The braggart claimed (fake) columnist, francis kwarteng has posted another rubbish cut and pasted article only to waste space and claim useless credit in columnistship in the eyes of some ignorant and stupid People.
The we ... read full comment
The braggart claimed (fake) columnist, francis kwarteng has posted another rubbish cut and pasted article only to waste space and claim useless credit in columnistship in the eyes of some ignorant and stupid People.
The well known for something bad, francis kwarteng is not (and will never be) in the position to write any reasonable, useful or Educative article on his own, ownig to his low intelligent Quotient and besides his poor command in the English language.
I will be back!!!
Mark Osei 8 years ago
Kwarteng,the great teacher,continue to teach those fools.They are afraid of your powerful teachings.Why are they hiding?
Kwarteng,the great teacher,continue to teach those fools.They are afraid of your powerful teachings.Why are they hiding?
SARPONG 8 years ago
Who is this idiot called Mark Osei? Kwarteng, if I want to engage you in any discourse, I will use my noble Sarpong name as I did on your last article without hiding behind a ridiculous name like Bob.
Learn how to figure o ... read full comment
Who is this idiot called Mark Osei? Kwarteng, if I want to engage you in any discourse, I will use my noble Sarpong name as I did on your last article without hiding behind a ridiculous name like Bob.
Learn how to figure out how to expose people through their IP address. I live in Texas. Bob is no where near Texas but it is not my responsibility to tell you where he is posting from.
Ask one of your friends to tell you where Bob is posting from as compared to me.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Sarpong,
First, I AM NOT MARK OSEI. That said, I still want to know if your IP software is not working. Why haven't contacted Nyansasem who also has the software? With Nyansasem's assistance you can easily provide rea ... read full comment
Dear Sarpong,
First, I AM NOT MARK OSEI. That said, I still want to know if your IP software is not working. Why haven't contacted Nyansasem who also has the software? With Nyansasem's assistance you can easily provide readers with my IP address and Mark Osei's so that can make their decisions.
Second, PLEASE USE YOUR IP SOFTWARE. Or get in touch with one who has one. PLEASE MAKE THE IP DATA AVAILABLE TO READERS ONCE YOU HAVE THEM
PLEASE ALLOW THOSE WHO WANT TO WORSHIP NKRUMAH TO DO SO. I STRONGLY BELIEVE IT IS A PERSONAL CHOICE. THUS I DON'T THINK IT IS YOUR PLACE TO SUGGEST TO ANOTHER WHO OR WHAT TO WORSHIP (HOPE I DID NOT FORCE YOU TO READ THIS ARTICLE).
Next I hardly read your comments or articles but I think I have to help you out here--I hardly read them because I don't find them insightful or educative (no insult). Now, you write:
"Somebody can also cut and paste all the bad things said about Nkrumah by other important people including President Nyerere you recently made as a friend of Nkrumah."
Let me give you a list that can help you embark upon your project in accordance with your statement above. You have a daunting task ahead of you since you apparently have no clue of the magnitude of the task you want to give yourself!
Well, you don't have to stress yourself. I have a tall list for you where you can find all you want and need. Here is it (This is a partial list. I will give you more if you so desire):
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Books By Kwame Nkrumah
1) Africa Must Unite
2) Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah
3) Challenge of the Congo
4) Class Struggle in Africa
5) Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization
6) Dark Days in Ghana
7) Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
8) Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
9) I Speak of Freedom
10) Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
11) Revolutionary Path
12) Rhodesia Files
13) The Struggle Continues
14) Towards Colonial Freedom
15) Voice from Conakry
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NAG stands for "NATIONAL ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS" (National Archives of Ghana (NAG):
6. African Analysis (This and the subsequent titles are here courtesy of Dr. Ama Biney)
7. Africa At 40 News
8. Africa Confidential
9. African Concord
10. African World Review
11. Al-Ahram Weekly
12. Bulletin On African Affairs
13. Ghana Today
14. West Africa
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SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:
1. Journal Of African Studies
2. The Black Scholar (Journal Of Black Studies And Research)
3. The Journal Of Pan-African Studies
4. The Journal Of Modern African Studies
5. African Affairs (Oxford University Press)
6. Research Review (Institute of African Studies)
7. Africological Perspectives
8. Canadian Journal Of African Affairs
9. Journal Of African Cultural Studies
10. African Studies Quarterly
11. African Studies Review
12. The Western Journal Of Black Studies
13. Nordic Journal Of African Studies
14. Journal Of African History
15. International Journal Of African Historical Studies
16. American Historical Review
17. Souls: A Critical Journal Of Black Politics, Culture, And Society
18. Africa: The Journal Of The International African Institute
19. Journal Of Colonialism And Colonial History
20. Third World Quarterly
21. Journal Of African And Asian Studies
22. Cambridge Journals Online (Africa)
23. The Journal Of Conflict Resolution
24. Legon Observer (Journal Of The Legon Society For National Affairs, LSNA)
25. New Legon Observer (University of Ghana; same as (24))
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INSTITUTES & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & ARCHIVES & COLLEGES-UNIVERSITIES:
1. The Molefi Kete Asante Institute
2. The Institute Of African Studies (University Of Ghana)
3. Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference.
4. Public Record Office (PRO), The National Archives, United Kingdom.
5. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
6. Websites of Black Studies In The United States, Canada, And Europe
7. The H.M. Basner Papers (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London)
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NEWSPAPERS (Courtesy of Dr. Ama Biney):
1. African Morning Post (Accra)
2. The Ashanti Pioneer (Accra)
3. Ashanti Sentinel (Accra)
4. Ashanti Times (Accra)
5. The Daily Graphic (Accra)
6. Daily Nation (Lagos)
7. Daily Nation (Uganda)
8. Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
9. The Evening Times (Accra)
10. The Ghanaian Times (Accra)
11. New Ashanti Times (Accra)
12. New Nigerian (Lagos)
13. New York Herald Tribune (America)
14. The New York Times (America)
15. People’s Daily Graphic (Accra)
16. The Times (London)
17. The West African Pilot (Lagos)
18. New York Amsterdam News (courtesy of this author)
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WEBSITES:
1.Kwame Nkrumah: Information And Resource (Link: www.nkrumah.net/about-data.html#primary-sources)
2.Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Infobank (Link: www.nkrumahinfobank.org)
3.100 Leaders In World History (Link: www.100leaders.org/kwame-nkrumah)
4.The Famous People: Society For Recognition Of Famous People (Link: www.thefamouspeople.com)
5.University Archives And Records Center (University of Pennsylvania)(Link: www.archives.upenn.edu)
6.John F. Kennedy: Presidential Library And Museum (Link: www.jfklibrary.org)
7.Democracy Now (Link: www.democracynow.org)
8.Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference)(Link: www.kpu.ca/knic)
9.Pan-Africanist International (Link: www.panafricanistinternational.org)
291) The Organization Of African Unity And The Condo Crisis, 1964-1965 (C. Hoskyns)
292) West African States: Failure And Promise (A Study In Comparative Politics) (John Dunn)
293) Africans In Britain (David Killingray)
294) The African Colonial State In Comparative Perspective (Crawford Young)
295) Africa In Crisis: New Challenges And Possibilities (Edited by Tunde Zack-Williams)
296) Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique Of European Cultural Thought And Behavior (Marimba Ani)
297) African Universities And Western Tradition (Eric Ashby)
298) African Origin Of Civilization: Myth Or Reality (Cheikh Anta Diop)
299) Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Cheikh Anta Diop)
300) Precolonial Black Africa (Cheikh Anta Diop)
301) Black Africa: The Economic And Cultural Basis For A Federated State (Cheikh Anta Diop)
302) The Cultural Unity Of Black Africa (Cheikh Anta Diop)
303) Akyem Abuakwa And The Politics Of The Interwar Period In Ghana (A.B. Homes)
304) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication Of Ancient Greece 1785-85; Volume 1; Martin Bernal)
305) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Archeological And Documentary Evidence; Volume 2; Martin Bernal)
306) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Linguistic Evidence; Volume 3; Martin Bernal)
307) African Philosophy: The Phaoronic Period, 2780-330 B.C. (Theophile Obenga)
308) Stolen Legacy (George G.M. James)
309) Ghana’s First Republic, 1960-1966: The Pursuit Of The Political Kingdom (Trevor Jones)
310) The African Personality In America: An African-centered Framework (K.K.K Kambon)
311) Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome (Joy D. Leary)
312) The Debt: What America Owes Black America (Randall Robinson)
313) An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution To The Kidnapping Of A President (Randall Robinson)
314) Ethiopia Unbound: Studies In Race Emancipation (J.E. Casely-Hayford)
315) Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Renaissance (Sandra L. West & Aberjhans)
316) The Oxford Encyclopedia Of African Thought (Biodun Jeyifo & Abiola Irele)
317) Institutions And Ethnic Politics In Africa (Daniel N. Posner)
318) Staying Politics: Power And Performance In Asia And Africa (Edited by Donal C. O’Brien & Julia Strauss)
318) To Vote Or Not To Vote: The Merits And Limits Of Rational Choice (Andre Blais)
319) Ghana, 1957-1966: The Politics Of Institutional Dualism (Benjamin Amonoo)
320) The End Of The Earth (Robert D. Kaplan)
321) Economics And Elections: The Major Western Democracies (Michael S. Lewis-Beck)
332) Democratic Experiments In Africa: Regime Transitions In Comparative Perspective (Michael Bratton & Nicholas van de Wille)
332) Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood In West Africa (Pierre Englebert)
333) Youth And Employment In Africa: The Potential, The Problem, The Promise (The World Bank)
334) UN Millennium Development Library (Jeffrey Sachs The UN Millennium Project)
335) The End Of Politics (Jeffrey Sachs)
336) The Age Of Sustainable Development (Jeffrey Sachs)
337) The Future: Six Drivers Of Global Change (Al Gore)
338) African Americans And Political Participation: A Reference Handbook (Minion Morrison)
339) Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life In Harlem, 1919-1939 (Clare Corbould)
340) The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (Jerry Ward & Robert Butler)
341) African And American: West Africans In Post-Civil Rights America (Violet Showers & Marilyn Halter)
342) The Redemption Of Africa And Black Religion (St. Clair Drake)
343) Encyclopedia Of African American Education (Faustine Jones-Wilson Et Al.)
344) Encyclopedia Of African American History (Paul Finkelman)
345) Black World (Negro Digest) (A Johnson Publication)
346) Encyclopedia Of African-American Education (Two-volume set; Kofi Lomotey)
347) African American Lives (Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Evelyn B. Higginbotham)
348) African People In The Global Village: An Introduction To Pan-African Studies (John Marah)
349) Paul Cuffe: Black America And The African Return (Sheldon Harris)
350) African Americans In Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives (Michael Clemons)
351) Silenced Rivers: The Ecology And Politics Of Large Dams (Patrick McCully)
352) The Volta Resettlement Experience (Robert Chambers)
353) Effects Of Volta Lake Resettlement In Ghana: A Reappraisal After 25 Years (Kofi Diaw)
354) The Environmental Impact Of A Large Tropical Reservoir (Peter Freeman)
355) Message To The People: The Course Of African Philosophy (Marcus Garvey)
356) Encyclopedia Of The African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, And Culture (Boyce Davies & Carole Elizabeth)
357) Autobiography Of Malcolm X (Malcolm X & Alex Haley)
378) Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention (Manning Marable)
379) The John Henrik Clarke Papers (The New York Library, Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture)
380) Educational Outlook Journal (University of Pennsylvania)
381) In My Father’s House: Africa In the Philosophy Of Culture (Kwame Anthony Appiah)
382) Kwame Nkrumah Of Ghana: His Formative Years And The Beginning Of His Political Career, 1935-1948 (A.B. Assensoh)
383) The Dissolution Of The Colonial Empires (Franz Ansprenger)
384) Reconstructing The Nation In Africa: The Politics Of Nationalism In Ghana (Michael Amoah)
385) Nationalism And African Intellectuals (Toyin Falola)
386) The New Ghana: The Birth Of A New Nation (Joseph G. Amamoo)
387) The Oxford Handbook Of Modern African History (Edited by Richard Reid & John Parker)
388) Writing And Colonialism In Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between The LoDagaa And ‘The World On Paper’ “Sean Hawkins)
389) The African Journalist (Kwame Nkrumah)
390) The African Journalist (Keith Nalumango)
391) British Imperialism: Innovation And Expansion (Two-volume Set: 1688-1914, 1914-1994; A.G. Hopkins & P.J. Cain)
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1) Coussey Committee, "Report On Constitutional Reforms." Accra: Government Printer, 1949.
2) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Appointed To Enquiry Into The Affairs Of The Kumasi State Council And The Asanteman Council." (By Justice Sarkodee-Addo). Accra: Government Printer, 1958a.
3) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into The Akim Abuakwa State Affairs" (By Mr. Justice J. Jackson). Accra: Government Printer, 1958b.
4) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into The Matters Disclosed At The Trial Of Benjamin Awhaitey Before A Court-Martial And The Surrounding Circumstances." Accra: Government Printer, 1959.
5) Ghana, "Ghana National Chamber Of Commerce. Second Annual Report." 1965.
6) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into The Workers Brigade." Accra: Government Printer, 1969.
7) Gold Coast, "Government Of Gold Coast Departmental Report 12." Accra: Government Printer, 1913.
8) Gold Coast: "Summary Statement Of The Value Of Important Into The Colony Of The Gold Coast." "Government Of The Gold Coast, Department Report." Accra: Government Printer.
9) Gold Coast, "Regional Administration" (Report By The Sole Commissioner, Sir Sydney Phillipson), 1951.
10) Jibowu Commission, "Gold Coast Commission Of Enquiry Into The Affairs Of The Cocoa Purchasing Company." Accra: State Publishing Corporation, 1956.
11) Lewis, W.A. "Report On Industrialization In The Gold Coast." Accra: Government Printer, 1953.
12) Ollenu Commission, "Summary Of The Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into Alleged Malpractices In The Issue Of Impact Licenses." Accra: Ministry Of Information, 1967.
13) Watson Commission Report, "Commission Of Enquiry Into Disturbances In The Gold Coast." Accra: Government Printer, 1948.
Other Sources (Courtesy of Kwame Arhin's "The Life And Work Of Kwame Nkrumah"):
1) Acts Of The First Republic.
2) Annual Volumes Of Laws Of Ghana.
3) Bills Of The First Republic Of Ghana.
4) "Cultural Policy in Ghana," UNESCO, 1975.
5) "Daily Graphic" various issues.
6) "Evening News" various issues.
7) "Ghana Economic Surveys" (1954, 1963, 1965 issues). Published by the Central Bureau of Statistics
8) Ghana Parliamentary Debates, various issues.
9) Ghana's Seven-Year Development Plan 1963/641-1969/1970.
10) "The Ghanaian Woman," a Journal of the National Council on Women.
11) The Gold Coast Legislative Council Debates, various issues.
12) The Government Proposals for Constitutional Reforms, 1953.
13) "The Party," a Journal published by the CPP's Bureau of Information and Publicity.
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Other publications:
The Ghana Young Pioneers. Publication No. 437. Winneba: Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, n.d. George Padmore Research Library Collection, Accra.
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Sister Souljah 8 years ago
Sarpong the Vulgar BUFFOON!
Sarpong the Vulgar BUFFOON!
Bob 8 years ago
francis kwarteng you are such a fool, "you don't know nothing", I am not Sarpong as he said. Fact is I hate braggart fools like you and your entire friends who use to hail an idiotic stupid fool like you.
francis kwarteng you are such a fool, "you don't know nothing", I am not Sarpong as he said. Fact is I hate braggart fools like you and your entire friends who use to hail an idiotic stupid fool like you.
SARPONG 8 years ago
You can bet on your bottom dollar that I did not read your cut and paste story. I don't read your articles but sometimes curiosity takes the better of me to see who is commenting on your articles.
If you write something fr ... read full comment
You can bet on your bottom dollar that I did not read your cut and paste story. I don't read your articles but sometimes curiosity takes the better of me to see who is commenting on your articles.
If you write something from your own perspective, I might read it and if I want to comment, I will use my real name Kwame Sarpong to comment and not a ridiculous name like Bob.
Have a great day.
Lest I forget, I don't need any special software to read your IP address. I can do that on any computer including public library computers, ok?
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Sarpong,
Is the article you have on Ghanaweb (and several others you have posted on Ghanaweb) written from your perspective?
Could you please go back and list for readers the number of articles you have posted on ... read full comment
Dear Sarpong,
Is the article you have on Ghanaweb (and several others you have posted on Ghanaweb) written from your perspective?
Could you please go back and list for readers the number of articles you have posted on Ghanaweb which were/are written by others? Please do us that big favor! When you are done go through the homepage of Ghanaweb and tell me the number of cu-and-past articles Ghanaweb published today. I am not talking about the Opinions/Feature section. I mean the entire homepage.
Unlike you, I hardly read your articles let alone comment on them. You know? Neither you nor anyone else forces me to read them. Why are you here insulting one reader after another? Are you doing this out of frustration or what?
Is anyone forcing you to read at gun point or you just landed here by accident? Why don't you stop reading my articles (as I do in your case) or accidentally landing on my articles?
Please engage your political opponents with decency because insults will not help you win your flawed arguments. Well, I am done with you for today.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks.
Bob @ cut & paste 8 years ago
francis kwarteng, I dare you to write an article on your own like the following self written article by Emmanuel asakinaba and stop your cheap cut and paste nonsense. You are doing more harm than good to be misleading and mis ... read full comment
francis kwarteng, I dare you to write an article on your own like the following self written article by Emmanuel asakinaba and stop your cheap cut and paste nonsense. You are doing more harm than good to be misleading and misinforming the public especially the ignorant and ýoung ones with your copied and pasted nonsense.
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Nkrumah: Demystify Him!
By Emmanuel Asakinaba
In Tanzui, a vibrant suburb of Bolgatanga, where I grew up, every grown-up had some considerable knowledge about Dr Kwame Nkrumah . They knew varied stories about him. As a child, I was completely captivated by the mystery surrounding his life as a child in Nkroful. I marvelled at how he rose from such obsecurity to world prominence.
The older folk related stories about Nkrumah with all the pride and vehemence they could express through words and gestures. With rehearsed elocution, they spoke about Nkrumah’s precocious and mysterious childhood; about his extraordinary exploits as a student and teacher; about his perilous journey abroad; about how the imperialist became helpless when he confronted them; about how he won independence for Ghana.
They eulogised his intellectual, political and oratorical skills as president, his unrelenting energy and drive, his genuine commitment to Ghana and Africa’s development, his honesty and incorruptibility and his phenomenal greatness. And they spoke movingly as if they had been eyewitnesses at every point in time. Their descriptions were so apt that I was literally watching a movie as the spoke.
Sadly they had different versions of Nkrumah’s biography. Each stage of the statesman’s life had several versions. Some accounts were so crudely exaggerated that they sounded outright incredible. As it was said at the time no one was prepared to buy such stories for a pesewa because the narrators merely tried ‘to put their listeners into Guinness bottles’
SARPONG 8 years ago
I don't comment on your nonsense or read them either but when an idiot called Mark Osei idiotically accuse me of posting under a Bob moniker, then I have every right to punch him on his flat nose, don't you think I have the r ... read full comment
I don't comment on your nonsense or read them either but when an idiot called Mark Osei idiotically accuse me of posting under a Bob moniker, then I have every right to punch him on his flat nose, don't you think I have the right to defend myself?
Sorry, I forgot you Nkrumah apologists don't believe in democracy but authoritarian foolishness.
Kwamebeba 8 years ago
Osagyefo is still talking and other intelligent people are talking and it is being made available to us through your so called "cut and paste" and the youth are made to know the truth. The only way you can quash our pro Nkru ... read full comment
Osagyefo is still talking and other intelligent people are talking and it is being made available to us through your so called "cut and paste" and the youth are made to know the truth. The only way you can quash our pro Nkrumah arguments is to give us some "cut and paste" of your Danquah. Sorry! You have nothing from him or any other person.
Kojo T 8 years ago
Democracy is freedom of thought We love Nkrumah and Francis is our man Go burn the sea Cut and paste the works of J B Danquah Busia and the illiterate founder of NPP Baffour Akoto and let us compare, HATER
Democracy is freedom of thought We love Nkrumah and Francis is our man Go burn the sea Cut and paste the works of J B Danquah Busia and the illiterate founder of NPP Baffour Akoto and let us compare, HATER
JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 8 years ago
THE LIFE PRESIDENT OF A ONE PARTY DICTATORSHIP IS DEAD AND GONE. HE HAD A GOOD TIME IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND LIVED WELL AND HIS CHILDREN ARE DOING WELL. THAT IS HIS PERSONAL GAIN. WHILE ONE DO NOT ENVY THE AFRICA SHOWBOY AND ... read full comment
THE LIFE PRESIDENT OF A ONE PARTY DICTATORSHIP IS DEAD AND GONE. HE HAD A GOOD TIME IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND LIVED WELL AND HIS CHILDREN ARE DOING WELL. THAT IS HIS PERSONAL GAIN. WHILE ONE DO NOT ENVY THE AFRICA SHOWBOY AND HIS CHILDREN, WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT HIS FAILED EXPLOITS IN HIS DESIRE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF AFRICA, WHICH MADE GHANA STALE IN ITS DEVELOPMENT.
Shabi 8 years ago
Bob Jatovi Kwashivi, it seems to me that you are a more loyal and enthusiastic aficionado and follower of the Nkrumaist ideal than some of us.
At the very least, you can exercise some amount of diplomatic finesse and restr ... read full comment
Bob Jatovi Kwashivi, it seems to me that you are a more loyal and enthusiastic aficionado and follower of the Nkrumaist ideal than some of us.
At the very least, you can exercise some amount of diplomatic finesse and restraint to allow some of the tried and tested Nkrumaists to reach these exciting and eye-opening articles on Nkrumah before you come and soil the sanctity of this platform with your smelly and depraved level of ignorance.
Joe Mensah 8 years ago
Thanks to Kwarteng for educating the narrow-minded pseudo-intellectuals to know more about the greatest African,Kwame Nkrumah.It is not only an opportunity for these idiots to know what Nkrumah stood for but it is a privilege ... read full comment
Thanks to Kwarteng for educating the narrow-minded pseudo-intellectuals to know more about the greatest African,Kwame Nkrumah.It is not only an opportunity for these idiots to know what Nkrumah stood for but it is a privilege.I hope they will stop hiding behind fake names and give sensible comments.
JATO KWASHIVI RAWLINGS 8 years ago
HAVE READ BETTER, BALANCED, OBJECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT SOURCES ABOUT THE SHOWBOY OF AFRICA, THAN THIS BLIND, PRAISE-SINGING AND WORSHIP. TRY "GHANA IN TRANSITION" BY DAVID E. APTER.
HAVE READ BETTER, BALANCED, OBJECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT SOURCES ABOUT THE SHOWBOY OF AFRICA, THAN THIS BLIND, PRAISE-SINGING AND WORSHIP. TRY "GHANA IN TRANSITION" BY DAVID E. APTER.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Mr. Show Boy,
Basil Davidson's Black Star did not help you so you are here with another twaddle, Apter's "Ghana in Transition." Apuuu!
Please come back with something better, more scholarly, and more profound! Don't wwa ... read full comment
Mr. Show Boy,
Basil Davidson's Black Star did not help you so you are here with another twaddle, Apter's "Ghana in Transition." Apuuu!
Please come back with something better, more scholarly, and more profound! Don't wwaste your time with this one because you have no credidibility even among your third-class colleagues. I have read Apter's just as I did Davidson's.
Stay with your yellow scholarship and journalism on Ghanaweb. Stay in your high-school cottage and allow real researchers to do the real historical work. A lot of information has come to light since Apter's work in 1955. Please hide your "pretty face" from the real ones. Hahahaha...
Have a noce day!
Thanks.
Kojo Essuman 8 years ago
I salute you Francis.Continue to spread the word.I call it the GOSPEL OF NKRUMAH.
I salute you Francis.Continue to spread the word.I call it the GOSPEL OF NKRUMAH.
K.B.Yeboah 8 years ago
Thank you Kojo.Francis is indeed spreading the GOSPEL OF NKRUMAH to all the pseudo-intellectuals who are still in darkness.
Thank you Kojo.Francis is indeed spreading the GOSPEL OF NKRUMAH to all the pseudo-intellectuals who are still in darkness.
Abra Kuma 8 years ago
In 2015, the road to change is tedious.
The oppressor does not relinquish power simply at the say-so of the oppressed
( M.L.King paraphrased).
To the oppressor,return violence for violence - that is the language he speak ... read full comment
In 2015, the road to change is tedious.
The oppressor does not relinquish power simply at the say-so of the oppressed
( M.L.King paraphrased).
To the oppressor,return violence for violence - that is the language he speaks (F. Fanon loosely paraphrased).
It is only when we turn our backs on our Ancestors that we will lose our way to any advancement; only then will we be forever lost in the wilderness, only then will we feel a deep sense of loss from which we cannot recover( Molefi K Asante - roughly paraphrased).
Africa must unite!(Kwame Nkrumah)
Nkrumah lives in our hearts.
Nkrumah lives in our minds.
Nkrumah must never die!
Keep hope alive!(J.Jackson)
One love, one heart!(B.Marley)
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Abra Kuma,
Thanks very much for your comments.
I will continue to do my best to provide readers the necessary information. Your insightful commentary is always appreciated. Great words.
Have a great weekend.
... read full comment
Dear Abra Kuma,
Thanks very much for your comments.
I will continue to do my best to provide readers the necessary information. Your insightful commentary is always appreciated. Great words.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks.
Pelicles 8 years ago
Nkrumah hate to be oppressed but was oppressing his own people. He was jailing his political opponents without trial. What was the charges against JB Danquah? Can you tell me what JB did before he was incarcerated and die li ... read full comment
Nkrumah hate to be oppressed but was oppressing his own people. He was jailing his political opponents without trial. What was the charges against JB Danquah? Can you tell me what JB did before he was incarcerated and die like a dog in prison?
Look, Africans shouldn't have been given any self rule. Yes I said that because we abused power and most of our leaders who led us to freedom, were booted from power and what was the reason?
As we speak, you Kwarteng or whatever is afield and can you tell me why you are away from home and not living in your home country? Why do love to live among those who oppressed your forefathers? Coming back to reside among "white wolves" and not "hang on to life" back home is a testimony that we blacks are not capable of managing our own affairs.
Yes, you love our first president but trust me, the problems we are facing today was the mistakes he did and you know it. Instead of building a society with strict law and order, he chose a "one-man-showmanship" that led to his abuse of power. Why did he declare himself life president and who was his vice? Nkrumah had no vice and what does that mean? Did Ghana come out from his pocket?
These are all avoidable mistakes but being power drunk, he saw nothing wrong. Strong institutions make a nation strong and he should have laid a solid foundation to stand the test of time. It never crossed his mind that he will ever leave power and that pushed him to make unpardonable errors including the idea of "out-of-nowhere-African Unity" at a time some nations on the continent were too "raw" to understand his intentions.
Nkrumah should have taken the gradual approach and build Ghana to the envy of all, just to send a crystal clear message that when it comes to the push for African unity, he is ready to lead based on what he had done to his small nation but... the rest is history hence this never-ending debate.
Kojo T 8 years ago
J B was on the payroll of the CIA He should have been executed .Busia the same Look Ghanaians were lucky As Ugandans under Idi Amin The bodies were fed to the crocodiles in the Nile
J B was on the payroll of the CIA He should have been executed .Busia the same Look Ghanaians were lucky As Ugandans under Idi Amin The bodies were fed to the crocodiles in the Nile
Kofi B 8 years ago
Kojo T, you bastard dirty Ewe go back to School in Togo and learn to write proper understandable English or better write direct in Ewe for your Ewe People to read.
Kojo T, you bastard dirty Ewe go back to School in Togo and learn to write proper understandable English or better write direct in Ewe for your Ewe People to read.
SARPONG 8 years ago
Nkrumah died alone a lonely man even without the love of his wife and children who abandoned him after he fled to Guinea.
Nkrumah died a rejected man. His wickedness caught up to him and died in a cold room in Romania alon ... read full comment
Nkrumah died alone a lonely man even without the love of his wife and children who abandoned him after he fled to Guinea.
Nkrumah died a rejected man. His wickedness caught up to him and died in a cold room in Romania alone without a soul by his side.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Sarpong,
At least this essay tells you he did not die a lonely man.
Did you read my piece dealing with how the world practically came to him for ideas as he served as Guinea's Co-President? I know you have not rea ... read full comment
Dear Sarpong,
At least this essay tells you he did not die a lonely man.
Did you read my piece dealing with how the world practically came to him for ideas as he served as Guinea's Co-President? I know you have not read any scholarly paper, historical texts and or speeches made at his funeral.
Read about his funeral (and see the high caliber of men and women from around the world who approached him with their problems as Co-president of Guinea).
He died lonely? Tell us which of his Ghanaian/Gold Coast contemporaries was more patronized than Nkrumah even in exile! NONE! There were practical and political reasons to your ahistorical fantasies but I will not waste my time on this. Here is what I have for you:
PLEASE ALLOW THOSE WHO WANT TO WORSHIP NKRUMAH TO DO SO. I STRONGLY BELIEVE IT IS A PERSONAL CHOICE. THUS I DON'T THINK IT IS YOUR PLACE TO SUGGEST TO ANOTHER WHO OR WHAT TO WORSHIP (HOPE I DID NOT FORCE YOU TO READ THIS ARTICLE).
Next I hardly read your comments or articles but I think I have to help you out here--I hardly read them because I don't find them insightful or educative (no insult). Now, you write:
"Somebody can also cut and paste all the bad things said about Nkrumah by other important people including President Nyerere you recently made as a friend of Nkrumah."
Let me give you a list that can help you embark upon your project in accordance with your statement above. You have a daunting task ahead of you since you apparently have no clue of the magnitude of the task you want to give yourself!
Well, you don't have to stress yourself. I have a tall list for you where you can find all you want and need. Here is it (This is a partial list. I will give you more if you so desire):
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Books By Kwame Nkrumah
1) Africa Must Unite
2) Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah
3) Challenge of the Congo
4) Class Struggle in Africa
5) Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonization
6) Dark Days in Ghana
7) Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
8) Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
9) I Speak of Freedom
10) Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
11) Revolutionary Path
12) Rhodesia Files
13) The Struggle Continues
14) Towards Colonial Freedom
15) Voice from Conakry
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NAG stands for "NATIONAL ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS" (National Archives of Ghana (NAG):
6. African Analysis (This and the subsequent titles are here courtesy of Dr. Ama Biney)
7. Africa At 40 News
8. Africa Confidential
9. African Concord
10. African World Review
11. Al-Ahram Weekly
12. Bulletin On African Affairs
13. Ghana Today
14. West Africa
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SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:
1. Journal Of African Studies
2. The Black Scholar (Journal Of Black Studies And Research)
3. The Journal Of Pan-African Studies
4. The Journal Of Modern African Studies
5. African Affairs (Oxford University Press)
6. Research Review (Institute of African Studies)
7. Africological Perspectives
8. Canadian Journal Of African Affairs
9. Journal Of African Cultural Studies
10. African Studies Quarterly
11. African Studies Review
12. The Western Journal Of Black Studies
13. Nordic Journal Of African Studies
14. Journal Of African History
15. International Journal Of African Historical Studies
16. American Historical Review
17. Souls: A Critical Journal Of Black Politics, Culture, And Society
18. Africa: The Journal Of The International African Institute
19. Journal Of Colonialism And Colonial History
20. Third World Quarterly
21. Journal Of African And Asian Studies
22. Cambridge Journals Online (Africa)
23. The Journal Of Conflict Resolution
24. Legon Observer (Journal Of The Legon Society For National Affairs, LSNA)
25. New Legon Observer (University of Ghana; same as (24))
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INSTITUTES & INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & ARCHIVES & COLLEGES-UNIVERSITIES:
1. The Molefi Kete Asante Institute
2. The Institute Of African Studies (University Of Ghana)
3. Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference.
4. Public Record Office (PRO), The National Archives, United Kingdom.
5. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
6. Websites of Black Studies In The United States, Canada, And Europe
7. The H.M. Basner Papers (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London)
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NEWSPAPERS (Courtesy of Dr. Ama Biney):
1. African Morning Post (Accra)
2. The Ashanti Pioneer (Accra)
3. Ashanti Sentinel (Accra)
4. Ashanti Times (Accra)
5. The Daily Graphic (Accra)
6. Daily Nation (Lagos)
7. Daily Nation (Uganda)
8. Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
9. The Evening Times (Accra)
10. The Ghanaian Times (Accra)
11. New Ashanti Times (Accra)
12. New Nigerian (Lagos)
13. New York Herald Tribune (America)
14. The New York Times (America)
15. People’s Daily Graphic (Accra)
16. The Times (London)
17. The West African Pilot (Lagos)
18. New York Amsterdam News (courtesy of this author)
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WEBSITES:
1.Kwame Nkrumah: Information And Resource (Link: www.nkrumah.net/about-data.html#primary-sources)
2.Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Infobank (Link: www.nkrumahinfobank.org)
3.100 Leaders In World History (Link: www.100leaders.org/kwame-nkrumah)
4.The Famous People: Society For Recognition Of Famous People (Link: www.thefamouspeople.com)
5.University Archives And Records Center (University of Pennsylvania)(Link: www.archives.upenn.edu)
6.John F. Kennedy: Presidential Library And Museum (Link: www.jfklibrary.org)
7.Democracy Now (Link: www.democracynow.org)
8.Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Biennial Kwame Nkrumah International Conference)(Link: www.kpu.ca/knic)
9.Pan-Africanist International (Link: www.panafricanistinternational.org)
291) The Organization Of African Unity And The Condo Crisis, 1964-1965 (C. Hoskyns)
292) West African States: Failure And Promise (A Study In Comparative Politics) (John Dunn)
293) Africans In Britain (David Killingray)
294) The African Colonial State In Comparative Perspective (Crawford Young)
295) Africa In Crisis: New Challenges And Possibilities (Edited by Tunde Zack-Williams)
296) Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique Of European Cultural Thought And Behavior (Marimba Ani)
297) African Universities And Western Tradition (Eric Ashby)
298) African Origin Of Civilization: Myth Or Reality (Cheikh Anta Diop)
299) Civilization Or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Cheikh Anta Diop)
300) Precolonial Black Africa (Cheikh Anta Diop)
301) Black Africa: The Economic And Cultural Basis For A Federated State (Cheikh Anta Diop)
302) The Cultural Unity Of Black Africa (Cheikh Anta Diop)
303) Akyem Abuakwa And The Politics Of The Interwar Period In Ghana (A.B. Homes)
304) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication Of Ancient Greece 1785-85; Volume 1; Martin Bernal)
305) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Archeological And Documentary Evidence; Volume 2; Martin Bernal)
306) Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots Of Classical Civilization (The Linguistic Evidence; Volume 3; Martin Bernal)
307) African Philosophy: The Phaoronic Period, 2780-330 B.C. (Theophile Obenga)
308) Stolen Legacy (George G.M. James)
309) Ghana’s First Republic, 1960-1966: The Pursuit Of The Political Kingdom (Trevor Jones)
310) The African Personality In America: An African-centered Framework (K.K.K Kambon)
311) Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome (Joy D. Leary)
312) The Debt: What America Owes Black America (Randall Robinson)
313) An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution To The Kidnapping Of A President (Randall Robinson)
314) Ethiopia Unbound: Studies In Race Emancipation (J.E. Casely-Hayford)
315) Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Renaissance (Sandra L. West & Aberjhans)
316) The Oxford Encyclopedia Of African Thought (Biodun Jeyifo & Abiola Irele)
317) Institutions And Ethnic Politics In Africa (Daniel N. Posner)
318) Staying Politics: Power And Performance In Asia And Africa (Edited by Donal C. O’Brien & Julia Strauss)
318) To Vote Or Not To Vote: The Merits And Limits Of Rational Choice (Andre Blais)
319) Ghana, 1957-1966: The Politics Of Institutional Dualism (Benjamin Amonoo)
320) The End Of The Earth (Robert D. Kaplan)
321) Economics And Elections: The Major Western Democracies (Michael S. Lewis-Beck)
332) Democratic Experiments In Africa: Regime Transitions In Comparative Perspective (Michael Bratton & Nicholas van de Wille)
332) Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood In West Africa (Pierre Englebert)
333) Youth And Employment In Africa: The Potential, The Problem, The Promise (The World Bank)
334) UN Millennium Development Library (Jeffrey Sachs The UN Millennium Project)
335) The End Of Politics (Jeffrey Sachs)
336) The Age Of Sustainable Development (Jeffrey Sachs)
337) The Future: Six Drivers Of Global Change (Al Gore)
338) African Americans And Political Participation: A Reference Handbook (Minion Morrison)
339) Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life In Harlem, 1919-1939 (Clare Corbould)
340) The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (Jerry Ward & Robert Butler)
341) African And American: West Africans In Post-Civil Rights America (Violet Showers & Marilyn Halter)
342) The Redemption Of Africa And Black Religion (St. Clair Drake)
343) Encyclopedia Of African American Education (Faustine Jones-Wilson Et Al.)
344) Encyclopedia Of African American History (Paul Finkelman)
345) Black World (Negro Digest) (A Johnson Publication)
346) Encyclopedia Of African-American Education (Two-volume set; Kofi Lomotey)
347) African American Lives (Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Evelyn B. Higginbotham)
348) African People In The Global Village: An Introduction To Pan-African Studies (John Marah)
349) Paul Cuffe: Black America And The African Return (Sheldon Harris)
350) African Americans In Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives (Michael Clemons)
351) Silenced Rivers: The Ecology And Politics Of Large Dams (Patrick McCully)
352) The Volta Resettlement Experience (Robert Chambers)
353) Effects Of Volta Lake Resettlement In Ghana: A Reappraisal After 25 Years (Kofi Diaw)
354) The Environmental Impact Of A Large Tropical Reservoir (Peter Freeman)
355) Message To The People: The Course Of African Philosophy (Marcus Garvey)
356) Encyclopedia Of The African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, And Culture (Boyce Davies & Carole Elizabeth)
357) Autobiography Of Malcolm X (Malcolm X & Alex Haley)
378) Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention (Manning Marable)
379) The John Henrik Clarke Papers (The New York Library, Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture)
380) Educational Outlook Journal (University of Pennsylvania)
381) In My Father’s House: Africa In the Philosophy Of Culture (Kwame Anthony Appiah)
382) Kwame Nkrumah Of Ghana: His Formative Years And The Beginning Of His Political Career, 1935-1948 (A.B. Assensoh)
383) The Dissolution Of The Colonial Empires (Franz Ansprenger)
384) Reconstructing The Nation In Africa: The Politics Of Nationalism In Ghana (Michael Amoah)
385) Nationalism And African Intellectuals (Toyin Falola)
386) The New Ghana: The Birth Of A New Nation (Joseph G. Amamoo)
387) The Oxford Handbook Of Modern African History (Edited by Richard Reid & John Parker)
388) Writing And Colonialism In Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between The LoDagaa And ‘The World On Paper’ “Sean Hawkins)
389) The African Journalist (Kwame Nkrumah)
390) The African Journalist (Keith Nalumango)
391) British Imperialism: Innovation And Expansion (Two-volume Set: 1688-1914, 1914-1994; A.G. Hopkins & P.J. Cain)
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1) Coussey Committee, "Report On Constitutional Reforms." Accra: Government Printer, 1949.
2) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Appointed To Enquiry Into The Affairs Of The Kumasi State Council And The Asanteman Council." (By Justice Sarkodee-Addo). Accra: Government Printer, 1958a.
3) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into The Akim Abuakwa State Affairs" (By Mr. Justice J. Jackson). Accra: Government Printer, 1958b.
4) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into The Matters Disclosed At The Trial Of Benjamin Awhaitey Before A Court-Martial And The Surrounding Circumstances." Accra: Government Printer, 1959.
5) Ghana, "Ghana National Chamber Of Commerce. Second Annual Report." 1965.
6) Ghana, "Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into The Workers Brigade." Accra: Government Printer, 1969.
7) Gold Coast, "Government Of Gold Coast Departmental Report 12." Accra: Government Printer, 1913.
8) Gold Coast: "Summary Statement Of The Value Of Important Into The Colony Of The Gold Coast." "Government Of The Gold Coast, Department Report." Accra: Government Printer.
9) Gold Coast, "Regional Administration" (Report By The Sole Commissioner, Sir Sydney Phillipson), 1951.
10) Jibowu Commission, "Gold Coast Commission Of Enquiry Into The Affairs Of The Cocoa Purchasing Company." Accra: State Publishing Corporation, 1956.
11) Lewis, W.A. "Report On Industrialization In The Gold Coast." Accra: Government Printer, 1953.
12) Ollenu Commission, "Summary Of The Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into Alleged Malpractices In The Issue Of Impact Licenses." Accra: Ministry Of Information, 1967.
13) Watson Commission Report, "Commission Of Enquiry Into Disturbances In The Gold Coast." Accra: Government Printer, 1948.
Other Sources (Courtesy of Kwame Arhin's "The Life And Work Of Kwame Nkrumah"):
1) Acts Of The First Republic.
2) Annual Volumes Of Laws Of Ghana.
3) Bills Of The First Republic Of Ghana.
4) "Cultural Policy in Ghana," UNESCO, 1975.
5) "Daily Graphic" various issues.
6) "Evening News" various issues.
7) "Ghana Economic Surveys" (1954, 1963, 1965 issues). Published by the Central Bureau of Statistics
8) Ghana Parliamentary Debates, various issues.
9) Ghana's Seven-Year Development Plan 1963/641-1969/1970.
10) "The Ghanaian Woman," a Journal of the National Council on Women.
11) The Gold Coast Legislative Council Debates, various issues.
12) The Government Proposals for Constitutional Reforms, 1953.
13) "The Party," a Journal published by the CPP's Bureau of Information and Publicity.
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Other publications:
The Ghana Young Pioneers. Publication No. 437. Winneba: Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, n.d. George Padmore Research Library Collection, Accra.
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Bob 8 years ago
Sarpong why you should ignore the lunatic kwarteng is that he is a nonentity braggart with an I.Q. of 15%.
He can't write a simple sentence ín English without a grammatic difficit besides creative writing is a red handke ... read full comment
Sarpong why you should ignore the lunatic kwarteng is that he is a nonentity braggart with an I.Q. of 15%.
He can't write a simple sentence ín English without a grammatic difficit besides creative writing is a red handkerchief for the imbecile "cut and paste" specialist. In a nutshell the kwarteng guy is an idiot!!!
SARPONG 8 years ago
And who told you idiot I want to do cut and paste of people who disagreed with Nkrumah?
Who attended Nkrumah's funeral?
Why don't you tell us who did because I don't read your cut and paste stupidities because it will s ... read full comment
And who told you idiot I want to do cut and paste of people who disagreed with Nkrumah?
Who attended Nkrumah's funeral?
Why don't you tell us who did because I don't read your cut and paste stupidities because it will serve no purpose for me.
I know the history of the man and I don't need anybody's personal opinion of the wicked dictator to form my opinion about him.
Is it not true Fathia his wife and the children never saw him after February 22nd 1966 when he left Accra for Hanoi?
Since you like doing cut and paste, why don't you do a cut and paste about Nkrumah's courtship of Fathia and how Fathia alone with just one uncle was at her weeding with Nkrumah because her parents did not want her to marry Nkrumah?
I will not be ashamed to admit if I read youe cut and paste stupidities but I don't have time for that. Those nonsense are for idiots who want to be brainwashed like you and your sycophantic Nkrumah worshippers.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Sarpong,
Hehehehehe..That is all that I have for you. Hahahahaha...
Good day my brother.
Take care.
Dear Sarpong,
Hehehehehe..That is all that I have for you. Hahahahaha...
Good day my brother.
Take care.
Amanfo 8 years ago
You are so wrong Mr Sarpong, Osagyefo Nkrumah never died a lonely man, check the facts. When he was toppled as the man on mission, three or even more African great leaders were willing to offer him a place in their kingdoms n ... read full comment
You are so wrong Mr Sarpong, Osagyefo Nkrumah never died a lonely man, check the facts. When he was toppled as the man on mission, three or even more African great leaders were willing to offer him a place in their kingdoms namely, Nasser Gamel of Egypt, Nyerere of Tanzania and Sekou Toure of Guinea but, he chose the latter because of the closeness of the country to his own formed country, Ghana and also because of the bondage that he holds with the leader. Nkrumah, whiles in sojourn kept receiving world renowned personalities including Che Cuevera, Mohammed Ghaddafi, Amir Cabril etc. Unless you wants to educate us that, when a man is departing after serving his time on earth he has to go along with someone who will keep him company as was the case in ancient Egypt and currently so in many African cultures, where chiefs and kings are accorded that rights. Even whiles his detractors sought after his life for no apparent reasons and they landed in prisons for their own crimes, Osagyefo has been brutally chastised and maligned which continues even today. Dr. Nkrumah never died a lonely man, besides people die individually or?. Thank you
Patriot 8 years ago
Those African leaders who wanted Nkrumah in their kingdoms as you rightly say were all of the same ilk: dictators who milked their people dry. Gamel Nasser was no different from Nkrumah; Sekou Toure was a tin god in Guinea; s ... read full comment
Those African leaders who wanted Nkrumah in their kingdoms as you rightly say were all of the same ilk: dictators who milked their people dry. Gamel Nasser was no different from Nkrumah; Sekou Toure was a tin god in Guinea; some like Nyerere were misguided in to thinking that their poor countries would be saved by socialism. After all that the Soviets did to contain Cuba in the American theater they kept fighting until Obama broke the US embargo. Yes, Castro achieved so much for his people but at the expense of several lives lost at sea and in Cuban prisons. What does is profit a man than to sacrifice humans to achieve his personal ambitions? These so-called great men were the same.
YAW 8 years ago
Did the Vietnamese people send a petition to the US govt to come and bomb them because they were desperate the see the colour of napalm or agent orange?
Did the Vietnamese people send a petition to the US govt to come and bomb them because they were desperate the see the colour of napalm or agent orange?
SARPONG 8 years ago
Are you kidding me or yourself or you want to believe in your dreams? Nyererere and Nasser Gamel will not touch Nkrumah with a ten foot pole.
Nasser Gamel was even approached by Fathia's mother to talk sense into Fathia an ... read full comment
Are you kidding me or yourself or you want to believe in your dreams? Nyererere and Nasser Gamel will not touch Nkrumah with a ten foot pole.
Nasser Gamel was even approached by Fathia's mother to talk sense into Fathia and stop her from marrying Nkrumah. Nasser was against an Egyptian marrying a black man if you don't know.
Some Ghanaians even thought Fathia was Nasser's daughter and recently even one commentator here in the forum argued with me that Fathia was Nasser's daughter because that was what Nkrumah wanted Ghanaians to believe.
Stop your nonsense. Gaddafi was nobody when Nkrumah was alife. Are you a baby or something? Che Cuevera wasnobody in the pantheon of democratic leaders.
When I said he died alone, I meant his wife and children had rejected him and none of you can refute that claim because Fathia never visited him after he was removed from power, tell forumers that is not true.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Sarpong,
For your information, there are Ghanaian families or parents who will not allow their children to marry into other ethnic groups (different from theirs).
And there are Ghanaian families and parents who wi ... read full comment
Dear Sarpong,
For your information, there are Ghanaian families or parents who will not allow their children to marry into other ethnic groups (different from theirs).
And there are Ghanaian families and parents who will not allow their children to marry the "Arab." So nothing you say about Nkrumah and his marriage to Fathia is important.
What you need to know is that Nasser worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure Fathia married Nkrumah. I can give you academic texts and scholarly papers (written by Ghanaian, Western, and Egyptians writers to discredit your uninformed views on this matter), but I will not.
You also need to go back and look at what "Arab" is. Just as there are pre-Columbian Native-American Jews, Indian Jews, Chinese Jews, etc., so there are African Jews (Lemba Tribe, Felasha or Beta Israel Jews, and others spread across Africa in the region south of the Sahara).
The word "Arab" may connote religious, linguistic, cultural, and or political colors. It is not monolithic as your uninformed assertions indicate. In fact there are Arabs (and Jews) who are darker than Idi Amin and Lupito Nyongo.
You need a thorough appreciation of ancient as well as classical archeology, history, genetics, linguistics to better understand the ethno-racial dynamics of ancient and contemporary Egypt (I will not bore you with technical, scientific, or historical references on this subject matter).
You also need to understand 7th Century Arabia (and if you can go back to 7,000-year-old history of Arabia to understand the ethno-racial composition of Arabia before Aram-Muslims spread Islam across Africa. Then look at the map of Yemen, Arabia, and other parts of the so-called Middle East to see how close Africa is to this area. As well, some ancient maps had the so-called Middle East directly attached to Africa. You know what this means in terms of human geography across Africa to Southwest Asia and Southwest Asia to Africa), in terms of the Trans-Saharan Arab-Muslim Slave Trade for instance.
Part of Nasser's family, for instance, came from Upper Egypt. Get your hands on any technical historical work on Upper Egypt going all the way back to antiquity or classical Africa and you will understand how ethno-racially the population dynamics was and still is. I guess you have heard of the Nubians (Anwar Sadat).
The period covering the so-called Anglo-Egyptian Sudan reinforced this racial admixture among Sudanese, Egyptians, and Europeans (British). So please, don't make the "Arab" superior because he is not.
Egypt is more or less populated by a "mixed-race" society. Light-skinned Arabs may poke racist fun at Anwar Sadat but many Egyptian Arabs are mixed-race folks. Blacks have been in Egypt longer than any "Arab" stepped foot there (7th Century AD).
Therefore, nothing you say here about "Arab" is scientific. It is gossip at best. And I promise not to bother you with any technical texts on the subject matter. I hope you are following the scientific/DNA work that is being done on Ancient Egyptians (As aside, please get the book "Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt." Let me go against my own word and give you just one title).
On the other hand I will take up this subject matter with any commentator who is interested in a technical discussion of the subject matter. There is more but let me end here...Thus Nasser and the “Arab” are not superior to any one…In fact Nasser did everything on the planet to get Fathia married to Nkrumah. Let me not bother you with technical papers, academic texts, and other sources on the subject…
Have fun.
SARPONG 8 years ago
Nonsense as usual. You are the cut and paste expert. If there was a behind the scenes effort by Nasser to get Fathia to marry Nkrumah, you would have cut and pasted it here in a nanosecond.
What is all this bullcrap abou ... read full comment
Nonsense as usual. You are the cut and paste expert. If there was a behind the scenes effort by Nasser to get Fathia to marry Nkrumah, you would have cut and pasted it here in a nanosecond.
What is all this bullcrap about Arab history here? It's not relevant to the issue under discussion.
You seem to be like a student who studied about a three hoping to get a question about the function of that three and went to the examination room only to see a question about a bird.
He then wrote about how the bird flew and perched on his tree and then started writing about the tree. We are discussing Fathia marriage to Nkrumah and not Arab history.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Sarpong,
You see why it is not worth my time responding to your ignorance and insult-laden twaddle?
Did you go through the list I gave you? If you had gone through that list, at least you would have put our hands o ... read full comment
Dear Sarpong,
You see why it is not worth my time responding to your ignorance and insult-laden twaddle?
Did you go through the list I gave you? If you had gone through that list, at least you would have put our hands on info dealing with Nasser, Fathia, and Nkrumah.
But I will not tell where exactly to go in order to secure what you want on Nkrumah, Fathia, and Nasser--I mean the behind-the-scenes role Nasser played in Fathia's marriage to Nkrumah. Therefore, I can't cut and paste for you. You can read, can't you? You can do basic research, can't you?
Now what is this misplaced infatuation with Arab history? Did you not read where I mentioned DNA? Linguistics? Upper Egypt? Jew (Chinese, Lemba, pre-columbian Native Amricans)? "Arab" as a linguistic, political, cultural, religious, geopolitical, etc., construct? Arab and geography?...
If you want to know about the behind-the-scenes role Nasser played in Nkrumah's marriage, then go to the list I gave you. I will not tell excatly where to go to.
I already have promised you more if you can get what yu want. Just tell me what you want and I will give additional references if you can get what you want from what I have already given you. For now what you want about Nasser's behind-the-scenes is right before you.
So you see who is actually behaving like a child? You can't even tell Arab history from science, archeology, geography, linguistics, Upper Egypt, and what have you! You can't understand anything I write when you can't make this elementary distinction.
Go do your homeback and come back. Please don't impose your confusion on me. Go to the list. Be reminded that I will not respond to you if you don't come back with the answers. Then also learn to distinguish between Arab history and the other scientific things I talked about (IN FACT YOU WILL NOT BE MAKING THOSE UNINFORMED STATEMENTS IF YOU KNEW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ARAB HISTORY).
Was my refernce to "classical" about Arab history? What are you talking about? Did you look up "classical"? And do you think "classical" has to do with Arab history as I mentioned or implied in my original response to you? Since you seem not to have a grasp of what I wrote, I better end here. AGAIN WILL NOT CUT AND PASTE ANYTHING FOR YOU, CHECK THE LIST.
Thanks.
YAW 8 years ago
Unlike Sir Ofori Atta, Nkrumah did not need the privilege of having Akyea Mensa murdered to accompany him in death. Your definition of dying happily is exactly what the callous and murderous "Atete Nkroma" also known as Kingf ... read full comment
Unlike Sir Ofori Atta, Nkrumah did not need the privilege of having Akyea Mensa murdered to accompany him in death. Your definition of dying happily is exactly what the callous and murderous "Atete Nkroma" also known as Kingforce [UP/NLM HIT SQUAD] gave to Krobo Edusei"s sister and her unborn child. She died happily with another soul within her as prescribed by the UP/NLM cult. We can understand those with a heart cold enough to freeze hydrogen when they talk about lonely deaths. Nkrumah followers did not find that sort of "ritual" worthy enough to emulate.
SARPONG 8 years ago
Do you have any brains in your cranium? Is this the first time you have heard the term dying alone?
Dying alone does not mean you have to die with somebody but simply means you have been rejected by love ones and abandoned ... read full comment
Do you have any brains in your cranium? Is this the first time you have heard the term dying alone?
Dying alone does not mean you have to die with somebody but simply means you have been rejected by love ones and abandoned and that is what his wife and children did to him.
When he was sick and sent to Romanian for health care, there was no family member at his death bed and that is what we term dying alone, dumbass.
Joe Mensah 8 years ago
Pelicles sounds like one of the "babies" on Ghanaweb.Please,go back to do more research about Nkrumah and come back.
Pelicles sounds like one of the "babies" on Ghanaweb.Please,go back to do more research about Nkrumah and come back.
Pelicles 8 years ago
Nkrumah did pretty well but somewhere along the road, he veer. My beef with him is, he should have taken the gradual approach for our new nation. Look at the history of the US. Their founding fathers have different political ... read full comment
Nkrumah did pretty well but somewhere along the road, he veer. My beef with him is, he should have taken the gradual approach for our new nation. Look at the history of the US. Their founding fathers have different political views but they came together and laid a solid foundation for the country which is now priding herself as the bacon of democracy.
Someone said "If we all think alike then someone isn't thinking". Unquote. Differences of opinion is very important but he detest that. Why did he leave the UGCC and form his own political party and where was he rushing to?
I am asking you this question. Who was his vice? You described me as an infant but as I said, we cannot think alike and I hope you understood me loud and clear.
Today, on Ghanaweb, K.B Asante who was a with our first president said that the rot we are seeing today, started during their time. Nkrumah was building a nation not just a small house and that needs a gradual and well thought approach.
YAW 8 years ago
He left the UGCC because they preferred "selective" democracy and he chose universal adult suffrage. When Mitchell Palmer [US Attorney General] was bombed,he did not hesitate in arresting people[3000] and putting them in dete ... read full comment
He left the UGCC because they preferred "selective" democracy and he chose universal adult suffrage. When Mitchell Palmer [US Attorney General] was bombed,he did not hesitate in arresting people[3000] and putting them in detention without trial. Nkrumah"s house was bombed in 1955.Hence the PDA in 1958.Now, can you explain to us why JB Danquah told the[Jackson Commission in 1958] that the people of Akyem were not subjects to the Laws of Ghana?
K.B.Yeboah 8 years ago
Francis Kwarteng,don't waste your time on illiterate fools like BOB.You are the MASTER.Keep it up.
Francis Kwarteng,don't waste your time on illiterate fools like BOB.You are the MASTER.Keep it up.
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear K.B. Yeboah,
Thanks.
I don't even read him.
I stopped reading him more than a year ago. He's Adjow Wangara and lives in Germany.
Thanks once again.
Dear K.B. Yeboah,
Thanks.
I don't even read him.
I stopped reading him more than a year ago. He's Adjow Wangara and lives in Germany.
Thanks once again.
Patriot 8 years ago
For your information, Mr. Kwarteng, Nkrumaism is nothing but pseudo Marxist Leninism and doe not have any roots in African philosophy or thought. If you want to know, please read J.B. Dankwa's book on Akan Philosophy and thou ... read full comment
For your information, Mr. Kwarteng, Nkrumaism is nothing but pseudo Marxist Leninism and doe not have any roots in African philosophy or thought. If you want to know, please read J.B. Dankwa's book on Akan Philosophy and thought, i.e., if you are the true intellectual you posit yourself to be.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Patriot,
What is all that about?
Obviously, you can call anything anything you want! And so, you can argue as if Danquah won anything and actually governed once in his life.
Except, he didn't!
So, nice try with a ... read full comment
Patriot,
What is all that about?
Obviously, you can call anything anything you want! And so, you can argue as if Danquah won anything and actually governed once in his life.
Except, he didn't!
So, nice try with a book for which you can't even properly spell the name of the author; and for absent-mindedly assuming that "Akan Philosophy" is "Ghana Philosophy".
For all it is worth there may be a very good reason for your absent-mindedness: You must be a Confederate Patriot, certainly not a Ghana Patriot!
Peace!
francis kwarteng 8 years ago
Dear Patriot,
I hope you have something useful from Prof. Lungu's insightful comments.
How about Ewe Philosophy? Mole-Dagbane Philosophy? Ga-Adangbe Philosophy? Guan Philosophy?...
This is what Ghana-centeredness is ... read full comment
Dear Patriot,
I hope you have something useful from Prof. Lungu's insightful comments.
How about Ewe Philosophy? Mole-Dagbane Philosophy? Ga-Adangbe Philosophy? Guan Philosophy?...
This is what Ghana-centeredness is all about. It does not choose one group and its culture or philosophy over others.
As for Danquah and his works we already know what one actually needs to know about them.
Thanks for sharing anyway. I am truly grateful.
Thanks.
Sampson Offei 8 years ago
Only HEAVEN knows why SARPONG,AHOOFE AND DR SAS have refused to comment on Nkrumah's historic and prophetic speech of November 25th,1964.
Only HEAVEN knows why SARPONG,AHOOFE AND DR SAS have refused to comment on Nkrumah's historic and prophetic speech of November 25th,1964.
SARPONG 8 years ago
What was so prophetic about it? Nkrumah was even harder on Ghanaians than the colonial masters. The man was a slave master. We only changed the drivers in 1957, hiring a Negro slave master who was more callous than the white ... read full comment
What was so prophetic about it? Nkrumah was even harder on Ghanaians than the colonial masters. The man was a slave master. We only changed the drivers in 1957, hiring a Negro slave master who was more callous than the white people.
Sampson Offei 8 years ago
ILLITERATE BOB,stop hiding and learn from your MASTER-Francis Kwarteng.
ILLITERATE BOB,stop hiding and learn from your MASTER-Francis Kwarteng.
The braggart claimed (fake) columnist, francis kwarteng has posted another rubbish cut and pasted article only to waste space and claim useless credit in columnistship in the eyes of some ignorant and stupid People.
The we ...
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Kwarteng,the great teacher,continue to teach those fools.They are afraid of your powerful teachings.Why are they hiding?
Who is this idiot called Mark Osei? Kwarteng, if I want to engage you in any discourse, I will use my noble Sarpong name as I did on your last article without hiding behind a ridiculous name like Bob.
Learn how to figure o ...
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Dear Sarpong,
First, I AM NOT MARK OSEI. That said, I still want to know if your IP software is not working. Why haven't contacted Nyansasem who also has the software? With Nyansasem's assistance you can easily provide rea ...
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Sarpong the Vulgar BUFFOON!
francis kwarteng you are such a fool, "you don't know nothing", I am not Sarpong as he said. Fact is I hate braggart fools like you and your entire friends who use to hail an idiotic stupid fool like you.
You can bet on your bottom dollar that I did not read your cut and paste story. I don't read your articles but sometimes curiosity takes the better of me to see who is commenting on your articles.
If you write something fr ...
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Dear Sarpong,
Is the article you have on Ghanaweb (and several others you have posted on Ghanaweb) written from your perspective?
Could you please go back and list for readers the number of articles you have posted on ...
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francis kwarteng, I dare you to write an article on your own like the following self written article by Emmanuel asakinaba and stop your cheap cut and paste nonsense. You are doing more harm than good to be misleading and mis ...
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I don't comment on your nonsense or read them either but when an idiot called Mark Osei idiotically accuse me of posting under a Bob moniker, then I have every right to punch him on his flat nose, don't you think I have the r ...
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Osagyefo is still talking and other intelligent people are talking and it is being made available to us through your so called "cut and paste" and the youth are made to know the truth. The only way you can quash our pro Nkru ...
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Democracy is freedom of thought We love Nkrumah and Francis is our man Go burn the sea Cut and paste the works of J B Danquah Busia and the illiterate founder of NPP Baffour Akoto and let us compare, HATER
THE LIFE PRESIDENT OF A ONE PARTY DICTATORSHIP IS DEAD AND GONE. HE HAD A GOOD TIME IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE AND LIVED WELL AND HIS CHILDREN ARE DOING WELL. THAT IS HIS PERSONAL GAIN. WHILE ONE DO NOT ENVY THE AFRICA SHOWBOY AND ...
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Bob Jatovi Kwashivi, it seems to me that you are a more loyal and enthusiastic aficionado and follower of the Nkrumaist ideal than some of us.
At the very least, you can exercise some amount of diplomatic finesse and restr ...
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Thanks to Kwarteng for educating the narrow-minded pseudo-intellectuals to know more about the greatest African,Kwame Nkrumah.It is not only an opportunity for these idiots to know what Nkrumah stood for but it is a privilege ...
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HAVE READ BETTER, BALANCED, OBJECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT SOURCES ABOUT THE SHOWBOY OF AFRICA, THAN THIS BLIND, PRAISE-SINGING AND WORSHIP. TRY "GHANA IN TRANSITION" BY DAVID E. APTER.
Mr. Show Boy,
Basil Davidson's Black Star did not help you so you are here with another twaddle, Apter's "Ghana in Transition." Apuuu!
Please come back with something better, more scholarly, and more profound! Don't wwa ...
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I salute you Francis.Continue to spread the word.I call it the GOSPEL OF NKRUMAH.
Thank you Kojo.Francis is indeed spreading the GOSPEL OF NKRUMAH to all the pseudo-intellectuals who are still in darkness.
In 2015, the road to change is tedious.
The oppressor does not relinquish power simply at the say-so of the oppressed
( M.L.King paraphrased).
To the oppressor,return violence for violence - that is the language he speak ...
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Dear Abra Kuma,
Thanks very much for your comments.
I will continue to do my best to provide readers the necessary information. Your insightful commentary is always appreciated. Great words.
Have a great weekend.
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Nkrumah hate to be oppressed but was oppressing his own people. He was jailing his political opponents without trial. What was the charges against JB Danquah? Can you tell me what JB did before he was incarcerated and die li ...
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J B was on the payroll of the CIA He should have been executed .Busia the same Look Ghanaians were lucky As Ugandans under Idi Amin The bodies were fed to the crocodiles in the Nile
Kojo T, you bastard dirty Ewe go back to School in Togo and learn to write proper understandable English or better write direct in Ewe for your Ewe People to read.
Nkrumah died alone a lonely man even without the love of his wife and children who abandoned him after he fled to Guinea.
Nkrumah died a rejected man. His wickedness caught up to him and died in a cold room in Romania alon ...
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Dear Sarpong,
At least this essay tells you he did not die a lonely man.
Did you read my piece dealing with how the world practically came to him for ideas as he served as Guinea's Co-President? I know you have not rea ...
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Sarpong why you should ignore the lunatic kwarteng is that he is a nonentity braggart with an I.Q. of 15%.
He can't write a simple sentence ín English without a grammatic difficit besides creative writing is a red handke ...
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And who told you idiot I want to do cut and paste of people who disagreed with Nkrumah?
Who attended Nkrumah's funeral?
Why don't you tell us who did because I don't read your cut and paste stupidities because it will s ...
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Dear Sarpong,
Hehehehehe..That is all that I have for you. Hahahahaha...
Good day my brother.
Take care.
You are so wrong Mr Sarpong, Osagyefo Nkrumah never died a lonely man, check the facts. When he was toppled as the man on mission, three or even more African great leaders were willing to offer him a place in their kingdoms n ...
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Those African leaders who wanted Nkrumah in their kingdoms as you rightly say were all of the same ilk: dictators who milked their people dry. Gamel Nasser was no different from Nkrumah; Sekou Toure was a tin god in Guinea; s ...
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Did the Vietnamese people send a petition to the US govt to come and bomb them because they were desperate the see the colour of napalm or agent orange?
Are you kidding me or yourself or you want to believe in your dreams? Nyererere and Nasser Gamel will not touch Nkrumah with a ten foot pole.
Nasser Gamel was even approached by Fathia's mother to talk sense into Fathia an ...
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Dear Sarpong,
For your information, there are Ghanaian families or parents who will not allow their children to marry into other ethnic groups (different from theirs).
And there are Ghanaian families and parents who wi ...
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Nonsense as usual. You are the cut and paste expert. If there was a behind the scenes effort by Nasser to get Fathia to marry Nkrumah, you would have cut and pasted it here in a nanosecond.
What is all this bullcrap abou ...
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Dear Sarpong,
You see why it is not worth my time responding to your ignorance and insult-laden twaddle?
Did you go through the list I gave you? If you had gone through that list, at least you would have put our hands o ...
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Unlike Sir Ofori Atta, Nkrumah did not need the privilege of having Akyea Mensa murdered to accompany him in death. Your definition of dying happily is exactly what the callous and murderous "Atete Nkroma" also known as Kingf ...
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Do you have any brains in your cranium? Is this the first time you have heard the term dying alone?
Dying alone does not mean you have to die with somebody but simply means you have been rejected by love ones and abandoned ...
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Pelicles sounds like one of the "babies" on Ghanaweb.Please,go back to do more research about Nkrumah and come back.
Nkrumah did pretty well but somewhere along the road, he veer. My beef with him is, he should have taken the gradual approach for our new nation. Look at the history of the US. Their founding fathers have different political ...
read full comment
He left the UGCC because they preferred "selective" democracy and he chose universal adult suffrage. When Mitchell Palmer [US Attorney General] was bombed,he did not hesitate in arresting people[3000] and putting them in dete ...
read full comment
Francis Kwarteng,don't waste your time on illiterate fools like BOB.You are the MASTER.Keep it up.
Dear K.B. Yeboah,
Thanks.
I don't even read him.
I stopped reading him more than a year ago. He's Adjow Wangara and lives in Germany.
Thanks once again.
For your information, Mr. Kwarteng, Nkrumaism is nothing but pseudo Marxist Leninism and doe not have any roots in African philosophy or thought. If you want to know, please read J.B. Dankwa's book on Akan Philosophy and thou ...
read full comment
Patriot,
What is all that about?
Obviously, you can call anything anything you want! And so, you can argue as if Danquah won anything and actually governed once in his life.
Except, he didn't!
So, nice try with a ...
read full comment
Dear Patriot,
I hope you have something useful from Prof. Lungu's insightful comments.
How about Ewe Philosophy? Mole-Dagbane Philosophy? Ga-Adangbe Philosophy? Guan Philosophy?...
This is what Ghana-centeredness is ...
read full comment
Only HEAVEN knows why SARPONG,AHOOFE AND DR SAS have refused to comment on Nkrumah's historic and prophetic speech of November 25th,1964.
What was so prophetic about it? Nkrumah was even harder on Ghanaians than the colonial masters. The man was a slave master. We only changed the drivers in 1957, hiring a Negro slave master who was more callous than the white ...
read full comment
ILLITERATE BOB,stop hiding and learn from your MASTER-Francis Kwarteng.