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Thread #161019   Message #3825063
Posted By: Jim Carroll
07-Dec-16 - 12:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: The best type of government
Subject: RE: BS: The best type of government
Prove it - all you give are a list of pronouncements, none of which appear in anything I can find or have ever read on Nkruma.
You want your pronouncements accepted - back them up with evidence or they will remain unaccepted.
I knw that your description was a current description at the time - largely circulated by the people who helped depose him, but the facts, as I have come to believe them don't hold water.
There were no reports of any kind of repression in Ghana after independence until after the coup.
It took the C.I.A. backed move to 'freedom' to bring that.
"A series of alternating military and civilian governments from 1966 to 1981 ended with the ascension to power of Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) in 1981.[50] These changes resulted in the suspension of the Constitution of Ghana in 1981, and the banning of political parties in Ghana.[51] The economy suffered a severe decline soon after, Kwame Nkrumah negotiated a structural adjustment plan changing many old economic policies, and economic growth soon recovered from the mid–2000s.[51] A new Constitution of Ghana restoring multi-party system politics was promulgated in Ghanaian presidential election, 1992; Rawlings was elected as president of Ghana then, and again in Ghanaian general election, 1996.[52]"
Nkruma was removed because of his association with the Communist Bloc - as far as I know, there were no other reasons given.
You may know different, but as I said, if you do, produce you evidence instead of a list of propaganda based claims
GHANA
Jim Carroll