A HEART FOR ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
The State of Israel, as the country is officially known is a tiny country, with only six million inhabitants. It is surrounded by 22 Arab countries, with 300 million people. Their combined land area is greater than that of all of Europe. Israel covers an area of 20,330 sq km; which is less that 10% of the size of my beloved country Ghana.
~SNIP
Some of the major areas of cooperation between Ghana and Israel countries during this period included shipping, construction, agriculture, labour issues, manpower training, science and medicine, security matters and culture.
Israel, with help from India, supervised the establishment of the Ghanaian Air Force in April 1959. A small Israeli team also trained aircraft maintenance personnel and radio technicians at the Accra-based Air Force Training School. Ghanaian pilots also received some training at aviation schools in Israel. Israel helped Ghana set up its Black Star Line company and trained its police force, doctors, dentists and veterinarians. In the area of sanitation the Israelis started a central sewage system in Accra.
The good relationship between Ghana and Israel notwithstanding it is on record that the leaders of the two countries had different views as to the direction Ghana should take to develop. Golda Meier, for example, thought Nkrumah was turning himself into a demigod by encouraging the sculpturing of his statues and minting coins bearing his effigy.
The special relations between Ghana and Israel received its first major jolt long before the OAU boycott in 1973. During the January 1961 Non-Aligned Conference in Casablanca Nkrumah signed a resolution promoted by Nasser "singling out Israel as the pillar of imperialism in Africa." That notwithstanding Israel continued its development aid to Ghana essentially until 1973 - when, in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, Accra and the rest of black Africa succumbing to Arab pressure and desires broke ties with Israel.
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...Nkrumah's career after independence combined an international and a domestic role. At the international level he was he most important African nationalist leader of his generation and was inspirational throughout Africa. He was the leading supporter of pan-African unity and worked tirelessly, but ultimately unsuccessfully, to bring about the political union of the emerging states of Africa. Domestically his rule was predominantly negative.
He inherited one of the strongest economies in Africa but by the time he lost power Ghana was plunging towards economic collapse as a result of the inefficiency and corruption of its, predominantly state-run, economic enterprises. His regime became increasingly authoritarian. As early as 1958 he introduced a preventative detention act which allowed for arrest without charge and imprisonment without trial. Potential centres of opposition including the trade unions, the judiciary, and the universities were brought under tight government control and the media was rigidly censored. In 1964 he declared a single-party state and installed himself as "President for Life". His self-granted titles included "the redeemer" and "the initiator of the African personality". He is credited with writing a large number of books but most (if not all) were ghost-written for him by his acolytes.
In 1966 he was overthrown by a military coup d'état whilst he was attending a meeting in Beijing. At the invitation of his close friend President Sekou Toure he went into exile in Guinea and subsequently died of cancer in a Romanian hospital in 1972. His international reputation and prominence greatly outstripped his domestic political performance.
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Israel, with help from India, supervised the establishment of the Ghanaian Air Force in April 1959. A small Israeli team also trained aircraft maintenance personnel and radio technicians at the Accra-based Air Force Training School. Ghanaian pilots also received some training at aviation schools in Israel. Israel helped Ghana set up its Black Star Line company and trained its police force, doctors, dentists and veterinarians. In the area of sanitation the Israelis started a central sewage system in Accra. No good deed goes unpunished. Nkrumah becomes a despot, ruins the economy, influenced by Du Bois...having given all the best jobs in Ghana to African-American muslims - many with Black Panther links - in 1961 Nkrumah signed a resolution promoted by Nasser "singling out Israel as the pillar of imperialism in Africa...
When Nkrumah was finally deposed, citizens of Ghana burned him in efigy, declaring 'WE ARE FREE!'
Yet he remains a HERO in African-American eyes. HE received credit for establishing the ISRAELI REGISTERED BLACK STAR SHIPPING LINE.
African-American history lives in the parallel universe of Karl Marx. What is Pan Africanism other than AFRICAN COLONIALISM driven by islamic interest?