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Let us insist that ALL of our leaders are honored. Fabu
>From: Thomas Adeetuk <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Fwd: THE UNION JACK WAS LOWERED FOR THE LAST TIME FIFTY YEARS
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>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:13:27 -0600
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>What a refreshing feeling when one reads what Modey has written about
>Nkrumah. As human as Nkrumah was he had his failings, but there is hardly
>any doubt about his place in Pan-Africanism. I hope history will judge this
>gallant son of Africa fairly. Without doubt Mandela is a giant in the
>annals of African and World History. But rather than publishers replacing
>Nkrumah's pictures with Mandela's in global history books, one would think
>they rather place them side-by-side.
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>From: Dzigbodi Akyea <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Thursday, March 8, 2007 1:42 pm
>Subject: Fwd: THE UNION JACK WAS LOWERED FOR THE LAST TIME FIFTY YEARS AGO
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> > yao modey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > GHANA FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE UNION JACK WAS LOWERED
> > Haviwo,
> > I have received several calls from all parts of the world about the
> > independence day activities. A Sierra Leonean Mass Communications
> > professor
> > called to congratulate Ghana for being the trailblazer, but turned
> > around to
> > tell me that he thinks all Ghanaians are like traitors who ousted the
> > only
> > one who knew what Africa really needed at that critical period in its
> >
> > development
> > Why do nationalities of other African countries and even some
> > Africans in
> > the diaspora still look upon most, if not all, Ghanaians as traitors
> > who
> > betrayed the Pan-Africanist cause by getting rid of Kwame Nkrumah?
> > What role did Kwame Nkrumah play in the independence movement and the
> >
> > subsequent OAU movement which has endeared him so much to Africans
> > from
> > otheer countries?
> > The man was a genius with a political strategy unsurpassed in the
> > annals
> > of African history. He galvanized Jomo Kenyatta, Sekou Toure, Gamel
> > Abdel
> > Nasser, Julius Nyerere, Banda, Ben Bella etc to talk the talk and
> > walk the
> > walk in the direction of Pan-Africanism.
> > Taking stock after fifty years of self-government, can we safely say
> >
> > Ghana's best years are ahead and not behind her? The judgement is
>yours!!
> > The perception that we Ghanaians are like the Jews who crucified ou
> > leader will always be there. The arbitrary detentions, the deficit
> > spending, the high inflation and the long lines for essential
> > commodities
> > these outsiders do not know about. But be it as it may, Kwame did his
> > best
> > for Africa, for his country and for himself. He is clearly the best
> > African
> > politician that ever lived. It is sad that publishers are replacing
> > his
> > pictures from global history books with Mandela's. Kwame Krumah was a
> >
> > Pan-Africanist and his impact was not limited to only one country.
> > His role
> > in forcing IAN Smith to flee Rhodesia making way for the new
> > Zimbabwe, the
> > help he gave to Sekou Toure's Guinea when the French were angry with
> > that
> > nation, his leadership in creating the OAU etc are but a few of his
> > accomplishments which speak volumes for who the man really was.
> > Concrete achievements there were many when historians assess his rule
> >
> > objectively. But then again what is true objectivity, a noble dream?
> > As for Ghana the future is still open-ended. We need the right kind
> > of
> > leadership and the right programs to catapult Ghana back to where we
> > really
> > have to be.
> >
> > Yao Modey
> > Associate
> > Professor of History
> >
> >
> > > On Monday 5 March at 6.30pm,
> > > the SOAS Student Union, SOAS African Society,
> > > SOAS African Caribbean Society, SOAS Friends
> > > of Africa and Kwame Nkrumah Students Society
> > > jointly mark the 50th Anniversary of Ghana's
> > > independence and Bicentenary of the 1807
> > > British Parliamentary Act Abolishing Slave Trade **.
> > >
> > >This will be at Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental
> > > & African Studies (SOAS), Thornhaugh Street,
> > > London WC1 (Nearest tubes – Russell Square,
> > > Goodge Street Euston Square and Euston.
> > > Buses – 7, 59, 68, 168, 188, 253)
> > >
> > > The programme includes musical / poetry
> > > performances, film / comedy / fashion shows,
> > > and speeches. It will end with refreshments.
> > >
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