GHANA: An Incomplete Independence or a Dysfunctional Democracy? - Softcover

Insaidoo, Kwame A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477267603 ISBN 13: 9781477267608

Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2012

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Can anybody tell us why profound poverty continues to plague our nation of barely 25 million people in this modern era of globalization in 2012? Why do you think the vast majority of our beloved people live on less than a dollar a day and struggle from cradle to grave living in near squalor, and eking out near subsistence existence? As yourself why is it that in the midst of this profound abject poverty less than ten percent of our fellow countrymen and women live in opulence and wallow in untold riches with their mansions encased with six-foot walls, seek medical attention in luxurious medical facilities abroad? Are the vast majority of our people in poverty ignorant and stupid, while the few wealthy ones are perceived as more intelligent and wiser than all of us?

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GHANA: An Incomplete Independence or a Dysfunctional Democracy?

By Kwame Insaidoo Kwame A. Insaidoo Jr. Robert A. Insaidoo

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Contents

1. Prefatory Commentary........................................................................................12. A symbol but not the substance of Independence..............................................................373. Incomplete Independence or a Dysfunctional Democracy?.......................................................554. A Case Study of Dysfunctional Democracy: The 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.....................935. The New Revolution: Making our Democracy Work to Complete our Independence..................................1476. Real Independence or Raw Deal?..............................................................................1897. A New Vision To Completing Our Independence & Creating A Functioning Democracy..............................2398. Incomplete Mental Independence?.............................................................................2879. Dysfunctional Democracy & Incomplete Independence Breed Unfettered Corruption...............................31910. Epilogue: What Ghanaians are saying about their Nation.....................................................37111. Empowering Ghanaians—Issues For Discussion...........................................................39112. Appendix...................................................................................................40113. Notes......................................................................................................419

Chapter One

PREFATORY COMMENTARY

Take a good look at our great nation of Ghana from the peaceful rolling coastal landscape, the luxuriant tropical forests, the beautiful grasslands tucked in the midst of our nation, and the large expanse of virgin soil in the upper fringes of our nation and you know that the Almighty God, the pantheon of heavenly angels and our traditional ancestors so greatly loved our nation and richly blessed its people. The Almighty God further demonstrated his unconditional love for Ghanaians by protecting our land from the vagaries of unstable climatic conditions, by providing our nation with bright sunshine throughout the year. Our people were shielded from the horrible bitter cold and long nasty winter weathers that have become the norm in other nations. Look again and you will see that the Almighty Providence has ensured that his people of Ghana will not endure nor suffer constant chaotic climatic hazards of tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis and typhoons which claim the lives of thousands of people in other lands.

To those of you who are blinded and have no faith in Ghana look at the immensity of mineral wealth bestowed unto our nation by the Almighty God. If you go to most villages in Ghana you will see the littered remains of barely scratched bore holes of gold excavations. Our land is richly blessed with gold. Do you also know that paper currencies around the world are just mere paper supported by the various governments around the world, and all of them are convertible to the real natural money, GOLD? Do you see the mighty handiwork of our loving God and his immense and unconditional love for the people of Ghana by richly endowing us with the real money, GOLD?

We must never forget that it was this great blessing of our gold that attracted most of the Europeans to our nation. The Portuguese arrived in the 15th century and named the first town they settled El Mina, literally in the Portuguese language "the mine", because of the immensity of Gold they found there. These huge and abundant gold resources stirred the greed of King John II of Portugal to instruct his protégé, Don Diego d' Azambuja to construct the immense castle in El Mina for the ostensible reason of exploiting or stealing these gold deposits to Portugal. This natural blessing of gold in our land further attracted many other Europeans, who were not so blessed, to our land. Thus we saw expeditions of various people like the Dutch, British, Swedes, Danes, Spanish, and even the Prussians to our coastal areas in search of the gold.

The English Merchants were so astonished to behold such enormous endowments of gold in our land they named it the "Gold Coast", and despite the hundreds of years of European pillage, exploitation and `thieving' of our gold they have barely scratched the surface of our rich gold inheritance, because this blessing is so immense that huge deposits still lie buried underneath our land.

Look again around our nation and you will notice that God loved our land so much that he insured that his children will not suffer for anything, God continued to bless our land with other wealthy minerals like diamonds, bauxite, manganese, copper, phosphate, nickel, chromium, uranium, petroleum and others. Furthermore, for God being so good to our nation he endowed his children with various forest resources, like the sweetest and the best pineapples in the world, various high grades of natural timber and abundant amount of fisheries in our waters. We should not also forget that because Ghanaians are among the favorite children of God when our illustrious son Tetteh Quarshie brought only a handful of cocoa seeds from Fernando Po, and planted them in his native soil of Ghana, God blessed his efforts, and for many years our nation became the world's leading producer and exporter of these precious cocoa beans.

Above all, the most significant blessing of our nation is the peace-loving, good natured, beautiful and happy people of Ghana. Our people are by nature so trusting and friendly to foreigners that the Europeans began abusing their trust by hurling them into the odious trans-Atlantic slave trade to exploit their labor for wealth in the so-called new lands. Additionally, these untold blessings of natural wealth, coupled with the good-natured people that inhabited our land, led the Europeans to eventually settle and colonize our society for the expressed purpose of exploiting this natural wealth and the labor of our people.

It is instructive to mention that our good natured people did not merely lay down for the Europeans to colonize them. The most powerful nation in our society, the Asante-nation attacked the Europeans in 1807, again in 1811 and 1814 which forced the British, Dutch, and Danish authorities to come to some form of accommodations with the Asante-nation, and "signed a treaty of friendship that recognized Asante's claims to sovereignty, over large areas of the coast and its people." [See Library of U.S. Congress country studies: Ghana]. Furthermore, when the British Governor of Sierra Leone, Sir Charles McCarthy, sought to abrogate these friendship treaties with the powerful Asante-nation, war ensued. At the Battle of Nsamankow in 1824, the Asante soldiers chased, executed and decapitated Sir Charles McCarthy and paraded his head throughout the length and breadth of their capital, Kumasi. Finally, in their determination to resolve the Asante menace permanently, the British mounted an expeditionary force of nearly 3000 British soldiers and a large contingent of African troops under the command of the fierce Sir Garnet Wolseley and eventually succeeded in occupying and burning down Kumasi, the capital of the mighty Asante-nation.

The powerful Asante-nation did not entirely accept defeat until 1896 when the British mounted yet another military expedition to Kumasi and exiled the mighty King of Asante-nation, Nana Prempeh I to the Seychelles...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1477267603
• ISBN 13: 9781477267608
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 456
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