Ghana: The Bright Star that Failed Shine

he was hailed as the beacon of hope for Africa, was described as the burning spear and guiding light of Africa, became the most spoken name in whole world, her name became a whispered word within the corridors of power in Europe and America, and it was an icon and a brand name in the Africa. All freedom fighters in the world drew inspiration from her achievements and many nations wanted to be associated with her. That was Ghana at birth.

Ghanaian leaders were held in high esteem across the world. The started shining from the day Ghana started making her own decisions and took her destiny into her own hands. The leaders in Ghana with Dr. Nkrumah as Prime Minister and later as President charted a path for the nation that amazed even the Europeans who thought Africans are incapable of manning their own affairs. Nkrumah himself having lived in the west and knew what was needed to be done for his people in order to free them from colonialism and poverty. He put in motion a series of development plans whose implementation led to the building of roads, schools, universities, teachers training colleges, nursing and other vocational institutions. Through the D- Plans Tema city and the harbour were built and provided with the facilities such as roads and electricity.

The Convention Peoples Party government at the time realised that Ghana could not function as a viable state without the availability energy and electricity and as a result initiated the building of Akosombo dam to provide energy for industries, towns and villages. The building of the dam led to the setting up of factories in Tema, Accra, Kumasi, Bolgatanga, Wenchi, Abosso, Takoradi and many other places in Ghana.

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Education

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• Ghana
• Nkrumah
• independence
• poverty
• infrastructures
• greediness
• tribalism
• Guinea
• France
• British
• European
• factories
• schools
• universities
• roads
• electricity

[fabs1979]

Let's not be ignorant about the issues. The intervention of the CIA and US interest played a fundamental issue in the demise of Ghana. When Nkrumah left Ghana for a state visit the US was all to happy to help his opponents and those in his government take power by a coup d'etat. Westerners bemoaning Ghana's lost opportunity, please don't make me laugh, where was the West when it was benefitting from those cronies who they helped to keep in power

[Dearmaggi]

It is sad to listen to this chilling story. Ghana started so well but the leaders decided to go against the democracy which brought the army in and eventually led to the demise of the nation as it is today. It is a good lesson for countries in Africa to allow democracy work instead of one party and totalitarian rule.