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Osu Castlle better than Flagstaff House

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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    You are one reason why Africans are suffering: benighted, and ahistorical, disempowered. It is not a colonial edifice. It is a relic of slavery and the slave trade! They are two different issues, though, both dehumanized Afri ...
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  • JOHN BULL 11 years ago

    THE CASTLE SHOULD BE HANDED OVER TO THE MILITARY SO THAT THE PLACE CAN BE MENTAINED.

  • J.L Adoboe 11 years ago

    What about the shrines in which we Africans were slaughtering one another for sacrifices?

  • xabadaodzi 11 years ago

    Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Christiansborg Castle was built by the Danes.
    Sadly, it is called setting your house on fire to spite the moon. Also it is a question of class and the awful structure at the Flagstaff ...
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  • Victor A. Young 11 years ago

    The Castle is a symbol of colonial subjugation and mentality, slavery and torture. The NDC have always found ways to twist people's minds, esp those weak ones. Every progressive and enlightened Ghanaian knows that the the Fla ...
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  • ADAMA 11 years ago

    ALL NDC GUYS ARE FOOLS

  • xabadaodzi 11 years ago

    Akadu Mensama is forgetting that the odious trade in humans was possible only with the connivance of fellow Ghanaians and Africans. The very ground the slaves were belabored to walk over is stained with their precious blood a ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Find time to read good books on the colonialism,slavery, and neocolonialism. The very people that you are defending know and have written about the depredations of slavery in Africa!

  • CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

    Yes it is a fact, that majority of Ghanaians grew up in huts and villages, and for that very reason, mediocrity and even lesser development is never a bother to them. They do not have an eye for the finer things in life, and ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 11 years ago

    PEOPLE USED TO DREAD THE NAME OSU CASTLE, MANY GHANAIANS WERE TORTURED THERE BY THE AFRC, P/NDC REVOLUTIONARY DOGS. IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE OUR PRESIDENT, ATTA MILLS MET HIS DEATH, WHICH IS STILL SHROUDED IN MYTH. SOME SUGGEST ...
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  • ESI 11 years ago

    IF OSU CASTLE IS BETTER THAN FLAGSTAFF HOUSE THEN WHY DID MAHAMA RUSH THERE! WAS MAHAMA BEING HUNTED BY ATTA MILLS? HMM ASEM BEBA DEBI!

  • ATAKORA BEDIAKO 11 years ago

    SURE THE DESIGN WAS APPROVED BY GHANAIANS.HAVE YOU BEEN IN THERE TO SEE THINGS FOR YOUR SELF? SOME PEOPLE ARE AGAINST FLAGSTAFF HOUSE ONLY BECAUSE KUFOUR BUILT IT.OTHERS ARE FOR IT ONLY BECAUSE KUFOUR DID IT. EBEI, GHANAIANS! ...
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  • PATUSO 11 years ago

    IT APPEARS GHANAIANS HAVE STOPPED THINKING. HOW ON EARTH CAN ANYBODY SAY THAT THE FLAGSTAFF HOUSE IS A SUITABLE SITE FOR A PREIDENTIAL PALACE? JUST CONSIDER THE ROAD AND TRAFFIC IN FRONT OF THE PALACE. HAVE WE CONSIDERED THE ...
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  • Akwele 11 years ago

    The writer is on point. It is the most hopeless building design. Is it a scale, stool or an Indian place of worship. The inside is worse. Cheap Chinese marble, furniture,lights etc. do not forgive kufuor, mpianim and the lots ...
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  • kwame 11 years ago

    idiot ga slave no brains

  • KWAKU D 11 years ago

    Ok, there may be issues with the looks etc of Flagstaff house. BUT surely you cannot be serious about the Government staying at the CASTLE. Why did Nkrumah not stay there? Why is it the symbol of oppression and colonialism t ...
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  • ATAKORA BEDIAKO 11 years ago

    SO ADOBOE, WHAT DO YOU WANT DONE? SHOULD MAHAMA MOVE BACK TO THE CASTLE?A COMPLETE WASTE OF YOUR TIME.WHY CRY OVER SOMETHING YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT?

  • Joe B 11 years ago

    This is the most non-sensical article I have read in a long time. 'Summer huts'?! BS.
    Ghanaweb, please don't post this crap.

  • donné 11 years ago

    much-as-we-have-freedom-and-justice-this-is-the-President's-own-decision-for-God's-sake.Moreover-he-wasn't-forced-in-there.

  • ASWAB KEN 11 years ago

    WHICH IS WHICH YOU CALL IT SUMMER HUT AND ALONG CALLED IT PALACE,YOU TALKED ABOUT THE COST,IS IT THE COST THAT MADE YOU TO WRITE THIS RUBBISH,IF PEOPLE SEE THE PRESIDENT WALK TO TO HIS OFFICE,WHAT IS WRONG?AFTER ALL WHO IS AF ...
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  • Evans Ghansah 11 years ago

    If you are expecting the presidency to continue in a slave post, then go and stay in the house built by your ancestors centuries ago and do not think of getting modern accomodation. Next time, before you think of writing some ...
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  • ASWAB KEN 11 years ago

    IT IS BETTER TO WRITE ABOUT HUNDRED OF CARS FOLLOWING JUST ONE PERSON ,YOU CANT SEE THIS TYPE OF NONSENSE AND WASTE OF STATE MONEY ANY WHERE EXCEPT IN GHANA.WRITE ABOUT THIS ISSUES THAT CAN SAVE US MONEY.

  • eryck 11 years ago

    Yo analysis is rubbish

  • Tom Bulu Kuuku 11 years ago

    NPP and Kufour wasted more than 200 million dollars on this ugly facade in the shape of Asante Queen,s stool as a Presidential Palace.

  • Evans Ghansah 11 years ago

    Who does this columnist think he is to rubbish such an edifice? You have no vision, you are still in the dark.

  • AKUA MAMPROBI 11 years ago

    Country,MEN AND WOMEN THE CASTLES WAS BUILT WITH THE SWEAT AND TOIL WITH OF OUR FORE FATHERS BLOOD, SO PLS.DONT ABANDON IT LIKE THAT.UNLESS MAHAMA IS AFREAD OF PRO. MILL'S GHOST. MY OWN OPINION OVER THIS IS THAT MAHAMA SHOULD ...
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  • Paul Amuna 11 years ago

    Sentimentality alone is not enough. This is the 21st Century. Have you been in the Castle lately to see how much it costs to keep the place and manage rising damp for example? Yes it may be iconic and a great symbol, but is i ...
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  • AKUA MAMPROBI 11 years ago

    REALLY OSU CASTLEIS BETTER THAN FLAGSTAFF HOUSE,SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR THE MOVEMENT OF THE PRESIDENCY.

  • Bravo USA 11 years ago

    I have never heard or read such ignorant vituperatiuon.

  • SO.SO 11 years ago

    This lee man doesn't know what he is taking about that the castle is better than the presidential palace?He is so stupid,the castle was for housing of the then slaves not to house presidents okay?When something comes to the ...
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  • James Armstrong 11 years ago

    Those who conceived this have no foresight neither do they have beauty in their eyes not to talk of the security implications The castle should be maintained alive to serve as alternate accommodation for the president. The ...
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  • KWABENA ENOCK ITALY 11 years ago

    IF OSU CASTLE S GOOD FOR THEM MR MAHAMA AND N D C PEOPLE TO MOVE DERE S SHAME TO DEM AND YOU JUSTICE LEE ADOBOE GAVE TANKS N P P

  • OSEI 11 years ago

    ALL OUR FORTS AND CASTLES ARE GETTING ROTTEN.FROM USHER TO KROMANTSE .EVEN THE OSU CASTLE IS ROTTEN.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

    Krakye Adoboe, the Christianborg Castle was not built by the Swedish African Company in the 17th century.
    It was built in 1661onwards by the Danes. In 1681-83 it fell into Portuguese hands and became known as Fort S. Franci ...
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