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Zongo:the eleventh region?

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  • OB 10 years ago

    Thanks very much for throwing light on Zongo and Zongolism

  • Alah 10 years ago

    Interesting, but, what prompted this article?

  • OYOKOBA 10 years ago

    Frankly, I don't presume to know everything that goes on in Zongo communities, I can only say that it is indicative of our failure to achieve a proper national integration and unity.

    Whereas Zongo communities predate indepe ...
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  • Mr. Figure-Out 10 years ago

    As a true Zongolian( non Moslem though), you have really wet my appetite for the nostalgic moments, growing up in Salaga and Sabo'n Zongo- Kumasi, near Masarachi'n jim'mah. And just to throw a little light on the creation of ...
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  • AFRICABI 10 years ago

    Tanko, this is a breadthe of fresh air. I absoutely enjoyed reading it. I cant wait for ur next piece. Thanks

  • Mr. Figure-Out 10 years ago

    As a true Zongolian( non Moslem though), you have really wet my appetite for the old nostalgic moments, growing up in Salaga and Sabo'n Zongo- Kumasi, near Masarachi'n jim'mah. And just to throw a little light on the creation ...
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  • Me 10 years ago

    Use your head a bit, humans are having a nice discussion. And also learn a little bit of history before writing.

  • moyo 10 years ago

    The writer assertion that Zongo is bounded by Islam and not by ethnicity is a completely false and cannot be supported by facts. The moslems within the Zongo community are less than 40% and most of the ethnic groups are from ...
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  • Nana Wiafe 10 years ago

    well done Tanko. This is excellent.

  • bapalori ninya 9 years ago

    which tribe is leos .i have never heard

  • CYBERGHANA 10 years ago

    ZONGOZONE IS.A BETTER TERMINOLOGY.
    AND IT IS NOT ONLY ISLAMIC.
    THE CHARISMATIC CHURCHES HAVE TAKEN OVER. THE LANGUAGE IS STILL HAUSA THOUGH.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    MANY RETIRED ARMY OFFICERS AND POLICE OFFICERS OF HAUSA DESCENT FROM NIGERIA,MALI,NIGER,CAMERON CREATED THE ZONGO.
    ACCRA- NIMA ,MADINA,EFFIA -ZONGO TAKORADI AND KUMASI ZONGO WERE CREATED BY EX SERVICEMEN.I AM A BARRACKS BOY ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    live peaceful or i'll cut your muslim nuts of with sword

  • Sam 10 years ago

    Shut your smelly mouth if you do not have anything concrete to write.

  • Nemesis 10 years ago

    please dont mind him...he's the perepetual idiot who makes all those comments about niggers and trumu. his mouth leaks pus all the time and it will require the entire trinity on their best day to save him...

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    WHAT IOWA MEANS.

    IDIOT OUT WANDERING AROUND

  • Akosua Tabuwaa 10 years ago

    When were you born? Kumasi Zongo was not created by the ex-sevice men.The ex service men were settled at Sofo-line and some part of Sabon Zongo.Zongo had its own Chief starting from Amadu Baba once deported by Nkrumah to Nige ...
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  • Nii Yebuah 10 years ago

    Ahhhh! refreshing piece.

  • Sambo 10 years ago

    Sorry Akosua, Amadu Baba was not the first Chief of Kumasi Zango,but about the sixth or seventh inline.Officially, Mallam Gardi was the first zango chief of Kumasi(1902-1905)followed by Mallam Uthman(1905-1919)etc. Amadu Baba ...
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  • square 10 years ago

    its is the stupid busangas nd jealous dogombas who call others kanbonga.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Once there was a priest who was travelling quite some distance, so he stopped at a convent near a Zongo to seek lodging for the night. The nuns had an extra room, so they let the father come in and stay until morning. The nex ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Stop your plagiarizing, it's not funny anymore.

  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    He never claimed he is the originator of he jokes, besides he is not writing academic papers, chill.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    THAT DUMB YAW SHOULD KNOW THAT THE NAME YAW WAS CREATED BY SOMEBODY.
    HE SHOULD ASK THE DESCENDANTS OF TETTEH QUARSHIE ABOUT THE FARM WHERE HE GOT HIS COCOA FROM.
    THE ONLY WORD GHANAIAN'S EVER CREATED IS GALAMAXY AND ITS NOT ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    WHY SHOULD I SPEND MY TIME ALWAYS POUNDING FUFU WHILE I CAN GO TO A CATERING HOUSE AND BUY IT.
    DO PEOPLE GO TO A TAILOR TO SOW THEM BLUE JEANS?
    REMEMBER ITS EASIER TO BUY THINGS THAT ARE READY MADE .
    EVERY COMEDIAN CAN BOR ...
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  • ALHASSAN DAMBA 10 years ago

    SOME OF THE WORDS YOU USED LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE DAGOMBA OR MAMPRUSI. YOU SAID PEOPLE CALL YOU A NORTHERNER AND YOU DON´T WANT TO BE RECOGNISED AS SUCH BUT A ZONGORIAN HUH? GOD FORBID SOMETHING HAPPENS AND LET´S SEE WHERE YOU ...
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  • Ekumfi Boateng 10 years ago

    Dear brothers Alhassan and Shamu I think you are being unkind and harsh on Bro. Tanko Ali Yahaya for his definition of Zongo communities in Ghana. I think the piece he wrote is quite insightful about immigrant communities in ...
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  • moyo 10 years ago

    Never islamatize Zongo as it is typical multi cultural community. The norhteners who made up the Zongo, only few of them are moslems and the rest of the moslems are non Ghanaians. The majority of the moslems are from Burkina ...
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  • Nii Yebuah 10 years ago

    Most Ghanaians associate the Zongo with muslims, despitethe multi-ethnicity.

  • Sam 10 years ago

    Keep the good work up!

  • Shamu 10 years ago

    Please, if this writer did not understand the meaning of the word zongo then he need to have better understanding of it in order to define it well. Base on what I read, he is totally wrong. The only advice that I can give him ...
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  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    You have said nothing of importance here, just going round about nothing. Why don't you tell us what is wrong with the idea if you have them?

  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    Stop reading his jokes then, he never claimed to be the original of those stories, he Cullen's them from jokes.com

  • Kwaku Ampofo 10 years ago

    Besides illiteracy which I think is very high among the Zongo dwellers or people, the Zongorians (to borrow your term) is a destabilizing force in Ghana. In this day an age where elections are so fraudulent with the EC machin ...
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  • bapalori ninya 9 years ago

    from your write up i think you left something out.why didn't you mention akans from the west across the boarder from ivery coast also coming into the country ..you are looking at international boundaries have you thought abou ...
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  • Zombie Killer 10 years ago

    ZONGO boy

  • mohammed 10 years ago

    That you my brother for your article is for a fact that zongo stands unique and its really the eleventh region and we zongorians are proud of it,but for one thing am in a little four is the dominant language at zongo but I gi ...
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  • natty 10 years ago

    Great job Yahaya

  • natty 10 years ago

    Man you don`t know Ghanaian history, anyway am sorry your father left you!!!!

  • Proud N. 10 years ago

    You are a kind of person who will associate with a thing when during the good moments. The North is seen as deprived for now so don't want to be called a Northerner. I am very sure that if the north was well off you would swe ...
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  • MUSA 10 years ago

    LEAVE THE PEOPLE OF NORTHERN GHANA ALONE, DO NOT ASSOCIATE THEM WITH ZONGO PEOPLE WHO ARE ENTIRELY FOREIGNERS. AS FOR THE ILLITERATE SUPPOSE CHIEFS FROM NORTHERN GHANA LEAVING IN THE ZONGOS THEY REPRESENT ONLY THEMSELVES

  • Sumanguru 10 years ago

    My bro, I fully concor with you

  • Kwaku asimenu-forson 10 years ago

    i think u are trying hard to reconstruct your genealogy otherwise the narrative is pointless.u see, ghana must embrace naturalised Ghs and offsprings of immigrants who have become Ghs by birth as stipulated in the Const. Dont ...
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  • JALLO 10 years ago

    LIKE SERIOUSLY, ZONGO IS PREDOMINANTLY NOT NORTHERNERS, AND ALSO THE WRITER FORGOT TOGO,THE REASON BEING THAT ALMOST ALL THE ZONGOS OLD AND NEWLY CREATED ARE BEEN HELD BY THE TOGOLISE DESCENT AND THAT IS A FACT.

  • mensah 7 years ago

    All people living in zongos who did not have any Ghanaian signnames are foreigners.and anyone who speak hausa language is from nigeria or niger,and must be deported

  • mensah 7 years ago

    the lands in our town that they build the zongos are not for hausa foriegners that settle on them.