Nkrumah Did Not Force His Views On African Leaders 6

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ADJOA WANGARA 8 years ago

It is only a fool that will read Kwarteng's copy and paste garbage which can be googled in the internet by primary school pupils.

It is only a fool that will read Kwarteng's copy and paste garbage which can be googled in the internet by primary school pupils.
Yaw Kyere 8 years ago

KEEP IT COMING KWARTENG. I LOVE YOUR POSTS.

KEEP IT COMING KWARTENG. I LOVE YOUR POSTS.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Dear Brothers,

Good day.

Yes, we all have a responsibility to bring out the facts and even allow the historical record to speak for itself.

As I overtly said in this piece, Nkrumah and his legacy need no defending. ...
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Dear Brothers,

Good day.

Yes, we all have a responsibility to bring out the facts and even allow the historical record to speak for itself.

As I overtly said in this piece, Nkrumah and his legacy need no defending. No scholar or historian can defend them.

We can only remind readers what the historical record say and what the present generation of policy makers can garner from the record to benefit Africa!

Take a look at the 7-Year Development Plan!

Yes, I will continue to allow the historical record to speak for itself!

However I will not address all the comments here because some are irrelevant and do not have the sanction of historicity!

Thanks to you all!

Thanks.
Kojo T 8 years ago

Francis, Liberia and Ethiopia were already free and were de facto one party states.Now if we looked at the opposition in Ghana then it was fragmented on ethnic and religious lines and hence ineffective. They were forced into ...
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Francis, Liberia and Ethiopia were already free and were de facto one party states.Now if we looked at the opposition in Ghana then it was fragmented on ethnic and religious lines and hence ineffective. They were forced into the UNITED PARTY.It really did not work as the CPP had an ideology but these segments of UP had nothing but oppose.Today they talk about Danquah-Busia-Dombo What of Antor, Ayegbe, Apaloo, or Quaye factions .No one needs to apologise for Nkrumahs actions as time dictate actions The NPP today remains fragmented and violent as it was with no viable developmental options.Scientificaly just look at the parlous African scene and the results are clear. Biafra war that was repeated in Sierra Leone and Liberia is a stark reminded of the fight to control existing resources not to grow them. Nkrumah stood for growth and equitable didtribution
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

The fact is, Nkrumah's contemporaries (Liberia's Tubman/Tolbert; Ethiopia's Haile Selassie after the defeat of Italy, etc.) lacked sufficient vision and Nation-centeredness, to see exactly what their countries needed, versus ...
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The fact is, Nkrumah's contemporaries (Liberia's Tubman/Tolbert; Ethiopia's Haile Selassie after the defeat of Italy, etc.) lacked sufficient vision and Nation-centeredness, to see exactly what their countries needed, versus wanted.

So, we agree!

"...Nkrumah stood for growth and equitable di(s)tribution...", for all Ghanaians.

And the NLM-PP-Danquah-Busia cohorts stood for hopeless Confederation, whereby control would be vested in the Akyem Abuakwa clique, and a small elite, with a 1000-plus uneducated, ignorant. With Ghanaian Chiefs at bottom.

It is all in the record, as we've known, and are finding!

Peace!
The mask 8 years ago

It is said that 1 kilometer of asphalted two lane road costs $400,000 in Ghana.Assuming that the runway is 4 times as wide and only 1 km long that should be $1.6 million dollars. Assuming that the runway had a base of reinfo ...
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It is said that 1 kilometer of asphalted two lane road costs $400,000 in Ghana.Assuming that the runway is 4 times as wide and only 1 km long that should be $1.6 million dollars. Assuming that the runway had a base of reinforced concrete similar to American highways that should put the total cost at not more than $3.2 million dollars. Labor costs are 20 times cheaper in Ghana.

This is totally outrageous.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

READ: "...The 7-Year Development Plan sets the tone for the political arithmetic of serious economic planning and development...(It) has been the tendency of the post-Nkrumah leadership of Ghana to give less attention to Nkru ...
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READ: "...The 7-Year Development Plan sets the tone for the political arithmetic of serious economic planning and development...(It) has been the tendency of the post-Nkrumah leadership of Ghana to give less attention to Nkrumah’s legacy than to build on it, hence Ghana’s cyclical developmental directionlessness!..."

WE SAY: Good point! And when they have given any "attention" at all, it was always to appropriate to themselves, to their friends, and to sundry foreign interests, those elements of the plan that existed in space as government enterprises only fit for the divestiture blocks in their fat pockets. The rest, they simple abandoned, or coasted on the success, until there ware little power (i.e. - Akosombo Dam). And they've never rendered any full and complete accounting.

ITEM: All Ghanaians and Ghana supporters ought to be familiar with the 7-Year Development Plan whose development and implementation was prematurely arrested a mere 2 years into its implementation. Even today, that plan is as important and valid as then, for Ghana, and Africa.

It is called building on the legacy of your Founding Father. It is that important to us!

Greetings to all!
Kojo-T 8 years ago

Lungu has now become a pathetic boot-licker filled with nonsense, moving hand in hand with Francis Kwarteng in "thick and light."

Lungu has now become a pathetic boot-licker filled with nonsense, moving hand in hand with Francis Kwarteng in "thick and light."
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

Whatever pleases you!

But not that we are not joking here!

So to your point..It is a free "country"!

In that context, spend some time and read this:

www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/documents/deve_ ...
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Whatever pleases you!

But not that we are not joking here!

So to your point..It is a free "country"!

In that context, spend some time and read this:

www.ghanahero.com/Visions/Nkrumah_Legacy_Project/documents/deve_plans/7_Year_Dev_Plan-Ghana-v3_marked.pdf
Jerome 8 years ago

Lungu, don't you know that you and Kwarteng are more than a joke on the Ghanaweb platform?

Lungu, don't you know that you and Kwarteng are more than a joke on the Ghanaweb platform?
Kojo T 8 years ago

This is not the original Kojo T the intellectual.Ignore his diatribe

This is not the original Kojo T the intellectual.Ignore his diatribe
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

We knew all along!

But as Chicago's Rahm Emmanuel once said, "Why Let a Bad Occasion Go to Waste? Profit for it, or something of that sort!

Greetings, Koko T!!!!!!!!!

We knew all along!

But as Chicago's Rahm Emmanuel once said, "Why Let a Bad Occasion Go to Waste? Profit for it, or something of that sort!

Greetings, Koko T!!!!!!!!!
Frank A Karikari 8 years ago

The author could have make a better presentation than being verbose. What audience does he intend to reach? Academia.
I think the author is a die hard Nkrumahist and sees nothing wrong that Nkrumah did so I would not bother ...
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The author could have make a better presentation than being verbose. What audience does he intend to reach? Academia.
I think the author is a die hard Nkrumahist and sees nothing wrong that Nkrumah did so I would not bother myself to dabble in unnecessary chore to prove that Nkrumah tried to impose his views on Africa. That apparently led to his downfall. Even in Guinea where he lived in exile, he wanted to implant his ideology on Sekou Toure. Before his death, the relations had become sour because of Nkrumah's socialistic attitude, which France, though liberal was not going to countenance.
Shabi 8 years ago

Karikari, every right-thinking and sane African knows by now that Nkrumahs downfall was purely an attempt by global imperialism to halt Nkrumahs far-reaching development initiatives for Ghana and Africa.

The logic of this ...
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Karikari, every right-thinking and sane African knows by now that Nkrumahs downfall was purely an attempt by global imperialism to halt Nkrumahs far-reaching development initiatives for Ghana and Africa.

The logic of this is as simple as 1+1. Africa develops, Europe and America collapses. Africa is undermined and weakened, Europe and America is strengthened even more.

And where did you get this shameful yarn about Nkrumah wanting to impose his ideology on Sekou Toure and even worse-still, that their relations had soured?

You see how backward you are? You also think that a 'liberal' France was not going to countenance Nkrumahs socialistic attitude in Guinea? Are you aware that Guinea at the time, was already an independent nation? Or is it the case that you are taking after your Danquah-Busia moles to also resist the independence of former tyrannized African colonies.

Shame on you! I however blame the many centuries of genocide, extermination, local slavery, oppression, exploitation, demonization, subjugation and the willful dehumanization of the African people to the extent that some of us have become virtually and permanently retarded psychologically? My sincere and heartfelt sympathies to you for finding yourself in this group of victims.
Abra Kuma 8 years ago

Dhabi,

True talk dat! Big up!

Dhabi,

True talk dat! Big up!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Dear Abra Kuma & Shabi,

I didn't respond to Frank A. Karikari's "autistic" comments because they were just "stupid" and ahistorical.

What he Karkari did not know was that Sekou wanted Nkrumah do be the president of Gui ...
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Dear Abra Kuma & Shabi,

I didn't respond to Frank A. Karikari's "autistic" comments because they were just "stupid" and ahistorical.

What he Karkari did not know was that Sekou wanted Nkrumah do be the president of Guinea but Nkrumah settled for the co-presidency instead.

That was "ceremonial" because he wanted Sekou Toure to govern his people while he Nkrumah used his time to write and to reflect on his legacy and his presidency.

In fact Sekou Toure had the following words inscribed on Nkrumah's coffin:

"THE GREATEST AFRICA."

Frank A. Karkari has no clue where his intellectual and historical bearings are.

If he want more hard historical (well-documented) stuff on the relationship between Nkrumah and Sekou Toure, then I will give him more than he can swallow in the future. Karikari's comments are nonsensical.

Have a good weekend my good friends.

Thanks.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Dear Readers,

Few typos, but only the one in Paragraph 4, last sentence, is important to me:

The phrase "SELECTIVE GENERATION" should have been "SELECTIVE GENERALIZATION."

Please take note!

Thanks.

Dear Readers,

Few typos, but only the one in Paragraph 4, last sentence, is important to me:

The phrase "SELECTIVE GENERATION" should have been "SELECTIVE GENERALIZATION."

Please take note!

Thanks.
YAW 8 years ago

Undeniably rich and informative.You have enriched and broadened my mind with this excellent piece.Thank you for your time and effort.

Undeniably rich and informative.You have enriched and broadened my mind with this excellent piece.Thank you for your time and effort.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

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Thanks for the comments.

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Have a gr ...
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Dear Namesake,

Thanks for the comments.

I am checking out those two titles you mentioned to me sometime ago! Remember?

Please don't hesitate to recommend any titles you think might be useful to my work!

Have a great weekend!

Thanks!
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Abra Kuma 8 years ago

Professor,

This is rather tedious reading for those of us not versed in the overwhelming technical terminologies used here; nevertheless, I appreciate your thorough approach to research as well as your efforts at covering ...
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Professor,

This is rather tedious reading for those of us not versed in the overwhelming technical terminologies used here; nevertheless, I appreciate your thorough approach to research as well as your efforts at covering all bases for cohesiveness.

I particularly enjoyed the concept of time discussed here; its circularity, linearity,paradoxes,dictatorship and other influences that are taken into consideration in discussing Africa's political history, and Nkrumah's progressive and timeless vision in incorporating critical thinking,with a scientific and technological methodology in developing an evolving African society that is founded on inter-ethnic inclusiveness.

I thank you for your dedication.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago

Dear Abra Kuma,

Clearly you are a professor yourself as your thoughtful comments on this forum demonstrate.

I have no doubt you grasped every aspect of this write-up in spite of the "overwhelming technical terminologie ...
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Dear Abra Kuma,

Clearly you are a professor yourself as your thoughtful comments on this forum demonstrate.

I have no doubt you grasped every aspect of this write-up in spite of the "overwhelming technical terminologies."

Your summary here clearly confirms it! I thank you for appreciating my little efforts. You are all why I do what I do. The next in the series is ready!

Have a great weekend!

Thanks.

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