See Nkrumah's scathing letter to Kofi Busia, telling him he was a 'complete failure in politics'

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  • THE LETTER SMACKS OF BITTERNESS! 9 months ago

    Nkrumah still couldnt come to terms that it was over for him!

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    You are a FOOL. Dr Busia was a FAILURE. He had NO BRAINS TO SEE THAT-YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW. WHY? Dr Busia brought the SAD ALIENS COMPLIANCES ORDER LIKE DONALD TRUMP IS DOING TO CANADA AND MEXICO. DR Busia DEPORTED ALL NIGERIA ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 9 months ago

    you can tell so much about a person simply based on what they are wearing. even before they speak. i mean look a this pic and see how everyone else is dressed and look at busia. i mean what is he wearing? look at the jacket. ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 9 months ago

    what trump is doing with canada is not personal trump just dislikes trudeau majorly as a person for who he is. ive met trudeau. the guy lacks any iota of personality. trudeau is like a neighborhood kid with the ball, jersey, ...
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  • SHIMANO 9 months ago

    Why not...???? When you have struggled to undertake such MASSIVE & UNPRECEDENTED development projects for your beloved country, only for some FILTHY CRIMINAL INFIDELS to come and destroy everything that you have done. Was it ...
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  • ST Ghfuo: KWAME NKRUMAH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 9 months ago

    no, the letter smacks of... i told you so, dummy. ouch....nkrumah campaigned for busia just like how you feed a pig for 12 months and kill it for xmas

  • Nsia 9 months ago

    @No Sir, it was devoid of bitterness. It was to tell worse than hopeless, dumb poodle of the West Kofi Abrefa Busia , that he was of as much use to Ghana as a soluble drainpipe. Busia, just like Akufo Addo was hopeless. A fac ...
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  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    YES-YES-Dr Busia HAD no BRAINS-ALIENS COMPLIANCE ORDER AGAINST OUR OWN BLACK BROTHERS FROM NIGERIA-We DEPEND ON NIGERIA UP TO DATE- PRESIDENT OBASANJO HELPED PRESIDENT KUFFOUR VERY WELL WITH MONEY AND OIL. BUT Busia DEPORTED ...
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  • Nsia 9 months ago

    When sensible Kwame Nkrumah, raised money from the Eastern contries ....China, USSR, Hungary, Poland an Czechoslovakia to build the BUI Dam, damp squib and utterly useless Kofi Busia branded him a communist. When useless Busi ...
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  • Kwesi 9 months ago

    Please check your facts well, for Nkrumah never built Akosombo Dam with funds from then Eastern Block countries. Rather it was from the Americans

  • Water again 9 months ago

    It really helps to read, and read well. The post said BUI dam. Now comment intellectually on this

  • Jonas 9 months ago

    All these back and forth who was better than who doesn't serve Ghana any good. We have to look forward and find solutions to our current problems. Those past leaders are gone. They operated in different political era's where ...
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  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    He did NOT read it properly. UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL-Dr Busia-DEPORTED ALL NIGERIANS FROM GHANA AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTER SOME YEARS-NIGERIA DEPORTED ALL GHANAINS FROM GHANA-YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW-AFRICA MUST UNITE-BOB ...
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  • Kwesi Amonsi 9 months ago

    He didn't say Akosombo Dam. He said Bui Dam. Read well

  • KWASI IN EUROPE 9 months ago

    God bless Nkrumah's soul.

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    AMEN, AMEn, AMEN-UNITED WE STAND-DIVIDED WE FALL. BOB MARLEY-AFRICA UNITE. BUt Busia DEPORTED ALL NIGERIANS AND AFTER SOME YEARS-NIGERIA DEPORTED ALL GHANAIANS-YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW-AFRICA MUST UNITE-DR KWAME NKRUMAH FORESAW- ...
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  • Donatus 9 months ago

    Oh, I see, I was just about 2 or three years old then.

  • Sam Fante warrior. 9 months ago

    If you see Busia and his dressing up then you can know he was very typical villager. NPP the enemies of Ghana.

  • Ghana First 9 months ago

    Mr. writer, please write on something that will move Ghana forward and stop this unnecessary and unwanted backward information. Will this information put food and water on our tables? Continue on such backwards past informat ...
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  • Water again 9 months ago

    This is a proper "Ghana first" story that teaches about our ugly political history and what can be gleaned from that so we don't repeat said history in our historical ignorance. Come again

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    Please-It applies today-NOW, NOW- Nigeria President Obasanjo helped Ghana President Kuffour with Cars for the Ghana Police, OIL etc free of charge. that is what Dr Kwame Nkrumah stood for-HELP YOUR BROTHER-Because you DO NOT ...
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  • Asiedu Nketia 9 months ago

    Busia sacked our Nigerian brothers in 1969 Alien Compliance Order. But his NPP supporters are now ashamed. Ghana and Nigeria are one again. Long Live ECOWAS. Long live Africa. No tribalism. No molest. One should be his brothe ...
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  • You illiterate buffoon 9 months ago

    Does requiring people to regularize their stay in a foreign country equals expulsion? Can you live in a foreign country legally without proper documentation? The measure was not limited to Nigerians, but all foreigners in Gha ...
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  • Kojo poku 9 months ago

    President Kuffour was part of the Dr Busia government that deported millions of our brothers and sisters Nigerian who gave birth to their children in Ghana. It was a senseless policy because we have more that unite us as blac ...
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  • Ghana first. 9 months ago

    I agree with your statements.

  • Kojo poku 9 months ago

    Very well written brother. I was taught in Ghana good Nigerian teachers born in Ghana. Mr S E Olaniyi Akanbe and Mr Ademola. They were well well better than the Ghana teachers. We have more that unite us culturally than divi ...
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  • KWAKU BADU (THE MAN HIDING IN THE SPIDER'S WEB 9 months ago

    PLEASE, GHANA WEB, WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY COMMENT PAGE???
    It has been a while that I have not been able to read well or pass my own comments at the comments section. I want to know whether a virus has been deliberately pla ...
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  • Sir kk 9 months ago

    I suspect the writer intends to draw the current government's attention to watchful of the very things they complained about the past government.

  • Alberto 9 months ago

    Ghanaweb this will not put bread and butter on our table so let us focus on Mahama in power and stop the unnecessary stuffs.

  • HISTORY REPEATING IT SELF 9 months ago

    Our gone fathers that lived in both the days of Nkrumma and Busia have told this stories time and time again about the wickedness of NPP Busia Party. How they try to be the pharoes of ghana. The stealing and lies , the peachi ...
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  • Mr no nonsense 9 months ago

    Nkrumah was a bloody dictator,he deserved to be overthrown,he's the down fall of Ghana , but we don't want the truth.

  • Shamsi Waleed 9 months ago

    Dictator yet he was the best president or leader Ghana ever had. After he was overthrown, what has Ghana gained?

  • Kwaseato, what makes him best president Ghana ever had? 9 months ago

    Anybody who assumed power after independence has been attained could have done better with the resources Ghana had. Compare the state of Ghana's development to that of Malaysia and Singapore and get out of your stupid mindset ...
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  • be wise 9 months ago

    You people will never stop your lies and propaganda. Hell is prepared for the devil and his lying children. So will all sons of the UP tradition burn in hell, for you lie from the buttom of your hearts as if your lies are the ...
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  • Felix 9 months ago

    Another follsoldier from the NPP.
    Of all the dictatorship tag, Nkrumah has always been hailed as one of the best leaders Africa(not just Ghana) has ever had. His named is mentioned everywhere in the world.

    J. B. Dankwah ...
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  • Nana Kyeamee 9 months ago

    What else would Nkrumah say about Prof Busia? If Busia had not gone into exile, Nkrumah was going to put him in prison as he did to Danquah.

  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    I am very sad this morning after reading Dr Kwame Nkrumah letter to Dr K A Busia-the failure-He deported ALL Nigerians from Ghana and then Nigeria also PAID Ghana back-by deporting ALL Ghanaians in Nigeria-YOU REAP WHAT YOU S ...
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  • Communist dictator's rant 9 months ago

    Nkrumah's own behaviour in politics is what caught up with him. No soldier would have supported the coup had he not been a repressive dictator even if the coup was instigated by the CIA as Ghanaian communists allege

  • Felix 9 months ago

    Listen to this ignorant guy.
    So you mean CIA did not orchestrate the coup to overthrow Nkrumah?

    Ignorance is a terrible disease.

  • Benitopp 9 months ago

    Brainless ndc fools, just conceptualize the motive behind the writing. Kwame was bitter for being kicked out of office after his bad policies.Ghanaians rejected kwame largely after turning Ghana into one party state ang a god ...
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  • Benitopp 9 months ago

    When the British we're leaving Ghana after independence they bequethed to us 5 million pounds .At that time Ghana's population was below 5 million and we were not owing at that time.In just 4 years time Ghana had squandered t ...
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  • Kojo poku 9 months ago

    You are a fool because when Ghana gained independence, all the population were illiterates and had no education. Few people were educated in the UK and US. Dr Kwame Nkrumah had to build schools, hospitals and Dams, Valco Alum ...
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  • From the kettle to the furnace 9 months ago

    If you ghanaweb think you can imprint some past and historical case on some of us , then you are joking

  • Nsia 9 months ago

    @ Kwesi, Americans keep talking about George Washington, the Brits never stop talking about Winston Chur hill, We will forever talk about the genius called Kwame Nkrumah and the hopelessness and uselssness of Danquah, Busi ...
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  • Benitopp 9 months ago

    Kojo poku, you are a bloody fool. If majority of Ghanaians were illiterates at the time of independence which experts was was kwame expecting to effectively manage the factories he was building? Time is is essential when taki ...
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  • Kojo Poku-London-UK 9 months ago

    BONITOPP-you are a misguided person. The whiteman or the Colonialist left Ghana with no education of our people-THE MASSES. That was the problem. Take for example the Northern part of Ghana. Everybody in the North had NO EDUC ...
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  • world 9 months ago

    nkruma , a selfish and betrayal.

  • Nkrumah was petty 9 months ago

    Nkrumah was not a good man — was he that nasty?

  • Kwabena 9 months ago

    Who is Ghana's greatest leader Nkrumah or Rawlings

  • Joe 9 months ago

    Please let's have peace in Ghana and allow those who are dead to rest in peace. After all as Ghanaians nobody Is fallible as there might be criminals among us.

  • Busia and npp complete failure in politics 9 months ago

    Nkrumah said this: Busia and by extension nana addo show boy npp is a complete failure