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• Brofo 9 years ago

  Nope, "our children continue to feed the mediterranean sea" is more befitting tittle.

  Nope, "our children continue to feed the mediterranean sea" is more befitting tittle.

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• Obuama 9 years ago

  A very interesting and thought-provoking article. Whence cometh a government which will once again place much premium on agriculture like Kutu Acheampong did? By the way,why the word 'continuous' instead of 'continues' in ...
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  A very interesting and thought-provoking article. Whence cometh a government which will once again place much premium on agriculture like Kutu Acheampong did? By the way,why the word 'continuous' instead of 'continues' in the title?

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• Kofi 9 years ago

  The only premium Acheampong placed on agriculture was a big propaganda poster labelled "Operation Feed Yourself" sitting alongside another poster "Know Your Commissioners" with Acheampong"s fat,ugly,broad nose prominently sit ...
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  The only premium Acheampong placed on agriculture was a big propaganda poster labelled "Operation Feed Yourself" sitting alongside another poster "Know Your Commissioners" with Acheampong"s fat,ugly,broad nose prominently sitting in the middle stuck on every wall in every school.

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• Peter Abrokwa 9 years ago

  The late Shirley Temple Black was United States ambassador to Ghana.She was not invited by Acheampong to Ghana.

  The late Shirley Temple Black was United States ambassador to Ghana.She was not invited by Acheampong to Ghana.

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• Ghanaba 9 years ago

  Well written piece..this article is indeed from the heart...

  Well written piece..this article is indeed from the heart...

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• Kwamebeba 9 years ago

  Most Ghanaians in particular and Africans in general do not face facts, neither can we tackle the bull by the horns but rather prefer to beat around the bush. It is a fact that any nation that contributes to the betrayal lea ...
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  Most Ghanaians in particular and Africans in general do not face facts, neither can we tackle the bull by the horns but rather prefer to beat around the bush. It is a fact that any nation that contributes to the betrayal leading to the death of her seers and prophets get cursed for some time until the people come to realize their folly.
  Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was a seer and dug a well for Ghana but because of our lack of faith and our betrayal, the well he dug for Ghana dried up after his death in 1972. It was after his death that we started to cry for water. The exodus of Ghanaians, intellectuals and all others started seriously after the man's untimely death. People who went abroad to study in Nkrumah's time were eager to come back to Ghana because they saw opportunities in all fields. Nkrumah followed an African ideology which enabled him to plan the development of Ghana.
  After Nkrumah, there had never been any leader in Ghana who had an independent mind about Ghana's development. They were mere puppets on "ropes" amd evem Kutu Acheampong's so called Operation Feed Yourself (OFY) was not going to take Ghana. anywhere. OFY was just an act of a desperate regime. All of a sudden, institutions like Secondary Schools had part of the school land cleared and students were expected to go and work on the land. Wouldm't it have been better if Agricultural Science was thought to interested students for them to use their knowledge and provided equipment to learn as well as manage school farms?
  Why was Nkrumah's Workers Brigade abandoned and then Busia comes in and tell the youth to go into farming? What capital did the youth have to go into large scale farming as is required in these days? A young independent country must assess her needs and plan according to her own feasible ideas and that was what Nkrumah did and the contrally is what all other governments after Nkrumah have been doing. The foundations that Nkrumah built, not excluding the machinery he acquired, were left to rot or rust. All our trees are nowhere to be found now having been no replacement through tree planting. Nkrumah's regime did more tree planting than all the successive governments.
  Nkrumah wanted us to have an economy where we used our local raw materials to have finished products and that meant a lot of jobs for all.
  All that he left was sold by the subsequent politicians and soldiers to themselves or cronies as well as their neo-colonialist masters and turn to blame Kwame Nkrumah. Let them tell me if Ghana will still be exporting cocoa beans if Nkrumah with his Cocoa Products Factory had been allowed to expand. Imagine how many quality schools and universities would be engaged in research for our factories.
  Unless we face facts and adopt Nkrumah's ideas and negotiation tactics there is no way we can stop the exodus of people through the inhospitable terrains. Nkrumah will forever remain the yardstick for our freedom, independence and development as a nation.

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• Kwesi Mensah 9 years ago

  The current phenomenon of mass migration of African youth is the shame of Africa. The betrayal of our patriotic leaders: Nkrumah, Cabral... Sankara, Gaddafi and others, including even Mandela can only result in the tragedy th ...
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  The current phenomenon of mass migration of African youth is the shame of Africa. The betrayal of our patriotic leaders: Nkrumah, Cabral... Sankara, Gaddafi and others, including even Mandela can only result in the tragedy that is occurring now.
  
  As Samia as already said, Osagyefo left us with the blueprint. All we have to do is to apply it creatively to solve our problems.

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Dear Kwamebeba,
  
  Thanks.
  
  You are one of the few minds on Ghanaweb that I pay close attention to.
  
  Thanks.

  Dear Kwamebeba,
  
  Thanks.
  
  You are one of the few minds on Ghanaweb that I pay close attention to.
  
  Thanks.

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• Kwesi Mensah 9 years ago

  How could Busia promote farming in Ghana when it was he and the NLC "khaki boys" who jettisoned entirely Nkrumah's agricultural policy, destroying the Nkrumah-established state farms, abolishing the Worker's Brigade farmers ...
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  How could Busia promote farming in Ghana when it was he and the NLC "khaki boys" who jettisoned entirely Nkrumah's agricultural policy, destroying the Nkrumah-established state farms, abolishing the Worker's Brigade farmers that worked those farms, even imprisoning some of them, wickedly letting rust thousands of tractors and other mechanized implements imported from the Eastern European countries? And do you remember the giant silos to store grains and save the harvest from rotting as happens every year in Ghana while people are malnourished and starving?
  
  Please get a copy of the Seven Year Development Plan. In it you will see that the great Osagyefo even planned to turn the Northern Region into the "bread basket" of Ghana.
  
  We destroyed Nkrumah's industries, we destroyed his Agric plan, we destroyed everything with his name on it, and now we wonder why there is so much unemployment and the youth wanting to risk dying in the Sahara and the Mediterranean sea to reach greener pastures?

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• francis kwarteng 9 years ago

  Thank you.

  Thank you.

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• Panafric 9 years ago

  We know the solutions but don't have the WILL to do it.
  
  Mysterious Africa, when?

  We know the solutions but don't have the WILL to do it.
  
  Mysterious Africa, when?

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