The money doled to Woyome and other thieves including Mahama vote buying scheme of providing free computers to university students should have been directed to our public libraries.
The money doled to Woyome and other thieves including Mahama vote buying scheme of providing free computers to university students should have been directed to our public libraries.
Naa-Sei 10 years ago
I didn't see any improvements to the Kumasi library under JAK so what is your point here?
I didn't see any improvements to the Kumasi library under JAK so what is your point here?
Wisdom Ablade 10 years ago
His point is your stupidity that we voted for Mahama and ndc to do better. Go and grow a brain.
His point is your stupidity that we voted for Mahama and ndc to do better. Go and grow a brain.
jOE 10 years ago
LAZY ASHANTES
LAZY ASHANTES
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago
SINCE 1951 TO NOW. HOW MANY LIBRARIES HAVE U BUILT IN THE REGION/CITIES? WAT ADDITIONAL REVENUE GENERATING PROGRAMS HVE U DEVISED?? U HVE BRAINS IN UR HEAD, DONT YOU? CANT YOU RESERCH WAT WESTERN LIBRARIES ARE DOING. TO INCRE ... read full comment
SINCE 1951 TO NOW. HOW MANY LIBRARIES HAVE U BUILT IN THE REGION/CITIES? WAT ADDITIONAL REVENUE GENERATING PROGRAMS HVE U DEVISED?? U HVE BRAINS IN UR HEAD, DONT YOU? CANT YOU RESERCH WAT WESTERN LIBRARIES ARE DOING. TO INCREASE REVENUES?
BE BOLD 10 years ago
So should the next government after Mahama also do the same thing and on? Just think about what you wrote and you will realize how stupid you are, that is, even if you have the ability to think. JAK made a fool of himself so ... read full comment
So should the next government after Mahama also do the same thing and on? Just think about what you wrote and you will realize how stupid you are, that is, even if you have the ability to think. JAK made a fool of himself so Mahama and others should be fools? Aboaba
Close Observer 10 years ago
Stupid Koku Anyidoho and his stupid question on Nana Addo's free SHS. POLICY. Has he asked the president if he is going give free sanitary pads for the ladies to use at school during their menstrual period; and if they will w ... read full comment
Stupid Koku Anyidoho and his stupid question on Nana Addo's free SHS. POLICY. Has he asked the president if he is going give free sanitary pads for the ladies to use at school during their menstrual period; and if they will walk into their dormitory and go and meet a trunk and a chop box full of provisions as well as books? Or this time round, his stupid niece did not ask him that question? Useless group of people.
Kwame Angel 10 years ago
The government of Ghana is dysfunctional. Politicians will not even think about libraries in Ghana because that would not bring quick money to the Ahwoi Brothers, or the 3 wise men, or Mahama, who would spend the working day ... read full comment
The government of Ghana is dysfunctional. Politicians will not even think about libraries in Ghana because that would not bring quick money to the Ahwoi Brothers, or the 3 wise men, or Mahama, who would spend the working day solving debt issues between his brother and his bankers.
Nokware 10 years ago
Kumasi who cares this is our Ieaders we have.always praising people for their stomach
Kumasi who cares this is our Ieaders we have.always praising people for their stomach
bashings 10 years ago
so the managers of the library can not innovate?????? if i were in the library i will buy a copier and operate it there! i believe there are other ways funds can be raised and therefore to stop depending totally on government ... read full comment
so the managers of the library can not innovate?????? if i were in the library i will buy a copier and operate it there! i believe there are other ways funds can be raised and therefore to stop depending totally on government!
tijani 10 years ago
you said it all, my brother, they can even organise extra classes and charge small fees, reading competitions, seeking donor fundings from local entrepreneurs,teaching of English, involing some private schools to use the prem ... read full comment
you said it all, my brother, they can even organise extra classes and charge small fees, reading competitions, seeking donor fundings from local entrepreneurs,teaching of English, involing some private schools to use the premises for fees, and so on,,,,,,,,,,,leadership soo myopic
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
Do my people even bother to read after the fufu and the bush meat? LoL
Do my people even bother to read after the fufu and the bush meat? LoL
sulamana 10 years ago
HOW CAN WE RESOURCE LIBRARIES WHEN WE SPEND MILLIONS PAYING OFF JUDGEMENT DEBTS? THE CORRUPTION IS JUST INCREDIBLE. GOVT OFFICIALS HAVE BECOME WEALTHY BY ALL KINDS OF CORRUPT PRACTICES. ONE-TENTH OF WHAT WE LOSE TO CORRUPTION ... read full comment
HOW CAN WE RESOURCE LIBRARIES WHEN WE SPEND MILLIONS PAYING OFF JUDGEMENT DEBTS? THE CORRUPTION IS JUST INCREDIBLE. GOVT OFFICIALS HAVE BECOME WEALTHY BY ALL KINDS OF CORRUPT PRACTICES. ONE-TENTH OF WHAT WE LOSE TO CORRUPTION WILL RESOURCE ALL THE LIBRARIES WITH MONEY TO SPARE.
COS 90 10 years ago
NANA AKUFFO ADO SHOULD ASK WONTUMI. WONTUMI DON'T VISIT THE LIBRARY, LEAST I 4GET, ASHANTIS DON'T LIKE SCHOOL SO DE LIBRARY WILL BE UNDER USED. CHECK OTHER REGIONAL LIBRARIES U WILL A MASS DIFFERENT. LET THE GOVT INNOVATES WI ... read full comment
NANA AKUFFO ADO SHOULD ASK WONTUMI. WONTUMI DON'T VISIT THE LIBRARY, LEAST I 4GET, ASHANTIS DON'T LIKE SCHOOL SO DE LIBRARY WILL BE UNDER USED. CHECK OTHER REGIONAL LIBRARIES U WILL A MASS DIFFERENT. LET THE GOVT INNOVATES WITH IPADS, COMPUTERS STILL MOUCE WILL EAT THEM BCOS ASHANTIS WILL NOT GO THERE TO READ.
BBC NEWS - BIG BLACK COCK . 10 years ago
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ASHANTI GRADUATE IN GHANA , LONDON AND US AND FOOL , DON'T YOU SEE MANY ASHANTIS IN GHANA POLITICS ? STUPID THINK BEFORE COMMENT .
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ASHANTI GRADUATE IN GHANA , LONDON AND US AND FOOL , DON'T YOU SEE MANY ASHANTIS IN GHANA POLITICS ? STUPID THINK BEFORE COMMENT .
sulamana 10 years ago
WOYOME, THE AHWOI BROTHERS, TSATSU TSIKATA, NANA KONADU, KUFFUOR, RAWLINGS(OF SCANCEM FAME), SIPA YANKEY, SEIDU AMADU DR ATO QUARSHIE ETC
WOYOME, THE AHWOI BROTHERS, TSATSU TSIKATA, NANA KONADU, KUFFUOR, RAWLINGS(OF SCANCEM FAME), SIPA YANKEY, SEIDU AMADU DR ATO QUARSHIE ETC
Tibaa 10 years ago
Our gov't continues to mortgage the future of Ghana on the alter of political expediency.
I guess the assumption is that we can always borrow from abroad: no need to develop brains at home.
Our gov't continues to mortgage the future of Ghana on the alter of political expediency.
I guess the assumption is that we can always borrow from abroad: no need to develop brains at home.
GHANAVIA 10 years ago
Are NDC sympathizers listening?
Is there any hope for Ghanaians under the NDC; and yet the NDC followers are so deaf, so dumb, and so blind about all these negative developments.
This is the situation JJ Rawlings imposed ... read full comment
Are NDC sympathizers listening?
Is there any hope for Ghanaians under the NDC; and yet the NDC followers are so deaf, so dumb, and so blind about all these negative developments.
This is the situation JJ Rawlings imposed on us.
Objectiveman 10 years ago
are you kidding me? a whole regional lib.
are you kidding me? a whole regional lib.
NANA YAW 10 years ago
Otumfuo has failed to stress the importance of reading in the kingdom. Every Asanteni must read well, Nana!
Otumfuo has failed to stress the importance of reading in the kingdom. Every Asanteni must read well, Nana!
Kwame Joe 10 years ago
Why blame Otumfuo? Moron .
Why blame Otumfuo? Moron .
Osagefo 10 years ago
What are the "forgotten rights of the poor"?
The rights of the poor should be the same as the rights of the rich: the core, inalienable rights that started with the language of the Declaration of Independence, including th ... read full comment
What are the "forgotten rights of the poor"?
The rights of the poor should be the same as the rights of the rich: the core, inalienable rights that started with the language of the Declaration of Independence, including the idea that governments exist by the consent of the governed.
There is an ongoing debate around the world between the advocates of freedom for the individual and the advocates for more authoritarian, powerful states like Russia and China, and seen in battles from Ukraine to Venezuela to Ethiopia.
The sad thing is that the field and practice of development have too often been on the wrong side of this debate. They've implicitly painted themselves into a corner where they're on the authoritarian side. Then they're backing the autocrats, backing the oppressors against the oppressed.
You are an economist, but this book seems to largely make a moral argument.
As an economist, to include such a strong moral dimension is a bit unusual. I start the book making it clear that the idea we can have a purely technical approach to resolving the problems of poverty without any moral implications is an illusion.
For me, this has been a long intellectual journey, from being one of the experts who was oblivious to the "rights of the poor" issue, to now criticizing those experts. In my development career, I worked closely at various times with autocratic governments and officials in places like Mexico and Russia and Pakistan, and in Africa with Ethiopia and Ghana before it was democratic.
I realized our attitude towards the poor is so often condescending and paternalistic. We think of them as helpless individuals. We don't respect their dignity as individuals.
The next step was not to just avoid paternalism or condescension but actually to go back to first principles and think about the rights of the poor and what role those rights play in development. Economists' research actually does give the institutions associated with individual rights a lot of the credit for the development in the West and the rest of the world. This combined with my own moral awakening that these rights are a desirable good in and of themselves. Whenever we violate them, we set back development.
Humility or self-restraint seems to be a theme through your work.
My cultural and faith upbringing contributed to the feeling of humility. I grew up in the Midwest, in Ohio, with a faith background that stressed humility, not being over-confident in your own wisdom, not being too self-important. That informs my openness to a critique of experts as being too arrogant in their own knowledge and too oblivious to the moral consequences of their overconfidence that can lead to doing damage to other people.
For example, if you work with the government of Ethiopia, you have to consider whether you may be indirectly contributing to someone being kept in jail for 18 years like Eskinder Nega, a peaceful blogger who made quite innocuous criticisms of the government.
Some people believe authoritarian development pays off and justifies violating someone else's rights. But we have to be humble about the limits of our knowledge. It's a strong burden of proof for someone to say, "We have good enough evidence that we're willing to take away your rights to make you better off."
You talk about Bill Gates in this context. He's been giving away billions of dollars to help people. Where does he fit into your understanding of this?
I think Bill Gates is the poster child for the technocratic illusion—that alleviating poverty is purely a technical matter. That there is just a long list of technical solutions to finance. The illusion is that you are paying no attention to who is actually implementing these technical solutions and that there are no politics or moral choices involved in who is actually doing the implementing.
Of course, I'm not disagreeing with giving medicine to sick people. [The Gates Foundation] is doing great things with medical aid directly or indirectly throughout malaria-prone regions like Africa.
Bill Gates is the poster child for the technocratic illusion.
But Gates lavished praise on the government of Ethiopia in his annual letter last year, explicitly giving them all the credit for the reduction in child mortality in Ethiopia. He overlooks direct evidence that the government of Ethiopia is not at all benevolent. Unfortunately, Meles Zenawi and his successors have been serial human rights abusers.
But equally importantly, the data Gates celebrates is incredibly shaky. About the only safe thing we can say is that there is a significant child mortality decline, which we should all celebrate. It's great—but it is a regional thing that's happening all over Africa, and all over the world. No one government should get credit for this if it's happening everywhere.
If Bill Gates would just talk about his technical solutions and the direct effects they would have on helping people with real needs, then I'm very sympathetic. It's wonderful that he's so generous with his own money. But why did he have to praise an oppressive, human-rights-abusing government, siding with the oppressor against the oppressed? There is a technocratic blindness to the moral dimension of development.
What about when some American evangelical Christian leaders get involved in, for example, Uganda or Rwanda?
I think Rick Warren, when he collaborates with President Kagame of Rwanda, is suffering from the same moral blindness as Bill Gates. You just have to open your eyes to the full picture and understand that autocracy is an evil system. I'm very comfortable in making that moral statement because autocracy does things to people without their consent.
And Kagame is committed to maintaining autocracy at all costs. People are overlooking clear evidence of indirect involvement in war crimes in the Congo, assassinations and attempted assassinations of political opponents. Kagame is understandably concerned about protecting minority rights after the genocide. But he's also been involved in wars that are creating misery and death and suffering, and backing people who are accused of war crimes. And then somehow, Kagame is able to turn on the charm for American church leaders. It baffles me.
Much of your analysis is at a high level, focusing on World Bank or government interventions in other countries. Does this idea of rights apply to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and even to small nonprofit efforts?
The larger the NGO, the more these issues are serious and relevant. Also, a large NGO that has a major operation in a small country could be affecting the political outcome in that country, maybe indirectly lending support to an oppressive autocrat in power.
And even with a small NGO, you want to make sure that you are respecting the rights and dignity of the people you're working with and allowing them to choose what's happening under your project. That you're not forcing your project on them. It's very much based on their consent, their choice of what they want to happen. They need to be included in some important way in the project design and implementation.
And whether a big NGO or working on a small scale, in development there is often a power differential between the actors and those being, well, acted upon.
I'm glad you mentioned power. In development we tend to ignore the question: Who has the power?
That's another way of stating the infeasibility of moral neutrality. We are never neutral because there are always power implications of what we're doing. By acting in an applied way in a poor society, first of all, as you pointed out, we, the NGOs or the philanthropists, have a lot of power ourselves. We have to choose how to use that power in a way that does not make the people we're trying to help have less power or feel like something is being imposed on them. We also have to be sure our power is not in an alliance that will ripple out to support an oppressive power elsewhere in the society.
And an oppressive power is not always just a national dictator. It could also be local elites who are oppressing the more powerless victims. Sensitivity to power requires always trying to identify who has the power, and trying to help the powerless to avoid being victimized by those in power.
Have you seen any difference of between faith-based and non-faith-based NGOs, whether for good or ill, in this respect?
I don't have enough detailed knowledge of all the NGOs to give a good answer to that question. But one thing that comes to mind is the role of faith more generally in economics, which I think could have some implications for the NGO world. There's been good research by economists that suggest there are real, positive impacts of believing in God on many outcomes at the individual and family level.
There could be many reasons for that. One reason that we could apply to NGOs is that there is a struggle to get NGOs to do good things when there's no one observing whether they are, in fact, doing good things or not. I think one way in which a belief in a just God helps is that you have the feeling that even when no human actor is watching, God is watching you and that motivates you to good things.
This sounds like a really weird mash-up of economics theories with belief in God. But it solves a problem an economist would call "the principal–agent problem"—that a principal wants someone to do good things and then finds an agent to do those things on his or her behalf. This becomes a problem if the principal cannot observe whether the agent is doing what they want or not.
If the agent believes that God is watching, that does help.
Any advice for a 20-year-old reading this article who wants to "change the world"?
I love young people who want to change the world!
I think we need rebalancing. A large share of the effort has been going to direct technical solutions to poverty. But this has neglected the other option of advocacy and education for rights as an important moral goal. Rights also work to promote development.
It's most effective to advocate for a principle and then protest specific violations of that principle. It's not just about rhetoric or soaring language. It's protesting, for example, the World Bank project in Uganda that burned down farmers' homes and took their land away from them.
The Civil Rights movement inspires me. They were advocating a simple principle: that blacks and whites should have equal rights. Then their advocacy was protesting very specific violations of that principle with sit-ins at lunch counters and the freedom rides on buses. Demonstrations from Selma and Birmingham. They were showcasing rights violations by the local oppressors.
We need to identify our principles and protest specific violations, to get those principles more widely accepted.
CN 10 years ago
As much as we sympathise with you , you need to be up and doing. You could organise fund raising including play acting competition on examinable books; appeal to corporate bodies, Otumfuo fund etc.
As much as we sympathise with you , you need to be up and doing. You could organise fund raising including play acting competition on examinable books; appeal to corporate bodies, Otumfuo fund etc.
Kwame Pee. 10 years ago
When I was in high school in Kumasi, the Ashanti Library and the British Council made me what I am today. In those days my friends and I made sure in a competitive way that we read a book every two weeks. It was our effort to ... read full comment
When I was in high school in Kumasi, the Ashanti Library and the British Council made me what I am today. In those days my friends and I made sure in a competitive way that we read a book every two weeks. It was our effort to grow our vocabulary and also read as many African Writers series of books as possible. No wonder now all we hear from our young people in Kumasi is not so good news. Educational opportunities is not a national priority. MP's are clamoring for security protection,but there is no simple protection for young in building their future. Poor families had their children succeed because they went to the library to study. better lives were nurtured because of a functioning library. Now in Kumasi, we have no British Council like I used to know so please help the Ashanti Regional Library. I am will to contribute if a fund-raiser is set up. Long live our Regional Libraries, long live Ghana.
mama ceci 10 years ago
Kwame Pee, well spoken. But why not take the initiative and begin the fund raising? Not only of money but of books too. Some of us in the diaspora have a lot of books we could donate to the library. I have many books on Engli ... read full comment
Kwame Pee, well spoken. But why not take the initiative and begin the fund raising? Not only of money but of books too. Some of us in the diaspora have a lot of books we could donate to the library. I have many books on English, Linguistics, Sociology, Criminology and Adult Literacy I could donate. I am going to contact the Regional librarian to see how to get the books down to Kumasi.I never had the opportunity to use the library but I did buy a lot of books from 'Halko' in Adum.
The British Council also played no mean role in assisting me to get my books for 'A' level Literature.Let us all help.Then perhaps our youth will get off their phones and start reading!!!!!!
Say the TRUTH 10 years ago
ONLY FOOLLLLLLLLSSSSSSS MANAGING A COUNTRY WILL DISTRIBUTE FREE LAP-TOPS TO PEOPLE DURING ELECTION CAMPAIGN PERIOD MEANHILE SCHOOLS,PUBLIC LIBRARIES AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT OFFICES WERE SHORT OF THESE VITAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE RU ... read full comment
ONLY FOOLLLLLLLLSSSSSSS MANAGING A COUNTRY WILL DISTRIBUTE FREE LAP-TOPS TO PEOPLE DURING ELECTION CAMPAIGN PERIOD MEANHILE SCHOOLS,PUBLIC LIBRARIES AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT OFFICES WERE SHORT OF THESE VITAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE RUNNING OF THE COUNTRY AND IMPROVING EDUCATION!!!!
WHAT WIL GOD ALMIGHTY UP THERE DO TO SUCH LEADERSHIP??????????
WILL NOT SAY THAT MUCH BUT WE ALL LIVE TO SEE THE WRATH OF GOD AND HIS DECISION ON THAT TO SUCH PEOPLE!!!!
------------ 10 years ago
NOW WHERE IS THAT WUNTOMI GUY OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS OF NPP. HE CAN PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS. THIS IS A CHANCE FOR HIM TO FURNISH THAT LIBRARY AT KUMASI.
NOW WHERE IS THAT WUNTOMI GUY OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS OF NPP. HE CAN PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS. THIS IS A CHANCE FOR HIM TO FURNISH THAT LIBRARY AT KUMASI.
Nii 10 years ago
Instead of investing in changing the books into soft copies, here u are shouting about libraries! What do the libraries do?
Instead of investing in changing the books into soft copies, here u are shouting about libraries! What do the libraries do?
i ad 10 years ago
Where are the rich in Kumasi.contact them please
Where are the rich in Kumasi.contact them please
Public Interest Citizen 10 years ago
This tells you education is NOT high on the Government's Priority list!
As a nation, we would rather spend millions on questionable and dubious judgement debts.That is Ghana for you.
Shame on all of us!
This tells you education is NOT high on the Government's Priority list!
As a nation, we would rather spend millions on questionable and dubious judgement debts.That is Ghana for you.
Shame on all of us!
Even plight of Librarians 10 years ago
It is even more pathetic when you have qualified librarians working in the Ghana Education Service where the very teachers see librarians as threat to their existence and are therefore treated with contempt and vilified all ... read full comment
It is even more pathetic when you have qualified librarians working in the Ghana Education Service where the very teachers see librarians as threat to their existence and are therefore treated with contempt and vilified all the time
Ewe nation 10 years ago
That's a good thing that they only got 900 cedis.This is Kumasi afterall,the heart of ashanti greed,fraud and all kinds of evil.You can't trust these greedy ashantis with money so the less they get,the better.
That's a good thing that they only got 900 cedis.This is Kumasi afterall,the heart of ashanti greed,fraud and all kinds of evil.You can't trust these greedy ashantis with money so the less they get,the better.
i and i 10 years ago
Look who is talking here scumbags ewe's
Look who is talking here scumbags ewe's
Agyeman 10 years ago
Ewe man,you on the other hand,is the heart of evil.Very hateful tribal idiot with a pea brain.
Ewe man,you on the other hand,is the heart of evil.Very hateful tribal idiot with a pea brain.
Nii Lartey Lamptey 10 years ago
On the whole the average Asante does not like going to school. They don't see much need for education. The Asante would prefer things that brings money instead to wasting time in going to school to gain and exchange knowledge ... read full comment
On the whole the average Asante does not like going to school. They don't see much need for education. The Asante would prefer things that brings money instead to wasting time in going to school to gain and exchange knowledge. To the average Asante money is everything. They may not acknowledge it but thanks Kwame Nkrumah many of them have benefited from Nkrumah's free education. Having said that they are still lacking behind other regions though. I am the least surprised the library facilities are under used or utilised.
paul 10 years ago
narrow minded people like you are the reason why Ghana can never develop as it should be. how does your stupid comment brings innovation to the library. How many books or resources has your so called Ga mantse contributed tow ... read full comment
narrow minded people like you are the reason why Ghana can never develop as it should be. how does your stupid comment brings innovation to the library. How many books or resources has your so called Ga mantse contributed towards education in the Greater Accra region. Using SHS rankings as point of reference, the standard of education in the Ashanti region is better that of Greater Accra, central and the northern regions.
Samuel Oduro 10 years ago
Hi Paul, you have proved my point. You see if you had really attended school you would have not made such a shallow response. I am not surprised that you decided to play the tribal card. Whether I mentioned secondary school o ... read full comment
Hi Paul, you have proved my point. You see if you had really attended school you would have not made such a shallow response. I am not surprised that you decided to play the tribal card. Whether I mentioned secondary school or primary education has nothing to do with point. It is a fact that Asantes on the average do not like schooling. Calm down your temper and care to check your ruffled statistics, the reliability and validity of my claim. I'll help you. loosely like you.
paul 10 years ago
Though i partly i agree with what the Liberian is say but i think time has come for them to seek for other forms of sponsorship rather then relying on gov't. They can be more innovative by writing proposals to private organi ... read full comment
Though i partly i agree with what the Liberian is say but i think time has come for them to seek for other forms of sponsorship rather then relying on gov't. They can be more innovative by writing proposals to private organisations, NGOs and even embassies.
Sankofa 10 years ago
The library authorities may not be allowed to seek alternative funding by government.
The library authorities may not be allowed to seek alternative funding by government.
Antiochus - London 10 years ago
Otumfuo please give some financial assistance to the library.
Otumfuo please give some financial assistance to the library.
Pelicles 10 years ago
Will someone go to Ho, the Regional capital of NDC and ask about how their library is being funded? It will be revealed that they have adequate money to run it because starve that Region and NDC will be dead the next day.
Will someone go to Ho, the Regional capital of NDC and ask about how their library is being funded? It will be revealed that they have adequate money to run it because starve that Region and NDC will be dead the next day.
Atonsu Bokoro 10 years ago
Menuanom please just try to use the library. And stop Nana Nana. Education is the key
Menuanom please just try to use the library. And stop Nana Nana. Education is the key
HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago
SOCIETY MADE UP WITH TOO MANY SHOE SHINE BOYS AND DOG CHAIN SELLERS HOW CAN THE LIBRARY MAKE PROFIT.
SOCIETY MADE UP WITH TOO MANY SHOE SHINE BOYS AND DOG CHAIN SELLERS HOW CAN THE LIBRARY MAKE PROFIT.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
Ask Woyome!
Ask Woyome!
KING LOMOTEY 10 years ago
Asantefuo munsorio oh !
This is a disgrace to Oseikrom !
Asantefuo munsorio oh !
This is a disgrace to Oseikrom !
BBC NEWS - BIG BLACK COCK 10 years ago
OUR SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY DO NEED MAJOR REPAIRS THAT PREZ MAHAMA WANT TO PASS THAT AND BUILD 200 NEW SHOOLS WHAT A DUMB MISCALCULATIONS .
OUR SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY DO NEED MAJOR REPAIRS THAT PREZ MAHAMA WANT TO PASS THAT AND BUILD 200 NEW SHOOLS WHAT A DUMB MISCALCULATIONS .
Agyeman 10 years ago
In USA they say homes of the rich have big libraries and small TV's while poor homes have big TV's but small libraries.Looks like Ghana is following the unfortunate latter model of the poor.
In USA they say homes of the rich have big libraries and small TV's while poor homes have big TV's but small libraries.Looks like Ghana is following the unfortunate latter model of the poor.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 10 years ago
THE LIBRARIAN SAID THE PROBLEMS AT THE KUMASI LIBRARY PERTAIN IN ALL THE REGIONAL LIBRARIES. THIS MEANS IT IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM. ASHANTI REGION IS THE LARGEST REGION IN GHANA, WITH PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER REGIONS. THE KUMASI L ... read full comment
THE LIBRARIAN SAID THE PROBLEMS AT THE KUMASI LIBRARY PERTAIN IN ALL THE REGIONAL LIBRARIES. THIS MEANS IT IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM. ASHANTI REGION IS THE LARGEST REGION IN GHANA, WITH PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER REGIONS. THE KUMASI LIBRARY IS FOR THE USE OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE REGION. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION MUST TAKE CARE OF TE PROBLEMS IN ALL THE REGIONAL LIBRARIES.
Concerned Thinker 10 years ago
Sorry, sir! Much condolence for that disappointment. It is because you are operating what is "hidden" for many Ghanaians, especially, our politicians. If you want any idea to be hidden for many Ghanaians including our politic ... read full comment
Sorry, sir! Much condolence for that disappointment. It is because you are operating what is "hidden" for many Ghanaians, especially, our politicians. If you want any idea to be hidden for many Ghanaians including our politicians just write it in a book. It will be hidden for ever. Government pays lecturers and professors huge moneys to do research for development; but when these ideas are published, even in the universities where they are published these materials are hidden from view. Our governments prefer to listen to the 'rubbish' promulgated by empty-minded noise makers on radio to govern the country, hence the numerous problems we are facing not only in economic difficulties but also where academics (I mean, professors) who aught to use their rich ideas to not only help government but to as well disseminate knowledge to the future leaders, are themselves preferring politics to the lecture hall. Ostensibly, it makes sense to think that their ideas will be valued better if they are themselves involved in the management of the country. Unfortunately, one would have thought that they will play a leading role to reverse the trend but they are even doing worse. Very soon the president will have to train his human resource himself as university professors are joining politics because government does not care a hoot (?) about academic resources which even sometimes the community itself perceives as a house of garbage (I am sorry!).
Jonas Ababio 10 years ago
What is Asantehene's bogus Otumfuo Education Fund doing about this library ? I hope SARPONG(CARDINAL) will give him a phone call.
What is Asantehene's bogus Otumfuo Education Fund doing about this library ? I hope SARPONG(CARDINAL) will give him a phone call.
RINGO 10 years ago
The bogus Otumfuo Education Fund which has no financial statements, and the millions of pounds the Asantehene spent to buy mansions in England and South Africa should be investigated by those Ashantis who don't regard him as ... read full comment
The bogus Otumfuo Education Fund which has no financial statements, and the millions of pounds the Asantehene spent to buy mansions in England and South Africa should be investigated by those Ashantis who don't regard him as GOD.Can we find some?
kwame adjei 10 years ago
i sitting in a library writing this rightnow but its in kumasi kwasia its London u scumbags fuck otumfuo
i sitting in a library writing this rightnow but its in kumasi kwasia its London u scumbags fuck otumfuo
How do you develop a brain without reading?
The money doled to Woyome and other thieves including Mahama vote buying scheme of providing free computers to university students should have been directed to our public libraries.
I didn't see any improvements to the Kumasi library under JAK so what is your point here?
His point is your stupidity that we voted for Mahama and ndc to do better. Go and grow a brain.
LAZY ASHANTES
SINCE 1951 TO NOW. HOW MANY LIBRARIES HAVE U BUILT IN THE REGION/CITIES? WAT ADDITIONAL REVENUE GENERATING PROGRAMS HVE U DEVISED?? U HVE BRAINS IN UR HEAD, DONT YOU? CANT YOU RESERCH WAT WESTERN LIBRARIES ARE DOING. TO INCRE ...
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So should the next government after Mahama also do the same thing and on? Just think about what you wrote and you will realize how stupid you are, that is, even if you have the ability to think. JAK made a fool of himself so ...
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Stupid Koku Anyidoho and his stupid question on Nana Addo's free SHS. POLICY. Has he asked the president if he is going give free sanitary pads for the ladies to use at school during their menstrual period; and if they will w ...
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The government of Ghana is dysfunctional. Politicians will not even think about libraries in Ghana because that would not bring quick money to the Ahwoi Brothers, or the 3 wise men, or Mahama, who would spend the working day ...
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Kumasi who cares this is our Ieaders we have.always praising people for their stomach
so the managers of the library can not innovate?????? if i were in the library i will buy a copier and operate it there! i believe there are other ways funds can be raised and therefore to stop depending totally on government ...
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you said it all, my brother, they can even organise extra classes and charge small fees, reading competitions, seeking donor fundings from local entrepreneurs,teaching of English, involing some private schools to use the prem ...
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Do my people even bother to read after the fufu and the bush meat? LoL
HOW CAN WE RESOURCE LIBRARIES WHEN WE SPEND MILLIONS PAYING OFF JUDGEMENT DEBTS? THE CORRUPTION IS JUST INCREDIBLE. GOVT OFFICIALS HAVE BECOME WEALTHY BY ALL KINDS OF CORRUPT PRACTICES. ONE-TENTH OF WHAT WE LOSE TO CORRUPTION ...
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NANA AKUFFO ADO SHOULD ASK WONTUMI. WONTUMI DON'T VISIT THE LIBRARY, LEAST I 4GET, ASHANTIS DON'T LIKE SCHOOL SO DE LIBRARY WILL BE UNDER USED. CHECK OTHER REGIONAL LIBRARIES U WILL A MASS DIFFERENT. LET THE GOVT INNOVATES WI ...
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DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ASHANTI GRADUATE IN GHANA , LONDON AND US AND FOOL , DON'T YOU SEE MANY ASHANTIS IN GHANA POLITICS ? STUPID THINK BEFORE COMMENT .
WOYOME, THE AHWOI BROTHERS, TSATSU TSIKATA, NANA KONADU, KUFFUOR, RAWLINGS(OF SCANCEM FAME), SIPA YANKEY, SEIDU AMADU DR ATO QUARSHIE ETC
Our gov't continues to mortgage the future of Ghana on the alter of political expediency.
I guess the assumption is that we can always borrow from abroad: no need to develop brains at home.
Are NDC sympathizers listening?
Is there any hope for Ghanaians under the NDC; and yet the NDC followers are so deaf, so dumb, and so blind about all these negative developments.
This is the situation JJ Rawlings imposed ...
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are you kidding me? a whole regional lib.
Otumfuo has failed to stress the importance of reading in the kingdom. Every Asanteni must read well, Nana!
Why blame Otumfuo? Moron .
What are the "forgotten rights of the poor"?
The rights of the poor should be the same as the rights of the rich: the core, inalienable rights that started with the language of the Declaration of Independence, including th ...
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As much as we sympathise with you , you need to be up and doing. You could organise fund raising including play acting competition on examinable books; appeal to corporate bodies, Otumfuo fund etc.
When I was in high school in Kumasi, the Ashanti Library and the British Council made me what I am today. In those days my friends and I made sure in a competitive way that we read a book every two weeks. It was our effort to ...
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Kwame Pee, well spoken. But why not take the initiative and begin the fund raising? Not only of money but of books too. Some of us in the diaspora have a lot of books we could donate to the library. I have many books on Engli ...
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ONLY FOOLLLLLLLLSSSSSSS MANAGING A COUNTRY WILL DISTRIBUTE FREE LAP-TOPS TO PEOPLE DURING ELECTION CAMPAIGN PERIOD MEANHILE SCHOOLS,PUBLIC LIBRARIES AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT OFFICES WERE SHORT OF THESE VITAL EQUIPMENT FOR THE RU ...
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NOW WHERE IS THAT WUNTOMI GUY OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS OF NPP. HE CAN PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS. THIS IS A CHANCE FOR HIM TO FURNISH THAT LIBRARY AT KUMASI.
Instead of investing in changing the books into soft copies, here u are shouting about libraries! What do the libraries do?
Where are the rich in Kumasi.contact them please
This tells you education is NOT high on the Government's Priority list!
As a nation, we would rather spend millions on questionable and dubious judgement debts.That is Ghana for you.
Shame on all of us!
It is even more pathetic when you have qualified librarians working in the Ghana Education Service where the very teachers see librarians as threat to their existence and are therefore treated with contempt and vilified all ...
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That's a good thing that they only got 900 cedis.This is Kumasi afterall,the heart of ashanti greed,fraud and all kinds of evil.You can't trust these greedy ashantis with money so the less they get,the better.
Look who is talking here scumbags ewe's
Ewe man,you on the other hand,is the heart of evil.Very hateful tribal idiot with a pea brain.
On the whole the average Asante does not like going to school. They don't see much need for education. The Asante would prefer things that brings money instead to wasting time in going to school to gain and exchange knowledge ...
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narrow minded people like you are the reason why Ghana can never develop as it should be. how does your stupid comment brings innovation to the library. How many books or resources has your so called Ga mantse contributed tow ...
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Hi Paul, you have proved my point. You see if you had really attended school you would have not made such a shallow response. I am not surprised that you decided to play the tribal card. Whether I mentioned secondary school o ...
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Though i partly i agree with what the Liberian is say but i think time has come for them to seek for other forms of sponsorship rather then relying on gov't. They can be more innovative by writing proposals to private organi ...
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The library authorities may not be allowed to seek alternative funding by government.
Otumfuo please give some financial assistance to the library.
Will someone go to Ho, the Regional capital of NDC and ask about how their library is being funded? It will be revealed that they have adequate money to run it because starve that Region and NDC will be dead the next day.
Menuanom please just try to use the library. And stop Nana Nana. Education is the key
SOCIETY MADE UP WITH TOO MANY SHOE SHINE BOYS AND DOG CHAIN SELLERS HOW CAN THE LIBRARY MAKE PROFIT.
Ask Woyome!
Asantefuo munsorio oh !
This is a disgrace to Oseikrom !
OUR SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY DO NEED MAJOR REPAIRS THAT PREZ MAHAMA WANT TO PASS THAT AND BUILD 200 NEW SHOOLS WHAT A DUMB MISCALCULATIONS .
In USA they say homes of the rich have big libraries and small TV's while poor homes have big TV's but small libraries.Looks like Ghana is following the unfortunate latter model of the poor.
THE LIBRARIAN SAID THE PROBLEMS AT THE KUMASI LIBRARY PERTAIN IN ALL THE REGIONAL LIBRARIES. THIS MEANS IT IS A NATIONAL PROBLEM. ASHANTI REGION IS THE LARGEST REGION IN GHANA, WITH PEOPLE FROM THE OTHER REGIONS. THE KUMASI L ...
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Sorry, sir! Much condolence for that disappointment. It is because you are operating what is "hidden" for many Ghanaians, especially, our politicians. If you want any idea to be hidden for many Ghanaians including our politic ...
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What is Asantehene's bogus Otumfuo Education Fund doing about this library ? I hope SARPONG(CARDINAL) will give him a phone call.
The bogus Otumfuo Education Fund which has no financial statements, and the millions of pounds the Asantehene spent to buy mansions in England and South Africa should be investigated by those Ashantis who don't regard him as ...
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i sitting in a library writing this rightnow but its in kumasi kwasia its London u scumbags fuck otumfuo