From Tetteh Quarshie to Atomic Junction: Inside Kwame Nkrumah's 'botched' science city project

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  • Kwabenana Duku Damoah 1 year ago

    Nkruma had a flawed ideology and for that matter a flawed basis of his trajecttory and so doomed to failure period.From north to south east to west everyone takes care of his property better than the general one.It is impossi ...
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  • Sam 1 year ago

    Flaud ideology? Brainwashed people like you are why Africa will for a long time be where is it.
    You will Never understand who or what Nkrumah is- You will Never.

  • KH 1 year ago

    With people like you stuck to archaic beliefs we shall still be riding on donkeys and horses for our only mode of transportation. Likewise, there wouldn't be highways and motorways since you will think they have to be const ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Kwabena, Adherents of the fatuous and odious Danquah Busia Detritus are full of wiseacres who do not know their arse from their tits. China practised Monarchy for centuries yet millions wallowed in poverty. They tried cap ...
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  • AKOMEA GOEBBELS 1 year ago

    "...They tried capitalism until 1948 the result was just as dreadful.. For the last 70 years, their system of govt is called One Party State Communist Govt. They are now the second richest country on planet earth. ..."

    Nsi ...
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  • Joe 1 year ago

    But we prefer to emigrate to america and not china

  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Joe, I will not emigrate to China nor America. My point is very simple. With all the capitalism and democracy piffle that comes from Akufo Addo and his equally corrupt bunch of thieves, why on earth do they constantly turn ...
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  • SENDERO 1 year ago

    This is the funniest post in the history of SIL. When Mao died, the average Chinese was on 360 dollars a year. In effect less than a dollar a day. Also his economic policies ensured China had a huge famine that killed 15 mill ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Sendero, you keep harping on the same string. The ruling party in China is called the communist party. It is a one party state. How they manage their affairs through their communust
    System is not for you to decide. The qu ...
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  • SENDERO 1 year ago

    Before political parties appeared anywhere, what was lifting people out of poverty were open markets, technology, and government Protection of property rights.

    The Communist party has embraced all 3 and they have done afte ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Sendero, your first paragraph can only come from an oxymoron. Just read over it and you will see the contadiction. When did political parties begin? In China's case they had an emperor who did bugger all for them. Just as O ...
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  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    Sendero, you're a highly misinformed NPP looting liar. Mao and his officials set in motion a system that stressed hard work and discipline. The Chinese economic boom began when President Nixon and his Secretary of State Kissi ...
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  • SD.com 1 year ago

    Who is this twerp?

  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @SD......a twerp is a spineless, boneless cunt who does not have the balls to attach a decent name to his / her senseless and idiotic comment!. Stew in your gross stupidity! Akyeneboa!

  • Ike 1 year ago

    Kwanenana, you are a useless being walking around

  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    You're just a pathetic short-sighted unrepentant bombing lost soul. Nkrumah and his team had excellent ideas to progress Ghana, but America and its CIA could not stand an African leader leaning to Russia and China for scienti ...
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  • SENDERO 1 year ago

    Ex Pope

    Your man Nkrumah was delaying paaaa. He came to power and inherited a healthy economy. In 1965 he had driven you into bankruptcy such that for the first time in our history we begged the US for food Aid under its P ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Sendero, only extreme idiots with a concrete set minds will ever have the chutzpah to tell us that Kwame Nkrumah inherited a healthy economy from bombed out and bankrupt Britain who begged USA and Canada for loans to rebuild ...
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  • SENDERO 1 year ago

    1951 versus 1966

    1951

    Inflation 1%.
    National debt 15 million pounds
    Growth rate 12% per annum
    Reserves 300 million pounds.

    1966

    Inflation 22%
    National debt 1billion
    Growth rate 1% per annum
    Reserves 500,000 ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Sendero, you are nothing but a brain fart and a complete wise acre. Now, how many schools, hospital, clinics, even drinking wells feeder roads were in Ghana in 1951. Of course, to an idiot like you Queens Hall, Unity Hall, ...
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  • Ex-Pope 1 year ago

    Nonsense. You're just a pathetic unrepentant bomb-throwing terrorist and liar. Ghanaians were doing very well under the Nkrumah government despite the the bomb-throwing escapades of your Busia-Danquah Tradition of Terrorists ...
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  • Titus 1 year ago

    Did you say flawed ideology? oh my... can you for a 2nd tell us what you would have done in his era ? Wish .. akowaa yi w) y3 too known pa paa.
    Have you read any of his books ever before ? In fact , I have read all his work ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Titus, thanks for your input. Disgruntled wankers within the Danquah Busia Detritus cannot and will not accept the fact that Kwame Nkrumah, was superior in deeds and thoughts than them. A fact which is as plain as pikestaff. ...
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  • If your dearm is bigger than your salary then you are already corrupt 1 year ago

    Somebody did it for his country and he succeeded because he got a team not of bad mind like yours but a team with patriotic mind.
    Don't be Evil like kotoka

  • KH 1 year ago

    During negotiations to get the Akosombo Dam built, to frustrate Nkrumah, they said Ghana 's bauxite is not of the quality demanded and therefore if Nkrumah demanded that the bauxite in Ghana should be used then, the dam was ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @KH, do not mind the wankers. When Nkrumah, secured £100 million a loan from the Eastern Block to build the Bui Dam, hopeless Kofi Busia and his US pay masters called him a communist. Fast forward, in 1971, the useless cun ...
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  • SENDERO 1 year ago

    UST was founded in 1949. Read the WATSON Commission Report. That was the year the first VC was appointed. He directed affairs to 1951 January when the first students were admitted.

    Nkrumah was in Ussher Fort cells then

  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Sendero, I have read every thing I need to know about Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. You nonsense will not make an ounce of difference. According to your Idol Akufo Addo, in 2016... twitter and Facebook ...
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  • SENDERO 1 year ago

    Why is it nonsense when it is the truth? And who says I support Akufo Addo? Leave him out

  • SENDERO 1 year ago

    If you lived in Ayeduase then please go and walk along the road from the Catholic Church towards the Commercial area and then walk down the road from the maintenance to the hospital.

    One road is called Andrews Road and the ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Sendero, again, I do not need a lecture from an ignoble person like you who once told us that the " Useless Golden Relic" was so precious that Governor Guggisberg wanted to steal it in the 1920s until I pointed out to you t ...
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  • SD.com 1 year ago

    It's true. I rad this from somewhere many years ago.
    Who can challenge this man? Except some zombi imaginary 'Big six' and their useless children

  • joe seaman 1 year ago

    This galamsey will never,never happen under Dr.Nkrumah he named rivers and lakes after Ghana ships

  • AKOMEA GOEBBELS 1 year ago

    Meanwhile, Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo aka NADAA aka DECEIVER had even "better" plans. NADAA, Ken Agyapade3 Ofori Atta and Cecilia Dapaafuo planned all along to make Accra the CORRUPTION CAPITAL of Africa.
    That is why he h ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Akomea, venal and despicable J A Kuffour was just as dreadful in terms of state capture. Just google the link below written by Kwasi Adu, ages ago and read it. You will be appalled... Their creed is greed, greed, greed!

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  • Shai 1 year ago

    "Ghana will suffer". Words of my grandfather the day Nkrumah was overthrow.

  • Dan 1 year ago

    I wonder why these Kwame Nkrumah haters who themselves have not achieved ànything or built anything legacy project in Ghana since independence still have the temerity to mock Nkrumah. Empty drums always making the loudest no ...
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  • Nsia 1 year ago

    @Dan, thanks mate! Kofi Busia, the hopeless pillock called Nkrumah a communist when he secured a £100 MILLION loan from the Eastern Block in the 60s to build the Bui Dam. Busia, the ultimate Western poodle could not convi ...
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