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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Modernghana:
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
BIG JOE 8 years ago
NKRUMAH, DR KING, MALCOLM X, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, MANDELA ETC WERE ALL COMMUNISTS WHO HATED FREEDOM, FREE ENTERPRISE AND DEMOCRACY.
COMMIES ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE. COMMIES HATE FREEDOM.
NKRUMAH, DR KING, MALCOLM X, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, MANDELA ETC WERE ALL COMMUNISTS WHO HATED FREEDOM, FREE ENTERPRISE AND DEMOCRACY.
COMMIES ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE. COMMIES HATE FREEDOM.
SARPONG 8 years ago
Author:
SARPONG
Date:
2015-09-24 05:40:05
Comment to:
Re: We African should be in perpetual slaver
Nkrumah died alone a lonely man even without the love of his wife and children who abandoned him after he fle ... read full comment
Author:
SARPONG
Date:
2015-09-24 05:40:05
Comment to:
Re: We African should be in perpetual slaver
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.
Author:
Amanfo
Date:
2015-09-24 08:11:30
Comment to:
NKRUMAH DIED A LONELY MAN
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
Author:
SARPONG
Date:
2015-09-24 16:06:55
Comment to:
RE: NKRUMAH DIED A LONELY MAN
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.
Author:
francis kwarteng
Date:
2015-09-24 17:59:02
Comment to:
REALITY CHECK FOR YOU
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.
Author:
SARPONG
Date:
2015-09-25 16:09:35
Comment to:
Don't Sweat The Technique...Rakim
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 tree 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.
SARPONG 8 years ago
I am not on welfare. I work for a living and don't have time to waste on non-productive ventures that does not benefit society like this nonsense you have time doing.
As a matter of fact, I don't even know what list you ar ... read full comment
I am not on welfare. I work for a living and don't have time to waste on non-productive ventures that does not benefit society like this nonsense you have time doing.
As a matter of fact, I don't even know what list you are talking about because I don't have time to read your crap responses.
Joe Mensah 8 years ago
Give your master Francis Kwarteng the due respect.KWASEA,why are you hiding?
Give your master Francis Kwarteng the due respect.KWASEA,why are you hiding?
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago
A man goes to the famous Lucas Carton restaurant in Paris with his girlfriend and orders the 1966 Mouton. The waiter returns with a bottle full of wine, pours a small amount in the glass for tasting. The customer picks up the ... read full comment
A man goes to the famous Lucas Carton restaurant in Paris with his girlfriend and orders the 1966 Mouton. The waiter returns with a bottle full of wine, pours a small amount in the glass for tasting. The customer picks up the glass, smells the wine, and puts it down on the table with a thud.
"This is not the 1966 Mouton."
The waiter assures him it is, and SOON there are another twenty people surrounding the table, including the chef and the manager trying to convince the man that the wine is the 1966 Mouton.
Finally someone asks him how he knows that it is not the 1966 Mouton.
"My name is Phillipe de Rothschild, and I make the wine."
Finally, the original waiter STEPS forward and admits that he poured the Clerc Milon 1966.
"I could not bear to part with our last bottle of 1966 Mouton. You know Clerc Milon, it is in the same village as Mouton, you pick the grapes at the same time, the same cepage, you crush in the same way, you put them into similar barrels. You bottle at the same time, you even use eggs from the same chickens to fine them. The wines are the same, except for a small matter of geographic location."
Rothschild beckons the waiter forward, and whispers to him, "When you return home tonight, ask your girlfriend to remove her underwear. Put one finger in one opening, another finger in the other, then smell both the fingers. You will understand what difference a small distance in geographic location makes."
Nii Teiko 8 years ago
Sometime last year I got phone call that my pregnant wife was in labor and had been rushed to the hospital. I quickly gathered myself and rushed to the the said hospital. At the hospital a nurse led me to the room where my wi ... read full comment
Sometime last year I got phone call that my pregnant wife was in labor and had been rushed to the hospital. I quickly gathered myself and rushed to the the said hospital. At the hospital a nurse led me to the room where my wife was. I entered the room without the notice of my wife and the gynecologist though the were other two nurses who acknowledge my presence. To my surprise, the male gynecologist was my best friend. I became uncomfortable straight up. Wy wife's legs were wide open and this dude of a friend has his left hand on her clitoris area and the fingers of the other hand were half way inside the thing. Though she was in labor I noticed that she was somehow enjoying the moves of the doctor. I was so upset that I could not stand there watching the proceedings. I excused myself from the room. My wive finally delivered a healthy baby, though very ugly. This has been about 2 years now and anytime I see the face of my ugly son, I am reminded of what happened at the hospital. I have never enjoy sex with my wife since then. Should I divorce my wive since at one time this my stupid doctor friend jokingly told me my wive has the big pussy? By the way when is Kwarteng gonna write about corruption in Ghana and the incompetence of Mahama?
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
NKRUMAH, DR KING, MALCOLM X, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, MANDELA ETC WERE ALL COMMUNISTS WHO HATED FREEDOM, FREE ENTERPRISE AND DEMOCRACY.
COMMIES ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE. COMMIES HATE FREEDOM.
Author:
SARPONG
Date:
2015-09-24 05:40:05
Comment to:
Re: We African should be in perpetual slaver
Nkrumah died alone a lonely man even without the love of his wife and children who abandoned him after he fle ...
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 o ...
read full comment
I am not on welfare. I work for a living and don't have time to waste on non-productive ventures that does not benefit society like this nonsense you have time doing.
As a matter of fact, I don't even know what list you ar ...
read full comment
Give your master Francis Kwarteng the due respect.KWASEA,why are you hiding?
A man goes to the famous Lucas Carton restaurant in Paris with his girlfriend and orders the 1966 Mouton. The waiter returns with a bottle full of wine, pours a small amount in the glass for tasting. The customer picks up the ...
read full comment
Sometime last year I got phone call that my pregnant wife was in labor and had been rushed to the hospital. I quickly gathered myself and rushed to the the said hospital. At the hospital a nurse led me to the room where my wi ...
read full comment