If independence means changing slave masters from white colonialist to a Black despot with callous and brutal tendencies to subjugate its citizens to zombies who follow orders without questioning, then we did achieve independ ... read full comment
If independence means changing slave masters from white colonialist to a Black despot with callous and brutal tendencies to subjugate its citizens to zombies who follow orders without questioning, then we did achieve independence on March 06, 1957 if not then we merely put a thief out of commission and enshrined an "armed robber " as a savior.
Our independence was meaningless because we were more free under the colonial masters than when we supposedly became free but our rights as human beings was suppressed by a brutal dictator.
Kojo T 9 years ago
Dr SAS the unborn child telling about affairs before his birth? Nkrumah was to be assassinated at the airport when going to India in 1958 But the ma te me ho DESTABILISATION that started much earlier was a major threat to dev ... read full comment
Dr SAS the unborn child telling about affairs before his birth? Nkrumah was to be assassinated at the airport when going to India in 1958 But the ma te me ho DESTABILISATION that started much earlier was a major threat to development Stop your falsehod
SARPONG 9 years ago
You don't have to live in an era before you can talk, write or believe in it else Christianity, Moslem or other religions would not have survived until now as nobody living now saw Christ or Mohammed.
Stop your own falseho ... read full comment
You don't have to live in an era before you can talk, write or believe in it else Christianity, Moslem or other religions would not have survived until now as nobody living now saw Christ or Mohammed.
Stop your own falsehood to defend Nkrumah insatiable desire for power and total control of citizens of Ghana God given rights. Nonsense, there is no evidence anywhere Nkrumah was a target of assassination at any airport in 1958, what a distorted history to justify a despotic rule.
BARIMA BEDIAKO 9 years ago
IS THIS IDIOT STILL ALIVE SARPONG A CRYPTO CAPITALIST TALKING ABOUT SLAVES ABOABA
IS THIS IDIOT STILL ALIVE SARPONG A CRYPTO CAPITALIST TALKING ABOUT SLAVES ABOABA
SARPONG 9 years ago
Why are angry and shouting? Shouting will not eliminate your foolishness and illiteracy. Typical of Nkrumah apologists, atrophied brain has deprived you the intelligence to participate in this discourse.
Why are angry and shouting? Shouting will not eliminate your foolishness and illiteracy. Typical of Nkrumah apologists, atrophied brain has deprived you the intelligence to participate in this discourse.
Mahama 9 years ago
People like A. B. Akosah need to learn some history lessons too. It's not enough to do politics with only Pathology.
People like A. B. Akosah need to learn some history lessons too. It's not enough to do politics with only Pathology.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
The comparison between Lee Kuan Yew and Nkrumah are disingenuous. Nkrumah is incomparable in his wickedness. The closest you can get to his misbehavior is with his own protege Robert Mugabe; but Mugabe has no PDA in his count ... read full comment
The comparison between Lee Kuan Yew and Nkrumah are disingenuous. Nkrumah is incomparable in his wickedness. The closest you can get to his misbehavior is with his own protege Robert Mugabe; but Mugabe has no PDA in his country; Zimbabwe is not a one party state with a life president; and Mugabe did not incarcerate Joshua Nkomo who brought him to help in the struggle. Of course they fought each other all right; but in the end, Joshua Nkomo was not incarcerated like J.B. Danquah to rot in a prison cell; he became the vice president of Zimbabwe until his natural death. Mugabe is a dictator but far less brutal than Nkrumah.
Nkrumah introduced a novel pattern of overweening wickedness hitherto unknown in Ghana's leadership or politics. The good news is that he met his just desserts when he died alone a broken and paranoid man, betrayed by his own friends and family.
Kofi Webb 9 years ago
You Africans don't realize that the west had partitioned AFRICA after their world war and were not going to merely give it up to freedom fighters like Nkrumah. What you call wickedness by Nkrumah was really politics in totali ... read full comment
You Africans don't realize that the west had partitioned AFRICA after their world war and were not going to merely give it up to freedom fighters like Nkrumah. What you call wickedness by Nkrumah was really politics in totality as still practiced even in the west today. Nkrumahs mistake was not seeing his real enemy from within and eliminating them like most of the greats that achieved their agenda do. He allowed the utopia of idealism and the false facade we call democracy to blind him.
Which of you here can tell me even USA plays by the rules of democracy if USA meets anything against their agenda?
The Danquah Busia agenda was to fight the whites to replace them as lords of the Ghanaian ring Nkrumah fought against without masses. It was a government of convenience by elites for elites. They were to use nkrumah and give him a chair in the stable of neoimperialism where the oppressed are governed via puppet indigents.
Nkrumah saw a chance through the masses to steal power. This is why the Danquah Busia are still led by the sons and Danquah like akufo Addo, obetsebi lampteys, chinery hesse, odoi Sykes etc.
What we need in Ghana are not these breeds of non thinkers previledged wannabe leaders but real leaders that have aspirations to change the status quo of reliance on western puppet masters. Note that since Nkrumah failed in entirely shifting the paradigm any real leader worthy will have to lead from where he left off. The western nation are even regretting bit allow Nkrumah to lead because they have realized these elites and their children are only interrelated ego maniacs bent on continuing their tradition of chiefdoms and serfs. They can't even help the assets of the western elites which is their masses to utilize the economies of scales in the food chain within production.
Ghanaians think they are independent but I am sorry they are too ignorant to understand what real independent states do. Infact 99 % if the nation has ignorant people running around chasing mere food and money without knowing what to do with it because they type of education system in Ghana can produce real thinkers to free Ghana from the tentacles of western control.
You hardly see a Ghanaian whose aspiration is something worthy other than money. This is why we are led to love anything foreign and forever keep running away from our God given talents , resources and land.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
A strong Ghana/African-centered voice, we must say.
READ: "...Nkrumah saw a chance through the masses to steal power. This is why the Danquah Busia are still led by the sons and Danquah like akufo Addo, obetsebi lampteys, ... read full comment
A strong Ghana/African-centered voice, we must say.
READ: "...Nkrumah saw a chance through the masses to steal power. This is why the Danquah Busia are still led by the sons and Danquah like akufo Addo, obetsebi lampteys, chinery hesse, odoi Sykes etc..."
OUR COMMENT: Great insight!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
Professor (Justice) A. Kodzo Paaku Kludze, obtained his B.A from the University of Ghana, Legon in 1963. He also obtained his LL.B (Hons) from the same university in 1965. He acquired his PhD from the University of London in ... read full comment
Professor (Justice) A. Kodzo Paaku Kludze, obtained his B.A from the University of Ghana, Legon in 1963. He also obtained his LL.B (Hons) from the same university in 1965. He acquired his PhD from the University of London in 1969. In addition, he acquired his LL.D (the first and only earned Higher Doctorate Degree in Law in Ghana) from the University of London in 2002.
The distinguished Jurist is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana since 1965, Attorney at Law, state of New York and a member of the prestigious American Law Institute.
Professor (Justice) Kludze started his professional career as a lecturer at the University of Ghana in 1965. He was also the Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA and Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA. Professor (Justice) Kludze has been a visiting Professor of Law at the Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Dean and Professor of Law, at the University of Calabar, Nigeria and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Graz University, Austria.
In 2003,Professor (Justice) Kludze, was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and in 2004, he was appointed as the director, Career Magistrates Programme, Judicial Service Accra, Ghana
Tuyoo 9 years ago
Apart from "unenlightened educated bppklpngs"
, how many of our countryfolks' LIVES have been IMPACTED by anything from your distinguished Jurist?
He is completely IRRELEVANT and historically INSIGNIFICANT!
Apart from "unenlightened educated bppklpngs"
, how many of our countryfolks' LIVES have been IMPACTED by anything from your distinguished Jurist?
He is completely IRRELEVANT and historically INSIGNIFICANT!
Kowadis 9 years ago
So-called "Jurist" can eloquently lecture about the "Nrumah-PDA" but shamefully ignores the Brits
PDA-jailing of Nkrumah before Independence!
Necessity breeds DESPERATION!
So-called "Jurist" can eloquently lecture about the "Nrumah-PDA" but shamefully ignores the Brits
PDA-jailing of Nkrumah before Independence!
Necessity breeds DESPERATION!
KANAWU 9 years ago
IDIOTS YOU GOT THE QUASI DEMOCRACY YOU CRAVE FOR. BUT THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH, NOT EVEN TO MENTION DUMSO, ENJOY YOUR QUASI DEMOCRACY IN THE DARK........
IDIOTS YOU GOT THE QUASI DEMOCRACY YOU CRAVE FOR. BUT THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH, NOT EVEN TO MENTION DUMSO, ENJOY YOUR QUASI DEMOCRACY IN THE DARK........
Random Eye Movement 9 years ago
1. As for me, I believe the PDA was a bad idea. Perhaps Nkrumah's government had genuine reasons to have such a law but it was badly designed and wrongly implemented. Any law that incarcerates someone for such a long time wit ... read full comment
1. As for me, I believe the PDA was a bad idea. Perhaps Nkrumah's government had genuine reasons to have such a law but it was badly designed and wrongly implemented. Any law that incarcerates someone for such a long time without being properly charged and jailed must be inherently bad.
Today if any govt wants to introduce a law that remotely smacks of the PDA, Ghanaians will vehemently oppose it. One of the reasons they will give is that the last time we had something like that, our experiences of it were not exactly pleasant...
2. Nkrumah did show some dictatorial tendencies during the later parts of his rule. I won't go so far as calling him a "brutal dictator" but whether he was a benign or benevolent one can be discussed. The man certainly had many progressive ideas and he realized that some excessive measures needed to be taken to effect the changes he envisaged.
Looking at things from hindsight, perhaps the one-party rule was not needed and the presidency for life was certainly a bad idea. Andy-K has argued here that Nkrumah didn't need either since he could've achieved them without making rules to bring them about. The CPP was very well organized, very strong and very dominant. It could have prevailed as long as it wanted. Like in Botswana now.
Again here too, Ghanaians of today will oppose any attempt to impose a one party or a presidency for life on them. They will say here too that the last time we tried that, it didn't go quite well.
Having said these, I wish also to say that Lawyer Kludze was no friend of Nkrumah's and cannot be relied upon to give an honest account of the man.
1. If he was already incarcerated as a student, he would grow up seeing only bad things about Nkrumah.
2. Lawyer Kludze was a young man during the struggle for independence. He was from Hohoe - a hotbed of Togoland Congress' opposition to Nkrumah. He must have been a member or sympathizer of the Congress. This will lead him on to be a member of the opposition UP whose largest block was the banned NLM. It was the Kufuor regime that appointed him a justice of the Supreme Court. It was not for nothing. Lawyer Kludze was a lifelong opponent of Nkrumah. He was no honest broker.
Lawyer Kludze died a few years ago. In his last days, he had lost favour with a large section of his Hohoe people. The rumours were that he had cheated the townspeople in a huge settlement in a case in which he had represented them. This should be treated as a rumour only.
It is said that lawyer Kludze's son is the rocket scientist, Ave Kludze.
In the matter of Nkrumah, it will be difficult to argue that the man was a complete failure or a reckless and brutal dictator. In the same way, it will be too simplistic to argue as if he never made any mistakes. And so JB Danquah, too, may not have been a completely devilish person.
Let us be more nuanced in our analyses... Let us be bold enough to say the good and the bad. Nkrumah and Danquah are relevant to us today only in as far as the lessons we can learn from what they did or failed to do.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Random Eye Movement,
You make some important observations!
Surely, hindsight is 20/20!
But fairness in public discourse should be automatic, before we get to "hind".
Adikanfo/Pacesetters thread where others have ne ... read full comment
Random Eye Movement,
You make some important observations!
Surely, hindsight is 20/20!
But fairness in public discourse should be automatic, before we get to "hind".
Adikanfo/Pacesetters thread where others have never threaded! Most of them never have to wrestle with formidable external enemies with more resources enough to buy the services of your own people who will then secretly plot to harm the new State. Enough to control the entire world!
And if today, we had the resources to educate the people and conduct a survey of all the people and positioned 2 paths:
- the Lee Kuan Yew Singapore model (equality for the average man)
- the current 2-party "virtual" revolving door (equality for the party man).
Then let's ask the people to look forward and tell us which one they will select/choose, freely.
ITEM: We have a whole series of articles from a so-called lawyer about a "Kludze", and the most important caveats were purposely left out - a sorry attempt to make fools of readers, we suppose!
Funny - When we discovered the NYT about a "Kludze", his affiliation with Rutgers University and his nearly 30 years over there as a Professor, we did not read anything (or find) any mention of association with any American struggles (of African Americans, Women, American Indians, the Poor, Migrants, Universal Suffrage, Reform of any policy in New Jersey, and their Chicken Coop Urban policies, etc.).
Plainly, Nkrumah was too benevolent to his detractors! And when Nkrumah achieved the most important goals for Ghana in his own lifetime, (Independence and Unitary Nation for Ghana), why must we descend into the gutter to "argue argue that the man was a complete failure"?
Why?
Why must we waste out time?
For us, we prefer to spend the little time we have to providing information about Nkrumah to all who will read/listen, much of that information that were destroyed and continue to be hidden today, by Danquah-Busia-Dombo-UP-NLC-NLM-PP Confederates and their apologists.
Thanks.
Kowadis 9 years ago
Kludze, like other "Togolese INGRATES", enjoyed Nkumah's "stable education system", while pissing on the government.
Kludze, like other "Togolese INGRATES", enjoyed Nkumah's "stable education system", while pissing on the government.
Issah Sulemana 9 years ago
Thanks Dr SAS for educating some of us.
Observation: Kulungungu is in the upper East of Ghana a border town after Bawku.
Thanks Dr SAS for educating some of us.
Observation: Kulungungu is in the upper East of Ghana a border town after Bawku.
If independence means changing slave masters from white colonialist to a Black despot with callous and brutal tendencies to subjugate its citizens to zombies who follow orders without questioning, then we did achieve independ ...
read full comment
Dr SAS the unborn child telling about affairs before his birth? Nkrumah was to be assassinated at the airport when going to India in 1958 But the ma te me ho DESTABILISATION that started much earlier was a major threat to dev ...
read full comment
You don't have to live in an era before you can talk, write or believe in it else Christianity, Moslem or other religions would not have survived until now as nobody living now saw Christ or Mohammed.
Stop your own falseho ...
read full comment
IS THIS IDIOT STILL ALIVE SARPONG A CRYPTO CAPITALIST TALKING ABOUT SLAVES ABOABA
Why are angry and shouting? Shouting will not eliminate your foolishness and illiteracy. Typical of Nkrumah apologists, atrophied brain has deprived you the intelligence to participate in this discourse.
People like A. B. Akosah need to learn some history lessons too. It's not enough to do politics with only Pathology.
The comparison between Lee Kuan Yew and Nkrumah are disingenuous. Nkrumah is incomparable in his wickedness. The closest you can get to his misbehavior is with his own protege Robert Mugabe; but Mugabe has no PDA in his count ...
read full comment
You Africans don't realize that the west had partitioned AFRICA after their world war and were not going to merely give it up to freedom fighters like Nkrumah. What you call wickedness by Nkrumah was really politics in totali ...
read full comment
A strong Ghana/African-centered voice, we must say.
READ: "...Nkrumah saw a chance through the masses to steal power. This is why the Danquah Busia are still led by the sons and Danquah like akufo Addo, obetsebi lampteys, ...
read full comment
Professor (Justice) A. Kodzo Paaku Kludze, obtained his B.A from the University of Ghana, Legon in 1963. He also obtained his LL.B (Hons) from the same university in 1965. He acquired his PhD from the University of London in ...
read full comment
Apart from "unenlightened educated bppklpngs"
, how many of our countryfolks' LIVES have been IMPACTED by anything from your distinguished Jurist?
He is completely IRRELEVANT and historically INSIGNIFICANT!
So-called "Jurist" can eloquently lecture about the "Nrumah-PDA" but shamefully ignores the Brits
PDA-jailing of Nkrumah before Independence!
Necessity breeds DESPERATION!
IDIOTS YOU GOT THE QUASI DEMOCRACY YOU CRAVE FOR. BUT THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH, NOT EVEN TO MENTION DUMSO, ENJOY YOUR QUASI DEMOCRACY IN THE DARK........
1. As for me, I believe the PDA was a bad idea. Perhaps Nkrumah's government had genuine reasons to have such a law but it was badly designed and wrongly implemented. Any law that incarcerates someone for such a long time wit ...
read full comment
Random Eye Movement,
You make some important observations!
Surely, hindsight is 20/20!
But fairness in public discourse should be automatic, before we get to "hind".
Adikanfo/Pacesetters thread where others have ne ...
read full comment
Kludze, like other "Togolese INGRATES", enjoyed Nkumah's "stable education system", while pissing on the government.
Thanks Dr SAS for educating some of us.
Observation: Kulungungu is in the upper East of Ghana a border town after Bawku.