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If Kwame Nkrumah had ruled for 10 more years!

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  • YAW 8 years ago

    The same UP/NPP bunch keep praising Lee Kuan Yew, despite his PDA and 30 year rule.This is Lee Kuan Yew in his own words.

    "Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is af ...
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  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    YAW,

    I just wanted to add one or two comments on your take on Lee Kuan Yew. Here it goes courtesy of American legal scholars Benjamin Wittes and Adam Klein:

    “Preventive detention is not prohibited by US law or especia ...
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  • BIG JOE 8 years ago

    MANDELA, DR KING AND NKRUMAH WERE ALL AGAINST FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. THEY WERE COMMIES.

  • MINOR CASE 8 years ago

    Odwan , where in the USA have you heard or seen the gov't in power be it Republican or the Democrats detaining opponents . ?

  • Yaw 8 years ago

    I don't understand how Nkrumah supporters compare Lee Kuan Yew to their communist dictator. Whilst Yew was embarking on capitalist policies to develop his country with British and USA backing, Nkrumah was tying our destiny to ...
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  • GOLD COAST 8 years ago

    People with deformed minds(like this neanderthal and others)usually, haven't done anything worthwhile for themselves - much more for others and society as a whole.

    This fool(Yaw) seems to have just heard of communism and c ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

    Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, one of the fiercest critic of Nkrumah and the CPP era along with most of those who hate the era currently live and make their livelihoods in nations where the safety and security of the people are at ...
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  • KKO 8 years ago

    You are a flaming idiot! How old are you? The PDA was passed under a certificate of urgency in 1958. The first ever bomb blast in Kulungugu, incidentally planted by Kwame Nkrumah's own people, was in 1962, four long years aft ...
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  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    IGNORANCE IS BLISS. THIS BLATHERING NINCOMPOOP IS HERE EITHER IGNORANT OR A BALD-FACED LIAR!!!! THE VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION STARTED WELL BEFORE THE FIRST GENERAL ELECTIONS OF 1951, IT STEADILY ESCALATED FROM BEATINGS, BANIS ...
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  • Kofi 8 years ago

    KKO. I do not know your age, but those who were born before the 1940 through to 1960 and knew the Ghana Kwame Nkrumah brought us in, will down play the PDA you are making noise of and tell you of the good times they enjoyed i ...
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  • YAW 8 years ago

    As a graduate from the UP/NLM school of outright lies and a bona fide member of the Ahoofe Institute of Ignoble Scholars, KKO, is always eager to peddle lies. Well, the historical evidence does not support your ahistorical st ...
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  • WALATA 8 years ago

    Marcus Garvey died 10th June 1940, and Nkrumah returned to Ghana (then Gold Coast) in 1947. Marcus never visited Ghana.

  • nana arhinful 8 years ago

    Osagyefo never dies and his legacy lives on.
    The youth must embrace the concept of Africanisation. It is the key to solving the current unemployment problem
    The challenge is majority who are dissatisfied with npp/ndc ways o ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Razak El-Alawa,
    Kudos to you for lending your voice, Ghana-Centered/Ghana-Proud, by this essay.

    Greetings!

  • francis kwarteng 8 years ago

    Oh yes, America, Britain, and their friends have made Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and the Middle East great. Hahahahaha...Nkrumah should have left Ghana as Somalia, Northeastern Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria....for you!

  • Benny 8 years ago

    Do you know what if not half one third of the population would had been detained in Nsawam prison for it was a blessing more than good. He was ruling with iron hands. This period is good for anybody can ouzed out his or her o ...
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  • Peter 8 years ago

    It is surprising people continue to shower praises on that dictator called Kwame Nkrumah.Detention without trial,murder etc

  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    Mr Razak el- Alawa I am very glad to read you after almost three decades. May Asase Yaa Ghana bless you for your journalism over the years!!
    Many kudos for your insightful article.

  • Security Koncern 8 years ago

    Those who complain about Nkrumah' s governance style are just being mischievous. I was a toddler when he was overthrown and so could not have really felt how he governed. But his development projects and efforts are there for ...
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  • Robert 8 years ago

    There was ample evidence that bombs were sent across from Togo through K.A.Busia and his Matemeho group.Do you how many bomb explosions took place in Ghana ? Adamafio,Ako Adjei and Cofie Crabbe were implicated in the Kulungug ...
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  • KKO 8 years ago

    You are part of the crop of semi-illiterate young Ghanaian men and women who cannot read simple sentences and make meaningful judgement of them.

    Just read my posting and ask yourself what is ignorant about it. All the peop ...
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  • GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

    FOOLISH IDIOT THERE WERE MANY FLOURISHING PRIVATE INDUSTRIES UNDER NKRUMAH AS WELL AS MANY PRIVATE/ PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS. YOU IDIOTS ARE AWARE OF YOUR CRIMES, THAT IS WHY YOU ARE CONSTANTLY LYING AND LIVING IN A FANTASY ALTERN ...
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  • Prof Lungu 8 years ago

    Wow!

    YOUR: "...But we also see today and since 1966 how all our leaders have abused our rights without much development to match the abuses..."

    WE SAY: Insightful!

    Greeting, Security Koncern!

  • Robert 8 years ago

    It is only morons and shallow-minded idiots on Ghanaweb who do not understand Nkrumah's agenda.Nkrumah is the greatest African of all time.Nothing can change history.

  • kofi adu 8 years ago

    If Nkrumah could have ruled ten more years you yourself will have been in Nsawam security prison

  • Creativesolutions 8 years ago

    Amen.....No umah never die

  • Lawfellas 8 years ago

    Excellent piece. Very lucid and informative. Brilliant expose. I love it.