When Nkrumah was declaring our independence, JB Danquah was in the crowd observing – Frimpong Anokye

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  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 1 year ago

    JB Danquah, Busia, Adu Boahen and FK Boah are 4 individuals who had consistently tried to change Ghana's history thinking everybody is as idiot as their tribalistic bigots. Surprisingly they all in one unison attacked just on ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 1 year ago

    NKRUMAH WAS NOT THE SOLE FOUNDER OF GHANA !!! IT WAS NOT HIS IDEA!!! WHAT WAS THE UGCC DOING BEFORE THEY THOUGHT OF BUYING TICKET FOR FELLOW PATRIOT , NKRUMAH, TO COME DOWN TO GHANA?????
    JB DANQUAH AND THE OTHER LEARNED MEN ...
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  • Potenz 1 year ago

    Who is a sole founder of any nation?

  • P Djamgbe 1 year ago

    Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the solely founding father of Ghana whether you like it or not.

  • FRANKIE 1 year ago

    Lee Kwan Yew is synonymous with Singapore; Mahathir Mohammed is synonymous with Malaysia, George Washington is synonymous with the United States and so is the legendary Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the BIIIIIIG ONE synonymous w ...
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  • Nye bro 1 year ago

    Go and read your history books well... pathetic soul.

  • Buwumia Miaing Ghanaians 1 year ago

    And yet because of the state capture agenda by this Akyem family, they want to denigrate THE Osagyefo himself! The Financial Sector in Ghana has been captured, the Insurance sector captured, Judiciary captured, Police servic ...
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  • Adinan 1 year ago

    So what makes you think that declaring Nkrumah Memorial Day on the birthday of the Great Osagyefo and declaring 4 August as Founders’ Day are wrong?

    Credit should be given when due don’t be blinded by hatred.

  • Kenney Barnor 1 year ago

    Frimpong Anokye is not a good historian, he always exaggerate ,he hate the Akyems because of his Asante factor, unfortunately he is dividing the Akans more than unifying them, he hates the Akyems for a stupid reason.

  • John B 1 year ago

    Just name one of the those who were standing by Dr.Nkrumah on the platform

  • Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    Nkrumah was greedy and selfish man. Ghana got independence before South Africa.Compere both countries and see which countries have advanced. Did you ever find in history that the Ivory Coast President Houphet ever visited Gha ...
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  • Kojo: Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    When Dr Nkrumah was President of Ghana, black people from all over the world were rushing to Ghana not only to associate with Nkrumah, but to bask in the glory of the massive developments that had been accomplished within onl ...
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  • Kojo: Kofi Adu ....... in addition 1 year ago

    When some of you dangerously ignorant people refer to the success of the South African economy, you are only exhibiting your evident lack of education or to be precise, your fundamentally illiterate state of mind.

    What app ...
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  • John B 1 year ago

    Kofi Adu,I'm very disappointed in you, Dr.Nkrumah did a lots good things for Ghanaians. If you have any blame please blame the so called UGCC party.

  • Saga C T 1 year ago

    Why are we Christians and Christpaulmatthewjohnandcosians?

  • KD 1 year ago

    You people have no idea as to how Nkrumah squandered Gh resources in many countries all for his foolish ideology. Gh should have been far better than ZA if Nkrumah had Mandela’s ideology.

  • J0eY l0nD0N 1 year ago

    Idiot you are even clapping for a cathedral pit of hell construction site.

    Ofui, do you understand squandering of resources?

    Wicked selfish thieves.

  • Kenney Barnor 1 year ago

    Total ignorant , half baked educated, you insult to make your point, illiterate J0eY l0nD0N a typical Ndc trokosi.

  • Porkies 1 year ago

    And you do, because you're smarter than the rest of us, no be so?

  • Sak 1 year ago

    KD,
    Trashy talk. Empty accusations by enemies of the political icon Kwame Nkrumah.

  • they say they say 1 year ago

    That's what you were fed with. Like the rest of you assholes, you talk by heart. Am glad Akufo addo has in the end, exposed himself for who and what he is..an embarrassment of a leader.

  • Hussein 1 year ago

    You are just a foolish idiot. The individualism which elements like you portray is what made Africa the way it is now. How did the legend Nkrumah spend the money? You even have the nerves to say his foolish ideology... You ar ...
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  • John B 1 year ago

    Please blame your so called UGCC party,and now called NPP party

  • Sak 1 year ago

    Nelson Mandela,George Washington, Indirah Gandhi, David Ben Gurion, First Prime minister of Singapore Lee Kwan Yui, Haile Selasi, Kenneth Kaunda, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, to name but afew political icons who's nations ...
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  • Mr Ibu 1 year ago

    It is a diplomatic language. Normally the first president in a country is usually regarded as the founder of that country. If you want google it it doesn't mean that no one played a role but out of respect and in keeping wit ...
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  • What is all this nonsense about Nkrumah 1 year ago

    Is it a diversion from the economic hardships we are facing, or a campaign policy for those political parties without sensible ideas. Nkrumah is dead and gone. If you love him so much why not commit suicide and join him. Nkru ...
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  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    NKRUMAH AND HIS TEAM WERE NATION-BUILDERS. JB DANQUAH AND HIS EVIL TRADITION OF TERRORISTS AND TRAITORS WERE MIS-EDUCATED VISION-LESS NATION0-WRECKERS FILLED WITH NOTHING BUT GREED, EVIL, SELF-ENTITLEMENT AND BOMB-THROWERS. D ...
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  • BB 1 year ago

    You never make sense in any of your comments on this platform

  • Accra is dirty.com 1 year ago

    Stop your foolishness,every Akuapem people is wise apart from you Akwasi Adade

  • John B 1 year ago

    Prince Adade,who is sole founder of the nation, can you show any one of the platform where Dr.Nkrumah was given the speech,those people standing by Dr.Nkrumah was the big six.Did you see any Busia,j.b Danquah,and the so calle ...
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  • Joseph Mukasa Abiiro 1 year ago

    You are one of the most stupid people I have ever encountered. You dare call Nkrumah a crook a d that he rushed out independence? Asshole indeed. You are thinking like those tribal bigots like JB Danquah and his ilk who could ...
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  • Ghboi 1 year ago

    Nkrumah Go Bragh!

  • P Djamgbe 1 year ago

    It doesn't matter what the descendants of those bomb throwers say or think, the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians know that Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the solely founding father of Ghana. The Fante man would say 0twe3, when your bo ...
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  • NDC die hard man. 1 year ago

    NOBODY CAN FORCE US TO ACCEPT NKRUMAH IS THE SOLE FOUNDER OF GHANA, IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN. HOW CAN NKRUMAH BE THE FOUNDER OF GHANA ? STOP DISTORTING HISTORY AND TELL HISTORY AS IT IS.

  • DEEVINITY 1 year ago

    @Die hard.........Every group that was formed prior to independence was primarily concerned with promoting the primacy of their petty politico-ethnic interests. A unitary state was furtherest from their convictions. Nkrumah w ...
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  • Joseph Mukasa Abiiro 1 year ago

    No ASSHOLE can also skew the INDELIBLE history of Nkrumah being the SOLE FOUNDER of Ghana.

  • Fireman 1 year ago

    Even snakes and dogs want to pose as ndc supporters so they can equate themselves to ndc. Ndc will always support the Nkrumah because of his pro nationalist agent with selfless intent.

  • M.T 1 year ago

    I don't know why we have to engage in this useless debate. Nkrumah was instrumental in the fight for independence. But it doesn't make sense to say he founded something that already existed. Naming a thing is different from f ...
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  • J0eY l0nD0N 1 year ago

    Are yiu stupid ?

    How can he founded something that already exist?

    Who told you there was a Ghana before Kwame Nkrumah appeared on scene?

    Go and do your research.

    Buluuuuuu

  • M.T 1 year ago

    Before you call someone stupid listen to yourself first and see if you're making sense. Nkrumah himself was born within the country he later named Ghana. There's no doubt his great contribution to our nation. But he didn't fo ...
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  • M.T 1 year ago

    Lol. It's like capturing a monkey from the forest to give it another name and claim you founded a new animal. Logic wouldn't take this. There was a country called Gold Coast. Nkrumah led the fight for independence and became ...
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  • John B 1 year ago

    Who are those you are referring them as a big six

  • KWAKU PORTO RICO 1 year ago

    This historian anokye guy PAA....l prefer to be called Goldcoaster than a Ghanaian....can this historian also explain to Ghanaians why nkrumah didn't get married to a Ghanaian woman but went all the way to Egypt and got marri ...
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  • NDC die hard man. 1 year ago

    IF NKRUMAH WAS BROUGHT FROM USA BY SOME PEOPLE.TO HELP IN THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE, WHY DO YOU SINGLE NKRUMAH OUT AS THE FOUNDER? NO ONE CAN FORCE NKRUMAH ON US HE IS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS NOT THE SOLE FOUNDER.

  • £EARN & EARN - SMARTPHONE EXPERT GUIDE 1 year ago

    JB...Learn & Earn! Kings don't just read news, they make news. As a young man, entertain yourself o BUT face your own hustle too. Don't blame your village people when money no dey or things are not working, if you've not yet ...
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  • rasco 1 year ago

    JB was giving him food to do the declaration. JB paid his transport fare to come to GH for that agenda. Must JB be out of the success?

  • DEEVINITY 1 year ago

    @Rasco.....JB had nothing to his name except his academic credentials. He was broke. In reality, it was Papa Grant who privately funded Nkrumah's trip and expenses. Do not be deceived. JB had nothing!

  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 1 year ago

    Akuffo Addo must stop claiming that he started the free shs because it was started by Rawlings

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  • Jidoshaki 1 year ago

    Mr Anokye stop pushing kwame Nkrumah to everybody's neck wai because as a historian go and check not everybody in kwame Nkrumah's family, nkroful, as much as western region voted for kwame Nkrumah wai, so stop making Nkrumah ...
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  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Kwame Nkrumah is the greatest African of the Millenia “- Time Magazine.

    No Asantehene is worthy to unlace the boots of Nkrumah

  • Baaba Gyeke 1 year ago

    Bastie, rhe fool, what about your dormaa dikro?

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Dormaahene has never said anything negatively about the great Nkrumah

  • John Koranteng 1 year ago

    But your dormaa chief spews too much trash. I don't have a dog in the fight, since I am not Ashanti nor Bono, but truth must be told. Your chief is too belligerent.

  • Enoch 1 year ago

    You dirty Ashantiz just hate Nkrumah and Bono's but none of your filthy chiefs in history match the great Nkrumah. Gyimii gyimii

  • NKRUMAH WAS SIMPLY ENVIED BY HIS OPPONENTS 1 year ago

    Why were the so called.... BIG SIX.... not on the PODIUM WITH NKRUMAH TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE IF THEY ARE INDEED LEGITIMATE FOUNDERS OF GHANA....??

    They didn't want us to gain independence wit ...
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  • Musa 1 year ago

    Very intelligent question to ask.

  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    In fact, it wasn't only the vision-less miseducated Danquah who was openly opposed to Ghana becoming independent on the time-table set by Nkrumah, Busia also communicated the same opposition to independence directly to the Br ...
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  • Ghanaweb 1 year ago

    Nonsense!!!!!!!!

  • Zionism is racism 1 year ago

    JB Danquah, Ankrah, Kotoka, Busia and Akuffo-Addo have ruined the country. But Netanyahu, who is worse than Hitler, is bringing chaos to the world with his racist, criminal and genocidal actions.

  • Musa 1 year ago

    This nation is cursed bcos we have not treated Nkrumah daily even after his death. Npp and their fathers are indeed the culprits. Nation wreckers…

  • Sam Brew 1 year ago

    Caae settled

  • Musa 1 year ago

    J.B. was so abysmal that he could not even win as an mp, such a failure cannot shoulder with our man of the millennium, never ever.

  • kwasi 1 year ago

    All this NPP knows best is to sell state property which was acquired by Nkrumah to themselves. Thieves

  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    kwasi, wash your mouth with acid, okay. Go and ask anybody you think knows more about who sold Nkrumah factories etc and listen to what that person will tell you.

    NPP sold what? Do you know who sold Tema port to somebody, ...
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  • TALLERSTER NICHOLAS 1 year ago

    But PELICLES be reminded that PNDC IS NOT NDC. THE PNDC WAS A MILITARY GOVERNMENT WHICH WAS BACKED BY MOST GHANAIANS. DON'T TWIST FACT TO SUIT YOUR WHIMS AND CAPRICES!

  • THE CHIMPANZEE PRESIDENT 1 year ago

    THIS DEBATE SHOULD END ASAP...EVERYONE KNOWS NKRUMAH'S CONTRIBUTION TO GHANA AND AFRICAS EMANCIPATION IS UNMATCHED...CHIMPANZEE ADDO

  • Gh 1 year ago

    Ghana was founded by Dr Kwame Nkrumah, all the other fools the npp with their state capture and Agyapadie mentality will not work,especially when the NDC comes to power. If you love Ghana, let us erase the Nana Akuffo Addo,Ba ...
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  • Nye bro 1 year ago

    Go and read your history books well before you come and spew rubbish here!

  • TALLERSTER NICHOLAS 1 year ago

    4TH AUGUST IS A STUPID HOLIDAY FROM A STUPID GOVERNMENT!
    What is the significance of declaring 4th August as a national holiday? It is only a calculated attempt to honour those who played little to nothing in our quest to be ...
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  • Ye de owuo ka 1 year ago

    Frimpong Anokye is entitled to his opinion to assuage his whims and caprices. Yet, most unbiased and well-meaning Ghanaians do strongly agree with and endorse Nana Addo's exhaustive analysis of all the various episodes, whic ...
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  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    GHANAWEB SO YOU MEAN TELL ME, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HOW NANA JNANA HAS TRANSFORMED DUMASUA? MMMOA.

    Keep reporting about Kwasia Tutu and his clout chasing akwasidae on foreign soil while ignoring chiefs who brings true developm ...
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  • Baaba Gyekye 1 year ago

    Bastie, the stinky fool, your dormaa odikro was frothing in the mouth spewing his b3b3b3b3 nonsense. Tell him to take time to speak, as his condition makes his spitting worse if he shouts.

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    What about your Canada owifuo Asantehene ?

  • Enoch 1 year ago

    Asantehene is a pedophile. We know what he does in South Africa

  • TT 1 year ago

    So the National flag, National anthem and the crest only GA and ewe names were were mentioned

  • Buwumia Miaing Ghanaians 1 year ago

    And yet because of the state capture agenda by this Akyem family, they want to denigrate THE Osagyefo himself! The Financial Sector in Ghana has been captured, the Insurance sector captured, Judiciary captured, Police servic ...
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  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    UGCC members were very lazy and ignorant,they didn't need Kwame Nkrumah to come and do the donkey job.
    I pity Nana Addo for making reference to the 1897 Land Bill as road map to independence.
    As far back as 1471 when the fi ...
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  • Kwame Peter 1 year ago

    Anokye Frimpong or whatever you call yourself,on the night of 6th of March 1957 where were you? Because you know Ghanaians don’t like reading you go and read history books skewed against NPP and its antecedents and present ...
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  • Anonymous 1 year ago

    Who is this JB Danquah____let Akufo Addo honor him in Kyebi___desist from making noise in our ears.He does not deserve even a page in Ghana's history.

  • Cheddar Is the real deal 1 year ago

    Small time Nana Addo will say Ghana belong to his uncle.
    A very cheap man called president

  • Enyo 1 year ago

    This man is more CPP than historian! History is history, you may not like J.B. and others for their political views and that’s understandable but history is history!! The big six spearheaded Ghana’s independence period… ...
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  • Kingsley 1 year ago

    Soon the truth history of Ghana will be revealed. The traitors of Ghana from JB Danquah, Busia,Afrifa, Kotoka,K4 and Akufu will surely apologize to the Nation.Ghanaians are well awake now, the bullshit fed to the ignorant Ash ...
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  • Atiah!!! 1 year ago

    This will lead NPP into opposition. Just watch it!!!!

  • Jidoshaki 1 year ago

    It was kotoka an eve man who over throw Dr kwame Nkrumah not an Akan... It's Rawlins who over throw elected president Dr Hilla Liman a CPP president not an Akan. Ghana's problem is the trokosi ayigbe tribe.

  • KWAKU PORTO RICO 1 year ago

    A lot of low IQ people in Ghana... enough of this nkrumah stories.... may he RIP...he did his part and Ghana thank him for that and is about time to move forward.... can any critical thinking person on this forum answer this ...
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  • FTT 1 year ago

    Liar anokye Frimpong is a stomach historian

  • Dante Inferno 1 year ago

    What he the president think is not important he just confirmed that a section of Ghanaians belief Nkrumah is the sole funder of the nation that is what important. If u believe there is no God that doesn’t mean God do not ex ...
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  • Marcus Adepaye 1 year ago

    Idiot of a lawyer!!! When the UGCC first pushed the agenda fir Ghana's independence, where was Nkrumah?? If those ahead of Nkrumah had not started earlier would Nkrumah alone, as you making us believe, achieve independence in ...
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  • Agbeli Kumordzi 1 year ago

    Ashates in Ghana today are opportunistOur people worked hard and Gbedemah financed Kwame Nkrumah now that tge fufu is ready Ashates are claiming Ghana
    We know the history if Ghana better than the Ashates who joined Ghana la ...
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  • Jb danquah 1 year ago

    Check South Africa, many people came before Nelson Mandela and others like Steve Biko etc but Nelson Mandela has been taken as a founder. Every country has founder, it doesn't mean he is the sole founder no. Wicked people try ...
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  • Marcus Adepaye 1 year ago

    So the Brtish were so afraid of Nkrumah that they had to give Ghana independence just in the short period between the time he arrived in Ghana and 6th March 1957?? So called lawyer anokye wise up and stop the foolishness.

  • Eben 1 year ago

    Dr Nkrumah fought the ugcc and British for 10 years and was imprisoned many times. Read your history

  • Paulino 1 year ago

    Thanks & God Bless You for the Bitter Truth well spoken!

  • Joe Kwasi 1 year ago

    Akofo Addo got it all wrong. He should think big and school from the nzemas period.

  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    Danquah was not just in the crowd observing, he was also plotting what was later to become the Busia/Danquah weapon of choice for attaining power: throwing bombs at Nkrumah and killing innocent Ghanaians.

  • Biggy 1 year ago

    With such bad reasoning no wonder Akufo Addo has thrown the country into chaos. He struggles to understand and it tells how he answers questions in a class.

  • Nkwantabisa 1 year ago

    Why should Ghanaians allow that monkey face of a president to change Ghana's history? Even the Baby in the womb of his mother knows Kwame Nkrumah is the founder of Ghana but not that Akyem idiots who were great obstacle to Gh ...
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  • CARLOS 1 year ago

    This Frimpong Anokye doesn't know what he is saying.
    Because of his hatred for for some people he is always talking trash. Where was he standing to see J B Danquah and how old was he on that fateful day? He should stop his n ...
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  • Sul 1 year ago

    THEM FOOL WAAAAAA

  • Accra is dirty.com 1 year ago

    That was why Nkrumah caged him into prison because JB DANQUAH was a traitor and wanted Ghana to remain under the shackles of colonial dominance rulers