J. B. Danquah The Inventor for Dummies Updated!

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francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Simply great and insightful.

Yes, readers will certainly have a great deal to take from this article.

Thanks, and take care!

Dear Prof. Lungu,

Simply great and insightful.

Yes, readers will certainly have a great deal to take from this article.

Thanks, and take care!
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

Lungu, you know what Kwarteng is saying is not from his heart. He is raining praises which he in reality dosen't mean.

Lungu, you know what Kwarteng is saying is not from his heart. He is raining praises which he in reality dosen't mean.
SARPONG 9 years ago

ADJOA WANGARA, have you noticed what is going on here? Kwarteng writes an article and Prof. Lungu is all over it with praises and vice versa. I don't even think they read these articles.

They just talk behind the scenes an ...
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ADJOA WANGARA, have you noticed what is going on here? Kwarteng writes an article and Prof. Lungu is all over it with praises and vice versa. I don't even think they read these articles.

They just talk behind the scenes and inform each other about their articles. They are the first to comment on each other's articles.

Posting ten comments on each other's will not change how others view Nkrumah despotic rule.
Bonso 9 years ago

INSTEAD OF USING YOUR TIME ON EARTH TO WRITE ABOUT IMPORTANT THINGS LIKE AGRICULTURE, YOU DO THIS...VERY SAD MEN OF LITTLE IDEAS TO HELP MANKIND...TRASH...

INSTEAD OF USING YOUR TIME ON EARTH TO WRITE ABOUT IMPORTANT THINGS LIKE AGRICULTURE, YOU DO THIS...VERY SAD MEN OF LITTLE IDEAS TO HELP MANKIND...TRASH...
AKWASI 9 years ago

THIS PROF LIKE MOST EDUCATED FOOLS THAT GET THE NEED TO QUICKLY EXPRESS THEIR EXPERTS IGNORANCE. HE CROWNED HIS IGNORANCE BY STATING THAT SLAVES BUILT THE PYRAMID. TRUE N TRUE WISDOM IS ONLY GIVEN TO THE JUST.

THIS PROF LIKE MOST EDUCATED FOOLS THAT GET THE NEED TO QUICKLY EXPRESS THEIR EXPERTS IGNORANCE. HE CROWNED HIS IGNORANCE BY STATING THAT SLAVES BUILT THE PYRAMID. TRUE N TRUE WISDOM IS ONLY GIVEN TO THE JUST.
Kojo T 9 years ago

Why insult. Come with your counter proof "wiseman".Youmust be an illiterate fool

Why insult. Come with your counter proof "wiseman".Youmust be an illiterate fool
Bonso 9 years ago

IF HE PROVES HIM WRONG, WILL YOU GIVE HIM MONEY, SON?

IF HE PROVES HIM WRONG, WILL YOU GIVE HIM MONEY, SON?
AKWASI 9 years ago

THIS PROF LIKE MOST EDUCATED FOOLS THAT GET THE NEED TO QUICKLY EXPRESS THEIR EXPERTS IGNORANCE. HE CROWNED HIS IGNORANCE BY STATING THAT SLAVES BUILT THE PYRAMID. TRUE N TRUE WISDOM IS ONLY GIVEN TO THE JUST. YOU DEFINITELY ...
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THIS PROF LIKE MOST EDUCATED FOOLS THAT GET THE NEED TO QUICKLY EXPRESS THEIR EXPERTS IGNORANCE. HE CROWNED HIS IGNORANCE BY STATING THAT SLAVES BUILT THE PYRAMID. TRUE N TRUE WISDOM IS ONLY GIVEN TO THE JUST. YOU DEFINITELY SPEAK TRUTH TO THE SIMPLE MINDS BUT TO THE ENLIGHTED U R JUST 1 OF THOSE REGULAR EDUTD FULZ.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

If you profess to be classroom educated and read but do not know the majestic pyramids of Egypt were built with slave labor then you should be looking for all the classroom teachers who took money from you and your parents wi ...
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If you profess to be classroom educated and read but do not know the majestic pyramids of Egypt were built with slave labor then you should be looking for all the classroom teachers who took money from you and your parents without offering services in return.
Yes it is hard most times to read and or learn about bitter truths but it is better knowing than to live life in ignorance; something most Busia-Danquah ideologues seem to have in common.
AKAWSI 9 years ago

Go and make it mind bleed with this "how did slaves and Egyptians build the atatues of colossi of memnon with perfect symmertrical face using copper chisel and stone?. Whn u come back with some little education. Then I can te ...
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Go and make it mind bleed with this "how did slaves and Egyptians build the atatues of colossi of memnon with perfect symmertrical face using copper chisel and stone?. Whn u come back with some little education. Then I can teach u. That goes for u most prof.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

You cynically state:

In that sense, we will even hazard that Nkrumah has saved Ghanaian lives, and continues to do so even after death, notwithstanding the detentions and imprisonment of a small group we could count on ou ...
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You cynically state:

In that sense, we will even hazard that Nkrumah has saved Ghanaian lives, and continues to do so even after death, notwithstanding the detentions and imprisonment of a small group we could count on our two hands, detentions that lasted 24 months or less, and did not result in the execution of a single "subversive" individual. Danquah, after all, died prematurely from temporary privilege-withdrawal syndrome (TPWS), abetted by self-induced temper tantrums, and high blood pressure. This death occurred in a prison a lot better than what we now have in Nsawam, Kumasi, and in other sorrowful places, today.

Our Answer:

May you be held incommunicado in a condemned cell in your latter days for the perceived salvation of the nation.

May your detention last twenty-four months all less.

May you die prematurely from temporary privilege-withdrawal syndrome (TPWS), abetted by self-induced temper tantrums, and high blood pressure.

May your death occur in a prison a lot better than what we now have in Nsawam, Kumasi, and in other sorrowful places, today.

Thereafter, may somebody write your kind of nonsense about your drug-infested and useless life.

Such an aged bald-headed Rastafarian fool!!
KKO 9 years ago

Well said, Dr SAS.
It is because of educated idiots like these that Ghana is going to HIPC by December, just as happened between 1964 and 1965.

I know people who were detained from 1958 to 1966. They came out blind, deaf ...
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Well said, Dr SAS.
It is because of educated idiots like these that Ghana is going to HIPC by December, just as happened between 1964 and 1965.

I know people who were detained from 1958 to 1966. They came out blind, deaf and toothless. Sometimes nature takes its own course.

Lungu, next time you are able to get a ticket to Ghana, do a check on Kojo Tsikata!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
As we've said more than once, today's prisons are a lot worse than Danquah's. In that sense, we hope we will never see the walls of such sub-human places, except for educational purposes.

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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law,
As we've said more than once, today's prisons are a lot worse than Danquah's. In that sense, we hope we will never see the walls of such sub-human places, except for educational purposes.

More important, we will never be traitors against our nation and the values they stand for. We will never betray the trust of our nation just so we can get ahead.

Danquah-Busia lost the existential Ghanaian discourse and simply refused to cooperate with the leader who had been elected by all the people.
Fortunately, we now have access to records we did not have as early as 1957, through the 1960, and 1970s. Danquah-Busia were traitors without knowledge and the communications skills to govern Ghana.

In 2015 you claim you detest Nkrumah's past, but you all now love Lee Kwan Yew. But that was all before you changed your minds about Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

You must explain all of that. No reasonable, objective mind will recognize all of that twisting as just a spur-of-the-moment "infantile indiscretion".

Finally, you do not know us either in private, or public life, except what you read on this forum and on a few web portals!

To the point...

You have never met us!

You do not know the full scope of our work and life!

When you do, you will understand.

Hopefully, it will not be too late for you, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law.
Joe 9 years ago

SAS your resort to insults and name calling confirms readers strong held opinions that you are quasi-intellectual and a pseudo-scholar. Why don't you simple debate and present opposing views to the article: the hallmark of re ...
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SAS your resort to insults and name calling confirms readers strong held opinions that you are quasi-intellectual and a pseudo-scholar. Why don't you simple debate and present opposing views to the article: the hallmark of refined scholars which unfortunately you are not SHAME!
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago

Very childish and obtuse - not worth the time.

Very childish and obtuse - not worth the time.
LEZO. EU. 9 years ago

A very good piece. Great food for thought. A big lesson for those who are still living in the past glory of a CIA agent and a ritual murderer, to be given political power on a silver plater.Prof, No amount of insult by his di ...
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A very good piece. Great food for thought. A big lesson for those who are still living in the past glory of a CIA agent and a ritual murderer, to be given political power on a silver plater.Prof, No amount of insult by his disciples can change the facts, as it happened. Good piece.Keep them coming for it's the only way to expose them a big time.
Bonso 9 years ago

WHAT IN THIS ARTICLE IS INTERESTING, LEZOKUKU? IS CIA ANOTHER NAME FOR GARI? YOU HAVE A BORING LIFE TO READ THIS SAME OLD TOSH FOREVER, LEZO...

WHAT IN THIS ARTICLE IS INTERESTING, LEZOKUKU? IS CIA ANOTHER NAME FOR GARI? YOU HAVE A BORING LIFE TO READ THIS SAME OLD TOSH FOREVER, LEZO...
Akwasi, Maryland 9 years ago

Thanks for your insightful article. These matemeho guys think they use lies as tools to chip away truths from Ghana's history.

Thanks for your insightful article. These matemeho guys think they use lies as tools to chip away truths from Ghana's history.
Bonso 9 years ago

'Therefore, if anyone thinks that Nkrumah was a brutal dictator, why do they allow Jerry Rawlings to comfortably perch in his abode in Accra, with all that "justice" blood on his hands, and the Indemnity Clause on his forehea ...
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'Therefore, if anyone thinks that Nkrumah was a brutal dictator, why do they allow Jerry Rawlings to comfortably perch in his abode in Accra, with all that "justice" blood on his hands, and the Indemnity Clause on his forehead and behind?'...PROF O-LUNGU-TAW
Random Eye Movement 9 years ago

When shall we read a truly academic and disinterested analysis of both Nkrumah and Danquah from the likes of Prof Lungu, SAS or kwarteng?

What we see here are just one-sided analyses from these gentlemen - stuff that don't ...
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When shall we read a truly academic and disinterested analysis of both Nkrumah and Danquah from the likes of Prof Lungu, SAS or kwarteng?

What we see here are just one-sided analyses from these gentlemen - stuff that don't really help anybody wanting to read something critical.

It is even becoming ludicrous! When Prof Lungu writes an article on Nkrumah, kwarteng is the first to come and praise him to the highest heavens and point out how exceptionally brilliant the article is - absolutely without any reference to the contents of the article. When kwarteng writes something, indeed, anything at all, on Nkrumah, Prof Lungu returns the favour by heaping praises on him. How ridiculous - almost farcical! Two well-educated fellows ALWAYS patting each other on the back, no matter what the topic or argument is. Jeez!

And SAS has his camp too. The only thing he writes about Nkrumah is to condemn him as if there is absolutely no redeeming grace about the man. And he has the likes of Kwadwo (a fine gentleman notwithstanding), Pelicles and others ALWAYS supporting whatever he writes about Nkrumah!

Where is that disinterested academic analysis that teases out the nuances that are almost always embedded in such arguments? When shall we see a balanced discussion that concedes the truths in your opponent's arguments even if you do not agree with his general point?

Many ghanawebers already know the opinions of these gentlemen and don't bother to read them any longer. I understand them. Only the members of their various choirs read them - people who hardly need any convincing...
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Random Eye Movement,
You make some good points!

YOUR: "...When Prof Lungu writes an article on Nkrumah, kwarteng is the first to come and praise him...- absolutely without any reference to the contents of the article. Whe ...
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Random Eye Movement,
You make some good points!

YOUR: "...When Prof Lungu writes an article on Nkrumah, kwarteng is the first to come and praise him...- absolutely without any reference to the contents of the article. When kwarteng writes something...anything...on Nkrumah, Prof Lungu returns the favour by heaping praises on him. How ridiculous - almost farcical!

OUR RESPONSE: From our end, this is just a passing "fad".

However, it appears we both believe on the importance of Nkrumah's legacy to Ghana and Africa, and did not just change our minds.

Prof Lungu is partial to Nkrumah's legacy and can in good conscience defend the PDA given the context - both internal and external. External detractors left Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore alone, but not Nkrumah's Ghana and Africa. Lee Kuan Yew "squeezed more balls, longer".

Latter day records show Busia-Danquah and their cohorts subverted the new Ghana Nation even before Ghana was born. On of our interests in these matters is to bring out those indiscretions, make them visible so all can see.
Goldcoaster 9 years ago

I guess it does not take away the facts, does it, thinking of praises Kwarteng's showered on Lungu?

I am not Kwarteng, but I do see intellectual argument and substance in what is contained in this very interesting article ...
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I guess it does not take away the facts, does it, thinking of praises Kwarteng's showered on Lungu?

I am not Kwarteng, but I do see intellectual argument and substance in what is contained in this very interesting article.

You see, it [is] a false argument and disgrace to scholarship to continue those misinformed rants against a person whose commitments to Ghana can't really be equaled in the country today taking for granted the current situation.

Did you see the likes of SAS and others attacking the article instead of offering on the table counter-debates highlighting their positions? That is the trouble we face in Ghana with pseudo-Doctors.
Joe 9 years ago

"Did you see the likes of SAS and others attacking the article instead of offering on the table counter-debates highlighting their positions? That is the trouble we face in Ghana with pseudo-Doctors"
Amen!

"Did you see the likes of SAS and others attacking the article instead of offering on the table counter-debates highlighting their positions? That is the trouble we face in Ghana with pseudo-Doctors"
Amen!
PERSCOBA 9 years ago

please do not let this so called awam proffesor from the north impose on you that he is expert on AKAN history.

He is a thwart lier,fabricating thingg to suit the "WE SHALL TEACH AKANS a lesson "" rhetoric.
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please do not let this so called awam proffesor from the north impose on you that he is expert on AKAN history.

He is a thwart lier,fabricating thingg to suit the "WE SHALL TEACH AKANS a lesson "" rhetoric.
We all love and admire Nkrumah but we should be fair to acknowledge is weaknesses. We should be brave enough to give his detractors credit where due. Those pre-independence fanfare were played in Accra at OKAISHIE and Korle Wokon. Those people who livd through it are believable than the hearsay innuendoes og Lungus. Also The big 6 were known to have met regualarly at a house in Koforidua.E/R .I prefer to believ a person who was in that house" account thn the fabricated bullcrap of Lungu. Lungu prefers to rewrite the history of Ghana to suit rawling et al, but the awam proffessor lungu has fallen flat on his face. Nothing he writes on this forum is credible and belongs to footnote treatments.
Bonso 9 years ago

YOU SEEM TO BE THE SAME OLD HORSE RIDER ON THESE TWO DECREPIT PONIES RECYCLING YOUR OLD VERSES AGAIN...YOU ARE THE SAME KWESIMINTSIM, RUBBING IN THE SANDS OF MOTHER TIME STANDING STILL ON THE SAME OLD SHIT...ITS YOUR TIME TO ...
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YOU SEEM TO BE THE SAME OLD HORSE RIDER ON THESE TWO DECREPIT PONIES RECYCLING YOUR OLD VERSES AGAIN...YOU ARE THE SAME KWESIMINTSIM, RUBBING IN THE SANDS OF MOTHER TIME STANDING STILL ON THE SAME OLD SHIT...ITS YOUR TIME TO CONTINUE WHAT YOUR FATHERS STARTED...BLA...BLA...BLA...LIKE A LAP DOG
PERSCOBA 9 years ago

I hope he is not an academic proff. else he risk being exposed as a anacademic dishonest person. Nothing he writes is credible.

I hope he is not an academic proff. else he risk being exposed as a anacademic dishonest person. Nothing he writes is credible.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

When will this back and forth between Nkrumahistts like Onuah Francis and bra Lungu, on the one hand, and Danquahists like Odeefuo Sarpong and Attorney SAS, one the other hand, come to a screeching halt , while we figure out ...
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When will this back and forth between Nkrumahistts like Onuah Francis and bra Lungu, on the one hand, and Danquahists like Odeefuo Sarpong and Attorney SAS, one the other hand, come to a screeching halt , while we figure out whether the distinguished Prof. Emeritus Francis Kofi Ampenyi Allotey succeed in helping us find answers to our embarrassing dumsor-dumsor?

We are surely running out of time with this acerbic debate to nowhere.
PERSCOBA 9 years ago

Maecus you should know better than this idiot LUNGU. He is part of the anti Akan tribalist who purposely refuses to accept what is obvious. He does not know a dime about Ghana history yet imposing himself as an authority o ...
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Maecus you should know better than this idiot LUNGU. He is part of the anti Akan tribalist who purposely refuses to accept what is obvious. He does not know a dime about Ghana history yet imposing himself as an authority on the subject, I asked both of you: were YOU at the Koforidua meeting when the NAME GHANA WAS SELECTED IN ANTICIPATION OF INDEPENDENCE? If not then shut up and let those who were there speak.
KOFI 9 years ago

NONSENSE

NONSENSE
DR AMAKU 9 years ago

STUPID ARTICLE

STUPID ARTICLE

J. B. Danquah The Inventor for Dummies Updated!

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