kwarteng don't you have anything better to do with your life? nkrumah is a dead and gone so are his self centered ideas. why don't you dig him up and worship his bones? I will never waste my time reading your useless articles ... read full comment
kwarteng don't you have anything better to do with your life? nkrumah is a dead and gone so are his self centered ideas. why don't you dig him up and worship his bones? I will never waste my time reading your useless articles. tweaa
Nana Kasapreko III 9 years ago
Yes Warren. I can very well understand that many people - especially those of us in this part of the world, who continue to be relentlessly and remotely manipulated by the diabolical nature of imperialism, to accept life as i ... read full comment
Yes Warren. I can very well understand that many people - especially those of us in this part of the world, who continue to be relentlessly and remotely manipulated by the diabolical nature of imperialism, to accept life as it is and not to question or resist the unfavorable status quo, would naturally express the kind of ignorance and fears that you opine.
For people like you, it is better to keep on 'enjoying' life as a retarded, impoverished and humiliated slave rather than to seek to reclaim your long lost dignity as a worthy human being.
If you will not "waste your time" reading articles by Francis Kwarteng, what then gives you the moral right to make uninformed and vulgar comments about him or his writings?
Unknown to you, you have been cornered by global imperialism to remain weak, stubbornly unenlightened, defenseless and exactly what they want you to be - under their thumb, whilst they wantonly suck the living blood out of your life.
I again congratulate Francis Kwarteng for his exceptional persistence in providing us the reading public with intellectual material which would otherwise not have been accessible to many of us.
So, Mr Warren, if you choose to be agnostic and unlettered, which is equivalent to living happily in darkness and ignorance, it is your right, but please dont try to inflict the reading public with your illness.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Nana Kasapreko III,
YOUR: "...For people like you, it is better to keep on 'enjoying' life as a retarded, impoverished and humiliated slave rather than to seek to reclaim your long lost dignity as a worthy human being..."
... read full comment
Nana Kasapreko III,
YOUR: "...For people like you, it is better to keep on 'enjoying' life as a retarded, impoverished and humiliated slave rather than to seek to reclaim your long lost dignity as a worthy human being..."
OUR COMMENT: Thanks to Francis Kwarteng and a whole host of other writers, we now know, have the records, actually, on precisely what Danquah and his cohort preferred, as when they asked for separate independence between 2-halves of the then Gold Coast.
They just were't ready, or cared enough for "Freedom".
That said, there are roles for all to play in the struggle for human development. Some may be theorists, and others may be practitioners, rarely both. Which, incidentally, is one if the hallmarks for Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Then there are the so-called "foot soldiers" who are just as important, people who deserve to be treated as part of the larger family, even if they cannot read or write. (We understand Danquah had a favorite word for those citizens/people. Can someone remind us, please?).
ITEM: All messages ought to be conveyed to all, using appropriate means/mediums. And it may not necessarily even be the role of Francis Kwarteng, at this stage).
Greetings!
Warren 9 years ago
Ask kwarteng where he lives and work. You live in a whitemans land wear his clothes and then come here and write nonsense. Tell kwarteng to move back to Ghana and help build this country with his Nkrumah ideas and stop wastin ... read full comment
Ask kwarteng where he lives and work. You live in a whitemans land wear his clothes and then come here and write nonsense. Tell kwarteng to move back to Ghana and help build this country with his Nkrumah ideas and stop wasting time writing nonsense on ghanaweb.
Warren 9 years ago
You Nkrumah people always talk nonsense. Why do you always blame the white man for the ills of Africa? You call yourself an enlightened African what is your contribution to African growth? What are your own ideas? Where is yo ... read full comment
You Nkrumah people always talk nonsense. Why do you always blame the white man for the ills of Africa? You call yourself an enlightened African what is your contribution to African growth? What are your own ideas? Where is your independence of thought? You can worship Nkrumah all you want but it is because of self centered egomaniac African leaders like him who left in his wake sycophants and intellectual retards like kwarteng who can't think for themselves rather than spouting nkrumaism. Africa needs people who can think outside the box not shallow minded fools like you who always blame somebody for their woes.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Warren,
You have written a lot up here!
Here is to you!
We could be living in America, Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Belgium, Mexico, Australia, Nigeria, Angola, Botswana, etc., and still make more contribution(s) t ... read full comment
Warren,
You have written a lot up here!
Here is to you!
We could be living in America, Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Belgium, Mexico, Australia, Nigeria, Angola, Botswana, etc., and still make more contribution(s) towards the development of Ghana than many people living in Ghana, including those who receive monthly pay(s) and allowances from the people in Ghana, for doing nothing, practically.
Fact is, you cannot tell what one is doing in support of Ghana by simply reading an essay from anyone!
All this to say...HISTORY MATTERS...when we have confused, but strident confederates who feign a unitary vision for Ghana, but will then turn around and degenerate the legacy of the man, Kwame Nkrumah, singularly responsible for the vision and reality.
Thinking outside the box does not mean we throw out history! If we did, we will never know when we arrive at the destination(s)!
Thanks.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!....
Today, from the New York Times...
The Opinion Pages | CONTRIBUTING OP-ED WRITER
APRIL 10, 2015
by Timothy Egan
Remains from Lincoln’s Last Day
Imagine him in the last ... read full comment
Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!....
Today, from the New York Times...
The Opinion Pages | CONTRIBUTING OP-ED WRITER
APRIL 10, 2015
by Timothy Egan
Remains from Lincoln’s Last Day
Imagine him in the last week of his life, 150 years ago this month. Shuffling, clothes hanging loosely on the 6-foot-4-inch frame, that tinny voice, a face much older than someone of 56. “I am a tired man,” he said. “Sometimes I think I am the tiredest man on earth.”
Springtime in Washington, lilacs starting to flower. The Capitol Dome finally free of its scaffolding. His month began in triumph against the largest slaveholding nation on earth. Richmond fell and was set afire by its retreating residents. On April 4, Abraham Lincoln, with his 12-year-old son, Tad — his birthday! — walked the smoldering shell of the rebel capital, walked a mile or so, pressed by a throng of liberated blacks, to sit as a conqueror in the seat of the Southern White House.
“No day ever dawns for the slave,” wrote a man who had once been owned by a fellow man. In Richmond, thereafter, all days had dawns.
On the dawn of his final day, April 14, Lincoln rises as usual at 7 a.m., breakfasts on coffee and an egg. He meets with his cabinet, confers with an ex-slave, lunches with the unpredictable Mary Todd. They have plans to attend “Our American Cousin.” In the box at Ford’s Theater that evening, a white supremacist fires a single shot from a Derringer. The bullet penetrates Lincoln’s brain and lodges just behind his right eye. The most significant casualty in a war that took more lives than any other in the nation’s history dies the next morning — the first president to be murdered.
PHOTO: Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad. Credit Alexander Gardner, via Library of Congress
Now think of the legacy on this anniversary of the American passion play. Think of free land for the landless, the transcontinental railroad, the seeding of what would grow into national parks, the granting of human rights to people who had none.
And think of how much the party of Lincoln has turned against the expansive political philosophy of Lincoln. Not the emancipation of four million people — Northern Democrats who died on southern battlegrounds, and certainly the Republicans who held power then, get their share of credit for ending the Original Sin of the United States.
But beyond: Could the Republicans who control Congress in 2015, the party of no, ever pass a Homestead Act? That law, which went into effect the very day, Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln’s wartime executive order to free slaves in the breakaway states did, carries a clause that very few Republicans would support now.
Former slaves, famine Irish, Russian Jews, single women, Mexicans who didn’t speak a word of English — all qualified to claim 160 acres as their own. You didn’t have to be a citizen to get your quarter-square-mile. You just had to intend to become a citizen.
In that sense, the Homestead Act was the Dream Act of today. It had a path to citizenship and prosperity for those in this country who were neither citizens nor prosperous.
Consider the vision to stitch a railroad from east to west, an enormous tangle of infrastructure. In 1862, Lincoln signed legislation spurring construction of the transcontinental railroad. That same year, he approved a bill that led to the creation of land grant colleges.
Today, Congress will not even approve enough money to keep decrepit bridges from falling down, and has whittled away funds to help working kids stay in college. It’s laughable to think of Republicans’ approving of something visionary and forward-looking in the realm of transportation, energy or education. Government, in their minds, can never be a force for good.
In the 4th grade, during the tumultuous times of the 1960s, my African American teacher helped us all understand Lincoln and the Civil War....
A great article that should make all of us regardless of party pause and reflect. What's happened to the Republican party? Let's add more...
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? By Lincoln's last day, he had left us a flowering of social enlightenment and government commitments that...
In 1864, Lincoln signed a bill that allowed California to protect the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant Sequoias — wild land that would eventually become part of the National Park system. Republicans of today are openly hostile to conservation, a largely Republican idea.
The great, nation-shaping accomplishments of Lincoln’s day happened only because the South, always with an eye on protecting slavery and an estate-owning aristocracy, had left the union — ridding Congress of the naysayers.
Today, the South is solidly Republican and solidly obstructionist. The party is also solidly white. No, they’re not slave-apologists, though many fail to recognize the active, toxic legacy of the Confederacy. And no, their insults of President Obama — calling him a king, an incompetent, an outsider, echoing some of the slights against Lincoln — do not in any way make Obama the Lincoln of today.
But you can say this with certainty: what unites the Republican Party, on this 150th anniversary of the murder of Lincoln, is that they are against the type of progressive legislation that gave rise to their party. Lincoln is an oil painting in the parlor, to be dusted off while Republican leaders plot new ways to kill things that he would have approved of.
Nothing in politics is static. Things will change. Party philosophies will flip, new alliances will emerge. What we know for sure again comes from Lincoln: “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.”
Jamaica asks Obama to exonerate black nationalist leader (Garvey)
Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN
17 hours ago
KING ... read full comment
Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!....
Today, from News, Yahoo.com...
10 April, 2015
Jamaica asks Obama to exonerate black nationalist leader (Garvey)
Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN
17 hours ago
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica's leader asked President Barack Obama on Thursday to exonerate black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who was convicted in the U.S. of mail fraud in the 1920s and remains a prominent historic figure on the island.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said she told Obama it is the "deep desire of the government and people of Jamaica" to have Garvey exonerated of the conviction that got him deported back to his Jamaican homeland in 1927.
"I asked the president to consider the matter and to offer any support within his authority during his tenure in the White House, and beyond," Simpson Miller said after Obama departed the island to attend the Summit of the Americas in Panama.
Garvey was the first person named a Jamaican national hero following the island's independence in 1962, and the government put his likeness on coins. He died in 1940.
U.S. officials did not immediately provide comment about Simpson Miller's request regarding Garvey, who once inspired millions of followers with messages of black pride and self-reliance. Obama made no mention of Garvey during his public comments in Jamaica, which focused on a wide range of regional issues including energy security, trade and climate change.
Born nearly 50 years after the abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica in 1914 and then built it into a mass movement in New York from 1919 to 1927. From his Harlem base, Garvey urged blacks to be proud of their African ancestry at a time segregation was deeply implanted in the U.S. and European colonialism still stretched around the world.
Garvey's Pan-African philosophy urged blacks to return to the continent of their ancestors.
His supporters in Jamaica and abroad contend the U.S. charges were trumped up to silence Garvey.
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David McFadden on Twitter: www.twitter.com/dmcfadd
I have been following this controversy for some time now. Donovan Parker, a Jamaican-born American lawyer, has been working on this issue since Pres. Obama came to office.
Parker has been writing to P ... read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
I have been following this controversy for some time now. Donovan Parker, a Jamaican-born American lawyer, has been working on this issue since Pres. Obama came to office.
Parker has been writing to Pres. Obama to consider granting Garvey a pardon. Regrettably individuals close to Pres. Obama cite lack of resources (Eric Holder cited similar reasons when the National Association of Black Journalists asked the Obama Administration (NABJ) to investigate the murder of Malcolm X IN 2011/12, in Philadelphia; the NABJ came up with their request in the wake of the revelations brought to public attention by the late Columbia University scholar (Manning Marable). The book is MALCOLM X:A LIFE OF REINVENTION), a very controversial book.
Others also believe all available resources should be dedicated to those living instead. And there are still those who say original transcripts related to Garvey's indictment and trial are lost.
Complicating the case is a standing indictment against Marcus Garvey in Jamaica, which the Jamaican government has not resolved or disposed of. I believe some Jamaican activities and lawyers are working to clear Garvey's name (in Jamaica).
I also think adjudication of this matter in Jamaica will give legitimacy to those who are pressuring Pres.
Obama (or the American Government) to pardon Garvey. Let me add that Pres. Obama indicates in his books how Garvey and his ideas influenced him! Aside this, Edward Seaga tried to get a pardon for Garvey via Ronald Reagan, but that too failed though it came before the the American House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice.
Finally, there are those who think Pres. Obama does not want to grant Garvey a pardon because he does not want to "hurt" his Jewish constituency. The crux of the matter is that some accused Garvey of being anti-Semitic!
Thanks!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
The Constitution is clear!
The history is clear!
Even common criminal are pardoned by US Presidents and Governors.
READ: "The President...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the Unite ... read full comment
The Constitution is clear!
The history is clear!
Even common criminal are pardoned by US Presidents and Governors.
READ: "The President...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. (ARTICLE II, SECTION 2, CLAUSE 1).
And thanks for the background! This is not an item we've followed previously.
If the US cannot find the paper work, chances are Jamaica, as well, can't find the paper work.
Further, we will say that if President Obama truly recognizes the significance of Marcus Garvey to Africans and humanity, maybe a US pardon should not depend on anything Jamaicans do not do in 2015 or 2016!
Imagine Bob Marley's Jamaica, as a "State", was not the first to liberalize the draconian and irrational laws on the sale and use of Indian Hemp.
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Lungu,
Agree. Personally I believe this should be easy for the Obama Administration, but I still wonder why logistical and political reasons are allowed to undermine popular calls for a pardon.
Of course there are ... read full comment
Prof. Lungu,
Agree. Personally I believe this should be easy for the Obama Administration, but I still wonder why logistical and political reasons are allowed to undermine popular calls for a pardon.
Of course there are also precedents for the Obama Administration to do the right thing. I remember Bill Clinton pardoning the terrorist and armed robber Susan Rosenberg, tax evader Marc Rich, etc.
He also commuted sentences in the case of others who communicated heinous crimes. Other Presidents before Bill Clinton has done similarly.
The sad part of it all is that Marcus Garvey never committed any crimes compared to those whose sentences were commuted or pardoned. Garvey's was a trumped-up charge: Mail fraud! This is why Pres. Obama must do this for humanity. After all, Garvey is why he's President today! America's Civil Rights owes a lot to Garvey!
Thanks for the additional info though.
Take care!
ADJOA WANGARA 9 years ago
Most are those who have already established the case for the extremely difficult nature of francis kwarteng's continuous rational foundation of nkrumahism nonsense.
Most are those who have already established the case for the extremely difficult nature of francis kwarteng's continuous rational foundation of nkrumahism nonsense.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
1. There is no utility in Prof. Dompere's work if it is so difficult to read and understand. Difficulty level must not be confused with use, usage or praxis. And indeed, if one needs expertise in the disciplines you describe, ... read full comment
1. There is no utility in Prof. Dompere's work if it is so difficult to read and understand. Difficulty level must not be confused with use, usage or praxis. And indeed, if one needs expertise in the disciplines you describe, the book can only be prehensile to you and very few others; certainly not for me. The question then is: Why write something that will be Greek to the majority of a people to explain Nkrumah's "Consciencism", another Greek to a majority of the people? Soyinka's "Dance of the Forest" stands accused as being too difficult to comprehend. Why should Dompere go beyond Soyinka...,,.in order to explain what?
2. Your highfalutin praise for Dompere and Asamoah is in pattern of your Nkrumaist ideology which simply makes gods out of ordinary men and may also symtomize your inferiority complex. I have told you this several times.
3. I doubt if anybody is going to read your chapter listings since they offer no insight into what the chapters say. None of what you have written tells us of any theoretical foundations of Nkrumaism. So the question remains, what is this article all about? It has no head, let alone a comprehensible tail (read prehensile meaning).
Warren 9 years ago
Dr SAS don't mind that shallow minded idiot. All his life is centered around his god nkrumah. He can't think outside what Nkrumah or others wrote about nkrumah.
Dr SAS don't mind that shallow minded idiot. All his life is centered around his god nkrumah. He can't think outside what Nkrumah or others wrote about nkrumah.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago
Dr.Sanqas, again stop being superficial. Do you know one thing that makes you Dr. Sanqas and your regular drinking mates when you have taken a cup too much similar? You lack in depth thinking. You descendants of the lazy-mind ... read full comment
Dr.Sanqas, again stop being superficial. Do you know one thing that makes you Dr. Sanqas and your regular drinking mates when you have taken a cup too much similar? You lack in depth thinking. You descendants of the lazy-mind Danquah/Busia/Dombo have a horizon which is the distance between your eyes and the tip of your nose. That is why your forebears lost the debate in 50s as to who to lead Ghana and you will still lose the debate today and tomorrow. Like they say the apple does not fall far from the tree. You stomach thinkers have for once think about the big picture and that demands Imagination. When Nkrumah said Independence now your lazy-mind forebears said "soon" When is soon-they said "in our life time". Wow!Nkrumah said Africa federation which means Africa must unite, your forebears said federation in tiny Ghana. How can we in Ghana live like an Island on the continent when the rest of Africa is under colonial rule?
You guys were not rational. Most of your Mate Mehu forebears were cracker-barrel philosophers who knew next to nothing. All they knew was bar-room cliché when they have had a drop too much. This backlog of ignorance and profound stupidity has been passed on to the present descendants of Mate Mehu linage. This makes any deep-rooted conversation not comprehensible to you Sanqases. Your ingrained inability to comprehend rational matters has a history which is why your forebears chose the easy path - backstabbing, blackmailing and sabotaging. In fact your Mate Mehu ingrained habit is deeply entrenched in you guys so much so that you don't get the fundamentals of life. i.e. Rational thinking
Francis I am greatly impressed by the in-depth presentation of your articles and profoundly shocked by Dr. Sanqas bias and colossal size of ignorance. This superficial person is supposed to be a lawyer in crime cases? Good riddance!
PS: Dr. Sanqas in order to know why Easter or Christmas; get hold of Laurence Gardner book - Bloodline of the Holy Grail. Easter and Christmas are old pagan pratices and has nothing to do with Christianity. Any Scholar worth a grain of salt knows this. And yet we still celebrate it.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Dear Brothers Nana Ansah, Prof. Lungu, Nana Kasapreko 111, SAS, and Readers:
Thanks for your comments.
In fact, there are other prominent scholars and researchers around the world who are also exploring other aspects o ... read full comment
Dear Brothers Nana Ansah, Prof. Lungu, Nana Kasapreko 111, SAS, and Readers:
Thanks for your comments.
In fact, there are other prominent scholars and researchers around the world who are also exploring other aspects of Nkrumah's thinking, and in that regard, I will do everything within my power to bring such important works to the attention of readers.
That said, readers who have problems with the chapter summaries presented here may go back to my 16-part series, where I have given a general outline or background to Prof. Dompere's works based on his two forthcoming texts (without the mathematical, logical, and scientific elaborations, though I tried to simimulate his [Prof. Dompere's] mathematical and scientific modeling of Nkrumah's ideas via simple adoption or demonstration of mathematical/scientific modeling techniques; these are all there in the series!).
Thanks for reading, and have a great weekend!
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
And we are hereby announcing that we are very pleased that GhanaHero.com has dedicated a page on that website to the "The Kwame Nkrumah Legacy Project".
SEE AT: www.ghanahero.com/Visions.html
NOTE: The essays in the V ... read full comment
And we are hereby announcing that we are very pleased that GhanaHero.com has dedicated a page on that website to the "The Kwame Nkrumah Legacy Project".
SEE AT: www.ghanahero.com/Visions.html
NOTE: The essays in the VISIONS series, The Kwame NKrumah Legacy Project, are the work of individuals
who believe that the Unitary Vision espoused and promoted by Ghana's first President, Dr. Kwame
Nkrumah, are the essence of Ghana as Nation, and what Ghana (and Africa) can be. These individuals
recognize that the international stature and significance of Dr. Nkrumah are completely secure, a point found in many of the essays and papers. However, within Ghana itself, some people do not have reliable
information about the Founder of Ghana, Dr. Nkrumah, due to the wanton destruction of heritage records of all sorts, and massive misinformation after the CIA-sponsored coup d'état that toppled Nkrumah's CPP at the hands of the Dr. Kofi Busia directed NLM and NLC military regime, in 1966.
These essays, thesis, and dissertations, etc., are an attempt to provide more objective Ghana-centered information about all those records. In that sense, "Nkrumah Never Dies".
This is a noble idea. I have already started promoting and communicating the website (and its contents) to friends.
The point is that we may probably have to do an entire piece (on www.Ghanahero.com) on Gh ... read full comment
Prof. Lungu,
This is a noble idea. I have already started promoting and communicating the website (and its contents) to friends.
The point is that we may probably have to do an entire piece (on www.Ghanahero.com) on Ghanaweb and other portals.
We should discuss this in detail.
This is really an excellent idea!
Thanks.
Nana Ansah 9 years ago
Hi there Francis,
I would like to take this opportunity to reciprocate your good wishes. Keep up with your good services you render to readers on this forum. The depth of ignorance here is profoundly shocking and we need g ... read full comment
Hi there Francis,
I would like to take this opportunity to reciprocate your good wishes. Keep up with your good services you render to readers on this forum. The depth of ignorance here is profoundly shocking and we need guys like you to throw light on issues that have been point of contention. We shall and will always put the descendants of Mate Mehu out of contention. Many Thanks in return! Well done! The descendants of Mate Mehu cannot debate us from the intellectual angle so they resort to the same old tactics their forebears applied and lost the race to lead Ghana - i.e. inventing rumours, distractions and creating fear. The true sons and daugthers of Maame Ghana will always win. Nkrumah lives!
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Brother Nana Ansah,
Thanks once again. Of course, I agree with in respect of the ignorance displayed on Ghanaweb.
Some of us will not sleep and will continue to do the right thing by providing the necessary information ... read full comment
Brother Nana Ansah,
Thanks once again. Of course, I agree with in respect of the ignorance displayed on Ghanaweb.
Some of us will not sleep and will continue to do the right thing by providing the necessary information to readers to help them make their own informed conclusions.
That said, Nkrumah was one of the finest and deep thinkers the world produced in the 20th century. It is why I keep arguing that writers like Wole Soyinka are easy to read.
For the most part, all one needs to interpret Soyinka is an understanding of Yoruba culture, nothing more (and its connections to Medittererean culture, a topic that Cheikh Anta Diop was a master of; Soyinka learned a lot from Diop and for this he has never ceased according Diop respect in a number of his books of essays and memoirs)
Even the Nobel Committee stressed this fact in its citation acknowledging Soyinka for the Nobel Prize in Literature!
I have a number of friends, Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah included, who have taught the works of Soyinka for years. I have also read nearly all of Soyinka's works to place him [Soyinka] where he rightly belongs. Nkrumah was light years ahead of writers like Soyinka.
Nkrumah's deeping thinking achieved a lot for Africa and Africans than these writers put together!
Finally, I believe I am not doing this alone. You, Nana Kasapreko 111, and several well-informed commentators are doing your part to ensure readers are well informed on matters related to Nkrumah, Africa, and Ghana's political history.
This will continiue for a long time to come.
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago
Prof. Lungu,
I have been following this controversy for some time now. Donovan Parker, a Jamaican-born American lawyer, has been working on this issue since Pres. Obama came to office.
Parker has been writing to Pres. ... read full comment
Prof. Lungu,
I have been following this controversy for some time now. Donovan Parker, a Jamaican-born American lawyer, has been working on this issue since Pres. Obama came to office.
Parker has been writing to Pres. Obama to consider granting Garvey a pardon. Regrettably individuals close to Pres. Obama cite lack of resources (Eric Holder cited similar reasons when the National Association of Black Journalists asked the Obama Administration (NABJ) to investigate the murder of Malcom X IN 2011/12, in Philadelphia; the NABJ came up with their request in the wake of the revelations brough to public attention by the late Columbia University scholar (Manning Marable). The book is MALCOLM X:A LIFE OF REINVENTION), a very controversial book.
Others also believe all available resources should be dedicated to those living instead. And there are still those who say original transcripts related to Garvey's indictment and trial are lost.
Complicating the case is a standing indictment against Marcus Garvey in Jamaica, which the Jamaican government has not resolved or disposed of. I believe some Jamican activities and lawyers are working to clear Garvey's name (in Jamaica).
I also think adjudication of this matter in Jamaica will give legitimacy to those who are pressuring Pres.
Obama (or the American Government) to pardon Garvey. Let me add that Pres. Obama indicates in his books how Garvey and his ideas influenced him! Aside this, Edward Seaga tried to get a pardon for Garvey via Ronald Reagan, but that too failed though it came before the the Amerucan House Subcommitte on Crimonal Justice.
Finally, there are those who think Pres. Obama does not want to grant Garvey a pardon because he does not want to "hurt" his Jewish consituency. The crux of the matter is that some accused Garvey of being anti-Semitic!
kwarteng don't you have anything better to do with your life? nkrumah is a dead and gone so are his self centered ideas. why don't you dig him up and worship his bones? I will never waste my time reading your useless articles ...
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Yes Warren. I can very well understand that many people - especially those of us in this part of the world, who continue to be relentlessly and remotely manipulated by the diabolical nature of imperialism, to accept life as i ...
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Nana Kasapreko III,
YOUR: "...For people like you, it is better to keep on 'enjoying' life as a retarded, impoverished and humiliated slave rather than to seek to reclaim your long lost dignity as a worthy human being..."
...
read full comment
Ask kwarteng where he lives and work. You live in a whitemans land wear his clothes and then come here and write nonsense. Tell kwarteng to move back to Ghana and help build this country with his Nkrumah ideas and stop wastin ...
read full comment
You Nkrumah people always talk nonsense. Why do you always blame the white man for the ills of Africa? You call yourself an enlightened African what is your contribution to African growth? What are your own ideas? Where is yo ...
read full comment
Warren,
You have written a lot up here!
Here is to you!
We could be living in America, Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Belgium, Mexico, Australia, Nigeria, Angola, Botswana, etc., and still make more contribution(s) t ...
read full comment
Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!....
Today, from the New York Times...
The Opinion Pages | CONTRIBUTING OP-ED WRITER
APRIL 10, 2015
by Timothy Egan
Remains from Lincoln’s Last Day
Imagine him in the last ...
read full comment
Ghana at 58 - The Crossroad Reckoning!....
Today, from News, Yahoo.com...
10 April, 2015
Jamaica asks Obama to exonerate black nationalist leader (Garvey)
Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN
17 hours ago
KING ...
read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
I have been following this controversy for some time now. Donovan Parker, a Jamaican-born American lawyer, has been working on this issue since Pres. Obama came to office.
Parker has been writing to P ...
read full comment
The Constitution is clear!
The history is clear!
Even common criminal are pardoned by US Presidents and Governors.
READ: "The President...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the Unite ...
read full comment
Prof. Lungu,
Agree. Personally I believe this should be easy for the Obama Administration, but I still wonder why logistical and political reasons are allowed to undermine popular calls for a pardon.
Of course there are ...
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Most are those who have already established the case for the extremely difficult nature of francis kwarteng's continuous rational foundation of nkrumahism nonsense.
1. There is no utility in Prof. Dompere's work if it is so difficult to read and understand. Difficulty level must not be confused with use, usage or praxis. And indeed, if one needs expertise in the disciplines you describe, ...
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Dr SAS don't mind that shallow minded idiot. All his life is centered around his god nkrumah. He can't think outside what Nkrumah or others wrote about nkrumah.
Dr.Sanqas, again stop being superficial. Do you know one thing that makes you Dr. Sanqas and your regular drinking mates when you have taken a cup too much similar? You lack in depth thinking. You descendants of the lazy-mind ...
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Dear Brothers Nana Ansah, Prof. Lungu, Nana Kasapreko 111, SAS, and Readers:
Thanks for your comments.
In fact, there are other prominent scholars and researchers around the world who are also exploring other aspects o ...
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And we are hereby announcing that we are very pleased that GhanaHero.com has dedicated a page on that website to the "The Kwame Nkrumah Legacy Project".
SEE AT: www.ghanahero.com/Visions.html
NOTE: The essays in the V ...
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Prof. Lungu,
This is a noble idea. I have already started promoting and communicating the website (and its contents) to friends.
The point is that we may probably have to do an entire piece (on www.Ghanahero.com) on Gh ...
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Hi there Francis,
I would like to take this opportunity to reciprocate your good wishes. Keep up with your good services you render to readers on this forum. The depth of ignorance here is profoundly shocking and we need g ...
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Brother Nana Ansah,
Thanks once again. Of course, I agree with in respect of the ignorance displayed on Ghanaweb.
Some of us will not sleep and will continue to do the right thing by providing the necessary information ...
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Prof. Lungu,
I have been following this controversy for some time now. Donovan Parker, a Jamaican-born American lawyer, has been working on this issue since Pres. Obama came to office.
Parker has been writing to Pres. ...
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