Showing posts with label Julius Nyerere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julius Nyerere. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2020

WHY FIDEL CASTRO AND KWAME NKRUMAH REJECTED DEMOCRACY


Fidel Castro and Kwame Nkrumah


 Fidel Castro and Kwame Nkrumah



African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda, to mention but a few, weren’t only intelligent but also had a vision of how the state of Africa would be if the US government imposed that type of lunatic Democracy on Africa.


As a matter of fact, this is one of the reasons why, even though Nkrumah studied in America, he had no interest in democracy than communism. Instead of Nkrumah seeking help from America to build his country, Ghana, Nkrumah collaborated with communist leaders in Russia, China, and Cuba.

Like Nkrumah, Fidel Castro also wasn’t interested in democracy, but the US government doesn’t leave leaders who aren’t interested in democracy alone. The CIA will work hard to eliminate you. Both Kwame Nkrumah and Fidel Castro survived several assassination attempts.

Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro

Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro



The significance of this article is to ask why the US government wants countries globally to follow democracy. And why do countries that aren’t interested in democracy instantly become enemies? As the story goes, America’s deadly hand of democracy got all African countries under its control.

The American government can’t stop preaching about democracy, telling the world that “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives,” is the best government for humanity, persuading all the Third World to also follow the 'almighty' democracy.

However, America has a different opinion or agenda when soliciting democracy in Africa. To carry out clandestine crimes against humanity, to kill every powerful Third World leader they consider a threat, and to test drugs and biological weapons, such as Aids and Ebola, in poor African countries to support their global depopulation schemes.

The oppression of Africans will never come to an end, firstly, because our leaders have no vision, and secondly, they are corrupt, lazy, and inefficient in utilizing their own resources; instead, they have become a new generation of slaves to advanced countries, such as Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the United States of America.


Fidel Castro and Julius Nyerere

Fidel Castro and Julius Nyerere



No matter how hard African leaders try, the continent will never move forward because that’s part of a hidden definition of America’s democracy: to set a military base throughout Africa and manipulate African leaders’ efforts. Why didn't the US government didn't call out to the rich Libya under Gaddafi to build a military base in America?

After the manipulation of African leaders' efforts and the destabilization of our economy, African leaders would lay red carpets for the foreign criminals when on a visit. Yet Africans are always insulting their leaders without commenting on the criminal activities of the US government in Africa. However, African leaders deserve it.

African leaders can’t speak against Aids and Ebola, well-known African pastors also can’t speak against the crime the US government commits in Africa because the US embassies will deny them a visa to enter the US, thus America has been successful with its clandestine crimes in Africa.


Fidel Castro and Thabo Mbeki

Fidel Castro and Thabo Mbeki



The experience of past African political history should have been bona fide events to teach African leaders the best way to handle affairs in Africa. Unfortunately, past events don’t mean anything to our modern African leaders because they are only interested in power and corruption.

If Africa is in this turbulent state or my beloved Ghana is in such an acute economic crisis, how will Ghana be in the next ten years? It’s frightening indeed. I have said and I will repeat once again, “Both NPP and NDC can’t save Ghana, despite all the noise both parties are making over who is the best and the failure.

African countries, including my beloved Ghana, will crawl out from the coma when they stop depending on those Ghanaians called “Kumfudumfo.” (They claim they are helping you, yet they are killing you.)

Saturday, January 30, 2016

J.N.K. Savage:Tracing The Works Of A Great Journalist Behind Computer Age


Journalist/Documentary film Producer and Director Justin N.K. Savage and wife Nancy-Elizabeth Savage (Nancy-Elizabeth Hudson) You looking at my mother and father.

Journalist/Documentary film Producer and Director Justin N.K. Savage and wife Nancy-Elizabeth Savage (Nancy-Elizabeth Hudson).,  You are looking at my mother and father.


Justin Nobleman Kodwo Savage was a professional journalist, documentary film producer, and director, born in Cape Coast, in the central region of Ghana, in 1932. While in active service, he passed away on January 29, 1976.


At Guinea Press, now ‘The Ghanaian Times’ during the Kwame Nkrumah era, Mr. Savage travelled extensively across the globe whenever the president left the country to participate in world affairs.

At home, Ghanaians were able to receive first-hand information from Mr. Savage, over Nkrumah’s trip overseas, appearing in ‘The Evening News,’ a newspaper dominated by party news, CPP, and adulation of Nkrumah.

At Guinea Press, Justin Savage had the opportunity to make further studies in journalism in London, England, but Nkrumah’s interest in communism took him off Ghana's soil to many Eastern European countries, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc, and Russia.

In the sixties, the president of then-Czechoslovakia invited African journalists to his country. Justin Savage heads the African journalists from Ghana, but the Ghanaians' presence stole the show, because of the native Kente cloth they put on. Kente exposes the rich tradition and culture of Ghana.

Justin Savage filed his press cuts and combined all his publications, which appeared in the newspapers as a magazine, naming it “A Mixture Of Periodicals.” These publications later after his death, became my favorite book, assisting me to gain more writing skills when my interest increased to be a writer.

Darkness fell on Ghana when Nkrumah was overthrown on February 24, 1966, in a coup organized by the CIA and local collaborators. Chaos and curfews followed amidst jubilation and sadness. Mr. Savage served the Guinea press for a year more, and he resigned.

He followed a course in technology at the Kumasi Science and Technology Institute, where he studied film production. After his course, he entered into Ghana Broadcasting Corporation as ‘Advisor on film for television.’

He excelled in his profession and had promotions. It wasn’t long before the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (West German Television Team) established a television project attached to the Broadcasting House in Ghana.

The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is a German political foundation named after Friedrich Ebert, Germany’s first democratically elected president. Headquartered in Bonn and Berlin, the foundation contributes to social democracy by means of:

Political education to reinforce its fundamental values, research and scientific analysis of central policy areas, various forms of public dialogue to pave the way for it, scholarship programs for students and Ph.D. candidates, development cooperation aimed at global justice, and building bridges of international cooperation for worldwide democracy.

For efficient service and to be familiar with new developments in television production, Mr. Savage was in West Germany for an intensive course. He returned to the Broadcasting House and was appointed ‘Documentary Film Producer and Director.

At the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, he made several documentary films, especially during the exhibition of Ghana and other African products at both the first and second ‘Ghana International Trade Fair’ in Accra.

Kodwo, the name his co-workers loved to call him, did several documentary films, including ‘Ghana At A Glance, Cocoa In Ghana, Backyard Industries, and ‘Furnace in a Village’, produced in 1972. I had the opportunity to play a role in ‘Backyard Industries.’

I grew up seeing some of his friends, such as Mr. Kofi Badu, the Managing Director of Daily Graphic, and Mr. Willie Donkor, the Editor of Weekly Spectator, still in the media. 

In the early nineties, in January, I contacted one of my father’s friends, called Mr. Ebo Biney, at the Broadcasting House, requesting if he could telecast one of my father’s films on January 29, in remembrance. 

It came as a shock to me when I learned that all my father’s films were burnt, following a fire that engulfed the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation some time ago.

Since then, I have been working very hard to see if I can find any of my father’s work online, despite being far behind the computer age and advanced modern technology. Like winning the lotto, I discovered two.

The first is at the website of Len Pole, a Museum Consultant: “Advisor on a film for television, ‘Furnace in a Village’, produced by Kodwo Savage, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, 1972.” – http://www.lenpole.com/I contacted the museum consultant after the discovery of my father’s work on his website. I was delighted when he told me a few years ago that ‘Furnace in a village’ was shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

Then I had a breakthrough when I discovered another work at Selected Bibliography in Communication – JSTOR by Graham B. Kerr, under the topic- All African governments are committed to the development and most wish to …Journalism Quarterly [forthcoming]. ….. SAVAGEJ.N.K. “Ghana Jugend begeistert. “Ghana inspires youth.”

The selected Bibliography in Communication is a book published by the Canadian Association of African Studies. Justin Savage writes:

“We must bridge the gap between leaders and masses, between government and people. No government tells the people everything, but every government must reach the people to tell them what they should be told,” – Julius Nyerere.


The search for my father’s work isn’t yet over. As time goes on, when I discover something new, I will keep on updating this article. I hope readers will enjoy reading it, and if any reader has any suggestions to improve it, you are always welcome.

The incredible story of this great writer, neglected when he was a child, is now available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Writer-Died-Joel-Savage-ebook/dp/B013L54A7O.