It's An Insult To Nkrumah To compare him to Mahama
The title of this article is,
It's An Insult To Nkrumah To compare him to Mahama
Nana Appiah 9 years ago
Hey, Basket Weaving Graduate..Who makes you the judge over Hon..President Mahama ??? look,..Whether you like it on not, He is the Commander in Chief and will still be One come 2016..What you should be doing is advising your T ... read full comment
Hey, Basket Weaving Graduate..Who makes you the judge over Hon..President Mahama ??? look,..Whether you like it on not, He is the Commander in Chief and will still be One come 2016..What you should be doing is advising your Toad looking Akuffo Addo the Certificate Thief to Stay out of the race and give chance to someone legitimate to represent the Party...(Flag Bearer)... DEMOCRACY IS NOT GOOD FOR ANIMALS...Start with Social Democracy..
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Listen to the primitive Ewe who calls himself Nana Appiah:-
... DEMOCRACY IS NOT GOOD FOR ANIMALS...Start with Social Democracy..
If indeed democracy is not for animals then you Nana Appiah is very very far away fro ... read full comment
Listen to the primitive Ewe who calls himself Nana Appiah:-
... DEMOCRACY IS NOT GOOD FOR ANIMALS...Start with Social Democracy..
If indeed democracy is not for animals then you Nana Appiah is very very far away from it let alone talking about it.
By the way since when are Ewes called Nana Appiah? or the name is rather Nanyigbe Appio.
You see if we talk of animals leaving with human beings(Pets)like as usual Cats, Dogs etc. then you, so claimed Nana Appiah can join their queue but at the tail end of the queue because you are a "pig".
Cano 9 years ago
His stinky trokosi mother was pimped by Asante named Nana Appiah and since he is a bastard he has assumed that name.
His stinky trokosi mother was pimped by Asante named Nana Appiah and since he is a bastard he has assumed that name.
(KOLA outside LONDON) 9 years ago
LISTEN TO THE EWE IDIOT WHO CALLS HIMSELF NANA APPIAH, "KWASEA"
Oh! yes! Nana Appiah is right, Whether you like it on not, Mahama is the Commander in Chief of all robberies in Ghana starting right from "Pen" Robbery to A ... read full comment
LISTEN TO THE EWE IDIOT WHO CALLS HIMSELF NANA APPIAH, "KWASEA"
Oh! yes! Nana Appiah is right, Whether you like it on not, Mahama is the Commander in Chief of all robberies in Ghana starting right from "Pen" Robbery to Armed Robbery day and night.
SRI OPOKU WARE TSIKATA 9 years ago
If an Ewe idiot like can call himself Nana Appiah then I am also Sri Opoku Ware Tsikata.
Nana Appiah, let me ask you one question that will probably be very difficult for you to answer!
If you opine, democracy is not go ... read full comment
If an Ewe idiot like can call himself Nana Appiah then I am also Sri Opoku Ware Tsikata.
Nana Appiah, let me ask you one question that will probably be very difficult for you to answer!
If you opine, democracy is not good for animals why do "YOU" join this forum or platform at all? It's also for you beast not good.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Folks, Sarpong did not insult anyone in his piece. Why pin the fulcrum of insults on him? Please, let's approach our situation with the urgency it really deserves. It is time we shelved the ethnic and Partisan hatred and acce ... read full comment
Folks, Sarpong did not insult anyone in his piece. Why pin the fulcrum of insults on him? Please, let's approach our situation with the urgency it really deserves. It is time we shelved the ethnic and Partisan hatred and accepted the fact that we would always be here together as one Citizenry. And the earlier we began to join our resources, minds, etc. together to uproot the vices keeping us down, the better.
We all would admit, for example, that Corruption transcends all Parties and all ethnic groups in Ghana. We know that our Officials become tools of the Political parties on whose ticket they rode to power and lose their allegiance to the very folks who voted for them. We know that our Educational System is in trouble. We know that our Economy is in terrible shape. We know that our Capitalist Democracy is fast turning into Fascism.
It takes a determined people with consensus on best way forward to tackle these problems. The continued irresponsible divisiveness only make our situation worse. No one Party, neither the NPP, nor the NDC, nor the CPP, nor the PPP, can claim to have all the answers. And if it does, and the others simply undermine its good efforts while it is in Power, we would be bathing in mud and expecting to be crispy clean.
Let us shelve our destructive emotions and allow only the constructive ones seep up to the fore. It is only in a vibrant peaceful Democratic environment that we can definitely tap the minds across all platforms to build the Nation.
Long Live Ghana!!!
kwabre 9 years ago
Ghana's problem is in policy making. The policy's that the government fronts does not work for the country. Until Ghana can make good decisions in policy creation. There will always be frustration.
Ghana's problem is in policy making. The policy's that the government fronts does not work for the country. Until Ghana can make good decisions in policy creation. There will always be frustration.
James Bamfo 9 years ago
Thanks Sarps! Very insightful.
Thanks Sarps! Very insightful.
Adams 9 years ago
You can never be a fan of Nkrumah because you have jaundiced & diabolical mind just like the Danquah/ Busia tradition whose main preoccupation is sabotage & nation wrecking.
You can never be a fan of Nkrumah because you have jaundiced & diabolical mind just like the Danquah/ Busia tradition whose main preoccupation is sabotage & nation wrecking.
SARPONG 9 years ago
Actually Nkrumah is the cause of all our problems. The mental slavery we are in is due to Nkrumah. Look at how Nkrumah adherents continue to do the same thing that the world has stopped doing, government building factories. W ... read full comment
Actually Nkrumah is the cause of all our problems. The mental slavery we are in is due to Nkrumah. Look at how Nkrumah adherents continue to do the same thing that the world has stopped doing, government building factories. Where in this world do you see government operating factories, maybe in Africa countries and thst is why Africa is a messed up continent.
Nkrumah laid a faulty foundation. He taught people ghana government is going to be father Christmas, will provide all our needs and that slave mentality is still with and that is why Ghanaians still wait on government for things we should be doing ourselves.
All the factories he built, though good idea at the time were all losing money because the factories were operated like political parties employing party members even when there were no opening positions and that is why all those factories collapsed.
Joe Mensah 9 years ago
Sarpong,remember Nkrumah's burning desire to transform Ghana into an industrialised and advanced nation,pushed him to adopt Socialism which popular opinion suggested would benefit the masses,considering the poverty level of ... read full comment
Sarpong,remember Nkrumah's burning desire to transform Ghana into an industrialised and advanced nation,pushed him to adopt Socialism which popular opinion suggested would benefit the masses,considering the poverty level of Africans. Africans.Although,I may agree with you that mismanagement of state corporations may be one of the disadvantages of SOCIALISM,Nkrumah laid the right foundation for nation-building as a whole,and he is not the cause of all our problems as you stated.Nkrumah's free Education and free Healthcare policies were excellent,and that even inspired Julius Nyerere of Tanzania to embark on the same policies.Do you know why Tanzania has the lowest illiteracy rate in Africa?
SARPONG 9 years ago
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Do you know why Tanzania succeeded and Ghana failed and President Nkrumah did not see to eye with Nyerere?
Why are we still going back to a system that has failed everywhere it has been practiced?
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Do you know why Tanzania succeeded and Ghana failed and President Nkrumah did not see to eye with Nyerere?
Why are we still going back to a system that has failed everywhere it has been practiced?
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Nyerere could not have it any other way than to see most of his fellow Citizens achieve literacy. As a professional Teacher, he was always keen with Education. And luckily for Tanzania, the subsequent leaders carried on the ... read full comment
Nyerere could not have it any other way than to see most of his fellow Citizens achieve literacy. As a professional Teacher, he was always keen with Education. And luckily for Tanzania, the subsequent leaders carried on the tradition or the legacy of Nyerere.
You are right.
One thing many folks fail to recognize is how the level of our poverty by the time we had Independence, demanded that the native Government we had just begun attended to most of our social problems directly.
No country in the World is an absolute Capitalist. Even the good old USA has its Social Welfare programs to help the poorest and others who suddenly fall into claws of emergency needs.
Had we begun with absolute Capitalistic governance, we might never have had half as much of our population attending even Elementary School. We were in a special set of circumstances where we had developed some distrust for the European Overlords, and resisted the spread of their Education among us, as shallow as they designed it for us.
So, Nkrumah's compulsory free Education policy had the carrot dangled in our face, while the stick laid ready to crack a whip. It worked to accelerate our Education. Economically, the West injected into the minds of some us that Nkrumah wasted our resources building the Factories, the Akosombo Dam, Tema Industrial Port City, etc.. We are living sources of testimony to those lies, if we would be divinely honest.
We have to remember that similar programs as Nkrumah adopted were practiced in Singapore under their 'dictator', Lee Kuan Yew. The only difference is that ours were undermined by the West to effect Economic failure needed to discourage other Colonies from demanding their own Freedom from the West.
If anyone would like to check further, let them get hold of one particular book by Walter Rodney (1973). I would like to warn the reader though that Rodney has a certain leaning to Marxism. But if the reader could just focus on the bare, plain facts in the Author's findings and assertions, and derive their own conclusions, that would prove the logic in the choice of the Social programs Nkrumah, among our early leaders, undertook.
I have come to hold a view that every Country deserves a certain level of Welfare for the needy, at any point of that Nation's development. And I would suggest that such Welfare or Social program must be constantly assessed and adjusted to reflect the real state of the Countries poverty ratio. The wealthier the people get, the more capitalistic the Country's Economic system should be upgraded to.
I love Capitalism but only in the pragmatic management of it to avoid excruciating poverty and unreasonably wide gap between the poor and the Middle Class. Individual growth and development for all could be encouraged by the Government through many programs. If nothing at all, we should study the German Model of Capitalism and see how we can benefit from it.
It is ironic that the Scandinavian Countries have consistently enjoyed greater relative affluence across the board even with their higher doses of Socialist Welfare programs than, say the USA. Capitalism does not necessarily mean selfish exclusivity.
Long Live Ghana!!!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
sorry, in my rush to end this response, I omitted the title of Walter Rodney's book. It is entitled: "HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA".
Long Live Ghana!!!
sorry, in my rush to end this response, I omitted the title of Walter Rodney's book. It is entitled: "HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA".
Long Live Ghana!!!
Mark 9 years ago
Those misguided MATEMEHO anti-Nkrumah writers namely SARPONG and DR SAS MUST READ G.K.Berko's article.
Those misguided MATEMEHO anti-Nkrumah writers namely SARPONG and DR SAS MUST READ G.K.Berko's article.
Robert Okine 9 years ago
In fact,the indoctrinated,subjective and immature SARPONG like DR SAS,is too biased to appreciate the goals and vision of Kwame Nkrumah.No doubt,he was born in 1970,four years after Nkrumah was overthrown.This guy has to be ... read full comment
In fact,the indoctrinated,subjective and immature SARPONG like DR SAS,is too biased to appreciate the goals and vision of Kwame Nkrumah.No doubt,he was born in 1970,four years after Nkrumah was overthrown.This guy has to be both open-minded and fair-minded,and also do a lot of research.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
Nkrumah did not cause anyone to be mentally enslaved. The guy ruled for only 5 years, as the President of the Republic, (1960-1965), and 3 years as a Prime Minister, (1957-1960).
We got rid of him in February, 1966, some ... read full comment
Nkrumah did not cause anyone to be mentally enslaved. The guy ruled for only 5 years, as the President of the Republic, (1960-1965), and 3 years as a Prime Minister, (1957-1960).
We got rid of him in February, 1966, some 48 long years ago, and you are telling us that whatever indoctrination his Politics intended to impart to us, we have not been able to extricate ourselves from? How long ,then, would it take for us to fully detox our minds of whatever harmful indoctrination, or misconceptions we came to accept from the Colonialism that we endured for 100s of years?
Stop this hollow, irresponsible blame-game and start thinking like a modern global Citizen with a precision-guided thought process! OMG!!!
This propensity for Nkrumah bashing and blaming has been nothing but an embarrassing trait for those who just cannot creatively devise anyway forward to progress. They would always have to find someone to blame for their vision-sterile politicking.
At least, you could point to something Nkrumah directed to be built to promote our well-being. It is not the Factories that failed us. It is us, who could not see the wisdom in managing them well enough. After all, the divested Factories could still have performed with a better set of Managerial skills and Economic paradigm when Nkrumah was booted out and we sold the Factories to cronies of our leading politicians. What happened thereafter?
Tell me how many of these Factories in private hands have expanded to increase their branches. How many have consistently reported growth? If there is any mental slavery that has been the bane of our development, it has been that which breed idiotic megalomaniacs with imperial tendencies to subjugate all others, misapplying the laudable capitalist opportunities we have to enrich only themselves.
We have a Capitalist Economy that has been hijacked by a few pathologically incorrigibly corrupt power-peddlers. Such a mentality pre-existed in us before Nkrumah came to the scene, and has been of late been reinforced by the greedy bastards who use all kinds of dissimulation, under the cover of free Enterprise to grab resources that they fail to utilize to the utmost benefit of the Nation.
One thing you don't seem to recognize and acknowledge is the fact that when we had Independence, the Nation did not have enough Factories to be counted on one finger. Yet, we were supposed to be self-reliant, and productive enough to sustain our growing Economy and Population.
Moreover, not any one single Ghanaian had the wherewithal or the access to credit to own a Factory by himself or herself. How many private Entrepreneurs with the ability to fund a single factory existed in Ghana? And what did our so-called intelligentsia concentrated on in their studies of higher learning to acquire the requisite Business acumen to undertake any large business project?
Nkrumah had the right ideas. We did not have the right minds and hearts to back him up in the right direction. Period. We him an enemy and solicited the help of those who never really wanted us to be free, politically or Economically, to undermine his efforts, however modest. He was pushed to seek protection from the Soviets, rather sadly, and we were happy to use that as one of the excuses to seek his ouster.
Well, he was no more. The Factories were still there. Why did our new Administrators, Governments, not take the necessary measures to revamp the Factory Management to make them profitable? Most of these Factories soon were privatized, while still in good shape.
One thing you guys fail to tell the Public is the truth that all Businesses have productivity cycles within which resides a point where they break even and begin to make profits. Most of the Factories Nkrumah built were at their infancy in such a cycle, even by the time Nkrumah was overthrown. So, surely, some of them were not making profits but that did not necessarily mean they were not productive enough to break even anytime soon.
Given that the Factories might have been staffed with CPP sympathizers, the NLC and the subsequent UP-friendly Administrations had the chance to replace them as fit. Did they do that?
If they did not. Why? And if they did why did the Factories not turn up profits immediately?
Look, Sarpong, the old-time, obsolete crappy superiority-Complex ridden politicking must be ditched for a more conscientious, more intelligent, pragmatic developmental paradigm.
We have heard it all. We have read it all. I am not convinced that Nkrumah is the problem. 48 years after his overthrow and many opportunities to rule ourselves wisely, we indulge in primitive bigotry, nepotism, cronyism, and tribalism, and blatant pervasive corruption.
How on God's pet Planet, Earth, could we be so impervious to reason as to keep blaming our continued intransigence to join our minds for development on Nkrumah?
Be real, bro. Be real! For once, be pragmatic and sincere. Cut the emotional navel to the rotten UP/CPP crappy politics, and think as a modern dynamic, progressive Citizen of Ghana.
God bless, you! I pray he helps you and all others bogged down with that sentimental attachment to the lost dreams of old to emerge with creative developmental mindset for Ghana!!
If you are truly a cardinal of truth, please, do yourself the little favor of exploring the wider scope of our inextricable fate in terms of modern Economic and political realities.
And please, please, don't come back to me with any accusations that I am some Nkrumahist to have taken the above stance.
Long Live Ghana!!!
princewilly@ymail.com 9 years ago
A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey starts jumping all over the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them, then grabs some sliced limes and eat ... read full comment
A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey starts jumping all over the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them, then grabs some sliced limes and eats them, then jumps up on the pool table, grabs the cue ball, sticks it in his mouth and swallows it whole. The bartender screams at the guy, "Did you see what your monkey just did?" The guy says, "No, what?" "He just ate the cue ball off my pool table - whole!" says the bartender. "Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replies the patron. "He eats everything in sight, the little jerk. I'll pay for the cue ball and stuff." He finishes his drink, pays his bill, and leaves. Two weeks later he's in the bar again, and he has his monkey with him. He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again. While the man is drinking, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. The bartender is disgusted. "Did you see what your monkey did now?" "Now what?" asks the patron. "Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry up his butt, then pulled it out and ate it!" says the barkeeper. "Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replies the patron. "He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he ate that cue ball he measures everything first!"
LONTO-BOY 9 years ago
I think NDC's Fred Agbenyo was hallucinating by seeing President John Mahama as a latter-day Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Such a comparison should be laughed at.
I think NDC's Fred Agbenyo was hallucinating by seeing President John Mahama as a latter-day Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Such a comparison should be laughed at.
AKWELE 9 years ago
We need better health care too. People are dying from minor disorders which could be treated if we had a better health care system.
We need better health care too. People are dying from minor disorders which could be treated if we had a better health care system.
The title of this article is,
It's An Insult To Nkrumah To compare him to Mahama
Hey, Basket Weaving Graduate..Who makes you the judge over Hon..President Mahama ??? look,..Whether you like it on not, He is the Commander in Chief and will still be One come 2016..What you should be doing is advising your T ...
read full comment
Listen to the primitive Ewe who calls himself Nana Appiah:-
... DEMOCRACY IS NOT GOOD FOR ANIMALS...Start with Social Democracy..
If indeed democracy is not for animals then you Nana Appiah is very very far away fro ...
read full comment
His stinky trokosi mother was pimped by Asante named Nana Appiah and since he is a bastard he has assumed that name.
LISTEN TO THE EWE IDIOT WHO CALLS HIMSELF NANA APPIAH, "KWASEA"
Oh! yes! Nana Appiah is right, Whether you like it on not, Mahama is the Commander in Chief of all robberies in Ghana starting right from "Pen" Robbery to A ...
read full comment
If an Ewe idiot like can call himself Nana Appiah then I am also Sri Opoku Ware Tsikata.
Nana Appiah, let me ask you one question that will probably be very difficult for you to answer!
If you opine, democracy is not go ...
read full comment
Folks, Sarpong did not insult anyone in his piece. Why pin the fulcrum of insults on him? Please, let's approach our situation with the urgency it really deserves. It is time we shelved the ethnic and Partisan hatred and acce ...
read full comment
Ghana's problem is in policy making. The policy's that the government fronts does not work for the country. Until Ghana can make good decisions in policy creation. There will always be frustration.
Thanks Sarps! Very insightful.
You can never be a fan of Nkrumah because you have jaundiced & diabolical mind just like the Danquah/ Busia tradition whose main preoccupation is sabotage & nation wrecking.
Actually Nkrumah is the cause of all our problems. The mental slavery we are in is due to Nkrumah. Look at how Nkrumah adherents continue to do the same thing that the world has stopped doing, government building factories. W ...
read full comment
Sarpong,remember Nkrumah's burning desire to transform Ghana into an industrialised and advanced nation,pushed him to adopt Socialism which popular opinion suggested would benefit the masses,considering the poverty level of ...
read full comment
T
Do you know why Tanzania succeeded and Ghana failed and President Nkrumah did not see to eye with Nyerere?
Why are we still going back to a system that has failed everywhere it has been practiced?
Nyerere could not have it any other way than to see most of his fellow Citizens achieve literacy. As a professional Teacher, he was always keen with Education. And luckily for Tanzania, the subsequent leaders carried on the ...
read full comment
sorry, in my rush to end this response, I omitted the title of Walter Rodney's book. It is entitled: "HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA".
Long Live Ghana!!!
Those misguided MATEMEHO anti-Nkrumah writers namely SARPONG and DR SAS MUST READ G.K.Berko's article.
In fact,the indoctrinated,subjective and immature SARPONG like DR SAS,is too biased to appreciate the goals and vision of Kwame Nkrumah.No doubt,he was born in 1970,four years after Nkrumah was overthrown.This guy has to be ...
read full comment
Nkrumah did not cause anyone to be mentally enslaved. The guy ruled for only 5 years, as the President of the Republic, (1960-1965), and 3 years as a Prime Minister, (1957-1960).
We got rid of him in February, 1966, some ...
read full comment
A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey starts jumping all over the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them, then grabs some sliced limes and eat ...
read full comment
I think NDC's Fred Agbenyo was hallucinating by seeing President John Mahama as a latter-day Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Such a comparison should be laughed at.
We need better health care too. People are dying from minor disorders which could be treated if we had a better health care system.