Vol 59 No 5 |
- BURKINA FASO
Only the glitzy Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and large luxury villas are guarded at night...
Ofori-Atta's Adwuma ('work') budget announced that the government would create 100 000 jobs for young people under new teaching agriculture sanitation and health and tax collection programmes – an uncanny echo of the Kwame Nkrumah-era Workers' Brigades (AC blog 12 December 2016 GHANA: Jobs for youth are top priority says victorious Akufo-Addo)...
Arthur Lewis took a hard line on closing down avenues for political patronage and corruption when he advised and later fell out with President Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana...
The state-owned industries have been in unremitting decline since the heyday of founding President Kwame Nkrumah who tried to recycle earnings from cocoa exports into state-backed textile pharmaceutical aluminium vehicle assembly and machine-parts industries...
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When asked whether this presupposes a mammoth state-backed industrialisation strategy – of the kind launched by founding President Kwame Nkrumah in the 1950s – Akufo-Addo emphasises 'commercial viability'...
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Vol 55 No 10 |
- CHINA
- AFRICA
Beijing also championed the cause of non-alignment with its support for among others Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana Julius Nyerere in Tanzania and Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt...
But many of the young new democracies were creating anxiety by becoming one-party states led by Kwame Nkrumah's articulate Pan-Africanism; and simultaneously military takeovers of civil authority were about to happen in country after country...
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The CPP Chairwoman Samia Yaba Nkrumah daughter of the party's (and the country's) founding father Kwame Nkrumah has ambitions to run for president in 2016...
The wife of Amissah-Arthur Matilda who is from Western Region backed a strong local NDC campaign which deposed Samia Nkrumah the daughter of Ghana’s Founding President Kwame Nkrumah from her seat in Nzima...
There is a lively debate about where Mills should be buried: alongside his political hero in the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum at Flagstaff House in the military cemetery or at his family house in Ekumfi Otuam Central Region...