This is what I wrote in "Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened-Slavery and Racism 5" about what some right-wing, conservative and libertarian Republicans have to say about slavery being a blessing (I ... read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
This is what I wrote in "Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened-Slavery and Racism 5" about what some right-wing, conservative and libertarian Republicans have to say about slavery being a blessing (I AM HAPPY TO PUT THIS DEBATE BEHIND ME BECAUSE ONCE I START I CANNOT FINISH. THERE IS AN ENTIRE LIBRARY OF INDIVIDUALS WHO STILL CLING ON TO THE IDEA THAT SLAVERY WAS A GREAT INSTITUTION AND A BLESSING TO ENSLAVED AFRICANS, NATIVE-AMERICANS, AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES, ETC. I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO WRITE ENDLESS ARTICLES ON THIS QUESTION. THIS IS WHY I ENDED MY DEBATE WITH PART 5 OF "SLAVERY AND RACISM"):
"Finally, conservative Republicans from Pat Buchanan, Art Robinson, Rep. Jon Hubbard, Rev. Jesse L. Peterson, Rick Santorum, David Horowitz, Trent Franks, Michele Bachmann, Wes Riddle, Rep. Loy Mauch, and Ann Coulter all have said slavery was good for the forbears of African Americans (see Mark Howard’s “Ten Conservatives Who Have Praised Slavery,” Salon, Oct. 12, 2012). Hubbard writes:
“The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth,” p. 183-89 of his book “Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative; “Jon Hubbard, Arkansas Legislator, Says Slavery May ‘Have Been A Blessing’ in New Book,” John Celock, Huffington Post, Nov. 8, 2012). Let us see what the others have to say about the institution of slavery as being a “blessing” to enslaved Africans (courtesy of Mark Howard) but not to Western Europe and the US that made all the money:
PAT BUCHANAN: “America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.”
MICHELE BACHMANN & RICK SANTORUM (Bob Vander Plaats got Santorum and Bachmann to sign on to the following): “A child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”
ART ROBINSON: “The negroes on a well-ordered estate, under kind masters, were probably a happier class of people than the laborers upon any estate in Europe.”
REV. JESSE LEE PETERSON: “Thank God for slavery, because if not, the blacks who are here would have been stuck in Africa.”
DAVID HOROWITZ: “If slave labor created wealth for Americans, then obviously it has created wealth for black Americans as well, including the descendants of slaves.”
WES RIDDLE: “Are the descendants of slaves really worse off? Would Jesse Jackson be better off living in Uganda?”
TRENT FRANKS: “Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery.”
ANN COULTER: “The worst thing that was done to black people since slavery was the great society programs.”
REP. LOY MAUCH: “If slavery were so God-awful, why didn’t Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn’t there a war before 1861?”
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
We see!
A catalog of White-American sayings - "... right-wing, conservative and libertarian Republicans..." as you say!
We know that those are not conservatives as they exist in the UK!
We also know that some of them ... read full comment
We see!
A catalog of White-American sayings - "... right-wing, conservative and libertarian Republicans..." as you say!
We know that those are not conservatives as they exist in the UK!
We also know that some of them are still alive, in 2015!, contrary to what Phillip Kobina Baidoo of London will want us to believe!
Peace!
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Nyebro Yaw,
I can sense your frustration but I must commend you for your perseverance and above all the high quality of your responses.
As you know, these jokers can't just be left alone to be spreading ad nauseam the ... read full comment
Nyebro Yaw,
I can sense your frustration but I must commend you for your perseverance and above all the high quality of your responses.
As you know, these jokers can't just be left alone to be spreading ad nauseam their vile, poisonous lies based on their ignorance or their mischievous deviousness. Any intelligent person who has read Baidoo's load of bollocks can see without hesitation how uninformed, unread and fatuous he actually is when they read your postings.
I spent years in the '90s challenging the likes of him, including Prof. George Ayittey, whom I compared him with last. In reality, he is far, far worse than George. At least George admits all the negatives of whites, but then discounts them by blaming Africans/blacks for being stupid, as they should have known that Whites were/are like that and shouldn't allow Whites to screw them up. He therefore indulges in what is called in sociology "abstract empiricism", which ignores the physical and psychological impacts of the adverse conditions of say slavery and colonialism on the black person, which hinder him/her from behaving in the expected rational manner and indeed compel him/her to act irrationally. Of course, he also indulges in what I had termed "false empiricism", that inventing the empirical facts or doctoring them to suit his premises, analyses and conclusions. As for Baidoo,he denies them or ignore them - the historical record - flatly! and if mentioned, he pooh-pooh them, perhaps as inventions or just innocuous events without any lasting effects on Africans/Blacks. He is in the category of Flat Earthers who continued to insist that the earth is flat until WW1 swept them out of business. I saw one of their magazines dating back to 1915 among my grandfather's effects. No, Grandpa Nathaniel Cooma ... wasn't a follower of the nuts.
You mentioned in one of your rejoinders that you'd prefer to debate intellectuals, perhaps on the right. I am sorry you'd be hard put to find one on the right in the Ghanaian lot. I didn't find any during my active years on Okyeame, etc. in the '90s. They are generally unread, shallow, repeat only what they have learned from the curriculum, and not worth much in any serious intellectual discourse. Of course, they are good in their academics, no doubt!
On religion, I was stunned in total disbelief when I first mentioned on the Okyeame forum that Jesus was not the first person said in history to be born by a virgin. It was like saying I had seen an alien! Not a single person had a clue what I was writing about. And to think there were more PhDs on that forum than all the PhDs in all the public univs. combined in the '90s!
And when I started writing about Islamic fundamentalism, Mohammed flying on a horse and landing in Jerusalem, etc., there were many who obviously thought I was going nuts and needed a shrink. I was simply trying to draw attention to the festering religious menace that is now in full swing but I couldn't get a single person to discuss this with! And you know, we (at CMI in Bergen, Norway) spent a whole Semester listening to various white visiting scholars on the subject. 9/11 didn't come as a surprise to some of us at all! One can google for articles from the '90s that anticipated it.
When I was writing that the Chinese were coming (to Africa) in the '90s, not a single person took me seriously. To them, I was just a comedian to suggest that the Commies were going somewhere except collapse like the Soviet Union. Not even your regular so-called Left following the CPP gave it a thought, having embraced the "Private Sector is the Engine of Growth" hollow mantra! Well, they haven't read Theda Skocpol, et al's Bringing Back the State In.
When I first mentioned Marika's finding on Okyeame that Nkrumah had completed all course works for his PhD and presented his dissertation in the US but was denied his defence of it because it was thought to be too "communistic," not even the mention of the ISBN of the book prevented Matemeho wolves calling me a liar; such a book didn't exist!
Efo Solo too discovered the intellectual fatuousness of our so-called academics, some of them who are occupying very sensitive positions as advisers to govt, when he started writing on the oil and gas agreements. They'd read and then coped out by proclaiming that it was not their area of specialisation! He was in a state of shock and I had to console him, telling him that they were being honest with him, as even getting a PhD in Econs does not mean you can read something like that and straight away give a learned opinion on it when you had never read a single article on the subject before! Phew! As for the newspaper editors and journalists, forget about them!
In view of the foregoing and more reasons, don't count on any debate with anybody. Just write or post what you find appropriate for the eventual upliftment of the black race, etc.
Andy-K
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Nyebro Yao,
Well said.
As you put, I am way done with arguing with individuals who think they are all that but are seriously handicapped because they are not widely read and not conversant with what is going on in the ... read full comment
Nyebro Yao,
Well said.
As you put, I am way done with arguing with individuals who think they are all that but are seriously handicapped because they are not widely read and not conversant with what is going on in the world.
As for the likes of Baidoo I am done with him. I am not goint to waste my time with him. I however chose to add my take on the discussion because the piece is by Prof. Lungu's. I will not have read or contributed to it if it were by Baidoo.
In fact I completely ignored Baidoo's last article when I clicked on it and found it to be his. I am done with him for good.
Finally, you have said enough for me to laugh all the day. Yes, George Ayittey is better informed and knowledgeable than Baidoo (though he can be clueless most of the times).
He,like Thomas Sowell, is known for making up stuff to suit his ideological positions. Sowell is known for his factual distortions of facts and outright lies. We know them all (I can write series of articles on these...I have monitored the intellectual careers of the likes of Ayitteys and Sowells for so long that I can't miss anything about them. I know them, I mean their intellectual positions, like I know the back of my palms).
And you know Efo Solo is way above our oil/gas technocrats. He is way technically factual than all of them. Unfortunately the likes of Efo Solo are the ones our thieving technocrats and politicians are not likely to to listen to.
But you have made my day. Baidoo is not one I should waste my time on. I have therefore set out to do what I want to do.
Thanks for the wisdom in your comments.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Prof. Lungu,
Dr. Monique W. Morris' book "Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century" dismantles/debunks most of the statistics ignorantly thrown around by racists and some ill-informed ... read full comment
Dear Prof. Lungu,
Dr. Monique W. Morris' book "Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century" dismantles/debunks most of the statistics ignorantly thrown around by racists and some ill-informed African-American commentators. These include the following:
1)More African American students graduating from college/universities than ever; 2) The myth of the so-called Welfare Queen, etc.
Then there is the myth of post-racial America. The W.K. Foundation's paper "The Business Case for Racial Equity" (whose conclusions are corroborated by the Altarum Institute and scholars/research institutions/universities/FBI/security services/Department of Justice/Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) across America continue to provide scientific insights into racism as a major problem for America).
The statistics/data are all there. Well, I will not continue any serial debates on these issues (unless some of my core readers think otherwise or it is necessary on my part). And a number of resources (academic texts, scientific papers, etc) has come to my attention as of this writing.
Finally, (discussing the continuing racism against African-Americans in Hollywood) and Hollywood's continuing negative stereotyping of African-Americans and black/African culture in general is another. Here too the data/statistics are shocking.
There is Samuel L. Jackson still fighting racism in American and Hollywood (see the article "Samuel L. Jackson: Hollywood and Racism" in The Times Magazine), with Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Chris Rock and several other prominent blacks are constatntly fighting racism in Hollywood.
Chris Rock last year, for instance, called Hollywood 'a white industry" and discussed the racism African Americans experience in Hollywood (he has made similar arguments of Hollywood racism against Mexicans).
Yes, he has argued that there is not enought support for black men to break into Hollywood films, further making the case that the situation is even far worse for African American women. He said this:
"They don't really hire black men. A black man with bass in his voice and maybe a little hint of facial hair? Not going to happen. It is what it is. I'm a guy who's accepted it all...There are almost no black women in film...You can go to whole movies and not see one black woman. They'll throw a black guy a bone. OK, here's a black guy. But is there a single black woman in Interstellar? Or Gone Girl? Birdman? The Purge? Neighbors? I'm not sure there are. I don't remember them..."
These are the realities. I do not have to go into statistics/data and academic research done on racism in Hollywood (I am talking about the Hollywood of the past. I am talking about today's Hollywood). We all know what leaked Sony secrets says about Denzel Washington and black actors in general.
Well, let me end here because I don't want to get into extensive academic discussion of the controversial subject matter (such as who gets quality script, why Hollywood promotes movies that steretypes blacks (either by black or white producers), etc.). Quess what? This is a highly academic question. But not everyone has an inkling of data/statistics on this question!
Anyway, thanks Prof. Lungu.
Franco 10 years ago
Francis Kwarteng, idiotic fool! tell us about racism in Maryland where you live.
Francis Kwarteng, idiotic fool! tell us about racism in Maryland where you live.
EDUARDO DOMINGO 10 years ago
WHAT KIND OF BLACK MAN CAN YOU BE TO TALK LIKE THIS? WHO GOT THE REAL TALENT IN THIS WORLD? IS IT NOT THE BLACK MAN?
WHY DID THEY JAIL MARCUS GARVEY WHEN HE WANTED TO REMOVE ALL BLACKS BACK HOME TO AFRICA? LOOK WE ARE TH ... read full comment
WHAT KIND OF BLACK MAN CAN YOU BE TO TALK LIKE THIS? WHO GOT THE REAL TALENT IN THIS WORLD? IS IT NOT THE BLACK MAN?
WHY DID THEY JAIL MARCUS GARVEY WHEN HE WANTED TO REMOVE ALL BLACKS BACK HOME TO AFRICA? LOOK WE ARE THE OWNERS OF THIS PLANET AND ALL OTHER RACE THAT LIVES HERE ON PLANET EARTH CAN ONLY SURVIVE BECAUSE WE ARE HERE. IF NOT LET THEM KILL US ALL BLACK AND SEE HOW LONG THEY WILL LIVE HERE, I JUST GAVE YOU A PIECE OF VITAL TRUTH; SO KNOW WHO YOU ARE , THEY CAN NOT TALK SUPREMACY TO ME , THEY KNOW THAT I KNOW THE TRUTH!!!
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Eduardo,
Who are you riling against? Baidoo, Prof, Lungu, or Nyebro Francis?
You sure you're reading the discourse correctly?
Andy-K
Eduardo,
Who are you riling against? Baidoo, Prof, Lungu, or Nyebro Francis?
You sure you're reading the discourse correctly?
Andy-K
C.K. Man 10 years ago
C.Y. ANDY-K, tell us the number of cars your Ewe father stole from the Tema Port as a Senior Customs officer. Cars belonging to shippers from abroad because of heavy duty.
C.Y. ANDY-K, tell us the number of cars your Ewe father stole from the Tema Port as a Senior Customs officer. Cars belonging to shippers from abroad because of heavy duty.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Moron! My father was an Acct-Gen. staff detailed to supervise collection of duties at Tema and the Airport. He wasn't a Customs officer.
Unfortunately, his father didn't born him a thief like yourself and your father. So, ... read full comment
Moron! My father was an Acct-Gen. staff detailed to supervise collection of duties at Tema and the Airport. He wasn't a Customs officer.
Unfortunately, his father didn't born him a thief like yourself and your father. So, by choice, he didn't own a car the whole period he was at Tema and all who worked with him can bear testimony to that. He joined public service in 1960 with a Mercedes he bought from his private sources. When S. Africa was getting Apartheid, there were more than 20 whites underneath him at John Holt Bartholomew calling him "Sir."
Worthless, dirty skunk!
Andy-K
Sammy 10 years ago
So if I have understood C.K. Man right, your father was a car thief at the Tema Port.
So if I have understood C.K. Man right, your father was a car thief at the Tema Port.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Of a prostitute mother! he didn't work at Tema Harbour to get close to any cars to steal.
A pity you don't have a prominent and recognisable father, being what you are!
Dzimakplavi!
Andy-K
Of a prostitute mother! he didn't work at Tema Harbour to get close to any cars to steal.
A pity you don't have a prominent and recognisable father, being what you are!
Dzimakplavi!
Andy-K
GORGORDUTOR 10 years ago
DISGRACEFUL AFRICAN, SUFFERING FROM BUSIAISM AKA TRIBALISM, EVENTUALLY ALL TRIBALISTS IN AFRICA WILL BE ELIMINATED OR EXTERMINATED!!! YOU WORSHIP THE WHOTEMAN AND DENIGRATE AFRICANS!!! HOW IDIOTIC, THERE IRONY IS WHEN YOU GO ... read full comment
DISGRACEFUL AFRICAN, SUFFERING FROM BUSIAISM AKA TRIBALISM, EVENTUALLY ALL TRIBALISTS IN AFRICA WILL BE ELIMINATED OR EXTERMINATED!!! YOU WORSHIP THE WHOTEMAN AND DENIGRATE AFRICANS!!! HOW IDIOTIC, THERE IRONY IS WHEN YOU GO TO THE VILLAGE THE SO CALLED EKRASIFU ARE FAR MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN YOU BLOVIATING NO-NOTHING MUGWUMPS!! I USED TO BE AMAZED BY THE RETARDATION IN CONSCIOUSNESS DISPLAYED BY MISANTHROPES LIKE YOUR IDIOTIC SELF, UNTIL I REALIZED THAT THE ORIGINAL PROPAGATOR OF THIS SOCIOPOLITICAL VIRUS ABREFA BUSIA ( THE CONTROLLED CIA ASSET) HIMSELF, DESPITE HIS ADVANCED ACADEMIC EDUCATION WAS IN THE GRIPS OF "DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS" WITH A DEEP-SEATED BLACK INFERIORITY COMPLEX. THIS MALADY WAS EXACERBATED BY HIS SELF-DELUSION OF AN INVENTED ETHNIC SUPERIORITY. HIS SUBSTITUTION OF THE WHITE SUPREMACIST UNETHICAL IMMORAL WORLDVIEW FOR HIS AFRIKAN CONSCIOUSNESS & CONSCIENCE LED HIM TO INTRODUCE THIS DANGEROUS EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO OUR SOCIOPOLITICAL DISCOURSE WITH THE PREDICTABLE DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES WE ARE NOW LIVING! THIS WAS AN ALLEGEDLY SOPHISTICATED MAN AT FIRST GLANCE!!! IF THAT MAN YOUR TIN god CAN BAMFOOZLE HIMSELF, THEN PEOPLE LIKE YOU EAGERLY INFECT YOURSELVES WITH THIS NOXIOUS MENTAL DISEASE YOU ARE SORRY TO SAY INTELLECTUALLY DEFECTIVE & DEFICIENT. YOUR CONDITION MAY BE REFERRED TO AS ACQUIRED INTELLECTUAL DEFIENCY/DEFECTIVE SYNDROME (AIDDS)!!! Oh make I give some jaarra ooh!! K A BUSIA aka KWASEAPANYIABUABI ABUAFREH BUSIA for all his education cum niamaniamnu WAS RENDER UNFIT AND INELIGIBLE TO BE EVEN CONSIDERED FOR THE WENCHI STOOL BECAUSE OF HIS FORE MENTIONED CAPITULATION TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST WORLDVIEW!!! ETHNIC HATRED, TRIBALISM AND MAJIMBOISM IS ANATHEMA TO OUR TRADITIONAL CULTURE!!!! NKEH BAA WENSHI YEH BI3 OOH!!! MAKE I REST SELEF!!!
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
EDUARDO DOMINGO,
Say that to Phillip Kobina Baidoo!
It is Baidoo who wrote that text.
We only wanted to bring the essentials of what he said to the people, for situational awareness, if you will.
See C.Y. ANDY-K's ... read full comment
EDUARDO DOMINGO,
Say that to Phillip Kobina Baidoo!
It is Baidoo who wrote that text.
We only wanted to bring the essentials of what he said to the people, for situational awareness, if you will.
See C.Y. ANDY-K's comment to you, please
Thanks, C.Y. ANDY-K
OYIKO 10 years ago
Americans are the most generous, freedom and justice people l have never come across. What we must know is that they needed people to help them to develop their country, and please this is not a sin. Slavery has been there si ... read full comment
Americans are the most generous, freedom and justice people l have never come across. What we must know is that they needed people to help them to develop their country, and please this is not a sin. Slavery has been there since history, even from Moses Era untill then. So my siblings, let gives Americans a break. I love Americans because they dont want nonsense and not selfish among themselves as we Africans are Selfish among ourselves.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear OYIKO,
Slavery has been there since history does not justify it anywhere. The fact that slavery has been there since history does not mean in should still be the case in Mauritania, Northeastern Nigeria (Boko Haram), ... read full comment
Dear OYIKO,
Slavery has been there since history does not justify it anywhere. The fact that slavery has been there since history does not mean in should still be the case in Mauritania, Northeastern Nigeria (Boko Haram), Asia forced and booming fishing industry), modern slavery in the United States (child prostitution, labor trafficking, trokosi in Ghana, or slavery anywhere on the planet.
That said, some will argue that Africans are more generous than Americans because Africans have allowed Europe/America to take and take and take with the aid of our corrupt leaders from the old days to the present...
It is still going in Africa today. You have leaders like Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni who are supporting terrorists groups in Eastern Congo while Western multinational companies steal mineral wealth from that country without paying taxes to the central gvernment of the Congo (Milton Allimadi, an influential Ugandan-American investigative journalist friend of mine has covered this controversy). Are these African leaders not being foolishly generous?
Read this (Mitol Allimadi, "The Choice Is Clear: Africa Must Embrace Nkrumah's Vision and United"):
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The question of African unity has been on some front pages this week as the African Union (AU) reflects on 50 years of existence, with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) being its earlier incarnation.
A unified Africa, under one continental government, remains the best solution for dealing with Africa's myriad problems, in this 21st century and beyond.
A United States of Africa, with a continental army, would secure control of the continent's immense wealth for the benefit of its people and for uplifting millions out of poverty.
Counting Africa south of the Sahara alone, the armed forces would have about 2 million men and women under arms; combined with the north African armies the total would be more than four million. By comparison: India has 4.7 million; China has a total force of 4.5 million; Russia 3.5 million; the United States, about 2.3 million; and, Britain 400,000.
Africa is endowed with almost every type of natural and mineral resource wealth. Yet these are currently primarily used to fuel the economies of the industrialized countries, and the emerging ones such as China's, India's and Brazil's rather than for the benefit of African countries.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alone contains mineral and natural resources whose value is estimated at nearly $30 trillion.
These include: high quality timber; gold; diamonds (30% of the world's reserves); coltan (70% of the world's reserves); copper; cobalt; and, many other minerals.
Yet Congolese remain impoverished. Foreign powers allow bandits financed by Rwanda and Uganda to wreak havoc in Congo's eastern region, which contains most of its resources. Under this planned chaos, private corporations enjoy absolute rent; they siphon off Congo's resources through Rwanda and Uganda without paying fees or taxes to the central government.
In the meantime, the bandit militias have ethnically cleansed the resource-containing zones through depopulation to make it easier to plunder resources. Ten million Congolese have perished since Rwanda and Uganda first invaded in 1997. The military and political elite in Rwanda and Uganda have become wealthy under this profitable genocide: the Western corporations that purchase the blood minerals have profited the most.
The Western powers allow genocide in Congo without any consequences to the political and military leadership in Rwanda and Uganda. The major media outlets such as The New York Times, CNN and the BBC, which could influence public opinion to demand that Western powers sanction Rwanda and Uganda remain silent; they essentially aid and abet genocide in Africa. The media outlets are very partisan when making demands that suit their interests: such as calling for intervention in Libya and Syria.
Congo's tragedy is only one of many other illustrations of the type of calamity that Kwame Nkrumah feared would beset the continent, if Africa did not unite. Nkrumah himself had tried to prevent the earlier attempt to dismember Congo, that led to the murder of Patrice Lumumba by Belgian agents and Moise Tshombe's collaborationist regime.
Nkrumah appealed for continental unity when leaders of newly-independent African nations first met on May 24, 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to form the Organization of African Unity (OAU); the predecessor of the AU.
"Unite we must," Nkrumah said. "Without necessarily sacrificing our sovereignties, big or small, we can here and now forge a political union based on defence, foreign affairs and diplomacy, and a common citizenship, an African currency, an African monetary zone, and an African central bank. We must unite in order to achieve the full liberation of our continent."
Nkrumah warned that decolonization on paper was not sufficient to protect African countries. Western countries would still need the continent's vast mineral and natural resource wealth to continue fueling their economies. He noted that half the gold at Fort Knox, in the United States, originated from Africa.
So long as African countries remained weak and divided, their economies would remain underdeveloped unless they could change the terms of trade with the industrialized countries, Nkrumah warned.
This is because Western countries determined the price at which raw materials from African countries were sold to the industrialized countries; these same industrialized countries also controlled the price at which African countries purchased manufactured products from them.
Nkrumah called this a "neo-colonial" relationship; he said it would ensure that African countries remained impoverished. And without the ability to protect their resources, eventually, African countries would not be able to protect their national sovereignty, their boundaries, or their formal independence from colonial powers such as Britain and France.
African countries had to deal on equal terms with the industrialized world, Nkrumah said. This could only be accomplished if the individual African countries came together under one umbrella: with a continental government; a continental currency; a continental national armed forces; and, common foreign relations policy.
"No independent African state today by itself has a chance to follow an independent course of economic development, and many of us who have tried to do this have been almost ruined or have had to return to the fold of the former colonial rulers," Nkrumah had warned. "This position will not change unless we have a unified policy working at the continental level. The first step towards our cohesive economy would be a unified monetary zone, with, initially, an agreed common parity for our currencies."
At the 1963 OAU conference two distinct camps emerged: those who, led by Nkrumah, supported speedy move towards African unity; and, another camp that supported a more gradual approach that would focus on regional economic integration that would then broaden later.
Even if the gradualism approach had merit at some point, it comes at a very high cost today. It's so open-ended that it could take another 50 years with minimal success.
In the meantime, many recent incidents confirm that Nkrumah's worst fears continue to be fulfilled: collectively, a continent of millions exercises minimal control over its own affairs and the will of African leaders can be ignored with impunity.
The former colonial powers are now brazenly involved in the continent's affairs with impunity.
In 2010, it was primarily France, Britain and Italy, all former colonial rulers, that successfully advocated for NATO's military intervention and aerial invasion of Libya. The United States joined the campaign.
The months of uninterrupted indiscriminate bombing led to: deaths of countless Libyan civilians; destruction of the country's impressive infrastructure built with its oil wealth; and, the brutal murder of the long-time ruler Muammar al-Quathafi who in recent years had become the most vocal advocate of African unity.
The Libyan debacle demonstrated Africa's political impotence to the entire world. When the AU tasked South Africa's president Jacob Zuma with leading an African-supported peace plan, he needed permission from NATO command to travel to Libya. Under the no-fly zone his plane could have been shot down.
Zuma convinced al-Quathafi to sign on to the AU plan which called for: a ceasefire; a humanitarian corridor for civilians; and, internationally-monitored elections. The NATO powers instructed their insurgents not to sign on. The powers had no interest in democracy in Libya; each coveted the country's vast oil and natural gas supplies.
Today Libya is in chaos -- no one is talking about democracy or accountability and liability for NATO's destructive war which replaced a stable state with anarchy and also promoted the ethnic cleansing of Black Libyans, including the annihilation of the city of Tawargha.
Similarly, in the Ivory Coast, it wasn't an African solution that broke the stalemate between Alasanne Quatarra and Laurent Gbagbo, both of whom claimed they had won presidential elections. France's air-forces turned the tide in Quatarra's favor and routed Gbagbo's army; the loser is now at the Hague, awaiting trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has become an agency for enforcing the political will of Western countries. Quattara's own armed forces continues to commit atrocities, without a murmur from the ICC since he's the anointed Western leader.
After the collapse of the al-Quathafi regime, radicals seized sophisticated weapons from his destroyed army's armory and invaded Mali, seizing nearly half of the country. France sent an intervention army to clean up the mess it had helped precipitate since some of the radicals who invaded Mali were the same forces that NATO had empowered in Libya.
In the Central African Republic (CAR), France maintains an army in the capital of Bangui. In Mali, the French army was decisive in helping to repel the invaders, including from Timbuktu. Yet, in the CAR, the French army stood by and allowed rebels to seize control of the capital; clearly the deposed regime no longer fulfilled France's own interests.
In Libya, France and Britain still hope to be rewarded, when the smoke clears, with favorable terms for oil and natural gas concessions; in the Ivory Coast, as in Mali, France has re-established a neo-colonial relationship; and, the CAR has always been a French neo-colony.
These are the kind of conflicts, conducted by weak and myopic African rulers and role players on one side; and their accomplices, Western regimes and unscrupulous corporations on the other side.
As other regions of the world, in Asia, Europe, South America, move towards regional economic and political integration, in many parts of Africa the politics are retrogressing and conditions resemble the "banana republic" era that once bedeviled South America.
We now see how Nkrumah's fears have come to fruition when even an eroded power such as France can exercise such disproportional control and influence over Africa's destiny and over events on the continent.
Until China became unified in the 1950s, Western countries used to treat China the same way as African countries are dealt with today: Now China has emerged as a major economic and political power globally.
There is no question that a United States of Africa offers the key for Africans to seize control of their destiny and this is what the younger generation of Africans must demand.
Young Africans must demand for elected progressive governments that are accountable to voters and then push these governments to embrace African unity as an imperative.
A United States of Africa would eliminate many of the conflicts, including the most bloody ones such as the ones between Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda and in Burundi; and the genocide in Congo by Rwanda's and Uganda's armies and militias. Moreover, Rwanda's Gen. Paul Kagame and Uganda's Gen. Yoweri Museveni would no longer have the powers to order illegal invasions of any territory in Africa.
A United States of Africa would allow the continent to negotiate for fairer terms of trade since Africa would speak with the clout of a powerful government and a huge single market for goods and services.
A United States of Africa would combine all the militaries into one powerful continental Armed Force capable of repelling any foreign armed transgressions. Africa would also be able to demand the removal of foreign military bases from the continent.
The choice is clear: Africa must embrace Nkrumah's vision.
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Shabi 10 years ago
Nothing more than the existential attributes and psychological posture of a quadruped can fit your description. It is amazing that you, a two-legged quadruped, can even put a few alphabets together to make any sense.
I st ... read full comment
Nothing more than the existential attributes and psychological posture of a quadruped can fit your description. It is amazing that you, a two-legged quadruped, can even put a few alphabets together to make any sense.
I strongly suspect that you are one of those dudes who were fortuitously extracted from the belittling darkness of the hinterland of Africa and shipped over across to the land which virtually floats on the blood of several hundred millions of native American Indians, African slaves and colonial subjects all around the world. Surely, God cannot excuse you from joint culpability of these crimes against humanity.
No sin or crime in human history can equal the horrors of slavery and racial domination - and here we are, a victim of that single most despicable crime against humanity, excusing this most heinous act of criminality. Damn! What must have happened - or rather perhaps, how could you have escaped the fundamental but pervasive moral of modern-day education?
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago
Truthfully, we in Africa cannot adequately treat the sordid episode in human history - The Atlantic slave trade - without addressing the roles payed by Asante, Oyo, Abomey, and the Kongo kingdoms in the trade.
Do we prete ... read full comment
Truthfully, we in Africa cannot adequately treat the sordid episode in human history - The Atlantic slave trade - without addressing the roles payed by Asante, Oyo, Abomey, and the Kongo kingdoms in the trade.
Do we pretend it didn't happen, or open the Pandora box by paying reparations to all those who in one way or the other were at the receiving end of the trade ?
My gut feeling is let bygones be bygones, and rather focus on tackling the new age of sustainable development.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
I certainly intend to open the Pandora Box because we cannot adequately discuss what afflicts we Africans without doing so, e.g., the vile ethnocentrism some display. I have been threatening to do so since the '90s.
In fa ... read full comment
I certainly intend to open the Pandora Box because we cannot adequately discuss what afflicts we Africans without doing so, e.g., the vile ethnocentrism some display. I have been threatening to do so since the '90s.
In fact, I had given some gists of it many times and had indeed completed years ago the first salvo to breach that box. It's been on the cooler all these years. I might start releasing the missiles soon.
And, I came up with the concept of Internal Reparations which the "proud scions" of those predatory kingdoms you mentioned and more must pay to those their ancestors inflicted so much suffering on.
Andy-K
Prof Lungu 10 years ago
Thanks, C.Y. ANDY-K!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, C.Y. ANDY-K!!!!!!!!!!
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Marcus,
Are you saying you have not read the issues you raise in any of my articles or those of CY-Andy-K?
Just go back in time and check out some of my past articles. There is nothing new in all that. Just check ... read full comment
Dear Marcus,
Are you saying you have not read the issues you raise in any of my articles or those of CY-Andy-K?
Just go back in time and check out some of my past articles. There is nothing new in all that. Just check out some of my articles and read Andy-K's.
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Marcus,
I forgot one important comment.
In fact the issue you raise is one that MINOR CASE, a staunch supporter of Philip Kobina Baidoo, Jr., does not want me to discuss on Ghanaweb.
If you have been following ... read full comment
Dear Marcus,
I forgot one important comment.
In fact the issue you raise is one that MINOR CASE, a staunch supporter of Philip Kobina Baidoo, Jr., does not want me to discuss on Ghanaweb.
If you have been following my exchanges with MINOR CASE on Baidoo's articles, you would have noticed his (MINOR CASE's) apprehension. HE DOES NOT WANT ME TO DISCUSS EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE RAISED. Rather he distorts the facts by way of misattributions.
Whenever MINOR CASE appears under Baidoo's article ask him why he does not want me to publicly discuss the issues you raise. Besides, like I told you already, the issues you raise are issues I have already discussed in some of earlier articles (Andy-K has done the same).
MINOR CASE has had a problem with me ever since I broached the issues you raise in my articles. So there is nothing new there. In fact that area is one of my expertise. I have all the necessary "scientific" historical info on that. Andy-K is well versed in that area as well.
Thanks.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Marcus,
I hope you recall writing this:
"A well researched & written piece.
Dr. Heckman's observation "Investing early allows us to shape the future and build equity, investing later chains us to fixing the misse ... read full comment
Dear Marcus,
I hope you recall writing this:
"A well researched & written piece.
Dr. Heckman's observation "Investing early allows us to shape the future and build equity, investing later chains us to fixing the missed opportunities of the past" is so true in our country. We are currently paying dearly for our miseducation couple of decades ago. Not to mention the missed opportunities for our unemployed graduates & drop-outs.
On a personal level, I experienced racial discrimination in Washington DC,when I complained to my boss for calling me Sambo.
I jokingly said my mother wasn't Black Mumbo & my father wasn't Black Jumbo, and I received a pink slip the next day.
My next encounter with discrimination was in Baltimore, when I was stopped by the police.
A Blackman "in fugu driving a Volvo" was enough for a stop & search.
The unfortunate fact of the matter is some whites throughout the world discriminate against nonwhites.
That has to change!"
Remember to read my articles on ethnocentrism, "tribalism," and other forms of prejudices in our own backyard! As a matter of fact, you have no idea what others are learning from these articles you seem to disapprove.
I may one day do a little piece on the sorts of reactions I get from people who read these articles. I have to do this because I am in touch with readers all over the world who greatly appreciate the sort of topics we write about.
Remember you are just one out of many who read our articles. i HAVE PERSONALLY SPOKEN WITH SOME OF THESE READERS. I ALSO COMMUNICATE WITH MANY THROUGH EMAILS. Certainly you may not like them but many do!
Thanks.
Shabi 10 years ago
Here we go again. The colonially distorted mind of an African who is made to bear equal or part responsibility or even mutual guilt of the terrible crimes - particularly that of the 'SLAVE TRADE' that are still being perpetra ... read full comment
Here we go again. The colonially distorted mind of an African who is made to bear equal or part responsibility or even mutual guilt of the terrible crimes - particularly that of the 'SLAVE TRADE' that are still being perpetrated against himself by our common oppressors.
Such unacceptable and weird impressions are the result of the imperialist education that has been inflicted upon us all and which some of us have found difficult to rid ourselves from. As we speak even today, the imperialists similarly explain their invasion of Iraq on the humanitarian response of the insignificant anti-Saddam Hussein clique to as it were, get rid of a dictator. The same scenario has been enacted in Libya, Afghanistan and many other locations around the world where global imperialism, to assuage its guilt, blames the victims of its own willful atrocities upon mankind, on its hapless victims.
I presume that when we are talking about the slave trade, what we really mean to talk about is 'THE SLAVE TRADE' and nothing else. Scouring the African historical and social terrain to detect infinitesimal instances of abuse by man against man to exonerate the particularly evil nature of THE SLAVE TRADE, only ends up as imperialist propaganda to justify THE SLAVE TRADE as just simply an unavoidable human quirk.
The understanding that I have of THE SLAVE TRADE is the racially motivated and mass 'alien' human exploitation of Africa by means of criminal seizure, incarceration under the most intolerable conditions, extreme forms of maltreatment, forced labour of the most brutal kind that stretched human capacity to its limit and often death and by extension, the many accompanying instances of genocide as a result of the efforts of the captors to suppress masses of slaves to the singular will and conditions of 'alien' exploiters. Like the obnoxious norms of capitalism and its blackmailing conditionalities of today, the norms and practices of slavery, after several decades or perhaps hundreds of years, became the standard practices by which African Chiefs or leaders had to live by, or, face extreme punitive sanctions in instances where they slacked.
Further down the line, like the Mahamas, Kufuors and Rawlings' of today who defend and glorify themselves under the most self-defeatist capitalist/imperialist policies and conditions, our local chiefs at the time may also have become so addicted to the self-enhancing spoils of slavery which had supplanted every other socio-economic activity that, I can imagine why some of them came round to actively partake in this vile economic enterprise and why they would stick out their necks to resist the abolition of slavery.
There couldnt have been any other plausible reason why our chiefs engaged this most heinous crime against humanity unless they were as psychopathic as the ones who offered them huge amounts of money to do so. One does not need to be a shrink to understand or see at face value that Africans, ordinarily, are the most humane and genial species of the human race. In fact these values of the African are at once our virtues and and our downfall.
On their own, Africans would never have condescended to such inhuman acts of brutality and barbarity against their own kind - or for that matter, upon any other species of mankind.
Those to whom such psychopathic behaviour comes normally, are still at it today, all over the world doing what they have always done best - killing and destroying.
YAW 10 years ago
..Currently, there is no single soul in any Western society that will tell you that slavery is good. .." (Philip Kobina Baidoo).
Some people do...April 24,2014
Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher around whom some Rep ... read full comment
..Currently, there is no single soul in any Western society that will tell you that slavery is good. .." (Philip Kobina Baidoo).
Some people do...April 24,2014
Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher around whom some Republicans and conservative activists have rallied in a high-profile fight against the federal government, made disparaging comments about African-Americans in an interview with The New York Times published Thursday.
Bundy wondered if African-Americans might have been "better off" as slaves, referring to them as "the Negro."
From The Times' Adam Nagourney:
“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.
“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Namesake,
Good day. Interestingly, Dr. Monique W. Morris' book "Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers in The Twenty-First Century" debunks most of data thrown around by ignorant racists such as Cliven Bundy (D ... read full comment
Dear Namesake,
Good day. Interestingly, Dr. Monique W. Morris' book "Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers in The Twenty-First Century" debunks most of data thrown around by ignorant racists such as Cliven Bundy (Dr. Morris, an educator, holds Ed.D).
These data are from the Federal government, states, research institution/universities across America. For instance, Bundu would not have made his comments about Blacks and welfare if he knew the data on whites and welfare! Of course there are US-based Africans and African Americans who repeat these racist data without any knowledge of what the true data say!
I provided a list of 10 high-profile Republican neocons, libertarians, and free marketers who have said slavery was a blessing for enslaved Africans in my article "Re: Nkrumahism, The Can Of Worms I Opened-Slavery and Racism 5," my last rebuttal of Baidoo's arguments of the same.
In fact there is rather tall list of whites who think slavery was a good thing. Check this out (YAW, YOUR LIBERTARIAN FANATIC CLIVEN BUNDY IS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE):
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The fanatical right in the US has a problem on its hands and that problem is American history. History tells a tale that does not fit the narrative of the Tea Party and libertarian version of American’s founding and history.
That was evident this week, when former senator Jim DeMint, who is head of the Heritage Foundation, a libertarian think tank, made the claim that it was not the government that freed the slaves, but faith.
Talking to Jerry Newcombe on the radio show Vocal Point, DeMint said, “[Abolitionism] came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that [slavery] was wrong.” DeMint goes out of his way to say big government had nothing to do with freeing the slaves; it was on the Constitution and Lincoln, because obviously neither of those is big government. DeMint goes on to say:
"The reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution; it was like the conscience of the American people. Unfortunately there were some court decisions like Dred Scott and others that defined some people as property, but the Constitution kept calling us back to ‘all men are created equal and we have inalienable rights’ in the minds of God. But a lot of the move to free the slaves came from the people; it did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that this was wrong. People like [British abolitionist William Wilberforce] who persisted for years because of his faith and because of his love for people. So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it was based on a love in his heart that comes from God."
DeMint misses some important historical points here. For starters, while he is correct that Lincoln was a Republican, he ignores the history of the Democratic and Republican parties and their ideologies at the time. The roles of the party had been reversed and did not fully change place until around the time of President Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Secondly, there is no historical evidence Lincoln governed with faith. Lincoln never joined a specific religion, yet he did appear to believe in some form of God or deity. This however is not sufficient evidence that Lincoln fought to free the slaves because of a religious or faith-based obligation to do so.
DeMint also misses another important piece to the historical puzzle: most churches refused to take part when offered a leading role by abolitionists. As historian John R. McKivigan explains in his book The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches 1830-1865, “All but a few small denominations balked at a commitment to uncompromised abolitionist principles and programs. As a result, civil war and government ended slavery in 1865.”
History is not on the side of DeMint, who is fighting to change the country’s history to fit a new narrative he has for the Tea Party and the far right. DeMint knows the true history of this country is built upon the backs of liberals, union men and women, and those who fought against an oppressive South, ruled by then conservative Democrats, who are now in turn the conservative right’s Republican Tea Party.
While crediting Lincoln with freeing the slaves is actually historically inaccurate in his intentions, it is correct that the war Lincoln chose to fight did bring an end to slavery. Lincoln himself said he was not interested in freeing the slaves when going to war—his goal was preserving the Union, and freeing slaves happened to be a later part of his military strategy.
Lincoln wrote in a letter to abolitionist Horace Greeley in 1862:
“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.”
So while in the end Lincoln’s decision to go to war with the South to save the Union did result in the freeing of the slaves, this was not his intention. DeMint is continuously wrong in his assertions and his invented history in which his party saved the day and freed the slaves without big government, only a Constitution and God himself.
This narrative DeMint is trying to create has a thorn in its side that it does not even try to remove, and that is that the South still holds onto anger over its Civil War loss. They still fly Confederate flags and refer to the war not as the Civil War, but as the war of northern aggression. Some cities still have monuments erected in celebration and remembrance of fallen Confederate heroes. This does not sound like the narrative of those who hold faith so deeply they fought to free slaves. Instead, it tells a tale of a radical Christian Right that fought to the death for its “god-given right” to own slaves.
This does seem to be the latest trend in Tea Party politics; if only history were different and they could be the heroes, their lost political capital could be regained. They want to appear as though they stand against tyranny and will fight for the little person.
Inventing history and creating heroes out of thin air is what the Tea Party is trying to rally behind. These are the exact events we are watching play out in Nevada right now, with rancher Cliven Bundy taking up arms with a band of libertarian fanatics against the Bureau of Land Management.
Bundy stopped paying his federal fees for letting his cattle graze on government-owned land and went as far to say, “I don’t recognize [the] United States government as even existing.” This type of delusional rhetoric is exactly what the Tea Party is about.
Their desire to enact a political revolution is so obsessive they are willing to cling to anyone with a gun who will stand up against the US government. They ignore the fact that Bundy is nothing more than the freeloaders they campaign against, refusing to pay his rent and stealing from the US government by using its land to feed his cattle.
Apparently, a white Tea Party libertarian is a revolutionary, and a group of them are national heroes; yet when police evict a minority family from their home at gunpoint because they failed to make rent, the minorities are freeloaders living off the American citizens tax dollars.
Just as DeMint is fighting to change the history of America to include his band of slave owners as abolitionists, the party is trying to use someone like Bundy, who for all intents and purposes is a domestic terrorist, as a national icon against their invented tyrannical government.
False narratives are the sign of a party in its death throes. We are witnessing a party struggling to stay relevant in a world that has become increasingly liberal. The erratic behavior from the right is nothing but a response to the current climate that shows liberalism has won.
Markos Moulitsas of Daily KOS writes, “But if you wonder why conservatives seem to carry perpetual grievances, it’s because they know they have lost. The entire world around them has left them behind. Heck, they’ve created an entire alternate media world in which to cocoon themselves. But they know they’ve lost.”
The right knows the fight is moving out of their hands: more than a dozen states have legalized gay marriage, their religious beliefs are being squeezed out of government, and the population is done with pampering the corporate elite.
This changing political climate has the right scared and backed into a corner. It should come as no surprise they are lashing out and grasping at straws. From extremists pointing guns at federal agents to a retelling of historical events, the Tea Party rhetoric machine is gassed up and ready to spread mythology and endorse violence and terrorism until its final breath.
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Prof Lungu 10 years ago
YAW,
Thanks for the reminder about that recent Clive Bundy nonsense!
We say, Mr. Phillip Kobina Baidoo never speaks with theory.
And, even with all his shouts and leveraging of commonsense, that even escapes him, we m ... read full comment
YAW,
Thanks for the reminder about that recent Clive Bundy nonsense!
We say, Mr. Phillip Kobina Baidoo never speaks with theory.
And, even with all his shouts and leveraging of commonsense, that even escapes him, we must say with reluctance.
Peace!
Asiwome 10 years ago
This discussion should not be about the few talented and inbred, it should be about the poor and the outcasts.
This discussion should not be about the few talented and inbred, it should be about the poor and the outcasts.
Nate 10 years ago
Yes,they flourish,but the are brought down & disgraced before they die.This is something the so-called intellectuals have not noticed
Yes,they flourish,but the are brought down & disgraced before they die.This is something the so-called intellectuals have not noticed
jason roberts 10 years ago
do black actors flourish like white actors? no.Who controls the roles that blacks get, who controls production etc. white people. who controls what they do,think and act. Who really controls the money they make and there inve ... read full comment
do black actors flourish like white actors? no.Who controls the roles that blacks get, who controls production etc. white people. who controls what they do,think and act. Who really controls the money they make and there investments. this question has no substance.whites control it all.
Dear Prof. Lungu,
This is what I wrote in "Re: Nkrumahism, The Can of Worms I Opened-Slavery and Racism 5" about what some right-wing, conservative and libertarian Republicans have to say about slavery being a blessing (I ...
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We see!
A catalog of White-American sayings - "... right-wing, conservative and libertarian Republicans..." as you say!
We know that those are not conservatives as they exist in the UK!
We also know that some of them ...
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Nyebro Yaw,
I can sense your frustration but I must commend you for your perseverance and above all the high quality of your responses.
As you know, these jokers can't just be left alone to be spreading ad nauseam the ...
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Nyebro Yao,
Well said.
As you put, I am way done with arguing with individuals who think they are all that but are seriously handicapped because they are not widely read and not conversant with what is going on in the ...
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Dear Prof. Lungu,
Dr. Monique W. Morris' book "Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Century" dismantles/debunks most of the statistics ignorantly thrown around by racists and some ill-informed ...
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Francis Kwarteng, idiotic fool! tell us about racism in Maryland where you live.
WHAT KIND OF BLACK MAN CAN YOU BE TO TALK LIKE THIS? WHO GOT THE REAL TALENT IN THIS WORLD? IS IT NOT THE BLACK MAN?
WHY DID THEY JAIL MARCUS GARVEY WHEN HE WANTED TO REMOVE ALL BLACKS BACK HOME TO AFRICA? LOOK WE ARE TH ...
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Eduardo,
Who are you riling against? Baidoo, Prof, Lungu, or Nyebro Francis?
You sure you're reading the discourse correctly?
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K, tell us the number of cars your Ewe father stole from the Tema Port as a Senior Customs officer. Cars belonging to shippers from abroad because of heavy duty.
Moron! My father was an Acct-Gen. staff detailed to supervise collection of duties at Tema and the Airport. He wasn't a Customs officer.
Unfortunately, his father didn't born him a thief like yourself and your father. So, ...
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So if I have understood C.K. Man right, your father was a car thief at the Tema Port.
Of a prostitute mother! he didn't work at Tema Harbour to get close to any cars to steal.
A pity you don't have a prominent and recognisable father, being what you are!
Dzimakplavi!
Andy-K
DISGRACEFUL AFRICAN, SUFFERING FROM BUSIAISM AKA TRIBALISM, EVENTUALLY ALL TRIBALISTS IN AFRICA WILL BE ELIMINATED OR EXTERMINATED!!! YOU WORSHIP THE WHOTEMAN AND DENIGRATE AFRICANS!!! HOW IDIOTIC, THERE IRONY IS WHEN YOU GO ...
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EDUARDO DOMINGO,
Say that to Phillip Kobina Baidoo!
It is Baidoo who wrote that text.
We only wanted to bring the essentials of what he said to the people, for situational awareness, if you will.
See C.Y. ANDY-K's ...
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Americans are the most generous, freedom and justice people l have never come across. What we must know is that they needed people to help them to develop their country, and please this is not a sin. Slavery has been there si ...
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Dear OYIKO,
Slavery has been there since history does not justify it anywhere. The fact that slavery has been there since history does not mean in should still be the case in Mauritania, Northeastern Nigeria (Boko Haram), ...
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Nothing more than the existential attributes and psychological posture of a quadruped can fit your description. It is amazing that you, a two-legged quadruped, can even put a few alphabets together to make any sense.
I st ...
read full comment
Truthfully, we in Africa cannot adequately treat the sordid episode in human history - The Atlantic slave trade - without addressing the roles payed by Asante, Oyo, Abomey, and the Kongo kingdoms in the trade.
Do we prete ...
read full comment
I certainly intend to open the Pandora Box because we cannot adequately discuss what afflicts we Africans without doing so, e.g., the vile ethnocentrism some display. I have been threatening to do so since the '90s.
In fa ...
read full comment
Thanks, C.Y. ANDY-K!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Marcus,
Are you saying you have not read the issues you raise in any of my articles or those of CY-Andy-K?
Just go back in time and check out some of my past articles. There is nothing new in all that. Just check ...
read full comment
Dear Marcus,
I forgot one important comment.
In fact the issue you raise is one that MINOR CASE, a staunch supporter of Philip Kobina Baidoo, Jr., does not want me to discuss on Ghanaweb.
If you have been following ...
read full comment
Dear Marcus,
I hope you recall writing this:
"A well researched & written piece.
Dr. Heckman's observation "Investing early allows us to shape the future and build equity, investing later chains us to fixing the misse ...
read full comment
Here we go again. The colonially distorted mind of an African who is made to bear equal or part responsibility or even mutual guilt of the terrible crimes - particularly that of the 'SLAVE TRADE' that are still being perpetra ...
read full comment
..Currently, there is no single soul in any Western society that will tell you that slavery is good. .." (Philip Kobina Baidoo).
Some people do...April 24,2014
Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher around whom some Rep ...
read full comment
Dear Namesake,
Good day. Interestingly, Dr. Monique W. Morris' book "Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers in The Twenty-First Century" debunks most of data thrown around by ignorant racists such as Cliven Bundy (D ...
read full comment
YAW,
Thanks for the reminder about that recent Clive Bundy nonsense!
We say, Mr. Phillip Kobina Baidoo never speaks with theory.
And, even with all his shouts and leveraging of commonsense, that even escapes him, we m ...
read full comment
This discussion should not be about the few talented and inbred, it should be about the poor and the outcasts.
Yes,they flourish,but the are brought down & disgraced before they die.This is something the so-called intellectuals have not noticed
do black actors flourish like white actors? no.Who controls the roles that blacks get, who controls production etc. white people. who controls what they do,think and act. Who really controls the money they make and there inve ...
read full comment