Nelson Mandela to be buried in Qunu ancestral home

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• Joe Turkey 12 years ago

  And no new cemetery had to be created by overzealous revolutionaries.

  And no new cemetery had to be created by overzealous revolutionaries.

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• Branner 12 years ago

  RIP

  RIP

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• GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 12 years ago

  REPATRIATE NKRUMAH N MILLS BODY BACK TO THEIR BIRTHPLACES. ACCRA IS NOT A CEMETARY FOR DIGNITARIES. I HAVE SAID THIS OVER N OVER....WEN NWILL THESE PRIMTIVE PPL EVER LEARN? THANK YOU....

  REPATRIATE NKRUMAH N MILLS BODY BACK TO THEIR BIRTHPLACES. ACCRA IS NOT A CEMETARY FOR DIGNITARIES. I HAVE SAID THIS OVER N OVER....WEN NWILL THESE PRIMTIVE PPL EVER LEARN? THANK YOU....

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• NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 12 years ago

  Thank God that Nelson Mandela'S burial ceremony has shown the whole world that NOT all Africans are as barbaric as Ghanaians Akans, who usually used "innocent human beings" to bury their chiefs in Ashanti Region. You can tell ...
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  Thank God that Nelson Mandela'S burial ceremony has shown the whole world that NOT all Africans are as barbaric as Ghanaians Akans, who usually used "innocent human beings" to bury their chiefs in Ashanti Region. You can tell from the simple and prestigious burial ceremony of the great Madiba, that his burial is far greater than all the so-called Akans chiefs put together.
  
  I do hope that those homo Akan bastard boys calling themselve CONTEMNOR AND ROMANO, with their sidekick DEMENTED Abeoku, would learn a lesson or the other from the burial of the great Nelson Mandela, NO that 'innocent persons' should loose their lives as sacrificial objects for the burial of any Akan chief. Need l say more?

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• PRINCE KWASI ADADE 12 years ago

  GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE NANA ADDO IF HE GIVES UP THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NPP PARTY. HIS LEADERHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC ...
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  GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE NANA ADDO IF HE GIVES UP THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NPP PARTY. HIS LEADERHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS.WE CAN'T PUT OUR TRUST IN THESE YOUNG NDC THIEVES (WITH NO WORK RECORD) WHO WANT TO LIVE LIKE KINGS OVERNIGHT, OWNING JETS, BIG MANSIONS, ROLLS ROYCE, DATING MODELS ETC. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR. BEING A PRESIDENT REQUIRES THE USE OF BRAIN NOT BRAWN. A PRESIDENT DOES NOT "THROW" PICK AXE!!! WHO CAN DO THE JOB BETTER THAN NANA, AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHERE GREEDY CORRUPT , SHARP TEETH ROTTEN PLANK NDC SMALL BOYS, PARADING AS POLITICIANS, HAVE PLUNDERED OUR RESOURCES TO THE BONE, THAT OUR OIL ECONOMY INHERITED FROM THE GREAT KUFFOUR HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY???? LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NANA ADDO. MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS!! EVERY THIEF IN GHANA, TODAY, IS SCARED OF BOLD AND MIGHTY NANA ADDO.

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• NAKED 12 years ago

  The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
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  The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.
  
  We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.
  
  According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.
  
  I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?
  
  If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).
  
  In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]
  
  A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).
  
  The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]
  
  That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]
  
  LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]
  
  Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?

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• NAKED 12 years ago

  The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
  read full comment

  The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.
  
  We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.
  
  According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.
  
  I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?
  
  If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).
  
  In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]
  
  A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).
  
  The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]
  
  That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]
  
  LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]
  
  Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?

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• ike 12 years ago

  I thank God for giving Africa such a wonderful leader; a servant selfless leader. Tata, the world will always remember you. RIP. my icon.

  I thank God for giving Africa such a wonderful leader; a servant selfless leader. Tata, the world will always remember you. RIP. my icon.

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• sammy 12 years ago

  thank God no additional cemeteries were dug out of stupid and senseless decisions

  thank God no additional cemeteries were dug out of stupid and senseless decisions

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• KOJO DARKO, Indiana 12 years ago

  Sammy you know, I said BULLSHIT to FANTE people when I read abt the cemeteries and tombs for Atta-mills. they should have said; NO WE NEED OUR HERO.(if he was)but fante people........anyway that's the way Totobi kwakye thems ...
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  Sammy you know, I said BULLSHIT to FANTE people when I read abt the cemeteries and tombs for Atta-mills. they should have said; NO WE NEED OUR HERO.(if he was)but fante people........anyway that's the way Totobi kwakye thems made some money into their pockets. APES

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• j0eY L0nd0n 12 years ago

  Did Mills told you guys he wanted his final resting place to be in Cape coast?
  A few days ago we read about a pastor, who wanted to pray for a government installation, all this pastor recieved for his proposal was a bag fu ...
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  Did Mills told you guys he wanted his final resting place to be in Cape coast?
  A few days ago we read about a pastor, who wanted to pray for a government installation, all this pastor recieved for his proposal was a bag full of worms yet we are reading about a traditional burial mixed with western ideas yet none of you can take a clue out of this ..
  
  you guys was

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• Say Akiba 12 years ago

  Will you shut the fuck up? Do you know our custom and tradition? Ours is different from Togo.

  Will you shut the fuck up? Do you know our custom and tradition? Ours is different from Togo.

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• Say Akiba 12 years ago

  Ndc is out of this w--o--r--l--d.

  Ndc is out of this w--o--r--l--d.

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• Papa Yaw 12 years ago

  How

  How

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• Papa Yaw 12 years ago

  How

  How

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• Say Akiba 12 years ago

  This is a very big disgrace to the family of prof.Mills and the whole of the central region.I have never heard of a president being buried in a strangeland other than his own home town not even in the western world.Dr. Nkruma ...
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  This is a very big disgrace to the family of prof.Mills and the whole of the central region.I have never heard of a president being buried in a strangeland other than his own home town not even in the western world.Dr. Nkrumah was brought to Ghana after his death by Gen.Kutu Acheampong and buried in his home town of Nkroful but under strange circumstances his family gave his body up to Rawlings to be reburied in another region where he doesn't come from, I don't know how some people are easily to be convinced to do the unthinkable.Its so so sad.

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