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The Fallacies of J.B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy - A Comment by Prof. R Addo-Fening

The Fallacies of J.B. Danquah's Heroic Legacy - A Comment by Prof. R Addo-Fening

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Written by danquahinstitute.org Thursday, 04 February 2010 17:32

Allow me space to comment on the above mentioned publication which appeared in the Ghanaian Lens of Tuesday 6 June 2006. I owe it to students of Ghanaian History, Okyeman and the Ghanaian public at large not to let it pass without comment.

The writer, Dr, Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, Professor of African/African American History, University of Pittsburgh, takes a swipe at President Kuffuor and Okyenhene Amoatia Ofori Panin - the former, for describing the late Dr. J.B. Danquah as "the Prime Minister Ghana never had" during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of this death in February 2005; the latter for suggesting that the University of Ghana named after Dr. Danquah. more >>>

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