And petrol, maid, garden boy, chauffeur allowances for lazy incompetent corrupt MPs, ministers and judges?
And petrol, maid, garden boy, chauffeur allowances for lazy incompetent corrupt MPs, ministers and judges?
Annorwuo 9 years ago
Perks,were never designed for the African elite,which took over from 'adventurous' European who risked his life in the service of Her Majesty`s govt! besides, you never heard of cases involving any of the colonial administrat ... read full comment
Perks,were never designed for the African elite,which took over from 'adventurous' European who risked his life in the service of Her Majesty`s govt! besides, you never heard of cases involving any of the colonial administrators redeeming petrol coupons or pocketing the allowances earmarked for any of the support staff you ave listed! So,of course anybody familiar with the with the old set-up, will vote for it being maintained!
ELINAM 9 years ago
We got it so wrong that we think the more money we steal from govt makes us civilize . We steal more and build ugly mansions with expensive automobile but forgot to build good roads with better sewage systems.
The cart is ... read full comment
We got it so wrong that we think the more money we steal from govt makes us civilize . We steal more and build ugly mansions with expensive automobile but forgot to build good roads with better sewage systems.
The cart is now before the horse as we speak big English on radio and claimed we know it all but nothing is changing as 90% students sitting for final exams failed.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
C.Y.-ANDY! YOU BLOODY BRAGGART IDIOT WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MEANING OF YOU FOLLOWING STUPID ENGLISH?
--> "since they have no alternative to deleterious wasteful system." (STUPID ENGLISH)
I HAVE SAID IT AND WILL ... read full comment
C.Y.-ANDY! YOU BLOODY BRAGGART IDIOT WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MEANING OF YOU FOLLOWING STUPID ENGLISH?
--> "since they have no alternative to deleterious wasteful system." (STUPID ENGLISH)
I HAVE SAID IT AND WILL CONTINUE TO SAY IT THAT YOU ARE ONLY PRETENDING TO BE WHAT YOU CAN'T BE. IN OTHER WORDS YOU ARE ONLY CAMOUFLAGING TO COVER YOU STUPIDITY.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Perhaps, if you put the definite article, "the", before "deleterious", you'd understand it better.
Btw, I noticed downstairs that you wrote "cemented heards". What's THAT? Ha! ha! ha! Semi-illiterate like you too calling ... read full comment
Perhaps, if you put the definite article, "the", before "deleterious", you'd understand it better.
Btw, I noticed downstairs that you wrote "cemented heards". What's THAT? Ha! ha! ha! Semi-illiterate like you too calling someone a fool! Tweah! Even "plenty, plenty education" won't do moronic jerks like you any good!
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Annorwuo, thanks for your contribution. I have dealt in Part 3 (in which I examined the pros and cons of the arguments in support and against the R&B allowances) with these egregious allowances which have been encapsulated in ... read full comment
Annorwuo, thanks for your contribution. I have dealt in Part 3 (in which I examined the pros and cons of the arguments in support and against the R&B allowances) with these egregious allowances which have been encapsulated into the Single Spine Salary scheme and thereby blowing the govt pay packet through the roof, instead of being abolished outright. Since the "small amenities left" coup of Kutu and cohorts, not govt has been bold enough to touch them, with the bankrupt elite enjoying them very silent on the issue. Should that mean we should allow bankrupt intellectuals to use that to justify their own egregious allowances?
I say, let them be taken away from the Single Spine Salaries in force and cut the public wage bill! That's my conclusion.
Andy-K
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
C.Y.-ANDY, WHAT KIND OF "NON-SENSE" AND STUPID ENGLISH IS THE FOLLOWING FROM YOU IDIOT AND PRETENDER?
--> "The time has come to dwell on the processes that make Ghanaians intellectual bankrupts, despite their “plenty, pl ... read full comment
C.Y.-ANDY, WHAT KIND OF "NON-SENSE" AND STUPID ENGLISH IS THE FOLLOWING FROM YOU IDIOT AND PRETENDER?
--> "The time has come to dwell on the processes that make Ghanaians intellectual bankrupts, despite their “plenty, plenty education."
ELINAN 9 years ago
To comment on this article, first allow me to quote Kwame Nkrumah's take on it.
"A few colonial students gained accessed to metropolitan universities almost as of right, on account of their social standing. Instead of consid ... read full comment
To comment on this article, first allow me to quote Kwame Nkrumah's take on it.
"A few colonial students gained accessed to metropolitan universities almost as of right, on account of their social standing. Instead of considering culture as a gift and a pleasure, the intellectual who emerged therefrom now saw it as a personal distinction and privilege. He might have suffered mild persecution at the hands of of the 'evil' colonialists, but hardly ever really in flesh. From his wobbly pedestal, he indulged in the history and sociology of his country and thereby managed to preserve some measure of positive involvement with national process.It must however be obvious that the degree of national consciousness attained by him was not of such an order as to permit his full grasp of the laws of historical development or of the thorough-going nature of the struggle to be waged, if national independence was to be won."
Kwame went on to say,
"Finally, there were the vast numbers of ordinary Africans, who, animated by a lively national consciousness, sought knowledge as an instrument of national emancipation and integrity.This is not to say that these Africans overlooked the purely cultural value of their studies. But in order that their cultural acquisition should be valuable, they needed to be capable of appreciating it as FREE MEN.
I was one of this number."
From the book CONSCIENCISM.
Now my take on this total lack of foresight and innovation in this present set up called Ghana or Mali has a lot to do with the nature of our education. The Euro- centered educational system was set up to create clone Europeans who would continue to work for European interests in Africa instead of that of the African.
In one book authored by a Nigerian on Busia, the author claimed Busia became sad and lamented bitterly how upon returning to Ghana he could not say or name the herbs and birds his father thought him as a child following his father into the bush. But this was the man we ignorantly claimed to be the Best University Student In Africa (BUSIA).
Busia just like others at his time and after him were/are nothing but good students for Europeans.
And as we speak, our today's secondary schools and universities are nothing but laboratories for cloning Africans into Europeans.
Why do I have to go to school to learn that the river Congo and Niger that my ancestors fished in for centuries - way before the white man knew that the earth was not flat but round,- was discovered by some white men? How good would African children feel about themselves learning such lies?
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear friends,
Excellent piece, Andy.
I love your contribution here, ELINAM. In fact I have always enjoyed reading your constructive contributions on Ghanaweb!
WThat said, Walter Rodney takes a swipe at KA Busia ("a ... read full comment
Dear friends,
Excellent piece, Andy.
I love your contribution here, ELINAM. In fact I have always enjoyed reading your constructive contributions on Ghanaweb!
WThat said, Walter Rodney takes a swipe at KA Busia ("a product of colonial 'education for underdevelopment'").
Elsewhere, Rodney (and others) also has attacked Busia's book "Africa In Search of Democracy" for its shameful defense of colonialism. Unfortunately, Eurocentric-educated men and women of the caliber of Busia are the ones ruling Africa today. How shameful!
And I also believe Walter Rodney's "How Europe Undeveloped Africa) has something interesting on Busia where the latter complained about his alienation from his community as a result of his Eurocentric education. This is somewhat similar to the views you attribute to the Nigerian author about Busia.
Thanks to you both!
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Elinam,
Thanks got your comments and let all know what indomitable Kwame N said on the issue. And how his nemesis Busia also felt about his disassociation from his origins. At least he was aware of his inadequacy and lamen ... read full comment
Elinam,
Thanks got your comments and let all know what indomitable Kwame N said on the issue. And how his nemesis Busia also felt about his disassociation from his origins. At least he was aware of his inadequacy and lamented it, not entirely relishing the fact that he was made in the image of the White Man. Can we say same of the so-called academics chasing book and research allowances of today? About them, we can say the caricaturisation of the Black Man is complete.
While I am always ready to take a swipe at Busia, with all his warts and ethnocentric horns, I also give him credit where it is due. Two of my regrets about his removals from office are that he did not complete the "Walatu Walasa" sewerage scheme in Accra before the small amenities coup of Kutu overthrew when he tried to remove those unwholesome colonial allowances meant for white expatriates which the CPP regime inherited. The new radical intellectual must press for their removals.
No! No! to The Black Jacobins. And we must continue to unravel the Psychology of the Oppressed, from where Fanon stopped. We cannot allow the mentality of those born during the colonial era and had their education before the end of the 50s or ended it by the early 60s, continue to dominate us. Worse, the mind set of those who even didn't have any education at all!
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Thanks for your comments and letting all know what indomitable Kwame-N said on the issue. And how his nemesis Busia also felt about his disassociation from his origins. At least, he was aware of his inadequacy and lamented it ... read full comment
Thanks for your comments and letting all know what indomitable Kwame-N said on the issue. And how his nemesis Busia also felt about his disassociation from his origins. At least, he was aware of his inadequacy and lamented it, not entirely relishing the fact that he was made in the image of the White Man. Can we say same of the so-called academics of today chasing book and research allowances? About them, we can say the caricaturisation of the Black Man is complete.
While I am always ready to take a swipe at Busia, with all his warts and ethnocentric horns, I also give him credit where it is due. Two of my regrets about his removal from office are that he did not complete the "Walatu Walasa" sewerage scheme in Accra before the small amenities coup of Kutu overthrew him when he tried to remove those unwholesome colonial allowances meant for white expatriates which the CPP regime inherited. The new radical intellectual must press for their removal.
No! No! to The Black Jacobins. And we must continue to unravel the Psychology of the Oppressed, from where Fanon stopped. We cannot allow the mentality of those born during the colonial era and had their education before the end of the 50s or ended it by the early 60s, continue to dominate us. Worse, the mind set of those who even didn't have any education at all!
Andy-K
Kobina 9 years ago
Africans are sent to school just so they can fight anything African.
Speaking your own mother tongue is forbidden, libation is frowned upon, but Evangilism and Islam takes centre stage. The Chinese, Japanese and Indians have ... read full comment
Africans are sent to school just so they can fight anything African.
Speaking your own mother tongue is forbidden, libation is frowned upon, but Evangilism and Islam takes centre stage. The Chinese, Japanese and Indians have all stuck to their culture and have adapted policies and strategies from Europeans which has made them self reliant. When a Ghanaian says they are Christian that's where I leaeve them. A Ghanaian Doctor, Achitect or a Professional extolling other peoples Religion after all 4 to 8 years of University makes me loose hope. Lack of awareness and Critical thinking. Jews are Gods chosen people, what does that make you a Black African?
Asiwome 9 years ago
It is a different reality.
It is a different reality.
African Patriotism 9 years ago
Thanks brother Andy. As a Diasporan, I have followed Ghana's economic and intellectual development for the last 49 years.just an ordinary guy just out of high school who got introduced to Africa and Ghana during the last 2 ye ... read full comment
Thanks brother Andy. As a Diasporan, I have followed Ghana's economic and intellectual development for the last 49 years.just an ordinary guy just out of high school who got introduced to Africa and Ghana during the last 2 years of Nkrumah's administration. Fell in love with Ghana and my homeland. No knowledge of Africa prior to that introduction by some Ghanaian students I meet at night school in the USA. I have read some of the empty discussions from some of these African intellectuals and never saw any substance in their thinking that dealt with any real nationalistic love for African people or any content in their writing that dealt with true nation building.Edward Blyden, a true patriotic diasporan and intellectual, from the Virgin Islands demonstrated that critical thinking must compliment the ability to construct a nation and not mere misguided scholarship and a mis-education that do the work of the enemy.If anything, Kwame Nkrumah was sincere about developing the intellectual minds of the 20th century African. The European probably saw this as the greater threat than his 6 year economic achievements. The proof is that Ghana has not progress industrially since Nkrumah, nor intellectually. It is truly a shame when the Ghanaian student can't tell you anything about the slave trade. But you the average person quote and imitate European and some Asian religions. Asia didn't build Asia with a foreign mindset but with an authentic Asian mind.They borrowed from Europe.Just look at how the Ghanaian society is imitating the European cultural values and aesthetic images but not the European economic development models. The Ghanaian elite is the blame for this dismal and shameful failure. The weak and misguided mind of African people is the result of the Europeanization of the African elite.Where is the authentic African intellectual blueprint for overall development of African people and the continent of Africa? We need an intellectual revolution throughout Africa to bring our people mind into the 21ts century. Looking for your next article. Hope the elite is listening.
Yaw Ben 9 years ago
Anytime this UTAG/POTAG strike issue surfaces, some disgruntled hustlers and underachievers living in secluded quarters abroad keep scribbling rubbish to cloud the issues under discussion. There are also some who have benefit ... read full comment
Anytime this UTAG/POTAG strike issue surfaces, some disgruntled hustlers and underachievers living in secluded quarters abroad keep scribbling rubbish to cloud the issues under discussion. There are also some who have benefited from govt scholarships but refused to return home. They prefer doing menial jobs and earning foreign currencies, no matter how little, and pretend that they are better off than their counterparts who have been “foolish” enough to return home to earn incomes in a depreciating local cedi. In all these, those people have developed some envy towards professionals at home because they can’t afford to see them enjoying any good condition of service which will enhance their professional development. It is a development that is negative in discussions on issues about Ghana. If some of the people with such negative and unproductive contributions on this forum feel they are qualified enough to fill professional positions in the country, they should apply and leave their menial jobs abroad. How can you continue to be so negative and vicious about a system that you haven’t worked in and know very little about? This “pull him down” type of contributions should cease.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Skin pain? What's that? Ad hominem attacks in support of the mad cap allowances are the hallmark of bankrupt intellectuals. I've dealt with them in Part 3. I dealt with some of the issues you raised in Part 2 so I won't be in ... read full comment
Skin pain? What's that? Ad hominem attacks in support of the mad cap allowances are the hallmark of bankrupt intellectuals. I've dealt with them in Part 3. I dealt with some of the issues you raised in Part 2 so I won't be in a hurry to answer you individually here.
Andy-K
Mark 9 years ago
Fake Adjoa Wangara,we know who you are.If you have nothing good to offer,leave this forum.You are a big fool.Give due respect to your master, the more learned Andy-K.
Fake Adjoa Wangara,we know who you are.If you have nothing good to offer,leave this forum.You are a big fool.Give due respect to your master, the more learned Andy-K.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
You see! C.Y.-ANDY very soon the whole Ghana will get to know as I use to say that the whole bunch of the KWAWUKUMES' are blank IDIOTS. You cemented heards are always trying to be what you can never be. Typical yahoo family.
You see! C.Y.-ANDY very soon the whole Ghana will get to know as I use to say that the whole bunch of the KWAWUKUMES' are blank IDIOTS. You cemented heards are always trying to be what you can never be. Typical yahoo family.
Kobina 9 years ago
@Yaw Ben, you epitomise the Intellectually Bankrupt Ghanaian. Everyone who complains about a rotten system is envious of the beneficiary.
Otabil dupes feeble minded people. You must be jealous.When pregnant women can't even ... read full comment
@Yaw Ben, you epitomise the Intellectually Bankrupt Ghanaian. Everyone who complains about a rotten system is envious of the beneficiary.
Otabil dupes feeble minded people. You must be jealous.When pregnant women can't even have beds in hospitals to give birth, but complain about it and you are jealous. Too many imbeciles in Sub Saharan Africa. They need to be sent to re-education camps.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Brothers,
I agree with Kobina.
Andy, ignore the negative commments.
Good advice, Kobina!
Brothers,
I agree with Kobina.
Andy, ignore the negative commments.
Good advice, Kobina!
Ama Grace 9 years ago
Opps! And you are not an intellectual abi!
Opps! And you are not an intellectual abi!
YAW 9 years ago
Expansive and incisive enough to take account of the many problems we have endured since independence.
Expansive and incisive enough to take account of the many problems we have endured since independence.
Kobina 9 years ago
1. All church and assets will be nationalised.
2.40% will be re-equip into schools.
3. 40 % converted into clinics, maternaty wards, and elderly care homes and mental institutions.
4. 20% turned into re-education camps, to ... read full comment
1. All church and assets will be nationalised.
2.40% will be re-equip into schools.
3. 40 % converted into clinics, maternaty wards, and elderly care homes and mental institutions.
4. 20% turned into re-education camps, to teach critical thinking, strategic thinking, Sun Tzu, and African Philosophy.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
A very good write-up Andy, and I would have agreed with you totally if you had confined your criticism to the intellectual bankruptcy of the typical Ghanaian elite...But your thrust is weakened by your digression into the R& ... read full comment
A very good write-up Andy, and I would have agreed with you totally if you had confined your criticism to the intellectual bankruptcy of the typical Ghanaian elite...But your thrust is weakened by your digression into the R& B allowance about which we have fundamental disagreement: If we are engaged in the strict scrutiny of the use of allowances, we should begin from the presidency and the legislature and make it a general exercise to cover all civil servants. Why single out only college professors? More of this at another forum.
There cannot be any doubt about the importance of any education, whether western or traditional...only that I believe we have failed to apply it to the needs of our people. At the base of the African's superstructure of excellent education is the retention of all the deleterious superstitions and ethnocentric posturing whose embers the likes of you have so far fanned with aplomb: your deep philosophical perspective has not enabled you to stop the pursuit of mad men and women whose rotten thoughts are spawned on these pages. And you have soiled your own hands with the ethnocentric mud through your stupid pandering to your own tribal group who you consider totally innocent of any ethnocentrism as opposed to the general guilt of "these Akans". Even on this page, you display your intellectual bankruptcy by going after rotten eggs like Adwoa Wangara who can never make one scintilla of sense or write one correct sentence in their entire lives, even if they were to live for three thousand years.....
So in a sense, you also epitomize the intellectual bankruptcy which you so eloquently describe, insofar as your education has not made you useful in resolving the problem of ethnocentrism. You have often descended in the gutter of certificated idiots whose congenital stupidity is never obviated by any formal education they have, thereby becoming at one with them.
And the core problem of our society is in the obnubilation of all the intrinsic philosophies, survival tenets and healing methods of our own people for the total ingestion of western literacy and privilege whose practical import we misapply to add to our socio-economic problems.
As much as I admire your eloquence in describing the intellectual bankruptcy of the typical African elite, you must look into the mirror for its first culprit.
And petrol, maid, garden boy, chauffeur allowances for lazy incompetent corrupt MPs, ministers and judges?
Perks,were never designed for the African elite,which took over from 'adventurous' European who risked his life in the service of Her Majesty`s govt! besides, you never heard of cases involving any of the colonial administrat ...
read full comment
We got it so wrong that we think the more money we steal from govt makes us civilize . We steal more and build ugly mansions with expensive automobile but forgot to build good roads with better sewage systems.
The cart is ...
read full comment
C.Y.-ANDY! YOU BLOODY BRAGGART IDIOT WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MEANING OF YOU FOLLOWING STUPID ENGLISH?
--> "since they have no alternative to deleterious wasteful system." (STUPID ENGLISH)
I HAVE SAID IT AND WILL ...
read full comment
Perhaps, if you put the definite article, "the", before "deleterious", you'd understand it better.
Btw, I noticed downstairs that you wrote "cemented heards". What's THAT? Ha! ha! ha! Semi-illiterate like you too calling ...
read full comment
Annorwuo, thanks for your contribution. I have dealt in Part 3 (in which I examined the pros and cons of the arguments in support and against the R&B allowances) with these egregious allowances which have been encapsulated in ...
read full comment
C.Y.-ANDY, WHAT KIND OF "NON-SENSE" AND STUPID ENGLISH IS THE FOLLOWING FROM YOU IDIOT AND PRETENDER?
--> "The time has come to dwell on the processes that make Ghanaians intellectual bankrupts, despite their “plenty, pl ...
read full comment
To comment on this article, first allow me to quote Kwame Nkrumah's take on it.
"A few colonial students gained accessed to metropolitan universities almost as of right, on account of their social standing. Instead of consid ...
read full comment
Dear friends,
Excellent piece, Andy.
I love your contribution here, ELINAM. In fact I have always enjoyed reading your constructive contributions on Ghanaweb!
WThat said, Walter Rodney takes a swipe at KA Busia ("a ...
read full comment
Elinam,
Thanks got your comments and let all know what indomitable Kwame N said on the issue. And how his nemesis Busia also felt about his disassociation from his origins. At least he was aware of his inadequacy and lamen ...
read full comment
Thanks for your comments and letting all know what indomitable Kwame-N said on the issue. And how his nemesis Busia also felt about his disassociation from his origins. At least, he was aware of his inadequacy and lamented it ...
read full comment
Africans are sent to school just so they can fight anything African.
Speaking your own mother tongue is forbidden, libation is frowned upon, but Evangilism and Islam takes centre stage. The Chinese, Japanese and Indians have ...
read full comment
It is a different reality.
Thanks brother Andy. As a Diasporan, I have followed Ghana's economic and intellectual development for the last 49 years.just an ordinary guy just out of high school who got introduced to Africa and Ghana during the last 2 ye ...
read full comment
Anytime this UTAG/POTAG strike issue surfaces, some disgruntled hustlers and underachievers living in secluded quarters abroad keep scribbling rubbish to cloud the issues under discussion. There are also some who have benefit ...
read full comment
Skin pain? What's that? Ad hominem attacks in support of the mad cap allowances are the hallmark of bankrupt intellectuals. I've dealt with them in Part 3. I dealt with some of the issues you raised in Part 2 so I won't be in ...
read full comment
Fake Adjoa Wangara,we know who you are.If you have nothing good to offer,leave this forum.You are a big fool.Give due respect to your master, the more learned Andy-K.
You see! C.Y.-ANDY very soon the whole Ghana will get to know as I use to say that the whole bunch of the KWAWUKUMES' are blank IDIOTS. You cemented heards are always trying to be what you can never be. Typical yahoo family.
@Yaw Ben, you epitomise the Intellectually Bankrupt Ghanaian. Everyone who complains about a rotten system is envious of the beneficiary.
Otabil dupes feeble minded people. You must be jealous.When pregnant women can't even ...
read full comment
Brothers,
I agree with Kobina.
Andy, ignore the negative commments.
Good advice, Kobina!
Opps! And you are not an intellectual abi!
Expansive and incisive enough to take account of the many problems we have endured since independence.
1. All church and assets will be nationalised.
2.40% will be re-equip into schools.
3. 40 % converted into clinics, maternaty wards, and elderly care homes and mental institutions.
4. 20% turned into re-education camps, to ...
read full comment
A very good write-up Andy, and I would have agreed with you totally if you had confined your criticism to the intellectual bankruptcy of the typical Ghanaian elite...But your thrust is weakened by your digression into the R& ...
read full comment