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Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by frainc(m): 2:19pm On Sep 07, 2014
watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nigerian First Lady

http://www.myskyenter..nl/2014/09/watch-this-video-and-tell-if-ghanian.html?m=1
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by overhypedsteve(m): 2:50pm On Sep 07, 2014
Your president need a good English to beg the IMF, ours don't.







frainc: what is this G for?
i piety whoever created this thread, and i piety the foolishness that lead the fool to open it, well secondly i piety all the fools that are so focused on the grammatical carriage of the leader of the richest and most populous black nation on earth, that they tend to forget that their gramatically correct president is preciding over the country with one of the world worst economy. Well its ok jona cannot speak English because no matter how learned we are in Nigeria, we still use our local dialect in our domestic conversations with family and friends, we only use the English language for official matters, and we re still trying to even develope our local language to the level that we may even incorporate them as our official languages, maybe by then you ll post a video saying, Ghana president know how to speak nigerian language more than them, hopeless fools
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by frainc(m): 3:42pm On Sep 07, 2014
overhypedsteve: G
what is this G for?
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by PetroDolla3: 3:50pm On Sep 07, 2014
frainc:
watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nigerian First Lady

http://www.myskyenter..nl/2014/09/watch-this-video-and-tell-if-ghanian.html?m=1
another primitive azzwipe from a country of apes! your lack of intelligence is laughable grin grin grin read what your countryman wrote about President Mahama and President Goatluck! nonsense! you want to compare a stark illiterate with a seasoned communicator? fuelish goat tongue undecided


Ghana: Mahama, a truly African President
http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/24435.html

This Day (Nigeria), by Farooq Kperogi* / Monday, 04 November 2013

On September 30 this year, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama was a guest at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta where I teach. He came here to deliver a public lecture to crown the "Year of Ghana" country program, a year-long exploration of the history, culture, and peoples of Ghana through lectures, exhibitions, visits, etc. at KSU.

When I got an invitation to attend the public lecture (which also featured a Question and Answer session), I was reluctant to go. I'd frankly grown tired of listening to witless buffoons from Africa coming to make a fool of themselves and their countries before Western audiences in the name of delivering public lectures. I didn't know what to expect of the Ghanaian president because I had no familiarity with his pedigree, so I chose to err on the side of cynicism.

But a friend dragged me to the event at the last minute. I'm glad I attended it. President Mahama turned out to be one of the most inspiring and knowledgeable presidents one can ever wish to meet. He was a superb orator who was also thoughtful, incisive, insightful and supremely self-assured.

His speech was about the "role of democratic governance in sustainable economic development in Ghana," but he veered off on high-minded intellectual excursions, on the discourses of Afro-pessimism; on the perniciousness of alterity; on the role of dominant historical narratives in the construction and reconstruction of the consciousness and image of a people, etc. The speech was certainly conscious of its audience because it read like a paper at an academic conference. Its profundity and high-flown, intellectually fashionable phraseology impressed students and professors alike.

Well, you might say he didn't deserve much credit for the speech because it was written for him by his speech writers, but one couldn't help but admire the smoothness, naturalness, and rhetorical dexterity of his delivery. He was earnest, eloquent, and confident. But his true brilliance came out even more boldly during the question and answer session. He answered questions from professors and students with ease, grace, panache, depth, conviction, and creative humour.

Everyone in the hall was bowled over by his brilliance, humility, and intellectual agility. This was evident from the rapturous applauses and good-hearted guffaws that greeted his responses to questions. I came away from the lecture proud of and overawed by the alertness and fecundity of the Ghanaian president's mind. All of us Africans in the lecture hall raised our heads high.

While basking in the euphoric afterglow of the Ghanaian president's brilliant performance, I couldn't help recalling Nigeria's then Acting President Goodluck Jonathan's first official visit to America, which I wrote about in an April 17, 2010 article titled: "Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, that was Embarrassing."

Among other things, I observed that in his speech and during the question and answer session at the Council on Foreign Relations, President Jonathan "couldn't articulate a coherent thought, hardly made a complete sentence, went off on inconsequential and puerile tangents, murdered basic grammar with reckless abandon, repeated trifles ad nauseam, was embarrassingly stilted, and generally looked and talked like a timid high school student struggling to remember his memorised lines in a school debate." I concluded that Jonathan "came across as unfathomably clueless."

I certainly would never have attended the public lecture at my school-or anywhere else for that matter- if President Jonathan was the guest. I would never be able to survive the embarrassment of listening to a barely literate president who can't even read a speech much less answer unscripted questions from students and professors.

President Mahama of Ghana has only a bachelor's degree while Nigeria's president claims to have a Ph.D. Nigerians like to describe ignorant people with grandiose paper qualifications as "educated illiterates." I've heard that phrase used several times to describe President Jonathan. Well, I think it is more appropriate to call him a highly credentialed ignoramus-if he indeed has a Ph.D.-than to call him an "educated illiterate; it is unfair to mention "educated" in the same sentence with "President Goodluck Jonathan." I know this sounds harsh, but it's true.

I'm aware that the usual line of counter-attack from defenders of mediocrity in Nigeria would be that I am hung up on appearance at the expense of substance. Beautiful, confident verbal delivery is not a good measure of leaders' effectiveness. That is certainly true, except that President Jonathan, apart from being an inconceivably uninspiring and colorless president, is also notoriously ineffective.

I would have been one of the staunchest defenders of his seeming illiteracy and depthlessness if he had a clue what governance entails. Alas, he does not; he has not the vaguest idea what it means to truly govern-much, to be fair to him, like many of his predecessors. So we have the tragedy of being burdened with a leader who neither inspires confidence nor knows what it means to lead.

For inexplicable reasons, while Nigeria's elites have a habit of choosing the worst in their ranks to lead the country, Ghanaian elites are infinitely more discriminatory in their choice of leaders. I know of no Ghanaian leader in recent memory who isn't intelligent, inspiring, confident, and well-spoken. That's why Ghana has always been a far more progressive society than Nigeria.

However much we might wish it weren't true; the reality is that there is a link between inspirational leadership and national growth. When will modern Nigeria produce an inspirational president, a president we all can be proud of anywhere?

*Kperogi is an assistant professor of Journalism and Citizen Media, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta Georgia, United States.

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Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by PetroDolla3: 3:51pm On Sep 07, 2014
frainc: what is this G for?
G is for goat, what else? you are fuelish goat!
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by frainc(m): 4:08pm On Sep 07, 2014
PetroDolla3: G is for goat, what else? you are fuelish goat!
who let the dog out?

I hope u enjoy the video
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by overhypedsteve(m): 4:23pm On Sep 07, 2014
frainc: what is this G for?
i piety whoever created this thread, and i piety the foolishness that lead the fool to open it, well secondly i piety all the fools that are so focused on the grammatical carriage of the leader of the richest and most populous black nation on earth, that they tend to forget that their gramatically correct president is preciding over the country with one of the world worst economy. Well its ok jona cannot speak English because no matter how learned we are in Nigeria, we still use our local dialect in our domestic conversations with family and friends, we only use the English language for official matters, and we re still trying to even develope our local language to the level that we may even incorporate them as our official languages, maybe by then you ll post a video saying, Ghana president know how to speak nigerian language more than them, hopeless fools


ok we don't know how to speak English, Nigeria is poor and bad, but every day of your life sees you and a host of your hopeless country men visiting a website created by this iliterate nigerians, every day of your presidents life sees him regretting the fact that he was born to lead the world worst economy,
my dear a nigerian millionaire can employ your president to speak pigeon English and his local dialect for 5 years are you still happy the idiot can speak English? Are still happy you came to here to tell the good people of nairaland that your president learnt his English well to beg for foreign aids and to teach in an American university? Oh of course i know you now feel bad about yourself, i know you ve now realised that you where born on the wrong side of the Line and you can only come on nairaland everyday and read about the news of greatness that you can never be associated with, i know you now spite all your fellow country men and wished they would stop envying the nigerian hegemony on ecowas, i know it pains you but you cant talk, because even your good command of English coupled with that of mahama cannot save Ghana unless he takes up a job as an English teacher abroad.
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by SLIDEwaxie(m): 4:46pm On Sep 07, 2014
overhypedsteve: Your president need a good English to beg the IMF, ours don't.







i piety whoever created this thread, and i piety the foolishness that lead the fool to open it, well secondly i piety all the fools that are so focused on the grammatical carriage of the leader of the richest and most populous black nation on earth, that they tend to forget that their gramatically correct president is preciding over the country with one of the world worst economy. Well its ok jona cannot speak English because no matter how learned we are in Nigeria, we still use our local dialect in our domestic conversations with family and friends, we only use the English language for official matters, and we re still trying to even develope our local language to the level that we may even incorporate them as our official languages, maybe by then you ll post a video saying, Ghana president know how to speak nigerian language more than them, hopeless fools
I 'piety' you too grin grin

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Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by OrlandoOwoh(m): 5:42pm On Sep 07, 2014
Did he say, "people will feel one kain?"
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by OXYGENO1: 6:30pm On Sep 07, 2014
frainc:
watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nigerian First Lady

http://www.myskyenter..nl/2014/09/watch-this-video-and-tell-if-ghanian.html?m=1
He is the late president of Ghana. Respect the dead.

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Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by OXYGENO1: 6:32pm On Sep 07, 2014
frainc:
watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nigerian First Lady

http://www.myskyenter..nl/2014/09/watch-this-video-and-tell-if-ghanian.html?m=1
hahahaha mumugerians complaining about someone's English. Like seriously. ?

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Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by OXYGENO1: 6:34pm On Sep 07, 2014
frainc:
watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nigerian First Lady

http://www.myskyenter..nl/2014/09/watch-this-video-and-tell-if-ghanian.html?m=1
hahaha ....A mumugerian complaining about someone's English. Are u serious?

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Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by PetroDolla3: 7:03pm On Sep 07, 2014
I pity you. I don't even know what the OP is talking but what gave you the impression the creator of the thread is a Ghanaian? you sound like an illiterate! a damn fuggly dog. a sick fucker. did you say "the richest?" Having the largest GDP does not make nigeria the richest country in Africa. richest country my azz!

I reckon you don't know what the IMF is all about huh? Ghana is not begging IMF. Ghana is a contributor to the IMF and therefore has every right to seek IMF intervention in any form or shape if it so desires. and why should nigerians have a problem with what Ghana is doing or not doing with the IMF? your country had worked with the IMF in the past so why is it a big deal if Ghana decides to work with the IMF? what exactly is nigeria's problem with Ghana seeking a loan or whatever from the IMF?

are you foools not supposed to be talking about boko haram, ebola, the missing 100 girls in sambisa forest, and all the other hideous problems in your sh1thole?

your generator-driven economy is struggling even with high oil prices. let oil prices drop below $80 and your struggling economy will be dead in water! SMH. this is what happens when you allow 5-year-olds access to the Internet.


overhypedsteve: Your president need a good English to beg the IMF, ours don't.







i piety whoever created this thread, and i piety the foolishness that lead the fool to open it, well secondly i piety all the fools that are so focused on the grammatical carriage of the leader of the richest and most populous black nation on earth, that they tend to forget that their gramatically correct president is preciding over the country with one of the world worst economy. Well its ok jona cannot speak English because no matter how learned we are in Nigeria, we still use our local dialect in our domestic conversations with family and friends, we only use the English language for official matters, and we re still trying to even develope our local language to the level that we may even incorporate them as our official languages, maybe by then you ll post a video saying, Ghana president know how to speak nigerian language more than them, hopeless fools
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by PetroDolla3: 7:07pm On Sep 07, 2014
OXYGENO1: He is the late president of Ghana. Respect the dead.
ohh I didn't even bother to watch the nonsense vidoe or whatever sh1t the ediot posted. didn't know he was talking about Atta Mills, a man who got his Ph.D from one of the leading universities in the world at the age of 27! don't mind the apes. The first time they got a university graduate as president/ruler was in 2007. SMH
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by overhypedsteve(m): 8:04pm On Sep 07, 2014
PetroDolla3:
I pity me. I don't even know what the OP is talking about because i am stupid ghanian, but why is the op making derogatory comments about the nigerian president, ( who cares if he is a stupid ghanian like me and wale112, santamafia , and all the hopeless hordes, that i know and respect.
the thread is a Ghanaian (he lives in a slum like me in Ghana) i always sound like an illiterate because of the poor educational system in my poor country Ghana)! a damn fuggly dog that my nick name. a sick fucker dats what my mum calls me. did you say "the richest?" Having the largest GDP has made nigeria the richest country in Africa. richest country and Ghana is a dumpyard

I don't know what the IMF is all about i think it is a friendly humanitarian organisation where poor countries like Ghana seek aids Ghana is scared to even beg the IMF. Ghana is a contributor to the IMF and therefore has every right to seek IMF intervention in any form or shape if it so desires. Nigerians have a problem about what my sick country Ghana is doing because as the economic power house of ecowas Nigeria is concerned about all the small nations under its sphere of interest knowing the huge amount of money being invested by its citizens to help create job for my poor Ghana, take for example many of my friend make use of the nigerian telecom giant glo, Nigeria have worked with the IMF in the past but they have developed beyond that stage as they now boast of the largest foreign reserve in the whole of black Africa, ( their foreign reserve is even larger than our budget and gdp in Ghana ) but Ghana is still after so many years ode independent, running in and out of imf cap in begging, chai my Ghana is so poor, no wonder we wanted to reject our citizenship in Brazil, i even joined them but those wicked Brazil people said i was just too fu*kin black, i always shake my head when i hear ghanians like me, call Nigeria a shit hole, because i know deep in my heart that i will love to sleep and dance and even chop the shit in the shit hole, just to be a nigerian,

the nigerian economy is generator driven yet it had the highest foreign investments in Africa, ( oh i so love nigerian people, very brilliant and smart, i virtually cum on my pants just watching their actor on nollywood SMH for myself. I am just a pathetic example of a foolish ghanian with internet access, i ve totally misused this internet thing, well maybe its because we ghanians are never good at anything, while Nigeria is a member of progressive blocs like the: MINT, ( MEXICO INDONESIA NIGERIA AND TURKEY, world bank predicted next world largest economies), D8 ( Iran, Nigeria, turkey, Egypt, Pakistan, et al next world largest market) my Ghana is busy joining the IMf so it can beg for funds, chai my Ghana is really a poor country.


Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by Antell95(m): 11:28pm On Sep 07, 2014
frainc:
watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nigerian First Lady

http://www.myskyenter..nl/2014/09/watch-this-video-and-tell-if-ghanian.html?m=1


Ghanaian president *dies*
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by AlfaSeltzer(m): 11:51pm On Sep 07, 2014
slaves bragging who speaks massa's language better.

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Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by frainc(m): 9:29am On Sep 08, 2014
Antell95:


Ghanaian president *dies*
na who kill u?
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by Antell95(m): 3:39pm On Sep 08, 2014
frainc: na who kill u?

The gbaguan killed me
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by frainc(m): 3:47pm On Sep 08, 2014
Antell95:

The gbaguan killed me
you for re-check your own gbagaun befor you die finish
Re: Watch This Video And Tell If The Ghanian President Speak Better English Than Nig by Antell95(m): 3:58pm On Sep 08, 2014
frainc: you for re-check your own gbagaun befor you die finish

Bug off!

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