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FLASHBACK: How Kotoka International Airport was almost named after Yaa Asantewaa

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  • JESUS IS GOD 2 months ago

    Jesus Christ loves you and wants to save you from sin and its consequences. He died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day. Believe in Him, accept His gift of forgiveness, and receive eternal ...
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  • Zanetor 2 months ago

    It would have been better. Since Yaa Asantewaa is an NDC woman

  • KH 2 months ago

    It was Nkrumah and his Party, CPP that they didn't like with no tangible reason not NDC!

  • Benji 2 months ago

    UP was a tribal Ashanti party and so is the NPP.

  • MUMU FOOT SOLDIERS 2 months ago

    Murutumbafo! Was all Akufo Addo appointees were all Ashantis, is Akufo Addo even Asante? Your stupidity have no boundaries!

  • Mr no nonsense 2 months ago

    Is your mother who was an ndc member, are you that stupid.

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  • GOLDEN 2 months ago

    THEY SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN YAA ASANTEWAA,IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO CHANGE IT AS THE TOPIC IS STILL ON DISCUSSION, GHANAIANS SHOULD UNITE AND STOP BEING TRIBALISTIC,AFTER ALL WE HAVE A RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE,PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • KH 2 months ago

    Who was tribalistic in this case?

  • Abugre 2 months ago

    Yes, the Asante Empire resisted the British-led abolition of the slave trade and slavery, viewing it as essential to their economy and society. As a powerful inland state, Asante engaged in the transatlantic slave trade and l ...
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  • Joyfulness 2 months ago

    Just name it Accra International Airport

  • KH 2 months ago

    You are justified! In the worst scenario , it should be Yeboah/Arthur International Airport.

  • K. Opoku-London-UK 2 months ago

    ==The White man and woman CAME TO AFRICA TO SCAM US, TO STEAL, TO DEPLETE OUR RESOURCES-MINERALS-HENCE GOLD COAST and THE SLAVE TRADE. It was NOT because the whites are superior. In history, there were several Empires-Roman E ...
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  • KH 2 months ago

    The Asantds were intransigent and tried to frustrate or bully Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah with their matemeho unfeasible ideology because they were then subjugating the Bono people and their territory paradoxically because they w ...
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  • West African Historian 2 months ago

    Just name the airport Sagrenti Airport. To commemorate how Sir Ganett Worsley whipped tha ass of the Asantes, looted their idols, and handcuffed Yaa Asantewaa who was then wearing plantain leaf dross to the Seychelles

  • Abdullah Jantuah 2 months ago

    You love the white foreigner who put you in shackles and sold you off across the Atlantic more than your fellow blackman with whom you live and interact with? Shame. With people like you in our midst the African will ever be ...
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  • Koku kesedovoo 2 months ago

    Zanetor, do you know any history? Your father staged a coup d'etat based on the fact many Ghanaians were suffering. He staged the coup to steal. How did he get the money to send you abroad to study? The perception that Ghanai ...
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  • Yaw 2 months ago

    Apuutoa yaa asantewaa

  • Kponvi Gyata 2 months ago

    Any government that changes the name Kotoka International Airport will automatically be overthrown by a military coup de tat. Mark my words!

    Even, NDC was founded by an Ewe.

    The clandestine and subterfuge mission by mis ...
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  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS undualized intercity roads 2 months ago

    You are who? From which forest?
    You don't comprehend high things of people.

  • Abdullah Jantuah 2 months ago

    Do you know that your brothers were traitors? Kotoka and Harley saw Kwame Nkrumah off at the Accra airport and a few hours later they overthrew the greatest African statesman that ever lived with the help of the CIA. Ewe peop ...
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  • Kofi Ghanaba 2 months ago

    Emmanuel Komla Kotoka was a great son of the Volta an a Ewe of Anlo extraction who overthrew my good friend Kwame Ngolomah Nwia Nkrumah.Kotoka was a great man.

  • Agbeli Kumordziì 2 months ago

    Go build airport at kejetia and name it After Yaa Ashatewaa

  • Kay De 2 months ago

    You people and inferiority complex. You portray yourselves as anti up but still want to honour the one that overthrew cpp. What kind of of people are you?

  • Sam Fante warrior. 2 months ago

    Nobody want the name Kotoka but we are just saying go build your own airport in your monkeys garden call it Yaa Asantewaa airport. Monkeys.

  • Mr no nonsense 2 months ago

    Is so good it was not not named after her,God is good,like i don't know the insults some idiots who dont know their roots would have leveled on the Ashantis.already some of Gas,thinks kotoka was an Ashanti, these Nigerians wh ...
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  • Abdullah Jantuah 2 months ago

    Kwame Nkrumah the selfless nation builder. Those who kicked against the idea of naming Accra Airport after Her Royal Highness Nana Yaa Asantewa were very myiopic. They did a great dis-service to a woman who was prepared to di ...
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  • akonta 2 months ago

    absolutely nonsense, lack of research

  • Kwaku 1 month ago

    Yaa asntewaa my foot , that will be the end of ghana