O GOD KYEBI WILL MISS THIS PRESIDENCY TO THA INTAAFOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
O GOD KYEBI WILL MISS THIS PRESIDENCY TO THA INTAAFOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BISHOP 10 years ago
If there is one thing I admire about Busia and Danqua that will be their insistence that Ghana like most African nations werent ready for self governance and hence must take the entire self government thing slowly.
Just lo ... read full comment
If there is one thing I admire about Busia and Danqua that will be their insistence that Ghana like most African nations werent ready for self governance and hence must take the entire self government thing slowly.
Just look around Africa, after 50 something years of independence the continent is still immensed in chaos and confusion because most of the inhabitants of the said nations do not know what they are doing.
We are rich in natural resources yet deep in poverty because what most STUPID Ghanaians do not understand is that natural resources do not develope a nation, Human ingenuity does. And that is what is missing in most African nations.
The only progressive nations in Africa that most of us yearn to either visit or go live in today is South Africa all because of the long presence of European ingenuity. Look at Abidjan and its beauty..it was so because of the long presence of the French.
Most Niggers have no sense and are very simple minded creatures.
Its the gospel truth..take it or leave or leave it.
Bernard Tetteh 10 years ago
I fail to see the import of such an inflammatory article that does nothing to promote a dialogue on ways to move forward to a progressive paradigm in Ghana.
To correct the inaccuracies in some of your errant observations a ... read full comment
I fail to see the import of such an inflammatory article that does nothing to promote a dialogue on ways to move forward to a progressive paradigm in Ghana.
To correct the inaccuracies in some of your errant observations and opinions would only further prolong the irrelevant rehashing of painful episodes in our contemporary history as a nation called Ghana.
The injection of ethnicity and tribe into your article is quite disconcerting. One commentator took the vitrol to an extreme when they heaped insults on Ewes for being behind many coups in Ghana. That unfortunate perception is fueled by articles such as yours, which seemingly blames ineffectual and failed governmental policies on tribe -based politics.
The harm is already done from you writing this article, so in the future I implore you to refrain from a discussion on which tribe caused any deleterious condition in Ghana.
The most important effort we must expend all of our individual energies on is to improve the lot of our kith and kin in Ghana. I am sure that the vast majority of people in Ghana have families that derive from many of the numerous tribes in our homeland, so the problems facing our nation impacts everyone, regardless of which tribe, party, or any other divisively homogenous grouping anyone identifies with.
I am also quite sure that you are familiar with the adage and illustration of the broom and how one strand is easily broken, yet it is virtually impossible to bend it to a degree where it breaks, as a bunched bundle.
Our nation will bend under the tremendous schism of national politics and even ethnic animosities, but as a unifying force that rejects all forms of division in our national identity, we will never break. There is no imminent break-up looming where the Volta region, or any other secedes.
I dentify myself as a person from Ghana, and not as a Ga, Ewe, or any other tribe.. in my sojourn to other lands.. I want to believe that you do the same. Those who want hew to the line that one tribe is more dominant in Ghana, or has more of a rightful place to a claim of superiority may do so and yet cause us no harm.
The demented musings of people like that certifiably insane serial columnist, from New York, can and must be ignored as well as treated with utter disdain and contempt.
Please do not sacrifice the respect you have garnered in the past by relegating yourself to the ranks of ethnic rabble rousers and the baiting of bellicose commentary.
The inflamatory and baised historical narration, of your jaundiced and slanted article, promotes all of the ugly sins of seeing many wrongs through the prism of tribal identification.
Please let old wounds heal and leave the history of painfully traumatic experiences where it belongs: IN THE PAST.
We must create new and fresh memories of more invigorating experiences, through events that are unifiying in purpose and meaning. My hope is that you can and will write an aricle that delves into our commonality and communality, as one people under one nation.
I will gladly contribute my quota to such an effort, rather than excoriate you soundly for causing my beautiful Ewe kinsfolk to be at the brunt of insults and castigation, for making coups.. LOL :)
PKA 10 years ago
Good to know you are still alive and kicking, bro.
Good to know you are still alive and kicking, bro.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
It is delightful to hear from you, again. Just yesterday, I read a commentary by another Bernard, and immediately knew it was not you. But it renewed my yearning to read one from you. Then, luckily, here you are, a day after. ... read full comment
It is delightful to hear from you, again. Just yesterday, I read a commentary by another Bernard, and immediately knew it was not you. But it renewed my yearning to read one from you. Then, luckily, here you are, a day after.
As you usual, you have spiced up the forum with your bluntness and mature admonition. I hope we all take a cue from it, and quickly adjust to shed our idiotic biases and tribal blame-game. Without holding brief for Andy, necessarily, I would say, however, that he might have been ticked off by certain elements who chose to rewrite our History by demonizing Nkrumah and his cause, while exaggerating some aspects of Busia's contribution.
Like you, I prefer us commemorating the positive aspects of these pioneers and learning from their mistakes and moving forward together.
The retributive denigration of our tribes does not serve us well. Period!!
Records, however, would have to be corrected, when someone skews them to fit his or her parochial interest. But such correction ought to be done without exacerbating the situation.
God bless you, brother Tetteh! May the Lord keep renewing your strength and health!! Ghana needs more of your kind.
Long Live Ghana!!!
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Bernard,
I dwelt on a number of topics besides the origin of the ethnocentric politics and insults we witness very much on Ghanaweb and beyond in Ghana, like the call to kill Ewes and Gas, for instance, but you only found ... read full comment
Bernard,
I dwelt on a number of topics besides the origin of the ethnocentric politics and insults we witness very much on Ghanaweb and beyond in Ghana, like the call to kill Ewes and Gas, for instance, but you only found it necessary to dwell on one: the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana. Obviously you are one of those ostriches who would rather stuck your head in the sand and pretend that no enemy is after you! Good for you! I tried that too before -for many years - but it didn't work for me!
Now, if I may ask, where did I point at any ethnic group or tribe as being the culprits in my piece? I pointed a finger at Busia, a person, (I didn't even identify him as a Bono, which he was) and the NLM and Progress Party! I quoted at length Austin, no doubt one of the finest authority on Ghana's contemporary history to back my claims, and you think I am the one injecting "ethnicity and tribe" in the article, and so by extension into Ghana politics??? Gosh! Is that not a topical issue? BTW, if you are informed well enough and smart to boot, perhaps, you'd have written to rebut the Brotherhood [of Nitwits] member who claimed that ONLY Ewes staged all those coups!
Right now, I felt like Trayvon Martin who has been stalked, accosted, most probably attacked physically and when he stood his ground to defend himself instead of run and be shot in the back, got shot anyway by Zimmerman, the stalker and killer, who had been set free for claiming he was the one one who stood his ground and defended himself from mortal danger! Man! The only tragedy here is that Trayvon didn't manage to knock unconscious his would-be killer! I've no intention to be stalked, harassed, constantly abused with threats of genocide by some fellow Ghanaians who see themselves as superior than others and more Ghanaians than the rest of us without taking preemptive action to disable them effectively! I am therefore sorry to inform you that this piece is just the "common disc" to what is coming, 42 pps in all and in 8 series; cooked and ready to serve scaldingly hot! Just a follow up to others already posted, btw. Have you read the one I did on the Tutsi-Hutu conflicts?
Bishop Sarpong emeritus has just beaten me to releasing a book on the subject in Ghana. Didn't you hear of that? I must have my say too and how I dealt with the old ulcer wounds still festering with all the pungent smell spoiling the air are in. As I put it, we have to open some festering wounds and perform some painful amputations on some limbs which have become gangrenous! It is all part of the healing process, ask any doctor. So prepare yourselves well, well, those of you who are squeamish at the sight of blood. There would be plenty of that! I shall be picking more than scabs on old wounds!
Andy-K
CHARCOAL SELLER. 10 years ago
Bishop, until you remove your legs from between your head, you will remain the complete idiot that you are today!
Bishop, until you remove your legs from between your head, you will remain the complete idiot that you are today!
Kojo T 10 years ago
Education, industrialisation and agriculture , the life blood of the people were messed up."He was as blind as a mole" Aptly described
Education, industrialisation and agriculture , the life blood of the people were messed up."He was as blind as a mole" Aptly described
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Cousin Kojo T,
Very glad to oblige you back. We no go sit down with our arms folded and let them engage in their baldfaced revisionism without rebuttal!
Andy-K
Cousin Kojo T,
Very glad to oblige you back. We no go sit down with our arms folded and let them engage in their baldfaced revisionism without rebuttal!
Andy-K
Dziko Kwame 10 years ago
Efo Andy
I enjoy your piece.
Nunya a, adidoe, asimetune o.
Too many had to change their Ewe names from being "persecuted" in the Public and Civil Service, all because of Busia's policies.
Ayekoo and long live Ghana
Efo Andy
I enjoy your piece.
Nunya a, adidoe, asimetune o.
Too many had to change their Ewe names from being "persecuted" in the Public and Civil Service, all because of Busia's policies.
Ayekoo and long live Ghana
Dumega Prosper Junior 10 years ago
Let those family and revisionists know that the truth of Ghanaian history cannot be forced through the throats of intelligent Ghanaians!! Just as how the Ghanaians are one of the wisest electors or rational voters in the worl ... read full comment
Let those family and revisionists know that the truth of Ghanaian history cannot be forced through the throats of intelligent Ghanaians!! Just as how the Ghanaians are one of the wisest electors or rational voters in the world, who choose who exhibits proper conduct of leadership and is not arrogant and oldish, whose credentials are not doubted, whose certificates are not affidavits and etc, also choose those they want to rule them!! Kudos to Ghanaians!! Always choose clean and actually God fearing people!!
OBEEDE 10 years ago
ANDY, GIVE US MORE STUFF, WE ARE SAVING! .
ANDY, GIVE US MORE STUFF, WE ARE SAVING! .
MUGU YARO 10 years ago
NOBODY EXPECTED ANY OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS FROM YOU. YOU COULD NOT EVEN BRING YOURSELF TO ACCEPT THE EWE DOMINANCE OF GHANA'S PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. ANOTHER BUSIA WILL RISE ONE DAY.
NOBODY EXPECTED ANY OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS FROM YOU. YOU COULD NOT EVEN BRING YOURSELF TO ACCEPT THE EWE DOMINANCE OF GHANA'S PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. ANOTHER BUSIA WILL RISE ONE DAY.
Ada Boy 10 years ago
It has to be one of the most amateurish articles ever published on Ghanaweb.Busia had attempted to reduce size of government and make it more accountable to the electors.The westminster system is better suited to a developing ... read full comment
It has to be one of the most amateurish articles ever published on Ghanaweb.Busia had attempted to reduce size of government and make it more accountable to the electors.The westminster system is better suited to a developing democracy than the circus,executive presidential system that many African nation tend to favour.The most unstable and worse economic performing nations are in South America and Africa where most of the directly elected presidents are.The writer is totally dishonest in claiming Dr Busia sought to disenfranchise the poor through his education policy.And have we been better off since? I am nearly 27 yrs old but intelligent to know we had our chance to democrtatize through Dr Busia's vision and blew it. A kwawukume is obviously having a good time with all the circus after Dr Busi. Dr Busia was a great man,a great African and a great Ghanaian statesman. I salute him!
Kojo T 10 years ago
The only vision he had was that he was ahead of Thatchers mess. " Reduce the size of government and make it accountable"? Joker . South Africa developed using Nkrumahs principles. Just compare the recovery rate in USA with th ... read full comment
The only vision he had was that he was ahead of Thatchers mess. " Reduce the size of government and make it accountable"? Joker . South Africa developed using Nkrumahs principles. Just compare the recovery rate in USA with that of UK now. Guys think instead of being emotional. Anyway you are 27 years ols , born after the Busia DISASTER
KAFUI KAETOZENA 10 years ago
You mugu yaro, indeed your name actually tells a lot about who you are and actually you are not a bold type to let people know who you are. I don't think your have read this piece; but if you have, you are one of the several ... read full comment
You mugu yaro, indeed your name actually tells a lot about who you are and actually you are not a bold type to let people know who you are. I don't think your have read this piece; but if you have, you are one of the several who lack analytical sub-concious insight; it is only an academic idiot who would not appreciate what has been written.
I&I 10 years ago
Andy, you can spew all your ewe crap on the internet as long as you want. The fact is the ewes of Ghana, Togo, Benin and Haiti are their own enemies. You are so tribalistic your nose is in everybody else's business instead of ... read full comment
Andy, you can spew all your ewe crap on the internet as long as you want. The fact is the ewes of Ghana, Togo, Benin and Haiti are their own enemies. You are so tribalistic your nose is in everybody else's business instead of concentrating on making things better for yourselves. Busia Kicked those illegal Nigerian from Ghana so what? Next time you secede with your volta region from Ghana Proper and form your own Nation then you can invite everybody to come in:Moron. What did you bring to the table when Nkrumah made your region part of Ghana? You turned around and overthrew his government, so stop talking crazy. And let me tell you what, the young nation Ghana was destined to fail the moment Nkrumah added your region to the Country. You have made all the coups including jerry rawshit's which was for the sole purpose of taken political and economy from the Akans. Hence your killing of many Akans including the three judges. Why don't you talk about that Bitch? Your backward ewe tribe is the reason why Ghana is in such a terrible state of affairs,if you don't know. You should be thankful for living in a Country where the Akans are the majority ethnic group. Look at the countries around Ghana without the Akans and you can surely tell the difference, Dumb Ass.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
O! Great wise man, show us the stats of Ewe dominance of the public service from the 1960s to date and disprove the stats of even those who had written articles, books and PhD dissertation on the subject. Sorry if you haven't ... read full comment
O! Great wise man, show us the stats of Ewe dominance of the public service from the 1960s to date and disprove the stats of even those who had written articles, books and PhD dissertation on the subject. Sorry if you haven't even heard that publications exist on the subject.
Andy-k
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Man, you are so ignorant you need some major education, so I am dutifully obliging you [and your ilk].
BTW, if you care to know, the VR brought to the independent Ghana the best and superlative manpower that the British c ... read full comment
Man, you are so ignorant you need some major education, so I am dutifully obliging you [and your ilk].
BTW, if you care to know, the VR brought to the independent Ghana the best and superlative manpower that the British commercial houses such as UAC, Leventis, John Holt Bartholomew, Taylor Woodrow, etc, etc. left for us to provide skilled services, services which also add to the GDP. Yes, people like C.C. Tamakloe, The Wizard of Numbers of UAC and Gold Coast fame, R.R.S. Amegashie who was recruited by Nkrumah to set up the School of Administration, Legon, like my father Alfred K. Kwawukume of John Holt Bartholomew fame (first African to head their Administration when S. Africa was getting Apartheid with no less than 20 whites answerable to him), contracted to set up the accounting dept of the Workers Brigade (and wasn't paid all his entitlements before his passing away in 1982, which judgement debts we the children still want paid with interest!), and many more in the Police, Army, Education and Civil services! Quality personnel trained by the British to do govt business like it is their own father's business; not the new, post-1966 coup lot who see "aban" biz as a means to loot public coffers, land and any moveable objects!
And since you don't know, let me tell you that, by the 1950s, the VR was one of the major cocoa producing regions of the Gold Coast, even more than the BA and the W/R, which took over from the Ash/R which also took over from the E/R. That's not to mention the cocoa farms people from the VR had and still cultivate in those regions too. And that's not to mention the food crops cultivation, which contribute far, far more to Ghana's agric GDP than cocoa! Are you are aware that cassava, yam and cocoyam alone contributed 46% to agric GDP by 1990 while cocoa contributed only 13%??? There are many ways people contribute to GDP, not only through farming and mining, if you care to know. Oh! They fish too! You know how to catch tilapia? Or, row a surf boat on the rough seas?
Anyway, here's something for you and all your ignorant fellows out there. Take it as an assignment to read while I attend to urgent biz that puts food on my table.
HOW SOME “EWES” BECOME PART OF PRESENT GHANA
To say that one is sick and tired of reading ignorant utterances about how “Ewes” were given the chance to join Ghana by Nkrumah from patently jaundiced and bloody-minded, ignorant fellow Ghanaians is a big understatement. I have therefore put together a concise history of how some “Ewes” became part of Ghana for all readers.
I am under no illusion whatsoever that this brief piece will stop the bozos who indulge in this kind of display of ignorance from doing so even after reading this; not only because of the scientifically recognised fact that awareness and knowledge of adverse causes and better practices do not necessarily stop continuation of adverse behavioural practices nor adoption of best practises, but also because the putrid and rotting worm-wood from which they emerge from, that is, our educational system, continues to churn out similarly ignorant and foolish elements on an annual basis. The problem must therefore be addressed at source.
Steeped in the foregoing knowledge, I have carved for myself a monstrous-looking spikes studded club to deal with any such miscreants who might be provoked by this article to begin their ethnic cleansing of the much vilified “Ewes” from Ghana to Togo.
I would not bother myself now and again with a recount of how the groups of linguistically and culturally different peoples who now comprise the ethnic group known to many as “Ewes”, but which linguists now have tagged the “Gbe” people, migrated and settled within the borders of Togo and present Ghana up to seven hundred years ago, as Ghana came into being on 6 March 1957, and that is where my story begins.
After all, it was Gbedemah, an “Ewe,” and the leader of the Committee for Youth Organisation (CYO), who was asked to replace him (Nkrumah) as General Secretary of the UGCC, who convinced him to leave the UGCC and gave him the chance to lead the CPP which was being formed by elements within the CYO; and who again gave him his Accra seat and led the campaign for the CPP and Nkrumah to win while in prison to become Leader of Government Business. Gbedema himself went to stand for the Keta seat. If Gbedema had not done that, he would have become the first Leader of Government Business, not Nkrumah; so Gbedema, an “Ewe,” gave Nkrumah the chance in more ways than what I have referred to in the foregoing to become leader of independent Ghana.
Nkrumah, of course, a chief in his own right in Nzema, got his first ceremonial chieftaincy title in Anloga, when he came on his Thank You visit, for the valiant roles Ewes played in the election victory of the CPP. That was before everything turned sore and Anloga led the revolt against the CPP in 1953 for breach of election promises not to enforce the much hated poll tax and not properly dealing with grievances about the cutting of swollen shoot diseased cocoa trees and failing to increase cocoa prices when the world price was hitting the roof, thanks to the Korean War. The decision not to increase cocoa prices paid to farmers was due to the infamous “anchor of safety” (it created the large reserve on attainment of independence, btw) and stemming inflation advice he, Nkrumah, accepted from the West Indian Nobel Laureate Sir Arthur Lewis. Some Anlo elite were also major cocoa farm owners in the TVT and elsewhere. The riots that started in Anloga and spread to the rest of the country were well documented by Dennis Austen in his seminal book on Ghana, so check it, if you want to be properly informed. Those events had deep impacts on the Anlo elite and eventually led to the coup of 1966 spearheaded by some Anlo officers in the Police and Army.
Those of you who like to criticise Kofi Awoonor for what he wrote in his book “The Ghana Revolution” should also look up his book specially devoted to Asantes and Ewes to read what he said about how they escaped from Anloga across the Volta to Ada Foah when the “Buga Buga War” started. I bet you never heard of that war before, eh?
So, nobody gave Ewes the chance to join Ghana in 1957, as some Ewe stalwarts led in the fight to create modern Ghana. Left to some Ewes though, they'd have seceded from the Gold Coast, to which they were lampooned by the British many decades earlier and had become fed up with because of the nascent demonization and vilification started by the forebears of today's Ghanaweb jaded jingoists. I had already partially dealt with that in an earlier article.
Moreso, the coastal areas from Anlo, through Tongu up to Peki and Awudome, part of the Eastern Province of the Gold Coast, were even indeed declared part of the British sphere of influence way back in 1850, 6 yrs after the signing of the Bond of 1844 with the Fantes. The British “bought” in 1850 the area from the Danes who were forced to leave the Gold Coast after they were defeated with Napolean at Waterloo. Interesting to note that Norway, then under Danish control for over 400 years, was also passed over to the Swedes, allies of Britain at Waterloo.
The area was declared part of the Gold Coast proper in 1876 or so. Before that, the Anlos had sued for peace with the British at the close of the Glover War and a Peace Treaty was signed at Dzelukope after the Sagrenti War of 1874. I have a sketch of that historical event which appeared in the UK Graphic of Oct, 10 1874, which I am attaching to this article, as it is a historical relic of interest to many. You’d see sitting with a “King Adjaba of Awoonah,” “War Captain Cocumay” and “Chief Asantee Ambassador Okobim Paba” addressing them and you’d know where yours truly comes from. Our ancestors played their roles on the battle fields and on the high table when the Gold Coast and its history were being carved, so before you open your mouth against us, ask yourself who born you? The Ga kings Tackie from Accra and Solomon from James Town were also there, among others.
In fact, those wars were fought due to events which occurred in northern Eweland (precisely at Ho), when Asante slave raiders kidnapped and took the missionaries there too to Kumasi as hostages for ransom. Of course, not only the missionaries were taken, as even some who helped the Asantes soon found themselves as captives at Kontsiabu instead of the promised gold dusts but that is another story altogether I had recounted elsewhere and is due for recounting soon. With the decisive defeat of Asante and her steadfast Anlo ally, that Ewe area known in the annals as “Krepi” through Buem, Dagbon in N/R to present Upper East, which later on became known as the TVT, became a British Protectorate until after the Berlin Conference when Queen Victoria gave it in 1884 as a birth day present to her German cousin, who famously wanted a "place in the sun". The Germans already had a small trip of Togoland. So the TVT was even under British sphere of influence for some years before being given to the Germans.
In 1915, at the start of WWI, the British took back the area and much of German Togoland (the French took the eastern part) with the help of troops raised by Torgbui Sri II, for which he was awarded the KMAC and sword of honour, and inducted into the LegCo in 1916 with Nana Ofori Attah of Akyem Abuakwa. After WWI, despite the campaign by the natives to unite the whole of Togoland to the Gold Coast, the British kept what they gave to the Germans in 1884 (TVT) and gave the rest - what the Germans had before - to the French, thus forming present Republic of Togo. Of course, the records show that it was Torgbui Sri II who was the first to call for the unification of Togo to the Gold Coast way back in 1915. By the end of the war, it was fully embraced by some native leaders of German Togoland, some of whose leaders sent a letter to the colonial government of the Gold Coast which curiously stated inter alia:
“We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
(Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself...” (“December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine, culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)
I have always wondered why no mention of being “Ewes” was made by the supplicants. Of course, conspicuously absent too were names of many others such as Dagombas, Konkombas, Dagbons, Akans, Kabres, Mamprusis, Frafras, Nkonyas, etc., etc., who also have the TVT and Togo as their homeland at the time too. That was not an auspicious beginning for their objective, being what they were: descendants of fugitives who have settled amongst the original Ewe speakers!
Anyway, how those claiming to be Gas and Anes (Anyis) in Togo got there is quite another story I had re-told a number of times but I’d like the Akwamus and Asantes, former allies of we Anlos, to tell us their versions respectively. And to those ignorant and jaded MPs of the NPP who went to Lome to look for the roots of Fiifi Kwetey, who of course, claimed to be from Nogokpo in the Klikor area, and thereby rubbing a sore spot in my memory, next time they should begin the search in Ayawaso so that I am not reminded of Dzenunyegbodzi and the treacheries of Klikor!
How that desire for a union with the Gold Coast turned into the drive for secession is quite another story I had already touched upon in a previous article. In any case, the plebiscite of 1956 was to determine whether TVT, a UN Mandated Territory, should be added to the Gold Coast or rejoin present Togo. It was a messy affair, as it did not take into account the wishes of the Ewe Unification Movement, which had reached fever pitch in southern Eweland from Anlo to Peki, already part of the Gold Coast, and which was prevented from taking part in the plebiscite. Had those areas taken part, enough votes would have been garnered to secede from the Gold Coast, as a majority voted in the Ewe areas of the TVT to secede. Unfortunately, their votes were outweighed by votes from the non-Ewe areas of the TVT stretching from northern VR through eastern section of Northern Region to much of present Upper East. Indeed, parts of the TVT were also later added to the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions too by Nkrumah and Busia. So, only a portion of the TVT was added to the Eweland within the Gold Coast to form the present VR. Those of us who come from the south were thus part of the Gold Coast decades earlier before 1900 when the Protectorate of Asante was declared after their defeat in the Yaa Asantewa War; and before 1946, when the Burns Constitution made Asante and Northern Territories part of the Gold Coast Colony proper too.
That, in brief, is how parts of Eweland and some Ewes became a part of present Ghana. It is a pity that this basic history is not taught in our basic schools so that all know this somehow. Rather, we get all kinds of ignoramuses spewing rubbish about how Nkrumah allowed Ewes to join Ghana and they would deport Ewes to Togo! I am waiting for them bozos with my spikes studded club. Let no one say I didn’t warn them!
[This article can be freely quoted or reproduced without my permission.]
Andy C.Y. Kwawukume
cyandyk@ymail.com
Menua Kwadwo 10 years ago
I do not understand why non of our progressive politicians do not talk or advocate for some form of autonomy for the regions? This one-system-fits-all situation is not helping at all. Each region should be allowed to develop ... read full comment
I do not understand why non of our progressive politicians do not talk or advocate for some form of autonomy for the regions? This one-system-fits-all situation is not helping at all. Each region should be allowed to develop at their own pace; high perxentage of taxes should be kept from where they are collected and used for developing those areas, instead of seding everything to ACCRA before they are dibursed.
At the moment nobody talks about the assassination attempt on Dr. Nkrumah by Ametepe in February'64, why Komla Gbedemah went into exile, the architects of the '66 coup were actually J.W.K Harley, A.K Deku and E.K Kotoka, the '72 coup was by Selormey and Agbo,and finally the coup of '81 by Rawlings. Yet they will blame the predicaments of Ghana on some other tribe and trying their damnest to denigrate or eliminate them altogether. Well, we know their intensions and ever ready for them......MORONS!!!!!!
Erick 10 years ago
You had never hiden your hatred of the Ewe ppl as passed onto you by your parents, something most Ghanaians old enough are very much aware of so nothing coming from you surprises some of us who had known your types and calibe ... read full comment
You had never hiden your hatred of the Ewe ppl as passed onto you by your parents, something most Ghanaians old enough are very much aware of so nothing coming from you surprises some of us who had known your types and caliber for years here on Ghana web.
But remember one thing, no condition is permanent when you talk of neighboring countries as if they are crap. Ivory Coast was once considered the star of Africa. Where is it now?
Ppl of your caliber love to travel the most to other people coutry yet remains the most homophobic of all Ghanaian groups. It beats my understanding.
Not a single day passes by without some of you this NPP people using all kinds of derogatory remarks for the minority forgetting that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
When the minority also bind up together and vote against your tribal party do not call them tribalistic, they are only teaching you the hard way.
Thank You
Menua Kwadwo 10 years ago
Andy-K has written this acerbic of an article, and when somebody takes him on, you call that person tribalistic.
Well, for your information that game is going to be played; NO HOLDS BARRED!!!!!!!
Andy-K has written this acerbic of an article, and when somebody takes him on, you call that person tribalistic.
Well, for your information that game is going to be played; NO HOLDS BARRED!!!!!!!
concerned ghanaian 10 years ago
Andy,
Excellent article.
Busia was a disgrace; a self-centred power-drunk elite.
Gbedemah was used by the NLM elments of the NLC before and during the 1969 elections. When they got what they wanted, power, they then ba ... read full comment
Andy,
Excellent article.
Busia was a disgrace; a self-centred power-drunk elite.
Gbedemah was used by the NLM elments of the NLC before and during the 1969 elections. When they got what they wanted, power, they then barred him rom taking his seat in parliament.
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 10 years ago
The NPP is trying to repackage Busia to post-independence Ghanaians as a patriotic ghanaian who championed western democracy for the good of the country. They are fanning lies about a man who by his actions proved beyond any ... read full comment
The NPP is trying to repackage Busia to post-independence Ghanaians as a patriotic ghanaian who championed western democracy for the good of the country. They are fanning lies about a man who by his actions proved beyond any doubt that he was always in the pockets of the imperialists and worked against the interest of the country.Can a democrat use bombs[terrorism]and a coup to get power? Can a patriot use the services of foreign countries'security agencies to cause political mayhem with the view to getting political power?Can a patriot go round western countries lobbying againt Ghana's independence and the building of the Akosombo dam?Throughout Nkrumah's reign Busia opposed and opposed any economic initiative of Osagyefo to industrialize the country and create jobs for ghanaians.His love for power superseded the love for his country.And when Afrifa and his foreign backers gave him power on a silver platter he made mess of it and was overthrown by colonel I.K.Acheampong's coup.The NPP will succeed in repackaging Busia as a brilliant ,successful academician and not as a politician.He was an unpatriotic and subversive politician who deserves no praise and adulation in the political history of Ghana.I count myself lucky to have witnessed politics in Ghana under Osagyefo and Busia and to let my personal views on them made to ghanaians who did not.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago
Well, some of us were not around, so we are all ears.
There is one thing I keep saying everyday: Truth is unique and discernible except to the blind.
We can succeed as a historical embodiment if we learn from our pasts ... read full comment
Well, some of us were not around, so we are all ears.
There is one thing I keep saying everyday: Truth is unique and discernible except to the blind.
We can succeed as a historical embodiment if we learn from our pasts errors and endeavor to adopt and encourage policies diverging from the status quo erat. But as is evident from our NPP folk, it is better to stay the hypocrisy and lies for the sake of the devious ego-smooching and selfishness of a few power-drunk. That's not the way.
Kwabena, we adore your efforts, like those of Andy. Please keep us informed.
Dumega Prosper Jnr. 10 years ago
Did I hear of Busia as a visionary and a democrat??? When did bomb throwers and supporters of Apatheid and No court action and an avowed critic of development programmes initiated by the mighty Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah beco ... read full comment
Did I hear of Busia as a visionary and a democrat??? When did bomb throwers and supporters of Apatheid and No court action and an avowed critic of development programmes initiated by the mighty Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah become baptised as visionary man for whom??? Why should the NPP think of deceiving Ghanaians?? Were they the only people in Ghana from before and through the Gold Coast Independence struggles and the contemporary era?? Even when the so-called Petition was broadcast, radio and TV, the NPP parachicks who have probably 4 eyes and probably 4 ears and 2 mouths want to put spin on what we all see as the objective reality!!! Why this all at once "love" for mother Ghana!! Why should the NPP think that they love Ghana, when all the state property we have was acquired by their avowed political enemy, in person of Ghana Show Boy, the Osagyefo Himself!!Nkrumah ruled for nearly 8 years and we saw all that we have today that he acquired for Ghana!! So what is there to show for Busia for nearly ruling for half as long political life span on the thrown??? These revisionists and Mate Meho offshoots have the curse of God Jehovah and this will destroy themn in all their actions!!! Love your political opponent when he knows it better than thou!! Nkrumah never had any single room to himself!! We had presidents many years after Nkrumah who bought hotels for their children and family!! Gosh!!! Who do they think we are!!! They are to be warned not top chech the truth and trajectory of our glorious History!!
Dumega Prosper Junior 10 years ago
We were all mature and able to hear l;oud and clear the lies Busia told of Nkrumah in order to make himself a popular man to be given the chance to rule Ghana!! How is Nana Akuffo Addo comparing the dwarf of Busia, a local pe ... read full comment
We were all mature and able to hear l;oud and clear the lies Busia told of Nkrumah in order to make himself a popular man to be given the chance to rule Ghana!! How is Nana Akuffo Addo comparing the dwarf of Busia, a local person who was an agent of the imperialist, given the chance to travel the cranny and nooks of Ghana to bastardise the gloeious Osagye for which we Ghanaians have been made proud all over the world!! Busia went on smear campaign of diswoning the Osagyefo so as to prepare himself for tha leadership of Ghana. We all heard the ballot boxes that were stolen and howe Afro Gbedemah's Masda cars were used to transport some of the ballot boxes for Busia so as to give him a big edge over Gbedema who was one time the right hand man of Osagyefo!! The question to be asked is why was another Akan man so aggreived to have toppled his regime and scattered the hand picked president then Akuffo Addo, the first non elected president but chosen because of his party affiliation to the PP, an offshoot of the Mate Meho assassins!! Ghana is strong and resilient!! Ghana will overcome all the evil intentions to be harboured by any group of Ghanaians , be them in a party or anything!! Nkrumah ruled honestly and never had any property but today some presidents owned hotels for their family upon assumption of office!! Why are the other parties quiet when falsehood are perpetuated!!! Which vison is better and really suatainable than what the Osagyefo bequethed to mother Ghana!! Due to stomach politics, most of our politicians are blinded and cannot tell the truth!! No one is more preponderant than the Ghana Show Boy, whose plans and vision are newer than the Millenium Development Goals for today!! Long Live the Osagyefo!! Long live Ghana!! Elections are not won at the courts but at the polls!!! Parties should present competitive candidates for the highest offices of the land. This is no joke and any Kapwepwe would dream of getting enthrowned!! Never!!
NPP 419 10 years ago
No amount of revisionist history will help Busia's. he was completely useless and his children and NPP are trying to re-brand him. It will not work. Ghanaians are too smart for that. So stay in your NPP bubble and leave us al ... read full comment
No amount of revisionist history will help Busia's. he was completely useless and his children and NPP are trying to re-brand him. It will not work. Ghanaians are too smart for that. So stay in your NPP bubble and leave us alone. We all know the truth
Vuvuzela 10 years ago
Did you read the article?
Did you read the article?
Spiky 10 years ago
These are painful reminders but knowing where we came from is an important guide to the future. Thanks for this, Kwawukume, but readers should not construe it as given. We should ask the question what should we do to unite th ... read full comment
These are painful reminders but knowing where we came from is an important guide to the future. Thanks for this, Kwawukume, but readers should not construe it as given. We should ask the question what should we do to unite the country under a common ideological umbrella? We are still a young nation, and the struggles between reactionaries such as Busia and Danquah and the progressives such as Nkrumah (I'm not sure if Gbedemah can be classified as a progressive) were, and are still part of the process of finding a common ground for us to build a prosperous, united and strong nation. This is an issue that needs to be objectively interrogated, as a starting point for a national blueprint which I have endorsed elsewhere as very pertinent for the progress of the country. The situation in which reactionaries still exist in 21st Century Ghana is antithetic to the claim that the 21st century is Africa's century.
Kwame 10 years ago
The Russian will say you have eaten a dog and Ewhes will say you eat salt, and you digest it properly. The Ashantihene Osei Tutu II said the same a few weeks ago yet people are full of their illusions and chasing mirages of t ... read full comment
The Russian will say you have eaten a dog and Ewhes will say you eat salt, and you digest it properly. The Ashantihene Osei Tutu II said the same a few weeks ago yet people are full of their illusions and chasing mirages of tribal superiority when the fact is that the Togo and Ewhe are one and the same. That was what the tribes now occupying Ghana used to be called.
Neither NDC Nor NPP 10 years ago
An important conclusion we must all have, on the debacle of the Nkrumahist project, is that we must be absolutely well-informed, objective and truthful. We must call a spade a spade and we must let the axe fall where it may i ... read full comment
An important conclusion we must all have, on the debacle of the Nkrumahist project, is that we must be absolutely well-informed, objective and truthful. We must call a spade a spade and we must let the axe fall where it may in our critique. As Amilcar Cabral said in his eulogy to Osagyefo, despite the hand of foreign actors behind the coup, internal contradictions and conspirators could not be overlooked, and could not be forgiven!
Gbedemah, as Finance Minister, was found to be corrupt and embezzled huge sums of state funds. He fled Ghana just before Osagyefo was about to crack the whip. He went to Togo where he was observed collaborating with the main foreign sponsor of the coup, together with Busia, who had set up his terror campaign headquarters there. There is no question that Gbedemah betrayed Nkrumah to the fullest to this foreign sponsor. But so did many others, Quaison-Sackey, Kofi Baako, Botsio et al.
The confusion that pertains in Ghana today among many self-styled "Nkrumahists" is their ignorance and poverty of understanding of the ideas of Nkrumah and their association instead of certain symbols, words, theatrics with Nkrumahism. Thus Rawlings' militant theatrics, NDC's symbolic overtures honouring Nkrumah (while also honouring Kotoka)...are all seen as evidence by the faux-Nkrumahists of Nkrumahism. The vast majority in their midst are only for personal material gain and thus fled CPP to NDC where they have been well-catered for since.
Nkrumah's ideas are commonsense. They should be presented to the masses as such and richly illustrated with the still-surviving evidence of his accomplishments. The generations born after the Nkrumah era should be well informed of Nkrumah's vision and shown the contrast between that and the rot we are in today.
k,n,a 10 years ago
Who are you? You are great!This piece should be published in the dailies.
Who are you? You are great!This piece should be published in the dailies.
Ghanabiya 10 years ago
More grease to your elbows. May God bless you for going back to history to bring the facts for Ghanaians to know who Busia and his traditions are and the harm they have done to the country.
As for the so-called 'Nkrumaist ... read full comment
More grease to your elbows. May God bless you for going back to history to bring the facts for Ghanaians to know who Busia and his traditions are and the harm they have done to the country.
As for the so-called 'Nkrumaist', they are vying for individual self aggrandizement under the guise of keeping the memory of Kwame Nkrumah alive.
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures were instituted at Cape Coast University. How many of these so-called 'Nkrumaist' have seen the need to continue with these lectures?
On the political front why all those splinter groups of this tradition if they truly profess to the ideals of Kwame Nkrumah?
Kweku Boateng Jnr 10 years ago
Those who want to know more about visionless Kofi Busia should read Lt. General Ocraan's book. He was the commander of the Michael Camp, Tema, 1966 and prevented the Second presidential regiment at Asuatuare in the eastern ... read full comment
Those who want to know more about visionless Kofi Busia should read Lt. General Ocraan's book. He was the commander of the Michael Camp, Tema, 1966 and prevented the Second presidential regiment at Asuatuare in the eastern region from marching to Accra to dislodge the rebel soldiers/ forces led by Kotoka, Afrifah, and co. Ocran a member of the National Liberation Council (NLC. Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, son of Nkrumah's defence minister Kofi Baako has a copy in his house right now. It exposes Busia's illegal regime.
Next Busia went into the central mosque in Tamale in 1969 wearing his shoes!
Andy write a book on Busia now.
JojoD 10 years ago
I don't hold a brief for Busia's politics, especially because, I believe, it rested on tribal appeal. He deserves credit, however, for the promulgation of the Aliens Compliance Order of 1969. I don't know where you grew up in ... read full comment
I don't hold a brief for Busia's politics, especially because, I believe, it rested on tribal appeal. He deserves credit, however, for the promulgation of the Aliens Compliance Order of 1969. I don't know where you grew up in Ghana from 1957 to 1969, but I can assure you that in my hometown of Takoradi, retail trade was dominated to a large extent by Nigerians. What the Aliens Compliance Order sought to do was wrest the retail part of our economy from foreigners and ensure that it remained the preserve of Ghanaians. What is there to quibble about? Of course, one could question the application of the order! Could Nigerians have been given more time to repatriate their belongings? You bet! But, that is far cry from saying the Aliens Compliance Order was obnoxious. It is patriotism gone berserk to, even remotely, suggest that Ghana should allow its economy to be dominated by foreigners.
BISHOP 10 years ago
The complaince order per se wasnt bad but the manner in which it was carried out was where Busia flopped. It could have been done in an organized manner so as not to cause so much pain to innocent people.
Can we then blame ... read full comment
The complaince order per se wasnt bad but the manner in which it was carried out was where Busia flopped. It could have been done in an organized manner so as not to cause so much pain to innocent people.
Can we then blame Nigerians for what they did to Ghanaians when they also retaliated even more harshly than what we did to them? Nope! cos as somebody said to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Ghanaians love to travel so we must be careful how deal with foreigners but it seems those segment of the Ghanaian population that love to travel the most also remains the most homophobic of all Ghanaian groups.
The Busia era also introduced the idea of tribal and ethnic politics as well as blind nationalism into Ghanaian politics that we havent healed from since then.
In an effort to wrestle power from Nkrumah they tried to paint him as a non Ghanaian but with either origins from Liberia or Ivory Coast. How pathetic!
The only admiration i have for Busia and Danqua is their insistence that Ghana wasnt ready for democracy abd hence must take the process slowly.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Your narrow mindset betrays the lack of merit in your support for the ACO that destroyed Ghana's economy when the effects took root in the 1970s. The collapse of Ghana's cocoa production and agric, the shortages and the rise ... read full comment
Your narrow mindset betrays the lack of merit in your support for the ACO that destroyed Ghana's economy when the effects took root in the 1970s. The collapse of Ghana's cocoa production and agric, the shortages and the rise of kalabule in the distribution chain, are directly traceable to that obnoxious action of Busia and the PP. Yes, there are scholarly write-ups establishing that! As David Kimble recorded in his small and concise book on Ghana, over 1m people crossed at the Yeji crossing alone to southern Ghana to work in 1954, and not all of them were from northern Ghana! All that cheap labour vanished over night! Able, hard working human beings are the greatest resource any nation can have!
Yes, the Yoruba, Zamamara from Mali, Nigerien Hausa, Hausas from Nigeria, the Togolese, Burkinabes, etc., were in every nook and cranny of Ghana as the ultimate retailers, selling things on credit to all and sundry for small gains. They were carrying out a trade their ancestors had also carried out before them, some for centuries! For instance, the lucrative kola nuts trade to Nigeria and rest of the West Africa from the forest belt of Ghana was developed and carried out by the Hausas for centuries! In return, they bring batikk cotton baft from the Kano and other goods from north Africa. The same Hausa people played important roles in the advancement of many kingdoms in the north to Asante, as scribes and soldiers. Were Hausa bow men not in the Asante army in 1764, the Akyems would have defeated the Asantes hands down and Asante-Akyem history would have been different. Their bows and arrows became the deciding factor when the heavy down pour rendered the superior fire power of the Akyems useless!
In Keta, the Yorubas had their own quarters as far back as the C18th! Now, do you want to tell me the descendants of all these people are foreigners and not qualified as Ghanaians when Ghana got independence and must therefore show proof of their permits to stay in Ghana or regularise their stay in Ghana or leave Ghana??? Yeah, Just like we daily read that Ewes are not bona fide Ghanaians and must leave to Togo, as if the land they occupy belong to those jaundiced Akans? [Read my response to such fools up]. That, in spite of what the independence Const. said about becoming a citizen of Ghana? What proof can you show us from your ancestors that they got permit to enter Ghana some 500-1000 yrs ago as a Fante, Asante, Denkyira, Ga, Akyem, Dagbon, Mamprussi, etc? Only the so-called Guans were there longer but even before them were the pygmies who became extinct.
The colonial borders cut through the sphere of operation for survival of Africans and we cannot accept them as such, unless we want to strangulate ourselves to eternal poverty and backwardness. Thank goodness the likes of you are now in the minority in Ghana/Africa.
Some of us were robust against the dim-witted attempts of the NDC to kick Nigerians out of the retail sector in Ghana. Together, we shall thrive as Africans! Even if each shop employed single Ghanaian, that's good. I hardly see any white or black working in the Asian shops here in London!
Man, don't mistake short-sighted and ill-thought through parochial jingoism for patriotism! ACO was a total disaster for the Ghanaian economy and Ghanaians!
Andy-K
Kojo T 10 years ago
Great response . Have a great day
Great response . Have a great day
Ekuma 10 years ago
'Busia naabu kponetii , Afrifa bata nor' .
Busia is no great orator. I heard him speak and he sounded like a TRUMUSEXUAL.
'Busia naabu kponetii , Afrifa bata nor' .
Busia is no great orator. I heard him speak and he sounded like a TRUMUSEXUAL.
Neither NDC Nor NPP 10 years ago
It is very important to let people know what the NLM really was - a most dastardly, terrorist organization that went on a murderous rampage even before independence killing people, under the direct leadership and participatio ... read full comment
It is very important to let people know what the NLM really was - a most dastardly, terrorist organization that went on a murderous rampage even before independence killing people, under the direct leadership and participation of Bafuor Akoto, linguist to the Asantehene, Nana Prempeh.
Among its victims was the wife of Krobo Edusei, a Minister of state. Part of the revisionist effort of the "Danquah-Busia tradition" is to portray the NLM as a legitimate political party without any mention of its horrendous legacy of terrorist violence, the likes of which Ghana, thank God, has not seen again.
Hats off to Andy for a most welcome rebuttal to the mendacious revisionists!
SK 10 years ago
We need the true story every now and then. by their fruits we shall know them
We need the true story every now and then. by their fruits we shall know them
Kobena 10 years ago
I read a few paragraphs of this article and realised it was not worth going on. Which part of the Progress Party campaign was against Ewes or any ethnic group (PP - Party Papa?), for that matter? The only party that did anyth ... read full comment
I read a few paragraphs of this article and realised it was not worth going on. Which part of the Progress Party campaign was against Ewes or any ethnic group (PP - Party Papa?), for that matter? The only party that did anything near tribal was Joe Appiah and his "Ame baa ba se!"
If anything, Busia suffered the worst tribal abuse that no head of state before or after, has ever suffered in Ghana politics. The people of Accra did not even spare his poor Ga wife Naa Morkor.
Yes, no government has ever equalled Busia's Rural Development agenda -feeder roads, pipeborne water supply, rediffusion radio and electrification. I was actually surprised as a student on a study tour of the Volta Region, to find that the hated Busia had built so many feeder roads in that region.
The JSS/SHS system that Jerry Rawlings bungled and used it for his wife to import usesless workshop tools which they turned round and sold to wayside carpenters was Busia's idea.
The indegenisation of our universities whereby those who got first class or second class were sent out to do higher defgrees and return to lecture in our universities was his as well(I was a beneficiary of that scheme), and so was the Students' Loan Scheme. The situation whereby primary and secondary schools paid money whilst university students got it completely free was untenable and unsustainable. By that policy, many people from humble backgrounds have had university education.
At least living in Londion should have been enough for a certain amount of openess and objectivity. But then.....
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Well, you said you didn't complete reading the article, so you have remained just as ignorant and jaundiced as you started. What a pity?
You asked a qs already answered in the article, so do yourself some good and re-read ... read full comment
Well, you said you didn't complete reading the article, so you have remained just as ignorant and jaundiced as you started. What a pity?
You asked a qs already answered in the article, so do yourself some good and re-read it properly and to the end.
And you claimed you benefited from higher education abroad at Ghana's tax payers expense? A real pity!
Andy-K
maame efua 10 years ago
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Whatever 10 years ago
Andy should not have wasted his precious time writing this lengthy article about Busia. Everybody knows the trecherous mind of Busia and his offshoot
Andy should not have wasted his precious time writing this lengthy article about Busia. Everybody knows the trecherous mind of Busia and his offshoot
O GOD KYEBI WILL MISS THIS PRESIDENCY TO THA INTAAFOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If there is one thing I admire about Busia and Danqua that will be their insistence that Ghana like most African nations werent ready for self governance and hence must take the entire self government thing slowly.
Just lo ...
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I fail to see the import of such an inflammatory article that does nothing to promote a dialogue on ways to move forward to a progressive paradigm in Ghana.
To correct the inaccuracies in some of your errant observations a ...
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Good to know you are still alive and kicking, bro.
It is delightful to hear from you, again. Just yesterday, I read a commentary by another Bernard, and immediately knew it was not you. But it renewed my yearning to read one from you. Then, luckily, here you are, a day after. ...
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Bernard,
I dwelt on a number of topics besides the origin of the ethnocentric politics and insults we witness very much on Ghanaweb and beyond in Ghana, like the call to kill Ewes and Gas, for instance, but you only found ...
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Bishop, until you remove your legs from between your head, you will remain the complete idiot that you are today!
Education, industrialisation and agriculture , the life blood of the people were messed up."He was as blind as a mole" Aptly described
Cousin Kojo T,
Very glad to oblige you back. We no go sit down with our arms folded and let them engage in their baldfaced revisionism without rebuttal!
Andy-K
Efo Andy
I enjoy your piece.
Nunya a, adidoe, asimetune o.
Too many had to change their Ewe names from being "persecuted" in the Public and Civil Service, all because of Busia's policies.
Ayekoo and long live Ghana
Let those family and revisionists know that the truth of Ghanaian history cannot be forced through the throats of intelligent Ghanaians!! Just as how the Ghanaians are one of the wisest electors or rational voters in the worl ...
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ANDY, GIVE US MORE STUFF, WE ARE SAVING! .
NOBODY EXPECTED ANY OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS FROM YOU. YOU COULD NOT EVEN BRING YOURSELF TO ACCEPT THE EWE DOMINANCE OF GHANA'S PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. ANOTHER BUSIA WILL RISE ONE DAY.
It has to be one of the most amateurish articles ever published on Ghanaweb.Busia had attempted to reduce size of government and make it more accountable to the electors.The westminster system is better suited to a developing ...
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The only vision he had was that he was ahead of Thatchers mess. " Reduce the size of government and make it accountable"? Joker . South Africa developed using Nkrumahs principles. Just compare the recovery rate in USA with th ...
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You mugu yaro, indeed your name actually tells a lot about who you are and actually you are not a bold type to let people know who you are. I don't think your have read this piece; but if you have, you are one of the several ...
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Andy, you can spew all your ewe crap on the internet as long as you want. The fact is the ewes of Ghana, Togo, Benin and Haiti are their own enemies. You are so tribalistic your nose is in everybody else's business instead of ...
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O! Great wise man, show us the stats of Ewe dominance of the public service from the 1960s to date and disprove the stats of even those who had written articles, books and PhD dissertation on the subject. Sorry if you haven't ...
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Man, you are so ignorant you need some major education, so I am dutifully obliging you [and your ilk].
BTW, if you care to know, the VR brought to the independent Ghana the best and superlative manpower that the British c ...
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I do not understand why non of our progressive politicians do not talk or advocate for some form of autonomy for the regions? This one-system-fits-all situation is not helping at all. Each region should be allowed to develop ...
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You had never hiden your hatred of the Ewe ppl as passed onto you by your parents, something most Ghanaians old enough are very much aware of so nothing coming from you surprises some of us who had known your types and calibe ...
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Andy-K has written this acerbic of an article, and when somebody takes him on, you call that person tribalistic.
Well, for your information that game is going to be played; NO HOLDS BARRED!!!!!!!
Andy,
Excellent article.
Busia was a disgrace; a self-centred power-drunk elite.
Gbedemah was used by the NLM elments of the NLC before and during the 1969 elections. When they got what they wanted, power, they then ba ...
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The NPP is trying to repackage Busia to post-independence Ghanaians as a patriotic ghanaian who championed western democracy for the good of the country. They are fanning lies about a man who by his actions proved beyond any ...
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Well, some of us were not around, so we are all ears.
There is one thing I keep saying everyday: Truth is unique and discernible except to the blind.
We can succeed as a historical embodiment if we learn from our pasts ...
read full comment
Did I hear of Busia as a visionary and a democrat??? When did bomb throwers and supporters of Apatheid and No court action and an avowed critic of development programmes initiated by the mighty Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah beco ...
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We were all mature and able to hear l;oud and clear the lies Busia told of Nkrumah in order to make himself a popular man to be given the chance to rule Ghana!! How is Nana Akuffo Addo comparing the dwarf of Busia, a local pe ...
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No amount of revisionist history will help Busia's. he was completely useless and his children and NPP are trying to re-brand him. It will not work. Ghanaians are too smart for that. So stay in your NPP bubble and leave us al ...
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Did you read the article?
These are painful reminders but knowing where we came from is an important guide to the future. Thanks for this, Kwawukume, but readers should not construe it as given. We should ask the question what should we do to unite th ...
read full comment
The Russian will say you have eaten a dog and Ewhes will say you eat salt, and you digest it properly. The Ashantihene Osei Tutu II said the same a few weeks ago yet people are full of their illusions and chasing mirages of t ...
read full comment
An important conclusion we must all have, on the debacle of the Nkrumahist project, is that we must be absolutely well-informed, objective and truthful. We must call a spade a spade and we must let the axe fall where it may i ...
read full comment
Who are you? You are great!This piece should be published in the dailies.
More grease to your elbows. May God bless you for going back to history to bring the facts for Ghanaians to know who Busia and his traditions are and the harm they have done to the country.
As for the so-called 'Nkrumaist ...
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Those who want to know more about visionless Kofi Busia should read Lt. General Ocraan's book. He was the commander of the Michael Camp, Tema, 1966 and prevented the Second presidential regiment at Asuatuare in the eastern ...
read full comment
I don't hold a brief for Busia's politics, especially because, I believe, it rested on tribal appeal. He deserves credit, however, for the promulgation of the Aliens Compliance Order of 1969. I don't know where you grew up in ...
read full comment
The complaince order per se wasnt bad but the manner in which it was carried out was where Busia flopped. It could have been done in an organized manner so as not to cause so much pain to innocent people.
Can we then blame ...
read full comment
Your narrow mindset betrays the lack of merit in your support for the ACO that destroyed Ghana's economy when the effects took root in the 1970s. The collapse of Ghana's cocoa production and agric, the shortages and the rise ...
read full comment
Great response . Have a great day
'Busia naabu kponetii , Afrifa bata nor' .
Busia is no great orator. I heard him speak and he sounded like a TRUMUSEXUAL.
It is very important to let people know what the NLM really was - a most dastardly, terrorist organization that went on a murderous rampage even before independence killing people, under the direct leadership and participatio ...
read full comment
We need the true story every now and then. by their fruits we shall know them
I read a few paragraphs of this article and realised it was not worth going on. Which part of the Progress Party campaign was against Ewes or any ethnic group (PP - Party Papa?), for that matter? The only party that did anyth ...
read full comment
Well, you said you didn't complete reading the article, so you have remained just as ignorant and jaundiced as you started. What a pity?
You asked a qs already answered in the article, so do yourself some good and re-read ...
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hmmmmmm
Andy should not have wasted his precious time writing this lengthy article about Busia. Everybody knows the trecherous mind of Busia and his offshoot