It is crystal clear that we cannot take our destiny into our hands as professed by our first leader. Nkrumah did not take a pesewa and lodged it anywhere but......
Those who followed him are nothing more than "hyena-type ... read full comment
It is crystal clear that we cannot take our destiny into our hands as professed by our first leader. Nkrumah did not take a pesewa and lodged it anywhere but......
Those who followed him are nothing more than "hyena-typed creatures" who prefer to steal the kill of other animals.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Pelicles,
The good news for you is people like you and I who followed after Nkrumah still enjoy the benefits of the great legacy Dr. Kwame Nkrumah left for Ghana.
In that sense, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was more a Pericles to a ... read full comment
Pelicles,
The good news for you is people like you and I who followed after Nkrumah still enjoy the benefits of the great legacy Dr. Kwame Nkrumah left for Ghana.
In that sense, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was more a Pericles to all of Ghana than you will even hope to be, actual or contrived Ghanaweb-Pericles!
Greetings.
Pelicles 9 years ago
Look, our first president did pretty good but down the road, he veered. Why? My question to you is, do you think he could have unite the entire continent at that time? Even as, we speak, how united are we in Ghana?
The r ... read full comment
Look, our first president did pretty good but down the road, he veered. Why? My question to you is, do you think he could have unite the entire continent at that time? Even as, we speak, how united are we in Ghana?
The resources he put into that venture was fruitless. It was no brainer and a total waste to the detriment of our dear nation. Nkrumah should have developed Ghana to the envy of those leaders he was trying to cow into submission. When he was overthrown, our gutters were yawing or gasping for something to cover them. Also, he should have laid a solid foundation of Ghana and some strict laws to withstand the test of time for future posterity to build upon.
His quest to unite Africa led to his downfall. Look at Europe. We are copying everything they are doing and with that, cast your mind back to those days and ask yourself if that "United Africa" was achievable while the Europeans power were all over the continent.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Ok!
"our first president did pretty good".
In that sense, we cannot help you, Pericles, if you cannot see how Ghana is united today, if you are inclined to see a Confederacy as a better national-unity-force multiplier, c ... read full comment
Ok!
"our first president did pretty good".
In that sense, we cannot help you, Pericles, if you cannot see how Ghana is united today, if you are inclined to see a Confederacy as a better national-unity-force multiplier, compared to a Unitary national government, as foundation for a nation.
With respect to your "United Africa" item, even with the benefit of hindsight, it should be obvious to you that it is fruitless to "cast (y)our mind back to those days and ask (y)ourself if that "United Africa" was achievable..."
It is simply not a productive use of our time.
Finally, we will submit that Nkrumah's "downfall" to Nkrumah is not as important to us as the reasons proposed for his "downfall" by those who usurped power and threw the new nation into practical nothingness, thereafter.
Peace!
Kwadwo 9 years ago
Were you really expecting your messiah to have survived his declaration of a one party state, life president, PDA , his interventionist foreign policy and socialist leanings in the mist of the Cold War? The coup was his own d ... read full comment
Were you really expecting your messiah to have survived his declaration of a one party state, life president, PDA , his interventionist foreign policy and socialist leanings in the mist of the Cold War? The coup was his own doing and inevitable.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Kwadwo,
Obviously, "Realpolotik" could always use subversives and traitors.
So, if that is our approach to the issue, we must in reverse say that Danquah's subversive actions against the state led to his detention and dea ... read full comment
Kwadwo,
Obviously, "Realpolotik" could always use subversives and traitors.
So, if that is our approach to the issue, we must in reverse say that Danquah's subversive actions against the state led to his detention and death in Nsawam prison despite the best effort of Nkrumah, and notwithstanding the failure of vision on Danquah's part for a confederate Ghana. Danquah's detention "was his own doing and inevitable."
Nsia 9 years ago
France,Germany,Switzerland,Luxembourg, New Zealand,and UK have all joined Socialist oriented China"s version of IMF.{Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.Do they have socialist leanings now? American hegemony is on the road ... read full comment
France,Germany,Switzerland,Luxembourg, New Zealand,and UK have all joined Socialist oriented China"s version of IMF.{Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.Do they have socialist leanings now? American hegemony is on the road to perdition.Yes,it will decline in your life time.
Kwadwo 9 years ago
I guess you refuse to consider Nkrumah's turn to the socialist world as one of the main factors that caused his overthrow. Additionally, you are only dreaming if you think America's influence in global politics is on "the roa ... read full comment
I guess you refuse to consider Nkrumah's turn to the socialist world as one of the main factors that caused his overthrow. Additionally, you are only dreaming if you think America's influence in global politics is on "the road to perdition." In my view, America will to shape global events whether you socialists like it or not.
Nsia 9 years ago
And what did the capitalist bootlickers do after after he was overthrown? Your hatred for Nkrumah is more genetic than logical.You were indoctrinated from infancy.What stops America from overthrowing the socialist regime in C ... read full comment
And what did the capitalist bootlickers do after after he was overthrown? Your hatred for Nkrumah is more genetic than logical.You were indoctrinated from infancy.What stops America from overthrowing the socialist regime in China then?.
Close Observer 9 years ago
Until we have changed the way our government operates and the legislative and executive arms earn the income that suits their input, there will be no change in the life of the ordinary Ghanaian; by that I don't mean only poor ... read full comment
Until we have changed the way our government operates and the legislative and executive arms earn the income that suits their input, there will be no change in the life of the ordinary Ghanaian; by that I don't mean only poor people, but anybody outside politics who is also not a celebrity.
What do I mean by that? Until parliamentarians and ministers stop getting wages that they don't deserve, they will never see any reason why Ghanaians are complaining. If they see the need for all the benefits that they have allotted to themselves to make life comfortable because to them that is the reality of today's economic condition, why do they think that comfort should be denied others outside politics? People of Ghana, your legislators and the executive arm will never change anything to their disadvantage. It is you and I who will have to change the status quo. I'm bringing this up today and I believe people will take it up from here and talk about it till the constitution is amended. The amendment must see a change in the situation where legislators pass bills on benefits that goes to them without any trouble, but refuse to do the same for others. They must not decide how much they earn; that must be decided by the people, and it must go up in proportion with that of the rest of us. The free this and free that must cease. That does not make them feel what we feel, and therefore does not lead to taking sensible decisions to solve our problems. It will also be less attractive to nobodies who resign their jobs to seek greener pasture there only to enrich themselves.
The second issue is the situation where a parliamentarian is given a ministerial appointment yet, continue to be a legislator. Yes, the constitution allows that, but common sense must tell us that it is not proper, and they can never perform efficiently in both capacities. I'm therefore not surprise that things are not working for us. Somebody must talk about this, I have started it. Let's talk and call for a change. We have the power to turn things around. The politicians will not do it, left to them.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Important observations!
A call to action: Amend the Constitution to work for the People!
Stop this free this, free that!
MPs should not be Ministers at the same time, or in the Cabinet with the Executive, on top of all ... read full comment
Important observations!
A call to action: Amend the Constitution to work for the People!
Stop this free this, free that!
MPs should not be Ministers at the same time, or in the Cabinet with the Executive, on top of all that.
We agree!
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 9 years ago
I think Ghana is united because we still depend on the little foundation laid by Nkrumah.
Since then, no other Leader has added nothing to it except JJR.
I think Ghana is united because we still depend on the little foundation laid by Nkrumah.
Since then, no other Leader has added nothing to it except JJR.
GIRLS SP 9 years ago
Prof Lungu, don't you worry much about KOLA, LONDON PROPER because he has a big Problem with the English language, besides he is a by-heart talkative and has an I.Q. under 15%
Prof Lungu, don't you worry much about KOLA, LONDON PROPER because he has a big Problem with the English language, besides he is a by-heart talkative and has an I.Q. under 15%
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Thanks so much for the assist!
Reading KOLA, LONDON PROPER, we had to pinch ourselves to confirm it was we, the way we do whenever you we see, visit, or hear Fox News and Down-Under-Rupert-Murdoch.
Thanks, GIRLS SP, we ... read full comment
Thanks so much for the assist!
Reading KOLA, LONDON PROPER, we had to pinch ourselves to confirm it was we, the way we do whenever you we see, visit, or hear Fox News and Down-Under-Rupert-Murdoch.
Thanks, GIRLS SP, we needed that reminder!
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 9 years ago
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Prof Lungu, don't you worry much about KOLA, LONDON PROPER because he has a big Problem with the English language, besides he is a by-heart talkative and has an I.Q. under 15%
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Ary 9 years ago
2015
2015
adumtumi nyansfuo 9 years ago
First, Ghana does not belong to that failed idiot Kwame Nkrumah. People like you is why Ghana cannot move forward. You are still thinking of Nkrumah. Nkrumah was a dreamer. I wonder, Where are the thinkers and developers of o ... read full comment
First, Ghana does not belong to that failed idiot Kwame Nkrumah. People like you is why Ghana cannot move forward. You are still thinking of Nkrumah. Nkrumah was a dreamer. I wonder, Where are the thinkers and developers of our society. The first step to our countries success is changing the way we think. Nkrumah was a failure and a complete moron. Just admit it Prof. If you don't, you yourself are a moron?
Military Man 9 years ago
..you.
"Nkrumah was a dreamer. I wonder, Where are the thinkers and developers of our society."
You wouldn't even in a thousand years realize you have the answer right under your nose. You can't even FIGURE OUT that eve ... read full comment
..you.
"Nkrumah was a dreamer. I wonder, Where are the thinkers and developers of our society."
You wouldn't even in a thousand years realize you have the answer right under your nose. You can't even FIGURE OUT that everything starts with a dream and Nkrumah being a "dreamer" started us on a good foot except that those "non-dreamers' cut short that dream because they had no foresight. Dreamers are thinkers and they are always light years ahead of non-dreaming blockheads like you.
With people like you abound in Ghana, you honestly think there are thinkers and developers?
Oh.... things that come out of little minds!!!
An imbecilic moron calling a genius a moron .... go figure!!!!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Military Man,
Well said. You put that Adumtmi Nyansfuo in his place.
I am glad you identify of the major problems destroying Africa.
Well, Africa and the world have spoken with regard to Nkrumah's greatness and ... read full comment
Dear Military Man,
Well said. You put that Adumtmi Nyansfuo in his place.
I am glad you identify of the major problems destroying Africa.
Well, Africa and the world have spoken with regard to Nkrumah's greatness and vision.
Minority voices like Adumtumi Nyansfuo's are irrelevant to the course of history, of which Nkrumah and others shaped.
Good work, Military Man!
adumtumi nyansfuo 9 years ago
YOu did not put me in any place. That military man is apart of the retards of Ghana that cannot do anything for my country. You people are just dumb. You all need to learn common sense. Which is developed through proper exper ... read full comment
YOu did not put me in any place. That military man is apart of the retards of Ghana that cannot do anything for my country. You people are just dumb. You all need to learn common sense. Which is developed through proper experience
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Adumtumi Nyansfuo,
Oh he put you in your place.
Why? Because your minority voice makes zero impact on the global discourse dealing with the question of Nkrumah's greatness. I am sorry to say that that minority voice of ... read full comment
Adumtumi Nyansfuo,
Oh he put you in your place.
Why? Because your minority voice makes zero impact on the global discourse dealing with the question of Nkrumah's greatness. I am sorry to say that that minority voice of yourse is a muffled one. The world does not hear it or cares about it.
Unfortunatley I cannot describe you any better than the way Military Man, another intelligent, wise, and politically savvy, Ghanaweb commentator, did. It is as if Military Man knows you in person. You may want to agree with me that Military Man is a great thinker of profound historical consciousness.
Now, go through human history and learn more about great men and women. Each of them was/is a dreamer, including the greatest of them all, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah!
For your information, Nkrumah has/had no peer in Africa's political history. This is a fact etched in stone and concrete!
And you think Ghana is your country. My good friend, Ghana is Nkrumah's. Not even Busia and Danquah could claim Ghana as theirs. Those two nearly destroyed Nkrumah's Ghana!
Have a great weekend!
Military Man 9 years ago
You WILL never make sense, moron!!
You WILL never make sense, moron!!
Nsia 9 years ago
Yours is based on pure hatred.Switzerland has returned 700 million dollars plus another 380 million dollars looted by Sani Abacha.On what basis was Nkrumah a failure?
Yours is based on pure hatred.Switzerland has returned 700 million dollars plus another 380 million dollars looted by Sani Abacha.On what basis was Nkrumah a failure?
Joe Mensah 9 years ago
Please,ignore these half-baked idiotic scholars.It is common knowledge that the downfall of the great Nkrumah was the WHITEMEAN'S strategy to keep the BLACKMAN under permanent subjugation.It is only educated fools who cannot ... read full comment
Please,ignore these half-baked idiotic scholars.It is common knowledge that the downfall of the great Nkrumah was the WHITEMEAN'S strategy to keep the BLACKMAN under permanent subjugation.It is only educated fools who cannot comprehend.
adumtumi nyansfuo 9 years ago
What do you mean. YOu cannot comprehend kindergarden math, since you do not realize the Nkrumah dug his own grave. Nkrumah went to the white men to build that useless dam. And he got screwed. If Nkrumah had patients with the ... read full comment
What do you mean. YOu cannot comprehend kindergarden math, since you do not realize the Nkrumah dug his own grave. Nkrumah went to the white men to build that useless dam. And he got screwed. If Nkrumah had patients with the Ghanaian people, and focused on education and developing a sense of self reliance , ghana would not be in this situation
Joe Mensah 9 years ago
"If Nkrumah had patients with the Ghanaian people".Your English clearly shows your poor educational background and your bizarre mindset.
"If Nkrumah had patients with the Ghanaian people".Your English clearly shows your poor educational background and your bizarre mindset.
INXS 9 years ago
Prof Lungu, that was a powerful one that, unfortunately, only indicts the ruling party rather than the political elite across the two major parties who have usurped power at the centre principally for themselves and pursue po ... read full comment
Prof Lungu, that was a powerful one that, unfortunately, only indicts the ruling party rather than the political elite across the two major parties who have usurped power at the centre principally for themselves and pursue policies that only throw dust into the eyes of the masses.
With our resources, we should be doing faaaar better than we are now. The situation is not better under the NPP which shows the same tendencies. They are more interested in their personal wealth and the trappings of office than really doing something for the masses.
One can blame Nkrumah as much as one likes. But one thing you can never blame him for: his concern for the wellbeing of the masses whom he had at heart and did REAL things that directly benefited them. Yes, he enjoyed the trappings of his office but he didn't use that to enrich himself, his wife, children, brothers and sisters, cousins, relatives and townsmen. And he had real vision even if some of it was a bit naive and misplaced. You cannot say even that of our present leaders.
That is why a strong third force is needed in Ghana now. We need another party that need not win the next elections but make meaningful inroads into the electoral fortunes of the two major parties. We need a third force that will, at least, hold the balance of power between the current two major parties.
It is a huge pity that the CPP is dead as a party even though there are still many people in politics calling themselves Nkrumaists. NDC bears no resemblance to Nkrumaism. How can they when even those parties calling themselves Nkrumaist are not truly so? The NDC are not even Social Democrats. As for NPP, they are full of self-seeking tribalists (when I say this people say I hate Akans. What kind of logic is in that reasoning?)
But, Lungu, why did you mention all those great singers but forgot Anikulapo Kuti himself? Foooodooo, waterrrrr, powerrrrr --- Dem go know.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
You make excellent points, INXS.
We've more than a few that times said that the NPP did not do enough to pull Ghana together as one nation. Further, their "property owning democracy" mantra is for all intents and purposes ... read full comment
You make excellent points, INXS.
We've more than a few that times said that the NPP did not do enough to pull Ghana together as one nation. Further, their "property owning democracy" mantra is for all intents and purposes shallow when they did not even have a credible plan for lands when they controlled the government. We can go back and check what we said about the NPP back then.
So, the NDC has the government. It is they who must be seen as actually fixing problems of governance. As they say talk is real cheap!
Som we agree! A third force is needed. What survived of the CPP or yester-years has been co-opted mainly by Rawlings and his P/NDC group.
Agree also! One does not have to win national elections to make end roads in the body politic. Looks like the current CPP leadership are not listening, watching, or reading far and wide, and applying lessons from the bottom up, after Samiah's election to Parliament.
WRT Anikulapo Kuti - that was an unfortunate error. The first draft of the paper had Fela. Don't know how Fela got dropped. Can't "blame" that one on "Ghanaweb". It is all our neglect.
Thanks.
So you got it spot on, INXS:
---Foooodooo, waterrrrr, powerrrrr --- Dem go know.
Thanks.
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 9 years ago
Many thanks Professor Lungu for at least noting the huge transformation in development by JJR. Though you admitted it indirectly when you noted that it was JJR who took advantage of what Nkrumah did not finish off before bei ... read full comment
Many thanks Professor Lungu for at least noting the huge transformation in development by JJR. Though you admitted it indirectly when you noted that it was JJR who took advantage of what Nkrumah did not finish off before being deposed off power.
But I am happy that you are showing some signs of remarkable achievements so far made by the PNDC-NDC as one of your signs being that the PNDC-NDC took over CPP, identified areas underdeveloped and made significant inroads as far as development is the subject matter.NDC identified with Nkrumah and carried out those development Nkrumah hardly completed in Ghana.
To me, one of such things Nkrumah gave freely to Ghanaians was in EDUCATION. He built secondary schools all over Ghana with Boarding houses and Ghanaians from all walks of life lived there for five or seven years together, before moving on to the Universities in Ghana or elsewhere.
But JJR came, he saw and he conquered not only the thieves and destroyers and Looters but also built upon the foundations of Nkrumah internally. I will advise that you guys forget CPP and come home to NDC.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
KOLA, LONDON PROPER,
Nice try!
OUR: "What survived of the CPP or yester-years has been co-opted mainly by Rawlings and his P/NDC group"
This is only in reference to rhetoric and ideas. In fact, Rawlings harmed the educ ... read full comment
KOLA, LONDON PROPER,
Nice try!
OUR: "What survived of the CPP or yester-years has been co-opted mainly by Rawlings and his P/NDC group"
This is only in reference to rhetoric and ideas. In fact, Rawlings harmed the education system you speak of. Then, there is the case with respect to Industry.
Killing innocent people and slapping an Indemnity Clause on your forehead is not development, does not build anything.
Just rhetoric! A form of theft, bait-and-switch, if we can be more direct, by co-optation. So, there's been nothing practical with P/ NDC.
Nothing there thus far, except the "Founder's Day declared by Prof Mills. This we submit, is Professor Mills singularly legacy to Ghana.
Mr. Mahama has yet to prove a solitary point!
INXS 9 years ago
Prof Lungu, add to it the fact that it was Mills who put Nkrumah, ALONE, on the 2-cedi note. Obed Asamoah said in his book this was in response to NPP putting the Big 6 in equal size of each of them, on all the new notes they ... read full comment
Prof Lungu, add to it the fact that it was Mills who put Nkrumah, ALONE, on the 2-cedi note. Obed Asamoah said in his book this was in response to NPP putting the Big 6 in equal size of each of them, on all the new notes they created. Asamoah made a good point in saying Nkrumah should have been put big with the other 5 surrounding him in smaller images to show Nkrumah's PRE-EMINENCE in the independence struggle. But the matemeho people wanted to show that Danquah was equal to Nkrumah in the struggle for independence - a HUGE lie.
Rawlings is no ideologue. It is an insult to Nkrumah to say Rawlings and P/NDC took over some of the policies of Nkrumah. Indeed, it is an insult to Nkrumah to mention P/NDC and Nkrumah in the same breath or in the same sentence.
The remnants of the Nkrumaists in the ruling government are fast acquiring personal wealth. They are more like Nkrumah's corrupt ministers than Nkrumah himself. Nkrumah was turning his attention fully on the corrupt ministers in his government when he was overthrown. He would have dealt with them appropriately.
Rawlings shouts and shouts about corruption in Ghana yet he rose from a petty officer in the Ghana Air Force to a rich individual - his wife and children are all extremely well to do today. They suffer no dum-sor. All because he made a coup.
Nkrumah never enjoyed a quarter of the wealth Rawlings and his family are enjoying now. That is the sign of a true patriot in a country most of whose citizens are dirt poor!!!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
YOUR: "...It is an insult to Nkrumah to say Rawlings and P/NDC took over some of the policies of Nkrumah..."
CLARIFICATION: We did not say or intend "policies". Not at all. Just P/ NDC rhetoric.
And thanks for the note ... read full comment
YOUR: "...It is an insult to Nkrumah to say Rawlings and P/NDC took over some of the policies of Nkrumah..."
CLARIFICATION: We did not say or intend "policies". Not at all. Just P/ NDC rhetoric.
And thanks for the note on the 2-cedi-note!
ITEM: Maybe Professor Mills of blessed memory was too deep into the Bible to see clearly all the wheels that had to be turned in a secular body polity to smash those who merely loved rhetoric, big personal bank accounts, and shining wheels.
By the way, INXS, hope you got a chance the read this on the other side:
Feature Article of Sunday, 22 March 2015
Columnist: Asare, Isaac Amoah
A justiciable failure to prosecute.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Lungu,
Thanks for this article.
Prof. Lungu,
Thanks for this article.
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 9 years ago
Ahh Prof Lungu!! You are stubborn. CPP is dead, in fact it's a dead goat and it shouldn't take a learned man of your stature to realise this. CPP is NDC of modern Ghana.
Come home.
Ahh Prof Lungu!! You are stubborn. CPP is dead, in fact it's a dead goat and it shouldn't take a learned man of your stature to realise this. CPP is NDC of modern Ghana.
Come home.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Founding Prime Minister, Dead At 91: Prime Ministers Office:
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, died on Sunday according to a statement from the prime minister's office. He was 91.
... read full comment
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Founding Prime Minister, Dead At 91: Prime Ministers Office:
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, died on Sunday according to a statement from the prime minister's office. He was 91.
Lee, who served as prime minister from 1965 to 1990, is often heralded as the founding father of modern Singapore -- the man who led the island nation from relative obscurity as a colonial subject to its role today as an Asian leader.
SINGAPORE (AP) — Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore who helped transform the sleepy port into one of the world's richest nations, died Monday, the government said. He was 91.
Lee was admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 5 for severe pneumonia and was later put on life support.
The Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on its website that Lee "passed away peacefully" at 3:18 a.m.
Lee was feared for his authoritarian tactics but insisted that strict limits on speech and public protest were necessary to maintain stability in the multiethnic and multi-religious country.
He guided Singapore for 31 years until 1990, making it into a global trade and finance center.
Lee's legacy includes an efficient government with little corruption, low tax rates to attract foreign investment, excellent schools and safe streets.
He has faced criticism, though, for using tough tactics to consolidate power.
He jailed some political rivals without trial for decades and brought defamation lawsuits against journalists and opposition politicians.
Lee commanded immense respect among Singaporeans, who this year will celebrate the country's 50th independence anniversary.
The Prime Minister's Office said arrangements for the public to pay respects and funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Source:The Huffington Post, | By Dominique Mosberge
(www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/22/lee-kuan-yew-dies-singapore-prime-minister_n_6883518.html )
POSTSCRIPT: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana would have been 106, as of the passing of Lee Kuan Yew, of Singapore.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Lungu,
Thanks for reporting Lee Kuan Yew's passing.
I hope people, especially the Nkrumah haters, find time to read this before it disappears into the archives. This is my favorite part:
"Lee was feared for hi ... read full comment
Prof. Lungu,
Thanks for reporting Lee Kuan Yew's passing.
I hope people, especially the Nkrumah haters, find time to read this before it disappears into the archives. This is my favorite part:
"Lee was feared for his authoritarian tactics but insisted that strict limits on speech and public protest were necessary to maintain stability in the multiethnic and multi-religious country.
He guided Singapore for 31 years until 1990, making it into a global trade and finance center.
Lee's legacy includes an efficient government with little corruption, low tax rates to attract foreign investment, excellent schools and safe streets.
He has faced criticism, though, for using tough tactics to consolidate power.
He jailed some political rivals without trial for decades and brought defamation lawsuits against journalists and opposition politicians.
Lee commanded immense respect among Singaporeans, who this year will celebrate the country's 50th independence anniversary."
NOW GHANAIANS WISH KWAME NKRUMAH WAS LEE KUAN YEW AND GHANA SINGAPORE! Nkrumah and Yew are still the kind of
leaders Ghana and Africa need today!
Thanks, Prof. Lungu!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
This is fortuitous and pregnant with so many possibilities going forward, on the occasion of publication of our essay "Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!", and the passing of Singapore patriot, Lee Kuan Yew, today, at the ... read full comment
This is fortuitous and pregnant with so many possibilities going forward, on the occasion of publication of our essay "Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!", and the passing of Singapore patriot, Lee Kuan Yew, today, at the age of 91.
We urge all who are Ghana-centered, Ghana-Proud, all who believe that Nkrumah's unitary vision for Ghana has been the key to the survival of Ghana, we urge all of you to keep on the information initiative.
So much was needlessly. ignorantly destroyed.
And so, it has been difficult to recreate, reorganize on the basis of the battle-tested development vision.
We know we have the better argument for Ghana in those respects.
We know we have the benefit of knowing what will work to develop Ghana. If it does not work, we will change the process, then mindsets.
It is crystal clear that we cannot take our destiny into our hands as professed by our first leader. Nkrumah did not take a pesewa and lodged it anywhere but......
Those who followed him are nothing more than "hyena-type ...
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Pelicles,
The good news for you is people like you and I who followed after Nkrumah still enjoy the benefits of the great legacy Dr. Kwame Nkrumah left for Ghana.
In that sense, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was more a Pericles to a ...
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Look, our first president did pretty good but down the road, he veered. Why? My question to you is, do you think he could have unite the entire continent at that time? Even as, we speak, how united are we in Ghana?
The r ...
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Ok!
"our first president did pretty good".
In that sense, we cannot help you, Pericles, if you cannot see how Ghana is united today, if you are inclined to see a Confederacy as a better national-unity-force multiplier, c ...
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Were you really expecting your messiah to have survived his declaration of a one party state, life president, PDA , his interventionist foreign policy and socialist leanings in the mist of the Cold War? The coup was his own d ...
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Kwadwo,
Obviously, "Realpolotik" could always use subversives and traitors.
So, if that is our approach to the issue, we must in reverse say that Danquah's subversive actions against the state led to his detention and dea ...
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France,Germany,Switzerland,Luxembourg, New Zealand,and UK have all joined Socialist oriented China"s version of IMF.{Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.Do they have socialist leanings now? American hegemony is on the road ...
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I guess you refuse to consider Nkrumah's turn to the socialist world as one of the main factors that caused his overthrow. Additionally, you are only dreaming if you think America's influence in global politics is on "the roa ...
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And what did the capitalist bootlickers do after after he was overthrown? Your hatred for Nkrumah is more genetic than logical.You were indoctrinated from infancy.What stops America from overthrowing the socialist regime in C ...
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Until we have changed the way our government operates and the legislative and executive arms earn the income that suits their input, there will be no change in the life of the ordinary Ghanaian; by that I don't mean only poor ...
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Important observations!
A call to action: Amend the Constitution to work for the People!
Stop this free this, free that!
MPs should not be Ministers at the same time, or in the Cabinet with the Executive, on top of all ...
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I think Ghana is united because we still depend on the little foundation laid by Nkrumah.
Since then, no other Leader has added nothing to it except JJR.
Prof Lungu, don't you worry much about KOLA, LONDON PROPER because he has a big Problem with the English language, besides he is a by-heart talkative and has an I.Q. under 15%
Thanks so much for the assist!
Reading KOLA, LONDON PROPER, we had to pinch ourselves to confirm it was we, the way we do whenever you we see, visit, or hear Fox News and Down-Under-Rupert-Murdoch.
Thanks, GIRLS SP, we ...
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omment: Prof Lungu, KOLA has a problem with...
Author: GIRLS SP
Date: 2015-03-22 12:24:33
Comment to: Re: Prof. Lungu, come back
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Prof Lungu, don't you worry much about KOLA, LONDON ...
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2015
First, Ghana does not belong to that failed idiot Kwame Nkrumah. People like you is why Ghana cannot move forward. You are still thinking of Nkrumah. Nkrumah was a dreamer. I wonder, Where are the thinkers and developers of o ...
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..you.
"Nkrumah was a dreamer. I wonder, Where are the thinkers and developers of our society."
You wouldn't even in a thousand years realize you have the answer right under your nose. You can't even FIGURE OUT that eve ...
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Dear Military Man,
Well said. You put that Adumtmi Nyansfuo in his place.
I am glad you identify of the major problems destroying Africa.
Well, Africa and the world have spoken with regard to Nkrumah's greatness and ...
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YOu did not put me in any place. That military man is apart of the retards of Ghana that cannot do anything for my country. You people are just dumb. You all need to learn common sense. Which is developed through proper exper ...
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Adumtumi Nyansfuo,
Oh he put you in your place.
Why? Because your minority voice makes zero impact on the global discourse dealing with the question of Nkrumah's greatness. I am sorry to say that that minority voice of ...
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You WILL never make sense, moron!!
Yours is based on pure hatred.Switzerland has returned 700 million dollars plus another 380 million dollars looted by Sani Abacha.On what basis was Nkrumah a failure?
Please,ignore these half-baked idiotic scholars.It is common knowledge that the downfall of the great Nkrumah was the WHITEMEAN'S strategy to keep the BLACKMAN under permanent subjugation.It is only educated fools who cannot ...
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What do you mean. YOu cannot comprehend kindergarden math, since you do not realize the Nkrumah dug his own grave. Nkrumah went to the white men to build that useless dam. And he got screwed. If Nkrumah had patients with the ...
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"If Nkrumah had patients with the Ghanaian people".Your English clearly shows your poor educational background and your bizarre mindset.
Prof Lungu, that was a powerful one that, unfortunately, only indicts the ruling party rather than the political elite across the two major parties who have usurped power at the centre principally for themselves and pursue po ...
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You make excellent points, INXS.
We've more than a few that times said that the NPP did not do enough to pull Ghana together as one nation. Further, their "property owning democracy" mantra is for all intents and purposes ...
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Many thanks Professor Lungu for at least noting the huge transformation in development by JJR. Though you admitted it indirectly when you noted that it was JJR who took advantage of what Nkrumah did not finish off before bei ...
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KOLA, LONDON PROPER,
Nice try!
OUR: "What survived of the CPP or yester-years has been co-opted mainly by Rawlings and his P/NDC group"
This is only in reference to rhetoric and ideas. In fact, Rawlings harmed the educ ...
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Prof Lungu, add to it the fact that it was Mills who put Nkrumah, ALONE, on the 2-cedi note. Obed Asamoah said in his book this was in response to NPP putting the Big 6 in equal size of each of them, on all the new notes they ...
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YOUR: "...It is an insult to Nkrumah to say Rawlings and P/NDC took over some of the policies of Nkrumah..."
CLARIFICATION: We did not say or intend "policies". Not at all. Just P/ NDC rhetoric.
And thanks for the note ...
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Prof. Lungu,
Thanks for this article.
Ahh Prof Lungu!! You are stubborn. CPP is dead, in fact it's a dead goat and it shouldn't take a learned man of your stature to realise this. CPP is NDC of modern Ghana.
Come home.
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Founding Prime Minister, Dead At 91: Prime Ministers Office:
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, died on Sunday according to a statement from the prime minister's office. He was 91.
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Prof. Lungu,
Thanks for reporting Lee Kuan Yew's passing.
I hope people, especially the Nkrumah haters, find time to read this before it disappears into the archives. This is my favorite part:
"Lee was feared for hi ...
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This is fortuitous and pregnant with so many possibilities going forward, on the occasion of publication of our essay "Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!", and the passing of Singapore patriot, Lee Kuan Yew, today, at the ...
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