Today in History: February 1, 1964 – Ghana becomes a one-party State under Kwame Nkrumah and CPP

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  • Never steal the people's power 11 months ago

    Socialism and dictatorship destroyed Nkrumah. He studied in USA and UK, yet his heart was full of Socialism and Dictatorship as against thriving Democracy and Capitalism. Oh poor NKRUMAH! Hisweird beliefs and egos destroyed h ...
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  • DotCom 11 months ago

    I agree with the idea that we should fight to protect our democracy however, when the CIA undermined Nkrumah through J. B. Dankwa and the opposition (check CIA’s own report on Nkrumah), he had no choice but to disband the o ...
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  • Tony Bruce 11 months ago

    One-party state was the best form of governance. No NPP/NDC nonsense.

  • Mensa 11 months ago

    Tony,obviously you were not around in the CPP days before the coup.Oh how I wish you live through those days...I am old now but I remember the oppression...hmmm

  • Steve Kaye London 11 months ago

    @ Tony Bruce, go to Russia, China, and North Korea if you want a one party state and see if you can even make a comment on social media just as you have done.

  • TWEAA DC 11 months ago

    TONY BRUCE CAN KILL HIMSELF...ONE PARTY STATE IS DEAD IN GHANA...NKRUMAH WAS LUCKY...GHANA'S POPULATION WAS JUST ABOUT 6 MILLION AND ABOUT 5 MILLION WERE UNEDUCATED....TWEAA.

  • AI 11 months ago

    KWAME NKRUMAH WAS 100% RIGHT
    Multi-party politics is not good for Africa. Though Nana Addo is the worst example to cite, most African leaders have the ’winner-take-all’ mentality and opposition parties turn into terrori ...
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  • OGyam 11 months ago

    @Never steal the peoples power, what good was the bogus democracy we witnessed under useless Akufo Addo? Now, the last time I checked, useless Akufo Addo was constantly going to the one party state communist govt in China ...
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  • TWEAA DC 11 months ago

    THE MORE REASON YOU ARE CALLED OGYAM....A STUPID NONENTITY OF A HOMO SAPIEN...TWEAA

  • Kofi Ghanaba 11 months ago

    That was the beginning of Nkrumah’s downfall.

  • Golden 11 months ago

    THE GREAT DR.KWAME NKRUMAH HAD A REAL VISION TO UNITE THE RICH AFRICAN CONTINENT WITH SO MUCH GOD-GIVEN NATURAL RESOURCES,PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!
    TIME FOR OUR LEADERS TO WAKE UP AND STOP BEING PUPPETS,PUT AN END TO DECADES OF FOREI ...
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  • Kofi Ghanaba 11 months ago

    Qwami N Krumah or Kwame Nkrumah had a lot of enemies in Ghana.His aim was greater Africa or African independence.In his own backyard Ghana opposition was great.

  • Accranie 11 months ago

    Right Now It Seems Gh. Past Was More Bearable(Dr Nkrumah's Tenure) Than the Condition It's People are Enduring Today, But For A Reason or Two We(Critical Mass) Still Hold That Believe that Someday/Somehow Gh./Africans Will Id ...
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  • Gaslg 11 months ago

    Do we have multiparty fatherhood, multiparty clan head, multiparty chieftaincy, etc? It's alien to our African nature.
    Everyone knows it's causing problems for us but we are helpless. Problems during campaign and elections, ...
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  • Benito 11 months ago

    Please I want somebody to answer this question for him. When Ghana gained her independence and kwame Nkrumah became the president, was Ghana owing any country or organization?? how much millions of pounds did they leave for G ...
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  • Kojo Samuel. 11 months ago

    The Nkrumah Kwame Dr. President Osagyefo was not a dictatorship since the Ghana have to get the friidom that urge him entire sympathy of his will to let Ghana becomes friidom! And even though his government was with Gh ...
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  • OGyam 11 months ago

    @TWEA DC.... We can always distinguish the brain farts of your breed from those with a modicum of sense in the heads. Simply, typing comments in caps is a typical example of a dick head such as you.Ofui!

  • Busanga ideas-Talensi Junction 11 months ago

    And he died with his CPP, now this parasites are riding on his shoulders to manipulate the gullible ones to milk Ghanaians

  • Francis 11 months ago

    We would have been much better off as a one party state. The multi party democracy is not doing us any good. It has divided us as a nation because the political parties are ethnically based. We are not making any progress as ...
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