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How Ghana's famous 'tro-tro' got its name - Opanyin Agyekum explains

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  • Beware of fake prophets 10 months ago

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  • AGBESI KWASI 10 months ago

    3 pence =1 tro and tro was the cost of boarding a minibus at the time.

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    No. That's not true.

  • Aba Sam 10 months ago

    Only the GAS can tell the world how the word TROTRO was coined.

  • Nii 10 months ago

    A sad desperate attempt to alter the history of Tro-tro. Ga indigenes came up with the name. Simple

  • Kojo Talons 10 months ago

    from the Prof, i believe that's exactly what he's saying

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    The Gas had "tro tro" and the Fantes has "simpoa". Tro or Simpoa was actually two and half pesewas or pence to make a farthing. A farthing was a quarter of a pence. We came to meet Ga Kenkey sold at tro in the 70s.

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  • Nyame Ba 10 months ago

    Tro was two and half pesewas. Half pesewa was referred to as "kapre Ba"

  • Ibrahim 10 months ago

    Exactly Sir

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    Yes!!!

  • Barrister 10 months ago

    This account doesn't make sense

  • Od 10 months ago

    Opanyin you are a big liar, you got this wrong, go ask the Ga dangbe posse, abaa

  • Nyame Ba 10 months ago

    You are right but a word liar is too strong.

  • Ibrahim 10 months ago

    Tro tro was two and a half pence not three pence

  • Victor A 10 months ago

    Wow. Professor. You cannot even mention the word " Ga"!! Who is "Accra people"?
    Shame on you!!

  • Tata 10 months ago

    Opanyin Agyekum the old fool at it again. Twisting history to favour animal shit eating asantes. After fucking small girls at legon you want to cover up you stinking immorality with a distorted version of history that we all ...
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  • Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 10 months ago

    In those days Ghana had a coin with something like zigzags which is silver equivalent to two and half peswas and in Ga it's called tro that brought up the name for the daily transport in Ghana

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    You are right!!!

  • Kwaku Ananse 10 months ago

    Opanin Agyekum, sorry, “tro tro” derives from GA: the charges used to be “three pesewas” which in GA language is “tro”. Thus, in Accra, Tema and environs, the term “tro tro” meant “three pesewas, three pes ...
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  • Kojo 10 months ago

    Wrong!!!

  • Abaqua 10 months ago

    Write your comment; Why do ppl always wants to lie to get fame. this issue u brought out for what sense. how old ar u. give us a break we ar thinking.

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  • Swuita 10 months ago

    The Akuapims also say "to".

  • Swuita 10 months ago

    "tro" sorry.

  • Fred Donkoh 10 months ago

    I don't recall us using the name tro-tro in Kumasi, during my school days there from 1958 to 1965. I do recall us, though, referring to the wooden truck as anwuna petuo

  • Adusei-Owusu 10 months ago

    Trɔ means three pence the old currency .during the late 50's the Nigerians were operating the short dostance transportation system in the country. Three pence tree pence.The trɔ trɔ.The Yorubas called it Torɔ Torɔ.Mostl ...
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  • Kojo 10 months ago

    Wrong

  • Michael 10 months ago

    The so called prof is whitewashing history. Trotro was coined by the gas

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    He is not saying it was coined by another tribe. The language is Ga but the population of the capital is cosmopolitan. Therefore anyone who was living in the capital at that period uses these key names. The Fante name for tro ...
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  • Michael Antwi 10 months ago

    Srako is 10 pence , Teku is 5 pence, Tro is half of 5 pence which is 2 and half pence. So Tro is not 3 pence!