Is the national democratic congress an ewe party ?

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I & I 12 years ago

These ewes brought nothing to the dinner table when Nkrumah made their region part of Ghana. Yet they want to eat all the meal on the table. Sadly, they are incompetent, thieves and corrupt who don't care what happen to Ghana ...
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These ewes brought nothing to the dinner table when Nkrumah made their region part of Ghana. Yet they want to eat all the meal on the table. Sadly, they are incompetent, thieves and corrupt who don't care what happen to Ghana. They are the same in Togo, Benin and Haiti. Very tribalist and inward-looking. Look at the brutalities they melted on Ghanaians, expecially the Akans during rewhit's 20 year rule. They committed the first ethnic cleansing in Africa even before rewanda. The solution is to kick them out of Ghana else the Country will never develop.
isaac 12 years ago

Matter of fact you have been sick for long. Tribalism was ingrained in you from birth.

Matter of fact you have been sick for long. Tribalism was ingrained in you from birth.
Dungeon Master 12 years ago

No Ewe can taste power without the help of a gun or riding on the backs of other tribes. The gun thing is stale so they need a party in which they will promote non-Ewe tribes, excluding Ashantis, of course, while enjoying t ...
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No Ewe can taste power without the help of a gun or riding on the backs of other tribes. The gun thing is stale so they need a party in which they will promote non-Ewe tribes, excluding Ashantis, of course, while enjoying the booty that comes with their scheme. They are in an economic symbiotic relationship. In a word, they are pests .
SAMPSON MADIBA 12 years ago

former President Jerry Rawlings was the first and last Ewe president Ghana.

former President Jerry Rawlings was the first and last Ewe president Ghana.
Kofi Dadie 12 years ago

Remember E. K. Kotoka`s short rule?

Remember E. K. Kotoka`s short rule?
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Kotoka wasn't head of state even though he led the coup from the military side and Harlley from the Police side. Retired Gen. Ankrah was made the head of state by consensus.

Andy-K

Kotoka wasn't head of state even though he led the coup from the military side and Harlley from the Police side. Retired Gen. Ankrah was made the head of state by consensus.

Andy-K
Joe Frank 12 years ago

The party is a paradise enjoyed mostly by Ewes and Northners. A party for yahoos, thieves, high criminals, barbarics and fools.

The party is a paradise enjoyed mostly by Ewes and Northners. A party for yahoos, thieves, high criminals, barbarics and fools.
Kojo T 12 years ago

The NPP has nothing to offer Ghana except DIVISION. They eat, breathe, smoke, inhale tribalism and now that they are on their backs they turn round to insult Ewes again . This whole story is concorted

The NPP has nothing to offer Ghana except DIVISION. They eat, breathe, smoke, inhale tribalism and now that they are on their backs they turn round to insult Ewes again . This whole story is concorted
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

A family of mice was surprised by a big cat. Mother mouse opened her mouth and shouted, “Woof woof!” The cat got scared and ran away.

“What was that, Mum?” asked the youngest mouse.

“Well dear, I’ve told you ...
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A family of mice was surprised by a big cat. Mother mouse opened her mouth and shouted, “Woof woof!” The cat got scared and ran away.

“What was that, Mum?” asked the youngest mouse.

“Well dear, I’ve told you how important it is to learn a second language by saying MEDEKUKU[PLEASE IN EWE]
Sani 12 years ago

The problem with the writer is, he wants to find somewhere to hide in Ghana with his thoughts but cannot get it. He wants to use a similar brush which fits his kind to paint pple who are not like him. You will continue to get ...
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The problem with the writer is, he wants to find somewhere to hide in Ghana with his thoughts but cannot get it. He wants to use a similar brush which fits his kind to paint pple who are not like him. You will continue to get the 50% less one plenty. Your history is poor too. In their conquest, they settled among them with their names. You did not know this.

C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Kojo T,

Very bad advice. Nobody leaves racists alone. Left alone, they cause irreparable harm. And these jerks are no different than white racists. Indeed, they are worst! They are like animals which eat their own kind!

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Kojo T,

Very bad advice. Nobody leaves racists alone. Left alone, they cause irreparable harm. And these jerks are no different than white racists. Indeed, they are worst! They are like animals which eat their own kind!

B'cos our parents, uncles and senior brothers and sisters had ignored them for so long that's why they are so bold to continue attacking us, based on their phenomenal ignorance.

Practically everything they claimed can be refuted with empirical evidence. On this very thread someone had already written that the Ewes do not bring anything to the table cos, I am sure, that person doesn't know that cocoa is grown in the VR too by Ewes, apart from cocoa farms they cultivate outside the VR. Besides, cocoa just a puny 13% to agric. GDP, compared to other crops such as grains, tubers, plaintains, and fishing, etc., which contribute the overwhelming agric GDP. Besides people from the North, who are the major farmers in the country? Fishing?
Who are the fishermen? Haven't seen an Akan from the interior who is a fisherman before!

Of course, some of them are so condensed that feeding them with such information will only make them more hateful of Ewes. After all, not only our grandfathers but also white people observed a long time ago that the successes of Ewe migrants started the angst of the Akans and attacks on them. I've quoted one such article in my own piece, re-posted below.

It doesn't mean we should ignore them as congenital tribalists and allow then to have a field day on us.

Andy-K
DKB 12 years ago

Andy, you are no better than the people you call tribalists. But one thing I agree with you is that nobody leaves the racist alone, NPP left them alone and they succeeded in tagging NPP as an Akan party. Now all we see is equ ...
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Andy, you are no better than the people you call tribalists. But one thing I agree with you is that nobody leaves the racist alone, NPP left them alone and they succeeded in tagging NPP as an Akan party. Now all we see is equalisation and the nonsense continues with people like you and Kojo T fanning it and giving it more life. Such hypocrites, both of you who I believe have Akan friends. Are they aware you people spit so much hatred against them on Ghanaweb?
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Nonsense! We don't hide behind monikers like you people and spew nonsense! Our Akan acquaintances are embarrassed by the hatred directed at us by their fellow tribesmen and women. They knew that we need to confront those resp ...
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Nonsense! We don't hide behind monikers like you people and spew nonsense! Our Akan acquaintances are embarrassed by the hatred directed at us by their fellow tribesmen and women. They knew that we need to confront those responsible. Doing that doesn't mean we hate ALL Akans, and we are tribalists too. In fact, I don't even hate the likes of Ahoofe and Akadu though I despise them intensely and pity them too. Poor losers with the "Ewe bogeyman angst" giving them nightmares! Blame their parents for frightening them to sleep with Ewe attentekora (sp?). Phew!

Interestingly, what I found out was that those from the south who are not Asantes even have bigger grievances against Asantes. I found it necessary not to raise the subject with one Nzema because he foams at the mouth at the mention of the subject and told me I didn't know how Asantes were like when I tried to make him distinguish b/n the Matemeho and the pro-CPP/NDC Asantes! Can you believe that?! It was he told me that what the Asantes said about their neighbours the Sefwis, etc. would make one to go and hang himself! Phew! So I know that the intra-Akan hatred is even, perhaps, more latent! I try to stay clear of it since I know the historical origins!

Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Anyone familiar with pre-WWII NAZI propaganda against Jews will not striking resemblances to the kind of envious, hateful campaigns some Akan jingoists, starting from Busia and his PP, have been mounting against the people c ...
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Anyone familiar with pre-WWII NAZI propaganda against Jews will not striking resemblances to the kind of envious, hateful campaigns some Akan jingoists, starting from Busia and his PP, have been mounting against the people collectively known as "Ewes" in Ghana. Whereas most Ewe elite have chosen to ignore such campaigns of demonisation, vilification and baseless accusations laced with gratuitous insults which can make even some white racists blush, a few of us decided long ago that enough was enough: we shall confront those who see as mere objects of spite and vile accusations.

One such person who took the bull by the horn was the late Prof. Kofi Awoonor. For pointing fingers into their dark faces, he incurred their everlasting wrath and they shamelessly distort what he wrote to make false accusations against him.

I think the time has come to bring this issue to a closure. I shall therefore devote the next couple of weeks to completing one chapter of the saga of Ewe/Akan relations dating back to the pre-colonial era. That's where their prejudices and sense of entitlement comes from. They are simply under the aegis of their mentally warped ancestors who passed on to them those prejudices.

Andy-K
Kojo T 12 years ago

Where does the NPP want to go ? Is it Ewenisation or Northernisation? All the quack , quack from the ma te em ho tribalists is about tribalism

Where does the NPP want to go ? Is it Ewenisation or Northernisation? All the quack , quack from the ma te em ho tribalists is about tribalism
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

YOU ARE LIVING IN A DUNGEON AND A MASTER OF YOUR IGNORANCE.
The Ewes don't care about power,they are content with the little that they have.
They are not wimps.
There are good Akans who will not tolerate your trash.

YOU ARE LIVING IN A DUNGEON AND A MASTER OF YOUR IGNORANCE.
The Ewes don't care about power,they are content with the little that they have.
They are not wimps.
There are good Akans who will not tolerate your trash.
K. Mensah 12 years ago

I&I ,your comment, especially your statement that "These ewes brought nothing to the dinner table when Nkrumah made their region part of Ghana", has exposed your deep ignorance about Ghanaian history. I don't know which Akan ...
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I&I ,your comment, especially your statement that "These ewes brought nothing to the dinner table when Nkrumah made their region part of Ghana", has exposed your deep ignorance about Ghanaian history. I don't know which Akan sub-group you belong to, but if you're an Asante I strongly advise you to go and read about the pre-colonial and colonial history of Ghana. You wwill learn, if you do, the fact that at least 50% of Eweland and therefore Ewe people had been bona fide Gold Coasters since 1858, that is, before the British formally created the Gold Coast Colony in 1876. Therefore Ewes were represented in the Gold Coast Legislative Council since the creation of the Colony. The Asantes were nowhere to be found in Gold Coast affairs because they were not Gold Coasters then.

Indeed, the Asantes didn't become part of the Gold Coast Colony until 1902,i.e., following their defeat by the British during the Yaa Asantewa War in 1896. In other words, it was only in 1902 that the British annexed Ashanti (including the present-day Brong Ahafo Region) to the Gold Coast Colony and thus they also became Gold Coasters as well. Likewise, the Northern Territories (i.e., the present-day Upper-West Region and the larger parts of the present Northern and Upper-East Regions) were incorpotated into the Gold Coast Colony only in 1899.

So the oft-repeated claim by Asantes and some Akans that the Ewes as a whole are not true Ghanaians is nonsensical. It grossly contradicts the historical fact.
K. Boateng 12 years ago

Thanks for this history; now we know who are the real Ghanaians (Gold Coasters) and those who are not. There is no denying the fact that Ewes are more Ghanaians than Asantes who ignorantly claim ownership of the country and w ...
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Thanks for this history; now we know who are the real Ghanaians (Gold Coasters) and those who are not. There is no denying the fact that Ewes are more Ghanaians than Asantes who ignorantly claim ownership of the country and would like to seize every opportunity asking the Ewes to go back to where they came from. I bet the Ewes are too civilized to ask the asantes to go back to where they came from like some uninformed asantes have been saying.
Jim 12 years ago

One thing most Ghanaians do not know is the portion of present Volta Region starting from Aflao to Anyanui and covering both north and south Tongu was not part of trans-volta togoland. Even if Ewes of trans-volta togoland are ...
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One thing most Ghanaians do not know is the portion of present Volta Region starting from Aflao to Anyanui and covering both north and south Tongu was not part of trans-volta togoland. Even if Ewes of trans-volta togoland are asked to join their folks in present day Togo, the Anlos,Tornus,Agaves and all those within that catchment area will still remain Ghanaians.
GHANABA 12 years ago

IN 1858 WHERE DID THE BRITISH GOT THEIR GOLD FROM? KETA,HO AKUSE,KPANDO,AFLAO,ACCRA?PLS LET US KNOW FROM YOUR ENCYCLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE.IT WILL HELP IF YOU CHECK WHERE THE GERMANS RULED IN WEST AFRICA AT THE TIME PRIOR TO THEIR ...
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IN 1858 WHERE DID THE BRITISH GOT THEIR GOLD FROM? KETA,HO AKUSE,KPANDO,AFLAO,ACCRA?PLS LET US KNOW FROM YOUR ENCYCLOPAEDIC KNOWLEDGE.IT WILL HELP IF YOU CHECK WHERE THE GERMANS RULED IN WEST AFRICA AT THE TIME PRIOR TO THEIR DEMISE AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR. LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR FACTUAL REPLY. WE ARE ONE NATION NOW,WHATS ALL THESE NONSENSE ABOUT AKANS,EWES GA"S,KOKOMBAS,AND THE VISCERAL HATRED THAT GOES WITH IT.THAT IS NOT WHAT NKRUMAH AND GBEDEMAH SET OUT TO FOR THEIR BELOVED GHANA.

Create, loot and share 12 years ago

How can 12% seek to control 88% of the population. In all government institutions whenever you find one employee from any of the other tribes it is likely you will find one Ewe. The ratio is One Ewe against One Employee from ...
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How can 12% seek to control 88% of the population. In all government institutions whenever you find one employee from any of the other tribes it is likely you will find one Ewe. The ratio is One Ewe against One Employee from any other tribe in Ghana. This is what people are complaining about. And do not tell me they were appointed based on merit. Ewes are no super human beings. Government institutions and organizations should be reflective of national statistics. National resources should be equitable distributed. The injustice in the system should be corrected.
Sammy 12 years ago

There was a time when most Akans esp Asantes didnt want anything to do with serving in the public sector. The pay wasnt good and the working conditions poor. Most Akans wanted to do business and or travel, this was when Ewes ...
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There was a time when most Akans esp Asantes didnt want anything to do with serving in the public sector. The pay wasnt good and the working conditions poor. Most Akans wanted to do business and or travel, this was when Ewes and Northners took over most of the public sector jobs. This anti Ewe thing is becoming too much from some of the NPP Akans.

Stop it
BALCKMAN 12 years ago

As Ewes are widely known as thieves
Ewes Rawlings stole constitutionally elected president back in 31st December, now K.Mensah also wants to steal history facts from the bona- fide Ghanaians.when was the last time any dignit ...
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As Ewes are widely known as thieves
Ewes Rawlings stole constitutionally elected president back in 31st December, now K.Mensah also wants to steal history facts from the bona- fide Ghanaians.when was the last time any dignitary from oversea visited the Ewes-king? Authentic prosperity would elude the Ewes-land unless they purge themselves from inward-looking and jealousy and come out with clean heart in order for us to live as one people.Otherwise Al-SHABA will chase out even when they are in Kenya.The evil that men do live after them.
Mania. 12 years ago

Another egg empty head with the grammar of an ignorant primary school pupil.

Another egg empty head with the grammar of an ignorant primary school pupil.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

I've tackled this issue several times before, devoting a whole article to it but we are dealing with deeply ignorant and foolish people. Nothing sinks in.

But let me correct a couple of errors in your post.

Asante and t ...
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I've tackled this issue several times before, devoting a whole article to it but we are dealing with deeply ignorant and foolish people. Nothing sinks in.

But let me correct a couple of errors in your post.

Asante and the NT ONLY became part of the Gold Coast under the Burns Constitution in 1946. So before then, they were not technically part of the Gold Coast colony proper, but rather designated as "Protectorates". It is therefore wrong to say they became part of the Gold Coast colony in 1902.

The eastern side of the present NR and much of the U/E were indeed portions of the TVT, not the NT.

Andy-k
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

HOW SOME “EWES” BECAME 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-minde ...
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HOW SOME “EWES” BECAME 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 practices, 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; or something like that. 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
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princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

IF THE ASHANTIS WERE ALWAYS BULLYING THE FANTES,HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO TREAT THE NON AKANS?

IF THE ASHANTIS WERE ALWAYS BULLYING THE FANTES,HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO TREAT THE NON AKANS?
Randy 12 years ago

This article is way overdue. Ghanaians should understand and accept that Ndc is an ewe party.they have succeeded branding npp as an Akan party. Ndc is purely an ewe grouping with the support of few members from other tribes w ...
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This article is way overdue. Ghanaians should understand and accept that Ndc is an ewe party.they have succeeded branding npp as an Akan party. Ndc is purely an ewe grouping with the support of few members from other tribes who were beneficiaries of the coup regime of Rawlings. Ghanaians should reject this npp Akan tag and confront Ewe tribalism. Even the just ended election petition speaks volumes. The majority of both the president and the Ndc legal team are Ewes and they have the effrontery to tag Npp as an Akan party.
Me to 12 years ago

NDC was led by Jerry Rawlinsg-Ewe, to Attah Mills-Fante, Mahama-Northner/Gonja. Signs of opportunity for any one to lead.

NDC seized to be an Ewe controlled party after Atta Mills successfully side lined Jerry Rawlings and ...
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NDC was led by Jerry Rawlinsg-Ewe, to Attah Mills-Fante, Mahama-Northner/Gonja. Signs of opportunity for any one to lead.

NDC seized to be an Ewe controlled party after Atta Mills successfully side lined Jerry Rawlings and his wife to the background.

Koku Anyidoho is even believed to be struggling for a job in the party. Nost of the Ewes listed do not wiekld any real power or influence in the party.

The Ahoi Brothers, Totobi Kwakye, PV Obeng, Mahama and his clique, Yaw Gyan, Asiedu Nketia are the main power players in the party.

This article meant to be a propaganda article is neither here or there.
K. Boateng 12 years ago

This is the handiwork of Otchere Darko's Dubious Institute trying hard to equalize with their NPP's shameful tribal politics. The NDC has been led by an Ewe, an Akan, and a Northerner. Can this Roland whatever tell us how man ...
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This is the handiwork of Otchere Darko's Dubious Institute trying hard to equalize with their NPP's shameful tribal politics. The NDC has been led by an Ewe, an Akan, and a Northerner. Can this Roland whatever tell us how many non-Akans have led their NPP and why do they call themselves Dankwa/Busia tradition but not Dumbo/Dankwa/Busia tradition and that they only add the Dumbo only election times in order to deceive the Northerners that they're part of them?

Elliot 12 years ago

NDC has consistently won 6 to 8 out of 10 regions since 92. That is enough. This Ewe thing is no longer selling. NPP better come up with something different.

NDC has consistently won 6 to 8 out of 10 regions since 92. That is enough. This Ewe thing is no longer selling. NPP better come up with something different.
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 12 years ago

K. BOATENG YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THE REAL FOUNDER OF UGCC. PAA GRANT. AFTER PAA GRANT DEATH IN 1956, DUMBO WAS MORE POPLER THAN DANKWA/BUSIA.

K. BOATENG YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THE REAL FOUNDER OF UGCC. PAA GRANT. AFTER PAA GRANT DEATH IN 1956, DUMBO WAS MORE POPLER THAN DANKWA/BUSIA.
K. Boateng 12 years ago

My friend, recall what happened to Ananias and his wife Saphiras in the Acts of the Apostles and stop making fun of the Holy Spirit, ok?

Now to your assertion: Dumbo might have been more popular than Dankwa and Busia but w ...
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My friend, recall what happened to Ananias and his wife Saphiras in the Acts of the Apostles and stop making fun of the Holy Spirit, ok?

Now to your assertion: Dumbo might have been more popular than Dankwa and Busia but why has the NPP sidelined and relegated his name to the background but only remember him only when it comes to elections?
sam 12 years ago

my brother if you don't have anything to write about,i suggest you remain silence than writing this nonsense to waste precious time.Go and write about President Mugabe if you can.

my brother if you don't have anything to write about,i suggest you remain silence than writing this nonsense to waste precious time.Go and write about President Mugabe if you can.
K.K 12 years ago

IT IS A COMMON KNOWLEDGE IN GHANA, FOR THAT MATTER THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THAT EWES ARE INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED AND BLESSED BY ALMIGHTY JEHOVAH. NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST THESE EWES WILL WORK. GOD HAS ESTABLISHED THE EWE TRIBE AS ...
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IT IS A COMMON KNOWLEDGE IN GHANA, FOR THAT MATTER THE WHOLE OF AFRICA THAT EWES ARE INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED AND BLESSED BY ALMIGHTY JEHOVAH. NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST THESE EWES WILL WORK. GOD HAS ESTABLISHED THE EWE TRIBE AS MORAL COMPASS TO HELP BUILD MOTHER GHANA FROM VICTORY TO VICTORY. AND THE VEHICLE TO ACHIEVE THAT MISSION IS N.D.C . AKATAMANSO!!AS EWE PROFESSOR LIVING IN THE STATES I SERIOUSLY APPRECIATE OTHER TRIBES AND THEIR CONTIBUTIONS TO MOTHER GHANA AS WELL.GODBLESS GHANA AND MAY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

Intellectualy gifted in doing what? The VR is the least developed region in Ghana!

Intellectualy gifted in doing what? The VR is the least developed region in Ghana!
Sir 12 years ago

Akadu you can disagree with what he said but never say again that the VR is the least developed in Ghana. Get out of your comfort zone, travel and see.

Akadu you can disagree with what he said but never say again that the VR is the least developed in Ghana. Get out of your comfort zone, travel and see.
Solomon Dormenyo Quist 12 years ago

Perhaps Akadu has been too long overseas to be conversant with the sociological realities of Africa, one of which is simply that, the mentally gifted, after accumulating their degrees travel overseas as he/she has done or b ...
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Perhaps Akadu has been too long overseas to be conversant with the sociological realities of Africa, one of which is simply that, the mentally gifted, after accumulating their degrees travel overseas as he/she has done or become part of the rural/urban migration to meet their occupational and social needs-educational needs for their kids,medical needs, housing needs with the allied utility needs of water,electricity and all those things that ensure the comforts of life (unfortunately, absent from the peripheral areas).

These internal migrants end up permanently settling away from their ancestral homes, something perpetuated by their off-springs, to the detriment of their places of origins (you can draw a parallel with those who go overseas and after getting used to life there will hardly contemplate coming back permanently where their "felt" needs will not be met) so whatever improvements that accrue in their lives are lost to their places of origin.

Akadu is reputedly an intellectual of great standing. However, he/she has been out of Ghana for God knows how many years now. Thus similarly, his intellect is contributing to the development of the American society just as the intellectual Ewe, in upgrading his standard of living from the status symbols such as the mansions and the facilities that go with enhancing his life contributes to uplift Accra, Kumasi etc into the modern classification. Go to any African country and you will find the same prevails. I do not know where in Ghana he/she hails from but I bet it is not comparable to the area in the USA where he/she is domiciled and I do not think this disparity will take anything from his/her intellectual achievements.
NATIONAL PINKSHIT PARTY (NPP). 12 years ago

"Professor" Akadu, what is the correlation between intellectually gifted and Regional developmet? Are you saying, per your analogy that, Africa is the least developed continent in the world due to lack of intellectuals? The l ...
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"Professor" Akadu, what is the correlation between intellectually gifted and Regional developmet? Are you saying, per your analogy that, Africa is the least developed continent in the world due to lack of intellectuals? The late Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia hailed from Wenchi in the Bono Ahafo Region; how developed is Bono Ahafo, vis-a-vis Busia's hometown of Wenchi? Was he not intellectual who should have translated his intelligence into developing his hometown and region, as you would want us believe?
Ada Boy 12 years ago

That is your shame too.VR is Ghana,your backyard. Throw no stones when you dwell in a glasshouse.Ghana is poor and underdevelop,our collective shame.

That is your shame too.VR is Ghana,your backyard. Throw no stones when you dwell in a glasshouse.Ghana is poor and underdevelop,our collective shame.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

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 r ...
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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 express1ed 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.
Dungeon Master 12 years ago

Sleep on that pile of distorted garbage!

Sleep on that pile of distorted garbage!
Kofi 12 years ago

"Mr. Rawlings, who was at Dzodze in the Volta region on Saturday for the Palm festival (Deza), told the thousands of supporters gathered at festival grounds that it was high time they pushed for drastic reforms in the governi ...
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"Mr. Rawlings, who was at Dzodze in the Volta region on Saturday for the Palm festival (Deza), told the thousands of supporters gathered at festival grounds that it was high time they pushed for drastic reforms in the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) before the 2016 general elections."
Yaw Poku,USA 12 years ago

The ewes felt they are losing control of the party hence Rawlings recent agitations.

The ewes felt they are losing control of the party hence Rawlings recent agitations.
Appiah 12 years ago

NDC is animals party.i dont think any reasonable Akan will follow NDC because is for the sheeps.who can tell me an ewe is not an animal

NDC is animals party.i dont think any reasonable Akan will follow NDC because is for the sheeps.who can tell me an ewe is not an animal
Candy 12 years ago

Because bush animals like yourselves are still in the stone age.

Because bush animals like yourselves are still in the stone age.
NATIONAL PINKSHIT PARTY (NPP). 12 years ago

Appiah, first of all, there is nothing like "sheeps"; the plural for sheep is sheep. W'abon dodo. Secondly, it's only the NPP that has an animal (elephant) as its symbol so it stands to reason that it's rather your NPP which ...
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Appiah, first of all, there is nothing like "sheeps"; the plural for sheep is sheep. W'abon dodo. Secondly, it's only the NPP that has an animal (elephant) as its symbol so it stands to reason that it's rather your NPP which is an animal party, making its followers like you behave like animals.
Victor A. Young 12 years ago

Completely and totally Ewe Party in terms of population or membership ratio! It's 7:3 ratio. No party can win more votes in the Volta Region except NDC. It will never change, yet the NDC want to have more votes in Eastern Reg ...
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Completely and totally Ewe Party in terms of population or membership ratio! It's 7:3 ratio. No party can win more votes in the Volta Region except NDC. It will never change, yet the NDC want to have more votes in Eastern Region, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo(which they already have), Central Region etc.
Kush 12 years ago

NDC continues to make inroads in all regions because the party unlike the NPP has become more tolerant and diverse whiles the tribal supremacist like yourself would like to see the NPP remain an ethnic party. Elections is a n ...
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NDC continues to make inroads in all regions because the party unlike the NPP has become more tolerant and diverse whiles the tribal supremacist like yourself would like to see the NPP remain an ethnic party. Elections is a numbers game. NDC like the CPP has learnt that, the NPP is still struggling to come into terms with that.

You can say all you want but the elections since 92 speaks for itself.
Kpegbadza 12 years ago

Oh no! The NDC is making inroads because Akans in general and Ashantis in particular do not like migrating to other non Akan dominated regions of the country. They do not like learning other Ghanaian languages; they want ever ...
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Oh no! The NDC is making inroads because Akans in general and Ashantis in particular do not like migrating to other non Akan dominated regions of the country. They do not like learning other Ghanaian languages; they want every Ghanaian to speak Akan.
DKB 12 years ago

I don't think anyone is forcing anyone to speak Akan. I'm sure even you Kpegbadza speak one of the Akan languages, did anyone force you to? Why would one migrate when they are happy and content with where they are? It is thei ...
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I don't think anyone is forcing anyone to speak Akan. I'm sure even you Kpegbadza speak one of the Akan languages, did anyone force you to? Why would one migrate when they are happy and content with where they are? It is their choice, so let them be.
Barffour 12 years ago

Akan lang. spreads with ease. It has Natural Advantage for communication and interaction in Gh. It costs less to do business in it, in fact it promotes business. You can reach more Gh people in Akan, it makes economic sense t ...
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Akan lang. spreads with ease. It has Natural Advantage for communication and interaction in Gh. It costs less to do business in it, in fact it promotes business. You can reach more Gh people in Akan, it makes economic sense to advertise in that lang. To be successful do what works, don't stick to any unworkable ideology or attach to ethnicity if is slows down. Move with successful people and you'll succeed.
Nyatepe 12 years ago

No one have the power to decide atribe at creation,its solely divine,so whoever is against each tribe will incure the wrath of the most High God.

No one have the power to decide atribe at creation,its solely divine,so whoever is against each tribe will incure the wrath of the most High God.
Mensah 12 years ago

...in the same manner God will punish those Ewes who hate Asantes for no reason.

...in the same manner God will punish those Ewes who hate Asantes for no reason.
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 12 years ago

NPP MY GRAND FATHER'S PARTY, CPP MY BROTHER PARTY BUT NOW I AM FLOATING VOTER. GOD BLESS NKRUMAHIST PARTY. HOW CAN I PRAY FOR NPP THAT THE FOUNDER'S NAME HAS BEEN BURIED.

NPP MY GRAND FATHER'S PARTY, CPP MY BROTHER PARTY BUT NOW I AM FLOATING VOTER. GOD BLESS NKRUMAHIST PARTY. HOW CAN I PRAY FOR NPP THAT THE FOUNDER'S NAME HAS BEEN BURIED.
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

Why waste your time writing what you cannot change? The NDC has more Northerners than any political party in Ghana.Are you saying the Northerners also have Ewe extraction in names as that of the Akans?
Deal with your divided ...
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Why waste your time writing what you cannot change? The NDC has more Northerners than any political party in Ghana.Are you saying the Northerners also have Ewe extraction in names as that of the Akans?
Deal with your divided party`s problems and leave NDC to deal with theirs.Right now your NPP which I believe you belongs has no leader and anyone of them presented to lead will be defeated one touch.
BLA PETER 12 years ago

So far us you people continue to disrespect Ewes, they will never give you their votes.

So far us you people continue to disrespect Ewes, they will never give you their votes.
DKB 12 years ago

No one disrespects ewes my brother, ewes disrespect themselves most times. I have ewe friends who won't spend even a night in their own home towns when they go there for funerals and look down on their own back in the village ...
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No one disrespects ewes my brother, ewes disrespect themselves most times. I have ewe friends who won't spend even a night in their own home towns when they go there for funerals and look down on their own back in the villages, they warn you not to eat or drink when you go for family events with them in their home towns. One thing you don't realise is in life if you don't respect your own, no one will.

If you were objective you will vote to move Ghana forward not because of tribe. When i hear such comments, i wonder how people making such statements can turn round to call others tribalists.
Dziko Kwame 12 years ago

The "NEW FREE PRESS" neither exists, else I would have been compelled to wipe the dust that has settled on your eyes.

You tried to smear Otumfuor, the Supreme Court Judges and President John IV recently. Now you are on ND ...
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The "NEW FREE PRESS" neither exists, else I would have been compelled to wipe the dust that has settled on your eyes.

You tried to smear Otumfuor, the Supreme Court Judges and President John IV recently. Now you are on NDC and Ewes?

NDC can't be and has no semblance of an "Ewe" political party.

Mind you, in late 1992, the Chiefs from the Volta region called on Chairman JJR at the Castle and complained about his neglect for Volta Region whilst he was about to "leave office".

JJR went wild, and was driving our the Chiefs, telling them he was for all Ghana; and but for the timely intervention of PV Obeng who was present at the meeting! things would have been bad!!!!!!!!!!

As an Ewe, from the Ho Central Constituency, it is JJR's style of no-bias for any region, yeah, this made some of us commit to dying for him.

Do you know that under CPP, the Volta Minister Hans Kofi Boni tarred his hometown Kpedze and communities which supported the CPP only?

Do you know that under the Progress Party, the Volta CEO Alfred Kpodonu tarred his hometown and communities which supported him?

Under JJR, this was not so!!!!!!!!

There are hundreds of reasons why NDC tends to find favour with the Ewe vote in Volta Region. When JJR ruled, Ghana was for us all. You did not need to change your surname in order to avoid being "sidelined" or unrecognized. Whether you are Akollibila Akayulli or Nunekpeku Dormebiengu, you will work and rise without fear or favour.

You talk about a planned Ewe hegemony? Awoonor was not part of the coup plotters when Brigadier Alphonse Kodzo Kattah was arrested. Awoonor was arrested when the arrested plotters who escaped were said to have been housed by him.

Don't forget that under all previous Governments, Akosombo Kanea was taken "over" Volta Region and sold to Togo, whereas the whole of Aflao and VR was neglected!! This was corrected when JJR came to power.

More, I cannot say for now.

Long live Ghana.
BUGA BUGA ATUGUBA 12 years ago

NDC is a party of cat thieves and shit carriers.

NDC is a party of cat thieves and shit carriers.
Joni 12 years ago

Even die-hard NPP supporters who don't like NDC will not believe this nonsense put up by Roland and Musah. The so-called New Free Press has no investigative tools that others don't have. We can all see things for ourselves. T ...
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Even die-hard NPP supporters who don't like NDC will not believe this nonsense put up by Roland and Musah. The so-called New Free Press has no investigative tools that others don't have. We can all see things for ourselves. The NDC is not a great party but to say there is an Ewe clique controlling it is a huge lie... If so, how did Mahama manage to pack his government with so many northerners?
Kito 12 years ago

By now, NPP should know that these anti-Ewe sentiments will take them nowhere. It does more harm than good. One, it is not attractive to many peace-loving Akans; not even all Ashantis. Second, the few Ewes that follow them ge ...
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By now, NPP should know that these anti-Ewe sentiments will take them nowhere. It does more harm than good. One, it is not attractive to many peace-loving Akans; not even all Ashantis. Second, the few Ewes that follow them get eschewed. Hmm? These Ewe NPPs are getting disappointed by the day and they are leaving the Party. The few who remain are indisputably opportunists who want to make some small money from the Ewe haters.
DKB 12 years ago

Kito, the fact is it is politicians who have driven hard this ashanti/ewe tension. You are just as bad as those ashantis you tag as Ewe haters. You even call Ewes in NPP as opportunists who want to make money from "Ewe Haters ...
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Kito, the fact is it is politicians who have driven hard this ashanti/ewe tension. You are just as bad as those ashantis you tag as Ewe haters. You even call Ewes in NPP as opportunists who want to make money from "Ewe Haters", how unfortunate. Who built the sea defence wall in the volta region? It was an Ewe Hater eh? Those who accuse others of being haters and tribalists are themselves the true tribalists and haters. Why you make such a stupid blanket statement is unbelievable. This is a free country, Ewes who have seen the light and have confidence in themselves chose to join the NPP, that is their choice, if you feel eschewed to leave, that is if you ever were, you are also free to join a party where you have "ashanti haters" voting 99% for one party.
KH Quao 12 years ago

These are baseless and stupid assertion. If the seed of the NDC was sown by an Ewe it does not necessarily meant the party lose national focus. Let the writer retrace the NDC appointments under the former President RAwlings, ...
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These are baseless and stupid assertion. If the seed of the NDC was sown by an Ewe it does not necessarily meant the party lose national focus. Let the writer retrace the NDC appointments under the former President RAwlings, the Late Prof. and the current JM governance and tell me the % representation of the Ewe in these regimes. Let us be very careful what we say for posterity will judge us one day.
Crusader 12 years ago

So this so-called New Free Press 'journalists' have concluded the Asantehene-Mahama-Supreme Court judges bribery investigations and moved on to the NDC's Ewe roots eh? Thank you so much!

So this so-called New Free Press 'journalists' have concluded the Asantehene-Mahama-Supreme Court judges bribery investigations and moved on to the NDC's Ewe roots eh? Thank you so much!
Natural Mystic 12 years ago

You ain't no Rasta man because Bongoman does not talk the language of tribalism. "You wanna be a Rasta but you lack the identity . . . . ."

You ain't no Rasta man because Bongoman does not talk the language of tribalism. "You wanna be a Rasta but you lack the identity . . . . ."
Natural Mystic 12 years ago

It is a shame that people have refused to learn from the recent history of Rwanda and unashambedly continue to whip up tribal hatred. The threat of the AU withdrawing from the ICC notwithstanding, I trust ICC hs noted the vit ...
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It is a shame that people have refused to learn from the recent history of Rwanda and unashambedly continue to whip up tribal hatred. The threat of the AU withdrawing from the ICC notwithstanding, I trust ICC hs noted the vitriol from the New Free Press.
P.K 12 years ago

ewes are very good people but very tribal in nature and character. They have been used to hate akans epecially Twi origin.They have also been refused better education which would expose them to change their tribal mind set su ...
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ewes are very good people but very tribal in nature and character. They have been used to hate akans epecially Twi origin.They have also been refused better education which would expose them to change their tribal mind set such that, we are one common people.
Mania. 12 years ago

Ignorance is such a disease. Ewes are more educated than most tribes. Check your facts

Ignorance is such a disease. Ewes are more educated than most tribes. Check your facts
Mensah 12 years ago

what studies have you made to back your claim?

what studies have you made to back your claim?
homo okoampa 12 years ago

two foolish writers. Go back to school like the Ewes, and you can, hopefully, make a difference in Ghanaian politics

two foolish writers. Go back to school like the Ewes, and you can, hopefully, make a difference in Ghanaian politics
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

A family of Ashanti mice was surprised by a big Ewe cat. Mother mouse opened her mouth and shouted, “Woof woof!” The cat got bold and Keep smiling at the Ashanti mice till they ran away.

“What was that, Mum?” asked ...
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A family of Ashanti mice was surprised by a big Ewe cat. Mother mouse opened her mouth and shouted, “Woof woof!” The cat got bold and Keep smiling at the Ashanti mice till they ran away.

“What was that, Mum?” asked the youngest Ashanti mouse.

“Well dear, I’ve told you how important it is to learn a second language by barking like Akyem dog"
KK 12 years ago

are you a professional comedian? you're too funny......

are you a professional comedian? you're too funny......
Queen 12 years ago

WOW !

WOW !
ohene adjei 12 years ago

excellent observations

excellent observations
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

I am proud that my great Grand mother was a Trohovie{Trokosi}
it was not her will to become a Trohovie because of a chicken her uncle stole in the village of Anyako.
My great grand mother Amalagya Ahlijah left Anyako to Kli ...
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I am proud that my great Grand mother was a Trohovie{Trokosi}
it was not her will to become a Trohovie because of a chicken her uncle stole in the village of Anyako.
My great grand mother Amalagya Ahlijah left Anyako to Klikor Afegame to become a servant in the Togbe Agyamah shrine.After some years she married in the Nugah Agbenyezi family but my grandmother married a Dzokoto and settled in Takoradi.
My Grandfather's husband Mr Dzokoto was the one who brought Mr Adadevoh,Abbah and many of the Anyako group to Takoradi after he got a job at the Takoradi Railways.
Recently Dr Ahoofe wrote an article about how a man stole a chicken and was beaten by people in his village before a good Samaritan intervened.
in the village of the ewes,stealing is a taboo and it kept a lot of ewes in check.
Trohovie has it good deeds and bad dees.
Abolishing of Trohovie has created many Ewe gangsters who have also joined other tribes to steal.
WOYOME would not have been a hero to the Ewes of the Trohovie era.
There are many African Americans whose parents were slaves but they did not insult their fellow blacks as being slaves.
Though i am half Akan half ewe raised in Takoradi,i am still a charismatic crook like my Akan,Ewe,Hausa,Ga and Dagomba cousins.
Thieves were not heroes in the Volta Region when Trohevi was practiced but nowadays thieves like Woyome has become heroes.
Some Ewes think that if the Akan man who is advising us to abolish Trohevie is stealing and getting of the hook,why dont i do the same thing.
People don't care about the interest of Ghana but they only think of their own interest and ferment hate.
yao 12 years ago

is it not this paper that published the allegation against the asantehene? they are here again. what type of journalism is this? shame.

is it not this paper that published the allegation against the asantehene? they are here again. what type of journalism is this? shame.
The Ewes 12 years ago

WHether you like it or not the Ewes will dominate. What is in Akan child? As a teacher, no child/person is foolish,mentally-dark, trickish, fraudulent,forest-covered head, primitive, corrupt, "koku ananse-like", like the akan ...
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WHether you like it or not the Ewes will dominate. What is in Akan child? As a teacher, no child/person is foolish,mentally-dark, trickish, fraudulent,forest-covered head, primitive, corrupt, "koku ananse-like", like the akan child. With all the riches, how is ashanti region different from Tamale, or Koforidua. Kumasi all they produce is crime, outmoded culture,violence etc.
It is the Ewes that educate Ghanaians as lecturers, administrators, soldiers etc. You try something, you will all run into valleys and the sea. Let us have human dinigity Ghana. Live and I ive.
Create, loot and share 12 years ago

You are a fool to be talking rubbish. Ewes are no special people. Fuck the hell out from here. 20 years of JJ-AwoonoorK-TsikataK-TsikataT has really made you somebody. Your time has come so you can brag. FOOOOOOOOL!

You are a fool to be talking rubbish. Ewes are no special people. Fuck the hell out from here. 20 years of JJ-AwoonoorK-TsikataK-TsikataT has really made you somebody. Your time has come so you can brag. FOOOOOOOOL!
NICHOLAS 12 years ago

This write-up is clearly the hand work of some group of people who are trying desperately to equalize the Akan tag on the NPP with the NDC, by associating the NDC with the Ewes.

The NDC won eight regions out of the ten reg ...
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This write-up is clearly the hand work of some group of people who are trying desperately to equalize the Akan tag on the NPP with the NDC, by associating the NDC with the Ewes.

The NDC won eight regions out of the ten regions in Ghana and it would be very naive on the part of anybody or any group of people to tag the NDC an Ewe party.This clever and subtle way of trying to brand the NDC an Ewe party would not wash.

The NPP and its sympathizers must stop this 'libilibi labalaba tactics and find a better way of building a party which would be national in character if they want to brighten their electoral fortunes in this country.
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

Are you serious???! The way they are insulting "Northerners" too??? It will be more than "herd mentality" when my brethren in agony troop to the polling stations in 2016.

Andy-K

Are you serious???! The way they are insulting "Northerners" too??? It will be more than "herd mentality" when my brethren in agony troop to the polling stations in 2016.

Andy-K
Atsu 12 years ago

Very unfortunate..you fabricated this..

Very unfortunate..you fabricated this..
Atsu 12 years ago

you need to take your medication..all lies

you need to take your medication..all lies
Atsu 12 years ago

very tribalistic you are..get the facts straight

very tribalistic you are..get the facts straight

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