JB Danquah represented Akyem Abuakwa by virtue of quota reserved for Abuakwaman.
JB Danquah represented Akyem Abuakwa by virtue of quota reserved for Abuakwaman.
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago
What is it about our history that remains vague and murky to be subjected to preferred interpretation and derived conclusions? Answers may be found through life experiences that forewarn us that things are never what they se ... read full comment
What is it about our history that remains vague and murky to be subjected to preferred interpretation and derived conclusions? Answers may be found through life experiences that forewarn us that things are never what they seem at first glance. History is replete or not short on whites/Caucasians having preferences in their choice of blacks/indigenous people, from slavery even unto 2015. The white/Caucasian race have always preferred passive blacks/indigenous people who are and can be molded into believing and say whatever it is the master wanted as they reserved their hatred, abuse, and misapplication of laws to radicalized blacks/indigenous people they label as trouble makers. The legacy of these perceptions are inherent in the historical accounts on J.B. Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah. Those who therefore rely on history in their pursuit of narrating the so-called truths about Danquah and Nkrumah do their readers a disservice by ignoring context and those biases brought to bear by the people, mostly Caucasians who have recalled and collaborated in the writing of our historical narrative.
I will suggest we ask ourselves what changed to have ended the over 50 years of cold war and hatred of the West for communism and socialism for the west to be in love with China of late when China continues to practice communism and yet hatred for assertive blacks/indegenous people continue unabated. The ongoing debate between Danquah ideologues and Nkrumahist should be centered more on why our colonial masters and their allies preferred Danquah to Nkrumah. It has never been about the intellectual abilities and or prowess between the two because even modern day ideologues on either side of this debate know Danquah was a terrorist but prefer to describe his activities as advocate for democratic rule. They forget to the victor goes the spoils that is why America's founding fathers once seen as terrorists by the British, Mandela a terrorist by leaders of apartheid South Africa were respectively seen as freedom fighters for democratic values. It is only natural that with Nkrumah out of the way and with Ashanti's and Kyebi on the rise politically, modern day NPP, an offspring of UP/UGCC, can make a hero or sainthood out of a common terrorist. It's unnatural for a person in bondage with all mental faculties intact to delay his or freedom unless Danquah ideologues can now say he was not intellectuallyrics endowed and ready to self govern unless the colonial masters took him through internship/on the job training for him to be competent. If Nkrumah's crime is for seeking self rule now then he was surely doomed to fail to count on people who continued to subscribe to master knows best and are therefore subject to bribery and corruption of the foreign kind. Is it not why Ghana is as corruput as ever?
acquah 9 years ago
We need more of those on this site. objective analysis, good writeup and interesting reading. our generation deserve to hear the truth.
We need more of those on this site. objective analysis, good writeup and interesting reading. our generation deserve to hear the truth.
JB Danquah represented Akyem Abuakwa by virtue of quota reserved for Abuakwaman.
What is it about our history that remains vague and murky to be subjected to preferred interpretation and derived conclusions? Answers may be found through life experiences that forewarn us that things are never what they se ...
read full comment
We need more of those on this site. objective analysis, good writeup and interesting reading. our generation deserve to hear the truth.