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Is there a natural Ga leader in Ghana? Part 1

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  • mao, Columbus Ohio 10 years ago

    I am Ga but sometimes I feel uneasy when issues like what you are raising crop up, from north to south east to west of Ghana there are different ethnic groups so it's just a matter of time that we Ga's will also produce a pre ...
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  • OKOE 10 years ago

    THERE CERTAINLY ARE NATURALLY GA LEADERS BUT THE POINT YOU ARE MAKING HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS. THEY SAY POLITICS IS A DIRTY BUSINESS AND THE GAS ARE YET TO STUDY THE DURTINESS OF POLITICS. BE PATIENT, TIME IS ON TH ...
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  • Mends, The Lone Ranger. 10 years ago

    How stupid can this Kpakpogh be? He should be grateful to the Kwahus, Asantes, and Akyems for making Accra what's today. Without these groups Accra will be like what he calls the traditional Ga areas like Teshie, James Town, ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    During the last year or so its has become clear to almost every child the ethnocentric racist anti Akan vicious propaganda directed mainly against the innocent Ashanti and Akyems .Even here on this forum we witness the daily ...
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  • GAaa Mantse 10 years ago

    i think you have problem here. I hate it when foooooooooooooooools like you call Gas lazy people. it was the same Ga people who produce leaders like AKO Adjie, Justicts Nii Amar Oleinu,Justices GF. Anan go back to your histor ...
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  • AYI 10 years ago

    (1) All Ga Adangbe People as a whole, All Ga Adangbe chiefs, All Ga Adangbe Leaders in various political parties CPP, NDC, NPP or in Positions, All Ga Adangbe parents/couples, in Ghana/World, must Love each other and Unite as ...
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  • GODMAN 10 years ago

    IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT TESHIE ELECTED AN EWE LADY! TESHIE PEOPLE ARE KNOWN AS THE KOO-MLI-TSINAI (WILD BUFFALOES) AMONG THE GA PEOPLE WHO KILLED A NIGERIAN WITH DJIDJI (DRIED CASSAVA MEAL)! HOW CAN KOO-MLI-TSINAI ACHIEVE A ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Somebody told me that a Ga man is likely to rise to prominence in the N.P.P than in the N.D.C and with the way the N.D.C is treating Gas, I think I may have to agree with him! To be continued! Tawiah adamafio, Ako Adjei ...
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  • Yaw, Adjei 10 years ago

    Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah tried to unite the Gas under one paramount chief, Ga Mantse but they proposed unintelligent arguments to the proposal. Now it is too late for them and till today, they have no leader. Gas hve no fore ...
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  • KODWO 10 years ago

    But for Accra being the Capital of Ghana, the indigenous people of Accra/Greater Accra, would have constituted less than half of the current population.

    Accra is made up of all Nationalities, with the Ga/Adangbe being the ...
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  • KOW Amisah 10 years ago

    We should be grateful that the Gas are not like some other tribes wo think they can only be administered by their kind. What is important is the overall progress and development of the country. We can all see what some of the ...
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  • Papa Nii 10 years ago

    That is unfair....every tribe makes the effort to be represented in governance to ensure protection and consideration of its indigenous people. Now the Gas are one of the most uneducated in our country.Bukom,Chorkor, and othe ...
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  • BUKOM MAN SASAMBONSAH 10 years ago

    ASHANTIS SHOULD THANK THE CPP & NKRUMAH - HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THEM, ASHANTIS WILL STILL BE ILLITERATE TODAY!!!

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    I think not only this "pure Ga", Kpakpoi, needs serious education on who the Ga-Adangmes are, as indeed all Ghanaians. I'll begin with this cut from Wikipedia which all can very.

    "Ga-Adangbe people
    From Wikipedia, the fre ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    I think not only this "pure Ga", Kpakpoi, needs serious education on who the Ga-Adangmes are, as indeed all Ghanaians do, including myself. After all, the researchers are still trying to piece the pieces together about our or ...
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  • Ada Boy 10 years ago

    Brilliant stuff,I read this a while ago and I thought it solved some puzzle there. Thank you.

  • BUKOM MAN SASAMBONSAH 10 years ago

    WHEN ALL THE ASHANTIS LEAVE THEIR REGION FOR THE CAPITAL ,THE SAME IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THEM.

  • sln4 10 years ago

    If the numbers is your only bother then sorry.What about the share of development?When you talk of Greater Accra Region,the Gas have dominated and marginalised the Dangmes,what do you say to that?Almost all with the exception ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    WE ARE GHANAIAN'S AND YOU CAN REPRESENT ANY AREA YOU CHOOSE.ITS MOT THE COLOR OF THE CAT THAT MATTERS,WHAT MATTERS IS THE CAT CATCHING A MOUSE.
    PLAYERS PLAYING FOR ACCRA HEARTS OF OAK AND ACCRA GREAT OLYMPICS ARE FROM DIFFER ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    PRINCE, I AGREE WITH YOU.WE ARE DOING NATION BUILDING NOT ETHNIC BUILDING. GAS ARE THE LANDLORDS O THE CAPITAL AND THEREFORE CATALYTIC ETHNIC GROUP FOR NATION BUILDING. AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT LOSE THEIR CULTURE(AND THEY HAVE ...
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  • Sylvanus Agbemenyah P. K. 10 years ago

    Princewilly, the 'AYI' that they have being adding the the term 'GBE' to sound the ayigbe was their forebear. Ewes only laugh at the fooly of people who called them ayigbe people. They should get more education on the term to ...
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  • Natural Mystic 10 years ago

    Henry, you are not serious. There is a Senegalese gentleman who is now busy trying to sell his vision to Germans so as to be elected into political office. It really does not matter where you come from so long as you can do t ...
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  • PAA KWESI 10 years ago

    MR Kpakpo your problem lies with your people,first of all tell your worthless nungua chief to use his influence on the govt to build nungua beach road,

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Well said princewilly.Its not the dog in the fight that matters,its the fight in the dog that carries the day.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    WE YOU GIVE A BONE LABELLED KPAKPO TO THE DOG IF HE WINS THE FIGHT?
    TELL KPAKPO TO KEEP BACKING "BOW WOW,BOW WOW"

  • Nii Tsokor 10 years ago

    You all have representatives in your regions who are from you various tribes and so what is wrong with Mr Allotey asking for the same type of deal for the Ga people ?

    A bushman like you will never see reason.Bushman, go ho ...
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  • BUKOM MAN SASAMBONSAH 10 years ago

    ON REPRESANTATION, I AGREE WITH YOU - AS A GHANAIAN, YOU CAN REPRESENT ANY REGION IN THE COUNTRY. UNFORTUNATELY, OUR DEMOCRACY IS PLAYED ON TRIBAL LINES AND THIS WILL TAKE GENERATIONS TO END.

    UNTIL THAT DAY, WE WILL CONTIN ...
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  • Kwasi Longo 10 years ago

    Surely the leadership of political parties should be based on ability and not tribal affinities. Ga people are few in number compared to the population as a whole yet some of them seem to think that they have some god-given r ...
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  • Kankam 10 years ago

    Even Ga-Dangbe and Krobo which are mutually intelligible to Ga, you seperated then as different tribes yet box ethnic groups from the north as northerners implying one tribe.This alone tells your inefficiency in topic you re ...
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  • Fox Bat 10 years ago

    Urbanization is the cause of the problems which he didnt address. The Dangbes are largely rural based group.You are not going to stand a Fanti, Ewe at Ada or Kpone and get the same outcome as Teshie.Mr Kpakpo needs to do some ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    They say catch flies with honey.

  • DARK DAYS IN GHANA 10 years ago

    Koome ke loo
    Koome ke loo
    Koome ke loo
    Koome ke loo
    Amete amafo abotri
    Amete amafo abotri
    Ni loo tsi kome shi
    Ni loo tsi kome shi
    Ne mantse kome te shi
    Ne mantse kome te shi
    Ni ewo loo pete kome noo
    Ni ewo loo pet ...
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  • BUKOM MAN SASAMBONSAH 10 years ago

    Loo ke koomi
    Loo ke koomi

    Then

    Ni mantse gonti te shi
    (mahtse's THUMB GOT UP)

    ni eko loo epete komi noo

    NOT NI WWO LOO

    I hope you don't mind these corrections.

  • DARK DAYS IN GHANA 10 years ago

    Not at all...was just making fun of the artilcle which I found to be very racist.

    My family, even though not Ga, have lived in Accra since the 1920s, married Ga men and women and consider ourselves more Ga than our own tri ...
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  • Nii Akwei 10 years ago

    Count me out when it comes to politics. People enter into politics because of their stomach, that's all. Look at the mess NDC & NPP have done to this country, we call Ghana. It is time we bring economic issues to the table to ...
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  • sam 10 years ago

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  • SHITO KEE SHITO LOOO 10 years ago

    ONCE GHANA'S CAPITAL IS IN THIS FRUSTRATED MAN'S REGION HE SHODLD HAVE BEEN AWARE THAT THAT REGION BELONGS TO ALL GHANAIANS. THERE CAN'T BE A NATURAL GA LEADER BECAUSE GAS WORSHIP THEIR FETISH PRIESTS MANY OF WHOM ARE ILLITER ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A butcher in a Meat shop in Teshie is leaning on the counter toward the close of day when a dog with a basket in its jaws comes pushing through the door.

    "An' wot's this then?" he asked. The dog knocks the basket sharply i ...
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  • Anne 10 years ago

    Henry, you wrote like a true npp and an enemy of Gamie. you are not a Ga and would never be one, where is pride?

  • prince 10 years ago

    henry reading your article just spoiled my day,your piece is naivety of the highest order.Ghana is a unitary state ,
    one nation one people one destiny.your tribal sentiments are most unfortunate.

  • BUKOM MAN SASAMBONSAH 10 years ago

    FIRSTLY, LIKE YOU HAVE SAID, MIGRATION IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF GAS NOT BEING ELECTED IN THEIR OWN AREAS AS PALIAMENTARIANS. IN GHANA WE STILL VOTE ON TRIBAL LINES.

    AREAS OF ACCRA WITH HIGH NUMBERS OF AKANS OR ASHANTIS VOTE FO ...
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  • the Duke 10 years ago

    Henry, we Gas will typically say komi ke kena not komy and kenam. You are not a Ga. Your motive is to stoke tribal antagonism in our body polity. Shame on you. Leaders rise anytime the circumstances permit. If you dont have o ...
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  • BUKOM MAN SASAMBONSAH 10 years ago

    It is ------ Loo k3 komy.
    mi yahe loo k3 komy NOT komy k3 loo.

    Duke, are you Ga?

  • Isaac 10 years ago

    I had suspected this was definitely not written by a true Ga but an imposter. Stans desciple

  • KANTO 10 years ago

    Henry i think before making such comments Did you first sit down to think of how many percent are the Gas compare to the Ghanian population 2.The Ga population is less than 10% of Ghana's population. Politics in Ghana is not ...
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  • dannymam 10 years ago

    Please ask ur chiefs why they allow Mills to inpose Togbi as the head of the milinium city in Accra, I mean Ga mashi stool land , why didn't anyone quetion it , blame ur self for selling ur rights to the ewes. Can u get anyt ...
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  • John Doe 10 years ago

    Hi Henry,

    I'm from Teshie myself and must bring to your attention that Hon. Sena Okity-Duah was born and raised in Teshie. I grew up with her. What would you say about this?

  • Tompa Dade 10 years ago

    This forum is slowly becoming a forum for tribalists, divisionists, seperatists and even racists. I pray there is a silent majority which does not subscribe to any of these groups. God bless our dear country!!

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    How many times have I raised this question about Ga people? Look at the current NDC Chairman in the person of Ademola Coker? Can't a Ga person held that post? Ga people always prefer to squat behind others instead of trying ...
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  • Alex Randolph 10 years ago

    This is soo true. Slowly the other tribes have made the Gas look stupid because they have managed to buy the inheritance of the Gas.
    They need more education and not to sell their inheritances out soo quickly.they always nev ...
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  • sln4 10 years ago

    Krobos are Dangmes and E.T.Mensah is not a Ga but a Dangme.

  • sln4 10 years ago

    How many of trheindigenous regional ministers were Dangmes?All except Mike Gizo was not a Ga.What should the Dangmes also say?

  • kojo.London 10 years ago

    My grand mother is a Ga, but I'm grateful I don't behave like one.One thing you should know is, the Gas behave like sheep. They don't want to initiate anything. They want to be told what to do always that's why people and the ...
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  • Nii Tsokor 10 years ago

    There is nothing wrong with what he is saying.Bushman, when are you going back to your decrepit village ?

  • kojo.London 10 years ago

    Maybe you should be going first. Ghana is trying to unite and you guys try hard to divide . Don't allow yourselves to be fooled by this politicians whilst they enjoy their booty from mother Ghana. They want to see us fighting ...
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  • JOSEPH GANYOBI 10 years ago

    ITS GOOD FOR NOW....BUT WAIT AND SEE..THOSE IGNORANT AND UNCIVILYED MONKEY EATERS WHO CANT EVEN PRONOUSED WORDS IN ENGLISH ..THINKS THEY ARE BETTER THAN THE WHOLE COUNTRY.....THEY ARE LIKE MONKEYS LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR...TH ...
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  • Osei Boateng 10 years ago

    Foorish Accramain. Yor pliplo kan note ruull Gana.

    When Plesidant Kufour bekam leeder he don good for uss.

    Put Accramain and noting is happened. Monkey is in Accra. We in Kumasi are eerducate and doctars and have proper ...
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  • LIZ 10 years ago

    You can’t even spell. I have a hard time understanding you and you say you have educated people in your village? Go sit your ass somewhere and hide.

  • EWES WON'T ELECT NON-EWE 10 years ago

    THE MOST SELFISH TRIBE IN GHANA

  • JUST GIVE THEM KENKEY & FISH 10 years ago

    EWES WILL NEVER ELECT A GA IN EWELAND

  • Chuck Wayo 10 years ago

    This piece is pathetic to say the least. IAssuming there were no bonafide Ga leaders, why can't you suggest pragmatic ways to groom the next generation or offer yourself for national election? Your criticism of Hon Ayikoi Oto ...
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  • James, Karikari 10 years ago

    Kpakpo Allotey there are few things you should know
    1. that some of your ancestors were Ewe's , Ayi (Ayigbe?)
    2. there is no human on earth who can claim to be an absolute/pure native.
    3. are you aware of the inter-marriag ...
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  • Joseph, Nyamador 10 years ago

    Gas don't like to take on responsibility. Prefer the easy and 'cool life'. Gaman would not commit to hard work. Only 'easy come easy go life'.
    But what do you expect when you sell your family homes and pieces of land to stra ...
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  • Centurion 10 years ago

    Ataa me ke awome Ga me nyehaa woteashi

  • Ada Boy 10 years ago

    We dont need a wae cry,we are the most peaceful of the lot,we have become victims of bad governments from the past and present.Blame the government not the poor Teshie residents and others swamped in the region by poor nation ...
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