You see, you do use your head sometimes. It sometimes seems that we are
programmed in such a way that any view that is unconventional is to be
dismissed as lacking merit or irrelevant. For example, people would rather
remember Kwami Nkrumah for his speeches and vision rather than the way he
tried to implement that vision. Nobody, in his right mind, would deny the
fact that Dr. Kwami Nkrumah was both an intellectual and a visionary. But
try to talk about his short-comings and you are labelled "Anti-Nkrumah". The
fact remains that Dr. Kwami Nkrumah was one of the first dictators that Post
colonial Africa
produced. It is also a fact that one of the most repressive legislations
ever passed in any country in Africa was the Preventative Detension Act
(PDA). This piece of thrash was used by Nkrumah and those close to him or in
uniform to jail inocent people for indefinite periods just because they
dared ask where the country was heading. Instead of explaining his vision of
Ghana to those who were better placed/equiped to implement them, he treated
them as insurbodinate anarchists. This is were President Jammeh differs from
the rest of those Pan-Africanists. You people may not believe it now, but
time will tell.

Have a good day, Gassa.


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