How Ghana Got its Name: The history and meaning behind it

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Kwalba Baabu 1 year ago

Anansesem and little else!

Anansesem and little else!
Kotibrim 1 year ago

Akanman was coined by the scamm jb danquah!!! Lol!!!

Akanman was coined by the scamm jb danquah!!! Lol!!!
Kojo Opoku-London 1 year ago

J B Danquah was the Eastern Region chairman of the UGCC like Chairman Wontomi of NPP in the Ashanti region. J B Danquah stood for elections at Akyem Abuakwa for UGCC and he lost to his nephew who was a CPP candidate. J B Danq ...
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J B Danquah was the Eastern Region chairman of the UGCC like Chairman Wontomi of NPP in the Ashanti region. J B Danquah stood for elections at Akyem Abuakwa for UGCC and he lost to his nephew who was a CPP candidate. J B Danquah NEVER won an election. He was a loser and jealous of the success of Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Dr Kwame Nkrumah won the elections whilst he was in prison. ASHANTIS were part of the CPP and that was why we had Krobo Adusei and other Ashantis. ASHANTIS broke off from the CPP to form the United Party UP when Dr Kwame Nkrumah was using Ashanti cocoa farmers money to develop Northern Ghana by giving the Northern Ghana free education with the Ashantis cocoa farmers money. UGCC was formed by a Rich Nzema Timber merchant called Paa Grant and his Deputy chairman was R S Blay. Go to the University of Ghana History Department and the Ghana Academy of Arts and science. There was no Big Six as it would have included Paa Grant and R S Blay names. Akyem Abuakwa tiny population people were jealous of the Ashantis and they cleverly moved closer to the Ashantis so that they can win power. J B Danquah was caught conniving with the CIA to overthrow our democracy by throwing bombs to kill Dr Kwame Nkrumah and the bomb killed innocent Ghanaians including a 9 year old child. J B Danquah was a TRAITOR who was a CIA SPY and he went to US Embassy to ask why his spying FREE LUNCH AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS have not been paid to his wives and children. J B Danquah hated women and he was a polygamous. He died a loser and a bitter man. J B Danquah was a self centred bitter man who hated Ghana except himself and ego. A CIA SPY? A TRAITOR
Arrest ALL DIE BE DIE-AKUFFO ADDO FIRST AND HIS AKYEM MAFIA. THE TINY POPULATION AKYEM ABUAKWA TANI PEOPLE ANIMALS SHITHOLE IDIOTS. You are lying because NAPO is NOT an Ashanti according to the Akan tradition. MAPO mother come from Akyem and so He is an AKYEM. You are a fool. NPP Replace Bawumia and NAPO with Dr Adutwum and Ken Agyapong. The break the 8 years plan of the greedy Akyem Mafia DID NOT WORK. Bawumia is a LOSER. the North of Ghana reject Bawumia. The greatest African of the Century was betrayed by the Akyem Abuakwa Mafia looking for a free lunch and unemployment benefits-J B Danquah. Dr Kwame Nkrumah Statute stands in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia but his own people he fought selflessly for-betrayed him and destroyed his statutes. Very sad-WE ARE IN ECONOMIC SLAVE TRADE NOW. Oh Mother Africa-your children are LOST IN THE WILDERNESS OF UNPATRIOTISM. I ask your foolish AND UNPATRIOTIC Children-WILL A WHITE MAN OR WOMAN COLLECT A BLACK MAN OR WOMAN MONEY TO GO AND OVERTHROW THEIR GOVERNMENT? The ANSWER IS OBVIOUS-NO, NO, NO. Because white people are patriotic and WILL NEVER betray their Nation through Coup Detat.

But this is exactly what J B Danquah and his Akyem Tiny population of Ghana did. J B Danquah was a CIA Agent-passing messages to the Whiteman and woman to receive MONEY. To betray his own country. The white man or woman-will do the opposite. J B Danquah went to the US Embassy in Accra to ask why his FREE LUNCH and UNEMPLOYMENT Benefits from the CIA had stopped? The white man and woman are USERS. This is because when J B Danquah was in prison for plotting to have Dr Kwame Nkrumah assassinated and bombed several times-the White man and woman saw there-he was of NO USE to them-because he was NO MORE ABLE to provide them the information to help overthrow Dr Kwame Nkrumah and so they stopped paying J B Danquah his free LUNCH and Unemployment Benefits.
AFRICA UNITE-BOB MARLEY SAID IT SEVERAL TIMES.
If Africa DO NOT UNITE-We WILL FOREVER BE CLEANING THE WHITE MAN AND WOMAN TOILETS-Our children are economic slaves in the white man and woman country. The white man only want us to produce the raw materials for their added value products from our raw materials to bring them back and sell them to us at ASTRONOMICAL prices. OH AFRICA-OH AFRICA-when are we going to realise that the white man and woman are using us for their own selfish ends.
BLACK PEOPLE ARE DOOMED FOR EVER.
Now the white man and woman are telling us to become GAY-before they give us loans who have to pay back 10 times. I tell you the consequences to being GAY- You get HIV/AIDS for being GAY. But Africa have no medicines or hospitals to treat our sick people. You see the wickedness of the white man and woman. They know that we are FOOLS and we BLACKS always betray ourselves to them. We have no medicines or hospitals to treat our AIDS/HIV people but they want AFRICA to be infested with AIDS/HIV more. Africa have to pay for hospital treatment and medicines. IN the White man or woman countries-Hospitals and medicines are FREE OF CHARGE. They cheat us through TRADE. Take our goods free of charge, take our oils free of charge.
Ghana oil does NOT belong to Ghana, Ghana Gold does not belong to GHANA-They sign extortionate agreements with us and RIP US OFF. All that we receive is small taxation and royalties and that small money is stolen by the Akyem Abuakwa CRIMINALS
JB IS FOREVER A STAIN ON NKRUMAH AND NKRUMAHIST WILL RECONSTRUCT THIS FOREVER — I WISH THEM LUCK 1 year ago

JB IS INDEED A STAIN ON NKRUMAH AND CAN NEVER BE REMOVED. IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO DEIFY NKRUMAH, THE WISH JB HAD NEVER EXISTED, BUT THERE COULDNT HAVE BEEN NKRUMAH WITHOUT JB. WE ALL STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS, NKRUMAH ON ...
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JB IS INDEED A STAIN ON NKRUMAH AND CAN NEVER BE REMOVED. IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO DEIFY NKRUMAH, THE WISH JB HAD NEVER EXISTED, BUT THERE COULDNT HAVE BEEN NKRUMAH WITHOUT JB. WE ALL STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF OTHERS, NKRUMAH ON THE SHOULDERS OF JB. JESUS ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE PROPHETS. DO NOT THINK I HAVE COME TO ABOLISH THE PROPHETS, I HAVE COME TO COMPLETE THEM. NKRUMAH COMMITTED A CRIME AND IT UP TO HIS FOLLOWERS TO CLEAN THAT AND COVER THAT UP; AND THIS WILL FOREVER REMAIN A CHAIN/ROPE ON THEIR NECK. READ GOD’S RESPONSE TO CAIN IN THE BIBLE — WHERE IS YOUR BROTHER— WHERE IS JB? THEN CAIN — NKRUMAH — SAID, “AM I MY BROTHERS KEEPER?”. THEN IT WAS SAID, THE SPIRIT IF YOUR BROTHER WHOM YOU SLAUGHTERED CRIES BEFORE GOD FOR JUSTICE. IT IS THIS JUSTICE DENIED OF JB THAT WILL FIREVER HAUNT HIM AND HIS FOLLOWERS UNTIL THE ACCEPT THEIR WEAKEDNESS AGAINST THAT GENTLE SOUL — GOD’S CREATION — AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS. All humans have flaws, and Nkrumah was human, not some Jesus. He made great errors, let’s accept them and heal as a nation and move on, never to be that evil against anyone we disagree with. After all Ghana is not one person’s property to solely determine the direction of it. PEACE
Nana Oduro Abonee 1 year ago

Kwadwo Opoku, know one, not even Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, can tell where you got this your history, full of lies, biases and bitterness, about Ghana from.
Does it mean when.somebody is polygamous, then je is a hater of wo ...
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Kwadwo Opoku, know one, not even Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, can tell where you got this your history, full of lies, biases and bitterness, about Ghana from.
Does it mean when.somebody is polygamous, then je is a hater of women? Please sit down and reflect on all the nonsense you've put on the social media for the consumption of generations to come. Even a stupid whiteman would never write such stupid theses on Ghana.
Nana Oduro Abonee 1 year ago

# no one

# no one
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Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 1 year ago

I love everything about Ghana but the black star is my problem, it's the black star that has made us not to think well, everyone is thinking about his/her pocket before Ghana which is wrong if possible we must remove the star ...
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I love everything about Ghana but the black star is my problem, it's the black star that has made us not to think well, everyone is thinking about his/her pocket before Ghana which is wrong if possible we must remove the star from the flag
Citizen 1 year ago

The Black Star should either be removed or changed to White Star

The Black Star should either be removed or changed to White Star
Akosua 12 months ago

Why?

Why?

Smk baako p3 1 year ago

Ega Nna means =Ghana (sika Nie)

Ega Nna means =Ghana (sika Nie)
KWABENA KASAPREKO. 1 year ago

WHAT IS THE WORK OF THE GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE ? THIS EXPLANATORY SUBJECT OF HOW MODERN GHANA CAME ABOUT WAS TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS IN GHANA FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL. "RED" IN OUR FLAG, STANDS FOR THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT ...
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WHAT IS THE WORK OF THE GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE ? THIS EXPLANATORY SUBJECT OF HOW MODERN GHANA CAME ABOUT WAS TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS IN GHANA FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL. "RED" IN OUR FLAG, STANDS FOR THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE. 2)"GOLD" STANDS FOR PARTICULARLY, THE GOLD THAT GHANA HAS--THAT WAS WHY THE MAN DURING THE COLONIZATION, NEMED IT, "THE GOLD COAST"; 3)"GREEN" STANDS FOR OUR FOREST-- NATURAL RESOURCES; THE "BLACK STAR" STANDS AS A UNIFICATION OF THE BLACK CONTINENT OF AFRICA. THE NAME "GHANA", WAS A VERY STRONG ANCIENT EMPIRE, WHICH WAS SITUATED A LITTLE BIT ABOVE MODERN GHANA, DURING THE ANCIENT TIMES.
Sey 1 year ago

NKrumahist always twisting history.
Some of us have already learnt about this already and no amount of lies will twist our minds.
It's very funny to think that Nkrumah coined the name Ghana.
Do you know Nkrumah did not com ...
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NKrumahist always twisting history.
Some of us have already learnt about this already and no amount of lies will twist our minds.
It's very funny to think that Nkrumah coined the name Ghana.
Do you know Nkrumah did not complete his PhD and that he's not a Dr. in the academia?
Do you also know that Nkrumah was born on Friday and that he's called Kofi and not Kwame?
Ghanaweb, please don't just put anything you find on your site for people to read. Nkrumahists are at work and are doing everything to project their god.
Kotibrim 1 year ago

Small minds have difficulty comprehending Nkrumahs greatness!! If it wasn't for Nkrumah you'll still be running around naked groping in the dark!!!

Small minds have difficulty comprehending Nkrumahs greatness!! If it wasn't for Nkrumah you'll still be running around naked groping in the dark!!!
Dr Baeta 1 year ago

My friend you don’t know what you’re talking about. Go check the records; The NATIONAL ENTHUSIASM that welcomed Nkrumah’s overthrow on 24th Feb 1966, was far greater than than even when Ghana had independence on 6th ...
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My friend you don’t know what you’re talking about. Go check the records; The NATIONAL ENTHUSIASM that welcomed Nkrumah’s overthrow on 24th Feb 1966, was far greater than than even when Ghana had independence on 6th March 1957.
Joyce 1 year ago

Dr Baeta, you can say that again. Because Mahama was a young pioneer in the CPp, he is subtly trying to shore up Nkrumah’s tattered legacy.

Dr Baeta, you can say that again. Because Mahama was a young pioneer in the CPp, he is subtly trying to shore up Nkrumah’s tattered legacy.
Akosua 12 months ago

Sadly we are regreting the actions of a few selfish people today. The name KOTOKA should be removed from the airport and change to Kwame Nkrumah international airport.

Sadly we are regreting the actions of a few selfish people today. The name KOTOKA should be removed from the airport and change to Kwame Nkrumah international airport.
Prayer 1 month ago

Nkrumah took certain decisions that made little sense.We have absolutely no link as a country to ancient Ghana,yet we named Ghana at independence after an ancient nation that even present day Mali,where ancient Ghana was loca ...
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Nkrumah took certain decisions that made little sense.We have absolutely no link as a country to ancient Ghana,yet we named Ghana at independence after an ancient nation that even present day Mali,where ancient Ghana was located has never thought of doing.There is no link and no proof that any of the current tribes in. Morden Ghana even migrated years ago from that ancient kingdom.Nkrumah was a true dictator in every sense of the word! He despised the name Gold Coast because it sounded colonial to him and so he just had to show where power lay

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