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Poor Ashantis

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  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    Listen Adofo, you have become staled with you Quixotic rantings. Get a life, Ofui!

  • Adam 10 years ago

    The man is old and getting crazy as a result of that. It's called senility and it affects some old people. Another guy suffering from that disease on this website is Francis Quainoo who comments from Australia and said he lef ...
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  • Ideed. 10 years ago

    Empty barres

  • Ray 10 years ago

    he should fuck off

  • Ghanaman1 10 years ago

    Kejetia crockery is not good

  • Asanteni 10 years ago

    Asiampani, do not despair. We will not all die. We are still Kotokomma. Kum apem a, apem berba! All die be die!
    Those leaders who are deliberately dishonouring the oath they swore to the pwoplw will not live to see us overco ...
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  • Kojo Bie 10 years ago

    Yawn

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    It appears this literary work in verse is not getting much positive appraisal but what this demented man wrote exemplifies the typical mindset of many Asantes linked to the NPP.

    In fact, even some non-Asante Akans, invari ...
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  • NAKED 10 years ago

    What sense did you make here? Learn to respect yourself as human being. A word to the fool is always repeat.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Well, I knew I won't make sense to idiots like you. What I wrote, typos aside, therefore wasn't meant for their consumption.

    Andy-K

  • WTF! 10 years ago

    The Asantes sold out a long time ago – during Yaa Asantewaa’s day. Even when Brave Yaa Asantewaa organized and led resistance to the British colonialists, the Asante men betrayed her with their cowardice. But the worst ...
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  • lpl 10 years ago

    What about SADA and GYEEDA lol

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Prempeh the first ascended the throe at the age of 16.
    He was envied by the older men in the Ashanti Kingdom.Many of the older moles spied for the British and these led to his defeat.
    The same thing is happening to Ashanti' ...
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  • Aden ye re wo 10 years ago

    You are right we envy ourself and others joined it . You can believe it .how citizen in Kumasi working with the city Authority are suffering especially the contractors and treatment they are going through but people f ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    I KNOW A HARD WORKING ASHANTI MAN IN NEW YORK WHO HAD TWO JOBS TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY,WHILE HE WAS BUSY WORKING ANOTHER ASHANTI MAN WHO WAS A STORE OWNER WAS SCREWING HIS WIFE.
    IN THE EARLY 1980's it was a famous Ashanti socc ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    Kwaku Dua is criminal chief who doesn't have brains to be a leader .He is greedy man with no sense .God will punish him b4 he will die.Majority of the shoeshine boys are from his place and he is not shame about it .

  • Aden ye re wo 10 years ago

    Adofo your analysis is correct we Ashantis are slaves in our own mother because we are our own enemies ,things we are going through is sad if you go out and wacth things carefully how kumasi is polluted and how city Authori ...
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  • AUTHORITY 10 years ago

    Envy,jealousy,self inflicted pain is working in adofo rockson. You are delibreatly inciting the people against the noble king and the gov't.you will fail with your pen.being an ashanti is not a free lunch to spew whatever co ...
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  • Learn From the Wise 10 years ago

    Don't even try your hands on poetry. You should learn from the Ph.D's you so abhor due to your enviness because of no college degree.

  • john throway 10 years ago

    you ignorant fool still adore this goddamned ph,d's?
    how many ph,d holders do we have in ghana and still how lives and governance deteriorating?

  • Fo Koku - Tanyingbe 10 years ago

    ROCKSON ADOFO A POET. EIIIII. GO GET LIFE. COME HOME GHANA "YE DE PAPAPA"

  • peace 10 years ago

    keep quiet refugee

  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    What has Adofo been smoking?

  • Ndo 10 years ago

    Use media wisely. This is no poem, there is nothing poor about Ashantis, , their monarchy remains the richest I and respected in Africa, they make valuable contribution to National development.
    What are talking about. GE ...
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  • asieduwaa 10 years ago

    Exactly without ashantis where will ghana be. I believe doesn't know who he is

  • palm wine tapper 10 years ago

    whatever makes you sleep in the night

  • Voltarian!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Ashantis should rise up now and talk. Your leaders have failed you miserably. Your leaders are selfish except Chairman Wontumi. Capitation in nhis will exterminate half of your population in 10 yrs time. WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!

  • NAKED 10 years ago

    Great minds write great things but little minds find it difficult to comprehend kudos brother Rockson, nothing but the truth, you have done what Napoleon couldn't do God bless you for telling the truth. Our forefathers made b ...
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  • Nana Kwaku 10 years ago

    It looks like the Ashante culture, the palace, its gardens, the golden stool,including the Asantehene himself have become tourist attractions. Ashantis, hold on! This is seen all over the country. No chief/king in Ghana has p ...
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  • OMANBAPA KD 10 years ago

    Your choice of words has identified you, John Fosu / Rockson Adofo/ NAKED. You are insane

  • NAKED 10 years ago

    Who told you that i am Adofo Rockson? so only Adofo who is bond to criticized the unscrupulous act of K'dua? mr.man come again with better criticism rather than this. Myopic who fellow crooked King.

  • OMANBAPA KD 10 years ago

    Poor John Fosu aka Rockson Adofo, dementia is your dignosis and you need Dr Yaw Sarfo and his team to treat you. Oops, he cannot come home because of his word incontinence. Your gross disrespect of authority has caught up wit ...
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  • john throway 10 years ago

    omanbapa kd, you sound to be a fool or a beneficiary of the loot. what did adofo say in his writing which is not true of the ashantes today?
    while fools like you are myopic to see what may befall the ashantes in the next few ...
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  • NAKED 10 years ago

    Thanks John you have made my day

  • OMANBAPA KD 10 years ago

    john thruway fosu; that's what you really are. you can run but cannot hide. you better not push me. In your wisdom and trying to hide your identity, you chose an assumed name that befits you well, "throway". That's what you a ...
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  • King Kong 10 years ago

    Poor literary work. Carries no message. Very characteristic of this Adofo guy who kept telling us about some bogus dream throughout the entire election petition hearing.

  • Dready 10 years ago

    Today confused adofo is whipping only the ashanti drum instead of the usual akan thing.Well the headache with the ashanti is that they dont their histiory of origin first.. Adofo learn that history fisrt.Where do you refer to ...
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  • khirsten 10 years ago

    well said, ashantis must wake up,a word to the wise.....

  • seeMe 10 years ago

    Pillage and devastation was what they inflicted on other Ghanaian tribes who didn't have the guns. Now the playing field is the same. Education and Communication has leveled everything. They can only bask in their faded glory ...
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  • maame 10 years ago

    Wow, was the article written by someone with his senses intact? Someone tell him, this is the 21st century Ghans. Gone are the primitive days. Try what your ancestors did and went scot freer and see where you will land. ...
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  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    You do not seem to know that the Asantes have now changed from using brute force to a more refined way using their culture and language to assert themselves as the dominant tribe in Ghana. The new thing is called Asante neo c ...
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  • maame 10 years ago

    dominant in what sense. the word dominant is relative and could one thing to you and another thing to me. if in you mind you feel superior, that's your feeling but know that I have s different impression of the Ashantes. A ...
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  • kaakyire 10 years ago

    @maame what minor is clarifying is even though they are not enslaving other tribes like they used to, they have managed to influence ghana extensively with thier culture esp. thier language which is spoken everywhere in Gha ...
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  • AGBEVE... 10 years ago

    I KNOW YESSSS

  • Ray 10 years ago

    I will never sell my conscience to an Ashanti,they are the most greedy and selfish group of people I have ever encountered.I will avoid them anywhere I get to,do still use their primitive mindsets in modern day.

  • Saani Bamba 10 years ago

    i am a bit worried when people without enough information as to the make up of the clan, tribe or ethnic group they belong to, make frivolous and unnecessary comments about what they don't know.
    the asanti kingdom is of wisd ...
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