Corruption has been Africa's greatest enemy and not the slave trade

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GADEBO. 1 month ago

THAT'S YOUR OPINION.

THAT'S YOUR OPINION.
Kiki 1 month ago

You are hopelessly naïve. Corruption is a problem in Africa, but it is also far worse in many other places compared to Africa. However, corruption is far minute of a problem compared to Chattel Slavery. Slavery lasted more t ...
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You are hopelessly naïve. Corruption is a problem in Africa, but it is also far worse in many other places compared to Africa. However, corruption is far minute of a problem compared to Chattel Slavery. Slavery lasted more than 400 years and it literally generated trillions of dollars that funded all the West's institutions of global dominance including finance, banking, health, academic, manufacturing, automotive, etc. Your article is a great example of downplaying the effects of Slavery on the modern world in order to please your white massa.
Corruption is the enemy! 1 month ago

The difference:

A. Slave Trade: This is like sailing in your own ship, and being attacked by an external force or being deceived or given wrong navigation by an external person leading you to crash, die or get lost lost.
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The difference:

A. Slave Trade: This is like sailing in your own ship, and being attacked by an external force or being deceived or given wrong navigation by an external person leading you to crash, die or get lost lost.

B. Corruption: This is like sailing in your own ship, and you or someone within your crew punch hole in the ship for water to leak inside - to sink the ship.

Slave Trade was obviously evil, but without facilitation of people within, it would not have been successful. The enemy within is dangerous than the enemy far away from you.

I think writer made a lot of sense. Slave trade was evil, and ought compared with anything ... but the enemy punching hole inside our ship is our real enemy.
Sam B 1 month ago

Your headline does no justice to those who were enslaved. Dont minimize the costs and effects of slavery. Come again

Your headline does no justice to those who were enslaved. Dont minimize the costs and effects of slavery. Come again
JANKROMAH 1 month ago

I DIDN'T READ the article...but I didn't need to read it.

QUESTION:

Why did you EVEN MAKE THIS CONNECTION?
How do you "compare political corruption with the slave trade"?

Even MAGAs in the US haven't thought about t ...
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I DIDN'T READ the article...but I didn't need to read it.

QUESTION:

Why did you EVEN MAKE THIS CONNECTION?
How do you "compare political corruption with the slave trade"?

Even MAGAs in the US haven't thought about this "comparison".
You are so pitiably SHALLOW MINDED.
May 1 month ago

I don't blame you for your ignorance.

You are still a child slave in the mind, brainwashed by whitewashed teachings.

How will you understand that slavery is the greatest corruption on Africans .

No sensible person do ...
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I don't blame you for your ignorance.

You are still a child slave in the mind, brainwashed by whitewashed teachings.

How will you understand that slavery is the greatest corruption on Africans .

No sensible person don't think that selling and cruel treatment of another human worse than ones pet animals is not corruption of the highest form.
When you who subjected such human to this lowest form, happens to define how such slave is educated , what good can come out of such education? Corrupt teacher can only teach corruption and produce corruption.
Jones 1 month ago

it's like saying corruption is worse than the holacaust. you dont compare the slave trade to anything. the slave trade was a genocide

it's like saying corruption is worse than the holacaust. you dont compare the slave trade to anything. the slave trade was a genocide
Nsia 1 month ago

@Jones, I am terribly sorry but there is no place for your simplistic nonsense! I doubt whether you even read the article.

@Jones, I am terribly sorry but there is no place for your simplistic nonsense! I doubt whether you even read the article.
Corruption is the enemy! 1 month ago

The difference:

A. Slave Trade: This is like sailing in your own ship, and being attacked by an external force or being deceived or given wrong navigation by an external person leading you to crash, die or get lost lost.
...
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The difference:

A. Slave Trade: This is like sailing in your own ship, and being attacked by an external force or being deceived or given wrong navigation by an external person leading you to crash, die or get lost lost.

B. Corruption: This is like sailing in your own ship, and you or someone within your crew punch hole in the ship for water to leak inside - to sink the ship.

Slave Trade was obviously evil, but without facilitation of people within, it would not have been successful. The enemy within is dangerous than the enemy far away from you.

I think writer made a lot of sense. Slave trade was evil, but the enemy punching hole inside our ship is our real enemy.
Nsia 1 month ago

Personally, I think you made some valid points. I cannot understand why African leaders keep harping on "Reparations". Akufo Addo"s own ancestor, Nana Ofori Atta1 , was exiled by the British in the 1880s to Lagos because of h ...
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Personally, I think you made some valid points. I cannot understand why African leaders keep harping on "Reparations". Akufo Addo"s own ancestor, Nana Ofori Atta1 , was exiled by the British in the 1880s to Lagos because of his role in Slavery after it was abolished. Our own Ashanti Kings were angry with the British for abolishing the slave trade and human sacrifice in the Gold Coast in the 1830s, yet, Ashanti Kings were still engaged in it right until Prempeh 1 got his comeuppance in 1896.
Nigeria, had been pumpimg millions of barrel a day for over 70 years yet their fantastically corrupt leaders have no tangible infrastructure in place for the benefit of the people. Umaru Dikko, Abacha, Shagari, Obasanjo, Yar Adua etc all stole billions of dollars from state coffers.
Just look at the sickening and utterly corrupt way Akufo Addo and his bunch of thieves raped and plundered Ghana within the last eight years.
On slavery, African slave sellers were paid. Obrempong Kwadwo, the father of Philip Quarcoe, a renowned Gold Coast Slave trader was paid £7 every two weeks by his white British partners in the 1700s. Our Ashanti Kings were also handsomely paid by their Dutch slave partners. Yet, we convenieniently ignore their role and blame the white man for everything. Ohene Mensa, I aggree with you wholeheartedly. Cheers!
Wise African 1 month ago

My brother, thank you for writing plenty but oblige to advise you small.

Slavery is worse than corruption in Africa. Slavery brought about colonization and after colonization, we have this so-called Western democracy. Euro ...
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My brother, thank you for writing plenty but oblige to advise you small.

Slavery is worse than corruption in Africa. Slavery brought about colonization and after colonization, we have this so-called Western democracy. Europe and America receive our leaders and let them hide our resources they stole in their respective countries.

So you have never heard of the achievements of ancient Africa in terms of the civilizations in the Mali empire, the Ghana empire and so on.

Look, if Africa were to maltreat other races or continents like America and Europe did and they still continue to do, we would have been far better than they are today.

Check your records well! America and Europe are what they are as a result of how they cheated us!

Don't write to suggest to readers that you have been manipulated to write such a'garbage'.

Somebody cheated your ancestors and continue to cheat you, but you still shower praises on them, what a low class!

Be yourself, bro!
Corruption is the enemy! 1 month ago

As a wise African, why do you still allow them to cheat you? I'm sure you didn't read the article ... or you probably could not analyse what the writer is trying to communicate. Let Africa fight corruption, and learn how to c ...
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As a wise African, why do you still allow them to cheat you? I'm sure you didn't read the article ... or you probably could not analyse what the writer is trying to communicate. Let Africa fight corruption, and learn how to control its region ... and Africa would be the greatest.
Nsia 1 month ago

@Wise African.... funny how you can even call yourself "Wise African" after churning out this pyranid of sheer pifflle. What did Arabised Muslim fool like Mansa Musa do with his wealth centuries ago?
When the British aboli ...
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@Wise African.... funny how you can even call yourself "Wise African" after churning out this pyranid of sheer pifflle. What did Arabised Muslim fool like Mansa Musa do with his wealth centuries ago?
When the British abolished slavery and human sacrifice in the Gold Coast in the 1830s. Our own slave raiding ,slave trading and blood thirsty human
sacrificing Ashanti Kings will have none of it because that was their main source of income. They were still selling slaves illegally to the Brazilians, Americans, Portuguese etc , until utterly useless Prempeh 1 got his comeuppance in 1896.
In Nigeria, millions and millions of barrels of oil worth billions of dollars are constantly stolen by their leaders, they have been churning out oil for over 70 years, yet they have no good schools, roads, electricity, potable water or hospitals because of corruption. Now, a country like Britain invented Railways, Steel Manufacturing, TV, Antibiotics,Portland cement etc and they got rich out of their inventions.
What exactly did our slave trading chiefs do with the money that they were paid? We know because Obrepong Kwadwo, the father of Philip Quacoe ,a slave trader was paid the vast sum of seven pounds every two weeks for selling slaves. What did he do for his people in Cape Coast in the 1700s? Lastly, you wrote a lot of "Nkwaseasem" without reading or understanding what the erudite and sensible young man called Samoa Mensa wrote.You are anything but wise. Cheers!.
Corruption is the enemy! 1 month ago

If you really read the article, you'd know the writer never equated slavery and political corruption. They aren't the same... Slavery is evil, but political corruption has been Africa's enemy.

Don't rush to comment just b ...
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If you really read the article, you'd know the writer never equated slavery and political corruption. They aren't the same... Slavery is evil, but political corruption has been Africa's enemy.

Don't rush to comment just because of the romanticisation of the title. Read and analyse ...
Corruption is the enemy! 1 month ago

When dried bones are mentioned, old men become worried. Whenever corruption is attacked, the corrupt ones feel uneasy. But it remains Africa's enemy.

When dried bones are mentioned, old men become worried. Whenever corruption is attacked, the corrupt ones feel uneasy. But it remains Africa's enemy.
Samoa Mensa 1 month ago

The best way to attack the pain of yesterday is to protect the happiness of tomorrow.

The best way to attack the pain of yesterday is to protect the happiness of tomorrow.
Nsia 1 month ago

@Samoa, I am so pleased with your wonderful and insightful article. I will always come here and give a good verbal bashing to any prick who will try to denigrade you, Frankly, am extremely pleased with you. Afenhyia Pa.

@Samoa, I am so pleased with your wonderful and insightful article. I will always come here and give a good verbal bashing to any prick who will try to denigrade you, Frankly, am extremely pleased with you. Afenhyia Pa.
Samoa Mensa 1 month ago

@Nsia ... God bless you. Afenhyipa!

@Nsia ... God bless you. Afenhyipa!
Earl 1 month ago

If not for corruption, Africa could have been as Sweden. Why are roads bad? Corruption. Why are public schools not working? Corruption. Why are there power outages? Corruption. Why does the water not flow? Corruption. An expo ...
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If not for corruption, Africa could have been as Sweden. Why are roads bad? Corruption. Why are public schools not working? Corruption. Why are there power outages? Corruption. Why does the water not flow? Corruption. An export industry is hard to build without importing parts and tools, but due to corruption you never know when they will get through the port of Tema and to which cost. Why can you not buy dollars to the official rate? Corruption. Corruption holds Africa down. It holds Ghana down, it leaves people in poverty.

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