Showing posts with label African leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African leadership. Show all posts

Thursday, July 09, 2026

Kwame Nkrumah’s Compassion: The Forgotten Cairo Stadium Story

 

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, leans forward from his VIP seat at a Cairo stadium beside Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, extending money toward a fallen spectator below, a moment capturing compassion and leadership during the 1960s.
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, leans forward from his VIP seat at a Cairo stadium beside Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, extending money toward a fallen spectator below, a moment capturing compassion and leadership during the 1960s.

 

There are moments in history that never make it into official archives, yet they reveal more about a leader’s soul than any speech, policy, or monument. One such moment occurred in Egypt in the early 1960s, when Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, attended a football match alongside his close friend and ally, President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

 

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Why Mbeki should play a leading role in recharging the African Renaissance agenda

Former South African president, Thabo Mbeki

 Former South African president, Thabo Mbeki


It's been more than 10 years since former President Thabo Mbeki was recalled as President of South Africa. This move would lead to weakening Mbeki's position not only on national affairs but on continental affairs as well.


Since Mbeki became the president of Africa's most advanced economy in 1999, he immediately took charge of the renewal of the continent in a more appealing way than any other leader had done, at least in the modern era.

 

Saturday, March 28, 2020

The Influence of Foreign Powers on Governance and Democracy in Africa


Museveni and Akufo Addo

Museveni and Akufo-Addo


It's a piece of interesting news to read: "Ugandans Ask Nana Addo To Replace Dictator Museveni." The following news caught my attention this morning on the ModernGhana news site. The plea was made by one Hillary Taylor, a Ugandan student, pursuing a master's in International Relations at Harvard University Kennedy School.


It's a great honor for Nana Akufo-Addo for Hillary Taylor to make such a request, but Miss Taylor doesn't know that such a task alone is tougher than the affairs in Ghana in the hands of Nana Akufo-Addo.

Despite slavery, colonial brutality, Apartheid, and medical crises, including Aids and Ebola, it is obvious that about sixty-five percent of Ghanaians don't have much knowledge about the role external forces have played and are still playing to retard the growth of Africa.

Average Ghanaians, from morning till evening, argue and fight over two political parties, NDC and NPP, without a slight knowledge that our leaders alone aren't responsible for our political woes, economic burden, and unrest in the country. 

I want to make it clear to Hillary Taylor and fellow Ghanaians that the US government preaches against dictatorship, forcing every African government to follow the 'Almighty Democracy,' yet the US government supports dictatorial governments in Africa.

Why has the US government tolerated the Ugandan leader for all these years but gone wild and hostile against Robert Mugabe, the ex-Zimbabwean leader? Mugabe refused to associate himself with the British and the US governments after he discovered that the entire Zimbabwe had been deliberately infected with Aids before independence.

That bitterness and hate embedded in Mugabe against the West and the US governments forced Britain and America to stand behind Emmerson Mnangagwa to unseat Mugabe, but Museveni remains untouched and undisturbed. Why? 


Even though Uganda experienced the same deliberate spread of Aids infection and a host of cancerous diseases such as Kaposi's sarcoma, nodding disease, and Burkitt's lymphoma, Museveni continues to maintain a friendly relationship with the British and the US governments.

In fact, the entire Ugandan citizens were used for various experiments under the supervision of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. We (Joel Savage, Johan Van Dongen, and Dr. Wolff Geisler) have published some of these articles on ModernGhana and our health blog under the radar.

Museveni has never criticized or held the British and American governments responsible for such horrendous crimes. Africans, Ghanaians, you must, therefore, understand the reason the US government keeps preaching about democracy, but still supports a dictatorial government in Uganda.

It can be recalled that when all African leaders were angry with Donald Trump for calling the continent 'Shithole,' nations, it was only Museveni who praised Trump for his distasteful comments. BBC reference: Uganda's Museveni: I love Trump for being frank with Africans 

I am just a common journalist, never had the opportunity even to step at the front door of any university, yet Europe, Scientist Johan Van Dongen, and Dr. Wolff Geisler, have educated me about foreign affairs, in such a way that I have ample knowledge about clandestine crimes the British and the US governments commit in Africa, yet Hillary Taylor, studying at Havard University has no idea, else she wouldn't have made that request.

Even though on many occasions I have criticized and hit against past and present African leaders, including Nana Akufo Addo, John Jerry Rawlings, John Mahama, etc, I will still plead for Ghanaians or Africans to have a little patience for any African leader.

There is no African leader who is stupid. All of them are aware of the roles foreign governments play in destabilizing Africa's economy, and also about the deliberate hitting the continent with Aids and Ebola, but they still like to remain silent, hoping for a change because they want to remain friends with them.

Because of the same cordial relationship, African leaders want to maintain with the US government, which has enabled them to accept funds from America to finance Aids and Ebola projects in Africa, instead of rejecting them.

However, Africans need to ask ourselves: what comes next after slavery, colonial brutality, Apartheid, Aids, and Ebola?

I will never forget what the former Sierra Leone ambassador to Belgium, Hon Ibrahim Sorie, told me when I visited him with the Belgian branch of the APC party members at his residence in Brussels.

When I told him about the Ebola research by scientist Johan Van Dongen and Dr. Wolff Geisler, pointing fingers at the US government as the perpetrator, he said, "Instead of witch-hunting, we prefer peace." 

But how long will Africans sit and watch to be slaughtered like cows and pigs by a senseless government that preaches virtue and practices vice?

Those who like to bully people continue bullying because they enjoy seeing their victims crying for mercy. All comes to an end the day the victim who thinks enough is enough strikes back.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Yahya Jammeh, the West, and the Politics of African Sovereignty: Examining a Controversial Relationship


Yahya Jammeh of Gambia

Yahya Jammeh of Gambia


Many African leaders think they have had enough of colonial masters and wouldn't like to do anything with them. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Yahya Jammeh of Gambia are two of them. 


They suddenly became enemies because of their views on homosexuality and the fact that the West finds it hard to deal with them.  In fact, the West and America pray to see an immediate end to the governments of Mugabe and Jammeh.

Sunday, May 08, 2011

Why Good Governance Matters for Ghana's Long-Term Growth


Ghana's John Jerry Rawlings: The first head of state to carry executions under military rule


Ghana's John Jerry Rawlings: The first head of state to carry out executions under military rule


In developed countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, etc, political leaders' priority is to make things better for the masses. 


Their wish is to serve the people and make things better for them in a way that the people will acknowledge them as good politicians, but in Africa, the story is quite different.