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...Delle family isn’t new to political service: his grandfather was the right-hand man to the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Delle’s father, who was sentenced to death by firing squad in the 1970s before being acquitted, showed Delle how to make service to his country worthwhile: to focus on the people...
...change this fact) and because the people do not participate directly in decision-making, pathologies and prejudices internal to the operation of power invariably emerge.History is replete with examples of this dynamic: Consider Kwame Nkrumah’s fall from grace in post-colonial Ghana. Prior to decolonization, Nkrumah wrote prolifically and incisively on the perversities of imperialism in Africa. Yet, once in power, confronted by threats to the privilege that he had been elected into, Nkrumah moved to protect his position by repressing autonomous politics, once even telling agitating workers that their “former role of struggling...
...heartening to be reminded that though [Kwame] Nkrumah fell short of realizing his dreams, Ghana is still a leader on the continent. Remember that Africa cherishes Nkrumah's overarching dreams, despite his errors. Africa is now on more solid ground, not only because Africans have been dreaming but also because we have been conscientiously and systematically working. You'd better believe it. Tordue Salem, ABUJA, NIGERIA...
...March 5 cover - which was an artistic masterpiece - the story on Ghana's 50 years of independence was disappointing. You underplayed the role that foreign powers have played in tampering with the development of the young and promising country, and you didn't emphasize enough Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's vibrant efforts to raise Ghana and all of sub-Saharan Africa to the same level as the so-called developed countries. Kwesi Dei-Anang, MAINZ, GERMANY...
...country whose natural and human resources have been exploited for centuries, Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) showed great spirit by beating a superpower 2-1 at Nuremberg in the 2006 football World Cup. The free education established by Nkrumah benefited Ghanaians and served as a model for all of Africa. Isn't it ironic that the 50th anniversary of Ghana's independence and the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade fall in the same year? Time could have done Ghana's tourism industry a great favor by including photographs of some of the castles, beautiful sandy beaches...