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A group of people in Nzema and the family of Dr Kwame Nkrumah have called for the removal of a class 6 book, The Golden History of Ghana, written by Mercy Gyaa-Adiyiah, because it misrepresents and defames Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah.
Addressing a press conference on Monday after a mini-protest at the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Nkroful, a senior from Nzema, Nana Mireku Tumi, called on the president and the GES to ban the book for the lie captured in the book.
“We, the young people, the chiefs and the inhabitants of Nzema both at home and abroad, the family of Osgayefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, by this press conference, are convinced that the author of the history book intended for use in teaching students in grade 6, is not a useful knowledge to impart, but on a carefully calculated mission to falsify world history, mislead the next generation and lead the nation into a disunited Ghana.
“To this end, we call on the entire Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the National Curriculum and Assessment Council (NaCCA), and finally the office of the President of the Republic of Ghana, to prevail over the author. and publishing house for the immediate total withdrawal and destruction without delay of these heinous publications. Second, we call on the government of Ghana to criminalize and ban the sale, ownership and possession of such publications, including the Golden History of Ghana intended for grade 6 students.
They also asked for an apology from the author and the editors.
“We call upon the author and publisher of such defamatory and destructive information to apologize unreservedly to the family of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, to all leaders and to all Nzema (national and foreign), to our brothers and sisters in the Volta region, Ghana as a country, and all of Africa, for defiling Nkrumah’s glorious reputation; not only the first Prime Minister, the first president of the country Ghana but also the African man of the millennium, to say the least. For the record, this movement calling for withdrawal will continue to gain momentum, until author Adiyiah and his publishing house do what is necessary.
The restless natives of Nzema Land supported by the head of the family of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who expressed their displeasure at the Nkrumah mausoleum in Nkroful, pointed to some of the actual statements made in the book which they deemed to be false and defamatory.
“Page 34 of the Golden Story under the subtopic – Limitations of the CPP states that the People’s Convention Party (CPP) under the leadership of Dr Nkrumah wasted Ghana’s resources to support African countries, for example example Guinea. This is perhaps one of the funniest jokes you can say about Africa. Because if the extension of financial, strategic and bilateral aid to African countries to obtain their independence was a waste of resources, then what our various African leaders do almost every year to do, all in the name of the union of l Africa in whatever form, under the name of the Organization of African Unity; even after more than 50 years when Nkrumah saw this light and advocated the same as the panacea for a true development of Africa?
They also questioned the book’s false claim that Dr Nkrumah did not respect traditional rulers and was also a dictator.
“What is very annoying but not surprising is the author’s inability to substantiate this hollow claim in the book; because it clearly lacks facts on which to lay this pile of lies. In subsection # 3, the notorious “gospel” according to Mercy Gyaa Adiyiah states that Dr. Nkrumah was a dictator whose order must be obeyed without complaint. It is regrettable and absurd to say the least. Ladies and gentlemen of the press, if dictatorship was what Osagyefo used Dr Kwame Nkrumah to achieve all that Ghana has been blessed with under his leadership, then why should we all as a nation not create a university? whole where our young people could study, train, and obtain diplomas of dictatorship even at the doctoral level? If dictatorship is this rewarding, and we always embrace the opposite, then mental hospitals should be enlarged enough to accommodate all of us, for we should be very sick in spirit, to the point of not allowing such a dictatorship to take hold. Continue. , so that we can make our earth a paradise now.
They carried signs that read; Respect the legacy of Nkrumah, stop fighting the ghost of Nkrumah, among others.
—Citinewsroom
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