2,300 Togolese refugees to be integrated

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foreman 11 years ago

NDC tricks to win votes.

NDC tricks to win votes.
ASEM 11 years ago

WHAT ABOUT OTHER REFUGEES IN OTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY..? LIKE IVORY COAST PEOPLE IN WESTERN REGION...?...INTEGRATION INDEED...

WHAT ABOUT OTHER REFUGEES IN OTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY..? LIKE IVORY COAST PEOPLE IN WESTERN REGION...?...INTEGRATION INDEED...
Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

Does Ghana government really needs integration of TOGOLESE REFUGEES? What is going on in Togo that there should be those refugees from Togo? Are we just adding to the unemployment situation or the government is doing that for ...
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Does Ghana government really needs integration of TOGOLESE REFUGEES? What is going on in Togo that there should be those refugees from Togo? Are we just adding to the unemployment situation or the government is doing that for votes. Mahama needs to think of Ghana first.
DAVI 11 years ago

THIS IS THE REASON WHY,GENUINE GHANAIANS MUST WAKE UP,STOP THE HATE,ENVY AND VOTE WISELY,SMART,FOR COMPETENT TEAM AND TAKE THEIR COUNTRY BACK.NDC GANG ARE NATION WRECKERS.

THIS IS THE REASON WHY,GENUINE GHANAIANS MUST WAKE UP,STOP THE HATE,ENVY AND VOTE WISELY,SMART,FOR COMPETENT TEAM AND TAKE THEIR COUNTRY BACK.NDC GANG ARE NATION WRECKERS.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

NDC GHANA'S ENIMY NDC NATION WRECKERS! WELCOMING IMMIGRANT GIVEN THE PASSPORT ON A SILVER PLATER! NO TOGOLESE WILL BE PROUD TO BE A GHANAIAN! ALL OVER THE WORLD YOU WILL MEET A TOGOLESE BORN AND BREAD IN GHANA WHO ALWAYS PREF ...
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NDC GHANA'S ENIMY NDC NATION WRECKERS! WELCOMING IMMIGRANT GIVEN THE PASSPORT ON A SILVER PLATER! NO TOGOLESE WILL BE PROUD TO BE A GHANAIAN! ALL OVER THE WORLD YOU WILL MEET A TOGOLESE BORN AND BREAD IN GHANA WHO ALWAYS PREFER TO DENIED THEIR GHANAIAN CONNECTION! EVEN MANY VOLTARIANS CLAIMED TOGO AT THE EXPENCE OF GHANA IN ABROAD! OH MOTHER GHANA BECAUSE OF POWER ANY FOOL CAN BE GHANAIAN NOW!
Kwame Nkrumah 11 years ago

Without war there will never be peace! foreigners can never decide for us! No foreigner must vote

Without war there will never be peace! foreigners can never decide for us! No foreigner must vote
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

Idiot! Who are you going to fight? Just fcuk off! A coward like you hiding behind a moniker??? Tweah!!!

It was just some few weeks ago when we heard of Liberian refugees being integrated in a similar manner. Why didn't yo ...
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Idiot! Who are you going to fight? Just fcuk off! A coward like you hiding behind a moniker??? Tweah!!!

It was just some few weeks ago when we heard of Liberian refugees being integrated in a similar manner. Why didn't you declare war then?

There was a time many Ghanaians of your ilk also sought refugee status in Togo. They were never subjected this sort of insults and attacks jaded and bigoted bastard like you on Ghanaweb dish out to Togolese.

And what about the 1000s of fake Ghanaian econ. refugees who spread to the whole world during the PNDC era? Are most of them not legally resident in those countries and voting?

You jerks should be ashamed of your ethnocentric and bigoted jingoism! You are worse than white racists!

Andy-K
Peter Pan 11 years ago

Ignorant intellectual calling somebody idiot and trying to lecture us on refugee! You dont even know all the rich countries have closed their doors! People like you are killing Ghana! Do you think a refugee can vote? hehehe! ...
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Ignorant intellectual calling somebody idiot and trying to lecture us on refugee! You dont even know all the rich countries have closed their doors! People like you are killing Ghana! Do you think a refugee can vote? hehehe! Or do you think they just give you stay just like that?!You yourself is economic refugee if you dont know so you dribled them to have stay! Which Ghanaian is a refugee,? Most Ghanaians are out for greener pastures if you dont know! Those lebanese are called immigrants they came with money to do business and their staying long has granted them that! Is there any problem in Togo,? Why cant they go back? Dont ever think those rich countries accept every refugee and alow them to stay, either you marry or you find contract job! They will take tiny 1 out of 100 and send the rest home, If you dont know ! So spare us your craps!Go to Togo , Cote D'Ivoir and even Nigeria and see how they treat Ghanaians, while you fools are here laughing and given them chances, selling road side fuel, doing black market etc ! can you do that as a ghanaian elsewhere? Travel and see
OSAGYEFO 11 years ago

MANY GHANAIANS ARE REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND YOU'RE STILL ACCEPTING REFUGEES FROM ANOTHER COUTRY, OH GHANA.

MANY GHANAIANS ARE REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND YOU'RE STILL ACCEPTING REFUGEES FROM ANOTHER COUTRY, OH GHANA.
ghana first 11 years ago

What do u know? u r a liar

What do u know? u r a liar

Yao 11 years ago

Well said BBC NEWS

Well said BBC NEWS
USA 11 years ago

Is there a war in Togo-land and why will government allow this things to happen.What is wrong with Togo now that it people have to seek refugees status in Ghana. Ndc is breeding these people to eventually rule Ghana. Sad and ...
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Is there a war in Togo-land and why will government allow this things to happen.What is wrong with Togo now that it people have to seek refugees status in Ghana. Ndc is breeding these people to eventually rule Ghana. Sad and stupid party full of people with no intelligence.
CORNEY 11 years ago

Frank,these people have been in Ghana since 1993 and 2005 so what is your problem of people who are already in the country most likely already working to formalize their stay?
Why you did not say the integration of Liberians ...
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Frank,these people have been in Ghana since 1993 and 2005 so what is your problem of people who are already in the country most likely already working to formalize their stay?
Why you did not say the integration of Liberians was also for votes?

For your information there is no refugee camp in the Volta Region to identify these people, they are already part of the Ghanaian community and still can easily go to Togo and back.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

Corney, sorry you did not get me. Why can't the government send them back. I have been to Lome a couple of times and nothing warrants a refugee status for them. There are many Ghanaians doing brisk business in Togo.
With the ...
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Corney, sorry you did not get me. Why can't the government send them back. I have been to Lome a couple of times and nothing warrants a refugee status for them. There are many Ghanaians doing brisk business in Togo.
With the issue of Liberians in Ghana, nad some MENDS people too in koforidua, I have been one the chief critics of why they should be entertained in Ghana. The Liberians were the ones who started armed robbery on the Accra-Cape Coast road. Even the Central region police commander want the Budumbura camp to be closed and demolished because of the high crimes and robbery in the area. When MENDS people settled in Koforidua, they were raping women, robbing and making the city ungovernable until they sent a police commander there who was a no nonsense man who brought a semblance of normalcy. In as much as I am for foreigners in Ghana, I want peace for my people. Can you imagine the number of Nigerians in Ghana engaged in illegal activities? Why then should we accept and accommodate them when we know they keep on flouting our rules. Corney tell me what is terribly wrong in Togo that those people should be given asylum status.
KOFI ABAS 11 years ago

Ghanaians are all over the world claiming asylum and integration? are u aware the world is now a global village?
on crimes, there are laws so u shd be fighting for implementation. not only foreigners are criminals. some Ghan ...
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Ghanaians are all over the world claiming asylum and integration? are u aware the world is now a global village?
on crimes, there are laws so u shd be fighting for implementation. not only foreigners are criminals. some Ghanaians are criminals too
Ka Na Wu 11 years ago

NDC fraud had begun

NDC fraud had begun
DAVI 11 years ago

THE TRUTH IS NOW OUT,THE REASON WHY NDC AND EC TO ALLOW THOSE WITH HEALTH CARD TO VOTE. OUR JUDGES AT S.C.MUST STAND UP AND SAVE GHANA FROM NDC FRAUD,BEFORE NDC AND AFRLED GYAN CREAT A BIG PROBLEM IN THE NATION.

THE TRUTH IS NOW OUT,THE REASON WHY NDC AND EC TO ALLOW THOSE WITH HEALTH CARD TO VOTE. OUR JUDGES AT S.C.MUST STAND UP AND SAVE GHANA FROM NDC FRAUD,BEFORE NDC AND AFRLED GYAN CREAT A BIG PROBLEM IN THE NATION.
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON 11 years ago

NDC WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE OUR PLANS! DURING LAST ELECTIONS WE TRAINED MEN AT POLING STATIONS! WE TELL THEM TO BOLD AND CLAIMED NPP SO THAT NPPs WILL NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY ARE CHEATED ! NOW WE ARE GOING TO SEE HOW THESE 2,300 REF ...
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NDC WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE OUR PLANS! DURING LAST ELECTIONS WE TRAINED MEN AT POLING STATIONS! WE TELL THEM TO BOLD AND CLAIMED NPP SO THAT NPPs WILL NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY ARE CHEATED ! NOW WE ARE GOING TO SEE HOW THESE 2,300 REFUGEES WILL VOTE FOR NDC! ANOTHERPLANS TOO ARE GOING ON! EDEY BE KEKE
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 11 years ago

DO WHAT IS NECESSARY! FIX THE ECONOMY! AS FOR THE REFUGEES ITS NOT THE FIRST TIME, YOU KOLA AND YOUR ANCESTORS WERE ALL IMMIGRANTS IN GHANA, THATS WHY AKANS CALLED YOU EWES FOREIGNERS! TOMMOROW THESE TOGOLESE REFUGEES WILL GE ...
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DO WHAT IS NECESSARY! FIX THE ECONOMY! AS FOR THE REFUGEES ITS NOT THE FIRST TIME, YOU KOLA AND YOUR ANCESTORS WERE ALL IMMIGRANTS IN GHANA, THATS WHY AKANS CALLED YOU EWES FOREIGNERS! TOMMOROW THESE TOGOLESE REFUGEES WILL GET BIG MOUTH AND AKANS WILL TELL THEM THIER HISTORY LIKE THEY ARE DOING TO YOU! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Kwame Nkrumah 11 years ago

All die be die T Shirts must be out now! Its tme to Die for Ghan from foreigners

All die be die T Shirts must be out now! Its tme to Die for Ghan from foreigners

C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

“THESE AKANS” AND THEIR HANGERS-ON

The long awaited searchlight on these particular breed of human kind is soon at hand. This is just an interlude to warm you up. It is opportune in the light of the current consternati ...
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“THESE AKANS” AND THEIR HANGERS-ON

The long awaited searchlight on these particular breed of human kind is soon at hand. This is just an interlude to warm you up. It is opportune in the light of the current consternation caused by the senseless and completely intellectually and academically bankrupt political puke vomited by Prof. Mike Ocquaye, a hanger-on, on us again. Enough! Is Enough!

It has now become normal that when one logs into the comments section of news posts and articles on Ghanaweb with intent to provide what one thinks are sensible comments, or find out what fellow Ghanaians think on the subjects at stake, one is NOT surprised at finding out that some jaded, dirty-minded, foul-mouthed, over-bloated and overrated, jealousy and envy-ridden Akan cyber trolls, have found the news or article as just another opportunity to heap insults and vituperation on Ewes with intent to demean and demonise them. “Northerners” have been added since President Mahama assumed the presidency. So to the Ayigbe this, trokosi that, we are now also greeted with pepeni this, ntafuor that. However, I won’t be concerned about the recent addition here.

For “these Akans,” no doubt some Asantes and others from within the former Asante Kingdom without a history of their own except that of Asante, being subjects and vassals, and their hangers-on, everything is about dissing Ewes as dirt and evil impersonated; while proclaiming at the same time that Ewes are dominating them in the civil and the security services besides other unfounded accusations. Some of them had even written books incorporating such accusations. This anti-Ewe vilification and demonisation, as I had shown elsewhere, were simply a fall-back on the virulent anti-Ewe campaign of Busia and his Progress Party during the 1969 General Elections against Gbedema’s National Alliance of Liberals which introduced the Akan/Ewe schism into Ghana’s politics, which is still lingering with us. Afterall, back in Ghana, some of their political leaders within the NPP which they invariably belong to, openly advocate attacking and killing Ewes! Too many people, including Ewes themselves, have become too comfy with these threats and insults which have been going on for decades now!

Some Ewes who think the minds of “these Akans” are impervious to reason have unfortunately also taken to wholesale insult of Asantes in particular, whereas a Bono jerk and a scion of former vassals like Osei Tawiah might be the offender. Or, even someone with origins from the Elmina area, known for their close historical links to the Asantes since the latter got the Notes to the Castles after the defeat of Ntim Gyakari might be the culprit. Of course, they were all known as Asantes before, including even the Denkyira rebels that joined the other Denkyira subjects to overthrow their king. Well, it is the collateral damage innocents suffer in case of conflicts like this; just as all Ewes are subjected to these insults, stereotyping and demonization because of the actions of a few. So, those smug ones who think they are above descending into the mud-pit shall have some mud hitting them too. Nobody shall be left unscathed.

Of course, these claims of dominance are not supported by any of the available statistical studies but was inbred into the psyche of “these Akans” by Dr Abrefa Kofi Busia and his Progress Party during the 1969 General Elections, the records of which I had drawn attention to several times by quoting Dennis Austin, even though the memories of that anti-Ewe campaign are indelibly implanted in the minds of some of us who were old enough to know what was going on. They have coined a word for it: “Ewenisation”! BUT then, curiously, they’d claim Ewes envy them (often mentioning Asantes as the major victims) when they are challenged! Envy them whaat??? When Ewes were supposed to occupy even ALL the late President Mills’ ministerial posts, as claimed by a Phd holder Kwabena Akurang-Parry, masquerading as Akadu Mensema, and many of “these Akans”, such as Justice Sarpong, were praising him for "telling the truth"??? What truth??? Such warped and convoluted thinking is hailed among them as articles of faith!

Some go about insulting Ewes as thieves. Now, if the prison population of Ghana is taken, can any one of you prove that Ewes dominate significantly those in prison for stealing? What about Ghanaians imprisoned abroad? Which ethnic group from Ghana predominates? Who are often cited among the most corrupt in Ghana?

I am sick and tired of this JJC sons of peasants, newly miseducated foolish and ignorant wannabes, constantly insulting we Ewes simply because they think, in their warped and prejudiced minds, that some Ewes have taken what belonged to them, presumed former overlords of what is now Ghana. So can anyone tell me what “these Akans” had which I, Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, a scion of Alfred K. Kwawukume of blessed memory; I, grandson of NC (Nathaniel Cooma) Kwawukume, Court Registrar and Chief of the Native Police of the Eastern Province, Keta, and of course, nephew of Torgbui Sri II KMAC, OBE, MCE, all of us who can trace our ancestry to the leader of all Ewes before they split up way back in history to far back in Nigeria, do not have and I envy? By the way, times have changed and so I have been eking out a living off my own business for over the past ten years in London. Not easy keeping my nose above the raging meltdown but I had given jobs to Sri Lankans, Nigerians and Ghanaians and survived the credit crunch while many didn’t! Hurraayy!

I won’t say I don’t know about how some other Ewes feel, and I speak for myself and family only. I know most don’t have a clue as to how to respond to these abuses. Glibly proclaiming, as the Anlos do, that they are just “dzimakplaviwo” – unbred people (which they are); “gbemelawo” – bush animals (which they are not despite the deceptive appearances of some); “egbe tso mo na wo” – bush has covered their faces (which is debatable); “mi da asi wo nu” - leave them (the docile and pathetic Don’t Mind Them Mentality Syndrome I have little respect for), are not the appropriate responses at this time in our association with the Akans, even if they were decades back when Ewes were first penetrating Akan areas after WW1. As for many non-Anlo Ewes, especially from northern Eweland, the problem is an Anlo one which is bringing opprobium on all Ewes, and they should deal with it. One of them, the late Dr Kodzi, even wrote a book in the 1990s in which he pointed out the Anlos as culprits to be targeted by “these Akans” in case of reprisal attacks being threatened from way back then, just as that demented man Kennedy Agyapong in Ghana recently advocated on air! Holy smokes! Can “these Akan” Avengers tell the difference between an Anloga man and a man from Hohoe? Neither is the renewed, open calls for secession (no longer a clandestine activity in the VR; perhaps, thanks to the demise of my notorious, secessionist busting uncle?), with same Antor’s divisive slant that derailed the Ewe Unification quest started by Torgbui Sri II in 1915, which will see the Anlo, Tongu and Peki areas left behind in Ghana, the way to go. “These Akans” will jump though with joy, and proclaim: good riddance! They won’t have that satisfaction though. I have what I think are the appropriate responses to them and the situation: the personal and collective. This one is personal - a case study you may call it - heralding the collective which comes later. Komla Dumor also did it his own way with his “Ayigbe Jokes” series on MyJoyFm in the late 1990s, in response to the wholesale abuse of Ewes in the pro-NPP press then, which mortified me tremendously. Something like that on radio in Norway would have seen him and his employers in jail!

So how many of the parents of “these Akans” could afford to buy and use a Mercedes from proceeds of their private enterprises like my late father did from 1960, after parking the Jeep he used in the North, when he and his British partner were liquidating the Gonja Settlement Scheme at Damongo on behalf of the departing colonial authority? Yes, we were there when President Mahama was born, just as two siblings after me at the same Government Hospital, no doubt. Were my father alive, I’d have heard all about the courtship that led to one of my many aunties giving birth to Ibrahim, step-brother to the President. As for the Gonjas, we go a long way back. It is a pity that we haven’t as yet unraveled the saga that led to my own great grandfather reportedly marrying 32 of their women, earning a sub-titleship over what he built up and becoming one of them but that is another story situated at the Daboya area. It is, of course, such stories that shaped some of us while growing up

So what were the parents and grandfathers of “these Akans” when my father was appointed the first African Administrative Manager of John Holt Bartholomew with over 20 whites underneath him when S. Africa was getting Apartheid? So where were the forebears of “these Akans” when my great, great grandfather, father to Torgbui Sir II who was in the Legislative Council from 1916-42, sat in prime position to negotiate peace with the British after the Sagrenti War? So what do “these Akans” and their hangers-on have in privileges, educational attainment, material well-being, physical looks - name it - which I as an Ewe who writes against the prejudices “these Akans” express against my ethnic group [and others] does not have and I envy? When we are supposed to be monopolizing all the goodies already? Doesn’t make sense! What has happened to the “Ewe hegemony”?

A couple of weeks ago, one of such ignorant fools, O.T. Oheneba, wrote on SIL that had it not been for the largesse of Nkrumah with his grandfather’s cocoa money, I, Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, would have been an illiterate; just as they often blame Nkrumah for allegedly allowing us to be a part of Ghana! You see, that is their images of us, based on their utter ignorance! They have no clue that the VR was a major grower of cocoa and Ewes also own cocoa farms, besides engaging in other productive activities which add more to our GDP than cocoa! Yes! Growing maize and cassava can be more remunerative in some years than cocoa! All that reminded me of how much the late Torgbui Tamakloe VI was upset when Kofi Koomson in early 1993 devoted a whole centre spread in his “The Chronicle” insulting with reckless abandon the Tsikatas - fellow members of the royal Adzorvia clan of Anlo and unarguably one of the most educationally accomplished families in Ghana - calling the long deceased mother of Kojo an illiterate woman, blissfully ignorant of the fact that that woman was a Gold Coast icon and an educationist who was the first Gold Coaster to head the Catholic Convent for Girls in Keta, which is now Ola Secondary School in Ho. Yes, the school the wife of President Kufuor attended and learned to speak Ewe in Keta. As Torgbui remarked then, because their parents were illiterates, they just assumed that the parents of all Ewes were illiterates too! The issue is taken up in the collective response; such crass arrogant ignorance must not be allowed to continue to fester and poison the body politic.

There are poor Ewes and there are poor Akans. There are educated and uneducated Ewes just as same for Akans. Yes, we have our Adaklu Amangotsidekas so do you also have your wicked adobe hovels with occasional buruli ulcer infected inmates. That much I saw and was horrified when I travelled extensively in parts of the Central, Western and the Ashanti Regions in December 1992 and early 1993 collecting data for my dissertation on the rural banks. As for the Eastern Region, I know it quite well. I did my National Service there. By the way, Akurang-Parry, aka Akadu Mensema, I didn't write on the appalling lack of toilet facilities in Ghana, though it is a topic deserving urgent attention by scholars too! Teachers are now falling into those monstrosities that pass for places of convenience! [Since writing the foregoing, a journalist had written on the disgraceful toilet situation in Ghana.]

Are “these Akans” aware that 33% of present Asantes are descendants of the slaves they kept, that is, those "lucky" not to be sold or killed in grissly rituals, and some of them are Ewe in origins? Are they aware that some ancestors of Ewes even fought on the side of the Asantes in those predatory pre-colonial inter-ethnic wars of plunder and loot, including against the English? Indeed, the time to break the “afisem” taboos, etc., has arrived. I am pissed off mightily! These ignoramuses and fools need to be taught some proper history, not that Mansa Musa died in a pair of trousers and Yaa Asantewaa the heroine folk tales we were all fed in basic and secondary schools. As a matter of fact, same refined and polished yarn (anansesem) are taught in our universities.

To the Asantes specifically, from the former Asante Protectorate which included the Brong Ahafo Region, let me tell them that they have indeed made much progress in joining the Civil Service and the security forces, considering the fact that they were not part of the Gold Coast colony until 1946, whereas a large section of the Ewe homeland was from the C19th. They were therefore not recruited into those bodies until after 1946 unlike southern Ewes who were part of the Gold Coast colony decades before the annexation of Asante and the Northern Territories (NT). That's why out of the 29 Gold Coasters who had reached officer ranks in the Army (I have their full bios data), Afrifa was the only officer in the Ghana Army from both present Ash/R and B/A combined on the eve of independence. Northerners, specifically from among the “Frafras”, though not in the colony, were recruited into non-officer positions in both the Army and Police because of their presumed fighting spirit and undoubted loyalty to authority similar to the same beliefs about the Gurkhas of Nepal. Only Col. Bawa who was shot and killed allegedly by Afrifa himself during the 1966 coup made officer rank from the NT, thanks to the fact that he came from the TVT part of it with better education under the Germans. Ewes were recruited for similar reasons but to fill middle level and senior positions too because they had education. Because of the very early missionary activity and formal education in the Ewe areas, which stretch from the Atlantic coast to the Peki/Ho/Hohoe areas, it meant that many Ewes acquired formal education from the early C19th. Even some coastal people, Ewes included, who did not go to school in those days learned to speak European languages through working for white people. And then there were those with European parentages who even had it better, taken to Europe to be educated and returned, or educated by their parents to serve them as clerks, factors, etc, in their businesses.

In fact, those mulattoes, from the Western Region to Angola, ran the slave trade from the coast and formed the core of the earliest educated Africans/Gold Coasters. Yes, the slaves the ancestors of you the Akans used to bring to the coast from the interior to be sold were bought and sold by those people after fattening them up to gain back weight lost on the grueling march to the coast. That's why a former white VC of Legon said the Fantes made more money from the slave trade than the Asantes except that you won’t catch them boasting about how rich they are! Wait until I tell you all about it, bloody-minded ignorant fools! If you are really educated and read, you should have known about that already by the way.

Now, the ignorant fools on Ghanaweb, like the rest of them in Ghana, do not know that trokosi came from among the Adangmes to Eweland. It is thus found along the Volta River in the Tongu Districts where the Adangme fugitives from the Akwamu wars settled among the Agaves and other places in Eweland, to as far as Togo, where those fugitives settled. That's why trokosi is found in the Ada area, which area, by the way, was first settled by the Agaves before the Adas came as fugitives to join them. An examination of the clan origin of the trokosi priests would reveal their Adangme origins. That's why trokosi is not found in the Ewe areas where the Adangmes did not settle for long specifically, the whole of northern Eweland from Ho, Peki to Hohoe areas [they left the Avatime area where they settled to Agortime]. The northern Ewes therefore have no clue what it is! We in the south know because the Ga-Adangmes settled among us and are now part of our clan system. Only some very few uneducated, particular clan members, mostly with Ga-Adangmes origins, still patronise those trokosi shrines.

The vast majority of Ghanaians, literate or illiterate, are superstitious beyond belief. It is a topic I have been grappling with for over two decades now. It is simply some ignorant and foolish “these Akans” and their hangers-on who believe that all Ewes practise juju and trokosi. That Ewes who are mostly Christians now and, increasingly, Muslims and Buddhist as I found out in 2003, practise traditional religion too can only be claimed by ignorant Morons with capital M. I don’t even believe in the myths found in the Bible and, for that matter, the Qur’an, about a god creating this universe, human beings, the flora and fauna and causing floods and what not! I did not go to “school plenty, plenty”, come from a fourth generation educated background and still have my cosmology and cosmogony rooted at the Weberian primitive, substantive rationalisation level like the mass of you miseducated “these Akans”, your hangers-on and others! I knew that most Ghanaians were/are not civilized as a child in the 1960s before Ken Kuranchie came out of prison for contempt of court and pronounced sweepingly that Ghanaians were not civilized, as if Ghana was ever wrongly classified among the comity of acclaimed developed and civilized nations.

Yes, there was a time Ewes were encouraged to burn the cliché mid-night candle, as we're told education was our cocoa. Many Ewes therefore shined in their studies, leading to their recruitment by the colonial authority and the merchant houses to run their administrations. Upon independence, Ewes were thus among the top elite with experience to take over the positions the whites were vacating. My father and uncles, not to mention a host of clansmen, women and tribesmen, were among those people recruited from the private sector to set up and run the myriad of new projects the CPP started. The 1966 coup saw my father in the role of the Acting Financial Comptroller of the Workers Brigade again from his role as the substantive Deputy from its inception. The incompetent Brit the CPP had recruited again, still under the cloud of white superiority, with my father doing all the work for him to be signing, had deserted post too after getting what he wanted. Some of those CPP Ministers couldn't hold a candle to my father during the colonial era, not to mention white people, and Papa used to be so incensed with their unwise decisions and actions, which included sending that fair complexion man (name withheld) to the house to convince Papa to help them steal public monies! You see, Papa never took a penny home which didn't belong to him; that's why I am writing publicly about it now, even though the Kom Commission Report is there to support me. Those corrupted upstarts thus refused to pay him his full contract entitlements because they said he thought he was rich and so would not share in stolen public money and so did not need the extra money for acting as the head. Even after a number of court judgments in his favour, the full entitlements were not paid before his passing away in 1982! The lawless bastards and nobodies that took over the running of the Ghanaian state have since increased in their numbers! Today, it is thievery and lawlessness that are the badges of honour! That is not how the model colony of the Gold Coast was built by the grand and great fathers of some of us under British supervision.

Now, which dog born you these trolls, you “these Akans”? Where were your great, great grandfathers when the Gold Coast was being formed? Mine were at the negotiating table after leading the battles against the British too! I refuse to be insulted and demonized constantly with reckless abandon by the scions of nonentities and so-called royals of ill-repute alike! Is it because the ancestors of the latter plundered, massacred, kidnapped and sold the relations of some present Ghanaians more than my ancestors did, things which still make you proud today, mentally warped that you are? We sold a few too and is part of our shame, you know? Eweland was not known as the Slave Coast for nothing. Our misfortune was the great cowry inflation of the C19th that turned most of the “hotsuitorwo” (lit. owners of cowries) into paupers when it was over and cowries ceased to be medium of exchange in Africa. Yeah! I know you haven’t heard of this super hyperinflation before but I read long ago that even a very good teacher could only teach about 45% of what a student needs to become educated. I have done my part, start doing yours, bloody fools!

I shall return with the bazookas, as I go on the offensive! I did warn you all repeatedly before.

Andy C.Y. Kwawukume

cyandyk@ymail.com
KOFI ABAS 11 years ago

mr. c.y is only asantis that are bush,primitive n uncivilised. other akans are civilised.asantheifuo have issues with every group including other akans so don't generalise. say asantheifuo instead of akans

mr. c.y is only asantis that are bush,primitive n uncivilised. other akans are civilised.asantheifuo have issues with every group including other akans so don't generalise. say asantheifuo instead of akans
Peter Pan 11 years ago

YOU DONT EVEN KNOW YOUR HISTORY AND MOREOVER RUNNIN AWAY FROM TROKOSI! TALKING ABOUT THIEVES ITS EVERYWHERE BUT THIEFING NATIONAL COFFERS IS EWES AHENDA! WHICH TRIBE APART FROM EWES HAS LOOTH GHANA? WOYOMI, TSATSU, SOLOMEY, A ...
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YOU DONT EVEN KNOW YOUR HISTORY AND MOREOVER RUNNIN AWAY FROM TROKOSI! TALKING ABOUT THIEVES ITS EVERYWHERE BUT THIEFING NATIONAL COFFERS IS EWES AHENDA! WHICH TRIBE APART FROM EWES HAS LOOTH GHANA? WOYOMI, TSATSU, SOLOMEY, AKBODAPI, FIIFI KWETEY, ABLAKWA ETX ETC! THIEVES
straight 11 years ago

Peter pan don't worry about these evil cretins. everything about them is fake. they aren't Ghanaians and they'll always struggle to fit in. since they have nothing to offer to our country they've resorted to laziness, tribali ...
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Peter pan don't worry about these evil cretins. everything about them is fake. they aren't Ghanaians and they'll always struggle to fit in. since they have nothing to offer to our country they've resorted to laziness, tribalism, theft, nepotism, etc.. they're capable of nothing but stupidity, tribalism and hatred. they've always been the black sheep in the family.
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 11 years ago

Thank you for this history. But we need to know all about the 'AFISEM' Please spill the beans.

Thank you for this history. But we need to know all about the 'AFISEM' Please spill the beans.
OBIBA-JUDAS 11 years ago

ONLY THE FOOLS WILL VOTE FOE NDC 2016

ONLY THE FOOLS WILL VOTE FOE NDC 2016
Kwaame 11 years ago

Can these people vote?

Can these people vote?
ghana first 11 years ago

read the piece 5times and am sure u will finally get ur answer...kuborlor

read the piece 5times and am sure u will finally get ur answer...kuborlor
4ward Ever 11 years ago

Welcome to Togolese brothers and sisters. The filthy pig, Faure Gnassingbé Eyadema, is an oppressive brute just like his father. Our Togolese brethren do not deserve to be brutalized by the criminal, thieving Eyadema family ...
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Welcome to Togolese brothers and sisters. The filthy pig, Faure Gnassingbé Eyadema, is an oppressive brute just like his father. Our Togolese brethren do not deserve to be brutalized by the criminal, thieving Eyadema family dictatorship.
Bolga STRONGMAN 11 years ago

"na more votes for NDC in 2016...problems for NPP then...

"na more votes for NDC in 2016...problems for NPP then...

Lo 11 years ago

Saucepan!

Saucepan!
Bolga STRONGMAN 11 years ago

pls,do you want to insult me?

pls,do you want to insult me?
Kpenyigba Kwesi 11 years ago

As the refugees are not allowed to do politics in Ghana,they cannot vote for any party in Ghana. It is not clear if the Togolese refugees require RESIDENT PERMITS for President Mahama has recently announced the abolition of R ...
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As the refugees are not allowed to do politics in Ghana,they cannot vote for any party in Ghana. It is not clear if the Togolese refugees require RESIDENT PERMITS for President Mahama has recently announced the abolition of Resident Permits in Ecowas countries.
EAF 11 years ago

How many of the Akan refugees from Ivory Coast that fled to this country will be eligible for this kind of integration in Ghana? Just a question from an inquiring mind.

How many of the Akan refugees from Ivory Coast that fled to this country will be eligible for this kind of integration in Ghana? Just a question from an inquiring mind.
Yaw Paul 11 years ago

What kind of political development in Togo and what was their participation and involvement which brought them to Ghana.There is/was no political persecution in Togo therefore NDC must stop their monkey business. Togo as of ...
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What kind of political development in Togo and what was their participation and involvement which brought them to Ghana.There is/was no political persecution in Togo therefore NDC must stop their monkey business. Togo as of now is politically peaceful with better economic growth than Ghana so what is wrong with mahama/NDC. Politically incorrect
2fle 11 years ago

:(

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KKK USA 11 years ago

THIS GOOD NEWS FOR NDC TO ADD THEM TO HIS LOT AND IT WILL ONLY HAPPEN IN YHE VOLTA FOOLS

THIS GOOD NEWS FOR NDC TO ADD THEM TO HIS LOT AND IT WILL ONLY HAPPEN IN YHE VOLTA FOOLS
ASUNNYJOH 11 years ago

TO INTERGRATE WHO?.WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TOGO NOW,ARE THEY FIGHTING?.SEND THEM TO THEIR COUNTRY.OH THAT IS WHY VOLTA REGION CHIEFS HAVE PROMISED MAHAMAH THAT HE WILL GET 1MILLION VOTES IN AFLAO ALONE.AFARI GYAN SHOULD BECAREFU ...
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TO INTERGRATE WHO?.WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TOGO NOW,ARE THEY FIGHTING?.SEND THEM TO THEIR COUNTRY.OH THAT IS WHY VOLTA REGION CHIEFS HAVE PROMISED MAHAMAH THAT HE WILL GET 1MILLION VOTES IN AFLAO ALONE.AFARI GYAN SHOULD BECAREFUL,HIS CHOICE OF INCOMPETENT PEOPLE HAVE NO ROOM ANY MORE.2016 IS BOOT TO BOOT NO STUPIDITIES ANYMORE.WITH OUR OIL THE COUNTRY MUST MOVE FORWARD NO MORE LOOT AND SHARE.NDC MUST BE VOTED OUT OF POWER AND THE CORRUPT ONES MUST FACE THE LAWS OF THE LAND.NO BREATH TO ANY FOOL LOOTER.THIS WILL SERVE AS A LESSON TO THE COMING POLITICIANS.IF IT CAN BE POSSIBLE THE CORRUPT POLITICIANS MUST BE CASTRATED FOR THEM TO STOP USING OUR MONEY TO BUYING CARS FOR YOUNG SCHOOL GIRLS.
ebo smith 11 years ago

with this stupid type of ruling by ndc,ndc still want to win election to rule again.dead Ghana

with this stupid type of ruling by ndc,ndc still want to win election to rule again.dead Ghana
Eva 11 years ago

Am sure enough of us have integrated into the US, Canada, UK etc. to allow a few Togolese to integrate into gh. Gosh

Am sure enough of us have integrated into the US, Canada, UK etc. to allow a few Togolese to integrate into gh. Gosh
KOFI ABAS 11 years ago

in gh but strangely they are the ones integrating all over the world, including giving up their Ghanaian nationality yet they say gh is for them. lol

in gh but strangely they are the ones integrating all over the world, including giving up their Ghanaian nationality yet they say gh is for them. lol
ebo smith 11 years ago

better bring the whole of Togo to help you win the election.stupid NDC

better bring the whole of Togo to help you win the election.stupid NDC
Kwesi 11 years ago

Hihihihihihihihi :)

Hihihihihihihihi :)
Ayamba 11 years ago

After losing on NHIS issue in court, Afari Gyan, John Dramani Mahama, and the NDC want to bring in Togolese to further bloat the already discredited voters register. Tweaaaaa Oman Ghana is in serious trouble. NO COURT IN 2016 ...
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After losing on NHIS issue in court, Afari Gyan, John Dramani Mahama, and the NDC want to bring in Togolese to further bloat the already discredited voters register. Tweaaaaa Oman Ghana is in serious trouble. NO COURT IN 2016 DO OR DIE! NPP SHINE YOUR EYES!!!!
straight 11 years ago

how did these people become a part of us in the first place? they are the root cause of all our suffering because nothing good comes from them. they're greedy to the core and very inward-looking. why do we sit down idle for t ...
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how did these people become a part of us in the first place? they are the root cause of all our suffering because nothing good comes from them. they're greedy to the core and very inward-looking. why do we sit down idle for these strangers to bring destruction upon our great nation? they don't have the least power over us so why should we allow them to bring doom upon us.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

What a jerk! If you are not an ignorant uneducated fool, you'd know how some Ewes became a part of Ghana,long, long before your neck of the wood!

Andy-K

What a jerk! If you are not an ignorant uneducated fool, you'd know how some Ewes became a part of Ghana,long, long before your neck of the wood!

Andy-K
straight 11 years ago

andy k or whatever your ewe name is, i thought as much you'd reply since you're the only ewe spokesperson on this platform. i couldn't care less about how you joined us but i want you to know that as long as your inward-looki ...
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andy k or whatever your ewe name is, i thought as much you'd reply since you're the only ewe spokesperson on this platform. i couldn't care less about how you joined us but i want you to know that as long as your inward-looking tribesmen involve themselves in Ghanaian politics we shall never move forward, period! you came to steal, kill and destroy. look at Ghana since your illiterate buffoon took over the helm of affairs in Ghana. since then it's always been tribalism, nepotism, murder, theft, enviness, lies, etc...
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

I am getting tired of re-educating morons like you but here it is again. I blame the many Ewe teachers who are found in all the 10 regions of Ghana for not educating you blokes properly about some of these things.

HOW SOME ...
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I am getting tired of re-educating morons like you but here it is again. I blame the many Ewe teachers who are found in all the 10 regions of Ghana for not educating you blokes properly about some of these things.

HOW SOME “EWES” BECAME PART OF PRESENT GHANA

To say that one is sick and tired of reading ignorant utterances about how “Ewes” were given the chance to join Ghana by Nkrumah from patently jaundiced and bloody-minded, ignorant fellow Ghanaians, MOSTLY of Akan origins and a few most stupid and ignorant Gas, is a big understatement. I therefore put together a concise history of how some “Ewes” became part of Ghana for all readers. Its strident nature derives from the fact that it was directed at the virulently bigoted anti-Ewe elements that afflict the Ghanaweb forum. Nothing reasonable sinks into them unless it is hammered in with mighty blows. So dense they are, consumed by their own phenomenal ignorance!

Nonetheless, I am under no illusion whatsoever that this brief piece will stop the bozos who indulge in this kind of display of ignorance from continuing to do so, even after reading this; not only because of the scientifically recognised fact that awareness and knowledge of adverse causes and better practices do not necessarily stop continuation of adverse behavioural practices leading to adoption of best practices, but also because the putrid and rotting worm-wood from which they emerge from, that is, our educational system, continues to churn out similarly ignorant and foolish elements on an annual basis. The problem must therefore be addressed at source: our educational system and curricula.

Steeped in the foregoing knowledge, I have carved for myself a monstrous-looking spikes-studded club to deal with any such miscreants who might be provoked by this article to begin their ethnic cleansing of the much vilified “Ewes” from Ghana to Togo.

I would not bother myself now and again with retelling (I’ve done that elsewhere) of how the groups of linguistically and culturally different peoples who now comprise the ethnic group known to many as “Ewes”, but which linguists now have tagged the “Gbe” people, migrated and settled within the borders of Togo and present Ghana up to seven hundred years ago, as Ghana came into being on 6 March 1957 and that is where my story begins. That has been dealt with elsewhere in an upcoming series, an abridged version of a book which has been on ice for a long while now.

After all, it was Gbedemah, an “Ewe,” and the leader of the Committee for Youth Organisation (CYO), who was asked to replace him (Nkrumah) as General Secretary of the UGCC, who convinced him (Nkrumah) to leave the UGCC and gave him the chance to lead the CPP which was being formed by elements within the CYO; and who again gave him his Accra seat and led the campaign for the CPP and Nkrumah to win while in prison to become Leader of Government Business. Gbedema himself went to stand for the Keta seat. If Gbedema had not done that, he would have become the first Leader of Government Business, not Nkrumah; so Gbedema, an “Ewe,” gave Nkrumah the chance in more ways than what I have referred to in the foregoing to become leader of independent Ghana. Of course, I consider it in poor taste to mention the financial support and sustenance Gbedema gave then homeless Nkrumah, as someone did in an article on Ghanaweb a while ago even though it was part of the relationship.

Nkrumah, of course, a chief in his own right in Nzema, got his first ceremonial chieftaincy title in Anloga, when he came on his Thank You visit, for the valiant roles Ewes played in the election victory of the CPP. That was before everything turned sore and Anloga led the revolt against the CPP in 1953, for breach of election promises not to enforce the much hated poll tax and not properly dealing with grievances about the cutting of swollen shoot diseased cocoa trees and failing to increase cocoa prices when the world price was hitting the roof, thanks to the Korean War. The decision not to increase cocoa prices paid to farmers was due to the infamous “anchor of safety” and stemming inflation advice (it created the large reserve on attainment of independence, btw.) he, Nkrumah, accepted from the West Indian Nobel Laureate Sir Arthur Lewis. Some Anlo elite were also major cocoa farm owners in the TVT and elsewhere. The riots that started in Anloga and spread to the rest of the country were well documented by Dennis Austin in his seminal book on Ghana, so check it, if you want to be properly informed. Those events had deep impacts on the Anlo elite and eventually led to the coup of 1966 spearheaded by some Anlo officers in the Police and Army.

Those of you who like to criticise Kofi Awoonor for what he wrote in his book “The Ghana Revolution” should also look up his book especially devoted to Asantes and Ewes to read what he said about how they escaped from Anloga across the Volta to Ada Foah when the “Buga Buga War” started. I bet you never heard of that war before, eh?

So, nobody gave Ewes the chance to join Ghana in 1957, as some Ewe stalwarts led in the fight to create modern Ghana. Left to some Ewes though, they'd have seceded from the Gold Coast, to which they were lampooned by the British many decades earlier and had become fed up with because of the nascent demonization and vilification started by the forebears of today's Ghanaweb jaded jingoists. I had already partially dealt with that in an earlier article and the abridged series mentioned above shall follow suit.

Moreso, the coastal areas from Anlo, through Tongu up to Peki and Awudome, being part of the Eastern Province of the Gold Coast, were even indeed declared part of the British sphere of influence way back in 1850, 6 yrs after the signing of the Bond of 1844 with the Fantes. The British “bought” in 1850 the area from the Danes who were forced to leave the Gold Coast after they were defeated with Napolean at Waterloo in 1848. Interesting to note that Norway, then under Danish control for over 400 years, was also passed over to the Swedes, allies of Britain at Waterloo. Of course, those “bought” were not consulted and did not accept that their homeland had been sold and thus resisted attempts by the British to asset their authority over the area, leading to conflicts.

The area was declared part of the Gold Coast colony proper in 1876 or so. Before that, the Anlos had sued for peace with the British, bringing to a close the Glover War, fought against the Anlos as a side show to the Sagrenti War. A Peace Treaty was signed at Dzelukope after the Sagrenti War of 1874. I have a sketch of that historical event which appeared in the UK Graphic of Oct, 10 1874, which is an attachment to this article, as it is a historical relic of interest to many. You’d see sitting “Folu, King of Jella Coffee,” “Adjaba, King of Awoonah,” and “War Captain Cocumay” and “Chief Asantee Ambassador Okobim Paba” addressing them and you’d know where yours truly comes from. War Captain Cocumay happened to be the father of Torgbui Sri II who was in the Legislative Council from 1916-42, and my great, great grandfather. Our ancestors therefore played their roles on the battle-fields and on the high table when the Gold Coast and its history were being carved, so before you open your mouth against us, ask yourself who born you, and who and what were your ancestors when the Gold Coast was being carved? The Ga kings Tackie from Accra and Solomon from James Town were also there, among others who fought on the side of the British.

In fact, those wars were fought due to events which also occurred in northern Eweland [besides events on the Fante side], when Asante slave raiders kidnapped and took the missionaries and white traders (the Ramseyers, Bonnat, etc.) from Ho to Kumasi as hostages for ransom. Of course, not only the missionaries were taken, as even some natives who collaborated with the Asantes soon found themselves as captives at Kontsiabu instead of the promised gold dusts but that is another story altogether I had recounted elsewhere and is due for recounting soon. With the decisive defeat of Asante and her steadfast Anlo ally, that Ewe area known in the annals as “Krepi” through Buem, Dagbon in N/R to much of present Upper East, which later on became known as the Trans-Volta Togoland (TVT), became a British Protectorate until after the Berlin Conference when Queen Victoria gave it in 1884 as a birthday present to her German cousin, who famously wanted a "place in the sun," as part of the balkanisation of and Scramble for Africa after the Berlin Conference. The Germans already had a small trip of Togoland. So the TVT was even under British sphere of influence for some years before being given to the Germans.

In 1915, at the start of WWI, the British took back the area and much of German Togoland (the French took the eastern part) with the help of troops raised by Torgbui Sri II, for which he was awarded the KMAC and sword of honour, and inducted into the LegCo in 1916 with Nana Ofori Attah of Akyem Abuakwa. After WWI, despite the campaign by the natives to unite the whole of Togoland to the Gold Coast, the British kept what they gave to the Germans in 1884 (TVT) and gave the rest - what the Germans had before - to the French, thus forming present Republic of Togo. Of course, the records show that it was Torgbui Sri II who was the first to call for the unification of Togo to the Gold Coast way back in 1915. By the end of the war, it was fully embraced by some native leaders of German Togoland, some of whose leaders sent a letter to the colonial government of the Gold Coast which curiously stated inter alia:

“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...” (“December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine, culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)

I have always wondered why no mention of being “Ewes” was made by the supplicants. Of course, conspicuously absent too were names of many others such as Dagombas, Konkombas, Dagbons, Akans, Mamprusis, Grunshies, Nkonyas, Kabres, etc., etc., who also have the TVT and Togo as their homeland at the time too. That was not an auspicious beginning for their objective, being what they were: descendants of fugitives who have settled amongst the original Ewe speakers in southern Togo!

Anyway, how those claiming to be Gas and Anes (Anyis) in Togo got there is quite another story I had re-told a number of times but I’d like the Akwamus and Asantes, former allies of we Anlos, to tell us their versions respectively. And to those ignorant and jaded MPs of the NPP who went to Lome to look for the roots of Fiifi Kwetey, who of course, claimed to be from Nogokpo in the Klikor area, and thereby rubbing a sore spot in my memory, next time they should begin the search in Ayawaso so that I am not reminded of Dzenunyegbodzi and the treacheries of Klikor!

How that desire for a union with the Gold Coast turned into the drive for secession is quite another story I had already touched upon in a previous article and better covered by the likes of Prof. Amenumey in his book on the subject, a copy of which I have behind me. In any case, the plebiscite of 1956 was to determine whether TVT, a UN Mandated Territory, should be added to the Gold Coast, be on its own, or rejoin present Togo, or something like that, whatever. It was a messy affair, as it did not take into account the wishes of the Ewe Unification Movement which had reached fever pitch in southern Eweland from Anlo to Peki, already part of the Gold Coast, and which was prevented from taking part in the plebiscite. Had those areas taken part, enough votes would have been garnered to secede from the Gold Coast, as a majority voted in the Ewe areas of the TVT to secede. Unfortunately, their votes were outweighed by votes from the non-Ewe areas of the TVT stretching from northern VR through eastern section of Northern Region to much of present Upper East. Indeed, parts of the TVT were also later added to the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions too by Nkrumah and Busia. So, only a portion of the TVT was added to the Eweland within the Gold Coast to form the present VR. Those of us who come from the south were thus part of the Gold Coast decades earlier before 1900 when the Protectorate of Asante was declared after their defeat in the Yaa Asantewa War, and before 1946, when the Burns Constitution made Asante and the Northern Territories part of the Gold Coast Colony proper too.

That, in brief, is how parts of Eweland and some Ewes became a part of present Ghana. It is a pity that this basic history is not taught in our basic schools so that all know this somehow. Rather, we get all kinds of ignoramuses spewing rubbish about how Nkrumah allowed Ewes to join Ghana and they would deport Ewes to Togo! I am waiting for them bozos with my spikes-studded club. Let no one say I didn’t warn them!

[This article can be freely quoted or reproduced without my permission.]

Andy C.Y. Kwawukume
cyandyk@ymail.com
straight 11 years ago

all that you've written is baseless. i didn't even read a single word. all that i saw was ewe, ewe, kofi awoonor, ewe, ewe, ewe. useless crap as usual. you only distort history to suit your inferior self. you are tired of re- ...
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all that you've written is baseless. i didn't even read a single word. all that i saw was ewe, ewe, kofi awoonor, ewe, ewe, ewe. useless crap as usual. you only distort history to suit your inferior self. you are tired of re-educating morons like ''who''? how can you educate your superiors on whom you depend for everything? stop insulting your superiors. You became part which means you weren't part of us to begin with. no wonder everything about you is so un-Ghanaian and sinister.
Muntari 11 years ago

Straight or whatever your name is, I don't want to go down the drain with you but excuse me to say, you are a big Moron.

A moron because your small brain is clogged with hate, tribalism and sectionalism all of which has b ...
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Straight or whatever your name is, I don't want to go down the drain with you but excuse me to say, you are a big Moron.

A moron because your small brain is clogged with hate, tribalism and sectionalism all of which has been condemned.

I ask you to open up your mind! You know how the great America was built? And you the Akan claiming Ghana is yours, what should the creator of the earth say? You should know that this world is not yours, you are just a temporary passenger.

Contribute your lot and pass on like we will all do. Leave something good behind, something good you will be remembered for other than hate and all the forms of tribalism. Think Deep my friend!
straight 11 years ago

muntari as much as i know america was built with all hands on deck (blacks, whites, latinos, Indians, etc....) and there exists nothing like tribalism in the states. here in Ghana we have a particular tribe so inward-looking ...
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muntari as much as i know america was built with all hands on deck (blacks, whites, latinos, Indians, etc....) and there exists nothing like tribalism in the states. here in Ghana we have a particular tribe so inward-looking that when one of the gets to the top in government the only people he'll appoint are his own tribesmen and ignore other tribes. if that's not hatred and tribalism, tell me what that is.
ALI MAHAMA 11 years ago

This is why Afari Gyan is adamant on using the National Health Insurance Card as qualification for Voting. oNYAME AHU MOOOOOOOOOO'

This is why Afari Gyan is adamant on using the National Health Insurance Card as qualification for Voting. oNYAME AHU MOOOOOOOOOO'
BOAKYE YIADOM HANOVER 11 years ago

THEY ARE PROPAGANDA THIS CRIMINAL AGAIN EC N NDC

THEY ARE PROPAGANDA THIS CRIMINAL AGAIN EC N NDC
JONA 11 years ago

NO WONDER GHANA ENDURE BAD ELECTIONS THAT WAS HELD IN THE COURT. GHANA IT BE CONTINUAL PATH OF UNDERDEVELOP WITH THIS KIND OF POLITICS

NO WONDER GHANA ENDURE BAD ELECTIONS THAT WAS HELD IN THE COURT. GHANA IT BE CONTINUAL PATH OF UNDERDEVELOP WITH THIS KIND OF POLITICS
USMAN 11 years ago

Winning votes by all means.

Winning votes by all means.
JH New York 11 years ago

There's not honesty and sincerity with officials in the Country as far as money from UNHCR is Considered,every possible avenue would be created to acquire it. Shame !

There's not honesty and sincerity with officials in the Country as far as money from UNHCR is Considered,every possible avenue would be created to acquire it. Shame !
The nationalist 11 years ago

POLITICAL REFUGEEES ARE ALWAYS WELCOMED BUT THE SITUATION IN TOGO DOESÑ`T MERIT POEPLE FLEEEING FROM THIER COUNTRY TOGO TO GHANA.

POLITICAL REFUGEEES ARE ALWAYS WELCOMED BUT THE SITUATION IN TOGO DOESÑ`T MERIT POEPLE FLEEEING FROM THIER COUNTRY TOGO TO GHANA.
Toretto 11 years ago

i wonder where the priorities of the Ghanaian government has shifted to. Nationals are already in ditch and this present joke we call a government is playing silly sick games with our resources.

i wonder where the priorities of the Ghanaian government has shifted to. Nationals are already in ditch and this present joke we call a government is playing silly sick games with our resources.
Alex Boatang 11 years ago

And npp dont see is coming.wherr are the so call the founding members?ndc has one founding member and they are okay.

And npp dont see is coming.wherr are the so call the founding members?ndc has one founding member and they are okay.
Alex Boatang 11 years ago

Blame the so call npp founding members they are weak

Blame the so call npp founding members they are weak
READ 11 years ago

ONE DAY IN GHANA WILL BE LIKE 100 DAYS IN HELL FOR YOU

ONE DAY IN GHANA WILL BE LIKE 100 DAYS IN HELL FOR YOU
Krez 11 years ago

This is good for NDC bcause Afari Gyan is going to register them as legible voters come 2016 general elections

This is good for NDC bcause Afari Gyan is going to register them as legible voters come 2016 general elections
Papa Yaw. 11 years ago

No

No
KK 11 years ago

Those who travel around other countries will tell you that, Akans are all over other countries near Ghana too. I have see Akan shoe-shine boys in Togo speaking Twi and busy working. The people of Togo does not go after these ...
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Those who travel around other countries will tell you that, Akans are all over other countries near Ghana too. I have see Akan shoe-shine boys in Togo speaking Twi and busy working. The people of Togo does not go after these boys?
Ashanti boy 11 years ago

Met a lot of illiterate Akan-speaking shoeshine boys in Lome and Douala. Togolese are hard working settler farmers in. Ghana. The garri we eat comes from them

Met a lot of illiterate Akan-speaking shoeshine boys in Lome and Douala. Togolese are hard working settler farmers in. Ghana. The garri we eat comes from them
Francis Kyei 11 years ago

Even the most senseless person knows that these and many more are arranged to come up into Ghana to register and vote for Corrupt Mahama.

Even the most senseless person knows that these and many more are arranged to come up into Ghana to register and vote for Corrupt Mahama.
Nii Chokor 11 years ago

What is wrong with you people ? Read and broaden your knowledge about civil matters.Refugees don't qualify for voting.

My problem for granting them refugee status is that there are no wars or civil unrest in Togo, so I do ...
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What is wrong with you people ? Read and broaden your knowledge about civil matters.Refugees don't qualify for voting.

My problem for granting them refugee status is that there are no wars or civil unrest in Togo, so I do not know where this is coming from.
Nsemfo Ahi 11 years ago

Walahi! they will still vote for NDC. They are recruiting them from Togo to vote for them already, so now that they are here and want to integrate, it will be cold chop for these election rigging bastards.

Walahi! they will still vote for NDC. They are recruiting them from Togo to vote for them already, so now that they are here and want to integrate, it will be cold chop for these election rigging bastards.
HE'S NOT AFRAID 11 years ago

2300 TOGOLESE REFUGEES TO BE INTEGRATED

2300 TOGOLESE REFUGEES TO BE INTEGRATED
I say 11 years ago

honestly!!! since when did the Togolese become refugees?

honestly!!! since when did the Togolese become refugees?
Bolga STRONGMAN 11 years ago

we've already had the liberians/ivorians,now Togolese and it will soon be the burkinas...

we've already had the liberians/ivorians,now Togolese and it will soon be the burkinas...
foolish man 11 years ago

to vote in election time in ghana

to vote in election time in ghana
Biafran War Survivor 11 years ago

The best solution may just for Maahama and cohorts to remove all the borders between Ghana and the neighboring countries so that Ivorians, Burkinabes and Togolese can freely move in out of Ghana and completely mess things up

The best solution may just for Maahama and cohorts to remove all the borders between Ghana and the neighboring countries so that Ivorians, Burkinabes and Togolese can freely move in out of Ghana and completely mess things up
Liars! 11 years ago

These criminals are at it again! The conditions in Togo do not warrant the integration of those refugees into Ghana. Send them back to Togo, you criminals!

These criminals are at it again! The conditions in Togo do not warrant the integration of those refugees into Ghana. Send them back to Togo, you criminals!
Nabila 11 years ago

UNHCR,don't create any trouble for us here in Ghana.

UNHCR,don't create any trouble for us here in Ghana.
MR MAWEGYATA 11 years ago

THESE ARE TOGOLESE VOTERS PLS NPP AND OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES OPEN YOUR EYES. PLS TOGOLESE DON'T MESS WITH GHANA'S POLITICAL PROCESS OR TROUBLE.

THESE ARE TOGOLESE VOTERS PLS NPP AND OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES OPEN YOUR EYES. PLS TOGOLESE DON'T MESS WITH GHANA'S POLITICAL PROCESS OR TROUBLE.
Ebibiman 11 years ago

Lost country

Lost country
Ashanti boy 11 years ago

Hardworking chaps. More garri for the common man.

Hardworking chaps. More garri for the common man.

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