US Shows Its Neocolonial Fist In Ghana http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=182012

The US Embassy in Accra refused a visa to the Ghana Minister of Energy in March and refused a visa for the Chairman of the GNPC, Ghana National Petroleum Commission, to visit the US.US and Ghana are in a diplomatic row in which it appears *… that the US government is consciously targeting some key government officials for standing in the way of American interests in Ghana. … [An official of GNPC] is reported to have told insiders that a consular officer at the US embassy told him that GNPC was “Anti- American”*

Of course the job of the GNPC is to enable Ghana to make the best use of Ghana’s petroleum resources for the benefit of the Ghanaian people, not the American people. It is trying to correct some unethical deals involving Kosmos, the EO Group, and Exxon, that would have caused financial loss to Ghana. If the US acknowleges the sovereignty of sovereign nations, it needs to respect Ghana’s sovereignty. If the US does not respect Ghanaian sovereignty, and it appears that it does not, its motives and methods are a clear and obvious throwback to colonialism.