Awoonor's remains arrive in Ghana

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KOFI PAPABI 10 years ago

GOD PUNISH THIS FOOLISH EWE TRIBALIST...WHO PRESCRIBED VIOLENT DEATHS FOR ACHEAMPONG AND OTHER AKANS. NEXT WILL BE TSIKATA...

GOD PUNISH THIS FOOLISH EWE TRIBALIST...WHO PRESCRIBED VIOLENT DEATHS FOR ACHEAMPONG AND OTHER AKANS. NEXT WILL BE TSIKATA...
Prophet 10 years ago

Disagree or challeneg the the bigots and become their enemies for life. They will pass it onto generations after generations. The Rawlings revolution only gave them the platform to do what they had always wanted to do. Long b ...
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Disagree or challeneg the the bigots and become their enemies for life. They will pass it onto generations after generations. The Rawlings revolution only gave them the platform to do what they had always wanted to do. Long before Rawlings was the existence of this hatred.

I feel sad for the Ewes, the Rawlings revolution has made them scape Goats of the tribal bigots. Can you believe these ppl jubilating upon the death of a man? And you will see them in church on Sundays praising and singing with you. Once they get to their computers the preaching changes from Christ to hate.

Rawlings, you allowed yourself to be used by the AFRC, you allowed yourself to be traped by infighting among some Akans who used you to bully other Akans, now those Akans that used you are walking free but your people who do no even understand politics will now have to pay your sins.

Rawlings, what have you done to your people? Even the few Ewes whom you appointed to your government did not leave any legacy for the poor Ewe man or woman to be seen in the Volta Region.

They only took care of themselves and their families. Rawlings, you need to apologise for what you have done to your people.
PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

Why bring that hateful tribalistic home? Did anybody bring BB Bismack home? The tribal bigot who provided the hatred ideology and justification for the confiscation and destruction of Akan businesses met a deserving end. Alah ...
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Why bring that hateful tribalistic home? Did anybody bring BB Bismack home? The tribal bigot who provided the hatred ideology and justification for the confiscation and destruction of Akan businesses met a deserving end. Alahu Akbar, God is great. May he rest in pieces and shreds where nobody can identify him except vultures; the same way he and his hating tribal bigots did to many Akans, dropping some of them in the ocean. This is the best news of the year. Next to go is Rawlings, Kpegah, Kojo and Tsatsu Tsikata. Hell's gates await you all. Happy? Yes! Exceedingly!

Awoonor at least got a taste of his own medicine from people who harbour similar hatred for their fellow men. Greet Atta Mess for us when you see him, and make room for Rawlings, Kpegah, Kojo and Tsatsu Tsikata. They will follow soon. "That Great Ashanti Project" which constituted their collective hatred of Ashantis in particular will consume all of them one by one. Dzimakpla!
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

TELL BOAKYE DJAN.MR DIABA AND PENNY WISE ALL EWE BUSINESSMEN HAD THEIR PROPERTY CONFISCATED TOO.
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
ONE DAY PEOPLE WILL NOT SEE YOUR BODY TO BURY YOU.
YOUR BODY WILL BE IN A DRAIN WITH MAGGOTS P ...
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TELL BOAKYE DJAN.MR DIABA AND PENNY WISE ALL EWE BUSINESSMEN HAD THEIR PROPERTY CONFISCATED TOO.
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
ONE DAY PEOPLE WILL NOT SEE YOUR BODY TO BURY YOU.
YOUR BODY WILL BE IN A DRAIN WITH MAGGOTS PREYING ON IT.
frank 10 years ago

i wish u the same

i wish u the same
NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

OMG! I thought these evil Asshantis only hated Nigerians out of ignorance and jealousy for Nigerians' prosperity, but the 'VENOM' being spewed against their fellow citizen Prof Kofi Awonoor, who was murdered by Al-Shebab terr ...
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OMG! I thought these evil Asshantis only hated Nigerians out of ignorance and jealousy for Nigerians' prosperity, but the 'VENOM' being spewed against their fellow citizen Prof Kofi Awonoor, who was murdered by Al-Shebab terrorists in Kenya, was beyond human comprehension. No wonder, when these evil Asshantis violently deported Nigerians from Ghana during the EVIL Busia ACO in the 60s, (and STOLE their properties and shared it amongst themselves), I thought, well Nigerians faced such (horrible and barbaric experience at the hands of these WICKED Asshantis), because they are not natives of Ghana.

However, with the current sort of HATRED, VILIFICATION AND POISONOUS VENOM' from these HORRIBLE Asshantis to their fellow citizen late Prof Awonoor, then who need an ENEMY, when you are 'UNFORTUNATE' to have Asshantis as your fellow citizens. Shame on you Asshantis BIGOTS. Thank God I'm PROUDLY Nigerian. RIP Prof Awonoor
Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 10 years ago

You hate Ashantes for nothing but the time has come for Ashantes to wear their crowns once again. But this man will suffer a lot because of his hatred against Ashantes as you are saying that too.

You hate Ashantes for nothing but the time has come for Ashantes to wear their crowns once again. But this man will suffer a lot because of his hatred against Ashantes as you are saying that too.
Ayanya 10 years ago

That will never happen to McNasty, God forbid.The evil that men do live's after them, if this man had lived a life with no blemishes nobody will be giving this sarcastic comments after his death.It pay's to do good when aliv ...
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That will never happen to McNasty, God forbid.The evil that men do live's after them, if this man had lived a life with no blemishes nobody will be giving this sarcastic comments after his death.It pay's to do good when alive so the goodness will travel with you even to death.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

IN brief, this is just an introduction to what Awoonor wrote against, thereby incurring their wrath up to today. They have vindicated him several times over by their vitriol so far.

Andy-K

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHAN ...
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IN brief, this is just an introduction to what Awoonor wrote against, thereby incurring their wrath up to today. They have vindicated him several times over by their vitriol so far.

Andy-K

THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!
Me zu kluvi
The road to Kontsiabu
Strewn with gold dusts.
Only those without
in their eyes gold dusts
felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE EWE BACKLASH

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

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

“A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was 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.
Ayanya 10 years ago

Awoonor got what he paid for, no tears for Annansi.

Awoonor got what he paid for, no tears for Annansi.
Create, loot and share 10 years ago

Yes you have summed up the feelings of many voiceless people who suffered untold hardships as a result of the yorke-gari revolution which was meant to pull down other peoples mansions so ewes could dominate. It serves him rig ...
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Yes you have summed up the feelings of many voiceless people who suffered untold hardships as a result of the yorke-gari revolution which was meant to pull down other peoples mansions so ewes could dominate. It serves him right. You can't kill and burn a nursing mother and go scoot free. Nature will surely pay you in equal measure. You can run but can't hide.
Abongo 10 years ago

Be ready for yours and I can assure you that, more Awonoors are still here. You guys are just lucky that that your idiot Akufo-Addo did not make any wrong move after the election you would have smell the Volta Region. My frie ...
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Be ready for yours and I can assure you that, more Awonoors are still here. You guys are just lucky that that your idiot Akufo-Addo did not make any wrong move after the election you would have smell the Volta Region. My friend,silence means concerned be careful.
frank 10 years ago

now i believed what people are saying about we akans we have a lot of fool in our side

now i believed what people are saying about we akans we have a lot of fool in our side
brussels knowlege 10 years ago

I think You are dreaming that you were ready and wicked minded.Wake up and you will see those who have surrounded you. May heaven rest him peacefully.Prof. thanks for your service

I think You are dreaming that you were ready and wicked minded.Wake up and you will see those who have surrounded you. May heaven rest him peacefully.Prof. thanks for your service
Ayanya 10 years ago

Do you think there are no men in akan regions? You also try the move and you will smell, smell real akan.why didn't the trokosi mafia try during their yorke-gari revolution? Why did they changed their plans to a few selected ...
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Do you think there are no men in akan regions? You also try the move and you will smell, smell real akan.why didn't the trokosi mafia try during their yorke-gari revolution? Why did they changed their plans to a few selected akans? Akan population in other regions and your population in other regions which is the greatest? Even a small zongo community was able to over come and made your chief homeless and you talk about fighting half of Ghana.Look at what hapoened at Ekumfi Otuam and you still talking about your strength in Ghana? You lie bad, try it and see if you have sympathizers in Ghana.
frank 10 years ago

fool

fool
Jingo Bell 10 years ago

Kofi Awoonor does want to be remembered as one of the greatest Ewe tribalist who sought to destroy Akans economic power. I am sure the guy regretted for those comments he made.He wants to go and be forgotten entirely. He does ...
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Kofi Awoonor does want to be remembered as one of the greatest Ewe tribalist who sought to destroy Akans economic power. I am sure the guy regretted for those comments he made.He wants to go and be forgotten entirely. He does not want his grave to remind people of his bigotry. He is trying to save his heirs.

This is a lesson to all. Don't HATE any group of people because of their ethnicity. There is nothing to gain from that. I wish Kofi Awoonor is able to read all these eulogies from Akans.
Some Ewes will say; I don't care. You ust care. Princes Diana died and all over the world people were crying for this lady.

Why? Because he loved people irrespective of where you come from.That is what we should do in Ghana. I hope Kofi Awoonor children and family members will learn a great lesson from their father bigotry life and swear not to hate any ethnic group in this world. In his position, Kofi Awoonor should have been role model for all Ghanaians. However, he was full of hate and Ghanaians have told his story as it is. They did not leave some and did not add some to Kofi Awoonor's story. Let us all learn from this. I am sure Rawlings, Tastsu Tsikata, Kojo Tsikata, Kpegah and the rest will also choose cremation.
Ativor 10 years ago

Perhaps Kofi Awoonor ashes is for Trokosi's rituals. The family is going to pacify trokosi gods with these ashes. Who knows.

Perhaps Kofi Awoonor ashes is for Trokosi's rituals. The family is going to pacify trokosi gods with these ashes. Who knows.
Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 10 years ago

So you get an appointment from the state and develop only a section of the state, precisely your people. Is that nationalism defined per your dictionary. No wonder GT was sold by the wave of one man's hand.

Kudos Prophet

So you get an appointment from the state and develop only a section of the state, precisely your people. Is that nationalism defined per your dictionary. No wonder GT was sold by the wave of one man's hand.

Kudos Prophet
Yaw Mensah 10 years ago

Tell that to the trokosi vermins who rejoice in recounting how Afrifa and Acheampong were killed by these trokosis including Awonoor. Now you smelly pigs are tasting your own medicine. The bigots in Ghana are these lazy jealo ...
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Tell that to the trokosi vermins who rejoice in recounting how Afrifa and Acheampong were killed by these trokosis including Awonoor. Now you smelly pigs are tasting your own medicine. The bigots in Ghana are these lazy jealous trokosi ekoro infested morons.
Mends, The Lone Ranger. 10 years ago

I wonder who paid for the carcass of this bigot to be brought back to Ghana. It was this bigot who advised the chief murderer- Rawlings to liquidate Asantes including Acheampong, Afrifa, Airforce Marshall Yaw Boakye and many ...
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I wonder who paid for the carcass of this bigot to be brought back to Ghana. It was this bigot who advised the chief murderer- Rawlings to liquidate Asantes including Acheampong, Afrifa, Airforce Marshall Yaw Boakye and many others. He also thought by destroying the businesses of Akans including B A Mensah , Tata Brewry, Appiah Menkah and many others his stinking and dirty tribesmen the ewes will rise up to become successful as Akans. I'm very glad about the way he was killed by a hail of gunfire into his belly.
Abongo 10 years ago

It was your kortibotor father. You havent seen anything yet

It was your kortibotor father. You havent seen anything yet
Ayanya 10 years ago

What can you do? Foko? You have no place and ID in Ghana, you infidels and what these extremists are fighting against are infidels.tweeeeeaaaa cowards like you.When Agbeko Kingkong was beating look at how he looked like, he e ...
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What can you do? Foko? You have no place and ID in Ghana, you infidels and what these extremists are fighting against are infidels.tweeeeeaaaa cowards like you.When Agbeko Kingkong was beating look at how he looked like, he even covered his face with shame compare him to Azumah Nelson, Ike Quartey or Nana yaw Konadu they stood as men even in their defeat.
Abongo 10 years ago

Kotibortor shut up, wu hu bon

Kotibortor shut up, wu hu bon
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

EWES DONT LOVE THEMSELVES.PEOPLE SEE TINTED WINDOWS AND THINK THAT EWES LOVE THEMSELVES.
IF EWES LOVE THEMSELVES,THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN CARE OF THEIR NEPHEWS LIKE OTHER TRIBES DO.
DR AWOONOR WILLIAMS UNCLE WHO WAS THE FORMER ...
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EWES DONT LOVE THEMSELVES.PEOPLE SEE TINTED WINDOWS AND THINK THAT EWES LOVE THEMSELVES.
IF EWES LOVE THEMSELVES,THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN CARE OF THEIR NEPHEWS LIKE OTHER TRIBES DO.
DR AWOONOR WILLIAMS UNCLE WHO WAS THE FORMER HEADMASTER OF KETA SECONDARY SCHOOL AND A PROGRESS PARTY SUPPORTER WENT AGAINST GBEDEMAH AND INFORMED HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS ABOUT ARTICLE 71.
THEY USED THAT AGAINST GBEDEMAH.
MOST OF THE KWAME NKRUMAH'S PRESIDENTIAL GUARDS THAT DIED WERE EWES.
CAPTAIN KWASHIGAH WAS AN EWE WHO WENT AGAINST RAWLINGS.
CAPTAIN AVEVOR AND CAPTAIN BOKLOE WERE EWES WHO WERE KILLED BY AKAN MILITARY OFFICERS DURING THE ABORTIVE COUP OF 1967 BUT THE WES NEVER COMPLAINED.
BOAKYE DJAN IS AN AKAN WHO ALSO WAS PART OF THE RAWLINGS COUP BUT THE AKAN BIGOTS ALWAYS LAY THE BLAME ON RAWLINGS.
WHY DONT THEY BLAME ACHEAMPONG OF TAKING POWER FROM BUSIA?
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

Akuapems hooted at Gen. Akufo! Stop this Ewerized nonsense!

Akuapems hooted at Gen. Akufo! Stop this Ewerized nonsense!
I & I 10 years ago

Not only the Akuapims but a time came when Acheampong couldn't go to Kumasi, for his own People loathed him for messing up the country. And to clarify, Acheampong did not overthrow Busia's Government. It was Agbo and Serlomy ...
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Not only the Akuapims but a time came when Acheampong couldn't go to Kumasi, for his own People loathed him for messing up the country. And to clarify, Acheampong did not overthrow Busia's Government. It was Agbo and Serlomy who overthrew Busi's Govrnment and made Acheampond the head because they were ewes who will not be accepted by the General Population.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

I AM HALF EWE AND HALF AKAN.
WHEN A WOMAN FROM GOMOA WAS PLAYING WITH MY MOUSE,I SAID MEVA,MEVA{EWE COME]
AND MEBA,MEBA{AKAN]SHE SMILED AND SAID ITS THE SAME THING LIKE BANKU AND AKPLE,THEY ALL COME FROM CORN.

I AM HALF EWE AND HALF AKAN.
WHEN A WOMAN FROM GOMOA WAS PLAYING WITH MY MOUSE,I SAID MEVA,MEVA{EWE COME]
AND MEBA,MEBA{AKAN]SHE SMILED AND SAID ITS THE SAME THING LIKE BANKU AND AKPLE,THEY ALL COME FROM CORN.
Ayanya 10 years ago

Who care's about you?

Who care's about you?
Jingo Bell 10 years ago

Boakye Gyan ran away from Ewes anger. Rawlings wanted to kill Boakye Gyan. Rawlings did not get Boakye Gyan, and Rawling vent his anger on Kyereme Gyan. How could a mere Ghanaian student plan to overthrow a military governmen ...
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Boakye Gyan ran away from Ewes anger. Rawlings wanted to kill Boakye Gyan. Rawlings did not get Boakye Gyan, and Rawling vent his anger on Kyereme Gyan. How could a mere Ghanaian student plan to overthrow a military government. That was the charge of Kyereme Gyan. Ewes are no good people. Accept that.

Rawlings thought he would hold power for ever. Even though John Mahama is the president, the security apparatus are controlled by Rawlings and Kojo Tsikata. Why are Ewes still controlling security apparatus of Ghana? They are scared to death. Ewes are scared of their own shadow. Akans will never revenge, Ewes know that. Akans are peaceful people.

My point is, do Ewes think they will control security apparatus in Ghana forever? No! Things will change in future. LOVE ALL and treat each equal, and relief yourself from the scare of retribution. Why are most Akans writing all these things about Kofi Awoonor? He really hated Akans. Awoonor has got a deserving negative eulogy from Akans. He lived a life of hate against a whole ethnic group. You don't do that and expect to be loved by those people. Awoonor was seriously determined to destroy Akans economic power.Akans saw Ewes destroying Appiah Menka, Siaw's Tata Brewery and many more Akans businesses. This is why Akans hate the cream of Ewe society who managed Ewes revolution against Akans. It is not that Akans hate Ewes.

More Ewes live in Akan areas than the Ewes in Volta region. Ask those Ewes and let them tell you their relationship with Akans in Akans own land. It is perfect. Have Ewes migrated to Akan areas and have gone back to live in Volta Region again? The answer is NO!!! For Akans treat Ewes as human beings in Akan land.

What did Akans do to Rawlings and people like Kofi Awoonor that Ewe cream of society hate Akans?
Prophet 10 years ago

You love to glorify yourself, have you forgotten those killed in all the revolutions starting from the time Nkrumah was overthrown till Rawlings emerged on the scene?

Do you want to tell us that there were no lives lost t ...
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You love to glorify yourself, have you forgotten those killed in all the revolutions starting from the time Nkrumah was overthrown till Rawlings emerged on the scene?

Do you want to tell us that there were no lives lost throughout those coups? I believed you have forgotten about them because the killings were perpetrated by Akan revolutionaries and so those lives lost didnt matter.

Have you forgotten how a thief killed a Fante chief somewhere in the central and all of a sudden hell broke loose on Ewes due to long held prejudices and suspicions that predates Rawlings where some Ewes got killed until the thief was caught?

Have you forgotten about the Akans who led Rawlings and encouraged him to go after their fellow Akan business men and military men they had personal scores to settle with? And Imature buga Rawlings went like a fool and did what they wanted him to do.

Check the fact and backgrouds and roles of PV Obeng, Konadu, the Ahoi brothers, Totobi Kwakye, Ohene Kena among other Akans whiles the venom continues to pour on Ewes.

The sad part is very little can be done to persuade people to change from long held prejudices. You come here everyday pouring venom on Ewes yet you worship with them in the same churches, leave with them, befriend them, goes through the daily challenges of life with them for years and yet you continued to live because they didnt kill you as you were told yet you believed dearly what you had been told by your elders.

How sad!

Thanks to Rawlings!
Jingo Bell 10 years ago

Prophet, just continue to fabricate to justify Ewes atrocities against Akans. Read my post very well. I said that there are more Ewes living in Akan areas than Ewes in Volta Region. The Akans have perfect relationship with th ...
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Prophet, just continue to fabricate to justify Ewes atrocities against Akans. Read my post very well. I said that there are more Ewes living in Akan areas than Ewes in Volta Region. The Akans have perfect relationship with those Ewes. Ask your own Ewes living in Akan areas whether they have been ever threatened because of Ewes attrocities against Akans during Ewes revolution. Your own Ewes living in Akan areas will tell you how peaceful Akans are. That does not make me glorify myself. Don't you like to hear truth? That is the truth I told you.
ABINAPODOI 10 years ago

master forget about these idiot and selfish ewes, we will wipe them out in no time should they make any attempt. Dont talk peace with them becos they are the most inferior tribe and have nothing to boast of in their region. ...
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master forget about these idiot and selfish ewes, we will wipe them out in no time should they make any attempt. Dont talk peace with them becos they are the most inferior tribe and have nothing to boast of in their region. Fire burn Awunor in hell!
Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 10 years ago

Was in same University with Kyereme Gjan. on several occasiions, we tried to warn him to desist from his dangerous utterances. He never listened.

When Schools were closed down as a result of unruly leadership roles by Henr ...
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Was in same University with Kyereme Gjan. on several occasiions, we tried to warn him to desist from his dangerous utterances. He never listened.

When Schools were closed down as a result of unruly leadership roles by Henry Djab, I was shocked to hear that Kyeremeh Djan regfused to heed advice and was still pursuing his anti-PNDC campaign even on Togolese soil.

Djan had himself to blame. I do not pity him, moreso when he was at the forefront to kill all Ewe speaking students at KNUST on a predetermined date and time. It was only God that saved innocent students from unneccessary bloodshed.
Jingo Bell 10 years ago

Do you kill a student for his freedom of speech? If that is the case, Rawlings would have been killed by Kuffour and Atta Mills administrations for his unrespected and unrepentant speeches during these two administration. The ...
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Do you kill a student for his freedom of speech? If that is the case, Rawlings would have been killed by Kuffour and Atta Mills administrations for his unrespected and unrepentant speeches during these two administration. They ignored him and he is living eating 'akwele and okro soup' and 'yokor gari' everyday.

Rawlings and his PNDC dominated by Ewes killed Kyereme Gyan because of their anger against stupid and foolish Boakye Gyan. Nothing else. Purely hatred on the part of that Rawlings.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

RAWLINGS AND TSHIKATA'S WIFE ARE AKANS SO YOU ARE A BIGOT YOURSELF.
AWOONOR DON'T WANT STRANGERS LIKE YOU IN HIS FUNERAL SO HE DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN WHETHER AKANS OR EWE BIGOTS LIKE YOU COME TO HIS FUNERAL WITH YOUR SORRY ASS ...
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RAWLINGS AND TSHIKATA'S WIFE ARE AKANS SO YOU ARE A BIGOT YOURSELF.
AWOONOR DON'T WANT STRANGERS LIKE YOU IN HIS FUNERAL SO HE DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN WHETHER AKANS OR EWE BIGOTS LIKE YOU COME TO HIS FUNERAL WITH YOUR SORRY ASS.
Jingo Bell 10 years ago

I don't even have time to waste on this Ewe bigot's funeral. We are at home reflecting on what these Ewes have done to us. All what we say always is that we give it to God. Natural justice for Ewes injustices against Akans wi ...
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I don't even have time to waste on this Ewe bigot's funeral. We are at home reflecting on what these Ewes have done to us. All what we say always is that we give it to God. Natural justice for Ewes injustices against Akans will take its own course. Those Ewes leaders who plotted the destruction of Akans and their businesses will go to hell the same Kofi Awoonor has gone. Right now, Kofi Awonor is basking in the lake of fires in hell for his wickedness against humanity.
Abongo 10 years ago

You are fools to make a nephew inherit you leaving your own children. Are you not ashamed to say this. You are not sercumsised so you can not think right

You are fools to make a nephew inherit you leaving your own children. Are you not ashamed to say this. You are not sercumsised so you can not think right
frank 10 years ago

prophet of shit

prophet of shit
tony 10 years ago

I am pretty sure you are one those blakies descendants from the Gorillas of Ashanti deep forests. This is the reason we, proud Ewe (hanson & beautiful with fair skin)hate you akans & ashantis: we have decided not to you Ashan ...
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I am pretty sure you are one those blakies descendants from the Gorillas of Ashanti deep forests. This is the reason we, proud Ewe (hanson & beautiful with fair skin)hate you akans & ashantis: we have decided not to you Ashantis to continue to kill us like those bastards of afrifa & co killed my uncle Gen Kotoka like an akuko (chicken). Never it won’t happen again and you hadn't see anything with Fo Rawlings, Foga Tsikata the elder and lawyer Tsatsu who just won the third round of judgment against the ashantis in the recent election petition. ashantis have proved to the whole world that they are unintelligent (having not eaten fish for its oil) by pushing their tribal party to go to court for an election soundly fair. We will damn & confront you from any corner. My advice to you is to stop eating monkey (nam) your close parents, for male gorillas from the forest have fathered your great ancestors because of low count sperm. Stop eating okissinam and other bush meats. As you came to steal all the lands in Accra from those other bastards Gaa, try to eat more fish for its oil so your kids will be genus learning krata (paper) like the Awoonors, Tsikatas, Anyidohos. Go learn your history, blackie okuafo (not kuffor) abuafo. Your origin is in south Soudan if you don’t know, go learn about your legend and history . No more Kotoka style killing.
Gye Nyame 10 years ago

I expect the security agencies to provide some do's and don'ts in "hot spots" like Kenya etc. to such prominent people during their travels.

The lesson learned from this is that no one is immune to such senseless violence ...
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I expect the security agencies to provide some do's and don'ts in "hot spots" like Kenya etc. to such prominent people during their travels.

The lesson learned from this is that no one is immune to such senseless violence and that our African leaders should wake up to join forces to fight terrorism. It is not a Kenyan or a Somali problem anymore because anyone can be caught in the crossfires. This should not have happened.
yaa fremah 10 years ago

why so much noise and state publicity about prof Awoonor? even our late vice president Alhaji Aliu Mahama didnt get dis state recognition and why Prof Atta Mills funeral cloth worn during the arrival of Awoonor?

Eii politi ...
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why so much noise and state publicity about prof Awoonor? even our late vice president Alhaji Aliu Mahama didnt get dis state recognition and why Prof Atta Mills funeral cloth worn during the arrival of Awoonor?

Eii politics paaa nia
am pee 10 years ago

this is crazy. ghanaians should think about something better.

this is crazy. ghanaians should think about something better.
ASEMPA NEYE 10 years ago

THE LAW OF KARMA.
HE ENJOYED THE SLAUGHTERING OF FORMER HEAD OF STATES AND SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS ALL EXCEPT ONE EWE
HE EVEN THOUGHT AND COUNTED AMEDUME AS AN EWE

THE LAW OF KARMA.
HE ENJOYED THE SLAUGHTERING OF FORMER HEAD OF STATES AND SENIOR MILITARY OFFICERS ALL EXCEPT ONE EWE
HE EVEN THOUGHT AND COUNTED AMEDUME AS AN EWE
Koforidua Flowers (fr) 10 years ago

When IS a written WILL of a deseased person read? The composition of the Team that MET and received the mortal remains of the late Kofi from Kenya was interesting including koku anyidoho.Kofi knew what he was about and theref ...
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When IS a written WILL of a deseased person read? The composition of the Team that MET and received the mortal remains of the late Kofi from Kenya was interesting including koku anyidoho.Kofi knew what he was about and therefore,we look forward to seeing his ashes buried at a place by his own will,maybe somewhere in Ashanti Region.Another ndc believer is going home.
Kabaka 10 years ago

Farew these well Kofi

Farew these well Kofi
Abongo 10 years ago

Let us read about your biography. Your biography is all about eating rat shit soup with fufu.

Let us read about your biography. Your biography is all about eating rat shit soup with fufu.
Ayanya 10 years ago

Who need's this useless biography? After all he is dead, he never thought of death but now he is going to face(1) Dr.Nkrumah, (2) Gen.Acheampong (3) Gen.Akufo (3) Gen.Afrifa, (4) Gen.Odartey Wellington (5) col.Kotei (6) col.F ...
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Who need's this useless biography? After all he is dead, he never thought of death but now he is going to face(1) Dr.Nkrumah, (2) Gen.Acheampong (3) Gen.Akufo (3) Gen.Afrifa, (4) Gen.Odartey Wellington (5) col.Kotei (6) col.Felli (7) Air vice mar.Joy Amedome (8) col.Eutuka (9) maj.Enninful the three high court judges which one is from my home town and all Ghanaians who lost their lives during this bogus ewe hegemony syndrume may they all recieve this man with the same measure they used for them.
frank 10 years ago

am also akan but let me tell you . you are very stupib

am also akan but let me tell you . you are very stupib
NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

AWONOOR!

My Neutral view:

Why are you people 'GLOATING' at the death of your fellow country man, irrespective of your differences? Do you people, AssShantis knows when you or any of your so-called leaders including your ...
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AWONOOR!

My Neutral view:

Why are you people 'GLOATING' at the death of your fellow country man, irrespective of your differences? Do you people, AssShantis knows when you or any of your so-called leaders including your Asshantene gonna end? Maybe by PLANE OR CAR CRASH, who knows! Trust me, as you point accusing fingers at people when they are down, four are pointing to you EVIL ASSHANTIS. Mark my words.

I'M A NIGERIAN, BUT I SAY RIP TO THE LATE PROFESSOR AWONOOR. I WISH YOUR FAMILY THE FORTITUDE TO BARE THE GREAT LOSS OF YOUR LOVE ONE, AND TO DECENT GHANAIANS...., SORRY FOR THE PAIN OF THE DEMISED OF ONE OF GHANA'S GREAT INTELLECTUALS. HIS DEATH IS NOT A LOST TO GHANA IN PARTICULAR, BUT TO AFRICA IN GENERAL. RIP PROF.
NIGERIANS ARE PIGS 10 years ago

MADA FUCKER ANIMAL NIGERIAN GET A FUCK; WHY ARE U IN GHANA BECAUSE UR USELESS NATION IS UNDER FIRE FOOL:

MADA FUCKER ANIMAL NIGERIAN GET A FUCK; WHY ARE U IN GHANA BECAUSE UR USELESS NATION IS UNDER FIRE FOOL:
Concerned 10 years ago

Your point about never gloating is a very important one. We should all express sympathy to the bereaved family.
However, Kofi Papabi's point about this man prescribing death for other leaders cannot be condemned totally as ...
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Your point about never gloating is a very important one. We should all express sympathy to the bereaved family.
However, Kofi Papabi's point about this man prescribing death for other leaders cannot be condemned totally as clearly we should be wishing the best for our fellow man at all times. Human wickedness in any form or shape cannot be condoned or overlooked.
I sincerely wish his family my best wishes and hopefully these terrorist have shown us we have a common enemy/destiny and our differences insignificant.
Kojo T 10 years ago

1979mwas a military affair. You guys mix up events especially when you are emotional

1979mwas a military affair. You guys mix up events especially when you are emotional
Abuja 10 years ago

Thank you Memesis. These Ashanti tribalist, who thinks they are more Ghanaians than other, they will die by fire in their homes.

Thank you Memesis. These Ashanti tribalist, who thinks they are more Ghanaians than other, they will die by fire in their homes.
ASEMPA NEYE 10 years ago

SHAME ON YOU. AWOONOR IS GOING STRAIT TO HELL FOR HIS PART IN THE JUNE 4TH REVOLUTION

SHAME ON YOU. AWOONOR IS GOING STRAIT TO HELL FOR HIS PART IN THE JUNE 4TH REVOLUTION
ASEMPA NEYE 10 years ago

A MASTERMIND IN THE JUNE 4TH REVOLUTION.
THIS IS THE LAW OF KARMA WORKING

A MASTERMIND IN THE JUNE 4TH REVOLUTION.
THIS IS THE LAW OF KARMA WORKING
Ken Mensah 10 years ago

Welcome home, 'Danyevi"..

Welcome home, 'Danyevi"..
SON OF JESUS 10 years ago

THE WICKED SHALL PERISH BITTERLY

THE WICKED SHALL PERISH BITTERLY
ibm 10 years ago

I never thought dis man will go dat way. My dad nd I went 2him in 1998{he was a Presidential aide] at his house 2help me get a job. what came out of him, nd I quote 'u can take a horse to 2d river, but you can't force it to d ...
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I never thought dis man will go dat way. My dad nd I went 2him in 1998{he was a Presidential aide] at his house 2help me get a job. what came out of him, nd I quote 'u can take a horse to 2d river, but you can't force it to drink the water. I didn't get the job AND 15years on, yesterday I became a British Citizen by naturalisation. Its God who keep watch over us and not ppl like this man. go and drink the water in hell
NII 10 years ago

when Socrates was asked how he wanted his body disposed after his death, his response was "I don't care how you disposed of the my body because I will not be there". Congratulations on your becoming a British citizen but if 1 ...
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when Socrates was asked how he wanted his body disposed after his death, his response was "I don't care how you disposed of the my body because I will not be there". Congratulations on your becoming a British citizen but if 15yrs is not enough for you to get over a failed attempt to lobby for a job from this former public officer then u will never recover from this. The struggles of this life don't mean anything to him now.
boateng, NPP, Italy 10 years ago

Great man, welcome home damirifa due, may the good lord keep you safely.

Great man, welcome home damirifa due, may the good lord keep you safely.
J.ZAGURU. 10 years ago

As one Liberian friend said, GHANAIANS BEHAVE LIKE UNCIVILISE FOOLS by their utterances(Nigerians are in a class of their own). Referring to ALL GHANAIANS BE THEY Gas, Ashantis,Ewes, Dagartis, Fantis, Brongs, Akuapims, Akims, ...
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As one Liberian friend said, GHANAIANS BEHAVE LIKE UNCIVILISE FOOLS by their utterances(Nigerians are in a class of their own). Referring to ALL GHANAIANS BE THEY Gas, Ashantis,Ewes, Dagartis, Fantis, Brongs, Akuapims, Akims, Nzimas, Frafras,Efutus and one can buttress this assertion from the comments on this Ghana Web site article.

Every comment on this has an inkling to denegrade the comment be it from the highly educated grammarian-writer or 'broken-english' comment.

At times I wonder why God/nature created BLACK PEOPLE to behave like this.
e.g.1..."you can take the horse to the river but....". If the father can not provide his son job, can Kofi Awoonor do so and if Kofi/prez. can provide jobs as renown writers, Ghanaians would not be globe-trotting for their livelihood.
e.g.2. "....is good Nana AKUFFO Addo stayed quiet. If not....." I WILL DIE WITH YOU is an expression of a FOOL. What do you gain from the battle field? IF YOUR BRAINS CAN NOT SETTLE YOUR CASE, FIGHTING WOULD NOT else June 4, Nazist, Spanish, September Pino Revolutions would have BROUGHT PEACE TO MANKIND yet the struggle to survive still continues in Ghana,etc.

SILENCE IS THE BEST MEDICINE TO HIDE ONE'S IGNORANCE AND STUPIDITY...and Ghanaians always expose theirs. WHEN WILL THEY ALL GROW UP TO MAKE THE COUNTRY BETTER FOR THEMSELVES?
J.Z.
Ayanya 10 years ago

Who cares about your adopted name.why do ewes like the akan name Boateng? Is there any unique in it?

Who cares about your adopted name.why do ewes like the akan name Boateng? Is there any unique in it?
ASANTE 10 years ago

KOFI PAPABI YOU ARE A FOOL YOU WILL BE NEXT.

KOFI PAPABI YOU ARE A FOOL YOU WILL BE NEXT.
MAHAMA 10 years ago

AND U WON;T U DIE TOO ASS HOLE:

AND U WON;T U DIE TOO ASS HOLE:
Kofi K, London 10 years ago

Why do you find it convenient to exclude his book "The Ghana Revolution" (1984) from his list of publications?
Because it highlights his factionalist character.

Why do you find it convenient to exclude his book "The Ghana Revolution" (1984) from his list of publications?
Because it highlights his factionalist character.
AHMED JACOB 10 years ago

Dzogbese Lisa has treated me thus

It has led me among the sharps of the forest

Returning is not possible

And going forward is a great difficulty

The affairs of this world are like the chameleon faeces

Into whic ...
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Dzogbese Lisa has treated me thus

It has led me among the sharps of the forest

Returning is not possible

And going forward is a great difficulty

The affairs of this world are like the chameleon faeces

Into which I have stepped

When I clean it cannot go.......

Something has happened to me

The things so great that I cannot weep;

I have no sons to fire the gun when I die

And no daughter to wail when I close my mouth

I have wandered on the wilderness

The great wilderness men call life

The rain has beaten me,

And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives

I shall go beyond and rest.

I have no kin and no brother,

Death has made war upon our house;

And Kpeti’s great household is no more,

Only the broken fence stands;

And those who dared not look in his face

Have come out as men.

How well their pride is with them.

Let those gone before take note

They have treated their offspring badly.

What is the wailing for?

Somebody is dead. Agosu himself Alas! a snake has bitten me

My right arm is broken,

And the tree on which I lean is fallen.

Agosi if you go tell them,

Tell Nyidevu, Kpeti, and Kove

That they have done us evil;

Tell them their house is falling

And the trees in the fence

Have been eaten by termites;

Ask them why they idle there

While we suffer, and eat sand.

And the crow and the vulture

Hover always above our broken fences

And strangers walk over our portion.
AHMED JACOB 10 years ago

You write such poems and you do EVIL???? You are definitely not a statesman!!!!

You write such poems and you do EVIL???? You are definitely not a statesman!!!!
AHMED JACOB 10 years ago

"Let those gone before take note

They have treated their offspring badly.

What is the wailing for?"

This is what Awoonor wrote in one of his poems

"Let those gone before take note

They have treated their offspring badly.

What is the wailing for?"

This is what Awoonor wrote in one of his poems
PDCMAN 10 years ago

Kofi Awoonor lived a life full of hate and intolerance against the Akan people and Asante in particular to the extent that he together with Rawlings used state machinery and power to victimise the people of Asante and mounted ...
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Kofi Awoonor lived a life full of hate and intolerance against the Akan people and Asante in particular to the extent that he together with Rawlings used state machinery and power to victimise the people of Asante and mounted vicious campaign to get all other tribes against Asante,and went on to form NDC and enshrined in its spirit avowed hatred for Asante.
This man is today killed by people who live life full of hatred and intolerance.
Is this coincidence or the law of course and effect at work?
Maame Grace. 10 years ago

But then his wife is an Ashanti which means he has Ashante children. So why could he hate Ashantes that much, even the son that was with him is an Ashante.

But then his wife is an Ashanti which means he has Ashante children. So why could he hate Ashantes that much, even the son that was with him is an Ashante.
. ...... 10 years ago

AN EPILEPTIC WOMAN WHO CANNOT FIND À HUSBAND ALWAYS MARRY SOMEONE LIKE KOFI AWOONOR SHOW ME NORMAL ASHANTI
WOMAN WITH # 9 HUSBAND NONE.

AN EPILEPTIC WOMAN WHO CANNOT FIND À HUSBAND ALWAYS MARRY SOMEONE LIKE KOFI AWOONOR SHOW ME NORMAL ASHANTI
WOMAN WITH # 9 HUSBAND NONE.
Vicky 10 years ago

The normal ones are prostitues in Ivory Coast. One of the epilectics married JJ.

The normal ones are prostitues in Ivory Coast. One of the epilectics married JJ.
JK 10 years ago

Only fools talk anyhow cos they must say something.As 4 a wiseman his words are expensive cos not everyone can say same, even so by quoting. PROF. RIP

Only fools talk anyhow cos they must say something.As 4 a wiseman his words are expensive cos not everyone can say same, even so by quoting. PROF. RIP
Ayanya 10 years ago

Your women are more than them and one begat JJ Rawlings.I know a host of them who are being used by Ashantimen in the USA they feel proud to move with them, and a host of ewemen being jilted by Ashanti ladies.Kwasia.

Your women are more than them and one begat JJ Rawlings.I know a host of them who are being used by Ashantimen in the USA they feel proud to move with them, and a host of ewemen being jilted by Ashanti ladies.Kwasia.
. ...... 10 years ago

KOFI AWOONOR FUI/TSATSU TSIKATA,AKRASI SARPONG THESE ANIMALS HEADED AWONAFOR KANGALOO PUBLIC TRABUNAL THAT MURDERED GHANAIANS.HE WILL ROT IN HELL OF FIRE.À MAN WHO TAKES GUN ALWAYS DIE WITH GUN

KOFI AWOONOR FUI/TSATSU TSIKATA,AKRASI SARPONG THESE ANIMALS HEADED AWONAFOR KANGALOO PUBLIC TRABUNAL THAT MURDERED GHANAIANS.HE WILL ROT IN HELL OF FIRE.À MAN WHO TAKES GUN ALWAYS DIE WITH GUN
Kofi Kofi 10 years ago

You a spot-on, my brother.

You a spot-on, my brother.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

DR Awoonor Williams was not arrested for helping Rawlings in 1975.
He was arrested for helping Brigadier Kattah.Rawling did not come to the scene till 1979.

DR Awoonor Williams was not arrested for helping Rawlings in 1975.
He was arrested for helping Brigadier Kattah.Rawling did not come to the scene till 1979.
yaaahooloo 10 years ago

Why hate this man so much when non of those writing ill about him do not really know him. Kofi Awoonor never help j.j . his man was a very nice and principle man like any ewe father,those of you who do not know him should che ...
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Why hate this man so much when non of those writing ill about him do not really know him. Kofi Awoonor never help j.j . his man was a very nice and principle man like any ewe father,those of you who do not know him should check your fact before spilling out garbage .death await all of us ,as to how it come or meet us is only know to GOD .can we say all who die in road accident ,war, stadium disasters etc and to be accuse wrongly. let be careful of what we write for we never know our. turn. For I the the God watches over all men.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

WHEN PRINCESS DIANNA DIED IN A TERRIBLE ACIDENT,THE BRITISH DID NOT WRITE GARBAGE ABOUT HIM.

WHEN PRINCESS DIANNA DIED IN A TERRIBLE ACIDENT,THE BRITISH DID NOT WRITE GARBAGE ABOUT HIM.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

CORRECTION.
THE BRITISH DID NOT WRITE GABBAGE ABOUT HER.THE WORST OF ALL SOME PEOPLE SAID WHEN HE WAS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA HE DID NOT OFFER AKANS ADMISSION TO THE COLLEGE.
ITS ABIG LIE BECAUSE DR AWOONOR WILLIAMS BROT ...
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CORRECTION.
THE BRITISH DID NOT WRITE GABBAGE ABOUT HER.THE WORST OF ALL SOME PEOPLE SAID WHEN HE WAS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA HE DID NOT OFFER AKANS ADMISSION TO THE COLLEGE.
ITS ABIG LIE BECAUSE DR AWOONOR WILLIAMS BROTHER JOHN WENT TO SCHOOL IN RUSSIA.
IF HE HAD INFLUENCE IN THE SCHOOL,HE WOULD HAVE GONE TO SCHOOL IN GHANA.
PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW THE MAN JUST WRITE TRASH ABOUT HIM.
Ayanya 10 years ago

Is Kofi Awoonor a prince of Ghana? Don't compare this man to lady Dianah who was loved by all in the world, each one of us will be judged by our actions on earth.what is written on earth is written in heaven so if people say ...
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Is Kofi Awoonor a prince of Ghana? Don't compare this man to lady Dianah who was loved by all in the world, each one of us will be judged by our actions on earth.what is written on earth is written in heaven so if people say good things about you on earth it goes straight to heaven if it is bad it is rejected in heaven. Do good on earth to earn you a good name.David Lamptey passed away and nobody talked bad about him on this website why Kofi Awoonor? There is something wrong somewhere.
ABU 10 years ago

The one man one machete planned coup of Tsikata during the Kutu Acheampong's military regime figuring one Gbagblaja,i could vividly recall.

The one man one machete planned coup of Tsikata during the Kutu Acheampong's military regime figuring one Gbagblaja,i could vividly recall.
Kojo T 10 years ago

They are ignorant and make statements as gospel facts .

They are ignorant and make statements as gospel facts .
Kodjo 10 years ago

I wonder how many of you ignoramuses commenting on Prof. Awoonor's work have ACTUALLY read any of them? Please read them before making any judgement on the man's character. I am an Akan, not an Asante, but I cannot deny the s ...
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I wonder how many of you ignoramuses commenting on Prof. Awoonor's work have ACTUALLY read any of them? Please read them before making any judgement on the man's character. I am an Akan, not an Asante, but I cannot deny the superiority complex Akans, especially Asantes, have shown towards our fellow Ghanaians. Identifying it and commenting on it doesn't make one a bigot. We as Ghanaians need to face up to our checkered past, accept one another and work together for a better future. Those who have spewed vileness today have only betrayed their inability to confront the prejudices inside all of us. Prof did, and that is why I celebrate his life today!!
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

THE BIGOTS WROTE MANY LIES ABOUT THE PROFESSOR.SOME PEOPLE SAID WHEN HE WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA,HE DID NOT ALLOW AKANS TO ATTEND THE SCHOOL.
IF HE HAD THAT INFLUENCE,HIS BROTHER WOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO MEDICAL SCHOOL I ...
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THE BIGOTS WROTE MANY LIES ABOUT THE PROFESSOR.SOME PEOPLE SAID WHEN HE WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA,HE DID NOT ALLOW AKANS TO ATTEND THE SCHOOL.
IF HE HAD THAT INFLUENCE,HIS BROTHER WOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO MEDICAL SCHOOL IN RUSSIA.
kobee 10 years ago

may ur soul rest in perfect peace

may ur soul rest in perfect peace
Ofei Nimpong 10 years ago

If Kofi Awoonor had apologised for his distasteful and divisive statements in his book, I would have doffed my hat to him. His philosophy was repugnant.

But he was UNREPENTANT

HE was arrogant

He was full of impunity
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If Kofi Awoonor had apologised for his distasteful and divisive statements in his book, I would have doffed my hat to him. His philosophy was repugnant.

But he was UNREPENTANT

HE was arrogant

He was full of impunity

In other words he died in his sin

Heavens have no place for such a moron.

GHANA HAS NOT LOST ANYTHING
Tettey 10 years ago

True Ghana has not lost anything valuable

True Ghana has not lost anything valuable
Kaya 10 years ago

I agree with you. He did not help uniting Akans and our brothers and sisters from the Volta Region. However, let God judge him as we all have our short comings.

I agree with you. He did not help uniting Akans and our brothers and sisters from the Volta Region. However, let God judge him as we all have our short comings.
Akpaklika Mewua Lo Ode 10 years ago

Why should he apologise for your wrongful accusation?

Why should he apologise for your wrongful accusation?
...... 10 years ago

WITHOUT ANY REASON.UTUKA WAS MURDERED FOR WHAT REASON?DOGS GO REASON.

WITHOUT ANY REASON.UTUKA WAS MURDERED FOR WHAT REASON?DOGS GO REASON.
ASEM BEBADEBI 10 years ago

suprisingly demons have began politicising and tribalising prof awoonor`s death.the devil is a liar.on behalf of peace loving ghanaians i wish the wife and the family members well.may GOD be with them throughout this had time ...
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suprisingly demons have began politicising and tribalising prof awoonor`s death.the devil is a liar.on behalf of peace loving ghanaians i wish the wife and the family members well.may GOD be with them throughout this had times.
ASEM BEBADEBI 10 years ago

suprisingly demons have began politicising and tribalising prof awoonor`s death.the devil is a liar.on behalf of peace loving ghanaians i wish the wife and the family members well.may GOD be with them throughout this had time ...
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suprisingly demons have began politicising and tribalising prof awoonor`s death.the devil is a liar.on behalf of peace loving ghanaians i wish the wife and the family members well.may GOD be with them throughout this had times.
Emmanuel Quaye 10 years ago

He was arrested in conection with an allegation that he was trying to assist Brig.A.K.Kattah not Rawlings.Check your history.

He was arrested in conection with an allegation that he was trying to assist Brig.A.K.Kattah not Rawlings.Check your history.
Baby 10 years ago

NDC

NDC
Nana C 10 years ago

According to this publication, Prof. wrote in his Will that his remains must not be viewed by strangers. Who are the strangers our dear Prof. is referring to?

According to this publication, Prof. wrote in his Will that his remains must not be viewed by strangers. Who are the strangers our dear Prof. is referring to?
NOKWARE YE DE 10 years ago

Of course, Asantes (Akans).

Of course, Asantes (Akans).
Akon 10 years ago

That no strangers be made to see his Body??? who are the strangers?

Hasn't that wish been violated already by the Kenyans who handled him when he got shot?

Don't wish for what you have no control of.

RIP Prof.

That no strangers be made to see his Body??? who are the strangers?

Hasn't that wish been violated already by the Kenyans who handled him when he got shot?

Don't wish for what you have no control of.

RIP Prof.
Create, loot and share 10 years ago

Still a tribal bigot even in death. Do we have strangers in Ghana. His doors are still closed to non-ewes.

Still a tribal bigot even in death. Do we have strangers in Ghana. His doors are still closed to non-ewes.
Nana C 10 years ago

Per the poet’s wishes, as contained in his will, his body is not to be seen by strangers.

Who are these strangers?

Per the poet’s wishes, as contained in his will, his body is not to be seen by strangers.

Who are these strangers?
ASEMPA NEYE 10 years ago

A TOGOLESE BY BIRTH HE STOOD AT THE SIDE OF RAWLINGS AND SAID THAT THE MISSION OF THE REVOLUTION WAS TO TAKE AWAY AKAN INFLUENCE IN GHANA ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTIS.
IN HIS BOOK HE SAID THAT HE IS AND EWE FIEST BEFORE BEING A G ...
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A TOGOLESE BY BIRTH HE STOOD AT THE SIDE OF RAWLINGS AND SAID THAT THE MISSION OF THE REVOLUTION WAS TO TAKE AWAY AKAN INFLUENCE IN GHANA ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTIS.
IN HIS BOOK HE SAID THAT HE IS AND EWE FIEST BEFORE BEING A GHANAIAN
alajo man 10 years ago

yes this is why we love him and your father will not get this love till he die, your father is a BIG fool and born you to be a fool so you are

yes this is why we love him and your father will not get this love till he die, your father is a BIG fool and born you to be a fool so you are
ASEMPA NEYE 10 years ago

THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH AND THE LAW OF KARMA IS SURELY TRUE.
AWOONOE THE SONE OF A TOGOLESE WAS REJOICING WHEN JJ AND AND HES HENCHMEN WERE MURDERING FULL BLOOD GHANAINS
OTHERS WILL FOLLOW

THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH AND THE LAW OF KARMA IS SURELY TRUE.
AWOONOE THE SONE OF A TOGOLESE WAS REJOICING WHEN JJ AND AND HES HENCHMEN WERE MURDERING FULL BLOOD GHANAINS
OTHERS WILL FOLLOW
Kofi Kofi 10 years ago

A popular saying in Nigeria says: 'Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish'

A popular saying in Nigeria says: 'Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish'
mr Tina 10 years ago

Dont just open your mouth and give any comment that comes into your mind. Tribalism will not takes us anywhere. Insults are not democracy but it is only fools who sees insult as freedom of speech.

Dont just open your mouth and give any comment that comes into your mind. Tribalism will not takes us anywhere. Insults are not democracy but it is only fools who sees insult as freedom of speech.
Edem 10 years ago

Ghana has lost a great man.our condolence to the family and the whole nation.

Ghana has lost a great man.our condolence to the family and the whole nation.
jerry John Brown 10 years ago

Mr Tina, well said. ghana need people like you.

Mr Tina, well said. ghana need people like you.
Kofi Kofi 10 years ago

Your grammar is not good

Your grammar is not good
Tsintsinbir 10 years ago

What about the book on Ewe Hegemony in Ghana? Inciting Ewes to take over and rule Ghana because they have been supposedly sidelined for far too long. Why are people afraid to metion that book?

What about the book on Ewe Hegemony in Ghana? Inciting Ewes to take over and rule Ghana because they have been supposedly sidelined for far too long. Why are people afraid to metion that book?
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

It happens that his body is dismembered. We can understand that:

"Per the poet’s wishes, as contained in his will, his body is not to be seen by strangers."

It happens that his body is dismembered. We can understand that:

"Per the poet’s wishes, as contained in his will, his body is not to be seen by strangers."
Tom 10 years ago

A good statesman, as he claims, will not state this in his will. This statement should throw more light to the hidden inner character of this man.Who are the strangers and why would you not allow them see you if you had done ...
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A good statesman, as he claims, will not state this in his will. This statement should throw more light to the hidden inner character of this man.Who are the strangers and why would you not allow them see you if you had done a great job?
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

MANY EWES AND AKANS ARE STRANGERS THAT CANNOT SEE THE BODY.

Mr. Akadu was a 100year old man with Alzheimer's who lived in a nursing home. One day he came out of his room, tracked down the nearest nurse, and said, "My penis ...
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MANY EWES AND AKANS ARE STRANGERS THAT CANNOT SEE THE BODY.

Mr. Akadu was a 100year old man with Alzheimer's who lived in a nursing home. One day he came out of his room, tracked down the nearest nurse, and said, "My penis is dead!"
The nurse kindly replied, "I'm sorry to hear that, Mr. Jones, but it happens all the time with men your age."
The very next day, Mr. Jones came out of his room with his penis sticking out of his pants and wandered up and down the hall. The same nurse saw him and said, "Mr. Jones, I thought you told me that your penis was dead."
He said, "I did - but today is the viewing."
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

MR AKADU I AM SORRY TO USE YOUR NAME BUT
USED MR JONES INSTEAD.

MR AKADU I AM SORRY TO USE YOUR NAME BUT
USED MR JONES INSTEAD.
.com 10 years ago

Really, is all this necessary, all this insulting May his soul rest in perfect peace my heart goes out to his family

Really, is all this necessary, all this insulting May his soul rest in perfect peace my heart goes out to his family
Koforidua Flowers (fr) 10 years ago

WELCOME KOFI, FAREWELL AWOONOR AND REST IN PEACE PROF.

WELCOME KOFI, FAREWELL AWOONOR AND REST IN PEACE PROF.
ZIBLIM AMINU 10 years ago

MAY HIM REST IN PEACE

MAY HIM REST IN PEACE
NOKWARE YE DE 10 years ago

Surely, Kofi did not want any Asantes to see his dead body. Such a sight would have given his arch enemies to recount what is recorded in Isaiah 14 about the fate of Lucifer. Even in death Kofi was unrepentant. However, Ko ...
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Surely, Kofi did not want any Asantes to see his dead body. Such a sight would have given his arch enemies to recount what is recorded in Isaiah 14 about the fate of Lucifer. Even in death Kofi was unrepentant. However, Kofi, you may rest in peace as we will not be there.
Thanks
The Life he led 10 years ago

This man preached and practiced hatred, violence, tribalism and ethnocentricity on innocent Akans. He is the leader of the intellectual wing of the PNDC and NDC violent atrocities on GFhanaians. He dfied like an unloved dog, ...
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This man preached and practiced hatred, violence, tribalism and ethnocentricity on innocent Akans. He is the leader of the intellectual wing of the PNDC and NDC violent atrocities on GFhanaians. He dfied like an unloved dog, killed by persons who practice the same hatred and violence that he preached. Is it poetic justice of retributive justice. In one of his books which all his lovers will not cite as a book by him he clearly discussed his vicious hatred of Ashantis (*which really meant Akans) He wrote "The day I will get the Ashantis so help me God" This man sought help from God to do evil against Ashantis (Akans) Despite his marriages to two Ashanti women who left him after knowing the hideous character as he was, Kofi Awoonor went out of his way to propagate a life of venon of hatred and tribalism. He never regretted and never apologized. He was in the same boat as Kojo Tsikata, Tsastu Tsikata and Kattah. We must remember the mans for the life he led and not hide the facts. He was no statesman. His legacy today is the deep tribal divisions between Ewes in Ghana and Akans who he calls Ashantis.
Kojo Akortiah 10 years ago

Prof.Awoonor was not arrested for helping Rawlings,He was arrested for assiting Brigadier Kattah escape arrest.

Prof.Awoonor was not arrested for helping Rawlings,He was arrested for assiting Brigadier Kattah escape arrest.
Kofi 10 years ago

Thanks, you have good memory too.

Thanks, you have good memory too.
Atta Owusu Dacostah 10 years ago

Infact ghana has last a great man the vacuum is unreplaceble

Infact ghana has last a great man the vacuum is unreplaceble
Atta Owusu Dacostah 10 years ago

Infact ghana has last a great man the vacuum is unreplaceble

Infact ghana has last a great man the vacuum is unreplaceble
Kwesi Mends, Takoradi 10 years ago

Wrong info.

Wrong info.
Kofi 10 years ago

Thanks Kwesi, I have tried to correct that misinformation too.

Thanks Kwesi, I have tried to correct that misinformation too.
shaki 10 years ago

instead of eating keta school boys safely in ghana he was eating al khebab in kenya hmmmmm this earth my brother indeed

instead of eating keta school boys safely in ghana he was eating al khebab in kenya hmmmmm this earth my brother indeed
Kofi 10 years ago

Prof Awoonor was not arrested in connection with the Rawlings' coup attempt. He was arrested after driving Briadier Kattah to Aflao to escpae trial for his part in the "amedeku amedeka" coup attempt. He was also not imprisone ...
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Prof Awoonor was not arrested in connection with the Rawlings' coup attempt. He was arrested after driving Briadier Kattah to Aflao to escpae trial for his part in the "amedeku amedeka" coup attempt. He was also not imprisoned without trial He was actually put on trial but was later discharged to go back to his teaching job at the UCC. Please, do not distort the historical facts.
Kwame 10 years ago

We like distorting facts too much these days. The story has a lot of errors! They should have done their research and come out with facts! Our media is laden with lazy journalists!

We like distorting facts too much these days. The story has a lot of errors! They should have done their research and come out with facts! Our media is laden with lazy journalists!
Lamaz 10 years ago

I hope the late Professor did not try to take on those terrorists on or perhaps try to talk them out of their evil actions,'cos I really wonder why.

I hope the late Professor did not try to take on those terrorists on or perhaps try to talk them out of their evil actions,'cos I really wonder why.
Isaac Osei Kwame 10 years ago

Don't give too much of your love to me beacause I am bird! : By Pro. Kofi Awoono. A script that I read from the man during my secondary schoo days. May his soul rest in Peace

Don't give too much of your love to me beacause I am bird! : By Pro. Kofi Awoono. A script that I read from the man during my secondary schoo days. May his soul rest in Peace
Frank 10 years ago

Rest in Peace, Rest in Peace.

Rest in Peace, Rest in Peace.
Benjamin Adam 10 years ago

Prof, may the Lord comfort your family.

Am short of words.

What a great lost to the World.

Prof, may the Lord comfort your family.

Am short of words.

What a great lost to the World.
ONLY GOD KNOWS 10 years ago

tribalism and hatred is to much in Ghana .CAN THEY STAND IN TEST OF TIME?

tribalism and hatred is to much in Ghana .CAN THEY STAND IN TEST OF TIME?
OTAFIRGYA KOJO WEST 10 years ago

POINT OF CORRECTION.PROF.KOFI AWOONOR WAS CHARGED,TRIED AND FOUND GUILTY DURING GEN.I.K ACHEMPONG REGIME FOR ALLEGEDLY HELPING A FUGITIVE BRIGADIER KATTAH FROM LAWFUL ARREST.HE ACTED AS CHAFFEUR WHO FERRIED KATTAH ACROSS THE ...
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POINT OF CORRECTION.PROF.KOFI AWOONOR WAS CHARGED,TRIED AND FOUND GUILTY DURING GEN.I.K ACHEMPONG REGIME FOR ALLEGEDLY HELPING A FUGITIVE BRIGADIER KATTAH FROM LAWFUL ARREST.HE ACTED AS CHAFFEUR WHO FERRIED KATTAH ACROSS THE BORDER TO TOGO.
Yiranzor sebastian YINIMME 10 years ago

May the Almighty God have mercy on his
soul and grant him a place in His heavenly kingdom

May the Almighty God have mercy on his
soul and grant him a place in His heavenly kingdom
Eli Greg Avickson 10 years ago

At last the former chairman of state followed his boss the peace maker(prof. mills). Ghana will forever remain resolute for your herioric death. His legendary will contunue in the memory of the international community.
may h ...
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At last the former chairman of state followed his boss the peace maker(prof. mills). Ghana will forever remain resolute for your herioric death. His legendary will contunue in the memory of the international community.
may his soul rest perfectly in the bossom of the Lord!
Obiara Be ko 10 years ago

Was he a nobleman who cared about the ordinary Ghanaians? Or was he one of the authoritarians, looters, self-fish Ghanaian politicians or an opportunist? Was he all about I am in charge all around Ghana since Rawlings militar ...
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Was he a nobleman who cared about the ordinary Ghanaians? Or was he one of the authoritarians, looters, self-fish Ghanaian politicians or an opportunist? Was he all about I am in charge all around Ghana since Rawlings military take overs? Was he one of those Ghanaians in power who cared less about the poor masses, who did not bother about the illerate population, those poor farmers in the hinderlands and rural Ghana?

Anyway, Professor Kofi Awoonor whatever your tribe is R.I.P.

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