Ghana Is A Bananan Republic, KB!

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Kokonte 11 years ago

And you are the biggest banana in that republic.

And you are the biggest banana in that republic.
DAN 11 years ago

learn to speak like you china slave master! China whores in america won't even touch a blackman or smelly Indian..Even tho they come to america to earn dollars renting their vaginas...

learn to speak like you china slave master! China whores in america won't even touch a blackman or smelly Indian..Even tho they come to america to earn dollars renting their vaginas...
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

This essay is very confusing? What is the subject matter, Kwame? For someone who teaches composition, it is sad that you always leave your train of thought behind!

This essay is very confusing? What is the subject matter, Kwame? For someone who teaches composition, it is sad that you always leave your train of thought behind!
James Opuni 11 years ago

Akadu Kwasiaman. You and Okoampah aren't different in any way when it comes to "train of thought".

For your information, Okoampah doesn't teach "composition". He teaches some kind of journalism and creative writing to juve ...
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Akadu Kwasiaman. You and Okoampah aren't different in any way when it comes to "train of thought".

For your information, Okoampah doesn't teach "composition". He teaches some kind of journalism and creative writing to juvenile delinquents at the Nassau Community College. He has no room for improvement!!
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

How nice. I critique Okoampa whenever I think he deserves, and praise him whenever his writings cut muster! Then again, idiotic tribalists like you hate Akans, but are quick to steal their names! Sadly, are names have no feat ...
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How nice. I critique Okoampa whenever I think he deserves, and praise him whenever his writings cut muster! Then again, idiotic tribalists like you hate Akans, but are quick to steal their names! Sadly, are names have no feathers!
James Opuni 11 years ago

Do you really claim to be what you are? You write horribly, even in a short comment like this one. How can you write a long prose without atrocious mistakes to torture your reader?

Look at this one:

"Sadly, are names ha ...
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Do you really claim to be what you are? You write horribly, even in a short comment like this one. How can you write a long prose without atrocious mistakes to torture your reader?

Look at this one:

"Sadly, are names have no feathers!"

What exactly did you have in mind that you couldn't write properly?
NAKED 11 years ago

As usual always fighting over some people language hehehe dark Afrikans are funny creatures.

As usual always fighting over some people language hehehe dark Afrikans are funny creatures.
James Opuni 11 years ago

Language and communication through language separate human beings from animals of the lower and lowest kingdoms. If you want to know why issues of language are regarded as "touchy", do so and you should appreciate it when peo ...
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Language and communication through language separate human beings from animals of the lower and lowest kingdoms. If you want to know why issues of language are regarded as "touchy", do so and you should appreciate it when people who communicate horribly are regarded as dumb/unintelligent!!
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

You see some of us are great scholars who are well-published!

You see some of us are great scholars who are well-published!
Appletus 11 years ago

All shall pass, this one too!

All shall pass, this one too!

Ni -Adama, Osu-RE 11 years ago

Interesting scenes/scenario to make genuine comments on but being too garrulous at times totally obliterates the theme or subject matter. These are without a doubt very important issues requiring discussion if we're to prev ...
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Interesting scenes/scenario to make genuine comments on but being too garrulous at times totally obliterates the theme or subject matter. These are without a doubt very important issues requiring discussion if we're to prevent the perrenial errors of our times.
Obiba Kwame 11 years ago

Holly crap!For a college professor with a PhD in English you sure write poorly. If one of your students submitted this incoherent pointless essay to you on the question of whether Ghana is or is not a "banana republic' what g ...
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Holly crap!For a college professor with a PhD in English you sure write poorly. If one of your students submitted this incoherent pointless essay to you on the question of whether Ghana is or is not a "banana republic' what grade do you think he/she deserves? Obviously a"D" with a note that the piece is rambling, lacks focus, does not answer the question adequately and needs to be re-written. I have read it twice and I am still wondering what point(s) you are trying to make.
NAKED 11 years ago

Banana Republic of Ghana is a senseless nation with senseless leaders, is simple as that.John Mahama doesn't even qualify to be a football manager let alone to be a president of a sovereign nation, what do we see now? God cho ...
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Banana Republic of Ghana is a senseless nation with senseless leaders, is simple as that.John Mahama doesn't even qualify to be a football manager let alone to be a president of a sovereign nation, what do we see now? God choose David to led his people not because he was handsome but becuase he was able to protect his flocks without any harm from the predators. Any time i hear about SUBA, GYEEDA,WOYOME,JUDGEMENT DEBTS ETC,my heart bleeds for Ghana, i ask myself do dark skin people in Afrika and Ghana at large reason and think as well? Any time i hear ghanaians bragging about their educational status quo i just laugh, the dark skin people problem is not about education, is about thinking and reasoning, this is what we lack as people. Japanese and South koreans developed their nation without resources, how about Ghanaians everything is in our disposal but foreigners and our few corrupt people are taking it and the rest of the people are wallowing in abject poverty. What's impeding us not to develop our nation? At this time and age we don't even know how to manufacture some simple things for domestic consumption, what is our purpose on this earth? Are we here as participators or commentators? Upon all our degrees we are at the bottomless pit in the world. Sleeping dogs when are we going to wake up to catch up with the world? Do God really created dark skin people? I doubt it, Our intelligent level are too low and it's a fact take it or leave it, how can a president pay interest for a loan but he didn't get the money he requested for? This can happened only in Afrika Ghana to be precise where corruption, stupidity, foolishness, greedy, selfish is their culture. Mahama who can not even take care of five cows is now a president of Ghana it's a lesson for everyone.Oh Afrikans when are you going to put your thinking cap on? The most painful thing is that the world is coming to an end but dark Afrikans did not develop their nations up till now Afrika is a ghetto. The most disgraceful president ever to appear in the history of ghana is John Mahama, and he is not even ashamed of himself, look at the direction the country is heading to, show me your intelligent and i will show you how competent i am. Only a foolish dog bark at the flying bird.

Fellow me if you can be put all the burdens behind.
JUSTICE 11 years ago

GHANA HAS ALWAYS SENSELESS LEADERS AFTER
OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH. GHANA CAN`T MANAGE ITS PROBLEMS. CORRUPTION AND MENTALITY, GREED AND SELFISHNESS HAS BROUGHT THE COUNTRY DOWN. GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL PARTIES A ...
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GHANA HAS ALWAYS SENSELESS LEADERS AFTER
OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH. GHANA CAN`T MANAGE ITS PROBLEMS. CORRUPTION AND MENTALITY, GREED AND SELFISHNESS HAS BROUGHT THE COUNTRY DOWN. GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, POLITICAL PARTIES AND JUDICIAL ARE TO BE BLAMED.
James Opuni 11 years ago

The title of your garbage alone puts me off: "Ghana Is A Bananan Republic, KB!"

So, you are qualifying "banana" (common noun) into an adjective ("bananan")?

The title of your garbage alone puts me off: "Ghana Is A Bananan Republic, KB!"

So, you are qualifying "banana" (common noun) into an adjective ("bananan")?
Obiba Kwame 11 years ago

And he is a college professor with a PhD in English!

And he is a college professor with a PhD in English!
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

You attacked me for critiquing Okoampa, but here you are attacking him. What do you want?

You attacked me for critiquing Okoampa, but here you are attacking him. What do you want?
James Opuni 11 years ago

You behave just like him in cyberspace, but he writes better than you can ever bring yourself to do.

You cannot put your thoughts together in a readable prose as Okoampah does.

Even in the garbled writing you call poem ...
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You behave just like him in cyberspace, but he writes better than you can ever bring yourself to do.

You cannot put your thoughts together in a readable prose as Okoampah does.

Even in the garbled writing you call poems, you can't make sense as Okoampah does when he writes poetry.

You are poles behind all these writers whose work we read here. No one cares whether you praise or condemn Okoampah.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 11 years ago

I am in full agreement with you sir.
Mensema is the worst writer here. He doesn't even know what a poem is.

I am in full agreement with you sir.
Mensema is the worst writer here. He doesn't even know what a poem is.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

You this Tilapia lawyer can't let go off my past critique of your errant stories of Ewe intellectual superiority. You have praised me before as one of the best writers on Ghanaweb so why have you changed your mind? Looking fo ...
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You this Tilapia lawyer can't let go off my past critique of your errant stories of Ewe intellectual superiority. You have praised me before as one of the best writers on Ghanaweb so why have you changed your mind? Looking for anything to tar my image here. I don't look for your validation because I will never respect you as an intellectual.

kofikofi 11 years ago

I don't believe this idiot called okoampa is PhD holder. He is dumb and dump. Illiterate Buffon.

what is Bananan? Akyemni aboa

I don't believe this idiot called okoampa is PhD holder. He is dumb and dump. Illiterate Buffon.

what is Bananan? Akyemni aboa
NAKED 11 years ago

Having PHD doesn't mean you can't make errors, it could be typo error so don't take it as personal please. Thanks for your understanding.

Having PHD doesn't mean you can't make errors, it could be typo error so don't take it as personal please. Thanks for your understanding.
mother'schild 11 years ago

Sir, much as I like reading your articles to appreciate the various views about Ghana, what fascinated me to comment is the fact people like Deku were the ones in charge of security who were RECOMMENDING to Nkrumah to detain ...
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Sir, much as I like reading your articles to appreciate the various views about Ghana, what fascinated me to comment is the fact people like Deku were the ones in charge of security who were RECOMMENDING to Nkrumah to detain various personalities under the guise of state security. Such security officers then became the ones larding over the country and shouting out the anti-Nkrumah propaganda. Hmmm!!! Who were they working for? Their pieces of security advise should be interesting. Fortunately, Deku is still alive and a truthful memoir with regard to state security will help us to understand ourselves as Africans
YAW 11 years ago

Okoampa isn"t an agent of academic rationalisation. He writes as if his ideas has been inspected for gross stupidity before it leaves his Akasanoma lips.Who pioneered the global Black Consciousness Movement on the African Con ...
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Okoampa isn"t an agent of academic rationalisation. He writes as if his ideas has been inspected for gross stupidity before it leaves his Akasanoma lips.Who pioneered the global Black Consciousness Movement on the African Continent?
TERRY 11 years ago

THIS ARTICLE HAS THE SAME TONE AS THE SPAM EMAILS FROM SOUTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES. I WILL HAVE TO RESEARCH FROM MORE RELIABLE SITES

THIS ARTICLE HAS THE SAME TONE AS THE SPAM EMAILS FROM SOUTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES. I WILL HAVE TO RESEARCH FROM MORE RELIABLE SITES

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