At the time of our Independence,the Population was around 5 million.Today we are over 27 million.Most of our citizens live in the rural areas.The few who had contacts with the British were well educated and disciplined.Most l ... read full comment
At the time of our Independence,the Population was around 5 million.Today we are over 27 million.Most of our citizens live in the rural areas.The few who had contacts with the British were well educated and disciplined.Most live around the coast.The population in Accra was then 400,000.Today it is 7 million.All the uneducated and trouble makers in all the regions,now call Accra their home.They are the negative news makers.Read their names and where they originally came from.The journalist are a disgrace and deserve what they got.Most collect money before the cover events and they are only interested in people like Obinim..
CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago
You simply captured a lot of what I would have said.
This Old Fart, Cameron irritates the hell out of me. He knows how to write, period, but he is a biased and disingenuous writer. He has on blinkers, like a race horse and ... read full comment
You simply captured a lot of what I would have said.
This Old Fart, Cameron irritates the hell out of me. He knows how to write, period, but he is a biased and disingenuous writer. He has on blinkers, like a race horse and just sees what he is conditioned to see, the finish line.
There are no journalists in Ghana today like we had in the Gold Coast era, most of these Twi-gnashing jokers think, and dream in Twi, what innovative reporting can ever come out of that. Besides, they all will sell their mothers just for a bad story which can start any fight or argument. Habitually, they think sensationalism is synonymous to journalism. Imagine that one of these reporters yelled "Reporter" and was allowed in just like Cameron, and something bad went wrong, guess who will have a field day with incompetent Ghana Police...Duoduo (TwuTwu). I don't wanna extent any criticisms of these guy, he just needs to give it up. He retired 20 years ago but things he's gotta be heard. He needs to stick with his Old Guards on Ghana Discussion Forums where they just talk about "talking".
OYOKOBA 8 years ago
Did you read the whole article or you have been nursing a deep hatred for Cameron and this was your chance to lay it out on him? Don't be a jackass. You wished you could even write at 5% efficiency and proficiency level of Ca ... read full comment
Did you read the whole article or you have been nursing a deep hatred for Cameron and this was your chance to lay it out on him? Don't be a jackass. You wished you could even write at 5% efficiency and proficiency level of Cameron Duoduo. Get lost.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 8 years ago
I see that all of the oldies are for Cameron Duodu. Interesting. Those who are insulting him must all be the young ones - our own children. Those coming to Cameron's defence are the senior ones on this forum - OYOKOBA, G. K. ... read full comment
I see that all of the oldies are for Cameron Duodu. Interesting. Those who are insulting him must all be the young ones - our own children. Those coming to Cameron's defence are the senior ones on this forum - OYOKOBA, G. K. Berko, etc. It's only natural. We the old ones have been with Cameron for decades now and we have known him as one of the earliest of Ghana's international journalists. So our sympathies are with him. For us, he almost can write nothing wrong...
If Cameron was a reporter at our first Independence Celebrations 59 years ago, then he should be at least 80 years now. God has given him a long life and a clear mind to still be able to write for us. We should be thankful for that.
But some of us the old ones are also forgetting that times have changed. Duodu himself is telling us of those changing times and somehow regretting it. But things change - for the better and for the worse. Duodu sees only the shortcomings of today's journalists but gives short shrift to what better a journalist today's Ghana can also produce.
Of course, let us frown on those who insult Cameron even as our culture teaches us to respect the elderly. But let us also understand where these youngsters are coming from without necessarily accepting their behaviour.
The 1957 when Cameron went to the Polo Grounds and just said he was a reporter and was allowed to go cannot be repeated today. It's a different age. Cameron never dreamed at that time that his articles would be appearing online for everybody to read and comment on directly - with praises AND with insults.
The world has changed. Good old Cameron has done well to hang on with the changes all these years, but at 80, he can't just get it all. That is why he can't come online to discuss with us here as I suggested some time ago but others said he should not come.
We only have to remind the abusers that Cameron is one of a dying race and he has to give us all he got now.
Mantse 8 years ago
Some of us remember him from "New Nation" days, through Radio Ghana, Drum and Graphic.
His nostalgia of the good-ole-days must be buei, even though he has been branded a
pro-Feb. 24 cheerleader!
He and his pals like ... read full comment
Some of us remember him from "New Nation" days, through Radio Ghana, Drum and Graphic.
His nostalgia of the good-ole-days must be buei, even though he has been branded a
pro-Feb. 24 cheerleader!
He and his pals like pilot Peter Dorkenoo would race their sports cars on estate streets during the "dictatorship days" without being sent to Nsawam!
You should have seen him driving to his Osu Drum office: FAST!
tom 8 years ago
Captain, can you tell us what Cameron can't "get" because he us old, please?
He condemns those who want to show others where power lies and who put journalists in a tipper truck. What has that got to do with age?
He la ... read full comment
Captain, can you tell us what Cameron can't "get" because he us old, please?
He condemns those who want to show others where power lies and who put journalists in a tipper truck. What has that got to do with age?
He laments the desecration of water bodies in the service of galamsey. Do you have to be born in year x before you can see that?
Cameron wishes the modern journalists were not servile and he gives examples of good journalists who brought Ghana Independence. What has that got to do with being 80?
It is a pity that so many people who feel the need to write only write comments. Please put YOUR ideas together and see what it's like!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 8 years ago
tom, I am not saying that Cameron is wrong in lamenting journalists who are put in a tipper truck or the desecration brought on us by galamsey or even the self-serving journalists of today.
I am addressing a more general i ... read full comment
tom, I am not saying that Cameron is wrong in lamenting journalists who are put in a tipper truck or the desecration brought on us by galamsey or even the self-serving journalists of today.
I am addressing a more general issue that even as we lament the "good old days" we may be tempted to see the old days as all good and today as all bad. Age has a lot to do with this way of seeing things. It is only the old who can compare the old days with today and find today wanting. You can't do that if you are young like the ones here insulting Cameron.
The young must have the capacity to understand the old but the old must also have the wisdom to see that things cannot be as they were when they were young and today's youth can't see things the way the old see them now.
Tom 8 years ago
Captain, I think you are being pedantic! Of course not everything was rosy in the immediate post-independence days. But there is a a QUALITATIVE difference between then and now. Have you not heard about the stupid brochure is ... read full comment
Captain, I think you are being pedantic! Of course not everything was rosy in the immediate post-independence days. But there is a a QUALITATIVE difference between then and now. Have you not heard about the stupid brochure issued on the indie celebrations by the presidency and falsely attributed to the Information Services? I agree with Cameron that such things would not occurrence in the immediate pre-independence days. If people like Cameron had had the Internet, I-phones and some of the gadgets available today, you would have seen something! I an sure the old boy is using them to keep himself up-t-date and that's why he always stimulates thought with his articles. Already, this thread is alive and kicking -- yet anyone else and it would have been dismissed as nostalgic recollections whereas with Komfo, all the topics he has touched upon are tight up-to=date.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard 8 years ago
Tom, I don't think there's anything "pedantic" about calling for an understanding between the generations. As you can see, I belong to Cameron's side of the generational gap but I will be more circumspect in concluding that t ... read full comment
Tom, I don't think there's anything "pedantic" about calling for an understanding between the generations. As you can see, I belong to Cameron's side of the generational gap but I will be more circumspect in concluding that there is a QUALITATIVE difference between then and now. It is a variant of the old argument that we the old ones easily make: standards have fallen. It's an old story...
CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago
All you peasants with a little bit of education or forced Achimotan upbringing think you can change Ghana. Take a look at our leadership for the past 40 years or more, they are all from Achimota and Prempeh, just as useless a ... read full comment
All you peasants with a little bit of education or forced Achimotan upbringing think you can change Ghana. Take a look at our leadership for the past 40 years or more, they are all from Achimota and Prempeh, just as useless as the Legonites and KNUST grads. It is a FACT...go and check. Don't blame the gullible ignorant citizens but our best products of the Nkrumah Dynasty!
United Ghana 8 years ago
At least, you acknowledge your loathing of Cameron Doudu. Did you actually read the article? He was being critical of journalists today regarding integrity & courage. A brilliant piece from an experienced journalist.
At least, you acknowledge your loathing of Cameron Doudu. Did you actually read the article? He was being critical of journalists today regarding integrity & courage. A brilliant piece from an experienced journalist.
CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago
...his own voice way too much. And excuse me to say, I read him whenever I come across his articles. Lengthy and full of the same old colonial ideas and mentality. What the hell is he gonna achieve by bloviating his life expe ... read full comment
...his own voice way too much. And excuse me to say, I read him whenever I come across his articles. Lengthy and full of the same old colonial ideas and mentality. What the hell is he gonna achieve by bloviating his life experiences to modern day Ghanaians. Those journalists did not even deserve to be riding in a truck, they just a bunch of moochers, every single one of them. Cameron needs to get an intern and train them to be as good as he used to be, not keep trying to infiltrate the modern world with his archaic ideas and writings. You can all suck up to him, I won't. I too was born before Independence, I wish the British had never left or Nkrumah had ruled Ghana for at least 8 years +.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
You may not like Cameron Duodou. But he points out a vital sign of our Nation's retrogression with that narrative.
In fact, I have vehemently protested many of his Articles in the past, going as far back as the 70s. He ha ... read full comment
You may not like Cameron Duodou. But he points out a vital sign of our Nation's retrogression with that narrative.
In fact, I have vehemently protested many of his Articles in the past, going as far back as the 70s. He has, for example, written a lot to unduly berate the same Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah he seems to show some nostalgia for, now. Cameron did write profusely for his West Africa Magazine in praise of the Coup that toppled Nkrumah.
However, he is right on the underlying theme of this Article of his that portrays the rot in our system, 59 years after Independence, and indicating how negative things have gone since the first Coup. He is right about the relative worsening of conditions in Ghana following Nkrumah's overthrow, something I wish he would write to concede, today.
I know many of us would not wish anything different from the overthrow of Nkrumah, so long as it served their narrow, personal purpose. But having gotten the political freedom they might have hoped for with that Coup, could the same people claim any significant improvement in the country since then?
What we may be attracted to describe as some wonderful progress in Ghana today since Nkrumah's overthrow is the freedom to loot rampantly and in every corner of our system with little to no reprimand or penal consequence, leaving the Nation to rot away in all its layers of activities.
Freedom is sweet when we first get it. But our inability to use it wisely to improve our lives offers only the best chance for criminal elements to take advantage of us with impunity.
Our Journalists have largely taken their eyes off the prize to follow the scattered little insignificant crumbs falling off the plates of irresponsible Politicians and looters of our heritage, ignoring the most crucial issues and in-depth analysis of our predicament. They could do better. It is this general absence of that journalistic excellence that has led to the hugely diminished eminence of the Journalists in Ghana as exemplified in their carting away in a dump truck as dispensable bric-a-brac on our Independence Anniversary.
So, in that sense, let's give our elder bro, Cameron Duodou, some break, here.
Long Live Ghana!!!
karl 8 years ago
Mr Berko,
While you agree that the writing is brilliant, you too, like other Ghanaians, won't analyse what he has said in the past that you don't like but merely condemn it.
I am too young to have read watever he wrote a ... read full comment
Mr Berko,
While you agree that the writing is brilliant, you too, like other Ghanaians, won't analyse what he has said in the past that you don't like but merely condemn it.
I am too young to have read watever he wrote about the coup of 1966, but I am sure he had his reasons for the opinions he held and argued his case coherently. The world was not made for all of us to agree on everything, Sir! Hold your opinion and allow Mr Doudou too to hold his. Mao said let a thousand flowers bloom.You are not Doudou. You do not know what he has seen or heard with his own eyes and ears. Yet you expect that what he writes will coincide with your views?
That is simply not realistic is it?
We should respect other people's views. Too bad if we don't hold the same views. Buy at least we must recognize the truth even if it comes from someone with whom we disagree politically!
CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago
Do you think Cameron Doudou has no ethnic, tribal or political biases. Please allow some of us to criticize him the way we know him, just the same way he criticizes things from many perspectives and experiences. Once a journa ... read full comment
Do you think Cameron Doudou has no ethnic, tribal or political biases. Please allow some of us to criticize him the way we know him, just the same way he criticizes things from many perspectives and experiences. Once a journalist, always a journalist - Shrewd, crafty and brilliant with words, be it in English or Twi!
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
CITIZEN ONE, you may not be a Journalist, either, but you seem most brilliant, too.
We often give our Journalists too much credit. I bet your analytical skills and logical inferences top those of many Reporters we read fr ... read full comment
CITIZEN ONE, you may not be a Journalist, either, but you seem most brilliant, too.
We often give our Journalists too much credit. I bet your analytical skills and logical inferences top those of many Reporters we read from in the Media.
The idea that ordinary folks could never produce better information than Journalists in Ghana is not only puerile but limiting to productive debate of national interests.
Keep up the good work to help expose the truth, and restore real intelligence in our national discourse, even if it is my views on your chopping board!!
Long Live Ghana!!!
Ebo Letrik 8 years ago
He sounds like someone who has been in the sames newsroom as Mr Duodu!
He sounds like someone who has been in the sames newsroom as Mr Duodu!
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
Karl, I forgive any implied insult in your response to my comment because I realized from the way you argued your criticism of me that you are really young.
First off, you erred in assuming that I would rush to judgment ... read full comment
Karl, I forgive any implied insult in your response to my comment because I realized from the way you argued your criticism of me that you are really young.
First off, you erred in assuming that I would rush to judgment of Duodou's past Articles that I referred to without critical assessment viz-a-viz the facts that existed on the issues, including the overthrow of Nkrumah.
More, it may interest you to know that I am closer to Cameron in age than you, and had the privilege to personally witness and I adequately understood the events that were central to his Articles in question.
You see, proving veracity in anything does not necessarily require being physically present at the scene of its occurrence. I therefore do not have to see, feel, or hear whatever Mr. Duodou or anyone else encounters to qualify for analyzing it.
However, it tends to be easier to share some of that experience to do so. Nevertheless, if you read my piece well, I was even pleading that folks would cut Mr. Cameron a break. I did evaluate his piece qualitatively and approved of it.
So, what is your beef?
Long Live Ghana!!!
Ritewing 8 years ago
You may be right in the population size you have referred to at the time of Independence and now. But your claim to it as to the cause of our indispline is not true. Also not true, is the fact that people who had contacts wit ... read full comment
You may be right in the population size you have referred to at the time of Independence and now. But your claim to it as to the cause of our indispline is not true. Also not true, is the fact that people who had contacts with the British, were well educated and disciplined. Conversely, most of the people who worked in the civil service were Standard Seven scholars, clerks who were de mobbed after the Second World War, and a handful of Secondary School Leavers. Of course, there were also, a few brilliant graduate officers, who had been attached to institutions in England on training stints. Others still, we're recruited direct from England for service in the Civil Service, by the Colonial Office. The distinction is that all grades of officers in the Civil Service, at the start of Ghana's Independence were well trained, hard working and disciplined. Indiscipline began to show its head in the Civil Service when Socialist Forums was introduced in the service by the CPP government. The sequel is what we have today and all around us. Prior to this era, no one could get away with any infraction of the General Orders and the Financial Orders. Those who broke the law were prosecuted and justice was served without delay. However, we gradually and surreptitiously created a monster of indispline, it is now eating us up in all facets of our daily lives. We owe it to the likes of Cameron Duoduo to take us through memory lane, though, I still recollect his distasteful contribution on TV on the night of the 31st December 1981 coup with late Prof. Awoonor.
Cameron later became the Editor of the Daily Graphic but later had to abandon his position and left for England, when his taughts clashed with our revolutionalist rulers.
Nana Aku 8 years ago
Cameron and Awoonor on TV? In another life, possibly. Sorry buy your mind is all foggy. I, like the guy who has followed him since New Nation days, don't remember him being on TV to discuss anything on 31 December 1981. The ... read full comment
Cameron and Awoonor on TV? In another life, possibly. Sorry buy your mind is all foggy. I, like the guy who has followed him since New Nation days, don't remember him being on TV to discuss anything on 31 December 1981. The coup was still hanging in the balance!
Mantse 8 years ago
Get your facts rite, Ritewing!
Quote: "Cameron later became the Editor of the Daily Graphic but later had to abandon his position and left for England, when his taughts clashed with our revolutionalist rulers."
Cameron ... read full comment
Get your facts rite, Ritewing!
Quote: "Cameron later became the Editor of the Daily Graphic but later had to abandon his position and left for England, when his taughts clashed with our revolutionalist rulers."
Cameron was Graphic Editor under Busia, and his "NO DIALOGUE" mega-headline made the PP govt. very DISPLEASED!
Do you call the PP folks "revolutionist rulers"?
ghanaman 8 years ago
Thanks to Cameron Duoduo for capturing few of the scars on the nation's conscience!
Thanks to Cameron Duoduo for capturing few of the scars on the nation's conscience!
osom 8 years ago
Citizen Zero,
If Mr Duodu "irritates" you, then why do you bother to read his articles? Who forces you?
You are dishonest and a double-talker to boot. Do you disagree with ANYTHING the guy wrote about? If so, why not sa ... read full comment
Citizen Zero,
If Mr Duodu "irritates" you, then why do you bother to read his articles? Who forces you?
You are dishonest and a double-talker to boot. Do you disagree with ANYTHING the guy wrote about? If so, why not say so?
You are abusing him because he is an Old Guard? And you will become an old stone?
You hate him because his language is Twi? Did he ask to be born a Twi-speaker?
You harbor ethnic hatred, judging by your unintended revelations. Well I can yell you that Cameron is not going anywhere, just to please you and your type.
The dead old woman whose case he reminds us about will bless him. The victims of galamsey will bless him. So will all those who want to uphold Ghana's hallowed name by naming and shaming those without standards in Ghana in 2016.
And as for you and your ilk, if you don't want to see Cameron and what even you can't help admitting are his "brilliant" write-ups, you will just have to close your eyes! For God willing, he will be with us a long time, to open our eyes to what our pioneer leaders wanted for us and what we can do, despite the presence in our midst of arrogant nation-wreckers.
Sunsum 8 years ago
The FACT is, Feb. 24, 1966 demolished our sense of consideration, discipline, responsibility and community welfare and concern!
Some NAIVELY cheered when the Genie was blasted out of the bottle in the name of of democraZy ... read full comment
The FACT is, Feb. 24, 1966 demolished our sense of consideration, discipline, responsibility and community welfare and concern!
Some NAIVELY cheered when the Genie was blasted out of the bottle in the name of of democraZy and friggin' freedom of speech!!
Ataajo 8 years ago
Exactly, foolish and ignorant choices have very severe consequences!
Ghanaians CHOSE to get rid of the First Republic and Busia's fake democratic "byline" was exposed.
The little man was arrogant, intolerant and a
c ... read full comment
Exactly, foolish and ignorant choices have very severe consequences!
Ghanaians CHOSE to get rid of the First Republic and Busia's fake democratic "byline" was exposed.
The little man was arrogant, intolerant and a
closet AUTOCRAT!
Didn't the Bible predict "one reaps what one ....?
Yaw 8 years ago
You are possibly an illiterate because you couldn't understand what he talked about if you were able to read it. Are you proud that a 59 year old nation would pack journalists in a tipper truck to cover her independence day c ... read full comment
You are possibly an illiterate because you couldn't understand what he talked about if you were able to read it. Are you proud that a 59 year old nation would pack journalists in a tipper truck to cover her independence day celebration? Are you proud about the brochure used for this occasion? I am in the UK and all that I read about in foreign news outlets was the errors in brochure used for Ghana's 59th independence celebration. This gov't has borrowed in an unprecedented manner but where are the projects to show for the borrowed money. Let's put politics and tribal differences aside when it comes to issues if national importance
kwanena ohemeng,london 8 years ago
Cameron,the fact is the present breed of ghanaians,especially those in positions of power and authority, do not know why Kwame Nkrumah and others fought and got independence for the nation.This is the problem and it is a prob ... read full comment
Cameron,the fact is the present breed of ghanaians,especially those in positions of power and authority, do not know why Kwame Nkrumah and others fought and got independence for the nation.This is the problem and it is a problem which is going to undermine the progress and development of the nation for years.Most post-colonial ghanaians see Ghana as a nation which needs its former colonial master to solve its problems.They just do not know the level Ghana was before it achieved independence.
Paa Nii 8 years ago
Mr Ohemeng, You are so right. What Nkrumah and Danquah and others taught was: listen, we have been to England and gone to school with the English people and we have seen they are no better than us intellectually. What we have ... read full comment
Mr Ohemeng, You are so right. What Nkrumah and Danquah and others taught was: listen, we have been to England and gone to school with the English people and we have seen they are no better than us intellectually. What we have lacked is opportunity. So we should get independence and run our own affairs. Almost every person in Ghana agreed, hence the UNITED GOLD COAST CONVENTION (UGCC).
Unfortunately, Nkrumah had a hidden agenda. He wanted to be a dictator. So after independence he put the Ghanaians who had a critical type of mind un jail without trial. Sycophants and praise-singers were those who obtained power and became rich.
Then the army took over. But the army in those days included undesirable characters who could not make it in civil life. The army has ruled Ghana for more years than civilians. How can those who despise intellectuals and call them book-long lead a country into rational development?
So we have problems. Without the military PNDC, would we have a shallow NDC? Sad buy our nation has been messed up and we need brave intelligent men to move ut forward.
Suman 8 years ago
It will probably take a very bloody
revolution to reverse Ghana's mismanagement by our elected elites!
It will probably take a very bloody
revolution to reverse Ghana's mismanagement by our elected elites!
Apau 8 years ago
Whenever you see/hear Akufo Addo,Gaby O Darko and other NPP cum JB Danquah worshippers talking about the transformation of Singapore and all the bullcrap that goes with it, kindly print out this page and give it to them. Bear ... read full comment
Whenever you see/hear Akufo Addo,Gaby O Darko and other NPP cum JB Danquah worshippers talking about the transformation of Singapore and all the bullcrap that goes with it, kindly print out this page and give it to them. Bear in mind that Lee Kuan Yew was a "dictator" for 30 uninterrupted years.And the nations wreckers were treated with accordingly.
Singapore got there through a one part state,Preventive Detention Act for the nation wreckers. And to cap it all, Lee Kuan Yew,made sure traitors like JB Danquah and co in Singapore were adequately dealt with.Sadly, in Ghana traitors like Danquah are being worshipped.
A few quotes from the No Nonsense Lee Kuan Yew for you.
"...The freedom of the press must be subordinated to the integrity of Singapore and the primacy of purpose of an elected government."
?We Decide What Is Right’
“And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters — who your neighbor is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit ... or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
“I’m not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honorable purpose. I had to do some nasty things, locking fellows up without trial.”
Ursula Owusu 8 years ago
Mr Duodu, you ever believed to hear a President u elected, tell you he wouldn't fight corruption because it "has existed since Adam and Eve."
Mr Duodu, you ever believed to hear a President u elected, tell you he wouldn't fight corruption because it "has existed since Adam and Eve."
Ebo Letrik 8 years ago
Alas, We've been cursed with "competent corruption, and incompetent corruption".
Alas, We've been cursed with "competent corruption, and incompetent corruption".
Nana Aku 8 years ago
Ursula, how can we be surprised? The man described himself as a "dead goat" didn't he?
Ursula, how can we be surprised? The man described himself as a "dead goat" didn't he?
Ebo Letrik 8 years ago
Actually, the "Adam and Eve" from
"tete" statement, was made by JAK!
Actually, the "Adam and Eve" from
"tete" statement, was made by JAK!
DAWADAWA 8 years ago
Couldn't the journalists have refused to board a tipper truck? Don't they have agency?
Couldn't the journalists have refused to board a tipper truck? Don't they have agency?
Palanz 8 years ago
DAWA, we are talking about "stomach-centric blokes" masquerading as journos!
DAWA, we are talking about "stomach-centric blokes" masquerading as journos!
Sasabonsam 8 years ago
A good summary of what our beloved Ghana has decended into
A good summary of what our beloved Ghana has decended into
Sasabonsam 8 years ago
A good summary of what our beloved Ghana has decended into
A good summary of what our beloved Ghana has decended into
Kwame 8 years ago
Mills was carried to the hospital in wheelbarrow and now journalists in a tipper truck. The sense here is that those journalist went to the Independence Square on foot as we use to walk from New Town to the Black Star Square ... read full comment
Mills was carried to the hospital in wheelbarrow and now journalists in a tipper truck. The sense here is that those journalist went to the Independence Square on foot as we use to walk from New Town to the Black Star Square in the 60s. So the journalist can not cover the event in their accredited vehicles. Some news stories are fiction of someone's mind.
At the time of our Independence,the Population was around 5 million.Today we are over 27 million.Most of our citizens live in the rural areas.The few who had contacts with the British were well educated and disciplined.Most l ...
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You simply captured a lot of what I would have said.
This Old Fart, Cameron irritates the hell out of me. He knows how to write, period, but he is a biased and disingenuous writer. He has on blinkers, like a race horse and ...
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Did you read the whole article or you have been nursing a deep hatred for Cameron and this was your chance to lay it out on him? Don't be a jackass. You wished you could even write at 5% efficiency and proficiency level of Ca ...
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I see that all of the oldies are for Cameron Duodu. Interesting. Those who are insulting him must all be the young ones - our own children. Those coming to Cameron's defence are the senior ones on this forum - OYOKOBA, G. K. ...
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Some of us remember him from "New Nation" days, through Radio Ghana, Drum and Graphic.
His nostalgia of the good-ole-days must be buei, even though he has been branded a
pro-Feb. 24 cheerleader!
He and his pals like ...
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Captain, can you tell us what Cameron can't "get" because he us old, please?
He condemns those who want to show others where power lies and who put journalists in a tipper truck. What has that got to do with age?
He la ...
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tom, I am not saying that Cameron is wrong in lamenting journalists who are put in a tipper truck or the desecration brought on us by galamsey or even the self-serving journalists of today.
I am addressing a more general i ...
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Captain, I think you are being pedantic! Of course not everything was rosy in the immediate post-independence days. But there is a a QUALITATIVE difference between then and now. Have you not heard about the stupid brochure is ...
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Tom, I don't think there's anything "pedantic" about calling for an understanding between the generations. As you can see, I belong to Cameron's side of the generational gap but I will be more circumspect in concluding that t ...
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All you peasants with a little bit of education or forced Achimotan upbringing think you can change Ghana. Take a look at our leadership for the past 40 years or more, they are all from Achimota and Prempeh, just as useless a ...
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At least, you acknowledge your loathing of Cameron Doudu. Did you actually read the article? He was being critical of journalists today regarding integrity & courage. A brilliant piece from an experienced journalist.
...his own voice way too much. And excuse me to say, I read him whenever I come across his articles. Lengthy and full of the same old colonial ideas and mentality. What the hell is he gonna achieve by bloviating his life expe ...
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You may not like Cameron Duodou. But he points out a vital sign of our Nation's retrogression with that narrative.
In fact, I have vehemently protested many of his Articles in the past, going as far back as the 70s. He ha ...
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Mr Berko,
While you agree that the writing is brilliant, you too, like other Ghanaians, won't analyse what he has said in the past that you don't like but merely condemn it.
I am too young to have read watever he wrote a ...
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Do you think Cameron Doudou has no ethnic, tribal or political biases. Please allow some of us to criticize him the way we know him, just the same way he criticizes things from many perspectives and experiences. Once a journa ...
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CITIZEN ONE, you may not be a Journalist, either, but you seem most brilliant, too.
We often give our Journalists too much credit. I bet your analytical skills and logical inferences top those of many Reporters we read fr ...
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He sounds like someone who has been in the sames newsroom as Mr Duodu!
Karl, I forgive any implied insult in your response to my comment because I realized from the way you argued your criticism of me that you are really young.
First off, you erred in assuming that I would rush to judgment ...
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You may be right in the population size you have referred to at the time of Independence and now. But your claim to it as to the cause of our indispline is not true. Also not true, is the fact that people who had contacts wit ...
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Cameron and Awoonor on TV? In another life, possibly. Sorry buy your mind is all foggy. I, like the guy who has followed him since New Nation days, don't remember him being on TV to discuss anything on 31 December 1981. The ...
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Get your facts rite, Ritewing!
Quote: "Cameron later became the Editor of the Daily Graphic but later had to abandon his position and left for England, when his taughts clashed with our revolutionalist rulers."
Cameron ...
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Thanks to Cameron Duoduo for capturing few of the scars on the nation's conscience!
Citizen Zero,
If Mr Duodu "irritates" you, then why do you bother to read his articles? Who forces you?
You are dishonest and a double-talker to boot. Do you disagree with ANYTHING the guy wrote about? If so, why not sa ...
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The FACT is, Feb. 24, 1966 demolished our sense of consideration, discipline, responsibility and community welfare and concern!
Some NAIVELY cheered when the Genie was blasted out of the bottle in the name of of democraZy ...
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Exactly, foolish and ignorant choices have very severe consequences!
Ghanaians CHOSE to get rid of the First Republic and Busia's fake democratic "byline" was exposed.
The little man was arrogant, intolerant and a
c ...
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You are possibly an illiterate because you couldn't understand what he talked about if you were able to read it. Are you proud that a 59 year old nation would pack journalists in a tipper truck to cover her independence day c ...
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Cameron,the fact is the present breed of ghanaians,especially those in positions of power and authority, do not know why Kwame Nkrumah and others fought and got independence for the nation.This is the problem and it is a prob ...
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Mr Ohemeng, You are so right. What Nkrumah and Danquah and others taught was: listen, we have been to England and gone to school with the English people and we have seen they are no better than us intellectually. What we have ...
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It will probably take a very bloody
revolution to reverse Ghana's mismanagement by our elected elites!
Whenever you see/hear Akufo Addo,Gaby O Darko and other NPP cum JB Danquah worshippers talking about the transformation of Singapore and all the bullcrap that goes with it, kindly print out this page and give it to them. Bear ...
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Mr Duodu, you ever believed to hear a President u elected, tell you he wouldn't fight corruption because it "has existed since Adam and Eve."
Alas, We've been cursed with "competent corruption, and incompetent corruption".
Ursula, how can we be surprised? The man described himself as a "dead goat" didn't he?
Actually, the "Adam and Eve" from
"tete" statement, was made by JAK!
Couldn't the journalists have refused to board a tipper truck? Don't they have agency?
DAWA, we are talking about "stomach-centric blokes" masquerading as journos!
A good summary of what our beloved Ghana has decended into
A good summary of what our beloved Ghana has decended into
Mills was carried to the hospital in wheelbarrow and now journalists in a tipper truck. The sense here is that those journalist went to the Independence Square on foot as we use to walk from New Town to the Black Star Square ...
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