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Kwame Nkrumah: Nkrumahism And Francophone Africa

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  • Balderash 8 years ago

    The truth stares us in our faces everyday but we prefer satisfying our immediate hunger so we pretend we don't see the truth. Ghana has been friends with the West, selling our gold-mining sector to them for cheap. What have w ...
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  • ADJOA WANGARA 8 years ago

    KWARTENG'S BOGUS ENGLISH:
    -->"This is not to imply these challenges do not persist today."

  • Kwame Joe. 8 years ago

    You are just jealous madam Wangara.
    Point to an instance where Mr. Kwarteng used bogus English. Come again my dear.

  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago

    The only connection I can fathom in this republished presentation is how similar the French exploitation of Africa's resources is to Nkrumah's attempt to take over that method of exploitation for his own self aggrandizement?
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    Whether the topic had anything to do KN or not, this revelation whether cut and paste should rather wake you up to use your profession as a lawyer to call other lawyers to form an iron-clad front to take on the devil.
    WHAT G ...
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    Have you ever asked yourself why you have to put on a plastic (white man's hair) wig to make you feel that you're truly a lawyer in a 90 degree heat in Ghana?

  • Shabi 8 years ago

    Elinam why bother about this nutcase? He, like the African military officers in their former colonies that are trained by France, have been reduced to imperialist zombies who at the snap of the fingers of their slave masters, ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    ELINAM,
    We hear you loud and clear!

    YOUR: "...WHAT GOOD IS A LAWYER WHEN WE HAVE UNJUST AND EVIL ARRANGEMENTS ENSLAVING OUR PPL?"

    WE SAY: When one is filled with visceral hatred for phantom enemies, one tends to lose o ...
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  • Kojo T 8 years ago

    What an apt response. God Bless you.Tragic we have brain dead fellows among us to do the work for :massa" The house slaves

  • Abra Kuma 8 years ago

    Dr. SAS,

    Since you have correctly recognized this essay as a republished piece, I dare say you might have easily elicited the not-in-so-many-words alluded to theme of Nkrumah's repeated call for Africa to unite.What better ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    You are being reasonable and patient.

    But maybe you have the Obama-republican party syndrone staring at you.

    Anything Obama touches, the republicans hate. If Obama confirms 2+2 = 4, the republicans will say it ain't s ...
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    During the second Africa and African-American summit in Senegal in 1986 which was organized by Dr. Sullivan, a report came out that African leaders were weeping to Dr. Sullivan to help them get rid of some of the shakles on ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    My Great Friend ELINAM,

    This is for you (and anyone interested in the future of Africa):

    "Five countries in East Africa- Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi- have moved closer than any other regional grouping i ...
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  • ELINAM 8 years ago

    I always pray for them to succeed.

  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Dear ELINAM,

    You Are Welcome!

    Thanks.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago

    We should not underestimate the relevance of a common language in a future United Africa.

    Definitely, East Africa is making progress towards a more unified superstructure because of "Lingua Swahili".

  • Abra Kuma 8 years ago

    Warrior Kearteng,

    Thanks for the excellent piece albeit very disturbing. We must constantly be reminded how much work is to be done to get Africa out of neocolonialism.

    I am simply overjoyed at news of the unification/f ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Dear Abra Kuma,

    Thanks for the generous comments.

    Yes, I am also happy East Africans are giving the rest of Africa something worthwhile to think about. I can only hope that this becomes a reality.

    There is a long b ...
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  • Nana Ansah 8 years ago

    Hi there Francis great stuff there. Guinea and Mali suffered the same fate which is why Kwame Nkrumah walked the talk by bailing both nations who were being stangulated by France a nation that claims liberty, equality, frater ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Dear Brother Nana Ansah,

    Points well taken.

    Thanks for your positive contributions.

    Have a great week.

    Thanks.

  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    We will hazard that most people from other than France colonies know a lot less about the practices of France, post independence of those French colonies. The problem of language, has of course always been a problem.

    Even ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago

    Whether this well researched piece is cut and pasted, it made for an interesting reading that clearly revealed the evil nature of French slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.

    The socialist president of France, Francoi ...
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  • Shabi 8 years ago

    Marcus, lest you have overlooked the fact, European politicians who adopt the tag of socialism, only do so to deceive the vulnerable electorate to sympathize with them and ultimately to vote for them. Some of these European ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago

    Thanks for the information Shabi, however, I will hesitate to put Tony Blair & Francois Hollande in the same category with the mass killer Adolph Hitler, though he chose to call his Nationalsozialistiiche Deutsche Arbeiterpar ...
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  • Shabi 8 years ago

    Marcus, I saw your post much later but all the same, I wouldnt quite exonerate Blair, Hollande and other western leaders including Obama , unfortunately, for crimes against humanity which are at par with Hitlers. Just go int ...
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  • Kofi Adu Bediako 8 years ago

    Very nice article .i really love it.

  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Dear Readers,

    I want to say that Haiti's former President Jean Aristide demanded that, France pay back the $21-30 billion dollars it [France] forced his country to pay, after losing its hold on Haitian slavery and its asso ...
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  • J Goodlucky 8 years ago

    Thought all colonial personnel were dead and gone, so does that mean their children have taken over?

    Or some are alive and kicking?

    They love the world so much and are addicted to money: their god is their belly and mon ...
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  • kaf 8 years ago

    I am short of words. whatever he said about Ivory Coast is true

  • YAW. 8 years ago

    Well-researched,well-written,informative and insightful piece covering France"s dubious attitude towards Africans. Kwarteng, will get a good ribbing from the descendants of NLM/UP who are big followers of Houphouet Boigny"s ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Namesake,

    How are you?

    You know I am always ready for them. Hahahahahaha...Stay tuned!

    Good day, and have a great week.

    Thanks.

  • edem 8 years ago

    My lecturer once told me Africa cannot unite simply of France's activities in Africa and I didn't understand it then,but now I do understand.Thanks to Kwarteng Frances.

  • The aspiring CHEIF JUSTICE. 8 years ago

    This is my 1st time of being happy after reading the views and sentiments of my people on this forum. Though we might disagree on certain issues but the total liberation of Africa and how to champion should always rest in our ...
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  • MMLarry 8 years ago

    Wow !
    Unbelievable
    Does it mean we can't fight these thieves ?
    What are we waiting for

    OMG