'Settle the debate about Ghana's founding fathers' – Haruna Iddrisu to curriculum review committee

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How Does This Develop Skills For Job Creation! 8 months ago

Is this what you were sent there to do?

Is this what you were sent there to do?
FRANKIE 8 months ago

The debate is already settled. There is no big six. There is only one BIIIIIIIIIIG one. He is Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Africa's greatest personality of the last Millenium. He IS THE FOUNDER of GHANA!

The debate is already settled. There is no big six. There is only one BIIIIIIIIIIG one. He is Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Africa's greatest personality of the last Millenium. He IS THE FOUNDER of GHANA!
Wwwe 8 months ago

Ofuibiba since 1990s there was big six only fools will post this stupidity animals we HV the big six period

Ofuibiba since 1990s there was big six only fools will post this stupidity animals we HV the big six period
Sycamore 8 months ago

What's wrong this you piffle? Are yoh on drugs ? What kinda vulgar language are you using to respond to a fellow commenter? Clearly your parents are sick upstairs like you for bringing up a rift raft like you. Nonsense!

What's wrong this you piffle? Are yoh on drugs ? What kinda vulgar language are you using to respond to a fellow commenter? Clearly your parents are sick upstairs like you for bringing up a rift raft like you. Nonsense!
Kweku Tsin 7 months ago

While the work of Nkrumah was instrumental, no body founded Ghana. Ghana was already in existence under Gold Coast looking for NEW leadership and way forward. The key people who influenced our independence were King Bonne of ...
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While the work of Nkrumah was instrumental, no body founded Ghana. Ghana was already in existence under Gold Coast looking for NEW leadership and way forward. The key people who influenced our independence were King Bonne of Osu, Sgt Adjetey, LCpl Atipoe, Private Odartey Lamptey, and {Nkrumah, big six}
What is he NZEMA word for osagyefoc 7 months ago

Why did Nkrumah not use that?

Why did Nkrumah not use that?
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Mahamas Appointees Becoming an Embarrasment! 8 months ago

Some of these so called politicians are just hopeless!

Some of these so called politicians are just hopeless!
Ben Western Region 8 months ago

Haruna is this a priority? Who’s paying for the committee’s work? At a time when the nation is facing crumbling infrastructure and economic hardship why should Ghanaians be concerned about who founded Ghana. Please let’ ...
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Haruna is this a priority? Who’s paying for the committee’s work? At a time when the nation is facing crumbling infrastructure and economic hardship why should Ghanaians be concerned about who founded Ghana. Please let’s stop this nonsense and focus on our pressing needs! Who cares about who founded Ghana when we are hungry! Let’s be serious for a change!
Hanyevi 8 months ago

Unless you are supporting the bastardisation of the country to mean many useless people found it! Kwame nkrumah is the founder of Ghana period!

Unless you are supporting the bastardisation of the country to mean many useless people found it! Kwame nkrumah is the founder of Ghana period!
Wwwe 8 months ago

Animal red history there's big six

Animal red history there's big six
CITIZEN 8 months ago

Is this part of the resetting agenda? Let's get serious with development and stop the needless propaganda

Is this part of the resetting agenda? Let's get serious with development and stop the needless propaganda
AKF 8 months ago

Dear Honourable Minister of Education. Curriculum Review Committee is not meant to rewrite the history of Ghana. Let them develop Curriculum that make our students to think critically, discipline, honest and patriotic. That ...
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Dear Honourable Minister of Education. Curriculum Review Committee is not meant to rewrite the history of Ghana. Let them develop Curriculum that make our students to think critically, discipline, honest and patriotic. That's the focus but not who is the founding father of Ghana.
Musa 8 months ago

Fact is that when nkrumah was attaining independence the yaaanom event went to the extent of writing a letter to England stressing that they do not support the fight. How can the yaaanom then be part of the founding fathers?? ...
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Fact is that when nkrumah was attaining independence the yaaanom event went to the extent of writing a letter to England stressing that they do not support the fight. How can the yaaanom then be part of the founding fathers????
DON’T BE STUPID. THINK UNLIKE AN AFRICAN 7 months ago

It appears the Big 5 knew what could happen to Ghana 100 years ahead of their time and desired a properly structured transition. One man thought he knew it all the five had started the struggle were wrong. Today, Guinea, Ivor ...
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It appears the Big 5 knew what could happen to Ghana 100 years ahead of their time and desired a properly structured transition. One man thought he knew it all the five had started the struggle were wrong. Today, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Senegal and Kenya have overtaken us and we are proud to get visas to Europe, hold British and US passports and start conversations about our children studying in American Universities. In case you didn’t know, the Big 5 were never against independence. They were concerned with a systematic change where we would not be colonised by the Lebanese, Syrians and Chinese in the foreseeable future. They were planning an independence where we would not go begging and above all, to secure a political system without the abuse of power. Unfortunately, most Africans are such that if you put a book and a mobile phone before them, the former seems worthless. Between toto and work, they’ll choose gbemi. They can’t seem to think right, to understand that work leads to wealth and that guarantees the best sormi. Nkrumah, Castro, Mugabe were poisoned by communist tenets. They chose a system that would make them gods among the population and have roads, schools and places named after them. Sorry, but Accra cannot be renamed Nkrumah Town or the Ghanaian changed to Nkrumanian. He sowed the disunity that has plagued us to this day and hour. He taught us to collapse the businesses of our employers and set up ours. We learned to pull our helpers down from Nkrumah. He taught us to demonize and destroy those who feed us when we are hungry. The legacy he left has been profound and still resurfaces in many aspects of our understanding or misunderstanding of teamwork in this country. Maybe we must be a little more circumspect to point out the land Nkrumah truly founded: Volta. It’s no lie when we admit that Nkrumah is the founder of Ayigbeland.
Deano 8 months ago

There was no Ghana until Nkrumah joined the independence movement’ He didn’t start the movement be accelerated the movement and he chose the name Ghana. So he founded Ghana

There was no Ghana until Nkrumah joined the independence movement’ He didn’t start the movement be accelerated the movement and he chose the name Ghana. So he founded Ghana
Owan Yaw aka Teteman Ubi 8 months ago

Ghana does not need a politically motivated text book in the school curriculum. The information is easily accessible in British journals and writings. Similarly, historians like the late F. K. Buah wrote extensively on this s ...
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Ghana does not need a politically motivated text book in the school curriculum. The information is easily accessible in British journals and writings. Similarly, historians like the late F. K. Buah wrote extensively on this subject. No need to waste taxpayers money on something as irrelevant as this.
Ujah 8 months ago

My big friend Harunah, the vagabonds do not like this at all, they don't feel easy, they don't want to know what country they live in, who found the country n of course who lead the country to independence. They prefer to be ...
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My big friend Harunah, the vagabonds do not like this at all, they don't feel easy, they don't want to know what country they live in, who found the country n of course who lead the country to independence. They prefer to be another human being in the world not a country.
Cye 8 months ago

Look who's talking, in the same way the we have finish debate on Christians and Muslim who owns Ghana and why ndc wants to give Ghana 18% Muslims. Why did you Foolishly made your two holidays general and Easter holidays optio ...
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Look who's talking, in the same way the we have finish debate on Christians and Muslim who owns Ghana and why ndc wants to give Ghana 18% Muslims. Why did you Foolishly made your two holidays general and Easter holidays optional for SHS student. Be warn and don't try that stupidity again before we call for referendum to decide
Koti 8 months ago

Irrelevant and won't put food on our tables. How would knowing the founding fathers impact on our ailing economy. Don't we have great thinkers in Ghana? Is this the resetting promised?

Irrelevant and won't put food on our tables. How would knowing the founding fathers impact on our ailing economy. Don't we have great thinkers in Ghana? Is this the resetting promised?
Cye 8 months ago

Look who's talking? in the same way we have to finish the debate on Christians and Muslims who owns Ghana and why ndc wants to give Ghana to just 18% Muslims. Why did you Foolishly make your two holidays general and Easter ho ...
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Look who's talking? in the same way we have to finish the debate on Christians and Muslims who owns Ghana and why ndc wants to give Ghana to just 18% Muslims. Why did you Foolishly make your two holidays general and Easter holidays optional for SHS students. Be warn and don't try that stupidity again before we call for referendum to decide who should lead Ghana
Waters 8 months ago

Haruna, whether is One person or Big Six, that's not we ask you guys to do. Fix the country. How does this fix the country? NPP couldn't fix it, and NDC had always been incompitent. It's a shame we can't get people who will r ...
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Haruna, whether is One person or Big Six, that's not we ask you guys to do. Fix the country. How does this fix the country? NPP couldn't fix it, and NDC had always been incompitent. It's a shame we can't get people who will rescue Ghanaians out of this misery. This buffoons in Parliament called honourable, are really not fit. Both NPP and NDC dishonourable are there for their stomach. What a shame.
Asakramitogs 8 months ago

Osagyefo Francis Kofi Nwiah Nkrumah is the Founder of Ghana. The Kyebi mafia cannot change our history. Where were those so called founders when Nkrumah declared our independence at the polo grounds. Even Nii Kwabena Bonnet,. ...
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Osagyefo Francis Kofi Nwiah Nkrumah is the Founder of Ghana. The Kyebi mafia cannot change our history. Where were those so called founders when Nkrumah declared our independence at the polo grounds. Even Nii Kwabena Bonnet,. Boycottehene and Osu Kinkawe Mantse played a bigger role than the Kyebi Danquah. An American.agent who has never won any election in his entire life before. By the way are they not going to bring Akuffo Addo's statue being reconstructed by a foolish pastor to Kyebi?
Fifi Afriyie 8 months ago

Make sure you don’t include J B Danquah and his notorious gang members as founding fathers of Ghana. They didn’t want Independence in the first place.

Make sure you don’t include J B Danquah and his notorious gang members as founding fathers of Ghana. They didn’t want Independence in the first place.
Kwabena Gyamfi 8 months ago

I support the idea of Founding Fathers and not a Founding father. Nkrumah was the leader at independence and must be recognised as such.
At least some people started the agitation for independence before Nkrumah joined in. ...
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I support the idea of Founding Fathers and not a Founding father. Nkrumah was the leader at independence and must be recognised as such.
At least some people started the agitation for independence before Nkrumah joined in. How can someone who joined later be the sole founding father? I also do not understand why the Asantehene at the time has not been recognised as a founding father? Without his agreement and cooperation, Ghana would not be as it is today. Why? Because, he agreed to join up to make up present Ghana. Founding fathers will settle the issue!
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KofSam 8 months ago

There should be no debate about Ghana’s founding fathers. It has been in the history books since our independence and no body should reward Akuffo Addo with his version of our founding fathers. Our historians have settled t ...
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There should be no debate about Ghana’s founding fathers. It has been in the history books since our independence and no body should reward Akuffo Addo with his version of our founding fathers. Our historians have settled that issue long ago and I do not know why Ghana should re-visit that topic now. Haruna Iddrisu should focus on our dilapidated school cycle . Ghana has been experimenting with different academic systems with educational ministers crafting our school cycles for us based on which party is in power. The present rotational cycle must be abolished. The academic community in the country including professors doctorate holders, educators, students must all come together to create a suitable educational cycle and system that is suitable for the country.
Kweku 8 months ago

Ghanaian politicians should stop interfering in the education of this country. The qiesttion of who founded Ghana is purely an academic issue which could easily be settled on by giving it out as a research project topic to po ...
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Ghanaian politicians should stop interfering in the education of this country. The qiesttion of who founded Ghana is purely an academic issue which could easily be settled on by giving it out as a research project topic to postgraduate students of our universities and their findings would determine the founder(s) of Ghana.. There's no need for politicians to set a curriculum committee to determine the real founders of Ghana because they will never be objective and they will do the bidding of their political masters. This committee will surely conclude that Kwame Nkrumah is the founder of Ghana
Henry Hevi 8 months ago

Ghanaweb,kindly let us know the composition of the Committee.
Thanks.

Ghanaweb,kindly let us know the composition of the Committee.
Thanks.
Concerned one 7 months ago

Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the founder period

Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the founder period
KOFI Acheampong --Kai --Ganyo =bi--AMARTEIFIO 7 months ago

Kwame Nkrumah definitely was one of the persons who were instrumental in the founding of GHANA ------Why is it so hard for some people to settle for a FOUNDING FATHERS'--instead of one founding Father.
It was rather unfortu ...
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Kwame Nkrumah definitely was one of the persons who were instrumental in the founding of GHANA ------Why is it so hard for some people to settle for a FOUNDING FATHERS'--instead of one founding Father.
It was rather unfortunate that Kwame Nkrumah megalomaniac as he proved to be was never decent and humble to share the honor with his fellow members--remember he was invited to come join the others to fight for the INDEPENDENCE of GHANA -----
Let us face the FACT that Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah was more of an AFRICAN than a GHANAIAN -----Nkrumah never LOVED GHANA more than he LOVED AFRICA-----Nkrumah might have been vocal--[voiceferious] in championing the independence of GHANA but that never lessens the significant contribution of the other BIG SIX MEMBERS-----and that makes them BIG SIX -----KWAME NKRUMAH Loved AFRICA more than he loved GHANA.-----Let us put POLITICS aside --THE BIG SIX are the founding FATHERS'
KOFI Acheampong --Kai --Ganyo =bi--AMARTEIFIO 7 months ago

Yes --of cause Kwame Nkrumah was instrumental in getting INDEPENDENCE of our NATION -GHANA but never should the credit be given to only Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah--the FACT that Kwame Nkrumah was brought in to join the other ...
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Yes --of cause Kwame Nkrumah was instrumental in getting INDEPENDENCE of our NATION -GHANA but never should the credit be given to only Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah--the FACT that Kwame Nkrumah was brought in to join the other five members of the UGCC--to press on for GHANA'S INDEPENDENCE--remains---even though Ako Adjei & Kwame Nkrumah broke ranks from the group --the fight for INDEPENDENCE never was halted-----It was carried on successfully and The Independence of GHANA was historically achieved.
Hence it must not be claimed that only one individual must be credited as the one and only FOUNDING FATHER----the other 5 individuals must be also recognized as Founding Fathers-----Let it not be a political partisan affair -----FOUNDING FATHERS' must PREVAIL period.--we must not re-write HISTORY------Let the historical fact be FOUNDING FATHERS'
---OSAGYEFO of cause was Ghana's first Prime Minister --and was also our first President.

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'Settle the debate about Ghana's founding fathers' – Haruna Iddrisu to curriculum review committee

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