Nkrumah, Nkrumaism, Nkrumaists and Nkrumacracy. Part One

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Prof Lungu 10 years ago

BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
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"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatn ...
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BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
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"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatness, power and wealth...Therefore the defining variable in mental development is “opportunity” which establishes the most legitimate intellectual differentials in the cognitive abilities of groups and individuals.../
\...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood . Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood. If ignorance makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation, then the survival of the nation is under serious threat. For a country to be a nation, her people will have to subsume ethnicity under the aegis of the national interest. The present conflicts amongst the tribes, though so far verbal, is a testimony that our country comprises nations within the state. In effect, we of this generation have repudiated the concept of nationhood with our ethnic animosity and undermined the very tenets under which the nation was founded..." (6 February 2007, Ghanaweb, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., AKA, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law).
Kojo T 10 years ago

Why are they so jealous of Nkrumah?After all the man is not even running for office.Why have they not shut down Nsawam?

Why are they so jealous of Nkrumah?After all the man is not even running for office.Why have they not shut down Nsawam?
obodiatuo 10 years ago

pro- and anti- nkrumah will continue to discuss about nkrumah till thy kingdom come.

pro- and anti- nkrumah will continue to discuss about nkrumah till thy kingdom come.
Mahmoud 10 years ago

Thank you Dr. SAS. I very much admire the last three quotations.

"There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person."
--Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu1
"The ...
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Thank you Dr. SAS. I very much admire the last three quotations.

"There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person."
--Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu1
"The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
--James Madison, Federalist 46"

Thank you.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
READ:
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatnes ...
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BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
READ:
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatness, power and wealth...Therefore the defining variable in mental development is “opportunity” which establishes the most legitimate intellectual differentials in the cognitive abilities of groups and individuals.../
\...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood . Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood. If ignorance makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation, then the survival of the nation is under serious threat. For a country to be a nation, her people will have to subsume ethnicity under the aegis of the national interest. The present conflicts amongst the tribes, though so far verbal, is a testimony that our country comprises nations within the state. In effect, we of this generation have repudiated the concept of nationhood with our ethnic animosity and undermined the very tenets under which the nation was founded..." ( 6 February 2007, Ghanaweb, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., AKA, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law).
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Did Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah promise us dictatorship for infrastructure? Is that what an independent republic set in the cusp of freedom and justice mean to your servile mind?

Did Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah promise us dictatorship for infrastructure? Is that what an independent republic set in the cusp of freedom and justice mean to your servile mind?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah and his acolytes need monikers to perpetrate their terrorist agenda.

Everybody knows where Danquists live, and we are not afraid because we do not impose cruel and unusual punishment on our enemies ...
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Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah and his acolytes need monikers to perpetrate their terrorist agenda.

Everybody knows where Danquists live, and we are not afraid because we do not impose cruel and unusual punishment on our enemies.

We are democrats; the Nkrumaists are terrorists and torture mangers.
Shabi 10 years ago

Honestly SAS! You are now relapsing from the bizarre to the surreal.

So Nkrumaists are now the terrorists? Putting history on its head only exposes and gives further insight on your psychological instability.

Now I real ...
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Honestly SAS! You are now relapsing from the bizarre to the surreal.

So Nkrumaists are now the terrorists? Putting history on its head only exposes and gives further insight on your psychological instability.

Now I really dont know why it bothers you whether I am called Peter, Esi, SAS, Mahmoud, Sarpong, Ama, Kwamena, Nii Lante or whatever.

I advise that you rather stick to the issues if you are a mature man. However, if you are looking for an opportunity to locate the persons behind the contributions on this platform, only so that you can put the issues aside and cause damage and injury to people whose contributions are against yours, it will not work. I know that is your stock in trade. Your paranoid mentors are now tapping even the phones of their staunchest allies. As Putin said the other day, western leaders have now lost their sovereignty and they now have to look around them to ensure that nobody else is listening, even when they are talking to their wives in their bedrooms.

In any case SAS, I really do not give a rats fart whether you are called Ho Chi Minh or SAS, so long as you sound sane - or even insane. How do I know that SAS is your real name or if you are not using another moniker like Mahmoud or Sarpong, since those who contribute with those apparently pseudonyms, sound just as depraved as you do.
Shabi 10 years ago

So now who can deny the fact that this SAS man is schizophrenic?

Either that or he is being paid to make a fool of himself.

How can any normal human being take a full 360 degree ideological turn-around and remain psy ...
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So now who can deny the fact that this SAS man is schizophrenic?

Either that or he is being paid to make a fool of himself.

How can any normal human being take a full 360 degree ideological turn-around and remain psychologically stable?

JB Danquah tried this same kind game and he couldnt withstand the repercussions.

The big question now is that, who is SAS fooling?
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Shabi,
YOUR: "...The big question now is..., who is SAS fooling?..."

WE SAY: No one, try as he may!

Greetings!

Shabi,
YOUR: "...The big question now is..., who is SAS fooling?..."

WE SAY: No one, try as he may!

Greetings!
Shabi 10 years ago

Belated greetings to you too Prof Lungu

Belated greetings to you too Prof Lungu
Kojo T 10 years ago

Dr SAS what disappoints me about you palookas is your ever rantings about dictatorship.Ghana was an illiterate country and could not understand what was going on.When a father sends the child to school ad disciplines him if ...
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Dr SAS what disappoints me about you palookas is your ever rantings about dictatorship.Ghana was an illiterate country and could not understand what was going on.When a father sends the child to school ad disciplines him if he does not , is that dictatordhip?Lee K Yew had more death penalties than Nkrumah did .Today get caught with drugs in Singapore and see what will happen to you .On education for some one who studied at CapeVars who would have studied comparative education you are either mischievous or IGNORANT. The man diversified education and increased access. You are a product .Economically had he been allowed to complete his work instead of being sorry he would have been very proud.Nkrumah made the mistake of uniting the opposition hoping he would get some thing out of them .Even today they spew only tribal garbage without coming up with solutions .Can you the so called danquaists and Busiaists come up with workable alternatives to the mixed economy the he started with and which you shouted from roof tops as communism?Do we still need to at, clothe ourselves and have roofs over our heads .He was solving them but now we still import even tooth pick .Let us find solutions to these instead of vilifying him.Do you see us writing about Jb D and Busia? Today African Unity is a big topic all over Africa.INTEGRATION , they call it .So please come with SOLUTIONS
SARPONG 10 years ago

Illiterate fool Kojo T, define mixed economy ala Kwame Nkrumah. You are a yahoo without shame.

Now that Nkrumaism has confounded you zombies because you people cannot define or explain it to Ghanaians or the tenets of Nkr ...
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Illiterate fool Kojo T, define mixed economy ala Kwame Nkrumah. You are a yahoo without shame.

Now that Nkrumaism has confounded you zombies because you people cannot define or explain it to Ghanaians or the tenets of Nkrumaism has come unglued, you now call it mixed economy.

Where did Nkrumah preach mixed economy in any of his written books? Now Nkrumah communist economic policy is called mixed economy.

Don't ever compare Nkrumah communist economic policy to Yew Kuan who preached and practiced capitalism .
Kojo T 10 years ago

I watched in horror the Texas Gov Perry say as President he will close 5 departments.He started to list them and ended up with oops .He could not remember.Sarps and SAS beware of the Texas bug

I watched in horror the Texas Gov Perry say as President he will close 5 departments.He started to list them and ended up with oops .He could not remember.Sarps and SAS beware of the Texas bug
SARPONG 10 years ago

Illiteracy is your middle name, what has that got to do with your illiteracy here?

Illiteracy is your middle name, what has that got to do with your illiteracy here?
sojourner in usa 10 years ago

His name will not fade away, so far as Ghana exist, Akosombo exist, water works exist , GIHoc exist, ringroad exist, flagstuff square exist in peoples minds, the circle exist, knust exist. Lee kwan Yew was capitalist brutal ...
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His name will not fade away, so far as Ghana exist, Akosombo exist, water works exist , GIHoc exist, ringroad exist, flagstuff square exist in peoples minds, the circle exist, knust exist. Lee kwan Yew was capitalist brutal dictator, yet his people loves him. Kwame was not brutal, his enemies were.

Noone worships Kwame Nkruma, we respects him. There is differences.so far as Ghana is concern, he did more with measle 200million both infrastructures and labour improvements of the cirixenry. Present leaders are benefitting from his human capital iinvestments for the nation, through scholarship schemes and properly plan school system. The later failed to enhence his starting goals for the nation.
sojourner in usa 10 years ago

Imaging so call peaceful civilized world asking a brutal dictator to become a peace keeper in Hanoi far from ghana, why?

Imaging so call peaceful civilized world asking a brutal dictator to become a peace keeper in Hanoi far from ghana, why?
sojourner in usa 10 years ago

He was a shrewd academic president, who will not take bribe or cutback against the interest of the overall nation ghana like Busia and Co, JJRawlings and Co, JAKufour and Co. From the west, that made him a threa to their nat ...
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He was a shrewd academic president, who will not take bribe or cutback against the interest of the overall nation ghana like Busia and Co, JJRawlings and Co, JAKufour and Co. From the west, that made him a threa to their national interest in Africa. Offcourse, european nations depends on Africa resources for their economic well being. Kwame Nkrumah, an American survey or train expertise like me knows. Hence the hate and his distructions in all fronts. Liar, liars pants on fire. Judge judy. Giving him enough time without all interruptions and sabotages K wame could had done wht Lee Kwan Yew did faster and better with our natural resources.
Sasabonsam 10 years ago

Mmo ne ka Doc

Mmo ne ka Doc
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

From the top: " Did Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah promise..."

Now this: "Good one there....Mmo ne ka Doc", .... from "Sasabonsam"

We see!

Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Jurisprudence is attempting to multiply his voice by ...
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From the top: " Did Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah promise..."

Now this: "Good one there....Mmo ne ka Doc", .... from "Sasabonsam"

We see!

Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Jurisprudence is attempting to multiply his voice by using more monikers!
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Again, "Sasabonsam" = Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Jurisprudence, is attempting to multiply his voice by using more than one moniker!

He speaks without data!

And, if still we must.....

Maybe a Danquah-Busia-Confede ...
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Again, "Sasabonsam" = Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Jurisprudence, is attempting to multiply his voice by using more than one moniker!

He speaks without data!

And, if still we must.....

Maybe a Danquah-Busia-Confederate traitor who believes in "property-owning democracy" will understand this one!

ITEM: Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Jurisprudence, is basking in the success of the "Unitary Vision" of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

Without Nkrumah's Unitary Vision and leadership success, where would he be, in education, in profession, even in health, and space?

But, to the extent Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Jurisprudence, takes every side of every issue, it may be difficult for him to resolve, to solve the conflicts in his head.

So, here is some "property-owning" data our Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Doctor of Jurisprudence, and his Confederate Friends may understand:

ITEM: In six short years, between 1960 and 1966 (when Nkrumah was overthrown), the Gross Domestic Product Per Capita of Ghana increased 47%, from $181.00 to $267.00 (representing 7.83% increase each on of those 6 years).

Thirty (30) long years after the overthrow of Nkrumah, between 1967 and 1997, Ghana's Gross Domestic Product Per Capita increased just 80%, from $214.00 to $386.00, representing just 2.7% increase each one of those 30 years).

In effect, the Danquah-Busia-Dombo Confederate traitors are directly responsible for the Lost 3-Plus Decades", post-Nkrumah!
Mahmoud 10 years ago

The appointment of the Judiciary is similar to that of the EC chairperson. The constitution does not give the president authority over the selection of this class of people in the system because; they are expected to be indep ...
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The appointment of the Judiciary is similar to that of the EC chairperson. The constitution does not give the president authority over the selection of this class of people in the system because; they are expected to be independent and impartial in discharge of their duties. If the president were to have substantive powers in their appointment, that would ultimately compromise the independence and impartiality that is required of them implicitly or explicitly. They are not in the category of his ministers or those in the executive branch where he has complete hire and fire powers under the constitution, and they are not expected to be independent of the president's decisions. Also, they leave office when the president leaves but the judiciary and the EC chairperson will remain after the president's term of office expires.

The issue is not the president being subservient to the judiciary or the council of state as some are trying to portray; the measures put in place are critical checks and balances to prevent the executive from dominating the other branches of government in the system, which if allowed to happen by given him substantive powers to appoint and fire members of the other branches, the situation could easily metamorphose into autocracy now or in the future. For instance, who will impeach or judge the president if he over steps his constitutional powers or commits a crime? It will definitely be the judiciary. And who will act as a referee between him and other political players during elections? It will surely be the EC. So the president cannot be allowed under the constitution to substantively appoint them.
Kwame 10 years ago

Mahmoud judges are also political animals and judge issue in accordance with their world outlook. It is a fact that no judge in NATO countries voted against their undeclared wars though they are said not to be subject to thei ...
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Mahmoud judges are also political animals and judge issue in accordance with their world outlook. It is a fact that no judge in NATO countries voted against their undeclared wars though they are said not to be subject to their presidents and prime ministers.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

CRITICAL OBSERVER REFLECTS ON THE LEGACY OF KWAME NKRUMAH & THE FORCES BEHIND HIS OVERTHROW IN 1966 BY THE KOTOKA MILITARY JUNTA THAT ESTABLISHED A DICTATORSHIP THROUGH MILITARY RULE...ALL THE WAY TO STATE ENTERPRISE-SELLERS ...
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CRITICAL OBSERVER REFLECTS ON THE LEGACY OF KWAME NKRUMAH & THE FORCES BEHIND HIS OVERTHROW IN 1966 BY THE KOTOKA MILITARY JUNTA THAT ESTABLISHED A DICTATORSHIP THROUGH MILITARY RULE...ALL THE WAY TO STATE ENTERPRISE-SELLERS JERRY "ACCOUNTABILITY" RAWLINGS, AND KUFFOURS & HIS NPP PARTY!

BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
READ:
"....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others to achieve greatness, power and wealth...Therefore the defining variable in mental development is “opportunity” which establishes the most legitimate intellectual differentials in the cognitive abilities of groups and individuals.../
\...It is in the context of all this knowledge that Ghana’s first president, soon after independence, deemed it fit and proper to concentrate on the formal school system to boost the African personality and to merge the tribes under one great banner of nationhood . Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s vision for Ghana was the elevation of the confidence of the African and the unity of the nation and her people. This vision extended beyond Ghana’s borders to include the whole of Africa. What Nkrumah conceived of nationhood made philosophical sense because without knowledge and unity, no country can claim nationhood. If ignorance makes people show greater allegiances to tribes at the expense of the nation, then the survival of the nation is under serious threat. For a country to be a nation, her people will have to subsume ethnicity under the aegis of the national interest. The present conflicts amongst the tribes, though so far verbal, is a testimony that our country comprises nations within the state. In effect, we of this generation have repudiated the concept of nationhood with our ethnic animosity and undermined the very tenets under which the nation was founded..." ( 6 February 2007, Ghanaweb, Samuel Adjei Sarfo, J.D., AKA, Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law).
JA 10 years ago

Before you spew this nonsense, I want you to list every infracture structure Nkrumah made possible during his tenure and compare it to what has been done since he was deposed. Compare the education system under his guidance a ...
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Before you spew this nonsense, I want you to list every infracture structure Nkrumah made possible during his tenure and compare it to what has been done since he was deposed. Compare the education system under his guidance and now. HOW OLD ARE YOU?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

The answer above is meant for you, JA.

Be real, what kind of infrastructure can anyone enjoy if imprisoned physically or psychologically?

Of course if the regime takes one person's property and imprisons him without tri ...
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The answer above is meant for you, JA.

Be real, what kind of infrastructure can anyone enjoy if imprisoned physically or psychologically?

Of course if the regime takes one person's property and imprisons him without trial and turns around to gift it to you, you will be saying that it has done well because you are in an "infrastructure". The victim of injustice will think differently.

Only an Nkrumaist will supplant mere infrastructure with human justice, dignity and freedom. That is why you all are devil worshippers!
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

Your cognitive bias is becoming increasingly self evident. What Dr. Kwame Nkrumah did for our nation and for Pan-Africanism cannot be replicated, at least in your lifetime.

Osagyefo's place in Ghana & Africa's histories ...
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Your cognitive bias is becoming increasingly self evident. What Dr. Kwame Nkrumah did for our nation and for Pan-Africanism cannot be replicated, at least in your lifetime.

Osagyefo's place in Ghana & Africa's histories is secured. You are too late with your cockamamie "Osagyefo Danquah"; that cognomen is already taken, sorry bra SAS.
SARPONG 10 years ago

What Nkrumah bequeathed to Africa is Presidency for life and dictatorship. Nkrumah is the godfather to all Africa Presidents who turned our independence into monarchies.

The problem we are witnessing in Burundi is Kwame Nk ...
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What Nkrumah bequeathed to Africa is Presidency for life and dictatorship. Nkrumah is the godfather to all Africa Presidents who turned our independence into monarchies.

The problem we are witnessing in Burundi is Kwame Nkrumah's legacy.
SAM 10 years ago

IT IS GOOD SELFLESS LEADERSHIP WE NEED- I WILL RATHER TAKE A DICTATOR WHO WILL BRING ME DEVELOPMENT THAN A NON DICTATOR WHO IS CORRUPT AND BRINGS NOTHING ON THE TABLE FOR TO FELLOW COUNTRY. LEE KWAN YOO OF SINGAPORE WAS THERE ...
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IT IS GOOD SELFLESS LEADERSHIP WE NEED- I WILL RATHER TAKE A DICTATOR WHO WILL BRING ME DEVELOPMENT THAN A NON DICTATOR WHO IS CORRUPT AND BRINGS NOTHING ON THE TABLE FOR TO FELLOW COUNTRY. LEE KWAN YOO OF SINGAPORE WAS THERE FOR AGES- LOOK AT WHAT HE DID FOR THAT COUNTRY. CHINA IS A ONE PARTY STATE- IT IS THE MOST ECONOMICALLY RISING COUNTRY IN RECENT YEARS. WE GHANAIANS THINK THE MERE MENTION OF DEMOCRACY MEANS WE WILL BE DEVELOPED- WE HAVE MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRACY FOR ABOUT 25 YEARS NOW-DO WE SEE ANY CHANGES IN OUR SITUATION? NO. IN FACT THE CONTRARY.
kosoko 10 years ago

Brother, thank you. People like Sarpong and SAS, who cannot think beyond their nose always seek to discuss topics they are less informed and spew insult when others try to correct the errors they make in their conclusions on ...
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Brother, thank you. People like Sarpong and SAS, who cannot think beyond their nose always seek to discuss topics they are less informed and spew insult when others try to correct the errors they make in their conclusions on such subjects. Really, this essay is not about NKRUMAH or Nkrumahaism. The arguments advanced by these two gentlemen are really an extension of Western propaganda that seek to tear Africa and its people apart. It is a propaganda war beyond the like and dislike of Nkrumah and beyond the political and ideological naivety of these two guys who claimed to be Danquahists. They have been bought into the world powers' propaganda without thinking and questioning to the point that they don't even realize that sometimes they write and say things that are even in contradiction and sometimes doesn't even makes sense intellectually. I don't normally response to the arguments that they advanced because of their posture of nailing insults to those they disagree with and second the fact that they lack the theoretical understanding of international relations and the geography and economics of Africa to the global powers. I don't know what they seek to achieve. Real scholars both in Africa and the Western world made such an attempt to cast spells on Nkrumahism but they were cut into pieces by their colleagues and Nkrumah's onwn academic work.
SARPONG 10 years ago

Idiot, that is your choice. Do you know why everybody is trying to run away from North Korea and Cuba and their governments have built walls preventing them to leave?

Nkrumah's dictatorship would not have brought you devel ...
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Idiot, that is your choice. Do you know why everybody is trying to run away from North Korea and Cuba and their governments have built walls preventing them to leave?

Nkrumah's dictatorship would not have brought you development but sorrows like what we are seeing in North Korea because his false infrastructure development started crumbling the moment he ran through the money he inherited from the colonial masters.

You fools seems to have not researched what happened in Ghana from 1964 to 1966 when Nkrumah did not have the money anymore.

Most leaders would have done the same, more or less of what Nkrumah did with the money he had at that time.

No Ghanaian leader has ever assumed office with the money Nkrumah had.

lEE kUAN DID BETTER BECAUSE HE FOLLOWED THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM unlike Nkrumah who tied his strings to Soviet Union and ended up bankcrupting Ghana in 1965.
Kwame 10 years ago

Sarpong why are some of you so ignorant. It is a constitution that made the Windsor family the head of state of Great Britain and colonies still under it. The Prime Minister of Britain and her colonies do not have a term of o ...
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Sarpong why are some of you so ignorant. It is a constitution that made the Windsor family the head of state of Great Britain and colonies still under it. The Prime Minister of Britain and her colonies do not have a term of office.
SARPONG 10 years ago

Illiterate fool, the Windsor family or the British Monarchy has no political power.

"The Prime Minister of Britain and her colonies do not have a term of office."

Are you that dumb? Their term of office is determined ...
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Illiterate fool, the Windsor family or the British Monarchy has no political power.

"The Prime Minister of Britain and her colonies do not have a term of office."

Are you that dumb? Their term of office is determined when they expose themselves to the electorate. The voters of Britain have the right to vote to retain the Prime Minister or reject him, something Nkrumah denied Ghanaian voters, you moron.
YOOMOBEGA 10 years ago

Can you point to African Presidents who converted to monarchs?

Can you point to African Presidents who converted to monarchs?
SARPONG 10 years ago

If you leave your Presidency to your son, what do you call it?

Cameroon

Togo,

Congo Kinshasha

etc.

If you leave your Presidency to your son, what do you call it?

Cameroon

Togo,

Congo Kinshasha

etc.
James Obeng 10 years ago

The more this idiot called DR SAS and his disciple called SARPONG spew nonsense about Nkrumah,the more they expose their stupidity and ignorance.

The more this idiot called DR SAS and his disciple called SARPONG spew nonsense about Nkrumah,the more they expose their stupidity and ignorance.
The Sentinel 10 years ago

MARCUS AMPADU: How the hell do you manage to take the words out of my mouth! I will buy you a drink if I happen to meet you in person.

You see, that old saying that you might have heard from elders, is still true and relev ...
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MARCUS AMPADU: How the hell do you manage to take the words out of my mouth! I will buy you a drink if I happen to meet you in person.

You see, that old saying that you might have heard from elders, is still true and relevant, that:
"A LEOPARD NEVER CHANGES ITS SKIN"
The polluted, sickening bloods of that insidious, abominable "mate meho clan" is still circulating in the bloods of their off-springs -- the likes of sARPONG, aHOOfe, this so called dr.sAFO, et al.

Disgusting as the whole episode of this endless Nkrumah vilification is by these shallow-minded, tribal hypocrits, equally heartening it is that some of you youngsters still hold him (Nkrumah) in high esteem he deserved.
You've said it all, in just few words, Marcus. I'll just add, as I always do:
THERE WAS NONE, THERE IS NONE, AND THERE WILL BE NONE, WHOSE FEET WILL FIT NKRUMAH' SHOES.

What a shame and shammmmm!
The Sentinel
SAM 10 years ago

NO MATTER WHAT ANY IDIOT WILL SAY. DANQUAH AND CO CAN NEVER EQUAL NKRUMAH TILL THY KINGDOM COME NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO OR SAY. THERE IS A REASON WHY HIS STATUE STANDS TALL IN ADDIS ABABA AND WAS NAMED THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MAN ...
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NO MATTER WHAT ANY IDIOT WILL SAY. DANQUAH AND CO CAN NEVER EQUAL NKRUMAH TILL THY KINGDOM COME NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO OR SAY. THERE IS A REASON WHY HIS STATUE STANDS TALL IN ADDIS ABABA AND WAS NAMED THE MOST INFLUENTIAL MAN IN AFRICA IN THE 20TH CENTURY. YES NO MAN IS PERFECT IN A WHOLE WHAT HE LIVED, WROTE AND FOUGHT IMPRISONED FOR AFRICA CAN NEVER BE UNDERRATED BY ANY FOOL OR TRAITOR OR POLITICAL PARTY FOR THAT MATTER
Kwame 10 years ago

Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo's logic is without locomotion. It is a belief by rightist that there has not been any progress in nature and society, thus they say there is no evolution in nature and with such world outlook they stand ...
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Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo's logic is without locomotion. It is a belief by rightist that there has not been any progress in nature and society, thus they say there is no evolution in nature and with such world outlook they stand like a frog in the middle of the river with their legs spread apart and shouting I have plugged the river.
Marxist political science said that the state is an undemocratic institution. The United State in which Samuel Adjei resides is the most oppressive state in the world that raise the state of being undemocratic by subverting even the right of people to life, the right to be elected and the right to elect your representatives.
Dr. Samuel Adjei the notion that Kwame Nkrumah was a dictator fall as a sack without a content, even before imperialist quislings like you goof out that word. Nkrumah did not come to power as a result of a military coup, nor was he an adviser to a military junta like Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia who supervised the caging of other Ghanaians and parading them on the streets of the major Ghanaian towns like a wild beast. Kwame Nkrumah did not order his fellow Ghanaian to be detained in a cell filled with water to his shine, but Busia gave that council and it was carried on.
When Dr. Joseph Kyerekwe Danquah lost fail to get elected to parliament Kwame Nkrumah your on democrat did not rejoice as Barack Obama still oversee the petty racial segregation policies under which Negroes in the U.S. on pension today receive less pension than their Blanco counterparts. Soon as Danquah lost his bid to parliament unlike Busia who saw to it that even his friends who got elected to parliament are thrown out for been a member of the Convention Peoples' Party before. Nkrumah called Danquah to his office and offered him the post of Council for Arts and Culture, which Danquah refused and rather went into an agreement with the Central Intelligence Agency to subvert the state Ghana.
Dr. Samuel Sarfo you even forget history that U.S. has not been a democratic country which it is still today. Slavery and racial segregation are not democratic principles, which mean, if we are to go by the U.S. constitution of 1966 a Negro should not own any means of production and distribution. It means that up to 1975 no Ghanaian Negro will own even a backyard garden, moreover a cocoa farm. We are as a people to ride in anything that the U.S. Constitution define at that time to be good for dogs and Negroes. Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo democracy is not some abstract animal hiding in the jungles of America, but is a collection of relations of people to each other and the means of production and distribution.
The basic necessities of man are food, shelter and clothing. Kwame Nkrumah by February 1966 did away with unemployment by setting up various productive and service providing institutions. Upon the advice of Busia and others tens of thousand of Ghanaians were send home depriving them of food, accommodation and clothing.
In 1969 Busia send a lot of Ewhes home without food, shelter and clothing and the same was repeated by John Kufuor who was a deputy foreign minster in Busia's government in 2001. It has also become a fact that in the British democracy a Negro is not allowed to drive a taxi in London up till 1975. Mr. Sarfo democracy is not an abstract hiding in the London Zoo.
KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

This guy is on the payroll of the right, just to denigrate Nkrumah and what he stood for.

This guy is on the payroll of the right, just to denigrate Nkrumah and what he stood for.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

Nothing you have written here addresses Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah's dictatorship and wickedness.

When he promised us independence and freedom and justice, he delivered bondage and arbitrary power. When he declared Ghana a r ...
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Nothing you have written here addresses Sasabonsam Kwame Nkrumah's dictatorship and wickedness.

When he promised us independence and freedom and justice, he delivered bondage and arbitrary power. When he declared Ghana a republic, he made himself an absolute monarch.

It is interesting that you can only cite evils in America to defend Nkrumah. What about citing some measure of good from somewhere to affirm some good he did if any. Why must it be all bad acts which you are quoting. That simply means the man was bad but with reason.

Whenever you have to cite wickedness from elsewhere to defend somebody, that means that person is per se wicked. The good is oft described by references to a greater good elsewhere.
His Legacy 10 years ago

hmmm...when people don't like you!
This particular guy who wrote this article is nothing but an idiot!
Because nkrumah never gave you thieves and wicked people the chance to rob the country thats why you still claim he is ...
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hmmm...when people don't like you!
This particular guy who wrote this article is nothing but an idiot!
Because nkrumah never gave you thieves and wicked people the chance to rob the country thats why you still claim he is wicked
Yes!!! nkrumah never dies and for that matter his critics will never stop criticise him.
I have only four words for those block heads and brainwashed people like you...
Dullard, dunce, stupid and silly are the words that describes you best.
Tell me where we've reached as a nation since his (nkrumah's) government was toppled by a senseless and greedy soldier man.
stupid person like you. fool's fool!!!
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Let me make it here,the Europeans were sent to Africa by their Kings and rulers in search of gold and other raw materials.This is the main objectives for the scramble in Africa.The first Europeans who arrived in the Gold Coas ...
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Let me make it here,the Europeans were sent to Africa by their Kings and rulers in search of gold and other raw materials.This is the main objectives for the scramble in Africa.The first Europeans who arrived in the Gold Coast were not here for humanitarian purpose but for economic exploitation.When the Portuguese arrived at Elmina,their main interest was to deal in gold and other spices.When the news reached Europe,many kings and rulers over there sent their best commanders,merchants and soldiers to come and struggle for their share.We still have living testimony of how many different European castles and forts sit on our coast.History will tell you how the Europeans were agressive and fighting each other to settle here.It did not stop there,many got involved in slave trade.Surprisingly,when the Europeans decided to stop the slave trade;we had some Ghanaians who were not happy but wanted the slave trade to countinue.Some chiefs even sent delegation to Holland to reactivate slave trade.We should remember that the British were the last Europeans who visited our coast and bought castles from different Europeans who were leaving because they could no longer trade in slaves.The British changed their traitional trade in slavery to gold and other products in the country.What we must know is that some of the coastal chiefs agreed with the British to continue trading for 100 years contract,beginning from 1844.This agreement is what propelled Nkrumah to lead a peaceful struggle to attain independence for Ghana.Now listen,the British did not renew their 100 years contract with the coastal chiefs and rather decided to colonised the country.On legal grounds,we can say they have invaded our country because we did not ask them to come and rule us in the first place.Therefore,it's only logic that after 100 years they should go or stay as ordinary traders.Kwame Nkrumah was 100% right to decolonise the country in 1957.The colonial masters also shackled the people with Constitutional Monarchy,that means Ghana has become a bonafide property of the Queen of England,the monarch.It's also illogical to become independent state and still be a subject to the Queen of England.From this point of view,Kwame Nkrumah demanded a Constitutional Refrendum in April 1960,where more than 88% of the electorates voted in favour of Presidential System.That is the reason why Ghana was declared a Republic,no longer part of British Kingdom but a member of British Commonwealth.The 1st July was also the same day that Kwame Nkrumah was inaugrated as the first President of Ghana.Ofcourse,there were some opposition to both independence and republic status of Ghana and we still have some elements of opposition for whatever reason I don't know.My question to the opposition is that,how long do you want the British to rule Ghana?Thank you.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

What has your rambling got to do with the fact of Nkrumah's dictatorship under a republican government. A republican government vests the power in the people; it does not replace one monarchy with another. Before Ghana became ...
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What has your rambling got to do with the fact of Nkrumah's dictatorship under a republican government. A republican government vests the power in the people; it does not replace one monarchy with another. Before Ghana became "a republic", the Brits owned the country. Thereafter, Nkrumah owned the country; so when Ghana became a so-called republic, the people owned nothing. They only had one constitutional monarch replaced by an arrant dictator.

The only difference is that the dictator was one of our own who said he had come to liberate us. He even dubbed himself our Messiah!
Osei Kodjo 10 years ago

I am particularly fed up with your attention seeking antic which is not making sense any more.Overstretching a subject which you appear to know little, and overly skewed on foreign propaganda, only shows how lost and stupid y ...
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I am particularly fed up with your attention seeking antic which is not making sense any more.Overstretching a subject which you appear to know little, and overly skewed on foreign propaganda, only shows how lost and stupid your zeal is carrying you.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

Nkrumah was elected by the people,the Republcan status went through constitutional refrendum in April 1960,he did not use a decree.Now tell me,how did Busia reverse the Presidential system to West Minister constitutional mona ...
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Nkrumah was elected by the people,the Republcan status went through constitutional refrendum in April 1960,he did not use a decree.Now tell me,how did Busia reverse the Presidential system to West Minister constitutional monarchy?Tell us,how Busia was able to appoint Edward Akuffo Addo,the Electoral Commissoner then to the position of President?Tell us,why Busia sacked all the workers who embarked on strike?I'm waiting for your answer,SAS.Thank you.
Prof Lungu 10 years ago

Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, BOY KOFI's was no "rambling".

That was a history lesson showing why Africans must be independent, precisely the way Kwame Nkrumah saw it when he was alive!

Further, it is important for all ...
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Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law, BOY KOFI's was no "rambling".

That was a history lesson showing why Africans must be independent, precisely the way Kwame Nkrumah saw it when he was alive!

Further, it is important for all of us Ghana-Centered/Ghana-Proud people to explain in clear terms what occurred, and is going on still. After all, the NLM-NLC-UP-Danquah-Busia-Confederate cohorts destroyed so much of the records. They lied, cheated, and subverted the People, and continue to do so.

READ: "....A republican government vests the power in the people..."

WE SAY: True! But, it does not end there. Otherwise, you revert to a Confederacy, or worse, anarchy, for theory's sake.

REPEAT- It does not end there!

ITEM: It is the leader of the country who, together with his/her team, and other representatives in government including the "opposition", must lead the task of prioritization and execution of national development goals and agenda.

Nkrumah saw the effort as a "Reconstruction", after independence. There was important work to be done.

But in order to prioritize a national development agenda for "reconstruction", you need patriots and Nation-centered/Proud team players.

The Danquah-Busia-Confederate cohorts, having lost against Nkrumah "Unitary" government model, were none of that - no Team Players, or Patriots.

To the point, the Danquah-Busia-NLM-UP-Confederate cohorts subverted the Ghana development agenda, even before 1957, and thereafter, all the way to the "overthrow" 1966.

ITEM: Danquah was imprisoned because he was a traitor and a subversive. Busia was not imprisoned because he escaped overseas and continued his subversive activities, until he was brought into Ghana by the NLM/NLC rascal military junta that overthrew Nkrumah with the blessing, advise, and assistance if the US, UK, and France.

Those are the facts at bottom of Ghana's "Reconstruction" tragedy!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

And Nkrumah was overthrown in disgrace because he thought the way you now do. He dubbed others traitors and imprisoned them without trial while others fled into exile to plan his overthrow.In his last days, he was all alone b ...
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And Nkrumah was overthrown in disgrace because he thought the way you now do. He dubbed others traitors and imprisoned them without trial while others fled into exile to plan his overthrow.In his last days, he was all alone by himself with his asinine ideas without a friends and family.

And his story is what we are now telling: asserting that he was a dictator!

Now the remaining work for us is to desecrate his name and his grave so that our children will learn the truth about his dictatorship.

And to this, we will forever commit ourselves.
Osei Kodjo 10 years ago

Your CIA agent and traitor uncle,J.B. Danquah will be the first to be desecrated.His body will be exhumed and his picture painted upon a pole and under it written here may you see the traitor bringing an end to a national sha ...
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Your CIA agent and traitor uncle,J.B. Danquah will be the first to be desecrated.His body will be exhumed and his picture painted upon a pole and under it written here may you see the traitor bringing an end to a national shame.
KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago

Ghana achieved independence in March, 1957.
You can't say that Britain owned Ghana after we became free. Your hollowness is becoming unbearable with everything you say. Are you really an attorney?

You can skip my comments ...
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Ghana achieved independence in March, 1957.
You can't say that Britain owned Ghana after we became free. Your hollowness is becoming unbearable with everything you say. Are you really an attorney?

You can skip my comments all you want, but that wouldn't stop me from challenging your false views.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago

The date of which Ghana attained her independence,6th March,1957 is rightly linked to the Bond of 1844 which was signed on the 6th March,113 years earlier.Can SAS tell me the significance?Thank you.

The date of which Ghana attained her independence,6th March,1957 is rightly linked to the Bond of 1844 which was signed on the 6th March,113 years earlier.Can SAS tell me the significance?Thank you.
Kwame 10 years ago

SAS writes like a person who lives on Mars and does not know the difference between a cat and fowl. SAS believe that a person who is an adviser to a military junta is democratic. However a person who went through universal ad ...
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SAS writes like a person who lives on Mars and does not know the difference between a cat and fowl. SAS believe that a person who is an adviser to a military junta is democratic. However a person who went through universal adult suffrage is a dictator. SAS is a confused person who comes on the web to wave his ignorance about.
The Truth 10 years ago

Truly,truly Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah never dies.

Truly,truly Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah never dies.

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