You hate me and my Kookoase people to the core, you hate democracy, you hate Busia for no reason, you hate the West, particularly the US, where the best of the best resides. You even expressed your dislike for God in one of y ... read full comment
You hate me and my Kookoase people to the core, you hate democracy, you hate Busia for no reason, you hate the West, particularly the US, where the best of the best resides. You even expressed your dislike for God in one of your essays when you labeled God as unjust and undemocratic for throwing Lucifer out of heaven. In defense of Satan? To Love Trokosis and hate God is an unpardonable transgression.this is hypothetic to me since possible to love God and love Satan. Are you not the real "Kwaku Bonsam", the metaphorical characterization in some of your essays?
Mr. Figure-Out 11 years ago
I mean " it is not possible to love God and love Satan"
I mean " it is not possible to love God and love Satan"
ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago
You see every right thinkinh person will side with me that this kwarteng is carrying a head filled with only water on his neck. He will copy any nonsense from any corner paste it on this platform for well thinking people to r ... read full comment
You see every right thinkinh person will side with me that this kwarteng is carrying a head filled with only water on his neck. He will copy any nonsense from any corner paste it on this platform for well thinking people to read. Kwarteng, bow your water head in sand.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago
Mr. Figure-Out,
Please go back and read Part 1 of this two-part series if you have not done so already.
You can then begin to deal with particularities rather than with faint convenient generalities.
Mind you, Mr. ... read full comment
Mr. Figure-Out,
Please go back and read Part 1 of this two-part series if you have not done so already.
You can then begin to deal with particularities rather than with faint convenient generalities.
Mind you, Mr. Figure-Out, I do not hate KA Busia or JB Danquah. History does. Interrogating that history will surely help!
Please go back and read Part 1.
Thanks.
Mahmoud 11 years ago
How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did except that he was preparing the ground with series of unprovoked actions ... read full comment
How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did except that he was preparing the ground with series of unprovoked actions to create a one party state, and declare himself president for life
Communist ideology doesn't have a place for opposition in the system. Have you ever heard of a communist democratic country in the world, with an opposition to check the government? Nkrumah chose communism as a means of keeping himself in power forever. He therefore imposed the Detention without Trial Act only to gag everybody, create a communist dictatorship, eradicate the opposition and turn himself into a president for life. This is because communists don't share power.
Mahmoud 11 years ago
How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did except that he was preparing the ground with series of unprovoked actions ... read full comment
How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did except that he was preparing the ground with series of unprovoked actions to create a one party state, and declare himself president for life
Communist ideology doesn't have a place for opposition in the system. Have you ever heard of a communist democratic country in the world, with an opposition to check the government? Nkrumah chose communism as a means of keeping himself in power forever. He therefore imposed the Detention without Trial Act only to gag everybody, create a communist dictatorship, eradicate the opposition and turn himself into a president for life. This is because communists don't share power.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago
Mr. Figure-Out,
You have not convinced readers yet why the American critics of the Obama administration (those I specifically mention in Parts 1/2) and of American internal politics and foreign policy are not haters of "th ... read full comment
Mr. Figure-Out,
You have not convinced readers yet why the American critics of the Obama administration (those I specifically mention in Parts 1/2) and of American internal politics and foreign policy are not haters of "the best in the world"? Remember 99.9% of these critics are white!
You have also not told readers and I why I am not a hater of Ghana and Africa (when I criticize both)? You read my essays "What Sort of Democracy Is This, Ghana?" Do I hate Ghana?
We should avoid sentiments and learn to deal with facts. It is sometimes frustrating when some readers read a piece and begin to discuss it outside the piece's immediate context!
You have also not given readers evidence of my hatred for God! Cite just one sentence to back your claim. Don't make vague remarks and run away with it. That is not helpful! Give readers something substantial to evaluate your claims!
Let me know.
Mr. Figure-Out 11 years ago
Much as I don't mean to thwart your efforts to educate the general public and also your quest to find answers to your numerous predicaments I still maintain the contents of my comments. I could read you loud and clear and hav ... read full comment
Much as I don't mean to thwart your efforts to educate the general public and also your quest to find answers to your numerous predicaments I still maintain the contents of my comments. I could read you loud and clear and have nothing to prove to your avid readers since one does not need to be a rocket scientist in order to unravel the mischievous mendacity inherent in some of your misguided essays. Your evils series, " The Faith Of The Misguided Scholar" and " Stop Mourning The Ghost Of A Dead Empire ", though scholarly, speaks volumes, amply demonstrate and tell it all about the feelings you have for the " Great Porcupine Warriors" of Kookoase, inter alia. You have even denounce your Kookoase traditionality and now in bed with Togolese Trokosi encroachers. Anyways me think my views on you does not take your good works away from you. Keep it up.
FRANCIS KWARTENG 11 years ago
Mr. Figure-Out,
You have said nothing. What you say is hollow.
Does my essay "What Sort of Democracy Is This, Ghana?" sat I hate Ghana? What sort of reasoning is this?
You constructively criticize your society, int ... read full comment
Mr. Figure-Out,
You have said nothing. What you say is hollow.
Does my essay "What Sort of Democracy Is This, Ghana?" sat I hate Ghana? What sort of reasoning is this?
You constructively criticize your society, interrogate history, and try to point out everything that is going on and you are hater! This is part of the reasons some societies don't grow.
Obama has criticized America in nearly all of his books, does that make him a hater of America? Molefi Kete Asante, Cornel West, etc., have all critizized Africa and America one way or the other, does that make them haters of America and Africa?
Prod. Noam Chomsky, one of the world's greatest scholars, has wriiten over 100 (most of which examine and criticize American foreign policy from de-classified records), does that make him a hater of America? Prof. Chomsky is a White American.
The major problem our educational institutions have is the training we don't get in the area of cultural criqiue and cultural theory. You get to learn aspects of these concepts by the time you finish American high school. These concepts go with critical or analytical thinking, etc.
It is taught in some detail in American university. Thus, students become critical of the American society (though most Americans know less to nothing about the outside world beyond America).
I have so many well-known American websites where writers/scholars examine and interrogate American historical and contemporary realities all the time.
These writers/scholars do not hate America. They write to expose biases,racism, white supremacy, educational inequity, corporate irresponsibility, partisan political issues, gender inequality, etc. You do the same about Ghana and you are a hater. What sort of ignorance is that?
Writing and exposing injustices of the past played a role in bringing out a blackman to the White House. These critical aseessment of American society touched the white conscience to the extent where it believed American minorities should be treated fairly and given a chance in a racist society as America.
On the other hand, we don't study our won history, for, if we do, know one will go about making noise about the Asante Empire. There is so much about the Asante Empire most Ghanaians university graduates (majors in Ghana history) don't even know about.
Yet the records are all there. Manhyia has all the history. My essays on the Porcupine said practically nothing about the Asante Empire. There is enought historical record(I have most of the sources with me) to discredit the Asante Empire. There are many Ghanaian scholars who are aware of these records but it is unfortunate they are taught!
If you can cry over these little essay, what will you do when you are exposed to the facts? These facts are all over the place. I have about 30 of the best primary and secondary sources on the Asante Empire as we speak (I have them right before me).
We are not critical of our societies as the West sometimes is!
Osofonana 11 years ago
Is it not possible to worship your idol without showing hatred for others? The fact that the world has honoured Nkrumah does not mean others are devils. The world has always honoured, most of all, murderers and brutal rulers. ... read full comment
Is it not possible to worship your idol without showing hatred for others? The fact that the world has honoured Nkrumah does not mean others are devils. The world has always honoured, most of all, murderers and brutal rulers. mandela is not only honored; he is sincerely loved by all. Nkrumah was great, even a great African but Danquah and Busia were not the dwarfs you want them to appear to generations of Ghanaians. Is it not their ideas that have won eventually? Democratic governance; dialogue instead of violence; development in freedom etc., etc,? Get honest and real.
francis kwarteng 11 years ago
Dear Osofonana,
There is no divisiveness in the historical facts I present here. Please. Let us learn to deal with historical and csientific facts.
Do read the following books by Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro and others ... read full comment
Dear Osofonana,
There is no divisiveness in the historical facts I present here. Please. Let us learn to deal with historical and csientific facts.
Do read the following books by Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro and others to open your eyes and horizon:
1) Who knows Busia and Danquah outside Ghana (only a handle of irrelevant scholars/indviduals in Ghana promote them)?
2) "How Far We Slaves Have Come: South Africa and Cuba in Today's World"
3) "Cuba and Angola: Fighting for Africa's Freedom and Our Own"
You will not use the word "revisionism" ever again after reading what Nelson Mandela has to say.
Development in freedom, whatever that means, came about through the efforts of Nkrumah, Mandela, Castro, Randall Robinson, and several others. Busia and Danquah had nothing to do with it. Don't make emotional excuses for the failures of Danquah and Busia and the absence on the international scene! Their meager achievements exclude them from te ranks of the greats!
Let us stop this emotional and childish attributions and resort to hard scientific and historical facts. And let us use our real names on Ghanaweb rather than strange monikers.
1)Do you understand the word "revisionism"?
2)Did the violence of the Apartheid government against Black South Africa (and Southern Africa) de-colonize South Africa?
3) Would you call putting Nelson Mandela (and others) in prison for 27 years as they struggled to free South, killing Steve Biko and hundreds of innocent children and women, making blacks prisoners in their own country "violence"?
4) Would you call the situation where South African White scientists killed hundreds of black activists via chemicals (Read "Apartheid: Biological and Chemical Warfare Program"; link: www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/south_africa/index.html) violence?
5) Have you read about Dr. Wouter Basson, head of South Africa's Chemical and Warfare Program during the Apartheid era?
6) Have you read the book "The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism" (Authors: David Olusoga/Casper W. Erichsen). This book should tell one of the world's greatest "secrets" regarding what went on in Southern Africa!
7) Do you know how many times Nelson Mandela and the ANC proposed constructive dialogue with White South Africa to de-colonize the country (and the white government rejected all; read Nelson Mandela to understand why rejection of their proposal for constructive dialogue led to armed struggles)?
8) Do you know it was Nelson Mandela and the ANC, not Busia, who proposed constructive dialogue to discuss the future of South Africa?
9) Reading more about what Nelson Mandela has to say should it was Nkrumah, Fidel Castro, and Nelson Mandela, not Busia, that won the day? Nelson Mandela (and the people of South Africa) never saw Danquah or Busia as their hero! Therefore stop the revisionism. Read more about the awards posthumously given to Nkrumah by the international body and the people/government of South Africa.
It is not dialogue that de-colonized South Africa. Danquah and Busia will always be dwarfs in the shadow of Nkrumah. All right thinking people know this!
Come back later after reading the sources. You will not how Busia and Danquah do not appear in the written history of Southern Africa. They were irrelevant.
Thanks.
Kwadwo 11 years ago
Osofonana does not need to read all the references you suggested to be intelligent. Are you not impressed with the simple wisdom he imparted to you? In your world, Busia and Danquah are irrelevant. To Osofonana and many other ... read full comment
Osofonana does not need to read all the references you suggested to be intelligent. Are you not impressed with the simple wisdom he imparted to you? In your world, Busia and Danquah are irrelevant. To Osofonana and many others, these two leaders are very relevant. You cannot change that view and is about time you embrace and cherish that. It is that simple, buddy. My family never liked Nkrumah's dictatorial policies, but I will never refer you to read anti Nkrumah scholarly pieces to change your mind on your hero, Nkrumah. It will be insulting don't you think?
francis kwarteng 11 years ago
Dear Kwadwo,
Read what Nelson Mandela and other real players say about South Africa, Africa, and the world.
Mention any important scholarly work on Nkrumah that you think I have not read or do not know about.
Busia a ... read full comment
Dear Kwadwo,
Read what Nelson Mandela and other real players say about South Africa, Africa, and the world.
Mention any important scholarly work on Nkrumah that you think I have not read or do not know about.
Busia and Danquah are irrelevant to African and world politics. They don't matter! It is why Ghana, Africa, and the world celebrate Nkrumah.
Besides, Busia and Danquah are hardly known outside the borders of Ghana. Those one or two individual scholars who celebrate Busia and Danquah are irrelevant for the most part.
In fact, I can count all the "important" scholarly works done by and about Busia and Danquah in my palm. They don't have any intellectual weight outside Ghana for the most part. They are worthless, to say the least!
As a matter of fact, these writers have not done scholarly or scientific work on Busia and Danquah for respectable scholars to appreciate. It is why respected international (and most African and Western) sholars don't waste their time on Danquah and Busia. In fact, most of these international scholars (Western, African) would rather write about Nkruma, Mandela, Lumumba, Kenyatta, Cabral, etc., than waste their time on nonenties like Busia and Danquah.
Nkrumah was and still is a world figure. In Ghana neither Busia and Danquah comes close in intellect and political prowess.
Forget Busia and Danquah, they don't matter to the world, not even to the villages they came from!
You hate me and my Kookoase people to the core, you hate democracy, you hate Busia for no reason, you hate the West, particularly the US, where the best of the best resides. You even expressed your dislike for God in one of y ...
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I mean " it is not possible to love God and love Satan"
You see every right thinkinh person will side with me that this kwarteng is carrying a head filled with only water on his neck. He will copy any nonsense from any corner paste it on this platform for well thinking people to r ...
read full comment
Mr. Figure-Out,
Please go back and read Part 1 of this two-part series if you have not done so already.
You can then begin to deal with particularities rather than with faint convenient generalities.
Mind you, Mr. ...
read full comment
How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did except that he was preparing the ground with series of unprovoked actions ...
read full comment
How can any reasonable human being in his right mind justify communist dictatorship and tyranny? Nkrumah did not have any excuse for doing what he did except that he was preparing the ground with series of unprovoked actions ...
read full comment
Mr. Figure-Out,
You have not convinced readers yet why the American critics of the Obama administration (those I specifically mention in Parts 1/2) and of American internal politics and foreign policy are not haters of "th ...
read full comment
Much as I don't mean to thwart your efforts to educate the general public and also your quest to find answers to your numerous predicaments I still maintain the contents of my comments. I could read you loud and clear and hav ...
read full comment
Mr. Figure-Out,
You have said nothing. What you say is hollow.
Does my essay "What Sort of Democracy Is This, Ghana?" sat I hate Ghana? What sort of reasoning is this?
You constructively criticize your society, int ...
read full comment
Is it not possible to worship your idol without showing hatred for others? The fact that the world has honoured Nkrumah does not mean others are devils. The world has always honoured, most of all, murderers and brutal rulers. ...
read full comment
Dear Osofonana,
There is no divisiveness in the historical facts I present here. Please. Let us learn to deal with historical and csientific facts.
Do read the following books by Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro and others ...
read full comment
Osofonana does not need to read all the references you suggested to be intelligent. Are you not impressed with the simple wisdom he imparted to you? In your world, Busia and Danquah are irrelevant. To Osofonana and many other ...
read full comment
Dear Kwadwo,
Read what Nelson Mandela and other real players say about South Africa, Africa, and the world.
Mention any important scholarly work on Nkrumah that you think I have not read or do not know about.
Busia a ...
read full comment