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The Anti-Akan Rawlings

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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Maybe Mr. Dzidza may want to read up a bit on how the Great Asona monarchy of Akyem-Abuakwa came to occupy such a prominent status in the Akuapem State between 1680 and 1720.

  • Conqueror 10 years ago

    This Hempstead "Senior" High School teacher is so scared of Ewes. Relax! Just live your life. Ewes are not looking over your shoulder. Ewes are focused in their homes and don't poke their noses into others affairs. Just mind ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    What should we do with these KOKOMPE AND SUAME MAGAZINE PHD HOLDERS at all? There are two things they have to learn;

    1. Don't make a song and dance about it!

    2. Don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs!

    Coul ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    Nobody can hide the light and true destiny of the great nation of Akan. they use all kinds of schemes and tricks to undermine or deny a proper standard to us but we shall never surrender. we shall change and adapt as like the ...
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  • FUCK YOU 10 years ago

    Where can I send you my donation? I WANT you to have that REPUBLIC!!!!
    Hahaha it will be a Republic of Chaos!!! Here is why:
    1) Asantehene will want to be President.
    2) Mamponghene will also want a role.
    3)Techiman, Kumaw ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    dont worry you feeble brain about us , we know we shall be better off without you . in fact its more than clear with our oil gold cocoa and intelligent beautiful people we shall be number one in the world

  • FUCK YOU 10 years ago

    Right now, we have Akyem/Asante fights in NPP. Then we have Fantes who WILL NOT want to be ordered about by Danquah BusIANS. These folks would rather BE WITH THE EWES who do not insult them. Given the choice, even the BONOS w ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    continue with your fantasies and illusions , they are more sophisticated than you think and this your jolly ride is over

  • Ghanaman1 10 years ago

    Akans fought each other.

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Can you read at all!

  • ASANTE CAT THIEVES 10 years ago

    You see, I knew it.
    So "prof" Okokompe has been oiling your hemorrhoid-infected pussy eh?

  • AKADU IN LOVE 10 years ago

    So Akadu, this thing about you and Kokompe Professor is true? Is he at least oiling your pussy properly with that his kotiborto?

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    I shouldn't spend valuable time contributing good sense to this racket, as it'd be lost on many anyway. But, just for the records, I want to say this.

    Yes, Mr Dzidza made a lot of historical inaccuracies in his article and ...
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  • OKO IN SUPPORT OF AKADU 10 years ago

    Andy K. you are such an idiot!

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    And you are a senseless moron, one of the kind I wrote I didn't want to waste my time writing to educate!

    Andy-K

  • KBK 10 years ago

    "Prof. Mike Ocquaye, the renowned Ghanaian politician and distinguished political scientist, lawyer, Baptist minister and academic..."

    And so???!

    How many people even read Dzidza's article? And if you knew this, why did ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    Why should it be an issue if the man decided to put it in a form of an article in order to delve into details of the FACTS? Have a problem with the truth, details and facts?

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Another incorrigible, conceited anti-Ewe idiot like you. Which facts do you talk about here? Is it skewed "facts" or factual facts? The fallacies in Okoampa's skewed write-up go deeper than the Great Challenger Depth. I need ...
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  • kusasi 10 years ago

    give me,2years maximam, lwill lay the ground f0r this okoampa man to be eliminated

  • kwame jr. 10 years ago

    What is the relevance of the heading? If you want your articles to be read please right about the topic. I was eager to read because of the heading but it proofs different. Please prof. go to the point you want to put across.

  • Antiochus - London 10 years ago

    Tribal sentiments in Ghana politics need to stop. Is Rawlings not married to an Ashanti?

  • okofo 10 years ago

    Did Rawlings also not murder ONLY Akans with impunity?

  • N.A.Lomo 10 years ago

    With your qualifications and back ground,we expect you to come out with factual and truthful historical facts,but it seems tosome of that you always present,lacdaisical,inaccurate and above-all,discriminative facts about othe ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Utter nonsense!!! Amedume was also Akan!!! There is no ethnic group in Ghana that never felt the weight of Rawlings' jackboots. Period.

  • okofo 10 years ago

    For what reasons did that Sogakokpe fool kill? As a hobby? What's "nonsense" about rebuking a killer?

  • FUCK OFF 10 years ago

    So JJ killed ONLY Akans?
    And of course, Uthuka and Amedume were Aans?
    SO WHERE THE FUCK WAS Maj Boakye-Gyan, an Akan, when JJ was killing only Akans?

  • kwame 10 years ago

    Utuka was an Akan eh?

  • senu norgbey 10 years ago

    FOOOOL N FOOLISH ARTICLE

  • okofo 10 years ago

    Any reasoning behind your statement?

    Just explain to us how this article happened to be seen by you as foolish. This will not consume all your wisdom, if any, will it?

  • Dungeon Master 10 years ago

    Simply marvelous, Okoampa!

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Going by your name, no wonder, you emerged from holes after hibernating for years in the crater created by the impact of the asteroid that brought you from outer space to crash into the Earth's landscape.

  • Dungeon Master 10 years ago

    "you emerged from holes after hibernating for years in the crater created by the impact of the asteroid that brought you from outer space to crash into the Earth's landscape"

    By the above, I am inclined to believe that you ...
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  • Zack 10 years ago

    Anti-Akan Rawlings verses anti Ewe Victor Owusu & anti Ewe & Gas Kennedy Agyepong not forgetting the serial loser Akuffo Addo's yen Akanfuo.Who is more guilty?. Useless professor!Sometimes you think people are sleeping!

  • THE TRUTH 10 years ago

    YOU are an idiot. Who can you fool that you are a Professor? A small college instructor and now you blow yourself up as a PROFESSOR. If you are a Professor which date were you TENURED?


    The name Awadada Aboazdi is actua ...
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  • THE TRUTH 10 years ago

    Just before Mawuli School Ho, near Wilberforce House Dormitory, there is the EP Church bell with a BIG BULLET HOLE = for all to see. It is the evidence of Asante raiders who were slaughtered trying to steal the Church Bell.
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    So one bullet hole in a bell at Mawuli speaks to Ewe defeat of Akans! PLEASE, just go away with your evanescent history!

  • MR NEUTRAL 10 years ago

    Yes Akadu, that story is very TRUE. There is only one bullet hole on the bell there because the Asantes came with only a rusty gun and lots of machetes. The rusty gun fired sometimes and sometimes it does not.

    The hilly t ...
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  • Kwabena Appiah 10 years ago

    we talk about them all the time history doesn't lie maybe we can learn something from them

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    For example like eating animal shit or burying people alive with dead village heads??? Just tell me because I'm eager to learn.

  • ROSE 10 years ago

    Interesting like you, when offered a gift you refuse only to turn around to steal can somebody explain why? Interesting indeed when a cat which is kept as an adorable pet is eaten as a meat what is more interesting than this? ...
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  • ROSE 10 years ago

    Lier, lier, deciever nation wrecker.The impossibility can never be possible, you can write your own history which nobody wants to read except people who think like you.History is always there and nobody can twist it to suit ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    I wish with all the insults coming from you the BIG PROF OF THE IVY LEAGUE would have have proffered a counter argument. But no all you did is to insult the author! Idiocy is not scholarship!

  • FUCK YOU 10 years ago

    The so called Big Prof must face the music, Which Ivy- what? Some benevolent white man pitied him and and ask to baby sit some students for (fako didi pay -take and chop small) and now all of a sudden IVY LEAGUE Prof. Tweaaa ...
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  • Fidelis 10 years ago

    This so-called Professor has just displayed his ignorant to the highest degree. In fact, people like this should not have been given the media platform to pollute the environment with their smelling so-called honours. Nonsens ...
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  • FUCK YOU~~ 10 years ago

    The so called Big Prof must face the music, Which Ivy- what? Some benevolent white man pitied him and and ask to baby sit some students for (fako didi pay -take and chop small) and now all of a sudden IVY LEAGUE Prof. Tweaaa ...
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  • FUCK YOU~~ 10 years ago

    The so called Big Prof must face the music, Which Ivy- what? Some benevolent white man pitied him and and ask to baby sit some students for (fako didi pay -take and chop small) and now all of a sudden IVY LEAGUE Prof. Tweaaa ...
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  • FUCK YOU~~ 10 years ago

    The so called Big Prof must face the music, Which Ivy- what? Some benevolent white man pitied him and and ask to baby sit some students for (fako didi pay -take and chop small) and now all of a sudden IVY LEAGUE Prof. Tweaaa ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Idiocy is not scholarship but peddling half-truths calculated to demonise a whole ethnic group is the true hallmark of "scholarship". Akadu, you are a disgrace to both sexes.

  • OKO IN SUPPORT OF AKADU 10 years ago

    How sad that you can't evem march Akadu's stupidity and go way beyond it!

  • Odada 10 years ago

    All is nonsense.

  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    Ndc Followers Shd Open Their Eyes And Put Partisanship Aside Because A Few Individuals Clothed In Ndc Colors Are Looting The Little Money Available To Alleviate Poverty.....And Yet Such Thieves Have The Effrontery To Stand On ...
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  • THE TRUTH 10 years ago

    At least in Ewe war loss they fought and died BRAVELY.
    Asantes and WARS? Tweaaaa!!!! When the war comes, they hide in their stinking RAT HOLES with their MONKEY APE FACES. Then they sent poor Yaa Asetewaa and other pregnant ...
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  • Ray 10 years ago

    They have no men in their midst all talkers.Greed and selfishness is what they are known for.

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    You are just a nuts! Why did your Ewes work for "monkeys" - Asantes then and now, and why would human beings live in a house, even uncompleted one. built by monkeys! Visit Asante Region and you will caome back to report to us ...
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  • ASANTE MOTHER FUCKERS 10 years ago

    They are in Jasikan etc, Go to other Ewe Lands like the borders of Ghana Togo and Benin. There are Ashanti girls there selling their pussies!!!
    Now get the fuck out of here go and steal some cat meat and cook for Easter Su ...
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  • KOLA, LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    Why have you Akadu offered to defend all Akans only for you to be told the truth about your own history?

    Leave it for the true historians, Akadu.

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    My own grandfather erected his one-storey red brick building in 1887 at Princess Street, Keta. That building is still there today. This was at a time your grand-parents were living in the forests and trees, cohabiting with th ...
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  • kwame kumasi 10 years ago

    An idiot who cant even write good english and has the audacity to insult a whole tribe and he has another sob to follow his nonsense.

  • ASANTE MOTHER FUCKERS 10 years ago

    You want to know what Insulting a whole tribe is? Ashantis stealing and eating each other's cats then BLAMING Ewes-that is as AUDACIOUS AND INSULTING as it can get. Now GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!!

  • Ray 10 years ago

    Rawlings married an ashanti and even named his daughter a full ashanti name.How many Ashantis can do that?
    This man is dumb he needs education again.

  • okofo 10 years ago

    Rawlings named his daughter an Asante name, albeit one that has history attached to it, JUST for FAME and ATTENTION. His misdeeds for, and viceral hatred against Akans are obvious for even idiots to see. Don't you see?

  • ASANTE MOTHER FUCKERS 10 years ago

    JJ EXECUTED Ewes too. There are also Asante misdeeds against other tribes in Ghana.

    I will LOVE a Referendum on Ghana. Ashantis want to have their own country LET THEM HAVE IT!!! I will gladly DONATE to them. The quest ...
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  • JOE CANADA 10 years ago

    LETS HAVE NOW!!!. I BELIEVE WITHOUT ASNATES THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WILL BE VERY HAPPY AND FOREVER RULED BY THE EWES. AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE INSULTS AS WELL!!!.

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Look my friend, just get it straight that the Ewes are a persecuted lot in this arrangement called Ghana. I will welcome the referendum to come if only it will come. Let each ethnic group or entity go its separate way. No all ...
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  • JOE CANADA 10 years ago

    IS THERE ANY REAL MAN IN ASHANTI WITH BALLS OR WE NEED ANOTHER YAAA ASANTEWAA TO HELP. THIS SHOULD BE A PEACEFUL DIVORCE OK?.

  • peace 10 years ago

    OKUMPA is a a war monger, a political activist for npp. they are all war mongers. all die be die people. they bask in the primitive behaviours of their ancestors.

  • AGBEVE 10 years ago

    Mmmmm

  • Bernard 10 years ago

    for the reasons that some of these personalities who worked with him both in/out government are all Ewes: Justice DF Annan, PV Obeng, Dr Mary Grant, Justice GEK Aikins, Justice Sowah, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, (his wife ...
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  • Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

    Idiot, Kwesi Botchwey is an Ewe! And, by the way, Hitler also had Jews in his government.

  • Bernard 10 years ago

    Hello Mr Okoampah,

    Lack of proper upbringing and the desire to do down those perceived to be more superior than you is eating deep into your soul, to the extent you don't even know facts from fiction.

    I've never heard ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Ahoofe is always striving for attention and relevance. He will be kidnapped, killed like a cat, burnt and thrown into the Keta Lagoon very soon.

  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    There you are! Ahootan, what's is eating you? Have you got a Skeleton in your closet? You have much to answer for. You brought this personal decadence upon yourself because you are barmy.

    Ahootan, aren't you foggeting som ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Your she-ape mother is the idiot. You are indeed the epitome of stupidity and a hulk of ignorance. If truly Hitler's mother is Jewish and yet he went on an extermination spree of his own mother's stock, what differentiates yo ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    My plea- Anlos don't make your hands dirty over this RAT. Let him bite the grass through Ebola. It is not worth it wasting time and energy on this perpectual fool.

    A word to Vodoo Xebieso - Don't get your knickers in a twi ...
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  • MR NEUTRAL 10 years ago

    Thanks. People like you should be elected to rule Ghana.
    May God bless you.

  • FUCK YOU 10 years ago

    Fuck off you rat shit eater!!!!
    Small community college black-board cleaner and we get Ear-full of your Hogwash.
    Want to see REAL Professors?
    Prof Kofi Awooner,
    Prof Elom Dovlo
    Prof Anyidoho
    Prof Torkornoo!!!!
    TENURED ...
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  • KOKOLIKOKO 10 years ago

    If you believe "Rawlings Represents Hitler to Most Akans", then, that is, of course, a problem of those so-called most Akans! For us, the others, he's no Hitler, nor does he represent Hitler!

    Rather, if you want to see a t ...
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  • somebody papapa 10 years ago

    Kwame your piece is very appetizing and wish to ask for more. By the way when you are mentioning Akan don't forget WASA which occupies greater portion of the western region. That is where sir Mac-Cathy was killed. Akan is a g ...
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  • Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

    Thanks. My maternal grandparents lived in Wassa-Akropong; and the Rev. T. H. Sintim taught school there. I also have a late adopted-uncle, Benjamin Ntiful, from Wassa-Akropong.

  • KOKOLIKOKO 10 years ago

    Mutherfucker idiot, whenever a part of Ghana is mentioned, you're always ready and quick to lay claim to some ancestral or familial link to it!

    Such is the stuff a weakling and low self-esteem dog of your kind is made of ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    You this Akyem dog and bastard have lost all sense of reason. You have relations in all the ethnic groups making up Ghana!!! An embodiment of total lies and half-truths.

  • peace 10 years ago

    only idiot will appreciate fake prof writings

  • JB Osei-Brown 10 years ago

    Omumu Okoampa,

    Ennye ade a ehia nie.

    Ade ehia ne s3 wo b3bo mmoden na w'akosi odan a JB Dankwa koo mu sukuu wo Kyebi nukuraa n'ase bi no.

    Instead of using all God-given time and energy to contribute to the developmen ...
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  • Joe Turkey 10 years ago

    If you don't have the facts, do not even attempt to write history. I am no fan of this stupid Asante/Ewe debate, whether it is war or anything else. But the fact is that the Volta Region has so many Akan names first because o ...
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  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    During the barbarian War of 1869-1874, led by Adu Bofo, many northern and mid-Ewes were killed or made to flee. The Krepi States, under Chief Dompre and the Peki leader pooled their forces, defeated the Asante and the allied ...
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  • Kojo 10 years ago

    Matre Gemi ma (mo) Kpando is NOT an Ewe song. The words are not even Ewe. Tell me which of the words there are Ewe?

    This is a song from Amedzofe (itself an Ewe word). The words in the song are not Ewe. "Matre" is not the E ...
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  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    Koio,I don't understand the word,there is a source below.My point is,why will an Akan team up with Ewes to defeat his fellow Akans if there were some hatred betwwen the two?

  • FUCK YOU 10 years ago

    You asked why Akan will team up with Ewes against another Akan? You are an IDIOT. Why not?
    Ask Techimanhene
    Ask Kumawu People,
    Ask Fantes.

    The fact is you Asantes INSULT every Ghanaian NOONE WANTS you near them!

    BR ...
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  • kk 10 years ago

    Kumawu are ashantis.

  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    What is your beef "FUCK YOU",all I'm saying is that Akans don't hate Ewes,period.Now take a deep breath and calm down,Efo.

  • kk 10 years ago

    Efo has taken some apio. Don't even know kumawu people are ashantis.

  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    If you know that Akans hate each other more than any,then why worry?.

  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    The issue of tribalism and politics which today had eaten into the brains of most Ghanaians negatively should not be tied to AKAN. In principle the term AKAN is used to describe those ten tribes who have similarities in the l ...
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  • Asare Bediako 10 years ago

    Kwame Ahoofe-Akoampa is a frustrated tribalist working on behalf of Akufo-Addo. This worthless college professor has never been able to put his education to any good use. The man is an academic loser just like his Akufo-Addo ...
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  • peace 10 years ago

    your right he is also nkrumah hater like his ancestors

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

    They make up stuff to soothe their inferior egos.


    Period

  • jojo mills 10 years ago

    Dr. Akomfe or what you call your self, stop polluting us academically.

  • Atinga Kobla Atongo 10 years ago

    GREAT DISPLAY HAVING TOTAL CONTROL OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WRITING!
    A TRUE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, A LEARNER D GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR. VERY SMART!
    KEEP ON SCHOOLING US IN GOOD FAITH.
    THANK YOU.

  • sena 10 years ago

    It shows that Ashantis are stinking assholes! They are known all over Europe and America to be so. Out of no shame, Ashantis proudly sing their national anthem as follows:-

    Who is he in far Europe
    Smuggles gold, diamond, ...
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  • MR NEUTRAL 10 years ago

    Please let us calm down. And you Prof Ahoofe, stop writing these nonsensical articles.
    You really believe if violence erupts your relatives will be spared?

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    So how does Rawlings come in this useless discourse.
    The fair thing about history is that, everybody has their moments of glory and shame - it is just a question of choosing the appropriate time in history. It is therefore u ...
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  • kankambia 10 years ago

    This person don't know what he is talking about. akans did not have same history, ok? ashantis was the last akan trib came to Ghana from Burkina faso. fantis,akuapims,both were living techiman b4 separated to their current lo ...
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