Osagyefo's visions revisited.Even Prodi has vindicated the vision Osagyefo had for Africa to move forward as a united political and economic entity.What a challenge to african leaders!!
Osagyefo's visions revisited.Even Prodi has vindicated the vision Osagyefo had for Africa to move forward as a united political and economic entity.What a challenge to african leaders!!
YEBOPOWER 10 years ago
Prodi,hold your breath. You are preaching to corrupt African heads of states who do not have anything to offer the continent aside from stealing and looting their national treasury. l will say ,help Africa by exposing all the ... read full comment
Prodi,hold your breath. You are preaching to corrupt African heads of states who do not have anything to offer the continent aside from stealing and looting their national treasury. l will say ,help Africa by exposing all their ill gotten wealth hidden in Italian and other European banks and let the United Nations monitor those funds to build schools,water projects and energy dependency. Our African leaders have failed us big time and there is no question about that. As far as integration ,forget about it. The African psyche is so corrupt that such enterprise is far from fruition.
OBIBINI 10 years ago
Is it only africans who are corrupt?There is corruption all over the world.In 2012 corruption cost tbe UK government about 70 billion pounds and about 24 billion was in the public sector.Corruption by multi-national companies ... read full comment
Is it only africans who are corrupt?There is corruption all over the world.In 2012 corruption cost tbe UK government about 70 billion pounds and about 24 billion was in the public sector.Corruption by multi-national companies cost the african continent in billions of dollars and this has greatly affected africa's development.Not all african leaders are corrupt and leadership in africa is fast improving.
Haile Mengistus Manasseh V11 10 years ago
Yebopower! You and your myopic vision is 2000 centuries behind. You don't have eye to see what visionaries see so keep quite.Read the second but last paragraph......"Change is coming for the first time.......This is the reali ... read full comment
Yebopower! You and your myopic vision is 2000 centuries behind. You don't have eye to see what visionaries see so keep quite.Read the second but last paragraph......"Change is coming for the first time.......This is the reality.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago
AFRICANS!!!! Please, what is democracy? To my understanding, it is by definition……..means the government by people.
That means that all the people should be able to have their say in one way or another in everything th ... read full comment
AFRICANS!!!! Please, what is democracy? To my understanding, it is by definition……..means the government by people.
That means that all the people should be able to have their say in one way or another in everything that affects their lives. In other words, the right by every member of a community to be part of the decision making PROCESS to his or her position on a particular issue into the decision-making process. GOOD SO FAR....RIGHT?
Do we need Prodi to come to Ghana and preach to us to speed up? What for? To save their economies?
Democracy sounds like a good idea but, it is only an illusion or even more of an utopia in reality.
What has been consistently ignored is that, democratic values and processes have been as indigenous to Africans as they were to the ancient Greeks. It has have never been exclusively Greek or Euro-American preserve.
African traditional political cultures and organizations of communities to be partakers would give credence to this conclusion. The core concept and the essential elements of democracy - the desire for representation, inclusion, and participation in public affairs has lived with humans since time in memorial but, the problem with it, is its implementation.
Unfortunately this Western buzzword for representative government, borrowed from the Greeks, has been packaged to be imposed on Africans as if we are desperately in need of such a ‘magic wand’ to solve all our problems.
If Prodi came to Ghana to tell us about democracy and how we should embrace it in our own African way, then I am afraid he has once again shown the ignorance and arrogant approach Europeans deem fit to address Africans.
As I have explained above, democracy is nothing new to Africans but, the effects of slavery and colonization has brought us to the mercy of these colonialists even after our independence......For Prodi to come and preach to us???? Oh! Africa!
Unfortunately, the current breed of AFROPEANS whom we call leaders have no 'balls' to stand up for Africans.....for fear of being treated like Gaddafi.
Simply because we have not found the need to carve up our own path for our own future by means of our own African values and process to succeed in our own way.
The colonialists education systems we have in Africa suppresses our minds to the extent that we even refuse to recognize its deficiencies in our society. So, as a result we buy into any garbage of distorted historical facts thrown at us by Europeans.
Their idea of ‘democracy’ for Africa is to find another way of raping our continent of its rich natural resources on the cheap by supporting and helping to install and keep dictators/puppets like of that in Gabon, Equitorial Guinea, Bukina Fasso, Benin, Uganda, Togo, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali and many more others…………..under the guise of African democracy.kind of These so-called leaders are voted in every 4 years and some even stay on after 8 years by changing their constitutions.
That is the democracy Prodi, sent by the West is promoting and imposing on Africa, by changing its tact and employing a new strategy of sponsoring and keeping stooges in place for their own interests.
In the past, they installed dictators/puppets by means of coup d’etats to install the likes of, Mobutu, Bokassa, Idi Amin (till he fell out with them), Bongo they supported to help rape our continent of its rich mineral resources.
That is why within six years, between January 1963 and December 1969, twenty five coup d’etat took place in Africa. (I will list them with dates and locations some other time).
This democracy to Africa and Africans practicing its own democracy is all a sham. It is just to create different and alternative ways and means to exploit us over and over again with all the ills of capitalism and globalization. (I will leave that for another day).
The usual GULLIBLE AFRICANS will fall for this again..........so let’s send Prodi to pave the way. And in the process use them as guinea pigs to test our aids virus, GM crops, vaccination of all sorts and dump our toxic waste on them................
What does Prodi know about democracy?
Now………. Africans!!!!! Please tell me honestly and truthfully, which nation practices real democracy in this world? Can you, with hand on heart tell me that the great advocates of this so-called democracy – the USA, Britain and co. are actually practicing or preaching real democracy?
What I see of the so-called democratic nations is this:
- The rights of people to vote, is prevalent but, it’s only between two dominant parties of the ‘same coin’ offering different faces on the ‘same coin’.
- The people can vote usually only once every four or five years. They do not vote on any issues. After they vote them in, the elected dictators dominate their lives till next elections.
- The elected few take decisions of spending huge sums of money on war, to the detriment of its citizens’ livelihood. All this on the premise of being protected by their government.
- They hardly ever bother to consult the people on their stands on various issues.
- The rights of people to live freely, is non-existent.
- The rights of people to free speech, is taken away.
- The peoples’ right to privacy is being trampled upon, with modern technology surveillance cameras everywhere – the ‘big brother’ syndrome.
- The peoples’ minds being manipulated through education, terrorism, war by means of the controlled media etc.
- The people are controlled by a few people at ‘the top’, who gives them the illusion of having a say because of their votes.
- The few people at ‘the top’ decide on everything about the people’s lives even to the extent of asking the people’s children to go to war on their behalf.
- The people living in ‘a prison without its bars’ with all their movements being monitored by secret agents or citizens spying on each other.
- A few people greedily grabbing all the wealth at the expense of the majority of the people - labeled ‘capitalism’.
- The poor people controlled by means of being offered food rations or live on benefits.
- The peoples’ actions and inactions being controlled daily, by institutions constantly telling the people what to believe, eat, drink, say etc. etc.
My fellow Africans!……Democracy in itself originates from humans. African democracy , in the true meaning and attributes of the concept, as I have defined above, existed ages ago. That is what created the origins of civilization we brought to the world.
The Europeans and the US have modeled their concept of democracy I have described and it seems to me to be something else all together. From all the above observation, their democracy is a ‘prison with no physical ‘steel bars and walls’. Theirs is a controlled mechanism of control people each and every step of the way. It has all the hallmarks of socialism and communism of the former Eastern Bloc and that of the Soviet Union. The only difference of their democracy is the right of people to vote for ‘two sides of the same coin every four years – with change in faces of its leaders’.
It;s a real shame how lives were lost for the West to fight the war of propaganda to defeat socialism and communism only to introduce it in their so-called democracies in a different light, whereby a few rich individuals control all their systems and institutions. And the idea of the people being protected from the FEAR of terrorism is now the mainstay of these so-called democracies.
This Prodi message and approach is another ploy to deceive us into believing they are here and willing to move our continent forward.
Nkrumah already had the vision and strategy to speed up our development but, the few ignorant and greedy ones in collaboration with the Prodis got rid of him. He now comes to tell us what we already know................
And the GULLIBLE AFRICANS are falling for it again?????? DON'T YOU LOT EVER LEARN??????????
In my opinion, true democracy as it is supposed to be for the people and by the people has not worked anywhere in the world and for as long as greed, corruption and selfishness prevails in our world…..then this so-called concept of democracy favours only a few rich individuals at the expense of the masses.
It’s time we think AFRICAN and be AFRICAN for our own future based on our creation of CIVILIZATION to the world…………”My people perish for lack of knowledge”.
For your information, ROMANO PRODI IS A SHEPHERD IN SHEEP CLOTHING!!!! BEWARE AFRICA!
GOD BLESS GHANA! AFRICAN FOREVER!
JAMES Y 10 years ago
Dr Kwame Nkrumah had said what Mr Prodi is saying now, some 52 years ago, but nothing was done about it. Like his suggestion of African High Command to intervene trouble spots in Africa, if they happen, Dr Nkrumah's suggestio ... read full comment
Dr Kwame Nkrumah had said what Mr Prodi is saying now, some 52 years ago, but nothing was done about it. Like his suggestion of African High Command to intervene trouble spots in Africa, if they happen, Dr Nkrumah's suggestion to African leaders to establish an African Common Market fell on deaf ears. It has taken an European, in a person of Mr Prodi, to repeat what he had advocated. So many years have been wasted by our so-called leaders - our leaders of despair. It's a shame, to say the least!
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago
James, please try and learn the political game-manship (that is if there is a word like that) being played here and you would understand what Prodi is all about. Mr. Prodi is a snake! Why don't you Africans learn????? They ca ... read full comment
James, please try and learn the political game-manship (that is if there is a word like that) being played here and you would understand what Prodi is all about. Mr. Prodi is a snake! Why don't you Africans learn????? They came with mirrors and then claim they brought Christianity to us and we continue to buy into their lies??????
Nkrumah was way ahead of most of these so called advanced countries and they could not stand Africa developing beyond their reach.
If they did allow Nkrumah to succeed in his plans, we would be selling our rich minerals at our own determined prices and NOT to theirs...........Do you get a bit of it?
So, in that case, they collaborate with your Uncle Toms in our society to overthrow him and bring in puppets to be manipulated like JJ, K4 and Mahama.
These are their partners who would make things happen for the West even if it means letting our children suffer along the way. That is the kind of world we live in.
Please shine your eyes and realize that the new breed of African leaders would do anything.....and I mean anything for their slave masters to enrich themselves.
The only true exceptions were Osagyefo
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Kutu Acheampong.
MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PERFECT PEACE!
Osagyefo's visions revisited.Even Prodi has vindicated the vision Osagyefo had for Africa to move forward as a united political and economic entity.What a challenge to african leaders!!
Prodi,hold your breath. You are preaching to corrupt African heads of states who do not have anything to offer the continent aside from stealing and looting their national treasury. l will say ,help Africa by exposing all the ...
read full comment
Is it only africans who are corrupt?There is corruption all over the world.In 2012 corruption cost tbe UK government about 70 billion pounds and about 24 billion was in the public sector.Corruption by multi-national companies ...
read full comment
Yebopower! You and your myopic vision is 2000 centuries behind. You don't have eye to see what visionaries see so keep quite.Read the second but last paragraph......"Change is coming for the first time.......This is the reali ...
read full comment
AFRICANS!!!! Please, what is democracy? To my understanding, it is by definition……..means the government by people.
That means that all the people should be able to have their say in one way or another in everything th ...
read full comment
Dr Kwame Nkrumah had said what Mr Prodi is saying now, some 52 years ago, but nothing was done about it. Like his suggestion of African High Command to intervene trouble spots in Africa, if they happen, Dr Nkrumah's suggestio ...
read full comment
James, please try and learn the political game-manship (that is if there is a word like that) being played here and you would understand what Prodi is all about. Mr. Prodi is a snake! Why don't you Africans learn????? They ca ...
read full comment