years ago

Excerpts from

(THE EYES OF THE WORLD WERE WATCHING: GHANA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES, 1957-1966 by Mary E. Montgomery. Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, ...
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Excerpts from

(THE EYES OF THE WORLD WERE WATCHING: GHANA, GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES, 1957-1966 by Mary E. Montgomery. Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2004).

"Documentary evidence reveals that the United States and Britain first
discussed the possibility of a coup d'état in Ghana in the spring of 1961, prior to John F. Kennedy's June 29 letter that committed the United States to fund the VRP. The Kennedy Administration further explored the possibility in the fall of 1961, after Nkrumah's trip to the East and China, and the President's issuance of
National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) No. 96, stating his desire to
review the decision to fund the VRP. During both of these periods, documents that make reference to a possible coup have been heavily censored, or removed from files, opening the possibility that the United States did far more than discuss the coup in theory. The Administration apparently hoped that their support for the Volta would provide assistance to the people of Ghana, and that the Nkrumah
administration would soon be replaced. References to a coup continue throughout 1962-1963 during bilateral talks with the United Kingdom and in CIA assessments of the political climate in Ghana. In October 1962 an offhanded reference in a telegram from the British High Commission in Lome, Togo to the British Foreign Office in London notes contacts between Americans and
Ghanaian exiles. Nkrumah always suspected CIA involvement with exiles in Lome, and the British were certainly aware of these contacts. Documents in 1962-1963 also attest to the meetings between the United States, Britain and exiled Ghanaians K.A. Gbedemah and K.A. Busia, both of whom sought Western aid for their ill-conceived plans to stage a coup in Ghana. The sum of these leads suggests a longer history of US attempts at subversion in Ghana than currently declassified documents reveal" (pages 209-210).
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

The so-claimed English teacher and the one who approves the academic work of some professors in the USA, Francis Kwarteng in the Maryland, United States has copied and pasted another garbage.

The so-claimed English teacher and the one who approves the academic work of some professors in the USA, Francis Kwarteng in the Maryland, United States has copied and pasted another garbage.
NANA YAW 9 years ago

Madam Wangara, Francis lives in Colorado and not in Maryland. Where do you get your information from?

How do you define copy and paste, sister ADJOA?

Madam Wangara, Francis lives in Colorado and not in Maryland. Where do you get your information from?

How do you define copy and paste, sister ADJOA?
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

A rather detailed account of events of the most crucial periods-within, and between the governments.

An seminal dissertation as can only be started and completed in the west, where resources are available, government docu ...
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A rather detailed account of events of the most crucial periods-within, and between the governments.

An seminal dissertation as can only be started and completed in the west, where resources are available, government documents are easier to obtains, and Professors actually know how to ask the right questions of their doctoral and Masters' students.

Thanks, Akwasi Prempeh.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

To say....

A seminal dissertation....

To say....

A seminal dissertation....
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

I must say both writers have presented us with well articulated and "interrogated" pieces backed by references. The latter day UP revisionists are truly exposed!

But one pint of query. I am not aware of K.A. Gbedemah oppo ...
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I must say both writers have presented us with well articulated and "interrogated" pieces backed by references. The latter day UP revisionists are truly exposed!

But one pint of query. I am not aware of K.A. Gbedemah opposing funding for the VRA project, being the main person who paved the way for the securing the interest of such a support way back in the late 1950s when on a visit to the US and was exposed to a racist incidence. This reached the papers and President Eisenhower invited him to the White House and KA took the opp. to inform him about the VRA Eisenhower then invited Kaiser and the rest is history.

If KA turned around to lobby against continuing US participation after going into exile in Oct. 1961, I am honestly not aware of that.

Andy-K
Bo 9 years ago

See how a smelly trokosi is trying to defend an Nyebro brother.

Andy fool, you can't have it both ways. Either Nkrumah was right and Trokosi Gbedemah was wrong vis-a-vis.

See how a smelly trokosi is trying to defend an Nyebro brother.

Andy fool, you can't have it both ways. Either Nkrumah was right and Trokosi Gbedemah was wrong vis-a-vis.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Another ignorant and bigoted dzimakpla. There is no trokosi where I come from in the VR. Trokosi is limited mostly to Adangbe clans within Eweland and where they settled and became dominant culturally. Even Ada Foah areas wer ...
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Another ignorant and bigoted dzimakpla. There is no trokosi where I come from in the VR. Trokosi is limited mostly to Adangbe clans within Eweland and where they settled and became dominant culturally. Even Ada Foah areas were settled by Ewes before the Adangmes arrived as fugitives from the Akwamus. That's even admitted by C.O.C. Amate in his virulently anti-Anlo book "The Making of Ada". Idiots like you don't know that.

I wasn't trying to support Gbedemah but just to query a claim and provide information. Now that I am home, I can supply all and sundry with a full quote on how support was secured for the VRA Proj.

This quote is taken from the biography of KA by Prof. Amenumey's Outstanding Ewes of the 20th Century: Proflies of Fifteen Firsts, Volume !, commissioned by Organisation for Research in Eweland (ORE) p. 82:

"It is quite clear that clear that but fir Gbedemah the Volta River Project would have had a different outcome. In October 1957 he visited the United States after having attended the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Conference in Ottawa, Canda. He denied service at a roadside restaurant on account of his skin colour. Subsequently he commented on the incident at a lecture to the students of Maryland State College and the US newspapers and President D. Eisenhower and Vice-President Richard Nixon, all heard about it. President Eisenhower invited him to breakfast at the White House in Washington and Gbedema seized the opportunity to canvass the Volta River Project. He was able to convince both the US President and Vice-Preisdent about the viability of the project. President Eisenhower asked his Vice-President Nixon to arrange American help. Consequently, Edgar Kaiser was invited to review the project. It was a result of that review that the American support was secured for financing the project and Kaiser Aluminium and Reynolds Metal came to establish s smelter in Ghana to provide a viable market for the power produced by the dam".

Now, everything claimed above can be verified. How come then Gbedemah could be opposing the Proj. after Oct 1961, when commitments were already made years earlier?

Personally, I wish Gbedemah hadn't secured American support and the Russians had built Akosombo Dam for us, just as they built the Aswan Dam for Nasser and Egypt. The review done for Kaiser killed Nkrumah's goal to develop a fully integrated smelter using our own bauxite deposit, etc., etc. Ghana lost on the deal badly!

I HOPE I'VE REMOVED A BIT OF YOUR PHENOMENAL IGNORANCE, FOOLISH MAN! I SHALL DEAL WITH YOUR BIGOTRY LATER.

Andy-K
Robert Okine 9 years ago

You moronic quasi-intellectuals should stop ranting in your own interest,and in the interest of open-minded readers.Your porous and infantile arguments are boring.You have lost the debate.

You moronic quasi-intellectuals should stop ranting in your own interest,and in the interest of open-minded readers.Your porous and infantile arguments are boring.You have lost the debate.
True African 9 years ago

Andy,ignore the non-factual,narrow minded,half-baked scholars.Their problem is BIAS,inexplicable hatred and lack of in-depth reading.

Andy,ignore the non-factual,narrow minded,half-baked scholars.Their problem is BIAS,inexplicable hatred and lack of in-depth reading.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Just given him some lesson and for his ilk before reading yours. Such bloody-minded and bigoted ignoramuses cannot be left alone to be poisoning the atmosphere. We may regret it if we let them continue spreading the poison.
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Just given him some lesson and for his ilk before reading yours. Such bloody-minded and bigoted ignoramuses cannot be left alone to be poisoning the atmosphere. We may regret it if we let them continue spreading the poison.

Andy-K
okaniba,atlanta,usa 9 years ago

if the family of dr.danquah was receiving money from the us embassy that does not make him a cia agent.the money might have been given to him on humanitarian grounds because of his imprisonment without trial in any court.the ...
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if the family of dr.danquah was receiving money from the us embassy that does not make him a cia agent.the money might have been given to him on humanitarian grounds because of his imprisonment without trial in any court.the real person who professes to be holier than every ghanaian,is the person who received money from the cia to form a political party in ghana.we ghanaians are cowards,this person tells ghanaians that his friends are paying for the education of his children overseas, but has not been able to mention the names of his so called friends.his wife comes out to tell people that her parents are paying for the education of their children.which of this verson is the truth?there is time for everything under the sun.kwame nkrumah thought he was untouchable,but he found out too late.what has gutter journalists like kwasi pratt said about jj rawlins wife who collected millions in judjement debt?there is time for everything under the sun.
True African 9 years ago

Listen to this biased fool"the money might have been given to him on humanitarian grounds".Is the American Embassy a charitable organization? Danquah was a CIA agent.Nothing can change CIA records.

Listen to this biased fool"the money might have been given to him on humanitarian grounds".Is the American Embassy a charitable organization? Danquah was a CIA agent.Nothing can change CIA records.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

As for you Nkrumaists, you are fanatics of impressionism and not students of broad principles of logic or reasoning that will lead you to the ultimate truth. Truth to you comprises ideology, hearsay, idolization, hero worship ...
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As for you Nkrumaists, you are fanatics of impressionism and not students of broad principles of logic or reasoning that will lead you to the ultimate truth. Truth to you comprises ideology, hearsay, idolization, hero worshipping, shibboleth and sheer subservience to others' views and writings. No education has enabled you to think beyond what somebody else has indoctrinated you to believe with childlike devotion.
That is why it is possible for a fine mind like yours to spend time insulting a person who was imprisoned without charge or trial and who died in the prison of the Great Deceiver. Elsewhere, analytical minds will be questioning why a person could be imprisoned without trial at all, or why he should be allowed to die in prison and be insulted in death. That kind of broad principles of logic and reasoning is what we need to enable as to unmask Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah, the most evil person responsible for the backwardness of Ghana and African nations. When he had the opportunity to lead, the evil genius led all of Ghana and Africa into the palpable darkness from which we are struggling to escape.
Fortunately today, Nkrumah has no leadership philosophy in Ghana. His brutal dictatorship is cast into the dustbin of history, never to be resurrected again. And his motley crowd of dimwits have their voices perpetually drummed out by the great spirit of the Martyr for the true freedom and independence of Ghana and Africa, Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah, doyen of African politics.
James 9 years ago

J.B.Danquah was on CIA payroll to plot the assassination of the MESSIAH-the great AFRCAN,the visionary,the man who lived many,many years of his time,KWAME NKRUMAH.NOTHING CAN CHANGE HISTORY,Shame unto,Dr SAS!

J.B.Danquah was on CIA payroll to plot the assassination of the MESSIAH-the great AFRCAN,the visionary,the man who lived many,many years of his time,KWAME NKRUMAH.NOTHING CAN CHANGE HISTORY,Shame unto,Dr SAS!
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Danquah is supposed to be a CIA "asset" because a son of a former U.S. Ambassador, who was 10 years old when the alleged activities with the CIA occured, wrote about this in a book several years later? Are we also supposed to ...
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Danquah is supposed to be a CIA "asset" because a son of a former U.S. Ambassador, who was 10 years old when the alleged activities with the CIA occured, wrote about this in a book several years later? Are we also supposed to admit such evidence and present it before a jury because Odikro reported this in an article, Francis? This is getting absurd and I will not waste my time commenting on your articles anymore. As Kwame Apentuah amptly put it. " Kwame Nkrumah is a homosexual and my father who was a top CPP official was his partner. I was not born at the time, but I am a lawyer with a JD from the Univerty of Michigan an an LLM from Havard". Is my assertion of Nkrumah's homosexuality probative and admissible?
Francis, you are not helping your course in relying on tripple hearsay evidence to justify the incarceration of Danquah by Nkrumah without due process. I guess this was all Nkrumah had on Danquah and explains why the latter was imprisoned without trial. Nkrumah knew Danquah would have been exonerated if he had been tried. This is getting embarrassing, Francis.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

Kwadwo nice to hear that you will never again waste your precious time on such an idiot like Francis Kwarteng

Kwadwo nice to hear that you will never again waste your precious time on such an idiot like Francis Kwarteng
NTIKUMA 9 years ago

Kwadwo,your kindergarten mindset has made a mockery of higher education,and has confirmed that paper qualification is sometimes misleading.You cannot change CIA records.The selfish and evil-minded J.B.Danquah who lost all ele ...
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Kwadwo,your kindergarten mindset has made a mockery of higher education,and has confirmed that paper qualification is sometimes misleading.You cannot change CIA records.The selfish and evil-minded J.B.Danquah who lost all elections was on CIA payroll to plot the assassination of the visionary Kwame Nkrumah.This is written in STONE.
Fred Amoah 9 years ago

Kwadwo you know ADJOA WANGARA like AHOOFE and DR SAS are mental patients.

Kwadwo you know ADJOA WANGARA like AHOOFE and DR SAS are mental patients.
Nana Appiah 9 years ago

Fred Amoah don't worry, you parents(Mom & Dad) are equally mentally broken down beyond Treatment.

Fred Amoah don't worry, you parents(Mom & Dad) are equally mentally broken down beyond Treatment.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

You did not have to broadcast your academic qualifications here - let your intellectual acuity in a discussion like this speak for itself. I guess birds of the same feathers flock together, i.e., speaking of Dr. SAS, your col ...
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You did not have to broadcast your academic qualifications here - let your intellectual acuity in a discussion like this speak for itself. I guess birds of the same feathers flock together, i.e., speaking of Dr. SAS, your collaborator. You both come here advertising your credentials hoping they would make you credible and authenticate your worldview as fallible they may be.

If you claim Prof. Francis is not helping his [cause] in relying on hearsay, then what must we say about your parodic portrayal of a traitorous bomb throwing anarchist and ritual murderer, JB Danquah, as a hero.

You see, the best thing Dr. Busia's family has done to preserve his memory is to let sleeping dogs lie. Busia was a fugitive and killed school children and market women at CPP rallies jointly with JB Danquah in their mindless bomb throwing escapade. But nobody is in a position to comment on Busia's atrocities and callousness because his family is not making him to be what he is not.

History has not been kind to JB Danquah because he wrote his own history by his deeds, and no Akyemkwaa of any substance, like me, wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, except those who are oblivious of his life story. He is an anathema in Akyem Abuakwa Forklore. Please leave the poor man to rest in peace, because the UP/NPP progenitors are causing more damage than good to the memory of this man.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Go back and read the post. No academic laurels is being displayed it neither I am saying Nkrumah was a homosexual. It was a quoted hearsay analogy, buddy.

Go back and read the post. No academic laurels is being displayed it neither I am saying Nkrumah was a homosexual. It was a quoted hearsay analogy, buddy.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Kwadwo,

This is my response to INXS (as per Paul Amuna's article). INXS has been doing worse than what he/she accuses others of. Here is my response to him/her:

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Kwadwo,

This is my response to INXS (as per Paul Amuna's article). INXS has been doing worse than what he/she accuses others of. Here is my response to him/her:

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You still have not said anything substantive by way of verifiable evidence, and yet telling others "both sides are arguing out of context." I don't know that statement actually means.

Did Nkrumah and the CPP rig the elections in Akyem Abuakwa Central constituency when Danquah lost to his relative Aaron Ofori Atta, who later became a Minister for Local Government/Minister for Justice under the CPP? I believe we have to be extremely careful to say anything at all when we lack provable or verifiable evidence for our hyperbolic claims.

What does your subjective and unsubstantiated view say about your own misplaced context?. This is one thing I hate.

I was not expecting to read this subjective, unsubstantiated commentary from you which means you have nothing substantive to add to the debate:

"And one thing too. Rigging may not have been the decisive factor in Nkrumah's victory but, yes, there certainly was rigging. It will be difficult to argue there was not. There was rigging even when the British were looking over our shoulders. I doubt if our country has ever held any elections in which there was no rigging - up till today."

Saying "I doubt if our country has ever held any elections in which there was no rigging-up till today" is no evidence." It means your are arguing from a standpoint of emotion rather that of rational substance. Please avoid this if you can.

Have a great weekend.

Thanks.
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Kwadwo 9 years ago

Francis, I think INXS is closer to you on Nkrumah than you realize. I think all he was trying to say was that Danquah won 90% of the Votes in the Volta region not because they felt he was a dictator but for other reasons. It ...
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Francis, I think INXS is closer to you on Nkrumah than you realize. I think all he was trying to say was that Danquah won 90% of the Votes in the Volta region not because they felt he was a dictator but for other reasons. It may have been because of his stand on the trans Volta question. The rigging was in response to Ahoofe's comment of wide spread vote rigging in that election. This was an ancillary point.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

I believe INXS makes a valid point when he asserts that some people argue out of context on this issue and only excavate authorities to support their entrenched positions. This is evident when you refuse to accept the simple ...
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I believe INXS makes a valid point when he asserts that some people argue out of context on this issue and only excavate authorities to support their entrenched positions. This is evident when you refuse to accept the simple empirical truth that vote rigging occured during Nkrumah's era and it continues till today in all election in the country. He only attacking Political system not Nkrumah per se. Ease up a bit on your adulation of Nkrumah because he had many flaws. I admire him, but I also think he went too far with his abuse of due process, his life president declaration, one party state rule and interfering in the affairs of neighboring countries, Additionally, he should have stayed very clear away from the Cold War instead of getting his nuts caught in it. How was he expecting Washington to leave him alone when it funds a dam for him and only for him to turn around to write a book and start calling Washington names? By the way, what did we ever receive from the Soviets, Francis?
Kosoko 9 years ago

Kwadowo,

You are moving too far with so many trivialities. First of all, the funds Ghana received from the Soviet doesn't make Nkrumah KGB agent. I don't know how any intelligent person will debate that. Second, Nkrumah wa ...
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Kwadowo,

You are moving too far with so many trivialities. First of all, the funds Ghana received from the Soviet doesn't make Nkrumah KGB agent. I don't know how any intelligent person will debate that. Second, Nkrumah was fighting his own battle rather that meddling in the cold war. He was fighting for the freedom and dignity of the Blackman and not for the Soviet. Can't you people get this than the Whiteman's discourse? Let's pause and think for a second about Nkrumah and his dreams. If his book justify his overthrow, tell us about the justification for the slavery, colonialism and the cruel racism of our time both at the global and at the individual level. I must be honest with you and I am prepared to debate you that Nkrumah has no flaws as you asserted unless you want to run away from definitions. If you have the 100th of the mental strength of Nkrumah you will be doing something more fruitful than using trivial issues to nail the very person who has made majority of us tasted what we called education today.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Where did I state or suggest in my submission that Nkrumah was KGB agent? I only asked a question what we ever received from the soviets in light of Nkrumah's pro Soviet foreign policy. At least the Ameicans help fund the Ako ...
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Where did I state or suggest in my submission that Nkrumah was KGB agent? I only asked a question what we ever received from the soviets in light of Nkrumah's pro Soviet foreign policy. At least the Ameicans help fund the Akosombo dam and Nkrumah should not have written a book calling the U.S. Goverment names as it was not going to let him get away
with that.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

In the midst of Ghana's plethora of challenges, you guys are not suggesting anything of worth that would lead to the edification and glory of GHANA. I feel sorry for you all. There is no winner in this, but there is a loser - ...
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In the midst of Ghana's plethora of challenges, you guys are not suggesting anything of worth that would lead to the edification and glory of GHANA. I feel sorry for you all. There is no winner in this, but there is a loser - and it is GHANA.
True African 9 years ago

Thank you,Marcus.I hope the subjective and non-factual anti-Nkrumah writers are reading your words of wisdom.

Thank you,Marcus.I hope the subjective and non-factual anti-Nkrumah writers are reading your words of wisdom.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Kwadwo,

You know me very well enough to conclude that your JD from the University of Michigan and LLM from Harvard mean nothing to me.

Nothing from all your commentaries I have read on Ghanaweb so far separates yo ...
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Dear Kwadwo,

You know me very well enough to conclude that your JD from the University of Michigan and LLM from Harvard mean nothing to me.

Nothing from all your commentaries I have read on Ghanaweb so far separates you from the general commentator with an average education! Please let us stop this "childish" thing about degrees. I hope I am not construing you out of context!

Going to Harvard and the University of Michigan is not proof of anything. What do they prove, really? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Please deal with the substantive issues and stop flashing Harvard/University of Michigan at me. It will not wash.

Having said that, so far you have not given me anything, not an iota of counter narrative, substantive to counter Richard Mahoney's and Odokro's substantive and solid arguments.

Did you provide any substantial proof, if at all, calling the authenticity of Danquah's alleged letters to Nkrumah published here on Ghanaweb, into question? You didn't. Yet you swallowed the contents of the letters wholesale! At least, this is not what your legal background has taught you over the years.

Besides, I don't need legal training to teach me certain basic things about life. So, unless I am not taking your statements out of context, please don't bring up questions of degrees. They mean nothing to me.

I have taught myself many things in life degrees could not have taught me. And what if everybody should be discussing his/her degrees on Ghanaweb? What would that do for anyone? In other words, what has or would your degrees do for me as a person? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Don't ever think I am one of those cowards who see lawyers and run away. No...no...no...no! I have what it takes to engage any lawyer on Ghanaweb and anywhere for that matter, regardless of his/her chains of degrees!

Again I hope I have not taken your commentary out of context, in which case you might want to explain to me what exactly you meant by that cheap shot of yours!

I read your "YOU MISUNDERSTOOD" comments to NTIKUMA but I still don't understand how that relates to Richard Mahoney's and Odikro's arguments. It practically says nothing or refutes what the two (Richard and Odikro) are saying!

As an aside, how does it (your analogy) prove Danquah's letters are genuine (or fake)?

Hahahahahahahahaha...I got you there, eh?

Have a great weekend!
Kwadwo 9 years ago

When you posted Odikro's piece corcerning Danquah having allegedly receiving support from the CIA, one Kwame Appetua made the following observation;
" Nkrumah was a homosexual and his partner was my father who was a top CPP ...
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When you posted Odikro's piece corcerning Danquah having allegedly receiving support from the CIA, one Kwame Appetua made the following observation;
" Nkrumah was a homosexual and his partner was my father who was a top CPP official. I am a lawyer and received a JD from the University of Michigan and an LLM from Havard". He goes on to say that do those alphabets behind his name make his assertion of Nkrumah's alleged homoxuality credible? In other words, do claims made by a son of a former U.S. Ambassador in a book of events that occured when he was 10, make those assertion probative? This is what we call hearsay and it gets worst when Odikro repeats them in an article as gospel truth. Kwame Appentuah was expecting more from you and I agreed with him.
What you and Odikro are doing is relying on tripple hearsay evidence to prove a case and in a court of law, such evidence are inadmissible because they not reliable. The reference of those schools and the degrees are to illustrate that you should not rely on the proponent of that evidence simply because of those variables. Junior Mahoney's story on Danquah and the CIA suffers similar evidentiary flaws.
KWAKU ANANSE 9 years ago

THE STRENUOUS ATTEMPTS OF NKRUMAH'S EX YOUNG PIONEERS AND ALUMNI OF HIS WINNEBA SCHOOL OF IDEOLOGY ARE FUTILE, BECAUSE THE TRUTH HAS DEALT A HEAVY BLOW TO THE LIES PERPETRATED AGAINST DR DANQUAH. EVEN THEN, THEY WILL NOT STOP ...
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THE STRENUOUS ATTEMPTS OF NKRUMAH'S EX YOUNG PIONEERS AND ALUMNI OF HIS WINNEBA SCHOOL OF IDEOLOGY ARE FUTILE, BECAUSE THE TRUTH HAS DEALT A HEAVY BLOW TO THE LIES PERPETRATED AGAINST DR DANQUAH. EVEN THEN, THEY WILL NOT STOP INSULTING THE DIGNITY OF THE GREAT J B DANQUAH IN DEATH, BUT THEY HAVE FAILED, BECAUSE TRUTH ALWAYS WINS. LIES ARE NOTHINGNESS AND HAVE NO BASIS IN REALITY.
NTIKUMA 9 years ago

NOTHING CAN CHANGE CIA RECORDS.J.B.DANQUAH WAS A CIA AGENT CONTRACTED TO PLOT THE ASSASSINATION OF THE GREAT NKRUMAH.

NOTHING CAN CHANGE CIA RECORDS.J.B.DANQUAH WAS A CIA AGENT CONTRACTED TO PLOT THE ASSASSINATION OF THE GREAT NKRUMAH.
True African 9 years ago

Readers,listen to this moronic and eccentric quasi-intellectual called Dr SAS,who calls Nkrumah SASABONSAM,DIMWIT etc."you are fanatics of impressionism and not students of broad principles of logic or reasoning that will lea ...
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Readers,listen to this moronic and eccentric quasi-intellectual called Dr SAS,who calls Nkrumah SASABONSAM,DIMWIT etc."you are fanatics of impressionism and not students of broad principles of logic or reasoning that will lead you to the ultimate truth.Truth to you comprises ideology,hearsay,idolization,hero worshipping,shibboleth and sheer subservience to others'views and writings".
DR SAS,congratulations for giving a vivid description of yourself and your immature and infantile followers !
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

SAS, a pity you didn't read any theory of political science to guide you in these things. What you are saying has no truth value, and therefore hollow, as no leader in newly indep. African countries had the capability and cap ...
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SAS, a pity you didn't read any theory of political science to guide you in these things. What you are saying has no truth value, and therefore hollow, as no leader in newly indep. African countries had the capability and capacity to be a dictator, talk less of brutal dictator. Nkrumah was therefore no dictator. What did he ever dictate?

Fact is, Nkrumah secured his decisions through popular and parliamentary approval. He held a referendum to decide if Ghana shld become a republic, even if it was a foregone conclusion he'd popular support at the polls. Dictators don't do that.

To turn Ghana into a one party state, he held another referendum and got a resounding approval. As Fitch and Oppenheimer wrote, the opposition members crossed to the majority side amidst loud cheering and slapping of backs, showing that even the opposition accepted it. And as they pointed out too, the hansards did not show a subdued parliament but a very robust one. Yes, even Gbedemah went to Parliament to denounce Nkrumah before slipping into exile. In a dictatorship, he'd be picked up from the grounds of Parliament to jail!

You see, in Africa of the '60s where most areas and peoples are not touched by the presence of central govt (painfully it is the case for just too many areas and people), the most a leader could be is autocratic and authoritarian.

Was Nkrumah autocratic? Not much more than the colonial governor, whose
roles he simply assumed. I presume you on't also naively believe that Nkrumah inherited a functioning democracy from the British with the lowering of the Union Jack and the hoisting of the new Ghana flag on 6 March 1957! Democracy comes from years of political socialisation and acculturation.

Btw, when it comes to analysis of issues, you right-wig blokes can trump we pro-Nkrumaists. I wrote a rather very late comment to your previous article in an attempt to enlighten but it appears you haven't read it. Hence, this brutal dictator nonsense again. When even the coup makers never claimed Ghana was under a dictator but they staged the coup in order to stop a "creeping dictatorship"? Maybe you should call Nkrumah a "creeping dictator".:-) And btw, the one often credited as the local brain behind the coup, IGP Harlley, was married to one of my many aunties, a lawyer by profession.

Andy-K
Kwadwo 9 years ago

General Ankrah certainly called Nkrumah a dictator and a tyrant. Watch his press conference on You tube following the coup.

General Ankrah certainly called Nkrumah a dictator and a tyrant. Watch his press conference on You tube following the coup.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Forget about Gen. Ankrah. He was just letting out bile for being booted out of the army by Nkrumah. After all, he was just brought out from exile to head the NLC and when he got too ambitious and was planning to perpetuate hi ...
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Forget about Gen. Ankrah. He was just letting out bile for being booted out of the army by Nkrumah. After all, he was just brought out from exile to head the NLC and when he got too ambitious and was planning to perpetuate his stay behind the backs of those who put him in power, he was removed. I ironed the shirt for my Dad to testify at the hearing in camera that preceded his removal. You blokes are just small boys who don't know anything!

Andy-K
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Are you suggesting General Ankrah did not mean it when he called Nkrumah a tyrant and a dictator before the world press? Deku, Kotoka and
Harley were present when he made those remarks about Nkrumah. It suggests to me that ...
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Are you suggesting General Ankrah did not mean it when he called Nkrumah a tyrant and a dictator before the world press? Deku, Kotoka and
Harley were present when he made those remarks about Nkrumah. It suggests to me that those sentiments were held by all the coup
plotters.
Kosoko 9 years ago

Kwadwo,

I have followed you well and I perceive you as an astute and matured debator. My question is are you really denying that Dr. Danquah was a CIA asset who sold his country and wanted the 'head' of Nkrumah for his pol ...
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Kwadwo,

I have followed you well and I perceive you as an astute and matured debator. My question is are you really denying that Dr. Danquah was a CIA asset who sold his country and wanted the 'head' of Nkrumah for his political ambition?
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Nkrumah, had several enemies including the Opposition and the US. They might have worked together to get rid of Nkrumah. But to rely extensively on hearsay evidence to establish Danquah as a CIA "asset" is patently unfair. T ...
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Nkrumah, had several enemies including the Opposition and the US. They might have worked together to get rid of Nkrumah. But to rely extensively on hearsay evidence to establish Danquah as a CIA "asset" is patently unfair. The issue is not whether Danquah and others may have corraborated with the CIA , but whether there is probative evidence that he did. So far Francis and others have not been able to establish this. Mahoney Jr's book being quoted extensively proves nothing. That suggest why perhaps he was imprisoned without charge or trial. That is all I am saying, my friend.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

I rather meant collaborated not corraborated.

I rather meant collaborated not corraborated.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Btw, when it comes to analysis of issues, you right-wig blokes CAN'T trump we pro-Nkrumaists.

Just one of few typos I made, btw. "on't" shld also be "don't".

Andy-K

Btw, when it comes to analysis of issues, you right-wig blokes CAN'T trump we pro-Nkrumaists.

Just one of few typos I made, btw. "on't" shld also be "don't".

Andy-K
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

By your deeds, you shall be known in the Global-Internet Age!

You can't falsify all copies of the same record!

You can't command attention with lies, edited letters, and excuses for informing on others.

You can't foo ...
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By your deeds, you shall be known in the Global-Internet Age!

You can't falsify all copies of the same record!

You can't command attention with lies, edited letters, and excuses for informing on others.

You can't fool all the people when your principals took payments from foreign governments under dark tables even as they were in the thick of their aspirations to be Chief Executive of their country on the petals of your nationally-sanctioned political party!
Insider 9 years ago

Waste of space

Waste of space
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

Francis Kwarteng is ready for anybody who needs any relevant information about both J.B. Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah, he has got all answers.

Just call or Skype Francis Kwarteng on 001-3012775871

His Address: 4203 Ogletho ...
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Francis Kwarteng is ready for anybody who needs any relevant information about both J.B. Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah, he has got all answers.

Just call or Skype Francis Kwarteng on 001-3012775871

His Address: 4203 Oglethorpe St. Hyattsville, MD 20781 Maryland, USA
True African 9 years ago

Danquah apologists cannot change history.What is written is written.The evil-minded Danquah,the saboteur,was on CIA PAYROLL.

Danquah apologists cannot change history.What is written is written.The evil-minded Danquah,the saboteur,was on CIA PAYROLL.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

Since there was only one responder to Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's feature article of Monday 25 September, 2006 " Fallacies of J.B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)", I think by one Mr. Azumah Nelson.

I implore the writer, Dr. K ...
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Since there was only one responder to Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's feature article of Monday 25 September, 2006 " Fallacies of J.B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy (V)", I think by one Mr. Azumah Nelson.

I implore the writer, Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah to request Ghanaweb to republish the article to allow more people to read and digest it to enhance the debate.
perscoba 9 years ago

....so what is your own conclusion?

....so what is your own conclusion?
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

My conclusion is that we must do more reading and do critical thinking before we give our feedback.

My conclusion is that we must do more reading and do critical thinking before we give our feedback.
Hardcore 9 years ago

big up Mr Kwarteng u are making my midnight so pleasant. I need honest and bold men like U and Odikro to keep on educating we the young chaps. Nana Akyia Mensah pls we needed more post from U, these days U don't post articles ...
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big up Mr Kwarteng u are making my midnight so pleasant. I need honest and bold men like U and Odikro to keep on educating we the young chaps. Nana Akyia Mensah pls we needed more post from U, these days U don't post articles, why Nana?

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