Showing posts with label Kwame Nkrumah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kwame Nkrumah. 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.

 

Friday, April 10, 2026

Why one African currency is more powerful than any weapon

 

An imagined or proposed African Unity currency note labeled 100 Afri, symbolizing continental strength and unity, featuring Africa’s map, wildlife, and landmarks.

An imagined or proposed African Unity currency note labeled 100Afri, symbolizing continental strength and unity, featuring Africa’s map, wildlife, and landmarks.


Africa’s long struggle for liberation has always been tied to the forces that sought to control its people, its land, and its destiny. From the earliest days of the transatlantic slave trade to the brutality of colonization and the cruelty of apartheid, the continent has endured systems designed to weaken it.


These systems were not accidental; they were deliberate structures of domination that extracted Africa’s wealth while suppressing its political and economic freedom. The scars remain visible today, shaping the continent’s development and influencing its place in the global economy.

 

Slavery uprooted millions of Africans, destroying families, cultures, and social structures. Colonization followed with military conquest, forced labor, land dispossession, and the imposition of foreign political systems.

 

The apartheid regime in Southern Africa added another layer of oppression, creating a racial hierarchy that denied Black Africans their humanity and economic opportunity. These historical injustices left Africa fragmented, economically dependent, and politically vulnerable.

 

Yet even in the midst of these challenges, Africa produced leaders whose vision extended far beyond their national borders. Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, and Muammar Gaddafi were among the most prominent voices calling for African unity and economic independence.

 

They understood that political freedom without economic sovereignty would leave Africa at the mercy of foreign powers. Their ideas threatened global interests, and their fates reflect the price Africa has paid for daring to dream of true independence.

 

Kwame Nkrumah envisioned a United States of Africa, a continent united under one government, one military command, and one economic system. His overthrow in 1966 was not merely a domestic political event; it was a strategic move in the global Cold War struggle, influenced by foreign powers uncomfortable with his PanAfrican agenda.

 

Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo, was assassinated in 1961 after attempting to free his country from foreign control of its vast mineral wealth. 


His death remains one of the most painful symbols of Africa’s stolen future. Muammar Gaddafi, who championed the idea of a single African currency backed by gold reserves, was overthrown in 2011, removing one of the strongest advocates for African monetary independence.

 

These leaders shared a common belief: Africa must unite or remain vulnerable. Their removal was not coincidental; it was calculated.

 

Today, Africa continues to trade primarily in foreign currencies, especially the US dollar and the euro. This dependency exposes African economies to global currency fluctuations, increases the cost of imports and debt repayments, and limits intraAfrican trade. It also reinforces a psychological dependence on former colonial powers.

 

Related post:  The disposal of the body of Patrice Lumumba without burial


The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a major step forward, but without a unified currency, Africa cannot unlock its full economic potential. If African leaders truly want independence, not symbolic independence, but real economic sovereignty, they must act boldly and without hesitation.

 

The first step is to fight corruption relentlessly. Corruption drains billions of dollars annually, money that could build schools, hospitals, industries, and infrastructure. No foreign power can save Africa from corruption; only African leaders can. The second step is to unite the continent politically and economically.

 

Fragmented states cannot compete globally. A united Africa would be a global superpower. The third step is to build strong regional institutions capable of enforcing accountability and transparency. 


The fourth step is to reduce dependence on foreign aid, which often comes with conditions that undermine sovereignty. Africa must invest in agriculture, manufacturing, technology, and intraAfrican trade.

 

And finally, Africa must establish a single African currency. This is the most transformative step, the one that would free Africa from the domination of foreign monetary systems and give the continent control over its own economic destiny.

 

A unified African currency would be more powerful than any weapon because it would strengthen Africa from within. It would boost intraAfrican trade by eliminating exchange rate barriers. It would strengthen Africa’s bargaining power in global markets. It would reduce dependence on the US dollar and the euro.

 

It would stabilize prices across the continent and encourage investment by creating a predictable economic environment. It would lower transaction costs for businesses and travelers. It would promote economic integration and continental unity. It would prevent currency manipulation by external powers.

 

It would create a stronger financial identity for Africa. It would enhance collective economic security against global shocks. It would support the African Continental Free Trade Area with a unified monetary system. It would build continental pride and psychological liberation from colonialera economic structures.

 

It would allow Africa to set its own monetary policy based on African priorities. It would strengthen African banks and financial institutions. And ultimately, it would create the foundation for a future African economic superpower.

 

A single African currency is not just an economic tool; it is a symbol of unity, strength, and liberation. It is the currency of a continent ready to rise.

 

Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Neo‑Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism-The book that terrified foreign powers to overthrow Nkrumah

 

Neocolonialism, according to Nkrumah, is the use of foreign capital to exploit rather than advance the prosperity of the world's less developed regions.

Neocolonialism, according to Nkrumah, is the use of foreign capital to exploit rather than advance the prosperity of the world's less developed regions.


Neocolonialism is the exploitation of former colonies by their former rulers, based on economic inequality


Kwame Nkrumah, the architect of Ghana’s independence and a renowned African statesman and scholar, wrote the book titled "Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism" in 1965, eight years after Ghana gained its independence. 


He described how former colonial powers continued to dominate and take advantage of recently independent nations in this book. The terms "neocolonialism" and "post-colonialism" gained popularity during Africa's decolonization.

 

Nkrumah wrote, “The result of neocolonialism is that foreign capital is used to exploit rather than to promote the prosperity of the less developed parts of the world. Under neo-colonialism, investment widens rather than narrows the gap between the rich and the poor in the world. 


The struggle against neo-colonialism is not about excluding the capital of developed countries from the economies of less developed countries. It is about preventing the financial power of developed countries from being used to undermine the economies of less developed countries.”

 

Neocolonialism is therefore the continued exploitation of former colonies by their former rulers, based on economic inequality. Like colonialism, it includes cultural and language influence, as well as unequal economic and politicalmilitary relations between the former colony and the former colonial power.


A clear example is the socalled “banana republics,” countries whose economies depend on exporting one main agricultural product, often controlled by a single foreign company.

 

Colonialism started as a system where powerful countries controlled weaker ones from the 16th to the 20th centuries. These powerful countries conquered smaller states for many reasons: to make trade easier, to take natural resources, and to control trade routes. Countries with strong economies and armies became metropolises, while weaker countries became colonies.

 

The metropolises spread their culture and language, while the colonies lost political and economic independence. Often, citizens of the metropolises had more rights and privileges in the colonies than the local people. 


For example, British colonizers in Australia applied the Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights to themselves but not to the Indigenous Australians, who were bought or kidnapped and forced to work on British farms.

 

European powers treated colonized cultures differently, but in most cases, colonization caused suffering and tragedy. For example, the British East India Company’s rule caused major famines in Bengal in the 1760s and 1790s, killing an estimated 10 million people in the first famine. Colonialism in its original form ended after World War II, when societies began to support human rights, democracy, and decolonization.

 

The year 1960 is often called “the year of Africa.” It was the year when the largest number of African countries became independent: 17 nations, many of them formerly colonized by France, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, and Gabon. 


That same year, the UN General Assembly passed a declaration supporting independence for colonial countries and peoples, confirming the right of all nations to selfdetermination and calling for the quick end of colonialism.

 

Neocolonialism affects the whole world today. Developed countries still spread their political and economic influence using postcolonial methods. For example, one condition for the Philippines’ independence was allowing the United States to keep military bases there. 


Also, Northern Cyprus has been occupied by Turkey since 1974. Some organizations are also accused of spreading the culture and values of former colonial powers.

 

One major effect of postcolonialism is ethnocide, the destruction of a people’s national or ethnic identity. This happens when local languages disappear, and Western traditions replace local customs, erasing history and culture. 


Western values are often linked with personal freedom, rational thinking, and democracy, but countries like Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong show that modernization and progress can happen without full Westernization.

 

On 21 February 1966, Kwame Nkrumah traveled to North Vietnam at the invitation of Ho Chi Minh and then continued to China. While he was in Beijing, a group of conspirators, many trained in England, carried out a coup in Ghana. 


The main leader was Lieutenant Colonel Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka, commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade in Kumasi. They used Nkrumah’s absence to take power. After the coup, Nkrumah never returned to Ghana and lived in exile in Guinea.

 

Kwame Nkrumah later went to Romania for medical treatment in August 1971. He died there on April 27, 1972, at the Flamingo Hotel in Bucharest. He had been suffering from a serious, incurable illness, later identified as prostate cancer. 


Years after his passing, declassified U.S. records showed that the CIA was instrumental in the 1966 overthrow of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah.

 

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Muhammad Ali’s visit to Ghana: An echo that still resonates

 

Muhammad Ali's 1964 visit to Ghana was a landmark moment in both his personal journey and Pan-African history.

Muhammad Ali's 1964 visit to Ghana was a landmark moment in both his personal journey and Pan-African history.


When Muhammad Ali, then newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world, arrived in Ghana in 1964, the moment was far more than a celebrity visit. It was a symbolic homecoming, a meeting between two of the most influential Black figures of the 20th century.

 

Ali, the brash, brilliant boxer who had just stunned the world by defeating Sonny Liston, stepped onto African soil as a global icon in the making. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and the leading voice of PanAfricanism, welcomed him not merely as a sportsman but as a son returning to the continent.

 

Their encounter captured the spirit of an era defined by liberation, pride, and the reawakening of African identity. Ali’s arrival in Accra was electric, as thousands lined the streets, cheering as his motorcade passed, waving flags and chanting his name.

 

Newspapers described the scene as one of the most enthusiastic public receptions since Ghana’s independence celebrations. In the VIP lounge of the airport, Ghana’s Foreign Minister Kojo Botsio greeted him on behalf of Nkrumah and bestowed upon him a new name: Kwame Muhammad Ali, marking him as a Sunday-born son of the Ashanti tradition.

 

Ali embraced the gesture with pride, calling his trip “a return to the fatherland,” a phrase that resonated deeply with Ghanaians and African Americans alike. When Ali finally met Nkrumah, the encounter was warm, symbolic, and politically charged. Nkrumah saw in Ali a powerful cultural ambassador, young, confident, unapologetically Black, and admired across the world.

 

Ali, in turn, admired Nkrumah as the embodiment of African independence and dignity. Their meeting represented a bridge between the struggles of African Americans and the aspirations of newly independent African nations. It was a moment when the global Black freedom movement felt united, hopeful, and unstoppable.


The visit also carried political undertones. Ghana in the early 1960s was a beacon of PanAfricanism, attracting intellectuals, activists, and revolutionaries from across the diaspora. Figures like W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X had already found inspiration in Nkrumah’s Ghana.

 

Ali’s presence added a new dimension: the world’s most famous athlete standing shoulder to shoulder with Africa’s most outspoken anticolonial leader. For many Ghanaians, it was a validation of their country’s growing influence on the world stage. Ali’s days in Ghana were filled with public appearances, cultural ceremonies, and interactions with ordinary people.

 

He wore kente cloth, danced with crowds, and visited schools and training centers. His charisma transcended language and borders. Even decades later, older Ghanaians recall the joy and pride of seeing him walk through their streets, an African American who carried himself with the confidence of a king yet moved among them with humility and warmth.

 

The echoes of that visit have not faded. It remains a defining moment in the shared history of Africa and its diaspora. Ali’s embrace of Ghana strengthened the emotional and political ties between African Americans and the continent. For Ghana, the visit reinforced its identity as a home for the global Black family and a center of PanAfrican thought.

 

For Ali, it marked the beginning of his transformation from athlete to global moral figure, a journey that would later see him stand against the Vietnam War and become a symbol of resistance and dignity. Today, the images and stories of Ali with Nkrumah continue to circulate, reminding new generations of a time when Black unity felt tangible and powerful.

 

Their meeting stands as a testament to the enduring connection between sport, politics, and identity, and to the profound impact that two extraordinary men had on the world.


Sunday, May 30, 2021

OUR STORY IN GHANA IS A TRAGEDY, AS NKRUMAH'S PROPHESY UNFOLDS

Nkrumah's prophesy has taken place

 Nkrumah's prophesy has taken place


“If we don't approach the problems in Africa with a common front and a common purpose, we shall be haggling and wrangling among ourselves until we are colonized again and become tools of a far greater colonialism than we suffered hitherto.” – Kwame Nkrumah

 

Who in Ghana can beat up his chest by denying that we are not experiencing a similar situation today in the country decades after Kwame Nkrumah made this statement?

 

I don’t think anyone in Ghana can challenge these words of Nkrumah that everything is fine and the system is smoothly advancing.

 

Indeed, Ghanaians are suffering, yet we are not under colonialism. There have been several arguments that Africa would have been better in the hands of the colonial masters because, after independence, African leaders have disappointed the common people.

 

What inspires people to pursue a political career in Ghana or generally in Africa? This is the question that, if I am to interview any Ghanaian politician, will be my first question on the list because it seems the majority of African politicians are inspired into politics to amass wealth.

 

The hardships the common people experience in Africa daily, despite its vast natural resources, are never experienced in the developed countries. This is enough to acknowledge the fact that, apart from corruption, the lack of good leadership is also affecting the country.

 

Why so many resources, yet African leaders can't alleviate the people from poverty? Providing good schools, medical facilities, and drinking water and creating employment have been some of the biggest challenges many African countries are facing today.

 

There is more room in Ghana for improvement, but the rooms are shut because Ghanaians are not one. While it is in the interest of many to unite, there are others aiming to divide the people.

 

Like all African countries, politics in Ghana involved greediness. The idea that the NDC has ‘chopped’ enough; therefore, it’s the turn of the NPP to ‘chop’ is causing a setback to the rapid development of Ghana.

 

In Ghana, you’ll see the grim pictures of how many Ghanaians are suffering and struggling. On the streets of Accra, traders carrying heavy items, including tubers of yam, are running after and dangerously maneuvering between moving vehicles.

 

No education and no future; everyone is struggling to sell something to avoid being a burden on families. Why is it that only the third-world countries often experience such economic hardships?

 

Our resources are being wasted on wrong projects that are not necessary, and the situation in mineral-rich Africa is very bad, to the extent that some illiterates or superstitious people think the continent is cursed.

 

What crime has Africa committed to deserve a curse? Even the colonial masters that committed so many crimes in African countries are blessed. They have work, food, good education, and medical facilities, making life worthy to live.

 

Until African countries have good leaders ready to fight corruption and make good use of the money after the export of their raw materials, the continent will continue to remain poor, affecting everyone, including the children.

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Kwame Nkrumah: The unparalleled nationalist among Ghanaian leaders

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the most feared Ghanaian leader by Western Europe and the US governments

Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the most feared Ghanaian leader by Western Europe and the US governments


In Ghana, you can be a president, but not all Ghanaian leaders have equal wisdom. Some leaders used their intelligence to make Ghana a great nation, while others brought untold hardship and suffering to the common people. 


Jesus once said, "A prophet is not without honour except in his own town and in his own home.

 

That is true; Kwame Nkrumah might be considered a hero at his birthplace, Nkroful, but his achievements as one of Ghana’s greatest political figures have caused jealousy among an empire of deceitful politicians who have tried to taint the works of this great man.

 

In the political history of Ghana, there hasn't been any Ghanaian leader who is loyal to his country and the entire African continent at the same time, like the former nationalist Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

 

Even though some Ghanaians might have been inspired by Nkrumah’s ideologies and philosophy, they still lacked the heroism that made Kwame Nkrumah the kind of leader feared most by the governments of Western Europe and the United States of America.

 

Whereas today, there hasn't been any Ghanaian or African leader to question the colonial masters and the US government about the strange diseases, such as HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis, Burkitt's lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, Lassa fever, and Ebola (apart from malaria), that suddenly or miraculously appeared on the continent of Africa. Nkrumah spoke against these issues to protect the continent because he knew what the foreign powers could do.

 

Since Kwame Nkrumah wasn’t ready to let Africa suffer after independence, he became a stumbling block on the paths of the governments of Western Europe and the United States of America because of their diabolical, clandestine agenda to take possession of Africa’s rich resources.

 

With the collaboration of America's CIA, the Nkrumah regime was overthrown. Years later, apart from malaria, many diseases came to the continent of Africa, causing a major setback to the development of the continent.

 

Today, African leaders accept money from foreign governments to support HIV/AIDS and Ebola projects in Africa, instead of rejecting it because all the money ends up in their pockets.

 

Western European and American leaders do bad things politically and economically to Africa, yet they don't want any nation on earth to do the same thing against them. After that, they turn on African leaders to call them ‘corrupt,’ and the African continent a 'shithole'. 

 

How do you expect Ghana or any African country to progress when African leaders kowtow in front of foreign leaders after committing horrible crimes in Africa and exchange the souls of their dead citizens killed by biological weapons for money?

 

History has repeated itself with a new biological weapon called coronavirus. Even though, as usual, Africa is not responsible for any biological weapon, COVID-19 is gradually bringing Africa's ailing economy to a halt. 

 

Already, it has been reported that the money given to support the coronavirus project in Ghana is completely exhausted. (Sika nu ashi, asah.) Within the shortest period, the money was given to Ghana; nobody knows what exactly it was used for. 

 

Even though there is no Ghanaian or African leader prepared to die or face any harsh treatment from foreign governments, to this day, many Ghanaians hate Kwame Nkrumah. However, the truth is that if many African leaders were brave and powerful enough, like Nkrumah, Africa would not end up in such a disaster, despite the continent’s rich resources.

 

I can still hear the “Voice From Afar” of Kwame Nkrumah, a tribute to K. B. Asante, speaking, warning, and reminding Ghanaians and other African leaders with these powerful words.

 

“Even the cinema stories of fabulous Hollywood are loaded. One has only to listen to the cheers of an African audience as Hollywood’s heroes slaughter red Indians or Asiatics to understand the effectiveness of this weapon. For in the developing continents, where the colonialist heritage has left a vast majority still illiterate, even the smallest child gets the message contained in the blood and thunder stories emanating from California.”

 

“And along with murder and the Wild West goes an incessant barrage of anti-socialist propaganda, in which the trade union man, the revolutionary, or the man of dark skin is generally cast as the villain, while the policeman, the gumshoe, and the federal agent—in a word, the CIA-type spy—is ever the hero.”

 

“Here, truly, is the ideological underbelly of those political murders that so often use local people as their instruments. While Hollywood takes care of fiction, the enormous monopoly press, together with the outflow of slick, clever, expensive magazines, attends to what it chooses to call ‘news.”

 

“Within separate countries, one or two news agencies control the news handouts so that a deadly uniformity is achieved, regardless of the number of separate newspapers or magazines; while internationally, the financial preponderance of the United States is felt more and more through its foreign correspondents and offices abroad, as well as through its influence over international capitalist journalism.”

 

“Under this guise, a flood of anti-liberation propaganda emanates from the capital cities of the West, directed against China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Algeria, Ghana, and all countries that hack out their own independent path to freedom. Prejudice is rife. For example, wherever there is armed struggle against the forces of reaction, the nationalists are referred to as rebels, terrorists, or frequently ‘communist terrorists' ― Kwame Nkrumah.

 

He that has ears, let him hear. Ghana, or the entire African continent, needs strong and powerful leaders, like Nkrumah, to feed, educate, provide jobs, improve the health sectors in the country, and protect the continent from foreign subversive activities affecting the development of the continent.

 

If African leaders are not prepared to stand and fight for their country, the continent of Africa will always remain a 'shithole', with poor economies, malnourished children, and diseases, while Europe and America capitalise on our resources to build their economies much stronger.

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

An awareness of our past is essential to our personality and identity as Africans

 

Former Ethiopian Head of State, Emperor Haile Selassie

Former Ethiopian Head of State, Emperor Haile Selassie


"We must look, first, to Almighty God, who has raised man above the animals and endowed him with intelligence and reason. We must put our faith in Him, that He will not desert us or permit us to destroy humanity which He created in His image."- Emperor Haile Selassie.


"Haile Selassie’s address to the United Nations on October 6, 1963, including the ‘War Speech’ which became one of Bob Marley’s hits."

An Awareness Of Our Past Is Essential To The Establishment Of Our Personality And Identity As Africans – Emperor Haile Selassie

Monday, July 27, 2020

The Forgotten Segregation Crimes In The United States Of America In Images

Anti-civil rights crime in America


Anti-civil rights crime in America



"Dedicated To Congressman John Lewis, For His Selfless Fight For The Emancipation of black people." - Joel Savage




The white missionaries were the first to introduce the Bible in Africa or to the black man. In that Bible, it is written that God created man in His own image, yet the black man became a target of all kinds of cruelties because of the color of his skin. 

Thursday, July 09, 2020

THE SYSTEMATIC ABUSE OF POWER IN COLONIAL AFRICA

The image of humans used as transport was another abuse of power in the colonial era in Africa.

The image of humans used as transport was another abuse of power in the colonial era in Africa.


During the colonial era in Africa, the masters often received the respect accorded by Black people out of fear. Based on this misconception that Black people fear them, they abused their power horrifically and inhumanly without regret or remorse.


However, the myth that a Black man fears a white man is total nonsense. Europeans scrambled over Africa with sheer brutality and aggression, subduing Africans; therefore, they were too vulnerable and powerless to react. 


The same abuse and oppression of Black people exist today in many European countries and the United States of America. If not for the Black Lives Matter demonstration after George Floyd's death, there would still be statues commemorating key figures who committed horrible crimes against humanity during slavery and the colonial era.


The fathers of independence, such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Patrice Lumumba of Congo, had no fear of the British and Belgian governments. 


They gained independence for their countries, but because Britain and Belgium actually feared them, Nkrumah was removed from power in a coup masterminded by the CIA, and Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in a plot conceived by the Belgian government. 


In apartheid South Africa, Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, and his colleagues had no fear of the minority apartheid leaders. Despite the force of brutality they unleashed, maiming and opening fire on protesting, defenseless South Africans, they murdered Steve Biko and put other ANC key members, including Nelson Mandela, behind bars for twenty-seven years because they feared them. 


When it comes to crime, there are many white criminals out there, as well as Black criminals, but the Black man is always given a second look because of the color of his skin. Just being Black makes you a suspect. In the United States of America, Black drivers are more often stopped and harassed than white motorists.


In Belgium, being Africans among white workers, all eyes were on us as suspects when sandwiches had been missing every time from the dining hall. The atmosphere becomes tense when, on the fifth day of the week, one of the workers finds his food stolen again.


This time, the management decides to do something about it. They secretly started their investigations, creating an undetected hideout, aiming to catch the person responsible for this theft red-handed.

 

The following week, about a quarter to noonday, a mysterious man emerged into the quiet dining hall, looking for a meal to steal. After tasting some meals, he found a delicious one, and he took it. As he tried to walk out, he was intercepted.  

 

Colonial power in Africa took all that they wanted and destroyed the souls of Africans

Colonial power in Africa took all that it wanted and destroyed the souls of Africans.

Shockingly, out of hundreds of workers at the company, the mysterious thief appeared to be one of our colleagues from Portugal. The sandwich thief was Portuguese, not African.


The need to respect all races

 

It is absolutely wrong to take the respect someone gives as a reason to treat him very badly. Many enjoy being racist; some people like to discriminate against Black people, calling them degrading names, but the question is, what do racists get from hate? Nothing is more significant than violence and the destruction of property.


Who lives forever, and what makes you think your color is better than someone else's when there is a big difference between the color white and real black? If white people's color is white like white paper, I think everyone who sees them will run to hide somewhere in fear.


Respect doesn’t mean fear; therefore, those who have that sick mentality should begin to dismantle it from their brains because racial problems have caused too much death and violence, and without respect for other races, there will never be peace on earth.


Saturday, June 13, 2020

The Immeasurable Greatness Of Ghanaian Writer, Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo, an inspiration to thousands of African writers

Ama Ata Aidoo, an inspiration to thousands of African writers


Author Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the prominent Ghanaian female writers who has created a significant impact in both Africa and international literature, once, inspiring me to write an article captioned "The Literary World Of Ama Ata Aidoo," about her, on ModernGhana news site, on October 20, 2018.


She is a past student of the Wesley Girl's High School in Cape Coast from 1961 to 1964, and the University of Ghana in Legon, where she received a bachelor's degree in English.

Ama’s books are well defined by her style of writing and the subject she relates recounts every thought and action of a narrator in exquisite detail delightfully enjoyed by her novice readers.

I have had great respect for many Ghanaian literature writers, the fact most of them are naturally gifted, and talented writers whose books have played significant roles in Africa's education.

But recently, going deep into Ama Ata Aidoo's work, one of her old interviews on Youtube about economic and health issues in Africa, caught my attention. It opened my mind and without any doubt realized that Ama may probably be one of Africa's greatest scholars after Kwame Nkrumah.

A few years ago, after visiting the Dutch scientist and microsurgeon, Johan van Dongen in Holland, and the German medical doctor, Wolff Geisler in Cologne, Germany, I received books and documents pertaining to certain diseases which origins are from Africa.

For example, HIV-Aids, Ebola, Tuberculosis, Burkitt's lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, and nodding disease were deliberately inflicted on the African population, by the US and British governments and Apartheid leaders of South Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjLRjUs8lY (For unknown reasons, I couldn't upload this video from Youtube Ama Ata Aidoo's interview in 1987)

Since every race, there are both intelligent and morons, some people either morons or with the intention to suppress information attacked me on ModernGhana news platform after posting those articles to expose the medical crimes of both Britain and American governments in Africa. 

They said the publications are not true but I am being brainwashed by two European medical writers. I couldn't believe when I stumbled upon an interview of the Ghanaian writer, Ama Atta Aidoo, in 1987, talking about the same deliberate spread of diseases, including tuberculosis in Africa.

How great and intelligent is this woman? Even though she refrained from mentioning any name in regards to the subject, what she said about Aids and Tuberculosis were exactly written in the books of Scientist Dongen and Dr. Geisler, even though the two writers don't know each other.

Ama Ata Aidoo said something like this: "She is not blaming or holding anyone responsible because whatever happened in Africa, they did it for their survival but we (Africans) are not doing enough for our survival."

She is right, many times, I accused African leaders of the current chaotic and poverty state of the continent. They are those responsible for our troubles because they take bribes from foreign governments, yet they not even aware that what they steal from the continent is more than what they take.

Besides, the man-made diseases inflicted on Africans generate massive profit for the European and American pharmaceutical companies, which improves their economies, while African lick their wounds of diseases they aren't responsible for.

Until the entire African continent and its stupid leaders will wake up from their slumber to stand firm, fight and take the economic yoke put on our heads by the European and American leaders, Africa will never move forward. 

They will continue celebrating independence each year without achieving anything significant on the continent of Africa.

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.)

THE DEEP BETRAYAL OF NKRUMAH BY GHANA AND THE AMERICAN CIA


Kwame Nkrumah, one of the intelligent African leaders the world has ever known


Kwame Nkrumah, one of the intelligent African leaders the world has ever known



In October 1965, Kwame Nkrumah, the president of Ghana, published his future book, ‘Neocolonialism: The last stage of imperialism.’ The book was dedicated to "The living and the dead African freedom fighters."



In the book, Nkrumah accused the CIA of numerous crises and regressions in the Third World and Eastern Europe. Later, Nkrumah wrote: "The American government sent me a note of protest and soon refused to give Ghana $35 million planned to help the country.

Four months later, he was deposed in a military coup organized by the CIA. Of course, the organizers of the coup, members of the Ghanaian army and police, had their own motives. They feared that Nkrumah was creating his own private army that would take their powers away, and they were determined to promote their own professional careers and status.

Within a very short period after the successful coup in February 1966, the majors became colonels, and the colonels became generals. As a student in the United States during the Great Depression, Kwame Nkrumah wandered around Harlem, slept in the subway, and stood in lines in the mess rooms for the needy.

Later, he became "the brightest star of Africa," a leader calling for a struggle against imperialism, the creation of a pan-African organization, and an international non-aligned movement during the Cold War. According to the general opinion, Nkrumah adhered to special rules that belonged to him and believed that socialism could be adopted by decrees from above.

Although he boldly spoke out against neocolonialism, he still failed to ultimately prevent the influence of transnational corporations in Ghana. When he tried to reduce his country's dependence on the West, strengthening economic and military ties with the Soviet Union, China, and East Germany, he finally decided his fate.

The United States wanted to get rid of him. Great Britain, the former colonial masters of Ghana then called the Gold Coast (Gold Coast), also wanted to remove Nkrumah. France and West Germany also didn’t like Nkrumah. Those Ghanaians who accomplished the coup did not doubt that the movement against Nkrumah would be supported by the Western powers.

During the coup, the Soviet press accused the CIA of participation in 1972. The conservative London Daily Telegraph reported that by 1965, the CIA's headquarters in Accra, the capital of Ghana, had about forty staff members who generously distributed donations to the secret opponents of President Nkrumah.

By February 1966, according to the article, the CIA prepared plans to overthrow the Nkrumah regime: The patient and diligent work of the CIA headquarters in Accra was crowned with total success. However, it was not until 1978 that history went astray in the United States. A former CIA official, John Stockwell, who served a long time in Africa, published a book in which he reveals the involvement of his Office.

Later, the New York Times cited the direct sources in intelligence and confirmed that the CIA advised and supported dissident officers in Ghana. Stockwell said that the CIA station in Accra received generous financial support and acted in close contact with the conspirators in the process of developing the coup.

The involvement of the residency was so great that during the coup, it became possible for the United States to restore some secret Soviet military equipment. The CIA also offered the headquarters in Washington to keep a small team of military instructors from the Special Forces ready, with black-painted faces planned to storm the Chinese embassy, destroy everyone inside, take secret reports, and blow up the building to hide this fact.

This proposal was rejected. According to Stockwell, the CIA headquarters honoured the Accra Residency with all the work to organize a coup in which eight Soviet advisers were killed. The Soviet Union, however, categorically denied that any of its advisers had been killed.

Other intelligence sources present in Ghana during the coup disagreed with Stockwell's view that the coup was entirely the work of the CIA. But they believed that his Office played a key role. Some officials in Washington admitted that the head of the CIA's headquarters in Accra, Howard T. Bane, was quickly promoted and took up a senior position in the Office.

After the coup, the CIA paid $100,000 to the new Ghanaian regime to confiscate Soviet equipment, including a lighter that operated as a camera. The Ghanaian leaders soon expelled a large number of Soviet employees, as well as Chinese and East Germans.

In fact, all state-owned industries moved into private hands. Soon, previously blocked channels of American aid were opened: grants, food, and development projects went from the United States, Western Europe, and the International Monetary Fund to Ghana.

Washington, for example, three weeks after the coup, in response to an urgent request from Ghana, approved a substantial amount of food aid. Although four months earlier, such a request from Nkrumah was rejected. 

A month after his expulsion, the international price of cocoa, the lifeblood of Ghana's economy, grew by 14 percent.

But what’s Ghana’s position now economically? Obviously, there is no past or present Ghanaian leader who is even qualified to polish the shoes of Kwame Nkrumah. Because of greed and the thirst for power, Nkrumah was hastily thrown out of office by a coup. 

He would have done better for Ghana if he had stayed in power a little bit longer.

WHY BELGIUM REFUSES TO GIVE GHANA ITS EMBASSY


Kwame Nkrumah, the father, and architect of Ghana’s political independence

Kwame Nkrumah, the father and architect of Ghana’s political independence



Kwame Nkrumah, the father and architect of Ghana’s political independence, was a man far ahead of his time. After studies from the United States of America, Nkrumah’s involvement in politics and determination to free Ghana and other African countries from the hands of colonial masters was a bitter issue that the West and America weren’t prepared to handle.


“We have won the battle and again rededicate ourselves; our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa,” Nkrumah said. 

The fact that other African countries were under colonial bondage made him unhappy after Ghana’s independence. He was a man with vision and full of determination. He started working on the liberation of other African countries.

A year after Ghana’s independence, Kwame Nkrumah helped his friend Ahmed Sekou Touré of the Republic of Guinea to break free from France on October 2, 1958. 

The French government was very angry to the extent that they took everything, including the furniture at the statehouse, from Guinea to France. 

Then, in 1960, other African countries gained their independence, including Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of Congo (which, before Belgium, had taken as their personal property) on August 15, 1960.
This was something Belgium wasn’t prepared to accept because of the fear of losing whatever they were siphoning from Congo to Belgium. 

Before independence, Belgium's King Leopold’s terror of terror and greed saw many Congolese children and adults' limbs and hands amputated, the punishment for rebelling against his administration, and also for not satisfying his demands. 

Through a plot engineered by Belgium, Lumumba was killed, chopped, and his body burned in 1962. A brutal death, Nkrumah and world leaders spoke against.

The mouth that said, “Here comes the Saviour, Hosanna! Hosanna! It was the same mouth that said, “Crucify him.” Ghanaians and the opposition accused Nkrumah of being a dictator, forming a one-party state. 

On February 24, 1966, with the aid of the CIA, Nkrumah was overthrown by the army. Declassified National Security Council and Central Agency documents provided ample evidence that the United States government was involved in the 1966 coup that toppled the Ghanaian leader. 

Shortly after the arrest of Patrice Lumumba after Belgium lost Congo in 1960, he was assassinated, later his body exhumed and dissolved in Sulphuric acid

Shortly after the arrest of Patrice Lumumba, after Belgium lost Congo in 1960, he was assassinated, and later his body was exhumed and dissolved in sulfuric acid.


Before his overthrow, it was also a difficult period for prominent black leaders in America, including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Kwame Nkrumah spent his last days in exile in Conakry, Guinea. He died in Bucharest, Romania. As a punishment to the Ghanaian government for Nkrumah’s interference in Belgian politics, the Belgian government has denied Ghana its embassy ever since. 

A country like Ghana deserves an embassy, not a Belgian consulate. It’s a shame Ghana has to go under such punishment for political reasons, without taking into consideration the atrocities the West committed against Africa.

Sunday, March 08, 2020

Hilla Limann: The scapegoat president of Ghana’s economic crisis

Former Ghanaian leader, Dr. Hilla Limann, photo credit: Ghana media

Former Ghanaian leader, Dr. Hilla Limann, photo credit: Ghana media



Rawlings might regret by now for doing many wrong things during his rule. Firstly, executing the fathers of children, he accused them of corruption, while corruption at the moment is at its highest peak in Ghana, with impunity, and secondly, the overthrow of Hilla Limann, the former Ghanaian leader, was blamed for the harsh impact of the economy, which Rawlings was partly responsible for.



Hilla Limann, who had started his career in diplomacy, had never stopped participating in politics. Born December 12, 1934. In 1950, he joined the People's Convention Party (CPP) of Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana, overthrown in 1966.

In 1969, he was part of the commission responsible for developing the country's civil constitution, before continuing his diplomatic career in Lomé and Geneva. 

He had studied in England, notably at the London School of Economics, and considered himself the heir to Kwame Nkrumah, father of Ghanaian independence and champion of Pan-Africanism.

Hilla Limann had been elected President of the Republic of Ghana in 1979, a few months after the overthrow of General Frederick Akuffo by Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. General Akuffo and other senior officers were executed, but the elections had taken place as planned, and Jerry Rawlings returned to power after Hilla Limann.

Before the handover, Ghana’s economy was in its worst form in decades. Everything was not only expensive but also hard to get. Common toilet rolls, sugar, milk, etc, are out of reach for the suffering Ghanaians because commodities were hoarded for extra profit. Rawlings unleashes ruthless methods to bring out commodities for the general public.


So, when Limann became the president, Ghana was virtually empty. Cohesion within the PNP was nevertheless weak, partly because it was composed of a deputation whose ideological orientations were sometimes conflicting. These divisions aroused disagreement over national policies. 

In addition, the country's economic problems, which cause concern, encourage the AFRC to keep a watchful eye on the government. 

The Limann administration failed to put the economy back on track. The impact was so severe that thousands of Ghanaians left the country in search of greener pastures, with the highest population in Nigeria. Inflation is rampant, and the first budget tabled forecasts a large deficit. 

The tension becomes untenable, both for the population and for the military. December 31, 1981, which he considers responsible for this period of regression. The Provisional National Defense Council suspends the Constitution and eliminates political parties.

Rawlings says he wants to restore the human dignity of Ghanaians, in particular by fighting corruption. He, therefore, overthrew Hilla Limann, two years later, after a second coup, and forced the man to live under house arrest for two years.

The former Ghanaian leader, in power from September 1979 to December 1981, died on January 23, 1998, after being hospitalized for a few weeks for a heart condition in an establishment in the country.

Taking the political life of Limann as a head of state and the shortest period of his reign into consideration, it is likely that Hilla Limann could be the only Ghanaian leader who wasn’t involved in corruption. He didn’t amass any wealth and didn’t deposit any money at a foreign bank.

Bad things sometimes happen to good people. I strongly believe that Hilla Limann was one of them. The way our leaders' names disappear on the lips of many Ghanaians even shows that the political atmosphere in Ghana is full of hate and tribalism.

Limann was one of the good Ghanaian leaders blamed wrongly for a poor economy systematically abused for many years. 

He is gone, resting peacefully in his grave, but his name will never disappear in the political history of Ghana, as a man who loves his people, but because of greed was not allowed to work.


Saturday, August 18, 2018

HOW SAFE IS TO RIDE A BICYCLE IN AFRICA?

Safe bicycle riding in Europe under traffic light rules

Safe bicycle riding in Europe under traffic light rules



In Africa, vehicle drivers don’t get along with cyclists. Many are always angry with cyclists because they think cyclists are impediments on the path of motorists, yet they don’t know that cyclists have the same rights as motorists.


The Highway Code is an official book that gives the rules to motorists and people on how to use the road safely, and the advanced dictionary defines a vehicle, which motorists use as a conveyance moving on wheels, runners, or tracks, such as an automobile or tractor.

In regard to this definition, since a bicycle has wheels, it is qualified as a vehicle to use the road like every motorist without any horn or verbal harassment.

In reality, if there is any anger, motorists have to direct that to the Ghana Highway Authority because they have failed to consider cyclists whenever constructing Ghanaian roads.

The Ghana Highway Authority has a duty to maintain to ensure the safety of road users, including pedestrians and cyclists. The adequate provision by the authority is to ensure that cyclists are safe on Ghanaian roads. However, this is not the case.

Ghanaian roads are life-threatening to cyclists because they aren’t constructed with the safety of cyclists in mind. The setback in Africa is so severe that it has also affected the roads. 

Ghanaian roads are of a poor standard, with countless potholes and no light poles, making it extremely dangerous to drive at night when travelling long distances.

Because cyclists are safe on European roads, many like to park their cars at home and use bicycles to work. Riding a bicycle helps in many ways, is punctual, saves money, and promotes good health.

The reason apart from cyclists sharing roads with motorists, they also have special roads and traffic lights to ensure their safety. In Antwerp, there is a bicycle tunnel, built under the sea, connecting the city of Antwerp and Linkeroever.

Before the tunnel is a lift that takes the cyclist below to the entrance of the tunnel to ride through. It’s the most beautiful experience as cycling through the tunnel to linkeroever within a few minutes, whereas it may take you about twenty-five minutes to go by bus.

Every road in Europe is specially designed to give comfort to cyclists, but why not in Ghana, when so many people are finding it difficult to join the public transport to work because of high fares?

Apart from our great leader, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, any Ghanaian leader who will not take up the challenge to do something significant and different to develop the country will always be considered as a child learning how to play football.

There are too many insults in Ghanaian newspapers; therefore, which Ghanaian leader is ready to change these insults to praises? Both NDC and NPP want to rule Ghana, but which of the parties has considered embarking on an underground drainage system to improve the tourism industry?

Special safe bicycle routes for users in Europe

Special safe bicycle routes for users in Europe



All of them want to rule Ghana to get rich. Their power struggle is not for the poor suffering masses. After the death of Kwame Nkrumah, the money Ghana's leaders have stolen could have given the country a certain facelift to look somewhat like one of the poor Eastern European countries.

As dangerous as it is to ride a bicycle in Ghana, many cyclists don't wear helmets, yet there are traffic police officers in the country. 

The Ghana Highway Authority must consider cyclists in its future street projects after reading this article.