Great effort! This said, I think that your sources are rather too old for an essay posted in 2013! I think that the Berlin Conference in question is 1884/85 with the Berlin Act of 1885, not 1888/9 as you stated. ... read full comment
ANDY-K:
Great effort! This said, I think that your sources are rather too old for an essay posted in 2013! I think that the Berlin Conference in question is 1884/85 with the Berlin Act of 1885, not 1888/9 as you stated. All the same a great job!
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Well, ha! ha! I know u had to swallow your pride in order to say that. Thanks for pointing out the wrong dating of the Berlin Conference. I noticed it but still forgot to correct it.
As for the recent sources, what else do ... read full comment
Well, ha! ha! I know u had to swallow your pride in order to say that. Thanks for pointing out the wrong dating of the Berlin Conference. I noticed it but still forgot to correct it.
As for the recent sources, what else do they have to contribute to my narration and objective to give a condensed or concise "didactic historical" background account to the conflict of 1994, and its extension to the Congo? It's not like I am writing an academic treatise and so must do a literature review.
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago
I am not a proud person at all! I am simple person who just happens to speak my mind! I really meant the compliment!
I am not a proud person at all! I am simple person who just happens to speak my mind! I really meant the compliment!
Kojo T 11 years ago
So why the tribalism ? Anyway good you can make " positive " comments , not your usual negative ones
So why the tribalism ? Anyway good you can make " positive " comments , not your usual negative ones
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Ok, Akadu, thanks for the compliment! You recollect I once commended you too but you retorted in response?
I even found it necessary to commend Ahoofe more than once before! That's me! I bear no grudge but don't forget!
... read full comment
Ok, Akadu, thanks for the compliment! You recollect I once commended you too but you retorted in response?
I even found it necessary to commend Ahoofe more than once before! That's me! I bear no grudge but don't forget!
Anyway, by the time this is over, if you are indeed a Denkyira "princess," not Kwabena, we'd take you on a tour of Vume in the Trokosi infested Tongu area, where your fugitive kinsmen are now keeping company with Rawlings. And if you're indeed Kwabena, who once claimed to have Ewe blood in him though he is an Akwapim, just like Ahoofe whose father is from Peki, then I hope you too will find it as a catharsis, a way to come to terms with and possible purge your and our self-hating nature.
Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago
Duh! New perspectives!
Duh! New perspectives!
Agyeman 11 years ago
The great lakes region encompasses far more tribal areas than just tutsi/hutu areas where the author dwells on.It goes from lake tanganyika to lake turkana in the north.You have acholi/karamojong rivalry,maasai/kikuyu rivalry ... read full comment
The great lakes region encompasses far more tribal areas than just tutsi/hutu areas where the author dwells on.It goes from lake tanganyika to lake turkana in the north.You have acholi/karamojong rivalry,maasai/kikuyu rivalry and baganda/ankole rivalry and many more.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Agyeman, thanks for drawing attention to those conflicts too. I am sure you'd agree that it'd be a gargantuan task to attempt shedding light on all those conflicts too, hence the case study of the well known one/s. You'd noti ... read full comment
Agyeman, thanks for drawing attention to those conflicts too. I am sure you'd agree that it'd be a gargantuan task to attempt shedding light on all those conflicts too, hence the case study of the well known one/s. You'd notice that I ended at where the Eastern Congo conflict, which has so far claimed an estimated 5m dead victims alone was just starting. That makes it bigger than the Hutu/Tutsi conflict but how much is known by people about why it is happening! Please, since you appear to know a lot about such conflicts, write a piece for us to highlight them and draw parallels we can learn lessons from.
Andy-K
Kojo T 11 years ago
It should be Baganda , Banyankole rivalry . He dwells on the Tutsi /Hutu because that is the most explosive and the most enduring. It wreaks havoc especially when you see the fertile resources they have but then kill each ot ... read full comment
It should be Baganda , Banyankole rivalry . He dwells on the Tutsi /Hutu because that is the most explosive and the most enduring. It wreaks havoc especially when you see the fertile resources they have but then kill each other
James Bamfo 11 years ago
Very educative.Is the continuation coming soon? I wish, I could have read, "the Chickens Coming Home to Roost." Digressions should be brief and straight to the points. I 'enjoyed' you today. Good job-well done!
Very educative.Is the continuation coming soon? I wish, I could have read, "the Chickens Coming Home to Roost." Digressions should be brief and straight to the points. I 'enjoyed' you today. Good job-well done!
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
James, yes, I've got much of the continuation covering Ghana ready for years now. I shall break it down and send them for publication, controversial and gross as many will find them. But sometimes, gangrenous wounds have to b ... read full comment
James, yes, I've got much of the continuation covering Ghana ready for years now. I shall break it down and send them for publication, controversial and gross as many will find them. But sometimes, gangrenous wounds have to be re-opened and widened in order effect healing. So, brace yourself/ves for the surgical knives!
Were it not due to a PC kaput knafu which led to the loss of an extensive manuscript covering the sociological origins of the personnel who formed the bulk of the early colonial govt. in the C19th to early C20th - administration, army and police - the whole shebang would have come out in a book form a long time ago.
Andy-K
C. K. BOY 11 years ago
ANDY YOU DON'T MAKE SENSE!!!
ANDY YOU DON'T MAKE SENSE!!!
Sani 11 years ago
1. That slaves were sold in East Africa to Europeans with those slaves ending up in the New World is not a very widely known fact. We thought the slaves there went exclusively to the Arab world. What was the extent of the mov ... read full comment
1. That slaves were sold in East Africa to Europeans with those slaves ending up in the New World is not a very widely known fact. We thought the slaves there went exclusively to the Arab world. What was the extent of the movement of black African slaves to the New World from East Africa?
2. Andy, I suspect this is part of a larger study but you have failed to give us a comprehensive summary that we can use to judge the situation in Ghana. Perhaps your time in your shop in London (per your own words) does not allow you to do a complete re-write of your thesis and make it relevant to the Ghanaian situation. I sought for some answers from reading the first article and I didn't find them here either.
Perhaps you owe us another article that ties things together and makes them relevant to Ghana of today.
One thing I notice happen to many outsiders reading the history of these events is that you start with a good knowledge of who the Tutsi are and who the Hutus are. But then somewhere along the way, you keep confusing them. You didn't make matters any better by adding a prefix to one of them in the first article and then stopping that in the other article.
Thanks
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Sani,
This, of course, is just a glimpse of what is to come. And only 5 A-4 sheets long, is a heavily summarized version of events spanning centuries. I can't therefore dwell in detail on all that I touched upon; or even d ... read full comment
Sani,
This, of course, is just a glimpse of what is to come. And only 5 A-4 sheets long, is a heavily summarized version of events spanning centuries. I can't therefore dwell in detail on all that I touched upon; or even didn't mention but may have some relevancy. BTW, the Arabs (and Jews, btw) were re-selling a large number of the slaves to the Europeans.
Yes, I mentioned that it is part of a larger work, with heavy focus on Ghana. The Hutu/Tutsi and the Arab/South Sudanese cases were just to proovide a backdrop. If you read the Ghanaian situation, then you'd find the similarities and the dissimilarities vis a vis the situation in Rwanda/Burundi and Sudan, which I won't be posting, btw.
Watutsi is the full and proper name but shortened to Tutsi. No confusion about that, I suppose.
ANDY-K:
Great effort! This said, I think that your sources are rather too old for an essay posted in 2013! I think that the Berlin Conference in question is 1884/85 with the Berlin Act of 1885, not 1888/9 as you stated. ...
read full comment
Well, ha! ha! I know u had to swallow your pride in order to say that. Thanks for pointing out the wrong dating of the Berlin Conference. I noticed it but still forgot to correct it.
As for the recent sources, what else do ...
read full comment
I am not a proud person at all! I am simple person who just happens to speak my mind! I really meant the compliment!
So why the tribalism ? Anyway good you can make " positive " comments , not your usual negative ones
Ok, Akadu, thanks for the compliment! You recollect I once commended you too but you retorted in response?
I even found it necessary to commend Ahoofe more than once before! That's me! I bear no grudge but don't forget!
...
read full comment
Duh! New perspectives!
The great lakes region encompasses far more tribal areas than just tutsi/hutu areas where the author dwells on.It goes from lake tanganyika to lake turkana in the north.You have acholi/karamojong rivalry,maasai/kikuyu rivalry ...
read full comment
Agyeman, thanks for drawing attention to those conflicts too. I am sure you'd agree that it'd be a gargantuan task to attempt shedding light on all those conflicts too, hence the case study of the well known one/s. You'd noti ...
read full comment
It should be Baganda , Banyankole rivalry . He dwells on the Tutsi /Hutu because that is the most explosive and the most enduring. It wreaks havoc especially when you see the fertile resources they have but then kill each ot ...
read full comment
Very educative.Is the continuation coming soon? I wish, I could have read, "the Chickens Coming Home to Roost." Digressions should be brief and straight to the points. I 'enjoyed' you today. Good job-well done!
James, yes, I've got much of the continuation covering Ghana ready for years now. I shall break it down and send them for publication, controversial and gross as many will find them. But sometimes, gangrenous wounds have to b ...
read full comment
ANDY YOU DON'T MAKE SENSE!!!
1. That slaves were sold in East Africa to Europeans with those slaves ending up in the New World is not a very widely known fact. We thought the slaves there went exclusively to the Arab world. What was the extent of the mov ...
read full comment
Sani,
This, of course, is just a glimpse of what is to come. And only 5 A-4 sheets long, is a heavily summarized version of events spanning centuries. I can't therefore dwell in detail on all that I touched upon; or even d ...
read full comment