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Rawlings Represents Hitler To Most Akan(s)

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  • KBK 10 years ago

    How can people who claim to be intellectuals be arguing about such silly topics??? Haven't we, as Ghanaians, come a long way from the time Nkrumah's government found it necessary, in the national interest, to ban parties base ...
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  • KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 10 years ago

    ....by the one-article published by Mawunyo Dzidza for him to retaliate with his two part articles on the same issue which on the side of Kwame, he seems to struggle to defend himself and Akans.

    It really shows, Kwame.

  • MAURICE 10 years ago

    don't mind that old sick DOG,a dog that chases it's tail will be dizzy and fall,that is what is happening or will happen to this OLD LABRADOR DOG OKOAMPA who is lost in stupidity...

  • NII AYITEY 10 years ago

    OKOAMPA WAS ONE ON THE FEW IDIOTS WHO SUPPORTED KEN AGYAPONG WHEN HE CALLED FOR AKANS TO KILL GAS AND EWES.
    OKOAMPA IS A BIG TIME BIGOT.

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    some people from the ndc when they hear the truth about their genocide and racist tribalism go into a stupefied frenzy foaming at the mouth thinking that will make their lies and propaganda true . The fact remain the Akans ar ...
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  • MAAME 10 years ago

    Why are you people so evil like that? No Ga will comment this way, how can akans kill Gas when we've lived with them in peace since Gold Coast came about, my half siblings are Gas so how can that happen? Ken Agyepong said tha ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    OMG! Ahootan is supremely stupid it is not worth the arguement- Look at this BUSHNAN talking about EWE SIEGE MENTALITY.

    How about the AKYEM MOB or HERD MENTALITY?! This chap is supreme stupid such that his unrestrained man ...
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  • kagee 10 years ago

    Nana Ansah, You need to be civil! Akyems have always come in during oppressive periods. Akyems and guns, the big six, adu boahen in the culture of silence , akuffo ADDO work among others. See me later for education and more i ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    SHUT UP YOU LAZY BUM; AKYEMS KNOW ONLY ONE THING - BETRAYAL AND BACKSTABBING. In Akyem-Abuakwa you call treasonist heroes that is why you are still backward. I am past caring for BUSH poeple like you with herd mentality. Now ...
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  • tony H. 10 years ago

    Where is this ahoofe man of NPP (Nation of Primitive People) from again. No one should listen to these blackies of ashanties, descendant of males gorrillas from the forest who empregnated their women due to low sperm count no ...
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  • Ankonam 10 years ago

    When a bushacademic glorifies himself, no one should be concerned that his drivel will attract intellectual attention. What a bufoon!

  • Kwaapong 10 years ago

    You sound like a self-hating African, stuck on skin shades and looks. It is the height of presumption to paint people from one tribe - any tribe - with one broad brush. It is bad when Akans do it; bad when Ewes do it. It do ...
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  • Kwaapong 10 years ago

    You sound like a self-hating African, stuck on skin shades and looks. It is the height of presumption to paint people from one tribe - any tribe - with one broad brush. It is bad when Mr. Okoampah Ahoofe dose it; bad when Ew ...
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  • Papa 10 years ago

    Ouch!whats wrong with being dark skinned?Wait...I take that you are white right? How can I hold that all men are created equal, when here before me stands, stinking, the moral carcass that you are.Proof that some men are infe ...
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  • Koo Pia 10 years ago

    Most EWES are hardworking, smart and friendly, but yes they have that mentality which makes them think they are being singled out and derided.

    Find out why Edem the musician chose and dropped the name AYIGBE, and you will ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    I don't know why Edem changed his name but no Ewe will call himself Ayigbe in the first place. Ewes do not call themselves ayigbes. They are not ayigbes. It is what foreigners call them. To call an Ewe ayigbe is almost like c ...
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  • Emma 10 years ago

    Can you explain to us why EWE chieves visited Rawlings prior to the 2012 elections ? EWES are self 'distructive' tribe

  • koffi parker 10 years ago

    thast is why the one party state was intruduce who cares abouit Akans,Ewes Gas and whatever but Ghana?

  • okofo 10 years ago

    If Nkrumah kicked tribal politics out, why 99.9% of the people in Eweland ALWAYS vote NDC, a party created by an Ewe?

  • kagee 10 years ago

    KBk, The objective of university education is to critically analyse issues and attempt to correct intellectual errors. Problems should never be brushed under the carpet.

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    The theory of NYEBROISM is the basis upon which Ewe siege mentality was built.

  • ROSE 10 years ago

    KBK, if you are an ewe then talk to some of your people who want to rewrite our history based on lies.I've read articles written by one Bokor and this Dzidza and they seem not to be interested in the unity and foreward match ...
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  • Kay 10 years ago

    Please stop these tribal sentiments because of its potential to generate internal conflicts. Please enjoy your cool whether abroad and let us also enjoy what we have here. You will not be here to face the realities of tribal ...
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  • PROF J K MAWULI 0249665536 10 years ago

    YOU SEE,TRIBAL SENTIMENTAL PEOPLE ARE UNGODLY.THEY DO NOT RESPECT THE CREATOR.EFO,TSOOO,DE ASI LE WO NU.WO ME NYA MAWU O.AKPE.THEY ARE LIKE FOOLISH GALATIANS.THEY STAY ABROAD AND WANT TO BRING FIGHT BETWEEN EWES AND AKANS.GOD ...
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  • MODERATE EWE 10 years ago

    Did you go to Mawuli School?

  • CAPII 10 years ago

    AKAN ARE INNOVATORS,VALUE CREATORS,GOOD ECONOMIC MANAGERS WHILST EWES & NORTHNERS GENERALLY ARE GOVT PIKINS.THEY DEPEND SOLELY ON CIVIL SERVICE TO LOOT AND SHARE.(AFRC,P/NDC)

  • TNT 10 years ago

    I can't laugh, what Akan Entrepreneurship? Are you talking about the rampant armed robbery, car-jacking and murders in Ashanti Region? Innovators! You must be clearly stuck in the head. What a waste of space.

  • kay de 10 years ago

    Both you and the so called Dzidza are tribal and ehnocentric bigots. We dont need your vituperations. Get off our backs.

  • Kofi Afrikaba 10 years ago

    What a fool you're: you a big disgrace to academia

  • kofikofi 10 years ago

    No Ewe will vote for a drug addict from Kyebi.

    Aboa !!

  • Merlic, London 10 years ago

    Hello Mr or Dr Okoampah! Please stop this crap and move on. There is nothing like EWE SIEGE MENTALITY.

    This idea is very much a figment of your own imagination. This is because your own mentality and belief is rather guide ...
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  • KBK 10 years ago

    You're right, Merlic. This idea of an Ewe siege mentality is just in the imagination of some Akans who are tribalists. Ewes, themselves, do not feel that way. It's one of the prejudices held by those Akans who are tribalists. ...
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  • MEKA NOKWARE 10 years ago

    THE GUY IS IN NEED OF A MENTAL EXAMINATION - A THROWBACK TO ANOTHER AGE. THIS 2014 FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! WAKE UP RIP VAN PROFESSOR EMPTY BRAIN

  • k. Agyei 10 years ago

    The way this glorified fool Okoampa preaches tribalism, npp must be careful he does not cause them the 2016 electoral defeat...

  • k. Agyei 10 years ago

    What at all is this man teaching in the US? Ei, he does not qualify to teach at even my alma matter. He is no good example at all just like his hero Akufo Addo......

  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    indeed rawlings' recent attack on kuffuor and atta mills really confirmed his anti akanistic stance SINCE THE INCUMBENT JOHN MAHAMA IS SMELLING OF SERIOUS SEVERE CORRUPTION AND THIEVERY WHEREVER HE GOES AND YET RAWLINGS SPARE ...
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  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    Atta Mills is politically known as a Fante but in real terms he was a Ga from LANTEDJAN WE. Were you not aware that the father was Charles Odartey Mills? This information came out when he died and the govt sent delegation to ...
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  • BRANDY 10 years ago

    THANX FOR THE INFO,,,,,,BUT INDEED IF JJ KNEW THIS HE WUDNT HAV ATTACKED HIM AT ALL, TRUST ME........BUT JJ WAS MY ICON, AND REAL IDOL TILL I NOTICED HIS LOUD SILENCE ON WOYOME, GYEEDA, SUBAH, ETC ETC.....AND HIS REFUSAL TO P ...
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  • MAURICE 10 years ago

    Great EWES should'nt mind this old migrated bat/ braggard and clinical fool...he is just a clinically decleared fool who has nothing to offer..

  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    Why do you like to hide behind the word Akan and try to convince people that AKAN is a tribe. Please understand that Akan is a word used to describe the ten tribes that have similarities in the languages that they speak. They ...
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  • Kwabena Appiah 10 years ago

    akans are akans deal with your own tribe silly we are different from your primitive juju envy mentality

  • Nii 10 years ago

    PLEASE NEVER EVER REFER TO MAWUS SACRED GIFT US PRIMITIVE.IT JUST UNDEVELOPED BECAUSE JUST AS YOU AND ITHE CRIMINALS HAVE SUPPRESSED IT WITH THE DEVILISH ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY.CAN HELP YOU UNDERSTANT.IF ANY RELIGIONS WERE ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 10 years ago

    Thank you Onyemi Nii Okai for exposing the bankruptcy of the so-called Dr. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe. You really did take him to school on the question of who constitute the Akan tribes. By the way, Ahoofe is not an Asante; he is ...
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  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    Thanks for a point, worth interesting to consider in situations relating to our political and democratic dispensation of today.

    Why is Ahoofe not being bold in writing as an Akyem man but hiding behind the word Akan to buy ...
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  • NANA YAW 10 years ago

    Well said Nii Okai; we can see through the deception, thank God.

  • MEKA NOKWARE 10 years ago

    THE GUY IS A FOOL. PERIOD

  • KOLIKO 10 years ago

    this okoampa guy is totally insane and must be examine before his days are finished.the npp has already lost the 2016 élections due to demanted fools like this

  • Koo Pia 10 years ago

    YES! You give FACTS when you write here as opposed to your detractors who just hate you for telling it as it is.

    Mind you NEVER stop your write ups. Some people read, and so far as you do not make up stories but publish f ...
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  • TESSE 10 years ago

    Go tell such a story to your self. We are moving towards better times....We are not interested in foolish articles.

  • Koobi Kokobi, K. 10 years ago

    Okoampa writes useless pieces always. How on earth would you hate a former Head of State of Ghana to the extent of describing him in the likeness of Hitler? What a HELL is wrong with your faculty of thinking? Your must go b ...
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  • Al-HAJJ 10 years ago

    ...it is not strange,this GHANAWEB BRAGGART has a humble/respected mother in the Ghanaian community in Mahattan/NY,but have a very controversial and confusionist father who knows everthing(too known man)who will never agree w ...
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  • Joseph 10 years ago

    And this is the sick donkey,Ahoofe who is telling the whole world that the voltarians or is it the Ewes voted against his useless and foolish drug addcit cousin, Akufo Addo. Is there any diffrence from what Akufo Addo said an ...
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  • alex 10 years ago

    those who compare rawlings to hitler needs to go back to their books to get true information on adolf hitler. none is obliged to love rawlings.

  • Derry 10 years ago

    Useless write-up. When are talking about issues bothering our economy and upon all your exposure, this is all you could provide? This article is of no essence for even the locally educated Ghanaian today who is ready to live ...
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  • Lolulou 10 years ago

    What nonsense is this? It is evident you dont have an idea of what Hitler represents! Please write about something constructive and productive!

  • stop dis rubish 10 years ago

    Is this man a Ghanaian at all? He is a nation wrecker. He has brain to write English but no brain to help solve problems affecting Ghanaians. What does he want to achieve? You can never be like JJ so allow him n rather contri ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    PRESIDENT RAWLINGS IS THE REAL DEAL.UNDER HIM DONT THE DEVELOPMENT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE AKAN AREAS IS UNMATCHED.HITLER IS THE AMERICA YOU ARE LIVING IN AND THE Phd YOU HAVE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THOSE WHO KILLED YOUR MOTHER AN ...
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  • PROF J K MAWULI 0249665536 10 years ago

    YOU COULD SEE THAT THE DEFENDERS OF TRIBES ARE MENTALLY SEE.WE POSSESS THE SAME GROUPS OF BLOOD.LANGUAGE IS JUST A MEAN OF COMMUNICATION.TRY TO WRITE ABOUT EDUCATION,AGRIC,GOOD HEALTH AND STOP WASTING YOUR TIME ON TRIBALISM.C ...
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  • SirRiver Offin 10 years ago

    The Asante monkey is more wiser than the ewe king,trokosi fool

  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    " The fabric of Ghana is like a Kente cloth and it's weaving,we are all connected to each other somehow and some ways"I can never hate any ethnic group,period.Pride is what makes one look down on the other and to some extrem ...
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  • MEKA NOKWARE 10 years ago

    PHD IN LUNACY STUDIES?

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    Most Akan do not depend on the government for survival. Right now, the government is using at least 70 of our revenue to pay salaries and wages to the "leeches and blood-sucking vampires" and who are these people?

    Akans p ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    Which of the 10 Akan ethnic groups are you referring to, Pelicles?
    There is no such thing as a monolithic Akan, It is a romantic misnomer.
    Now you know the Asantes, the Fantis, the Bonos don't see eye to eye.

  • Agonaba 10 years ago

    You said it all,Ampadu.It is called PRIDE.

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    I understand your point but at times, brothers do not see eye to eye. We should all try to get rid of this "tribal inflammatory" going on. I have said several times that it is the educated ones who constantly fan the flames ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

    We should fight hard, bra Pelicles, to achieve a united Ghana, where we can agree to disagree politically.

  • Kojo 10 years ago

    Once you start saying Akans are like this or that or are not like this but it is other tribes that are that way, then you are also spreading ethnic hatred. You are simply saying: we Akans are like this, which is better than t ...
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  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    Why are you people not proud of your tribes by name but choose to hide behind Akan and talk like Akan is a tribe.

    You can deceive yourselves but can never deceive others with primitive projections of disunity through the u ...
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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Idiot, Akan is a tribe, Asante, Akyem, Kwahu, Bono, Akuapems, Fantis, etc are ethic groups in the Akan tribe.

  • Pelicles 10 years ago

    When GBC is on the air, we hear of Akan, Ga, Nzema, Ewe and Hausa so, tell me, what do you mean Akan is not a tribe? The Akans comprise of Ashanti, Akuapems, Fanti, Kwahu, Bonos etc. Those who fall out of this group are not ...
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  • Houdini 10 years ago

    I don't know why Ewes deny that they have siege mentality which they do. There is no denying that Ewes have siege mentality. Anytime an Ewe is attacked not because of his tribe but because of what he has done, the Ewes feel t ...
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  • Mohammed 10 years ago

    Eeeee SARPS,so do you now support this thing called OKOAMPA...

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    I just stand for the truth, I don't have any personal animosity towards anybody in this forum and I will support the truth no matter where it is coming. The truth will run the marathon but lies can only compete in the hundred ...
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  • kagee 10 years ago

    It appears many of the commentators have either not read the article or have a problem comprehending the English language or have deliberately refused to understand. I recall that throughout my school days tribal sentiments w ...
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  • Good Citizen 10 years ago

    KAGEE,SO WHICH CATEGORY DO YOU BELONG AND WHAT ARE YOU NOW, SCIENTIST,ENTREPRENEUR CIVIL SERVANT OR BETTER STILL A PIMP OR A PROSTITUTE AS THE ASANTES AND AKYEMS ARE KNOWN FOR? IDIOT.

  • john throway 10 years ago

    he pimps your mum. that's his expertee.

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Shut up you smelly trokosi, go to Tema harbour and all the prostitutes there are Eweslike RRawlings mother was.

  • your mother's pimp 10 years ago

    SHUT UP,you smelly ASHANTI MONKEY,is your 60+ mother not still in active prostitution at Tema habour?YOU BLOODY FOOL SON OF A SICK HABOUR STREET DOG..."ASHAWO KRAMAI BA like you"duru mmaka"

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Shut the fuck up, you filthy eczema ravaged trokosi daughter fucker incestuous toilet maggot. You fools are heath hazards with your akpeteshie ravaged tuberculosis smelly selves, go and have a bath, you slave for Asantes for ...
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  • your mother's pimp 10 years ago

    ashanti monkey should stay calm down,you are now captured and tamed with rope around your waist,so just shut that long jaw up,you bonobo monkey;;

  • your mother's pimp 10 years ago

    CTION/ ashanti monkey should stay calm,you are now captured and tamed with rope around your waist,so just shut that long jaw up,you bonobo monkey;;

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    You depend on monkeys for your lives watching monkey house and doing cloth washing, you daughter fuckers.

  • Mohammed 10 years ago

    you,as the first born son of an old harbour prostitute should prove me wrong by taken a DNA test if really you are full blood AKAN/ASHANTI,it is only bloody fool sons of street hookers that are forcing to integrate into ASHA ...
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  • Nemesis 10 years ago

    Okoampa, you're the best of them all. An Ewe prostitute once gave birth to a bastard called JJ Rawlings, who founded a criminally-minded, blood-thirsty party called NDC. Ewe-siege mentality, 100% true.

  • MEKA NOKWARE 10 years ago

    THIS GUY WHO SPEWS SUCH DRIVEL IN THE NAME OF INTELLECT FROM HIS COWARDLY PERCH SHOULD FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DO - OR PERHAPS A LOBOTOMY TO ASCERTAIN HIS SANITY?

  • SLY 10 years ago

    You this writer always write stupid articles

  • nana kwame asamoah 10 years ago

    stupid to suggest Rawlings represent Hitler to many Akans. the writer i suppose is Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. said to hold Ph.D. in waste time. absolute lack informative. I am AKAN and Ashanti.
    personally Mr. Rawlings is one ...
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  • Jimmy 10 years ago

    what do u mean by the "Lootocratic" and "Kleptocratic" advent of the Nkrumah-led CPP. Compared with Nana Addo's father how many mansions did Nkruman leave behind both home and abroad. I am sure Okoampa does not know Wenchi to ...
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  • EASTER BUNNY 10 years ago

    Love him or hate him, Rawlings worked with so many Akans. In fact, Rawlings and Atta Mills had the most representative government so far.

    Unlike Kufour who had 93% Asantes aroun him, Rawlings had Gas, Asantes, Fantes, Ewe ...
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  • Good Citizen 10 years ago

    THE IDIOT ON RAMPAGE AGAIN,LAZY FOOL IN FOREIGN LAND BATHING OLD LADIES AND WASHING HORSE MOUTH WITH HIS MIDGET WIFE ENGAGING IN PROSTITUTION TO SUPPLEMENT HIS MEAGER INCOME IS CALLING EWES AND PEOPLE OF NORTHERN DESCENT AS N ...
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  • Jonas Iye 10 years ago

    I think kwame Okoampa, represents a bunch of akan supremacist just like his cronies and the old fool mike oquaye. Mr Rawlings, challenged the old order by given the people of the north and volta region a chance to feel Ghanai ...
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  • Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

    What would Ghana be without Akans? We named it and flagged it and developed it. The rest of you just steal and rip us of in the name of some British-fangled citizenship. Upset for being disrespected, use your brains and perfo ...
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  • Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago

    When did you warthog qualify to hold forth with the rest of us humans?

  • alhassan 10 years ago

    idiot okuampa

  • Prince 10 years ago

    Well done Mr Okoampa. You see, some people dislike the truth as spelt. Who are the inward looking tribe in this country.

  • DNC 10 years ago

    Ewes, in general, are notoriously dangerious and tribalistic. They have a NAZI mentality, descendants of Hitler.

  • azintakanyatinka 10 years ago

    All must beware. Chronic bitterness, 'founded' or 'unfounded', can lead to high blood pressure and heart failure.