Accra! Love it or Leave it - to Asase on Ga anti-Ashanti Xenophobia

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WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

You wasted that much time on coming up with this nonsense?

Get a life.

You are obviously very inept.

You are responding to a posting at SIL by an article here?

What a lost cause.

You wasted that much time on coming up with this nonsense?

Get a life.

You are obviously very inept.

You are responding to a posting at SIL by an article here?

What a lost cause.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

Good one there! Thank you.

Good one there! Thank you.
BUKOM BOY 10 years ago

REALLY?? HA HA HA !!! I HAVE JUST WET MY PANTS NOW JUST LAUGHING OUT LOUD. WELL , YOU IDIOTS HAVE MET YOUR MATCH WITH WARRIORS GAS. FOR YEARS YOU BUSHMEN HAVE PERSISTANTLY PICKED ON EWES AND NORTHERNERS AS I ...
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REALLY?? HA HA HA !!! I HAVE JUST WET MY PANTS NOW JUST LAUGHING OUT LOUD. WELL , YOU IDIOTS HAVE MET YOUR MATCH WITH WARRIORS GAS. FOR YEARS YOU BUSHMEN HAVE PERSISTANTLY PICKED ON EWES AND NORTHERNERS AS IF THEY LESSER GHANAIAS. THANKS YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY.
SINABIS 10 years ago

THE GA LANGUAGE SOUNDS SO NICE AND CALM TO THE EAR. SECOND IS THE HAUSA LANGUAGE.

THE GA LANGUAGE SOUNDS SO NICE AND CALM TO THE EAR. SECOND IS THE HAUSA LANGUAGE.
Nii-USA 10 years ago

tHE aKANS LOVE ACCRA THAN THEIR OWN HOME CITIES. THE Kookoase fuo are quick to tell the northerners to leave Accra and go back north, yet they leave their Kumasi and the Akyem and flood accra with their family and. only go ho ...
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tHE aKANS LOVE ACCRA THAN THEIR OWN HOME CITIES. THE Kookoase fuo are quick to tell the northerners to leave Accra and go back north, yet they leave their Kumasi and the Akyem and flood accra with their family and. only go home to kookoase to campaign for votes. They claim they have gold and everything yet reside in Accra and tell the poor northerners to leave Accra and go home? Huh!!! What is wrong with Kumasi and all these guys: Ursula, akomea, nana, kuffuor, etc want to live in Accra? All the Ashantis and Akyems call Kumasi the best and yet retire and live in Accra. Apparently Accra is good for everyone. So why blame the ones who come from poor places/ they have a better reason to migrate to accra than the ones who call them names yet leave their hole and come and love accra and even want to be MPs. Their kingsmen have all run and left their hole and are so many in accra that they even can have the number to make their own mps. What is wrong with Kumasi?
Gariba 10 years ago

The Ga language is so sweet and the people are tolerant and humble. just listen to twi people talking in talk radio! They shout on top of their voices. My wife is not African and when I opened a Ghanaian station and the twi g ...
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The Ga language is so sweet and the people are tolerant and humble. just listen to twi people talking in talk radio! They shout on top of their voices. My wife is not African and when I opened a Ghanaian station and the twi guys were discussing something and she asked me why they are yelling on top of their voices like that! Ga is just so sweet to listen to honestly. I am a northerner but I speak better Ga than twi. I just love Ga and the Gas. I delliberately learned the language.
karim 10 years ago

Honest, I'm also a northerner n I too like Ga language. I don't understand twi n I don't want to understood that language, they are too discrimination. I just hate de way dey are behaving as if they are de one form Ghana. Ima ...
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Honest, I'm also a northerner n I too like Ga language. I don't understand twi n I don't want to understood that language, they are too discrimination. I just hate de way dey are behaving as if they are de one form Ghana. Imagine if Accra was twi land or Ashanti region was capital, they will have one day sack all back to their n claim Ghana
Kweku trouble 10 years ago

What has answering a SIL question here got to do with anything? Obviously he wanted to reach a wider readership. I am not sure you even read the article, else this wouldn't be your answer. You just read the first line and dec ...
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What has answering a SIL question here got to do with anything? Obviously he wanted to reach a wider readership. I am not sure you even read the article, else this wouldn't be your answer. You just read the first line and decided to open your trap. And if you tell me you read the whole article then it means you could hardly understand what you read. You answered to the only part your brain could understand
Me 10 years ago

This WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE is a known Akan supremacist. No wonder he dislikes the article.

This WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE is a known Akan supremacist. No wonder he dislikes the article.
Nomo Charway 10 years ago

I am the least surprised of your response to this educative article . Whoever and whatever you are you have clearly displayed the mentality and of course your ignorance to learn. So you mean you cannot pick up anything which ...
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I am the least surprised of your response to this educative article . Whoever and whatever you are you have clearly displayed the mentality and of course your ignorance to learn. So you mean you cannot pick up anything which could be beneficial for mankind from this short essay by Ade? Perhaps you have indicated to all on this forum that you could hardly understand the article. But that shouldn't be any shame for you. You see Ade's articles touched on many subjects in various perspectives such as political history, assimilation and integration something you have to know or be aware of, if your quest for travels outside your village, town or country, could be beneficial to you. He talked about the politics and political agenda-past and present, sociology-culture, values, beliefs and language and the environment and its system, the economic geography etc. You could have at least made an intelligent and constructive contribution to Mr Ade Sawyer's article even though, you had not that access to Asase's. I think you have interestingly placed yourself in the 'hole' for justifying your inclusion as someone capable of making any constructive contribution to the open debates on this forum towards the advancement and progress of Ghana. Your attitude, I am sorry is not the right recipe for the enhancement of progress of our communities and Ghana in general.

J0eY LOnD0N 10 years ago

Remember not every cow sees the grass green and if your head is too big sometimes you can't dodge blows.

Remember not every cow sees the grass green and if your head is too big sometimes you can't dodge blows.
Northener 10 years ago

let us be frank the Acrra (Gas) are very nice people. In their own homes yet you hardly hear them boast about it. The most beautiful language in Ghana yet they hardly make any noise about everybody adopting it. Accra people a ...
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let us be frank the Acrra (Gas) are very nice people. In their own homes yet you hardly hear them boast about it. The most beautiful language in Ghana yet they hardly make any noise about everybody adopting it. Accra people are very accomodating. I just love them. They are so simple you think thay are highly ambitious. BUT they have to make sure they take back their city by asserting their language. Even in Germany an Akan man talks to me in Twi. This agenda for every Ghanaian to speak Twi. It is a hidden agenda, but It will fail miserably, I'll pay money to learn Ga, but I'll not learn twi with a stipend. Period.
Danny 10 years ago

When we decentralize people will feel proud to stay in their towns. Already many Asantes living abroad return straight to Kumasi, they build houses there too. Same for Koforidua people.

When we decentralize people will feel proud to stay in their towns. Already many Asantes living abroad return straight to Kumasi, they build houses there too. Same for Koforidua people.
NANA BONSU 10 years ago

"Even in Germany an Akan man talks to me in Twi. This agenda for every Ghanaian to speak Twi. It is a hidden agenda, but It will fail "
Your "Grand" statement reveals an infantile state of mind. Whoever speaks Twi to you is ...
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"Even in Germany an Akan man talks to me in Twi. This agenda for every Ghanaian to speak Twi. It is a hidden agenda, but It will fail "
Your "Grand" statement reveals an infantile state of mind. Whoever speaks Twi to you is not asking you to do the same, it is a request. You have the choice to refuse to speak back in Twi, I find it insolent on his part though but you have the right to speak your language of choice. There is no hidden agenda for Twi. It is just a natural occurrence that has happened several times in the history of man. In any multi language environment, one language tends to emerge as the preferred choice of many. Hausa emerge from Northern Nigeria to become the lingua franca of the Police and Armed forces of Ghana. At one time Ga was the hippest language on all academic campuses. This is evolution and you can’t stop it. Insist on speaking your
preferred tongue and that could start a revolution which could spread around and becomes accepted. I don't know how old you are but Radio Ghana used to read the News in Twi, Hausa, Dagbani, Ga, Ewe and Nzima out of about 30 we have in Ghana. Those languages were selected for their broad base and Twi has become the most widely spoken and is becoming the unofficial language of Commerce if I may say so. If I were you, if someone spoke Twi to me in Germany, I would advise you to speak your language or German back to that person. That would drive home the message.
Folks stop these unnecessary Twi bashing, promote your language of choice which is not a crime.

In an unfamiliar Ghanaian environment I normally speak English, what surprises me lately is that the Non-Twi speakers switch to Twi on autopilot, which is not my fault.

Northerner, come back to me on this one. I rest my case. No insults please let’s keep it civil.

By for Now...
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Well said . Here in the USA, I know some non-Twi speaking Ghanaian pastors who prefer the use of Twi to communicate with other Ghanaians because they know which side their bread is buttered. Go to every party be it a Ga ...
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Well said . Here in the USA, I know some non-Twi speaking Ghanaian pastors who prefer the use of Twi to communicate with other Ghanaians because they know which side their bread is buttered. Go to every party be it a Ga or Northerner party and the music of choice is in Twi. Then they turn around and accuse Akans of imposing their language on them. When Ga was the language of choice in most secondary schools they never complained.
Ed 10 years ago

Deep and objective observation Ade. Keep it up

Deep and objective observation Ade. Keep it up
THE SILENT MAJORITY 10 years ago

Add, you spoke for all discerning Ghanaians. This is way overdue!!

Add, you spoke for all discerning Ghanaians. This is way overdue!!
THE SILENT MAJORITY 10 years ago

Ade, you spoke for all discerning Ghanaians. It's about time this debate or conversation takes place openly and frankly!

Ade, you spoke for all discerning Ghanaians. It's about time this debate or conversation takes place openly and frankly!
Yaw 10 years ago

"The complaint of most Ga now is the filth and stench in accra and this is not directed against the Ashanti though it is only the Ashanti stuff that you see."

I don't know what you mean by this but long before Ashantis cam ...
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"The complaint of most Ga now is the filth and stench in accra and this is not directed against the Ashanti though it is only the Ashanti stuff that you see."

I don't know what you mean by this but long before Ashantis came to Accra, people in Accra were using the beaches of Accra as toilets. Places like Ga Mashie, Chorkor and La are predominantly populated by Gas. Are non Gas responsible for congestion and filth in those areas?
Ade Sawyerr 10 years ago

Yaw, I am sorry but i did not state that Ga did not use the beaches. As some has asked me, what is the difference between their using the beaches and the pure unaldulterated excreta the is pumped into Lavendar Hill from thos ...
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Yaw, I am sorry but i did not state that Ga did not use the beaches. As some has asked me, what is the difference between their using the beaches and the pure unaldulterated excreta the is pumped into Lavendar Hill from those who have water closets in their homes? What is certain is that the filth has grown out of all proportions. but this reminds me of a guy who was introduced to WCs when he came to Accra for the first time and expected that there would be corncobs in the small rooms and not toilet paper. Do not blame the Ga for all the evils of Ga and to blame them of xenophobia just takes the biscuit

Aryiku Nartey 10 years ago

Thank you Mr Sawyer for the brilliant article. I like the way you have intelligently comprehended your article in the various faculties as Nomo Charway has commented. It is rather unfortunate that there are some people who ha ...
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Thank you Mr Sawyer for the brilliant article. I like the way you have intelligently comprehended your article in the various faculties as Nomo Charway has commented. It is rather unfortunate that there are some people who have limited intelligent ability to respond to tolerate thought provoking debate. Well done. More grease to your elbow.
Mensah Abrampa 10 years ago

Federalism may work perfectly for Ghana so let's give it a well deserved thought. It'd result in the decongestion of Accra which is presently overwhelmed with a population crisis. As things are, the state is neither being fa ...
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Federalism may work perfectly for Ghana so let's give it a well deserved thought. It'd result in the decongestion of Accra which is presently overwhelmed with a population crisis. As things are, the state is neither being fair to the indigenous Ga people nor to their many guests and squatters who're relocating in hordes to Accra out of necessity and for lack of business opportunities in their regions and places of residence. The federalism argument is a very compelling one because it'd ensure the rapid development of all parts of the nation which has hitherto been acutely retarded. After all this is not the first time this federalism option is being suggested.
Aduanaba 10 years ago

A Federal system does not stop people from migrating to any part of the country in search of opportunities. The problem lies deeper than what we experience on the surface. The common factor in all the problems observed is opp ...
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A Federal system does not stop people from migrating to any part of the country in search of opportunities. The problem lies deeper than what we experience on the surface. The common factor in all the problems observed is opportunity. We really need to de-centralize government services, to the point where every region is autonomous to a very large extent.
kofi 10 years ago

Ashantis are like jews . nothing can stop them from being wealthy n superior. everywhere they go u see that spirit in them. stop the hate and love them. the ga people whowent to school in Kumasi can tell u how hospitable n ge ...
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Ashantis are like jews . nothing can stop them from being wealthy n superior. everywhere they go u see that spirit in them. stop the hate and love them. the ga people whowent to school in Kumasi can tell u how hospitable n generous ashantis are.
TINA, USA 10 years ago

Thanks Ataa Ade, this article is very educative, and I think all well meaning Ghanaians should give it a thought. I have heard my dad say several times about "ablekuma aba kuma wo" and have lamented about he state of present ...
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Thanks Ataa Ade, this article is very educative, and I think all well meaning Ghanaians should give it a thought. I have heard my dad say several times about "ablekuma aba kuma wo" and have lamented about he state of present day Accra. I think if all Ghanaians put our sholders to the wheel a workable solution can be achieved.
Nii-USA 10 years ago

ALL THE ASAHANTIS AND AKYEMS CALL KUMASI THE BEST AND ARE RETIRED AND LIVING WITH THEIR FAMILY IN ACCRA. ONLY GO HOME TO CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES. THEY CLAIM THEY HAVE GOLD AND EVERYTHING YET RESIDE IN ACCRA AND TELL THE POOR NORTH ...
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ALL THE ASAHANTIS AND AKYEMS CALL KUMASI THE BEST AND ARE RETIRED AND LIVING WITH THEIR FAMILY IN ACCRA. ONLY GO HOME TO CAMPAIGN FOR VOTES. THEY CLAIM THEY HAVE GOLD AND EVERYTHING YET RESIDE IN ACCRA AND TELL THE POOR NORTHERNERS TO LEAVE ACCRA AND GO HOME? HUH!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH KUMASI AND ALL THESE GUYS: URSULA, AKOMEA, NANA, KUFFUOR, ETC WANT TO LIVE IN ACCRA?

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