Prof. Awoonor's body to be cremated

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Alugu 12 years ago

Nyidewu xede nyuie.......

Nyidewu xede nyuie.......
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Akan hater with exception of the Atta Mills lazy Fantes.

Akan hater with exception of the Atta Mills lazy Fantes.
Mends, The Lone Ranger. 12 years ago

Why waste the carcass of this bigot by wasting electricity cremating it? The carcass could be fed to the vultures.

Why waste the carcass of this bigot by wasting electricity cremating it? The carcass could be fed to the vultures.
MINOR CASE 12 years ago

Yes , he was a divisive bigot which we all know , except his kind , but we all " have sinned and come short of the glory of God" . May the Lord have mercy on his soul.

Yes , he was a divisive bigot which we all know , except his kind , but we all " have sinned and come short of the glory of God" . May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

Such a Nice gentleman and academic we lost.

Such a Nice gentleman and academic we lost.
NEMESIS, UK 12 years ago

OMG! I thought these evil Asshantis only hated Nigerians out of ignorance and jealousy for Nigerians' prosperity, but the 'VENOM' being spewed against their fellow citizen Prof Kofi Awonoor, who was murdered by Al-Shebab terr ...
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OMG! I thought these evil Asshantis only hated Nigerians out of ignorance and jealousy for Nigerians' prosperity, but the 'VENOM' being spewed against their fellow citizen Prof Kofi Awonoor, who was murdered by Al-Shebab terrorists in Kenya, was beyond human comprehension. No wonder, when these evil Asshantis violently deported Nigerians from Ghana during the EVIL Busia ACO in the 60s, (and STOLE their properties and shared them amongst themselves), I thought, well...maybe Nigerians faced such (horrible and barbaric experience at the hands of these WICKED Asshantis), because they are not natives of Ghana.

However, with the current sort of HATRED, VILIFICATION AND POISONOUS VENOM' from these HORRIBLE Asshantis to their fellow citizen late Prof Awonoor, then who need an ENEMY, when you are 'UNFORTUNATE' to have Asshantis as your fellow citizens. Shame on you Asshantis BIGOTS. Thank God I'm PROUDLY Nigerian. RIP Prof Awonoor.
OLD SOLDIER 12 years ago

HE WENT TO KENYA TO PREPARE FOR WAR ON GHANA AFTER THE SC VERDIC IF IT HAD GONE AGAINST MAHAMA.

HE WENT TO KENYA TO PREPARE FOR WAR ON GHANA AFTER THE SC VERDIC IF IT HAD GONE AGAINST MAHAMA.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Nemesis,

You have been long on Ghanaweb and you didn't know the extent of their hatred and venom for Ewes, not only Awoonor? Hmm! let me post something small for you to read, then you'd know that their bile has been green ...
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Nemesis,

You have been long on Ghanaweb and you didn't know the extent of their hatred and venom for Ewes, not only Awoonor? Hmm! let me post something small for you to read, then you'd know that their bile has been green for a long, long time.

Andy-K
Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

Awoonor, why all the people agitating
about you,their works shall follow
you.RIP.

Awoonor, why all the people agitating
about you,their works shall follow
you.RIP.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

IN brief, this is just an introduction to what Awoonor wrote against, thereby incurring their wrath up to today. They have vindicated him several times over by their vitriol so far.

Andy-K

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHAN ...
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IN brief, this is just an introduction to what Awoonor wrote against, thereby incurring their wrath up to today. They have vindicated him several times over by their vitriol so far.

Andy-K

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!
Me zu kluvi
The road to Kontsiabu
Strewn with gold dusts.
Only those without
in their eyes gold dusts
felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…

then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.

Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.

In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.

Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.

Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.

I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “ekpelekpedzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordiale to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!

Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.

Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.

From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:

"Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."

The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.

As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants of Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?

We read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:
“We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
(Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself..” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)

And so on it went. I can make long comments on the above quotes but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast.

One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra; better still, Ayawaso! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another, story.

THE EWE BACKLASH

By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyi, as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.

Then come the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup, which increasingly took an ethnic tone. My own father was a sacrificial victim. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:

“A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. ‘Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)

Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.

The interested reader is referred to the link on the Internet to read an extended abstract of the book in order to get a fuller understanding of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana and so be able to compare events from then and now and subsequent analysis.

Dennis Austin - 1976 - Political Science - 199 pages
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=084190278X...

In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.
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Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
cyandyk@ymail.com

References:

Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
Manchester Univ. Press.
Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.

Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Who is misusing my name? Only the Webmaster can tell!

Who is misusing my name? Only the Webmaster can tell!
Ibn Batuta 12 years ago

Only the laziest impostor will co-opt somebody's name to engage in a cowardly tribe mongering. You are the lowest of the low "Akadu Mensema"

Only the laziest impostor will co-opt somebody's name to engage in a cowardly tribe mongering. You are the lowest of the low "Akadu Mensema"
Joy 12 years ago

When I was a graduate student at Princeton, in my first year, I visited Bronx where my sister was living in the same apartment complex with Prof Kofi Awoonor. At the time, he was lecturing part time at Columbia and pursuing h ...
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When I was a graduate student at Princeton, in my first year, I visited Bronx where my sister was living in the same apartment complex with Prof Kofi Awoonor. At the time, he was lecturing part time at Columbia and pursuing his final ph.d. dissertation. What I remember about him is that he would often speak FANTI to my sister encouraging her to be closer to his wife rather than the other gullible, gossipy Ghanaians in the same complex because he found my sister articulate and educated.

I spoke often with him in Fanti and he was full of excitement whenever Ghana came up. Even at that time he did not look that old; I am surprised that he was 78.

May he rest in peace - those who knew him up close really considered him classy and he fitted into many Ghanaian ethnic groups because he spoke so many Ghana languages.... it was always difficult to pin him as an Ewe. His English was nothing like an ewe accent!!!

Kofi was not a tribalist, he might have been a nationalist. Certainly he was more Ghanaian than most, and it is a fact from those who knew him that he was not ewe-phobic, if there is such a thing!!
Ghana ba 12 years ago

hell on earth. devil from volta

hell on earth. devil from volta
tony 12 years ago

I am pretty sure you are one those blakies descendants from the Gorillas of Ashanti deep forests. This is the reason we, proud Ewe (hanson & beautiful with fair skin)hate you akans & ashantis: we have decided not to you Ashan ...
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I am pretty sure you are one those blakies descendants from the Gorillas of Ashanti deep forests. This is the reason we, proud Ewe (hanson & beautiful with fair skin)hate you akans & ashantis: we have decided not to you Ashantis to continue to kill us like those bastards of afrifa & co killed my uncle Gen Kotoka like an akuko (chicken). Never it won’t happen again and you hadn't see anything with Fo Rawlings, Foga Tsikata the elder and lawyer Tsatsu who just won the third round of judgment against the ashantis in the recent election petition. ashantis have proved to the whole world that they are unintelligent (having not eaten fish for its oil) by pushing their tribal party to go to court for an election soundly fair. We will damn & confront you from any corner. My advice to you is to stop eating monkey (nam) your close parents, for male gorillas from the forest have fathered your great ancestors because of low count sperm. Stop eating okissinam and other bush meats. As you came to steal all the lands in Accra from those other bastards Gaa, try to eat more fish for its oil so your kids will be genus learning krata (paper) like the Awoonors, Tsikatas, Anyidohos. Go learn your history, blackie okuafo (not kuffor) abuafo. Your origin is in south Soudan if you don’t know, go learn about your legend and history . No more Kotoka style killing.
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THOSE HE CONDERNMED TO DEATH, WILL CELEBRATE IN THEIR GRAVES. THIS ANIMAL ARRESTED AMEDUME AND KILLED HIM WHY? AMEDUME CRIME WAS THAT A LOT OF ASHANTIS HAD BEEN KILLED SO THEY NEED ONE EWE TO PEACE THE ASHANTIS.SUCH EVIL PERS ...
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THOSE HE CONDERNMED TO DEATH, WILL CELEBRATE IN THEIR GRAVES. THIS ANIMAL ARRESTED AMEDUME AND KILLED HIM WHY? AMEDUME CRIME WAS THAT A LOT OF ASHANTIS HAD BEEN KILLED SO THEY NEED ONE EWE TO PEACE THE ASHANTIS.SUCH EVIL PERSON DOESN'T NEED TO BE BURRIED BUT CREMATE.AWOONOR BEGINS HIS DAY OF FIRE HERE GOOD FOR THE GUY WHO BROUGHT THIS IDEA.I DON'T KNOW MAJOR FERI'S CRIME.OH LORD HAVE MERCY
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

Ghanaians should emulate this and put their house” in order” before death comes calling. Mills knew he was dying but did not make his wishes known, so resulting in so much confusion. Awoonor, spelled out how he wanted hi ...
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Ghanaians should emulate this and put their house” in order” before death comes calling. Mills knew he was dying but did not make his wishes known, so resulting in so much confusion. Awoonor, spelled out how he wanted his funeral and even has a will -- kudos to that.
Kofi 12 years ago

Didn't Mills leave us a letter that was telling us where he was?

Didn't Mills leave us a letter that was telling us where he was?
Artison 12 years ago

Devil worshipers know when their time is up. It is spelled out in the contract they sign with the devil.

Devil worshipers know when their time is up. It is spelled out in the contract they sign with the devil.
Alugu 12 years ago

Keep thinking you'll live foerever...

Keep thinking you'll live foerever...

ASEMPA NEYE 12 years ago

AWOONOR THE EWE TRIBALIST FROM TOGO

AWOONOR THE EWE TRIBALIST FROM TOGO
MINOR CASE 12 years ago

Does not want " strangers to see his body " I bet he wants only Ewes to see his body. Strangers will spit on his body. Let us all forgive him and move on as one people .

Does not want " strangers to see his body " I bet he wants only Ewes to see his body. Strangers will spit on his body. Let us all forgive him and move on as one people .
Create, loot and share 12 years ago

Strangers will surely spit at him.

Real fire awaits him in hell. Who born dog - killer of a nursing mother.

Strangers will surely spit at him.

Real fire awaits him in hell. Who born dog - killer of a nursing mother.
Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

Let us see the Will,Awoonors,Will and
not tobe told, in a flash.No stranger
to view his Body,why.

Let us see the Will,Awoonors,Will and
not tobe told, in a flash.No stranger
to view his Body,why.
Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

That is his choice but nobody.

That is his choice but nobody.
Ka Na Wu 12 years ago

Who cares the ewes can share the body among themselves and eat it.

Who cares the ewes can share the body among themselves and eat it.
Julor Agyekum Kwakwe JAK 12 years ago

The backward ugly Ashantis are at it again, pathetic idiots!

The backward ugly Ashantis are at it again, pathetic idiots!
Efo 12 years ago

What has this Ewe hero got to do with noble Ashantis. Is it the reason why all ewe mafia went to welcome body at the airport? IDIOTS and inward looking people.

What has this Ewe hero got to do with noble Ashantis. Is it the reason why all ewe mafia went to welcome body at the airport? IDIOTS and inward looking people.
ASEMPA NEYE 12 years ago

To those of your generation who don't know, this man lived by the sword and therefore died by the sword! he was full of hatred in his heart for Ashantis and Akans in general and together with the rest of the Dzulakofe mafia ( ...
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To those of your generation who don't know, this man lived by the sword and therefore died by the sword! he was full of hatred in his heart for Ashantis and Akans in general and together with the rest of the Dzulakofe mafia (Kojo Tsikata, Tatsu Tsikata and the rest) masterminded the killing of prominent Ashantis like Gen. Afrifa etc. It's the long arm of God's justice that has taken him away. Look at where he fell; far away from home. We shed no tears for a quintinessential tribalist like Kofi Awoonor!
savvy 12 years ago

Pro you shall forever be remembered in the heart of Ghanaian s and Africans as well,we all are aware that before we were not there and now we are,so we shall not be there again someday,God love's you more than we do.

Pro you shall forever be remembered in the heart of Ghanaian s and Africans as well,we all are aware that before we were not there and now we are,so we shall not be there again someday,God love's you more than we do.

Akoto 12 years ago

If the body is to be crmemated, what is the family going to burry?

If the body is to be crmemated, what is the family going to burry?
Not the end 12 years ago

Buddy, you are right. Thw writter confused readers. Perhaps the writter tries to tell readers that after burning, the ash shall be buried!

Buddy, you are right. Thw writter confused readers. Perhaps the writter tries to tell readers that after burning, the ash shall be buried!
adwoa 12 years ago

your story does not tally with heading. Ghanaweb wake up.

your story does not tally with heading. Ghanaweb wake up.
Paa Kow 12 years ago

Very sad news. How can this be possible. The article says that in his will he stated to be cremated, but in the last sentence, he will also to be buried at a site he specifically chooses...so which is which?

Very sad news. How can this be possible. The article says that in his will he stated to be cremated, but in the last sentence, he will also to be buried at a site he specifically chooses...so which is which?
Tabia. 12 years ago

The writer is misleading us with the last statement

The writer is misleading us with the last statement
Maame Grace 12 years ago

Yes the ashes can be buried or scattered on the Volta lake

Yes the ashes can be buried or scattered on the Volta lake
ASEMPA NEYE 12 years ago

HE STOOD BESIDE RAWLINGS AND SAID THAT THE AIM OF THE REVOLUTION WAS TO TAKE AWAY AKANS INFLUENSE IN GHANA ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTIS HE GREATELY REJOYCED WHEN RAWLINGS SLAUGHTERED TWO HEADS OF STATES AND SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIA ...
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HE STOOD BESIDE RAWLINGS AND SAID THAT THE AIM OF THE REVOLUTION WAS TO TAKE AWAY AKANS INFLUENSE IN GHANA ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTIS HE GREATELY REJOYCED WHEN RAWLINGS SLAUGHTERED TWO HEADS OF STATES AND SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIALS 90% OF WHOM WERE NON EWES
IN ONE OF HIS WRITINGS HE SAID THAT HE WAS AN EWE FIRST BEFORE GHANA.
LET THE LORG JUDGE HIM!
Nana Antwi-Berko 12 years ago

An Ewe first before Ghana. And what is wrong with that? It's simple logic, you certainly need knowledge to understand, you fool call asempa neye!

An Ewe first before Ghana. And what is wrong with that? It's simple logic, you certainly need knowledge to understand, you fool call asempa neye!
Master & Commander 12 years ago

Why are you using Akan name? Awona nii aboa.

Why are you using Akan name? Awona nii aboa.
ASEMPA NEYE 12 years ago

GO BACK TO TOGO YOU USELESS PATHOLOGICAL THIEVES.

GO BACK TO TOGO YOU USELESS PATHOLOGICAL THIEVES.
ENYE ASEMPA 12 years ago

He is going to wait for Rawlings to join him in staging a coup against Satan and take over leadership in Hell. Satan better watch out.

He is going to wait for Rawlings to join him in staging a coup against Satan and take over leadership in Hell. Satan better watch out.
Matthew 12 years ago

How can a body that will be cremated "be buried at a site he specifically chose in his will"? This does not make sense. Clearly this is a false story.

How can a body that will be cremated "be buried at a site he specifically chose in his will"? This does not make sense. Clearly this is a false story.
Ilunga 12 years ago

Simple reasoning

Simple reasoning
Meseneo UK 12 years ago

dzudzor le nutifafa me!!! Mawu nenor kpli wo miaga kpe!!....RIP n God be with u till we meet again !!!A mighty tree has indeed fallen!!!

dzudzor le nutifafa me!!! Mawu nenor kpli wo miaga kpe!!....RIP n God be with u till we meet again !!!A mighty tree has indeed fallen!!!
BLACK-STAR-COAST 12 years ago

POR AMOR DE DIOS,PERO,SUS DECISIONES
ES RESPECTADO,AND ACCEPTADO EN EL MUNDO
DEMOCRATICA,

POR AMOR DE DIOS,PERO,SUS DECISIONES
ES RESPECTADO,AND ACCEPTADO EN EL MUNDO
DEMOCRATICA,
KoBO 12 years ago

Wow, Kojo still around and managing his own affair? That is a good statesman

Wow, Kojo still around and managing his own affair? That is a good statesman
Kofi 12 years ago

"Per the poet’s wishes, as contained in his will, his body is not to be seen by strangers". Did he die in his family home? Didn't he die among srangers? Man proposes but God disposes.

"Per the poet’s wishes, as contained in his will, his body is not to be seen by strangers". Did he die in his family home? Didn't he die among srangers? Man proposes but God disposes.
Create, loot and share 12 years ago

Even in death he is still a tribal bigot. Do we have strangers in Ghana? His doors are still closed to non-ewes.

Even in death he is still a tribal bigot. Do we have strangers in Ghana? His doors are still closed to non-ewes.
Kwesi 12 years ago

Kofi this is great observation. The man died in the middle of strangers. In fact killed by the strangest of strangers, probably dragged by strangers to the morgue, handled by strangers, carried by strangers to the coffin and ...
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Kofi this is great observation. The man died in the middle of strangers. In fact killed by the strangest of strangers, probably dragged by strangers to the morgue, handled by strangers, carried by strangers to the coffin and to the airport. the body arrives in Ghana and we are told, he willed that his body should not be seen by strangers. Which strangers? This and the story of the scar on the forehead are just attempts to create a myth. The truth is that nobody knows where he will die and how. we can only give glory to God. Myth making is empty.
Banza Yaro 12 years ago

He chose cremation so that his body would not be dug up and defiled by the people he hated so badly. The secret site he chose to have his ashes stored is going to be some where in one of the akan regions where he knows for a ...
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He chose cremation so that his body would not be dug up and defiled by the people he hated so badly. The secret site he chose to have his ashes stored is going to be some where in one of the akan regions where he knows for a fact will be the last place his enemies will look to track his evil soul.
NEWBASKY 12 years ago

Strangers in Nairobi have already seen his body so there is no point publishing his last wish which has already been violated by the Creator. Man proposes, God disposes.

Strangers in Nairobi have already seen his body so there is no point publishing his last wish which has already been violated by the Creator. Man proposes, God disposes.
xxxxx 12 years ago

Kwesi,
You make a great point. Very funny if it was not so tragic.....

Kwesi,
You make a great point. Very funny if it was not so tragic.....
Kwesi 12 years ago

If his body is to be cremated, how about the burial place specifically chosen by him. Does it really matter where ashes are buried?

If his body is to be cremated, how about the burial place specifically chosen by him. Does it really matter where ashes are buried?
GEORGE BEE 12 years ago

Even in death those enemies are insulting you. They are really callous. Prof Kofi Awoonor fare thee well. Adieu

Even in death those enemies are insulting you. They are really callous. Prof Kofi Awoonor fare thee well. Adieu
Frederick quaye 12 years ago

May he rest in peace

May he rest in peace
Frederick quaye 12 years ago

We will all miss he ,he is a great man,indeed

We will all miss he ,he is a great man,indeed
Appletus 12 years ago

If he is cremated , can he be buried too?

If he is cremated , can he be buried too?
Nana Danso 12 years ago

The propagandist are at it again. Its a shame.

The propagandist are at it again. Its a shame.
Joe Dee 12 years ago

Does not want his body to be seen by strangers. How about the Kenyans who saw his dead body after he got shot? Just wondering.

Does not want his body to be seen by strangers. How about the Kenyans who saw his dead body after he got shot? Just wondering.
Agonaba 12 years ago

"And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age" (Genesis 15:15). God's direction to Abram was that his body should be buried. We conclude that God ordained burial for the body. Abram unders ...
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"And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age" (Genesis 15:15). God's direction to Abram was that his body should be buried. We conclude that God ordained burial for the body. Abram understood God and buried his dead wife (Genesis 23:19). Later Isaac and Ishmael buried their father Abraham (Abram) alongside his wife Sarah (Genesis 25:9,10). The Bible records the burial of Rachel, Leah, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, Miriam, Aaron, Joshua, Gideon, Samson, Samuel, David, Solomon, Elisha, and many others whose names are too many to mention. It is also written of Joseph, "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt." (Genesis 50:26). God Himself buried Moses on the top of Mt. Nebo after his death (Deuteronomy 34:5,6).
Papa Yaw 12 years ago

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