Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the ... read full comment
Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the Israelis we are the chosen people of God and he in his great design has made us diverse but unified in spirit. the ashantis like the tribe of Judah are and will remain an integral part of our being to to attack any one part we all end up feeling it sooner or later. they have succeed in turning some of our chiefs and kings against us and work for their evil ungodly agenda but we still see clearly . God has brought us into the 21st century and with that a new system of governance and state of mind based on democracy since it is HE alone who blesses the individuals with the gift of leadership wisdom and justice irrespective of status at birth. he has shown us the blue print of the way forward in the bible and other holy books and the time has come to free ourselves from this man made bondage called Ghana. just as in the Ukraine we must fight so the truth will come out , fear not the battle as they will crumble like the walls of Jericho . cast away our so called fake leaders and politicians who are nothing but cowards and like our enemies fear even their own shadows . yes God has put a million fears in their empty bodies as he who does not fear the Lord , the Lord will ensure all fears of the world will reside in him. They threaten us with superstition , juju and what have you and we say fuck you and go to hell as the divine power is with us . Yes all the tribes of Akan are fingers on the same hands and God has ordained we remain united so our strength and light will be visible throughout the whole world and universe , our time has come . everyday its becoming clearer and clearer to all children of Akan that we must prepare mentally for a battle of freedom . they come with tricks that say we must take a non Akan as our leader because its nice ? do they not think that out of 30 million Akans we can not find sensible down to earth leaders and warriors to lead our own people to our own destiny? a govt of the people and by the people is what the 21st century democracy is all about . let them continue to play with the consensus and other figures that justify their fantasy and enable them to marginalize the participation of the Akan majority in the Affairs of their own land , to marginalize us thus preventing us to afford a better standard for our people . The hand of God has given them pestilence after pestilence, failure after failure but they refuse to let our people go , soon they will be swept away like chaff in the hurricane of fury .
Kojo T 9 years ago
So these are the NPP intellectuals to run Ghana?
So these are the NPP intellectuals to run Ghana?
USMAN 9 years ago
Mahama(a Gonja) is following the prescriptions of OIC.You remember an MP from Gonjaland declared that adulterous women should be stoned to death. Again Boko Haram in Akyem terrorized Muslim women for buying food from Christia ... read full comment
Mahama(a Gonja) is following the prescriptions of OIC.You remember an MP from Gonjaland declared that adulterous women should be stoned to death. Again Boko Haram in Akyem terrorized Muslim women for buying food from Christians yet the IGP(a Gonja Muslim) kept mute and Mahama was happy because that follows OIC's demands. Muslims burnt down a Christian mission house in Atebubu yet the IGP was again silent and Mahama never saw anything wrong with that. AMA banning churches in classrooms, Northern Regional Minister accusing the Christian clergy of encouraging politicians to be corrupt. These are all plans aimed at suppressing Christianity to please the OIC. These are all indicators that Mahama is feverishly handing over Ghana to the Organisation of Islamic Conference for Money. We should remember Islam is useless without direct state support and so Mahama is providing that support to Muslims to grow in Ghana whilst at the same time suppressing Christians. He is also doing this because Islam as a religion is useless without direct political/government intervention.
Oketekyie. 9 years ago
The sad ranting of an imbecile.
The sad ranting of an imbecile.
NOBODY 9 years ago
The only tautologically named party in Ghana is your serial loser Akufo-Addo's UP (Useless Party) that has chanhged its name to mask its past dastard actions of saboteur and bomb-throwing. The so-called "first-rate Oxbridge-e ... read full comment
The only tautologically named party in Ghana is your serial loser Akufo-Addo's UP (Useless Party) that has chanhged its name to mask its past dastard actions of saboteur and bomb-throwing. The so-called "first-rate Oxbridge-educated" Busia and Willoiam Ofori Atta that you mention in your demented and garbage article just happen to be hypocrites who eventually exposed their true calling: saboteurism and bomb-throwing. Okoampa-Ahoofe, you can crank up many garbage articles daily laced with lies and deceptions as the hired false propaganda peddler for visionless Akufo-Addo, and your serial loser Akufo-Addo will still loose the forthcoming election. You keep referencing Ali Mazrui's statement on Nkrumah. Mazrui was an academic like you, but certainly not right in everything that he said or put out. Okoamapa-Ahoofe keeps demonstrating daily with his demented articles why he's a demented ignorant and miseducated buffoon swimming in evil and a sea of lies. If anyone needs waking up, its none other than you Okoampa-Ahoofe the serial liar and Hitler-clone mouthpiece of serial loser and clueless Akufo-Addo.
Tim Owusu 9 years ago
This mentally deranged AHOOFE is getting worse.Lord have mercy on him.
This mentally deranged AHOOFE is getting worse.Lord have mercy on him.
NOBODY 9 years ago
God tried saving retarded Ahoofe, nut discovered that Ahoofe is a basket case, so God left Ahoofe stranded in New York.
God tried saving retarded Ahoofe, nut discovered that Ahoofe is a basket case, so God left Ahoofe stranded in New York.
Gha 9 years ago
Illiterate, what is dastard ?
Illiterate, what is dastard ?
NOBODY 9 years ago
Many of the folks in Ghana whose votes your clueless and visionless Akufo-Addo is trying to convince to vote for him just happen to be illiterate, and they understand how you miseducated buffoons think. No wonder your Akufo-A ... read full comment
Many of the folks in Ghana whose votes your clueless and visionless Akufo-Addo is trying to convince to vote for him just happen to be illiterate, and they understand how you miseducated buffoons think. No wonder your Akufo-Addo has become a certified serial loser?. Anyway, most illiterates possess better character than you Akufo-Addo gang of miseducated idiots who think your serial loser is entitled to be President.
CHRISTOS CHRISTOFF 9 years ago
right?
right?
NOBODY 9 years ago
The truth hurts with regard to the Akuf0-Addo gang and its demmented serial liar Okoampa-Ahoofe, a gang that spell the word "truth", but is highly allergic to the truth.
The truth hurts with regard to the Akuf0-Addo gang and its demmented serial liar Okoampa-Ahoofe, a gang that spell the word "truth", but is highly allergic to the truth.
fkbf 9 years ago
It is now a forgotten soul in party politics You better forget about it
It is now a forgotten soul in party politics You better forget about it
Yaw 9 years ago
This okompah guy has made a laughing stock of himself over the years. Sometimes he thinks he is waxing in intellectual writing but he does not know that, the inadequacies in his writing a open for all to see, even the uniniti ... read full comment
This okompah guy has made a laughing stock of himself over the years. Sometimes he thinks he is waxing in intellectual writing but he does not know that, the inadequacies in his writing a open for all to see, even the uninitiated in literary writing sees through all these.
Show Boy 9 years ago
Ahoofe, will be 52 years on Tuesday with no likelihood of writing sensible articles or behaving as an intellectual.
Ahoofe, will be 52 years on Tuesday with no likelihood of writing sensible articles or behaving as an intellectual.
Atakora-Mensah 9 years ago
This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ( "Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.
"And here, it is signi ... read full comment
This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ( "Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.
"And here, it is significantly instructive to observe that none of the myriad putsches and coup detats have been staged by any other than bona fide members of the Ghanaian military. Granted, some rascal civilians are known to have staunchly backed regressivley Darwinian means of political access, including a world-renowned University-educated former prime minister. Interestingly, in July 1956, when President Nkrumah's Convention People's Party (CPP) won a landslide victory, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia rode herd on a delegation to the British office in London, to petition the British Crown, and Ghana's extant colonial overlord, to desist from granting the already-scheduled return of Ghana to self-governance. Fortunately, Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia and his right-wing bourgeois reactionaries did not succeed. He would, however, succeed ten years later in backing the military junta that unseated the Nkrumah administration and facilitated the precipitous devolution of Ghanaian national destiny.
Indeed, it is interesting to observe that Ghana's major and, to-date, only international airport is named for General E.K. Kotoka, the very Darwinian outlaw who spearheaded the grossly unimaginative overthrow of the constitutionally elected government of the CPP. For many detractors and outright enemies of Nkrumah, Kotoka's greatest—if also sole—achievement was simply getting rid of an elected dictator. It has often been said, largely by Western academics, that Nkrumah was a heartless and fatuous dictator; these days, one hears Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, the career soldier who ran Ghana for twenty harrowing incontrovertibly bloody years, described as a "benign dictator." It is significant to observe that Mr. Rawlings, whose agnatic parentage is purported to be Scottish, presided over the dastardly kidnapping and summary execution of three Ghanaian supreme court judges, all of whom belonged to a single ethnic nationality.
When one agrees with the Western ideological mythology that Nkrumah was a raw-boned dictator bereft of vision, then it begins to make sense that Kotoka's statue should continue to command the august facade of Accra International Airport, thus perpetually humiliating those of us who incurably believe in democratic governance. Needless to say, the 1966 Kotoka-led coup initiated the barbaric, neo-colonial military dynasty that Ghanaian continue to suffer….
That Ghana's post-colonial political dilemma transcends military dictatorship cannot be honestly gainsaid. In fact, many of the most vociferous civilian opposition party leaders, some of whom are currently sitting in parliament, representing misguided and hoodwinked constituents, are known to have collaborated with Kotoka's so-called National Liberation Council to unseat President Nkrumah. It is also significant to observe that these largely superannuated rascals and executive national, fiduciary muggers continue to dominate whatever passes by the name of "the legitimate opposition." This state of affairs, coupled with a largely under-educated and under-informed electorate, has made it almost impossible to rectify the prevailing socioeconomic chaos ravaging the country.”
Taken from “SOUNDS OF SIRENS: ESSAYS IN AFRICAN POLITICS & CULTURE”, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr (2004)
Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago
There are no redeeming values to political party groups in the Diaspora with linkages to political parties in Ghana except for the role of misguided prostitutes they play in providing funding for their respective pimps - poli ... read full comment
There are no redeeming values to political party groups in the Diaspora with linkages to political parties in Ghana except for the role of misguided prostitutes they play in providing funding for their respective pimps - political party structures- in Ghana. A read of most contributed articles published on ghanaweb and other social sites for consumption in Ghana have been sources for the hatred of mother Ghana derived from backward political party ideologies of the past. It is therefore not only intellectually dishonest and ignorance but a display of shameless hypocrisy of Ghanaians, who hold on to tribal barbarism of the past and failed political ideologies but have the nerve to tout the death of CPP ideology. Unfortunately card-carrying members of the NDC and the NPP can toot their respective horns even when it requires only basic elementary level intellect to know that if Ghana has fallen behind on developments and or is mismanaged as they believe and keep repeating then it is so because of failed ideologies and thinking processes of the NPP and NDC; CPP has been out of government since 1966. What is left in place is vestiges of pimp-ho relationship between Diaspora-based political party groups who provide steady funding sources for the pimps in Ghana to spend; there are no ideas or ideals needed and it shows.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago
Thank you.
Thank you.
CHRISTOS CHRISTOFF 9 years ago
Onua thanks for always bringing the truth out. Like so many people who sees only wrong with the west,,why are they alwaays coming to AMERICA?
Onua thanks for always bringing the truth out. Like so many people who sees only wrong with the west,,why are they alwaays coming to AMERICA?
G. K. Berko 9 years ago
No matter what the Truth is in our Political History, this Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. would always have the verbiage and eloquence to camouflage it.
First off, the neglect and dissolution of GIHOC and the wanton, irres ... read full comment
No matter what the Truth is in our Political History, this Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. would always have the verbiage and eloquence to camouflage it.
First off, the neglect and dissolution of GIHOC and the wanton, irresponsible sale of its component Industries was initiated by the NLC, the CIA-paid Junta that overthrew Nkrumah's Regime. So, let this English Professor stay with his Fiction Writing prowess that he teaches at the Community College in New York, and leave the honest, hardworking History Researches to lay out all the facts pertaining to our pre- and post-Colonial History for the Public to make their own intelligent conclusions.
The NLC undertook the immediate collapse of GIHOC as one of its priorities to fulfill the implicit request of those Western forces that so badly wished for the failure of our Economic system as existed under Nkrumah's Regime. It had been their persistent virulent propaganda mantra to claim that all our Factories and any other industrialization efforts by Nkrumah's Regime were merely prestigious and that we did not have to keep them. At the same time, they were helping Lee Kuan Yew build humongous State shares with almost all huge Corporations in Singapore!
As part of its grand scheme to see Nkrumah's commitment to make Ghana a shining example of what Africans could achieve a total flop, so that other aspiring Freedom Fighters would be discouraged to pursue Nkrumah's example, the West never fully and genuinely wished for Ghana to succeed economically.
While the West not only encouraged but voluntarily doled out hefty funds to support the Dictators they liked for various and obvious reasons, the Houphouet Boignys, the Lee Kuan Yews, the Chiang Kai-Sheks, and others, they incessantly undermined Nkrumah's bold and sensible economic efforts to curtail our dependence on the West and make us more self-reliant.
Obviously, the success of our Industrialization in those days would mean directly cutting down on our raw material exports to the West, thereby affecting their Industries that they needed to provide employment to their masses. We should not forget that the Second World War had wrought immense havoc on the economies of the West and stretched them taut.
Nkrumah's economic success for Ghana, therefore, was a dark cloud looming over the economies of the Western Nations. This shows the West had more than ample motive for coyly sabotaging Nkrumah.
When Nkrumah was overthrown and divestiture was undertaken to privatize the host of Industries he had built, little attention was paid by our subsequent Governments to the exact economic and social ramifications of how the process was handled. The Governments simply let the Industries go to their cronies without any necessary conditions to ensure reasonable warranty of benefit to our larger Society. Lee Kuan Yew did the opposite. He emphasized local content in any incoming investment. Private Companies had to help with Singapore's Education trajectory to facilitate high employable local Human Resource that would be part of the management ranks. Lee opened the gate of his Country to outsiders if only they could add to the skills of his folks. We ran foreigners like the enterprising Nigerians out at the earliest opportunity. Ghana then looked like unfriendly to outside talent.
As much as we all could agree that private Enterprise has the most drive to perform for the best highest economic benefits of businesses, not all sections of a Nation's Economy are best suited for privatization at every time.
And if any Nation completely puts all its Economy in the hands of the Private Ownership, there are certain Industries that would need greater and tighter Governmental oversight or some para-Statal partnership for the best benefit to the Society in general.
Much also depends on the core relevance of those Industries to the crucial economic factors underpinning the Nation's economic trajectory.
But aside of all the above, the Professor who claims to be some authority, or at least an avid follower of our History, sadly tows the same illogical, bogus lines often used by incorrigible haters of Nkrumah to deny him every modicum of credit, by blaming a significant part of Nkrumah's alleged economic failure on the relative lower Academic credentials of many Officials in his Administration.
I wish the Professor could show the detailed statistics of the Human Resource component of our system leading to the advent of our Independence. He could only mention a handful of scholars that are his political icons as those Nkrumah should have included in his Administration for the success that eluded us.
The truth is that these handful 'scholars extraordinaire' that the professor directly cited had an avowed repulsion for Nkrumah and would not do anything with him, again after Nkrumah broke away from them to form the CPP.
For most of the time, these scholars simply wanted the man dead, for Christ sake!
It is these scholars who, seeing themselves better eligible for the Nation's leadership than Nkrumah, preferred to see him permanently subordinated at best. So, what the heck is the Professor talking about?
In all fairness, Nkrumah might have over-enjoyed his perceived role as some 'primus inter pares, along side these scholars, and soon abandoned any efforts to bring them together with him to rule the Nation.
It has been reasonably suggested, elsewhere, that the rather murderous campaign by these other leaders the Professor see as the only best minds Ghana has ever had is what drove Nkrumah further away from them.
Now, even if we were to accept the mendacious, egregiously porous argument that Nkrumah set our economy on cause to failure, we have had 50 years plus to rectify the damage blamed upon him. Is the Professor and his cohorts like Amoako-Baah telling us that Ghana has never since had other scholars capable or willing to put things right in the Country?
That, then would mean they consider themselves among the incompetent bookish clowns, who only see corruption as their way to rise above the shoulders of all other Citizens.
The Professor is either perilously dishonest, or embarrassingly naive to maintain that the exorbitant Loan Nkrumah had to swallow for the completion of the Akosombo Dam was due to the lack of financial expertise among his team of negotiators. The truth is the West deliberately manipulated the loan to be that expensive. They knew Nkrumah had no other source of financial help and so decided to hit him with the burden of eventual bankruptcy. Excerpts of the released declassified info on Nkrumah's overthrow clearly point to that fact. The US Ambassador to Ghana at the time, briefing the then US President, Johnson, on the joint scheme to topple Nkrumah, alluded to how Nkrumah, during a meeting he had just had with the US Ambassador, had been distraught and weeping, when the late President sensed the USA was unwilling to offer his request for financial assistance.
Lastly, let Okoampa-Ahoofe understand fully that when people talk about imperialists and unfair treatment of other Nations, by others, they do not necessarily mean the entirety of the Citizenry of those offending Nations. Besides, there is a certain vicissitude of international relations between two countries whose ebb and flow could be determined by what particular Administrations exist in those interacting Nations. There have been times when Ghana has enjoyed better relations with the USA depending on what President was in charge in the USA, while Ghana might have been stuck with the same leader over a range of multiple USA electioneering cycles.
More, Ghanaians being pragmatic, would choose to join the bunch when they realize they couldn't win that bunch over to their philosophical side, especially, because there are many other compelling reasons for joining. Such is why many Ghanaians travel to and live in the USA.
But let me suffice to tell the Professor a short story. When I was once working in a Restaurant to help survive and pay myself through College in the USA, I happened to be angrily confronted by one young teenage African-American High School Student that was working with me. That young lad asked me to go back to my jungle in Africa, adding we, Africans, had come to take their jobs away from them.
In a calm demeanor, I told the guy that I did not intend to stay in the USA too long, and that I came to the USA to chase after a priceless possession that belonged to me and my folks in Africa, and Ghana, and had been illegally taken away to the USA. So, I would gladly return if I got it back, or at least, some considerable portion thereof. Then, I added that if the Restaurant Busboy job that I was doing was the kind of his dream job that he thought Africans had come to the USA to rob him and his folks of, then I was very sorry for him. I implied they could much, much better, in spite of all the difficulties the system had put in their way.
The lad didn't know I was at the University studying then. But our boss and owner of the Restaurant, who was himself a scholarly migrant from abroad country, overheard our exchanges, and called the boy to his office and talked to him. It was then that the young lad learnt I was not just blowing my life away with that job at the restaurant but working there to help pay myself through College. Shockingly, this lad upon learning this about me soon turned around to take me for a mentor.
He eventually ended up in the University I attended in Maryland and later joined the US Diplomatic Corps. He would always visit with me in my Office at the University during breaks. I took him for a younger brother that needed a little bit of direction, and more understanding of why most of Africans come to the USA.
So, Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe, the fact that we live in the USA, even as refugees, do not disqualify us from making cogent criticisms about certain things around us. It is your intolerant temperament that makes you see all dissent to your opinions as hostile attacks that you have to top in retaliation; and that makes you say things like what you said in your last paragraph above.
Discerning real American Citizens wisely and calmly assess any criticisms by an outsider about their system and surroundings to identify the problem alluded to, and would encourage opinions for its rectification. It is those arrogant, megalomaniacs like you who would demand that we all leave the USA if we dare criticize anything we think needs improvement in that Country.
In your narrow-mindedness, the White folks are infallible, or so far beyond our realm of highest intellect that we dare not question their judgment.
The average American would have a problem with you on that line of thinking, especially if they realize you are teaching some of their kids in College. Go bury your head in the sand, Sir.
Long Live Ghana!!!
Ohenenana 9 years ago
No matter what the Truth is in our Political History, this Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. would always have the verbiage and eloquence to camouflage it.
First off, the neglect and dissolution of GIHOC and the wanton, irre ... read full comment
No matter what the Truth is in our Political History, this Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. would always have the verbiage and eloquence to camouflage it.
First off, the neglect and dissolution of GIHOC and the wanton, irresponsible sale of its component Industries was initiated by the NLC, the CIA-paid Junta that overthrew Nkrumah's Regime. So, let this English Professor stay with his Fiction Writing prowess that he teaches at the Community College in New York, and leave the honest, hardworking History Researches to lay out all the facts pertaining to our pre- and post-Colonial History for the Public to make their own intelligent conclusions.
The NLC undertook the immediate collapse of GIHOC as one of its priorities to fulfill the implicit request of those Western forces that so badly wished for the failure of our Economic system as existed under Nkrumah's Regime. It had been their persistent virulent propaganda mantra to claim that all our Factories and any other industrialization efforts by Nkrumah's Regime were merely prestigious and that we did not have to keep them. At the same time, they were helping Lee Kuan Yew build humongous State shares with almost all huge Corporations in Singapore!
As part of its grand scheme to see Nkrumah's commitment to make Ghana a shining example of what Africans could achieve a total flop, so that other aspiring Freedom Fighters would be discouraged to pursue Nkrumah's example, the West never fully and genuinely wished for Ghana to succeed economically.
While the West not only encouraged but voluntarily doled out hefty funds to support the Dictators they liked for various and obvious reasons, the Houphouet Boignys, the Lee Kuan Yews, the Chiang Kai-Sheks, and others, they incessantly undermined Nkrumah's bold and sensible economic efforts to curtail our dependence on the West and make us more self-reliant.
Obviously, the success of our Industrialization in those days would mean directly cutting down on our raw material exports to the West, thereby affecting their Industries that they needed to provide employment to their masses. We should not forget that the Second World War had wrought immense havoc on the economies of the West and stretched them taut.
Nkrumah's economic success for Ghana, therefore, was a dark cloud looming over the economies of the Western Nations. This shows the West had more than ample motive for coyly sabotaging Nkrumah.
When Nkrumah was overthrown and divestiture was undertaken to privatize the host of Industries he had built, little attention was paid by our subsequent Governments to the exact economic and social ramifications of how the process was handled. The Governments simply let the Industries go to their cronies without any necessary conditions to ensure reasonable warranty of benefit to our larger Society. Lee Kuan Yew did the opposite. He emphasized local content in any incoming investment. Private Companies had to help with Singapore's Education trajectory to facilitate high employable local Human Resource that would be part of the management ranks. Lee opened the gate of his Country to outsiders if only they could add to the skills of his folks. We ran foreigners like the enterprising Nigerians out at the earliest opportunity. Ghana then looked like unfriendly to outside talent.
As much as we all could agree that private Enterprise has the most drive to perform for the best highest economic benefits of businesses, not all sections of a Nation's Economy are best suited for privatization at every time.
And if any Nation completely puts all its Economy in the hands of the Private Ownership, there are certain Industries that would need greater and tighter Governmental oversight or some para-Statal partnership for the best benefit to the Society in general.
Much also depends on the core relevance of those Industries to the crucial economic factors underpinning the Nation's economic trajectory.
But aside of all the above, the Professor who claims to be some authority, or at least an avid follower of our History, sadly tows the same illogical, bogus lines often used by incorrigible haters of Nkrumah to deny him every modicum of credit, by blaming a significant part of Nkrumah's alleged economic failure on the relative lower Academic credentials of many Officials in his Administration.
I wish the Professor could show the detailed statistics of the Human Resource component of our system leading to the advent of our Independence. He could only mention a handful of scholars that are his political icons as those Nkrumah should have included in his Administration for the success that eluded us.
The truth is that these handful 'scholars extraordinaire' that the professor directly cited had an avowed repulsion for Nkrumah and would not do anything with him, again after Nkrumah broke away from them to form the CPP.
For most of the time, these scholars simply wanted the man dead, for Christ sake!
It is these scholars who, seeing themselves better eligible for the Nation's leadership than Nkrumah, preferred to see him permanently subordinated at best. So, what the heck is the Professor talking about?
In all fairness, Nkrumah might have over-enjoyed his perceived role as some 'primus inter pares, along side these scholars, and soon abandoned any efforts to bring them together with him to rule the Nation.
It has been reasonably suggested, elsewhere, that the rather murderous campaign by these other leaders the Professor see as the only best minds Ghana has ever had is what drove Nkrumah further away from them.
Now, even if we were to accept the mendacious, egregiously porous argument that Nkrumah set our economy on cause to failure, we have had 50 years plus to rectify the damage blamed upon him. Is the Professor and his cohorts like Amoako-Baah telling us that Ghana has never since had other scholars capable or willing to put things right in the Country?
That, then would mean they consider themselves among the incompetent bookish clowns, who only see corruption as their way to rise above the shoulders of all other Citizens.
The Professor is either perilously dishonest, or embarrassingly naive to maintain that the exorbitant Loan Nkrumah had to swallow for the completion of the Akosombo Dam was due to the lack of financial expertise among his team of negotiators. The truth is the West deliberately manipulated the loan to be that expensive. They knew Nkrumah had no other source of financial help and so decided to hit him with the burden of eventual bankruptcy. Excerpts of the released declassified info on Nkrumah's overthrow clearly point to that fact. The US Ambassador to Ghana at the time, briefing the then US President, Johnson, on the joint scheme to topple Nkrumah, alluded to how Nkrumah, during a meeting he had just had with the US Ambassador, had been distraught and weeping, when the late President sensed the USA was unwilling to offer his request for financial assistance.
Lastly, let Okoampa-Ahoofe understand fully that when people talk about imperialists and unfair treatment of other Nations, by others, they do not necessarily mean the entirety of the Citizenry of those offending Nations. Besides, there is a certain vicissitude of international relations between two countries whose ebb and flow could be determined by what particular Administrations exist in those interacting Nations. There have been times when Ghana has enjoyed better relations with the USA depending on what President was in charge in the USA, while Ghana might have been stuck with the same leader over a range of multiple USA electioneering cycles.
More, Ghanaians being pragmatic, would choose to join the bunch when they realize they couldn't win that bunch over to their philosophical side, especially, because there are many other compelling reasons for joining. Such is why many Ghanaians travel to and live in the USA.
But let me suffice to tell the Professor a short story. When I was once working in a Restaurant to help survive and pay myself through College in the USA, I happened to be angrily confronted by one young teenage African-American High School Student that was working with me. That young lad asked me to go back to my jungle in Africa, adding we, Africans, had come to take their jobs away from them.
In a calm demeanor, I told the guy that I did not intend to stay in the USA too long, and that I came to the USA to chase after a priceless possession that belonged to me and my folks in Africa, and Ghana, and had been illegally taken away to the USA. So, I would gladly return if I got it back, or at least, some considerable portion thereof. Then, I added that if the Restaurant Busboy job that I was doing was the kind of his dream job that he thought Africans had come to the USA to rob him and his folks of, then I was very sorry for him. I implied they could much, much better, in spite of all the difficulties the system had put in their way.
The lad didn't know I was at the University studying then. But our boss and owner of the Restaurant, who was himself a scholarly migrant from abroad country, overheard our exchanges, and called the boy to his office and talked to him. It was then that the young lad learnt I was not just blowing my life away with that job at the restaurant but working there to help pay myself through College. Shockingly, this lad upon learning this about me soon turned around to take me for a mentor.
He eventually ended up in the University I attended in Maryland and later joined the US Diplomatic Corps. He would always visit with me in my Office at the University during breaks. I took him for a younger brother that needed a little bit of direction, and more understanding of why most of Africans come to the USA.
So, Dr. Okoampa-Ahoofe, the fact that we live in the USA, even as refugees, do not disqualify us from making cogent criticisms about certain things around us. It is your intolerant temperament that makes you see all dissent to your opinions as hostile attacks that you have to top in retaliation; and that makes you say things like what you said in your last paragraph above.
Discerning real American Citizens wisely and calmly assess any criticisms by an outsider about their system and surroundings to identify the problem alluded to, and would encourage opinions for its rectification. It is those arrogant, megalomaniacs like you who would demand that we all leave the USA if we dare criticize anything we think needs improvement in that Country.
In your narrow-mindedness, the White folks are infallible, or so far beyond our realm of highest intellect that we dare not question their judgment.
The average American would have a problem with you on that line of thinking, especially if they realize you are teaching some of their kids in College. Go bury your head in the sand, Sir.
Long Live Ghana!!!
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago
excellent!
excellent!
mensah abrampa 9 years ago
I don't know how old you are but I saw it all under Nkrumah. I was in my third year at Mfantsipim School when Nkrumah was overthrown.
Nkrumah was not a consensus builder. He was a"all or nothing" "my way or the highway" kin ... read full comment
I don't know how old you are but I saw it all under Nkrumah. I was in my third year at Mfantsipim School when Nkrumah was overthrown.
Nkrumah was not a consensus builder. He was a"all or nothing" "my way or the highway" kind of person. As he avoided the company of people of high intellect who did not agree on everything with him all of the time so did they also drop Nkrumah like a ton of hot bricks. You know that wisdom does not reside in the head of one person so it's always important and necessary to brainstorm with people that don't always agree with you. Nkrumah failed because he chose to surround himself with people who said yes to everything. You know there's something wrong with that when a group of people agree on everything all of the time. Nkrumah eliminated every opposition by changing the constitution to an all yes vote, a one party dictatorship with himself as president for life. You know there's something inherently wrong with that. In life there's opposition in all things so it's normal to have opposition in order to overcome.
Nkrumah had many talents but so were the leaders in the opposition. It's unfortunate they were not able to harness their individual talents and gifts for the benefit of the nation. That should be a great lesson for all of us. Maybe you have noticed how the winner takes all attitude has ruined our fourth republican politics. Inclusiveness is always better than going it all alone.
Kwasi Budu 9 years ago
Mensah Abrampa, I also have a clear recollection of life during Nkrumah's administration. I was at Swedru Secondary School. I have also schooled and lived in the United States for quite sometime and I have seen democracy work ... read full comment
Mensah Abrampa, I also have a clear recollection of life during Nkrumah's administration. I was at Swedru Secondary School. I have also schooled and lived in the United States for quite sometime and I have seen democracy work. The OPPOSITION in the United States do not go around plotting to kill the president of the US regardless how much they disagree with his policies. As far back in the 1950s even before the Gold Coast attained independence, when the NLM knew they were going to lose the elections, they began to plot the assassination of Kwame Nkrumah. Do you know the accident about the bombing of Nkrumah's residence at Accra New Town? The opposition NLM was responsible for that. R.R. Apponsah was imprisoned because he was heavily implicated in an attempt to assassinate Nkrumah. When Nkrumah was advocating a unitary system of government, the Mate Meho were rather calling for a federalist system when the Ashante Region would be a separate independent region since the NKM thought they controlled the bulk of the nations resources. Busia won elections from his Wenchi constituency while JB Danquah lost in his hometown Kyebi constituency. The CPP won at Kyebi. Can you imagine? The Doyen of Gold Coast politics cannot even win in his own constituency! There began the hatred of Nkrumah. These people that most of you call the "educated elite" we're basically people who thought local. They were vision less even in the organization of the people of the Gold Coast. They had the mentality of making "baboon work for monkey to chop". They found out Nkrumah was more of a revolutionary than a mere "yes sir" man they could not defeat in a regular election. Therefore the only way to get rid of him was through the bullet. Since 1966 we have had all kinds of educated elite lead the country include the crown prince of the opposition Kofi Abrefa Busia. And what happened?
Kwasi Budu 9 years ago
Mr. G. K. Berko, I have read your comments to Mr. Okoampa-Ahoofe's response to Dr. Amoako-Baah and I could not be more impressed. I believe your response to Okoampa-Ahoofe itself must be a feature article in itself on Ghanaw ... read full comment
Mr. G. K. Berko, I have read your comments to Mr. Okoampa-Ahoofe's response to Dr. Amoako-Baah and I could not be more impressed. I believe your response to Okoampa-Ahoofe itself must be a feature article in itself on Ghanaweb for maximum exposure. The CPP is aware of the continuous attempt by the reactionaries to our indepence to try to distort and re-write the major role Nkrumah played in the road to our independence and the challenges he faced in our economic reconstruction. The enemies of Nkrumah will keep reminding us the British "left" Ghana 200 million pounds at independence which Nkrumah squandered. These people of the Danquah/Busia fraternity are so purposefully clueless of the situation in Ghana immediately after independence, that unlike the "educated elit" it would take nationalist who did not mind getting their hands and feet dirty to build the country. If they think 200 million pounds after a hundred years of colonization was all we deserved after independence, then they were and are still what American blacks will call "house n.....s". We are unconcerned about people like Okoampa-Ahoofe who likes to mesmerize his readers with nomenclature. But people like Dr. Amoako-BAAH, who teaches at one of our higher institutions of learning reminds us of what the Lord himself said about the blind leading the blind. And that is what we are literally looking at in our leadership today.
Thanks for standing up for Dr. Nkrumah and his efforts to take Ghana to a whole new level.
By the way CPPNA wrote that piece. Not CPP-USA
Kwasi Budu: Secretary-CPPNA
Nkrumahists are now. NDC a.
Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the ...
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So these are the NPP intellectuals to run Ghana?
Mahama(a Gonja) is following the prescriptions of OIC.You remember an MP from Gonjaland declared that adulterous women should be stoned to death. Again Boko Haram in Akyem terrorized Muslim women for buying food from Christia ...
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The sad ranting of an imbecile.
The only tautologically named party in Ghana is your serial loser Akufo-Addo's UP (Useless Party) that has chanhged its name to mask its past dastard actions of saboteur and bomb-throwing. The so-called "first-rate Oxbridge-e ...
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This mentally deranged AHOOFE is getting worse.Lord have mercy on him.
God tried saving retarded Ahoofe, nut discovered that Ahoofe is a basket case, so God left Ahoofe stranded in New York.
Illiterate, what is dastard ?
Many of the folks in Ghana whose votes your clueless and visionless Akufo-Addo is trying to convince to vote for him just happen to be illiterate, and they understand how you miseducated buffoons think. No wonder your Akufo-A ...
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right?
The truth hurts with regard to the Akuf0-Addo gang and its demmented serial liar Okoampa-Ahoofe, a gang that spell the word "truth", but is highly allergic to the truth.
It is now a forgotten soul in party politics You better forget about it
This okompah guy has made a laughing stock of himself over the years. Sometimes he thinks he is waxing in intellectual writing but he does not know that, the inadequacies in his writing a open for all to see, even the uniniti ...
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Ahoofe, will be 52 years on Tuesday with no likelihood of writing sensible articles or behaving as an intellectual.
This is from Okoampa-Ahoofe from Chapter 2 ( "Harvest of Foolery") of his collection of essays published on 2004. When did his lobotomy occur? When he found out that he was related to J. B. Danquah.
"And here, it is signi ...
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There are no redeeming values to political party groups in the Diaspora with linkages to political parties in Ghana except for the role of misguided prostitutes they play in providing funding for their respective pimps - poli ...
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Thank you.
Onua thanks for always bringing the truth out. Like so many people who sees only wrong with the west,,why are they alwaays coming to AMERICA?
No matter what the Truth is in our Political History, this Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. would always have the verbiage and eloquence to camouflage it.
First off, the neglect and dissolution of GIHOC and the wanton, irres ...
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No matter what the Truth is in our Political History, this Professor Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. would always have the verbiage and eloquence to camouflage it.
First off, the neglect and dissolution of GIHOC and the wanton, irre ...
read full comment
excellent!
I don't know how old you are but I saw it all under Nkrumah. I was in my third year at Mfantsipim School when Nkrumah was overthrown.
Nkrumah was not a consensus builder. He was a"all or nothing" "my way or the highway" kin ...
read full comment
Mensah Abrampa, I also have a clear recollection of life during Nkrumah's administration. I was at Swedru Secondary School. I have also schooled and lived in the United States for quite sometime and I have seen democracy work ...
read full comment
Mr. G. K. Berko, I have read your comments to Mr. Okoampa-Ahoofe's response to Dr. Amoako-Baah and I could not be more impressed. I believe your response to Okoampa-Ahoofe itself must be a feature article in itself on Ghanaw ...
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