NO NKRUMAH DISRESPECT WILL BE TOLERATED ON THIS TIMELINE.
To claim that Nkrumah’s “blunders” are the reason Ghana is suffering today, and then suggest that he should have avoided the independence struggle and simply allowed the West to continue administering us, only reinforces something painful about our history:
Sometimes, the Black man has been his own enemy. Nkrumah did not have colonialism and foreign interests alone to contend with. He also had to fight people of his own creed and skin, political opponents and members of the capitalist elite who could not see beyond their immediate interests. As long as their bellies were full, they had little concern for the larger struggle for genuine economic independence.
And because they could not defeat his vision intellectually, all sorts of propaganda were circulated against him and his government. They attacked his ambitious infrastructure and industrialisation programme.
The Tema Motorway was criticised as an unnecessary waste of resources. The Akosombo project was attacked over its enormous cost. Yet decades later, THE TEMA MOTORWAY IS STILL SERVING GHANA, AND AKOSOMBO REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECES OF ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER BUILT.
Nkrumah understood something many of his contemporaries couldn’t comprehend: POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE IS INCOMPLETE.
He wanted factories. He wanted energy. He wanted infrastructure. He wanted African-controlled industries. He wanted Ghana to process its own resources rather than remain a colonial-style economy exporting raw materials and importing finished products.
Was Nkrumah perfect? Of course not.
His political and economic decisions are legitimate subjects for criticism.
But to blame a man who was OVERTHROWN IN 1966 for Ghana’s suffering sixty years later is intellectually lazy.
How many governments have ruled Ghana since Nkrumah? How many billions have we borrowed? How many industries have we allowed to collapse?
How many development plans have been abandoned simply because governments changed?
At what point do the generations that came AFTER Nkrumah accept responsibility? His overthrow helped truncate an ambitious industrialisation drive. Instead of building upon what worked and correcting what didn’t, Ghana gradually returned to the familiar cycle of exporting raw materials, importing finished products, borrowing heavily and running to foreign institutions whenever our economy collapses.
And today you want to tell us NKRUMAH IS THE REASON WE ARE SUFFERING? Please! One would think that with old age comes greater wisdom and the opportunity to reconsider the mistakes and prejudices of one’s youth.
But alas, LITTLE FOOLS ALSO GROW OLD. Criticize Nkrumah. Question his policies. Discuss his mistakes. Bring facts. Bring evidence. Bring history.
But disrespect Osagyefo and rewrite our history to suggest that fighting colonialism and pursuing industrialisation were somehow Ghana’s great mistakes?
NOT ON THIS TIMELINE. Nkrumah could see tomorrow while many of his critics could barely see beyond their stomachs.
NO DISRESPECT TO OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH WILL BE TOLERATED HERE.
BE WARNED. 🇬🇭🌍
Dear @KafuiDey, we respect you but be warned!
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They hated the idea of the Sex Ed curriculum because of the “African Moral Values” but these so called values encourage predatory behaviors and exploitation. Their defense “it’ll encourage immoral sexual behaviors”. Now these kids are being exploited by them, not protected at all
Why is Ghana Twitter actually debating if it’s wrong to sleep with a minor? Are we serious right now? Most are saying “blame the minor” as if a child can consent to being preyed on. A girl on TikTok said Ghana has a pedophile problem, and she’s right. Y’all have lost the plot.