The years since 1957 has wrought crisis upon crisis in this country. Ravaged by coup d'états, debt, structural inefficiencies, bloated state sectors and rampant corruption, our economy continues to deteriorate as the pillars of long-standing authouritarian winner-takes-all mind-set deepens. Now, 60 years on, the continuation of the cult of personality is choking the growth of what is still probably the most hopeful country in tropical Africa.

In creating Ghana, the CPP and Kwame Nkrumah especially, ignored the tribal compositions of the people and refused to effect a pragmatic alliance of all the independent movements, especially the UGCC. Independence, therefore, sought to begin history instead of confirming it. Nkrumah and his supporters sought to eliminate from memory the traditional realities they had overcome, deflected attention and appropriated the fundamental issues of executive power, liberty, decentralisation and a one united country. Sadly, these issues were not fully settled and remains a recurring source of contention and debate.

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