Pointless. Mr. Baidoo, is your brain infected by HIV? Seek medical assistance ASAP!
Pointless. Mr. Baidoo, is your brain infected by HIV? Seek medical assistance ASAP!
JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 8 years ago
WHY THE INSULTS?????
WHY THE INSULTS?????
SARPONG 8 years ago
What do you expect from Nkrumah apologist? To these brainwashed Nkrumah cult worshippers, everybody should be singing a "kumbaya" to Nkrumah's canonization.
They see anybody who is not an acolyte to their semi-god Nkrumah ... read full comment
What do you expect from Nkrumah apologist? To these brainwashed Nkrumah cult worshippers, everybody should be singing a "kumbaya" to Nkrumah's canonization.
They see anybody who is not an acolyte to their semi-god Nkrumah az an enemy.
Whatever 8 years ago
I don't want to enlighten you because I know you are damn ignorant to get enlightened but even you, you have no problem with a primitive ideological concept called 'property owning democracy' and you have the courage to chall ... read full comment
I don't want to enlighten you because I know you are damn ignorant to get enlightened but even you, you have no problem with a primitive ideological concept called 'property owning democracy' and you have the courage to challenge socialism with flawed argument. The fact that the are differences in people does not mean there are no similarities in people. Why are your kind so backward and destructive, always focusing attention on people's differences when their similarities are there. The aim of socialism is to focus attention on people's similarities so that they can unite. Unfortunately, it appears that those who belong to the right-wing, capitalist, property owning, looting nonsense prefer to focus their attention on people's differences which tear us apart. No wonder in the past UP and in NPP today, tribalism, factionalism nepotism petty nonsense is the order of the day. Egoism and individualism is what is destroying the NPP to the extent that raw acid can be used to kill someone who hold a dissenting view in that party. This is how extreme individualism can influence factionalism and you are not ashamed to talk about your can of worms
Kojo T 8 years ago
Nkrumaism is not communism.You should be praising Nkrumah for bringing in mixed economy. Check this , at makola is GCB that provided finance for Makola women (private enterprise)when Barclays Bank and Standard Bank would not. ... read full comment
Nkrumaism is not communism.You should be praising Nkrumah for bringing in mixed economy. Check this , at makola is GCB that provided finance for Makola women (private enterprise)when Barclays Bank and Standard Bank would not.Nkrumah used State fumds to build houses for private acquisition and occupation when you guys were shouting he was a communist and the state will own everything.He built textile factories to clothing when you said all be be in uniform khaki.Communism stood for absolute equality which is an ideal state just as a capitalist state presupposes certain ideals like perfect information .A mixed economy just talks of part state ownership and part private ownership.In Nkrumah's days there were private textile factories like Glamour textile factory .These were foreign owned but there were locals like Dan Morton and Gyamfi brothers .UTC and Kingsway existed along side GNTC . So PK stop your crap .Nkrumah was very practical
SARPONG 8 years ago
You sound so stupid and elementsry your arguments are like cartoon characters meant for children.
Define Nkrumaism if you can. Nkrumah himself could not expatiate what foolishness meant.
You sound so stupid and elementsry your arguments are like cartoon characters meant for children.
Define Nkrumaism if you can. Nkrumah himself could not expatiate what foolishness meant.
Baba Rahman For Bawumia 8 years ago
Very interesting to note that those who are first to post comment on Ghana are dummies and make no sense at all
Very interesting to note that those who are first to post comment on Ghana are dummies and make no sense at all
Kojo T 8 years ago
Capitalism promoted slavery. Guys how wmany died in the slave raids that took place.The savagery is unmatched .Today Roots kills 9 in capitalist USA .Not long ago it was sandy Hoeks.Natives in USA and Australia were wiped ou ... read full comment
Capitalism promoted slavery. Guys how wmany died in the slave raids that took place.The savagery is unmatched .Today Roots kills 9 in capitalist USA .Not long ago it was sandy Hoeks.Natives in USA and Australia were wiped out be capitalist greed .Capitalism thrives on exploitation.Just read this from CIMA magazine "an employee went tosee the boss about his pay.ïsee you have been under paying me"Boss , "sure and why should that surprise you? The difference between what I take in and what I pay you is called profit" Capitalism is abuot Profit MAXIISATIO
SARPONG 8 years ago
Idiot, do you lnow how many people died in Russia, China, and North Korea because of communism?
Roots killed 9 people and to you it is because of capitalism?
Because of communism, millions die of hunger in North Korea. ... read full comment
Idiot, do you lnow how many people died in Russia, China, and North Korea because of communism?
Roots killed 9 people and to you it is because of capitalism?
Because of communism, millions die of hunger in North Korea.
Idiot, are you saying there is no crime in Communist countries?
Moron, if capitalism is so bad, why don't you and like minded people like Francis Kwarteng and Professor Lungu slaving in USA and chasing the almighty dollars pack your bags and go and live in North Korea?
You are chasing the benjamins in Georgia USA and making foolish arguments.
You guys are hypocrites. Did slavery bring you to USA? Do you fools look yourselves in the mirror everyday? You fools continuous stay in USA, England and other capitalist countries and spastic rantings about evils of capitalism make you guys oxymorons and your arguments paradoxical.
Patriot 8 years ago
Nkrumaism's denial as a socialist ideology only serves to show that its adherents did not understand what that spurious ideology portends. How does a socialist ideology encourage mixed economy and then turn around to condemn ... read full comment
Nkrumaism's denial as a socialist ideology only serves to show that its adherents did not understand what that spurious ideology portends. How does a socialist ideology encourage mixed economy and then turn around to condemn capitalism? For those who may find it difficult to grasp my question, the state was allowed to compete with private enterprise. The state exploited its own in socialism and the word privilege was given another meaning during Nkrumah's Ghana. The ruling echelon became a class of its own contradictory to the idea of equality afforded by socialist thought. We are not all fools to be bombasted with spurious ideals that never work in the first place.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
I appreciate your concern, but I am already under medication. All the same, thank you for your sterling counsel.
I appreciate your concern, but I am already under medication. All the same, thank you for your sterling counsel.
Osabarima 8 years ago
The following statements from your ramble of an essay has no basis in fact. What is your evidence that "Communism was a new idea that Plato thought about and wrote extensively on it. The prophets of Israel ruminated on the co ... read full comment
The following statements from your ramble of an essay has no basis in fact. What is your evidence that "Communism was a new idea that Plato thought about and wrote extensively on it. The prophets of Israel ruminated on the concept, and couched their sentiments in the language of God. The disciples of Jesus Christ put them into practice with devastating consequence, which is hardly preached in churches.?
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
P. K. Baidoo Jnr. I find your piece off the target of your intended objective, i.e. to humiliate the Nkrumahists, Kwarteng, socialism, and mixed economy. However, you woefully failed in your mission be you were all over the p ... read full comment
P. K. Baidoo Jnr. I find your piece off the target of your intended objective, i.e. to humiliate the Nkrumahists, Kwarteng, socialism, and mixed economy. However, you woefully failed in your mission be you were all over the place ego tripping with deviations to impress the low information Ghanaweb readers, and making erroneous observations, for example that communism is "euphemistically called socialism". I beg to disagree P. K., to me communism is "the highest stage of socialism".
And I wished you had explained Fabian socialist & fascist socialism. Which one does Nkrumah and Kwarteng adhere to?
What is your plan to institute a "Patrimonial capitalism" in Ghana that would solve our plethora of problems and shame Kwarteng & Prof. Lungu?
We must bury this unnecessary animus right now.
I am requesting that all the parties engaged in this debate start focusing on crafting a sustainable Ghana that would help our nation overcome our challenges.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Mr Ampadu, you should know that I am a capitalist. Of course, capitalists don’t have brains we are just a bunch of greedy, grabbing snivelling bastards. You wouldn’t expect me to write anything good, would you? Anyway tha ... read full comment
Mr Ampadu, you should know that I am a capitalist. Of course, capitalists don’t have brains we are just a bunch of greedy, grabbing snivelling bastards. You wouldn’t expect me to write anything good, would you? Anyway thank you for letting me know.
Nana Kasapreko III 8 years ago
Ha! You Philip Kobina Baidoo are a capitalist? You a nigger who I hear, lives in Babylon? Hahahahaha. By the way, how much are you worth to call yourself a capitalist? The real wheelers and dealers of capitalism would not hav ... read full comment
Ha! You Philip Kobina Baidoo are a capitalist? You a nigger who I hear, lives in Babylon? Hahahahaha. By the way, how much are you worth to call yourself a capitalist? The real wheelers and dealers of capitalism would not have you driving your car through their neighborhood much more selling to you or buying from you to enable you afford a decent lunch.
You remind me of the local shoeshine boy who in a conversation whilst polishing my shoes - the shoes of a casual socialist, innocently asserted that he was also a capitalist. I could only look at him in fixed amazement and marvel at how the imperialism of hundreds of years of slavery and colonialism had genetically distorted our minds and perverted our very genes to reduce us into grotesque ignorant enemies of our own selves.
I presume that SAS, the chap who claims he holds a doctorate in law but can only manage to teach at a small town secondary school also perhaps holds himself out to be a capitalist.
My point is that if you two niggers who are theoretically and typically supposed to slave for white folk to make tons of money to call themselves capitalists, and you think by some weird twist of fate, that you are also capitalists, who then is going to be your nigger?
The world needs niggers for capitalism to survive you know, and there aint no better nigger than a homegrown nigger to fit the job. Now if niggers now also want to aspire to be capitalists, then whoa! What in the name of the good Lawd almighty is the world coming to? Sickening ainit?
Im sorry but Im inclined to ask both of you - SAS and Kobina Baidoo, how old are the two of you? It now seems obvious to me that some of us have been wasting our time trying to make you see sense. It has now however dawned on me that we have been dealing with a couple of over-enthusiastic, exuberant and impetuous kids who dont half know what time of the day it is. Kids who very probably come from extremely deprived backgrounds and who having managed to lie through their teeth to get a visa to wangle their way over the iron curtain of a true capitalist society, are over-awed by the thin veneer and superficial glamour of a typical capitalist society.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Thank you for your wonderful comments.
Sorry I saw it too, however, appreciation is in order.
Thank you for your wonderful comments.
Sorry I saw it too, however, appreciation is in order.
Baba Rahman For Bawumia 8 years ago
If I understood then I would suggest you advice Kwarteng to stop preaching archaic post colonial ideologies on this platform. I am totally with when you stated in your conclusion paragraph, that "I am requesting that all the ... read full comment
If I understood then I would suggest you advice Kwarteng to stop preaching archaic post colonial ideologies on this platform. I am totally with when you stated in your conclusion paragraph, that "I am requesting that all the parties engaged in this debate start focusing on crafting a sustainable Ghana that would help our nation overcome our challenges."
Political ideologies does not solve problems on its own. It takes selflessness, wisdom, patriotism, honesty and above all, good leadership to drive ideological train to its successful destination. Ghana is a totally failed state because greed and massive corruption in the present and governments. There was corruption in Rawlings and Kuffour governments but that Under Mills and Mahama is alarmingly frightening. And I think Ghanaians have endorsed the corrupt act of MAHAMA and his administration, judging from the fact that he still enjoy massive support from the citizenry.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Readers,
Note: Like Baidoo's earlier pieces, this one too is laced with outright fabrications, misrepresentations, analytic errors, historical inaccuracies, misparaphrasing, and misinterpretation of facts. Factual, an ... read full comment
Dear Readers,
Note: Like Baidoo's earlier pieces, this one too is laced with outright fabrications, misrepresentations, analytic errors, historical inaccuracies, misparaphrasing, and misinterpretation of facts. Factual, analytical, and historical too numerous to mention.
We shall not waste our time on Marx, Nehru, Engels, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell (whose tens of works we have studied and whom I studied in my undergraduate and graduate (mathematics, engineering)), Rousseau, Thomas More (we have already dealth with Rousseau's "Social Contract" and More's "The Utopian" eslewhere and will not bother with them!).
What did the Social Contract do for Africans during the European Slave Trade (The Transatlantic Slave Trade), the extermination of the Namaguas and Hereros of South Western Africa (now Namibia; see the book "THE KAISER'S HOLOCAUST:GERMANY'S FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE AND THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF NAZISM," "MEDICAL APARTHEID: THE MEDICAL HISTORY OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON BLACK AMERICANS FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT," and "WAR AGAINST THE WEAK: EUGENICS AND AMERICA'S CAMPAIGN TO CREATE A MASTER RACE"?
Thus, we shall only take one of Baidoo's erroneous and factual misrepresentation of history, "communism" (Again, we will not bother addressing his other analytic errors because the references and the detailed explanation I have to provide will take all my time and consume my personal engagements. Those who are interested can send me an email (franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com). I shall give them all the details undermining Baidoo's reasoning and faulty, porous, uncritical arguments).
Here we go:
First, the idea that Plato developed the new idea of communis m is blatantly false. And Plato did not only discuss it in "The Republic." He also discussed it in "The Laws."
The "AKOUSMATICS" generally viewed the "MATHEMATIKOI" as the true Pythagoreans. The opposite was not the case.
Pythagoras provided en experimental "model" for communism in an area called Croton (or Crotone). The lifestyle of Pythagoreans, the so-called "MATHEMATIKOI," rejected private property among others things. The "MATHEMATIKOI" were called the "inner circle."
More important, Plato himself attributed the following phrases to Pythagoras "Friendship is equality" and "Friends share everything" to underscore where he himself got the idea of "communism" from (Pythagoras).
In fact, the propertied elite took note of the Pythagorean reconstitution of the Crotone society and the propertied class, together with the despotic Cylon, drove the Pythagoreans ("MATHEMATIKOI") out of Crotone.
Pythagoras (and his disceiples) chased out of Crotone finally died in Metapontum. Let me just point that not all the disciples of Pythagoras were denied access to private property.
A different set of the Pythagorans, called the "AKOUSMATICS," enjoyed access to private property among others. The "AKOUSMATICS" were called the "outer cirle."
That said, the followers of Cylon slaughtered many "MATHEMATIKOI" for their "communits" beliefs among others.
That said, Baidoo gives the impression that Plato's conceptual flirting with "communism" was as expansive and fully developed as Marx's and his partner, Engels. Plato's conceptualization of "communism" in "The Republic" and "The Laws" is as elementary as one can get.
On the other hand, there is a standing argument, a very weak one of course, that Marx did not write his books. And we all know there were "socialists" and "communists" around before Marx appears on the scence. Baidoo also does not mention that some aspects of Adam Smiths's and David Ricardo's writngs provided some basis for Marx's own theories on socialism and communism (I will not dare tell Baidoo which specific passages of Smith and Ricardo's supported Marx's "socialist" theories.
He should have done that before writing this piece. As for the differences between "socialism" and "communism." This is a question we will leave for JSS/SSS students to answer. It is demeaning to waste our time on or address this question here.
I should also point out that the Pythagorean ideas (including "communism") spread around the 6-century BC. It is however generally believed that Plato's "The Republic," which Baidoo cites as the basis for his argument, was written in the 4-century BC.
Question: Did Baidoo read Bertrand Russel's book "A History of Western Philosophy" to see how the Pythagoras (and his disciples, the Pythagoreans) influenced Plato and "The Republic"? While Baidoo admires Russell and cites him elsewherem he fails to discuss this connection between Plato ("The Republic") and the Pythagoreans.
Did Baidoo have the opportunity to read Taylor's and Hare's "Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato" and tons of others on the subject?
Does Baidoo have any clue why Socrates and Pythagoras precede Plato in the title? Does Baidoo know Plato was Socrate's student?
Did Baidoo bother to find out what the Ancient Greeks themselves, Plato's contemporaries and those after him, had to say how Plato came up with his ideas? I guess not.
Baidoo also list Plato, the Isrealies, Christians in that order as though Plato's "communist" ideas influenced the Ancient Isrealites and then Christians, etc.
Baidoo did not mention the pre-Christian Jewish sect (the Essenes or the Gumran), the Taborites, the Zandiks (a sect of Zoarstraians, Persia (Iran)), the Diggers, certain ancient Native American groups and Ancient China.
For instance, some ancient Native American groups practiced "communism" apart from any influences from Plato. In other words, they developed the idea independent of Plato. Let me mention also that Africans (Western Africans, Ancient Egyptians (who were Black Africans) and Nubians) made contact with pre-Columbian America before Christopher Columbus.
Even the Vikings and Chinese made contact with pre-Columbian America before Columbus (For those interested in the Africa-pre-Columbian America connection, see Ivan Van Sertima's books "They came before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America" and its updated sequel. This is just by the way.Plato did not influence those Native Americans whom the Ancient Greeks did not even know existed.
On the question of Baidoo's deception from Plato, to the Isrealites, to the Christians...Baidoo did not look at the possible influences of Jewish culture on Greek mythology, among others.
For instance the relationship between Hercules and Sampson. Yes, Baidoo has not looked at archeology, philology, anthopology, Egyptian-Phonetic-Greek-Semitic-alphabet, etc., in that regard. Baidoo does not provide any chronological mapwork!
Yet serious scholarhsip has be done on the influences of Jewish culture on Greek thought (and vice versa).
Sir Alan Gardiner, aworld-famous Egyptologist, linguist, and historian, did some serious scholarship in this area, the standard scholarship in Western Academia (see the late Berna Martin's work on Jewish influences on Greek thought and mythology; I provide the list below).
Baidoo also does not mention what role, if any, the community life of Crete played in Platonic and Pythagorean "commmunist" thought. Baidoo probably is ignorant of the fact that Ancient Egyptian cultural influence spread through Crete (by the Phoenecians) to Ancient Greece.
Finally, does not mention Egyptian influences on Greek thought, scholarhsip, mythology, language, etc. Pythagoras, one of the greatest influences on Plato, spent nearly 22-years in Egypt stydying (Pythagoras did not discover the so-called "Pythagoras theorem."
The Egyptians knew the concept a thousand five-hundred years before Pythagoras. The Sumerians (Babylonians) also knew it a thousand years before Pythagoras. Pythagoras studied with the Babylonians. Herodotus has more to say about Greek theft of Egyptian ideas).
Even the basis of the Greek Mystery Schools was an outgrowth of Egyptian universities (see George James' book "The Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origin of Western Philosophy"). Plato himself studied in Egypt for nearly 13 years.
Even Solon, Greek politician, lawmaker and statesman, claimed to have introduced the foundation of Athenian (Greek) "democracy" from the Egyptians when he paid a visit to Egypt.
Since Baidoo does not seem to have any clue regarding Egyptial influence on and the Ancient Greeks, including Plato, etc., we will help him with some of the authoritative texts in the field:
1) African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Cheikh Anta Diop)
2) Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Cheikh Anta Diop)
3) The Histories (Herodotus)
4) Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Frabrication of Ancient Greece, Vol. 1, Bernal Martin)
5) Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (Archeological and Documentary Evidence, Vol 2)
6) Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Linguistic Evidence, Vol. 3)
6) African Philosphy: Pharaonic Period (2780-330 BC)(Theophile Obenga)
8) African Philosophy in World History (Theophile Obenga)
7) The Stolen Legacy (George James)
9) Egypt Vs. Greece and the American Academy: The Debate Over the Birth of Civilization (Molefi Kete Asante & Ama Mazama)
10) The Egyptians Philosophers: Ancient African Voices from Imhotep to Akhenaten (Molefi Kete Asate)
11) Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt (Thomas Brophy & Robert Bauval)
12) Inhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos (Robert Bauval)
13) Vatican Heresy (Robert Bauval)
14) Breaking the Mirror of Heaven: The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt (Robert Bauval)
The list is endless.
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CHAPTER IV:
The Egyptians Educated the Greeks.
1. The Effects of the Persian Conquest.
A. Immigration restrictions against the Greeks are removed and Egypt is thrown open to Greek research.
Owing to the practice of piracy, in which the Ionians and Carians were active, the Egyptians were forced to make immigration laws restricting the immigration of the Greeks and punishing their infringement by capital punishment, i.e., the sacrifice of the victim. Before the time of Psammitichus, the Greeks were not allowed to go beyond the coast of Lower Egypt, but during his reign and that of Amasis, those conditions were modified. For the first time in Egyptian history Ionians and Carians were employed as Mercenaries in the Egyptian Army (670 B.C.), interpretation was organized through a body of interpreters, and the Greeks began to gain useful information concerning the culture of the Egyptians.
In addition to these changes, King Amasis removed the restrictions against the Greeks and permitted them to enter Egypt and settle in Naucratis. About this same time, i.e., the reign of Amasis, the Persians, through Cambyses invaded Egypt, and the whole country was thrown open to the researches of the Greeks.
B. The Genesis of Greek Enlightenment.
The Persian invasion, did not only provide the Greeks with ample research, but stimulated the creation of prose history in Ionia. Heretofore, the Greeks had little or no accurate knowledge of Egyptian culture: but their contact with Egypt resulted in the genesis of their enlightenment. (Ovid Fasti III 338; Herodotus Bk. II p. 113; Plutarch p. 380; Eratosthenes ap Strabo 801–802; Diogenes Bk. IX 49).
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C. Students from Ionia and the Islands of the Aegean visit Egypt for their Education.
Just as in our modern times, countries like the United States, England, and France are attracting students from all parts of the world, on account of their leadership in culture; so was it in ancient times, Egypt was supreme in the leadership of civilization, and students from all parts, flocked to that land, seeking admission into her mysteries or wisdom system.
The immigration of Greeks to Egypt for the purpose of their education, began as a result of the Persian invasion (525 B.C.), and continued until the Greeks gained possession of that land and access to the Royal Library, through the conquest of Alexander the Great. Alexandria was converted into a Greek city, a centre of research and the capital of the newly created Greek empire, under the rule of Ptolemies. Egyptian culture survived and flourished, under the name and control of the Greeks, until the edicts of Theodosius in the 4th century A.D., and that of Justinian in the 6th century A.D., which closed the Mystery Temples and Schools, as elsewhere mentioned. (Ancient Egypt by John Kendrick Bk. II p. 55; Sandford's Mediterranean World p. 562; 570).
Concerning the fact that Egypt was the greatest education centre of the ancient world which was also visited by the Greeks, reference must again be made to Plato in the Timaeus who tells us that Greek aspirants to wisdom visited Egypt for initiation, and that the priests of Sais used to refer to them as children in the Mysteries.
As regards the visit of Greek students to Egypt for the purpose of their education, the following are mentioned simply to establish the fact that Egypt was regarded as the educational centre of the ancient world and that like the Jews, the Greeks also visited Egypt and received their education. (1) It is said that during the reign of Amasis, Thales who is said to have been born about 585 B.C., visited Egypt and was initiated by the Egyptian Priests into the Mystery System and science of the Egyptians. We are also told that during his residence
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in Egypt, he learnt astronomy, land surveying, mensuration, engineering and Egyptian Theology. (See Thales in Blackwell's source book of Philosophy; Zeller's Hist. of Phil.; Diogenes Laertius and Kendrick's Ancient Egypt).
(2) It is said that Pythagoras, a native of Samos, travelled frequently to Egypt for the purpose of his education. Like every aspirant, he had to secure the consent and favour of the Priests, and we are informed by Diogenes that a friendship existed between Polycrates of Samos and Amasis King of Egypt, that Polycrates gave Pythagoras letters of introduction to the King, who secured for him an introduction to the Priests; first to the Priest of Heliopolis, then to the Priest of Memphis, and lastly to the Priests of Thebes, to each of whom Pythagoras gave a silver goblet. (Herodotus Bk. III 124; Diogenes VIII 3; Pliny N. H., 36, 9; Antipho recorded by Porphyry).
We are also further informed through Herodotus, Jablonsk and Pliny, that after severe trials, including circumcision, had been imposed upon him by the Egyptian Priests, he was finally initiated into all their secrets. That he learnt the doctrine of metempsychosis; of which there was no trace before in the Greek religion; that his knowledge of medicine and strict system of dietetic rules, distinguished him as a product of Egypt, where medicine had attained its highest perfection; and that his attainments in geometry corresponded with the ascertained fact that Egypt was the birth place of that Science. In addition we have the statements of Plutarch, Demetrius and Antisthenes that Pythagoras founded the Science of Mathematics among the Greeks, and that he sacrificed to the Muses, when the Priests explained to him the properties of the right angled triangle. (Philarch de Repugn. Stoic 2 p. 1089; Demetrius; Antisthenes; Cicero de Natura Deorum III, 36). Pythagoras was also trained in music by the Egyptian priests. (Kendrick's Hist. of Ancient Egypt vol. I. p. 234).
(3) According to Diogenes Laertius and Herodotus, Democritus is said to have been born about 400 B.C. and to
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have been a native of Abdera in Miletus. We are also told by Demetrius in his treatise on "People of the Same Name", and by Antisthenes in his treatise on "Succession", that Democritus travelled to Egypt for the purpose of his education and received the instruction of the Priests. We also learn from Diogenes and Herodotus that he spent five years under the instruction of the Egyptian Priests and that after the completion of his education, he wrote a treatise on the sacred characters of Meroe.
In this respect we further learn from Origen, that circumcision was compulsory, and one of the necessary conditions of initiation to a knowledge of the hieroglyphics and sciences of the Egyptians, and it is obvious that Democritus, in order to obtain such knowledge, must have submitted also to that rite. Origen, who was a native of Egypt wrote as follows:—
"Apud Aegyptios nullus aut geometrica studebat, aut astronomiae secreta remabatur, nisi circumcisione suscepta." (No one among the Egyptians, either studied geometry, or investigated the secrets of Astronomy, unless circumcision had been undertaken).
(4) Concerning Plato's travels we are told by Hermodorus that at the age of 28 Plato visited Euclid at Megara in company with other pupils of Socrates; and that for the next ten years he visited Cyrene, Italy and finally Egypt, where he received instruction from the Egyptian Priests.
(5) With regards to Socrates and Aristotle and the majority of pre-Socratic philosophers, history seems to be silent on the question of their travelling to Egypt like the few other students here mentioned, for the purpose of their education. It is enough to say, that in this case the exceptions have proved the rule, that ail students, who had the means, went to Egypt to complete their education. The fact that history fails to supply a fuller account of this type of immigration, might be due to some or all of the following reasons:
(a) The immigration laws against the Greeks up to the time of King Amasis and the Persian Invasion, (b) Prose
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history was undeveloped among the Greeks during the period of their educational immigration to Egypt. (c) The Greek authorities persecuted and drove students of philosophy into hiding and consequently, (d) Students of the Mystery System concealed their movements.
Let us remember that Anaxagoras was indicted and imprisoned; that he escaped and fled to his home in Ionia, that Socrates was indicted, imprisoned and condemned to death; and that both Plato and Aristotle fled from Athens under great suspicion (William Turner's Hist. of Phil. p. 62; Plato's Phaedo; Zeller's Hist. of Phil. p. 84; 127; Roger's Hist. of Phil. p. 76; William Turner's Hist. of Phil. p. 126).
2. The Effects of the Conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great.
A. The Royal Library and Museum together with Temples and other Libraries are Looted.
As elsewhere mentioned, it was an ancient custom of invading armies to loot libraries and temples in order to capture books and manuscripts, which were regarded as great treasures. A few instances would be enough to verify this custom: (a) we are informed that during the Persian Invasion beginning with Cambyses, the temples of Egypt were not only stripped of their gold and silver, but rifled for their ancient records. Every Egyptian Temple carried a secret library with secret manuscripts and books. (b) We are also informed that when Athens was captured by the Romans in 84 B.C. the library of books said to have belonged to Aristotle was also captured and taken to Rome. (William Turner's Hist. of Phil. p. 128; John Kendrick's Ancient Egypt vol. II p. 432).
Just as in the invasion of Egypt by the Persians, the invading armies stripped the temples of their gold, silver and sacred books; and just as in the capture of Athens by the Romans Sulla carried off the only library of books which he found; so it is to be expected of Alexander the Great, in his invasion of Egypt. One of the first things that he and his companions
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and armies would do, would be to search for the treasures of the land and capture them. These were kept in temples and libraries and consisted of gold and silver out of which the gods and ceremonial vessels were made, and sacred books and, manuscripts kept both in libraries and in the "Holy of Holies" of Temples.
It is my firm belief that this indeed was the great opportunity which Alexander gave Aristotle and enabled him and his pupils to carry off as many books as they wanted from the Royal Library and to convert it into a research centre. Apart from the Royal Library at Alexandria, there was also another famous library near by: The "Royal Library of Thebes"; "The Menephtheion", which was founded by Pharaoh, Setei. The Menephtheion was completed by Rameses II; but little occurs in history about this greatest of Egyptian Royal Libraries.
However, any invading army would first loot the Royal Library of Alexandria and then would turn their attention to the Menephtheion at Thebes. They would also visit the cities of Memphis and Heliopolis and likewise loot their libraries and temples. This was the ancient custom and certainly one of the ways in which the Greeks received their education from Egyptians. (Egyptian Mythology by Max Muller p. 187–189; 205; Diodorus 16, 51; Bunsen I p. 27; Ancient Egypt by John Kendrick vol. II 56; 432–433).
It is therefore an erroneous belief that the Greeks, on Egyptian soil, and through their own native ability, set up a great university at Alexandria and turned out great scholars. On the other hand, since it is a well known fact that Egypt was the land of temples and libraries, we can see how comparatively easy it was for the Greeks to strip other Egyptian libraries of their books in order to maintain the new Library at Alexandria, after it had been already looted by Aristotle and his pupils. The Greeks (i.e., Alexander the Great, Aristotle's school and the succeeding Ptolemies) converted the Royal Library of Alexandria into a research centre, by transferring
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[paragraph continues] Aristotle's school and pupils from Athens to this great Egyptian Library, and therefore the students who studied there received instructions from Egyptian priests and teachers, until they died out. The difficulty of language and interpretation made it imperative for the Greeks to use Egyptian teachers.
The Greeks did not carry culture and learning to Egypt, but found it already there, and wisely settled in that country, in order to absorb as much as possible of its culture.
B. The Royal Library of Thebes: The Menephtheion is described. It was also looted by invading armies.
But when we read a brief sketch of the magnificence of the Theban Royal Library; The Menephtheion, we even see a better picture and are bound to admit that Egypt was the store house of ancient culture and that that culture was preserved in the form of literature stored away in her great libraries and temples. Great as the Royal Library of Alexandria might have been, we see in the Theban Royal Library something far more magnificent and far more representative of the true greatness of our Ancient Egypt.
On the left of the steps leading to the second court, there is still seen the pedestal of the enormous granite statue of Rameses; the largest, that ever existed in Egypt, according to Diodorus. Its height has been calculated at fifty-four feet, and its weight, at 887¼ tons; a marvel to the modern mind. The interior face of the wall of the pylon represents the wars of Rameses III. The Osiride pillars of the second court, are the monolithal figures, sixteen cubits in height, supplying the place of columns, and at the foot of the steps leading from the court to the next hall beyond, there were two sitting statues of the King. The head of one of these was of red granite, known by the name of "Young Memon", was taken away by Belzoni, and is now a principal ornament of the British Museum.
Beyond this are the remains of a hall 133 feet broad by 100 feet long, supported by 48 columns, twelve of which are
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thirty-two feet in height and 21 feet in circumference. On different parts of the columns, and the walls are represented acts of homage by the king to the principal Deities of the Theban Pantheon, and the gracious promises which they make him in return.
In another sculpture the two chief Divinities of Egypt invest him with the emblems of military and civil dominion, i.e., the Scimitar, the Scourge and the Pedum. Beneath, the twenty-three sons of Rameses appear in procession, bearing the emblems of their respective high offices in the state, their names being inscribed above them. Nine smaller apartments, two of them still preserved, and supported by columns, lay behind the hall. On the jambs of the first of these apartments are sculptured Thoth: the Inventor of Letters, and the Goddess Saf, with the title of 'Lady of Letters'; and 'President of the Hall of Books', accompanied the former with an emblem of the sense of sight, and the latter of hearing.
There is no doubt that this is the "Sacred Library" which Diodorus describes as the inscribed "Dispensary of the Mind". It had an astronomical ceiling, in which the twelve Egyptian months are represented, with an inscription from which important inferences have been drawn respecting the chronology of the reign of Rameses III.
On the walls is a procession of priests, carrying the Sacred Arts, and in the next apartment, the last that now remains, the king is presenting offerings to the various Divinities. (Ancient Egypt by J. Kendrick Bk. I p. 128–131. Report of French Commission).
C. Museum and the Library of Alexander were used as a University.
The Museum and Library of Alexandria were so famous in ancient times, that we wonder why more information concerning this centre of learning, has not come down to us. A few references to authoritative sources might no doubt help to enlighten us on this matter.
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From Sedgwick's and Tyler's History of Science, chapter 5 pages 87–119, we learn that the subjugation of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. had checked the further development of Greek civilization on its native soil.
That after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., his vast empire was divided among his generals, and that Alexandria, the new Egyptian capital fell to Ptolemy. That the city, barely ten years old, soon became the centre of the learned world, and that by 300 B.C., the Museum (i.e., the seat of the Muses), was founded, and became a veritable university of Greek learning.
That to the Museum was attached a great library, with a dining hall and lecture rooms for professors, and this became a school of philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers. Here for the next 700 years, science had its chief abiding place.
Here however, it should be remembered that the above statement of Sedgwick and Tyler is misleading, since the Greeks did not carry a civilization of their own to Egypt, but on the contrary found a very highly developed Egyptian culture, the survival of which was maintained by the use of Egyptian Priests and Scholars as teachers.
D. A Military Policy of the Greeks to Commandeer Information From the Egyptians was put in operation.
One of the military policies adopted by the Greek military authorities at Alexandria was the issue of commands to the leading Egyptian Priests for information concerning the Egyptian history, philosophy and religion. As a custom this is no less ancient than modern, since it is also a custom in modern times for victorious armies to confer with the men of science of an invaded country, in order to discover whether or not, there is anything new in the field of science, which they might possess. We would recall how at the end of World War II, the American scientists conferred with the Japanese scientists at Tokio. Accordingly, we are told that Ptolemy I Soter, in
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order to elicit the secrets of Egyptian wisdom or mystery system, ordered Manetho, the High Priest of the temple of Isis at Sebennytus in Lower Egypt, to write the philosophy, and the history of the religion of the Egyptians.
Accordingly, Manetho published several volumes concerning these respective fields, and Ptolemy issued an order prohibiting the translation of these books which had to be kept on reserve in the Library, for instruction of the Greeks by the Egyptian Priests. Here it becomes quite clear that the first professors of the Alexandrine School were the Egyptian Priests, and that the Scholarchs and pupils of Aristotle's transferred school, received their training directly from the Egyptian Priests. It is also well to note that the chief text books of the Alexandrine School were Manetho's books.
We are told by Apollodorus from whom Syncellus drew his information, that Ptolemy II ordered Eratosthenes, the Cyrenean (i.e., a black man and native of Cyrene) and librarian of the Alexandrine Library, to write a chronology of the Theban Kings, and that Eratosthenes did so with the aid of the Egyptian Hierophants at Thebes (Ancient Egypt by John Kendrick vol. II p. 81; Apollodorus; Syncellus; Clinton, Fasti Hellenici, sub anno).
Furthermore, it became the custom during the Greek and Roman occupation to use the services of Egyptian Priests and Scholars, as professors at the Alexandrine School. We are told that during the reign of Theodosius (378–395 A.D.), the Egyptian Professor Horapollo wrote a system of the Egyptian hieroglyphics: The Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, which has been regarded as the best that has come down to modern times. We are also told that this professor taught not only at the Alexandrine School, but also at that of Constantinople.
(John Kendrick's Ancient Egypt Bk. I p. 242; Leeman's Amstelod, 1935 translated by Cory).
3. The Egyptians Were the First to Civilize the Greeks.
Greece was first civilized by colonies from Egypt, then from
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[paragraph continues] Phoenicia and Thrace. These were under the government of wise men, who not only subdued the ferocity of an ignorant populace by civil institutions, but also cast about them the strong chain of religion and the fear of the gods. Whatever dogmas they had been taught in their respective countries, concerning things divine and human, they delivered to these newly formed societies, with the object of bringing them under the restraint of virtuous discipline. Phoroneus and Cecrops were Egyptians, Cadmus a Phoenician and Orpheus a Thracian, and each of them, through their colonies carried into Greece the religious and philosophical tenets of his respective country.
The practice of teaching the doctrines of religion to people under the guise of myths originated from the Egyptians and was adopted by the Phoenicians and Thracians, and subsequently introduced to the Greeks.
According to Strabo, it was not possible in ancient times to lead a promiscuous multitude to religion and virtue by philosophical harangues. This could be effected only by the aid of superstition, by prodigies and fables. The thunder bolt, the aegis, the trident, the spear, torches and snakes were the instruments made use of by the founders of States, to terrify the ignorant and vulgar into subjection. These references must speak for themselves.
Cheops and Cecrops were the names which the Greeks used for the Egyptian Khufu, who belonged to the 4th Dynasty of the Egyptians or the pyramid age, i.e., 2800 B.C.
(Strabo Bk. I; Brucker's Historia Critica Philosophiae with translation by Wm. Enfield: Bk. II p. 62).
4. Alexander Visits the Oracle of Ammon in the Oasis of Siwah.
No discussion on Alexander's invasion of Egypt would be complete without reference to his famous visit to the Oracle of Ammon, situated in the Oasis of Siwah. Alexander had placed a garrison in Pelusium, whence he marched through
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the desert along the eastern bank of the Nile to Heliopolis where he crossed the river to Memphis, where his fleet had been awaiting him, and where he was welcomed by the Egyptians and crowned as Pharaoh. Having sacrificed to Apis and other Gods, Alexander descended the Nile by the Canopic branch and set out on his journey to the Oracle of Ammon in the Oasis of Siwah. His route was along the coast of Libya, as far as Paraetonium, whence he marched through the desert to the Oasis of Siwah. What do we suppose was Alexander's motive for visiting the Temple of Ammon? Perhaps a brief description of the religious and economic importance of Heliopolis, Memphis, Thebes and Ammonium might help us to determine what it was.
In the first place these cities were strongholds of the Egyptian religion, where there were many rich temples, schools and Priests, and therefore were representative of the Egyptian religious life. In the second place these cities were centres of education, and after the Persian invasion, Greek students who travelled to Egypt for the purpose of their education, received their training from the Priests of one or all of these cities, as elsewhere mentioned.
When Pythagoras went to Egypt, he carried a letter of introduction from Polycrates of Samos to King Amasis, who in turn gave him letters of introduction to the Priests of Heliopolis, Memphis, and Thebes. As centres of education, the temples and libraries of these cities contained very valuable books; and in the third place, these regions had previously been captured by the Persians for the very fact of their wealth. This should explain why they included these districts in their Satrapy which paid them an enormous annual tribute amounting to 700 talents of gold, together with the produce of the fisheries of Lake Moeris which amounted to a talent a day, during the six months that the water flowed in from the Nile; and a third part of that sum, during the afflux. In addition Egypt furnished 120 thousand medicini of corn as rations for the Persian troops who were stationed in the White Fort of Memphis.
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[paragraph continues] The equivalent of this tribute was 170 thousand pounds sterling, and shows the underlying motive not only of the Persian invading armies, but also of all invading armies of antiquity. In the case of Alexander there is no exception.
According to history, the Persians were in occupation of Egypt, and Alexander having mustered superior forces, went there and drove them out and took possession himself. May I ask this question: was this a joke, or was there a motive? And if there was a motive, what else could it have been but that Alexander wanted the wealth in books, gold, silver, ivory, slaves, and tribute which the Persians were extorting from the unfortunate Egyptians?
In ancient times, the Oracle of Ammon at Siwah was the most celebrated, and Heliopolis, Memphis and Thebes were representatives of the best of Egyptian culture.
(John Kendrick's Ancient Egypt Book II P. 433–435; Diodorus 15, 16. Herodotus Book III P. 124; Diogenes Laertius Book VIII; Timaeus of Plato; Pliny N. H. XXXVI 9; Antiphon recorded by Porphyry).
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francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Hello,
This is for Baidoo and his supporters. This article is not done yet if you guys do not look at the evidence presented in the following:
1) Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (Anthony C. Sutton)
First s ... read full comment
Hello,
This is for Baidoo and his supporters. This article is not done yet if you guys do not look at the evidence presented in the following:
1) Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (Anthony C. Sutton)
First six by Anthony C. Sutton:
2) Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (1917-1930)
3) Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (1930-1945)
4) Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (1945-1965)
5) National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union
6) Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
7) IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation (expanded version) (Edwin Black)
8) Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to Hitler’s Holocaust (same author)
9) War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race (expanded version)
10) The Hundred-Year Marathon (Michael Pillsbury)
11) The Untold History of the United States (Oliver Stone & Peter Kuznick)
12) The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century (Wall Street and the Rise of the Third Reich) (John Hawkins/Glen Yeadon)
13) America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s Story (John Loftus)
14) The Dark Continent: Euroepe's Twentieth Century (Mark Mazower).
Anyway this is just my little contributions. These texts some of the major gaps in Baidoo's thinking and his essay. It will be good for Baidoo to go through and then summarize them for his readers.
Let us see how he refutes the arguments and the evidence.
Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
It is your duty to summarize the core points in the articles you list here to advance your arguments; otherwise make your arguments as if these articles or books do not exist. It does not serve any purpose to list books witho ... read full comment
It is your duty to summarize the core points in the articles you list here to advance your arguments; otherwise make your arguments as if these articles or books do not exist. It does not serve any purpose to list books without telling us the evidence they adduce in support of your position. That attitude is intellectually dishonest, if not downright lazy. I saw you give 360 item list in one instance. How do you figure that somebody will read your list and see your point?
It is the greatest absurdity to say to your interlocutors: Go and read this list of books and "Let us see how you refute the arguments and the evidence". Exactly what arguments and evidence will they see that you are unable to recount? And if you cannot recite your arguments, who do you think will make it for you? I think you are clueless in the culture of proper debate.
I would be considered insane if I went to court and quoted a listing of laws and asked opposing counsel to go and read for him to understand my points.
If you don't know how to argue your points, just keep quiet. Remember that you are the only person providing a book list here. And I don't believe anybody will ever read your list. I know I wouldn't.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Philli & SAS,
Hi SAS!
Those titles are for you and the likes of Baidoo to read. I want you to ream them yourself and make up your mind.
I have read titles and made their contents available to readers on Ghanaweb, ye ... read full comment
Philli & SAS,
Hi SAS!
Those titles are for you and the likes of Baidoo to read. I want you to ream them yourself and make up your mind.
I have read titles and made their contents available to readers on Ghanaweb, yet you still come on Ghanaweb to to say otherwise. Do you recall my articles on Afrocentricity? And your rejoinders!
Those pieces I did on Afrocentricity were arguments I have picked up from almost all the authoritative texts on the subject matter!
Remember, that you did not bother to check out the references I gave in my pieces just to see whether my summaries of the core arguments were even correct.
At least it was clear from your rejoinders that you never read any of them. So, let me ask: Will my summaries of the arguments of the texts I give Baidoo and his readers make any difference to you (please don't take this as my being disrespectful; I am merely being frank with you, SAS)?
Of course, I can give you every single idea in those titles but I want readers to take a look at them and make their own judgments.
In fact, it will take me months to give excellent summaries of the arguments. These are very powerful, detailed, and well-documented texts.
Thus, the arguments are there in the titles and it is not my place to summarize them for you (again please don't take this as my being disrespetful to you, SAS). Go to any good library and borrow one or buy them on amazon.com.
You might want to look at how declassified records show how the American government contracted George Orwell to do its job:
1) The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and letters (Frances Stoner Saunders)
2) Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural War (Frances Stoner Saunders)
3) Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm (Daniel Leob)
I just remembered these titles. There are facinating information (well documented) in these authoritative pieces that will always inform your articles and elighten you in the process!
Thanks.
That is for you and Baidoo to read.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
1. The books you quote will certainly not make any difference to me even if you were to summarize or expatiate on them, but at least you will sound less infantile or comedic. Remember that I make all my arguments here, and I ... read full comment
1. The books you quote will certainly not make any difference to me even if you were to summarize or expatiate on them, but at least you will sound less infantile or comedic. Remember that I make all my arguments here, and I don't see how anybody cannot. I don't suppose that you need to check out my references or even agree with my exegeses.
2. I also have my strong reservations about Afrocentricity, which I think is a confused ideology verging on inverse racism. And I saw that you were profuse with your quotes and discussion of these quotes in the named article, but it so happens that they were not enough to sway me. But at least you were writing as a scholar then. My only prompt is that scholars don't see other scholars' views as supervening or sacrosanct. And I remember telling you several times to see yourself as a genius...... There is nothing under the sand that cannot be repudiated or refuted. So the whole idea of "authoritative" is rather relative. Unlike you, I consider myself authoritative enough on any issues I choose to debate, and unlike you, I may not need to see others as intellectually superior to me. I don't have that kind of inferiority complex to see others as "renowned" authorities, etc.
3. You Nkrumaists are born impressionable and inferior, regularly viewing others as supermen or supernatural. That is your stock in trade. But we Danquists reason very well, and are not afraid to question our own icons. For example, you will think that criticizing Nkrumah is an act of blasphemy for which you will send your executioners after the culprits. But we are not afraid to criticize Danquah.
Danquaists are rationalists. Nkrumaists are fanatics.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
Let me educate you a bit about how to make use of the information in all the books you quote:
1. Begin by identifying the issue/s in the debate for which you want to use the reference. For example, "What is the trope of pr ... read full comment
Let me educate you a bit about how to make use of the information in all the books you quote:
1. Begin by identifying the issue/s in the debate for which you want to use the reference. For example, "What is the trope of predestination in Homer's "Odyssey"?
2. Quote the relevant portions of whatever book or article addresses the issue you have identified.(For example: According to Homer in his "Odyssey".......
3. Apply the quotes to the issue, and give a comprehensive analysis of how the facts of the quote address the issue/s at stake.(For example, "This means that Homer posits that man's destiny is predetermined by the gods......"
4. Succinctly conclude by summarizing, restating and reaffirming the points you are advancing.
The format here is called IRAC: Issue, Rule, Application and Conclusion. And no matter how expansive a book, you can apply this format to round an argument up in less than half a page.
You do not become a specialist in any field of knowledge by simply providing a book list.
Refrain from the infantile habit of listing books without showing that you have really read and can use them in informed debate.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Hi SAS,
Afrocentricity is part and parcel of the American Academy, I should point out to you.
The American Academy is tolerating because it provides another "scientific" means of looking at the world.
If you care t ... read full comment
Hi SAS,
Afrocentricity is part and parcel of the American Academy, I should point out to you.
The American Academy is tolerating because it provides another "scientific" means of looking at the world.
If you care to know, Afrocentricity comes in many shapes and sizes. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chimamanda Adichie, Ayi Kwei Armah, Henry Loius Gates, Jr., Bernal Bartin, Chandra Kant Raju, Nurrudin Farah, Ron Eglash, Mary Kinsely, and several others scholars around the world have subscribed to it.
The other day you cited Kobina Sekyi's "The Blinkards," SAS, but have yoy looked at the satire and the Afrocentric methodlogy?
Have you also looked at Casely-Hayford's "Ethiopia Unbound" and the Afrocentric methodology? Do I have to give you a summary of these works and the Afrocentric ideology?
Have you taken a look at Adu Boahen's work and the Afrocentric methodology?
Can you look at Danquah's "The Akan Doctrine of God" and tell me whether it has methodlogical convergences with the Arocentricity methodlogy? Please can you this for me and your readers?
Have you come across Achbebe's use of Afrocentricity to critique Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," thereby leading to "Things Fall Apart" (and its sequel (as well as the rest of his novels)?
His "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness" essay and public interviews (which you can find on Youtube) say it all!
For your information, no "true" student of literarture (across the world) can claim to have studied Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" without reading Achebe's Afrocentric critique of the latter work. It is mandatory in many if not most American English/postcolonial/literature departments.
Bernal Martin, Richard Poe, and Ron Eglash are white; Mary Kinsley was White (British), an 18th century British scientific writer and ethnographer developed certain ideas that predate Afrocentricity; and Bernal Martin and Ron Eglash are two (Bernal is late) leading American public intellectuals.
Dr. Chandra Kant Raju, one of the world's leading Einstein scholars alive today and one of the brains behind the building of Indian's supercomputers, uses the Afrocentric methodology in his writing.
He and Dr. Molefi Kete Asante (and other leading scholars fro Europe, Australia, Asia, America) have collaborated on projects that directly hinges on the Afrocentric methodolgy.
You may have to read more on Dr. Raju to make up your mind! Drs. Xing Lu and Yoshikita Miiki, two well-known Asian-American intellectuals, teach the Afrocentric methodology in universities (white universities). Both have written scholarly papers on the subject and have adpated the theory for studying Asia, etc!
I can go on and on and on and list leading White Academics who have written and teach Afrocentricity across American universities, not as "reverse racism" as you put it, but as a methodology worth studying and listening to other voices on issues affecting humanity.
In fact "reverse racism" is what Republicans call Affirmative Active (and welfare), even though single white women disproportionately benefit from welfare entitlements than African Americans.
Now Gate's "The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literature," one of the most authoritative and powerful works on literary criticism, a book used across America in both white and black universities, uses the Afrocentric method.
Gates book won the 1989 American Book Award. The American Book Award is one America's prestigious and well-respected award. It is not an African-American or African award-granting institution.
Have you looked at The New York Times, whose editorship is mostly white and male, says about Molefi Kete Asante's books on Afrocentricity?
Then you have Ngugi wa Thiong'o being invited by Harvard University to give a talk on Afrocentricity, postcolonial literature, etc! You may want to read his book "Something Torn and New: An African Rennissanc."
"Something Torn and New" is a collection of his Harvard public lectures. Do I have to summarize the part on Afrocentricity? Well, this book is used across American universities and colleges, both white and black.
In America at least, the Afrocentric methodology is not only studied in African-American and African studies. It is studied in the social sciences (economics, anthopology, literature, sociology, politics, history, Egyptology, anthropology, linguistics, and what have you), cultural and women studies, critical theory, LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE, mathematics and the natural sciences, criminology, archeology, pedagogy, and nemerous other disciplines!
Do you want me to give you a list of peer-reviewed law/jusriprudence journals where the Afrocentric methodology is used to analyze legal issues?
You know I don't have to this, SAS, because this is your area. It will be redundant for me to go over peer-reviewed law/jurisprudence journals where the Afrocentric methodology is vigorously used to analyze legal issues! I have already some of these in some of my articles.
Do you and insights into how one of America's most prestigious institions ranked Molefi Kete Asante "One of the 100 Leading Thinkers In America"?
It is largely because of his contribution to American letters, education, and research methods (by way of Afrocentricity).
It is funny when the academic discipline (women studies) appropriated Afrocentricity and made it a core foundation of its methodological reserach without crediting Asante for developing the theory as it stands today.
Asante has already taken them on. You may also recall that women studies (and allied disciplines) are dominated by white women.
That said, some of the major defenders of the Afrocentric methodology in the American America are leading white themselves!
Finally, Cheikh Anta Diop who developed the scientific, philosophic, and mathematical methodology for Afrocentricity is one of the most studied in Western Academia today.
Do you know why? Is it my responsibility to provide a list of white academics who have written on the subject?
Please provide references on peer-reviewed law/jurisprudence journals (where the Afrocentrcity methodology is used to analyze legal issues) so that readers will not say I am lying. This is your area.
Please read about Howard Zinn and his best-selling influential history text, "A People's History of the United States," to see how his approach is close to the Afrocentric methodology.
Zinn, until his death was one of America's most influential scholars, playwrights, activists, historians, and authors.
The book I just mentioned (Zinn's) is a required text across American universities and colleges. See how Mitch Daniels, former Governor of India, had to attack Zinn and his book (with some supporters of Daniel's using the much-abused and misplaced label "reverse racism" at Zinn. Ironically Zinn was a White American.
Also Dr. James W. Loewen, one of America's leading socialogists, authors, and historians vindicate Afrocentrists and the Afrocentric methodlogy in his numerous academic texts (also used across American universities):
1) Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
2) Teaching Waht Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Texbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
3) Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
4) Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong
Lowen is white.
You can also read about the works of Drs. Robert Bauval (an Egyptologist and histirian) and Thomas Brophy (a NASA scientist), both whites, to see how their scientific publications vindicate Cheikh Anta Diop, Molefi Kete Asante, and others of the Afrocentric school.
Do we know why Dr. Asante's updated text "The History of Africa: The Quest for Harmony" have replaced all other sholarly texts according to Routledge, a British multinational publisher and one of the most respected publishing houses in the world?
This is a piece of homework for us all. Afrocentricity is everywhere and has eaten deep into the American Academy. From the Clintons to Obama to Gates to Mandela to Mbeki to Bob Marley to Soyinka to Achebe...have all been influenced by it. Need I say more?
Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
There is nothing known as "Afrocentric methodology", just as there is nothing known as Nkrumaism. That is why you yourself can never define these terms. And you still failed to define anything here in spite of your ratther d ... read full comment
There is nothing known as "Afrocentric methodology", just as there is nothing known as Nkrumaism. That is why you yourself can never define these terms. And you still failed to define anything here in spite of your ratther digressive rant about an unknown quantity called "Afrocentricity".
To my mind, if Africans have any intelligent approach to any analysis, then it might as well be a universal construct....something developed and accepted by humanity over time; it will not be necessarily unique to Africa. Please educate me on one idea that makes sense to yo but is uniquely African. If two people are speaking about the same subject, and one is standing at the north pole and the other at the south pole, they will be saying the same things about the same subjects if both have the same degree of intelligence. That is what the scientific method is all about, and it has nothing to do with Europe or Asia or Africa or the Americas. When humans reason scientifically and rationally, they speak as one, and what they say is not Afrocentric or Eurocentric....
Unless of course you are citing as your foundation the traditional view of what caused the flooding in Accra. That tragedy is attributed to the anger of the gods; and you and Okomfo Ama Mazama might find this diagnoses as being in line with Afrocentric methodology.
But to us, and many sensible others, that is sheer poppycock!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
SAS,
All that I want from you is giving me lists of prestigious law/jurisprudence peer-reviewed journals here in America (I can give you a few of them where both black and white legal scholars have used the methodology in ... read full comment
SAS,
All that I want from you is giving me lists of prestigious law/jurisprudence peer-reviewed journals here in America (I can give you a few of them where both black and white legal scholars have used the methodology in addressing legal issues; I can even cite scholarly papers for you but I won't do it! That is your field.
Even more than that, other scholars of law and jurisprudence have debated the methodology and how it applies to international law and jurisprudence in peer-reviewed journals. Do you also want me to cite some of these international peer-reviewed journals for you when it is your field? ) that uses the Afrocentric methodology to analyze legal issues?
Do I have to give a list when that is your field? I don't think that is my business. In fact, this is going to be my last comment to you today if you don't cite one single peer-reviewed journal on law ad jurisprudence, here in America, where the Afrocentric methodology is used to analyze legal issues.
I am throwing this challenge. I don't even want to go into professors of law and jurisprudence and law schools here in America where the Afrocentric methodology is taught.
In fact, some of these prominent professors of law and jurisprudence and practicing attorneys have delivered scholarly papers at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute.
I know how the methodology is applied in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics and still I have taken it upon myself to find out how the theory is applied in law and jurisprudence.
And whether the Afrocentric methodology exists or not is irrelevant, the American Academy and some of the world's most influential scholars, researchers, scientists, philosphers, educators, writers, historians, sociologists, mathematicians, men and women whose ideas shape what you and me, our family members, etc., study have declared their stand on the debate.
What you say and I say have no impact on the American Academy. The likes of Molefi Kete Asante, Ama Mazama, Soyinka, Achebe, Thiong'o and the influential white scholars whose names I mentioned to you have won the debate. Please read more to find out Mazama's influence in the American Academy and in the world!
You may to read more about her by going to Sobornne University, one of France's elite university, what some have called the France's Harvard University.
At Sorbonne you may also want to find out how the French have built a statue (at the university) to honor Cheikh Anta Diop's to human knowledge and to the scientific understanding of knowledge. The leadership of Sorbonne has even gone further to archive Diop's scientific papers and books for the world. And Diop's scholarship was based on the Afrocentric methodlogy.
Do you want me to give you lists of prominent French scholars--physicists, chemists, Egyptologists, historians, etc (and British) who have favorably reviewed Diop's work?This information is right on your computer, SAS.
Under Dr. Molefi Kete Asante's watch alone, nearly 150 students (whites, Africans, Asians, etc) have successfully written doctoral dissertations on several aspects of the Afrocentric methodology?
Do you have any clues as to the number of doctoral (and bachelor's and master's) disseration that have been written on the Afrocentric methodology across Africa?
These excludes those whose doctoral dissertations have been done in Africa, Canada, Asia, Australia, and Europe!
Please cite just a single paper in a peer-reviewed journal on law/jurisprudence where the Afrocentric methodology is has been used to analyze legal issues. I have already given some hints but you don't seem to get it!
This is so easy to find. I want to show you why any legal scholar or professor, white and black, will go to any extent to use the methodology to analyze legal issues.
As for law and jurisprudence in relation to universalism and relativism, etc., the less said about it, the better. I have already given you an authoritative text where leading American, European, Asian, and African legal scholars have assembled all the "scientific" ideas in one place. A couple of these scholars taught and still teach where you got your law degree?
Should I give you their names? Please go back and check out the text I gave you again and you might see the names there. Other than that I am done with
you.
All errors are mine.
I am done with you!
Thanks.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
You see how your reasoning juat crumbled like the war of Jericho?
You think that you can throw names and books around here and be aclaimed a scholar?
What is that Afrocentricity in all this? And if Molefi Kete Asante ha ... read full comment
You see how your reasoning juat crumbled like the war of Jericho?
You think that you can throw names and books around here and be aclaimed a scholar?
What is that Afrocentricity in all this? And if Molefi Kete Asante has been awarding degrees on it, shouldn't you be able to talk about it?
And why must I be the one to find out how it is applied in law when I have said that the methodology is non-existent, and that the field is fake?
Scholarship has nothing to do with name dropping or books dropping or institutions and bogus ideas.
I would leave it to your own followers here to judge whether you make sense today. And if you don't, my advice is for you to go and have a long slep and try again tomorrow.
Today marks your worst performance in debate, and I feel sorry for you, my good friend.
Nana Kasapreko III 8 years ago
SAS is beginning to sound like the proverbial Ga man who even when his nose has been bloodied and he has been effectively floored in a fight, keeps on bellowing, "kwe, nye shia mi, ma yi le basa basa ei!" - to wit, everybody ... read full comment
SAS is beginning to sound like the proverbial Ga man who even when his nose has been bloodied and he has been effectively floored in a fight, keeps on bellowing, "kwe, nye shia mi, ma yi le basa basa ei!" - to wit, everybody leave me alone (dont interfere) I will beat him up badly.
Lets bring the debate down to earth and make it all nice and simple for SAS and his house-nigger types who cannot cure themselves from the curse of mental slavery, to understand.
Im offering this alternative because seeing that they are no match at all for the hyper-intellectual reasoning and factually variegated academic knowledge of Francis Kwarteng, they have now resorted to questioning the substance of his knowledge and proceeding from that position of weakness to unilaterally declare that, that knowledge of Francis is not only irrelevant but also null and void. This is in spite of the fact that Francis has been charitable enough to give them hints to go and verify the leads and references he has benevolently offered to all and sundry. And SAS who blatantly rejects the obligation to investigate those references, proudly but dishonestly appends a doctorate to his name. Shame on you SAS. You are a typical African academic who having realized that the imperialist knowledge they have acquired with sweat after many years of education, has only ended up confusing them the more about life and making them incompatible with their inner racial desires to achieve anything of any consequence, and therefore, ineffectual and worthless.
I really find it difficult as to how any rational thinking 'civilized' human being would defend and seek to sustain any philosophy or ideology that cruelly and in the most appalling manner, wasted the lives of more than 150 million human beings of his own kind. It is only the distorted mind of a miseducated African academic who can comfortably - and in the case of SAS, proudly, live with this most ghastly crime against humanity without cringing with shock and horror.
Both SAS and his new-found side-kick, Philip Kobina Baidoo sound as ridiculous and as bizarre as a Jew who would praise and defend Nazism even at the cost of his life.
For whatever communism did or did not do, good or bad, I as an African, am eternally grateful to communists for proactively assisting Africa to release itself from the infernal gridlock of capitalist imperialism of over 500 good fucking years. And this is only the crimes that these diabolical capitalists/imperialists committed in Africa. This evil is duplicated in Asia, Latin America, North America, Australia and unknown islands all over the world.
What true human being, born of a woman and properly created in the hands of God would support or defend anything that remotely smells of imperialism/capitalism?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
I think I wrote some time ago that Ghana's woes have nothing to do with its economic philosophy or political ideology. For indeed, Nkrumah's version of governance has permanently lost to the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition, ins ... read full comment
I think I wrote some time ago that Ghana's woes have nothing to do with its economic philosophy or political ideology. For indeed, Nkrumah's version of governance has permanently lost to the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition, insofar as today, the government of Ghana is democratic, practicing its own version of mixed economy with a tinge of capitalist-socialist mix.
Nkrumah capitulated to all those so-called socialist and quasi communist concepts because it enabled him to take advantage of Stalinist notions of one-party state, life presidency, imprisonment without trial and the abolition of freedoms of association, of speech and of the press. Besides, Nkrumah wanted power centralized in his own hands in order to play the absolutism of an unquestionable god......Nkrumah's actions were all about Nkrumah's ego.
But he fell from power in disgrace and died in exile, a broken man deserted by friends and family. And now, the philosophy of the great writer and thinker he odiously incarcerated is what governs the country. This country will never go back to the dark ages of Nkrumah's political theory. And that is why any discussion of those theories is now moot. Those Nkrumaist remnants here are peddling the relics of a forgotten and deranged cult, and will soon be expiated from intelligent debate as scavengers feeding on the cadaver of rotten ideology.....
To me, the core issues of our time has to do with the creation of a society of disciplined citizens committed to the expungement of corruption, displaying the unity of purpose and a dedication to create a greater Ghana. Because no matter the political theories we rant here, none of them will work unless the people are disciplined, honest and dedicated to the ideals of freedom and justice for which the great martyr, Osagyefo Dr. J.B. Danquah worked so hard and sacrificed his life.
I am with whoever discourages abstract theories and directs our focus to the practical steps we can take to make our nation rise from its present doldrums. But I see nothing here that has any practical application to the progress of our nation. Sorry.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 8 years ago
Hello Dr. Sarfo, I totally agree with your sentiments without any reservation. This is just for Mr Kwarteng and his unmitigated self-indulgent verbiage. Thank you anyway for your input.
Hello Dr. Sarfo, I totally agree with your sentiments without any reservation. This is just for Mr Kwarteng and his unmitigated self-indulgent verbiage. Thank you anyway for your input.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Baidoo,
Well, I am just up. SAS is merely helping helping you to hide behind the serious social research methods (at least for Ghanaweb) and from inclusive methodology.
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Baidoo,
Well, I am just up. SAS is merely helping helping you to hide behind the serious social research methods (at least for Ghanaweb) and from inclusive methodology.
You two can begin picking up clues from reading the titles of the books. That is what I do before even reading the preface of any serious work, particularly non-fiction.
I do that to challenge myself and to make up my mind about the suthors' possible assumptions, central arguments, and conclusions.
I always want to see how far I can present my own assumptions, arguments, and conclusions if I were to write the same book.
That is, I self-consciously argue with authors of serious non-fiction before I open their books to read the preface. That way I am able to raise seroius objections to the authors' assumptions, arguments, and conclusions.
This also explains why I am able to pick Baidoo's assumptions, arguments, and conclusions apart by the time I read his first paragraph.
This process provides me with an easy means to tear into his articles by the time I am through reading them. I then know where to start questiong his assumptions, arguments, and conclusions from multiple sources (As for Homer and the rest, I do not abide by their rules. Homer can not address the issues the titles I raise address.
His Iliad and Odyssey are far from the methodological rigor or "scientific" methodology (social science research methods among others) the authors of the titles I cite represent. On the hand, Homer will not have access to declassified records if even we summon Illiad and Odyssey here!
Yet Baidoo will have learnt a lot reading Homer's Iliad and Odyssey to understand how African culture influenced the ancient world, including Greek culture, scholarship, cosmology, and world view.
Do I have to summarise Iliad and Odyssey for readers again? I have no time!
You see how your arguments on the history of "communism" alone is grossly flawed.
Can you tell us more about Plato's "The Laws" and "The Republic"? And about the Pythagorean and the history of "communism"?
Can you tell us more about George Orwell, the CIA, and the USSR?
Can you and SAS read the texts and come back here to tell us what they say about Baidoo and his articles?
I am sealing with you and SAS with regard to "scientific" and historical facts, and here you are talking about "sentiments"?
Are you Baidoo running away from authoritative texts that destroys yoyr arguments to hide in Franci's so-called "unmitigated self-indulgent verbiage"?
Could you read the titles I have given you and come back here to tell your readers that the authors dabbled in "unmitigated self-indulgent verbiage"?
Just also recall that I dealt only with "communism." What if I had adequate time on my side to deal with the rest.
Where do you think your seriously flawed article will stand?
You see Bertrand Russell, a man you cite in your article, even undermines your central thesis?
Should I go deeper into the the titles I gave you, you will have no place to stand!
Please go and read the titles and come here to tell readers what they do to all your articles.
The technical texts are coming. So far you and some of your core defenders are running away from the sources!
Ah ha...hahahahahahaha. I am waiting. Do you guys want me to tear into others parts of Baidoo's article? No time. Readers can send me email (franciskkwarteng@yahoo.com) for more info if they are so inclined.
At least for now we know how flawed Baidoo's assumptions, interpretation, arguments, and conclusions are! Marcus, you don't have to make this between Nkrumahists and Danquihists.
This is strictly a matter of education and the historical record. I am glad you have identified how flawed Baidoo's arguments.
This is a good start for you. Let me also point out not to critiue Baidoo's articles or comment on them any further (I made this comment on the article before this one) but, to tell you the truth, I can't stand Baidoo's historical fiction, haphazard misrepresentations, and analytic errors.
Anyway, I am looking forward to the next ones to offer my criqitues. I have more for him and his supporters even before his articles appear on Ghanaweb.
Thanks.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
Your animus against Baidoo and SAS should in no way be at the expense of finding solutions to combat Ghana's & Africa's many problems period. If you stoop to that you are verging into selfishness I am afraid.
Your animus against Baidoo and SAS should in no way be at the expense of finding solutions to combat Ghana's & Africa's many problems period. If you stoop to that you are verging into selfishness I am afraid.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Marcus,
Don't get us wrong. I have always seen SAS and Baidoo as good friends.
We share no animus toward each.
This is merely an intellectual debate we having. They will never be my "enemies" or "adversaries" becaus ... read full comment
Marcus,
Don't get us wrong. I have always seen SAS and Baidoo as good friends.
We share no animus toward each.
This is merely an intellectual debate we having. They will never be my "enemies" or "adversaries" because they disagree with me or I with them.
In other words, I don't see Baidoo and SAS harboring any animus towards me. At least they have not come across that way to me!
See this as a normal intellectual exercise. That said, I am looking forward to Baidoo's next article.
I have been privately advised to ignore Baidoo but you know I can allow his lies to pass un-critiqued. That is not me!
Please, enjoy the debate because it is sometimes in such heated intellectual exercises that the profoundest and best ideas evolve.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
YOUR: "... it is sometimes in such heated intellectual exercises that the profoundest and best ideas evolve..."
WE SAY: Looks like so!
YOUR: "... it is sometimes in such heated intellectual exercises that the profoundest and best ideas evolve..."
WE SAY: Looks like so!
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
You gentlemen don't understand my drift. Let me reiterate what I am driving at: that you honorable comrades are not using your God given intellects to help solve Ghana's and Africa's many challenges; and that looks selfish to ... read full comment
You gentlemen don't understand my drift. Let me reiterate what I am driving at: that you honorable comrades are not using your God given intellects to help solve Ghana's and Africa's many challenges; and that looks selfish to me.
great kokroko 8 years ago
I can confidently conclude that this Philip guy doesn't know anything.
You've only read literature targeted at brainwashing minds.
You sound like a Chemist performing QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS without knowing the SOLUBILUTY ... read full comment
I can confidently conclude that this Philip guy doesn't know anything.
You've only read literature targeted at brainwashing minds.
You sound like a Chemist performing QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS without knowing the SOLUBILUTY RULES.
All your inferences from your western educated mind are VERY POOR
Patriot 8 years ago
Those who espouse socialism or communism fail to appreciate the weaknesses in the background thought Marx called materialism. To a large extend Marx could be described as a plagiarist who stole Engels' dialectics and tried to ... read full comment
Those who espouse socialism or communism fail to appreciate the weaknesses in the background thought Marx called materialism. To a large extend Marx could be described as a plagiarist who stole Engels' dialectics and tried to turn it around to give his socialist dribble an intellectual background. History is rife with such idealist nonsense that caused hardship and mystery while protecting the inherent corruption and those who perpetuate it: Nkrumaism is an example if you like.
Whatever 8 years ago
Even you, you have no problem with a primitive ideological concept called 'property owning democracy' and you have the courage to challenge socialism with flawed argument. The fact that the are differences in people does not ... read full comment
Even you, you have no problem with a primitive ideological concept called 'property owning democracy' and you have the courage to challenge socialism with flawed argument. The fact that the are differences in people does not mean there are no similarities in people. Why are your kind so backward and destructive, always focusing attention on people's differences when their similarities are there. The aim of socialism is to focus attention on people's similarities so that they can unite. Unfortunately, it appears that those who belong to the right-wing, capitalist, property owning, looting nonsense prefer to focus their attention on people's differences which tear us apart. No wonder in the past UP and in NPP today, tribalism, factionalism nepotism petty nonsense is the order of the day. Egoism and individualism is what is destroying the NPP to the extent that raw acid can be used to kill someone who hold a dissenting view in that party. This is how extreme individualism can influence factionalism and you are not ashamed to talk about your can of worms
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago
The Nkumahist -Danquaist rivalry has really plummeted into the nadir of irrationality. Both sides are guilty of cognitive bias. The truth is the socialist capitalist stakes both sides have taken haven't, and wouldn't help ou ... read full comment
The Nkumahist -Danquaist rivalry has really plummeted into the nadir of irrationality. Both sides are guilty of cognitive bias. The truth is the socialist capitalist stakes both sides have taken haven't, and wouldn't help our Ghana to overcome its many challenges.
I would advise Kwarteng, Prof. Lungu, Yaw & co vs. SAS, Ahoofe, Sarpong, Baidoo & co to put their incredible energy and time to seek for a democratic Ghana whose motto is sustainability
While people are die needlessly in perennial floods and fire, we are tearing each other apart on other people's ideologies, instead of working to come up with our own sustainable Ghana.
Ken Ababio 8 years ago
This biased and irrational Baidoo and his family are living in England and enjoying the British socialist free HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.I wonder why he has not rejected it.
This biased and irrational Baidoo and his family are living in England and enjoying the British socialist free HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.I wonder why he has not rejected it.
Pointless. Mr. Baidoo, is your brain infected by HIV? Seek medical assistance ASAP!
WHY THE INSULTS?????
What do you expect from Nkrumah apologist? To these brainwashed Nkrumah cult worshippers, everybody should be singing a "kumbaya" to Nkrumah's canonization.
They see anybody who is not an acolyte to their semi-god Nkrumah ...
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I don't want to enlighten you because I know you are damn ignorant to get enlightened but even you, you have no problem with a primitive ideological concept called 'property owning democracy' and you have the courage to chall ...
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Nkrumaism is not communism.You should be praising Nkrumah for bringing in mixed economy. Check this , at makola is GCB that provided finance for Makola women (private enterprise)when Barclays Bank and Standard Bank would not. ...
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You sound so stupid and elementsry your arguments are like cartoon characters meant for children.
Define Nkrumaism if you can. Nkrumah himself could not expatiate what foolishness meant.
Very interesting to note that those who are first to post comment on Ghana are dummies and make no sense at all
Capitalism promoted slavery. Guys how wmany died in the slave raids that took place.The savagery is unmatched .Today Roots kills 9 in capitalist USA .Not long ago it was sandy Hoeks.Natives in USA and Australia were wiped ou ...
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Idiot, do you lnow how many people died in Russia, China, and North Korea because of communism?
Roots killed 9 people and to you it is because of capitalism?
Because of communism, millions die of hunger in North Korea. ...
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Nkrumaism's denial as a socialist ideology only serves to show that its adherents did not understand what that spurious ideology portends. How does a socialist ideology encourage mixed economy and then turn around to condemn ...
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I appreciate your concern, but I am already under medication. All the same, thank you for your sterling counsel.
The following statements from your ramble of an essay has no basis in fact. What is your evidence that "Communism was a new idea that Plato thought about and wrote extensively on it. The prophets of Israel ruminated on the co ...
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P. K. Baidoo Jnr. I find your piece off the target of your intended objective, i.e. to humiliate the Nkrumahists, Kwarteng, socialism, and mixed economy. However, you woefully failed in your mission be you were all over the p ...
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Mr Ampadu, you should know that I am a capitalist. Of course, capitalists don’t have brains we are just a bunch of greedy, grabbing snivelling bastards. You wouldn’t expect me to write anything good, would you? Anyway tha ...
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Ha! You Philip Kobina Baidoo are a capitalist? You a nigger who I hear, lives in Babylon? Hahahahaha. By the way, how much are you worth to call yourself a capitalist? The real wheelers and dealers of capitalism would not hav ...
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Thank you for your wonderful comments.
Sorry I saw it too, however, appreciation is in order.
If I understood then I would suggest you advice Kwarteng to stop preaching archaic post colonial ideologies on this platform. I am totally with when you stated in your conclusion paragraph, that "I am requesting that all the ...
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Dear Readers,
Note: Like Baidoo's earlier pieces, this one too is laced with outright fabrications, misrepresentations, analytic errors, historical inaccuracies, misparaphrasing, and misinterpretation of facts. Factual, an ...
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Hello,
This is for Baidoo and his supporters. This article is not done yet if you guys do not look at the evidence presented in the following:
1) Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (Anthony C. Sutton)
First s ...
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It is your duty to summarize the core points in the articles you list here to advance your arguments; otherwise make your arguments as if these articles or books do not exist. It does not serve any purpose to list books witho ...
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Philli & SAS,
Hi SAS!
Those titles are for you and the likes of Baidoo to read. I want you to ream them yourself and make up your mind.
I have read titles and made their contents available to readers on Ghanaweb, ye ...
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1. The books you quote will certainly not make any difference to me even if you were to summarize or expatiate on them, but at least you will sound less infantile or comedic. Remember that I make all my arguments here, and I ...
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Let me educate you a bit about how to make use of the information in all the books you quote:
1. Begin by identifying the issue/s in the debate for which you want to use the reference. For example, "What is the trope of pr ...
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Hi SAS,
Afrocentricity is part and parcel of the American Academy, I should point out to you.
The American Academy is tolerating because it provides another "scientific" means of looking at the world.
If you care t ...
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There is nothing known as "Afrocentric methodology", just as there is nothing known as Nkrumaism. That is why you yourself can never define these terms. And you still failed to define anything here in spite of your ratther d ...
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SAS,
All that I want from you is giving me lists of prestigious law/jurisprudence peer-reviewed journals here in America (I can give you a few of them where both black and white legal scholars have used the methodology in ...
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You see how your reasoning juat crumbled like the war of Jericho?
You think that you can throw names and books around here and be aclaimed a scholar?
What is that Afrocentricity in all this? And if Molefi Kete Asante ha ...
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SAS is beginning to sound like the proverbial Ga man who even when his nose has been bloodied and he has been effectively floored in a fight, keeps on bellowing, "kwe, nye shia mi, ma yi le basa basa ei!" - to wit, everybody ...
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I think I wrote some time ago that Ghana's woes have nothing to do with its economic philosophy or political ideology. For indeed, Nkrumah's version of governance has permanently lost to the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition, ins ...
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Hello Dr. Sarfo, I totally agree with your sentiments without any reservation. This is just for Mr Kwarteng and his unmitigated self-indulgent verbiage. Thank you anyway for your input.
Baidoo,
Well, I am just up. SAS is merely helping helping you to hide behind the serious social research methods (at least for Ghanaweb) and from inclusive methodology.
You two can begin picking up clues from reading t ...
read full comment
Your animus against Baidoo and SAS should in no way be at the expense of finding solutions to combat Ghana's & Africa's many problems period. If you stoop to that you are verging into selfishness I am afraid.
Marcus,
Don't get us wrong. I have always seen SAS and Baidoo as good friends.
We share no animus toward each.
This is merely an intellectual debate we having. They will never be my "enemies" or "adversaries" becaus ...
read full comment
YOUR: "... it is sometimes in such heated intellectual exercises that the profoundest and best ideas evolve..."
WE SAY: Looks like so!
You gentlemen don't understand my drift. Let me reiterate what I am driving at: that you honorable comrades are not using your God given intellects to help solve Ghana's and Africa's many challenges; and that looks selfish to ...
read full comment
I can confidently conclude that this Philip guy doesn't know anything.
You've only read literature targeted at brainwashing minds.
You sound like a Chemist performing QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS without knowing the SOLUBILUTY ...
read full comment
Those who espouse socialism or communism fail to appreciate the weaknesses in the background thought Marx called materialism. To a large extend Marx could be described as a plagiarist who stole Engels' dialectics and tried to ...
read full comment
Even you, you have no problem with a primitive ideological concept called 'property owning democracy' and you have the courage to challenge socialism with flawed argument. The fact that the are differences in people does not ...
read full comment
The Nkumahist -Danquaist rivalry has really plummeted into the nadir of irrationality. Both sides are guilty of cognitive bias. The truth is the socialist capitalist stakes both sides have taken haven't, and wouldn't help ou ...
read full comment
This biased and irrational Baidoo and his family are living in England and enjoying the British socialist free HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.I wonder why he has not rejected it.