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Nkrumah’s Young Pioneers: Villains or Angels?

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  • Adiza 7 years ago

    Young boys were reporting their own parents o him etc. Not a brilliant move. Today I dare say many of these group of people would not openly come forward that they once belonged to that movement. Parents were imprisoned becau ...
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  • CHAMPION ATTA 7 years ago

    ADIZA, IT IS NOT TRUE, IF NKRUMAH HAD BEEN IN POWER FOR LONG AND YOUNG PIONEERS HAD STAYED LONG, WE WOULD NOT BE HAVENING SUCH MASSIVE CORRUPTION IN OUR SYSTEM TODAY. YOU UP GUYS ARE THE CAUSE OF GHANA'S DOWNFALL TODAY, YOUR ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

    Ghana would have been like North Korea if Nkrumah had not been kicked out or Cuba where the people have no freedom and official killings. Was there any freedom in Ghana at Nkrumah's time? How many were sent to Nsawam for no c ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore was a tyrant as well, just as Dr. Nkrumah and incarcerated his political rivals just as Nkrumah did. Yet today Singapore is light years ahead of Ghana in every in all macroeconomic indices. Comparing ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 7 years ago

    Half breed humans like you do not know the value of freedom.

    The highest form of development, intellectual development, can only subsist in freedom and justice.

    By this logic, there cannot be any true development in tyr ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    There's absolutely no need to predicate your response with insults - it is a sign of immaturity and primitive disposition.

    Ghana had its so called freedom after the 1966 coup led by the traitors, and what has that freedom ...
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  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Kwabena Yeboah

    YOUR: "...There's absolutely no need to predicate your response with insults - it is a sign of immaturity and primitive disposition...".

    WE SAY: We agree!

    You see that same crass, ignorant, and abusiv ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 7 years ago

    I think your mind is too weak if you see an African as having malicious and destructive predisposition like your immature and primitive parents and yourself. The extent of your vision is to look into your own mirror to descr ...
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  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    Most times we find that Ghanaians adrift in cognitive function, would rather resort to insults than use their brains to advance their point of view. Isn't it the common trait of most Ghanaians?

    I am reproducing the point I ...
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  • 1 Loaf 7 years ago

    So the UP/NPP minus Dombo forebears did not only sabotage Nkrumah but the development of Ghana. Bought the matches at Kade, store it along the sea shore to destroy its integrity then release so that the unsuspecting consumer ...
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  • £earn_$martphones_Repairing 7 years ago

    January is almost gone. Are you yet to start something? Still confused about what investment options to choose for the year to maintain steady cash flow? Think about it -everyday, both the employed and the idle are hooked to ...
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  • £earn_$martphones_Repairing 7 years ago

    January is almost gone. Are you yet to start something? Still confused about what investment options to choose for the year to maintain steady cash flow? Think about it -everyday, both the employed and the idle are hooked to ...
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  • Anyemi 7 years ago

    I was a Young Pioneer. I started from the African Personality Group within the Young Pioneer and got promoted later.

    It was a learning period and we learnt a lot about to be patriots.

    This idea of reporting parents was ...
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  • drewss. 7 years ago

    Anyemi, Young Pioneers was a feature of all communist parties of those days .Patriotism meant worship for the party and its leadership. My uncle was taken into preventive detention for insulting a minister,accusing him of cor ...
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  • Odiyifo Kwajo 7 years ago

    After all these years, this CIA 'fake news' still continues unabated. I was a member of the Young Pioneers and I don't ever remember being conditioned to report my parents or any other person to the authorities to be jailed ...
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  • Asante,Yaw. 7 years ago

    Stop telling lies you were never a young pioneer.

  • THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

    I was never a member of the Young Pioneers nor the Scout thugh my father wanted me to join one, though I, in fact, all of us, coveted very much their red tie. We had deposited money for the supply of the ties to all pupils wh ...
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  • francis kwarteng 7 years ago

    Another brilliant post Nyebro Yao.

  • THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

    Thanks, Nyebro Yaw, written hurriedly and full of typos though.

    Andy-K

  • Kasavubu 7 years ago

    Excuse me Sir!
    l remember that Nkrumah was said to have gone for a mystical god from Kankan in Guinea hence the god was termed Kankan Nyame. l recall the effigy in a female form with "Macho" arms and torso.
    Kankan Nyame was ...
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  • 1 Loaf 7 years ago

    We were all witnesses to the funeral and burial of the Otumfuo's mom. Very primitive and full of evil, voodoo, even though all the Pentecostal churches in Ghana are led by 'akanfo'.

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    Kasavubu,
    By your analysis, we can conclude that "Kankan Nyame" was actually a smear on Kwame Nkrumah, after his overthrow, after he got to Guinea.

    Here is someone one's account:

    "...The cartoonists also set to work gi ...
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  • francis kwarteng 7 years ago

    Thank you Prof Lungu.

    All these smear campaigns will fail to dent the man's global stature and achievements.

    Thank you Prof Lungu once again.

  • NKWASEASEM 7 years ago

    Bring back young pioneers to rebuild the country.

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    Yes President Nana Akufo-Addo should bring back the Young Pioneers. They can properly educate the populace under the NPP. They can be taught patriotism by NPP regional party activists.

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    Comrade Ken Adjepong can be the organizing secretary. Dr Arthur Kennedy and Wreko Brobbey and mr Kwabena Agyepong are all excellent material for consideration for such a laudable national movements . We can continue where Nk ...
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  • Jerry 7 years ago

    I cannot but agree with you the more. The decadence in the youth of today is simply beyond imagination and such are those on whose laps the future of Ghana lies! Do we have any integrity left in them to be able to police the ...
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  • Wedam 7 years ago

    Simple

  • Knockout 7 years ago

    Nkrumah never dies

  • duodu 7 years ago

    We must all pray that things like Young Pioneers never happen to us again.

  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    READ: "...'An Anglican Bishop criticized us and called the Ghana Young Pioneers ‘godless’. We ordered his deportation immediately...In all our struggle, we had avoided any ill feeling for the Church and the relations betw ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 7 years ago

    "That Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP people would seek to train youths in discipline, service to nation, survival, governance, etc., was not such an aberration...."

    There is nothing wrong with training our children in all the a ...
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  • Prof Lungu 7 years ago

    "...BY DR. SAS, ATTORNEY AT LAW ON DR KWAME NKRUMAH...

    "....Biological sciences affirm the notion that all humankind are equal, and that exposure to knowledge and culture accounts for why some are more inclined than others ...
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  • Wedam 7 years ago

    Dr.SAS the headache of corruption today wouldn't have been a problem if some of our leaders enrolled in the young pioneers.Today Ghana looses $4bn to corruption as a result of their selfish n unpatriotic act.Ghana will never ...
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  • Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 7 years ago

    Those engaged in high crimes against the country were Young Pioneers Bro.

    If in doubt, ask yourself how many of those Young Pioneers have ever crusaded against corruption in Ghana. Young Pioneers are all intellectually and ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 7 years ago

    The editors at Daily Guide could use some lessons and a whole lot of sense on principles and truthfullness. Who are those NPP and NDC foot soldiers? Is it safe to say that foot soldiers, creation of NPP and NDC, are gutter le ...
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  • francis kwarteng 7 years ago

    Well said.

    Thanks.

  • Odikr@ 7 years ago

    Any evidence of those imprisoned on the "evidence" of Young Pioneers?