J.B. Danquah And Co.: The Case For The Preventive Detention Act Part 2

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Kwabena Akurang-Parry 9 years ago

Excellent research, balanced account, and multiple perspectives that pay forensic attention to details. We don't have to agree with Francis, but there is no doubt that we can agree to disagree here: his illuminating essay bas ...
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Excellent research, balanced account, and multiple perspectives that pay forensic attention to details. We don't have to agree with Francis, but there is no doubt that we can agree to disagree here: his illuminating essay based on painstaking research is the type we expect to read on Ghanaweb.Thanks to his intellectual orchestra that separates reason from faith.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

The same copy and paste nonsense from the same idiot francis kwarteng the same time.

The same copy and paste nonsense from the same idiot francis kwarteng the same time.
mother'schild 9 years ago

If we as a people would this web in the manner you and Francis have done then one has hope in a Ghana. Right now,just have a look at the politicians and you can see the tragedy of Africa

If we as a people would this web in the manner you and Francis have done then one has hope in a Ghana. Right now,just have a look at the politicians and you can see the tragedy of Africa
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brother Akurang-Parry,

Thanks for your great words of encouragement.

Please, remember you are an established traiblaizer in the American Academy, and up-and-coming writers like me are following in your footseps.
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Dear Brother Akurang-Parry,

Thanks for your great words of encouragement.

Please, remember you are an established traiblaizer in the American Academy, and up-and-coming writers like me are following in your footseps.

I have taken note of your academic work, as I said sometime ago. Also, you, Brother Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, Ama Mazama, Cheikh Anta Diop, Theophile Obenga, Kofi Kissi Dompere, Molefi Kete Asante, etc., have been of great inspiration to me and several others.

Thanks.
OLIVER TWIST 9 years ago

AKWASI AMANKWA AFRIFA AND HIS COHORTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED IN 1972 INSTEAD OF 1978.
GHANA OWE MAJOR OSAHENE KOJO BOAKYE DJAN AND CHAIRMAN RAWLINGS A WEALTH OF GRATITUDE FOR EXECUTING AFRIFA BY FIRING SQUAD AT TESHIE MI ...
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AKWASI AMANKWA AFRIFA AND HIS COHORTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED IN 1972 INSTEAD OF 1978.
GHANA OWE MAJOR OSAHENE KOJO BOAKYE DJAN AND CHAIRMAN RAWLINGS A WEALTH OF GRATITUDE FOR EXECUTING AFRIFA BY FIRING SQUAD AT TESHIE MILITARY RANGE.
AFRIFA IS A CRIMINAL IN UNIFORM AND A TERRORIST. HE WAS EXECUTED TO BRING PEACE TO GHANA.
NOW WE HAVE TO EXECIUTE OSAFO MARFO AND HIS NPP COHORTS TO SAVE GHANA OUR HOMELAND!

WE THE YOUTHOF GHANA WILL TAKE THAT TASK UPON OURSELVES AND FINISH THE JOB. WE SHALL TARGE NPP LEADERSHIP AND PUT THEM TO SLEEP FOR GOOD.
ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH OSAFO MARFO WILL HAVE TO ELIMINATED.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

And Prof.

I still await your prosopograhical take on Nkrumah's dictatorship, and hopefully without any prosopagnosia.

Please, indulge me.

And Prof.

I still await your prosopograhical take on Nkrumah's dictatorship, and hopefully without any prosopagnosia.

Please, indulge me.
Kwabena Akurang-Parry 9 years ago

I hope you are doing very well. I am exceedingly busy having moved to Cape Vas. For my part, a work of scholarship must go through several mills of reworkin before it is served for public consumption. In short, my essay is be ...
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I hope you are doing very well. I am exceedingly busy having moved to Cape Vas. For my part, a work of scholarship must go through several mills of reworkin before it is served for public consumption. In short, my essay is being incubated and you will have when I think it is ready. Thanks and keep on writing.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

Thanks Prof.

Cape Vars is my alma mater, and I was the best history student in my time, only that I finally majored in English, and I was a TA at that department for a number of years.

Unlike Nkrumah, I buy my own ticke ...
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Thanks Prof.

Cape Vars is my alma mater, and I was the best history student in my time, only that I finally majored in English, and I was a TA at that department for a number of years.

Unlike Nkrumah, I buy my own tickets and visit Ghana very often, and I hope to see you at Cape Vars soon.

Thanks again.
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago

Your obsession with Nkrumah is what is downgrading and pinning you down as a brilliant but naughty and uncultured scholar among your peers. At least you could have shown some respect to Prof Akurang by not mudding yourself l ...
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Your obsession with Nkrumah is what is downgrading and pinning you down as a brilliant but naughty and uncultured scholar among your peers. At least you could have shown some respect to Prof Akurang by not mudding yourself like a pig with this self aggrandizement and the Nkrumah's hate slurs. I am not Nkrumah's fun but, unlike you, I cannot foolishly overlook how great an asset he was to Ghana and the world as a whole. Don't let your funs down for you started as a bright scholar here on Ghanaweb. Maybe you should emulate Kwarteng, profs Akurang and Okuampah? for their 'exemplaries'.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

1. Your selection of scholars here bespeaks your confusion.

2. I have never seen myself in terms of your idea of " a scholar". I am your typical kookooase krakye. My parents were born in the forest, and they never went to ...
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1. Your selection of scholars here bespeaks your confusion.

2. I have never seen myself in terms of your idea of " a scholar". I am your typical kookooase krakye. My parents were born in the forest, and they never went to school.

3. I am not better than anybody in any way, and I am not trying to impress any "fun" at any time. My aim for being a strong anti-Nkrumaist is to educate people about that evil genius, and in that I pull no punches. If this offends you, then I can assure you that you will never be happy with me.
kasapreko III 9 years ago

Ah! I can now understand where you are coming from.

Ah! I can now understand where you are coming from.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Kai! Best in history? You can't even get right Ghana's contemporary history from the 1950s onward right. Pathetic! Someof us can strt you from the Peloponnesian Wars to the Bugu-buga War of Anloga in 1953. Have you any clues ...
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Kai! Best in history? You can't even get right Ghana's contemporary history from the 1950s onward right. Pathetic! Someof us can strt you from the Peloponnesian Wars to the Bugu-buga War of Anloga in 1953. Have you any clues about these? One of these days, I'll send you a sketch of my paternal great, great, grandfather in "palava" at Dzelukope with the British after the Sagrenti War.

I am sure you have now learned who introduced PDA in Parliament. I was shocked when you credited Gbedema with that. You have no clue about the PDA besides hearsay and vile NLC propaganda. I know things about some detentions you can't find in any written records though I can point you to records authored by the NLC which even absolved Nkrumah from some detentions.

I've just read below you claiming £120m was left for Nkrumah which he squandered. What amount exactly do you NPP are claiming was left for Nkrumah? Can you guys read and do some research on this issue? A book by Prof. Seidman (1978) may be helpful in enlightening you. He is a critique of Nkrumah's policies during the period of the dyarchy and later but he writes more sense than the pack of you NPP lot. He felt, for example, that Nkrumah should not have listened to Sir Arthur Lewis's advice to save ("anchor of safety")the windfall from cocoa prior to 1954 due to the Korean War with the Bank of England ("for a rainy day") and then borrow money at a much higher interest rate to execute the early devt projects. I agree with him.

The views you held have no space in academia or in the history books/classroom at all. Just pure political chicanery and vile propaganda.

Andy-K
kasapreko III 9 years ago

Yes, unlike you, Nkrumah came back to the country where he belonged, to offer his bit for the development of his mother country.

And for your information, in the real world, when you engage anybody from outside your countr ...
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Yes, unlike you, Nkrumah came back to the country where he belonged, to offer his bit for the development of his mother country.

And for your information, in the real world, when you engage anybody from outside your country to undertake a task for you, you pay for his trip to take up the appointment. This is precisely what Paa Grant did - and I stress, it was not Danquah who paid for that trip. Typical of you Danquasiris, you have been peddling the lie that danquah co-founded the UGCC and also paid for Kwame Nkrumahs trip back home.
Paul 9 years ago

I wonder!!! "The best student in history indeed"!!! Oh this guy. Why does he try so hard to impress?

I wonder!!! "The best student in history indeed"!!! Oh this guy. Why does he try so hard to impress?
Otsibu Darko 9 years ago

Now I understand you, no wonder you want every African to read, write, speak, behave and act lie a white man. Please what would you have done in Nkrumah's place during those years and why do you hate him so much?

Now I understand you, no wonder you want every African to read, write, speak, behave and act lie a white man. Please what would you have done in Nkrumah's place during those years and why do you hate him so much?
kasapreko III 9 years ago

Here we go. Mr psychobabble. SAS dont you ever tire of making a fool out of yourself?

Here we go. Mr psychobabble. SAS dont you ever tire of making a fool out of yourself?
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

Mr. SAS, esq., you were responding to Dr. Akurang-Parry, when you wrote "I still await your prosopographical take on Nkrumah's dictatorship, and hopefully without any prosopagnosia." But many of the visitors to this forum wou ...
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Mr. SAS, esq., you were responding to Dr. Akurang-Parry, when you wrote "I still await your prosopographical take on Nkrumah's dictatorship, and hopefully without any prosopagnosia." But many of the visitors to this forum would have a tough time understanding the words prosopography and prosopagnosia.
The latter is a medical term, a form of visual agnosia characterized by an inability to recognized faces, and the former - prosopography is a study that often uses statistics to identify and show relationships between people within specific historical
or social context. Is this what Mr. SAS esq., Attorney at Law have in mind?
Or he just used the two terms to show off?
He needs to explain, at least how they relate to the dictatorship of the founder of our nation.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

The Nkrumaist cannot recognize the face of tyranny, hence my use of the word "prosopagnosia" in a metaphorical sense to characterize them as having visual agnosia. By my sentence, I am cautioning doc. to call a spade a spade ...
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The Nkrumaist cannot recognize the face of tyranny, hence my use of the word "prosopagnosia" in a metaphorical sense to characterize them as having visual agnosia. By my sentence, I am cautioning doc. to call a spade a spade if he writes to justify Nkrumah's rule within the historical context.
It shouldn't be difficult to figure this thing out if you have a good dictionary.
Kwasi Agyeman 9 years ago

PLEOPLE LIKE ME WHO LIVED IN KUMASI IN THOSE YEARS CAN CONFIRM THAT WHAT THE AUTHOR SAYS IS WHOLLY CORRECT.

PLEOPLE LIKE ME WHO LIVED IN KUMASI IN THOSE YEARS CAN CONFIRM THAT WHAT THE AUTHOR SAYS IS WHOLLY CORRECT.
Opium Wars 9 years ago

Francis Kwarteng, get this: The PDA in whatever forms it has appeared in the world is very much reminiscent of Steven Spielberg's 2002 movie, The Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise as Captain John Anderton in the year 2054 ...
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Francis Kwarteng, get this: The PDA in whatever forms it has appeared in the world is very much reminiscent of Steven Spielberg's 2002 movie, The Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise as Captain John Anderton in the year 2054 where the Pre-Crime department apprehend so called suspects before the crime is committed.

Whether such a system is really fair in your eyes for you to defend it so vehemently in situ and in a public forum such as this against Consensus Gentium, is not only a violation of the principle of habeas corpus, it also trumps the very dignity and spirit of the Law. Hence ultra vires may properly be invoked against proponents and implementers such an absurd law.

This is the side that is often not heard. Check out Danquah's doctoral Thesis: Moral end is Moral Excellence.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

You may call call every opposition member who was incarcerated under the PDA as a terrorist, but it is indisputable that they were neither tried nor charged prior to their rights being taken away by the messiah and his CPP go ...
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You may call call every opposition member who was incarcerated under the PDA as a terrorist, but it is indisputable that they were neither tried nor charged prior to their rights being taken away by the messiah and his CPP government. Please notice that every despotic government, including the third reich, had a reason for passing laws to abuse due process of others. National security is often cited as a rationale, but when they fall, such due process violations are indefensible and the perpetrators are punished. Nkrumah's punishment was his overthrow and the spontaneous wide spread jubilation that followed his ouster. Francis, has it occurred to you that America is not proud of the human rights and due process abuses that occurred under the "war of terror" and is taking steps to undo the excesses of those due process abuses? That is what a great nation does. Stop justifying the PDA because it is indefensible and makes your messiah look bad.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Should read "war on terror"

Should read "war on terror"
Captain Canada 9 years ago

and yet complain about the PDA? I see you problem. Must like your messiah danquah everything your imperial masters do is right. Everything Nkrumah did was wrong. Even if it was for the same thing. Where is the US trying to co ...
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and yet complain about the PDA? I see you problem. Must like your messiah danquah everything your imperial masters do is right. Everything Nkrumah did was wrong. Even if it was for the same thing. Where is the US trying to correct the so called wicked law passed to legitimize renditions and torture you claim. One thing is clear you guys either have multiple personalities or are insane. You seem to support something only if it's done by your masters. At least Nkrumah didn't shoot Danquah and the rest and deprive them of their lives like Danquah and the rest were trying to do to him through assassination.
kasapreko III 9 years ago

".. America is not proud of the human rights and due process abuses that occurred under the "war of terror" and is taking steps to undo the excesses of those due process abuses?

The substance of this statement falls right ...
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".. America is not proud of the human rights and due process abuses that occurred under the "war of terror" and is taking steps to undo the excesses of those due process abuses?

The substance of this statement falls right smack into place, which is that, sympathizers and apologists of the imperialist inspired Danquah/Busia clique would quickly jump to the defense of their slave and colonial masters to absolve them of their much more serious and despicable crimes against humanity, whilst chiding their own for trying to stem the same scourge of terrorism in Ghana. In short, what you want to say is that, it is alright for America to apply harsh and strong-handed measures to combat terrorism but it is not ok for Nkrumah or Ghanaians to do so?

Are you, Kwadwo, in other words saying that you exonerate the American 'war on terror' and its unprecedented and massive consequences of crimes against humanity that America unleashed on the world because for you, the end justifies the means? And if the end justifies the means, are you also, by that warped logic, also implying that the treacherous seditious goons who inflicted crimes of terror on Kwame Nkrumah and on many Ghanaians, should have also been patient to see if at the end of the day, the PDA would have proven to be an effective instrument against terrorism?

Kwadwo, many countries throughout history, have inflicted 'terror' to combat perceived external 'enemies'. This is normally referred to as, war, and its potential for inflicting deplorable amounts of terror on 'others' is normally not questioned.

In the same vein, many countries have likewise fashioned suitable and appropriate laws to deal effectively with internal miscreants - the enemy within, who attempt or try to subvert established order through the application of terrorist or other criminally unacceptable means.

I would presume that all laws made to deal with crimes against established order - no matter how repugnant they may be, are laws like any other law that is made to keep human society in check from excesses and in the interest of all and sundry.

It seems to me that the ire of the Danquah/Busia clique is not really about whether the PDA was justified or not as a law, or even in the flaws of its application - if any. Clearly it is now becoming more evident that the Danquah/Busia clique, under the instructions and compliance of their colonial masters, just simply and desperately need to mobilize any kind of imagined or fabricated dirt to throw at Kwame Nkrumah for soundly out-smarting them on the political terrain and deflating their pompous elitist obedient slave posture.

Behind the scenes, the imperialists also need to maintain the pressure on their local puppets to keep on playing this shrill worn out tune - this broken record of, 'Nkrumah is a dictator', to demonize and vilify the outstanding nationalist posture of Kwame Nkrumah and by so-doing, to sound a note of warning and of dire consequences to all nationalist Africans that, that they will be equally badgered, harassed and censured for any such nationalist posture which conflicts with the whims of imperialist exploitation.

I have never ever heard of anyone from the Danquah/Busia clique, complain in principle, about the application of a worse law that was applied on hapless native Africans in the several decades before independence by the colonialists. Neither have I ever heard the same Danquah/Busia clique complain of the much more draconian, insensitive and sinister version of the PDA that has been used by America in their so-called war against terror. Worse-still, this American version, actually applies to or on anyone in the world - including Ghanaians. Why, therefore, is the Danquah/Busia clique so conspicuously and suspiciously silent about this?

The Danquah/Busia clique say that Danquah died because of his incarceration by the tenets of the PDA, and therefore, Nkrumah was a bad man. Danquah, as far as the history of this matter goes, is the only man that is known to have died, whilst in the custody of the Preventive Detention Act. However, the many hundreds of Ghanaians who died, or were maimed or were displaced as a result of these acts of terrorism that were inflicted upon the newly independent nation of Ghana, are glossed over by the apologists and sympathizers of the Danquah/Busia terrorist clique, as historically unimportant, politically insignificant and morally irrelevant.

When oh when, will this Danquah/Busia clique and their shameless sympathizers and apologists ever wake up from this self-demeaning slumber that has firmly placed them in an unenviable position of public disrepute, discredit and outright humiliation?

Today is Ghana's independence day and the name of Kwame Nkrumah will continue to reverberate even more loudly in every village in Africa and across the entire world. All right-thinking Africans and human rights activists around the world will continue to applaud and celebrate Kwame Nkrumah for his outstanding efforts at liberating the entire continent of Africa from the throes of intractable oppression and tyranny by the evil forces of global imperialism. Today is the day that all Africans of self-esteem and of reputable self-worth will gloat and rejoice over the fact that Kwame Nkrumah is one of our own.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brother/Sister Kasapreko lll,

I rest my case.

You have said all that I and several well-meaning human beings have been trying to say all along.

Thanks.

Dear Brother/Sister Kasapreko lll,

I rest my case.

You have said all that I and several well-meaning human beings have been trying to say all along.

Thanks.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Thinking out loud and my imagination takes me to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea etc. How would Ghana be like if our economic and industrial development were not arrested on that infamous day - 24th Feb. 1966?

Thinking out loud and my imagination takes me to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea etc. How would Ghana be like if our economic and industrial development were not arrested on that infamous day - 24th Feb. 1966?
kasapreko III 9 years ago

Nana Ansah, it would probably not have been Ghana as a country anymore. It would most likely have been the African nation. The richest country in the world, the most resource-endowed country in the world, the bread-basket of ...
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Nana Ansah, it would probably not have been Ghana as a country anymore. It would most likely have been the African nation. The richest country in the world, the most resource-endowed country in the world, the bread-basket of the world, together with the African Diaspora the second most populated country in the world, the healthiest country in the world, the most ecologically stable, healthy and natural country in the world, the country with the fastest growing economy in the world, a country that would have breached new frontiers in higher alternative medicine and science for mankind and very likely, a country that would have been in the position to militarily defend itself from any greedy predators, racists, colonial oppressors, war-mongers and their local hirelings.

Ghana would have been a mere prosperous state - one of many others, in the nation of Africa.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

And its people with the greatest freedoms in the world?

You can continue to invoke your own fantasies of the Nkrumah regime, but the fact still remains that the man who was left with 120 million pounds at independence drov ...
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And its people with the greatest freedoms in the world?

You can continue to invoke your own fantasies of the Nkrumah regime, but the fact still remains that the man who was left with 120 million pounds at independence drove the country into bankruptcy and equal amount of debt by the time of his overthrow. Your utopia is therefore a figment of your delusion, just like Nkrumah.
kasapreko III 9 years ago

You can describe my thoughts as fantasies, utopian or figments of my imagination but the bottom line is that I, like most other ordinary people in Africa and the world, applaud the extraordinary achievements of Kwame Nkrumah ...
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You can describe my thoughts as fantasies, utopian or figments of my imagination but the bottom line is that I, like most other ordinary people in Africa and the world, applaud the extraordinary achievements of Kwame Nkrumah which have made him an outstanding and incomparable international figure - even by those who misled Danquah and his gang to throw bombs at him to assasinate him. SDhame on you.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

Do you think Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Togo and the rest of Africa would have joined this socialists nonsense wet dream of the messiah? You guys ignore reality. All that remains of this Africa unity journey is the white elephant ...
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Do you think Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Togo and the rest of Africa would have joined this socialists nonsense wet dream of the messiah? You guys ignore reality. All that remains of this Africa unity journey is the white elephant sinking job 600, folks. I got stuck in the elevator when I went for a bogus interview at the scholarship secretariat to get $400 from the bank of Ghana when I was leaving for the US. Let that hideous edifice reminds of Nkrumah's dream
kasapreko III 9 years ago

Like every Danquasiri, you are completely out of touch.

The African Union thing is not a socialist idea - I wish it was though.

The Job 600 building, which is appropriately called the Kwame Nkrumah Conference Center is ...
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Like every Danquasiri, you are completely out of touch.

The African Union thing is not a socialist idea - I wish it was though.

The Job 600 building, which is appropriately called the Kwame Nkrumah Conference Center is not sinking. It is standing there as strong as ever and being beneficially used for parliamentary affairs. It has been renovated into one of the most beautiful buildings in Accra and quite a change from the days when you went to beg for $400 to ran away from your country.
Kwadwo 9 years ago

You are wrong there. I had a full private scholarship and the interview at the Scholarship Secretariat was to allow me to change my own money into dollars for travel because of restrictions at the banks. The limit was $400 an ...
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You are wrong there. I had a full private scholarship and the interview at the Scholarship Secretariat was to allow me to change my own money into dollars for travel because of restrictions at the banks. The limit was $400 and you needed a letter from the Secretariat to do that, buddy. If you are proud of all the money recently dumped into that monstrosity, it is your palaver.
Captain Canada 9 years ago

Full private scholarship my foot.

Full private scholarship my foot.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brothers Nana Ansah/Prof. Lungu/Kasapreko 111,

I am grateful for your presence.

You have always been excessively factual with your priceless ideas.

As you know, there is so much information out there about Nkr ...
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Dear Brothers Nana Ansah/Prof. Lungu/Kasapreko 111,

I am grateful for your presence.

You have always been excessively factual with your priceless ideas.

As you know, there is so much information out there about Nkrumah, his ideas and achievements at our disposal that I am afraid, we cant't probably exhaustively cover here and now.

I get exposed to libraries of useful yet "rare" information on Nkrumah almost on a daily basis, and sometimes I get confused as to which to add, which to remove, hence my lengthy serial articles.

Let us keep up the good work. I am learning a great deal from you all!

Have a great weekend!

Thanks.
kasapreko III 9 years ago

Thank you too Bro'.

I am truly inspired by the message of your writings and it is my sincere hope that you will keep it up and not fail the African people - including the ones who still cannot see their left from their rig ...
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Thank you too Bro'.

I am truly inspired by the message of your writings and it is my sincere hope that you will keep it up and not fail the African people - including the ones who still cannot see their left from their right. It is such a pity.

The "J.B. Danquah And Co.: The Case For The Preventive Detention Act Parts 1 & 2 is truly a MAGNUM OPUS.

I eagerly await your next presentation.

By the way, I am a Bro and not a sister.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

I think the question regarding the PDA is moot, insofar as it is quite settled. There is no PDA in Ghana now and there will never be one in the future. So Nkrumah's PDA legacy, just like his life presidency, one party state a ...
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I think the question regarding the PDA is moot, insofar as it is quite settled. There is no PDA in Ghana now and there will never be one in the future. So Nkrumah's PDA legacy, just like his life presidency, one party state and abolition of human rights, all belong to the dustbin of history, never to be retrieved.

At present, Ghana follows the legacy of Danquah: democracy with its concomitant freedoms of speech, of association and of the press. We are a beacon of democratic rule in Africa and the world,and if that is all that our independence has so far achieved, it should be deemed sufficient. And so the sacrifices of Osagyefo Dr. Kyeretwie Danquah, who died so that we may inherit true freedom, have never been in vain. His legacy lives.

As for Nkrumah, he paid the ultimate price for his PDA and other dictatorial laws: He died all alone in exile, without his wife and children and friends, a broken and disillusioned man at the tender age of sixty-two (the mother died at the age of a hundred and two). None of his so-called ideology remains. Now if this is not sufficient punishment for this man's evil deeds, I don't know what is.....

And today, as we celebrate this independence day, the trajectory to the freedom falsely proclaimed by Nkrumah in 1957 has been long and arduous, but we are heirs to freedom, and we have to protect it for posterity. And we will.

As for those enchanted by Nkrumah's toxic rule, I say to them that they are now the discarded artifacts of tyrannical rule, and the nation will move on without them. It is enough punishment that they will forever be minions of tyranny and defenders of its evils. That also, to me, is enough poetic justice. They, their cronies, assigns and descendants will NEVER rule Ghana again.
YAW 9 years ago

Why on earth should "Kasapreko" listen to the "most pointlessly combative and dedicated sophist" on Ghanaweb? He has a refined and scholarly mind of his own.

Why on earth should "Kasapreko" listen to the "most pointlessly combative and dedicated sophist" on Ghanaweb? He has a refined and scholarly mind of his own.
kasapreko III 9 years ago

From some comment that someone on this platform made some time ago, it was suggested that you are a young person. Before lowering myself to react to your delinquent contribution, let me explain that I was at first, inclined t ...
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From some comment that someone on this platform made some time ago, it was suggested that you are a young person. Before lowering myself to react to your delinquent contribution, let me explain that I was at first, inclined to just ignore your typical toxic outburst. Then I was moved to respond to just simply ask you how old you were but then I decided to give you a little help to make life a bit more meaningful easy for you.

Trying to pretend that you lack knowledge and to stand on the premise of ignorance to make morally libelous and outrageous comments to present unrealistic views about life and Kwame Nkrumah in particular, cannot be helpful to anyone - least of all, those of you who seem to think that just throwing around fanciful western political jargon can absolve the painful pangs of poverty which we as a country and people now find ourselves in.

If for you, a beacon of democracy means proceeding in under-development mode in fast reverse gear, unbridled multiparty kleptocracy, the freedom for one and all to spew nonsense, conduct ourselves with wanton indiscipline and the 'right' to live without the most basic necessities of water, electricity, meaningful education, decent housing and proper available medical care is sufficient, as you put it, then all who are witness to your juvenile impetuous statements may judge for themselves the quality of your person and the weight of your opinions. And boy, am I glad that this, in what appears to be a confession, is what you say, Danquah wanted. Do we need to say more?

It also seems to me that you are guilty of plagiarizing epithets and praises of honor which have been popularly attributed in favor of Kwame Nkrumah only to try and adorn these unusually munificent and beneficial sentiments on the miniscule, tawdry and almost invisible image of Danquah. Straight away this gives the impression that you are exaggerating and putting praise where it is not due.

Many, including myself have said many times on this platform and elsewhere that the name and memory of Danquah have rightfully and deservedly been consigned into the dust-bins of history - and so it really is. How can you today steal that descriptive turn of phrase, and in your delirium of fantasy, turn it inside out and upside down against Nkrumah. Since when has Danquah been referred to as an Osagyefo?I am certain that the traitor will be squirming in his grave for not properly addressing him as a doyen, Dr or Lord.

As many on this platform have hinted at and pointed to, you are a doubtful and curious phenomenon of an educated person. This because in pursuit of a mirage - an illusion of unqualified grandeur, you are bound, like Don Quixote before you, to publicly soil your image and make an unpleasant mess of yourself.

With the kind of views you hold, I cannot bring myself to believe that you actually also celebrate the Independence Day of Ghana which was won for us by the Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Was this a classical Freudian slip or is it that you are just simply unprincipled?

In your primitive delusions of servile fantasy, you may conjecture that those of us who have been able to proudly liberate ourselves from the yoke of mental slavery and imperialist subservience ".. will never rule Ghana again". However the trends and direction of history points to the opposite fact that all peoples from any part of the world, continue to aspire to liberate themselves from the scourge of racist and economic oppression by any means possible - even if it means employing the less wasteful strategy of adopting a one-party system to achieve that end.

The truth is that, people like Nkrumah were just simply too smart and too far ahead of his time. Most Ghanaians who had never ever had any education or jobs during the over 500 years of imperialist oppression before the sixties, couldn't give a hoot if the state was a one-party system or not so long as the condition of their lives had phenomenally improved. And this, it had. Within 9 years of Nkrumahs rule, Ghana had evolved from stone-age conditions to near 1st World status. This rate of progress has never ever happened in world history - without slaves and the massive and unbridled looting of the resources of oppressed colonies.

The real opposition that faced Nkrumah and eventually deposed his govt was the combined strength of Western European powers and the USA. They bought - sorry, bribed everybody around Nkrumah to fall in line with the abominable plot to overthrow his govt. Needless to say, the foreign agents were ably and gleefully aided and abetted by the local mercenaries like Danquah and Busia et al.

People who had comfortably and happily lived under the evil, repugnant and oppressive shade of inhuman colonial dictatorship and utter deprivation, suddenly found it unacceptable that the free education from birth to death around the whole country, the free medical services around the whole country, flawless social services and housing schemes for all - and not only for the European expatriates, political inclusiveness for all and not only the colonial expatriates and their local errand boys like Danquah and Busia, was not enough democracy for them.

Anybody with two pieces of brain matter will acknowledge the fact that Nkrumah meant well but unfortunately, many of the people whom he was struggling for, did not have a clue about what time of the day it was and thus, did not firmly stand behind him. You SAS, belong in that group of people. Of course we cannot discount the growing possibility that you might have also been surreptitiously visiting the US Embassy from time to time as was your idol, Danquah.

What do the freedoms of speech, association and press mean for people who cannot afford even one meal a day?

What do the freedoms of speech, association and press mean for people, 70% of whom who do not have running water and toilets in their places of ghetto abode?

What do the freedoms of speech, association and press mean for people who share drinking, bathing and cooking water from ponds and rivers with goats, sheep, horses, cows and any other creature that finds the need to also have a share of it and also to defecate in it?

What do the freedoms of speech, association and press mean for people whose minds were so remorselessly mutilated by over 500 years of unbridled oppression that, like you, they still only respond to the whims and caprices of their greedy slave-masters.

What do the freedoms of speech, association and press mean for a people who after having been denied the vote for over 500 years by your mentors and slave masters, think, just like you that, one only responds to or votes only for ones tribesmen and associates, no matter how dumb, daft, or a philanderer he is.

What do the freedoms of speech, association and press mean for people who are inundated daily with subtle antagonistic imperialist view-points and pornography by a media establishment that is merely an imperialist loudspeaker at best?

I could go on and on but the long and short of it all is that your fanciful views of implanting lofty western ideals of democracy in an obviously unsuitable, or let me say, a society that has still not recovered from the nightmare of massive looting and oppression of over 500 years, of orgiastic imperialist oppression, is not, as we speak, well placed or sufficiently recovered, to do so. It is like a been-to 'nigger' wearing a three-piece woolen suit and a trench coat over it in a 34C sweltering, steamy weather in Ghana, only to prove that he has 'arrived' and is a democrat.

Finally, your ludicrous and pathetic reference to Kwame Nkrumah dying all alone, far away from friends and relations, clearly shows that you do not half understand what we are up against in the struggle against the ravages and the legacy of imperialism. I would have thought that such maudlin sentimentalism belongs in an old-peoples home.

Perhaps you can, in the comfort of self-exile away from the theater of the struggle, dream of, and can afford to worry about dying 'properly' and nicely in an air-conditioned hospital ward with friends and relations around you singing and praying that you reach heaven or hell in one piece. The true situation in Africa is that, many tens of thousands of Africans, who are typically misled to vote for charlatans every now and then, die miserable slow and painful deaths every day from very common untreated diseases without the luxury of any kind of modern medical intervention.

That said, you cannot deny the fact that Kwame Nkrumah is one of the most revered human beings in the history of mankind and the world. So perhaps the whole world is dumb and you are right.
Dr. SAS, Criminal Defense Attorney 9 years ago

You and your world may keep on revering Nkrumah. You were trained to do so. Your mantra is that Nkrumah never dies, and that Nkrumah does no wrong.

The fact remains that none disputes that he was an arrant dictator, and no ...
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You and your world may keep on revering Nkrumah. You were trained to do so. Your mantra is that Nkrumah never dies, and that Nkrumah does no wrong.

The fact remains that none disputes that he was an arrant dictator, and none of his ideas in leadership is relevant to our country today. His character is also abhorred; and his economic models rejected. On the other hand Osagyefo Dr. Kyeretwie Danquah's legacy remains the eternal guide for our democracy. And this will be the case forever.

What did Nkrumah mean by his freedom and justice? What did he mean by independence? The man was as illiterate about these words as could be possibly conceived. And not surprising because after all his many years in America, he was a failure until he arrived in Ghana under the largesse of the UGCC. He came with his briefcase and shirt but left with millions. He could not even speak or write good English, just like his followers....

Continue wasting your time and life with your verbose rant against imaginary enemies that overthrew Nkrumah. Continue supplanting the dignity of freedom for some imaginary well-being of the people....But the fact still remains that the test of immortality consists in ideas that live forever. All of Nkrumah's ideas are fortunately dead. All of Danquah's ideas will live forever.

As for me, I remain a staunch anti-Nkrumaist, a person that has raw hatred for all the evil deeds of the man that poisoned Ghanaian and African politics. And I know that I will be leading my country one day. When I do, I want to be reminded of every word I have said against Nkrumah so that I will forever be guided against his leadership style. In the meantime, my work is to continue to protect Danquah's freedom, and to unmask the palpable guile of the evil genius, his assigns, descendants and town-criers. My work is to make sure that the country is saved from the cabal of political villains who defend Nkrumah's dictatorship today and would regress to his ideas tomorrow. My work is to make sure that they don't even come close to power.....
Lexus 9 years ago

The fluidity of your words of wisdom not only invites to read, but also completely dismantles the load of balderdash the Nkrumahist knave is carrying around.
MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU!!!

The fluidity of your words of wisdom not only invites to read, but also completely dismantles the load of balderdash the Nkrumahist knave is carrying around.
MAY GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU!!!
Captain Canada 9 years ago

Only in your fucking dreams!!! Try it! You won't get elected as a dog catcher in Ghana. You an incorrigible jackass leading Ghana? Get the fuck out of here. It will never happen. Keep dreaming. Ghana doesn't need fucking lout ...
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Only in your fucking dreams!!! Try it! You won't get elected as a dog catcher in Ghana. You an incorrigible jackass leading Ghana? Get the fuck out of here. It will never happen. Keep dreaming. Ghana doesn't need fucking louts like you. What Ghana needs is the nkrumaist leaders who will implement the visions of Nkrumah. The current your danquist movement cant have lost 3 elections against a weak ideological party. Imagine one strong with nkrumahs vision. It will wipe you and your party off the face of the planet. Keep dreaming loser!! You leading Ghana? As if!!!
Kwasi Agyeman 9 years ago

Dr SAS, what will you do if you had bomb-throwers, assassins etc, roaming the streets of your country, terrorizing innocent citizens?? Will you choose the Patriot Act (USA) .or internment (Britain)or other such laws enacted i ...
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Dr SAS, what will you do if you had bomb-throwers, assassins etc, roaming the streets of your country, terrorizing innocent citizens?? Will you choose the Patriot Act (USA) .or internment (Britain)or other such laws enacted in other European countries?
Paul 9 years ago

Do you have to insist on other people accepting your view point at all costs? And you accuse others of tyranny. Ewiase!!!

Do you have to insist on other people accepting your view point at all costs? And you accuse others of tyranny. Ewiase!!!
Captain Canada 9 years ago

Nkrumah all over the place and just a head for Danquah? You are even more stupid than you sound. Danquah died like all traitors do. Locked up with his sorry ass in jail where he belonged. He offered nothing to the country and ...
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Nkrumah all over the place and just a head for Danquah? You are even more stupid than you sound. Danquah died like all traitors do. Locked up with his sorry ass in jail where he belonged. He offered nothing to the country and for that reason is relegated to the garbage bin of Ghanaian history. Go and say 'osagyefo Danquah' in Ghana and see how quickly you are laughed out of the room. You are the only crazy person carrying that thought. Then again we know you are crazy. Danquah can't even get his own people in abuakwa to defend him. Because he was a wanker and a tosser. Bending over like a cheap whore to be violated by first the brits and then americans. And turning his frustrations on the country because he couldn't live on stipend from his British Intelligence and CIA spy gig. Go ahead call him Osagyefo. Your already tattered reputation will be pull away for all to see the mental case behind the fake title of doctor. PS: Ann Coulter is a JD. Do you see her using the title doctor? Only an efuom person with low self esteem will pretend you are doctor. Yes indeed you are a kookoase krakye. Ghana is an unfinished story. But it is Nkrumah's tale. He is the hero who faced off orcs and goblins of his time and made something out of an otherwise foul and decrepit piece of land. He created something. A nation which still survives despite its problems? What did Danquah create? Couldn't even build a better Akyem Abuakwa. Your jealousy of Nkrumah's achievements is turning you into a Gollum. At your age he was building a country. You on the order hand is stuck chasing ambulance and border jumpers to survive. How pathetic is that? Nkrumah is a hero and you are a troll. And yet you continue to speak. We all know you are hopeless and your cause is hopeless that why you constantly repeat yourself. Stuck in stupid and narrow narrative not supported by facts. So you keep spinning your wheels. Try as you may you cannot wash Nkrumah's victory and his hands in forging someone as disgusting as you. It his through Nkrumahs institutions that you got here. His schoold educated you. The flag you wrapped yourself in was his creation and the nation you pretend to care about was also his creation. How that? Every time you see the Ghana flag or hear the name of the nation you see the greatness of the man while it becomes obvious of the utter failure of your life. Enjoy it loser!!
Kosoko 9 years ago

Ghana's historical data proves to the contrary that Dr. Danquah brought democracy in Ghana. He never win any election in Ghana but Nkrumah did even in prison. He resorted to bomb throwing to eliminate his opponent, Nkrumah N ...
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Ghana's historical data proves to the contrary that Dr. Danquah brought democracy in Ghana. He never win any election in Ghana but Nkrumah did even in prison. He resorted to bomb throwing to eliminate his opponent, Nkrumah Never did that. He never preached political and economic freedom in anywhere in the world Nkrumah did. I don't even know why I am responding to this man who is known in twisting facts to the point of calling himself 'Dr' with a JD degree.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Opium Wars,

After that, what next? Look for Anton Wilhem Amo's "On the Absence of of Sensation in the Human Mind and Its Presence in our and Living Body," Jacobus Capitein's dissertation defending slavery, Busia's on the ...
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Opium Wars,

After that, what next? Look for Anton Wilhem Amo's "On the Absence of of Sensation in the Human Mind and Its Presence in our and Living Body," Jacobus Capitein's dissertation defending slavery, Busia's on the Ashanti Kingdom, etc?

What has Danquah's doctoral dissertation got to do with anything?

Do you have in mind the Aristotelian (Greek) ethics/morals he worked on? Where in the world today do Aristotelian morals/ethics rule today?

Not even modern Greeks "uncritically" use these outmoded ideas today (unless Danquah did not work on Greek thought)! Anyway, are the Greeks not being fed by the French and Germans? Where are Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Solon, etc?

If that is the case, how does his doctoral disseration explain Danquah's ethnocentrism, seccessionism, disrespect for the masses, etc?

Does his doctoral dissertation explain why he associated with the CIA, terrorists like Obetsebi-Lamptey, S.G. Antor, etc., and why he (Ofori Atta 1 and Governor Guggisberg) sabotaged the Aborigines Rights' Protentive Society (ARPS) and the National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA)?

Does his doctoral dissertation explain why he and Ofori Atta 1 threatened to bomb voters in Akyem Abuakwa if they voted for the CPP?

Does his doctoral disserattion explain why he became a leader of the terrorist organization, the National Liberation Movement (NLM)?

How did that dissertation help decolonize Ghana and Africa or create OAU(AU), etc?

Does Theodore Kaczynski's (Unabomer) doctoral dissertation explain why he became a terrorist, a serial killer?

Please Opium Wars, I have read enough of classical scholarship (Greek history, historiography, and thought...) to be bothered by Danquah's doctoral dissertation!

In fact, scholars like Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, Ama Mazama, Cheikh Anta Diop, Kofi Kissi Dompere, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Mary Lefkowitz, Molefi Kete Asante, Theophile Obenga, George James ("Stlen Legacy"), Martin Bernal, and several others have all done extensive work in classical scholarship and beyond!

Kofi Kissi Dompere even pushes the threshold of classical thought via rigorous mathematical and scientific attestation. This is the kind of methodological approach that captures my intellectual attention.

I enjoy reading/studying difficult, thoughtful, innovative, and challenging ideas that have immediate relevance to development economics, science, technology, and technocracy!I HOPE YOU GET MY DRIFT!

Thanks.
K-Baah 9 years ago

Francis, don't you think your partisan essays is gradually getting out of hand, hence becoming boring?

Francis, don't you think your partisan essays is gradually getting out of hand, hence becoming boring?
kasapreko III 9 years ago

K-Baah, The only reason why you and a couple of others, who I suspect are merely, one in multiplicity (the one and the same cracked-up person), keep on saying that Francis' articles are too long, too boring, too intellectual, ...
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K-Baah, The only reason why you and a couple of others, who I suspect are merely, one in multiplicity (the one and the same cracked-up person), keep on saying that Francis' articles are too long, too boring, too intellectual, too wordy, too one-sided and virtually too 'everything' to bother about, is because, just like the other Danquasiris from Hades, you are simply afraid of the invincible, benumbing, overwhelming and overpowering truth and devastating energy of its evident content. Naturally and as expected, such indelible material will put into squirming melancholic despair, the shameful and cowering imperialist posture of those of you who still feel comfortable with the reprehensible choice of the sub-human condition of mental and spiritual slavery.

K-Baah, the very least that you can do, if you are not a proud African and you do not want to be one, is to avoid reading the stimulating and politically invigorating articles of Francis Kwarteng, if you think they are offensive to your subjugated and unliberated sensibilities. However, I would still insist that, if you are a meaningfully educated African, you should still read Francis Kwarteng - even if you are of the political dispensation that believes and thrives on the misconception that the African can make it to the 'promised land' by the application of the same obnoxious philosophies that have continued to enslave Africans in various forms for the past 500 years. Some of you surely love that slavery dont you? Perhaps it is the slothful thought that it relieves you of the heavy responsibility of having to think and work for what you want in life, that makes you so attached to that kind of mindset that prevents you from reading and thinking of anything of any measurable substance. Even your own beloved slave-masters have said it time and again that, if you want keep a secret from a nigger, just put that secret in a book and give the book to the nigger because the last thing nigger will do is to read that damn book.

If you K-Baah, do not want to partake and enjoy from the sheer pleasure and joy of reading Francis Kwarteng, why do you want to spoil the 'party' for others by your fruitless distractions to demean what to all intents and purposes are nuggets of edifying knowledge and critical ammunition in the still continuing struggle to liberate Africa from the demonic grips and chains of imperialist suppression.
Sam Dee 9 years ago

If they are boring, then don't read them. By the way, to whom are his writings boring? As they say, if tell lies, be prepared to get responses; and if you throw a blow, be prepared to receive more blows.

If they are boring, then don't read them. By the way, to whom are his writings boring? As they say, if tell lies, be prepared to get responses; and if you throw a blow, be prepared to receive more blows.
Lexus 9 years ago

'Prof' Kwarteng, ain't you tired of this cut & paste cacophony?
I really feel sorry for you, bro.

'Prof' Kwarteng, ain't you tired of this cut & paste cacophony?
I really feel sorry for you, bro.
Kosoko 9 years ago

Another mentally sick person who can't reason

Another mentally sick person who can't reason
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

This back and forth tug of war between Nkrumahists and Danquahists, and their supporting foot soldiers, has got to stop in the interest of crafting meaningful polices to ensure sustainable future for Ghana.

Of course the ...
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This back and forth tug of war between Nkrumahists and Danquahists, and their supporting foot soldiers, has got to stop in the interest of crafting meaningful polices to ensure sustainable future for Ghana.

Of course the past of our country needs to be researched and authenticated, but our past shouldn't overwhelmed our future.

To me the possible, probable and preferable futures of Ghana are primary, and we should do everything humanly possible to secure our desirable future.
Yiadom 9 years ago

I totally agree with you, Marcus. I feel so sad for these two traditions, but more especially for the Nkrumahists. Instead of them helping to resurrect the CPP, they are always sitting on the fence accusing and justifying per ...
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I totally agree with you, Marcus. I feel so sad for these two traditions, but more especially for the Nkrumahists. Instead of them helping to resurrect the CPP, they are always sitting on the fence accusing and justifying persons and actions in the past. What is the use in these modern times? Even some of us were not yet born.
Fred Amoah 9 years ago

Yiadom,Marcus is right but you must also advise the Nkrumah haters to stop re-writing HISTORY.We don't want those who were not born to be indoctrinated with falsehood by Anti-Nkrumah writers.

Yiadom,Marcus is right but you must also advise the Nkrumah haters to stop re-writing HISTORY.We don't want those who were not born to be indoctrinated with falsehood by Anti-Nkrumah writers.
Sam Dee 9 years ago

Where were you when the NPPists and Danguah-Busia blamed Nkrumah for Danquah's Detention (in accordance with the law of the land) and death, and invented many lies, including crediting Danquah with things Nkrumah conceived, c ...
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Where were you when the NPPists and Danguah-Busia blamed Nkrumah for Danquah's Detention (in accordance with the law of the land) and death, and invented many lies, including crediting Danquah with things Nkrumah conceived, completed and commissioned them? Why didn't you say anything about the vile stories Dr. Okoampah and Mr. SAS wrote to discredit Nkrumah and insult his wife and children? You are just another shamedfaced Danquah-Busia acolytes.
Kwabena Akurang-Parry 9 years ago

Marcus, historicizing is inexorable and shapes both the present and the future. We can use history as a nuancing vehicle of inclusion. My only call is to engage in generous dissent.

Marcus, historicizing is inexorable and shapes both the present and the future. We can use history as a nuancing vehicle of inclusion. My only call is to engage in generous dissent.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

Dear Dr. Akurang-Parry, don't get me wrong, I am fully cognizant of the fact that "historicizing is inexorable and shapes both the present & the future,". My major at Legon was in history, having studied under Drs. Adu Boahen ...
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Dear Dr. Akurang-Parry, don't get me wrong, I am fully cognizant of the fact that "historicizing is inexorable and shapes both the present & the future,". My major at Legon was in history, having studied under Drs. Adu Boahen, Daaku, and Fynn. And I whole-heartedly share the view of George Santayana who said that "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

However, we live in a period of rapid acceleration that our past does not guide us meaningfully to the most desirable future.

To paraphrase what president Eisenhower said, "Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

The time has come for our ruling class to learn to work together, in the interest of Ghana, to use their God given intellect and meaningful purpose to craft sustainable policies to drive our nation to a middle income status and beyond.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Enlightening exchange, we must say!

READ: "...we live in a period of rapid acceleration that our past does not guide us meaningfully to the most desirable future..."

OUR COMMENT: We agree!

ITEM: We are no his ...
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Enlightening exchange, we must say!

READ: "...we live in a period of rapid acceleration that our past does not guide us meaningfully to the most desirable future..."

OUR COMMENT: We agree!

ITEM: We are no historians nor do we pretend to be scholars.

From the little we know, in the affairs of Nations, some matters are deemed settled, if only to allow the Nation to move on - to build and re-build. That is why, to also use the US as an example, the Confederates and their diminishing supporters are generally treated as relics, mostly relegated to historic battlefields all practically in the south, to enact old defeats and assuage their provincial prides and hurts. Racial antagonisms at bottom of their defeated agenda are now clothed in State's rights, even as they move slowly from majorities into minorities, in all demographic and sociological respects.

In fact, when the "democrats" in the south realized they had to give in to the match of history (and freedom), to recognize that the newly freed slaves were just as human as they, with the same equal rights, they turned into "republicans" and stridently began trumpeting property rights under the guise of "States" rights.

In Ghana, as lately discussed by Professor Kwarteng and others, Nkrumah's vision for Ghana was entirely opposite to all of that, hence "Ghana" today. That ought to be reckoning point for all Ghanaians and Ghana supporters.

As some point, some national histories must be settled, archived even, (even if a previous regime attempted to destroy a national record and assets), to allow the practical work of solving urgent human problems to begin, and thrive.

That, we must now say, is our hope on this important day, on the eve, that is!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

"That ought to be (a) reckoning point for all Ghanaians and Ghana supporters."

"That ought to be (a) reckoning point for all Ghanaians and Ghana supporters."
Kwasi Agyeman 9 years ago

Dr Adu Boahen wrote, after the coup, a history about Ghana without mentioning Nkrumah!!!!!!!!!

Dr Adu Boahen wrote, after the coup, a history about Ghana without mentioning Nkrumah!!!!!!!!!
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

I am not surprised. Dr. Adu Boahen was a flagbearer for the Danquahists. Obviously, to him Kwame Nkrumah was a nonentity.

I am not surprised. Dr. Adu Boahen was a flagbearer for the Danquahists. Obviously, to him Kwame Nkrumah was a nonentity.
MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

CPP and the other Nkrumahists parties are mute, allowing NPP and the Danquahists to make all kinds of noise.

The CPP must take to the streets, the rural areas with bull horns and 4X4 to go out and campaign hard.

CPP and the other Nkrumahists parties are mute, allowing NPP and the Danquahists to make all kinds of noise.

The CPP must take to the streets, the rural areas with bull horns and 4X4 to go out and campaign hard.
Paul 9 years ago

Under Adu Boahen, could you write an essay on Nkrumah or even mention his name in the department of History? He had a conflict of interest as far as Ghana's history with Nkrumah in it was concerned.Mind you he has been part o ...
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Under Adu Boahen, could you write an essay on Nkrumah or even mention his name in the department of History? He had a conflict of interest as far as Ghana's history with Nkrumah in it was concerned.Mind you he has been part of the cause of our distorted historical accounts.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Informative, again!

Enriches the context, history-wise!

Instructive as well is the NLC Commission of Inquiry and their attitude to family members.

And the campaign that destroyed public property as they, Busia incl ...
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Informative, again!

Enriches the context, history-wise!

Instructive as well is the NLC Commission of Inquiry and their attitude to family members.

And the campaign that destroyed public property as they, Busia included, sought to erase Nkrumah and the CPP from the public memory and record.

So, with several hypothetical questions still on the table to be answered, what might be the value to Ghana, today, of all those "things" destroyed by Busia and the NLC?
Ghana 9 years ago

Francis Kwarteng, I completely understand reasons why you try to expose everything leading to a lengthy article but, it's my hope you will find every means possible be concise.

What you are doing here isn't only to expose ...
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Francis Kwarteng, I completely understand reasons why you try to expose everything leading to a lengthy article but, it's my hope you will find every means possible be concise.

What you are doing here isn't only to expose detractors of Dr Nkrumah but, it's a positive unadulterated truth for patriotic Ghanaians to read and comprehend our history.

Being concise will motivate a lot of readership which will completely debunk all the lies the cynics are obnoxiously peddling over the years.

But I must confess this your writing is spectacular. Have a good day my brother.
Ghana 9 years ago

Francis Kwarteng I implore you to keep writing these sensible articles to liberate the gullible and the innocent Ghanaians who have swallowed these despicable tribal bigots our society.

This your writings are very signifi ...
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Francis Kwarteng I implore you to keep writing these sensible articles to liberate the gullible and the innocent Ghanaians who have swallowed these despicable tribal bigots our society.

This your writings are very significant to our generation!!! This your writing will go a long way to shape some of our people who don't have time to read books about the true nature of Dr Nkrumah and the terrorist activities of the so called called UP/NPP deception.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brother Ghana,

Thanks for your kind words.

I will work hard to be make my articles short. I have had a number of people telling me the same thing.

Like you rightly implied also, there is so much to write (tons o ...
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Dear Brother Ghana,

Thanks for your kind words.

I will work hard to be make my articles short. I have had a number of people telling me the same thing.

Like you rightly implied also, there is so much to write (tons of ideas/evidence at my disposal) about these questions that readers need to know.

In other words, there is so much overwhelming evidence I have at my disposal which I don't include in my essays anyway.

I say this because I have well-accomplished writers, researchers, professors, scholars, etc., whom I always discuss my work with before putting them out on Ghanaweb and on other portals. These scholars have researched, taught, and written extensively on these subjects for decades.

Most of the time they ask me to remove one or two statements, tons of verifiable evidence, ideas, and so forth, because they reason with me that either the ideas don't fit the topic under discussion or need to be developed separately and coherently.

Thus, the more I interact with these influential thinkers the more I get to understand how much information there is out there but are hardly known to most Ghanaians, and even a number of our PhD holders (historians in our universities back home).

All these statements, however, do not mean I have to make my articles unnecessarily long. I am not defending my long articles. I have to work hard to make them shorter as you rightly suggested, Ghana.

Please I still look forward to more of your constructive criticisms in the future. My regards to all.

Have a great weekend.

Thanks.
Ghana 9 years ago

Frances Kwarteng that's why I said earlier on that I completely understand the reasons why you keep writing the long essays because there's so much to divulge.

The other way to keep the information flowing freely is if you ...
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Frances Kwarteng that's why I said earlier on that I completely understand the reasons why you keep writing the long essays because there's so much to divulge.

The other way to keep the information flowing freely is if you write two articles at a time. This will enable you cover a lot of information without belaboring the point.

Having these invaluable information without divulging it to the citizenry isn't also the best so, find every means possible to get it out for all of us who have ears for descent to hearken attentively.

Keep the good work !!!
Ghana 9 years ago

Francis Kwarteng has proved beyond every reasonable doubt that NPP cannot throw dust into the eyes of Ghanaians again.

I still can't get enough of these distinctive verifiable facts from the articles of Francis Kwarteng.
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Francis Kwarteng has proved beyond every reasonable doubt that NPP cannot throw dust into the eyes of Ghanaians again.

I still can't get enough of these distinctive verifiable facts from the articles of Francis Kwarteng.

Compared to this reprobate Ph.D holder hiding in the cracks at New York in a community college calling himself Ahofi!!

This reprobate always force his way to circumvolve about his lineage to eulogize a conspicuous terrorist called Danquah.

Who on this earth will snuggle with somebody who want's to kill you?

Thank you so much Francis for exposing these terrorist organization in Ghana.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago

I'm blessed this day,6th March,2015.It has always been my wish that intellectuals should engage in meaningful debate on this forum.This is what I am seeing today,we agree to disagree.God bless Ghana.Thank you.

I'm blessed this day,6th March,2015.It has always been my wish that intellectuals should engage in meaningful debate on this forum.This is what I am seeing today,we agree to disagree.God bless Ghana.Thank you.
Yaw Ohemeng 9 years ago

May you never be arrested

May you not be denied an attorney when that happens

May you not be informed of your offences when that happens

May you never be brought before any court

May you not spend the rest of your ...
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May you never be arrested

May you not be denied an attorney when that happens

May you not be informed of your offences when that happens

May you never be brought before any court

May you not spend the rest of your days within narrow confines.

After all these happen come back to defend the PDA.

As much as you besmirch Dr Danquah's image, it would not turn you into an Nkrumah.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 9 years ago

OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

WHO BORN DOG?!
Are you trying to imply even remotely that the mate meho bombers offered their dead victims a right to an attorney of their choice? Were the innocent vic ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!

WHO BORN DOG?!
Are you trying to imply even remotely that the mate meho bombers offered their dead victims a right to an attorney of their choice? Were the innocent victims of these terrorists informed by the UP bombers the reasons why they were bombing them? Were they sent to any court before bombing them?

Enough of this nonsense of justifying the unjustifiable! You cannot put the cart before the horse and expect the cart to pull the horse! There is something called "cause and effect"! Just as you cannot have your cake and eat it, you cannot throw your bombs and condemn the PDA!

Who born dog?

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

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Lexus 9 years ago

Mind your language!!

Mind your language!!
Sister Souljah 9 years ago

MORON!

MORON!
Kosoko 9 years ago

The sick person again

The sick person again
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brother Odikro,

Tell him like it is!

I am happy you are here finally.

Actually I have no clue what Yaw Ohemeng was talking about.

To these fanatic Danquah apologists, Danquah's life was more precious than G ...
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Dear Brother Odikro,

Tell him like it is!

I am happy you are here finally.

Actually I have no clue what Yaw Ohemeng was talking about.

To these fanatic Danquah apologists, Danquah's life was more precious than Ghana, his victims', and Nkrumah's combined.

Danquah was the only human being one who needed to be treated right in accordance with his rights, not his victims,who, according to the likes of Yaw Ohemeng, were not human beings.

What a twisted logic!

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