Cities are swallowing towns; towns are swallowing villages; villages are swallowing hamlets. Today Accra and Kumasi are almost joined together. You hardly travel along Kumasi- Accra road for 1 minute without seeing a human s ... read full comment
Cities are swallowing towns; towns are swallowing villages; villages are swallowing hamlets. Today Accra and Kumasi are almost joined together. You hardly travel along Kumasi- Accra road for 1 minute without seeing a human settlement. Farming lands are all being transformed into houses. But I am the only person who has the answer to this problem.
kb 10 years ago
Ghana ignore farming and encourage galamsey which is threat to enviroment.In I K Acheampong's regime in the 1970's.do more in agriculture.Not this time.Thank you mrs ambassador.
Ghana ignore farming and encourage galamsey which is threat to enviroment.In I K Acheampong's regime in the 1970's.do more in agriculture.Not this time.Thank you mrs ambassador.
nao. vr. 10 years ago
That is my mum, thanks for the message to our dear president in ghana, i like the word entice.
That is my mum, thanks for the message to our dear president in ghana, i like the word entice.
Akwasi Kumahene 10 years ago
Let these Ministers who speak from their anus children take a lead. That will be the best example.
How do you treat our farmers? Are there any incentives in going into farming? Do you have any plans for the products the yo ... read full comment
Let these Ministers who speak from their anus children take a lead. That will be the best example.
How do you treat our farmers? Are there any incentives in going into farming? Do you have any plans for the products the youth will produce? We have heard this stupid call from government Minister million times.
You ministers will steal from the government treasury to buy posh cars and shopping abroad. You don't care about the youth. I hope this minister who speaks from her anus will let her children to take the lead in farming.
Janet Boakye 10 years ago
Why entice? Let them see the value in it rather than enticing which signifies deception.
Why entice? Let them see the value in it rather than enticing which signifies deception.
Light 10 years ago
This should not be the appropriate word of encouraging youth to the farming sector.
This should not be the appropriate word of encouraging youth to the farming sector.
Kman 10 years ago
One moment this lady is advocating the youth to go into farming, the next she is begging foreigners to come to Ghana's aid to preserve tomatoes that are going to waste. Rather than us focusing first on how we as a nation can ... read full comment
One moment this lady is advocating the youth to go into farming, the next she is begging foreigners to come to Ghana's aid to preserve tomatoes that are going to waste. Rather than us focusing first on how we as a nation can preserve more of what we grow, we are encouraging more people to suffer anguish as they watch their produce either rot away or be exploited by market queens who will pay a pittance for their toil and sweat.
Food security is right to pursue, as a matter of fact it is vital, however these guys have no clue how to achieve this. It is government policies on what food or tarrifs can be imposed on imported foods that will make our local production viable, so please stop disturbing our ears. If there is a decent living to be made from farming, people will flock into it without persuation or "enticement"
Asimeng 10 years ago
Take the initiative,let your children starts first
Take the initiative,let your children starts first
Alhaji Adamu, Madina-Accra 10 years ago
The Ambassador was right on the point. Calling on to start with her children is unfortunate. Suppose she had asked that send your children to school will give such unsolicited advice? In any case who says farming is not digin ... read full comment
The Ambassador was right on the point. Calling on to start with her children is unfortunate. Suppose she had asked that send your children to school will give such unsolicited advice? In any case who says farming is not diginified. You are the type of people who Ghana does not need. Please accept Youth in Agriculture Programme.
Kman 10 years ago
It was a fair question Asimeng asked. All proffessions are dignified in theory.
It is aways going to be a question of whether you can make a decent dignified living out of it, if you cannot, then the dignity aspect drops ... read full comment
It was a fair question Asimeng asked. All proffessions are dignified in theory.
It is aways going to be a question of whether you can make a decent dignified living out of it, if you cannot, then the dignity aspect drops out of the equation.
Kwame Angel 10 years ago
Another NDC bed warmer in loose talk. Why don't you lead by example. What the fuck are you doing in Italy?
Another NDC bed warmer in loose talk. Why don't you lead by example. What the fuck are you doing in Italy?
Manu 10 years ago
We have more to do than farming if your analyze the Article below. I think a real education is needed.
Yahoo News 04/01/2014
Oil is complicated business.
A new documentary juxtaposes the story of a U.S. oil company i ... read full comment
We have more to do than farming if your analyze the Article below. I think a real education is needed.
Yahoo News 04/01/2014
Oil is complicated business.
A new documentary juxtaposes the story of a U.S. oil company in its venture to reap profit from an oil field it discovered off the coast of Ghana with the tale of Nigeria’s deeply corrupt oil industry. In telling the story, “Big Men” director Rachel Boynton takes her audience from the boardroom negotiations of U.S.-based Kosmos Energy to the boats of militant groups in Nigeria, as they try to claim a piece of the Niger Delta’s vast petroleum riches.
“It isn't just outright condemning the oil companies and I'm not saying they're saints either but it is portraying a complicated situation,” Boynton told “Top Line.”
Obtaining access to Kosmos Energy, Boynton said, was the most challenging hurdle in creating the film.
“Oil companies are not known for opening up their doors and inviting in independent filmmakers,” she said, explaining that she ultimately gained the confidence of the company’s executive Brian Maxted.
“I had approached them before they drilled their first well as a company, and they didn't respond to me,” she said. “And then I filmed with Brian Maxted … and shortly thereafter they drilled their first well as a company in 2007, and with that well they discovered this massive oil field off Ghana, which is now known as the Jubilee field, and so I approached Brian and I said ‘listen, I think there's a movie here.’”
The movie follows Kosmos chief executive James Musselman as he travels to Ghana to solidify a partnership with the Ghana government and courts the goodwill of the necessary political players. In one scene, Musselman pays his respects to the Ashanti king, bringing along a generous supply of alcohol.
“It's actually quite normal,” Boynton said, explaining that she was also expected to bring schnapps to the chief of any village she visited as a filmmaker. “But as a scene, it does give you the sense of the cultural disconnect.”
In comparing Ghana’s budding oil industry with the Nigeria’s corrupt Delta, Boynton said it became apparent to her that the U.S. government had very limited “on-the-ground knowledge” of the deteriorated and volatile security situation in the Delta.
“The State Department did not allow its employees to go to the Delta,” she said. “And at the time it struck me, how in the world are they supposed to know what's going on if they're not allowed to visit?”
For more of the interview with Boynton, and to learn more about the making of “Big Men,” now playing in theaters, check out this episode of “Top Line.”
ABC News’ Betsy Klein, Alexandra Dukakis, Gary Westphalen, and Tom Thornton contributed to this episode.
ABC News’ John Bullard and Vicki Vennell assisted in production.
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All we should do is make sure that none of Africa gets transplanted over to the U.S., because the danger to our society is dire if it does. I note that several U.S. churches are attempting to bring groups of African refugees over to the United States, European churches the same for Europe. Mistake. Mark my words, this misplaced charity will turn around and bite us, big time.
Even worse would be to think that the simplicity of Africa holds some kind of answers for Western society: remember "It Takes A Village"? Trust me on this: there is not one thing that Africa can give the West which hasn't been tried before and failed, not one thing that isn't a step backwards, and not one thing which is worse than, or that contradicts, what we have already.
So here's my solution for the African fiasco: a high wall around the whole continent, all the guns and bombs in the world for everyone inside, and at the end, the last one alive should do us all a favor and kill himself.
Typical yahoo, another racially and socially charged editorial.
After reading this fact-less diatribe, it was the comments that gave me more information. The fact is, the politically correct don't want to admit that Africans are a sub-par race. Black people today blame the white man for slavery when in fact it was the tribal leaders that sold their own people into slavery, and look at what America is stuck with today. In the US today 90% of all blacks are on some type of government aid, blacks commit 95% of all drug and violent crimes and look at what happens to City's like Detroit, and now our Country when a black is in charge.
Facts are facts, and just calling someone a racists for pointing them out does not change the facts!
When African governments are not openly plundering their people, they are simply incompetent. Sierra Leone, which should be rich from its gold, diamonds, and fertile farm land, is nearly as much of a disaster as deserts like Chad or the Central African Republic. The currency, the leone, has been so unstable that farmers smuggle their produce out for sale in Ivory Coast. In 1987, diamond traders found they had to pay so many near-worthless leones for diamonds that they began to withdraw currency from banks by the truckload. When this happens, most governments simply print more banknotes. Sierra Leone, which has its currency printed in England, didn’t even have enough money to pay for paper and ink. Currency disappeared, and the economy temporarily reverted to barter.
In Africa, natural wealth seems only to increase the scale of national follies. Nigeria, an oil producer and member of OPEC, is wasting a fortune trying to build a steel industry. The site the Nigerians have chosen is far away from iron ore, coking coal, or transport routes.
At the same time, government-subsidized gasoline sells for about 40 cents a gallon — the cheapest price in the world — so Nigerians waste fuel and import more cars than the economy can afford. Tanker loads of artificially cheap gasoline are smuggled out for sale in neighboring countries. Waste in the oil industry is so great, that Nigeria cannot meet its OPEC export quota. Twenty years from now, when Nigeria has pumped its oil wells dry, it will have little to show for them.
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Alas, that wretched country [Ghana] is not alone in its madness. Somewhere, over the rainbow, lies Somalia, another fine land of violent, Kalashnikov-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts.
Indeed, we now have almost an entire continent of sexually hyperactive indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world.
This dependency has not stimulated political prudence or commonsense. Indeed, voodoo idiocy seems to be in the ascendant, with the next president of South Africa being a firm believer in the efficacy of a little tap water on the post-coital penls as a sure preventative against infection. Needless to say, poverty, hunger and societal meltdown have not prevented idiotic wars involving Tigre, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etcetera.
Broad brush-strokes, to be sure. But broad brush-strokes are often the way that history paints its gaudier, if more decisive, chapters. Japan, China, Russia, Korea, Poland, Germany, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the 20th century have endured worse broad brush-strokes than almost any part of Africa.
They are now -- one way or another -- virtually all giving aid to or investing in Africa, whereas Africa, with its vast savannahs and its lush pastures, is giving almost nothing to anyone, apart from AIDS.
Meanwhile, Africa's peoples are outstripping their resources, and causing catastrophic ecological degradation. By 2050, the population of Ethiopia will be 177 million: The equivalent of France, Germany and Benelux today, but located on the parched and increasingly protein-free wastelands of the Great Rift Valley.
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An 1890 article by one of Stanley's pioneer officers which proves that blacks were not stolen from Africa but were rescued. This article was originally published in "The Century Magazine" April, 1890.
SLAVE TRADE IN THE CONGO - PART ONE
The heart of Africa is being rapidly depopulated in consequence of the enormous death-roll caused by the barbarous slave-trade. It is not merely the bondage which slavery implies that should appeal to the sympathies of the civilized world; it is the bloodshed, cruelty, and misery which it involves.
During my residence in Central Africa I was repeatedly traveling about in the villages along the Congo River and its almost unknown affluents, and in every new village I was confronted by fresh evidences of the horrible nature of this evil. I did not seek to witness the sufferings attendant upon this traffic in humanity, but cruelties of all kinds are so general that the mere passing visits which I paid brought me in constant contact with them.
It is not alone by the Arabs that slave-raiding is carried on throughout Central Africa. With respect to slavery in the Congo
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This story could be used as a backdrop to real reason's Obama was selected by big business before being elected. Obama was selected by the moneychangers and he was groomed by them about 10 years before the election of 2008. These greedy people mainly jews knew the second era of African exploitation has started and this time it would be over the natural resources such oil, gold, diamonds, bauxite, uranium and other metals. This is one of the reasons the moneychangers used one of their international police forces (NATO) the other is the UN to attack Libya and assassinate its president after completely destroying the infrastructure of that nation. And Obama lead the charge like a good puppet being stringed along by the people who actually control him. The presidency of this oligarchy is only a figurehead who is manipulated. Both Bush presidents and Clinton were blatant examples of that.
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Consider Madagascar. When the French controlled the island, they nearly succeeded in wiping out the malaria mosquito. When the Malagasies were given independence, they let public health programs fall into decay. By 1988, when 100,000 people had died of the disease in just six months, the national malaria-control laboratory owned one Bunsen burner and two old microscopes. The Swiss government, under World Bank auspices, has offered to donate 300 million tablets of anti-malarial drugs — enough to treat the entire population for two years — but the Madagascar government insists on selling them rather than handing them out free. This ensures that most people won’t get them and that a few government officials will get even richer than they already are.
It is possible to argue that Africans might have been better off if they had been left entirely alone. This is to take a romantic view of the disease, tribal warfare, slavery, and ignorance that were widespread on the continent. Moreover, no African group that has glimpsed the possibilities of Western progress has opted to return to purely African primitivism. This suggests that Africans themselves would rather have the benefits of Western technology than do without them. Given that people naturally yearn for medical advance and material progress, colonization was an obvious and striking benefit to Africa.
The benefits are particularly clear in any comparison of those parts of Africa that were colonized with those that were not. Ethiopia remained independent except for a brief occupation by Italy during the 1930s. It is the poorest country on the continent, with an annual per capita gross national product (GNP) of $130. Eritrea, which was absorbed by Ethiopia after the Second World War, had been an Italian colony for 50 years. It is more advanced in every way. Though it has only three percent of Ethiopia’s population, it has 30 percent of its industry. It recently won a decades-old war of independence against Ethiopia.
An equally stark contrast can be found in West Africa. Ivory Coast, heavily colonized by the French, is much better developed than neighboring Liberia, which was founded by freed American slaves in 1822. Liberians, apparently unaware of the political heresy they are uttering, freely attribute the miserable state of their country to its having gone without “the benefits of colonization.”
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Often African “leaders” are outright pirates whose only interest is in enriching themselves and their cronies. Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seku is perhaps the worst. He has been in power since 1965, and has looted the country of an amount estimated to be between two and ten billion dollars. Either figure would make him one of the richest men in the world. He owns chateaus or estates in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Ivory Coast. He has 11 palaces in Zaire itself, including one in his home village of Gbadolite that is so lavish it is known as the Versailles of the Jungle. Mr. Mobutu likes to be called “Messiah,” and has worked up a personality cult for his hotel-maid mother that rivals that of the Virgin Mary.
Zaire, which is blessed with diamonds, gold, silver, copper, and uranium, should be one of the richest countries in the world. Today it has a per capita annual GNP of $180. The World Bank has calculated that from 1973 to 1985, per capita income fell by 3.9 percent every year, and is now one tenth what it was in 1960 when the country became independent of Belgium.
Rarely do African leaders show the slightest evidence that they have any concern for their people. Zaire has not built a hospital in 20 years. In the ones that still remain, nurses and doctors must be bribed to do their work. Road maintenance is so primitive that the 1,100 mile drive from the Atlantic to Zaire’s eastern border that used to take two days now takes three weeks. In the rainy season, the trip may be impossible. Reliable electricity and plumbing are hazy memories from the colonial past.
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Accept that we are powerless to change Africa, and leave them to sink or swim, by themselves.
It sounds dreadful to say it, but if the entire African continent dissolves into a seething maelstrom of disease, famine and brutality, that's just too damn bad. We have better things to do--sometimes, you just have to say, "Can't do anything about it."
The viciousness, the cruelty, the corruption, the duplicity, the savagery, and the incompetence is endemic to the entire continent, and is so much of an anathema to any right-thinking person that the civilized imagination simply stalls when faced with its ubiquity, and with the enormity of trying to fix it. The Western media shouldn't even bother reporting on it. All that does is arouse our feelings of horror, and the instinctive need to do something, anything--but everything has been tried before, and failed. Everything, of course, except self-reliance.
Kanawu. 10 years ago
MRS. AMBASSADOR, YOU ARE IN ITALY, THEY DO A LOT OF FARMING BUT THEY ARE RICH AND WELL KNOWN FOR THEY INDUSTRIES AND ENGINEERING COMPANIES.
MRS. AMBASSADOR, YOU ARE IN ITALY, THEY DO A LOT OF FARMING BUT THEY ARE RICH AND WELL KNOWN FOR THEY INDUSTRIES AND ENGINEERING COMPANIES.
K. BOYE.; BX 10 years ago
I WILL NEVER ADVISE MY DEAR AND LOVE ONE TO GET INVOLVE IN GHANA FARMING AS FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE AFTER MY A- LEVEL EDUCATION. YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD AN EXPERIENCE IN IT BEFORE ASKING YOUTH'S TO GER INVOLVE.
I WILL NEVER ADVISE MY DEAR AND LOVE ONE TO GET INVOLVE IN GHANA FARMING AS FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE AFTER MY A- LEVEL EDUCATION. YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD AN EXPERIENCE IN IT BEFORE ASKING YOUTH'S TO GER INVOLVE.
Whatever 10 years ago
Any society whose manpower shuns farming will go hungry and its manufacturing sector will also go kaput. We have to take farming serious. Farming is vital for any economy. It's so necessary
Any society whose manpower shuns farming will go hungry and its manufacturing sector will also go kaput. We have to take farming serious. Farming is vital for any economy. It's so necessary
Antiochus - London 10 years ago
Will this selfish woman encourage her children(youth) to go into farming instead of seeking for higher education?
Will this selfish woman encourage her children(youth) to go into farming instead of seeking for higher education?
joedusu@yahoo.com 10 years ago
FOOLS. YOU CART ALL YOUR CHILDREN OUTSIDE AND NOW WHO SHOULD GROW CASSAVA FOR YOU? TWEEEA
FOOLS. YOU CART ALL YOUR CHILDREN OUTSIDE AND NOW WHO SHOULD GROW CASSAVA FOR YOU? TWEEEA
kwaku nyu 10 years ago
why don't you send your kids to go settle in ghana and do farming. let your kids and family take the lead fantenye aboa!
why don't you send your kids to go settle in ghana and do farming. let your kids and family take the lead fantenye aboa!
Cities are swallowing towns; towns are swallowing villages; villages are swallowing hamlets. Today Accra and Kumasi are almost joined together. You hardly travel along Kumasi- Accra road for 1 minute without seeing a human s ...
read full comment
Ghana ignore farming and encourage galamsey which is threat to enviroment.In I K Acheampong's regime in the 1970's.do more in agriculture.Not this time.Thank you mrs ambassador.
That is my mum, thanks for the message to our dear president in ghana, i like the word entice.
Let these Ministers who speak from their anus children take a lead. That will be the best example.
How do you treat our farmers? Are there any incentives in going into farming? Do you have any plans for the products the yo ...
read full comment
Why entice? Let them see the value in it rather than enticing which signifies deception.
This should not be the appropriate word of encouraging youth to the farming sector.
One moment this lady is advocating the youth to go into farming, the next she is begging foreigners to come to Ghana's aid to preserve tomatoes that are going to waste. Rather than us focusing first on how we as a nation can ...
read full comment
Take the initiative,let your children starts first
The Ambassador was right on the point. Calling on to start with her children is unfortunate. Suppose she had asked that send your children to school will give such unsolicited advice? In any case who says farming is not digin ...
read full comment
It was a fair question Asimeng asked. All proffessions are dignified in theory.
It is aways going to be a question of whether you can make a decent dignified living out of it, if you cannot, then the dignity aspect drops ...
read full comment
Another NDC bed warmer in loose talk. Why don't you lead by example. What the fuck are you doing in Italy?
We have more to do than farming if your analyze the Article below. I think a real education is needed.
Yahoo News 04/01/2014
Oil is complicated business.
A new documentary juxtaposes the story of a U.S. oil company i ...
read full comment
MRS. AMBASSADOR, YOU ARE IN ITALY, THEY DO A LOT OF FARMING BUT THEY ARE RICH AND WELL KNOWN FOR THEY INDUSTRIES AND ENGINEERING COMPANIES.
I WILL NEVER ADVISE MY DEAR AND LOVE ONE TO GET INVOLVE IN GHANA FARMING AS FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE AFTER MY A- LEVEL EDUCATION. YOU SHOULD HAVE HAD AN EXPERIENCE IN IT BEFORE ASKING YOUTH'S TO GER INVOLVE.
Any society whose manpower shuns farming will go hungry and its manufacturing sector will also go kaput. We have to take farming serious. Farming is vital for any economy. It's so necessary
Will this selfish woman encourage her children(youth) to go into farming instead of seeking for higher education?
FOOLS. YOU CART ALL YOUR CHILDREN OUTSIDE AND NOW WHO SHOULD GROW CASSAVA FOR YOU? TWEEEA
why don't you send your kids to go settle in ghana and do farming. let your kids and family take the lead fantenye aboa!