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Prof. Lumumba: ‘African think tanks don’t think’

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  • Peter Abrokwa 8 years ago

    Thank you Prof.you have hit the nail right on its head.There are too many educated fools in Africa who have made us a LAUGHING STOCK.The Whiteman is laughing at our INDEPENDENCE and the great Nkrumah is turning in his grave.

  • Ken Ntiamoa 8 years ago

    I like that. Either we give birth or abort the baby.


    Ken

  • jones 8 years ago

    You mean Imani too are a bunch of know nothings?

  • Saint Ghfuo: CHALLENGE YOURSELF!!! 8 years ago

    They use bible sense instead of common sense. FOOLS. Common sense predates bible sense/knowledge. These think tanks collect their salaries from the govt. Looking out for their selfish interest

  • Pioneer 8 years ago

    Mahama the goat Nana Addo the thief both for the 2016 election

  • ddkt 8 years ago

    time to stop the excessive politics and corruption and start working hard. unity and hard work is what we need npp or ndc

  • Ignorant Acheampong 8 years ago

    Mr. Professor, please what is your contribution to the development of Africa? I believe you are one of the think tanks in Africa, even if not ,they rely on your lecture hall notes.!!!!

  • Papa USA 8 years ago

    Stupid and a fool at the same time...If anything google this man and you will see the impact he is making. If you do listen to his speeches he always say, he can not do anything but to just inspire the younger generation. He ...
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  • Nakusis 8 years ago

    He is at least making it known to Africans what you fool

  • mawriz 8 years ago

    We can all do what he's doing given the platform. It's easy to attack the system than actually contribute to it. What awareness is he creating, are you not aware of what he's saying now?

  • Future President¹²³ 8 years ago

    Except he's not waiting for people to call on him. He travels around and preaches pan-africanism. Is it something you can do? Africa is paying him for the message he's delivering. He doesn't hide behind his computer and compl ...
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  • Emmanuel Adu Aniboye-fofie 8 years ago

    Yes, you have hit the nail by the head! African so-called 'Think Thanks' have become mere followers of leading minds abroad. They are bereft of 'originality, critical thinking, and above all, they only take pride in bearing c ...
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  • United Ghana 8 years ago

    Say it again, Emnanuel

  • Frances 8 years ago

    Very true,Imani and co...PoLyTAnKS

  • Bubu 8 years ago

    Nonsense people.

  • Armna 8 years ago

    Low IQ 71

  • SAMITU ROSE 8 years ago

    THANKS SO MUCH FOR UR TRUTH PROF LUMUMBAH ......EVEN HERE IN GHANA OUR LEADERS ARE ALL THIEVES ....WICKED INSENSITIVE THIEVES WHO STEAL THRO FAKE JDGT DEBTS, 8.7 BN GHC VOTE BUYING BY MAHAMA IN 2012 JUST TO WIN ELECTIONS....N ...
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  • SAMITU ROSE 8 years ago

    REAL BIG THIEVES LIKE ALL NDC LAWYERS ARE FLEECING THE COUNTRY..... we hang the goat thieves and elect the big thieves into office,” he fumed.

  • SAY IT AS IT 8 years ago

    Wow! What a wise talk . we all hope our so called belly think tanks take note and start to THINK.
    We hear them blowing hot air in a soecity where many of us are half baked educated even with degrees and them all.
    Fools wh ...
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  • Concerned 8 years ago

    Imani and other think tanks appear from nowhere and the question I always ask myself is who is funding them. I whole heartedly agree with them when they are having a go at the donkey mahama but the likes of Imani and casely ...
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  • Armna 8 years ago

    Stop making excuses for your failures. Let the young smart progessive Africans replace your old fools. Mugabe is due for retirement at 91 ! Zuma is another Zulo fool.

  • Balderash 8 years ago

    He is right. In Ghana, there is this hype around IMANI while this IMANI only spews western talking points.

  • Togbe 8 years ago

    Again i associate myself with dis man's speech.

  • sam Bern 8 years ago

    Powerful

  • Eddie 8 years ago

    Prof. Lumumba said it all. Great,short direct and reasonable. Thank you Sir.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    A good one there!

    READ: "...Today in Africa, we hang the goat thieves and elect the big thieves into office,”...".

    WE SAY: Nuff said!

  • Jamel 8 years ago

    ...Watch/Listen to his 27 minutes speech on corruption(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cbEuwqKKqE) and you'll weep for Africa.We really live in sad times.

    We need more people like him in Africa. God bless him.

  • Paul 8 years ago

    So True
    Africans are creatures of habit. they like everything to stay the same.
    But they always want a different result....its so sad
    God help!!!

  • Dr Banafo 8 years ago

    Many thanks for your lecture in the heart of the country where the independence of the black Africans was first achieved by the late president Dr.Nkrumah in March 06th 1957. Taking the look at what in Dr. Nkrumah did within ...
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  • Insp We.i 8 years ago

    Franklin Cudjovi must listen up

  • Bulala 8 years ago

    Thank you so much Prof. Lumumba for boldness and for being very candid. Africa does not have good leaders. All the great leaders Africa produced during the time of Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba, et cetera, are no more. Africa l ...
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  • Etweba 8 years ago

    Franklin Cudjoe and his so called imani, hope you heard the prof right.
    You pose like you have solution to all Ghana problem but you are a thrash to many learned people in Afrca. Only in Ghana that due to poor journa ...
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  • Juan 8 years ago

    You are good. Africa is disgraceful continent in the whole world because of poor leadership. They see but cannot deliver the same to Africa. The leaders make us suffer in people country a big time. Prostitution, slavery types ...
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  • Nakusis 8 years ago

    They think how to steal from the government and heat others for their own gain. "Poor no friend" security vrs watchman but its the same. Animal farm. Binon te yie bimon nso nte yie koraaaaa. Stealing votes. manipulation ideat ...
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  • Franconaro Swiss 8 years ago

    You have spoken, from the heart
    All Africans on the continent must take the message serious.
    African leaders are chasen the BIG Dictator IMF Institution and to run Africa down.where are the so call Think Tanks?

  • yusof 8 years ago

    imami ghana dont think

  • Golden Boy 8 years ago

    Prof thank you for the hard truth, African leaders are dreamers, speach writers, poems reciters, very wicked, corrupt to the bone and liars, all they know is stay on power and make money.

  • Essel 8 years ago

    We've indeed suffered multiple developmental MISCARRIAGES. Re-awakened couples needed for re-impregnation

  • heart 8 years ago

    Many of you are praising prof. And I want to do the same -but my questionis :if it wwas a Ghanaian who said this, many of us would have immediately politicized it and rained insults on people. We better start stop this stupid ...
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  • kwabena 8 years ago

    Why is Prof. Lumbumba not in politics? He is speaking the truth, bluntly and courageously. He has a lot of admirers across the continent, so why is he not in politics? Politics requires thinking and working with people who on ...
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  • Pastor Josiah 8 years ago

    The misery of Africans is benefing the neo colonialists. To this end their conscience have been sold to the West. If our leaders begins to think, our resources can no more be plundered to the benefit of the western economies. ...
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  • Kwaku A. Danso 8 years ago

    Folks,
    This man is inspirational and poetic in his delivery of Africa's ailments. Just heard parts of his speech in which he takes dumsor to a new stage "dumsorization".

  • Jojo 8 years ago

    EGYA OPAYIN PROFESSOR,IT IS BECAUSE THE NOISY EDUCATED PEOPLE IN GHANA AND AFRICA DO NOT THINK, CANNOT PERFORM AND ARE NOT PRODUCTIVE, THAT,IS WHY THEY ALWAYS CONTINUE TO HIDE BEHIND THE CURTAINS AND TO BLAME EVERY GOVERNMEN ...
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  • OBIBINI 8 years ago

    African think tanks are surrogates of the imperialists.Most of them are financed by western governments and institutions all in the name of promoting good governance.Some even are used to destabilze governments and leaders ha ...
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  • Yaw 8 years ago

    So, do you do any thinking yourself Prof.? Aren't you also just interested in the title professor? Because I have followed some of the things you have been saying in Ghana and I wonder if you really put any thought to those b ...
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  • The Rogue Liar 8 years ago

    Jay Ray Ram Allen. Hmmm, I am one of them. I have low IQ lol. Somebody should help me

  • BRO DAN -TRC 8 years ago

    BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, NOBLE PEOPLE OF GHANA; A TIME TO THINK.
    THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROBLEM IS; IT NEVER HEEDS TO THE CRY OF HER OWN CHILDREN. THE HIGHEST CURRENCY OF AN ...
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  • King 8 years ago

    The think tanks are not integrated in any fashion in our governance. Before we start talking by heart we should understand how these think tanks work in the western world. Think tanks can have all the great ideas , but if the ...
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  • AD Wa 8 years ago

    He shd think of wat hapened to Nkrumah n Qadafi, the west used ghanains to do away with Nkrumah bcos of his thought of africa unity. Qadafi was killed day light using his own peopl 4 his idear of builden bank of africa to le ...
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  • James 8 years ago

    Thank you Prof. We should start teaching critical thinking as a a subject in schools. We start by training a nucleus of teachers very well who would act as training the trainers for other teachers
    Above all we should reclaim ...
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  • ISSAH AL- HASSAN 8 years ago

    Prof is 100 percent right.Hence,African leader must change their attitude.

  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 8 years ago

    IT IS NOT SO SIR THAT WE THE THINK TANK OF AFRICA DO NOT THINK, BUT WE ARE NOT CRIMINAL ENOUGH TO GAIN POLITICAL POWERS. MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY ARE TANKS WHO DO NOT THINK SIMPLE!!!

  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 8 years ago

    REMEMBER WHEN PRESIDENT RAWLINGS WAS THE HEAD OF STATE HERE IN GHANA , HIS MAIN SONG OF CRUSADE WAS ABOUT THE UNJUST WORLD TRADE ORDER!!IT WAS A VERY DANGEROUS SUBJECT TO BROACH IN THIS WORLD OF MAN EAT MAN THAT THE WEST CAPI ...
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  • Kwabena Adubofour 8 years ago

    And of cause, how will they think for Africa? When they have their stomachs and mouths in the kitchen of neo imperial leeches disguised as donors. They only exist to do the bidding and dictates of their blood hungry masters