Ghana: 31 December 1981 - How the "IMF Baby" Betrayed Its Parents

8 February 2018
opinion

The 31 December 2018 revolution in Ghana was a political upheaval that promised and had the potential to deliver a Castro/Sankara type social and political revolution, but was wasted on the rubbish heap of personality power grab fuelled by the ambitions of one man, the collective theft of national resources by a cabal of opportunists and nation wreckers who perpetuated their vile corrupt values on the rest of the nation.

When I thought about this article, I had wanted the title to read; "31 December 1981--A revolution betrayed" but that would have attracted the usual pundits of "revolutionary" theory who continue to question what was "betrayed".

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