Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Saturday, April 1, 2017
ANOTHER BANGER FROM THE BEAT BANK (FOX BEATZ)
Monday, March 6, 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
THIS IS HOW PRAISES IS DONE
As part of Our monthly all night service, IPPM ACCRA branch have our unique way of praising and worshiping the creator of the Universe, making it very difficult for anyone to be seated while praises and worship is going on.
And when the prophet of the church Prophet Enoch Essel takes charge of the podium to preach the word, be certain to have a direct encounter with your maker, GOD Almighty.
So with the next service slated on the 20th of January, IPPM ACCRA invite you to the mega all night service to mark the begin of the year. The venue of this service is Baastona Spintex, off the boundary road, adjacent formal Royal House chapel. Brethren, we hope to see you, thank you.
Watch how we praise our maker.
HE HAS DONE IT AGAIN, FOX BEATZ OF MALOG ENTERTAINMENT HAS DROP, YET ANOTHER CLASSIC BEAT.
After the tremendous success chopped with his kalyppo rhythm
beat, Fox Beatz residence sound engineer of malog entertainment
has drop yet another banger for the general consumption(audible)
of lovers of good music and beatz. He gives this as his new
year's gift to all rapper in Ghana and beyond the shores of
Ghana and wish to see dope rappers jump on this beatz and do
justice to it, who knows what would happen next. Hopefully
Fox Beatz and the management of Malog Entertainment may invite the
dopest rapper who would do real damage to this classic beat,
over to the studios of malog entertainment for a fully paid recording session
free of charge. After the tremendous success chopped with his kalyppo rhythm beat,
Fox Beatz residence sound engineer of malog entertainment
has drop yet another banger for the general consumption(audible)
of lovers of good music and beatz. He gives this as his new
year's gift to all rapper in Ghana and beyond the shores of
Ghana and wish to see dope rappers jump on this beatz and do
justice to it, who knows what would happen next. Hopefully
Fox Beatz and the management of Malog Entertainment may invite the
dopest rapper who would do damage to this classic beat, over
to the studios of malog entertainment for a fully paid recording session free
of charge.
Friday, November 18, 2016
I’m more into property and land issues – Sandra Ankobiah
In April 2013 when she was called to the Ghana Bar as part of 39 lawyers who were inducted by Her Ladyship Chief Justice Georgina Wood at a meeting of the General Legal Council in Accra, Entrepreneur, TV Host and Philanthropist Sandra Ankobiah had hopes of contributing to the entertainment industry in as an entertainment lawyer but it seems things are not the same anymore.
Yes, the former host of Fashion 101 is more into property and land cases although her firm is a general practice firm and handles all kinds of cases in that regards.
Although she does admit she promised to handle entertainment cases back in 2013 when she was called into the Ghana Bar, she also reveals there is every little to do with the entertainment industry at the moment.
In a special hang out session with Ebenezer Donkoh (NY DJ) on Kumasi’s number one urban breakfast show, #RYSENSYNE on Y102.5FM, Sandra Ankobiah revealed she has had to focus more on property and land cases because of the unavailability of cases within the entertainment industry.
“When I was first called to the bar I did say that I will do entertainment law but I just haven’t had enough cases coming from the industry. You know I haven’t really done much with entertainment law because the cases just haven’t come so I’m just focusing on my …”
Asked if she has a few clients in the entertainment industry she works for, Sandra revealed there were a few friends she drafts contracts for but has had not serious cases to handle.
“I draft contracts and processes some things like that for some friends but no serious cases..”
Sandra Ankobiah however believes there lies a great future for entertainment lawyers as the industry grows.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
Yes, the former host of Fashion 101 is more into property and land cases although her firm is a general practice firm and handles all kinds of cases in that regards.
Although she does admit she promised to handle entertainment cases back in 2013 when she was called into the Ghana Bar, she also reveals there is every little to do with the entertainment industry at the moment.
In a special hang out session with Ebenezer Donkoh (NY DJ) on Kumasi’s number one urban breakfast show, #RYSENSYNE on Y102.5FM, Sandra Ankobiah revealed she has had to focus more on property and land cases because of the unavailability of cases within the entertainment industry.
“When I was first called to the bar I did say that I will do entertainment law but I just haven’t had enough cases coming from the industry. You know I haven’t really done much with entertainment law because the cases just haven’t come so I’m just focusing on my …”
Asked if she has a few clients in the entertainment industry she works for, Sandra revealed there were a few friends she drafts contracts for but has had not serious cases to handle.
“I draft contracts and processes some things like that for some friends but no serious cases..”
Sandra Ankobiah however believes there lies a great future for entertainment lawyers as the industry grows.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
Abraham Ohene Djan rejected Edem - Hammer
Rapper Ayigbe Edem now known as Edem can never be well written without mentioning Ace Music producer Hammer of the last two. Hammer’s trademark has been talent discovery and grooming.
Big names like Obrafour,Edem,Tinny,Sarkodie,Teephlow and many others has passed through his hands.
Hammer discovered Edem who was rapping in the Ewe language in an era where Twi rap was the order of the day. Because he has an eye to see talent and greatness, he believed in him, groomed him and made a star out of him.
In an interview with Arnold Mensah Elavanyo – host of the Only radio entertainment morning show Ampluzz on Pluzz 89.9fm, Hammer revealed that Industry player Abraham Ohene Djan rejected Edem when he was consulted to invest in him.
“He rejected Edem and was unwilling to invest in his talent because he believed Ewe rap would not sell so I had to do it myself” Hammer stated. Hammer has gotten the eagle’s eye that can spot greatness from afar and so his investment in Edem was profitable and now Edem is undoubtedly one of the best rappers in Africa.
Hammer is yet to release his album titled “The last of a dying breed” which features Sarkodie,kwaw kese,worlasi and many others.
Big names like Obrafour,Edem,Tinny,Sarkodie,Teephlow and many others has passed through his hands.
Hammer discovered Edem who was rapping in the Ewe language in an era where Twi rap was the order of the day. Because he has an eye to see talent and greatness, he believed in him, groomed him and made a star out of him.
In an interview with Arnold Mensah Elavanyo – host of the Only radio entertainment morning show Ampluzz on Pluzz 89.9fm, Hammer revealed that Industry player Abraham Ohene Djan rejected Edem when he was consulted to invest in him.
“He rejected Edem and was unwilling to invest in his talent because he believed Ewe rap would not sell so I had to do it myself” Hammer stated. Hammer has gotten the eagle’s eye that can spot greatness from afar and so his investment in Edem was profitable and now Edem is undoubtedly one of the best rappers in Africa.
Hammer is yet to release his album titled “The last of a dying breed” which features Sarkodie,kwaw kese,worlasi and many others.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Ahuofe Patri's new look divides opinion on Instagram
Priscilla Opoku Agyeman, known in showbiz circles as Ahuofe Patri is mostly known to have a black hair.
Well, the daredevil after piercing her cleavage and other parts of her body has decided to change her looks but focused on the colour of her hair.
Ahuofe shared pictures on her Instagram page looking different in hot pink hair.
Whiles some of her fans thought she looked extremely good in her new look others though although it was not that bad, she looks better in her black hair.
Ahuofe Patri shot to the limelight through the "Boys Kasa" skits which were shot by Kofi Asamoah.
Source : Ghanaweb.com
Well, the daredevil after piercing her cleavage and other parts of her body has decided to change her looks but focused on the colour of her hair.
Ahuofe shared pictures on her Instagram page looking different in hot pink hair.
Whiles some of her fans thought she looked extremely good in her new look others though although it was not that bad, she looks better in her black hair.
Ahuofe Patri shot to the limelight through the "Boys Kasa" skits which were shot by Kofi Asamoah.
Source : Ghanaweb.com
This photo of Stonebwoy will keep you focused on your goal
For many, the few tribulations that come their way make them give up in life.
However, most successful people in life have faced dire challenges but have been able to put them behind them and have striven for the best.
One of such individuals is Stonebwoy. After losing his brother through an accident and having to become 'disabled' he never made that a worry but looked at the brighter side of life, and made the best out of what life has to offer.
The artiste is the boss of Burniton Music Group and is credited with several hit songs, and is decorated with several awards both locally and internationally
A throwback picture of the Dancehall 'god' is circulating on social media and it tells how far the man has gone in life till he has become a force to reckon with in the entertainment circles.
In the picture, the artiste is seen in a cardigan repping the Rasta world and sagging his pants down. You will be influenced to stay strong regardless of the tribulation when you see this picture.
Source :Ghanaweb.com
However, most successful people in life have faced dire challenges but have been able to put them behind them and have striven for the best.
One of such individuals is Stonebwoy. After losing his brother through an accident and having to become 'disabled' he never made that a worry but looked at the brighter side of life, and made the best out of what life has to offer.
The artiste is the boss of Burniton Music Group and is credited with several hit songs, and is decorated with several awards both locally and internationally
A throwback picture of the Dancehall 'god' is circulating on social media and it tells how far the man has gone in life till he has become a force to reckon with in the entertainment circles.
In the picture, the artiste is seen in a cardigan repping the Rasta world and sagging his pants down. You will be influenced to stay strong regardless of the tribulation when you see this picture.
Source :Ghanaweb.com
Thursday, October 13, 2016
FOX BEATZ DROPS HIS CLASSIC VERSION OF KALYPPO RYHTHM
With the ever trending kalyppo fever in Ghana and beyond
as a result of the flag-bearer of the New Patriotic Party NPP Nana Akufo-Addo Dankwa sipping
on a kalyppo, where the trend is catching up with everyone in the country,
management of malog entertainment have the residence sound engineer “Fox Beatz”
produce a classic kalyppo rhythm (beat)
for anyone to jump on and have fun.
Enjoy
Friday, October 7, 2016
Some men of God likely to go to hell for not satisfying wives sexually – Lutterodt
Popular radio and television relationship counselor, Reverend George Lutterodt, has warned some men of God in the country to take their sex life with their wives very seriously or else they may end up in hell.
The eccentric counselor’s strange position on matters of marriage and relationship has endeared him to a lot of people while a huge section of the public especially the youth who he usually bashes also condemn him.
Counselor Lutterodt was guest on Agenda3 on 3FM’s Sunrise Morning Show where the focus was on rape and sexual assault.
“There are a lot of men of God in this country and beyond that will likely find themselves in hell because they are not having proper sexual intercourse with their wives”.
He explained, “The act of lovemaking must always end up well just like worshiping God to the climax.
“If your act doesn’t get to that point then it means you are punishing the person in place”.
According to him there are some men of God today who are waiting for grace of erection and because of that they are punishing their wives.
“The Bible says if you don’t live with them with understanding, your prayers will be hindered and I am telling you that some men of God are not anointed because they have not done well with their wives”.
The eccentric counselor’s strange position on matters of marriage and relationship has endeared him to a lot of people while a huge section of the public especially the youth who he usually bashes also condemn him.
Counselor Lutterodt was guest on Agenda3 on 3FM’s Sunrise Morning Show where the focus was on rape and sexual assault.
“There are a lot of men of God in this country and beyond that will likely find themselves in hell because they are not having proper sexual intercourse with their wives”.
He explained, “The act of lovemaking must always end up well just like worshiping God to the climax.
“If your act doesn’t get to that point then it means you are punishing the person in place”.
According to him there are some men of God today who are waiting for grace of erection and because of that they are punishing their wives.
“The Bible says if you don’t live with them with understanding, your prayers will be hindered and I am telling you that some men of God are not anointed because they have not done well with their wives”.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Date a fitness freak - Actress Jasmine Baroudi reveals why
One of the most talented but underrated actresses in Ghana, Jasmine Baroudi has one of the most inspiring relationship and fitness stories currently happening on her Instagram page.
Jasmine and her fitness consultant boyfriend, William Ofori-Atta aka Flashkick have been together for a couple of years and now have a daughter together.
However, their common love for fitness makes their relationship a unique one. Although Jasmine is getting back to work after taking a maternity break, she is mostly seen in the gym with her man, trying to regain her pre-baby glory.
The couple share a lot of photos of themselves and their daughter online and do not hold back on sharing their affection for each other. But what is most impressive is how Jasmine looks after only months of having her child.
Here are a few photos that will prove to you that dating a fitness freak is totally a great idea.
1. You will get the best exercise routines perfect for all conditions such as pregnancy.
2. Post baby work-outs are also covered. It can even be a cute family affair.
3. He challenges you to be the best version of yourself.
4. You can easily pull off poses like this without breaking a sweat.
5. And your Before and After pictures will look almost the same, except you had a baby.
6. After all has worked out well, you go home with the one you love the most.
Jasmine and Flashkick continue to share their fitness stories on their social media pages to inspire as many Ghanaians as possible to get into fitness.
Jasmine and her fitness consultant boyfriend, William Ofori-Atta aka Flashkick have been together for a couple of years and now have a daughter together.
However, their common love for fitness makes their relationship a unique one. Although Jasmine is getting back to work after taking a maternity break, she is mostly seen in the gym with her man, trying to regain her pre-baby glory.
The couple share a lot of photos of themselves and their daughter online and do not hold back on sharing their affection for each other. But what is most impressive is how Jasmine looks after only months of having her child.
Here are a few photos that will prove to you that dating a fitness freak is totally a great idea.
1. You will get the best exercise routines perfect for all conditions such as pregnancy.
2. Post baby work-outs are also covered. It can even be a cute family affair.
3. He challenges you to be the best version of yourself.
4. You can easily pull off poses like this without breaking a sweat.
5. And your Before and After pictures will look almost the same, except you had a baby.
6. After all has worked out well, you go home with the one you love the most.
Jasmine and Flashkick continue to share their fitness stories on their social media pages to inspire as many Ghanaians as possible to get into fitness.
Shatta Wale is Bigger than Stonebwoy- TV Presenter
Godfred Lennon Agyemang popularly known is Showbiz as Lennon Kweku Guy Guy, without doubt can be categorized under one of Ghana’s fastest rising Television and Radio Personality of our time who's also the CEO of Scary Hauz Entertainment has Chosen Shatta Wale over Stonebwoy.
According to Lennon, Stonebwoy used to come to Shatta wale when he (Stonebwoy) started Dancehall.
Lennon cited an interview on TV where he was asked to name the best Dancehall artiste in Ghana, he said "I would choose Shatta Wale over Stonebwoy any day even though Stonebwoy is in his peak.
Lennon Said he likes Stonebwoy's humbleness and that Stonebwoy should continue with his Good Works and stop Comparing himself to Shatta Wale.
Lennon disclosed that Shata Wale is the People's Choice, a Champion and cannot be compared.
According to Lennon, Stonebwoy used to come to Shatta wale when he (Stonebwoy) started Dancehall.
Lennon cited an interview on TV where he was asked to name the best Dancehall artiste in Ghana, he said "I would choose Shatta Wale over Stonebwoy any day even though Stonebwoy is in his peak.
Lennon Said he likes Stonebwoy's humbleness and that Stonebwoy should continue with his Good Works and stop Comparing himself to Shatta Wale.
Lennon disclosed that Shata Wale is the People's Choice, a Champion and cannot be compared.
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Berla Mundi raises funds for Osu Juvenile Correctional Centre
The
Berla Mundi Foundation is raising funds for a charity event scheduled for
December 24.
The fundraising which was held at the West Hills Mall on the Kasoa road was aimed at getting a larger number of the public involved in revamping the Osu Juvenile Correctional Centre.
The event which is dubbed “Christmas with Berla Mundi; The Borstal Edition” is aimed at restoring hope in the lives of the many young people who live in the center.
The foundation seeks to amongst other things stock the facility with basic necessities as well as provide medical care to make life for the young people who live there worthwhile.
Events lined up for the day include an inspirational session with the young people and a medical screening exercise for the inmates.
Award-winning Radio and Television personality Berlinda Addardey popularly known as Berla Mundi who is the founder of the foundation has said the task ahead is a huge one hence the need for all well-meaning Ghanaians to be a part of it.
The foundation is expected to replicate the fund-raising drive in all the Malls in Accra.
The event is supported by the West Hills Mall, Junction Mall, Vodafone Ghana, Ahaban Foundation (Green Leaf Foundation).
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
Monday, October 3, 2016
MUSIGA to hold last peace walk in Accra
The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) will on Friday, October 7, hold a peace walk dubbed ‘Using Music for National Cohesion During Election 2016’ in Accra to promote peace.
The Accra peace walk which was originally scheduled for September 30 but had to be postponed to October 7, will start from the National Theatre at 8:00am and go through some principal streets in the city before ending with a durbar at the Afua Sutherland Park.
A number association and groups which include churches, keep fit groups, schools and members of the Union of Informal Workers Association (UNIWA) as well as other creative industry practitioners have been invited to join the walk to propagate the message of peace.
MUSIGA has been on a STAR-Ghana-sponsored crusade to promote peaceful campaign and voting at the next general elections. The first peace walk came off in Tamale on June 7.
In addition to the nationwide peace walk, MUSIGA will also hold a major peace concert in all the regional capitals to promote peace among Ghanaians as the December 7 general elections draw closer.
The peace concert which will witness performances from some seasoned musicians who will all give messages of peace to the audience is also expected to draw a wide array of audience who will be entertained and educated on peace.
The first one was held in Sunyani on Saturday, September 23 and it featured several stars from the region, including CST Amankwa, Dada Thick, Ama Grace, Obaapa Francisca, Paradise Singers and Monica Awuah. Popular hiplife artiste, Tic Tac, headlined the show.
The MUSIGA Peace Concert train moves to the Tamale Jubilee Park on October 15 and Accra on December 3.
The Accra peace walk which was originally scheduled for September 30 but had to be postponed to October 7, will start from the National Theatre at 8:00am and go through some principal streets in the city before ending with a durbar at the Afua Sutherland Park.
A number association and groups which include churches, keep fit groups, schools and members of the Union of Informal Workers Association (UNIWA) as well as other creative industry practitioners have been invited to join the walk to propagate the message of peace.
MUSIGA has been on a STAR-Ghana-sponsored crusade to promote peaceful campaign and voting at the next general elections. The first peace walk came off in Tamale on June 7.
In addition to the nationwide peace walk, MUSIGA will also hold a major peace concert in all the regional capitals to promote peace among Ghanaians as the December 7 general elections draw closer.
The peace concert which will witness performances from some seasoned musicians who will all give messages of peace to the audience is also expected to draw a wide array of audience who will be entertained and educated on peace.
The first one was held in Sunyani on Saturday, September 23 and it featured several stars from the region, including CST Amankwa, Dada Thick, Ama Grace, Obaapa Francisca, Paradise Singers and Monica Awuah. Popular hiplife artiste, Tic Tac, headlined the show.
The MUSIGA Peace Concert train moves to the Tamale Jubilee Park on October 15 and Accra on December 3.
Sista Afia drops new single ‘Kofi’
After releasing the hit track 'YiWani', which featured Kofi Kinaata, Ghana's sensational high life songstress, Sista Afia under Streamline Records, is here again with yet another banger.
She calls this new single 'Kofi', which also featured Takoradi-based emerging Fante music talent, Afedzi Perry.
The song was produced by one of Ghana's most celebrated sound engineer, WillisBeatz.
At the sound of Sista Afia's Kofi, one is definitely tempted to dance to the rhythm and it appears there is no doubt that Ghanaians and music fans have been offered something big to dance to.
Sista Afia has other songs to her credit, notable among them are 'Kro Kro No' alongside Bisa K. Dei, Are You Ready and then recently YiWani.
Catch a feel of this track by listening or downloading directly from here
She calls this new single 'Kofi', which also featured Takoradi-based emerging Fante music talent, Afedzi Perry.
The song was produced by one of Ghana's most celebrated sound engineer, WillisBeatz.
At the sound of Sista Afia's Kofi, one is definitely tempted to dance to the rhythm and it appears there is no doubt that Ghanaians and music fans have been offered something big to dance to.
Sista Afia has other songs to her credit, notable among them are 'Kro Kro No' alongside Bisa K. Dei, Are You Ready and then recently YiWani.
Catch a feel of this track by listening or downloading directly from here
By Prof Lungu
"...No people in all of mankind's recorded and oral history ever united through a...National Liberation Movement (NLM)-United Party (UP)-Progress Party (PP)-confederation, let alone build a great civilization...In Ghana...Ghanaian workers, always free to work, constructed and built all the great infrastructure and institutions Kwame Nkrumah bequeathed to Ghana as the Chief Executive of Ghana//.......
It was Ako Adjei who recommended that Nkrumah is the right person to lead the struggle not Danquah...It was Paa Grant who paid for Nkrumah's return to Gold Coast not Danquah. It was Paa Grant who sheltered Nkrumah at his residence in Takoradi but not Danquah...... J. B. Danquah, the attorney, was the only principal member of the UGCC who did not contribute a single penny to fund Nkrumah's travel back to Ghana in 1947 to assist the UGCC in a project they were miserably failing at...
When the Great People of Akyem Abuakwa, through their taxes and sweat, paid to gloom Barrister J. B. Danquah in England, J. B. Danquah simply neglected them, and they, him...", (Prof Lungu/../BOY KOFI, in summary-commentary, 2015-2016).
Dear reader, no people in all of mankind's recorded and oral history ever united after independence through a National Liberation Movement (NLM)-United Party (UP)-Progress Party (PP)-New Patriotic Party (NPP)-confederation, let alone build a great civilization. It was not the case for ancient Egypt, not for Ghana Empire, not for Songhai Empire, nor was it the case for all the great civilizations of Mongolia and China that European Marco Polo marveled at during his travels in the mid-1200s.
Further, many of the greatest engineering and economic feats of mankind were invented and built through servitude, sometimes through part time conscription, most often through slavery, but all the time, of the conquered, or of fellow compatriots.
We are talking about Grand Canals, Harbors, Urban Squares, Dams, Cities, Highways, Road, Bridges, Libraries, the Pyramids, and yes, Universities, even. Such it is, even in the case of Christopher Columbus's Old America of the late 1400s, and in the case of Abraham Lincoln's United States of America, in more recent historical annals.
Those, dear reader, were "brutal" regimes and institutional arrangements of hyper-centralized direction. It was always about the city, change, adaptation, renewal, and degradation. And people died in the millions in the aggregate constructing and supporting those facilities and institutions. Largely immutable records are available to today's privileged, including you who are reading this essay.
In Ghana, with second hand knowledge of those records by expatriates, Ghanaian workers, always free to work, constructed and built all the great infrastructure and institutions Kwame Nkrumah bequeathed to Ghana as the Chief Executive of Ghana, who, in many cases, commissioned them. Nkrumah was, after all, elected by the entire Nation of Ghana multiple times, while J. B. Danquah was not elected, not even once, by the entire Nation. And Ghana needed every bit of that infrastructure, and more.
In all those ancient and new civilizations built through servitude we spoke about, the royal-born, the privileged, and the cunning professional (lawyers and accountants, mostly), benefited greatly. As such, they generally never had any compelling reason to challenge the political system, speak truth to the power, or lead credible political struggles.
Not with speed, and not by any means necessary. Thus, it was generally the outsiders who always "rocked the boat" for improvement in human conditions and freedom. Modern economic theory, now wayward and without balance or conscience in Europe, mostly, prove what we now state about the royal-born, the privileged, and the cunning professional.
Such is the case of royal-privileged-born J. B. Danquah who, in the 1960s, was already deeply entrenched in the colonial urban and economic life of the Gold Coast as a lawyer. J. B. Danquah therefore had no compelling, altruistic motive to seek a radical change from "colonial masterdom" to "Sovereign Statedom" for the benefit of the average Ghanaian.
No. But a confederation and pseudo-federal government, the records show, pretty well suited J. B. Danquah. Hence the sundry destructive energies and acts recorded in his solitary corner in the public annals, from Apedwa-Amantoo Miensa, to Kyebi, to Accra, to the United States Library of Congress, to Embassies of foreign countries, to University libraries, and all places in-between.
To use a tired old phrase, needless to say, when J.B. Danquah was plying his profession in colonial Ghana under the auspices of the masters, Grand Canals, Harbors, Urban Squares, Dams, Cities, Highways, Road, Bridges, Libraries, the Pyramids, and yes, Universities, even, had all been conceptualized and built in all those Great Civilizations.
And in all the minor Civilizations such as existed in England where "royal" J. B. Danquah, supported by taxes levied on every Akyem Abuakwa native and their goat, was a student at some point in life, in the 1920s.
The records were, and are available on/in cloths, parchment papers, manuscripts, books, microfiche, vinyl records, tapes, DVDs, and now increasingly, digital internet-ready media on desktops, laptops, servers, and Clouds, as in Cloud Computing entities of all types. J. B. Danquah did not invent any of those ideas, facilities, or institutions.
Not Legon!
Not Akosombo Dam!
Not Tema Harbor!
Not Bank of Ghana!
Not Ghana!
To say that J. B. Danquah invented and created all these things for Ghana is to say that Tetteh Quashie invented cocoa in Ghana. Or that your late grand-mother invented any number of your family rituals she educated your mother on, because, well, she was the first in the world, compared to your dear mother and you.
That, we submit, is patently pedestrian and moronic!
So, if we are to be charitable, J. B. Danquah simply borrowed some ideas from any number of existing privileged sources and floated them around on occasions, as the "Been-To" he represented himself to be (read the two so-called Danquah Prison Letters), but without properly attributing from whence he borrowed, even as the Danquah-Deathknell-Palanquin Supporting Sub-Prelates continue to do same, today. Worse, today, they edit and hide records in matters they claim are super-important where the history of Ghana is concerned.
And on the other side, Ghana-style, such is the case of Kwame Nkrumah, born without all the pretentions of an urbane Ofori Attah. Nkrumah was so deeply entrenched in the vision of many a Great African (Marcus Garvey, W. E, DuBois, etc.), that even before he could fully complete his self-sponsored education in the United States and England in the 1940s, he was invited to the Gold Coast to assist with the quest for independence and sovereignty. J. B. Danquah, the attorney, was the only principal member of the UGCC who did not contribute a single penny to fund Nkrumah's travel back to Ghana in 1947 to assist the UGCC in a project they were miserably failing at.
We'd expect that as an "outsider" and with the background of US history and politics and knowledge of African heroes and those from other regions of the world, that Nkrumah would see the independence and sovereignty project as a quest and struggle for the speediest results, with significant power at the center to counter all dis-orienting centrifugal forces.
After all, political-economy teaches us that newly independent necessarily does not mean that your old colonial master suddenly loses all interests in their own permanent interests and development. On the other hand, a Ghana strong enough to ease the former masters' access to the produce and markets of the old colony, that, the old masters saw in the Nkrumah vision of a centralized government.
That would be a source of respect for Nkrumah, as the records in history show.
Respect, after all, should always go to a principled enemy, than to an unprincipled friend who will never do what you would do, if you owned the football, the country, or were in their shoes, so to speak.
Further, any American college student who paid attention in "American History 101" required of all college "Freshmen" will tell you that a confederation has no chance at all of supporting an agrarian economy, let alone an industrial, and post industrial, knowledge-based economy.
As well, the astute American student will tell you that the second best option that was adopted for the new state in North America, the federal system, continues to wreak havoc on the life chances of a large segment of the American population even as multitudes on other sides profited and continue to benefit from slavery, racial politics, wealth, gender inequity, and even from the names of the States in which they live.
The idea that there is no stronger role for the national government is now being rendered asunder, in multiple ways and platforms.
As well, dear reader, the history of Nigeria ought be instructive to all of us as things stand today. Having opted for a federal form of government for Nigeria in 1960, Nigerian (and Liberian) politicians would be at the forefront of the group that strongly resisted the United Africa vision of Nkrumah. Later, in 1967-1970, Nigeria, with its federal system, would be plunged into a civil war that resulted in nearly 2 million Nigerians dying from the war, many from war-related diseases and starvation.
To be continued......
Reference:
1. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, Mahama Yahaya, it was Danquah who groomed Nkrumah, Ghanaweb, (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Mahama-Yahaya-it-was-Danquah-who-groomed-Nkrumah-472627).
2. Cameron Duodu. Dr J B Danquah's Tragic Death Sticks In The Throat Of Some People Like A Dead Rat, (http://www.modernghana.com/news/600004/dr-j-b-danquahs-tragic-death-sticks-in-the-throat-of-some-p.html).
3. Mumford, Lewis. The City in History, 1968.
4. Building The World - The Grand Canal, (http://blogs.umb.edu/buildingtheworld/waterworks/the-grand-canal-china/).
Source :Ghanaweb.com
"...No people in all of mankind's recorded and oral history ever united through a...National Liberation Movement (NLM)-United Party (UP)-Progress Party (PP)-confederation, let alone build a great civilization...In Ghana...Ghanaian workers, always free to work, constructed and built all the great infrastructure and institutions Kwame Nkrumah bequeathed to Ghana as the Chief Executive of Ghana//.......
It was Ako Adjei who recommended that Nkrumah is the right person to lead the struggle not Danquah...It was Paa Grant who paid for Nkrumah's return to Gold Coast not Danquah. It was Paa Grant who sheltered Nkrumah at his residence in Takoradi but not Danquah...... J. B. Danquah, the attorney, was the only principal member of the UGCC who did not contribute a single penny to fund Nkrumah's travel back to Ghana in 1947 to assist the UGCC in a project they were miserably failing at...
When the Great People of Akyem Abuakwa, through their taxes and sweat, paid to gloom Barrister J. B. Danquah in England, J. B. Danquah simply neglected them, and they, him...", (Prof Lungu/../BOY KOFI, in summary-commentary, 2015-2016).
Dear reader, no people in all of mankind's recorded and oral history ever united after independence through a National Liberation Movement (NLM)-United Party (UP)-Progress Party (PP)-New Patriotic Party (NPP)-confederation, let alone build a great civilization. It was not the case for ancient Egypt, not for Ghana Empire, not for Songhai Empire, nor was it the case for all the great civilizations of Mongolia and China that European Marco Polo marveled at during his travels in the mid-1200s.
Further, many of the greatest engineering and economic feats of mankind were invented and built through servitude, sometimes through part time conscription, most often through slavery, but all the time, of the conquered, or of fellow compatriots.
We are talking about Grand Canals, Harbors, Urban Squares, Dams, Cities, Highways, Road, Bridges, Libraries, the Pyramids, and yes, Universities, even. Such it is, even in the case of Christopher Columbus's Old America of the late 1400s, and in the case of Abraham Lincoln's United States of America, in more recent historical annals.
Those, dear reader, were "brutal" regimes and institutional arrangements of hyper-centralized direction. It was always about the city, change, adaptation, renewal, and degradation. And people died in the millions in the aggregate constructing and supporting those facilities and institutions. Largely immutable records are available to today's privileged, including you who are reading this essay.
In Ghana, with second hand knowledge of those records by expatriates, Ghanaian workers, always free to work, constructed and built all the great infrastructure and institutions Kwame Nkrumah bequeathed to Ghana as the Chief Executive of Ghana, who, in many cases, commissioned them. Nkrumah was, after all, elected by the entire Nation of Ghana multiple times, while J. B. Danquah was not elected, not even once, by the entire Nation. And Ghana needed every bit of that infrastructure, and more.
In all those ancient and new civilizations built through servitude we spoke about, the royal-born, the privileged, and the cunning professional (lawyers and accountants, mostly), benefited greatly. As such, they generally never had any compelling reason to challenge the political system, speak truth to the power, or lead credible political struggles.
Not with speed, and not by any means necessary. Thus, it was generally the outsiders who always "rocked the boat" for improvement in human conditions and freedom. Modern economic theory, now wayward and without balance or conscience in Europe, mostly, prove what we now state about the royal-born, the privileged, and the cunning professional.
Such is the case of royal-privileged-born J. B. Danquah who, in the 1960s, was already deeply entrenched in the colonial urban and economic life of the Gold Coast as a lawyer. J. B. Danquah therefore had no compelling, altruistic motive to seek a radical change from "colonial masterdom" to "Sovereign Statedom" for the benefit of the average Ghanaian.
No. But a confederation and pseudo-federal government, the records show, pretty well suited J. B. Danquah. Hence the sundry destructive energies and acts recorded in his solitary corner in the public annals, from Apedwa-Amantoo Miensa, to Kyebi, to Accra, to the United States Library of Congress, to Embassies of foreign countries, to University libraries, and all places in-between.
To use a tired old phrase, needless to say, when J.B. Danquah was plying his profession in colonial Ghana under the auspices of the masters, Grand Canals, Harbors, Urban Squares, Dams, Cities, Highways, Road, Bridges, Libraries, the Pyramids, and yes, Universities, even, had all been conceptualized and built in all those Great Civilizations.
And in all the minor Civilizations such as existed in England where "royal" J. B. Danquah, supported by taxes levied on every Akyem Abuakwa native and their goat, was a student at some point in life, in the 1920s.
The records were, and are available on/in cloths, parchment papers, manuscripts, books, microfiche, vinyl records, tapes, DVDs, and now increasingly, digital internet-ready media on desktops, laptops, servers, and Clouds, as in Cloud Computing entities of all types. J. B. Danquah did not invent any of those ideas, facilities, or institutions.
Not Legon!
Not Akosombo Dam!
Not Tema Harbor!
Not Bank of Ghana!
Not Ghana!
To say that J. B. Danquah invented and created all these things for Ghana is to say that Tetteh Quashie invented cocoa in Ghana. Or that your late grand-mother invented any number of your family rituals she educated your mother on, because, well, she was the first in the world, compared to your dear mother and you.
That, we submit, is patently pedestrian and moronic!
So, if we are to be charitable, J. B. Danquah simply borrowed some ideas from any number of existing privileged sources and floated them around on occasions, as the "Been-To" he represented himself to be (read the two so-called Danquah Prison Letters), but without properly attributing from whence he borrowed, even as the Danquah-Deathknell-Palanquin Supporting Sub-Prelates continue to do same, today. Worse, today, they edit and hide records in matters they claim are super-important where the history of Ghana is concerned.
And on the other side, Ghana-style, such is the case of Kwame Nkrumah, born without all the pretentions of an urbane Ofori Attah. Nkrumah was so deeply entrenched in the vision of many a Great African (Marcus Garvey, W. E, DuBois, etc.), that even before he could fully complete his self-sponsored education in the United States and England in the 1940s, he was invited to the Gold Coast to assist with the quest for independence and sovereignty. J. B. Danquah, the attorney, was the only principal member of the UGCC who did not contribute a single penny to fund Nkrumah's travel back to Ghana in 1947 to assist the UGCC in a project they were miserably failing at.
We'd expect that as an "outsider" and with the background of US history and politics and knowledge of African heroes and those from other regions of the world, that Nkrumah would see the independence and sovereignty project as a quest and struggle for the speediest results, with significant power at the center to counter all dis-orienting centrifugal forces.
After all, political-economy teaches us that newly independent necessarily does not mean that your old colonial master suddenly loses all interests in their own permanent interests and development. On the other hand, a Ghana strong enough to ease the former masters' access to the produce and markets of the old colony, that, the old masters saw in the Nkrumah vision of a centralized government.
That would be a source of respect for Nkrumah, as the records in history show.
Respect, after all, should always go to a principled enemy, than to an unprincipled friend who will never do what you would do, if you owned the football, the country, or were in their shoes, so to speak.
Further, any American college student who paid attention in "American History 101" required of all college "Freshmen" will tell you that a confederation has no chance at all of supporting an agrarian economy, let alone an industrial, and post industrial, knowledge-based economy.
As well, the astute American student will tell you that the second best option that was adopted for the new state in North America, the federal system, continues to wreak havoc on the life chances of a large segment of the American population even as multitudes on other sides profited and continue to benefit from slavery, racial politics, wealth, gender inequity, and even from the names of the States in which they live.
The idea that there is no stronger role for the national government is now being rendered asunder, in multiple ways and platforms.
As well, dear reader, the history of Nigeria ought be instructive to all of us as things stand today. Having opted for a federal form of government for Nigeria in 1960, Nigerian (and Liberian) politicians would be at the forefront of the group that strongly resisted the United Africa vision of Nkrumah. Later, in 1967-1970, Nigeria, with its federal system, would be plunged into a civil war that resulted in nearly 2 million Nigerians dying from the war, many from war-related diseases and starvation.
To be continued......
Reference:
1. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, Mahama Yahaya, it was Danquah who groomed Nkrumah, Ghanaweb, (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Mahama-Yahaya-it-was-Danquah-who-groomed-Nkrumah-472627).
2. Cameron Duodu. Dr J B Danquah's Tragic Death Sticks In The Throat Of Some People Like A Dead Rat, (http://www.modernghana.com/news/600004/dr-j-b-danquahs-tragic-death-sticks-in-the-throat-of-some-p.html).
3. Mumford, Lewis. The City in History, 1968.
4. Building The World - The Grand Canal, (http://blogs.umb.edu/buildingtheworld/waterworks/the-grand-canal-china/).
Source :Ghanaweb.com
Edem features Medikal, Tee Phlow, Cabum and more on 'Egboame'
VRMG rapper Edem has outdoored his Pascal Aka directed visual Egboame.
The visuals audio features rappers including Medikal, Cabum, Tee Phlow, Ayat, Gemini and many others.
The record was produced by Magnom.
Rapper TiD announces presence with uplifting Ayalolo
Emerging hip-hop act TiD, seeks to sell the all-important tenet of positivity no matter what, with this latest single.
Ayalolo, which constitutes the stem of the catchy chorus, translates as “moving forward”, and preaches resilience in spite of setbacks.
Enforced with mesmerizing camera work, striking locations and seamless graphic sleights, the visuals for Ayalolo come crisp and captivating, and make it instantly relatable.
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