Nelson Mandela death: How a Xhosa chief is buried

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NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 10 years ago

Thank God that Nelson Mandela burial ceremony has shown the whole world that NOT all Africans are as barbaric as Ghanaians Akans, who usually used "innocent human beings" to burry their chiefs in Ashanti Region. You can tell ...
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Thank God that Nelson Mandela burial ceremony has shown the whole world that NOT all Africans are as barbaric as Ghanaians Akans, who usually used "innocent human beings" to burry their chiefs in Ashanti Region. You can tell from the simple and precigeous burial ceremony of the great Madiba, the his burial greater thall the so-called Akans chiefs put together.

I do hope that those homo Akan bastard boys calling themselve CONTEMNOR AND ROMANO, with their sidekick DEMENTED Abeoku, would learn a lesson from the burial of the great Mandela, that innocent people should not be used as a sacrificial objects for the burial of any Akan chief. Need l say more?
NANA KUSI 10 years ago

WE ARE GRADUALLY STOPPING THE PRACTISE AND WITHIN A FEW YEARS WE SHALL STOP USIG HUMANS. THANKS

WE ARE GRADUALLY STOPPING THE PRACTISE AND WITHIN A FEW YEARS WE SHALL STOP USIG HUMANS. THANKS
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Ayigbefuo Nkwasiafuo, only a fool cannot realize that this animal who calls himself Nemesis is a faceless Ewe hiding behind Nigerians to rain insults at Akans. I lived and taught English at Ikere Ekiti, then Ondo State in Nig ...
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Ayigbefuo Nkwasiafuo, only a fool cannot realize that this animal who calls himself Nemesis is a faceless Ewe hiding behind Nigerians to rain insults at Akans. I lived and taught English at Ikere Ekiti, then Ondo State in Nigeria for almost 5 years and I know how Nigerians frame their English. Folks check how this guy frames his sentences and always intentionally makes spelling mistakes to fool Ghanaians. This guy Nemesis is actually a disguised Trokosi stinky arm pit and must not be confused with the other T.B Joshua fool who calls himself Wise Talk.
NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 10 years ago

Ori e da omo Asshanti Ghana OSEI TAWIAH. (Your head is not correct, OSEI TAWIAH, the son of Asshanti Ghana boy). Tani trokosis? (Who is Trokosis)? Omjo Naija gidi ni mi. )I'm a real Nigerian). Oloshi, olori buruku jati jati. ...
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Ori e da omo Asshanti Ghana OSEI TAWIAH. (Your head is not correct, OSEI TAWIAH, the son of Asshanti Ghana boy). Tani trokosis? (Who is Trokosis)? Omjo Naija gidi ni mi. )I'm a real Nigerian). Oloshi, olori buruku jati jati. Woo maame twe kan kan.

I AM YOUR NEMESIS
NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 10 years ago

Instead of you hateful ETHNOCENTRIC OSEI TAWIAH, to preach to your fellow Ashantis to stop their barbaric and evil CULTURE of burring your fellow human beings with your dead chiefs as sacrificial objects, you wants to change ...
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Instead of you hateful ETHNOCENTRIC OSEI TAWIAH, to preach to your fellow Ashantis to stop their barbaric and evil CULTURE of burring your fellow human beings with your dead chiefs as sacrificial objects, you wants to change this topic to your usual area of specialty i.e. tribal insults agaianst your fellow Ghanaians, Ewes.

I'm a Nigerian, and am NOT one of those you usually intimidated here on ghanaweb with your FALSE 'yen akanfuo' superiority nonsense. Bring it on, omo Ghana, OSEI TAWIAH.
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Gyimii, Kwasia kwasia, you can't even spell the word Omo and you call yourself Yoruba. Son of Trokosi maggot hiding behind stinky Nigeria to cause mayhem. God go hammer your bastard head with lightening. Catatonic idiot !!!

Gyimii, Kwasia kwasia, you can't even spell the word Omo and you call yourself Yoruba. Son of Trokosi maggot hiding behind stinky Nigeria to cause mayhem. God go hammer your bastard head with lightening. Catatonic idiot !!!
NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 10 years ago

Eranko.Omo Ashanti jati jati, lasan lasan, ni Iwo OSEI TAWIAH? (Animal, the son of worthless Ashanti nobody, OSEI TAWIAH). Ara lo ma san pa e, Iwo omo Akan, omo Ale buruku yi). (Thunder will strike you very bastard Akan son ...
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Eranko.Omo Ashanti jati jati, lasan lasan, ni Iwo OSEI TAWIAH? (Animal, the son of worthless Ashanti nobody, OSEI TAWIAH). Ara lo ma san pa e, Iwo omo Akan, omo Ale buruku yi). (Thunder will strike you very bastard Akan son). Eyin Ashanti Eranko be eeyan won yi. Nigeria ko nse egbe yin. (You animalstic Ashanti behaving like humans. Nigeria is not in the same league with you). Ori e oda lorun e. Your head is not correct in your neck. ABOABI BA WOMAAME AYAASE KANKAN.
Anthony Peduase 10 years ago

I CANNOT MAKE ANY HEAD OR TAIL OF YOUR PIECE. WERE YOU REALLY A TEACHER, OSEI TAWIAHH? SORRY, WHAT WERE YOU TRYING TO SAY. GOOD JOB YOU ARE NOMORE A TEACHER. LORD HELP US.

I CANNOT MAKE ANY HEAD OR TAIL OF YOUR PIECE. WERE YOU REALLY A TEACHER, OSEI TAWIAHH? SORRY, WHAT WERE YOU TRYING TO SAY. GOOD JOB YOU ARE NOMORE A TEACHER. LORD HELP US.
NAKED 10 years ago

The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
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The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.

We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.

According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.

I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?

If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).

In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]

A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).

The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]

That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]

LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]

Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?
Yaw Berko 10 years ago

A good one there. And a question good and pertinent,Mr.NAKED

A good one there. And a question good and pertinent,Mr.NAKED
oppong london 10 years ago

only useless ghanaians don,t belief in their culture ,they even call a real marriage [engagement]and honor false prophets more than their fathers and mothers[parents].to ghanaians everything is satanic where as they don,t do ...
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only useless ghanaians don,t belief in their culture ,they even call a real marriage [engagement]and honor false prophets more than their fathers and mothers[parents].to ghanaians everything is satanic where as they don,t do the wishes of christ but just go to church for nothing,only as church goers.
BRETUOBA 10 years ago

Oppong, yours is one of the most sensible and intelligent piece I have read. we as Ghanaians are very stupid and gullible. We believe in anything the whiteman tells us and worship them.The educated among us are the most fools ...
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Oppong, yours is one of the most sensible and intelligent piece I have read. we as Ghanaians are very stupid and gullible. We believe in anything the whiteman tells us and worship them.The educated among us are the most fools. we do not even want uor own culture, we name our kid after whites. John, Ford, Evans.,,,,......go figure we tricked by Christianity............
OSEI WIAFE 10 years ago

IF IT WERE GHANAIANS THEY WOULD BURY HIM IN PRETORIA. HENCE THE ACCRA CONGESTION. THEY MOVED NKRUMAH'S GRAVE TO ACCRA. THEY BURIED ATTAH MILLS IN ACCRA. THEY EVEN PUT ACCRA MALL BY THE AIRPORT, AIRPORT RESIDENTIAL AREA AND EA ...
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IF IT WERE GHANAIANS THEY WOULD BURY HIM IN PRETORIA. HENCE THE ACCRA CONGESTION. THEY MOVED NKRUMAH'S GRAVE TO ACCRA. THEY BURIED ATTAH MILLS IN ACCRA. THEY EVEN PUT ACCRA MALL BY THE AIRPORT, AIRPORT RESIDENTIAL AREA AND EAST LEGON. SO WHAT SHOULD THEY EXPECT? TRAFFIC JAM, CONGESTION. DO WE WANT TO SHOW OFF TO FOREIGNERS OUR FEW TREASURES? I THINK THE CAPITAL SHOULD BE MOVED TO KITAMPO AND DECENTRALIZATION IN GHANA SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE ON OUR PRIORITY LIST. THE MINISTRIES SHOULD BE SPREAD OVER THE COUNTRY LIKE THEY HAVE IN GERMANY. IT WILL ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA AS A WHOLE. WE WILL REALIZE THE NEED FOR GOOD ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE IN OTHER PARTS OF GHANA.
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Do you think Ghanaians would want decentralization? The answer is an emphatic NO. Even Kwame Nkrumah did not want bureaucratic decentralization. He only focused on industrial centralization that's only managed from Accra. Tha ...
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Do you think Ghanaians would want decentralization? The answer is an emphatic NO. Even Kwame Nkrumah did not want bureaucratic decentralization. He only focused on industrial centralization that's only managed from Accra. That was a very foolish mistake which allowed corrupt individuals to rip off the nation after his firm dictatorship.

The question is why. Well even before Ghana was formed, there was a real agenda from the white man who handed over to Kwame Nkrumah to make sure Ashantis do not move fast enough to leave the rest of Ghana behind. Nkrumah himself abandoned his own Nzima people to hold Ashantis at ramsom just so he won't be seen as being bias, and Trokosi JJ also did the same thing and even extended it to all Akans with Ashantis and Kwahus as his main target, a move he regrets to this day. As we speak, the NDC has continued with this legacy and trying to find a way around to leave Akans behind.

In any country, infrastructure such as roads are developed first at areas with good resources which paves way for revenue gained to be used to develop the less resourceful areas. Ghana is rather doing the opposite, using all its money to build roads to nowhere, dams and tourist attractions at its so called Eastern corridor. Resources that can be tapped in the Akan States of Eastern, Ashanti, B/A, Western and Central Regions are often left to rot or delivered under archaic methods while the government continues to waste money on the so-called SADA, Accra and the empty Trokosi country.

This policy of holding Ashantis ransom has now rendered Ashanti Kings themselves lazy and hopeless, a far cry from their predecessors. Ashanti kings since independent are useless and corrupt, sometimes kissing the ass of the government for favours instead of taking charge of developments in the kingdom. Strange enough they always keep on counting their tiny achievements as the being the best. They have helped this course of Ghana abandoning Ashantis by only thinking about themselves. No wonder Kumasi is now like a garbage dump.

It is hard to imagine this is the same beautiful Kumasi that was full of green parks, plenty of trees and playgrounds. This foolish thing we call President is now trying to compare Ghana with places like Japan and Malaysia and he thinks we can be like them beginning with SADA. What an idiotic fallacy !!!
Common Sense 10 years ago

Some of you just misuse this platform and talk trash. Brainstorm before you say fucking things, you idiot.

Some of you just misuse this platform and talk trash. Brainstorm before you say fucking things, you idiot.
George, Belgium 10 years ago

Mandela is for the whole world but his remains belong to his family so after everthing, he was sent to his village, ANC did not impose on South Africas that he is a former president so they will find a barial place for him i ...
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Mandela is for the whole world but his remains belong to his family so after everthing, he was sent to his village, ANC did not impose on South Africas that he is a former president so they will find a barial place for him in the capital, a word to ndc is enough?
OSABERIMA 10 years ago

I blame Mills family for being weak. No way will Kuffour's family allow NPP to bury him in Accra even if he should av die in office. Fantes like to compromise too much.

I blame Mills family for being weak. No way will Kuffour's family allow NPP to bury him in Accra even if he should av die in office. Fantes like to compromise too much.
Blaque Marque 10 years ago

Did you read that when a Xhosa dies away from home his soul is reunited with the body and then the body is buried at home hence the traditional rites?
H.E Atta is a Ga, not Fanti, so his burial in Accra was fitting. We all k ...
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Did you read that when a Xhosa dies away from home his soul is reunited with the body and then the body is buried at home hence the traditional rites?
H.E Atta is a Ga, not Fanti, so his burial in Accra was fitting. We all knew he was Fanti but actually he, as well as his father were born there and that it is their maternal lineage that is Fanti.
Kofi 10 years ago

I pray Mills will find his way home some day. Isn't it a pity that such a man should be laid to rest in such a lonely place hurriedly named Asomdwee Park? Unless Rawlings and Mahama join him one day, he will remain there by h ...
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I pray Mills will find his way home some day. Isn't it a pity that such a man should be laid to rest in such a lonely place hurriedly named Asomdwee Park? Unless Rawlings and Mahama join him one day, he will remain there by himself. Poor man, no family!
lmlm 10 years ago

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nii 10 years ago

This process and the essence has similar resamblance to how we bury our chiefs in ghana

This process and the essence has similar resamblance to how we bury our chiefs in ghana

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