RE: OSAGEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH

well said Kima!
 

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From: bakebe1@msn.com
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Subject: RE: OSAGEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:32:17 -0400

Ta Njang,

This kind of starry-eyed adulation of some of these leaders may be triggered more by a nostalgia for the past than by any serious analysis of the work of these men. Some of them laid the foundation for the smoldering edifice that is now crumbling all around us. In 2003, I had the good fortune to work with Kenneth Kaunda at the African Studies Center of Boston University where he was a fellow. He readily explained some of his short comings and literally cried when recounting some of his "mistakes" in office. For example, I asked him one day why he wore black clothes everyday. In trying to answer the question he cried when he spoke about his son who died of AIDS and other hundreds of thousands of Zambians who were killed by the disease and faulted himself for the deplorable public health and care delivery system in his country. 

I would caution the African intellectual to endervor to dig a litter deeper for the truth about our past and present leaders. It is only then can we learn the true lessons of history. Some of these men built strong personality cults around themselves and with shrewd propaganda,  created an orgy of hero worshipers across Africa. When we start by giving them titles like Doctors which they never earned, or mistaking honorary doctorates for real doctorates, then we are yet to dig beyond the veneer. 

E Tabong Kima

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From: Sincerelawyer@aol.com
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:06 -0400
Subject: Re: OSAGEFO DR KWAME NKRUMAH
To: ambasbay@googlegroups.com
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Chief Taku,

 

Nkrumah is my idol. When the west destroyed him, VOA said it would take Africa more than half a century to have another of his caliber. They were right. We have not yet gotten one. Their generation of leaders was replaced by thieves and the stealing is still continuing. Modern day slave traders. They are no longer selling individuals but their nations. The Nkrumahs, Obotes, Kaundas, Azikiwes, Nassars, Nyereres, Kenyatas, Senghors, Sekour Toures, etc. Mandella is of the same breed! They were not saints but they were the best Africa has ever produced. True nationalists. Instead of weeping for our countries, we should be weeping for our continent. Where a group of thieves came from to have seized the entire continent beats my imagination!

 

Dr. Peter N. Njang

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