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FLASHBACK: Here's why Nkrumah rejected an IMF programme in 1965

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  • M.T 2 months ago

    Thanks for your objective historical account. Bawumia is leading the way to building Ghana beyond IMF. But, John Dramani's vision is nothing but the same old tricks which will take us nowhere. Industrialization, digitalizatio ...
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  • Ex-Pope 2 months ago

    GHANAIANS WON'T BE FOOLED BY NPP SERIAL LIES, DECEPTIONS AND RECYCLED BROKEN PROMISES

    Nkrumah and his team knew how to protect the interest of the people of Ghana, and they decided not to accept the terms the of the IMF. ...
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  • NKRUMAH WAS RIGHT THEN AND IS RIGHT NOW 2 months ago

    IMF WILL JUST DESTROY WHAT EVER WE HAVE LEFT

  • Spio 2 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah is not popular anymore, ndc has collapse cpp, not even one seat in paliament.

  • Farmer 2 months ago

    Amazing. Nkruma had the right political instincts. Doing the right things for the country, not a party or the next election.

    Once that spirit returns to Ghana's political elite, we will be out of the forest.

  • Who doesn't know what Bawumia is upto? 2 months ago

    The problem of Ghana is not Bawumia or Mahama but corrupt team called NPP and NDC that is made of selfish greedy individuals who want to own everything in Ghana.

    Everyone should mark this somewhere that the next leadershi ...
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  • The Spear 2 months ago

    So what's your point? How's that relevant to our plight vis-à-vis NPP's fiasco and the desperate attempt to keep Dr. Economics Banza asphyxiating us further?

  • Confused Prof. 2 months ago

    Talk true. Dr. Nkrumah regime was bankrupt before he applied to the IMF. No government goes to the IMF is they are not in dire need of a bailout. The rejection of IMF austerity measures spelled doom for his approach to state ...
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  • Kwaku 2 months ago

    GHANA DOES NOT LOVE THE IMF. THEIR PRESENCE HURTS OUR PRIDE. OUR PROBLEM IS THE TIMID AND INTELLECTUALLY SHALLOW SET OF INTERGENERATIONAL ECONOMISTS WHO RULE THE NARRATIVE ON OUR ECONOMY. FOR EXAMPLE. INSTEAD OF BUILDING ...
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