Nkrumah Was Ill-Prepared To Lead And Govern Ghana

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Ford 9 years ago

They are full of mismanagement and corruption

They are full of mismanagement and corruption
PROPHET 9 years ago

I THOUGHT YOU MATEMEHO PEOPLE HATED DICTATORSHIP IN ANY FORM. SO NOW YOU ARE PRAISING AN ASIAN DICTATOR? ARE YOU AGAINST DICTATORSHIP OR NOT? THIS IS HYPOCRISY AT ITS HIGHEST. YOU JUST HATE NKRUMAH BECAUSE HE SNATCHED POWER A ...
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I THOUGHT YOU MATEMEHO PEOPLE HATED DICTATORSHIP IN ANY FORM. SO NOW YOU ARE PRAISING AN ASIAN DICTATOR? ARE YOU AGAINST DICTATORSHIP OR NOT? THIS IS HYPOCRISY AT ITS HIGHEST. YOU JUST HATE NKRUMAH BECAUSE HE SNATCHED POWER AWAY FROM YOUR HANDS AND YOU CAN NEVER FORGIVE HIM.

IF NKRUMAH HAD TURNED GHANA INTO A PARADISE YOU PEOPLE WILL STILL BE AGAINST HIM.
SARPONG 9 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah was no Lee Kwan Yew. Whilst Kwame Nkrumah after independence severed political biblical cord between the British and Ghana and tied our winnebago economy to the trailer park USSR economy, our destiny was cursed ...
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Kwame Nkrumah was no Lee Kwan Yew. Whilst Kwame Nkrumah after independence severed political biblical cord between the British and Ghana and tied our winnebago economy to the trailer park USSR economy, our destiny was cursed.

Unlike Nkrumah, Lee Kwaun Yew after independence still allowed the colonial Masters to hold on to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministry and had a cordial relationship with the colonial masters including USA and pursued the capitalistic economic policies unlike Nkrumah who opted to pursue socialist policies which only works in hell where they already have it.
James 9 years ago

Hey narrow-minded SARPONG! So you wanted our colonial MASTERS to hold on to our Foreign and DEFENCE Ministries.You definetely need psychiatric evaluation.

Hey narrow-minded SARPONG! So you wanted our colonial MASTERS to hold on to our Foreign and DEFENCE Ministries.You definetely need psychiatric evaluation.
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago

Someone should hurriedly call me the Village Boy Francis kwarteng to read this peace.

Someone should hurriedly call me the Village Boy Francis kwarteng to read this peace.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

Elitist city Adjoa Wangara, check your spellings and appropriate word usage before Dr. SAS finds you out.

I think you meant to say "..this piece".

We all are fallible and must therefore temper our zeal to trash others ...
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Elitist city Adjoa Wangara, check your spellings and appropriate word usage before Dr. SAS finds you out.

I think you meant to say "..this piece".

We all are fallible and must therefore temper our zeal to trash others with some humility.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Jonas 9 years ago

James you must shut up bcos you are from 1982 and besides a bastard.

James you must shut up bcos you are from 1982 and besides a bastard.
SARPONG 9 years ago

Idiot, somebody was comparing Nkrumah to Lee Kuan Yew as political bedmates and I just quoted what they did differently as post colonial Presidents.

Some of you lobotomized Nkrumah apologists needs your heads examined or y ...
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Idiot, somebody was comparing Nkrumah to Lee Kuan Yew as political bedmates and I just quoted what they did differently as post colonial Presidents.

Some of you lobotomized Nkrumah apologists needs your heads examined or you need education in the art of analogical reasoning, dumbass
Nana Yaw 9 years ago

Before Lee Kuna Yew, Dr. Nkrumah was! When Lee was kicked out of the union with Malaysia in 1964, Ghana was a country that could boast of numerous industries, production of our own TV and radio sets, vibrant air and sea lines ...
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Before Lee Kuna Yew, Dr. Nkrumah was! When Lee was kicked out of the union with Malaysia in 1964, Ghana was a country that could boast of numerous industries, production of our own TV and radio sets, vibrant air and sea lines, schools, universities, hospitals, clinics and well educated population that shocked the Kaiser team who visited Tema in those days. Lee never encountered the destructive opposition who were in bed with the CIA to undermine Dr. Nkrumah in all fronts. Lee benefited tremendously from the Chinese cultural revolution which pushed the rich and the educated elite to Singapore as a haven to hide their wealth. Even Lee himself admitted that luck and the willingness of the people to build their country by themselves for themselves for his success possible. The Neo colonialists in Ghana still believe we must beg the imperialist west for our survival. A typical Akyem mindset!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

Sarpong, Lee did not allow his Opposition the kind of space that Nkrumah allowed his to disrupt his programs.

So, Lee did not suffer the terribly violent Opposition Nkrumah had to contend with. The savagery unleashed on ...
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Sarpong, Lee did not allow his Opposition the kind of space that Nkrumah allowed his to disrupt his programs.

So, Lee did not suffer the terribly violent Opposition Nkrumah had to contend with. The savagery unleashed on Nkrumah began even before Ghana became a Republic. Nkrumah was both physically and politically undermined from the very beginning.

Had Lee met similar disruptions from within and without as Nkrumah did, Lee would not have achieved what he achieved. Lee, himself did say that he needed to instil that much discipline in his Country to ensure his success, when asked about how he felt about his critics' denounciation of his dictatorship.

More, while the West promoted Lee and supported his programs, it sabotaged Nkrumah's .Nkrumah only threw himself unto the Russians as a last resort for some security. He was deeply non-aligned and his Socialism was no different from that of the Scandinavian countries. Yet, that was all his enemies needed to paint him a dangerous Commie to justify his overthrow, just as the West branded Martin Luther King Jr.

So, please, temper your hatred for Nkrumah with some modicum of veritable factual analysis. One does not have to be a Nkrumahist to acknowledge the trutful plot to sabotage Ghana's success under Nkrumah and wish him terminated.

For how long did Nkrumah even cement ties with Russia? Only for 2 1/2 years.

Long Live Ghana!!!
FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

This foolish okuampa is someone who lives in the stoneage.despiote his crap did he not benefit from Nkrumah? There is something wrong going across this mans skull filled with faeces . He better seeks the attention of a psychi ...
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This foolish okuampa is someone who lives in the stoneage.despiote his crap did he not benefit from Nkrumah? There is something wrong going across this mans skull filled with faeces . He better seeks the attention of a psychiatrist.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

Demystifying the myth of Danquah is as easy as ABC.

This stinking bleating he-goat aka Ahootan is full of self-contradiction and as usual all over the place. He is without a shadow of a doubt a real nutcase. A big fool wh ...
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Demystifying the myth of Danquah is as easy as ABC.

This stinking bleating he-goat aka Ahootan is full of self-contradiction and as usual all over the place. He is without a shadow of a doubt a real nutcase. A big fool who knows next to nothing. I am here to dismantle the myth around Danquah.

"And so, really, one has a hard time envisaging the proverbial African Show Boy in the sort of nonesuch visionary icon which his fanatical supporters would have the rest of the world believe. One cannot honestly begrudge the man his remarkable contributions to the development of colonial and postcolonial Ghana."

One of many contracdictions of Ahootan

The fact of the matter, though, is that Mr.Kwame Nkrumah was no more visionary than the great men and women who invited the hitherto stranded and cash-strapped London sojourner to come down to the erstwhile Gold Coast to lend his purported organizational skills, largely, to the ongoing Ghanaian and African liberation struggle.

Nana Ansah: Ahootan has throughout the years systematically build a myth around Danquah without any basis. In order to dispel or explode this shrouded tall tale about Danquah one has to know the man Danquah. This man was a complete failure and loser in all spheres of life. It is well established fact that Danquah has a skeleton in the closet. Akyea Mensah Hello! The UGCC Boys club was given wings to fly only when Nkrumah, who prior to his invitation never met with any of the UGCC members with the exception of Ako Adjei, stepped in 4 months after it was founded by Paa Grant in Saltpond, Aug 1947. Paa Grant was the president of the UGCC. Danquah had the position of a vice-president. As always Danquah played the second fiddle. Without Nkrumah's skill that UGCC boys club would never have attianed the status of a full fledged party. This lazy mind Danquah will always remain a footnote whenever Nkrumah's name is mentioned. His first wife jumped ship to join the CPP in 1951 elections. Danquah and the other four only get prominence when their names are mentioned with Nkrumah. Otherwise they would have all sank into oblivion. Danquah's fame faded already in the 50's and that was why Ghanaians in the then Gold Coast rejected him in 1954 and 1956 in a back to back elections. The masses loved Nkrumah because they could not by any Stretch of Imagination see Danquah lead them.

But what is even more true to underscore is the fact that from the get-go, as New Yorkers are wont to say, Kwame Nkrumah was intent on promoting the African-American Agenda of Pan-Africanism which, in of itself, was not a bad idea or agenda at all, except that it was diametrically at variance with the direction in which the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians wanted to go - which was to dedicate the bulk of their nation's resources to making life as livable in ways that their British colonial overlords had either denied them or totally not been interested in.

Nana Ansah: How can Ghanaians live in abundance and feast when their neighbours are still under colonial bondage? And this fool would like to compare Danquah to Nkrumah?! Great men see the big picture and do extraordinary things. Nkrumah was first among equals and light years ahead of that lazy minded Danquah.

"Sir Albert Kitson's brainchild was actually "conjured" while the future President Nkrumah was barely out of diapers." Ahootan fuzzy logic

Nana Ansah: Is this STUPID internet "Professor" not ashamed of himself by making such a silly statement? What is a great idea worth when it gathers dust on the shelves? Absolutely nothing. The British were not interested or keen on building Akosombo dam. Nkrumah did under vehement protest from the dwarf-mind Busia who said Akosombo was too a huge project for a tiny country like Ghana. Today, the descendants of Mate Mehu are crying over dum sor. What an irony! Without the 1000 MW Akosombo dam it wouldn't be dum sor but rather total solar eclipse everyday. Mate Mehu belly thinkers horizon is as far as the distance between their eyes and the tip of their noses.

"Ironically, today, Dr. Danquah is the only seminal Ghanaian nationalist leader without any landmark dedicated to his glory and memory on the sprawling campus of the University of Ghana." Ahootan

Nana Ansah: Danquah should thank his stars that a roundabout/circle on the ring road was named after him by Gen. Acheampong. Danquah was the very person who criticised the building of the longest Boulevard in Ghana.

Let these descendants of violent Mate Mehu who cheer one coup and condemn the other and go to bed with dictators know that they cannot cherry pick as they wish. They are full of contradictions. They cannot debate us and will always remain sour losers until thy kingdom come.

Before these Bush people started trumpeting about Danquah there were great men most of them Fantis, Gas, Akwapems from the coastal who didn't make any fuss over their educational status. Great men like Phillip Quarcoe, George Kuntu Blankson, George Ekem Ferguson, Edmund Bannerman, John Mensah Sarbah, James Kwegyir Aggrey, Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford and others all kept a low profile until one these Akyem Bush men got educated by courtesy of betrayal of Asantis which saw the British exile Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I to seychelles 120 years ago. Danquah was not even popular in his Akyem backyard and was no match for the Ofori Atta Family so why does Ahootan make a big fuss over this province politician who only once made it narrowly to parliament in 1951? The UGCC Boys club was given wings to fly only when Nkrumah stepped in 4 months after it was founded by Paa Grant in Saltpond, Aug 1947. Danquah had the position of a vice-president. As always Danquah played the second fiddle. This lazy mind Danquah will always remain a footnote whenever Nkrumah's name is mentioned. Danquah and the other four only get prominence when their names are mentioned with Nkrumah. Otherwise they would have all sank into oblivion. Nkrumah Lives!
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Azumah Nelson 9 years ago

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PROPHET 9 years ago

OUTSIDE OF GHANA, NOBODY KNOWS DANQUAH. DANQUAH IS A DWARF IN THE FACE OF NKRUMAH.

OUTSIDE OF GHANA, NOBODY KNOWS DANQUAH. DANQUAH IS A DWARF IN THE FACE OF NKRUMAH.
FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

In fact this man called Okuampa is really stupid. He tries to exhibit he commands english but really a fool who wants an attention. Whatever he writes is always foolish. I will better advise him not to come to the web to exhi ...
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In fact this man called Okuampa is really stupid. He tries to exhibit he commands english but really a fool who wants an attention. Whatever he writes is always foolish. I will better advise him not to come to the web to exhibit his foolishness to the world.
CCW- ACCRA 9 years ago

With the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute unable to defend the CIA agent status of Danquah, it came as no surprise that Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., would naturally step in to save the situation. What we need to make ...
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With the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute unable to defend the CIA agent status of Danquah, it came as no surprise that Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., would naturally step in to save the situation. What we need to make clear is the fact that we know that there is hardly a Danquah follower who did not know that Danquah was a CIA agent, even though they would vehemently deny it in public, just as Danquah himself did in his time. The only hitch this time is that both in terms of content and author, they are finding it impossible to challenge Richard Mahoney's assertions that J. B. Danquah's family received CIA stipends when he was in prison. We are dealing with people who would ask you for the receipts to prove that the CIA was paying any money to Danquah. Thus, it is exceptionally fortuitous that the facts and the evidence came from a completely unexpected source.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 9 years ago

Onyaei Gbemisorrrr....!!!

Onyaei Gbemisorrrr....!!!
Repugnant. 9 years ago

With your Ph.d. are you not teaching remedial courses?? You are very stupid to put it mildly.

You are very weak minded. Holding on to anger, resentment and hate only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from ...
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With your Ph.d. are you not teaching remedial courses?? You are very stupid to put it mildly.

You are very weak minded. Holding on to anger, resentment and hate only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Please find some joy in your life.
PROPHET 9 years ago

WOW! I CAN BELIEVE OKOAMPA CAN STOOP THIS LOW. OMG !!!!

WOW! I CAN BELIEVE OKOAMPA CAN STOOP THIS LOW. OMG !!!!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

That is exactly how Professor Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. is. He has no single thread of decency in him that we would normally expect of an Academic and a Professor with a PhD.

He recently used some unspeakable perverted la ...
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That is exactly how Professor Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. is. He has no single thread of decency in him that we would normally expect of an Academic and a Professor with a PhD.

He recently used some unspeakable perverted language to attack President Kufuor's marriage, and, along with that, grossly insulted the President, his wife, and his wife's Uncle, the Hon. J. H. Mensah. And why?, you may ask. All in the name of chastising others in the NPP leadership who he perceives as not supporting his Uncle and the twice defeated, lifetime Presidential aspirant, Akufo-Addo. He was targeting Alan Kyeremateng's faction of the NPP, rampaging over the likes of Kwadwo Mpiani and Dr. Anane, as well.

Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. stooped so low as to refer to the private intimate love-making of the former President and his wife in a grotesque manner. In fact, it is only on this Medium that he could get away with such crude and ignobly uncouth behavior.

And yet, because we are somehow mesmerized by his high eloquence in the Queen's Language, to which we so often wrongly associate a certain pre-eminence to the speaker, we tend not to take him to task on that kind of impropriety.

Many of us seem to be scared to strongly protest his intimidation with obscure English verbiage. But in the end, his behavior contributes in no small measure to turn a chunk of the electorate away from his Uncle's campaign.

I wish he would learn greater wisdom commensurate with his age and social status as a Professor of a reputable College in the USA.

Long Live Ghana!!!
NOBODY 9 years ago

Okoampa-Ahoofe, ashowo-ni ba. Okoampa-Ahoofe, son of a filty ashawo.

Okoampa-Ahoofe, ashowo-ni ba. Okoampa-Ahoofe, son of a filty ashawo.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 9 years ago

Identify yourself, if you are a man or woman and let me put some common sense into your shit-filled skull.

Identify yourself, if you are a man or woman and let me put some common sense into your shit-filled skull.
Jagadu 9 years ago

Kwame, shove your stupid comment in your bleedy ass. You are nobody!

Kwame, shove your stupid comment in your bleedy ass. You are nobody!
Kbt 9 years ago

Tell it to that thing.

Tell it to that thing.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago

This stinking bleating he-goat aka Ahootan is full of self-contradiction and as usual all over the place. He is without a shadow of a doubt a real nutcase. A big fool who knows next to nothing.

"And so, really, one has a h ...
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This stinking bleating he-goat aka Ahootan is full of self-contradiction and as usual all over the place. He is without a shadow of a doubt a real nutcase. A big fool who knows next to nothing.

"And so, really, one has a hard time envisaging the proverbial African Show Boy in the sort of nonesuch visionary icon which his fanatical supporters would have the rest of the world believe. One cannot honestly begrudge the man his remarkable contributions to the development of colonial and postcolonial Ghana."

One of many contracdictions of Ahootan

The fact of the matter, though, is that Mr.Kwame Nkrumah was no more visionary than the great men and women who invited the hitherto stranded and cash-strapped London sojourner to come down to the erstwhile Gold Coast to lend his purported organizational skills, largely, to the ongoing Ghanaian and African liberation struggle.

Nana Ansah: How can Ghanians live in abundance and feast when their neighbours are still under colonial bondage? And this fool would like to compare Danquah to Nkrumah?! Great men see the big picture and do extraordinary things. Nkrumah was first among equals and light years ahead of that lazy minded Danquah.

"Sir Albert Kitson's brainchild was actually "conjured" while the future President Nkrumah was barely out of diapers." Ahootan fuzzy logic

Nana Ansah: Is this STUPID internet "Professor" not ashamed of himself by making such a silly statement? What is a great idea worth when it gathers dust on the shelves? Absolutely nothing. The British were not interested or keen on building Akosombo dam. Nkrumah did under vehement protest from the dwarf-mind Busia who said Akosombo was too a huge project for a tiny country like Ghana. Today, the descendants of Mate Mehu are crying over dum sor. What an irony! Without the 1000 MW Akosombo dam it wouldn't be dum sor but rather total solar eclipse everyday. Mate Mehu belly thinkers whose horizon is as far as the distance between their eyes and the tip of their noses.

"Ironically, today, Dr. Danquah is the only seminal Ghanaian nationalist leader without any landmark dedicated to his glory and memory on the sprawling campus of the University of Ghana." Ahootan

Nana Ansah: Danquah should thank his stars that a roundabout/circle on the ring road was named after him by Gen. Acheampong. Danquah was the very person who criticised the building of the longest Boulevard in Ghana.

Let these descendants of violent Mate Mehu who cheer one coup and condemn the other and go to bed with dictators know that they cannot cherry pick as they wish. They are full of contradictions. They cannot debate us and will always remain sour losers until thy kingdom come.

Before these Bush people started trumpeting about Danquah there were great men most of them Fantis, Gas, Akwapems from the coastal who didn't make any fuss over their educational status. Great men like Phillip Quarcoe, George Kuntu Blankson, George Ekem Ferguson, Edmund Bannerman, John Mensah Sarbah, James Kwegyir Aggrey, Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford and others all kept a low profile until one these Akyem Bush men got educated by courtesy of betrayal of Asantis which saw the British exile Asantehene Agyeman Prempeh I to seychelles 120 years ago. Danquah was not even popular in his Akyem backyard and was no match for the Ofori Atta Family so why does Ahootan make a big fuss over this province politician who only once made it narrowly to parliament in 1951. The UGCC Boys club was given wings to fly only when Nkrumah stepped in 4 months after it was founded by Paa Grant in Saltpond, Aug 1947. Danquah had the position of a vice-president. As always Danquah played the second fiddle. This lazy mind Danquah will always remain a footnote whenever Nkrumah's name is mentioned. Danquah and the other four only get prominence when their names are mentioned with Nkrumah. Otherwise they would have all sank into oblivion. Nkrumah Lives!
Kwesi Kum 9 years ago

Nana Ansah, you are hitting the nail on the head. I dont know what is wrong with this educated illiterate. This guy, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. seems very narrow-minded and one wonders the kind of knowledge he is impac ...
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Nana Ansah, you are hitting the nail on the head. I dont know what is wrong with this educated illiterate. This guy, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. seems very narrow-minded and one wonders the kind of knowledge he is impacting into his students. The economic sufferings facing Ghanaians today has its root from the unpatriotic/treason from the so called Danquah-Busia's UGCC.I have stopped reading his idiotic articles
NOBODY 9 years ago

Stop asking others to identify themselves, you coward and serial liar. If you had any common sense in your retarded head, you would not be spewing the garbage articles replete with lies and hate that you put out daily on beha ...
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Stop asking others to identify themselves, you coward and serial liar. If you had any common sense in your retarded head, you would not be spewing the garbage articles replete with lies and hate that you put out daily on behalf of your pinksheet flagbearer serial loser Akufo-Addo. Oloampa-Ahoofe, you're a coward and retarded one-way academician, totally devoid of common sense.
Amegah Azagidi 9 years ago

The Osagyefo never dies! What can Ghanaians expect of the so called Latter Day Saints and children of the murderous Mate Meho IS Terrorists and bomb throwers at not only their arch enemy -Kwame Nkrumah, but at innocent women ...
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The Osagyefo never dies! What can Ghanaians expect of the so called Latter Day Saints and children of the murderous Mate Meho IS Terrorists and bomb throwers at not only their arch enemy -Kwame Nkrumah, but at innocent women and children. They will drink the innocent blood they spilt and the innocent they betrayed shamelessly! What are they defending here!! These tireless revisionists are already late. The truth has been there in the open and not even the massages from the Adu Boahen could adultrate it. Who are they gonna teach here! This forum has many intelligent and very astute intelligentsia and not those vernacular English writing twerps. It's one thing having the money and another using it judiciously! Those for lack of appropriate word, stupidly claim the British left £200m which was used by Nkrumah and it was no feat, must be deranged mentally! Can't they cost the Tema Harbour, the Motorway (which they hated ) and the Akosombo Dam (where Busia and the ilk shamelessly went to the US to torpedo the gigantic hydro project! These devil incarnates cannot convince anyone anymore. We know them. They are CIA offspring ! We all know the blood money in which they gave all been drenched! See Mahoney and dr. Dompree and Kwame Botwe- Asamoah! If Nkrumah didn't "do" it in 8 and a half years when the living testimonies of the schools the Osagyefo built from Keta through to Bawku, the universities he built, the Tema Industrial Complex and the job 600, name them, and so what! Shut up you devils! Didn't the NPP destroy the National Carrier - Ghana Airways and sold the property to themselves! I wonder why this Okoampah uses cheap diversionary tactics to cover up the heinous crimes some people commit against the future generations of our country! Why are we not bold to talk about the complete sale of Ghana to the outside powers eg the unreasonable 13% shares of the oil while 2 personal friends of Kuffour take 3-5%, is that the honest and fair Ghana that Nkrumah who never had any single room to himself and family? We are not those spewing lied about our Geo-political history. Their share revisionism will be an attempt in futility! Tweah!
Jagadu 9 years ago

Nobody has been able to duplicate what Nkrumah did in 9 years. Shut the fuck up and take your stupid PhDs and shove it in your bleedy ass. It is because of stupid people like you that is why Nkrumah was overthrown. Look at Si ...
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Nobody has been able to duplicate what Nkrumah did in 9 years. Shut the fuck up and take your stupid PhDs and shove it in your bleedy ass. It is because of stupid people like you that is why Nkrumah was overthrown. Look at Singapore? The leader had similar plan as Nkrumah and was able to bring such a small island nation with no natural resources prosperity. I am tired of fools like who are so partisan that they will not see any good that Nkrumah did . Can you imagine what Ghana would have been if Nkrumah had been allowed to govern for just 20 years. Stop writing stupid things if you do not have anything sensible to say on this platform.
SARPONG 9 years ago

Nobody has ever become the President or Prime Minister of Ghana without the country having any debt and more than one hundred million pounds sterling in 1957 more than 30 billion dollars in today's money to spend excluding th ...
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Nobody has ever become the President or Prime Minister of Ghana without the country having any debt and more than one hundred million pounds sterling in 1957 more than 30 billion dollars in today's money to spend excluding the yearly cocoa, gold and other minerals export.

Nkrumah did his best but he has a unique opportunity no other head of state of Ghana have ever had, you have to look at it in that context. By 1964, Nkrumah had bankrupt Ghana and whilst he was publicly railing against Britain and USA as Imperialists, behind the scenes, he was begging those countries to finance his budgets.
Ekow Essamuah 9 years ago

Nkrumah was a spending officer. Mali and Guinea economy survived mainly on the sweat of our cocoa farmers and the Gold revenue from Obuasi-Ashanti. Thanks to the generosity of the Nkrumah, the Father Christmas. And instead of ...
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Nkrumah was a spending officer. Mali and Guinea economy survived mainly on the sweat of our cocoa farmers and the Gold revenue from Obuasi-Ashanti. Thanks to the generosity of the Nkrumah, the Father Christmas. And instead of rearing cattle, sheep, goat and produce shear butter to support what the Ga-Fanti fishermen, and Asante-Akyim-Bono-Akwapim-Nzema cocoa Farmers were doing to support the economy, we had these people who are now stealing from left-right-center today fighting and killing themselves over guinea fowls. Their partners in crime, the Trokosi Cat and fowls thieves , sat at the beaches gathering 'Keta school boys'.
Asiribi Boakye 9 years ago

OOOh HO!!

Ma y3n aso mu nna! What did JB Danquah do for Ghana?

Name just one thing that moved Ghana ahead!

Don't tell me he gave Ghana its name.
Nkrumah would forever dominate JB Danquah; no matter what you would d ...
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OOOh HO!!

Ma y3n aso mu nna! What did JB Danquah do for Ghana?

Name just one thing that moved Ghana ahead!

Don't tell me he gave Ghana its name.
Nkrumah would forever dominate JB Danquah; no matter what you would do!!
Military Man 9 years ago

GOOD LORD!!!

Is this buffoon for real?

Where did this clown buy his Ph.D from? From the internet, I presume.

With all the physical evidence of Nkrumah's achievements strewn across our country pointing to the man be ...
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GOOD LORD!!!

Is this buffoon for real?

Where did this clown buy his Ph.D from? From the internet, I presume.

With all the physical evidence of Nkrumah's achievements strewn across our country pointing to the man being a genius, this dunderhead thinks THE GREAT MAN was ill prepared to lead and govern Ghana......Go figure!!!!!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

A country is not the property of one leader. It takes a team willing to work together, a Team willing to support "the leader".

So, if Nkrumah was "Ill-Prepared To Lead And Govern Ghana", Danquah was certainly not ready fo ...
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A country is not the property of one leader. It takes a team willing to work together, a Team willing to support "the leader".

So, if Nkrumah was "Ill-Prepared To Lead And Govern Ghana", Danquah was certainly not ready for independence for the Gold Coast, nor would he have ever been.

Per Danquah's brain, we could have had 12 or more chieftains of regional nonentities, quasi-states, wallowing in wars, atrocities, and human vermin, just like the Sudan, Somalia, Libya, even Nigeria.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

ITEM: President Lincoln presided over the American Civil War and led the Union to victory over the Confederate in the south (1861-1865)! In other words, Nkrumah humanely did to the Danquah-Busia confederates what Lincoln did ...
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ITEM: President Lincoln presided over the American Civil War and led the Union to victory over the Confederate in the south (1861-1865)! In other words, Nkrumah humanely did to the Danquah-Busia confederates what Lincoln did to the American confederates in the US South, in total, destructive war.
K.Sarpong,Suffolk County,New York. 9 years ago

I agree with my countryman Dr.Okoampa-Ahoofe. Nkrumah was the wrong President for Ghana at that time.Ghana a peaceful nation, needed a man steeped in democracy, who would leave after two terms and set up a precedent that othe ...
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I agree with my countryman Dr.Okoampa-Ahoofe. Nkrumah was the wrong President for Ghana at that time.Ghana a peaceful nation, needed a man steeped in democracy, who would leave after two terms and set up a precedent that others would follow, like George Washington- the first President of United States of America. Second, Ghana an undeveloped country emerging from total neglect of a colonial power, needed a leader who would concentrate fully on the development of the country with all the resources available- like Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, who focused all his attention only on his country. Unfortunately for Ghana,Nkrumah did not establish democracy,did not focus on Ghana alone,rather tried to become President of an undeveloped continent with the resources of a country dependent on cocoa and gold.Its like a frog trying to swallow a cow.That is the legacy of Nkrumah. That is why now we have dumso-dumso, almost 60 years after independence.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago

Nkrumah Prepared, But for Subversive Danquah-Busia!
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Busia- CIA Agent Sends Telegram From the US Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State in Washington ...
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Nkrumah Prepared, But for Subversive Danquah-Busia!
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Busia- CIA Agent Sends Telegram From the US Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State in Washington, DC, USA
(Accra, December 4, 1957—4 p.m)
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Busia wants...U.S...immediately or in January to rally American public opinion and persuade minority group to pass resolutions condemning trend in Ghana towards dictatorial government and increasing signs of willingness to accept USSR collaboration in economic and cultural fields. He believes US minority group opinion is only thing that can give GOG pause in this direction.

(BUSIA) also wants...to...raise 25 (not ten) thousand dollars in US purchase vehicles and hire party workers to offset “dangerous indoctrination” being given people by CPP agents who have unlimited funds. He specifically wants warn people against danger of USSR whose Professor Potekhin (Embtel 1584 ) is he says not sparing word in CPP circles that USSR is only country genuinely desirous and able help Ghana.

Busia is intelligent and knowing. He would want our help to “condition” potential donors in US and also to transfer such funds to Ghana where he says they would appear to be proceeds of party fund raising efforts in Ghana.

I told Busia I could of course have nothing do with all this. He understood. He asked me see if Department could inspire some university invite him expense paid to US and I said I would explore possibility.5

Flake
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NOBODY 9 years ago

Retard and evil serial liar Okoampa-Ahoofe is still singing the same old deceptive song that his UP (later known as PP, and now NPP) sang when Ghana was about to become independent. When the Akufo-Addo (father of current seri ...
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Retard and evil serial liar Okoampa-Ahoofe is still singing the same old deceptive song that his UP (later known as PP, and now NPP) sang when Ghana was about to become independent. When the Akufo-Addo (father of current serial loser and pinksheet flagbearer), William Ofori-Atta, Danquah, Busian and others within the UP party realized that they were no match to Nkrumah and the CPP, they quickly resorted to sabotage, telling the British government that Ghana was not ready for independence. Okoampa_ahoofe, try as you may, your demented serial lies on behalf of your pinksheet serial loser Akufo-Addo will never serve to change the history of Ghana. You and your Akufo-Addo gang are nothing but a gang of devious and hypocritical liars, and you'll never change from your past bomb-throwing and saboteur ways. Nkrumah and the CPP's accomplishments are forever etched in stone, while your pinksheet serial loser Akufo-Addo cannot mention anything he's accomplished for Ghana other than crying and puffing that he ought to be president. Okoampa-Ahoofe and his Akufo-0Addo group are unrepentant bomb-throwers and saboteurs, not to mention serial liars and crybabies.
Ghanamanoriginal 9 years ago

This style of writing is a bit obtuse. I prefer a dirct presentation of facts, ideas and arguments.

This style of writing is a bit obtuse. I prefer a dirct presentation of facts, ideas and arguments.
Kwame Ninsin 9 years ago

The impudence of an Akyem village idiot turned community college teacher.

Cut the nonsense you hear.

The impudence of an Akyem village idiot turned community college teacher.

Cut the nonsense you hear.
James 9 years ago

I wonder if the moronic and quack professor called AHOOFE knows the meaning of "AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLINEUM."

I wonder if the moronic and quack professor called AHOOFE knows the meaning of "AFRICA'S MAN OF THE MILLINEUM."
UTTER NONSENSE 9 years ago

YOU HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO OFFER GHANA SO CONTINUE YOUR NONSENSE. BANZA PROFESSOR

YOU HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO OFFER GHANA SO CONTINUE YOUR NONSENSE. BANZA PROFESSOR
Loway 9 years ago

But Nkrumah never dies

But Nkrumah never dies
kutsii. 9 years ago

Oooohooo Okoampa ! This is what NPP does and we hate them to be our leaders. Just as Danquah was inferior to Nrumah so shall your dwarf kapwepwe Akufo Addo be to Mahama. Okoampa , u are desoerate and foolish and u will strip ...
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Oooohooo Okoampa ! This is what NPP does and we hate them to be our leaders. Just as Danquah was inferior to Nrumah so shall your dwarf kapwepwe Akufo Addo be to Mahama. Okoampa , u are desoerate and foolish and u will strip naked soon. Fool
The 9 years ago

Nobody can be inferior to a toilet carrier dead goat.

Nobody can be inferior to a toilet carrier dead goat.
Kwame 9 years ago

Dr. Kwame Okuampa Ahoofe you turned logic on its head. An ill-prepared person would have been a doll in the hands of some puppet master like Prof. Kofi Abrefa Busia was. Kwame Nkrumah was well prepared to rule Ghana the reaso ...
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Dr. Kwame Okuampa Ahoofe you turned logic on its head. An ill-prepared person would have been a doll in the hands of some puppet master like Prof. Kofi Abrefa Busia was. Kwame Nkrumah was well prepared to rule Ghana the reason why he was not a doll for any one.
kutsii. 9 years ago

The, are u saying the drug addict wirh drug barons as friends is superior to Mahama ?Are u talking abt the certificateless lawyer or rhe violent dwarf who is arrogant and a womaniser ? Do u want such a character as President ...
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The, are u saying the drug addict wirh drug barons as friends is superior to Mahama ?Are u talking abt the certificateless lawyer or rhe violent dwarf who is arrogant and a womaniser ? Do u want such a character as President ? U are 'The' damn mother fucker unpatriotic fool.
Kwapps 9 years ago

A previous contributor has listed Ghana's heads of state to buttress a point that Nkrumah couldn't have been responsible for our current predicament. He is very right and this is exactly my point, which is that we have never ...
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A previous contributor has listed Ghana's heads of state to buttress a point that Nkrumah couldn't have been responsible for our current predicament. He is very right and this is exactly my point, which is that we have never been matured enough to govern ourselves ever since we severed our links to our colonial masters. It is like a child playing with fire, you who are experienced know very well it will soon burn itself.

This is where Nkrumah comes in. Was there a prize to be won for the first black African country that became independent? Where is Ghana's prize, is it what we currently have or is it what South Africa has? Which of these two is the envy of fellow African countries and is described as the most advanced country in Africa? By rallying the uneducated masses to a populist theme, was Nkrumah after Ghana's interest or his own agenda? Give it to the man to think on a grandiose level, something I'm reminded of any time I drive on the motorway, but he soon forgot his humble beginnings and got distracted by his unachievable Pan African dreams. Not only that, he also became bedfellows with America's arch enemies, the Soviet bloc and it's satellite socialist countries. The worst of it was he kept lambasting the west on top of it all. He should have played the geopolitical field like Lee did for Malaysia and kept his head low. If he had done that we would be way ahead by now.
I have disagreed with Ahoofe before but he has nailed it this time for me.
EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago

THIS ONE IS BASELESS , WORTHLESS, AND OUT RIGHT MORONIC!! YOU ARE LIKE THOSE WHO THOUGHT THAT DR HILARY LIMAN AS CAPABLE AS I THINK HE WAS TO LEAD THE COUNTRY, HE LACKED THE REQUISITE MUSCLE TO CONTAIN THE TERRIBLE SITUATION ...
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THIS ONE IS BASELESS , WORTHLESS, AND OUT RIGHT MORONIC!! YOU ARE LIKE THOSE WHO THOUGHT THAT DR HILARY LIMAN AS CAPABLE AS I THINK HE WAS TO LEAD THE COUNTRY, HE LACKED THE REQUISITE MUSCLE TO CONTAIN THE TERRIBLE SITUATION OF THE TIME , HE WOULD HAVE PLUNGED THE NATION INTO AN ABBY'S. YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW THE MENTALITY OF THE BLACK MAN AS EXPERIENCED BY MARCUS GARVEY ETC. EVEN TODAY YOU SHOUT WRONG THINGS ABOUT THE I M F AND THE WORLD BANK , WITHOUT SHOWING UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION, THEY ARE STILL SLAVE DRIVERS!! BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT!
Lee K Yew 9 years ago

LEE KUAN YEW SQUEEZING HIS OPPONENTS BALLS.

"Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society." ...
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LEE KUAN YEW SQUEEZING HIS OPPONENTS BALLS.

"Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society."

"If you are a troublemaker... it's our job to politically destroy you... Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac."

"We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins."
sam-padmore 9 years ago

hahahaha... It wont work and would never work here in Ghana.. Stop comparing Dankwah to Nkrumah... Why are u people trying to discredit the AFRICAn of the millenium.. If u have no respect for him ... We descerned Ghanaians wi ...
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hahahaha... It wont work and would never work here in Ghana.. Stop comparing Dankwah to Nkrumah... Why are u people trying to discredit the AFRICAn of the millenium.. If u have no respect for him ... We descerned Ghanaians will forever love him... Nkrumah never dies
Lee K Yew 9 years ago

Quotes to tell Ahoofe that he is mad in Praising Lee. Danquah Who?

Quotes to tell Ahoofe that he is mad in Praising Lee. Danquah Who?
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

There we go! Lee defended his Dictatorship unabashedly. He said it was necessary to instill the discipline he needed to finish his programs to develop his Country. He was not going to entertain any political hooliganism from ...
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There we go! Lee defended his Dictatorship unabashedly. He said it was necessary to instill the discipline he needed to finish his programs to develop his Country. He was not going to entertain any political hooliganism from any opposition to distract him.

Yet, the West never called him out on his insistence on denying his country Democracy. But they made Nkrumah a monster for reacting to the many violent attempts by the opposition to depose, and even kill him.

You see typical Ghanaian enemies never concedes error or defeat. When you knock them down in a duel, they claim they simply tripped on their own. When they winch from some pain you inflicted upon them in the duel, they claim you did not cause that pain but they were bitten by some bug. They see more defeat in the admission of their loss in a contest than losing the contest itself.

It is all vanity, nothing but vanity! And dishonesty!!

Long Live Ghana!!!
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

I meant to say:

"You see, typical Ghanaian enemies never CONCEDE error or defeat."

I meant to say:

"You see, typical Ghanaian enemies never CONCEDE error or defeat."
Paa Joe 9 years ago

HE GOES ON PREACHING,AND NOTHING BETTER HAS STILL TAKEN PLACE AT DANQUAH'S BIRTH PLACE IN AKIM-ABUAKWA.

WHAT PUZZLES ME IS WHEN HE DWELLS ON DOMBO-BUSIA-DANQUAH TRADITION.

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF THE SO CALLED DOMBO- ...
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HE GOES ON PREACHING,AND NOTHING BETTER HAS STILL TAKEN PLACE AT DANQUAH'S BIRTH PLACE IN AKIM-ABUAKWA.

WHAT PUZZLES ME IS WHEN HE DWELLS ON DOMBO-BUSIA-DANQUAH TRADITION.

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF THE SO CALLED DOMBO-BUSIA-DANQUAH TRADITION.

FROM HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, THESE PEOPLE ARE STILL PORTRAYED IN HISTORY AS CRIMNINALS AND ANTI-ELEMENTS WHO WANTED TO DISTABILIZE GHANA IN THEIR TIME OF LIFE.

ONE CAN EVEN SEE HOW BUSIA ON HIS FORCED THROWNSHIP BY THE ARMED CRIMINALS IN MILITARY UNIFOIRMS WHO OVERTHREW THE LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT OF THE CPP IN 1966, REVERSED THE NATIONS STATUS AS A REPUBLIC AND TO BE A PRIME MINISTER-A RETURN ONCE AGAIN TO HIS COLONIAL MASTER.

WHETHER NKRUMAH WAS ILL PREPARED TO LEAD AND GOVERN GHANA,HE IS ADMIRED IN ALL HISTORICAL BOOKS AS ONE OF THE GREATEEST 20TH CENTURY POLITICIAN IN THE WORLD.

DANQUAH-BUSIA AND DOMBO ARE STILL KNOWN AS LOCAL PRIMITIVE POLITICIANS AND UNKNOWN IN HONDURAS, EL SAVADOR,GRENADA, CUBA AND ETHIOPIA.

ITS ONLY TOIL, SWEAT, PERFORMANCE AND HARD WORK THAT CAN TRANSFORM GHANA AND NOT THIS PRIMTIVE TRADITION THAT SOLD THE NATION TO EXTERNAL FORCES.

LONG LIVE GHANA-LONG LIVE KWAME NKRUMAH, KWESI PLANGE, HUTTON MILLS AND KOFI BANDAH
Nana Yaw 9 years ago

Your anointed leader, THE SLEEPING DWARF is not qualified enough to have been Dr. Nkrumah's mail room boy!

Your anointed leader, THE SLEEPING DWARF is not qualified enough to have been Dr. Nkrumah's mail room boy!
Sankofa 9 years ago

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, you are eminently ill-prepared to talk about Kwame Nkrumah.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, you are eminently ill-prepared to talk about Kwame Nkrumah.
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

There is nothing in this article that bears even the slightest semblance to the truth, regarding the hateful characterization of Dr. Nkrumah.

It is risibly ironic that the author, who is an avowed lifelong nemesis of Nkr ...
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There is nothing in this article that bears even the slightest semblance to the truth, regarding the hateful characterization of Dr. Nkrumah.

It is risibly ironic that the author, who is an avowed lifelong nemesis of Nkrumah's shamelessly assigns mere foolhardiness to all who would oppose his fictional defamatory characterization of Nkrumah. His obsession with denigration of Nkrumah leaves no thinking space in his brain to accommodate any wiser and true testimony for the late President.

The extent to which he and his cohorts like the disgruntled Political Science Professor, Amoako Baah, would reach to smear Nkrumah has no limit. But the more they work to tarnish Nkrumah's image, the more they expose their own paucity of credibility.

We must now know by Amoako Baah's own recent remarks that his anti-Nkrumah barrage is all part of his quest for some partisan high office in the envisaged NPP post-Mahama Administration. Typically of his ilk, he has to show how hugely pernicious he could be in destroying everything Nkrumah to earn the attention he expects from Akufo-Addo.

But every fair-minded discerning Ghanaian must simply dump his putrescent effusions in the dumpster where it belongs. I wonder what he teaches the students at KNUST.

We need not be Nkrumahists to stand up to these horribly hateful Professors with a mission to replace Nkrumah's national pre-eminence with an inflated Danquah's. Much of their driving zeal to destroy Nkrumah posthumously stems from sheer envy.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Paa Joe 9 years ago

WHAT IS EVEN SHAMEFUL IS, THE DISGRUNTLED POLITICAL SCIENCE LECTURER AMOAKO BAAH IS ON THE STAFF OF THE VERY UNIVERSITY THAT NAMED AFTER DR KWAME NKRUMAH, FOUNDER OF THE NATION AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REBUBLIC OF GHA ...
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WHAT IS EVEN SHAMEFUL IS, THE DISGRUNTLED POLITICAL SCIENCE LECTURER AMOAKO BAAH IS ON THE STAFF OF THE VERY UNIVERSITY THAT NAMED AFTER DR KWAME NKRUMAH, FOUNDER OF THE NATION AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REBUBLIC OF GHANA, DR KWAME NKRUMAH.

WHY DOES HE CONTINUE TO TEACH AT A UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER THE VERY MAN THAT HE CRITICIZES.

WHY HAVE PEOPLE REFUSED TO BE CLEVER.

THIS CLEARLY INDICATES WHY WE CONTINUE TO PRODUCE GRADUATES FOR UNPRODUCTIVE WORK IN THE CPOUNTRY.

HOW DID HE GET HOIS APPOINTMENT THERE AND WHAT WAS THE TITLE OF HIS SO CALLLED DESERTATION.
Collins, Akim-Achiase 9 years ago

For me, I think its high time Ghanaweb includes some censorship in here. I find it difficult to understand why people will choose very insulting words to get their views heard. I will be happy to see people criticising or com ...
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For me, I think its high time Ghanaweb includes some censorship in here. I find it difficult to understand why people will choose very insulting words to get their views heard. I will be happy to see people criticising or commenting on articles/stories etc with words devoid of insults, etc because in the end, a very constructive argument with such words only taints the good side with a negative outlook. I believe we can all do this. Lets begin from now as the people who come to read the news out here includes kids among others who are learning for today and tomorrow. The famous computing 'gigo' accronym is one that we need to all learn from. Lets stay clean on comments. It begins with you! Regards.

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