Akans Unconscious Self-destruction made Worse by Greed

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Nana Kwame 12 years ago

Awww. Long live Akans....

Awww. Long live Akans....
JOJO 12 years ago

aboa, you think Ghana is for the Ashanti's only?

aboa, you think Ghana is for the Ashanti's only?
GOOD ARTICLE ! 12 years ago

GOOD ARTICLE ! AKANS WAKE UP ! THE EWES ARE EVIL PEOPLE !

GOOD ARTICLE ! AKANS WAKE UP ! THE EWES ARE EVIL PEOPLE !
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some r ...
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THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE EWE BACKLASH

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

References:

Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
Manchester Univ. Press.
Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

"akpeledzi" should spell "ekpelekpedzi".

Andy-K

"akpeledzi" should spell "ekpelekpedzi".

Andy-K
INDIGO 12 years ago

Fuck the hell off you hypocrite. You are only interested in defending your people. Rockson Adofo is fighting a just course. He is fighting the injustices and crimes being perpetrated against Akans and we fully support him. We ...
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Fuck the hell off you hypocrite. You are only interested in defending your people. Rockson Adofo is fighting a just course. He is fighting the injustices and crimes being perpetrated against Akans and we fully support him. We have had enough and it appears the adversary is still not satisfied.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

My piece above ended with the promise to write on the military, which I had partially done already in a manuscript, using available data. Just a bit of what is to come later.

I just wonder where these mentally retarded Aka ...
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My piece above ended with the promise to write on the military, which I had partially done already in a manuscript, using available data. Just a bit of what is to come later.

I just wonder where these mentally retarded Akans, often of Asante orgins, get their "facts" and census data from, which census data often make Asantes or Akans the majority in Ghana?!

I have just gone through for the umpteenth times the names and details, i.e, rank, date commissioned, academy, age, ethnicity of all the 29 Ghanaian army officers ever produced on the eve of independence. Btw, Major Seth Kobla Antony, an Ewe of French parentage and a sterling, pioneering officer who opened the door for others, was then no longer in the army, having retired to pursue an illustrious civil service career.

I DID NOT see a single Asante among the list. And that included people from the present Brong Ahafo by then. Ha! ba! Were Ewes in charge of the recruitment into the military then? Out of the lot, 8 were listed as Ewe, including Captain B. Awhaitey, tried with Modesto Apaloo for allegedly plotting the first coup just after independence. But he is better classified as a Krobo, not an Ewe.

The Gas dominated with 11 officers even though their population is lower than that of Ewes! BTW, Lieut. G. Slater is listed as Ga but I know that the family speaks Ewe as well. I guess the wife might be Ewe. Just forgot what a daughter told me about their background. Will verify.

In fact, statistical analysis of the distribution of ethnic groups in the public sector singled them (Gas) out as the ONLY ethnic group who are significantly over-represented as per their share of the total pop., but this is to be understood, having much advantage in educational institutions than the rest of us since the earliest colonial times. So why are no such angst as expressed against Ewes directed at them? Rather, we get some ignorant Gas even joining the mentally jaundiced and ignorant Akans to hurl abuse and false claims at Ewes!

Akwapim came 3rd with 5 officers, 2 Fantis and then 1 officer each for the Dagombas, Kwahus and a naturalised Ghanaian. That's it!

Same data exist for the police and civil service on the eve of independence and well into the 1970s when records keeping was still following the colonial patterns before the collapse of the Ghanaian state and its institutions under the NRC/SMC junta.

Likewise, the commercial houses such as UAC, John Holt Bartholomew, Leventis, PZ, etc. were manned by similar people from within the Gold Coast. So my own dad, from a UAC shop floor in Akwatia upon leaving Standard 7 at Keta and countless correspondence studies in accounting, became the first African appointed as the Administrative Secretary of John Holt, with over 20 whites underneath him, while his uncle C.C. Tamakloe, the Wizard of Numbers, held sway at UAC. South Africa was then getting Apartheid after WWII!

I recently shared pics of my dad with Col. Bernansko and others at the Teshie Military Academy, where the CPP under Nkrumah had conscripted senior civil staff with higher education to be trained as army officers in order to enhance the quality of the army officer corps. Police officer training was also given to them. So my father was both a high ranking reserved army and police officer even though his profession was accounting. That was one of the grievances for the coup of 1966. Btw, Ankrah was very guilty of the charges preferred against him. I ironed the shirt, as usual, for my dad to appear before the committee-in -camera which examined the evidence and had him removed.

If anything at all, Akans from within the former Asante Protectorate, comprising BA too, have made a lot of progress in catching up with Ewes and others who were within the Gold Coast colony proper and therefore formed the main recruitment ground for the army, police and civil service.

Andy-K
Isaac 12 years ago

Blacks are just plain stupid

Blacks are just plain stupid
Kojo T 12 years ago

This Adofo man spreads his ignorance on the web . Theycannot read history or do not care . Today Brig wellington, Kotei, Maj Collison, Felli, Amedume, Utuka are all Akans What a shame ?

This Adofo man spreads his ignorance on the web . Theycannot read history or do not care . Today Brig wellington, Kotei, Maj Collison, Felli, Amedume, Utuka are all Akans What a shame ?
BISHOP 12 years ago

How can you write this garbage at a time when the NPP is trying very hard to prove to Ghanaians that it is a national party? Are you indirectly indicating that Akan interest can only be guaranteed with the NPP in power?

S ...
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How can you write this garbage at a time when the NPP is trying very hard to prove to Ghanaians that it is a national party? Are you indirectly indicating that Akan interest can only be guaranteed with the NPP in power?

Some of us were fervently supporting you and your fight against the Woyome debt saga and corrupt politicians behind it and here you are putting us to shame.

You accuse Akans in the NDC as greddy, what then of the non Akans in the NPP such as Jake lamptey and Dr. Bawumia?

Sometimes we have to allow common sense to dictate our ways and line of thought instead of EMOTIONS.

Thank you

GHANA 12 years ago

"I recently shared pics of my dad with Col. Bernansko and others at the Teshie Military Academy, where the CPP under Nkrumah had conscripted senior civil staff with higher education to be trained as army officers in order to ...
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"I recently shared pics of my dad with Col. Bernansko and others at the Teshie Military Academy, where the CPP under Nkrumah had conscripted senior civil staff with higher education to be trained as army officers in order to enhance the quality of the army officer corps."

How recent is recently? Colonel Bernasko died almsot three years ago on 03 June 2010
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

And my father died in Dec. 1982 and Nkrumah in 1972! Dude, the pics were taken in the early 1960s. Read properly next time. Take another look at what you quoted. Send your email and I'd send to you too. We are still trying t ...
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And my father died in Dec. 1982 and Nkrumah in 1972! Dude, the pics were taken in the early 1960s. Read properly next time. Take another look at what you quoted. Send your email and I'd send to you too. We are still trying to identify some of the other people in the pics.

Andy-K
Hammer, London 12 years ago

Dear C.Y. Andy-K, what will I do without your ideas and contributions? I am always more than happy to learn new things from you. You are such an academic and real human being.

Dear C.Y. Andy-K, what will I do without your ideas and contributions? I am always more than happy to learn new things from you. You are such an academic and real human being.
OBOADEE NANA 12 years ago

There we go! No brains, no sense of logical thinking and analysis. The writer did not portray any idea of the Country belonging to Ashantis or Akans but gave very substantive facts! The Truth Hurts eh? There can be no progre ...
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There we go! No brains, no sense of logical thinking and analysis. The writer did not portray any idea of the Country belonging to Ashantis or Akans but gave very substantive facts! The Truth Hurts eh? There can be no progressive development if people become pre-occupied with petty tribal hatred and Inferiority Complex which appear to be the bane of philosophy of these gutter politicians in P/NDC which is crippling the Nation. Well done Rockson for such a frank and truthful fact.
AKANLAND 12 years ago

THIS WILL BRING PEACE

THIS WILL BRING PEACE
Solomon Dormenyo Quist 12 years ago

......which appear to be the BANE of philosophy of these gutter politicians in the PNDC/NDC......I know for sure that is not how you intended your tirade to conclude, however if that is so, then I wholehearted endorse your se ...
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......which appear to be the BANE of philosophy of these gutter politicians in the PNDC/NDC......I know for sure that is not how you intended your tirade to conclude, however if that is so, then I wholehearted endorse your sentiments because you have given the PNDC/NDC a clean bill of health. Why?, because in your own words, the hatred and inferiority complex are defeating/thwarting/ruining their grand design which according to Adofo Rockson (which you have implicitly concurred) is the subjugation and other dire straits of the Akans.
insight to the bone 12 years ago

the pepeni sticks his dick into anything that walks on 2 or 4 legs and when caught finds a way to blame some poor innocent . this pepeni has proven to be perverse so much so that he tries to force on us a gay sodomizing cultu ...
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the pepeni sticks his dick into anything that walks on 2 or 4 legs and when caught finds a way to blame some poor innocent . this pepeni has proven to be perverse so much so that he tries to force on us a gay sodomizing culture . ndc is a truely sick party but we are not surprised since for decades it was lead by the bastard son of an uncircumcised idiot who was so maltreated by the ashawo mother he wanted to have nothing to do with him so this jj put all his frustrations on us . a bad seed will never grow a worthy plant but only worthless fruits. look at the results , today we have corruption infiltrated in all institutions of govt but take a closer look at who , its normally the gas , ayigbe and pepeni who are unrelenting and stubborn in their demands. if you dont give in to their demands they will find a way to set you up so you have the organized crime office , bni , cid or some other persecuting you. they know Ghana doesnt belong to them and dont care so one hopes that either some fanti or Akan man deals with you at least then you have a chance of fairness if they are not members of the ndc. the ndc agent provocateurs on this forum can not say i lie so attack my person but these are all the elements of the hegemony that bring us closer to war so prepare . long live the republic of Akan
Fo. Kwaku - Tanyingbe 12 years ago

THE WRITER SEEMS TO PREACH TRIBALISM THAN WHAT BINDS AS A PEOPLE. WE SHOULD RATHER THAN WHAT DIVIDES US. WE SHOULD BOW OUR HEADS IN SHAME FOR THIS ARTICLE

THE WRITER SEEMS TO PREACH TRIBALISM THAN WHAT BINDS AS A PEOPLE. WE SHOULD RATHER THAN WHAT DIVIDES US. WE SHOULD BOW OUR HEADS IN SHAME FOR THIS ARTICLE
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Pretty soon, it shall all be explained and put in context for you. One should remember that it was the NAZIs that were accusing the Jews of dominating the Aryan race and must therefore be eliminated as the vermins that they w ...
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Pretty soon, it shall all be explained and put in context for you. One should remember that it was the NAZIs that were accusing the Jews of dominating the Aryan race and must therefore be eliminated as the vermins that they were supposed to be. Just as the Jews are still around, so are Ewes despite the actions of your mentally warped ancestors whose mental warpedness you blokes have inherited, stronger than ever, just as the Jews.

You see, the records of the Ewes are dominating us, taking all the jobs and what not are all there for posterity and for us now living to judge who is the tribalist jerk and ethnocentric. I will soon provide all of you with an overview of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana, starting from the pre-colonial times. I had already provided a glimpse from the colonial to the post-independent period up to Busia's time. I shall re-post that anytime this sort of rabid jingoist bile is put on the net, so I need not write further.

Andy-K
GHANA 12 years ago

Who cares about your stupidity? Even after Rawlings twenty years rule and giving bthe Ewes all advantages including more than 75% vof scholarships for Ghanaians to study abroad, they are still one of the poorest tribe in Ghan ...
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Who cares about your stupidity? Even after Rawlings twenty years rule and giving bthe Ewes all advantages including more than 75% vof scholarships for Ghanaians to study abroad, they are still one of the poorest tribe in Ghana not only in wealth but how to live cleanly with their envirinments resembling that of pigs. Go to Accra and see what they have done to Chorkor and Ashiaman where they form more than 50% of people living there. Those places look like it is occupied by pigs. The same thing can be said about Anloga in Kumasi where these people shit into a big constructed gutter to make passage of rain water smooth.

FRANK 12 years ago

Adofo keep it up and we will one day get to real your dreams of a genocide, it started by hard liners posting articles like this and making pronouncements on radio, TV and stuff.

The black man will self destruct before the ...
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Adofo keep it up and we will one day get to real your dreams of a genocide, it started by hard liners posting articles like this and making pronouncements on radio, TV and stuff.

The black man will self destruct before the white man or the Chinese will ever try to do to them.
Kwaku Gbloenawo 12 years ago

I am disgusted and as much as I have avoided unsavoury language on this platform, considering your initial paragraphs, you have categorised yourself as "A TRIBALISTIC BLACK FOOL". You expect your discerning tribesmen to follo ...
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I am disgusted and as much as I have avoided unsavoury language on this platform, considering your initial paragraphs, you have categorised yourself as "A TRIBALISTIC BLACK FOOL". You expect your discerning tribesmen to follow your nonsense? Shame on you and you will eventually self destruct with such callousness.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Makola market was bombed. I suppose that is part of Kumasi , populated by Akans or Asantefo only ?

Makola market was bombed. I suppose that is part of Kumasi , populated by Akans or Asantefo only ?
Nyansasem 12 years ago

Get a life. Asantes are not going anywhere soon, so are the Ewes. We will live together for the rest of our lives till thy kingdom.

You only come here with your stupid analysis or history only when an idiot like Adofo writ ...
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Get a life. Asantes are not going anywhere soon, so are the Ewes. We will live together for the rest of our lives till thy kingdom.

You only come here with your stupid analysis or history only when an idiot like Adofo writes one of his stupid articles. And to congratulate authors that try to insult Asantes. How come we don't see you attacking others who write stupid things about Asantes?

Or, physiologically, the hormones that run through your system are all anti-Asante hormones?
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Nonsense. First, why on earth should I devote my very limited and precious time defending Asantes against others who come here to respond to the tribalistic puke they pour on Ghanaweb and insults directed at Ewes and people f ...
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Nonsense. First, why on earth should I devote my very limited and precious time defending Asantes against others who come here to respond to the tribalistic puke they pour on Ghanaweb and insults directed at Ewes and people from the North by insulting them too? Don't the Asantes have their 1000s to defend them any more? As for me, I am just 1 firewood in the fire place, very much isolated and besieged. Fighting on several fronts has always proved disastrous to us. More often than not, if the subject was one I had wanted to comment on but those insulting have taken over the topic with insults, I avoid commenting myself. Whatever one says will be lost in the din anyway.

Secondly, in spite of having no obligation on me to do that, even Akadu will testify I had now and then admonished people I suspect to be Ewes not to insult Asantes ad nauseam as some Asantes do against Ewes. A case in point is very much below, in response to the person with the moniker Ugly Criminal Asante. Go down and read it. I wrote that yesterday, and it was NOT the first post I wrote asking him not to insult all Asantes in justified his anger at the continuing demonisation and vilification of Ewes by some Akans, which started long, long ago before we all here were born. He clearly belongs to the large section of Ewes who believe that Akans who demonise Ewes are bloody-minded morons and ingrates who cannot be reasoned with and so they can only insult them back, or wait until when they attacked us, we fight them back and kill them too! I take a different stance, as I have been showing in my articles. So, you're a bloody liar for claiming that I congratulate those who insult Asantes wholesale. My limitation is that you can insult back the individual but do it in such a manner that you don't lump all others with the jerk! Of course, this may result in some collateral damage, just as when the grass suffers when two elephants fight!

Everybody who knows me from Okyeame to the formation of Ghanaweb know that I don't wholesale insult Asantes. I am an Anlo and some historical crimes of the Asantes against the ancestors of fellow Ghanaians, unfortunately, happen to be the historical crimes of my ancestors too. But I have removed the log in my own eyes and is ready to remove the speck that has blinded most Asantes, including you who is one of the most odious shmucks who promote the ethnic insults on Ghanaweb. Deal with the repercussions and don't call on me to help! I am just telling it as it were and it is! I do it my way with no regrets. If you don't like it do your own thing too! Capish?

Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

This what I wrote below yesterday.

Author:
C.Y. ANDY-K
Date:
2013-05-26 09:09:48
Comment to:
HOW DID THE SLAVE MASTER ASHANTI GET RIC

And can you please stop writing in block letters? Difficult to read and is con ...
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This what I wrote below yesterday.

Author:
C.Y. ANDY-K
Date:
2013-05-26 09:09:48
Comment to:
HOW DID THE SLAVE MASTER ASHANTI GET RIC

And can you please stop writing in block letters? Difficult to read and is considered shouting in netique!

And take it easy on the mentally jaundiced Asantes among the Asantes. Not ALL of them are mentally retarded like Adofo and some, even if many, within the NPP. There are many, even within the NPP fold, who don't share their venomous bile and are happy to join all other Ghanaians, including Ewes, to develop Ghana. Yes, so some are just ardently NDC like the rest of the NDC lot, which btw, I am not. So don't blanket insult all Asantes 'cos some jaundiced Ewes (sic; shld have written Asantes) insult all Ewes. You'd reduce yourself to their abysmal level too.

As for me, whatever I write here, I'd be bold to repeat and defend at Kejetia Lorry Park one day!

Andy-K
UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 12 years ago

COMMENTS LIKE THIS FROM FEW ILLITERATE ASHANTIS CONTINUE TO DENT THE IMAGE OF THE ALREADY DENTED IMAGE OF YOU UGLY ASHANTIS WHO HAVE REFUSED TO ACCEPT FACT FOR PEACE TO PREVAIL IN GHANA.IN FACT YOUR COMMENT LACKS FACTS,BASIS ...
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COMMENTS LIKE THIS FROM FEW ILLITERATE ASHANTIS CONTINUE TO DENT THE IMAGE OF THE ALREADY DENTED IMAGE OF YOU UGLY ASHANTIS WHO HAVE REFUSED TO ACCEPT FACT FOR PEACE TO PREVAIL IN GHANA.IN FACT YOUR COMMENT LACKS FACTS,BASIS AND BASIC FOR AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS BCOS THE ATROCITIES SUBJUGATIONS YOUR ARE REFERRING TO IN YOUR TRIBALLY MOTIVATED COMMENTS WERE AS A RESULTS OF YOUR (ASHANTIS) DOING,ASHANTIS DESIRE TO MAKE MONEY AT THE EXPENSE OF EVERY GHANAIAN THROUGH KALABULE. ADOFO CAN YOU OBJECTIVELY NARRATE TO GHANAIANS HOW THOSE UGLY GUYS GOT THEIR MONEY IF NOT BY CHEATING AND STEALING GOVERNMENT FUNDS?DID YOU KNOW HOW A WHOLE MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS ENDED IN PRIVATE ASHANTI HOSPITALS?DID YOU KNOW HOW STATE TRANSPORT GOT REDUCED TO ASHANTI TRASN?WHAT SUCCESS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT AND HOW DO YOU MEASURE THE SO CALLED SUCCESS YOU A CREDITED THE UGLY ASHANTIS WITH?ARE YOU MEASURING SUCCESS BY STEALING WHAT BELONGS TO GOVERNMENT OR WHAT?ADOFO CAN YOU TELL ME HOW B.A MENSAH ,ASIAW,APPIA MINKA ,AND CO GOT THEIR MONEY IF NOT FOR THROUGH THE AVOIDING TAX AND COCAINE TRADE.
THE FRUSTRATIONS YOU STUPID ASHANTIS FACE IN TODAYS GHANA IS INDICATIVE OF THE FACT THAT THROUGH RAWLINGS OTHER GHANAIANS HAVE NOW WOKEN UP TO YOUR CRIMINAL AND CORRUPT PRACTICES AND HAVE BLOCKED ALL YOUR FAKE MONEY MAKING AVENUES AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL GHANAIANS.ADOFO ASK YOURSELF HOW CAN AN STALK ILLITERATE ASHANTI BECOME RICH TO THE ASHANTIS EXTENT IF NOT VIA CROOK WAYS
Moses 12 years ago

you creature of the devil with no character

you creature of the devil with no character
kofi 12 years ago

How do you write like that without any proof,?
.Don't send the country to hell

How do you write like that without any proof,?
.Don't send the country to hell
Nana Kwame 12 years ago

Awww. Long live Akans....

Awww. Long live Akans....

C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to br ...
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WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to brush this issue under the carpet by some linked to the NPP as just a one off aberration. These people pretend or do not seem to know that Agyapong’s threats were not the first admonishing the killing of Ewes, something the readily available facts betray. Facts I have been referring to from 1994 in cyberspace, recounting my own personal experiences with some of those advocates of Ewe killers in Nigeria during the early years of the PNDC. Of course, I have not as yet told the full story. But as Fela said, “I no kpata de finish!”

Hmm! As I found out when I was insulted “basabasa” by a man who turned out to be one of my many uncles, (when I apparently misspoke on the hike in petrol prices in the 1993 budget), on a bus from Anloga to Dzelukope in 1993, for being mistaken for a Quashiga hireling who had joined the “Eblutorwo” (Akans) preparing to come and kill them, my people back home were fully prepared and waiting for the quislings to start the attacks; I was assured. That was long before anyone heard of Justice Kpega as a political pundit! Phew! Me, a die-hard Nkrumaist in league with NPP assassins, to go and kill my fellow Anlo-Ewes? Well, after all, it was in Lome, an Ewe centrepiece city even if many are of Ga-Anyi extraction, that they first congregated and started those lose talks against Ewes, thus forcing most Ewes in exile opposed to the PNDC to abandon the opposition to the PNDC and the anti-Ewe bent it had taken. So, many of us Ewes knew about their evil intents a long time ago, as they were eating our akple and fetri detsi and planning it in our kinsmen homes! Hardly any of them knew that much of the land of Lome is owned by people from Aflao and environs. Ignorant morons come in all shapes, you know. They were lucky no one poisoned them in Lome.:-)

Equally, I have read opponents to Agyapong’s utterances, including some Ewes, made some false and misleading statements, which shows that they are ignorant of the facts of the origins of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana, despite my persistent efforts and write-ups sketching that sordid history, from the pre-colonial to the post-independence era. I read someone situated in the 1979 elections period Victor Owusu’s scathing attacks on Ewes as “inward-looking” during the exchanges with Dr Agama in Parliament after the Apollo 586 sacking of mostly Ewes by the Busia regime!

Ignorance and superstition are recognised as key cogs in the vicious cycle of backwardness that is our lot as developing people but the extent most so-called educated Ghanaians wallow in these two inhibiting traits is just stupendous and disheartening!

Many try to claim that Rawlings introduced tribalism into Ghana by employing predominantly Ewes into sensitive public posts, especially the security sector; whereas the same claims of Ewe domination of posts had already been used effectively against Gbedema’s NAL by Busia’s Progress Party during the 1969 General Elections, as I had quoted from Dennis Austen but something all grown-ups at the time knew about. It was therefore unfortunate, that the late Prof Adu Boahen, as a historian who knew or ought to know better, fed into these fabrications of Ewe dominance, creating his own when he reportedly claimed in a British Council lecture in the 1980s that Prof. Akilagpa Sawyerr, a Ga who was given the VC post which he thought he deserved at the time, was an Ewe, and promised in his interview granted to Mahoney and his Africa Watch magazine to redress the presumed ethnic disparity when the NPP was elected into office. To me and many discerning Ewes, especially the Ewe elite, it was all déjà vu. But I was still surprised to find out that some decade long opponents of the PNDC voted for the NDC in 1992! It would not even surprise me if someone who knew Justice Kpegah’s political views very well in the 1980s came out to say that he was an arch-enemy of the PNDC in the Bar Association. I was visiting Ho in 1990 when the people of the VR angrily rejected the no party idea that the PNDC was then lobbying for, effectively halting the campaign for it. Those in BA had already voted yes.

Yes! The NPP had itself to blame for their dismal reception in the VR, as they lost the plot with their tribal agenda reminiscent of the 1969 campaign. In Accra, they lost a lot of Ga support when the same Prof Adu Boahen at a rally, in trying to whip the anti-Ewe venom made that gaffe about Gas being pushed by the PNDC to be sleeping 10 persons to a room, after many of the main speakers had spoken in Twi! In 2000, they (NPP) won simply because of JJ’s unwholesome Swedru Declaration and the disrespectful Obed Asamoah led attempts to impose sitting candidates on their constituents, which nearly got him beaten at Dzelukope/Keta.

Fact is, I have been aware, just as many other people, since the early 1980s of various threats by some Akans opposed to the PNDC to have Ewes killed and had written about that many, many times on Okyeame and SIL. Perhaps, adding Gas to those to be killed is just the new dimension added by Agyapong, since it appeared, this time, the Gas, in Agyapong's warped mind, had acted in prosecuting the "Ewe agenda" by beating up Ursula on behalf of the Ewes! Well, warped minds think in strange, circular terms!

After all, the threats were so opened and so rampant that one Ewe, the late Dr Kodzi who died here in London in exile, pointed out the "Anlo-Ewes” in his own virulently anti-Rawlings/ PNDC book, "Ghana: Worse than Apartheid S. Africa," as the Ewes to be killed, for being the culprits of the complaints and angst of the Akans! That was long before anyone heard of Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe and his renewed “war” on “Anlo-Ewes,” a war his ancestor joined the Akyem Gen. Dompey to fight in "Krepi" against the Asantes and lost way back in the 1860s and got stranded there, lucky enough not to have been killed like others. That’s another story I had re-told elsewhere and needs a re-visit soon in order to let the populace know what makes bozos like Ahoofe tick. For a man, (I mean Dr Kodzi, not the jerk Ahoofe) who, due to his sterling stewardship when in charge of the Keta Govt Hospital, was much beloved by the so-called Anlo-Ewes, regarded as an hononary Anlo and entrusted with pouring the libation at the Hogbeza celebration of the Noviha group here in London, that was something to write! How could he be sure that the would-be killers would not mistake him for an Anlo man, in spite of the pain he took to identify the other Ewe groups in his book? Well, the failure of the so-called Ewe elite - academic and traditional and the political - to deal rationally with this animus against Ewes is itself an intra-Ewe shambolic intellectual failure I shall deal with by and by. I have right here on my table the rantings of some other Ewes from northern Eweland, or Ewedome based in the UK, as we Anlos refer to the area referred to by Europeans as Krepi, against the PNDC and Anlos in particular which I have not even as yet dealt with in my writings.

I must, however, make exception here, as Prof. Kofi Awoonor’s much distorted and maligned prison book (in league with Soyinka’s The Man Died) is probably the first book by a Ghanaian which tried to explain the tribal imbroglio and to point the way forward. His only mistake was that he fell prey to the standard Western simplistic, linear and reductionist methodology of reducing what is without doubt a complex articulation of interests and forces which cut across the ethnic divide with people from all ethnic groups found in both or all contesting camps for political ascendancy, or “hegemony”, as he put it, in Ghana. So, for instance, those who imprisoned him for helping Brig. Kattah to escape to Togo were not only “Akans/Asantes” but included Ewes, Gas, Gonjas, etc., as Kutu’s NRC comprised a cross-section of Ghanaian ethnic groups.

You have to be wilfully blind or totally ignorant of what has been happening in the opposition to the P/NDC camp in order to claim today that you are not aware of talk of and even attempts to foment what would have become an ethnic war in Ghana prior to 1992. I personally had to intervene and quelled a serious fracas on Okyeame between two well known non-Ewes when the “brave Asantes” were queried again by a non-Asante why they could not deal with the apparently Ewe P/NDC which allegedly committed atrocities on they Akans only, I suppose. I bet many can remember J.H Mensah's arrest in America for allegedly attempting to buy weapons to prosecute their “liberation war” to get their country back. It is no wonder the NPP gurus, many of whom shared in those nefarious ideas, talked about it, plotted to carry it, etc., are finding it very hard to distance themselves from this public utterance of it again. How can they desert their fellow journey man, without being double hypocrites? At least, there must be some honour among thieves!

There are many questions to ask and many issues to take up. Had my PC not kaput and eventually leading to the loss of a huge part of what I had painstakingly written with references while in Norway with additions in London, my intended book taking up those issues would have been out years ago.

Incidentally, my next intended article after writing "How Some "Ewes" Became a Part of Ghana" is titled "Who Are the Ewes". It is just a revisit to my first ever post to a cyber forum in early 1994, Okyeame precisely, which Azar should remember so well, as in spite of my providing a reference, he still challenged me to give that! It was sent as my contribution, incidentally, to another NPP instigated scare against poor but hard working Ewe and Ada fishing cum farming pioneers (won't call them settlers) displaced by the effects of the Akosombo Dam on the neglected downstream people who opened up the mosquito infested and disease-ridden Afram Plains. The claim was that the NDC wanted to carve a district for them there and thereby claim the land for them! Wives and children were hastily sent home in order to keep them out of harm’s way in the event of attacks on the communities. That was when I decided not to sit any longer on the fence, just like the majority of my fellow educated Ewes, who think responding to such attacks on Ewes is beneath them, since madmen, "dzimakplawo" and "gbemelawo" were responsible! That was the common “wisdom” repeated by Rawlings at Tsiame, when he was queried by the worried chiefs and people about the ongoing Ewe demonization in the opposition media and political platforms in the ‘90s.

Gratuitous counter abuse, especially directed at Asantes ad nauseam, is not the way to tackle the issues, as some are presently doing on Ghanaweb. In the ‘90s, the Ghanaian stage was left to a novice like Komla Dumor to deal with on JoyFM with his “Ayigbe Jokes” series., which horrified and mortified me when I first listened to it online in 1997 or so. A programme like that would have found him and JoyFM foul of the Anti-Vilification Laws of any of the Western Europe countries and sanctioned appropriately. I doubt though whether half of our “honourable” MPs have heard of such a law, but that is the way we must go and huge revision of the school curricula. But that calls for another article.

Well, simply, many do not know how to deal with the madmen who repeatedly take their loins cloth while in the bath house! I know how! After all, I know the story of how the Anloga man dealt with the mad man of Tegbi and remained sane; the mad man who used to way lay the “asisiawo” - the market women - from the Keta market with a club and the question: axor a ava lo, alo axor a ekpo?, i.e., do you want penis or do you want club? And one day he raped and killed the heavily pregnant wife of the Anloga man. Of course, it is a taboo to deal with mad men in our society.

Ahoofe and his ilk’s tribalistic insults directed at Anlo-Ewes in particular and Agyapong's call to mayhem can be placed in perspective if you are informed about their origins. They used the tribal card so well in 1969 and think they can continue using it forever. No! Some of us decided long ago that ourselves and children shall not remain objects of demonization and vilification for the political objectives of some people who are still suffering from the mentally warped debauchery that the slave trade had foisted on our ancestors. We shall therefore make sure that these appeal to ethnic differences backfire big time on their stupid faces!

I am therefore re-sending and shall continue re-posting this short piece I had put together especially for the readership of Ghanaweb and shall continue with my series on the Ethnic imbroglio in Ghana. Agyapong's outburst is simply the tip of the canker that permeates our body politic that must be dealt with at its roots. They are not the only Akans who suffer from what I have dubbed “Ewe angst and fears”, which afflict the generality of Akans due to how they are weaned and socialised. What do you expect from people who, as kids, are frightened to drink their Mist Alba, behave themselves or go to bed early with the Ewe bogeyman imagery?

Andy C. Y. Kwawukume

cyandyk@ymail.com
London
JOJO 12 years ago

Who is an AKAN?
Suits you when you want to gather support with your tribalistic ashanti/akyem agenda.
FOOLS like you are the ones dragging Ghana down to destruction.
You forget there are other tribes in Ghana. YOUR HATRED ...
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Who is an AKAN?
Suits you when you want to gather support with your tribalistic ashanti/akyem agenda.
FOOLS like you are the ones dragging Ghana down to destruction.
You forget there are other tribes in Ghana. YOUR HATRED IS EVIL
The Fanti's, Wassa's, Nzema's, Sefwi's (except AKADU) Denkyera's. Ahanta's, and all points West do not want to be part of your murderous divisive agenda.
You will sink and drown in your tribalistic vomit, for the poison you spew out here. IDIOTTA.
Time is 06 30 GO HAVE A WANK.
JOJO 12 years ago

idiot

idiot
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

People like this GREASY RAT if seen should spend the rest of his miserable life in prison for encouraging tribal war and division.
Let it be known to you Adofo Kwasea that you do NOT speak for all Akans.There are Akans who s ...
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People like this GREASY RAT if seen should spend the rest of his miserable life in prison for encouraging tribal war and division.
Let it be known to you Adofo Kwasea that you do NOT speak for all Akans.There are Akans who simply wants to carry on with their daily lives away from your old age way of thinking.

Your miserable life is nearly over,so leave the young Akan men and women to enjoy theirs,no matter how hard Ghana is they are happy.
AUSTRALIA 12 years ago

ADOFO,AS AN AKAN,I DO NOT SUBCRIBE TO YOUR VIEW.PLEASE KEEP YOUR VIEWS TO YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY. I REFUSE TO SHARE IN THIS PAROCHIAL,ONE SIDED AND TRIBALISIC ASSESSMENT.
IF YOUR INTENTIONS ARE TO CALL FOR WAR IN GHANA, I ...
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ADOFO,AS AN AKAN,I DO NOT SUBCRIBE TO YOUR VIEW.PLEASE KEEP YOUR VIEWS TO YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY. I REFUSE TO SHARE IN THIS PAROCHIAL,ONE SIDED AND TRIBALISIC ASSESSMENT.
IF YOUR INTENTIONS ARE TO CALL FOR WAR IN GHANA, I SUGGEST YOU PUSH YOUR FAMILY TO THE FOREFRONT BEFORE THE REST OF US.
YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE AND A MORON TO START THIS DEBATE.
GHANA BELONGS TO ALL INCLUDING EX PRESIDENT KUFFOUR.
YOU NEED TO START BUILDING SOME CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF TO SUCCEED IN LIFE.THE LACK OF SELF ESTEEM IS YOUR PROBLEM.
PLEASE CRY YOUR OWN CRY AND NOT FOR ME OR THE REST OF US.GHANA DOES NOT NEED ANOTHER HERO.WHAT WE NEED IS PATRIOTS,THINKERS,ETC.
Numanitor 12 years ago

stupid article.Don't you know you are indirectly telling us that when the NPP come to power they do same to other tribes, if your claim is something to go by. Next time be rational and respect other tribes as you respect your ...
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stupid article.Don't you know you are indirectly telling us that when the NPP come to power they do same to other tribes, if your claim is something to go by. Next time be rational and respect other tribes as you respect your tribe so that they will also respect your tribe as they respect their tribes.Ghana is not for a particular tribe.
AFEVIA 12 years ago

ADOFO IS DEMENTED.

ADOFO IS DEMENTED.
Kwesi Agbenu 12 years ago

Very sad. those who see oppression and open discrimination of one group of people by the others and point it out are rather being branded as tribalists. The military and police high commands are no go areas to Ashantis. You s ...
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Very sad. those who see oppression and open discrimination of one group of people by the others and point it out are rather being branded as tribalists. The military and police high commands are no go areas to Ashantis. You say it and you are the tribalist. Scholarships are denied Ashantis deliberately. You say it and they say you are the tribalist. The MAhama cabinet of 19 is without Ashanti representation. You say it and you are tribalist. For how long will these things go on?
Nana Kwame 12 years ago

We can be in opposition for 8 million years we careless. Just one day power will shift to us. Ewes will never no peace. I mean then again after all these years volta region is still a shit hole! They will kill to stay in Ksi ...
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We can be in opposition for 8 million years we careless. Just one day power will shift to us. Ewes will never no peace. I mean then again after all these years volta region is still a shit hole! They will kill to stay in Ksi lol,pay all bribes just to be posted to Ksi for national service hahaha.Morons y'all should man up leave us alone. We dont respect you dummies ( Ewes). Everywhere we go in Ghana see development and beautification. We add color to everything we touch. Just check areas we live in Accra...East Legon,West Legon,Airport,Achimota,Tantra Hill,Taifa and all the Estates...Compare these Akan dorminated areas to Bukom,Sakura,Nima,Choko,Mmamobi and so forth. Man we are blessed.Alll we want is federalism. WE NEVER WANTED TO LIVE WITH YOU EWES. WE DONT COME TO VOLTA SO LEAVE SO OUR AREAS FOOLS!!!
Kwesi pee 12 years ago

just listen another poor BABOON

just listen another poor BABOON
TROKOSI USING MAHAMA 12 years ago

'Offui" He has already said it and you are asking us again to listen to him. So aren't you rather BABOOING ?

'Offui" He has already said it and you are asking us again to listen to him. So aren't you rather BABOOING ?
Hammer, London 12 years ago

You call yourself Nana Kwame? No wonder because I thought you could not be any more sensible than expected of you. Were you ever told that people are born naked; and, will be expected to die and be buried naked? Or, did your ...
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You call yourself Nana Kwame? No wonder because I thought you could not be any more sensible than expected of you. Were you ever told that people are born naked; and, will be expected to die and be buried naked? Or, did your mother ever mention to you that your life, attitude and worldview could be shaped by the BIBLE or a KORAN? At your age, you should at least know that discrimination is propelled by ignorance and it does not matter what material things you have or possess. Once born into an ignorant family, you have no option than to suffer backwardness through systematic ignorance. After all, you cannot know much more than you learn; can you?
Sylvanus Agbemenyah 12 years ago

Today we are self righteously preaching continously the tribal card, extolling one tribal superiority over another whipping up tribal sentiment and discrimination against different tribes with little regars to the 'imaginally ...
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Today we are self righteously preaching continously the tribal card, extolling one tribal superiority over another whipping up tribal sentiment and discrimination against different tribes with little regars to the 'imaginally' thin line that seperates peace and war, national unity and tribal allegeance. As a united nation today, we should be grateful to God that he's a gracious to our dear country despite our individual and collective efforts aimed towards disintegrating current national cohension. Today, we took for granted the peace we enjoy, but we must take cognisance of the fact that We WOULD ONE DAY A VERY HIGH PRICE for our tribal utterances if CAUTION IS THROWN THROUGH THE WINDOW. A word to a wise....
Nana Kwame 12 years ago

How come anytime we talk of federalism and discrimination against Akans then stupid ewes will chip in war and unity bs!. Ewes should stay in their corner and we will also stay in our part.FINITO! Whats war about this? Once ag ...
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How come anytime we talk of federalism and discrimination against Akans then stupid ewes will chip in war and unity bs!. Ewes should stay in their corner and we will also stay in our part.FINITO! Whats war about this? Once again we dont come to VOLTA so Leave KUMASI!!!! What is this koraa aahhh. EWES DONT COME TO WHERE WE LIVE OOOTOM!!!!
Sylvanus Agbemenyah 12 years ago

It will more disgusting when stupid fools like you ignite tribal war in ghana like it happened in Rwanda. It will more disgusting when empty headed, self centered federalist stroke tribal undertone hopelessly hoping to imflam ...
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It will more disgusting when stupid fools like you ignite tribal war in ghana like it happened in Rwanda. It will more disgusting when empty headed, self centered federalist stroke tribal undertone hopelessly hoping to imflame tribal division, it will more disgusting when stupid fools like you starts running with your tails between you legs as refugees for neighbouring countries, it will be more disgusting when sour loosers in any general election that calls for federalism would wake up to their senses that their call for federal state through their stupid and inappropriate channel was recipe for internercine war.
David 12 years ago

ANd Ewes will not come to Kumasi. Fool

ANd Ewes will not come to Kumasi. Fool
A-"SHIT"-FE 12 years ago

KEEP ON THINKING OUT YOUR ANUS

KEEP ON THINKING OUT YOUR ANUS
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

WHICH FACTS TOO?

I wonder where they get their "facts" and census data from, which census data often make Asantes or Akans the majority in Ghana?!

I have just gone through for the umpteenth times the names and details, ...
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WHICH FACTS TOO?

I wonder where they get their "facts" and census data from, which census data often make Asantes or Akans the majority in Ghana?!

I have just gone through for the umpteenth times the names and details, i.e, rank, date commissioned, academy, age, ethnicity of all the 29 Ghanaian army officers ever produced on the eve of independence. Btw, Major Seth Kobla Antony, an Ewe of French parentage and a sterling, pioneering officer who opened the door for others, was then no longer in the army, having retired to pursue an illustrious civil service career. I DID NOT see a single Asante among the list. And that included people from the present Brong Ahafo by then. Ha! ba! Why Ewes in charge of the recruitment into the military then? Out of the lot, 8 were listed as Ewe, including Captain B. Awhaitey, tried with Modesto Apaloo for allegedly plotting the first coup just after independence. But he is better classified as a Krobo, not an Ewe.

The Gas dominated with 11 officers even though their population is lower than that of Ewes! BTW, Lieut. G. Slater is listed as Ga but I know that the family speaks Ewe as well. I guess the wife might be Ewe. Just forgot what a daughter told me about their background. In fact, statistical analysis of the distribution of ethnic groups in the public sector singled them out as the ONLY ethnic group who are significantly over-represented as per their share of the total pop. So why are no such angst as expressed against Ewes directed at them? Rather, we get some ignorant Gas even joining the mentally jaundiced and ignorant Akans to hurl abuse and false claims at Ewes!

Akwapim came 3rd with 5 officers, 2 Fantis and then 1 officer each for the Dagombas, Kwahus and a naturalised Ghanaian. That's it!

Same data exist for the police and civil service on the eve of independence and well into the 1970s when records keeping was still following the colonial patterns before the collapse of the Ghanaian state and its institutions under the NRC/SMC junta.

Likewise, the commercial houses such as UAC, John Holt Bartholomew, Leventis, PZ, etc. were manned by similar people from within the Gold Coast.

If anything at all, Akans from within the former Asante Protectorate, comprising BA too, have made a lot of progress in catching up with Ewes and others who were within the Gold Coast colony proper and therefore formed the main recruitment ground for the army, police and civil service.

Andy-K
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

WILLIAM ATUGUBA: Counsel, what is your name
PHILIP ADDISON: Fatso
ATUGUBA: Fatso?
ADDISON: Yes, my name is Fatso Addison, my Lord
ATUGUBA: Why are you here?
ADDISON: For the Banku and Ti ...
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*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, PhD

WILLIAM ATUGUBA: Counsel, what is your name
PHILIP ADDISON: Fatso
ATUGUBA: Fatso?
ADDISON: Yes, my name is Fatso Addison, my Lord
ATUGUBA: Why are you here?
ADDISON: For the Banku and Tilapia
ATUGUBA: OK
ADDISON: My Lord and the wole and koobi.
ATUGUBA: Is that all?
ADDISON: I am also representing the Dr. Pinksheet, My Lord
ATUGUBA: OK
ADDISON: My Lord, I mean the sexmaniac, Dr. Pinksheet and the donkey
ATUGUBA: OK
ADDISON: Yes, I am representing all three, my Lord
ATUGUBA: OK
ADDISON: My Lord, is this the Supreme Court of Ghana
ATUGUBA: No. You are in a brothel.
ADDISON: Are you incharge of the bothel?
ATUGUBA: No, one Akadu Mensema is.
ADDISON: My Lord, you are forgetting about the banku and Tilapia.
ATUGUBA: OK
ADDISON: My Lord, Banku an Tilapia is only for breakfast
ATUGUBA: OK
ADDISON: My Lord this is minus the dessert.
ATUGUBA: OK
ADDISON: My Lord, are you ANTI-LESBIAN or PRO-LESBIAN
ATUGUBA: huh?
ADDISON: This means that you are rather ANTI-GAY & PRO-HETEROSEXUAL
ATUGUBA: OK; we are going for recession
ADDISON: My Lord, Is the banku ready?
ATUGUBA: I have no idea
ADDISON: My Lord, I say you are ANTI-GAY and PRO-HETEROSEXUAL
ATUGUBA: Please yourself, bitch.

*Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D., is a tribalist Denkyira bitch. She is a trained oral cocksucker cum janitor in the USA. She lives in Pennsylvania with her lesbian partner and teaches sex techniques at a brothel in Maryland. In her pastime, she writes what sex partners have called “populist sex, lesbian” nonsense. She can be reached at akadumensema@lesbiansex.com. My poems and essays on Ghanaweb and elsewhere can be reproduced in full or in part for any academic or scholarly work without my written permission.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

I am not a lesbian but I practiced lesbianism before in boarding school. Those days in Ghana we proudly called it SUPPI.

I am not a lesbian but I practiced lesbianism before in boarding school. Those days in Ghana we proudly called it SUPPI.
Moses Akabianpo 12 years ago

Mr. Adofo you are really an Akan man. Selfish, inward looking and very dishonest person.I guess, I donot know you personally, you are also short, black, red protruding eyeballs, flat nose,thick lips and hairy like and old chi ...
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Mr. Adofo you are really an Akan man. Selfish, inward looking and very dishonest person.I guess, I donot know you personally, you are also short, black, red protruding eyeballs, flat nose,thick lips and hairy like and old chimp with a dental formula of a combination of a whale and a monkey. Let me remind you that the payday time is not yet right and when it comes it
will grind very fine. Why have you chosen to forget that, With the
assistance of the colonialist,
thousands of the people from the North were enslaved in the Cocoa farms and laboured to build the Akans wealth you boost of and continue to do the dirty jobs for the Akans, apology to Dr. Bawumia and the late Aliu. The day is not far and if you care to know, all the coup D'etats in Ghana have been dominated by the Akans. Kindly check the members of the NLC,SMC I,SMC II, AFRC and the PNDC, which Kufuor was a member, for your up-date. Beat the war drums to awake the dead for the they say "se wo maame e tu wo fu aa, menso me maame e tu me fu.The day of reckon is near. Bye
Bernard 12 years ago

Rockson Adofo is crying wolf where there is none. Was it not the racist Progress Party led by Busia,s incompetent government that destroyed the inclusive government by the Great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. All Busia did wa ...
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Rockson Adofo is crying wolf where there is none. Was it not the racist Progress Party led by Busia,s incompetent government that destroyed the inclusive government by the Great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. All Busia did was to sell the State properties to his criminal cronies on the cheap which Adofo is defending today as successful Akan businessmen. And was it not the same policy that Kufuor implemented? And where was this dying and isolated Akan bigot, Adofo.
Bernard 12 years ago

Rockson Adofo is crying wolf where there is none. Was it not the racist Progress Party led by Busia,s incompetent government that destroyed the inclusive government by the Great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. All Busia did wa ...
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Rockson Adofo is crying wolf where there is none. Was it not the racist Progress Party led by Busia,s incompetent government that destroyed the inclusive government by the Great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. All Busia did was to sell the State properties to his criminal cronies on the cheap which Adofo is defending today as successful Akan businessmen. And was it not the same policy that Kufuor implemented? And where was this dying and isolated Akan bigot, Adofo.
kohia 12 years ago

The Ashantis had the lion in Rawling regime, abi!

The Ashantis had the lion in Rawling regime, abi!
Kwame, Accra 12 years ago

You are a lier and a nation destroyers. God will deal with bitterly and our ancestors will never forgive you.

You are a lier and a nation destroyers. God will deal with bitterly and our ancestors will never forgive you.
KOJO 12 years ago

WHO TOLD YOU THE AKANS ARE ONLY THE ASHANTIS FOOOOOOL GO AND LEARN YOUR HISTORY.LOSER LIKE YOU

WHO TOLD YOU THE AKANS ARE ONLY THE ASHANTIS FOOOOOOL GO AND LEARN YOUR HISTORY.LOSER LIKE YOU
mensah abrampa 12 years ago

Democracy encompasses egalitarianism which is the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political, economic and social equality. In most parts of Africa majority rule being a major characteristic of demo ...
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Democracy encompasses egalitarianism which is the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political, economic and social equality. In most parts of Africa majority rule being a major characteristic of democracy often degenerates into a system which allows political minorities to be oppressed by the tyranny of the majority.
Throughout the 56 years of our existence as a sovereign nation,we've learned through sad experiences that those who seek to govern and campaign vigorously for the nod of the majority only end up using the polls victory as a thinly veiled power grab. Among these aspiring nation wreckers are wealth seekers, tribal bigots and hegemonists who want to pursue their narrow minded selfish agenda. Our democracy that's supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people thus mutates into a government OF SOME PEOPLE, BY SOME PEOPLE and FOR SOME PEOPLE. Their ascendancy to power results in elements of liberal democracy like equality before the law,due process,civil liberties and human rights being trampled under the feet of these nouveaux riches kleptocrats. A nation where the issue of equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity is determined by the whims and caprices of a cabal or hegemonists groups is on the downward and slippery path. We don't need any tribal hegemonists, whether Akan, Ewe Asante, Ga, Akyem, Frafra, Fanti, Kusasi, etc. in the corridors of power if we want to develop in peace. Equality and freedom are both important characteristics of democracy and must not become the preserve of a particular group, tribe or some of the people. We must grow a just society from a democratic egalitarianism where every person has an equal chance to succeed. A government for some people, by some people and of some people is a sure recipe for disaster. Hungry men are angry men. Adidi gya ne amuna muna na 3nam. A word to the wise is .........
Cyrus 12 years ago

By this non-brainy article of yours I can assure you that you are no better than those akans you have blacklisted as being greedy and selfish.
To say the least you are even worse than them so just shutup and stop wasting ou ...
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By this non-brainy article of yours I can assure you that you are no better than those akans you have blacklisted as being greedy and selfish.
To say the least you are even worse than them so just shutup and stop wasting our time with your non-sense.
Jpa 12 years ago

Are you a real Ghanaian?

Are you a real Ghanaian?
Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

WE‘RE IN DEMOCRACY AND THEY HAVE CHOICE

WE‘RE IN DEMOCRACY AND THEY HAVE CHOICE
Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

EWE IN NPP ASHANTI IN NDC WE‘RE ALL GHANIANS

EWE IN NPP ASHANTI IN NDC WE‘RE ALL GHANIANS
UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 12 years ago

WHY CREATE THE FALSE PICTURE AS IF ASHANTIS ARE THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL TRIBE IN GHANA WHILES DAMBA AND CO ALL BELONG TO GHANA,TRULY EMPTY METALS MAKE THE MOST IRRITATING NOISE APART FROM DANBA FROM THE NORTH THERE ARE VERY RICH ...
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WHY CREATE THE FALSE PICTURE AS IF ASHANTIS ARE THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL TRIBE IN GHANA WHILES DAMBA AND CO ALL BELONG TO GHANA,TRULY EMPTY METALS MAKE THE MOST IRRITATING NOISE APART FROM DANBA FROM THE NORTH THERE ARE VERY RICH GHANAIANS WHO DONT EVEN WANT THEIR NAMES TO BE MENTION TO BCOS OF CRIMINALS JUST BCOS THEY HATE TO FUNFAIR THEIR WEALTH.
KK 12 years ago

Why do some people tell lies in such a stupid way. They days when a few so called "learned men" do their best twist the facts of history, mostly with stupid passion without and objective facts. Stop this nonsense.

Why do some people tell lies in such a stupid way. They days when a few so called "learned men" do their best twist the facts of history, mostly with stupid passion without and objective facts. Stop this nonsense.
from UK 12 years ago

Whats different from what you these foolish ghanaians are doing?

Whats different from what you these foolish ghanaians are doing?
OKITI GEM 12 years ago

ADOFO l thought you have something important to write by rather insighting tribal sentiment, greed, nepotism, and jelousy towards the
prospect of the PNDC/NDC and Rawlings. You are nothing but a sporadict fool. Goat.

ADOFO l thought you have something important to write by rather insighting tribal sentiment, greed, nepotism, and jelousy towards the
prospect of the PNDC/NDC and Rawlings. You are nothing but a sporadict fool. Goat.
papillon 12 years ago

I'm an Akan but do support JJ Rawlings for all his moves whilst in power. Those that faced the law were not innocent and were slowly bleeding the nation to death. The nation belongs to the people of GH so to hell with the Aka ...
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I'm an Akan but do support JJ Rawlings for all his moves whilst in power. Those that faced the law were not innocent and were slowly bleeding the nation to death. The nation belongs to the people of GH so to hell with the Akans for thinking they have the God-given mandate to rule GH forever.
TT 12 years ago

ADOFO, I thought education was supposed to lift you above such divisive tribal effusions! How can an educated person like you descend so low into the gutters of tribal agitation, virtually calling for tribal war in this era? ...
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ADOFO, I thought education was supposed to lift you above such divisive tribal effusions! How can an educated person like you descend so low into the gutters of tribal agitation, virtually calling for tribal war in this era? That's very shameful. Repent!!
Nana Kwame 12 years ago

Can you deny what Adofo is saying?

Can you deny what Adofo is saying?
Bernard 12 years ago

Adofo, your right wing and extreme views are no longer relevant in any civilised society. And i,m happy to inform you that there is no hiding place for you and your supporters who may wish to use tribalism to cause mischief. ...
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Adofo, your right wing and extreme views are no longer relevant in any civilised society. And i,m happy to inform you that there is no hiding place for you and your supporters who may wish to use tribalism to cause mischief. The good news for majority of Ghanaians is that, your views/opinions are nothing but, the ranting of a lunatic who probably is seeking for attention. Is your name really Adofo? By the way, do you really believe that if there is war as your imagination keeps amusing you, you stand a dogs chance. Not even your King in his wildest of dreams will ever thought of such a moronic ideas. Keep beating your war drums and when it,s time to dance, we will all meet on the stage. We are ready for the battle Adofo and please, do come along with your family and elders who failed to instil proper discipline in you when they realised your waywardness. Bring it on Adofo! The imbecile and lost Asante bigot. Your waterloo awaits at the banks of the Volta River!!!!!!
Nana Kwame 12 years ago

Just shut the fuck up with Bictassness threat! Make sure you and your filthy tribemen get ur self a good guns tho....it wont be a knife fight..dumb fuck!

Just shut the fuck up with Bictassness threat! Make sure you and your filthy tribemen get ur self a good guns tho....it wont be a knife fight..dumb fuck!
Bernard 12 years ago

Nana Kwame, l will not shut up. I,m simply reacting to the continuous use of threats by your clansman,Adofo that majority of right thinking Ghanaians have had enough of this nonsense. I,m not the one threatening but, just r ...
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Nana Kwame, l will not shut up. I,m simply reacting to the continuous use of threats by your clansman,Adofo that majority of right thinking Ghanaians have had enough of this nonsense. I,m not the one threatening but, just reminding him that we are prepared to defend ourselves. At any rate, the choice is his to make. However, i find it a bit puzzling that you did not find it necessary to call Adofo to order but quick to comment on my response. I do not wish to respond to you again because i regard you as a non entity, uncultured, primitive , low esteem and making empty noise which Asante,s are noted for. By the way, for your information, i have an Asante friend called Amoako who keeps asking me why is that Ewes, Northeners, Gas and Fantes are more intelligent than their Asante counterparts, and my response is Education, education, education and learning how to understand other people and living side by side. But if you want to follow the path of Adofo, then i,m afraid Nana Kwame you are a loser. Ghana does not belong to you alone. Only a fool like your type whose brains are dead blocked will not listen to wise counsel. Lay off you stinky, irritant idiot!! Have a nice day.
UGLY CRIMINAL ASHANTI 12 years ago

ASHANTIS SO CALLED MONEY WAS PROCEEDS FROM SLAVE TRADE,CORRUPTION ,COCAINE AND ALL OTHER ILLGAL MEANS CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PROFITABLE THAN THIS SORT OF ASHANTIS UGLY EMPTY ILLITERATE TRIDE 4 THE SAKE OF HEAVEN

ASHANTIS SO CALLED MONEY WAS PROCEEDS FROM SLAVE TRADE,CORRUPTION ,COCAINE AND ALL OTHER ILLGAL MEANS CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PROFITABLE THAN THIS SORT OF ASHANTIS UGLY EMPTY ILLITERATE TRIDE 4 THE SAKE OF HEAVEN
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

And can you please stop writing in block letters? Difficult to read and is considered shouting in netique!

And take it easy on the mentally jaundiced Asantes among the Asantes. Not ALL of them are mentally retarded like A ...
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And can you please stop writing in block letters? Difficult to read and is considered shouting in netique!

And take it easy on the mentally jaundiced Asantes among the Asantes. Not ALL of them are mentally retarded like Adofo and some, even if many, within the NPP. There are many, even within the NPP fold, who don't share their venomous bile and are happy to join all other Ghanaians, including Ewes, to develop Ghana. Yes, so some are just ardently NDC like the rest of the NDC lot, which btw, I am not. So don't blanket insult all Asantes 'cos some jaundiced Ewes insult all Ewes. You'd reduce yourself to their abysmal level too.

As for me, whatever I write here, I'd be bold to repeat and defend at Kejetia Lorry Park one day!

Andy-K
Bernard 12 years ago

Thank you C. Y. Andy K for taking on the ignorant Adofo who thinks he is the only Ghanaian who knows best. Now that you have exposed him by setting the records straght, you will become his next victim of their target. But, ...
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Thank you C. Y. Andy K for taking on the ignorant Adofo who thinks he is the only Ghanaian who knows best. Now that you have exposed him by setting the records straght, you will become his next victim of their target. But, we will rather wish to encourage you not to give up. It is just an empty grand design to put a wedge between just for the simple reason that they are not in power in order to loot the Country again. The reaction, of a bitter and dying elephant.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Ha! You called this exposure. Just wait and see! This is just the common disc, before the real show!

Proper Asantes who are informed about their history and know what I have up my sleeves shiver when I hit the keyboard! T ...
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Ha! You called this exposure. Just wait and see! This is just the common disc, before the real show!

Proper Asantes who are informed about their history and know what I have up my sleeves shiver when I hit the keyboard! They don't therefore try to spook me, less I drop it all on them! It is called "chronique scandalese" by the whites which must be buried from young people. But I think we have come out of age and it is time to confront the ugly demons, the skeletons in the cupboard which have been haunting the house that Nkrumah built with the help of the parents of some of us on the foundation laid by the forefathers of some of us. The house has developed serious cracks and we the heirs must do something about repairing it. So brace yourself for the demolition and maintenance works. There will be plenty of dust and debris flying around.

I've had enough of the jejune nonsense they have been spewing for decades! They are just dzimakplaviwo. Bcos they also come from the same ahenfie as the royals an dthe afisem taboo prevent us from telling about their origins, they presume they are also royals! Tweah! A proper Asante royal won't be so foolish, if weaned properly, to go about targeting Ewes in this age and time these rascals do!

Andy-K
INDIGO 12 years ago

"Too known". They say empty barrels make the most noise. Who is afraid of you? Stop bagging and allow us to have piece of mind.

"Too known". They say empty barrels make the most noise. Who is afraid of you? Stop bagging and allow us to have piece of mind.
Amarh kujo 12 years ago

I think this fool needs some kind of enlightenment because I don't understand him where he's cominfrom and who he is Rawlings married an Ashanti so what are you talking. Preko ba

I think this fool needs some kind of enlightenment because I don't understand him where he's cominfrom and who he is Rawlings married an Ashanti so what are you talking. Preko ba
Amarh kujo 12 years ago

Kwasia npanyin who wants to throw dust into the eyes of the good people of Ghana look am really sad for this stupid fool and God will never forgive you IDIOT STUPID FOOL

Kwasia npanyin who wants to throw dust into the eyes of the good people of Ghana look am really sad for this stupid fool and God will never forgive you IDIOT STUPID FOOL
Akomfem Maama 12 years ago

Stupid idiot. Why do you insult somebody just because you don't agree with him

Stupid idiot. Why do you insult somebody just because you don't agree with him
Kojo 12 years ago

My people. Here we go again! Caution! Whatever you do, please don't start something you can't finish. To the so call politician and party supporters and those media personnel with big pens who write inflammatory articles. I ...
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My people. Here we go again! Caution! Whatever you do, please don't start something you can't finish. To the so call politician and party supporters and those media personnel with big pens who write inflammatory articles. If NPP advocate for some sort of trouble in Ghana because you think you have been wronged, then be reminded of where you are today and take a hard look at where you'd be when all is said and done. The people you are constantly threatening will not sit down and watch you do whatever you think you can do. You can take that to the bank!! Oh yeah, lest I forget, be prepared to send your kids to the front lines. Don't expect other peoples' children to do what you want while you cool your feet somewhere else. To each one of us; learn to love and respect our neighbor and there will be enough love to go around the world. Appreciate your life and whatever you have today for tomorrow, it may not be there.
kenedy agyapong 12 years ago

he is an npp parliamentarian from central region who cried foul on radio to insite tribal violence calling ashantis to butcher the Gas and Ewes.

Are we educated fools or what. Has the people of Ghana used their resources a ...
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he is an npp parliamentarian from central region who cried foul on radio to insite tribal violence calling ashantis to butcher the Gas and Ewes.

Are we educated fools or what. Has the people of Ghana used their resources and energy to educate these grammar students to think violence.

there is now democracy NANA ADO THINKS EVIL of the electoral system by thinking that he went to shoke hands with The Rawlingses.

WHO IS KENEDY AGYAPONG
Yaa Gbeminov 12 years ago

Mr Adofo: You must forget about the so call Akan,Ewe and other tribes bullshit going on in Ghana and concentrate on how you can better your life.There is no tribal division in Ghana.The Politicians and the Rich used that arg ...
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Mr Adofo: You must forget about the so call Akan,Ewe and other tribes bullshit going on in Ghana and concentrate on how you can better your life.There is no tribal division in Ghana.The Politicians and the Rich used that argument to divide and Rule the Nation.How much money did you personally benefited from BA Mensah's wealth?Why are all The politicians hiding in Accra instead of their tribal lands?Think
Salam UG 12 years ago

Should it be discrimination when you challenge your lazy child by pointing at the success gap between him/her and the siblings? What about if Rawlings as a president is trying to phsyche weaker ghanaians to fight inequality? ...
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Should it be discrimination when you challenge your lazy child by pointing at the success gap between him/her and the siblings? What about if Rawlings as a president is trying to phsyche weaker ghanaians to fight inequality? The Akans in NDC are there as ghanaians willing to serve Ghana and not as Akans (by objectivity). You will not be blamed for your ethnocentric reasoning (evident in refering to others as minor) since its a reality that is difficult to control. Ehee is it that you are not aware of Ewes who have suffered what the Akan business men suffered? It will be helpful to direct your writing to fighting discrimination generally than concentrating on the Akans against the "minorities".
Evans 12 years ago

After the fall at the SC this is where you are driving your diabolic attention towards TRIBALISM! TRIBAL SENSATIONS? Educate to eradicate Tribalism, never promote it as writer

After the fall at the SC this is where you are driving your diabolic attention towards TRIBALISM! TRIBAL SENSATIONS? Educate to eradicate Tribalism, never promote it as writer
PRINCE 12 years ago

Who establish your so call ashanti kingdom.Do you realy know your history?small boys are young.

Who establish your so call ashanti kingdom.Do you realy know your history?small boys are young.
PRINCE 12 years ago

Do you realy know your history,did anyone ever take the pain to tell you the truth about the person who establish the so call ashanti kingdom that you are always proud of,can a body survive without the head? small boys are yo ...
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Do you realy know your history,did anyone ever take the pain to tell you the truth about the person who establish the so call ashanti kingdom that you are always proud of,can a body survive without the head? small boys are young.
Kwame Adjei Owusu, New Jersey - USA 12 years ago

you are just unvailing your personal trabalistic threats. you can not confuse Ghanaian at this time. they are more informed than this nonsence.you fool, if you have nothing to do don't do it here.

you are just unvailing your personal trabalistic threats. you can not confuse Ghanaian at this time. they are more informed than this nonsence.you fool, if you have nothing to do don't do it here.
Nii Gbemi 12 years ago

This is another bigot. Do you know what greed is? Greed is a human vice and it is not linked with any tribe. I just can't believe that ghanaweb would indeed put this up and more shocking another human being like the writer wo ...
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This is another bigot. Do you know what greed is? Greed is a human vice and it is not linked with any tribe. I just can't believe that ghanaweb would indeed put this up and more shocking another human being like the writer would think that way. What is the empirical basis for this assumption.
G. K. Berko 12 years ago

The author has persistently displayed an irrepressible, dangerous bigotry. Ghana does not need this! If Rawlings, an Ewe, began to smother Akan material development, what contract did he sign with Mills and Mahama to conti ...
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The author has persistently displayed an irrepressible, dangerous bigotry. Ghana does not need this! If Rawlings, an Ewe, began to smother Akan material development, what contract did he sign with Mills and Mahama to continue?

There is nothing in the NDC manifesto, I believe, that enjoins its leaders to pursue any subjugation of Akans or Ashantis. I am not a member of the Party. But it does not take being a member to recognize such implied baloney.

This kind of shrewd fatuous analogy with the Arab Spring is only an attempt to escalate tensions Between Akans and the rest of Ghanaians.

All intelligent Peace-loving Ghanaians must denounce this Author's recurrent instigations. And we Akans must be the strongest in that effort for various imperative reasons. Akans, and Ashantis in particular understand the snare for self-destruction this Author, who is most likely a non-Ashanti, has been trying to set up for them. We are more intelligent than the Author might give us credit for in holding up against any entity that contrives to subdue our natural and bona fide right to growth. The problem of scramble for wealth among our political leaders and their cronies transcends tribal or partisan boundaries. It is those leaders who might now and then miss an opportunity to keep their streak of scooping booties from our system that resorts to such tactics of poking tribal sentiments to flare against others.

If we have any genuine gripes suggesting any form of tribal discrimination, we should reach the Courts or even Parliament to seek redress with irrefutable evidence.

The cases of Tata and Appiah-Menka for example do not carry enough evidence of a deliberate effort to suppress Ashanti or Akan wealth-building. Our leaders themselves blew many chances to reset the material fate of our folks with their greed and selfishness. Just ask how our Royalties from the extraction of our natural resources have been utilized for the past 50 plus years and the truth will show.

Sure, there could be some discriminatory acts by certain folks against some of us. Those acts may have to be boldly taken to Court. We must legally refute all forms of discrimination against us and by us.. But we would be better off vehemently pursuing the offenders in Court rather than stereotypically faulting a whole national group for such acts and beating war drums about it.

Just as some Kwahus might still be embittered and incensed about Siaw's fate on the Tata case, so did some Ewes harbor similar sentiments about Gbedema's fate.

We all need to adopt a better way for resolving our differences and reduce all issues to tribal or ethnic feuds.

Long live Ghana!!!

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