China's developmental model is good and therefore worth testing in Ghana; I agree we need them around us in case we need help. But the way they are illegally invading the mining sector is a cause for national concern; and cle ... read full comment
China's developmental model is good and therefore worth testing in Ghana; I agree we need them around us in case we need help. But the way they are illegally invading the mining sector is a cause for national concern; and clearly this invasion will continue despite their deportation because I know for certain the ordinary Chinese has the knack for navigating around difficult corners. We will soon see them in the mining cities of Ghana once again in large numbers. Watch out Ghanaians!!
insight to the bone 10 years ago
What is the point in borrowing 3 billion only to destroy 300 billion , we now have poisoned waters and a gallon of drinking water is more expensive than a gallon of petrol . the chinese corruption of the highest offices and i ... read full comment
What is the point in borrowing 3 billion only to destroy 300 billion , we now have poisoned waters and a gallon of drinking water is more expensive than a gallon of petrol . the chinese corruption of the highest offices and institution of govt has so weakened the m that the country is no more functioning so much so it has contributed to such an unhealthy climate we are now on the brink of war . ndc asked you to write this nonsense but you fool no one , you will all burn soon kwasea
Torgbigah 10 years ago
chinese came to steal our gold,yet corrupt ghana government still promoting Chinese interests on Africa continents. Damn motherfucker shitty Ghana.Shame to you ndc criminals
chinese came to steal our gold,yet corrupt ghana government still promoting Chinese interests on Africa continents. Damn motherfucker shitty Ghana.Shame to you ndc criminals
Abongo 10 years ago
Beware of China. China has seen that the West rejected Africa and realised that what they need to build China is close by. Ghana be careful how you deal with China.
Beware of China. China has seen that the West rejected Africa and realised that what they need to build China is close by. Ghana be careful how you deal with China.
Ernest 10 years ago
Since I was born, everything was US or EU but they have not help much.
but just a decade now, china loans has help so much. they don't interfere in our politics as US or EU do.
I support total friendship with China and Dr ... read full comment
Since I was born, everything was US or EU but they have not help much.
but just a decade now, china loans has help so much. they don't interfere in our politics as US or EU do.
I support total friendship with China and Dr Kwame Nkrumah started.
China long life, Ghana long life
DAN 10 years ago
learn to speak the China tonque..You are their slave now! Every drop of oil pumped out of the ground belongs to China to repay loans already given..You dumb NIGGER!
learn to speak the China tonque..You are their slave now! Every drop of oil pumped out of the ground belongs to China to repay loans already given..You dumb NIGGER!
MANB-USA 10 years ago
and so what? this is the only way Ghana can survive when the Busia/Dankwa vision-less block overthrew Nkrumah in an exchange of crippled ANGLO-AMERICAN ideology.
and so what? this is the only way Ghana can survive when the Busia/Dankwa vision-less block overthrew Nkrumah in an exchange of crippled ANGLO-AMERICAN ideology.
911 10 years ago
THEY ARE CORRUPT SO THEY SUIT OUR LEADERS TO DO BUSINESS WITH
THEY ARE CORRUPT SO THEY SUIT OUR LEADERS TO DO BUSINESS WITH
km agyin 10 years ago
Time to make about turn from China and face West again. Our trade relationship with China has always been one sided; China exploiting our natural resources cheaply and destroying our environment in doing so in return for a fe ... read full comment
Time to make about turn from China and face West again. Our trade relationship with China has always been one sided; China exploiting our natural resources cheaply and destroying our environment in doing so in return for a few structures for us. This is an unhealthy relationship for us. It is time to tell our Chinese masters to pack up and go back, we do not need this one sided exploitative relationship. Let us listen to President Obama's 'POWER AFRICA, TRADE AFRICA message and get on board else we shall be left behind. China exports it's corruption to countries they trade with and violates our environmental and labor laws with impunity. I say get rid of them.
USA OPTION 10 years ago
I totally agreed with you KM Agyin, the USA is trade with this county , not good business only for them, there abor is cheap, products are aweful... etc...
I totally agreed with you KM Agyin, the USA is trade with this county , not good business only for them, there abor is cheap, products are aweful... etc...
Ugly 10 years ago
Instead of complaining and always blaming someone else for our poor situation, it's time to get our own act together and invest in our development and future. If a chinese villager can come to Ghana and indulge in illegal min ... read full comment
Instead of complaining and always blaming someone else for our poor situation, it's time to get our own act together and invest in our development and future. If a chinese villager can come to Ghana and indulge in illegal mining, who do you blame but ourselves for creating the conditions that makes it possible for the whole planet to exploit us. We have been sleeping for so long. It's time to stop pointing fingers and wake up from our slumber and start performing.
Spiky 10 years ago
You've taken the wind out of my sales, and each time I read of attacks on China being in Ghana or Africa my mind goes back to James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner for DNA who said Africans or the black man has not responded t ... read full comment
You've taken the wind out of my sales, and each time I read of attacks on China being in Ghana or Africa my mind goes back to James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner for DNA who said Africans or the black man has not responded to their problems intelligently and do not deserve the kind of social policy designed for the west. It's really sad that we are eager to blame someone else for our shortcomings, and even if we have to do so we blame the wrong people. Between the Caucasian (the Whiteman) and the Chinese who deserve to be blamed for our woes when the Whiteman has oppressed and exploited us for over five hundred years and the Chinese have just begun to make their presence felt in Africa, and even so in a much more positive way than the whiteman has ever done and is still doing? Apart from blaming others have we intelligently questioned why it was possible for the west to dominate and exploit us for so long, and take necessary measures so that it does not happen again, whether the prospective oppressor is America, Great Britain, Russia, Togo or China? Do those who attack China's presence in Ghana or Africa, keeping mute over the west's hypocritical dealings with us, and ensuring that we remain poor and miserable, want to suggest that they are happy for being denigrated by the west? Frantz Fanon's insight into the negative psychological effects of colonialism could perhaps offer the necessary social action for our own emancipation. I suggest that Fanon's works should be prescribed for all university students as a way of decolonising their minds as a first step to building a proud, progressive and truly independent and sovereign nation.
AFEVIA 10 years ago
WE NEED TO THINK CRITICALLY AT THIS POINT ABOUT HOW WE CAN BREAK THE ROPES OF DOMINATION FROM BOTH THE WEST AND THE EAST.
WE NEED TO THINK CRITICALLY AT THIS POINT ABOUT HOW WE CAN BREAK THE ROPES OF DOMINATION FROM BOTH THE WEST AND THE EAST.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
Engaging essay; well-buttressed with data; well-founded conclusions.
Wereko-Brobbey could learn a thing or two from Mr. Samuel Amanor's essay: End-roads by China into the Ghanaian economy have costs!
That said, one of t ... read full comment
Engaging essay; well-buttressed with data; well-founded conclusions.
Wereko-Brobbey could learn a thing or two from Mr. Samuel Amanor's essay: End-roads by China into the Ghanaian economy have costs!
That said, one of the questions frequently un-addressed is how the freedoms enjoyed by Ghanaians compare to the freedoms enjoyed by Chinese. Clearly, China cannot create a "Gulag-Type" society in China and be committed to freedoms for Ghanaian citizens which ought to be the whole point about "socio-economic development" of a development-partner, in a democracy worth anything.
Spiky 10 years ago
Ugly, you've taken the wind out of my sales, and each time I read of attacks on China being in Ghana or Africa my mind goes back to James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner for DNA who said Africans or the black man has not respo ... read full comment
Ugly, you've taken the wind out of my sales, and each time I read of attacks on China being in Ghana or Africa my mind goes back to James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner for DNA who said Africans or the black man has not responded to their problems intelligently and do not deserve the kind of social policy designed for the west. It's really sad that we are eager to blame someone else for our shortcomings, and even if we have to do so we blame the wrong people. Between the Caucasian (the Whiteman) and the Chinese who deserve to be blamed for our woes when the Whiteman has oppressed and exploited us for over five hundred years and the Chinese have just begun to make their presence felt in Africa, and even so in a much more positive way than the whiteman has ever done and is still doing? Apart from blaming others have we intelligently questioned why it was possible for the west to dominate and exploit us for so long, and take necessary measures so that it does not happen again, whether the prospective oppressor is America, Great Britain, Russia, Togo or China? Do those who attack China's presence in Ghana or Africa, keeping mute over the west's hypocritical dealings with us, and ensuring that we remain poor and miserable, want to suggest that they are happy for being denigrated by the west? Frantz Fanon's insight into the negative psychological effects of colonialism could perhaps offer the necessary social action for our own emancipation. I suggest that Fanon's works should be prescribed for all university students as a way of decolonising their minds as a first step to building a proud, progressive and truly independent and sovereign nation.
Okoe 10 years ago
Only in Ghana you can see foreign nationals entering the country and start mining it's natural resources. IT IS INCREDIBLE. IF GHANA WANTS TO ADVANCE, IT MUST USE STATE RESOURCES TO EMPOWER INDUSTRIALIZATION. GHANA'S POPULATI ... read full comment
Only in Ghana you can see foreign nationals entering the country and start mining it's natural resources. IT IS INCREDIBLE. IF GHANA WANTS TO ADVANCE, IT MUST USE STATE RESOURCES TO EMPOWER INDUSTRIALIZATION. GHANA'S POPULATION DOES NOT HAVE THE FINANCIAL CAPACITY TO HASTEN DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. THEY WILL CALL YOU COMMUNIST AND SO IS CHINA, SO WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL? CHINESE MONEY IS COMMUNIST MONEY YET WE TAKE IT. WHY DO WE NOT GENERATE OUR OWN COMMUNIST MONEY IF WE SO EASILY ACCEPT IT. IF WE ARE JUST RECEIVING AND NOT GENERATING OUR OWN FAST ENOUGH THE MALAYSIANS AND
SINGAPOREANS WILL LEAVE US IN THE DUST EVEN MORE. ENOUGH WITH THE EASY MONEY. IT IS A SHAME. NO ONE RESPECTS A PERSON WHO ALWAYS GOES AROUND BORROWING TO LIVE. NO ONE GIVES YOU RESPECT WHEREVER YOU GO. THE DAY OF RECKONING
WILL ALWAYS COME.
HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 10 years ago
How long have the Western nations being in Africa without any significant development? Centuries. Left to the Western nations Africans will still be experiencing slavery, colonialism and apartheid. Africans had to fight and s ... read full comment
How long have the Western nations being in Africa without any significant development? Centuries. Left to the Western nations Africans will still be experiencing slavery, colonialism and apartheid. Africans had to fight and shed their blood to get rid of the White yoke. China is no angel, but it is the lesser of two evils. When one path does not work out, it is essential to try other routes. Africa should look East. It was only when China and other countries entered Africa that the continent began to rise. The Western response? AFRICOM and military bases in order to recolonize Africans and get rid of progressive leaders. Objectively, Africa's enemy is the West and has always been so. So long as Africa has good leaders that will ensure that their own people benefit, the continent will continue rising. After all, China did not come to Africa to babysit us. We also have to help ourselves.
GHANANI 10 years ago
An article meant to shore up support for America.Who told you that America,the IMF and the United Kingdom financed the Akosombo dam? So you do not know that as a result of Busia's lobbying America refused to finance the Akoso ... read full comment
An article meant to shore up support for America.Who told you that America,the IMF and the United Kingdom financed the Akosombo dam? So you do not know that as a result of Busia's lobbying America refused to finance the Akosombo dam.It was Kaiser who financed the Akosombo Dam in exchange for cheap power to run Valco which Kaiser later on established.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
GHANANI,
You are a bit out of on a limb with your comments.
At least we know Akosombo Dam was not funded by the Chinese.
And if "America refused to finance the Akosombo dam" for any reason, how can you conclude the Ka ... read full comment
GHANANI,
You are a bit out of on a limb with your comments.
At least we know Akosombo Dam was not funded by the Chinese.
And if "America refused to finance the Akosombo dam" for any reason, how can you conclude the Kaiser finance of the dam was not "American"?
ITEM: No, an objective reading of the essay does not reasonably lead to a conclusion that the "article" was "meant to shore up support for America."
GHANANI 10 years ago
Is Kaiser the same as America?What about if Richard Blankson finances a project in Ghana?Will it be the UK financing that project?
Is Kaiser the same as America?What about if Richard Blankson finances a project in Ghana?Will it be the UK financing that project?
HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 10 years ago
Most of the money that was used to finance the Akosombo Dam came from Ghana's own reserves. I think the World Bank (then under a different name) and the UK also made some contributions. But the West later refused to finance a ... read full comment
Most of the money that was used to finance the Akosombo Dam came from Ghana's own reserves. I think the World Bank (then under a different name) and the UK also made some contributions. But the West later refused to finance any more dams in Africa including the Bui Dam because of what they claim were environmental concerns. Meanwhile the Western nations have built all the dams they needed for massive development. It was only when China accelerated its dam building spree in Africa that the World Bank conveniently forgot its environmental concerns and decided to cash in as well. See what hydro dams have done for Norway. It is China that financed and built the Bui dam as we all know as well as the Gas project in the Western Region. Ghana has more to benefit from China than the West.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago
Ghana and Africa in general were treated as second class nations by the West until China started making economic inroads into Africa.So far African countries including Ghana have benefited enormously from their economic relat ... read full comment
Ghana and Africa in general were treated as second class nations by the West until China started making economic inroads into Africa.So far African countries including Ghana have benefited enormously from their economic relations with China. Because of China African countries are getting higher prices for their raw materials materials on international markets.Because of China African countries are chalking high GDP growth never achieved when western countries were our dominant trading partners.All over Africa you see physical progress in the form of roads,airports, bridges,hospitals etc under construction; all financed by the Chinese.In 2012 China's loans for development in Africa was more than that of the IMF and the World Bank combined.What meaningful economic assistance do you expect from America and other western countries when their economies are in freefall and are being rescued by China?Centuries of economic relations with America and the West in general only resulted in the stagnation of African economies.Western countries were only interested in our resources and not the development of the economies of African countries for the benefit of their citizens.
HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 10 years ago
All we can expect from the West nations are their morbid desire to station drones in Africa.
Africa is progressing partly because of China. You're right Kwabena Ohemeng. It's too late for the West to stop Africa's progress ... read full comment
All we can expect from the West nations are their morbid desire to station drones in Africa.
Africa is progressing partly because of China. You're right Kwabena Ohemeng. It's too late for the West to stop Africa's progress. At the end of the day all Africans want is to have a good life just like people living in the so-called developed nations.
Mohammed Ibrahim 10 years ago
Ghana should allow China to help Ghana.China can Help Ghana in the following areas,eg,Constructions,Roads,Housing,Railways,Construction of Airports,SeaPort,Hospitals,Bridges,etc.China is a trusted Friend,and a reliable friend ... read full comment
Ghana should allow China to help Ghana.China can Help Ghana in the following areas,eg,Constructions,Roads,Housing,Railways,Construction of Airports,SeaPort,Hospitals,Bridges,etc.China is a trusted Friend,and a reliable friend of Ghana.China can help Ghana Transform it economy.
Ghana should Trust the Chinese.A word to the wise is enough.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago
Why should Ghana trust a nation which is prepared to destabilize Ghana by sponsoring a coup to put its supporters in power.Ghana's economic problems is mostly due to the coup.America and its western allies and the institution ... read full comment
Why should Ghana trust a nation which is prepared to destabilize Ghana by sponsoring a coup to put its supporters in power.Ghana's economic problems is mostly due to the coup.America and its western allies and the institutions they controlled advised Afrifa's NLC government to mothball all economic policies and projects of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.Ghana was told by the West to rely on them for cheap imported goods.They turned Ghana into a market for their goods.Because of this policy Ghana is now faced with an economy that cannot find jobs for its own people and which has deepened poverty in the country.
B..L.M 10 years ago
This is not so great for Ghana. The Chinese are known for not producing the best products and the poison that its products include. US at least has some regulations over what they can import, especially lead-based products th ... read full comment
This is not so great for Ghana. The Chinese are known for not producing the best products and the poison that its products include. US at least has some regulations over what they can import, especially lead-based products that poison our water and children. But most importantly as has happened here in the US the loss of jobs for citizens. Chinese hire their own almost exclusively, not only because they don't care for the growth of your eoonomy but they can pay them even less. So what happens to the Ghanaian business owners and the companies that are actually trying to help the economy grow? They get pushed out and ultimately it further cripples the economy and damages the environment. Not good! Ghana needs to empower its business owners and not let foreigners come in and take over!
China's developmental model is good and therefore worth testing in Ghana; I agree we need them around us in case we need help. But the way they are illegally invading the mining sector is a cause for national concern; and cle ...
read full comment
What is the point in borrowing 3 billion only to destroy 300 billion , we now have poisoned waters and a gallon of drinking water is more expensive than a gallon of petrol . the chinese corruption of the highest offices and i ...
read full comment
chinese came to steal our gold,yet corrupt ghana government still promoting Chinese interests on Africa continents. Damn motherfucker shitty Ghana.Shame to you ndc criminals
Beware of China. China has seen that the West rejected Africa and realised that what they need to build China is close by. Ghana be careful how you deal with China.
Since I was born, everything was US or EU but they have not help much.
but just a decade now, china loans has help so much. they don't interfere in our politics as US or EU do.
I support total friendship with China and Dr ...
read full comment
learn to speak the China tonque..You are their slave now! Every drop of oil pumped out of the ground belongs to China to repay loans already given..You dumb NIGGER!
and so what? this is the only way Ghana can survive when the Busia/Dankwa vision-less block overthrew Nkrumah in an exchange of crippled ANGLO-AMERICAN ideology.
THEY ARE CORRUPT SO THEY SUIT OUR LEADERS TO DO BUSINESS WITH
Time to make about turn from China and face West again. Our trade relationship with China has always been one sided; China exploiting our natural resources cheaply and destroying our environment in doing so in return for a fe ...
read full comment
I totally agreed with you KM Agyin, the USA is trade with this county , not good business only for them, there abor is cheap, products are aweful... etc...
Instead of complaining and always blaming someone else for our poor situation, it's time to get our own act together and invest in our development and future. If a chinese villager can come to Ghana and indulge in illegal min ...
read full comment
You've taken the wind out of my sales, and each time I read of attacks on China being in Ghana or Africa my mind goes back to James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner for DNA who said Africans or the black man has not responded t ...
read full comment
WE NEED TO THINK CRITICALLY AT THIS POINT ABOUT HOW WE CAN BREAK THE ROPES OF DOMINATION FROM BOTH THE WEST AND THE EAST.
Engaging essay; well-buttressed with data; well-founded conclusions.
Wereko-Brobbey could learn a thing or two from Mr. Samuel Amanor's essay: End-roads by China into the Ghanaian economy have costs!
That said, one of t ...
read full comment
Ugly, you've taken the wind out of my sales, and each time I read of attacks on China being in Ghana or Africa my mind goes back to James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner for DNA who said Africans or the black man has not respo ...
read full comment
Only in Ghana you can see foreign nationals entering the country and start mining it's natural resources. IT IS INCREDIBLE. IF GHANA WANTS TO ADVANCE, IT MUST USE STATE RESOURCES TO EMPOWER INDUSTRIALIZATION. GHANA'S POPULATI ...
read full comment
How long have the Western nations being in Africa without any significant development? Centuries. Left to the Western nations Africans will still be experiencing slavery, colonialism and apartheid. Africans had to fight and s ...
read full comment
An article meant to shore up support for America.Who told you that America,the IMF and the United Kingdom financed the Akosombo dam? So you do not know that as a result of Busia's lobbying America refused to finance the Akoso ...
read full comment
GHANANI,
You are a bit out of on a limb with your comments.
At least we know Akosombo Dam was not funded by the Chinese.
And if "America refused to finance the Akosombo dam" for any reason, how can you conclude the Ka ...
read full comment
Is Kaiser the same as America?What about if Richard Blankson finances a project in Ghana?Will it be the UK financing that project?
Most of the money that was used to finance the Akosombo Dam came from Ghana's own reserves. I think the World Bank (then under a different name) and the UK also made some contributions. But the West later refused to finance a ...
read full comment
Ghana and Africa in general were treated as second class nations by the West until China started making economic inroads into Africa.So far African countries including Ghana have benefited enormously from their economic relat ...
read full comment
All we can expect from the West nations are their morbid desire to station drones in Africa.
Africa is progressing partly because of China. You're right Kwabena Ohemeng. It's too late for the West to stop Africa's progress ...
read full comment
Ghana should allow China to help Ghana.China can Help Ghana in the following areas,eg,Constructions,Roads,Housing,Railways,Construction of Airports,SeaPort,Hospitals,Bridges,etc.China is a trusted Friend,and a reliable friend ...
read full comment
Why should Ghana trust a nation which is prepared to destabilize Ghana by sponsoring a coup to put its supporters in power.Ghana's economic problems is mostly due to the coup.America and its western allies and the institution ...
read full comment
This is not so great for Ghana. The Chinese are known for not producing the best products and the poison that its products include. US at least has some regulations over what they can import, especially lead-based products th ...
read full comment