THE COLLAPSE OF THE KWAME NKRUMAH IDEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AND THE RESULTANT CONSEQUENCES FRAUGHTING OUR NATION AND AFRICA The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute(officially known as theKwame Nkrumah Institute of Economics and Political Science or Winneba ideological Institute) was an educational body in Winneba founded to promote socialism in Ghana as well as the liberation of Africa from colonialism. With this first stone being laid by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on 18th of February 1961, the Institute was designed to promote national independence, as almost all Ghanaians in the first Nkrumah government were trained in the United Kingdom or United States. The Institute's Director then was Kodwo Addison, a prominent Ghanaian activist of his repute. The Institute's aspirations, goals and aims short-lived when the 'evil forces' within our newly freedomed but married nation of Independence and the 'white master minds' caused the 'putsch' of the Osagyefo in February 1966. This wonderful Institute brought in it wake some ideological dynamisms as it name bears it out. The brain behind the Institutes' established which was solely to entrenched and aglow the true shade and light of "Socialism" in our nation as well as continent. Nkrumah the mother of 'future prediction' in the motherland, better to say the 'soothsayer' at the time of freedomisation of the continent thought it wise to purge out democratic tendencies at the very struggling hours of Independence and entrenched 'Socialism', which had a better correspondence with our traditional system of governance established the Institute to see to this vision's realisation. The Ideological Institute which was meant for all people on the Africa guage markings, sought to train, educate and imbibe in her future leaders the idealist consciousness of radicalism and resistive conscienceness against oppressors, saw the likes of Robert Mugabwe of Zimbabwe receiving her fair share of this delicious continental asset. After it walls been bulldozed to the muds of the "water-loggs", today here we stand in the crampy irony of our pittiness to see a restoration of sanity in our political discourse and dispensation. Is it not pathetic seeing democracy turn our beloved nation into 'democrazic' nation? While we are on the tulip turning and side-netting affairs of national and political integration, one can authoritativelystate without an impulse flow that, if this saving institue had still being in existence our nation and continent wouldn't be receiving this hastic, harshic and clone hampering distortations. Drawing the curtains of this worthwhile limelight raking, it is prudent that as a people and nation which have served as a lodestar in matters of freedom fighting and liberation from an ocultive pesterisation from the European colonisers, taking a closer and a tortise eye view in the crystal ball to imbibe if not totally indoctrinate the ideals and ideologies of the Osagyefo in our political, economic, social and culural dispensation. That would we would be on the eagle's flight feathers to the promise land of development.

THE POROSITY OF OUR MEDIA AND THE SINKING SHADES OF THE 21ST CENTURY MEDIA 'GALAMSAYING' Exceptional Motivational Speaker Jeremiah Buabeng wrote something on his which indeed keeps hunting my inner-most part and as a result my daily nightmares of the cancerous tribute grinding us down in the grinding miller of catastrophy.... Jeremiah states and I quote, "To the media, good news is no news. We are in our 20's doing awesome things with our gifts and talents. Media won't talk about us. Let a 25 year old rob a bank and it will be headline news and the adults will join and berate young people of today for being misguided. What kind of unfairness is that"?? This is how far pathetically the media landscaping of our nation have resulted in. Now do we as a nation and a people actually understand, appreciate and value the adages of our lands? The akan proverbial adage stipulates emphantically that, "it is worthless appreciating a dead corpse with a casket, when in contention no food was graced to it lively body sometime ago." Today, the appalling media fracture in terms demonic politicisation have dealt a big blow to the instinctive reasoning aroma of this beloved nation of ours. The media "surface mining" and "galamsaying" have resulted in what Jeremiah laid emphasis on. It is this same media "galamsaying" that have and is still perpetuating our sinking in the deep waters of retrogression. Can't this media our ours at least appreciate the worth, altruistic and overwhelming achievements of our future leaders?? What good will it do for us as a people if this trend of media "galamsaying" and parrotic propagandry continues to linger on?? The souls and spiritual fortification of tomorrows' leaders of this country is on the high table in the abatoir to be slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb. Whilst this negativity in terms of the youth are constantly headlined in the media enclave, the 'outside force' who have persistently sought for our 'pit trapping' keeps believing the impression that indeed the people of Africa are synonymous to 'infertile virgin lands'. What the media outfits must take a pictorial and closer look at is the negative as well the affirmative impression they create to the outside community about this beloved nation of ours. Whether we striving hard to put the youth of this nation in better position to manage the affairs of this nation is one thing we must all be made aware of. The same as whether this nation would be left im the safest pair of hands when the older generation vacat the role of as leaders. Ending, we must as a people and media megabytes always be reminded and guided by the statement of Ghana's first president and Africas' foremost Pan-africanist Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah which stipulates, "The blackman is capable of managing his own affairs without any forth arm aid."