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How Kwame Nkrumah got the name Osagyefo and his connection with Asantes

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  • GhanaBizHub.com 1 day ago

    History is interesting. The same land that once opposed him later gave him one of his most powerful titles.

    It reminds us that true leadership eventually earns respect — even from those who once stood on the other side. ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
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  • FRANKIE 1 day ago

    K Poku-London-UK,
    Stop the lunacy. Stop flooding the forum..
    Nkrumah never dies!

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day 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.
    The Whites or England left Ghana with NO EDUCATION FOR OUR MASSES AND MASSES OF OUR PEOPLE. ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    Some of Kwame Nkrumah’s Achievements to Ghana in the space of 6 years Ghana 60's

    - University Of Cape Coast (UCC)
    - Ghana National College, Cape Coast
    - Mfantsiman Girls' SHS
    - Winneba secondary school
    - Apam Seconda ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    Some of Kwame Nkrumah’s Achievements to Ghana in the space of 6 years Ghana 60's

    - University Of Cape Coast (UCC)
    - Ghana National College, Cape Coast
    - Mfantsiman Girls' SHS
    - Winneba secondary school
    - Apam Seconda ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    Some of Kwame Nkrumah’s Achievements to Ghana in the space of 6 years Ghana 60's

    - University Of Cape Coast (UCC)
    - Ghana National College, Cape Coast
    - Mfantsiman Girls' SHS
    - Winneba secondary school
    - Apam Seconda ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    ===AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFF ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    Akuffo Addo used us ASHANTIS 8000% for the 8 YEARS. Yesterday- I WAS VERY SAD. IF I GET THE CHANCE TO MEET TANI, ARROGANT, WEE SMOKER DISMISSED FROM THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN HIS FIRST SEMESTER, After attending Lancing College ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    In 1964, J B Danquah was caught conniving with the CIA to overthrow our democracy. J B Danquah had a speech prepared when Dr Kwame Nkrumah was nearly assassinated and bombed several times-leading to several Ghanaians dying th ...
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  • YAW 1 day ago

    It is all a pack of lies!!! Nkrumah was given the name OSAGYEFO by the Okuapeman state linguist - Okyeame Akuffo - as he poured libation in prayer for Nkrumah!!! It is NEVER true that the Ashantis gave him that title!!!! You ...
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  • The Spear 22 hours ago

    Nii Moi is quoting from the book he read (That's where he actually saw the info), and that he may not have had access to the information you're giving, so why blame him?

  • Nsia 21 hours ago

    @YAW, massa, just bugger -off with your ahistorical piffle,will you? When ignoble and utterly useless Kofi Busia and his bunch of nation wreckers went on a destruction spree and burnt every damn thing that Kwame Nkrumah had, ...
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  • Augustina Quayson President 18 hours ago

    Please Yaw, the title Osagyefo was given to Nkrumah by Otumfour Sir Osei Agyemang Prempeh 11.Please see page 163 Private Secretary (Female)\ Gold Coast by ERICA POWELL and page 125 of Kwame Nkrumah A Biography by Jun ...
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  • Augustina Quayson President 18 hours ago

    Please Yaw, the title Osagyefo was given to Nkrumah by Otumfour Sir Osei Agyemang Prempeh 11.Please see page 163 Private Secretary (Female)\ Gold Coast by ERICA POWELL and page 125 of Kwame Nkrumah A Biography by Jun ...
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  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    1. Dr Kwame Nkrumah was arrested and put into PRISON-He sacrificed his life for his country Ghana-Nkrumah-NEVER STOLE-DID NOT BUILD ONE ROOM FOR HIMSELF.
    2. NELSON MANDELA-was arrested and put into prison for 27 years-HE SAC ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day 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.
    The Whites or England left Ghana with NO EDUCATION FOR OUR MASSES AND MASSES OF OUR PEOPLE. ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    Some of Kwame Nkrumah’s Achievements to Ghana in the space of 6 years Ghana 60's

    - University Of Cape Coast (UCC)
    - Ghana National College, Cape Coast
    - Mfantsiman Girls' SHS
    - Winneba secondary school
    - Apam Seconda ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    Some of Kwame Nkrumah’s Achievements to Ghana in the space of 6 years Ghana 60's

    - University Of Cape Coast (UCC)
    - Ghana National College, Cape Coast
    - Mfantsiman Girls' SHS
    - Winneba secondary school
    - Apam Seconda ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    ===AKUFFO ADDO STOLE GHANA MONEY £900 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    KEN OFORI ATTA STOLE GHANA MONEY £400 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    ATTA KYEA-AKUFFO ADDO BROTHER STOLE GHANA MONEY £650 MILLION POUNDS STERLING

    EDWARD AKUFF ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    Akuffo Addo used us ASHANTIS 8000% for the 8 YEARS. Yesterday- I WAS VERY SAD. IF I GET THE CHANCE TO MEET TANI, ARROGANT, WEE SMOKER DISMISSED FROM THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN HIS FIRST SEMESTER, After attending Lancing College ...
    read full comment

  • K Poku-London-UK 1 day ago

    In 1964, J B Danquah was caught conniving with the CIA to overthrow our democracy. J B Danquah had a speech prepared when Dr Kwame Nkrumah was nearly assassinated and bombed several times-leading to several Ghanaians dying th ...
    read full comment

  • Zinc 23 hours ago

    Poor article. It did not tell us the meaning of Osagyefo in English. Osagyefo means: The liberator of the multitude.
    The name was Nsurmah (START) , not Nkrumah... it was the colonial masters who pronounced it Nkrumah.,

  • Nsia 21 hours ago

    @Zinc, it will help if you keep your extreme ignorance to yourself. You will blame the British for your erectile dysfunction. What a load of pure unadulterated nonsense!
    Nkrumah, changed his orignal Nzema spelling of his ...
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  • Zinc 23 hours ago

    The name was Nsurmah (STAR)

  • Kwame Peter 23 hours ago

    Zinc,Nkrumah in Akan means either single child or ninth born,clarification please.

  • Augustina Quayson President 18 hours ago

    Please Nkrumah is the surname of the family
    Please all his father 's children bore the Nkrumah surname

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  • Kofi Kakraba 23 hours ago

    Where was Chief linguist Baffour Akoto?Did the Asantehene ever publicly appreciate KN? The CPP rooted the appelation. Period

  • Augustina Quayson President 10 hours ago

    Please after the battle, normalcy returned.At his installation as President of Ghana, Nkrumah invited Otumfour Sir Osei Agyemang Prempeh 11 and President Ahmed Sekou of Guinea as the two special guests. President Nk ...
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  • GOLDEN 21 hours ago

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  • Asante Kingdom 20 hours ago

    Asante Kingdom

  • Kankan nyame 20 hours ago

    Bull shit story

  • Ghabay NY. 18 hours ago

    Some idiot was saying. Ewes are the bravest tribe in Ghana. I laughed and shook my head,cause he don't know what he's saying. The Ashanti empire stretched from Ivory Coast to present day Benin,all through fighting and conquer ...
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  • Augustina Quayson President 18 hours ago

    Please the title Osagyefo was given to Nkrumah by Otumfour Sir Osei Agyemang Prempeh 11.Please see page 163 of Private Secretary ( Female)/Gold Coast by ERICA POWELL and page 125 of Kwame Nkrumah A Biography by June ...
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  • BlaqueMarque 16 hours ago

    Oh Dr Moi Moi Thompson, thanks for this pièce of history. I personally met and knew June Milne. She lived in Flat 6 while my Dad was in Flat 2 when we relocated to live with him at Ridge, just next to where the National Insu ...
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  • NAF, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, USA 10 hours ago

    DR KWAME NKRUMAH, SECOND TO NONE! A TRUE AFRICAN PATRIOT! NO WONDER OTUMFUO SIR NANA AGYEMAN PREMPEH DESERVEDLY GAVE HIM THE TITLE "OSAGYEFO" BECAUSE OB3GYEE NE MAN GHANA! REST IN PERFECT PEACE GREAT ONE!!!

  • Kwame Saka 9 hours ago

    A pack of lies. Read Tawia Adamafios book. He states unequivocally that Nkrumah bestowed the Osagyefo on himself.

  • OGyam 8 hours ago

    @Kwame, Adamafio's opinion is about useful as sandwich with cocroach in it. Of course , to an idiot like you, it is a piece of knowledge. Just keep that "Nkwaseasem" in your family of idiots. Ye da wo ase paaa!

  • Baba Siaka Stevens 6 hours ago

    Asantes and Akans in general are the true owners of Ghana, the rest are Aliens especially the inward looking Ayigbes who hates Akans like the cat who hate the mouse, no wonder they consume cats like roadside kelewrele

  • Akua Adutwumwaa 3 hours ago

    Nobody ever gave the Title OSAGYEFO to Kwame Nkrumah. 'OSAGYEFO' has been the Title for the Ofori Panin Stool of AKYEM ABUAKWA since the ages, like OTUMFOUR for Asantehene Kwame Nkrumah exiled Osagyefo Ofori Atta II (known i ...
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