Crisis of leadership in Ghana

In 1978, my personal observation of the politics of the country made me feel that the educated Ghanaians have a case to answer for the lack of development in the country.

Although decades have passed and a generation gone, the situation has not changed much.  It is thus worthwhile to reproduce an article that I intended to publish in the Legon Observer but which could not be published.

It began thus, to some of us, life in Ghana during the last few decades has been a very traumatic experience, and the senseless suffering that we have now imposed on ourselves was not inevitable.  That our dear country has made little or no progress since the first army intrusion in 1966 was not due to lack of resources nor want of ideas.  The columns of the Legon Observer (1966-72) for example were full of brilliant thoughts.  Our problem was simply the lack of courage among our scholars to do what was right and just.

During the 1050’s and 1960’s the founding fathers placed a