What foolish article is this? What have you said? You rambling, linguistically disturbed guy!
What foolish article is this? What have you said? You rambling, linguistically disturbed guy!
Nyansasem 9 years ago
Everyone will come to know this fool. Feature section on Ghanaweb used to a 'place' for enlightenment until this idiot, Bokor and Ahoofe came here.
While Bokor and Ahoofe use their own minds to write on issues, this idiot ... read full comment
Everyone will come to know this fool. Feature section on Ghanaweb used to a 'place' for enlightenment until this idiot, Bokor and Ahoofe came here.
While Bokor and Ahoofe use their own minds to write on issues, this idiot had never used his own ideas here. He quotes and quotes and quotes, especially from the guy who might have shagged him to give him the degree in Africana studies.
Useless individual with nothing to offer Ghana.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Reader,
First, pardon me for a few errors (typos/grammatical).
Second, some of you readers are always complaining Kwame Nkrumah was not "smart," yet we give you a disappearing piece of his "mountains" of thinking ... read full comment
Dear Reader,
First, pardon me for a few errors (typos/grammatical).
Second, some of you readers are always complaining Kwame Nkrumah was not "smart," yet we give you a disappearing piece of his "mountains" of thinking and you still complain.
This is to tell you how sophisticated a thinker and intellectually knowledgeable he was. None of his Ghanaian peers comes close.
This write-up is a simplistic over-generalization of Nkrumah's ideas as developed in his dense text, "Consciencism: Philosophy snd Ideology for Decolonization."
Wait till you read Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere's more difficult book "The Theory of Categorical Conversion: Analytic Foundations of Nkrumahism" and Nkrumah's "Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization."
What do I mean? If you will complain about this straightfoward and simple write-up, then, my friend, better brace yurself for Dr. Dompere's "The Theory of Categorical Conversion: Analytic Foundations of Nkrumahism" and Nkrumah's "Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization," for I have not come across in a long time a highly complicated and sophisticated scientific and mathematic work as bold as Dr. Dompere's.
I can only thank Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, another brilliant/sophisticated scholar and excellent writer, for introducing Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere and his scientific works on Nkrumah to us.
We shall say more about Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere in Part 5.
Thanks.
Ghanaian Patriot 9 years ago
"None of his Ghanaian peers comes"?
You are asking forgiveness for some grammatical mistakes and still making elementary grammatical mistakes.
"None of his Ghanaian peers comes"?
You are asking forgiveness for some grammatical mistakes and still making elementary grammatical mistakes.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Ghanaian Patriot,
Deal with the substantive issues and stifle your infatuations with topical irrelevancies.
I have been nice to own up to typos/grammatical errors which could be one of the stumbling blocks to Healer's ... read full comment
Ghanaian Patriot,
Deal with the substantive issues and stifle your infatuations with topical irrelevancies.
I have been nice to own up to typos/grammatical errors which could be one of the stumbling blocks to Healer's full comprehension of the article.
Grammar is one of my least problems. In fact, grammar is not one of my problems at all.
I have said this before. I do not care so much about grammar as about readers' making sense out of my articles. Grammar!
I still insist no contemporary (political) of Nkrumah in Ghana comes close in his level of thinking. I am stating the fact, not sentiments. I don't believe in sentiments when rigorous scholarship is the focus.
Besides, read Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere's mathematical and scientific books on Nkrumah. Then come back here and tell readers otherwise.
That is how human beings debate, not irrelevancies as grammar and typos. I would you had rather told me what you constructively found objectionable by way of the mathematical and scientific analysis of Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere's brilliant work on Nkrumah.
And please, forget this grammar irrelevancies. They do nothing to my prestige or pride. I am a Ghanaian (African) and speak Twi (Fante, Asate) and Ga fluently. English is my third language. I have also said this before.
I wish I could be authorially fluent in Twi and Ga! Don't come back again to tell there are errors in this response too. You should correct them for your own convenience as you locate them. Deal with the substantive issues instead.
Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Instead of downplaying the visceral importance of grammar in writing, you should educate Patriot that the sentence, "None of his Ghanaian peers comes close," is correct.
What is not correct is the strange assumption that Nk ... read full comment
Instead of downplaying the visceral importance of grammar in writing, you should educate Patriot that the sentence, "None of his Ghanaian peers comes close," is correct.
What is not correct is the strange assumption that Nkrumah is the best in everything. If you consider that his "Consciencism" was written for him by a certain professor, you will be tempered in your ululation of the man.
Brother 9 years ago
My problem lies in all of us wanting things the easy way. Nature is complicatedly simple and so must we. Secondly Dr. SAS says somebody wrote it for Nkrumah. Why keep the name and proof or you are into hearsay? My Brother Kwa ... read full comment
My problem lies in all of us wanting things the easy way. Nature is complicatedly simple and so must we. Secondly Dr. SAS says somebody wrote it for Nkrumah. Why keep the name and proof or you are into hearsay? My Brother Kwateng, I did not know I could be pushed to research more. your intricate marriages of subjects is admirable and shows that we are not all lazy. I keep appreciating the fact that,you go beyond your comfort to substantiate your claims unlike those we all know. What ever they do, I have never heard of a better African leader and thinker than Nkrumah and we all know that. Studying his philosophy and all will be very helpful to Africa. China is one country that developed on its own terms, USA did the same, Britain did the same why copy and worship others. No wonder we don't like deep writing. Thanks Brother. You are a patriot. Keep the fire burning.
Kojo T 9 years ago
Thanks for your summation. It is the same problem of ma te em ho jealousy and fera that comes into play when ever they hear Nkrumahs name . What a pity? We REFUSE to learn because we do not want to go to the substance but rem ... read full comment
Thanks for your summation. It is the same problem of ma te em ho jealousy and fera that comes into play when ever they hear Nkrumahs name . What a pity? We REFUSE to learn because we do not want to go to the substance but remain subjective. Who wrote it and about whom, not what does he say?
Alhassan Gangu 9 years ago
Who wrote it for him in the first place? And who revised the work in 1967? I have both books, the first print and the revised version after he was overthrown. Can you please shed more lights on this assertion you made
Who wrote it for him in the first place? And who revised the work in 1967? I have both books, the first print and the revised version after he was overthrown. Can you please shed more lights on this assertion you made
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him......
How come Nkrumah never wrote any book until after he became a President? My own brother wrote some of his speeches, and others wrote the rest. He could not even finish a desse ... read full comment
Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him......
How come Nkrumah never wrote any book until after he became a President? My own brother wrote some of his speeches, and others wrote the rest. He could not even finish a dessertation for a research doctorate.....All of a sudden, once he became a President, he has volumes churned in his name. Every writer has a trajectory bespeaking his/ her authorial evolution; Nkrumah has none. That should educate self-doubters that he was never original........
By the way, every Nkrumahist knows the true author of "Consciencism", but they prefer to dabble in myth. Nkrumah was an aficionado of fakery.
Brother 9 years ago
You have said nothing but what could you have said? Your own brother wrote his speeches and so it makes him the writer of his books? Nkrumah is fake and could do for Ghana what your brother and his CIA / Mi6 could not do for ... read full comment
You have said nothing but what could you have said? Your own brother wrote his speeches and so it makes him the writer of his books? Nkrumah is fake and could do for Ghana what your brother and his CIA / Mi6 could not do for over five hundred years. Give it up.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Nkrumah did nothing for Ghana.
Considering the resources then available to him, he did nothing at all. Any businessman that gives Nkrumah that kind of resources will consider whatever he did as nothing and fire him for waste ... read full comment
Nkrumah did nothing for Ghana.
Considering the resources then available to him, he did nothing at all. Any businessman that gives Nkrumah that kind of resources will consider whatever he did as nothing and fire him for wastefulness.
Beyond his decrepit infrastructure, mention one intellectual or institutional legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah's legacy of dictatorship is as doomed as his CPP.
Kojo T 9 years ago
How much resource did he have The $400m dollars or less. How much do you think the Akosombo dam cost? How much do you think it cost to put up KNUST and UCC , then the 400+ industries . Look I have said it left to the ma te me ... read full comment
How much resource did he have The $400m dollars or less. How much do you think the Akosombo dam cost? How much do you think it cost to put up KNUST and UCC , then the 400+ industries . Look I have said it left to the ma te me ho we will not have dum sor but DUM . We would have had no power source. If you could , then what happened to ghana Airways and why have you not revamped the railway system. Did you in 8 years generate any electricity . How many homes did you put up? The records are there Busia and K4 were disasters economically to the country
Ghanaian Patriot 9 years ago
Illiterate fool, you cannot talk thrash but you can talk trash.
Talk is verb. Thrash is verb but trash is noun.
Illiterate fool, you cannot talk thrash but you can talk trash.
Talk is verb. Thrash is verb but trash is noun.
Asiwome 9 years ago
Dr SAS fails to fathom the fact that Africans have a dynamism of thy own, and that the education system we have been subjected to thrives on us being beholden to others. We have to pay others for their ideas,you see, so any o ... read full comment
Dr SAS fails to fathom the fact that Africans have a dynamism of thy own, and that the education system we have been subjected to thrives on us being beholden to others. We have to pay others for their ideas,you see, so any original ideas that "the some, inferior species" have are either subjugated or dismissed. Nkrumah fought for independence for a reason. Unless you think the head on his neck wasn't his, you cannot dispute that. Unfortunately, he followed the shark that sought to swallow him up. Go figure!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Nkrumah did not know the simple meaning of independence. Independence means freedom. But he understood independence as the right to oppress the people. Thus it is not true to say that Nkrumah fought for independence. Like Raw ... read full comment
Nkrumah did not know the simple meaning of independence. Independence means freedom. But he understood independence as the right to oppress the people. Thus it is not true to say that Nkrumah fought for independence. Like Rawlings, he fought for his own meal (and plane) ticket. Under Nkrumah, there was no independence/freedom!
Brother 9 years ago
My Brother Dr. SAS, your opinion I will respect but to talk of business and resources I am disappointed. You can not even much revenue and expenses? How much was the resources? Be specific and match them against the projects. ... read full comment
My Brother Dr. SAS, your opinion I will respect but to talk of business and resources I am disappointed. You can not even much revenue and expenses? How much was the resources? Be specific and match them against the projects. People like you keep saying he was bequeathed resources to what ever tune? Compare your countries development spate before 54 and after 66. It looks to me your definition of development is the ability to insult and lie at will as we are doing now in this country of Galamsey, complexes, stomach politics, shoddy products,buildings and articles. I am from the northern side of Ghana so TEMASCO, NAVASCO, JAHAN, PUSIGA Training, IFCAT, ICOUR, AZOKA BIMBILA training, NOBISCO, KPALUGU tomanto, and a road to village I must appreciate. He facilitated, no he built Akosombo and added fiber optic to the wiring for communication then. He initiated Bui and see how it is already obsolete after one year, Tema habour. Kole Bu, KNUST, Regional hospitals etc. Should I go on? You may not know Ghana much, not now, not before beyond Ejisu so you can write ignorantly of development and democracy and that is my opinion. Please don't be pretentious, your brother would have also told you of all these things if even you are relying on hearsay? Admit it.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Take Akosombo out.
The Brits started Akosombo under a loan facility and later pulled out. Then Nkrumah signed a ridiculous agreement with Kaiser that completed the project. The project agreement was a sell-out to American i ... read full comment
Take Akosombo out.
The Brits started Akosombo under a loan facility and later pulled out. Then Nkrumah signed a ridiculous agreement with Kaiser that completed the project. The project agreement was a sell-out to American interest.
The colonial masters left Nkrumah over $200 million which translates into several billions today.....Nkrumah wasted all that in white elephant projects and in his bid to rule Africa. Most of his projects were also accomplished with loans. The country first became indebted under Nkrumah.
Even if I concede that his infrastructural accomplishments were impressive, you must concede that he left no intellectual or institutional heritage. These are more important than the physical structures now rotting. There is no paradigm of democratic governance left by Nkrumah, and this makes him the worst president in Ghana.
Thessa 9 years ago
Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goat tending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, you Savannah cow.
Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goat tending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, you Savannah cow.
Thessa 9 years ago
Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goat tending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, you Savannah cow.
Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goat tending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, you Savannah cow.
Brother 9 years ago
Thanks for reminding me but your anger blinded you so u could not read what I wrote. What I mean is that, he does not even know Kumasi. Does that make me a bigot. He is in Ghana as of now. You can go ask him if he knows Kum ... read full comment
Thanks for reminding me but your anger blinded you so u could not read what I wrote. What I mean is that, he does not even know Kumasi. Does that make me a bigot. He is in Ghana as of now. You can go ask him if he knows Kumasi well. Please think before u write.
Kojo T 9 years ago
When you lose elections and resort to violence and illegal methods to gain power and you are check mated you call that dictatorship. NPP should learn to be responsible
When you lose elections and resort to violence and illegal methods to gain power and you are check mated you call that dictatorship. NPP should learn to be responsible
Brother 9 years ago
SAS, by your own submission may I know why those who wrote those books for Nkrumah never published such kind of writing before Nkrumah became president or afterwards? Doesn't your statement that how come he never wrote any b ... read full comment
SAS, by your own submission may I know why those who wrote those books for Nkrumah never published such kind of writing before Nkrumah became president or afterwards? Doesn't your statement that how come he never wrote any book until he became president defeat your thought? For his dissertation, you know why so you are dabbling in mischief. If you could complete a doctoral program then you know Nkrumah had.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Your last sentence was a blow below the belt. Remember Nkrumah tried to become a lawyer and failed. I became a lawyer. Also, Nkrumah had no academic doctorate; I hold a doctoral degree in jurisprudence. Nkrumah could not bu ... read full comment
Your last sentence was a blow below the belt. Remember Nkrumah tried to become a lawyer and failed. I became a lawyer. Also, Nkrumah had no academic doctorate; I hold a doctoral degree in jurisprudence. Nkrumah could not buy his own one way ticket to Ghana after ten years in America; I bought my tickets and visited my country three times after five years here. After ten years here, Nkrumah had no mansion in Ghana and had never supported any child in school; I have financed over fifteen students at all levels of education. And I do have several housing projects. While in America, Nkrumah never founded a secondary school in Ghana nor provide them with transportation; I did. I have done many things here that Nkrumah could never do.
In America, Nkrumah was useless. I am not!
You may believe that Nkrumah wrote his books; I do not. The man was a mediocre student at Achimota and stole his way to America. He never did anything worthy of note while here. I am doing something here and at home, and with my own money too!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Hello SAS,
You have made another hollow testament here. I wonder why you compare your stay here with Nkrumah's. That is a very weal comparison to make, Brother SAS.
The era of Nkrumah's stay in America is not the same ... read full comment
Hello SAS,
You have made another hollow testament here. I wonder why you compare your stay here with Nkrumah's. That is a very weal comparison to make, Brother SAS.
The era of Nkrumah's stay in America is not the same as yours and mine. Blacks (and minorities, in general) now do not enjoy the same freedoms (economic, political, social, etc) Nkrumah and African Americans enjoyed in those days.
Nkrumah took ten years to acquare 4 degrees paying with his own money (and some meagre scholarhsip) while moonlighting by preaching, working in morgues, selling fish, preaching, lecturing, among others, under deplorable conditions.
You did not have to go through what Nkrumah while the British and American intelligence trailed him even while he studied.
In fact, if you have read enough about what some of his White/Black professors had written about Nkrumah, you would have known by now how they wondered how Nkrumah could be working at least 12 hours a day and still made good grades.
In 1998, Kwame Nkrumah's mate, an African American, at Lincoln University, told me in person (Harlem, New York) the hardships Nkrumah had to endure to acquire his education in America. He told me many Africans in Nkrumah's condition gave up and returned to Africa. Some even became drug addicts and criminals. He told me how hardworking Nkrumah was. Nkrumah's White/Black proffessors and academic advisors had said the same things about him.
Nkrumah even worked 18 hours certain weeks. And he did so throughut the week and went to school full-time. In fact, limited economic opportunities for blacks and racism constituted one of the major reasons he left America for England in the first place.
Some of us won visa lotteries to America and won full scholarships to study in American universities where you and I are not likely to have racist white professors in those when higher education.
Universities can even find us profitable jobs while we go to school full-time. It was not that easy in those.
Others like Ako Adjei, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and several others who studied in those in America quickly went back to Africa because the opportunities were not there for minorities.
The case is diffferent as in the case of JB Danquah whom the British government assisted as he did his schooling there. We should not forget thta Nana Ofori Atta 1 used money belonging to his kingdom (the people's money) to underwrite British war efforts during the World War 1. The British, therefore, paid Nana Ofori Atta 1, among other things.
Even today, despite a black president being office, conditions have still not improved very much in America for minorities. I hope you have been following lawsuits by well-educated African American (who have attended America's elite universities, graduated at the top of their class, outdone their white colleagues, but are denied promotion in several Fortune 500 companies). There many of such cases in "The Wall Street Journal" and "The New York Times," two of the world's best newspapers.
Please find time to read the following books:
(1) The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah (Dr. Ama Biney)
(2) Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultiral Thought and Politics (Dr. Kwame Nkrumah)
These two books will give you more information on what Nkrumah had to endure to acquire those four degrees. These will give you references to primary sources at Lincoln University and University of Pensylvannia. Let me if these two books are not enough. I shall send you more.
Please also find time to read the following book. It tells you more about African Americans and America's education:
(1) Ebony & Ivy: Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (Dr. Craig S. Wilder; his is one of the best and authoritative books on the subject).
Listen to Dr. Wilder discuss this controversial topic at:
Rawlings also had a good excuse for buying Yoki Gari on credit, although a commissioned officer. Every loser has his day of excuses....Nkrumah was a complete failure here in America, until he became a complete god in Ghana. D ... read full comment
Rawlings also had a good excuse for buying Yoki Gari on credit, although a commissioned officer. Every loser has his day of excuses....Nkrumah was a complete failure here in America, until he became a complete god in Ghana. Don't make excuses for him. It was Brother's post alleging that even if I could study law, then Nkrumah indeed could get a Ph.D. that ticked me off to compare my stay here in America with that of Nkrumah. At least you agree that he did not achieve much here. I have. You are only making excuses that life was hard then. Isn't life still hard now?
Kosoko 9 years ago
"Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him......"
Are you making that up or you are making a definitive statement. I thought you said you are a lawyer? Please stop ridicule yourself with these stupid ranting
"How com ... read full comment
"Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him......"
Are you making that up or you are making a definitive statement. I thought you said you are a lawyer? Please stop ridicule yourself with these stupid ranting
"How come Nkrumah never wrote any book until after he became a President"?
Another 'straw man' question. Do you want to know whether Nkrumah started writing before his presidency or what? Stop commenting on a subject you haven't read wide enough.
"He could not even finish a dessertation for a research doctorate.....". Are you making this one also up or you are stating a fact?
Sorry Nkrumah is not like you who writes bachelor's degree thesis and then call himself Doctor. In fact, he completed two doctoral theses at Lincoln University (although he refused to alter the changes the university demanded in order to get his PhD degree) and uncompleted one at LSE. You said you are a lawyer please behave like one in your submissions
Kwame Bediako 9 years ago
Dr SAS disappeared from this forum recently when his name was found in the GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the only lawyer on this planet who does not believe in EVIDENCE.Please,ignore this half-baked lawyer.
Dr SAS disappeared from this forum recently when his name was found in the GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the only lawyer on this planet who does not believe in EVIDENCE.Please,ignore this half-baked lawyer.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Hello Dr. SAS,
How are you?
How many presidents, etc., write their own speeches, from George Washington to Nelson Mandela?
Most at times professional speech writers do? And Kwame Nkrumah is not different.
In fac ... read full comment
Hello Dr. SAS,
How are you?
How many presidents, etc., write their own speeches, from George Washington to Nelson Mandela?
Most at times professional speech writers do? And Kwame Nkrumah is not different.
In fact, Busia, Kufour, Rawlings, Acheampong, Limann, etc., all had people write their speeches for them.
My late paternal uncle, a former lecturer at KNUST, wrote/edited speeches for Kufour prior to the Ghana's Fourth Republic. That is not a big deal.
Some of us can write speeches for any of our presidents. Again, that is not a big deal. Speech writing is not the same as writing books, not to talk of scholarly ones.
And you do not need a PhD to write scholarly or influential books. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Amiri Maraka, Maya Angelou, Chimamanda Nkozi Adidhie, George Padmore, Derek Wlacott, Winston Churchill, Toni Morrison, etc., and several other influential did not have PhDs. In fact, Maya Angelou, Goerge Padmore, Winston Churchill, and Amiri Baraka, to mention just four, had only high school diplomas.
Yet Maya Angelou, Winston Churchill, and Amiri Baraka did garner international accolades for their influential writinsg. Winston Churchill even won a Nobel for Literature. So what are we talking about here?
Again, none of Ghana's PhD English professors (writers) running their mouths do come come anywhere close to Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, or Winston Churchill. Some of our PhD English holders do not even write well.
Finally, Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka count among the world's best in the 20th Century. Therefore, let us not make advanced degrees a criterion for authorial creativity and productivity.
I personally know one of Kufour's speech writers in his first term. So what is the big deal? Even Bill Clinton, an excellent writer, had and still have speech writers.
Besides, it is not even a big deal to allow speech writers to write president's speeches. It is the norm. Everyone does it.
Again, my friend Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere is trying to lay hands on Nkrumah's doctoral thesis at University of Pensyvannia. He is planning to work on it like "Consciencism" and others.
Finally, there is no evidence anyone wrote his books for him. There is not one shred of reliable evidence these wrong-headed claims. It is a claim made by his detractors and enemies.
It is no wonder "Consciencism" is one such work whose authorship is ascribed to others. It is because of its analytic sophistication. Personally I have not delved into these apochryphal claims because of their lack of substance.
Nrumah is a fabulous writer. This is public knowledge. And the fact that your brother wrote speeches for him does not provide a verifiable evidence that he also wrote Nkrumah's books.
Did Bill Clinton's, George Bushe's, or Hillary Clinton's speech writers author their bestselling books for them? George W. Bush could not even speak English, let alone write a, yet he wrote a book.
Bill Clinton wrote his first book major book "Between Hope and Hisory," George W. Bush wrote "Decision Points," and Hillary Clinton several scholary articles and books, is there a case to be made that their speech writers wrote their books for them?
Anyway, records abound vis-a-vis presidents who wrote while they were in office. Nkrumah is no excpetion. That is part of Nkrumah's genius.
Let us also reember that he wrote extesnively and published a lot after his overthrow. Let us go over some of them:
(1) Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967)
(2) African Socialism Revisited (1967)
(3) Voice from Conakry (1967)
(4) Dark Days in Ghana (1968)
(5) Handbok of Revolutionary Warfare (1968)
(6) Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization( Revised, 1970)
(7) Class Struggle in Africa (1970)
Here are those that were published poshumously:
(8) The Struggle Continues (1973)
(9) I Speak of Freedom (1973)
(10) Revolutionary Path (1973)
(11) Rodesia File
Let me just end here.
Therefore, claims that he only wtote during his presidency have not legitimacy, for he wtote as many books during his presidency as he was after his presidency.
In end, claims of questionable authorship has no confirmatory legimacy. These are part of the lies designed to undermine his creativity and genius.
It will not wash. Nkrumah did write his own scholarly works. In fact, no one has produced a single provable evidence to suppport that claim. Let us give the man his due.
Please if any one has any provable evidence, let him or her share that evidence on Ghanaweb and with the world. Watch out for Part 5.
All errors are mine.
Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
You have to focus on the salient points I raised.
If Nkrumah could not write his own speeches, don't you think it raises enough hackles to inquire into his authorial competence? And does it matter that others too do not wri ... read full comment
You have to focus on the salient points I raised.
If Nkrumah could not write his own speeches, don't you think it raises enough hackles to inquire into his authorial competence? And does it matter that others too do not write their speeches? I would inquire into their authorial competence too! And if you have not researched the matter as a respected scholar, why comment or conclude? I have and will write extensively on it in due course.
The gist of my argument is that Nkrumah was too daft to write intelligently. Do not focus too much on the fact that he had no doctorate.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Hello Dr. SAS,
This is a subject I have spent considerable time researching.
I have also spoken to (and read some of the major works) with scholars on both sides of the divide. Not even a shred of evidence exists to su ... read full comment
Hello Dr. SAS,
This is a subject I have spent considerable time researching.
I have also spoken to (and read some of the major works) with scholars on both sides of the divide. Not even a shred of evidence exists to support that apocryphal claim.
If I have ample time on my side, I will send you a list of supposed authoritative books that makes hollow claims on this subject.
I will also let one or two scholars who have done thorough research and written on this very subject discuss their work with you.
Let me repeat my earlier claim: Nkrumah wrote all his books and there is not one single provable shred of evidence to claim otherwise. This is why I am publicly challenging readers to share any such evidence here on Ghanaweb and with the world.
To prove his "daftness," however, Brother SAS, you do first have to incontrovertibly prove he did not write his books, which I am sorry you have failed to do.
All your assertions here are merely based on hearsay, just as some of the "authoritative" books have done, Brother SAS. Incontrovertible evidence is the key. Thus, the burden of proof lies with you, not with Nkrumah.
Again, I have researched the topic thoroughly. I have also consulted with some of the best Ghanaian scholars on this subject (on both sides of the issue)
I look forward to that incontrovertible evidence.
All errors are mine.
Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
What did you mean then by this statement in your penultimate post:
"Personally I have not delved into these apochryphal claims because of their lack of substance."
You, Bro. Francis, are one source of my diappointment. ... read full comment
What did you mean then by this statement in your penultimate post:
"Personally I have not delved into these apochryphal claims because of their lack of substance."
You, Bro. Francis, are one source of my diappointment. I recognize that you are a genius; I do not know what you are doing within the camp of these dangerously brain-washed people. You are an asset to our country and a scholar in your own right, far beyond Nkrumah. You must assume your responsibility to speak for all Ghanaians, not a few ideologically doped somnambulists.
Brother 9 years ago
Once again SAS you are wrong. I guest Nkrumah stole your opportunity to Achimota and your ticket to US . You make categorical statements without evidence. Please hate the man but give him his due. You said you will provide ev ... read full comment
Once again SAS you are wrong. I guest Nkrumah stole your opportunity to Achimota and your ticket to US . You make categorical statements without evidence. Please hate the man but give him his due. You said you will provide evidence in due course and I thought that as a lawyer you should have done that first. Doesn't it occur to you that as the dictator you said he was, he should have been having mansions everywhere after ruling the country for 10 years and be able to build a school and cater for just 15 students? That is the difference. He wanted to build the collective. You always shoot yourself on the foot. A doctorate in jurisprudence? You write these categorical statements insulting a world achiever, calling him daft, thief etc on public fora without evidence and you call it freedom when evidence abounds to the contrary? I am waiting to read that hearsay piece of yours
Kosoko 9 years ago
Are you no more going to bring your evidence of Nkrumah's daftness to bear? Now you seek to win Kwarteng to your of side of intellectual delinquency and dishonesty in order to castigate Nkrumah? Pathetic!
Let me inform you ... read full comment
Are you no more going to bring your evidence of Nkrumah's daftness to bear? Now you seek to win Kwarteng to your of side of intellectual delinquency and dishonesty in order to castigate Nkrumah? Pathetic!
Let me inform you; Kwarteng is among the least of intellectual giants who profess the intellectual prowess of Nkrumah. Wake up! Don't be a lazy mind to sit in Western intellectual propaganda on one hand and NLM crude political propaganda on the other hand
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear friends,
Read my response titled "To SAS $ Nana Kwaku $ Readers."
Thanks.
Dear friends,
Read my response titled "To SAS $ Nana Kwaku $ Readers."
Thanks.
Kojo T 9 years ago
SAS is just dis[playing ignorance. These are the people who want to be in power. Just judge for yourselves Today it is SAS and yeaterday it was Mr Figure it out I cry for Ghana . No wonder we cannot get ahead
SAS is just dis[playing ignorance. These are the people who want to be in power. Just judge for yourselves Today it is SAS and yeaterday it was Mr Figure it out I cry for Ghana . No wonder we cannot get ahead
Nana Kwaku 9 years ago
Francis Kwarteng and co should please note that this platform is meant for the consumption of all levels of the Ghanaian citizenry. Please tone down a bit for the common Ghanaman to at least grasp what is being put out there. ... read full comment
Francis Kwarteng and co should please note that this platform is meant for the consumption of all levels of the Ghanaian citizenry. Please tone down a bit for the common Ghanaman to at least grasp what is being put out there. This is not a debate involving a particular crop of academia. Sarpong, Ahoofe should please take note. Thanks
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Nana Kwaku,
Thanks for your comments.
However, this series has nothing to do with those you mention in your comments.
It has everything to do with the "big" mind of a brilliant Ghanaian scholar who is using ma ... read full comment
Dear Nana Kwaku,
Thanks for your comments.
However, this series has nothing to do with those you mention in your comments.
It has everything to do with the "big" mind of a brilliant Ghanaian scholar who is using mathematics and science to creatively explore the thinking of Kwame Nkrumah.
His work is such that he uses science and other intellectual tools to tease out those innovative ideas of Nkrumah which are relevant to Africa's development.
The only problem is that Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere's scolarly works are too dense and sophisticated and therefore I have tried to make it simpler for the average reader.
Unfortunately, there is no other way I could have gone around it. The particular emphasis should be on mathematics and science, which are the fulcrum of "The Theory of Categorical Conversion: Analytic Foundations of Nkrumahism," one of his latest works on Nkrumah.
Thus, Ghanaians, Africans, and the world at large need to be familiar with Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere and his discoveries. This series is emphatically not about Sarpong and Ahoofe. It is about Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere and Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
It is Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah we should all thank. He introduced Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere and his works to us. Despite all my readings, I never knew there was such a powerhouse (Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere) in the American Academy. Look out for Part 5. More will be said about him.
Thanks.
Kwesi 9 years ago
Nana Kwaku definitely has a relevant point. The average ghanaweb reader is your average Ghanaian, not an intellectual of your Dompere status. If you cannot reduce the level of Dompere's complex thoughts further than you have ... read full comment
Nana Kwaku definitely has a relevant point. The average ghanaweb reader is your average Ghanaian, not an intellectual of your Dompere status. If you cannot reduce the level of Dompere's complex thoughts further than you have done here, then, perhaps, you don't have a duty putting these things on ghanaweb. You can post them elsewhere, most probably in some academic journal or website.
Many people on this site complain that they don't find themselves in these series. Your writing is above the level of 98% of the readership of ghanaweb. It is only natural that you should be sensitive to such complaints rather than promising more of the same...
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago
If this is your best to make Dompreh's work more sophisticated to the average reader then I am afraid both of you guys are aliens from different planet, planted on earth to compound the perplexities of the unsolved 'mysteries ... read full comment
If this is your best to make Dompreh's work more sophisticated to the average reader then I am afraid both of you guys are aliens from different planet, planted on earth to compound the perplexities of the unsolved 'mysteries' embedded in Kwame Nkrumah's book, " Consciencism". From your own account from the previous installments of this write up, if it takes an academic juggernaut like Dr. Dompreh, a mathematician, economist, scientist, statistician, philosopher, sociologist, etc to apply all the fields of his academic endeavor to decipher the coded theories buried in just one work, the Consciencism, very convoluted though, as you yourself have admitted, then Saint Nkrumah certainly did not belong to this universe.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
The nature of Nkrumah's evolution as the worst dictator in Ghana must point to a state of mind that is incapable of rigorous academic endeavor. No person as dictatorial as Nkrumah can at the same time be capable of the kind o ... read full comment
The nature of Nkrumah's evolution as the worst dictator in Ghana must point to a state of mind that is incapable of rigorous academic endeavor. No person as dictatorial as Nkrumah can at the same time be capable of the kind of intellectual reasoning often attributed to him. A man is not stupid by night and brilliant by day. This circumstantial evidence, coupled with the absence of authorial trajectory, his near pidjin English and proven academic incompetence, makes Nkrumah your typical moron, not a leader or a philosopher.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Readers,
Nkrumah did not have to write like Ayi Kwei Armah or Wole Soyinka for his scholarly works to be appreciated.
Internationally-recognized writers like Toni Morrison, Claude McKay, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka ... read full comment
Dear Readers,
Nkrumah did not have to write like Ayi Kwei Armah or Wole Soyinka for his scholarly works to be appreciated.
Internationally-recognized writers like Toni Morrison, Claude McKay, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, and several others have used non-standard English to cloth some of their deep philosophical writings. I could give you more names of such globally acclaimed English writers.
Have you taken a look at how Amos Tutuola's "The Palm Wine Drnkard" garnered international acclaim--though some literary critics have said the book is ungrammatical?
Even James Joyce, one of the authorial pillars of the 20th century, has been critized fro being ungrammatical in his writings.
Besides, Amos Tutuola's "The Palm Wine Drinkard" has received commendation from international scholars such as Wole Soyinka, Jean-Paul Satre, Oscar R. Dathorne, and several notable figures.
The book "The Palm Wine Drinkard" even earned him an associateship with the University of Iowa's world-famous International Writing Program (a place I have visited before when I went to the University of Iowa for an interview on a different program).
The ungrammatical book also influenced such popular American programs as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and how its follow-up "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" influenced world-famous European musicians such as David Byrne and Brian Eno (See their album 1981 album "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts."
Please do look at the writings of William Faulkner, a Nobel Luareate (literature) and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, to see how he uses ungrammatical elements for some of his deepl philosphical novels. Read more about William Faulkner to see how he influenced Amrican literature.
Please do read African American Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book that became the second bestselling piece after the Bible when it was published. See the sort of language she used to deal with the philosophical question of slavery and abolition.
Finally, "dictatorship" should not stop anyone from being creative. Many individual Jews and African Americans have produced some of the world's most creative and enduring scholarly works under dreadful conditions you and I cannot describe.
Examples are WEB Du Bois, Frederick Douglas, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Lngston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Paul Robeson, James W. Johnson, Claude McKay, Ralph Ellison, etc. Kwame Nkrumah, JB Danquah, and KA Busia may not have survived under this horrible conditions.
As for Jews we can mention Albert Einstein, Karl Marx, Fritz Haber, Marcel Grossman, etc.
Finally, Brother SAS, if you have time read more about Vladimir Lenin and about his writings. Let me tell you this about Vladimir Lenin:
"His 'Collected Works' comprise 54 volumes, each of about 650 pages, trnaslated into English in 45 volumes by Progress Publishers, Moscow (1960-1970)." Vladimir Lenin died at the age of 53.
So, you see, Brother SAS, horrendous contidions should not be obstacles to creativity. There is even scientific justifications for creative productiveity under horrendous conditions. Nkrumah was an avid reader and may have produced his creative works under the conditions you describe. This world is very complicated, my brother.
At the appropriate time, Brother SAS, I will send you a comprehensive list of thinkers (from around the world) whose pidgin- and ungrammatical-tainted Engliah writings on such subjects as science, philosophy, sociology, etc., have made the world what is it today. Our own Prof. Francis Allotey, one of the world's gifted scientsists and matematicians, is one of such thinkers.
All errors are mine.
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Hello Brother SAS,
I just remembered an interesting fact I need to share with you.
First, you must know that good literature (in English, say) is not always or necessarily about strictly following standard rules of Eng ... read full comment
Hello Brother SAS,
I just remembered an interesting fact I need to share with you.
First, you must know that good literature (in English, say) is not always or necessarily about strictly following standard rules of English.
Second, I say this because iiterature is one of my expertise. And my expertse is neither restricted to Africa or the USA. I am familiar with the major literature of Asia, Europe, Australia, South America/Latin America, etc. Literature, let us just say English literature or Literature in Eglish, comes in many linguistic styles.
Third, I mentioned Amos Wilson's "The Palm Wine Drinkard" to you. Do find time and read what the late Dr. Ivan Van Sertima has to say about this book, "The Palm Wine Drinkard."
Dr. Sertima used to advice the Nobel Committee on issues related to selecting literature for the "Nobel Prize in Literature." He served in that capacity for four or five years.
Until his passing, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima was one of America's foremost linguists, anthropologists, and historians. He was an expert on African/Caribbean literature as well. I have closley studies all his schorlaly works.
Remember I have said Amos Tutiola's book is ungrammatical. It does not follow standard English rules but is one of the best novels to come from Africa.
Find time to read what Dr. Ivan Van Sertima has to say about this classic book.
Again, all errors are mine. I do not read over my responses because I do not have the time.
Thanks.
Kwesi 9 years ago
You are just too crazy about other writers and scholars. Just too much. EVERYTHING you write is just about what someone else has written. You like throwing names about tooooooo much. Even in your responses to others' comments ... read full comment
You are just too crazy about other writers and scholars. Just too much. EVERYTHING you write is just about what someone else has written. You like throwing names about tooooooo much. Even in your responses to others' comments, you mention names and names and names.
This man said this, this man said that, this singer says so, this man is a renowned scholar, this man is well-known, that woman is a winner of this prize, that guy is world acclaimed, that scholar is internationally recognised as... etc etc etc.
All your writing is just full of such claims and assertions.
When will you ever write an article to ghanaweb in which you make reference to no more than three others and argue points on your own?
When?
For me, that is the biggest problem with your writing in addition to their excessive lengths. Making a few grammatical or typographical mistakes is no big deal and can easily be overlooked. Everyone makes that and there are editors to correct such things.
But your problems are beyond such minor errors!
Ghana 9 years ago
We call those people name droppers. They try to be something they are not by trying to let others know they know important people.
We call those people name droppers. They try to be something they are not by trying to let others know they know important people.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Hello Kwesi,
Yes, I give such references because I am relatively too young to write about things I did not witness. We all do.
Most of us who write positively and negatively about Nkrumah did not know him. We all write ... read full comment
Hello Kwesi,
Yes, I give such references because I am relatively too young to write about things I did not witness. We all do.
Most of us who write positively and negatively about Nkrumah did not know him. We all write from what others have authoritaively written about him.
Most of the authors I cite are scholars who have written about things that took place when I was not bor or outside geographies where I never had the opportunity to witness what they have written about.
Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Ama Mazama, Martin Luther King, Jr, Bill Clinton, Chinua Achebe, Jane Austen, Ayi Kwei Armah, Molefi Kete Asante, Tsitsi Dangaremgba, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah, etc., all do it.
For instance, I have mentioned Dr. Ivan Van Sertima in reference to Amos Tutuola's book "The Palm Wine Drinkard." I never heard of Amos Tutuola nor "The Palm Wine Drnkard" in Africa. And Dr. Sertima made his critical comments about this book at a time when I did not know what literature was. I was in class preparatory school then, a kid.
What am I supposed to do since he was the first to bring Amos Tutuola and "The Palm Wine Drinkard" to my attention? Let me say that I read about his comments whilst reading one of his books, I mean, Ivan Van Sertima's! I had to go buy the books and read it.
I then began reading more about the controversies Amos Tutuola's book in America (198 0r 1999). Therefore, you should not criticize me for crediting him with what I did not know. Moreover, I gave other information to let Dr. SAS know Dr. Sertima was qualified to critique the book. Amos Tutuola's book was written when my father was barely 10 years (Ivan Van Sertima was 17)!He finshed writing the manuscript when my father was 4 (Ivan Van Sertima was 11)!
For instance, I did not live in the days of the ancient Egyptians or in the days of the Ghana Empire, Songhai Empire, or Malian Empire. Therefore, I will not write as if I lived in those eras.
And what is wrong if the author I refer to is internationally acclaimed? What is wrong if the author I refer to is a Nobel Laueate? What is wrong if the author I refer to is one of America's best?
What is wrong if the author I refer to is one of the world's experts in mathemathics, science, or literature, say? What is wrong if the author I refer to is one of Africa's literary giants?
There is nothing wrong with that. You should overlook such superlatives if that is a major problem for you, please. We all read Ghanaweb readers who made wild claims and present them as facts.
My advice to you is to go beyond my artcles and read the authors I cite for indepth analysis. That is all what scholarship is about. Bachelor's, master's, and doctoral dissertations are fundamentally based on the previous works others have done.
That is why they have reference/bibliography/citations. I want to do more than writing journalistic writings. I will contiue in that vein.
I have readers who have privately written to tell me how my refrences had helped them in school, their studies. So, you see, you are complaining while another is being grateful.
Anyway, every single article I have had published on Ghana is my voice, not the authors I cite. The only problem is that your cursory reading of them bloacks you from seeing my voice.
Read through the comments attached to this article and see how many appreciate my citations. If I don't know what someone else knows, Kwesi, I will cite an authority to make my case. Get used to it.
Unless you can take me back to time, history, I mean, or put me in paticular geography outside where I have lived my life all this while and which I want to talk about, then, Kwesi, I will stop quoting.
Finally, readers have written to me privatley to ask me to cite them sources for some of the issues I have discussed, as they want to read further. Thanks for reminding me: I need to share another important fact with Dr. SAS.
All errors are mine.
Thanks.
Kwesi 9 years ago
You don't convince me with your explanation, Kwarteng. We are all familiar with academic writing and rules for citation. Some of us may even have been at it longer than you, given the fact that I realised you were in UST in t ... read full comment
You don't convince me with your explanation, Kwarteng. We are all familiar with academic writing and rules for citation. Some of us may even have been at it longer than you, given the fact that I realised you were in UST in the 90s.
The thing clearly is that, you carry this quotation and references thing to excess. Those names you mentioned as saying they also do so, do not do so. They do not make refs per paragraph to as many people as you do.
You don't seem to even appreciate the difference between a journalistic piece (appropriate for ghanaweb) and an academic article (not the fare on ghanaweb). There are some others who contribute to ghanaweb who hold PhD degrees even if they don't append these to their by-lines. They don't indulge in such excessive references as you do.
Don't be deceived by those people who write to you praising you and asking you of references. Everybody who writes to ghanaweb gets such mails.
I am not saying you should pass off other people's ideas as your own. Make refs if they are absolutely necessary but, for goodness sake, this is ghanaweb! Your writing shows clearly that you indulge in excesses of everything - of references, examples, belabouring simple points, lengthy articles in several parts, etc.
Surely you can improve. Or, perhaps, you don't think you can???
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
I read Tutuola's book when I was sixteen. If you want to put him in the same class as Nkrumah, so be it.....Tutuola was a railway station laborer and did not profess to be a scholar.
But I think you missed my point: Nkrumah' ... read full comment
I read Tutuola's book when I was sixteen. If you want to put him in the same class as Nkrumah, so be it.....Tutuola was a railway station laborer and did not profess to be a scholar.
But I think you missed my point: Nkrumah's books are so good that it is unthinkable that it was written by a man who committed so many moronic and illiterate acts. When you line up the dictators in the world, both present and past, none had any deep philosophical view. Therefore Nkrumah, with his tawdry record of boundless dictatorship, could not have originated any such deep philosophical views as espoused in his books, he being a veritable dictator. Thus, it is part of the broader circumstantial evidence that I adduce that the man did not write his books.
All tyrants are per se dumb. Nkrumah was a tyrant. Therefore Nkrumah was dumb...too dumb to write a book, let alone a philosophical one.
Kojo T 9 years ago
SASA despite your genius has written no Book Neither did Danquah and Busias was a pamphlet . Dud, watch what you write
SASA despite your genius has written no Book Neither did Danquah and Busias was a pamphlet . Dud, watch what you write
Frank Appiah 9 years ago
Ignore this IDIOT
Ignore this IDIOT
Frank Appiah 9 years ago
Dr SAS' recent idiotic rantings about the great Nkrumah has confirmed the fact that he has a mental disease,I was informed on my recent visit to Texas that he is on pychiatric medication and it is now obvious that his situati ... read full comment
Dr SAS' recent idiotic rantings about the great Nkrumah has confirmed the fact that he has a mental disease,I was informed on my recent visit to Texas that he is on pychiatric medication and it is now obvious that his situation is getting worse.This idiot is the only lawyer in the world whose writing is based on hatred,hearsay and infantile assumptions.
Nana Ahenkora 9 years ago
In spite of the overwhelming evidence of Kwame Nkrumah's immense contribution to the upliftment of the BLACKMAN and development of Ghana,which has earned him the accolade "Afica's man of the millenium",this moron called Dr D ... read full comment
In spite of the overwhelming evidence of Kwame Nkrumah's immense contribution to the upliftment of the BLACKMAN and development of Ghana,which has earned him the accolade "Afica's man of the millenium",this moron called Dr DAS has stated that Nkrumah did nothing for Ghana.He has also alleged that Nkrumah was too dumb and he couldn't write any book.While trained lawyers base their accusations on EVIDENCE,this idiot called Dr SAS is the only lawyer who doesn't know the importance and relevance of EVIDENCE.Everybody is wondering if Dr SAS is a trained lawwyer or he is one of those who receive paper qualifications through the backdoor?
link building 9 years ago
km2Fne This is one awesome post.Really thank you! Cool.
km2Fne This is one awesome post.Really thank you! Cool.
What foolish article is this? What have you said? You rambling, linguistically disturbed guy!
Everyone will come to know this fool. Feature section on Ghanaweb used to a 'place' for enlightenment until this idiot, Bokor and Ahoofe came here.
While Bokor and Ahoofe use their own minds to write on issues, this idiot ...
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Dear Reader,
First, pardon me for a few errors (typos/grammatical).
Second, some of you readers are always complaining Kwame Nkrumah was not "smart," yet we give you a disappearing piece of his "mountains" of thinking ...
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"None of his Ghanaian peers comes"?
You are asking forgiveness for some grammatical mistakes and still making elementary grammatical mistakes.
Ghanaian Patriot,
Deal with the substantive issues and stifle your infatuations with topical irrelevancies.
I have been nice to own up to typos/grammatical errors which could be one of the stumbling blocks to Healer's ...
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Instead of downplaying the visceral importance of grammar in writing, you should educate Patriot that the sentence, "None of his Ghanaian peers comes close," is correct.
What is not correct is the strange assumption that Nk ...
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My problem lies in all of us wanting things the easy way. Nature is complicatedly simple and so must we. Secondly Dr. SAS says somebody wrote it for Nkrumah. Why keep the name and proof or you are into hearsay? My Brother Kwa ...
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Thanks for your summation. It is the same problem of ma te em ho jealousy and fera that comes into play when ever they hear Nkrumahs name . What a pity? We REFUSE to learn because we do not want to go to the substance but rem ...
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Who wrote it for him in the first place? And who revised the work in 1967? I have both books, the first print and the revised version after he was overthrown. Can you please shed more lights on this assertion you made
Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him......
How come Nkrumah never wrote any book until after he became a President? My own brother wrote some of his speeches, and others wrote the rest. He could not even finish a desse ...
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You have said nothing but what could you have said? Your own brother wrote his speeches and so it makes him the writer of his books? Nkrumah is fake and could do for Ghana what your brother and his CIA / Mi6 could not do for ...
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Nkrumah did nothing for Ghana.
Considering the resources then available to him, he did nothing at all. Any businessman that gives Nkrumah that kind of resources will consider whatever he did as nothing and fire him for waste ...
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How much resource did he have The $400m dollars or less. How much do you think the Akosombo dam cost? How much do you think it cost to put up KNUST and UCC , then the 400+ industries . Look I have said it left to the ma te me ...
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Illiterate fool, you cannot talk thrash but you can talk trash.
Talk is verb. Thrash is verb but trash is noun.
Dr SAS fails to fathom the fact that Africans have a dynamism of thy own, and that the education system we have been subjected to thrives on us being beholden to others. We have to pay others for their ideas,you see, so any o ...
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Nkrumah did not know the simple meaning of independence. Independence means freedom. But he understood independence as the right to oppress the people. Thus it is not true to say that Nkrumah fought for independence. Like Raw ...
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My Brother Dr. SAS, your opinion I will respect but to talk of business and resources I am disappointed. You can not even much revenue and expenses? How much was the resources? Be specific and match them against the projects. ...
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Take Akosombo out.
The Brits started Akosombo under a loan facility and later pulled out. Then Nkrumah signed a ridiculous agreement with Kaiser that completed the project. The project agreement was a sell-out to American i ...
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Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goat tending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, you Savannah cow.
Where did Ejisu come into this? SAS is from Koforidua but your bigotry stinky goat tending self cannot bottle your bigotry. If you are from the North, you better thank Ejisu people, you Savannah cow.
Thanks for reminding me but your anger blinded you so u could not read what I wrote. What I mean is that, he does not even know Kumasi. Does that make me a bigot. He is in Ghana as of now. You can go ask him if he knows Kum ...
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When you lose elections and resort to violence and illegal methods to gain power and you are check mated you call that dictatorship. NPP should learn to be responsible
SAS, by your own submission may I know why those who wrote those books for Nkrumah never published such kind of writing before Nkrumah became president or afterwards? Doesn't your statement that how come he never wrote any b ...
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Your last sentence was a blow below the belt. Remember Nkrumah tried to become a lawyer and failed. I became a lawyer. Also, Nkrumah had no academic doctorate; I hold a doctoral degree in jurisprudence. Nkrumah could not bu ...
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Hello SAS,
You have made another hollow testament here. I wonder why you compare your stay here with Nkrumah's. That is a very weal comparison to make, Brother SAS.
The era of Nkrumah's stay in America is not the same ...
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Rawlings also had a good excuse for buying Yoki Gari on credit, although a commissioned officer. Every loser has his day of excuses....Nkrumah was a complete failure here in America, until he became a complete god in Ghana. D ...
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"Most of Nkrumah's work was written for him......"
Are you making that up or you are making a definitive statement. I thought you said you are a lawyer? Please stop ridicule yourself with these stupid ranting
"How com ...
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Dr SAS disappeared from this forum recently when his name was found in the GUINESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the only lawyer on this planet who does not believe in EVIDENCE.Please,ignore this half-baked lawyer.
Hello Dr. SAS,
How are you?
How many presidents, etc., write their own speeches, from George Washington to Nelson Mandela?
Most at times professional speech writers do? And Kwame Nkrumah is not different.
In fac ...
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You have to focus on the salient points I raised.
If Nkrumah could not write his own speeches, don't you think it raises enough hackles to inquire into his authorial competence? And does it matter that others too do not wri ...
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Hello Dr. SAS,
This is a subject I have spent considerable time researching.
I have also spoken to (and read some of the major works) with scholars on both sides of the divide. Not even a shred of evidence exists to su ...
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What did you mean then by this statement in your penultimate post:
"Personally I have not delved into these apochryphal claims because of their lack of substance."
You, Bro. Francis, are one source of my diappointment. ...
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Once again SAS you are wrong. I guest Nkrumah stole your opportunity to Achimota and your ticket to US . You make categorical statements without evidence. Please hate the man but give him his due. You said you will provide ev ...
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Are you no more going to bring your evidence of Nkrumah's daftness to bear? Now you seek to win Kwarteng to your of side of intellectual delinquency and dishonesty in order to castigate Nkrumah? Pathetic!
Let me inform you ...
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Dear friends,
Read my response titled "To SAS $ Nana Kwaku $ Readers."
Thanks.
SAS is just dis[playing ignorance. These are the people who want to be in power. Just judge for yourselves Today it is SAS and yeaterday it was Mr Figure it out I cry for Ghana . No wonder we cannot get ahead
Francis Kwarteng and co should please note that this platform is meant for the consumption of all levels of the Ghanaian citizenry. Please tone down a bit for the common Ghanaman to at least grasp what is being put out there. ...
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Dear Nana Kwaku,
Thanks for your comments.
However, this series has nothing to do with those you mention in your comments.
It has everything to do with the "big" mind of a brilliant Ghanaian scholar who is using ma ...
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Nana Kwaku definitely has a relevant point. The average ghanaweb reader is your average Ghanaian, not an intellectual of your Dompere status. If you cannot reduce the level of Dompere's complex thoughts further than you have ...
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If this is your best to make Dompreh's work more sophisticated to the average reader then I am afraid both of you guys are aliens from different planet, planted on earth to compound the perplexities of the unsolved 'mysteries ...
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The nature of Nkrumah's evolution as the worst dictator in Ghana must point to a state of mind that is incapable of rigorous academic endeavor. No person as dictatorial as Nkrumah can at the same time be capable of the kind o ...
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Dear Readers,
Nkrumah did not have to write like Ayi Kwei Armah or Wole Soyinka for his scholarly works to be appreciated.
Internationally-recognized writers like Toni Morrison, Claude McKay, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka ...
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Hello Brother SAS,
I just remembered an interesting fact I need to share with you.
First, you must know that good literature (in English, say) is not always or necessarily about strictly following standard rules of Eng ...
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You are just too crazy about other writers and scholars. Just too much. EVERYTHING you write is just about what someone else has written. You like throwing names about tooooooo much. Even in your responses to others' comments ...
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We call those people name droppers. They try to be something they are not by trying to let others know they know important people.
Hello Kwesi,
Yes, I give such references because I am relatively too young to write about things I did not witness. We all do.
Most of us who write positively and negatively about Nkrumah did not know him. We all write ...
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You don't convince me with your explanation, Kwarteng. We are all familiar with academic writing and rules for citation. Some of us may even have been at it longer than you, given the fact that I realised you were in UST in t ...
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I read Tutuola's book when I was sixteen. If you want to put him in the same class as Nkrumah, so be it.....Tutuola was a railway station laborer and did not profess to be a scholar.
But I think you missed my point: Nkrumah' ...
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SASA despite your genius has written no Book Neither did Danquah and Busias was a pamphlet . Dud, watch what you write
Ignore this IDIOT
Dr SAS' recent idiotic rantings about the great Nkrumah has confirmed the fact that he has a mental disease,I was informed on my recent visit to Texas that he is on pychiatric medication and it is now obvious that his situati ...
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In spite of the overwhelming evidence of Kwame Nkrumah's immense contribution to the upliftment of the BLACKMAN and development of Ghana,which has earned him the accolade "Afica's man of the millenium",this moron called Dr D ...
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km2Fne This is one awesome post.Really thank you! Cool.