One felt very sad, listening to speaker after speaker, at the 16th Baffuor Akoto Memorial Lectures, reiterating the big-lie that the tribal-supremacist organisation, the National Liberation Movement's (NLM) Baffuor Osei Akoto, was a Ghanaian hero and patriot. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is yet another example, of the many falsehoods and half-truths, being fed to young people today, about our pre-independence colonial past. The revisionism that today's political progeny of yesteryear's tribal-supremacists, are shamelessly undertaking, is an egregious example, of the dissembling that produces war-victor's-version of historical events.
For the information of today's young people who are not yet aware of it, the NLM was a ruthless Akan tribal-supremacist terrorist group, whose sole aim, was to ensure that the new state that would emerge after independence, would be a federation made up of the precolonial tribal entities, dominated by the progeny of the precolonial privileged elite, and only a qualified-few could vote. Full stop.
They were vehemently opposed to Nkrumah's vision of an indepenent unitary state, which was a democracy in which there was universal suffrage, and social mobility, and all tribes had an equal stake, that was underpinned by meritocracy. The shameful attempt to falsify our homeland Ghana's history is intellectually dishonest, and must cease forthwith. Haaba.
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