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Kwame A. Insaidoo
Kwame A. Insaidoo was born in Ghana in West Africa, where he grew up and attended primary, middle, and secondary schools, and enrolled at the University of Ghana, studying African ...view moreKwame A. Insaidoo was born in Ghana in West Africa, where he grew up and attended primary, middle, and secondary schools, and enrolled at the University of Ghana, studying African Studies for a brief period of time.
Kwame Insaidoo grew up under autocratic and military governments. Under the autocratic governments, his parents, uncles, town folks, and many of the citizens were physically fearful of speaking out against government policies because numerous government security agents were lurking in the shadows spying on the citizens to ensure they abide by the government’s draconian rules and arbitrarily locked up those who spoke against the governments.
When the military governments came to power through violent military coups, they ruled by military decrees, some of which were arbitrarily dated back to three years before their coups. The military ruled with an iron fist, heavy-handed, barbarous, brutal, and cruel, issued vicious threats against the citizens, and was riding roughshod over the people. Some of the soldiers took the law into their hands and roamed through the drinking bars in cities arresting single women and shaving their heads with broken bottles. Some of the university students perceived to be anti-government were detained and given lashes by government security forces. Yes, to live under military and autocratic governments was a fearful ordeal.
While attending secondary schools in Ghana, the authorities crammed the students’ brains with socialist and Marxist propaganda information; and books from North Korea’s leader Kim-Il-Sung were freely distributed to the students. When Kwame was a student at the University of Ghana studying Political Science, Socialist, and Marxist dogma was further pumped into the heads of the students through propaganda mechanisms.
Democracy was a dirty word and was equated with both colonialism and imperialism and was relegated to a lower level of our studies.
When Kwame won an international academic scholarship to study in the United States of America, the study of democracy gained front and center of his studies. He saw the immense benefits of democracy firsthand – it had tremendously developed the mighty United States of America. True, indeed, the people of the nation he came across were not timid but resourceful, bold, and free to express their ideas, and had the courage to experiment with their bold ideas, which have transformed their neighborhoods, communities, and their nation at large to become a dominant superpower and the giant among nations of the world.
Kwame was so enthralled with his study of democracy that as an undergraduate student at Missouri State University when he was elected President of the Foreign Students Association, he put his study of democracy into practice. He formed the Social Committee as a replica of parliament to debate and vote on all policies before they were implemented. He vowed never to have an autocratic bone in his policies.
During his final year at the university, as the informal leader of the African Students Union on campus, he had heated debates on the political situations of various African nations, the government domination of their people, and the helplessness and poverty they have created in their respective African nations.
When he finally enrolled in graduate school at New York University to pursue his Master’s degree in Political Science, he benefited from the various professors working at the United Nations, while some were former government officials from their respective nations, who educated the students on the practical realities of the state of democracy in many contemporary African nations.
Kwame also taught Social Studies and government for three years at Lower East Side International Community School in New York City, where he spent time teaching the basic rudiments of Democracy, the government of the people, by the people, and for the people to the students.
And so the objective of this work is to teach the basic rudiments of democracy to the youth of Africa to encourage them to build democratic governments all over the continent of Africa and to ensure that never again should any form of autocratic governance be allowed in any part of the continent.view less
Books by Kwame A. Insaidoo
Moral Lessons in African Folktales China: the New Imperialists & Neo- Colonialists in Africa? Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The African Meets the Black American Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Future of Democracy in Africa: Can Democracy Survive in Africa? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings