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Whom do we love: Kotoka or Nkrumah?

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  • Kojo T 7 years ago

    On this continent Nkrumah simply has no pier.Even Mandela did not achieve what Nkrumah achieved.The West loves Mandela for preserving them and South Africa has marketed him well .The paradox of Nkru ...
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  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Kotoka-Ankrah-Oto-Harlley were Puppets and Traitors!


    Kotoka must go!

  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    On the 18th April,1967 this is how Ghanaian Times published his assasination,"General Kotoka died by wounds".
    I was only 13 years old by then but I quiet remember that it was Lt.Moses Yeboah who killed Kotoka near the Airpor ...
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  • mashall 7 years ago

    Hahahs yes boy Kofi u said it all

  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    The Love-Hate relationship between some of the Ewes and Ashantis, in particular, could be traced to the same Kotoka and Afrifah alliance that facilitated the Coup that toppled Nkrumah.

    Meanwhile, the involvement of 2nd Li ...
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  • Frank AGYENA-KARIKARI 7 years ago

    Nkrumah needed to go because he had becomes dictator president without a vice. Even his own surrogates were afraid of him. He did not trust his own shadow. How could he try to make Ghana a one party state and president for l ...
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  • KA 7 years ago

    In the first place, the reaction to Kotoka is not mainly for tribal reasons. There is a tribal aspect but that is not the major driver of discussions about Kotoka. There are many Anlos, die hard CPP members, who detest Kotoka ...
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  • DEAR 7 years ago

    Kotoka was used by the Aante-Akyem clique led by Afrifa and their foreign collaborators; he was predictably dumped when the Asane-Akyem clique achieved their objective of looting and taking bribes from their foreign collabora ...
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  • Sylvester 7 years ago

    Dictaorship, killing of political opponents in Nsawam Prison, President for life without Vice, young pioneers, tyranny and no freedom of speech.

    Nkrumah was like Iddi Amin, Maumar Gadafi and Adolf Hitler. Nkrumah was evil

  • $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago

    WAT WAS NKRUMAH'S LEVEL OF EDUCATION COMPARED TO THOSE U HAVE LISTED HERE? IF NKRUMAH WAS EVIL. WAT ABOUT THOSE WHO WANTED TO BOMB HIM TO BITS? INCLUDING THE TRAITORS IN HIS CIRCLE AND THE CIA? IDIOT...I HOPE U ARE ABLE TO SE ...
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  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 7 years ago

    How did Nkrumah become some of the above mentioning of yours? Well, the same songs of yesteryear Mate-meho traitors is being echoed all around today.

  • DEAR 7 years ago

    NKRUMAH WAS NOT A DICTATOR. UP NOW CALLED NPP AND THEIR FOREIGN COLLABORATORS EMBARKED ON PROPAGANDA SPREE TO JUSTIFY THE COUP. SOME OF US WERE IN GHANA AND WE NEVER SAW PEOPLE BEING DETAINED WITHOUT REASON.

    WE REMEMBER JB ...
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  • Ndlovu 7 years ago

    So, after the coup, what did Kotoka add to the nation's development?

  • Abra Kuma 7 years ago

    Nkrumah every time!

  • Fiwisintin 7 years ago

    Nkrumah and no other!!!!!

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 7 years ago

    Good one there, senior. I don't even know why somebody would egg-on or entertain such a discourse between the two aforementioned statesmen in the first place.

  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    I agree with you on the tribal thread you wove very lightly into this. Yes, even the Ewes were split between Nkrumah and his political enemies.

    But we must not forget that it all started with the S. G. Antoh's Togoland Co ...
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  • $aint Ghfuo: Black Excellence !!! 7 years ago

    THEY DISLIKE AND ENVY SUCCESS AND WISH SUCESSFUL PPL HARM. THE ENVIOUS SUPPORT KOTOKA

  • Kankan Nyame 7 years ago

    Selfish and arrogant just like the present EC.Nkrumah was a dictator!

  • Ataajoh 7 years ago

    You and your beach-shitters are all the products of a Ghana without the DICTATOR!

    Go and do your number-2 @ the sea-shore, you stinking, silly goat!

  • Odiyifo Kwajo 7 years ago

    Ghanaians are still playing the UNCLE TOMS role of their big MASTER UNCLE SAM. Who has the WHIP now?

  • abc 7 years ago

    we should change the name of the airport from that useless kotoka to Kwame Nkrumah international airport or Accra International airport!

  • joe lartey 7 years ago

    Nkrumah was Selfish,and that caused his own downfall,he was already a Crown Prince in the Big 6 ,he should have let his mentors guard him,he forcibly crowned himself as a king,they will forcibly dethrone you,and that is what ...
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  • BOY KOFI 7 years ago

    Big brother Emil,I'm sorry to say that your question is misplaced.Emil was my senoir at Catholic school in Sekondi.I remember his student days especially when he comes on holidays in Sherwood,Sekondi.We used to get together i ...
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  • Joe Lopez 7 years ago

    I also attended Catholic Boys School at Ketan / Sekondi & passed my Form 4 there in 1964 before entering PolyTech at EffiaKuma,
    I would like to meet you downtown,
    first reach me: 1248kj/at/gmail.com,
    (my keyboard is not re ...
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  • Sokoli 7 years ago

    To your question, how can Dr Nkrumah and Col Kotoka be immortalized in the same breath, I have an answer: Heaven and Hell are juxtaposed.

  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    We may need both Memorials to remind ourselves of our vulnerabilities as mere mortals. The one we might have worshiped as a (benevolent?) dictatorial patriotic leader and the other we deemed a hero for his daredevil overthro ...
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