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With the establishment of GHANA BROADCASTING CORPORATION (GBC) in 1953, the Ghana News Agency on the eve of Independence on March 5, 1957, and the External Service in 1961, Nkrumah rivaled the BBC and VOA in scope and depth as a service. Broadcast, apart from English, was also in Swahili, Hausa, French, Spanish, and Portuguese (plus a bevy of local languages).
From the Broadcasting House, next to the government headquarters, Flagstaff House, Radio Ghana broadcast information, propaganda and messages of support to peoples fighting for freedom and self-determination in all parts of Africa. Nkrumah was always one step ahead of the colonialists and imperialists.
But then, with the help of collaborators, the American CIA and its NATO allies overthrew Nkrumah in February 1966 and dismantled the Radio Ghana External Service. Since then, no successive regime has seen it in the pan-African interest to reactivate the Foreign Service. Why? For fear of offending the “neocolonial” teachers. Not even the Tsikatas / Rawlings (P) NDC regimes would dare to contemplate reviving a flagship of pan-African propaganda.
Why? Because they owed their existence and state capture to the axis of neocolonialism. They dare not bite the hands that feed them. Both the ruling PNP and the opposition NDC (Dukadaya, that is, two sides of the same false coin) have the same anti-Nkrumaism roots and the same ethno-hegemony ancestry. The benign neglect of most of the institutions that Nkrumah created is a heartbreaking sight to behold.
Go and see how the GBC and the Ghanaian news agency have been left to decay enjoying mediocrity. What Radio Ghana meant to our relatives and relatives in East, Southern and Central Africa during the Nkrumah era has been lost in successive regimes that only lip service to the ideals and praxis of Nkrumah and the CPP. It is this widespread lie that the NDC is associated with Nkrumaism that has become a setback for the pan-African struggle. It is the biggest deception facing Pan-Africa.
And to think that the KWAME NKRUMAH IDEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE has become a propaganda platform for the defenders of Dukadaya cannot be mind-boggling because President Nana Akufo-Addo, Speaker Michael Ocquaye, Afari-Gyan, Ato Ahwoi, Elisabeth Ohene, Kwabena Duffuor , Kwesi Botchway and Kojo Boakye-Djan (the only stranger who, with conviction and at great risk, formed and organized the Free Africa Movement in the Ghanaian Armed Forces) who have been the bridgehead against Nkrumaism, were educated in the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute. between 1963 and 1964. During this period, one year of instruction at the Winneba Ideological Institute was compulsory to obtain a university degree.
That these graduates of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute prefer, out of conviction, to get under the armpits of the Washington Consensus and be so remote is a revealing lesson. That is the enigma of Ghana. Ghana is under neocolonial control. And it is this fact that must be exposed from the camouflage and concealment faced by the Dukadaya ruling elites and their Washington Consensus keepers. As Nkrumah would say, by their own actions, they have trapped Ghana “in the gambling house of colonialism”.
This is the riddle called Dukadaya Ghana
© Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, Independent Consultant on Peacemaking and National Development.
