Last Friday, at a hotel, thousands of miles away in Bloomsbury, London, Ghana's Minister of Justice, Joe Ghartey said something that perhaps only a classroom of Ghanaians knew.

The young and very promising politician told his audience that Paa Grant, the founder and sponsor of the group that formalised the struggle for independence from 1947, Paa Grant was in fact first to have called for Positive Action, a phrase more associated with the man who did more with other's ideas than the originators could have ever imagined, Kwame Nkrumah.

Paa Grant said in 1947, "The time for negative resistance is over. This is the time for positive action."

As Ghana celebrates its 50th anniversary of Independence, we are now celebrating Positive Change. Yet, the historical reflections have been many; as Nkrumaists take the opportunity to revere their founding father, freedom fighter hero, and Pan-Africanists sing of the progress he brought to the continent.

Yet 50 years since the Independence of Ghana is also 60 years since that freedom ball was fully set in motion...