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moi 12 years ago

KWASHIA FEEMO DINN. KE OBE NOKO FEEMO, YAA TAO KOMI KO NO OYE.

KWASHIA FEEMO DINN. KE OBE NOKO FEEMO, YAA TAO KOMI KO NO OYE.
Saka 12 years ago

Moi, efeo mi ake ole wolo mli. Kejee nakai le bo hu ngmaa eko ni wokane!

Moi, efeo mi ake ole wolo mli. Kejee nakai le bo hu ngmaa eko ni wokane!
TOO KPAPKO 12 years ago

What is the message of this HE-GOAT ? Tell us clearly what you want to convey to us.

What is the message of this HE-GOAT ? Tell us clearly what you want to convey to us.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Which one the message in Ga or Kpakpos message

Which one the message in Ga or Kpakpos message
Nana Akomea 12 years ago

Who calls other tribes more derogatory names than the Ga. Just ask the Ewes whom the Ga hate and call them ayigbe - meaning thief.

Who calls other tribes more derogatory names than the Ga. Just ask the Ewes whom the Ga hate and call them ayigbe - meaning thief.
JOSHUA SUNNEY 12 years ago

IT'S PITY THAT MANY INHABITANTS OF ACCRA DO NOT RESPECT THE GA AND TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED. THEY BEG TO BUY GA LANDS AND TURN ROUND TO SAY THAT GAS ARE FOOLS TO SELL THEIR PATRIMONY. LET THE GAS QUICKLY FIND A GA MANTSE AND REG ...
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IT'S PITY THAT MANY INHABITANTS OF ACCRA DO NOT RESPECT THE GA AND TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED. THEY BEG TO BUY GA LANDS AND TURN ROUND TO SAY THAT GAS ARE FOOLS TO SELL THEIR PATRIMONY. LET THE GAS QUICKLY FIND A GA MANTSE AND REGULATE THE SALE OF ALL GA LAND, THE SAME WAY ASANTEHENE IS TREATING ASANTE LANDS. THE YOUTH SHOULD BE UP AND DOING INSTEAD OF SITTING ON BENCHES AT NUNGUA, TESHIE AND LA PLAYING LUDO AND CARDS THE WHOLE DAY AND TELLING PASSERS BY "AHAWO NOKO NI WO YE OOO".
Jane 12 years ago

Sunney and Allotey there is no Ga Mantse anymore it's Ga Mashie Mantse and you better start helping yourself more than waste your time on what might have been.

Sunney and Allotey there is no Ga Mantse anymore it's Ga Mashie Mantse and you better start helping yourself more than waste your time on what might have been.
Joe Kojo 12 years ago

The language spoken in Nungua and Tema is Ga and its not different from what is spoken in Kinka, James Town, La and Teshie. Ningo and Prampram(Gbugbla) has a mixture of the Ga and Dangbe languages. You can classify it as a tr ...
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The language spoken in Nungua and Tema is Ga and its not different from what is spoken in Kinka, James Town, La and Teshie. Ningo and Prampram(Gbugbla) has a mixture of the Ga and Dangbe languages. You can classify it as a transitional language between the two, if you like. The clear differences are noted in the languages spoken in Ada, Asutuare Shai, Krobo (both Yilo and Manya)
oyinasky 12 years ago

Stupid and backward looking man.

Stupid and backward looking man.
CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

Seriously, I am a bit befuddled by the excessive antagonism expressed by Mr. Allotey over a dynamic effort to celebrate the Ga-Adangme people of Ghana. Ga-Adangmes are a subtle, warm and tolerant people. It is for this very r ...
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Seriously, I am a bit befuddled by the excessive antagonism expressed by Mr. Allotey over a dynamic effort to celebrate the Ga-Adangme people of Ghana. Ga-Adangmes are a subtle, warm and tolerant people. It is for this very reason that we as Ghanaians have enjoyed immense solidarity amongst a very diversified cultural and ethnic configuration, compared to other African countries, and I don't foresee this bond being broken, despite some of the atrocious utterances by political and hegemonic groups.

We as Ga-Adangmes do not need to join the food fight over superiority of our tribal and primitive past.

Let us enjoy this day and actually invite our Hausa, Ewe, Ashanti, Nzema, Dagomba, Brong, Kwahu, Akwapim and other ethnic groups to join us in the celebration. Ghana is for all Ghanaians, and even our neighbors across our borders, what we need to do rather are to solicit for financial power amongst ourselves to develop and empower Ga-Adangmes along the coast of Ghana. This is how we can sustain respect of our dignity, language and culture, else we will be ridiculed, even by people we may consider lesser than us.

I wish you a successful conference, but for heaven’s sakes, be circumspect and think beyond the box for the good of the Ga-Adangme youth, but not for our unfounded selfish past pride. I cast aspersions at other groups who from time to time attempt to draw the same antagonistic lines as a Ghanaian cultural and ethnic group. Think again Mr. Allotey, quite frankly there is not a single dignified, polished and glorious Ghanaian ethnic group past or present that has any chest pumping rights. What we need is humility and solidarity to develop our respective cultural and ethnic groups for the good of our nation, but rather we're all competing for the most primitive, most poor, most ridiculous, most uncouth, most confused and most unsophisticated group of people in Ghana today. Stop it!, and I urge others who have been practicing this same sort of abject ignorance to heed my advice.

Thanks, and have a great day!!!

JOSEPH GANYOBI 12 years ago

THANK GOD THAT GA PEOPLE DOES NOT EAT MONKEY BUT KOMI....THE ASHANTIS WHO DOESN'T SPEAK THE GA LANGUAGE ARE ALL BUSH MONKEYS

THANK GOD THAT GA PEOPLE DOES NOT EAT MONKEY BUT KOMI....THE ASHANTIS WHO DOESN'T SPEAK THE GA LANGUAGE ARE ALL BUSH MONKEYS
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

And I pray, what kind of monkey are you? Rock monkey?

What a pity you've to go that way!

Andy-K

And I pray, what kind of monkey are you? Rock monkey?

What a pity you've to go that way!

Andy-K
Nii Laryeah 12 years ago

In fact this joseph ganyobi go to the bush to learn wisdom. These are the people who have allowed common sense to elude them and there by letting Gas look stupid in their own towns.

In fact this joseph ganyobi go to the bush to learn wisdom. These are the people who have allowed common sense to elude them and there by letting Gas look stupid in their own towns.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Citizen One,

You are damn right in everything you wrote. I particularly like this:

"Think again Mr. Allotey, quite frankly there is not a single dignified, polished and glorious Ghanaian ethnic group past or present tha ...
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Citizen One,

You are damn right in everything you wrote. I particularly like this:

"Think again Mr. Allotey, quite frankly there is not a single dignified, polished and glorious Ghanaian ethnic group past or present that has any chest pumping rights."

I am at the finishing stage of editing a blockbuster piece which will put paid, hopefully, to all the chest thumping by some about the atrocious past of their slave raiding and owning ancestors they are proud and boastful about! Gas have not been spared either, since they were a major protagonist and beneficiary of that unwholesome past too.

I am an Ewe, or as the linguist say nowadays, a Gbe. As Henry himself acknowledged, we've been mixing with each other for centuries now, having lived together and migrated from Nigeria. So the Ga-Adangme "migrants" (hmm! fugitives, to be honest) are not found only in Agotime (correct sp.)in Eweland. They are found everywhere from Agotime down to Tongu and Anlo to Aflao and across the border in Togo, where a large group settled first at Glidzi before spreading all over southern Togo and becoming a dominant polity. You can go to Youtube and see how Homowo is celebrated in Togo. 3 of the Anlo clans alone are devoted to such people, and the Les from Legon! So, if a sister were amenable, a nephew would have been the rightful and appropriate chief of Ningo at the moment, after centuries of only having an acting leader. Not even the prospects of having a nephew and family members in charge of all those lands they started selling on the cheap some years back enticed us to convince our sister to allow the son to be made the chief of Ningo! We've enough problems as it were in Anloga already and so don't want to add "owo sa mi nya loo" wahala to it!:-) But with a plot of land going for 100,000 old Ghana cedis then, I've always been wondering if it were bad judgement I didn't acquire that 10 plots, counterpoised against the fact that we were even forced to sell our last sizeable piece of land in Anloga, as the siege of the encroachers was just too much. So, if we couldn't keep even our land in Anloga and the plots my father acquired in Accra in the 1940s and '50s, how possible is it that I can keep the intended mango plantation and countryside retreat in Ningo, with E.T. Mensah on the prowl? Ha! ha! ha! I would've wasted my money (1m cedis) then, so I've been consoling myself, when I though of the killing I'd have made re-selling those plots now! And Henry would be leading the land guards agaisnt another "Ayigbe" selling Ga-Akpa lands! Phew!

Meanwhile, adherents of the priestless Gborgbla at Gbugbla would be journeying to Anloga to consult the cousin Nyigbla to advance their socio-econ. and other spiritual problems! Hmm! What does Henry really know?

Ghana is simply witnessing another irreversible demographic change, this time not due to slave raid wars, but economic exigencies. That this is impacting negatively in many ways on many Gas, the less privileged, is beyond question. But Gas shouldn't lose sight of the fact that they are the greatest beneficiaries of those changes too. Problem is that too many Gas have been unable to take advt of those benefits and be ushered into the modern economy. Gas are just as traditional, agrarian, fishing and pre-industrial society as the rest of us, despite the Accra-Tema enclave becoming a huge pop. centre within the last 100 years. But a refugee camp of 1,000,000 people does not a city make!

I've given a lot of though to these devts and came out with some solutions. Returning the land to some chiefs is not the way fwd. How many subjects have benefitted from the land sales from chiefs? I shall re-post some of what I had written as a contribution to this debate.

Andy-K
JOSEPH GANYOBI 12 years ago

WE THE GAS CAME FROM NIGERIA TOOK THE LANDS FROM THE PIECE
BUSH PEOPLE ..AND NOW WE ARE SELLING IT PIECE BY PIECE TO THE ASHANTIS UNCIVILYZED BUSH PEOPLE.....WE EVEN SELL THE LANDS TWICE TO THEM..YOU SEE HOW STUPID YOU ASHAN ...
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WE THE GAS CAME FROM NIGERIA TOOK THE LANDS FROM THE PIECE
BUSH PEOPLE ..AND NOW WE ARE SELLING IT PIECE BY PIECE TO THE ASHANTIS UNCIVILYZED BUSH PEOPLE.....WE EVEN SELL THE LANDS TWICE TO THEM..YOU SEE HOW STUPID YOU ASHANTIS ARE
Kojo T 12 years ago

Stop the cheap tribalism

Stop the cheap tribalism
JOSEPH GANYOBI 12 years ago

We Came

We Came
KOFI OPOKU 12 years ago

....and what do you do with the money? How many mansions in Accra belong Gas and how many belongs to your so called bush people (the Ashantis?)

....and what do you do with the money? How many mansions in Accra belong Gas and how many belongs to your so called bush people (the Ashantis?)
ONUA 12 years ago

Well said, Bro/Sister.

Well said, Bro/Sister.
JOSEPH GANYOBI 12 years ago

We came from Nigeria took your lands..and we are selling it back to you Ashantis.STUPID FOOLS.....SOMETIMES WE SELL IT TWICE TO THE ASHANTI UNCIVILYZED PEOPLE OF WEST AFRICA..NORWAYGEAN FOOLS THE ZOO WANTS YOU..

We came from Nigeria took your lands..and we are selling it back to you Ashantis.STUPID FOOLS.....SOMETIMES WE SELL IT TWICE TO THE ASHANTI UNCIVILYZED PEOPLE OF WEST AFRICA..NORWAYGEAN FOOLS THE ZOO WANTS YOU..

PEACEMAKER 12 years ago

can't you see GANYOBI is not a GA

can't you see GANYOBI is not a GA
NII Kpakpo Brown 12 years ago

it is about time too.Let every household, shop and government pay taxes to the Ga State so that we use the revenue to rebuild the areas of Accra which have been devastated by the transfer of the port from James to Tema and t ...
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it is about time too.Let every household, shop and government pay taxes to the Ga State so that we use the revenue to rebuild the areas of Accra which have been devastated by the transfer of the port from James to Tema and the joblessness it caused.
NII Kpakpo Brown 12 years ago

The port I was refering to is James Town.For the young Ghanaians who do not know the history, James Town was the prominent area of Accra where all the well educated lawyers and members of the judicially lived and they were
G ...
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The port I was refering to is James Town.For the young Ghanaians who do not know the history, James Town was the prominent area of Accra where all the well educated lawyers and members of the judicially lived and they were
GAs. We are going to sort out this mess. The filth and the land grabbing.

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