President Nkrumah was leading Ghana to hell economically

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John 8 years ago

Very irrational rhetoric full of fallacies and therefore falls short of rational and logical symmetry.

When the statements used to support a given conclusion do not actually work together to support the conclusion, we cal ...
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Very irrational rhetoric full of fallacies and therefore falls short of rational and logical symmetry.

When the statements used to support a given conclusion do not actually work together to support the conclusion, we call this a fallacy.

That is exactly what this article has done.Your irrational conclusions are simply wrong.
Yoofi 8 years ago

The problem you have is understanding the meaning of fallacy. When you have price increase of over 250% in just one year, definitely your economy becoming a basket case.

We the younger generation that did not witness Nkru ...
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The problem you have is understanding the meaning of fallacy. When you have price increase of over 250% in just one year, definitely your economy becoming a basket case.

We the younger generation that did not witness Nkrumah administration need to get all the information of what really went on at that time and this article has given us the other side of the coin instead of the usual Nkrumah never dies as if his administration did not have challenges.

It looks like President Nkrumah did well when the country had money but things started going bad after spending all the money.
Asante 8 years ago

He write an article full of inaccuracies, fabrications and pure lies. Expose him and he swings at you with scathing vitriolics under various pseudonyms. Shame on you Sarpong the tyrant!

He write an article full of inaccuracies, fabrications and pure lies. Expose him and he swings at you with scathing vitriolics under various pseudonyms. Shame on you Sarpong the tyrant!
OKOE 8 years ago

ASK THOSE BOMB THROWERS AND THOSE TRYING TO HIDE THEIR EVIL ACTIONS. LET THEM TELL YOU WETHER OR HOT WE HAD BLACK STARLINE WITH GHANA'S OWN SHIPS. GHANA HAD ITS OWN AIRLINE, NKRUMAN BUILT TEMA TOWNSHIP AND MANY MORE. IF NKRUM ...
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ASK THOSE BOMB THROWERS AND THOSE TRYING TO HIDE THEIR EVIL ACTIONS. LET THEM TELL YOU WETHER OR HOT WE HAD BLACK STARLINE WITH GHANA'S OWN SHIPS. GHANA HAD ITS OWN AIRLINE, NKRUMAN BUILT TEMA TOWNSHIP AND MANY MORE. IF NKRUMAN HAD THE OPPORTUNITY THAT CURRENT AND PAST GOVERMENTS AFTER NKRUMAH THE PRIVILEDGE TO BORROW AS THESE CURRENT AND PAST GOVERNMENTS HAD GHANA WOULD BE JUST LIKE SINGAPORE. ASK THE GOVERMENTS AFTER DR. NKRUMAH PROPERTIES THAT HE LEFT WERE MOST SOLD TO THEMSELVES AND THEIR FRIENDS. THE TEMA HARBOUR, AND ITS DRY DOCKS WERE BUILT BY NKRUMAH. FOLKS, DO NOT LET THESE"GBO MAWO" DETRACTORS FOOL YOU. I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND SAW WITH MY OWN EYES WHAT WENT ON. I WAS NOT IN POLITICS BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE GOVERMENT OF DR. NKRUMAH WAS AND WOULD EVER BE THE BEST GHANA WOULD EVER HAVE. ASK THEM TO SHOW YOU THE PROPERTIES DR. NKRUMAH LEFT FOR HIMSELF. THESE LIARS WOULD SAY ALL THEY WANT TO FOOL YOU. ASK ALL THE POLITICIANS AFTER NKRUMAH HOW THEY CAME BY THEIR CURRENT PROPERTIES? THESE POLITICIANS JUST NEED MONEY FROM GOVERNMENT SOURCES THAT IS WHY YOU WILL READ ABOUT PROFESSIONALS INSTEAD OF WORKING IN THEIR FIELDS, CHOOSE TO ENGAGE IN POLITICS IS BECAUSE IT IS THE EASIEST MEANS OF ACQUIRING WEALTH. THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED IN GHANA'S DEVELOPMENT, THEY ARE INTERESTED IN THEMSEVES. ASK ANYONE IF YOU HAD MONEY AND YOU USE IT IN CONSTRUCTIVE VENTURES, OF COURSE IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME. ASK THEM WHICH OF THE GOVERNMENTS AFTER NKRUMAH EVER BUILT A TOWN FROM ACRATCH? TEMA MOTORWAY IS NKRUMAHS PROJECT. AS I SAID, I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND SAW EVERYTHING MYSELF AND I AM TELLING YOU DR. NKRUMAH WAS THE BEST WE WOULD EVER HAVE. JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. I WAS BETTER OFF DURING DR. NKRUMAH'S TIME. IF THEY ARE TELLING YOU ALL THESE RUBISH, ASK THEM WHERE IS BLACKSTAR LINES AND GHANA AIRWAYS DR. NKRUMAH BUILT? AND MANY MORE. THE DETRACTORS OF GHANA WHO WANT TO STEAL GOVERMENT MONEY FOR FREE WILL TELL YOU OTHERWISE. THEY ARE ALL THIEVES!!! DR. NKRUMAH THEN, NOW AND FOREVER. HE WAS OUR BEST PRESIDENT BAR NONE.FOLKS, THESE PEOPLE WRITING RUBISH ABOUT DR. NKRUMAH WERE KILLING SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH BOMBS JUST LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR ABOUT IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. THEY WERE KILLERS PERIOD.
Kwadwo. 8 years ago

He spent like a drunken sailor and Ghana was broke when he was kicked out.

He spent like a drunken sailor and Ghana was broke when he was kicked out.
Nimrod 8 years ago

What do you call a man who lives to criticize the dead?
And, what do you call a man, who hasn't done anything worth writing about, who criticizes someone who dared to do something worth writing about?

What do you call a man who lives to criticize the dead?
And, what do you call a man, who hasn't done anything worth writing about, who criticizes someone who dared to do something worth writing about?
Kweku Donsuro 8 years ago

He is a depraved ingratiate. He does not know where he is coming from so he does not know where he is heading to. Period!

He is a depraved ingratiate. He does not know where he is coming from so he does not know where he is heading to. Period!
use of head 8 years ago

Look at UK and US deficit. Ghana's or Africa's will always be small in comparison. Nkrumah was making hard decisions that would benefit in the long run.

Build infrastructure in a place that was only used for exports of co ...
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Look at UK and US deficit. Ghana's or Africa's will always be small in comparison. Nkrumah was making hard decisions that would benefit in the long run.

Build infrastructure in a place that was only used for exports of core raw materials to rulers. Had we gone through the hardships then, things will be better now.....
foko 8 years ago

These are real facts. Whiles these figures were not mentioned as they are done these days, prices rocketed. What he didn't mention was suppression of free speech. Even at home your mother will shout at you to stop speaking if ...
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These are real facts. Whiles these figures were not mentioned as they are done these days, prices rocketed. What he didn't mention was suppression of free speech. Even at home your mother will shout at you to stop speaking if you SK much as mention Nkrumahs name whiles complaining because of fear you would end up in Nsawam. Every negative thing about Nkrumah you hear is not exgerated. Every positive thing these days is over bloated. I heard someone say if Nkrumah had not built Team Oil refinery.... This was owned privately at that time. That he built the satellite station at Kuntunse!!! What a farce.
Doobia 8 years ago

If that was the economic situation in 1966 when he was dethroned, then the coup plotters actually did President Nkrumah a favour by saving his legacy because it looks like the country was on the brink of economic collapse.

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If that was the economic situation in 1966 when he was dethroned, then the coup plotters actually did President Nkrumah a favour by saving his legacy because it looks like the country was on the brink of economic collapse.

The coup actually saved Nkrumah legacy as events from 1966 would have exposed the fallacy of his magical touch.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Doobia,
Do not believe coup plotter fabrications.

Do not forget - the coup was directed by the US - to serve US interests, foremost. Ankrah and the rest of them lied to Ghanaians!

Ghana Reserves (6 Years Before the Ov ...
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Doobia,
Do not believe coup plotter fabrications.

Do not forget - the coup was directed by the US - to serve US interests, foremost. Ankrah and the rest of them lied to Ghanaians!

Ghana Reserves (6 Years Before the Overthrow - 6 Years After the Overthrow)

WORLD BANK DATA FROM INDEX MUNDI

GHANA RESERVES 1960-1972
1960 $277,926,000
1961 $155,954,000
1962 $181,711,200
1963 $209,312,800
1964 $125,519,200
1965 $115,809,200
1966 $111,130,400
1967 $82,732,000
1968 $97,004,000
1969 $71,832,000
1970 $42,579,200
1971 $43,092,220
1972 $104,041,100
(www.indexmundi.com/facts/ghana/total-reserves).
Kwadwo. 8 years ago

In 1965, Ghana's foreign exchange reserves stood at a mere £500.000 . This was revealed by Frimpong Ansah of the bank of Ghana to Nkrumah at a cabinet meeting. You can google this in a documentary of the 'history of the Gold ...
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In 1965, Ghana's foreign exchange reserves stood at a mere £500.000 . This was revealed by Frimpong Ansah of the bank of Ghana to Nkrumah at a cabinet meeting. You can google this in a documentary of the 'history of the Gold Coast" on You tube. Nkrumah spent like a drunken sailor and Ghana was doomed. I am glad he was booted out with his socialist and pan Africanist crap.
Cardinal of Lies. 8 years ago

If Bird-Brain-Sarpong still doesn't realize President Nkrumah was sabotaged by the Western world with the assistance of his shameless matemeho nation wreckers, then his brain is smaller than we thought and still shrinking!!!! ...
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If Bird-Brain-Sarpong still doesn't realize President Nkrumah was sabotaged by the Western world with the assistance of his shameless matemeho nation wreckers, then his brain is smaller than we thought and still shrinking!!!!!!

Even today, your folks are bent on tearing our nation apart with lies. Instead of helping build the beloved country, they'd rather destroy the nation with lies and create an atmosphere of hopelessness.

Enough of your nonsense!!!!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

Sabotaged my ass. What you call sabotage I call doing something beneficial to their cause or interest. The problem with you is that your brain is atrophied and that is why you have an IQ of a rotten egg.

Fuck off with y ...
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Sabotaged my ass. What you call sabotage I call doing something beneficial to their cause or interest. The problem with you is that your brain is atrophied and that is why you have an IQ of a rotten egg.

Fuck off with your stupidity, you son of a two cedis whore.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago

Sarpong, just listen to yourself! Do you really have a sister, daughter or a wife?

This is what you know best, spewing horrible, lascivious insults on others when they squeeze you to a corner on facts. If you were as bril ...
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Sarpong, just listen to yourself! Do you really have a sister, daughter or a wife?

This is what you know best, spewing horrible, lascivious insults on others when they squeeze you to a corner on facts. If you were as brilliant as you would have the Public to believe, you'd have long published your treatise to fully and more convincingly explain Ghana's economic plight to date, and provided unfailing proposition to correct it for good.

All you keep doing is regurgitating the crappy, mendacious buffoonery the CIA concocted to justify overthrowing Nkrumah's regime. The declassified CIA reports affirm how the USA Agency sabotaged Nkrumah's economic and developmental efforts.

So, who are you to deny what the CIA itself alluded to as having orchestrated itself?

This is not a question of one being an Nkrumahist or otherwise. It is about learning and speaking the divine truth regarding what really happened to our Country.

No amount of your deceptive spin and egregiously tainted emotionally-driven biases would change the truth. You are entitled to your own opinion and analysis, however skewed you want it to be. But you cannot have your own facts about the same event that all others have access to evaluate and even experience personally.

You think firing off profanities like 'fuck off', '..son of a two cedis whore', and the like is what would make people believe your sophomoric, and even puerile, lies and elevate your esteem? Those insults make you look dirtier, more and more uncivilized, and crude. Why would you like to like that?

The Works of Nkrumah have been fully analyzed all over the World by much better scholars than you and me and have earned him the Millenial Man of Africa.

You do not have any provable exclusive facts that negate what all these analysts arrived at to so adamantly claim the spurious conclusions you reached.

Surely, so long as you reserve a huge dark chamber in your heart for your eternal hatred for Nkrumah, nothing could ever change your polluted mind on anything he achieved as net value for Ghana.

You would live all life and die miserably with those lies and hatred. Get a life, bro!

50 years plus since the claim of timely intervention to unseat the 'demonic dictator' who encouraged your ilk to take Education more seriously and made it easier for you and all to access basic Education, you still cannot see any good in him. We have been pursuing idiotic blueprints of continued subservience to the imperialist, and what has it gotten for us? Left to your kind, Ghana would still be the resource farm for the West and continue to import every single item we would need to exist at a much lesser and lesser par.

You are one of those Ghanaians who fear to dream big, and would not like to be self-sufficient in anything, stifling innovation, and failing to see integrity and honesty as virtues needed to build a Nation.

If I were not committed to real democracy, I would howl at you to just shut up with your 'Abubunabunu' and 'Adowa-afuru' mentality that you infuse into our National discourse.

Long Live Ghana!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

I have your two cedis cheap whoring mother, you piece of crap, get off from my space, you moronic coward.

I have your two cedis cheap whoring mother, you piece of crap, get off from my space, you moronic coward.
Kwadwo. 8 years ago

"The external reserve position deteriorated significantly between 1957 (when net reserves stood at $269million) and 1966 when they stood at ( - $39million ). Ghana with so much in foreign reserves at independence , was broke ...
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"The external reserve position deteriorated significantly between 1957 (when net reserves stood at $269million) and 1966 when they stood at ( - $39million ). Ghana with so much in foreign reserves at independence , was broke by 1966'.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Re-cycling Bawumia!

Grow up, Kwadwo

Bawumia Outlines History of Economic Indiscipline in Ghana
m.peacefmonline.com/pages/business/economy/201311/180297.php
Nov 13, 2013 - Driving listeners through the economic history ...
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Re-cycling Bawumia!

Grow up, Kwadwo

Bawumia Outlines History of Economic Indiscipline in Ghana
m.peacefmonline.com/pages/business/economy/201311/180297.php
Nov 13, 2013 - Driving listeners through the economic history of Ghana, Dr. ... Ghana, with so much in foreign reserves at independence, was broke by 1965.”

Now, it is up to you to explain the difference in the end date!

"by 1966" or "by 1965".

Clearly, ( - $39million ) can't be for both, can it.

Nice try again.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Kwadwo,
I have provided you World Bank data and source.

You, Kwadwo, should provide the evidence!

While doing that, do not neglect to read our comments at bottom, WRT "£3M Akosombo Dam Funds (Still) Unused in 1966"!

Kwadwo,
I have provided you World Bank data and source.

You, Kwadwo, should provide the evidence!

While doing that, do not neglect to read our comments at bottom, WRT "£3M Akosombo Dam Funds (Still) Unused in 1966"!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Sarpong,
Nice try with your confused essay.

Like we did with Dr. Bawumia, if you keep up the lies and coup plotters' fabrications, we will expose you with real data.

You NPP-folks, unfortunately think that we are sti ...
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Sarpong,
Nice try with your confused essay.

Like we did with Dr. Bawumia, if you keep up the lies and coup plotters' fabrications, we will expose you with real data.

You NPP-folks, unfortunately think that we are still stuck to the 1960s, when your kind attempted to destroy records, and actually destroyed public property and other assets.

READ AND COME AGAIN:

Ghana Reserves (6 Years Before the Overthrow - 6 Years After the Overthrow)

WORLD BANK DATA FROM INDEX MUNDI

GHANA RESERVES 1960-1972
1960 $277,926,000
1961 $155,954,000
1962 $181,711,200
1963 $209,312,800
1964 $125,519,200
1965 $115,809,200
1966 $111,130,400
1967 $82,732,000
1968 $97,004,000
1969 $71,832,000
1970 $42,579,200
1971 $43,092,220
1972 $104,041,100
(www.indexmundi.com/facts/ghana/total-reserves).
Ken Ababio 8 years ago

This 1972 born pseudo-intellectual called SARPONG should read Nkrumah's books and his thought provoking speeches,and free himself of ignorance,bias and subjective idiocy.

This 1972 born pseudo-intellectual called SARPONG should read Nkrumah's books and his thought provoking speeches,and free himself of ignorance,bias and subjective idiocy.
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

Hey SARPONG! You were one of those naïve and narrow-minded quasi-intellectuals on this forum who lost the debate on the greatest African,Kwame Nkrumah,and shamefully went into hiding.I am surprised you have re-surfaced to di ...
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Hey SARPONG! You were one of those naïve and narrow-minded quasi-intellectuals on this forum who lost the debate on the greatest African,Kwame Nkrumah,and shamefully went into hiding.I am surprised you have re-surfaced to display your unpardonable ignorance.In your own words "It is easy to do things when you have money as Fuhrer Nkrumah had when he assumed office".By your statement,you have again displayed your immaturity,ignorance and stupidity to all readers.What did the Nigerian politicians do with the billions of dollars in oil revenue? What has the President of Equatorial Guinea done to transform his nation and uplift his people with the billions of dollars in oil revenue ? Nkrumah's vision and wisdom made free education possible and put Ghana on the path of industrialization.This is why he embarked on the 1 billion pounds Seven Year Development Plan with loans,the cost of which far exceeded the 200 million pounds the British Government left.You better go back into hiding.
SARPONG 8 years ago

Another lobotomized Fuhrer Nkrumah apologist. Nkrumah built factories were socialist relics that were not sustainable. You cannot have 10 acres farm with hundred people working on it as the Workers Brigade farms and other age ...
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Another lobotomized Fuhrer Nkrumah apologist. Nkrumah built factories were socialist relics that were not sustainable. You cannot have 10 acres farm with hundred people working on it as the Workers Brigade farms and other agencies with four people doing the work meant for one person.

Fuhrer Nkrumah was following this socialist stupidities and you idiots despite the failure of Russia, East Germany and other socialist countries who have abandoned that foolishness like China did are still living in your dreams of Nkrumah would have done this and that.

OFUI, put it in your empty head that Nkrumah was failing badly after he had depleted the money he got after independence. Where was he going to get 1 billion pounds for his development projects when he was begging world bank in 1962 to finance the construction of the Volta dam for $76 million and that idiot Lungs is telling us Nkrumah had over $200 million reserve in 1962. Only you closed minded zombies believe in your own stupidities.
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

The man of vision,the great Nkrumah's burning desire to see Africa united has been misconstrued by the shallow-minded,misinformed and disinformed SARPONG as an ambition to become President of AFRICA.SARPONG,explain to reader ...
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The man of vision,the great Nkrumah's burning desire to see Africa united has been misconstrued by the shallow-minded,misinformed and disinformed SARPONG as an ambition to become President of AFRICA.SARPONG,explain to readers how Nkrumah could have imposed himself on the other African leaders as President without a consensus.
Richard Owusu 8 years ago

Mr. Sarpong,
The premise of your argument is very hilarious. It is very flimsy to state that Dr. Nkrumah went to begged the World Bank for $76 million. Can you tell me and the rest of what your reactionaries achieved or over ...
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Mr. Sarpong,
The premise of your argument is very hilarious. It is very flimsy to state that Dr. Nkrumah went to begged the World Bank for $76 million. Can you tell me and the rest of what your reactionaries achieved or overthrowing him?
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

The Seven Year Development Plan was estimated at I million pounds sterling.This conceited fool called SARPONG should check his facts instead of relying on hearsay.

The Seven Year Development Plan was estimated at I million pounds sterling.This conceited fool called SARPONG should check his facts instead of relying on hearsay.
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

1 billion pounds sterling

1 billion pounds sterling
SARPONG 8 years ago

Are you brain dead, you bird brain? Where was he going to get that one billion pounds from after he squandered half a billion pounds trying to be President of Africa, dunderhead?

Are you brain dead, you bird brain? Where was he going to get that one billion pounds from after he squandered half a billion pounds trying to be President of Africa, dunderhead?
SON OF MAN 8 years ago

Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick h ...
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Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick head that THE OSAGYEFO'S PLACE IN HISTORY IS ASSURED, HIS FIRST PLACE IN AFRICA IS UNLIKELY TO BE CHALLENGED!

What is the problem with MATEMEHO folks? Forward Ever!!!!!!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

Son of Man, I am not trying to remove Fuhrer Nkrumah name from history. Hitler's name cannot be removed from history, likewise Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin or Idi Amin. I am just telling the truth about the mess your little god fuhr ...
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Son of Man, I am not trying to remove Fuhrer Nkrumah name from history. Hitler's name cannot be removed from history, likewise Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin or Idi Amin. I am just telling the truth about the mess your little god fuhrer Nkrumah created.
Richard Owusu 8 years ago

Why do you hate Dr. Nkrumah so bad? By the way, are you taking any medications? It appears to me that your grand parents were one of those citizens who kept telling you bad thing about Dr. Nkrumah hence your reactionary views ...
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Why do you hate Dr. Nkrumah so bad? By the way, are you taking any medications? It appears to me that your grand parents were one of those citizens who kept telling you bad thing about Dr. Nkrumah hence your reactionary views towards this great man. Nothing personal, but you look very stupid for bashing a great man..
use of head 8 years ago

A nation has to suffer before going through prosperity. Do you think sky scrapers and even pyramids where not built during turbulent times?

If he had been allowed to complete his projects infrastructure would be alot bett ...
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A nation has to suffer before going through prosperity. Do you think sky scrapers and even pyramids where not built during turbulent times?

If he had been allowed to complete his projects infrastructure would be alot better. Hence the need for Rawlings at one point.
SON OF MAN 8 years ago

Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick h ...
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Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick head that THE OSAGYEFO'S PLACE IN HISTORY IS ASSURED, HIS FIRST PLACE IN AFRICA IS UNLIKELY TO BE CHALLENGED!

What is the problem with MATEMEHO folks? Forward Ever!!!!!!!!
SON OF MAN 8 years ago

Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick h ...
read full comment

Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick head that THE OSAGYEFO'S PLACE IN HISTORY IS ASSURED, HIS FIRST PLACE IN AFRICA IS UNLIKELY TO BE CHALLENGED!

What is the problem with MATEMEHO folks? Forward Ever!!!!!!!!
SON OF MAN 8 years ago

Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick h ...
read full comment

Sarpong:

This is a well written piece. For a moment I was almost taken in by your eloquence. But no, these lies of the TRAITORS and nation wreckers have been exposed time and time again.

Please get it into your thick head that THE OSAGYEFO'S PLACE IN HISTORY IS ASSURED, HIS FIRST PLACE IN AFRICA IS UNLIKELY TO BE CHALLENGED!

What is the problem with MATEMEHO folks? Forward Ever!!!!!!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

You have to be really stupid to believe Ghana had 209 million dollars reserve 1963 when we were looking for loans to build the dam.

Are you arguing Ghana was not broke and Nkrumah went to IMF looking for assistance. What ...
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You have to be really stupid to believe Ghana had 209 million dollars reserve 1963 when we were looking for loans to build the dam.

Are you arguing Ghana was not broke and Nkrumah went to IMF looking for assistance. What is that Index Mundi nonsense from? Definitely not from the world Bank and one of those Marxist created nonsense to salvage the image of Nkrumah.

You really have to be daft to believe Ghana had over $100 million reserve when Nkrumah was overthrown. Now I do believe you Fuhrer Nkrumah apologists are one can short of a six pack.

The Governor of Bank of Ghana, Frimpong Ansah said Ghana had only 500 pounds at the time.

Stop doing drugs, Lungu, you are destroying your brains.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

SARPONG,
With evidence and data, you do not need to hurl invectives, unless you ain't got any.....

As you well know, we do not generally indulge you for precisely the nature of most of your posts.

We thought we would t ...
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SARPONG,
With evidence and data, you do not need to hurl invectives, unless you ain't got any.....

As you well know, we do not generally indulge you for precisely the nature of most of your posts.

We thought we would this time...given the special circumstance, and our access to data outside the control of coup plotters and fabricators of Johnson-CIA-supporting myths.

This is an official record from the Johnson Library. It shows that Nkrumah/so-called Governor of Bank of Ghana/Ghana, etc., had not even drawn all the proceeds of the loan facility for Akosombo Dam in 1966. (This balance (3Million pound) was paid to Ankrah in 1967, and idiot Ankrah did not even recognize that part of the funds he got from the British as aid was actually Akosombo Dam loan proceeds Nkrumah's Government had not even collected up to the overthrow of the CPP by the Johnson-CIA, and rascals like Ankrah and Busia.

In that context, your "...You have to be really stupid to believe Ghana had 209 million dollars reserve 1963 when we were looking for loans to build the dam..." is baseless, and then some!

So, Mr. Sarpong, do indulge yourself for the last time.

READ.....

ENJOY..........

"Telegram From the Embassy in Ghana to the Department of State

Accra, May 16, 1967.

Subject: Under Secretary’s Trip.

1. Under Secretary, Fredericks and I had 45-minute meeting with Lt. General Ankrah afternoon May 15. Only other person present was E.C. Quist-Therson, DepSec to NLC.

2. Ankrah was in excellent spirits. Extended warm welcome to party and expressed great delight that such high-ranking official had come to Ghana. Said NLC very much appreciated speed with which USG had responded to Ghana’s needs immediately following February 1966 coup. But for this support he stated there would have been confusion and unrest and NLC could have had difficult time to “get going.”

3. Ankrah also expressed gratitude for PL–480 help and for leadership shown by US Delegation at April Paris meeting of donor countries. Said several countries had already responded, and disclosed that UK will extend pounds 4 million ($11.2 million) loan (understand that pounds 3 million is balance of Volta Dam loan which never used). Ankrah remarked this a welcome turnabout for HMG, which up to now had not been too helpful or forthcoming. Cited as example failure UK to release GOG of obligations on frigate...."

YES, 3,000,000 pounds sterling of unused Akosombo Dam funds in 1967...funds for Akosombo Dam that was commissioned Saturday, 22nd January, 1966!

Top all of that with a copy of "There Was No "Dum-Sor" Under Kwame Nkrumah!", at: www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/Prof_Lungu/There_Was_No_Dum-Sor_Under_Kwame_Nkrumah-v2.pdf.

Greetings!
SARPONG 8 years ago

Do you think I care whether you lobotomized robots parroting your Nkrumah never dies nonsense engage me in debate or not?

What was Nkrumah doing with a loan facility of three million pounds if he had over $200 million in 1 ...
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Do you think I care whether you lobotomized robots parroting your Nkrumah never dies nonsense engage me in debate or not?

What was Nkrumah doing with a loan facility of three million pounds if he had over $200 million in 1963 as you just told us. If Nkrumah had over $200 million in 1962 as you just told us, why was he begging world bank for $76 million to finance the dam?

I don't write to expose Nkrumah lies to attract you brain washed Fuhrer Nkrumah apologists but rather I want the young generation to know history from the other side of the coin apart from the usual cacophonic Nkrumah apologist.

Whenever the bad side of Nkrumah is exposed, you zombies whip out your usual CIA playing card nonsense.

Don't forget we still have people who lived through the Nkrumah hardships and we don't need you to tell us differently. You cannot change the empirical statistical evidence.
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

Listen to SARPONG "Don't forget we still have people who lived through the Nkrumah hardships and we don't need you to tell us differently".The 1972 born SARPONG has made it clear that he was not born during the Nkrumah regime ...
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Listen to SARPONG "Don't forget we still have people who lived through the Nkrumah hardships and we don't need you to tell us differently".The 1972 born SARPONG has made it clear that he was not born during the Nkrumah regime but he is relying on MATEMEHO subversionists who lived in the Nkrumah era for all the misinformation.
Sister Souljah 8 years ago

Sarpong the VULGAR BUFFOON!

Sarpong the VULGAR BUFFOON!
Joe 8 years ago

Kwasia sarpong, is that all you could write? I feel sorry for you.

Kwasia sarpong, is that all you could write? I feel sorry for you.
Toff 8 years ago

Sir, who told you you can do a lot with money in your hand? Give a fool a bucket of money and see if he will become a wise person to do lot.

People do great things not because of money but values and principles that adhere ...
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Sir, who told you you can do a lot with money in your hand? Give a fool a bucket of money and see if he will become a wise person to do lot.

People do great things not because of money but values and principles that adhere to. President Nkrumah did a lot because he had wisdom.

Getting this basic principle wrong makes it worthless to waste my time to commenting on your article. You are only looking at one side!
SARPONG 8 years ago

Yea, he did a lot when he had 500 million pounds but from 1964_66 when the money was gone, that is when we found out his values and principles.

Thank you for trying.

Yea, he did a lot when he had 500 million pounds but from 1964_66 when the money was gone, that is when we found out his values and principles.

Thank you for trying.
GLOBAL CITIZEN III 8 years ago

Sarpong! It is gortesquely wrong on your part to address Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as, "Fuhrer". You may wish to fault Dr. Nkrumah any way you want, but not to address him as "Fuhrer", associated with the wicked and evil lea ...
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Sarpong! It is gortesquely wrong on your part to address Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as, "Fuhrer". You may wish to fault Dr. Nkrumah any way you want, but not to address him as "Fuhrer", associated with the wicked and evil leader, Aldolf Hitler. You must render an unconditional apology to Ghanaians for addressing their leader in the way you have.
SARPONG 8 years ago

Can you tell Nkrumah apologist Francis Kwarteng that? He calls Nana Akuffo Addo as Fuhrer and when we told him that is demeaning, Professor Kwarteng told us it means a LEADER so I am just calling his god Fuhrer as a term of e ...
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Can you tell Nkrumah apologist Francis Kwarteng that? He calls Nana Akuffo Addo as Fuhrer and when we told him that is demeaning, Professor Kwarteng told us it means a LEADER so I am just calling his god Fuhrer as a term of endearment as he called NANA AKUFFO ADDO, no disrespect here.
Dansoman Kojo Sardine 8 years ago

Francis Kwarteng has never taught in a classroom before; not even at a kindergarten.

Francis Kwarteng has never taught in a classroom before; not even at a kindergarten.
KWABENA KASAPREKO. 8 years ago

EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT APPRECIATE WHAT DR. KWAME NKRUMAH DID FOR OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, GHANA, IS A FOOL, IDIOT AND WHAT CAN YOU SAY ? IF NOT FOR THE INGENUITY OF NKRUMAH, MOST GHANAIANS WHO NOWADAYS TALK ILL ABOUT DR. NKRUMAH, ...
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EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT APPRECIATE WHAT DR. KWAME NKRUMAH DID FOR OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, GHANA, IS A FOOL, IDIOT AND WHAT CAN YOU SAY ? IF NOT FOR THE INGENUITY OF NKRUMAH, MOST GHANAIANS WHO NOWADAYS TALK ILL ABOUT DR. NKRUMAH, WOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO SCHOOL. REMEMBER FEE-FREE EDUCATION ? AKOSOMBO TEXTILE FACTORY ? KADE MATCH FACTORY ? TEMA HARBOUR ? ALLTHE SECONDARY SCHOOLS THAT NKRUMAH BUILT WITHIN HIS EIGHT YEARS AS HEAD OF STATE ? UNIVERSITIES ? TEMA OIL REFINERY, WHEN WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE OIL ? ETC. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ? TEACHER-TRAINING COLLEGE STUDENTS BEING GIVEN MONETARY ALLOWANCES ? KWAME NKRUMAH DID NOT EVEN HAVE A PERSONAL HOUSE OF RESIDENCE. LOOK INTO YOURSELF, EXAMINE YOURSELF CRITICALLY BEFORE YOU OPEN YOU MOUTH TO TALK ABOUT DR. KWAME NKRUMAH.
Charlie King Addo 8 years ago

I was attending school at Twedaase Middle near Akodjo in Tema by the Catholic Church, at the time of the Nkrumah overthrow.

Nothing changed. It was business as usual.

We had a fully equipped science lab and a top of the ...
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I was attending school at Twedaase Middle near Akodjo in Tema by the Catholic Church, at the time of the Nkrumah overthrow.

Nothing changed. It was business as usual.

We had a fully equipped science lab and a top of the class pantry for the ladies to better their lot in the culinary department.

On Thursdays, it was carpentry at Oninku.

Common elementary schools enjoyed such amenities from 1957 – maybe till 1980 before everything died.

What was done differently, after the coup that generated funds to revamp the economy for the upkeep of all the numerous top schools?

We never run out of milk or rice. The factories were still running.

UTC or was it Kingsway at Tema market, had plenty of chicken spare parts to feed nations.

I saw Afro Gbede’s fleet of Toyotas during elections campaigns in 1969.
Dude was a tycoon of the highest caliber after the 66 coup.

All our bank managers and most within Nkrumah’s party were bought to tell lies and to sabotage Kwame.
Look at where it has gotten us to.

Beautiful Ghana is now as dirty as hell.

The coup and all the other coups that followed were all wrong.
Africans are stupid. I am sorry.
TELL THE CHILDREN THE TRUTH. 8 years ago

NONSENSE.

NONSENSE.
BRO DAN -TRC 8 years ago

BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, NOBLE PEOPLE OF GHANA; OF A TRUTH, -'HYPOCRITES' SORT TO COUGH LANGUAGE BUT THERE IS NOTHING UNKNOWN TO THE EARS OF THE ALMIGHTY. HUMANITY; THE -ARTICLE- NO DOUBT -SMELLS ...
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BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, NOBLE PEOPLE OF GHANA; OF A TRUTH, -'HYPOCRITES' SORT TO COUGH LANGUAGE BUT THERE IS NOTHING UNKNOWN TO THE EARS OF THE ALMIGHTY. HUMANITY; THE -ARTICLE- NO DOUBT -SMELLS THE (CIA) WHO WHICH WILL GO TO -HELL AND DEATH- JUST TO SEEK TO TEAR DOWN AFRICA FROM EVER UNITING AND WHICH EVIL IS IN ITS EPICAL PROPORTION EVEN AS -SATAN-: THE BIGGEST ENEMY TO THE -"AFRICAN UNITY"- HAS TAKEN THE THRONE OF AMERICA HOSTAGE!!! "AFRICA UNITE!! " SAYS GOD AND HUMANITY. FOR "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL" AND NO MATTER WHAT SATAN THINKS, HE CAN DO -NOTHING- ABOUT THAT WHICH IS PERFECTLY MADE BY THE -ALMIGHTY GOD. BLESSED ONES; "IT IS FINISHED". THEREFORE ;"OCCUPY TILL I COME". FOR AS SURELY AS GOD LIVES, WE CONCLUDE THE "KOFI BABONI; BLOOD MONEY" FACEBOOK PAGE MISSION ON (MARCH 4TH, 2016) AND ON THE BEHALF OF GOD AND HUMANITY.
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO -'UNITE'- FOR THE SAKE OF 'THE VISION AND THE MISSION'. GOD BLESS YOUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE AS YOU REFUSE TO BE A -TRAITOR- AGAINST YOUR OWN NATION AND THE BLESSED PEOPLE. AND AMERICA SHALL SAY; "BAM!!! $1.6 BILLION THEFT FOR 711 COMPANY: FOREIGNERS". YEA; A TIME TO THINK. GOD BLESS (ELIZABETH SARKODIE) WITH "LONG LIFE" BY ("GRACE") THAT "THEY" REJOICE KNOWING -'SATAN'- HAS NO POWER OVER THE PRECIOUS LIFE OF THEIR INNOCENT FATHER: "JOSEPH OF AFRICA". AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
NOTE: MUCH THANKS TO -'GHANAWEB', AND TO 'KENTE FM'.
Kwesi 8 years ago

That hell would have been more peaceful than a UP heaven.

That hell would have been more peaceful than a UP heaven.
Ateni 8 years ago

i never knew we steel have such lunatics in this present Ghana. Mr sarpong, i advice u sleep and wake up. Maybe u haven't finished us last night dream

i never knew we steel have such lunatics in this present Ghana. Mr sarpong, i advice u sleep and wake up. Maybe u haven't finished us last night dream
JIHADI JOHN D'GOAT MAHAMA 8 years ago

Some excerpts for you to see who Nkrumah truly was...

1958: Ghana Permits Imprisonment without Trial for Some Suspects

The Ghanaian government, headed by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, legalizes imprisonment without trial for peop ...
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Some excerpts for you to see who Nkrumah truly was...

1958: Ghana Permits Imprisonment without Trial for Some Suspects

The Ghanaian government, headed by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, legalizes imprisonment without trial for people it considers security risks. (BBC 11/4/1997; Encyclopaedia Britannica 2004)

1964: Nkrumah Declares Himself President of Ghana for Life

Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah becomes increasingly authoritarian, declaring himself president for life and banning opposition parties. (BBC 11/4/1997; Yergin and Stanislaw 1998; Encyclopaedia Britannica 2004)

Introducing Authoritarian Rule and a One-Party State

The CPP’s control was challenged and criticized, and Prime Minister Nkrumah used the Preventive Detention Act (1958), which provided for detention without trial for up to 5 years (later extended to 10 years). On July 1, 1960, a new constitution was adopted, changing Ghana from a parliamentary system with a prime minister to a republican form of government headed by a powerful president. In August 1960, Nkrumah was given authority to scrutinize newspapers and other publications before publication. This political evolution continued into early 1964, when a constitutional referendum changed the country to a one-party state.

Nkrumah’s complete domination of political power had served to isolate lesser leaders, leaving each a real or imagined challenger to the ruler. After opposition parties were crushed, opponents came only from within the CPP hierarchy. Among its members was Tawia Adamafio, an Accra politician. Nkrumah had made him general secretary of the CPP for a brief time. Later, Adamafio was appointed minister of state for presidential affairs, the most important post in the president’s staff at Flagstaff House, which gradually became the center for all decision making and much of the real administrative machinery for both the CPP and the government. The other leader with an apparently autonomous base was John Tettegah, leader of the Trade Union Congress. Neither, however, proved to have any power other than that granted to them by the president.
By 1961, however, the young and more radical members of the CPP leadership, led by Adamafio, had gained ascendancy over the original CPP leaders like Gbedemah. After a bomb attempt on Nkrumah’s life in August 1962, Adamafio, Ako Adjei (then minister of foreign affairs), and Cofie Crabbe (all members of the CPP) were jailed under the Preventive Detention Act. The CPP newspapers charged them with complicity in the assassination attempt, offering as evidence only the fact that they had all chosen to ride in cars far behind the president’s when the bomb was thrown.
For more than a year, the trial of the alleged plotters of the 1962 assassination attempt occupied center stage. The accused were brought to trial before the three-judge court for state security, headed by the chief justice, Sir Arku Korsah. When the court acquitted the accused, Nkrumah used his constitutional prerogative to dismiss Korsah. Nkrumah then obtained a vote from the parliament that allowed retrial of Adamafio and his associates. A new court, with a jury chosen by Nkrumah, found all the accused guilty and sentenced them to death. These sentences, however, were commuted to twenty years’ imprisonment.
In early 1964, in order to prevent future challenges from the judiciary, Nkrumah obtained a constitutional amendment allowing him to dismiss any judge. At the same time, Ghana officially became a single-party state, and an act of parliament ensured that there would be only one candidate for president. Other parties having already been outlawed, no non-CPP candidates came forward to challenge the party slate in the general elections announced for June 1965. Nkrumah had been re-elected president of the country for less than a year when members of the National Liberation Council (NLC) overthrew the CPP government in a military coup on February 24, 1966. At the time, Nkrumah was in China. He took up asylum in Guinea, where he remained until he died in 1972.
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

The New York based psychiatrist who recently offered free treatment to SARPONG among others,is inviting him to come back for further treatment.According to Dr Okyere,some of the symptoms of SARPONG'S mental disease are lack ...
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The New York based psychiatrist who recently offered free treatment to SARPONG among others,is inviting him to come back for further treatment.According to Dr Okyere,some of the symptoms of SARPONG'S mental disease are lack of critical thinking,lack of objectivity,lack of candour and senseless arguments.
SARPONG 8 years ago

Frank Appiah has succumbed to my advice to drop New York as part of his name.

You welfare king living at Tracy Towers in Bronx and collecting food stamps. You Nkrumah imbeciles have retired your brains and parroting like ...
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Frank Appiah has succumbed to my advice to drop New York as part of his name.

You welfare king living at Tracy Towers in Bronx and collecting food stamps. You Nkrumah imbeciles have retired your brains and parroting like lobotomized robots.

If you know how to use your brains, you would have realized dictator nKRUMAH was saved by by the coup plotters for him to even have any positive legacy.
K.B. Asare 8 years ago

I hope the 1972 born mentally deranged and conceited fool called SARPONG will read G.K.Berko's impeccable response and inhale his intelligence and wisdom.This will be a permanent cure for SARPONG'S mental disorder.

I hope the 1972 born mentally deranged and conceited fool called SARPONG will read G.K.Berko's impeccable response and inhale his intelligence and wisdom.This will be a permanent cure for SARPONG'S mental disorder.
SARPONG 8 years ago

God created houseflies,tse-tse flies,ants,bugs, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites , then he lowered his standards and made you.You are a real monument to stupidity

God created houseflies,tse-tse flies,ants,bugs, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites , then he lowered his standards and made you.You are a real monument to stupidity
Jake 8 years ago

Nkrumah did even know that the Health care in Ghana did not have basic essentials and his health Minister was too frightened of him to alert him what was actually going on. Towards the end he made himself like a God and a di ...
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Nkrumah did even know that the Health care in Ghana did not have basic essentials and his health Minister was too frightened of him to alert him what was actually going on. Towards the end he made himself like a God and a dictator. He was just like Hitler in a way. If he can't defeat he would have you murdered. These are the real facts about Kwame Nkrumah. He gave money to other African countries. Today which African country is paying back our money.
sekum 8 years ago

summing everything up nkrumah was the best.if I have millions of money n I use it to build schools,create jobs etc and later increase tax for more developmental project is it not better and expedient than someone who borrows ...
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summing everything up nkrumah was the best.if I have millions of money n I use it to build schools,create jobs etc and later increase tax for more developmental project is it not better and expedient than someone who borrows millions from the west and squander them all or enrich himself wit it? after his overthrow d man had nothing. can't see a generational thinker here?
Kweku Donsuro 8 years ago

These are marooned apostates who have nothing to offer the world except bitterness, rancour and their self abnegation poisons the world.

These are marooned apostates who have nothing to offer the world except bitterness, rancour and their self abnegation poisons the world.
MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago

This is pathetic Sarpong. Francis Kwarteng used Fuhrer to describe Akufo Addo a week ago, so you have to counter with this Fuhrer Nkrumah nonsense to get even, throwing caution to the economic achievements of the Osagyefo. An ...
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This is pathetic Sarpong. Francis Kwarteng used Fuhrer to describe Akufo Addo a week ago, so you have to counter with this Fuhrer Nkrumah nonsense to get even, throwing caution to the economic achievements of the Osagyefo. And you call urself the cardinal of truth.

You are wrong, just as Kwarteng was. Let's leave Fuhrer for nazi Germany. Neither Nkrumah nor Akufo Addo deserves the descriptor Fuhrer, and you know it.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago

Nkrumah wasn't xenophobic and murderous as Hitler was. Nkrumah did not gas anyone for sheer political or Social advantage. Nkrumah did not set out to overtake any other Country to expand his territory or Political power.

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Nkrumah wasn't xenophobic and murderous as Hitler was. Nkrumah did not gas anyone for sheer political or Social advantage. Nkrumah did not set out to overtake any other Country to expand his territory or Political power.

All that led to his dictatorial measures were driven by the Opposition's relentless efforts to not only overthrow his Government but also assassinate him. He was left with little choice to protect his legitimate political mandate and his life.

We must acknowledge that hindsight is always 20/20, and in the heat of the struggle to stay alive and continue his program for the Nation, Nkrumah might have missed any other viable option to do otherwise in a more democratic way.

Besides, for most of his dictatorial era, Ghana was under Emergency conditions at the time when the violence by the Opposition was growing day and day. The fact that Nkrumah did not ask the Parliament for those sweeping dictatorial Powers right at the beginning of his assumption to Power must offer some glimpse into his most likely intentions that he would not have championed the One-Party State, for example.

So, we have to be very objective, in spite of any personal animosities we might have against the late President. If Nkrumah fits a Fuhrer of the Nazi Hitler's kind, how would Sarpong describe the likes of Idi Amin? Emotions can surely make us ran amok with irrationality!

Then, how would Sarpong call the Houphouet Boignys and Lee Kuan Yews? Oh, he may not call them Fuhrers but maybe 'Malevolent Despots', huh? Some oxymoron terminology of sorts... just because those dictators served the West's interests best. Right?

Folks, we need to do better to get away from such dangerous flaky thinkers like Sarpong, or Ghana would perpetually be a beggar Nation, always looking up to the West for salvation, or even mere permission to exist.

Long Live Ghana!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

IDIOT, where were you when Kwarteng wrote four part article in this forum and in each article called Nana Akuffo Addo as a Fuhrer? I bet Nana Akuffo Addo 'gassed' your mother, fool.

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IDIOT, where were you when Kwarteng wrote four part article in this forum and in each article called Nana Akuffo Addo as a Fuhrer? I bet Nana Akuffo Addo 'gassed' your mother, fool.

Kwarteng told those of us who have never been to school that FUHRER means a LEADER and that is why Nkrumah is being referred to as a fuhrer, was he not a leader?

Go and have that argument with your friend Francis Kwarteng, asshole.
samuel villa 8 years ago

We are still suffering the acts of myopic and subversive activities of JB Dankwahs,Abrefa Busias and their kinds.Even today,tommorow and the day after, His excellency Kwame Nkrumah still stand tall nationally and globally in ...
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We are still suffering the acts of myopic and subversive activities of JB Dankwahs,Abrefa Busias and their kinds.Even today,tommorow and the day after, His excellency Kwame Nkrumah still stand tall nationally and globally in his vision for Ghana, Africa and the global world as president.Go and read well to justify your porous piece of rubbish on ghanaweb.Be ashamed for polluting young brains about Nkrumah.
Robertr Asafoatse 8 years ago

I feel sorry for people like you.You think you know what you are talking about.Actually we call it much ado about
nothing.When you start from a false premise you will always reach a wrong conclusion.

I feel sorry for people like you.You think you know what you are talking about.Actually we call it much ado about
nothing.When you start from a false premise you will always reach a wrong conclusion.
KKO 8 years ago

The truth really hurts sometimes, but in Ghana, it seems to cut through souls!

Very good piece, Justice.
Several cocoa farmers committed suicide because they were given worthless "chits", as payment for the sale of their ...
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The truth really hurts sometimes, but in Ghana, it seems to cut through souls!

Very good piece, Justice.
Several cocoa farmers committed suicide because they were given worthless "chits", as payment for the sale of their cocoa beans. Many of them accidentally destroyed their chits and became penniless. To watch their families suffer, some decided to end it all.

There were at least two cases where the affected farmers shot dead the thieving "buying agents", after trekking to the buying centres numerous times without getting anything from the agents.

The fact that workers were not paid for months on end, attested to that. That is what the socialist Mahama is doing to Ghanaian teachers and nurses today!
Sacramoto Jr. 8 years ago

Stop your lies and ridiculous name calling " socialist Mahama" and Fuhrer Nkrumah are the figments of imagination of the people of your ilk, come again KKO.

Stop your lies and ridiculous name calling " socialist Mahama" and Fuhrer Nkrumah are the figments of imagination of the people of your ilk, come again KKO.
KKO 8 years ago

You are obviously too young to know and not smart enough to read. You gubble everything hook, line and sinker from GCE O Level dropout Kwesi Pratt!

You are obviously too young to know and not smart enough to read. You gubble everything hook, line and sinker from GCE O Level dropout Kwesi Pratt!
SARPONG 8 years ago

Doc., you see how the brain dead Nkrumah apologists are behaving? They have closed their minds to reasoning which I call permanent retirement of their brains. These yahoo's cannot challenge facts so they have resorted to thei ...
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Doc., you see how the brain dead Nkrumah apologists are behaving? They have closed their minds to reasoning which I call permanent retirement of their brains. These yahoo's cannot challenge facts so they have resorted to their usual stupidities and lies.

Can you even believe the so called Professor Lungu is telling us Ghana was flush with cash between 1964-66, a time Nkrumah behind the scenes was on his knees begging the so called "imperialists" to finance his budgets.

Funny though all these people even when the axis of their so called EVIL EMPIRES followed them to their "evil countries" to enslave themselves. Wonder how many of these retarded morons are willing to move from their comfortable homes in Europe and USA to settle in Cuba or North Korea. These people are hypocrites to the highest order.
Asante 8 years ago

Sarpong!

Stop your nonsense.

You are fighting a lost cause.

Admittedly, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had some weakness. Of course he was human! The only one who doesn't realize that is you, Mr. Sarpong. You think the O ...
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Sarpong!

Stop your nonsense.

You are fighting a lost cause.

Admittedly, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had some weakness. Of course he was human! The only one who doesn't realize that is you, Mr. Sarpong. You think the Osagyefo was some deity, hence your obsession.

In spite of his weaknesses and all, he was far better than you and your thieving ethnocentric lot: Matemeho,-NPP. Of course, you know this!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

At least we have one robotic fool who is trying to change his stuck gear that was stuck at stupidity to reasoning. You are the first of the brain dead fuhrer Nkrumah apologists to accept that dictator made some mistakes, seem ...
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At least we have one robotic fool who is trying to change his stuck gear that was stuck at stupidity to reasoning. You are the first of the brain dead fuhrer Nkrumah apologists to accept that dictator made some mistakes, seems I am making progress here.

So if you are not a supporter of tyrant Fuhrer Nkrumah then you are ethnocentric huh? Asantevi, is that what you are telling us?
G. K. Berko 8 years ago

Again, here go your infantile projections. You are not going anywhere with your clod-feet presumptions. No one has claimed Nkrumah never made errors. That is a fact that all sane adults tacitly acknowledge, both for and again ...
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Again, here go your infantile projections. You are not going anywhere with your clod-feet presumptions. No one has claimed Nkrumah never made errors. That is a fact that all sane adults tacitly acknowledge, both for and against his side of issues.

So, quit showing pettiness and tell us the real, solid point you think you have made to convince anyone with your crappy cut-and-paste Article. Look, Sarpong, you are trying too hard to be counted as some intellectual. But the opacity of your Articles and derivation of illogical conclusions to them exposes you as falling way far behind.

The implication of your 'Asantevi' name-calling is well understood. And it does not surprise many of us who have long known you to be an abject bigot and xenophobe. What if Asante were an Ewe? He is challenging you on the wisdom and verity of your factual build-up to support your arguments. And all you do is attacking his ethnic background amidst wild assumptions?

You may well be some "Akurase royalty" who has bought into the morass of gullible deception that Nkrumah wanted to eradicate Traditional Authority in Ghana, and thereby fearing that your privileges of sitting on family Cocoa Plantation Estates for your exclusive benefit were going to be taken away.

Any curtailment of Traditional Authorities' incursions into secular Politics was necessary because the Opposition had chosen to coopt the Chiefs with that fear-mongering to engender their dislike of Nkrumah. And the Opposition hoped that the masses would fall in line to reject Nkrumah when they realize their Chiefs did not approve of him. But that tactic failed, and failed miserably, allowing Nkrumah to enjoy a massive victory with the support of the majority of Ghanaians.

Naturally, all our Chiefs had a fundamental repulsion for any Central Government, beginning from the Colonial Days, as they saw the Powers of Secular Government to be a direct obstacle to their absolute control of their subjects. All the three Opposition leaders we now so fondly dub NPP with as the triumvirate model for the Party, Danquah-Busia-Dombo, were Royalties who wanted the opportunity to regain more power from the Central Government to the Chiefs.

The People saw through that and thereby rejected them. Period! If the Traditional Authorities had anything more to offer the People to advance our lives, we would have long seen that in the Society, so many years after 'freeing' their System from any grips that Nkrumah might have held them in.

But, good Heavens! Haven't we seen the deterioration in the performance of the Traditional Authorities in our
communities already? Many of them have squandered the wealth that their predecessors left for them to help oversee the affairs of the People. Others still keep poaching into the State subventions to their areas at the expense of the People. They have sold the Lands to not even the highest bidder but to anyone who would help them hide the loot. They have sold the Gold and other ornaments that the various stools were guarded by financially without accounting to the People.

So, here lay exposed your lies about Nkrumah suppressing Traditional Authorities. Even if he did, then, why haven't they redeemed themselves in 50 years plus?

Long Live Ghana!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

Idiot, I don't give a crap if Nkrumah suppressed the powers of the traditional leaders and that is not the topic of discussion for this article but you stupid fool is running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

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Idiot, I don't give a crap if Nkrumah suppressed the powers of the traditional leaders and that is not the topic of discussion for this article but you stupid fool is running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

When you have moron ever accepted the fact that Nkrumah made any mistake and if you think he did, tell us then so that we will not accuse you lobotomized imbeciles again of being robots.

Idiot, anybody who is not as stupid like you Nkrumah apologists is labeled ethnocentric and tribalist so I don't even care about it.

Who told you dolt that I want to be called an intellectual? You are the one who make comments like you are writing a book trying to convince people that you are intellectual but some of us can see through your stupidity, coward.

You came to the forum cowardly hiding your true political leanings until I forced you to come out of your political hiding shell, OFUI. GET OFF FROM MY SPACE.

You really have to be childish to label everybody who is not an Nkrumah follower as ethnocentric. You are not going to silence some of us by playing your own stupid tribal card. Nkrumah was a brutal dictator who messed our economy and there is empirical evidence to support it.

When did you fool start hating cut and paste? Cut and paste by Nkrumah apologists as articles in this forum have always met your praises but when it is not advantageous to your little god called fuhrer Nkrumah, then cut and paste is not good. STOP BEHAVING LIKE A TWO YEAR OLD WHOSE PACIFIER HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM.
KKO 8 years ago

Justice,
I am not sure where people like Prof Lungu get their figures from, but here is what the IMF's annual report for 1965, says of Ghana on pages 92 and 93,

"The balance of payments deficit that has persisted in Gha ...
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Justice,
I am not sure where people like Prof Lungu get their figures from, but here is what the IMF's annual report for 1965, says of Ghana on pages 92 and 93,

"The balance of payments deficit that has persisted in Ghana since 1959 reflects an excess of domestic demand originating largely in the public sector. A part of this excess demand has been deliberate, representing a preparedness to draw down reserves for purposes of economic development; but another part has resulted from the fact that the Government's budgeted expenditures were predicated on expectations regarding cocoa export proceeds which did not materialize because of the fall in cocoa prices; the world price of cocoa fell from an average of £336 a ton in 1958 to £179 a ton in 1964 to £122 a ton in 1965)

Until 1962 the excess demand spilled over in higher imports ($385 million in 1961). From 1962 through 1964 imports were restricted to a level only slightly in excess of $300 million. The continuing current account deficits as well as, in certain years, a sizable capital outflow (e.g., to Guinea, Mali, and Upper Volta), were financed by borrowing abroad (mainly suppliers' credits), by drawing down reserves, and—in 1964—by borrowing against securities held in the reserves.

The outcome has been that Ghana's international reserves declined from some $530 million in 1957 to a total (net of securities pledged against short-term loans) of less than $70 million in the spring of 1965. In addition, Ghana has incurred a considerable foreign debt; suppliers' credits denominated in foreign currency arranged from 1959 to April 1965 totalled some

Guinea, Mali, and Upper Volta), were financed by borrowing abroad (mainly suppliers' credits), by drawing down reserves, and—in 1964—by borrowing against securities held in the reserves. The outcome has been that Ghana's international reserves declined from some $530 million in 1957 to a total (net of securities pledged against short-term loans) of less than $70 million in the spring of 1965. In addition, Ghana has incurred a considerable foreign debt; suppliers' credits denominated in foreign currency arranged from 1959 to April 1965 totalled some £G200m ($560m); by the latter date, principal and interest totalling some £G 35m had been paid.

Owing to a more rapid rise in expenditures (both recurrent and capital ) than in revenue, the over-all deficits on the Government’s budget rose to £G 50m in 1962/63; it was reduced to £ G 64m in 1963/64, but it is estimated at £G 66m in 1964/65. The deficits have been financed by drawing down on the overseas holdings of Government and by issuing treasury bills."

Some of us lived through it. There were shortages of everything you could think of. If Ghana had that much money in reserves in 1965, why did the NLC have to go begging the West to be able to pay workers' salaries and other state subventions?
KKO 8 years ago

Correction, "The balance of payments deficit that has persisted in Ghana since 1959 reflects an excess of domestic demand originating largely in the public sector. A part of this excess demand has been deliberate, representin ...
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Correction, "The balance of payments deficit that has persisted in Ghana since 1959 reflects an excess of domestic demand originating largely in the public sector. A part of this excess demand has been deliberate, representing a preparedness to draw down reserves for purposes of economic development; but another part has resulted from the fact that the Government's budgeted expenditures were predicated on expectations regarding cocoa export proceeds which did not materialize because of the fall in cocoa prices; the world price of cocoa fell from an average of £336 a ton in 1958 to £179 a ton in 1964 to £122 a ton in 1965)

Until 1962 the excess demand spilled over in higher imports ($385 million in 1961). From 1962 through 1964 imports were restricted to a level only slightly in excess of $300 million. The continuing current account deficits as well as, in certain years, a sizable capital outflow (e.g., to Guinea, Mali, and Upper Volta), were financed by borrowing abroad (mainly suppliers' credits), by drawing down reserves, and—in 1964—by borrowing against securities held in the reserves.

The outcome has been that Ghana's international reserves declined from some $530 million in 1957 to a total (net of securities pledged against short-term loans) of less than $70 million in the spring of 1965.

In addition, Ghana has incurred a considerable foreign debt; suppliers' credits denominated in foreign currency arranged from 1959 to April 1965 totalled some £G200m ($560m); by the latter date, principal and interest totalling some £G 35m had been paid.

Owing to a more rapid rise in expenditures (both recurrent and capital ) than in revenue, the over-all deficits on the Government’s budget rose to £G 50m in 1962/63; it was reduced to £ G 64m in 1963/64, but it is estimated at £G 66m in 1964/65. The deficits have been financed by drawing down on the overseas holdings of Government and by issuing treasury bills."
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

If we may indulge just one more time....

KKO - YOUR POST:
"...The outcome has been that Ghana's international reserves declined from some $530 million in 1957 to a total (net of securities pledged against short-term loa ...
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If we may indulge just one more time....

KKO - YOUR POST:
"...The outcome has been that Ghana's international reserves declined from some $530 million in 1957 to a total (net of securities pledged against short-term loans) of less than $70 million in the spring of 1965..."

SARPONG'S:
"...the external reserve position had deteriorated considerably between 1957 when net reserves stood at US$269 million and 1966 when they were negative at –US$391 million..."

ITEM: Maybe you both need to confer with each other and reconcile, before you come back again!

It is elementary!

Obviously, everyone will agree that you do not spend/incubate your capital on capital/public projects and still have your capital in the "reserve bank".

You've lived long enough to remember Nkrumah's overthrow?

Maybe you want to start counting the Nkrumah benefits, to include "UNITARY GHANA"!

So, thanks, but no thanks!

We will stick with our numbers!

Nothing that we have said is contradicted by any of your postings! Reconcile with each other first, and come again.

ITEM: What exactly do you understand by: "...(net of securities pledged against short-term loans)...in the spring of 1965...", your own post?

WORLD BANK DATA FROM INDEX MUNDI
GHANA RESERVES 1960-1972
1960 $277,926,000
1961 $155,954,000
1962 $181,711,200
1963 $209,312,800
1964 $125,519,200
1965 $115,809,200
1966 $111,130,400
1967 $82,732,000
1968 $97,004,000
1969 $71,832,000
1970 $42,579,200
1971 $43,092,220
1972 $104,041,100
(www.indexmundi.com/facts/ghana/total-reserves).
KKO 8 years ago

I lived through it and I am almost certain that your parents jubilated, just like 90% of the people did. They knew what had happened to Ghana. Even Nkrumah's own minsters denounced him.

Kweku Baako remembers that! I have ...
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I lived through it and I am almost certain that your parents jubilated, just like 90% of the people did. They knew what had happened to Ghana. Even Nkrumah's own minsters denounced him.

Kweku Baako remembers that! I have quoted from IMF's own report of 1965, and it is available on the internet, fo free.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

KKO,
We may not belabor this item further!

You are now turning to hearsay, personal recollections, and assumptions about us you have no clue about.

And this re-channeling of Kweku Baako!

Nice try!

HEAR THIS: We ...
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KKO,
We may not belabor this item further!

You are now turning to hearsay, personal recollections, and assumptions about us you have no clue about.

And this re-channeling of Kweku Baako!

Nice try!

HEAR THIS: We are big enough, old enough, data-sourced enough, etc., to defend our own findings and conclusions.

So, again, try reconciling your own data with Sarpong's, then come back and explain, analytically.

World Bank (1965):

"...The balance of payments deficit that has persisted in Ghana since 1959 reflects an excess of
domestic demand originating largely in the public sector. A part of this excess demand has been deliberate, representing a preparedness to draw
down reserves for purposes of economic development; but another part has resulted from the fact
that the Government's budgeted expenditures were predicated on expectations regarding cocoa
export proceeds which did not materialize because of the fall in cocoa prices; the world price of
cocoa fell from an average of £336 a ton in 1958 to £179 a ton in 1964 and to £122 in April 1965. On the other hand, output of cocoa in Ghana has increased substantially in recent
years—from 264,000 long tons in 1956/57 to a plateau of 400,000-450,000 tons in the early
1960's and to some 550,000-600,000 tons today. In fact, Ghana's receipts from cocoa exports have remained relatively stable in recent years. The price paid to the cocoa farmers has not been reduced commensurately
with the fall in world prices, and the income of the cocoa farmers has increased with the rise in output, expanding domestic demand.

So....

Replace "because of the fall" with "CONSPIRACY"!

And when you read "In fact, Ghana's receipts from cocoa exports have remained relatively stable in recent years," it should tell you that despite the conspiracy with the price of cocoa, Nkrumah's government, working with cocoa farmers and others, was able export a lot more cocoa to compensate in part the harm(s) of the conspiracy.

Now, those are all FACTS. But, you must have some "analytics" in addition to "wider perspective" in you, to draw the valid conclusions!
Sacramoto Jr. 8 years ago

From Nkrumah the Fuhrer to Nkrumah apologists - the lying and name calling continue unabated.
SaySay something truthful and worthwhile once in a while, Sarpong.

From Nkrumah the Fuhrer to Nkrumah apologists - the lying and name calling continue unabated.
SaySay something truthful and worthwhile once in a while, Sarpong.
Nima Boy 8 years ago

I never knew this Sarpong guy is such a BAFFOON. I have respect for this guy at least when it comes to some important social issues . Why will he drop this bomb? Is he in bed with OKOAMPA?

I never knew this Sarpong guy is such a BAFFOON. I have respect for this guy at least when it comes to some important social issues . Why will he drop this bomb? Is he in bed with OKOAMPA?
foko 8 years ago

You insult because you don't have the facts. What do you think: Nkrumah named many thing with his name KNUST, KN Ideological institute at Winnba, KN circle, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue. Can't he name anything after Ako Adjei, Gbedem ...
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You insult because you don't have the facts. What do you think: Nkrumah named many thing with his name KNUST, KN Ideological institute at Winnba, KN circle, Kwame Nkrumah Avenue. Can't he name anything after Ako Adjei, Gbedemah, Mojo Botsio etc. His head is on every currency, coin and paper. Erects his statue in front of Parliament. Declares himself president for life. Was he normal. Didn't he expect enemies in his own circle when it Ako Adjei who suggested your invitation?
hohoho, Montréal 8 years ago

sarong, you are a sick man. you know nothing about nkrumah. what colonial masters money. its you mothers money that was used to build tema. tema, the first well plan buit city in west africa

sarong, you are a sick man. you know nothing about nkrumah. what colonial masters money. its you mothers money that was used to build tema. tema, the first well plan buit city in west africa
SARPONG 8 years ago

Idiot, you Don't have monopoly on insults so if you lack intelligent to have a discourse on this topic, why drag our mothers into it?

You want to drag our mothers into this, you idiotic welfare recipient in Canada, I will ...
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Idiot, you Don't have monopoly on insults so if you lack intelligent to have a discourse on this topic, why drag our mothers into it?

You want to drag our mothers into this, you idiotic welfare recipient in Canada, I will accommodate you. Why don't you go back to what you, your father and mother were doing before you moved your head between your mother's legs to take a peek at the website. Continue the threesome your sick family was doing and let intelligent people have a peaceful discourse.
foko 8 years ago

You are right Sarpong. I was in sec school form 4 1966

You are right Sarpong. I was in sec school form 4 1966
OBIBINI 8 years ago

A fool hiding in America and writing about a person he has read about and jumping to absurd,infantile conlusions.No wonder you are a strong supporter of the Danquah/Busia political group which promoted terrorism and economic ...
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A fool hiding in America and writing about a person he has read about and jumping to absurd,infantile conlusions.No wonder you are a strong supporter of the Danquah/Busia political group which promoted terrorism and economic sabotage against Ghana when Osagyefo was in power.The NPP will never get power again to steal state properties and use the oil sector to create millionaires for its supporters.
TT 8 years ago

AT LEAST HE IS NOT A HYPOCRITE LIKE YOU GUYS WHO WANT GHANA TO BE COMMUNIST COUNTRY BUT HAVE RAN TO CAPITALIST COUNTRIES LIKE YOU HYPOCRITE IN ITALY.

AT LEAST HE IS NOT A HYPOCRITE LIKE YOU GUYS WHO WANT GHANA TO BE COMMUNIST COUNTRY BUT HAVE RAN TO CAPITALIST COUNTRIES LIKE YOU HYPOCRITE IN ITALY.
Pelicles 8 years ago

I would like to know from Nkrumah's supporters what the man did wrong? It seems he never erred and that would never sit well with some of us. He did something wrong which led to his ouster.

I would like someone to tell ...
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I would like to know from Nkrumah's supporters what the man did wrong? It seems he never erred and that would never sit well with some of us. He did something wrong which led to his ouster.

I would like someone to tell how the man could unite the second largest continent on the planet at a time the world powers were all over it.

During his time in office, he never saw eye to eye with the opposition in Ghana and why did he think of uniting Africa with the idea that all would kowtow to his whim and caprices?

Nkrumah was fooling himself at that time because he was fighting a losing battle. If he was around, trust me, he would bow to the dictates of the world powers no matter how smart he was. Being smart means, develop your nation to the envy of all and when it comes to a point that someone is needed to lead Africa, no one would hesitate to make a frantic call to you because you have shown that qualities in your own backyard.
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

Nothing can change history.It is universally acknowledged that Kwame Nkrumah is the greatest African of all time.This 1972 born MATEMEHO grandson called SARPONG is a laughing stock.

Nothing can change history.It is universally acknowledged that Kwame Nkrumah is the greatest African of all time.This 1972 born MATEMEHO grandson called SARPONG is a laughing stock.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago

When half-baked, egoistic scholars like this Sarpong begin to bleat CIA-scripted mantra to justify their devious plots that disrupted Governments all over the World, it makes one wonder if they still believe we are still livi ...
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When half-baked, egoistic scholars like this Sarpong begin to bleat CIA-scripted mantra to justify their devious plots that disrupted Governments all over the World, it makes one wonder if they still believe we are still living in the pre-Internet days.

Gone are the days when a few privileged Scholars claimed to have exclusive access to information they shoved down our throats as undeniable facts to explain our Economic and Political woes. Now, most people have access to the truth in most of the stories these saboteurs and parochial-minded loud-mouth liars were telling us.

So, I encourage all to pursue their own research to expose these liars. Thanks to the Internet.

My only humble lead I'd like to suggest for all pursuing such research on Ghana's Economic trajectory since Independence would be to consider the following facts more deeply when doing so:

1). The status of Ghana's Infrastructure by the time of our Independence.

2). The level of Industrialization that the British left us with.

3). The range of Wealth of native individuals in Ghana up to the advent of Nkrumah.

4). The availability and access to Banks and Financial facilities for Entrepreneurship in Ghana at the time of our Independence.

5). The nature of Economic mobility between Ghana and various external Economic and Financial Institutions that impacted on our developmental progress.

Long Live Ghana!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago

"So, I encourage all to pursue their own research to expose these liars. Thanks to the Internet"

Kwasea coward like you, why don't you refute the information provided here with your so called internet available evidence bu ...
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"So, I encourage all to pursue their own research to expose these liars. Thanks to the Internet"

Kwasea coward like you, why don't you refute the information provided here with your so called internet available evidence but asking others to do it for you?

You imbeciles always play the CIA trump card when your Fuhrer is exposed.

It is a fact not in dispute Ghana was going through economic hardships when that dictator was overthrown and you cannot challenge the evidence, you dumbass fool.
Frank Appiah 8 years ago

This pseudo-intellectual called SARPONG has never thought for one moment to find out why Kwame Nkrumah is universally acknowledged as Africa's Man of The Millenium.

This pseudo-intellectual called SARPONG has never thought for one moment to find out why Kwame Nkrumah is universally acknowledged as Africa's Man of The Millenium.

President Nkrumah was leading Ghana to hell economically

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