I’ve Suffered The Tribalism Card

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• Agyeman 12 years ago

  Geez,i always thank God i was born from the chosen and blessed people of Ashanti.

  Geez,i always thank God i was born from the chosen and blessed people of Ashanti.

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• Fo. Kwaku - Tanyingbe 12 years ago

  WHAT PREVENTS THE WRITER SEEKING AUDIENCE WITH THE V.C. LETS ALL COOPERATE TO BUILD MOTHER GHANA. BY YOUR ACTIONS IT SEEMS YOU HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA

  WHAT PREVENTS THE WRITER SEEKING AUDIENCE WITH THE V.C. LETS ALL COOPERATE TO BUILD MOTHER GHANA. BY YOUR ACTIONS IT SEEMS YOU HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA

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• BANDANYUGMA 12 years ago

  Mr. Ziem rightly referred to the type of your line of thinking as "stone age reasoning". The era of "Nichodamous" "audience" with the "Big Man" has long passed. In this age of reason, issues of public interest are discussed p ...
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  Mr. Ziem rightly referred to the type of your line of thinking as "stone age reasoning". The era of "Nichodamous" "audience" with the "Big Man" has long passed. In this age of reason, issues of public interest are discussed publicly just as Mr. Ziem seeks to do. He has stirred the honest-nest and let the University and the public discuss the penitent issues. Mr. Ziem may not get all the issues right but it is in the very interest of the University Authority to dispel these erroneous pubic perceptions. Name-calling and imputing ill-motives to his concerns will not do the VC, the Administration and the image of the University any good.

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• JK 12 years ago

  I think....ooooh...never mind!

  I think....ooooh...never mind!

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

  Fo Kwaku, the writer is a journalist and it is not his remiss to do what you are suggesting. However, he could interview the VC and other concerned persons to cross-check some claims in order write his articles on the UDS. Di ...
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  Fo Kwaku, the writer is a journalist and it is not his remiss to do what you are suggesting. However, he could interview the VC and other concerned persons to cross-check some claims in order write his articles on the UDS. Did he do that? Was he granted audience? That's the qs we shld be asking.
  
  This contribution in no way supports his position, as I am not acquainted with the issues raised in order to make an informed comment on them.
  
  Andy-K

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• Good Citizen 12 years ago

  IDIOT AGYEMAN,CHOSEN YOU SAID THEN WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELITES WHOSE BIBLE YOU USE AND ALWAYS SEE THEM AS THE STANDARD,THANKS TO FREE DONATION OF NORTHERN SPERMS RECEIVED BY YOUR MIDGET MOTHER,YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF A HUM ...
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  IDIOT AGYEMAN,CHOSEN YOU SAID THEN WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELITES WHOSE BIBLE YOU USE AND ALWAYS SEE THEM AS THE STANDARD,THANKS TO FREE DONATION OF NORTHERN SPERMS RECEIVED BY YOUR MIDGET MOTHER,YOU CAN CALL YOURSELF A HUMAN BEING.

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• NANKANI 12 years ago

  Agyeman you are RIGHT. Ashantis are the largest tribe in Ghana...by a mile. Yet we have through all the dmins..."Frafras, dagbaanis, Fantes, etc. etc...but not even one Ashanti, yet they call "us" tribalists?
  
  We Ashantis d ...
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  Agyeman you are RIGHT. Ashantis are the largest tribe in Ghana...by a mile. Yet we have through all the dmins..."Frafras, dagbaanis, Fantes, etc. etc...but not even one Ashanti, yet they call "us" tribalists?
  
  We Ashantis don't need anybody's post, and yet shall SURVIVE, THRIVE and prosper.

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• Chris. U.K 12 years ago

  My bro. u are very right. Ashantis don't care much about positions. We strive to gain in life. I am in UK and had a masters degree in finance.I was talking to a lady from volta and i explained to her that i want to do my own ...
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  My bro. u are very right. Ashantis don't care much about positions. We strive to gain in life. I am in UK and had a masters degree in finance.I was talking to a lady from volta and i explained to her that i want to do my own work on establish my own business. Do you knoww hat she said?,Eh Ashnatis and business. I said i have acquired a big plot in Kumasi for the intended purpose.She opened her mouth. Though,I ve two good postgraduate degrees from Uk, my Ashanti blood tells me that i can establish my business fromm the scratch and employ people instead of looking for favour from party or government. Good day my brother, Nankani.

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  So why do you fight to be presidents. K4, Afrifra, Kutu . You live in a fools paradise

  So why do you fight to be presidents. K4, Afrifra, Kutu . You live in a fools paradise

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• ??? 12 years ago

  If they fought to be presidents, it was to save mother Ghana. Read over his comments. He meant that most Asantes prefer to set up their own businesses instead of being employed. I think such mentality must be encouraged to cu ...
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  If they fought to be presidents, it was to save mother Ghana. Read over his comments. He meant that most Asantes prefer to set up their own businesses instead of being employed. I think such mentality must be encouraged to curb govt's wage bill.

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• JK 12 years ago

  I congratulate you for striving to set up your own business. It is the likes of you who keep the country's economy growing and helping so many others into decent jobs. The government cannot do it alone.
  
  You have my respec ...
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  I congratulate you for striving to set up your own business. It is the likes of you who keep the country's economy growing and helping so many others into decent jobs. The government cannot do it alone.
  
  You have my respect and admiration.

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• Eagle Eye 12 years ago

  Ziem,keep ur head and go on!As for ur concerns,they are as old as Adam and would not go presently.The Dagombalisation machine revved up a decade ago and cannot stop.Ask Haruna Iddrisu when he was at Communications.But it will ...
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  Ziem,keep ur head and go on!As for ur concerns,they are as old as Adam and would not go presently.The Dagombalisation machine revved up a decade ago and cannot stop.Ask Haruna Iddrisu when he was at Communications.But it will self-destruct because of the use of square specks.

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• Nash 12 years ago

  Mr. ZIEM also find out the ratios of in KNUST,UCC and Legon.I have worked in Wa for 4 years all the people said was we were posted to take positions from them.Please come again this will not develop the North at all with peop ...
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  Mr. ZIEM also find out the ratios of in KNUST,UCC and Legon.I have worked in Wa for 4 years all the people said was we were posted to take positions from them.Please come again this will not develop the North at all with people like you with the pen.

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• peace 12 years ago

  you are washing your dirty linen in public. is open secret also that even students admission is skewed towards northerners

  you are washing your dirty linen in public. is open secret also that even students admission is skewed towards northerners

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• BANDANYUGMA 12 years ago

  Better to wash my dirty linen in public than live with infectiously dirty line in the dark!

  Better to wash my dirty linen in public than live with infectiously dirty line in the dark!

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• BANDANYUGMA 12 years ago

  Sometime in 1985 the Dagombas in Tamale were up in arms against the PNDC government because nearly every head of department in the Northern Region was of other tribes other than Dagombas. Alhaji Huudu Yahaya was the Regional ...
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  Sometime in 1985 the Dagombas in Tamale were up in arms against the PNDC government because nearly every head of department in the Northern Region was of other tribes other than Dagombas. Alhaji Huudu Yahaya was the Regional Secretary. A bunch of Dagombas marched to the Residency protesting against what they perceived as "discrimination" against Dagombas. Regional Regional Director of Eduction-Dagaaba, Regional Pharmacists-Gonja, Regional Manager GWCL-Frafra etc. Hon. Alhaji Yahaya listened patiently to their complaints and asked them to go out in the region and look for qualified Dagombas to replace the non-Dagombas. The jubilant protestors immediately marched back to town and caught hold of one of their tribe's men who as a Standard Seven Holder operating a "Drugs' Store" and presented him to the Regional Secretary as to replace the Regional Pharmacist. Mind you dear reader, Hon. Alhaji Yahaja is a "pure-blooded Dagomba". He asked his kinsmen and women to relax so that the necessary formalities would be put on paper. While they were celebrating their "first coup d'tat" Hon. Yahaya sent for the military who unleashed mayhem on the stupid jubilants.
  
  This issue of Dagombalization of Northern Ghana is not a recent phenomenon. What Dagombas have forgotten or refuse to admit is that when the bell for formal education first rang in Dagombaland, they refused to respond but rather trooped to Masarada to learn Quaranic verses in Arabic. Other tribes in northern Ghana as far as Hamile and Paga responded to the call and came to Dagombaland for formal education. Is it any wonder therefore that today the so-called "inferior tribes" are the masters of the Alpha-Dagombas?

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• yap 12 years ago

  I will urge both of you to grow and learn to understand that the world is not uds and infact the world is not ghana,shed your narrow limited minds and embrace progress.uds is just one of the several public tertiary institutio ...
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  I will urge both of you to grow and learn to understand that the world is not uds and infact the world is not ghana,shed your narrow limited minds and embrace progress.uds is just one of the several public tertiary institution our country has
  think about your offsprings getting admission into a school of thier choice by qualifying and not because the parents can pull strings that is why we have mediocrity as our leadership in the country today

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• peace 12 years ago

  the pot calling the kettle black i suppose

  the pot calling the kettle black i suppose

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• ONUA 12 years ago

  What tribe is Dagaaba? is it the same as Dagarti? please excuse my ignorance.

  What tribe is Dagaaba? is it the same as Dagarti? please excuse my ignorance.

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• SALIA JOHN 12 years ago

  dagaaba is the tribe name and dagarti or dagaare is the language

  dagaaba is the tribe name and dagarti or dagaare is the language

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• GOLIYENU A. -TAMALE 12 years ago

  I like this stands you take,it's good, it shows your concern and drive for the betterment of our university and society. However, the issues raised must be handled carefully, not to appear as a deliberate attack on personalit ...
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  I like this stands you take,it's good, it shows your concern and drive for the betterment of our university and society. However, the issues raised must be handled carefully, not to appear as a deliberate attack on personalities.

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• akua ba kwame (BEREKUM) 12 years ago

  I scarcely comes along articles 0f high quality , intelligences ,candid and above all objective as this.If you go to most district administration all over the Akan areas in Ghana, you will definitely come across a person of n ...
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  I scarcely comes along articles 0f high quality , intelligences ,candid and above all objective as this.If you go to most district administration all over the Akan areas in Ghana, you will definitely come across a person of northern Descent being the District Coordinating Director of some sort or the the other. Lets go to the Northern part of Ghana and see if the opposite is the case.Can someone tell me the Akans dont go to school as our brothers and sisters from the north? Is there any place named Kumasi, Sunyani , or Ashantiline, Brongline or Akyem or Fante Newtown in any of the three Regions in the north?But come to the Akan areas , you have Sukura ,Dagombaline, Mamprusiline, at least in places like Kumasi and Techiman.Are our Northern brothers and sisters telling us we akans are short of names to name our areas or we are simply Stupid? Is time the rest of the country to end their xenophobic attitudes to wards akans and learn how we peacefully COEXIST WITH THE REST OF THE TRIBES IN GHANA. GOD BLESS GHANA AND WISE PEOPLE LIKE JOE WHO WROTE THIS WONDERFUL PIECE

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• Awo 12 years ago

  It makes sense to employ citizens in their own regions. Local people are suppose to manage their areas in a true democracy country. I mean people who hail from the region.

  It makes sense to employ citizens in their own regions. Local people are suppose to manage their areas in a true democracy country. I mean people who hail from the region.

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• DOOBIA 12 years ago

  The fact remains that Dagomba are the most non tribalist group on the face of earth. Over the year Dagomba have received and continue to receive various tribes with open arms particularly our brothers of Mole-Dagbon. Its agai ...
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  The fact remains that Dagomba are the most non tribalist group on the face of earth. Over the year Dagomba have received and continue to receive various tribes with open arms particularly our brothers of Mole-Dagbon. Its against this background that Tamale has become a cosmopolitan area today. Dagomba can not discriminate because Dagbon is the heartbeat of the North and so everybody can easily see. Our brothers from the upper east and west have visited such tribalist cards on Dagombas but, I personally don't they should be paid back in their own coin admitting this story is true. I don't think tribalism is really that of a problem among Dagomba. Our real problem is within ourselves( Abudu and Andani) and not to other tribes. My prayer is that more opportunities will be created up north for people so that we don't over the few that exist now. Dagbon has three major tribes Dagombas, Konkonbas and Chakusis. As for Mole - Dagbon, Frafra, Kusasi. Wala, Dagaaba. Mamprusi, Nanumba,Grunees, Bimobas and others are all a part. Dagbon is for all. Dagbon should one day offer opportunities for all those who come to drink from its springs. I am by this apologising to any person who suffered from the actions and inactions of any dagomban to forgive and forget. DAGBON WILL MAKE UP TO YOU.

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