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Social media uproar as Ghanaians, Zambians clash over Mahama's fashion choices

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  • Okatakyie 12 hours ago

    A pair of jeans? That is wrong for a State visit

  • BONGO BAR 12 hours ago

    Little Zambian children with Chinese phones. They don't even know how their country compares to Ghana. Zambia...?? Mtcheeewww........

  • Nzema K 12 hours ago

    The Zambians may be wrong but I also think that Wode Maya could have done better by choosing his responses carefully..#Africa Unite

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  • P Djamgbe 11 hours ago

    @Nzema K, that was a perfect response from Wode Maya, and uppercut - if you mess with the bull you get the horns.

  • P Djamgbe 11 hours ago

    ......an uppercut....

  • Shock 11 hours ago

    .y brother Mr petrol subsidy. Are we going to buy the petrol with the cedi or dollar at the global market. If we have a stable cedi does it not create the same effect as a subsidy? We all learn but I don't think it's going ...
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  • Ernestine Sackey 8 hours ago

    That boy, Wode Maya, is very arrogant. If you're educating foreigners about your culture how do you (tangentially?) call into question the fashion choice of their president. Was it their president who mocked the attire worn ...
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  • Ruthan 12 hours ago

    A Zambian friend once told me we Ghanaians are as arrogant as Nigerians. He ridiculed me by asking whether if we trust Pastor Otabil & Duncan Williams. He went on to tell me that they always come to Zambia to portray themselv ...
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  • Okello 12 hours ago

    Is Ghana not doing well.... ?? Or you just hate to admit that

  • Ruthan 12 hours ago

    Travel and see. I had Ghanaian classmates who graduated as Medical Practitioners in 2005 in Europe and went back to Zambia Copperbelt bcoz they could receive 1,800 Dollars as monthly salary.

  • Otiko Djaba 12 hours ago

    Then take all your NPP wailing animals there and leave our country for us. Are you that stupid....

  • Nii 10 hours ago

    Buuluuuuu Kwashiaaa Ony3 Tufleeh. Go John Mahama to bring back All our Footballers playing in Zambia. They are taking 2,000 Dollars per month.

  • DEEVINITY 8 hours ago

    @Ruthan.

    How's it panning out for them today????? Those people can't hold a matchstick to us here in Ghana. They still behave as if they're in the bush hunting vermin.

  • APOO 12 hours ago

    If not because of social media, legions of fools like you would not disturb us with such drivel daily!

  • Ruthan 12 hours ago

    Social media came in to broaden our horizon. We don't stay in our small world and boast around.You may not know how the external world view you if you've not had the opportunity to travel outside b4.

  • d Trooth Sayesr 12 hours ago

    The world is now a global village in more sense than one so you don't have to travel before. Open that narrow mind of yours!

  • d Trooth Sayesr 12 hours ago

    in more ways than one

  • Atta Kay 12 hours ago

    For John Mahama to combine a traditional smock and a jeans trouser shows how weak he is in the brain as his Foolish Followers. Our next door neighbours have shown us we don't combine Western cloth with traditional dress when ...
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  • Kiwana 11 hours ago

    It is more than one year now, but @Atta Kay is still burning from election pain. Masri saaaaaaa

  • The 11 hours ago

    U shd be worried for ppl of "little " Zambia to laugh at your beloved President. An Arrogant President has shown his true character

  • No pain no gain 11 hours ago

    Seriously npp affiliated supporters are really sick in the head. So the Zambian president wearing that white man's suit which looks ill fitting on him in comparison to our President's beautiful fugu he is wearing is driving ...
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  • Game Changer +447935009178 10 hours ago

    @Atta Kay, so for all the smartness u claim to have, you don't know the smock can be used as traditional and official? In fact, it can be blending with having a long sleeve shirt beneath the smock having the sleeves overlap a ...
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  • DEEVINITY 8 hours ago

    Joke's on them. Very backward people.

  • Trotro Ambassador 12 hours ago

    Was the President invited for a cultural troupe?

  • Ojukwu 12 hours ago

    No, he was invited to come and help remove your mother's clitoris

  • Alidu 11 hours ago

    eeehh!!! take easy for him. hahahaha

  • Ernestine Sackey 8 hours ago

    Ojukwu, that was a very stupid remark.

  • Accra is dirty.com 7 hours ago

    Ghanaian women don't do circumcision like Nigerian women whom you have taken their sexual feelings from them, Ojukwu ok?

  • Sebastian Deh 12 hours ago

    Dear Trotro Ambassador, you are therefore saying that our Independence Declaration on 6th March 1957 was a cultural troupe???!!!!
    Eiiii.
    Did you see the outfit of the King of Eswatini when he came to Ghana ?

  • Nzema K 12 hours ago

    Go and ask the people of the Zulu Kingdom. Whether they are always at a cultural show

  • APOO 12 hours ago

    Ofui! If not because of social media, legions of fools like you would not disturb us with such drivel daily!

  • Banahene 11 hours ago

    I would have criticised the president if he was wearing jeans but it wasn't, he was wearing Chinos which is acceptable, Zambians promote your tradition and culture.

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, cleanliness is Godliness 9 hours ago

    Zambian are still mentally colonized by far much more than Ghanaians so dont blame them

  • Koforidua Flowers 9 hours ago

    Have you ever been to Zambia?

  • Kwaku Tee 12 hours ago

    This portrays the arrogance of President iMahama, he underrated the Zambian President. Why this insult to the ppl of Zambia, did they beg you to visit them? May be President Mahama don't know these ppl know his Character.

  • Sebastian Deh 12 hours ago

    Let's do the hate thing locally and leave Mahama alone. What's wrong with the outfit. Maybe he should have worn a kente cloth and that'd be fine.

  • Kwaku Tee 12 hours ago

    President John Mahama has been in politics for so long, some of us are not qualified to advise him on the costumes that he shd use when he travels outside. Thankfully Mahama studied in USSR and he met a lot of Zambian student ...
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  • C+ 12 hours ago

    What have you smoked this morning, @Kwaku Tee. You don't sound correct

  • Kwaku Tee 11 hours ago

    The weed I smoked this morning from Kpndu tells me Mahama shd have changed the jeans trouser to a Northern trouser to match the Smock.

  • Druzeman 11 hours ago

    Pain & Hatred will kill you ooo... @Kwaku Tee. It was @Prince Kwasia Adade who was fooling like you are doing here now, but he has come back to his senses and gone on political leave. Now it is you - "Mr. Apolitical Kwaku Tee ...
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  • Banderras 12 hours ago

    There norrrr, we have stupid @Kweku Tee displaying all his madness. Foolish rascally boy ... when at all will you NPP idiots learn to live in peace with yourselves..?? A man has simply worn our traditional smock. Instead of p ...
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  • Naomi 12 hours ago

    Don't be stupid, choose your words carefully. We are African and not stooges for colonialism

  • ST GHFUO: Ghana, cleanliness is Godliness 9 hours ago

    Really? Very funny Naomi if your mother is dead but you say she is sleeping hmm you have a problem but I don't have an issue with mahama dress code

  • No pain no gain 11 hours ago

    See another stupid one, I don't know if the 2024 electoral defeat has destroyed the brain cells of npp affiliated supporters. I will advise our Predident to wear more traditional Ghanaian outfits to show case every region in ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 hours ago

    @Kweku Tee. I thought you were a human being, I didn’t know you are a chimpanzee.

  • Kwame Twumasi-Fofie 8 hours ago

    Where on earth is the arrogance here? Does the fact that I'm coming to visit you mean I should dress like you?

  • Shock 12 hours ago

    The jeans maybe but the smock is definitely something that we are proud of. The smock has Arabic influence so a West or North African would see it as familiar but the east and southern Africans didn't get that Arabic influen ...
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  • Nomza 12 hours ago

    It wasn't jeans! What nonsense? Does it mean any trousers having blue color must definitely be jeans?

  • Nzema K 12 hours ago

    There's nothing arabic about the Northern Ghana Smock. It purely Ghanaian. Smock was, long before the Arab traders came and later forced Islamic religion on our fathers

  • Shock 11 hours ago

    Lesson learnt but you have to admit the garments look similar. Is it the abada or all the native west African attires are all similar to the smock. It has a very eastern feel about it. Even indians wear similar attire. So m ...
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  • So Africans have nothing of their own everything is borrowed right? 8 hours ago

    Civilization started with us—-Akan, Yoruba etc are dialects of Ancient Egyptian

  • Sebastian Deh 12 hours ago

    Okatakyie, the Zambia's are not concerned about the jeans ooo. It is the fugu they have a problem with and that's what we should address.

  • Gov 1 12 hours ago

    They should rather tell their president to barber his hair. Tifu y3. Do they know how expensive that Smock is as compare to their president's broni waawu suit? Nonsense

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  • Lori 12 hours ago

    Serves the Pepeni right.

  • Azonn 12 hours ago

    Senseless fool @Lori. You picked a Pepeni as your girlfriend. She dumped you because of your halitosis. Why are you angry with every pepeni

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  • Chicago 11 hours ago

    Are you blind Okayakyie? He was wearing a formal trouser

  • Yaa Yaa: NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE FOR GH’s HERITAGE (Y Y Network, Begoro, E/R) 10 hours ago

    Culture Is Not a Costume — It’s Diplomacy
    Mahama’s clothing choice was intentional, not accidental.
    Traditional or culturally grounded attire at international events is soft power. It communicates identity, confidenc ...
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  • Cynthia 10 hours ago

    Kooko dey your eye top. Kindly visit UGMC for a brief optical examination.

  • Myra 8 hours ago

    Are you sure he was in jeans. Even in Ghana have you ever seen him in jeans at a state function.

  • RASTA BANGI 6 hours ago

    ZAMBIANS DONT HAVE TRADITIONAL DRESSES SO PLEASE DON'T BLAME THEM, ZIMBABWE ALSO DOESN'T HAVE. IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT, THEY HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO BELIEVE THEY ARE BRITISH.
    BUT THEY NEED TO ALSO GET OUT OF THEIR SMALL WORLD AND ...
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  • AB 1 hour ago

    What makes you think that trouser is jeans????
    Don't let the color deceive you, not all .blue or black trousers are jeans!!!!!!!!!!
    Also the Zambians were not talking about the trouser, but about the fugu.....

  • Musa 12 hours ago

    These Zambians are so slave minded that they think dressing in suit or wearing white man’s outfit is the only way to dress. How pitiful?? Forever slaves

  • BONGO BAR 12 hours ago

    Those Zambian commenters are little children born around 2010 onwards. They don't know anything about the world except Tik-Tok and Facebook

  • Kwaku Tee 11 hours ago

    Ghanaians deserve a President like Mahama bcoz we are uncivilised and backward ppl.Many Ghanaian footballers have been plying their trade in Zambia for the past 10yrs, My own brother and colleagues used to lecture in Zambian ...
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  • Sebastian Deh 12 hours ago

    They should resurrect Kenneth Kaunda and ask him about fugu.

  • d Trooth Sayesr 12 hours ago

    1. Who cares about what these silly Zambians think or say?
    2. Wode Maya is not the voice of Ghana, he is too flaky and shallow-minded!

  • Yaw, kumasi 12 hours ago

    This is how this smock will be come world's number one dress. Very soon the demand for it will go higher.

  • Oswi Bonsu 11 hours ago

    Those our southern African brothers suffered so much brain trauma from the whiteman. They have lost everything their ancestors had.
    Can you now undeesrand why HIV-AIDS is highest in most southern African states?
    Everything ...
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  • Thabo 11 hours ago

    If it was a Nigerian President he will wearing full suit of traditional wear.
    President goofed.
    Don't combine African culture with European one.
    We in Africa

  • Orianna 11 hours ago

    What you are foolishly commenting on here can never raise your 38.2% to any higher level. Go and find better things to do, disappointe NPP junkies

  • agyeman 11 hours ago

    OF COURSE WHY WON'T THEY MOCK OUR PRESIDENT. HIS DRESSING AS A HEAD OF STATE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FORMAL AND DRESS IN HIS "BLOUSE LIKE) TOP DURING INFORMAL SOCIAL EVENT WHICH DEFINITELY IS PART OF THE ITINERARY. SAME APPLIES TO T ...
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  • Druzeman 11 hours ago

    3y3 Aduro na akye wo... gyimifuor ba @Agyeman. Skin pain will destroy all you NPP animals

  • Nii 11 hours ago

    2 African countries are tearing themselves apart bcos a president wearing what he produces did not wear a 'whitemans' clothing. are we really free from colonial mentality? Can Africa be united without the west? Can we grow as ...
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  • Nana Kwaku 10 hours ago

    Zambia used to be called North Rhodesia,the white suppressed them and colonised them for many yrs so understand them.By traditional dressing Ghana & Nigeria are ahead of them.President Mahama shd have combined a Northern Trou ...
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  • Kiwana 10 hours ago

    @Nana Kwaku kote boto. I never ever saw your 2-feet, pocket-sized Bantu Pygmy from the Kyebi forest wearing a traditional attire on foreign trips during the entire period of his destructive governance. Even during those times ...
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  • Nii 10 hours ago

    @ Kiwana
    Kwaashiaa buuuluuu buuuluuu Ony3 Tuuflee . Kplootoo naabi.Your brain is like a Pig. Your favourite President erred but you don't have the wisdom to admit. John Dramani Mahama is an Arrogant Bushman

  • Kiwana 9 hours ago

    Oh, fake @Nii..!!! Please, I only asked you a simple question ooo..!!!! I said...

    DID YOU EVER SEE YOUR 2-FEET, ABOMINABLE BANTU PYGMY FROM THE KYEBI FOREST... (NANA AKUFFO ADDO), WEARING A TRADITIONAL OUTFIT ON HIS FOREI ...
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  • George 11 hours ago

    Wode Maya's response was excellent and flawless

  • Al 10 hours ago

    I suggest the honorable president should wear a suit in the future to functions and activities like this.A good looking suit(president can afford) portrays a good image for the entire nation.Many people didn’t like his atti ...
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  • Achilles 10 hours ago

    This is why Donald Trump told your father that he comes from a shithole country. Foolish boy without brains........

  • AD 1957 10 hours ago

    AI, , , , You should be shot dead for your infantile comment

  • Zaga 10 hours ago

    I have now certain in mind that Africans are stupid

  • Obed 10 hours ago

    As a teenager, I read a book authored by Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, entitled Zambia Shall Be Free. However, I have just realized, sadly, that decades later, Zambia is still bound with colonial chains, with it's ...
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  • Kweku 10 hours ago

    I fully agree with the Zambians. He cannot go on a State visit where he had to inspect a guard of honor wearing a blue/black jeans. How African is the jeans? Batakari doesn't look elegant or ceremonial. He could as well dress ...
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  • Asiedu 10 hours ago

    I think the Zambians are still enslaved by the legacy of their colonial masters.Moodi in India visited White House with only a piece of clothe bound around his waist

  • Trump 10 hours ago

    Leave the president alone, he didn't go to Zambia in nakedness he was wearing his traditional cloth in which he felt comfortable and proud of it.

  • Yes. 10 hours ago

    Zambians are promoting Ubuntu, but still confused. What has a suit got to do with an African? Suit is for the white man. They have nothing to show. African traditional wear is for Ghana and Nigeria. Finished.

  • Donatus 10 hours ago

    After Kenneth Kaunda, everybody else in Zambia is caput.

  • True African 10 hours ago

    The suit the suit the Zambian president wore doesn't show that he is a true African.

  • Martin 9 hours ago

    Believe me if the idea is to market Batakari to the outside world I am 100 % certain that not many foreigners will buy Batakari to wear when they visit Ghana. The reason is because it does not look elegant ( I know some will ...
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  • ADOMBIRE CLINTON 9 hours ago

    Ladies and gentlemen the trousers is not Jeans but Blue material trousers. I salute first of all the managers of President John Dramani Mahama on his outfit choices. Once the heat is on this particular one permit to dare say ...
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  • George 8 hours ago

    @Adombire Clinton. You wrote and I quote: "I find it very dangerous that we keep on bastardizing the President for wrong committed". I don't know how you were brought up but some of us were brought up to speak out when someon ...
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  • ADOMBIRE CLINTON 48 minutes ago

    * for no wrong committed. I was on another call while typing on another phone too busy but I just didn't want to skip to the opportunity to appeal to all of us that enough is enough The President has been receiving too much n ...
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  • Wilcox 9 hours ago

    Zambians arr functional illiterates.No need to waste time.Have you seen their movies?

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    the modalities used in paying ghana national fire service rent allowance is very bad. i know 2 firemen who died last year November and they couldn't receive their rent allowance before they died. why can't government pay the ...
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  • Akajatayogogo 9 hours ago

    Is there a presidential Law that when you are going for State visit you should wear suit? The Zambians are still having colonial mentality. Zambians open your eyes .

  • GPS 9 hours ago

    Zambians have the rights to speak their minds if they don't like fugu or kente that is their problem. Don't force anyone to like what you have or your culture.

  • LEO 9 hours ago

    FIRST TIME CLITON CAME TO AFRICA, RAWLINGS WEAR FUGU,AND IT WAS GREAT, SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE OUTFIT OF JDM

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 9 hours ago

    It is rather a Great Pity , that Some AFRICANS still believe in the fashion choices of their colonial masters as “SUPERIOR “ to their own. Not sure whether due to to ignorance , mental slavery, foolishness laziness or Abj ...
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  • JDM -African Advocate 9 hours ago

    I like the fact that President John Dramani Mahama is making strenuous efforts to promote Pan-Africanism and the African Global Agenda in contemporary times. Ghana under our current President is not just a watching spectator ...
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  • Yes. 8 hours ago

    If you go to Zambia you will realised that they are still primitive. The people from Malawi are even better. They don't know about African designs.

  • Wilcox 8 hours ago

    Ghanafuo,Zambians are functional illiterates.Spare them.They don't even bath well....their women smell really bad,and their men have bad breathe.They cant give you counsel.Demma President dey wear Kintampo tie.

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  • Paul 8 hours ago

    Do they, Zambia, even have a country? Its been sold to China and they are here saying what? Why should we waste our time on people that cant even speak or write proper English, since they are so much into foreign stuff.

  • Kwame Twumasi-Fofie 8 hours ago

    Africa certainly has a very, very long road to travel to attain self-recognition if some of us see a traditional outfit worn by a foreign president as inferior because it doesn't look like what they consider to be 'normal'. ...
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  • Hallo Zambia, we are sorry for you. 8 hours ago

    Take a Look at the independence declaration of Kwame Nkrumah. You will know that your Präsident will run for Milton tea to London. Tea boy president. Unafrican, doing the bid of the colonial master.

  • Accra is dirty.com 8 hours ago

    Iam disappointed in Zambians, so Zambians do not have traditional dresses as an African country,ok what is traditional dress for Etwasini formally the Swaziland?what is the traditional dress for the Zulus in South Africa?W ...
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  • Kofi Sam 7 hours ago

    Thank you Wode Maya for response and education. It means our fellow brothers and sisters are not up to date with fashion on this part of the world. Reminds me of the king of Eswathini who visited us.

  • Honest 7 hours ago

    Forgive their ignorance. They don't know that our President looks more elegant in suit than their President. By the way how will they feel if the Eswatini King visits Zambia

  • FACT 7 hours ago

    FUGU DOES NOT GO WITH BLUE JEANS
    Mahama made a huge mistake against the traditional attire of Ghana on the international scene.
    ● All Ghanaians must take a close look at how the men in Northern Ghana wear their FUFU tra ...
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  • BB 7 hours ago

    They dont know the value of wearing a smock to a function. So they prefer and value the outfit of the suppressor or colonialist to that of the african. No wonder their currency is the worst performing currency in Africa. Come ...
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  • FACT 6 hours ago

    DON'T WEAR TRADITIONAL FUGU WITH IMPORTED BLUE JEANS.
    President Mahama rightfully chose the traditional FUGU, and he ought to have rightfully matched it with the traditional JINJANLANI.
    President Mahama was wrong to wear t ...
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  • Light Up 6 hours ago

    If we want people to mock Ghana is it Zambians?

  • Rocky USA 5 hours ago

    Tell Zambian to follow their Africa culture and stop following the western culture
    Western people are too colo. They are just wearing Vietnam old old styles of coat. Just follow your culture Zambia people.

  • OZYMANDIAS 5 hours ago

    Those East and Central Africans are so backward in their thinking and behaviours. They also look scared and confused whenever they meet West Africans who are more enlightened, more confident and more educated than they are. P ...
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  • Charles 3 hours ago

    Let's put our pride aside and acknowledge that Batakari looks too casual in an official setting.

  • Martin Bibiebome 3 hours ago

    John Mahama outfit was incredible, gorgeous and befitting as the first gentleman of the Republic. Ghana is known to be the main hub for kente (both northern and southern kente) and he is proudly promoting our cultural outfit ...
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  • Kofi 2 hours ago

    @Martin Bibiebome. I wonder how many days are cold in a year in Sub-Saharan Africa. I thought one is supposed to be fully covered when it is cold outside. Besides, which outside world are we targeting?

  • Ian 1 hour ago

    Zambians are like that, they like to mock people and always see themselves superior, whilst they are nothing. there is nothing wrong with President Mahama's attire.

  • Kwame Angel 1 hour ago

    Was Mahama also promoting his "traditional and cultural blue Jeans? This outfit is seriouly too casual. And for guard inspection?

  • ADOMBIRE CLINTON 12 minutes ago

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