Deifying Kofi Awoonor Is An Insult To Ghanaians

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Mankind 12 years ago

I agree with you the man was a bigot!!

I agree with you the man was a bigot!!
ROYAL AKANLAND 12 years ago

HIS BIGOT GOT HIM KILLED

HIS BIGOT GOT HIM KILLED
STUPID EWE 12 years ago

THE EWE GREEDY BASTAERD WAS IN KENYA TO DEPOSIT STOLEN MONEY FROM THE GHANAIAN TAX PAYER WHERE HE WAS KILLED. WE THANK GOD!!!

THE EWE GREEDY BASTAERD WAS IN KENYA TO DEPOSIT STOLEN MONEY FROM THE GHANAIAN TAX PAYER WHERE HE WAS KILLED. WE THANK GOD!!!
KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

This Bush Rat is not only a 'Herd-mentalist' but a known ethnocentric chauvinist who only writes to condemn well-to-do people from other tribal divide.

This recycled article can never turn upside-down the fortunes and hard ...
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This Bush Rat is not only a 'Herd-mentalist' but a known ethnocentric chauvinist who only writes to condemn well-to-do people from other tribal divide.

This recycled article can never turn upside-down the fortunes and hard earned reputation of Kofi Awoonor, A Ghanaian Giant whose contributions to our fledgling democracy had given him such reputation recognized worldwide, his untimely death featured on BBC.

What about your death in the corner, Kwadwo Poku? Would it feature on BBC and arouse such interst of Ghanaians and others worldwide? You don't even know your fate next minute.
Appiah , jasikan 12 years ago

GO BACK HOME TRIBAL FOOL INCLUDING AWOONORVIE FROM TOGO

GO BACK HOME TRIBAL FOOL INCLUDING AWOONORVIE FROM TOGO
KOLA,LONDON MAIN 12 years ago

Why don't you Illiterate bush rat relocate to your ancestry home in Congo?

What are you doing in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, you rat-pooh eating gook?

Why don't you Illiterate bush rat relocate to your ancestry home in Congo?

What are you doing in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, you rat-pooh eating gook?
CARDINAL 12 years ago

You dumb illiterate trokosi smelly skunk daughter fucker child molester should be in touch with your position on the totem pole of tribal divide in Ghanaian society.

You dumb illiterate trokosi smelly skunk daughter fucker child molester should be in touch with your position on the totem pole of tribal divide in Ghanaian society.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 12 years ago

THAT, KOFI AWOONOR PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN THAT 31 DEC. TERROR ACT WHICH SAW THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF THE CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF DR. LIMANN AND USHERED IN THE CONTINUITY OF THE STUPID NDC REVOLUTION WHICH IS IN ...
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THAT, KOFI AWOONOR PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN THAT 31 DEC. TERROR ACT WHICH SAW THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF THE CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF DR. LIMANN AND USHERED IN THE CONTINUITY OF THE STUPID NDC REVOLUTION WHICH IS IN IT'S 24TH YEAR, IS NO-BRAINER. KOFI AWOONOR WORKED IN THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE 1982 WHERE SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE TORTURED AND IMPRISONED WITHOUT TRIAL. HE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE 'DZELUKOFE MAFIA', WHICH INCLUDES THE TSIKATAS AND OTHER RIGHT WING EWE POLITICIANS WHO EMERGED FROM THE SHADOWS IN 1983 AS THE EVIL PNDC'S IDEOLOGUES, HARBOURING MUCH HATRED FOR AKANS. HE WAS A SELF-CONFESSED MEMBER OF THIS DESPERATE ETHNOCENTRIC CLIQUE WHO PLANNED TO WIN POWER THROUGH 'ONE- MAN-ONE-MATCHET' COUP PLOT AGAINST THE ACHEAMPONG REGIME. KOFI AWOONOR DEFENDED THIS POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE, RECKLESS AND PAROCHIAL BEHAVIOUR BY STATING THAT, THE EWES SEE THEMSELVES IN OPPOSITION TO ALL GOVERNMENTS IN GHANA WHICH INEVITABLY BECOME AKAN DOMINATED. LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NPP !!! *********OSONO AKYI NNI ABOA!!
EZUAH 12 years ago

Gorilla osagyefo is my great uncle so back off you maggot from togo

Gorilla osagyefo is my great uncle so back off you maggot from togo
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

You call someone illiterate, yet mangle the English language!

You call someone illiterate, yet mangle the English language!

Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Idiot. Your stock both males and females are all over there in Togo. Your females engage in prostitution at Hotel Royale and Ricardo while your menfolk carry shit at Asigame. Your females come out at night, some as old as 70 ...
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Idiot. Your stock both males and females are all over there in Togo. Your females engage in prostitution at Hotel Royale and Ricardo while your menfolk carry shit at Asigame. Your females come out at night, some as old as 70 years with painted faces to conceal their ages to attract customers.

Just check it out.
Afetor SOFAHU 12 years ago

ASHANTI MONKEY,go and tell that to your ugly 70yrs old whore mother...and tell her to place that dripping filty hole at your hopeless father's house...ANIMAL

ASHANTI MONKEY,go and tell that to your ugly 70yrs old whore mother...and tell her to place that dripping filty hole at your hopeless father's house...ANIMAL
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
CARDINAL 12 years ago

Illiterate idiot. What is the meaning of this, "who only writes to condemn the well-to-do people from other tribal divide"? Did you just hear the term "tribal divide" and decided to use it which is wrongly used here?

Illiterate idiot. What is the meaning of this, "who only writes to condemn the well-to-do people from other tribal divide"? Did you just hear the term "tribal divide" and decided to use it which is wrongly used here?
Elder Essuman 12 years ago

Mr Kwaku Poku, i read ur article and did not see any quote that makes Awoonor a tribal bogot. I am all ears and eyes, can you plese resent your evidence?

Just being part of the JJ regime does not make him a bigot. Many Aka ...
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Mr Kwaku Poku, i read ur article and did not see any quote that makes Awoonor a tribal bogot. I am all ears and eyes, can you plese resent your evidence?

Just being part of the JJ regime does not make him a bigot. Many Akans, Gas and Northernors were part of JJ's regime.

Come again, and give us statements from Awoonor's own mouth.
Houdini 12 years ago

I will answer for my friend Kwaku Poku. This is what Awonoor wrote about the so called Rawlings revolution.

"The 1982 revolution was staged to stop Akans, especially the Asantes economic hegemony of the country and distrib ...
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I will answer for my friend Kwaku Poku. This is what Awonoor wrote about the so called Rawlings revolution.

"The 1982 revolution was staged to stop Akans, especially the Asantes economic hegemony of the country and distribute the wealth equitably"

"The Ewe domination in the security and civil service is an equalizer to the Akan economic domination"

Now tell me if this man was not a bigot who hated Akans because of their financial success as compared to other tribes in Ghana.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Only inferior-driven people define themselves by what ohers say about them!

Only inferior-driven people define themselves by what ohers say about them!
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

THIS IS HOW IT ALL STARTED
Author: C.Y. ANDY-K

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the ro ...
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THIS IS HOW IT ALL STARTED
Author: C.Y. ANDY-K

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!

Me zu kluvi

The road to Kontsiabu

Strewn with gold dusts.

Only those without

in their eyes gold dusts

felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE EWE BACKLASH

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

References:

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

We are tired of reading the same cut and paste from this aging idiot!

We are tired of reading the same cut and paste from this aging idiot!
I-SEE-THE-WAY (USA) 12 years ago

YOU KILL WITH THE SWORD, YOU DIE BY THE SWORD. GHANA DID NOT WANT HIS CRIMINILIZED DIRTY BLOOD ON OUR SOIL HENCE HIS TIMELY DEATH IN KENYA WHEN HE HAS HGONE TO DEPOSIT OUR HARD EARNRD FOREIGN CURRENCEY IN KENYA ON BEHALF OF J ...
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YOU KILL WITH THE SWORD, YOU DIE BY THE SWORD. GHANA DID NOT WANT HIS CRIMINILIZED DIRTY BLOOD ON OUR SOIL HENCE HIS TIMELY DEATH IN KENYA WHEN HE HAS HGONE TO DEPOSIT OUR HARD EARNRD FOREIGN CURRENCEY IN KENYA ON BEHALF OF JOHN DUMSO MAHAMA. NEXT WILL BE RAWLINGS-THE SOMALIA ISLAMISTS WILL KILL HIM NEXT WHEN HE VISITS THE COUNTRY. BECAUSE GHANA DOES NOT NEED HIS DIRTY BLOOD ON OUR SOIL.

Bernard 12 years ago

Poku, Victor Owusu and all backward Ashantis are a drain on Ghana's economy. They are backward and wll ever remain so till thy Kingdom come. Now, they have no power so resort to stupidity of this kind against Prof. Kofi Awoo ...
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Poku, Victor Owusu and all backward Ashantis are a drain on Ghana's economy. They are backward and wll ever remain so till thy Kingdom come. Now, they have no power so resort to stupidity of this kind against Prof. Kofi Awoonor and Ewes. If this is not jealousy, then what is it Mr. Poku?
Ghana 12 years ago

You moronic fool don't even know what power is. Akans have more power than all other Ghanaians combined because they control the commerce of the country and even the intelligent Ndc people know this and they complained about ...
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You moronic fool don't even know what power is. Akans have more power than all other Ghanaians combined because they control the commerce of the country and even the intelligent Ndc people know this and they complained about some Ghanaians moving their money from the system abroad because they don't like this government.

What is it about Ewes that will make anybody jealous? They are labourers and watchmen on Akan businesses and child molesters including their own daughters. There is nothing redeeming about Ewes for anybody to be jealous of them.
Bernard 12 years ago

Poku, Victor Owusu and all backward Ashantis are a drain on Ghana's economy. They are backward and wll ever remain so till thy Kingdom come. Now, they have no power so resort to stupidity of this kind against Prof. Kofi Awoo ...
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Poku, Victor Owusu and all backward Ashantis are a drain on Ghana's economy. They are backward and wll ever remain so till thy Kingdom come. Now, they have no power so resort to stupidity of this kind against Prof. Kofi Awoonor and Ewes. If this is not jealousy, then what is it Mr. Poku?
Joy 12 years ago

When I was a graduate student at Princeton, in my first year, I visited Bronx where my sister was living in the same apartment complex with Prof Kofi Awoonor. At the time, he was lecturing part time at Columbia and pursuing h ...
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When I was a graduate student at Princeton, in my first year, I visited Bronx where my sister was living in the same apartment complex with Prof Kofi Awoonor. At the time, he was lecturing part time at Columbia and pursuing his final ph.d. dissertation.

What I remember about him is that he would often speak FANTI to my sister encouraging her to be closer to his (Kofi's) wife rather than the other gullible, gossipy Ghanaians in the same complex because he found my sister articulate and educated. I spoke often with him in Fanti and he was full of excitement whenever Ghana came up. Even at that time he did not look that old; I am surprised that he was 78. May he rest in peace - those who knew him up close really considered him classy and he fitted into many Ghanaian ethnic groups and backgrounds because he spoke so many Ghana languages.... it was always difficult to pin him as an Ewe. His English was nothing like an ewe accent!!! He reminded me that part of Awonoor-Williams larger family hails from Saltpond in the Central Region, just like the Renners.

Folks - Kofi was no tribalist. He might have been an Ewe nationalist. I found him more Ghanaian than most people; I can say for a fact that he was neither an ewe-phobic nor akan-phobic, if there are such things. He was simply a Ghanaian Nationalist
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Joy, thanks for persevering in telling the world about the true nature of Awoonor.

You couldn't pin him down as an Ewe because indeed, he was one of those detribalised Ewes, esp. those with foreign backgrounds, who once o ...
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Joy, thanks for persevering in telling the world about the true nature of Awoonor.

You couldn't pin him down as an Ewe because indeed, he was one of those detribalised Ewes, esp. those with foreign backgrounds, who once out of their Ewe "homeland", where their parents or one of the parents originated from, they behave as if they are not Ewes in origin. They don't even return home and their children don't learn to speak Ewe. Kofi Awoonor only latter in life retraced his footsteps to Wheta but that was not enough to make the people vote for him to become NDC MP of the area. He was a stranger to them. He started making amends b4 his death.

As we all know, Awoonor-William's origin is only partly Ewe, even having white blood in him. The William family have their roots from Sa. Leone and spread along English W. Africa as merchants, etc. Kofi Awoonor was just at home in Sa Leone as elsewhere in Ghana! He embraced all, but it his Ewe part that determined and moulded him, and to which he owed so much.

He did not suffered the ethnocentric jingoists that made life harsh for him and he hit them back the only way he knew: with words! They are still reeling from those blows, hence all these derogatory posts.

Don't mind them at all, as they are losers!

Andy-K
kofi Nutekpor 12 years ago

i dont know what makes anyone think he can heal this Akan Ewe feud.It must have been created by some demon among those thrown down to earth. a rivalry the proportion of Israeli Arab,French English,Tutsi hutu.So far we have ma ...
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i dont know what makes anyone think he can heal this Akan Ewe feud.It must have been created by some demon among those thrown down to earth. a rivalry the proportion of Israeli Arab,French English,Tutsi hutu.So far we have managed well with no genocide.let the youngman demonise Awoonor all he wants.How many Akan Folk even bother to learn Ewe.Ewe teach Akans their own language.Ephraim Amu composed in Akan.Atleast we have reached them halfway in handshake
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Another virulent Asante jerk skin paining so much at the accolades being heaped on Awoonor despite their failing attempt to soil his image.

For the info. of all, that BBC report was written by Elizabeth Ohene, a staunch NP ...
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Another virulent Asante jerk skin paining so much at the accolades being heaped on Awoonor despite their failing attempt to soil his image.

For the info. of all, that BBC report was written by Elizabeth Ohene, a staunch NPP member. It was objective as they come.

Now that the distortions of what Awoonor wrote and the false accusations are showing the gaping holes in them, new inventions must be thought of to label him! These dastardly actions by you who are the true tribal bigots worse than even the KKK, shall all be exposed by and by. Mark my words.

Now, JJ has come out to say that he first met Prof. briefly in May 1882, several months after 31st Dec. 1981
at Cape Vars. This info has been corroborated by Awoonor haters were students there then. They said it was at the inauguration of the new NUGS Secretariat. So how in heavens name did Awoonor manage to become one of the mentors to and architects of the 31st Dec, coup??????? When did Awoonor accept public service from the PNDC and left Cape Vars? Maybe we should ask President Kufuor who was then Secretary in the PNDC, represnting the PFP, when the judges were killed. Did Awoonor come to brief them that the judges should be killed?

BTW, it is a lie that JJ said they'd hand over power to Limann in June 1982!

On the book, The Ghana Revolution, it was published in 1984 when Awoonor was already the Ambassador in Brazil and the worse of the PNDC era human rights abuses were over. So how did that book act as the Red Book for the "atrocities" of the PNDC.

How did that book advocate for Anlo Hegemony, under whose leadership, when the Anlo Awoamefia was one of the people roughed up and nearly killed by the Amedeka murderous gang? Didn't you all listen to the revelations at the Truth and Reconciliation C'ttee? The records are there for all to read but some of us didn't need that to know what happened. We knew when it happened.

That book was written and examined events before 31st December but not published. Awoonor should have given it some other title, and not added that fwd trying to link it to the 31st Dec. coup. In it, he only heaped praises on I think 2 of the judges who were killed for certain principle actions they took prior to 31st Dec. He didn't revise the book to incorporate events during the early years of the PNDC.

Awoonor was no tribal bigot. What he did was to expose without taking prisoners and without mincing words some Asantes and their Akan
hirelings of the Matemeho tradition who started the ethnic hounding of Ewes after the dastardly 1966 coup. It reached its apogee during the 1969 Gen. elections and climaxed with the celebrated Sallah Case when Busia, the arch-ethnocentric evil genius of the NLM and then the PP, shouted No court! No court...! when he lost the case. The fallouts from the dark led to Awoonor's imprisonment over the Brig. Kattah case in 1975. He wrote that he started jotting the book while in prison, hiding it from his gaolers. He was merciless in castigating all, and not even Kotoka and Harlley were spared for letting out from the bottle the evil genii of Matemeho people Nkrumah had corked up. So Awoonor pissed off many conservative Anlo elites and families too who were happy at the overthrow of Nkrumah. That's why they don't come to his defense.

Awoonor didn't target all Akans, for that matter, Asantes. After all, the mothers of all his children are Asantes! Unlike Agyapong, he was said to be still married to one of them at the time of his tragic death.

You are the bloody tribal jingoists and bigots! Awoonor exposed you!

Andy-K
Koo Nkansa 12 years ago

Well said,Mr Poku.The man was a tribal bigot.and was part of the Dzelukope mafia that came to terrorize Ghanaians with Rawlings at the helm,a man with pure hatred for anything Akan.Areally dangerous man indeed.Thanks for your ...
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Well said,Mr Poku.The man was a tribal bigot.and was part of the Dzelukope mafia that came to terrorize Ghanaians with Rawlings at the helm,a man with pure hatred for anything Akan.Areally dangerous man indeed.Thanks for your article,bro.
Ghana Boy 12 years ago

This man is going to hell. A very wicked man indeed. It was good that he was killed by s terrorist group just like he orcestrated the killing of innocent people. SATAN IS WAITING FOR HIM. Straight up to hell.

This man is going to hell. A very wicked man indeed. It was good that he was killed by s terrorist group just like he orcestrated the killing of innocent people. SATAN IS WAITING FOR HIM. Straight up to hell.
Harmony 12 years ago

This actor is a bigger bigot than the late prof.When Busia and Kufour targeted a particular section of Ghanaian society by dismissing them from their jobs and jailing them, it is fine with Akans. When Kotoka was used to do th ...
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This actor is a bigger bigot than the late prof.When Busia and Kufour targeted a particular section of Ghanaian society by dismissing them from their jobs and jailing them, it is fine with Akans. When Kotoka was used to do the dirty work of the UP faction and subsequently killed by Akan soldiers, it is fine. The late prof was not a member of the PNDC.Why then distort history because of your hatred for the late prof. He did not murder anyone and if he wrote a book based on how he was treated because of his ethnic background and therefore called for separation, what is wrong with that.Long before the revolution in Ghana, there was hatred for Ewes. Growing up in Accra in the fifties and sixties, Ewes were treated as foreigners and rejects with all the derogatory remarks eg; chicken thieves, carpenters and undesirables. I used to ask why there was so much hatred for Ewes and not Akans and Gas. Then I was informed that Ewes did not originally belong to Ghana. I did my own research and got to know about the 1956 plebiscite which decided the faith of Ewes. Despite Nkrumah's campaign to win the Northern Volta Ewes over to Ghana as the Southern Ewes were exempted from the referendum because they were already part of the Gold coast, the result was close 52/48. The question I have been asking myself is what if the result has gone the opposite way? Ewe bashing will have been a thing of the past. A Togoland dominated by Ewes in my opinion will have seen more development than it is today.
My uncles suffered detention under Nkrumah's Govt as they led the campaign against joining Ghana in Volta north. Busia's govt again dismissed some uncles from their jobs(The infamous Apollo).Rawlings revolution did not bestow wealth and development on Volta region. Ashanti was the first to have it's road, railways and other infrastructure reconstructed. Accra came later and I believe the PNDC govt recongised Ashantis contribution to wealth creation in Ghana. It was unfortunate that there were killings across the board during the revolution.Ewes also lost their life and much as I don't believe that we should be preaching hate and bitogry, I felt like agitating for secession based on my own experience of hatred and rejection in Ghana. I am not good at writing which is why I never wrote a book.Having experienced colour discrimanation abroad, my advise is that hatred in whatever form is bad. Al shabaab and Boko haram epitomises the extreme form in Africa.We do not know who will be the next high profile victim in Africa.That we are certain about is that it will not end now.

Glo 12 years ago

Thank you for not preaching hatred against any group. We Ghanaians have a ver big problem - ethnocentricity. It needs to stop.

Thank you for not preaching hatred against any group. We Ghanaians have a ver big problem - ethnocentricity. It needs to stop.
GHANABA 12 years ago

MR POKU,PLS ENLIGHTEN US WITH SOME OF THE WRITINGS OR SAYINGS OF AWOONOR THAT MADE HIM SUCH AN AKAN HATER, SO,THOSE OF US WHO DON"T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIM CAN DECIDE FOR OURSELVES.PROVE IT TO US ON THIS WEBSITE.AS AN AKAN I"VE A ...
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MR POKU,PLS ENLIGHTEN US WITH SOME OF THE WRITINGS OR SAYINGS OF AWOONOR THAT MADE HIM SUCH AN AKAN HATER, SO,THOSE OF US WHO DON"T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIM CAN DECIDE FOR OURSELVES.PROVE IT TO US ON THIS WEBSITE.AS AN AKAN I"VE ALWAYS HAD EWE FRIENDS FROM SEC SCHOOL TO DATE.
Koo the boy 12 years ago

Awoonor is punished

Awoonor is punished
Kyei Bediako East Orange NJ 12 years ago

No matter what one does, nemesis will catch up with the evil doers.
Kofi Awoonor was an Ewe bigot. The Ewe hegemony under Rawlings was the brain child of Kofi Awoonor.The murder of the 3 High Court judges, the elimination o ...
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No matter what one does, nemesis will catch up with the evil doers.
Kofi Awoonor was an Ewe bigot. The Ewe hegemony under Rawlings was the brain child of Kofi Awoonor.The murder of the 3 High Court judges, the elimination of Akan Army officers were his dream making.Awoonor and the other Ewes used JJ to push their agenda in Ghana.Whatsoever a man soweth is what he reapeth. He came violently, he eliminated the non Ewes violently, and he died violently. The other Nyablors shd look out.Thus sayeth the BIBLE, WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH IS WHAT HE WOULD REAP. JERRY, TSATSU, AHWOI, BOTCHWAY, PV, THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT GHANAIANS THAT YOU SHED IS CRYING TO GOD FOR VENGEANCE
abele 12 years ago

No apologies for that.You hit the nail on the head.The truth should be told.

No apologies for that.You hit the nail on the head.The truth should be told.
I. Donkor, Selden, Suffolk County, NY 12 years ago

I used to love the poetry and novels of Awoonor Williams when I was in secondary school and later at Legon.Then I saw the way he hated Akans and Ashantis in particular.This hatred which led to killings and brutality against f ...
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I used to love the poetry and novels of Awoonor Williams when I was in secondary school and later at Legon.Then I saw the way he hated Akans and Ashantis in particular.This hatred which led to killings and brutality against fellow Ghanaians, has brought division and discord to our dear country. I hope those islamist terrorists shot Kofi Awoonor in the stomach and he suffered a long time before he died. For as they say 'what is good for the goose is also good for the gander' When he was urging Rawlings to let the blood flow, he never thought that one day somebody would use the same hatred to take his life in a foreign country, surrounded by people who spoke a different language than his Ewe. Now those people he helped throw into the sea from helicopters are waiting for him in the afterlife with butcher knives.Whatever you sow in this world,you shall reap. Good riddance to a chief tribalist.
AA 12 years ago

Donkor, your post will pass as a good tribute to this Ewe Bigot. Serves him right.

Donkor, your post will pass as a good tribute to this Ewe Bigot. Serves him right.
OSCAR 12 years ago

HE DESERVES TO BE IN HELL AND RAWLINGS WILL BE FACE HIS OWN THE SAME WAY

HE DESERVES TO BE IN HELL AND RAWLINGS WILL BE FACE HIS OWN THE SAME WAY
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

I think that`s what your heading should read and NOT an insult to Ghanians.How do you know deifying Prof.Awoonor is an insult to me,his family and thousands if not millions out there who are Ghanians?
Only cowards attack dea ...
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I think that`s what your heading should read and NOT an insult to Ghanians.How do you know deifying Prof.Awoonor is an insult to me,his family and thousands if not millions out there who are Ghanians?
Only cowards attack dead people who can`t talk back.
Why didn`t you confronts him with these allegations when he was alive to tell you his side of the story?
You little men with little balls.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

You see I always tell you that you are just an idiot! Your response means that non-Akans can live with ethnic hegemony, violence, bloodshed!

You see I always tell you that you are just an idiot! Your response means that non-Akans can live with ethnic hegemony, violence, bloodshed!
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

You`ve been demonstrating your foolisheness lately.You are NOT making any sense here,fool.
How could the writer assume that all Ghanaians are being insulted by deifying Pro.Awoonor?
SHUT YOUR LEAKING ASS,FOOL.

You`ve been demonstrating your foolisheness lately.You are NOT making any sense here,fool.
How could the writer assume that all Ghanaians are being insulted by deifying Pro.Awoonor?
SHUT YOUR LEAKING ASS,FOOL.
Kwadwo 12 years ago

Poku, I enjoyed reading your piece. What Awoonor wrote and did politically cannot be whitewashed by revisionist like Francis Kwarteng. Good job.

Poku, I enjoyed reading your piece. What Awoonor wrote and did politically cannot be whitewashed by revisionist like Francis Kwarteng. Good job.
Abisi 12 years ago

That is the whole truth. Thank God for death, that can silence every human being. Just look at the way he ended. Indeed the evil that men do lives after them. Others will follow in the same pattern.

That is the whole truth. Thank God for death, that can silence every human being. Just look at the way he ended. Indeed the evil that men do lives after them. Others will follow in the same pattern.
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

The same God will silence your ugly mouth from talking trash about people.Yes,others will follow the same pattern and surely you will be one of those.It won`t be long from now.

The same God will silence your ugly mouth from talking trash about people.Yes,others will follow the same pattern and surely you will be one of those.It won`t be long from now.
Appiah , jasikan 12 years ago

shut up awoonor hitler is in you gooffy idiot

shut up awoonor hitler is in you gooffy idiot
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

The thunder of the gods will strike you dead by tomorrow,Kwasea.

The thunder of the gods will strike you dead by tomorrow,Kwasea.
PROF AWOONOR DID NOT DIE ALONE 12 years ago

You Fools write and post comments and articles as though the late professor was the only soul that perished in the barbaric act of a group of disillusioned so-called jihadists. what about the innocent kids, young men and wome ...
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You Fools write and post comments and articles as though the late professor was the only soul that perished in the barbaric act of a group of disillusioned so-called jihadists. what about the innocent kids, young men and women, elderly, christians, budhists, atheits, hindus etc who also got killed in the attack. Could the same be said of them. There once was an Asante tribalist by name of professor Adu- Boahene.You haven't forgotten about him, have you? when you point an accusing finger, remember the remainimg four fingers point back at you. Professor Kofi Awoonor was among the NUMEROUS innocent souls that perished in the attack and keep that in your thick heads before you sit and type balderdash!
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 12 years ago

Tell the whole world how Prof Adu Boahene was a tribalist?

The fact that kofi Awoonor is not the only one who died does not prevent anyone from shedding light on his diabolic machination that resulted in the death of oth ...
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Tell the whole world how Prof Adu Boahene was a tribalist?

The fact that kofi Awoonor is not the only one who died does not prevent anyone from shedding light on his diabolic machination that resulted in the death of others and hatred.
Great 12 years ago

Educate the world about ProF Adu Boahene as well.Who was more tribalistic, u who fear the Ewes so much?

Educate the world about ProF Adu Boahene as well.Who was more tribalistic, u who fear the Ewes so much?
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Boahen is a true nationalist!

Boahen is a true nationalist!
yaw poku 12 years ago

I have never seen fools like this kumasi is just that some of them are
very but everything that goes against
them is not goodwhy are you soo stupid
you people have to be mature i think iis time for youto stop being fools

I have never seen fools like this kumasi is just that some of them are
very but everything that goes against
them is not goodwhy are you soo stupid
you people have to be mature i think iis time for youto stop being fools
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 12 years ago

He was neck deep and played direct role with Rawlings, Awoonor, Tsikatas, and other Ewe animals in the murdering of the Judges, the army General, past leaders, Odefo Asare and several countless innocent men and women.

Th ...
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He was neck deep and played direct role with Rawlings, Awoonor, Tsikatas, and other Ewe animals in the murdering of the Judges, the army General, past leaders, Odefo Asare and several countless innocent men and women.

The hatred for others he fanned that led to the death of others also consumed him.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Bastard Akyem dog, is that all you can say? Yes, Awoonor was even neck-deep in the murder of your stupid grandfather who raped some unfortunate giant she-ape in your forests where you dwell to born your stupid father.

Gbem ...
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Bastard Akyem dog, is that all you can say? Yes, Awoonor was even neck-deep in the murder of your stupid grandfather who raped some unfortunate giant she-ape in your forests where you dwell to born your stupid father.

Gbemela.
Npp nonsense 12 years ago

Carping!

Carping!
merry 12 years ago

what does this writer wants to portray? .I think he should read more

what does this writer wants to portray? .I think he should read more
Maame Serwaa 12 years ago

Don't you think that you are rather making a mockery of yourself? What a pity. The pot and the kettle. You would understand better if you see a doctor to get your head examined.

Don't you think that you are rather making a mockery of yourself? What a pity. The pot and the kettle. You would understand better if you see a doctor to get your head examined.
Appiah , jasikan 12 years ago

TRIBAL HATRED KILLED HIM NOT ISLAMIC TERRORIST

TRIBAL HATRED KILLED HIM NOT ISLAMIC TERRORIST
BLACKMAN 12 years ago

The tribal bigot Kofi Awonoor died a shameful dead in the hands of hatred AL-SHABAB. The insults and denials by this sympathizers and some EWES would not erase the facts and what he stood for. His dead is an excellent lesson ...
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The tribal bigot Kofi Awonoor died a shameful dead in the hands of hatred AL-SHABAB. The insults and denials by this sympathizers and some EWES would not erase the facts and what he stood for. His dead is an excellent lesson to some tribalist EWES that when you throw a ball onto the wall it accurately bounces back to you. The evil that men do live after them and also for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
kofi 12 years ago

some of you can write without thinking. what is your problem? Are you the only person who constitutes Ghanaians?

some of you can write without thinking. what is your problem? Are you the only person who constitutes Ghanaians?
Master Kwaku 12 years ago

I agree with you entirely. May his dirty, corrupt, criminal and tribalistic soul (if he has any) ROT IN HELL!!!

I agree with you entirely. May his dirty, corrupt, criminal and tribalistic soul (if he has any) ROT IN HELL!!!
DARKO 12 years ago

Asantes must give us a break. We Akyems are still battling Asante hegemony in the NPP. Asante hegemony is too real and true.

Asantes must give us a break. We Akyems are still battling Asante hegemony in the NPP. Asante hegemony is too real and true.
Kwame 12 years ago

Deifying Busia and Danquah swear faeces on the Ghanaian. Dr. Joseph Boache Danquah was a man who bought and threw bombs at Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. He wounded the president, killed and maim hundred of school children so that Ghanai ...
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Deifying Busia and Danquah swear faeces on the Ghanaian. Dr. Joseph Boache Danquah was a man who bought and threw bombs at Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. He wounded the president, killed and maim hundred of school children so that Ghanaians will have written on their vehicles and houses for whites only and for dogs and Negroes.
At the time Danquah supported the CIA against the people of Ghana there was racial segregation laws in the U.S. which put the Negro in a category of animals lower than the white man's dog.
Prof. Kofi Abrefa Busia served the NLC junta which overthrew Dr. Nkrumah in various capacity. John Kufuor was the mayor of Kumasi during the junta rule from 1966 to 1969. Kufuor and some executives of the NPP served both the AFRC and PNDC regimes.
The fact still remains that the people who killed the retired army major and three justices of the high court were brought to justice and punished.
During both Busia and Kufuor regimes those who committed the high crime of murder are never brought to book and even the judges who are members of PP and NPP said that the crime was war.
EZUAH 12 years ago

Hahahahaa I can smel your nasty krow miles away. Akans are now one togther to whip your ass hahahahaha this na sweet.

Hahahahaa I can smel your nasty krow miles away. Akans are now one togther to whip your ass hahahahaha this na sweet.
Adongo Tongo 12 years ago

George Kofi Awoonor-Williams was an Ewe tribal bigot and rabble-rouser. He organized the Ewe conspiratorial meeting in 1997 hunting for so called Ewe enemies. Read below and be the judge.

A WOONOR LEADS CRISIS VOLTA MEETI ...
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George Kofi Awoonor-Williams was an Ewe tribal bigot and rabble-rouser. He organized the Ewe conspiratorial meeting in 1997 hunting for so called Ewe enemies. Read below and be the judge.

A WOONOR LEADS CRISIS VOLTA MEETING

From Prosper Klu Amevor, Sogakope, online Chronicle of Thursday, October 09, 1997

A SPECIAL FORUM on the Volta Region organized to identify development and investment potentials has taken place at Sogakope. The aim of the forum was to identify both internal and external factors considered to be responsible for the lack of development and investment in the region and also suggest ways of over-coming such problems.
Under the chairmanship of Professor Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams, a Minister of State and the “Agbonugla” of the Anlo state, the forum was attended by all Volta MPs, Ministers, former PNDC Secretaries from the region, including Dr. Asamoah Tutu, Professor Komla Amoako, Director of the National Theatre, Mr. Mawuli Tse of Africa-on-Line, Dr. Charles Asembri, Commissioner of CEPS and all the 12 district chief executives.
Others were Mr. Kwame Addo, a business mogul and Mr. Alex Ashiagbor, former Governor of Bank of Ghana and Chief of the Financial Sector Adjustment Programme (FINSAP).
It was also convened at the instance of Professor Awoonor and the Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC).
The meeting identified some of the internal problems as lack of unity in the region as is manifested in the North-South dichotomy, apathetic attitude of well-placed citizens of the region in government and other high places towards the development of the region and lack of support from the RCC and some former Regional Ministers.
Others include lack of aggressive attitude towards canvassing for projects for the region and the poor infrastructure base of the region.
As one participant put it, “I am shocked, at least 95 percent of government machinery heads are from the Volta Region but they do not care in the least to think about the betterment of that region. This is our last chance. Don’t let it slip from us. We would have support from the leader.”
It also identified major external factors that are responsible for the downward trend of development in the region as conspiracy of certain unknown forces to deny the Volta Region its fair share of the national cake.
“We are moving mountains and leaving no stones unturned to nip in the bud the conspirators,” the forum declared.
They suggested the establishment of an appropriate institutional framework to promote development in the region, the setting up of a Volta Regional Investment Promotion Centre with its capital/base at Ho to recruit and retain officers who can develop feasibility studies and business plans and to identify various sources of finance and technical management.
“When it comes to funding of major projects in other regions of the country, money was made available but when it comes to the turn of the Volta Region, there is no funding. After all, we are the World Bank. We must now show our World Bank Class.”
Five working groups were established to give effects to their suggestions and recommendations. They include Agriculture and Agro Investment Committee under the chairmanship of Togbe Kwao Anipati, with four other members including Dr. Charles Asembri, Commissioner of CEPS, Resource Mobilization Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Alex Ashiagbor, a former BoG Governor, and Tourism and Infrastructure Committee, headed by Dr. Glover. The rest are Committee on Industries to be chaired by Mr. Prosper Adamali, and Education Committee, to be chaired by Dr. N. Sodzi, a former Principal at Accra Polytechnic, Accra.
The groups have been tasked to prepare working papers which would form the basis for their discussions at their next meeting.
The forum has also resolved to establish a VR Development Fund which is targeting to yield about 200 million cedis by December, this year, and all well meaning Voltarians are expected to contribute a minimum sum of 500,000 cedis towards the fund. They have also tasked the Regional Minister, LT. Col. Charles Agbeneza (rtd) and Mr. Alex Ashiagbor to mobilize financial support from the founding members.
Volta Region indeed is one of the least developed regions in the country though its indigenes prefer to invest in Accra and other parts of the country.
BOUGHERA 12 years ago

what at all does these ASHANTI MONKEYS want from the EWES who alongside NORTHERNERS help to make them look like human being today...these animals were sometime ago decleared as an endangered species,and with mix marriages the ...
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what at all does these ASHANTI MONKEYS want from the EWES who alongside NORTHERNERS help to make them look like human being today...these animals were sometime ago decleared as an endangered species,and with mix marriages they can now come to town and also have mouths to chew rubbish.GIVE THANKS TO THE NORTHERNERS/EWES/GAS for your present looks...
Salifu 12 years ago

Dont add moslems and us northerners and the ga people in your fight with Akans.

We are not no 9 people please go your lonely tribal way and laeve us in peace.

Dont add moslems and us northerners and the ga people in your fight with Akans.

We are not no 9 people please go your lonely tribal way and laeve us in peace.
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

Just get out of here with your dirty mouth. Swine.

Just get out of here with your dirty mouth. Swine.
BOUGHERA 12 years ago

TAMPIRI...can an animal like you come from the north?BABOON

TAMPIRI...can an animal like you come from the north?BABOON
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Fine fine baboons without skin disease! How nice!

Fine fine baboons without skin disease! How nice!
Ben 12 years ago

Mr. Poku please next time get someone to proofread your article before sending it to Ghanaweb. Your article has several grammatical and spelling errors! For example, what is "burnt over"? Do you mean 'BENT OVER'.

Mr. Poku please next time get someone to proofread your article before sending it to Ghanaweb. Your article has several grammatical and spelling errors! For example, what is "burnt over"? Do you mean 'BENT OVER'.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Now you attack the writing?

Now you attack the writing?
Osei Yao 12 years ago

Kofi Awoonor was once on the wanted list of the Acheampong regime. He conspired with his Ewe colleagues at Cape Coast University to overthrow the Military regime. The hypocrite showed his tribal allegiance when he approved of ...
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Kofi Awoonor was once on the wanted list of the Acheampong regime. He conspired with his Ewe colleagues at Cape Coast University to overthrow the Military regime. The hypocrite showed his tribal allegiance when he approved of, and joined, a MIlitary regime headed by an Ewe.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

IDIOT in CAPITAL size. The whole PFP also joined the PNDC and Kufuor represented them as a PNDC Secretary. Awoonor was still lecturing at Cape Vars then.

Andy-K

IDIOT in CAPITAL size. The whole PFP also joined the PNDC and Kufuor represented them as a PNDC Secretary. Awoonor was still lecturing at Cape Vars then.

Andy-K
Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

You can write or say all sorts of things about Kofi Awoonor but the fact remains that his burial will be graced by foreign dignitaries from many parts of the world. A thing which will surely make you bastards and idiots who h ...
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You can write or say all sorts of things about Kofi Awoonor but the fact remains that his burial will be graced by foreign dignitaries from many parts of the world. A thing which will surely make you bastards and idiots who hate Ewes to be green and livid with envy.

What else again???
Submarine 12 years ago

Foregners at funeral means a lost soul.

What a sad group of people.

Foregners at funeral means a lost soul.

What a sad group of people.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

I have always said that you can't think clearly!

I have always said that you can't think clearly!
racvan 12 years ago

May God forgive you all your sins,there is a saying that,(MY ENEMIES GUBBILATE BECAUSE OF MY DEATH,AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT THEIRS;;;;;;)

May God forgive you all your sins,there is a saying that,(MY ENEMIES GUBBILATE BECAUSE OF MY DEATH,AND FORGOTTEN ABOUT THEIRS;;;;;;)
Uncle Mends, Takoradi 12 years ago

Kufuor was appointed the Secretary for Local Government during the PNDC era. Why exclude him in your criticism?

Kufuor was appointed the Secretary for Local Government during the PNDC era. Why exclude him in your criticism?
Brill Gbeve 12 years ago

K. POKU should be bold and tell us how he went to the States and the work he does.At least,the late prof.is not a DZIMAKPLA.

K. POKU should be bold and tell us how he went to the States and the work he does.At least,the late prof.is not a DZIMAKPLA.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa!
NII ARMAH 12 years ago

will weep her SOUL out for been such a heartless soul.

will weep her SOUL out for been such a heartless soul.
Kwaku Adjei 12 years ago

Every fool, a judge, and to every croaking toad, a pulpit

Every fool, a judge, and to every croaking toad, a pulpit
Posterity 12 years ago

He that thinks he is wise, let him learn from the fool....then he will know who really he is...

He that thinks he is wise, let him learn from the fool....then he will know who really he is...

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