infact,sometimes we need to go through some of those articles before publishing them for this great web side,the information the article carries is just nonsense,far from reality,inable to predict what will be beneficial to G ... read full comment
infact,sometimes we need to go through some of those articles before publishing them for this great web side,the information the article carries is just nonsense,far from reality,inable to predict what will be beneficial to Ghanaians, and this is very unfortunate, what does Ghanaians benefit from Armanian genucids andthe Turkish invention in that,what does this benefit a Ghanaian illetrate not to talk of literates besides waste of time and energy,dont we have our local issues which need to be address! some of our litrates are unfortunate and doom to our thinking capability
Sting 10 years ago
The writer is drawing your attention to our woes by making inferences, which perhaps you are not equipped to digest, fine.
Why are you calling it "nonsense"? .... and the likes of you have the vote, to vote in elections.
... read full comment
The writer is drawing your attention to our woes by making inferences, which perhaps you are not equipped to digest, fine.
Why are you calling it "nonsense"? .... and the likes of you have the vote, to vote in elections.
God help us.
Symbiosis 10 years ago
Sting can you please bring down to earth for some us blockheads what exactly this guy who must be one of those Ghanaian intellectuals - or somebody who is posing as one of them, is trying to say?
It is only Ghanaian intell ... read full comment
Sting can you please bring down to earth for some us blockheads what exactly this guy who must be one of those Ghanaian intellectuals - or somebody who is posing as one of them, is trying to say?
It is only Ghanaian intellectuals who in trying to ape the grandiose and over-bearing posture of their slave masters, submit themselves and their ideas - if worth anything original, in such obfuscated, befuddled, fuzzy and indistinct presentations.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello Symbiosis,
What're "obfuscated," "befuddled," "fuzzy," "grandiose"? Can somebody help me out here?
I don't understand them, any of those words, Mr. or Mrs. Symbiosis. Tell me what they mean and I can translate the ... read full comment
Hello Symbiosis,
What're "obfuscated," "befuddled," "fuzzy," "grandiose"? Can somebody help me out here?
I don't understand them, any of those words, Mr. or Mrs. Symbiosis. Tell me what they mean and I can translate the article for you.
Thanks.
Citizen 10 years ago
Multiparty democracy is another form of terrorism, a one party state will ease the tension politicians create in every election year.
It will also promote commitment to the national agenda, rather than commitment to our in ... read full comment
Multiparty democracy is another form of terrorism, a one party state will ease the tension politicians create in every election year.
It will also promote commitment to the national agenda, rather than commitment to our individual parties and ethnic backgrounds.
Sting 10 years ago
This is a brilliant article; only a bit disjointed in parts.
My worry for Ghana is that, from Tema to Tumu, 99% of the able bodied young men and women are not gainfully employed. Yet, we are throwing a lot of good money aft ... read full comment
This is a brilliant article; only a bit disjointed in parts.
My worry for Ghana is that, from Tema to Tumu, 99% of the able bodied young men and women are not gainfully employed. Yet, we are throwing a lot of good money after bad causes when we could begin to make efforts to add value to our natural resources so that we stop exporting raw materials and embark on serious industrialisation.
This would help with poverty reduction and create a positive national outlook.
Dungeon Master 10 years ago
Another partisan hack taking subtle jabs at Okoampa and the NPP. In your examples, did you forget to visit events that are indelibly etched in the memory of Ghanaians old enough, and mentally patent enough, to recall the nam ... read full comment
Another partisan hack taking subtle jabs at Okoampa and the NPP. In your examples, did you forget to visit events that are indelibly etched in the memory of Ghanaians old enough, and mentally patent enough, to recall the name " Rawlings"? Tell us how many Ghanaians died as a DIRECT consequence of Akuffo Addo's and Ken Agyapong's pronouncements? Juxtapose that against Rawlings' overt act of terrorism visited on Ghanaians. I don't doubt for a minute that this author, as usual, will retort that I wrote prematurely and that what I have discussed is covered in the sequel, as a veiled effort to cover his ultra- partisanship
Kojo T 10 years ago
He tried to allude to other similar situations which should convince you he is neutral. He condemns " trokosi"and gental mutilation and witch camps. Do these have to do with political parties. These are social norms and pract ... read full comment
He tried to allude to other similar situations which should convince you he is neutral. He condemns " trokosi"and gental mutilation and witch camps. Do these have to do with political parties. These are social norms and practices which he pints to. Look the Hutu masacre served no purpose. Machetes are used to grow crops. When they wee hacking each other to death, there was famine in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa and they could have produced food and exported to these areas making money. Rwanda for your information is very fertile.His thrust is that we should concentrate our energies on the POSITIVES instead of the negatives. Recently some one said Ghana imports 70% of its food . Ghana is an agricultural country. Is it not foolish telling Asantes to kill Gas and Ewes instead of mobilizing them to produce food and fish more so we save foreign exchange and grow the economy?
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Kojo T,
Your response to Dungeon Master is essentially the point I had wished to carrry to readers.
I know who Dungeon Master is. He's a doctor. He lives in America with me.
He does not see why my articles talks ... read full comment
Dear Kojo T,
Your response to Dungeon Master is essentially the point I had wished to carrry to readers.
I know who Dungeon Master is. He's a doctor. He lives in America with me.
He does not see why my articles talks about inter-ethnic unity.
He once told me how Ewes are going to turn against me on Ghanaweb one day. That's not my preoocupation because I can contain anyone on Ghanaweb. I believe unity can do a lot of positive things for us as a people.
Besides, what is there in this essay which refers to Ahoofe? Ahoofe and his work mean nothing to me. Interestingly, Dungeon Master has also asked me to reject Michael Bokor in favor of Ahoofe. Why? It was Bokor who encouraged me to write in the first place.
That said, I have never looked at Bokor via the lens of ethnicity. His being Ewe meas nothing to me. Then again, Dungeon Master personnaly got mad with me when I praised my Ewe ex-girlfriend in one of my articles, "The Poison Ivy of Ethnocentrism: Prof. Kofi Awoonor Asks To Be Left Alone."
But who I align myself with is a personal choice. Both Bokor and Ahoofe have done me no wrong. It's just that I like Bokor's writings better than Ahoofe's. I learn more positive things from Bokor than from Ahoofe, someone I stopped reading about a year ago.
In fact, I spend my time profiling men and women who are making positive contributions to the world. I also like writing about some of the positive things we can do to help us.
There's no need talking about Rawlings here becase the AFRC was made up of Ewes, Akans, Dagombas, Bonos, Gas, and any imaginable ethnic group in Ghana. Therefore, I cannot talk about Rawlings and the two coup d'etats, 1979 and 1981,without talking about the Akans and the other ethnic non-Ewe ethnic groups in the AFRC, men like Mensah Wood, Boakye Djan, ET Mensah, etc.
Therefore, mentioning Rawlings is a nonissue. Rawlings did not own the AFRC. Plus, the entire country was on the side of the AFRC in most of the decisions it took.
Even Dungeon Master's father, an ethnocentric Asante, strongly supported Rawlings and the AFRC. Dungeon Master's father is an ex-service man. Finally, Dungeon Master's hatred of Ewes comes from his father. Ask him to give you the number of Ewes he has personally known in his life on earth.
On the other hand, we have forgotten so soon the "terrorism" of men like Afrifa and military instititions like the Supreme Military Council and the National Liberation Councils, both dominated by Akans.
We have also forgotten the "terrorism" of the National Liberation Movement, NLM, (Bafuor Osei Akoto and other Akans, mostly Asantes) and the United Party. The NLM killed both children and adults. I have had several conversations with Dungeon Master. He does not know these things.
Dungeon Master also forgets that Kuffour and other Akans worked with Ghanains via Ghana's National Reconcialiation Commission to put that part of our history behind us. Akuffo Addo's and Agyapong's stupid utterances came after the agreements reached via the National Reconciliation Commission.
Besides, Dungeon Master has mentioned to me personally that since Ahoofe writes gibberish on Ghanaweb all the time, he doubts if his novels (and scholarly work) will contain any useful or intelleigent ideas. Forget Dungeon Master.
Finally, Dungeon Master has told me how his own uncle detests the writings of Ahoofe. He says his uncle, a Fante, hates to see Ahoofe, a scholar, always insulting people in his articles. This is all I can say for now.
Now I know some of the monikers Dungeon Master uses on Ghanaweb. His bringing up Akufo Addo, Agyapong, and Rawlings in the same comments have given me the strongest clues as to his identity and varied monikers.
In fact, he raised these same issues with me personally (via phone conversation) when I wrote my first Ghanaweb article on Akufo Addo, "Akufo Addo Does Not Deserve The Nobel Prize." This latter article also mentioned Rawlings, Akufo Addo, and Agyapong.
In fact, Gungeon Master used to write on Ghanaweb under a pseudonym. His articles were probably even worse than Ahoofe's. He aimed many of his articles specifically at Ewes, always insulting them and Rawlings, though he probably hasn't known any Ewe as close and personally as I have. Dungeon Master is my "brother," my "blood."
So, Kojo T, don't bother going back and forth with Dungeon Master. I know him as I know myself. Anyway, more of such articles are coming. Ahoofe and Rawlings are not my problem.
But the rhetorical stupidity of Akufo Addo and Agyapong is my problem. I will concentrate my efforts in that direction. Rawlings and Ahoofe should enjoy their piece.
KK 10 years ago
If Dungeon Master uses a moniker to hide his identity, it's unfair of you to expose him and try to tell us who he is and what he's told you.
If Dungeon Master uses a moniker to hide his identity, it's unfair of you to expose him and try to tell us who he is and what he's told you.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello KK,
I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM, MY BROTHER.
IN FACT, I NEVER EXPOSED HIM.
DON'T WORRY. I WILL NOT SAY MORE ABOUT HIM. ACTUALLY, I HAVE NOT READ HIS COMMENTS AFTER MY RESPONSE TO HIM AND KOJO T.
I HATE ... read full comment
Hello KK,
I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM, MY BROTHER.
IN FACT, I NEVER EXPOSED HIM.
DON'T WORRY. I WILL NOT SAY MORE ABOUT HIM. ACTUALLY, I HAVE NOT READ HIS COMMENTS AFTER MY RESPONSE TO HIM AND KOJO T.
I HATE BIGOTRY OF ANY KIND. I DON'T CARE IF IT COMES FROM ANYONE CLOSE TO ME.I HARDLY READ BIGOTS.
ALL I AM FOR IS UNITY AMONG ALL THE ETHNIC GROUPS IN GHANA (AND AFRICA). WE NEED THAT FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. I HOPE YOU ARE AGREE?
ANYWAY, THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN.
PLEASE HAVE A GOOD DAY.
Dungeon Master 10 years ago
Writing about terrorism in Ghana without referencing Rawlings is analogous to writing about the history of world atrocities without referencing slavery and the holocaust. This author IS NOT NEUTRAL by any exegetical extrapol ... read full comment
Writing about terrorism in Ghana without referencing Rawlings is analogous to writing about the history of world atrocities without referencing slavery and the holocaust. This author IS NOT NEUTRAL by any exegetical extrapolation of his writeups. Excuse my language, but please spare us that nonsense. Nobody agrees, particularly me, that one should make that aweful statement that Ashantis should beat up Ewes and Gas, or whatever Ken Agyapong allegedly said. Neither should Rawlings have targeted wealthy Akans in his terroristic campaign. Or the distasteful comment the late Awoonor made about Ashantis. Why should the author reference one and not the other? Once again, please spare me that "neutral" nonsense
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Kojo T,
Dungeon Master is my brother. Don't go back and forth with him.
I have decided not to to read or respond to his comments. Again, he's my own brother.
Thanks.
Kojo T,
Dungeon Master is my brother. Don't go back and forth with him.
I have decided not to to read or respond to his comments. Again, he's my own brother.
Thanks.
Dungeon Master 10 years ago
Me using varied monikers? NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME I HAVE COMMENTED ON AN ARTICLE AUTHORED BY YOU. Please do yourself a favor and do a computer IP address search. I kindly request that you post all the monikers ... read full comment
Me using varied monikers? NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME I HAVE COMMENTED ON AN ARTICLE AUTHORED BY YOU. Please do yourself a favor and do a computer IP address search. I kindly request that you post all the monikers that you allege I have used and their corresponding IP addresses. Please post them here for ALL to see. I won't call you a liar; that is for others to do. I am waiting...
KK 10 years ago
Your argument can be interpreted as saying that if Francis does not include Rawlings' atrocities in an article on terrorism in Ghana, then he is, by so doing, condoning those atrocities and also that his argument is invalidat ... read full comment
Your argument can be interpreted as saying that if Francis does not include Rawlings' atrocities in an article on terrorism in Ghana, then he is, by so doing, condoning those atrocities and also that his argument is invalidated by his non-inclusion.
Either will be a difficult logical point to sustain.
Won't it be enough to point out to him that Rawlings too was a terrorist as well as Awoonor, showing why in each case, rather than rubbishing his entire argument?
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
My brother and namesake Yao[Yaw].
As usual, you're all over the place in the cookie jar of the intellectual epidemiology and theoretical existentialism which baffle the hoi polloi, or the long suffering mborowa.:-) My time ... read full comment
My brother and namesake Yao[Yaw].
As usual, you're all over the place in the cookie jar of the intellectual epidemiology and theoretical existentialism which baffle the hoi polloi, or the long suffering mborowa.:-) My time situation has worsened and so I've been unable to even complete my rejoinder to your earlier pieces, made even more strenuous by your piling on the heat, necessitating constant revision to what I wrote earlier!
Now brief comments before this one also disappeared into the archives.
My extensive take on the mutual Tutsi/Hutu genocides on each other is in the public domain, Ghanaweb too. That's why I think you appeared as tagging only the Hutus of engaging in genocide, whereas they were simply using the same methods the Tutsis had used on them for centuries prior to 1958 when the Hutus in Rwanda succeeded in overthrowing the Tutsi yoke. But cross over to Burundi where the minority Tutsis succeeded in repressing the rebellious Hutus and you'd see Tutsi terrorism and genocides in action. Besides, the Tutsis of Rwanda started the killings again by invading Rwanda from Uganda.
Of course, the M23 and others that brought so much terror to Eastern Congo were of Tutsi extraction. You know.
I notice you are soft on the exponents of religiosity in our affairs. I am not! I believe the emphasis MUST be on the secular - de-magification and demystification along the lines described by Max Weber as happened in Europe. I spent a lot of time writing about that in the '90s on Okyeame. That's one surest way we can combat the gross anathema and blot on our collective conscience and image such as trokosi, witches camps, the rise of the christo-paganist syncretic sects known as charismatic churches, Islamic terrorism, etc. I was mortified when I heard that a new [and better] witch camp was being built, instead of efforts being made to demobilise all such camps, educate all those prone to such superstitious nonsense and punish those who accuse others of being witches or take other people's kids as trokosi/trohovi! Without such state coercive measures, the colonial authorities wouldn't have managed to stop our ancestors from holding slaves and engaging in panyarring their kids, for instance!
My own grandfather was the Chief of the Native Police besides being the Keta Court Registrar of the Eastern Province after Guggisberg's reforms. His uncle Cornelius K. Kwawukume was no other person than Torgbui Sri 11, who was in the LegCo. from 1916-42. Educated, polygot (spoke German, English, French and a number of W. African languages having lived in Sa. Leone, having been headhunted and taken there by the Williams family, and German Cameroon for several years as an indep. merchant) he was a great reformer himself and banned several bad cultural practices. Yes, they laid the foundation for the educational expansion Ewes came to enjoy. Of course, they couldn't do it all but when I surveyed their successes and achievements over the 50-60 years colonial rule proper lasted, compared to our post indep. achievements, the latter paled into insignificance in many respects, except for the period under Nkrumah who actually accelerated what they were doing to a national crusade! Now our wannabe "leaders" condone TB Joshua, the existence of trokosi, child labour and trafficking, with witch camps, mass of kids not in school, etc., etc. Such people CAN NEVER DEVELOP even their own wretched villagers, not to talk of people like me! They are not even civilised!
Yes, we discussed extensively in the '90s on Okyeame the need for passing an Anti-Vilification Act in Ghana, just as we have in Europe here. I was horrified when I listened to Komla Dumor on Myjoyonline FM trying to deal with the animus against Ewes by running a programme called Ayigbe Jokes in the '90s. Mostly Akans were calling in to say all kinds of nasty things against Ewes. If too bad, the studio audience would boo the caller. In Norway, something like that would have sent him and the Joy Editor to jail and/or fine. When one racist made a comment on radio that all African men living with Norwegian women should be castrated, he and those on the programme were tried and found guilty!
I've completed work on the pre-colonial ethnic ethnic relations, with special focus on Akans and Ewes as further contribution to the ethnic imbroglio. Still pruning it, etc. I am therefore allowing others a free rein to say what they want. Allows me to further edit and add more meat to the already meat-laden smorgasbord of a gourmet.
Andy-K
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello Brother Yao,
Thanks for your great contribution. I agree with everything you have said.
I am happy that you're always there on hand to corrrect, add, or fill in (for) my shortcomings. I am truly grateful. You are ... read full comment
Hello Brother Yao,
Thanks for your great contribution. I agree with everything you have said.
I am happy that you're always there on hand to corrrect, add, or fill in (for) my shortcomings. I am truly grateful. You are teaching me how to grow as a writer and thinker. You educate our readers as well.
I agree with you that the M23 is of Tutsi extraction, men and women sent to Eastern Congo by Paul Kagame (and others, Museveni)to contain Hutu militias who were heavily involved in the Rwandan Genocide. In fact, both Tony Blair and Bill Clinton had tacitly supported Kagame's role in backing the M23.
Blair's and Clinton's resolve melted somewhat when the United Nations finally indicted Musevennis and Kagame for the atrocities in Eastern Congo.
Aside that, I have nothing else to contribute. You have said it all. Anyway, I look forward to reading your work on Akans and Ewes. Please let me know if you post your Akan-Ewe article on Ghanaweb. This nonsense about Asantes making fun of Ewes must stop.
Thanks brother. Hey--I love you. Great work.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
My brother, point of order!
The M23 are actually made up from elements within the Banyamulenge Tutsis who are native to Eastern Congo. They were affected by the Rwandan massacres in which Mobutu sent soldiers to support t ... read full comment
My brother, point of order!
The M23 are actually made up from elements within the Banyamulenge Tutsis who are native to Eastern Congo. They were affected by the Rwandan massacres in which Mobutu sent soldiers to support the Hutus. Old animosities and fears were aroused with the advancing Tutsi soldiers and they bore the brunt of the retreating and disorderly Congolese troops and the fleeing Hutus. They therefore rallied to the support of Kabila and his new found Tutsi allies from Rwanda to overthrow Mobutu. As predicted in my two part article, which ended at this juncture, relations quickly deteriorated as the Tutsis are generally hated in the Congo for the role they played in creating King Leopold's The Heart of Darkness. Yes, the 20 million that perished under Leopold's plunder of the Congo! That's the poisoned ivy still causing friction and the conflicts in that region. The legacy they left for us. 5m dead in E. Congo alone!
I was at Christian Michelsen Inst., Bergen when CMI and York Univ. won the commission to write the diversionary UN Report on why the UN failed to respond to the humanitarian crisis instead of why the UN Peace Keeping Mission failed to prevent the genocide. When the lady in charge, under pressure from some of us who were disappointed with the unfolding white wash, included a bit about the role of France in the genocide (I have then copious evidence with pictures), France went berserk and finally demanded back the $50000 they contributed to to the writing of the Report when the lady, Dr Astri Suhrke, stood her ground. It was news on even BBC at the time. Of course, the ignominous role of our own Kofi Annan in that dark debacle - the failure of the UN Mission - would have been exposed.
For me who passed through Dr Thakur's Political Sociology lectures in which the Tutsi/Hutu imbroglio was one of the subject of study in exploring the sociology of domination, I heard so much damn lies and hypocrisies in even among the Western academia, not only their politicians. Things like that decided me against joining the jackals, because you can't progress if you shoot off your mouth and tell or write the truth.
Hmm! At one conference when I shot off my motor mouth too much, one senior conferee pulled me aside during the break and asked whether I knew what happened to the child who said the emperor was naked. I replied no and he went on to tell me! The message was clear from the body language of other attendees, whites, of course.
Well, their research funding get cut, etc. when they "misspoke", so one can understand why they are spineless and subservient to even their pea brain politicians! Only we Africans can ask the hard questions and provide the answers, even though their libraries and archives hold all the materials we need to do that. That much had been made clear to me. That was when I started the stalled book project as a comparative study of conflicts in 3 African countries: Rwanda/Burundi, Sudan and Ghana. I'll be sharing the abridged version as promised.
My brother, therefore, keep on asking the questions, raise the issues. Muddy troubled waters and be bold! You don't even need to provide any answers now or in the future. I haven't done so for some issues I raised since the '90s. I prophetically wrote that I'd be doing so for one anytime from a few weeks to many years from then! I could have done so then.
Andy-K
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello Andy,
Thanks for your prompt and extensive response. However, I want to add a few points: You are generally right that some Tutsis are native to Eastern Congo.
But we must also take into consideration the fact th ... read full comment
Hello Andy,
Thanks for your prompt and extensive response. However, I want to add a few points: You are generally right that some Tutsis are native to Eastern Congo.
But we must also take into consideration the fact that many semi-nomadic Tutsis had migrated from Rwanda to Eastern Congo at various points in historical and even in contemporary times.
The earliest of such migration took place in the 1880s; the Belgians in 1908 and after send more Tutsis to Eastern Congo for manual labor; and after 1959 when Hutu nationalism drove many Tutsis to Eastern Congo.
Finally, let me add that those Tutsis who migrated to Zaire before Zaire gained its 1960 independence are technically those called Banyamulenge.
Even today Eastern Congolose natives, like the Nade and Hunde, still refer to the Banyamulenge (and even Hutu's there in Eastern Congo) as "Rwandan emigrants."
Mobuto's presidency even made the relationship between the so-called "Rwandan emigrants" and the aboriginal Eastern Congolose natives even worse.
I only wanted to add these few points because the ethnic mix of Eastern Congo as far as Tutsis, M23, Northern Uganda, Paul Kagame, and Yoweri Museveni are not as simple as they appear.
You will agree with me that the situation is similar to the spread of the Bantu in East Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa, or Akans in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Artificial political boundaries after the "Scramble for Africa," the demarcation of Africa, all have a role in many of these problems.
infact,sometimes we need to go through some of those articles before publishing them for this great web side,the information the article carries is just nonsense,far from reality,inable to predict what will be beneficial to G ...
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The writer is drawing your attention to our woes by making inferences, which perhaps you are not equipped to digest, fine.
Why are you calling it "nonsense"? .... and the likes of you have the vote, to vote in elections.
...
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Sting can you please bring down to earth for some us blockheads what exactly this guy who must be one of those Ghanaian intellectuals - or somebody who is posing as one of them, is trying to say?
It is only Ghanaian intell ...
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Hello Symbiosis,
What're "obfuscated," "befuddled," "fuzzy," "grandiose"? Can somebody help me out here?
I don't understand them, any of those words, Mr. or Mrs. Symbiosis. Tell me what they mean and I can translate the ...
read full comment
Multiparty democracy is another form of terrorism, a one party state will ease the tension politicians create in every election year.
It will also promote commitment to the national agenda, rather than commitment to our in ...
read full comment
This is a brilliant article; only a bit disjointed in parts.
My worry for Ghana is that, from Tema to Tumu, 99% of the able bodied young men and women are not gainfully employed. Yet, we are throwing a lot of good money aft ...
read full comment
Another partisan hack taking subtle jabs at Okoampa and the NPP. In your examples, did you forget to visit events that are indelibly etched in the memory of Ghanaians old enough, and mentally patent enough, to recall the nam ...
read full comment
He tried to allude to other similar situations which should convince you he is neutral. He condemns " trokosi"and gental mutilation and witch camps. Do these have to do with political parties. These are social norms and pract ...
read full comment
Dear Kojo T,
Your response to Dungeon Master is essentially the point I had wished to carrry to readers.
I know who Dungeon Master is. He's a doctor. He lives in America with me.
He does not see why my articles talks ...
read full comment
If Dungeon Master uses a moniker to hide his identity, it's unfair of you to expose him and try to tell us who he is and what he's told you.
Hello KK,
I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM, MY BROTHER.
IN FACT, I NEVER EXPOSED HIM.
DON'T WORRY. I WILL NOT SAY MORE ABOUT HIM. ACTUALLY, I HAVE NOT READ HIS COMMENTS AFTER MY RESPONSE TO HIM AND KOJO T.
I HATE ...
read full comment
Writing about terrorism in Ghana without referencing Rawlings is analogous to writing about the history of world atrocities without referencing slavery and the holocaust. This author IS NOT NEUTRAL by any exegetical extrapol ...
read full comment
Kojo T,
Dungeon Master is my brother. Don't go back and forth with him.
I have decided not to to read or respond to his comments. Again, he's my own brother.
Thanks.
Me using varied monikers? NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME I HAVE COMMENTED ON AN ARTICLE AUTHORED BY YOU. Please do yourself a favor and do a computer IP address search. I kindly request that you post all the monikers ...
read full comment
Your argument can be interpreted as saying that if Francis does not include Rawlings' atrocities in an article on terrorism in Ghana, then he is, by so doing, condoning those atrocities and also that his argument is invalidat ...
read full comment
My brother and namesake Yao[Yaw].
As usual, you're all over the place in the cookie jar of the intellectual epidemiology and theoretical existentialism which baffle the hoi polloi, or the long suffering mborowa.:-) My time ...
read full comment
Hello Brother Yao,
Thanks for your great contribution. I agree with everything you have said.
I am happy that you're always there on hand to corrrect, add, or fill in (for) my shortcomings. I am truly grateful. You are ...
read full comment
My brother, point of order!
The M23 are actually made up from elements within the Banyamulenge Tutsis who are native to Eastern Congo. They were affected by the Rwandan massacres in which Mobutu sent soldiers to support t ...
read full comment
Hello Andy,
Thanks for your prompt and extensive response. However, I want to add a few points: You are generally right that some Tutsis are native to Eastern Congo.
But we must also take into consideration the fact th ...
read full comment