I think you are making a joke of your self or you must be late in your economic analysis of the world.The world had moved on from your type of thinking and analysis and rethinking the nation state in the global economy.
Bo ... read full comment
I think you are making a joke of your self or you must be late in your economic analysis of the world.The world had moved on from your type of thinking and analysis and rethinking the nation state in the global economy.
Both capitalist and socialist economies are now relying on each other to give their people maximum benefits through PPP with mutual benefit to the the private and public sector and especially to society in general.The ppp offers the best of both worlds between capitalist economy and socialist economy.What is important though is that it must be undertaken to ensure that public-private partnerships provide public value.
Nkrumah recognize this long ago when he said socialism is a short cut to development but capital is needed to hasten its growth hence the socialist path.To day the world is seeing the benefit of such vision.The failure of hard core capitalism in globalization is making that concession even more urgent for the benefit of all.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Baidoo,
How are you?
I still think you have no technical grasp of the topics you are discussing.
Like I said before, I will not bother spending time to respond to your faulty analysis.
You seem to throw con ... read full comment
Dear Baidoo,
How are you?
I still think you have no technical grasp of the topics you are discussing.
Like I said before, I will not bother spending time to respond to your faulty analysis.
You seem to throw concepts and statistics about without grounding them in a technical understanding of political economy.
I am already assembling a list of technical texts dealing with the complex question of political economy.
You will have to take your time to read them closely in order to acquire a technical grasp of the subject matter you are dressing. For now, you are way of the mark.
To begin with, make time to read Winston Churchill's "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of Sudan" and "The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War" and Richard Toye's "Churchill: The World That Made Him and the World He made,"
Read also Johann Hari's article "Not The Finest Hour: The Dark Side of Winston Churchill" (The Independent, Oct. 28, 2010).
When you are done reading the three books and essay about Churchill( if you haven't already), then you should understand the magnitide of problem I have if I am to address your faulty arguments by, among other things, questioning your sources and admireres begining with a figure like Churchill.
For instance, I wish you had address why Winston Churchill was not happy with the relative lack of effectiveness of British ammunitions (guns, etc) slaughtering and conqueing Sudanese and establshing the preesence of the British Empire in Sudan!
Like I said before, I shall provide you with technical texts dealing with the complexity of political economy. You two essays soo far falls behind the mark of what I will consider to be issues that merit serious rejoinders from me.
I will use the the little time I have to write other articles than to respond to your articles in any serious and detailed manner!
Your six-months should have rather been spent reading the extensive sources I offered in my rebuttal. The extensive data therein and technical treatment of the subject matter you articles make light of undermine the central assumptions of your faulty arguments.
Stay tuned for the technical texts. Please go back again and reevaluate the data given in all the source I initially presented in my rebutal.
Have a great week.
Thanks.
Botha 8 years ago
If this long comment is not wasting time to respond to him, I wonder how long your comment would have been if you have wasted time to respond to him.
You don't seem to be intelligent.
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If this long comment is not wasting time to respond to him, I wonder how long your comment would have been if you have wasted time to respond to him.
You don't seem to be intelligent.
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francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Bother,
You are as clueless as Baidoo.
He is actually wrong and clueless on "almost" everything he has said in this piece.
Anyway I am not bothered by your use of the word "intelligent."
It is a relative co ... read full comment
Dear Bother,
You are as clueless as Baidoo.
He is actually wrong and clueless on "almost" everything he has said in this piece.
Anyway I am not bothered by your use of the word "intelligent."
It is a relative concept and I wish you could have Baidoo to what his idol Churchill, to mention but one, has to say about the British Empire and Sudan among others.
Let Baiddo see that "intelligent" in your response. The technical texts I will provide for him will tear his fragile assumptions, gross misrepresentations and lies, and overly weak arguments in pieces.
Baidoo's arguments are as overly weak as he is clueless about the tas he has taken upon himself.
If you had any clue what I am driving, you will take the opportunity to read the said technical texts, essays, etc., and compare them with what Baiddo has been saying in all his three articles.
Both Baidoo and his articles are not serious.
Please keep your "intelligent" and allow others to keep Baidoo on his toes if you have no clue what he is talking about! Look forward to the tecnical texts and essays!
Have a great weekend.
Mahmoud 8 years ago
There was nothing called mixed economy in Nkrumah's ideology. The mixed economy Kwarten and others have been trying to attribute to Nkrumah was a transitional period that was to be faced out soon if the factors enumerated bel ... read full comment
There was nothing called mixed economy in Nkrumah's ideology. The mixed economy Kwarten and others have been trying to attribute to Nkrumah was a transitional period that was to be faced out soon if the factors enumerated below were not present. In fact, Nkrumah didn't like free enterprise and mixed economy. The truth is that, Nkrumah was a communist and communism was his religion.
Pro-Communist Policies
Nkrumah began in 1960 to display openly his pro Communist, Anti-Western beliefs. Under his influence and with his encouragement, Ghana negotiated a number of economic agreements with Communist nations, waged increasingly strident campaigns against "capitalism, imperialism, and neocolonialism," and generally championed positions and policies in world affairs which support and further Communist aims. Moderates within the government were eliminated or lost their influence, while radicals and leftists assumed positions of importance and leadership and became increasingly influential in guiding Ghana further to the left.
Despite all of this, however, Ghana today is not as far into the Communist camp as would seem probable. That Nkrumah and his like-minded followers have not succeeded in more closely identifying Ghana with the Communist world is due to a number of factors -- the Western culture and tradition ingrained over the years of British rule; the fact that Ghana's economy is still closely tied to Western markets; the fact that the governing party is far from being a monolithic organization and has never fully exercised the powers it theoretically possesses; the opposition of the armed forces to closer military ties with the Communists; and the fact that the Communist nations have been increasing reluctant to shore up the deteriorating economy, thus forcing Nkrumah not to alienate completely possible Sources of Western assistance.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Hi,
Baidoo himself does not touch on Margaret Thatcher's support for Apartheid, how the British economy itself benefited from, and why the citizens of Thatcher's town refuse to be associated with her and her legacy (they d ... read full comment
Hi,
Baidoo himself does not touch on Margaret Thatcher's support for Apartheid, how the British economy itself benefited from, and why the citizens of Thatcher's town refuse to be associated with her and her legacy (they did not even want to have her buried in the town).
Baidoo simply refused to tell his readers why the latter was/is the case.Baidoo does not relate his discussion to the 500 years Europe pillaged Africa and used the stolen boot to build the European continent.
He does not tell his readers how slavery contributed to capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (see Eric Williams' Oxford doctoral dissertation "Slavery and Capitalism"). He conveniently sidesteps how capitalism helped build Nazism and Russian "communism."
Cano, there is no need calling Kojo T "illiterate" because it appears you have no stand on what Baidoo may be talking about. If you did you should be pointing out Baidoo's own errors, too many of them.
The same goes to Kabako and Mahmoud. Mahmoud is probably the most ill-infomed on Ghanawebwhen it comes to Nkrumah, Africa and Ghana's history and political economy. You should all go and read Nkrumah's 7-Year Development Plan (and you will learn more the type of economy that was in place under Nkrumah). This is the link: www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/documents/deve_plans/7_Year_Dev_Plan-Ghana-v2.pdf
99.9% of what Mahmoud says on Nkrumah, Ghana, and Africa is totally wrong. He and Baidoo have not read Marx and Engels well enough to know what "communism" is. They just throw the concepts about without critically assessing them.
For your information (Baidoo & Mahmooh the Ashanti Man), if you want a detailed discussion on Nkrumah's mixed economy then you had better read the following (I am offering this because Baidoo has not thoroughly, if at all, studied the question; his treatment of the question clearly demonstrates that he has not. You guys should read this and come back here again with your detailed refutations).
Baidoo's last paragraph is not backed by any empirical evidence, which the following texts will educate him on (these are scholars who have virtually spent their lives and careers studying Nkrumah, political economy, Ghana, Africa, and the West:
1) The Political Thought Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah (Ama Biney)
2) Ghana: End of An Illusion (Bob Fitch & Mary Oppenheimer)
You guys will also benefit from this list:
SOME SOURCE MATERIALS BY AND ABOUT KWAME NKRUMAH
1) Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad, 1935-1947 (Marika Sherwood)
2) The Life And Work Of Kwame Nkrumah (Kwame Arhin)
3) History Has Vindicated Kwame Nkrumah (Rodney Worrell)
4) Third World To First World-By One Touch: Economic Repercussions Of The Overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (Robert Woode)
5) Kwame Nkrumah: A Study Of His Intellectual Development In The United States 1935-45 (Carlos Nelson)
6) Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought And Policies (Kwame Botwe-Asamoah)
7) The Political And Social Thought Of Kwame Nkrumah (Ama Biney)
8) Forward Ever. Kwame Nkrumah: A Biography (June Milne)
9) Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years: His Life And Letters (June Milne)
10) Nkrumah And Ghana: The Dilemma Of Post-Colonial Power (Kofi Buenor Hadjor)
11) Black Star: A View Of The Life And Times Of Kwame Nkrumah (Basil Davidson)
12) Kwame Nkrumah: Vision And Tragedy (David Rooney)
13) Nkrumah And The Chiefs: Politics Of Chieftaincy In Ghana 1951-1960 (Richard Rathbone)
14) Nkrumah: Webster's Timeline History, 1909-2007 (Philip M. Parker)
15) Kwame Nkrumah: From Cradle To Grave (Timothy Bankole)
16) Nkrumah: Makers Of The 20th Century (David Birmingham)
17) Kwame Nkrumah: World Leaders Past and Present (Douglas Keller)
18) Great Black Leaders: Ancient And Modern (Ivan Van Sertima)
19) Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study Of Religion And Politics In Ghana (Ebenezer Obiri Addo)
20) African Tightrope: My Two Years As Nkrumah's Chief Of Staff (Major-General H.T. Alexander)
21) A View Of Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972 (Kwame Arhin)
22) Christianity, Islam And The Negro Race (Edward W. Blyden)
23) African Nationalism (Ndabaningi Sithole)
24) Pan-Africanism And South America: Emergence Of A Black Rebellion (Elisa L. Nascimento)
25) Africa And Unity: The Evolution Of Pan-Africanism (Vincent B. Thompson)
26) Tubal Uriah Butler Of Trinidad and Tobago Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana: The Road To Independence (Daurius Figueira)
27) Selected Speeches of Kwame Nkrumah (5 Volumes; Samuel Obeng)
28) The Spark: Times Behind Me From Kwame Nkrumah To Limann (Kofi Batsa)
29) Philosophy And Opinions Of Marcus Garvey (Amy Jacques-Garvey)
30) Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's Last Dream: Continental Government Of Africa (Joe-Fio N. Meyer)
31) Kwame Nkrumah And The Future Of Africa (John F. V. Phillips)
32) Kwame Nkrumah (Yuri Smertin)
33) Black Power: A Record Of Reactions In A Land Of Pathos (Richard Wright)
34) Pan-Africanism In The Diaspora: An Analysis Of Modern Afrocentric Political Movement (Ronald W. Walters)
35) The Ghana Young Pioneer Movement: A Youth Organization In The Kwame Nkrumah Era (M.N. Tetteh)
36) Kwame Nkrumah: A Case Study In Intercultural Leadership (Samuel E. Taylor)
37) In Search Of Enemies: A CIA Story (John Stockwell)
38) Kwame Nkrumah: The Political Kingdom In The Third World (David Rooney)
39) Uhuru Na Ujamaa: A Selection From Writings And Speeches, 1952-1965 (Julius Nyerere)
40) Kwame Nkrumah As I Knew Him (Genoveva Marais)
41) JFK: Ordeal In Africa (Richard Mahoney)
42) Pan-Africanism: A Short Political History (Colins Legum)
43) The Pan-African Movement: Ghana's Contributions (Kwesi Krafona)
44) Uhuru Na Ujoma: A Selection From Writings And Speeches, 1952-1965 (Julius Nyerere)
45) Kwame Nkrumah's Contributions To Pan-African Agency: An Afrocentric Analysis (Zizwe Poe)
46) W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight For Equality And The American Century 1919-1963 (David Levering Lewis)
47) African Union: Pan-African Analytic Foundation (Kofi Kissi Dompere)
48) Polyrhythmicity: Foundations of African Philosophy (Kofi Kissi Dompere)
49) Nkrumah The Man: A Friend's Testimony (Genoveva Kanu)
50) Africentricity And African Nationalism (Kofi Kissi Dompere)
51) The Theory Of Categorial Conversion: Rational Foundations Of Nkrumahism (Kofi Kissi Dompere)
52) The Theory Of Philosophical Consciencism: Practice Foundations of Nkrumahism (Kofi Kissi Dompere)
53) Ghana's First Republic, 1960-1966: The Pursuit Of The Political Kingdom (Trevor Jones)
54) The History of Education In Ghana From The Earliest Times To The Declaration Of Independence (C.K. Graham)
55) Ghana: End Of An Illusion (Bob Fitch & Mary Oppenheimer)
56) Black Nationalism: A Search For An Identity (E.U. Essien-Udom)
57) General Histories of Africa: UNESCO (Volumes 1, 2, 7, 8)
58) Nkrumah's Consciencism: Its Relevance To Ghanaian Development (Adom C. Boateng)
59) Kwame Nkrumah: The Father Of African Nationalism (David Birmingham)
60) Politics In Ghana, 1946-1960 (Dennis Austin)
61) Volta: Man's Greatest Lake (James Moxon)
62) Volta River Project (David Hart)
63) Nkrumah's Ghana And East Africa: Pan-Africanism And African Interstate Relations (Opoku Agyeman)
64) Pan-Africanism And Its Detractors: A Response To Harvard's Race-Effacing Universalists (Opoku Agyeman)
65) By Nkrumah's Side: The Labor And The Wounds (Tawia Adamafio)
66) Reap The Whirlwind (Geoffrey Bing)
67) Pan-Africanism: The Idea And Movement, 1776-1963 (P.O. Esebebe)
68) Pan-Africanism And Nationalism In West Africa, 1900-1945 (Ayodede Langley)
69) The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery To Garvey And Beyond (Tony Martin)
70) Pan-Africanism (Edited by T.A. Raheem)
71) Pan-Africanism: An Annotated Bibliography (Michael W. Williams)
72) Black Scholar: Journal Of Black Studies And Research (The Pan-African Debate Edited By Robert Chrisman)
73) Kwame Nkrumah: The Anatomy Of An African Dictatorship (T.P. Omari)
74) The Gold Coast Revolution: The Struggle Of An African People From Slavery To Freedom (George Padmore)
78) Africa: The Politics Of Independence And Unity (Immanuel Wallerstein)
79) Development Economics In Action: A Study Of Economic Politics In Ghana (Tony Killick)
80) Kwame Nkrumah: Six Years In Exile, 1966-72 (A.B. Assensoh)
81) Staying Power: Ghana's Political Economy, 1950-1990 (Douglas Rimmer)
82) The Quills Of The Porcupine: Asante Nationalism In An Emergent Ghana (Jean Marie Allman)
83) Nationalism And Economic Development In Ghana (R. Genoud)
84) Africa Since 1940: The Past Of The Present (Frederick Cooper)
85) Africa Since Independence (Paul Nugent)
86) Ideology And Development In Africa (Crawford Young)
87) American Africans In Ghana: Black Expatriates And The Civil Rights (Kevin K. Gaines)
88) African Socialism (William H. Friedland & Carl G. Rosberg)
89) Ghana In Transition (David E. Apter)
90) The Regime Change Of Kwame Nkrumah: Epic Heroism In Africa And The Diaspora (Ahmad Rahman)
91) Kwame Nkrumah: The Greatest African (Emanuel B. Ocran)
92) West Africans In Britain: 1900-1960 Nationalism, Pan-Africanism And Communism (Hakim Adi)
93) Pan-Africanism From Within (Ras Mokonnen)
94) The 1945 Manchester Pan-Africanism Congress (Hakim Adi & Marika Sherwood)
95) The Pan-African Movement: A History Of Pan-Africanism In America, Europe, And Africa (Imanuel Geiss)
96) Nationalism In Colonial Africa (Thomas Hodgkin)
97) Ghana: British Documents On The End Of The Empire (R. Rathbone, S.R. Ashton, D.J. Murray)
98) Joe Appiah: The Autobiography (Enid M. Appiah)
99) My Odyssey: An Autobiography (Nnamdi Azikiwe)
101) Class, Power And Ideology In Ghana: The Railwayman Of Sekondi (Richard Jeffries)
102) The Military Politics In Nkrumah's Ghana (Simon Baynham)
103) Political Legacy Of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (Charles Boateng)
104) Administration Of Ghana's Foreign Relations 1957-65: A Personal Memoir (Michael Dei-Anang)
105) Development And The Development Trap: Economic Planning And External Borrowing In Ghana (Andrzej Krassowski)
106) Ideological Education And Nationalism In Ghana Under Nkrumah And Busia (D.K. Agyeman)
107) Kwame Nkrumah And The Church In Ghana 1945-1966(J.S. Pobee)
108) The Ghanaian Establishment (J.B. Danquah)
109) Nkrumah's Ideology (Kwadwo Afari-Gyan)
110) Nationalist Ideology In The Gold Coast (Kwadwo Afari-Gyan)
111) The United States And Decolonization In West Africa, 1950-1960 (Ebere Nwaubani)
112) African Philosophy (Paulin J. Hountondji)
113) Diplomatic Servant: Reflections Of Pioneer In Ghana's Diplomatic Service (S.E. Quarm)
114) The Coyaba Chronicles: Reflections On The Black Experience In The Twentieth Century (Peter Abrahams)
115) Peace Without Power: Ghana's Foreign Policy 1957-1966 (Kwesi Armah)
116) Ghana: Nkrumah's Legacy (Kwesi Armah)
117) Creating Political Order: The Party-States Of West Africa (Aristide R. Zolberg)
118) Guns And Gandhi In Africa: Pan-African Insights On Nonviolence, Armed Struggle And Liberations (Bill Sutherland & Matt Meyer)
119) Ghana's Foreign Policy In Retrospect (M. Addo)
120) The Ghana Coup, 24 February 1966 (Akwasi Afrifa)
121) Fighting For Africa: The Pan-African Contributions Of Ambassador Dudley J. Thompson And Bill Sutherland (Robert Johnson, Jr.)
122) A History Of Pan-African Revolt (C.L. R. James)
123) The Nkrumah And The Ghana Revolution (C.L.R. James)
124) Kwame Nkrumah's Liberation Thought: A Paradigm For Religious Advocacy In Contemporary Ghana (Robert. Y. Owusu)
125) Kwame Nkrumah: His Rise To Power (Bankole Timothy)
126) African And Caribbean Politics From Kwame Nkrumah To The Grenada Revolution (Manning Marable)
127) Kwame Nkrumah: Contributions To The African Revolution (Doreatha Mbalia)
128) Five Ideas That Change The World (Barbara Ward)
129) Building The Ghanaian State: Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism (Harcourt Fuller)
130) The Rise And Fall Of Kwame Nkrumah: A Study Of Personal Rule In Africa (Henry L. Bretton)
131) Organization Of African Unity: Twenty-Five Years On-Essays In Honor Of Kwame Nkrumah (Kwesi Krafona)
132) The Demigods: Eighties (Shridath S. Ramphal)
133) Mass Education And Community Development In Ghana: A Study In Retrospect (Kwa O. Hagan)
134) Political Corruption: The Ghana Case (Victor Le Vine)
135) Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans And Africa, 1935-1961 (James H. Meriwether)
136) Great Britain And Ghana: Documents In Ghana History 1807-1957 (G.E. Metcalfe)
137) Western Involvement In Nkrumah's Downfall (Godfrey Mwakikagile)
138) Ghana's First Republic: The Pursuit Of The Political Kingdom (Trevor Jones)
139) West African Wager: Houphouet Versus Nkrumah (Jon Woronoff)
140) Three African Social Theorists On Class Struggle, Political Liberation, and Indigenous Culture: Cheikh Anta Diop, Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah (Charles Simon-Aaron)
141) Kwame Nkrumah: The Man Who Brought Independence To Ghana (Bankole Timothy)
142) African Unbound: Reflections Of An African Statesman (Alex Quaison-Sackey)
143) Black Power: Politics Of Liberation in America (Charles Hamilton & Kwame Ture)
144) Where Others Wavered (Sam Nujoma)
145) Race Against Empire: Black Americans And Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Penny V. Eschen)
146) The Political History Of Ghana (1950-2013): The Experience Of A Non-Conformist (Obed Asamoah)
147) Ghana: A Political History From Pre-European To Modern Times (Kofi Awoonor)
149) Garvey: His Work And Impact (Rupert C. Lewis)
150) Aggrey Of Africa: A Study In Black And White (Edwin W. Smith)
151) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Walter Rodney)
152) Seven-Year Development Plan (J.H. Mensah)
153) Historical Dictionary Of Ghana (David Owusu-Ansah)
154) Encyclopedia Of African American History (Volume 1; Edited by Walter C. Rucker & Leslie M. Alexander)
155) The Encyclopedia Britannica (15th Edition, 1996)
156) Encyclopedia Of African History (3 Volumes; Kevin Shillington)
157) Encyclopedia Of Africa (Edited by Kwame A. Appiah & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
158) Africana: The Encyclopedia Of The African And African-American Experience (Edited by Kwame A. Appiah & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
159) Nkrumah's Legacy And Africa's Triple Heritage Between Globalization And Counter Terrorism (Ali Mazrui)
160) Uses And Abuses Of Political Power: A Case Study Of Continuity And Change In The Politics of Ghana (Maxwell Owusu)
161) Ghana And Ivory Coast: Perspective On Modernization (Aristide Zolberg & Philip Foster)
162) Ghana And The Ivory Coast, 1957-1967: Reflections On Economic Strategy, Structure, Implementation, And Necessity (Reginald H. Green)
163) The African Colonial State In Comparative Perspective (Crawford Young)
164) Pan-Africanism Or Neo-Colonialism?: The Bankruptcy Of The OAU (Elanga M'Buyinga)
165) Unity Or Poverty? The Economics Of Pan-Africanism (Ann Seidman & Reginald Green)
166) Dictionary Of African Biography (6 Volumes; Edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
167) The Flagbearers Of Ghana (Kojo T. Vieta)
168) The Works Of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Mohamdas Gandhi, W.E.B. Du Bois
169) The State Of Africa: A History Of Fifty Years Of Independence (Martin Meredith)
170) Encyclopedia Of Africa South Of The Sahara (Edited by John Middleton)
171) The History Of Ghana (Roger Gocking)
172) Coups From Below: Armed Subalterns And State Power In West Africa (Jimmy Kandeh)
173) Encyclopedia Of The Cold War (2 Volumes; Edited by William G. Gray & Ruud V. Dijk)
174) Ghana, 1957-1966: The Politics Of Institutional Dualism (Ben Amonoo)
175) Ghana Under Military Rule, 1966-1969 (Robert Pinkey)
176) The Business Of Decolonization: British Business Strategies In The Gold Coast (Sarah E. Stockwell)
177) African Intellectual Heritage (Edited by Molefi Kete Asante & Abu S. Abarry)
178) Black Africa: The Economic And Cultural Basis For A Federated State (Cheikh Anta Diop)
179) The World And Africa (W.E.B. Du Bois)
180) A Dictionary Of Marxist Thought (Edited by Tom Bottomore, Miliband, Laurence Harris, & V.G. Kiernan)
181) A History Of Economic Thought (William J. Barber)
182) African Universities And Western Tradition (Eric Ashby)
183) India Unrest (Sir Valentine Chirol)
184) The African Mind (Williams Abraham)
185) Pan-Africanism And East African Connection (Joseph S. Nye, Jr.)
186) Frantz Fanon: A Biography (David Macey)
187) Africa Contemporary Record: Annual Survey And Documents (Colin Legum)
188) A Political History Of Ghana: The Rise Of Gold Coast Nationalism, 1850-1928 (David Kimbe)
189) Organization Of African Unity And The Congo Crisis, 1964-65 (Catherin Hoskyns)
190) Long Walk To Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
191) Zambia Shall Be Free (Kenneth Kuanda)
192) Unity And Struggle (Amilcar Cabral)
193) Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy Of Amilcar Cabral (Firoze Manji & Bill Fletcher, Jr.)
194) Sowing The Mustard Seed: The Struggle For Freedom And Democracy (Yoweri Museveni)
195) African Political Thought (Guy Martin)
196) The Fortunes Of Africa: A 5000-Year History Of Wealth, Greed, And Endeavor (Martin Meredith)
197) The Assassination Of Patrice Lumumba (Ludo De Witte)
198) The History Of Africa: The Quest For Eternal Harmony (Second Edition; Molefi Kete Asante)
199) Leadership And Growth (Edited by David Brady & Michael Spence)
201) King Leopold Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, And Heroism In Colonial Africa (Adam Hochschild)
202) The Scramble For Africa: White Man's Conquest Of The Dark Continent From 1876-1912 (Thomas Pakenham)
203) The Position Of The Chief In The Modern Political System Of Ashanti (K.A. Busia)
204) A Study Of Contemporary Ghana (Volumes 1 & 2; Edited by W. Birmingham Et Al.)
205) Economic Independence In A New African State: Ghana 1956-1965 (J.D. Esseks)
205) The Wretched Of The Earth (Frantz Fanon)
206) Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fate Of Human Societies (Jared M. Diamond)
207) The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide And The Colonial Roots Of Nazism (David Olusago & Casper W. Erichsen)
208) Britain's Black Debt: Reparations For Slavery And Native Genocide (Hilary Beckles)
209) Reparations To Africa (Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann)
210) Blood And Soil: A World History Of Genocide And Extermination From Sparta To Darfur (Ben Kiernan)
211) Colonial Genocide And Reparations Claims In The 21st Century (Jeremy Sarkin)
212) Africa On The Move (Sekou Toure)
213) The State In Africa: The Politics Of The Belly (Jean-Francois Bayert)
214) Confessions Of A Hitman (John Perkins)
215) The Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein)
216) Criticism And Ideology: Second African Writers Conference Stockholm (Kirsten H. Petersen, Per Wastberg, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet)
217) Road To Ghana (Alfred Hutchinson)
218) Capital In The 21st Century (Thomas Picketty)
219) State Legitimacy And Development In Africa (Pierre Englebert)
220) The African Colonial State In Comparative Perspective (Crawford Young)
221) Germany: First Bid For Colonies, 1884-1885: A Move In Bismarck's European Policy (A.T.P Taylor)
222) Political Values And The Educated Class In Africa (Ali Mazrui)
223) Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences Of European Blacks, Africans And African Americans During The Nazi Era (Clarence Lusane)
224) A New Paradigm Of The African State (Mueni wa Muiu & Guy Martin)
225) Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, And Africa, 1959-1976 (Piero Gleijeses)
226) Africa And The West: A Documentary History From The Slave Trade To Independence (William Worges, Nancy Clark, & Edward Alpers)
227) How Far We Slaves Have Come! South Africa And Cuba In Today's (Fidel Castro & Nelson Mandela)
228) Cuba And Angola: Fighting For Africa's Freedom And Our Own (Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, & Mary-Alice Waters)
229) Che Guevara Reader: Writings On Politics And Revolution (Che Guevara)
230) The Greatest Black Achievers In History (Sylvia Lovina Chidi)
231) Creating Political Order: The Party States Of West Africa (R.A. Zolberg)
232) The African Dream: The Diaries Of The Revolutionary War In The Congo (Aleida Guevara March Et Al)
233) Wall Street And The Rise Of Hitler (Anthony Sutton)
234) Wall Street And The Bolshevik Revolution (Anthony Sutton)
235) Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development (Three Volumes; 1917-1930; 1930-1945; 1945-1965; Anthony Sutton)
236) After Postcolonialism: Remapping Philippines-United States Confrontations (E. San Juan, Jr.)
237) Culture And Imperialism (Edward Said)
238) The Washington Connection And Third World Fascism (Noam Chomsky)
239) Imperialism: The Highest Stage Of Capitalism (Vladimir Lenin)
240) The Postcolonial Studies Reader (Edited by Bill Ashcroft Et. Al)
241) Neocolonialism And African Politics (Yolamu Barongo)
242) The Decolonization Of Africa (David Birmingham)
243) Neocolonial Identity And Counter-Consciousness (Retato Constantino)
244) U.S. Neocolonialism In Africa (Stuart J. Sebor)
245) Postcolonial Identity In Africa (Richard Werbner)
246) Legal Pluralism: An Introduction To Colonial And New-Colonial Laws (M.B. Hooker)
247) Globalization And The Colonial World (Ankie Hoogvelt)
248) Trohan Horse Of Neocolonialism (Nikolai Ermolov)
249) Schooling And Education In Africa: The Case Of Ghana (George Sefa Dei)
250) Pedagogy Of The Oppressed (Paulo Freire)
251) The Regime Change Of Kwame Nkrumah: Epic Heroism In Africa And The Diaspora (Ahmad Rahman)
252) The Non-Alignment Movement Is A Mighty Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Force Of Our Time (ll-Song Kim)
252) Education For Critical Consciousness (Paulo Freire)
253) W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (David Levering Lewis)
254) Ghana: A Concise History From Pre-Colonial Times To The 20th Century (D.E.K. Amenumey)
255) Africana Studies: A Survey Of Africa And The African Diaspora (Mario Azevedo)
256) Pedagogy Of Freedom (Paulo Freire)
257) The Political Awakening Of Africa (Rupert Emerson & Martin Kilson)
258) Imagining Architecture: The Structure of Nationalism In Ghana (Janet B. Hess)
259) Encyclopedia Of The Developing World (Thomas M. Leonard)
260) African Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius Nyerere (A.B. Assensoh)
261) Postcolonial Identity In Wole Soyinka (Mpalive-Hangson Msiska)
291) The Organization Of African Unity And The Condo Crisis, 1964-1965 (C. Hoskyns)
292) West African States: Failure And Promise (A Study In Comparative Politics) (John Dunn)
293) Africans In Britain (David Killingray)
294) The African Colonial State In Comparative Perspective (Crawford Young)
295) Africa In Crisis: New Challenges And Possibilities (Edited by Tunde Zack-Williams)
296) Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique Of European Cultural Thought And Behavior (Marimba Ani)
297) African Universities And Western Tradition (Eric Ashby)
298) African Origin Of Civilization: Myth Or Reality (Cheikh Anta Diop)
299) Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Cheikh Anta Diop)
300) Precolonial Black Africa (Cheikh Anta Diop)
301) Black Africa: The Economic And Cultural Basis For A Federated State (Cheikh Anta Diop)
302) The Cultural Unity Of Black Africa (Cheikh Anta Diop)
303) Akyem Abuakwa And The Politics Of The Interwar Period In Ghana (A.B. Homes)
304) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication Of Ancient Greece 1785-85; Volume 1; Martin Bernal)
305) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Archeological And Documentary Evidence; Volume 2; Martin Bernal)
306) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Linguistic Evidence; Volume 3; Martin Bernal)
307) African Philosophy: The Phaoronic Period, 2780-330 B.C. (Theophile Obenga)
308) Stolen Legacy (George G.M. James)
309) Ghana’s First Republic, 1960-1966: The Pursuit Of The Political Kingdom (Trevor Jones)
310) The African Personality In America: An African-centered Framework (K.K.K Kambon)
311) Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome (Joy D. Leary)
312) The Debt: What America Owes Black America (Randall Robinson)
313) An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution To The Kidnapping Of A President (Randall Robinson)
314) Ethiopia Unbound: Studies In Race Emancipation (J.E. Casely-Hayford)
315) Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Renaissance (Sandra L. West & Aberjhans)
316) The Oxford Encyclopedia Of African Thought (Biodun Jeyifo & Abiola Irele)
317) Institutions And Ethnic Politics In Africa (Daniel N. Posner)
318) Staying Politics: Power And Performance In Asia And Africa (Edited by Donal C. O’Brien & Julia Strauss)
318) To Vote Or Not To Vote: The Merits And Limits Of Rational Choice (Andre Blais)
319) Ghana, 1957-1966: The Politics Of Institutional Dualism (Benjamin Amonoo)
320) The End Of The Earth (Robert D. Kaplan)
321) Economics And Elections: The Major Western Democracies (Michael S. Lewis-Beck)
332) Democratic Experiments In Africa: Regime Transitions In Comparative Perspective (Michael Bratton & Nicholas van de Wille)
332) Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood In West Africa (Pierre Englebert)
333) Youth And Employment In Africa: The Potential, The Problem, The Promise (The World Bank)
334) UN Millennium Development Library (Jeffrey Sachs The UN Millennium Project)
335) The End Of Politics (Jeffrey Sachs)
336) The Age Of Sustainable Development (Jeffrey Sachs)
337) The Future: Six Drivers Of Global Change (Al Gore)
338) African Americans And Political Participation: A Reference Handbook (Minion Morrison)
339) Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life In Harlem, 1919-1939 (Clare Corbould)
340) The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (Jerry Ward & Robert Butler)
341) African And American: West Africans In Post-Civil Rights America (Violet Showers & Marilyn Halter)
342) The Redemption Of Africa And Black Religion (St. Clair Drake)
343) Encyclopedia Of African American Education (Faustine Jones-Wilson Et Al.)
344) Encyclopedia Of African American History (Paul Finkelman)
345) Black World (Negro Digest) (A Johnson Publication)
346) Encyclopedia Of African-American Education (Two-volume set; Kofi Lomotey)
347) African American Lives (Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Evelyn B. Higginbotham)
348) African People In The Global Village: An Introduction To Pan-African Studies (John Marah)
349) Paul Cuffe: Black America And The African Return (Sheldon Harris)
350) African Americans In Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives (Michael Clemons)
351) Silenced Rivers: The Ecology And Politics Of Large Dams (Patrick McCully)
352) The Volta Resettlement Experience (Robert Chambers)
353) Effects Of Volta Lake Resettlement In Ghana: A Reappraisal After 25 Years (Kofi Diaw)
354) The Environmental Impact Of A Large Tropical Reservoir (Peter Freeman)
355) Message To The People: The Course Of African Philosophy (Marcus Garvey)
356) Encyclopedia Of The African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, And Culture (Boyce Davies & Carole Elizabeth)
357) Autobiography Of Malcolm X (Malcolm X & Alex Haley)
378) Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention (Manning Marable)
379) The John Henrik Clarke Papers (The New York Library, Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture)
380) Educational Outlook Journal (University of Pennsylvania)
381) In My Father’s House: Africa In the Philosophy Of Culture (Kwame Anthony Appiah)
382) Kwame Nkrumah Of Ghana: His Formative Years And The Beginning Of His Political Career, 1935-1948 (A.B. Assensoh)
383) The Dissolution Of The Colonial Empires (Franz Ansprenger)
384) Reconstructing The Nation In Africa: The Politics Of Nationalism In Ghana (Michael Amoah)
385) Nationalism And African Intellectuals (Toyin Falola)
386) The New Ghana: The Birth Of A New Nation (Joseph G. Amamoo)
387) The Oxford Handbook Of Modern African History (Edited by Richard Reid & John Parker)
388) Writing And Colonialism In Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between The LoDagaa And ‘The World On Paper’ “Sean Hawkins)
389) The African Journalist (Kwame Nkrumah)
390) The African Journalist (Keith Nalumango)
391) British Imperialism: Innovation And Expansion (Two-volume Set: 1688-1914, 1914-1994; A.G. Hopkins & P.J. Cain)
Let me just end here!
Kojo T 8 years ago
Phillip, tell me why the African countries that took the initial path of State capitaism are ahead of those with private capitalism.Most of the wars in African countries are from those that practice this laissez faire .AU cha ... read full comment
Phillip, tell me why the African countries that took the initial path of State capitaism are ahead of those with private capitalism.Most of the wars in African countries are from those that practice this laissez faire .AU chair just out doored tilling machine prototypes for African countries.They will be IPMPORTED from Poland.You should be advocating co operation and food security as the capitalism you advocate has FAILED.UK was built on State capitalism after the war because the individuals did not have caital.That s what Nkrumah was doing.Are you a fan of Africa importing $36bn worth of food a year and our youth dying in the desert and the Mediterranean.?
Cano 8 years ago
What African country took state capitalism (Nothing like state capitalism) are you ashamed to call socialism what it is, dummy?
Fool, now Nkrumahism is called state capitalism.Name any country that practice what you call s ... read full comment
What African country took state capitalism (Nothing like state capitalism) are you ashamed to call socialism what it is, dummy?
Fool, now Nkrumahism is called state capitalism.Name any country that practice what you call state capitalism and I will show you a failed socialist economy.
Kojo T 8 years ago
I am not .If the State puts up capital and therefore owns the enterprise, what is that ?Socialism is State ownership as opposed to private ownership.The fuss you guys make is surprising.Other factors to create wealth remain ... read full comment
I am not .If the State puts up capital and therefore owns the enterprise, what is that ?Socialism is State ownership as opposed to private ownership.The fuss you guys make is surprising.Other factors to create wealth remain the same,enterprise, land, and labor. Sarps are you now Cano ?
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
ERIE CANAL - PUBLIC FUNDS: (1817)
"$7 million...
On April 15th, 1817, the New York State Legislature finally approved construction of the Erie Canal...The bill authorized $7 million for construction of the 363-mile long w ... read full comment
ERIE CANAL - PUBLIC FUNDS: (1817)
"$7 million...
On April 15th, 1817, the New York State Legislature finally approved construction of the Erie Canal...The bill authorized $7 million for construction of the 363-mile long waterway, which was to be 40 feet wide and four feet deep.
"...The Erie Canal is an artificial waterway that connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie. This historic waterway, first completed in 1825, is one of the most important projects in the development and success of New York and the United States. Then Governor DeWitt Clinton had a great vision to create a man-made waterway connecting Albany to Buffalo which would allow raw materials from the west to be transported cheaply to the populated eastern seaboard. His idea was met with harsh criticism and his opposition dubbed the idea as Clinton's Ditch or Clinton's Folly, but he pressed on. On the fourth of July, 1817, Clinton's Ditch was started in Rome, where there was a long level section to be dug. The Erie Canal was completed from Albany to Buffalo in the fall of 1825 and was an immediate success; it secured New York as the Empire State.
To this day the Erie Canal still serves the boating community in providing safe passage to Upstate New York and beyond. The canal was enlarged and straightened many times and the current version stretches 338 miles from Waterford on the Hudson River to Lake Erie near Buffalo. The canal was originally built as a means for commercial traffic, but it has transformed into a recreational boater's dream. The Erie Canal is lined with dozens of canal towns offering all the services that a transient boater would need.
Today's canal has 34 Locks and is at least 120 feet wide and 12 feet deep. It has a vertical clearance of 21 feet between Waterford and Three Rivers (Oswego Canal junction), and 15.5 feet between the Three Rivers and Lake Erie. The locks are significantly larger than those of 175 years ago at 328 feet long and 45 feet wide, large enough for almost all recreational cruisers as well as large commercial barges to pass through. The largest vessels can be as large as 300 feet long by 43.5 feet wide...."
SOURCE: www.nycanals.com/Erie_Canal
So, you will see that the public canal (that Baidoo will argue shoud have been built through private enterprise even when private enterprise was nowhere to be found, had major impact outside New York State:
FOR MICHIGAN STATE
"...The completion in 1825 of the Erie Canal (below), connecting Lake Erie with the Hudson River, was an event of major importance in Michigan history because it greatly facilitated the transportation of passengers and freight between the eastern seaboard and Michigan ports...//
"...The canal, built by the state of New York at a cost of $7 million, was such a success that within three years toll charges had paid the cost of construction plus interest charges. For the first time, New England families, anxious to leave rocky and infertile fields for richer lands in the West, had a route for reaching the "promised land." Furthermore, the waterway provided not only an easier way to move to Michigan but access to markets in the East. Freight rates between Buffalo and New York were reduced from $100 a ton to $25 a ton with the opening of an all-water route between the two cities, and the rates soon fell even lower.
Important as it was, the Erie Canal did not cause the great migration to Michigan; it only facilitated that movement. This is shown by the fact that public land sales at Detroit reached a high point in 1825, the year the Erie Canal opened, and then declined in the years immediately following. Whereas 92,232 acres had been sold in 1825, sales were down to 70,441 by 1830.
The Erie Canal, in New York state (shown below), was 360 mi (580 km) long, and connected New York with the Great Lakes via the Hudson River. Locks were built to overcome the 571-ft (174-m) difference between the level of the river and that of Lake Erie..."
SOURCE: www.geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/eriecanal.html
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
GREAT NORTHERN - COMPARISON USING OUTLIER!
READ: "...The Great Northern was the only privately funded — and successfully built — transcontinental railroad in U.S. history..."
WE SAY: It is not as if many private ... read full comment
GREAT NORTHERN - COMPARISON USING OUTLIER!
READ: "...The Great Northern was the only privately funded — and successfully built — transcontinental railroad in U.S. history..."
WE SAY: It is not as if many private entrepreneurs did not try. Many tried and failed, even with government land grants, as capital.
READ: "...(Great Northern's James Jerome) Hill received federal taxpayer subsidies to construct the Great Northern...".
FROM GN ADVERT: 750,000 ACRES OF INDIAN LAND OPEN TO SETTLERS: Bought from the US Government (Sold to settlers for $1.25 to $7.00 per acre).
James Jerome Hill "received two million acres of land through the Minnesota Land Grant for completing the rail line on time... (A) major increase of immigrants from Norway and Sweden allowed Hill to sell homesteads from the land grant for $2.50 to $5 an acre."
"...Hill sent employees to Europe to show slides of western farming in efforts to urge Scotsmen, Englishmen, Norwegians, and Swedes to settle in the Pacific northwest. As a result, more than six million acres of Montana were settled in two years. And because of Hill, the small town of Seattle, Washington, became a major international shipping port..."
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Prof. Lungu,
Baidoo apparently has deficits in the area of political economy and urban history, particularly as they relate to America.
I will therefore recommend the works of Harvard University Prof. Arthur Schl ... read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
Baidoo apparently has deficits in the area of political economy and urban history, particularly as they relate to America.
I will therefore recommend the works of Harvard University Prof. Arthur Schllesinger, Sr.'s works (and those of doctoral students) for his reading pleasure.
These works will remove his deficits when it comes to (American) planning, land economy, urban history, and development among others. In fact, he should have read these works before embarking on anything that has to with construction, development, etc., in America as they pertain to private and public interests.
Even your two-part comments on this forum weaken Baidoo's arguments on the question of development in America vis-a-vis private and public investments/interests.
This is what we get when people rush to write without consulting authoritative sources to inform their fundamental arguments and assumtions!
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
P. K. Baidoo Jnr. obviously you are a capitalist and not a socialist. Winston Churchill and Margeret Thatcher are your heroes; as I said in my previous commentary you made short shift of mixed economy at a time when it is bec ... read full comment
P. K. Baidoo Jnr. obviously you are a capitalist and not a socialist. Winston Churchill and Margeret Thatcher are your heroes; as I said in my previous commentary you made short shift of mixed economy at a time when it is becoming widespread throughout the world.
Because of the need to be sustainable, nations are choosing to go for sustainability, instead of out and out capitalism or socialism. Private-Public-Partnership are becoming the norm. From Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, to Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu to Zambia.
Please let the can of worms stay sealed.
And I would certainly advise the Ghana government & other governments in Africa to strive for sustainability rather than seeking unsustainable paths in socialism and capitalism that would be a bridge to nowhere for our nations.
Kojo T 8 years ago
But what stops Phillip and his advocates from practicing capitalism ?Where are the Ghanaians to run their Airways, Shipping lines, Fishing corporations, Telephone companies, Shipbuilding , railways, Valco, and just name it. T ... read full comment
But what stops Phillip and his advocates from practicing capitalism ?Where are the Ghanaians to run their Airways, Shipping lines, Fishing corporations, Telephone companies, Shipbuilding , railways, Valco, and just name it. These arguments to me are purile and a waste of time.Nkrumah did what he could 50 yrs ago and Phillip get the Ghanaians together to invest so jobs can be created for the youth FDIs to me are just an addition .We have political independence ,let us get the economic ndependence .Stop wasting our time
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago
Do you know there is not a single nation in Western Europe or the Americas that practices through and true democracy without infusion of socialist practices Mr. Baidoo Jnr? Is it that you do not see, feel and or think you liv ... read full comment
Do you know there is not a single nation in Western Europe or the Americas that practices through and true democracy without infusion of socialist practices Mr. Baidoo Jnr? Is it that you do not see, feel and or think you live it because all that matters in your corner of the world is wrapping yourself in the democratic and free market flag? Do you not have some level of free education, level of societal government benefit that comes from a collective pool of contributions from workers and do you not have government funded projects and development across communities in the British Isles? Do you truly understand socialism or do you, like most, bought into the elementary level definition of socialism by those who have self interest in the sale of democratic ideals and not realities of democracy and free market principles? No one pays for the full cost of education, poor or rich, in the UK and there is a greater probability that the rich do support the middle class and the poor in many ways; they are socialist principles taking away from the rich to supplement the poor, Mr. Baidoo Jnr. not labels. Furthermore you talk in abstract terms ignoring state institutions staffed by civil servants. If ineffectiveness and mediocrity is rife in government run institutions then why is it possible to maintain the men and women who have toiled in civil service posts from one generation to another? There is no denying democratic values serve most of the needs of men relative to socialism/communism and the rest but not because of some higher moral grounding in Biblical Christian principles.
Finally I say to you that you will be delusional if you think you're being paid your labors worth as the next man or women working next to you and it is not because of productivity and or built in motivation brought on by democratic values but the built-in greed and manipulation free market values carry; discrimination is a direct byproduct.
kakabo 8 years ago
Somebody told me that he can forgive anybody who claims to be socialist before the person attains the age of adulthood. After adulthood, if anybody claims to be a socialist, pull him aside and give him a hiding and afterwards ... read full comment
Somebody told me that he can forgive anybody who claims to be socialist before the person attains the age of adulthood. After adulthood, if anybody claims to be a socialist, pull him aside and give him a hiding and afterwards send him to asylum for his head to be properly examined. Good day to you socialist if there is any.
YAW 8 years ago
Baidoo, has nothing to say but you have to read a long-winded article to find that out.His narrow mind goes with his big mouth.Now,how many private companies queued up to buy RBS,Lloyds,Northern Rock,Abn Amro and all the majo ... read full comment
Baidoo, has nothing to say but you have to read a long-winded article to find that out.His narrow mind goes with his big mouth.Now,how many private companies queued up to buy RBS,Lloyds,Northern Rock,Abn Amro and all the major banks that failed.The UK government forked out £850 billion to bail them out.Why are state owned companies like SNCF/Deutsche Bahn in France and Germany running the privatised railways in Britain? Is state owned Singapore Airlines bankrupt? who elected Acheampong as the head of state of Ghana? Do you know the meaning of the word "propriety" in any system of governance?
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear YAW,
Baidoo has no idea what he is talking about.
He has not done any serious reading on the subject, including the Nkrumah era.
There are tons of written texts on the mixed eonomy as it was practiced under Nk ... read full comment
Dear YAW,
Baidoo has no idea what he is talking about.
He has not done any serious reading on the subject, including the Nkrumah era.
There are tons of written texts on the mixed eonomy as it was practiced under Nkrumah and this guy is here talking about what God knows what he's trying to say.
Like you said, European governments (Britain included) bailed out sections of their private sectors and here is this guy talking about cluelessly...
I think you are making a joke of your self or you must be late in your economic analysis of the world.The world had moved on from your type of thinking and analysis and rethinking the nation state in the global economy.
Bo ...
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Dear Baidoo,
How are you?
I still think you have no technical grasp of the topics you are discussing.
Like I said before, I will not bother spending time to respond to your faulty analysis.
You seem to throw con ...
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If this long comment is not wasting time to respond to him, I wonder how long your comment would have been if you have wasted time to respond to him.
You don't seem to be intelligent.
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Dear Bother,
You are as clueless as Baidoo.
He is actually wrong and clueless on "almost" everything he has said in this piece.
Anyway I am not bothered by your use of the word "intelligent."
It is a relative co ...
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There was nothing called mixed economy in Nkrumah's ideology. The mixed economy Kwarten and others have been trying to attribute to Nkrumah was a transitional period that was to be faced out soon if the factors enumerated bel ...
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Hi,
Baidoo himself does not touch on Margaret Thatcher's support for Apartheid, how the British economy itself benefited from, and why the citizens of Thatcher's town refuse to be associated with her and her legacy (they d ...
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Phillip, tell me why the African countries that took the initial path of State capitaism are ahead of those with private capitalism.Most of the wars in African countries are from those that practice this laissez faire .AU cha ...
read full comment
What African country took state capitalism (Nothing like state capitalism) are you ashamed to call socialism what it is, dummy?
Fool, now Nkrumahism is called state capitalism.Name any country that practice what you call s ...
read full comment
I am not .If the State puts up capital and therefore owns the enterprise, what is that ?Socialism is State ownership as opposed to private ownership.The fuss you guys make is surprising.Other factors to create wealth remain ...
read full comment
ERIE CANAL - PUBLIC FUNDS: (1817)
"$7 million...
On April 15th, 1817, the New York State Legislature finally approved construction of the Erie Canal...The bill authorized $7 million for construction of the 363-mile long w ...
read full comment
GREAT NORTHERN - COMPARISON USING OUTLIER!
READ: "...The Great Northern was the only privately funded — and successfully built — transcontinental railroad in U.S. history..."
WE SAY: It is not as if many private ...
read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
Baidoo apparently has deficits in the area of political economy and urban history, particularly as they relate to America.
I will therefore recommend the works of Harvard University Prof. Arthur Schl ...
read full comment
P. K. Baidoo Jnr. obviously you are a capitalist and not a socialist. Winston Churchill and Margeret Thatcher are your heroes; as I said in my previous commentary you made short shift of mixed economy at a time when it is bec ...
read full comment
But what stops Phillip and his advocates from practicing capitalism ?Where are the Ghanaians to run their Airways, Shipping lines, Fishing corporations, Telephone companies, Shipbuilding , railways, Valco, and just name it. T ...
read full comment
Do you know there is not a single nation in Western Europe or the Americas that practices through and true democracy without infusion of socialist practices Mr. Baidoo Jnr? Is it that you do not see, feel and or think you liv ...
read full comment
Somebody told me that he can forgive anybody who claims to be socialist before the person attains the age of adulthood. After adulthood, if anybody claims to be a socialist, pull him aside and give him a hiding and afterwards ...
read full comment
Baidoo, has nothing to say but you have to read a long-winded article to find that out.His narrow mind goes with his big mouth.Now,how many private companies queued up to buy RBS,Lloyds,Northern Rock,Abn Amro and all the majo ...
read full comment
Dear YAW,
Baidoo has no idea what he is talking about.
He has not done any serious reading on the subject, including the Nkrumah era.
There are tons of written texts on the mixed eonomy as it was practiced under Nk ...
read full comment