Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has explained in an interview with Bola Ray that the group Freemason is a platform that nurtures a person morally and not a secret cult as others perceive it.
The Former President who has recently, been appointed a Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England disclosed that he was not the first in his family to join the Freemasonry.
"Members of my family have been there before me. Some were there even before I was born. I joined this society in 1967...it is not secret cult. It is a good system for character building... It’s a society that believes in ‘doing unto others as you want it to happen to you".
He went on further to note that the Freemason as a group believes in the Supreme Being, maker of the universe and does not operate with supernatural powers.
"It’s a system that makes a man accept the creator, that is the giver of everything. To be a member, you must first accept, believe and acknowledge that’’. He observed.
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Former president Kufuor was appointed a Senior Grand Warden by the United Grand Lodge of England Grand Master, Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, who is the longest serving Grand Master.
The United Grand Lodge of England is the governing body for most freemasons within the UK, with lodges in other Commonwealth countries outside the United Kingdom.
The Lodge of England claims to be the oldest Grand Lodge in the world, by descent from the first Grand Lodge formed in London in 1717.
It is headquartered in Freemasons’ Hall, London and is known to have more than 200,000 members.
President Kufuor is no stranger to distinguished honours as he was previously honoured as a Knight Commander of the Order of Bath of the UK by Queen Elizabeth II and the highest award of the Order of the House of Orange by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, among other international honours.
Mena: I think it is a great honor and personal achievement for the ex president of Ghana John Kuofor to be nominated as Grand Warden of the United Lodge of London. A Grand Warden is the most senior officer of the Lodge referred as a Worshipful Master.
I well read and informed Afrocentric researcher will know that Black people invented modern religion and secret society in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and India. The European monarchy were founded by Black and Mulato people. The Catholic and Orthodox churches were founded by Black and Mulato people. The Knight Templars who was the predecessor of Freemasonry was founded by Black and Mulato Southern French family. After its dissolution by the Papacy and the French King the Black and Mulato French Knight Templar family move to Scotland were they created the Freemason secret society.
Due to an Astro-theologic conspiracy the White Europeans took over the European monarchy, the Catholic church, the Protestant church and Freemasonry from the Black European elite who has been erased from the history of Europe. those European institutions has been use starting 500 years ago worldwide to promote a White supremacy agenda.
Being the Black CEO of a White own corporation like Amex, Merryl Lynch, Time Warner, Credit Suisse or a Grand Warden of British Freemason will make you rich and famous but it will not improve the life of Black people and the Black countries that your extended family belong to. It is better for the Black educated elite of Africa and the World to recreate their own Christianity, their own Freemason and their own banks that will benefit them and their people for generation to come.
Kufuor appointed Senior Grand Warden of UK Freemason Lodge Written by Rashid Obodai Provencal Apr 27, 2017 font size decrease font size increase font size Print Email 0 comment Published in General News Rate this item1 2 3 4 5 (0 votes) Read 463 times Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been appointed a Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE).The former president's appointment was announced on Wednesday by the United Grand Lodge of England Grand Master, Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, who is the longest serving Grand Master.“Congratulations to Right Worshipful Brother, His Excellency John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, PGSwdB, former President of the Republic of Ghana, who has been appointed Senior Grand Warden by the Grand Master, His Royal Highness, The Duke of Kent,” the lodge announced on its Facebook page.The United Grand Lodge of England is the governing body for most freemasons within the UK, with lodges in other Commonwealth countries outside the United Kingdom.The United Grand Lodge of England claims to be the oldest Grand Lodge in the world, by descent from the first Grand Lodge formed in London in 1717.It is Headquartered in Freemasons’ Hall, London and is known to have more than 200,000 members.
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Mr.Kufuor "Dogon" ancestors from West Africa, were members of France and Venice Black Nobility, which became as well the Bavarian Black Guelphs", originally from the "House of Este" in Italy.
In fact, one of Mr. Kufuor ancestors was Charlemagne king of Franks, and Roman Emperor. That's why he and members of his family were accepted into UK Freemason Lodge. Mr. Kufuor is also a distant relative of Queen Elizabeth II, and all members of the House of Windsor, which are related to the German "House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha".
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I do agree that is time for West African countries get rid of Franc currency, which is controlled by the French parasites and by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.
West African leaders must unite themselves, and don't starting a government coup or war against themselves under french influence, which want to dominate West African financial sectors for ever.
I think Africa must also have an African Criminal Tribunal like the Hague, because if the french, or German governments decide to kill African politicians to continuous their financial dominance in West Africa they must be tried and condemned in African soil.
Below is an interesting article about french dominance of West African countries financial sectors.
The CFA Franc: French Monetary Imperialism in Africa
Ndongo Samba Sylla argues that the CFA franc – officially created on 26 December 1945 by a decree of General de Gaulle – used across much of Africa today is a colonial relic. For those hoping to export competitive products, obtain affordable credit, work for the integration of continental trade, or fight for an Africa free from imperialist control, the CFA franc is an anachronism demanding orderly and methodical elimination.
On 11 August 2015, speaking at the celebrations marking the 55th anniversary of the independence of Chad, President Idriss Deby declared, ‘we must have the courage to say there is a cord preventing development in Africa that must be severed.’ The ‘cord’ he was referring to is now over 71 years old. It is known by the acronym ‘CFA franc’.
The pillars of the CFA franc
Like other colonial empires – the UK, with its sterling zone; or Portugal, with its escudo zone, France had its franc zone. The CFA franc – orginally the French African Colonial franc – was officially created on 26 December 1945 by a decree of General de Gaulle. It is a colonial currency, born of France’s need to foster economic integration among the colonies under its administration, and thus control their resources, economic structures and political systems.
Post-independence the CFA franc was redesignated: for the eight members of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) – Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo – it became the African Financial Community franc; for the six members of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CAEMC) – Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Chad – the Central African Financial Cooperation franc. The two zones possess economies of equal size (each representing 11 per cent of GDP in sub-Saharan Africa). The two currencies, however, are not inter-convertible.
As established by the monetary accords between African nations and France, the CFA franc has four main pillars:
Firstly, a fixed rate of exchange with the euro (and previously the French franc) set at 1 euro = 655.957 CFA francs. Secondly, a French guarantee of the unlimited convertibility of CFA francs into euros. Thirdly, a centralisation of foreign exchange reserves. Since 2005, the two central banks – the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) and the Bank of Central African States (BEAC) – have been required to deposit 50 per cent of their foreign exchange reserves in a special French Treasury ‘operating account’. Immediately following independence, this figure stood at 100 per cent (and from 1973 to 2005, at 65 per cent).
This arrangement is a quid pro quo for the French ‘guarantee’ of convertibility. The accords stipulate that foreign exchange reserves must exceed money in circulation by a margin of 20 per cent. Before the fall in oil prices, the money supply coverage rate (the ratio of foreign exchange reserves to money in circulation) consistently approached 100 per cent, implying in theory that Africans could dispense with the French ‘guarantee’. The final pillar of the CFA franc, is the principle of free capital transfer within the franc zone.
The CFA franc: for and against
Despite its exceptional longevity, the CFA franc by no means enjoys unanimous support among African economists and intellectuals. Its critics base their analysis on three separate arguments. Firstly, they condemn the absence of monetary sovereignty. France holds a de facto veto on the boards of the two central banks within the CFA franc zone. Since the reform of the BCEAO in 2010, the conduct of monetary policy has been assigned to a monetary policy committee. The French representative is a voting member of this committee, while the president of the WAEMU Commission attends only in an advisory capacity. Given the fixed rate of exchange between the CFA franc and the euro, the monetary and exchange rate policies of the franc zone nations are also dictated by the European Central Bank, whose monetary orthodoxy entails an anti-inflation bias detrimental to growth
Secondly, they focus on the economic impact of the CFA franc, construed as a neocolonial device that continues to destroy any prospect of economic development in user nations. According to this perspective, the CFA franc is a barrier to industrialisation and structural transformation, serving neither to stimulate trade integration between user nations, nor boost bank lending to their economies. The credit-to-GDP ratio stands around 25% for the WAEMU zone, and 13% for the CAEMC zone, but averages 60%+ for sub-Saharan Africa, and 100%+ for South Africa etc. The CFA franc also encourages massive capital outflows. In brief, membership of the franc zone is synonymous with poverty and under-employment, as evidenced by the fact that 11 of its 15 adherents are classed as Least Developed Countries (LDCs), while the remainder (Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon) have all experienced real-term economic decline.
Finally, they maintain that membership of the franc zone is inimical to the advance of democracy. To uphold the CFA franc, it is argued, France has never hesitated to jettison heads of state tempted to withdraw from the system. Most were removed from office or killed in favour of more compliant leaders who cling to power come hell or high water, as shown by the CAEMC nations and Togo. Economic development is impossible in such circumstances, as is the creation of a political system that meets the preoccupations of the majority of citizens.
For its partisans, in contrast, the underlying logic of the CFA franc lies not in neocolonialism, but in monetary cooperation. The under-development of the franc zone nations is attributed to factors independent of their monetary and exchange policies, in particular to their political instability and the poor economic policies of their leaders.
The CFA franc is characterised as a credible and stable currency, a significant virtue given the experience of most currency-issuing African nations. This counter-argument is, however, flawed: experience shows that nations like Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, which post independence withdrew from the franc zone and mint their own currency, are stronger economically than any user of the CFA franc.
It is also claimed that the CFA franc has allowed inflation to be pegged at a rate considerably lower than the African average. For its critics, however, the counterpart of this low inflation rate is weak economic growth and the creation of fewer jobs. Not to mention that this low average inflation rate does not prevent cities like Dakar from ranking among the most ‘expensive’ in the world.
In fact, the terms of the debate are quite simple. The CFA franc is a good currency for those who benefit from it: the major French and overseas corporations, the executives of the zone’s central banks, the elites wishing to repatriate wealth acquired legally or otherwise, heads of state unwilling to upset France etc. But for those hoping to export competitive products, obtain affordable credit, find work, work for the integration of continental trade, or fight for an Africa free from colonial relics, the CFA franc is an anachronism demanding orderly and methodical elimination.
From forbidden topic to emerging social movement
In October 2016, a group of African and European economists published a book entitled [in translation] Liberate Africa from Monetary Slavery: Who Profits from the CFA Franc? The date was not selected at random; it coincided with a meeting of the franc zone’s finance ministers, central bank governors and regional institutions. In the wake of the public debate sparked by the book, people are beginning to speak out.
France maintains the position that the CFA franc is an ‘African currency’, existing only as a support to Africans, who retain their ‘sovereignty’. Some heads of state, like Alassane Ouattara in Côte d’Ivoire and Macky Sall in Senegal take the same line. Unlike Idriss Déby, Macky Sall describes the CFA franc as ‘a currency worth keeping’. Ouattara goes further, insisting that the currency is a matter for experts and thus not a subject for democratic debate. From this standpoint, any critic of the CFA franc must by definition know nothing about it.
Yet, alongside radical economists and intellectuals, the critics of the CFA franc also include former international officials like Togo’s Kako Nubukpo (ex-BCEAO), Senegal’s Sanou Mbaye (ex-African Development Bank, and Guinea-Bissau’s Carlos Lopez (ex-UN Economic Commission for Africa), as well as African bankers like Henri-Claude Oyima (President-Director General of BGFI Bank).
From a taboo subject raised only by a handful of African intellectuals and politicians, the CFA franc debate is starting to enter day-to-day conversation and to attract the attention of activists. A social movement is developing to demand the joint withdrawal of African nations from the CFA franc. On 7 January 2017, on the initiative of ‘SOS Pan-Africa’ (‘Urgences Panafricanistes’), an NGO set up and run by the activist Kemi Séba, anti-CFA demonstrations were organised in several African and European cities, and in Haïti. The mobilisations varied in size according to country, bringing together intellectuals, pan-Africanist and anti-globalisation activists and others. SOS Pan-Africa has since issued a symbolic appeal for Africans to boycott French products.
The current alternative to the CFA franc in West Africa is the joint currency planned for members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The new currency was due to enter circulation in 2015, but this has since been deferred until 2020. The new deadline may or may not be met, but one thing seems increasingly clear: the CFA franc no longer has a future.
Ndongo Samba Sylla is Research and Programme Manager for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. He is the editor and author of a number of books including The Fair Trade Scandal.
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Whites need not reside in large numbers in nations they can cause havoc in African/Black lands by controlling economies. In 1915-1934 The US occupied Haiti and saw that Haiti repayed France for the price for winning its freedom.Dr.Cheikh Anta Diop & Marcus Garvey knew African nations would need their own economic systems & national boundaries in their best interests not those of foreigners looking to keep getting richer.
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I think we should not concentrate only in the white race itself, because there were many reasons they massively invaded Africa, and America Continents, such as constant wars, famine, climate change, and of course, greed among European elites and monarchy members.
In fact, the majority of people living in North Africa are Arabs.
We must not blame only white people for the constant wars and poverty in Africa countries. If you look into the history of Congo,and Liberia after independence, you will see how African leaders fought among themselves to control their country mineral reserves and wealthy, enriching themselves, while their people still living in misery.
In Congo,it's first president Joseph Kasa Vubu, a high IQ guy, educated in missionary Christian Schools, and later on, expelled by the local Christian bishop. He was rebel since teenager. He started Congo's independence. Instead work out pacifically political differences between him and Lumumba, he fired and replaced Lumumba for a brutal Tshombe on grounds of accusation he was communist. Tshombe immediately recruited french mercenaries, ending up on brutal killing of Lumunda when Mobutu Sese Seko a good looking, brutal and corrupt guy, deposed Kasa Vubu, which had amassed a fortune, while president. Kasa Vubu died very rich. Mobutu Sese Seko, which stole 15 billion dollars from Congo during his presidency, left Congo into exile, leaving behind his Palaces, which are rotting in Gbadolite. At the time, he was one the richest man in the world. To control peoples lives and mineral reserves, he killed hundred of thousands of poor people in Congo.
Now, Congo has another brutal and corrupt president Joseph Kabila, the son of Laurent Kabila, which attacked and deposed Mobutu Seko, killing millions of African people.
Joseph Kabila, is a stupid monster as his father was . Entire villages in Congo have been exterminated by his thugs. He became very rich by controlling Congo's mineral reserves, by doing business directly with his "agent" Dan Gertler an affiliate of Marc Rich which died in 2013 and was buried in Israel.
If African leaders stop fighting and killing each other like wild animals, to control their people and it's mineral reserves, and enriched themselves, Africa would be developed, and not a miserable wild third countries. They have to use their intellectual capacity to deal financially, and economically, with Europeans Christians and Jews, and Israelis, after all are them pure homo sapiens, aren't them? I think West African Countries executive have already learned how to manage their Central Banks, and are able to issue their own currency. But, they still have to improve their negotiation skills, and stop the profound corruption, and violence among themselves.
Unfortunately that's the way Africans politicians are. By the time I am writing this, another war is beginning in Africa. Sudan invaded Ethiopia few days ago.
HERE IS HOW AFRICAN LEADERS SOLVE THEIR POLITICAL DISPUTES. HOW CAN A COUNTRY CAN BE DEVELOPED, WITH LEADERS BEHAVING LIKE PRIMITIVE TRIBAL CHIEFS?
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has explained in an interview with Bola Ray that the group Freemason is a platform that nurtures a person morally and not a secret cult as others perceive it.
The Former President who has recently, been appointed a Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England disclosed that he was not the first in his family to join the Freemasonry.
"Members of my family have been there before me. Some were there even before I was born. I joined this society in 1967...it is not secret cult. It is a good system for character building... It’s a society that believes in ‘doing unto others as you want it to happen to you".
He went on further to note that the Freemason as a group believes in the Supreme Being, maker of the universe and does not operate with supernatural powers.
"It’s a system that makes a man accept the creator, that is the giver of everything. To be a member, you must first accept, believe and acknowledge that’’. He observed.
background
Former president Kufuor was appointed a Senior Grand Warden by the United Grand Lodge of England Grand Master, Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent, who is the longest serving Grand Master.
The United Grand Lodge of England is the governing body for most freemasons within the UK, with lodges in other Commonwealth countries outside the United Kingdom.
The Lodge of England claims to be the oldest Grand Lodge in the world, by descent from the first Grand Lodge formed in London in 1717.
It is headquartered in Freemasons’ Hall, London and is known to have more than 200,000 members.
President Kufuor is no stranger to distinguished honours as he was previously honoured as a Knight Commander of the Order of Bath of the UK by Queen Elizabeth II and the highest award of the Order of the House of Orange by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, among other international honours.
Mena: I think it is a great honor and personal achievement for the ex president of Ghana John Kuofor to be nominated as Grand Warden of the United Lodge of London. A Grand Warden is the most senior officer of the Lodge referred as a Worshipful Master.
I well read and informed Afrocentric researcher will know that Black people invented modern religion and secret society in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and India. The European monarchy were founded by Black and Mulato people. The Catholic and Orthodox churches were founded by Black and Mulato people. The Knight Templars who was the predecessor of Freemasonry was founded by Black and Mulato Southern French family. After its dissolution by the Papacy and the French King the Black and Mulato French Knight Templar family move to Scotland were they created the Freemason secret society.
Due to an Astro-theologic conspiracy the White Europeans took over the European monarchy, the Catholic church, the Protestant church and Freemasonry from the Black European elite who has been erased from the history of Europe. those European institutions has been use starting 500 years ago worldwide to promote a White supremacy agenda.
Being the Black CEO of a White own corporation like Amex, Merryl Lynch, Time Warner, Credit Suisse or a Grand Warden of British Freemason will make you rich and famous but it will not improve the life of Black people and the Black countries that your extended family belong to. It is better for the Black educated elite of Africa and the World to recreate their own Christianity, their own Freemason and their own banks that will benefit them and their people for generation to come.
As much as Black Europeans created those institutions, advocating for their similarities in Africa is still demanding that Africans become Black Europeans.
That is mental slavery for Africa. it does not solve the problem. We do not need to re-create Christianity, if that is the wish for Africa.
The work of these African masons is to maintain White Supremacy for Africa to remain mentally enslaved to the average European child. They are the faithful servants of Retired Captain Winterbottom; the archetype Colonial Master.
Do you doubt the existence of any "credible" institutions of African Spirituality? Why referring Africa to Europe? The new Eurocentrism?
When I was publishing the Black European History on Nairaland Forum, some people thought I was spreading Euro-Centrism. Egmond Codfried, Mike111, Habsburg Agenda are Black Eurocentrists. I am not for that agenda.
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