The word is "MANUFACTURE". You could do with some free SHS.
The word is "MANUFACTURE". You could do with some free SHS.
GH 9 years ago
How Nkrumah’s united Africa Ideologies backfired
Analyzed by Bamba Mass
Legacies of the Nkrumah Ideology
Post-independence African history is instructive in understanding the scourge of the one-man, and the curse ... read full comment
How Nkrumah’s united Africa Ideologies backfired
Analyzed by Bamba Mass
Legacies of the Nkrumah Ideology
Post-independence African history is instructive in understanding the scourge of the one-man, and the curse of one-party rule in Africa but Ghana’s independence from colonialism as the first sub-Saharan African country in 1957, and the role played by its first prime minister turned President Kwame Nkrumah, is central to understanding the pervasive problem of civilian and military dictatorships in Africa.
Ghana was undoubtedly the most economically and socially advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa with an advanced educational system and relatively well-developed infrastructures when it gained its independence. Nkrumah was a role model for dozens of leaders of African countries that achieved independence in the 1960s and 1970s.
Despite Nkrumah’s status as the unrivaled champion of Pan-Africanism and strong advocacy for a united Africa, he was also responsible for casting the mold for the one-man, one-party dictatorship in post-independence Africa. Barely a year into his administration, the once fiery anti-colonial advocate of political rights and democracy had transformed himself into a power-hungry despot.
He enacted a law making labor strikes illegal and declared the right to strike “unpatriotic.” Paranoid about his opposition, he enacted a preventive detention act which gave him sweeping powers to arrest and detain any person suspected of treason without due process of law. He even dismissed the chief justice of Ghanaian Supreme Court, Sir Arku Korsah, when a three-judge panel Korsah headed acquitted suspects accused of plotting a coup. Nkrumah amended the constitution making his party, the Convention People’s Party, the only legal party in the country. He capped his political career by having himself declared president-for-life.
But he was then a man of two faces while he succumbed to two contradictory tendencies within Ghana at the time – the monarchical tendency, which increasingly turned him into a Royal figure, on the one hand, and the Leninist tendency towards the vanguard party and the single-party state, on the other hand. When the monarchical and the Leninist tendencies fused, they basically produced “a Leninist Czar” – a figure using sacred symbolism like Osagyefo (Redeemer) for himself, on the one side, and class-analysis for the rest of the society, on the other.
Kwame Nkrumah became increasingly aloof from the Ghanaian society while simultaneously bowing down to the applause of the rest of Africa. He was ironically characterized Africa’s hero but Ghana’s dictator.
The fundamental question that lingers in the minds of intellectuals is whether Mr. Nkrumah should be touted for being the originator of one-party state in Black Africa. As the first Black African country to win independence, Ghana had immense responsibility. And poor Kwame Nkrumah was the beast of burden on whom Africa had piled her weighty hopes. The rest of Africa looked to Nkrumah for a sense of direction. Some of us looked to him for immortal precedents.
Was it fair to Nkrumah?
For better or for worse, the two most historically significant Ghanaian heads so far have been Kwame Nkrumah and Jerry Rawlings. They both had enormous consequences for Ghana. While Jerry Rawlings started off as a brutal dictator and ended his career as a democrat, Kwame Nkrumah started his career as a democrat and ended it as a dictator. They were two sides of a coin.
Three factors led Kwame Nkrumah towards the one-party state. The first factor was the belief that the country was ethnically and regionally too dangerously divided for a multiparty system. Did he genuinely believe that the one-party state was the only way of integrating Asante (Ashanti) into Nkrumah’s Ghana? Was the one-party state the antidote to political tribalism?
The second factor which persuaded Nkrumah towards the single-party was the cultural argument that African political systems operated on the basis of a consensus. It was therefore better to look for manipulated consensus than allow for free dissent.
The third factor which moved Nkrumah towards one-partyism was Leninism. In his years as a student in the United States, Nkrumah acknowledged that the most powerful influences on his mind had been Marcus Garvey (a Black nationalist) and V.I. Lenin. In reality the Leninism in Nkrumah outlasted the Garveyism.
By the time he was overthrown in a military coup in 1966, Ghana had fallen from one of the richest African countries to one of the poorest.
Reproduced by
Justice Sarpong
(CARDINAL of TRUTH)
DAN 11 years ago
just like indians,china and bangledesh...that all they worry about..if the tea leaves are grown in Kenya why didn't the site plant their except labour and maybe muslim problems
just like indians,china and bangledesh...that all they worry about..if the tea leaves are grown in Kenya why didn't the site plant their except labour and maybe muslim problems
Oman Ghana 6 years ago
DAN There are plants in Kenya , they just built one in Ghana as well
DAN There are plants in Kenya , they just built one in Ghana as well
Agyeman. 11 years ago
They sourced both the tea and the managing director of unilever west africa from kenya?
Mmhhh,that says alot about our work ethic in Ghana.
They sourced both the tea and the managing director of unilever west africa from kenya?
Mmhhh,that says alot about our work ethic in Ghana.
Uncle Arthur 11 years ago
Think of how many Plants Wayome's gargantuan money could have build in Ghana GHS52,000,000.
Think of how many Plants Wayome's gargantuan money could have build in Ghana GHS52,000,000.
nm 10 years ago
Specific projects under the second phase include the construction of a five-storey block with medical and surgical wards, faculty offices, tutorial and conference rooms; a second five-storey block with operating theatres, mat ... read full comment
Specific projects under the second phase include the construction of a five-storey block with medical and surgical wards, faculty offices, tutorial and conference rooms; a second five-storey block with operating theatres, maternity wards and facilities; a three-story accident and emergency building and reception area, as well as beds for emergencies. Others are: a link building, a new mortuary with pathology unit and laboratory; a new medical gases plant; assorted medical equipment; ancillary facilities including power plant; waste management section and staff accommodation.. Completion of the first phase brought the bed capacity of the hospital to 400. The second phase will add 400 more beds and increase the bed capacity of the hospital to 800. -
nm 10 years ago
AMENITIES
five-storey block with medical and surgical wards,
faculty offices, tutorial and conference rooms
a second five-storey block with operating theatres, maternity wards and facilities;
a three-story acci ... read full comment
AMENITIES
five-storey block with medical and surgical wards,
faculty offices, tutorial and conference rooms
a second five-storey block with operating theatres, maternity wards and facilities;
a three-story accident and emergency building and reception area, as well as beds for emergencies.
Others are: a link building
a new mortuary with pathology unit and laboratory
a new medical gases plant; assorted medical equipment;
ancillary facilities including power plant; waste management section
staff accommodation..
Yaw 10 years ago
Ghana : Expansion and Renovation of Ridge Hospital Complex in Accra.
Project End : Dec 2015
Project Location : Accra, Ghana
Project Cost : $155.4 million
Project Details :
The Expo ... read full comment
Ghana : Expansion and Renovation of Ridge Hospital Complex in Accra.
Project End : Dec 2015
Project Location : Accra, Ghana
Project Cost : $155.4 million
Project Details :
The Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) has approved a loan of $155.4 million to the Republic of Ghana to finance the designing and construction of an extension of a hospital in Accra, Ghana.
The country intends to use the funds for the expansion and renovation of the 1928-built Ridge Hospital Complex in Accra. The project involves development of a new 420-bed building housing a comprehensive diagnostic and treatment block and a state-of-the-art maternity ward
.
Upon completion of work, the Ridge Hospital Complex will be among the most advanced medical facilities in West Africa
. The construction of the hospital is likely to span for three years. The expansion of the complex will help alleviate the capacity shortages of the existing hospital.
US-based Americaribe Incorporated will export the goods and services required in the project. According to Departments of Commerce and Labor, the project is anticipated to create about 700 jobs in the US, during the tenure of the project.
gh 9 years ago
The Presidential plane was turned into a taxicab and was chartered by the "$3 million" Players Appearance fees for a "dropping" and when you thought the news couldn't get any worse, it keeps coming. Why do we have to send on ... read full comment
The Presidential plane was turned into a taxicab and was chartered by the "$3 million" Players Appearance fees for a "dropping" and when you thought the news couldn't get any worse, it keeps coming. Why do we have to send one hundred and twenty six(126) to accompany this money, four crew members and one hundred and twenty two security personnel? What is really wrong with President?Mahama?
Who made the decision to fly extra seventy five Blackstars supporters on Wednesday evening to go and watch the match between the Blackstars and Portugal played on Thursday? The sad part about this stupidity is that, before the plane touched down on Brazilian soil on Thursday, the game was over and these supporters watched the game on plane television. Are we that stupid?
There were already more than 500 paid for supporters in Brazil who apart from the opening game between Ghana and USA watched the match at the Natal stadium, the two other matches between Ghana and Germany where only one hundred supporters were able to get to the stadium, 400 of the supporters watched the game on television. There was not even a single member of the five hundred supporters paid for by Taxpayers at the stadium when Ghana played Portugal. We have 47 Politicians at Brazil and what was their responsibilities? This is a classic case of causing financial loss to the state and some people should be prosecuted.
Why is the President so insistent in looking into everything? My sources in Brazil have given me so many sordid details about the behavior of some officials sent to Brazil by this government the coming days will be interesting when the team return to Ghana. The behavior of the Sports Minister who was following his rumoured Actress girlfriend in Brazil like a child in candy store and ignored the needs of the team will come out. Some of the Ambassadors sent to Brazil as a camouflage for different reasons will come out too. One of these ladies is rumoured to have slept with three different Blackstars players and the jealousies brought about because of some of these singers and Actresses in the Ghanaian contingent is too sad and salacious it willnot be right to write about it here.
What the government should investigate is what happened to the Sports Ministry $9.6 million supposed budget to the Blackstars team.
Some of the questions the Minister of Sports and these forty seven (47) or so government Officials should be asked are;
Who received this $9.6 million money at GFA?
How much money was raised by these Ambassadors. John Dumelo, one of the Ambassadors who went to Brazil said the Ambassadors raised more than $2 million . Let the Sports Minister explain how this money was spent.
Name all the government Officials who accompanied the team to Brazil and why it was expedient for them to be there.
The team was paid appearance money for the three friendly matches they played against Montenigro, Netherlands and Korea. How much did the team earn in the three matches and if the money was given to GFA or the Ministry of Sports.
If the team was financed by the Sports Ministry to the tune of $9.6 million, why did the GFA demand an advance from FIFA?
How much money was actually airlifted to Brazi? According to a Bank source, the money airlifted to Brazil was more than the three million dollars and it was as much as $4.5 million. Did the government pay penalties to Brazil for bringing this money into the country?
Why so much money? Even if we pay the twenty three (23) Players $100,000 each, why did we need so much dollars going outside the country?
Was it necessary for more than twenty Ministry of Sports AND Ndc Officials like Boateng Gyan to accompany the team from Netherlands, USA and then the number increased to 47 to Brazil?
The term is APPEARANCE FEES and should have been given to the Players in Ghana where some of it would have ended in the economy with the Players spending some in Ghana with their families. Now this money is out of our system.
Did the government law whereby one is restricted in how much foreign currency can be taken out from one's account affected the Players insistence not wanting the government to put the money in their accounts in Ghana?
These are some of the questions the administration should investigate to see if its own bad banking policies are affecting the flight of foreign currencies from the system making the depreciation of the cedi an unstoppable train wreck.
Ghana has become the butt of jokes in late night comedy shows in USA where the $3 million airlifted to the team has become an international scandal and an embarrassment to Ghanaians all over the world.
Even Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, can attest to this jokes as the Mahama government decision to to fly a cash amount of $3 million to the Black stars in Brazil has made the country a laughing stock.
“I was listening to BBC yesterday and the presenters were making fun of the move made by the government, Ghana has become a laughing stock”
What is this? Is Ghana a banana republic operating a 20th century administration whereby we lack banking system where money deposited in an account in one country can be accessed in another country within a day we have to carry 3 million dollars in cash to Brazil with a rumoured twenty five people accompanying this money to Brazi? The laws in Brazil is even against this method of doing business. Brazilian officials said bringing in $3 million in cash and not declaring it to authorities would be illegal and the entire amount could be confiscated. Individuals cannot bring in more than $4,500 each without having it subject to taxes, said Brazil's Federal Police, who enforce custom and immigration laws.
Was it even necessary for GFA to ask FIFA for advance payment of our $8 million prize? This is disgraceful to the country. It was reported that,Ghana's cash-strapped football association has asked for an advance on the $8 million prize money it is guaranteed from the World Cup to pay outstanding debts to players.
"FIFA said Wednesday that Ghana's request was ''under evaluation.''
Why should we be cash strapped if the Sports Ministry gave GFA $9.6 million? As I wrote in my previous article, the Sports Ministry told Ghanaians that this money was to take care of the team and the Ministry will not demand it back from GFA when it gets it prize money of $8 million back because they knew from the onset that this money was not for the Blackstars but for its own officials and Party members expenses that is why they told the nation they will not ask the GFA to pay it back.
"President Mahama has emphasized the need to establish a committee to investigate the circumstances that led to the elimination of the Black Stars from the World Cup tournament.According to him, the decision to fuse the old players with the new ones partly contributed to the loss."
Yes, I do agree with President Mahama that there should be an investigation but the problem is not the mixture of old Players with young players. If that is the case then his government should be investigated for mixing the baby teeths in his government with the old giraffes in his government.Money is the root of all problems and not different here. His Sports Ministry should be investigated about how the government $9.6 million was spent and other matters.
It should include the previous world cup in 2010 and 2006. In 2010 for instance, the prize money we won was $14 million but Akua Densuah, the Minister of Sports at that time declared only $11 million and that should be investigated too. I am done for now but more will be coming until all the government explain to Ghanaian Taxpayers how their money are being squandered by corrupt government officials and GFA.
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The word is "MANUFACTURE". You could do with some free SHS.
How Nkrumah’s united Africa Ideologies backfired
Analyzed by Bamba Mass
Legacies of the Nkrumah Ideology
Post-independence African history is instructive in understanding the scourge of the one-man, and the curse ...
read full comment
just like indians,china and bangledesh...that all they worry about..if the tea leaves are grown in Kenya why didn't the site plant their except labour and maybe muslim problems
DAN There are plants in Kenya , they just built one in Ghana as well
They sourced both the tea and the managing director of unilever west africa from kenya?
Mmhhh,that says alot about our work ethic in Ghana.
Think of how many Plants Wayome's gargantuan money could have build in Ghana GHS52,000,000.
Specific projects under the second phase include the construction of a five-storey block with medical and surgical wards, faculty offices, tutorial and conference rooms; a second five-storey block with operating theatres, mat ...
read full comment
AMENITIES
five-storey block with medical and surgical wards,
faculty offices, tutorial and conference rooms
a second five-storey block with operating theatres, maternity wards and facilities;
a three-story acci ...
read full comment
Ghana : Expansion and Renovation of Ridge Hospital Complex in Accra.
Project End : Dec 2015
Project Location : Accra, Ghana
Project Cost : $155.4 million
Project Details :
The Expo ...
read full comment
The Presidential plane was turned into a taxicab and was chartered by the "$3 million" Players Appearance fees for a "dropping" and when you thought the news couldn't get any worse, it keeps coming. Why do we have to send on ...
read full comment