Your article is insightful, provides good historical information and food for thought for the proposed creation of new regions.
The history of "too-boi" is indeed interesting, but I notice you did not cite ... read full comment
Dear author,
Your article is insightful, provides good historical information and food for thought for the proposed creation of new regions.
The history of "too-boi" is indeed interesting, but I notice you did not cite a source for to support this story. It will be great to know whether the information is from interviews you conducted and/or known folklore in the area.
Kojo T 7 years ago
The Whiteman came to divide Africa so it can weaken us .Akufo Addo short man do NOT divide us.We Voltarians have been at peace for centuries , so whet in?Have you heard of wars among us?If th ... read full comment
The Whiteman came to divide Africa so it can weaken us .Akufo Addo short man do NOT divide us.We Voltarians have been at peace for centuries , so whet in?Have you heard of wars among us?If they left to find peace and have got it do not bring your war monger tactics among us
Francis kwarteng 7 years ago
The majority Voltarians must do all they can to get the Akans completely out of Volta Region. They have nothing bto seek there!
Francis kwarteng, Ghanaweb/Modernghana Columnist
The majority Voltarians must do all they can to get the Akans completely out of Volta Region. They have nothing bto seek there!
Francis kwarteng, Ghanaweb/Modernghana Columnist
Kweku 7 years ago
It is easy to see what kwarteng has written and what others have written in his name.
Anybody who has read kwarteng for some time knows he, Kwarteng, will never call for any body of Ghanaians to be gotten out of any part ... read full comment
It is easy to see what kwarteng has written and what others have written in his name.
Anybody who has read kwarteng for some time knows he, Kwarteng, will never call for any body of Ghanaians to be gotten out of any part of Ghana.
Kojo T 7 years ago
These bush boys always try to confuse.They do it also with De Bokor and C Y & K and even myself
These bush boys always try to confuse.They do it also with De Bokor and C Y & K and even myself
Dzata 7 years ago
To the author, its true that most parts of Northern Volta has so many tribes living there including Ewes, Akans, Guans and as you move towards the extreme North of the region like Ketekrachie many Northnern tribes.
So even ... read full comment
To the author, its true that most parts of Northern Volta has so many tribes living there including Ewes, Akans, Guans and as you move towards the extreme North of the region like Ketekrachie many Northnern tribes.
So even though the author may want us to believe that the Akan areas are holistically Akan is not true. The many years of all this tribes living together means there have been so may inter marriages and mixing among the tribes.
Wheter the Akans in the volta region are also purely Asantes may not be totally true. We do know from oral history that when the Akwamu empire lost the war with the Asantes and Akyems many moved towards the VR and settled among the Ewes who received them in peace. As a result of that there are many Akan enclaves throughout most of Central to Northern Volta all the way from the Peki, Ho, through Kpando, going towards Hohoe, to the mostly mixed areaas of Jasikan, Kwame krom, Worawora etc.
Koku 7 years ago
The author has never heard of Kwamekrom, Ahamansu, Dodi Papase, Pampawie and other places with some enclaves of Akans in areas with immigrants from different tribes among them many Ewes who moved there to farm. He didn't even ... read full comment
The author has never heard of Kwamekrom, Ahamansu, Dodi Papase, Pampawie and other places with some enclaves of Akans in areas with immigrants from different tribes among them many Ewes who moved there to farm. He didn't even mention Kadjebi whose full name is Kadjebi-Akan but a town with more Ewe immigrants than the native Twi speakers. There's no quarrel between them.
The history here is very false. Those who come from those areas know of something different than he has written here.
The tsoo-boi story is also false. The Anlos use "tso" as exclamation of surprise. They will never use that term to express fear in a dangerous situation. The Ewes in mid-Volta don't use "tsoo" at all. I don't know which fishing village he is talking of. Most of the Anlos who migrated to mid-Volta became farmers, not fishermen since there are no great rivers there. The Akosombo Dam created fishing communities that may have attracted some Anlo fishermen but there were no Twis in those areas. Asantes are not fishermen to be living along fishing waters. The Twi speakers in the VR are mostly farmers.
This history is so false.
NATIVE 7 years ago
Francis Kwarteng, how about getting all Ewes out of Akan lands? They too have nothing to seek there? You are an educated fool
Francis Kwarteng, how about getting all Ewes out of Akan lands? They too have nothing to seek there? You are an educated fool
Koku 7 years ago
Can't you see Francis will never write a thing like that?
Someone is using his name!!!
Can't you see Francis will never write a thing like that?
Someone is using his name!!!
Evil NDC 7 years ago
Akufo Addo didn't suggest to create a new region but the chiefs and people of those areas requested for their own region. I remember somebody from Jasikan told me during President Kuffuor's government that they've written to ... read full comment
Akufo Addo didn't suggest to create a new region but the chiefs and people of those areas requested for their own region. I remember somebody from Jasikan told me during President Kuffuor's government that they've written to him to separate that area from the Volta region followed up by their chiefs. I asked what name they were going to use if Northern Volta or Volta North and he said Oti region so it has been there already that they want to separate. They made a press conference refuting some ewes who came out to disagree with the separation that they can't decide for them and cited why they want the separation so why are you worried? Kojo T your authoritarian manners is one of the reasons giving by some of them for the reason for the separation. Why are you ewes talking for them but not allowing them to speak?do you own them? Why do you ewes try to lord yourselves on people at the least power you get?when ndc is in power you behave like you feed everyone in Ghana the arrogance and disrespectful insulting attitude to the people of Ghana and the nobody can do us foko because we are in power I don't understand that? Akans are people who hate dictatorship, authoritarian attitude,despotism and arrogance,they've lived with you peacefully because they wanted peace but can't take it anymore and want to separate what's your problem? The Western region hasn't talked,B/A hasn't talked the North hasn't talked only the ews from the Volta region are talking why?is it because you don't believe in development? You don't want others to live good? You don't want others to be independent and moving on with their lives? I don't think you are the right people to reject or decide what the good people from the
Northern Volta are demanding. You don't own them Kojo T and this your behaviour is one of the reasons they want separation. The Krobos are in the Eastern region the only different tribe from that region but when the EC tried to add them to the Greater Accra they the Krobos came out to reject not the Akans who are majority in that region so what is your beef? We Akans believe in democracy to develope in freedom,if they will be fine with a new location why not that's our belief. Leave the people of the Northern Volta to decide their fate,after all you don't own them and they know what is good for them so allow them to think for themselves and stop this slavery thing. If they feel comfortable as you want the world to believe they would have acted like the Krobos who don't want to leave the Eastern region.
Kadita 7 years ago
You have said it all for we the people of Volta North. I'm from the Jasikan district specifically Guaman and we want our own region. We wont allow this trokosi ewe people to tell us what we want. The major reason we want the ... read full comment
You have said it all for we the people of Volta North. I'm from the Jasikan district specifically Guaman and we want our own region. We wont allow this trokosi ewe people to tell us what we want. The major reason we want the region is for development purposes and the other major is for people not to refer to us as "evil ewe's" when ever we say to be from the Volta region. WE WANT THE OTI REGION NOW"
AKRANTIE BINI EATER 7 years ago
"CHOKE THE BOAT". The Ewe Fisherfolks mispronounced it to "Tsoo boi"
"CHOKE THE BOAT". The Ewe Fisherfolks mispronounced it to "Tsoo boi"
Just Asking 7 years ago
As it always sounded, I thought it's been written: TWOO-BOI instead,
never heard of tsoo-boi as written here with the same meaning,
well perhaps in other dialects out of the many?
As it always sounded, I thought it's been written: TWOO-BOI instead,
never heard of tsoo-boi as written here with the same meaning,
well perhaps in other dialects out of the many?
Pamela 7 years ago
This fake writer is twisting history. The Avatimes are not your crooked ashantis.
This fake writer is twisting history. The Avatimes are not your crooked ashantis.
Nkrumah 7 years ago
We will take our land back.
We are never and will never be nyebros
We are 100% Akans
We will take our land back.
We are never and will never be nyebros
We are 100% Akans
Zakman 7 years ago
see ur self.man if u are Nkrumah ask ur self where from you before reciting in Volta region.my guy begin to look for your root.
see ur self.man if u are Nkrumah ask ur self where from you before reciting in Volta region.my guy begin to look for your root.
agbeli kaaklo 7 years ago
Fool, akans in volta are slave descendants. Ewes will drive you u akans out and reclaim our land. u've outlived your welcome. Egb emela.
Fool, akans in volta are slave descendants. Ewes will drive you u akans out and reclaim our land. u've outlived your welcome. Egb emela.
Etse 7 years ago
It true bro. Whats wrong with the writer?
It true bro. Whats wrong with the writer?
larry 6 years ago
hope u didn't speak from ur sane
hope u didn't speak from ur sane
SmartphonesSupportBiz 7 years ago
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Kwasi Mantey 7 years ago
The idea of dividing the Volta Region is great and supported by most of the inhabitants of the Northern part of Volta Region. No matter how convincing this author is, the fact remains that most of the developments are concent ... read full comment
The idea of dividing the Volta Region is great and supported by most of the inhabitants of the Northern part of Volta Region. No matter how convincing this author is, the fact remains that most of the developments are concentrated in the Southern part of the region, mainly the Ewe dominated areas. The people of Worawora and its surrounding towns are true Ashantis, Worawora, a fast developing town which is also central will serve as a perfect capital for the proposed Oti Region.
Kwasi Mantey 7 years ago
The people of Worawora are true Ashantis but the people of Jasikan are Guans. I am a citizen of Worawora who knows our history very well.
The people of Worawora are true Ashantis but the people of Jasikan are Guans. I am a citizen of Worawora who knows our history very well.
ADRO-CHOPPER 7 years ago
Theses are Asantes that came to Volta Region to CHOP ADRO. They are ADRO CHOPPERS.
Theses are Asantes that came to Volta Region to CHOP ADRO. They are ADRO CHOPPERS.
CONCERN CITIZEN 7 years ago
the purpose of this article i blv is to educate.am a Guan n has painstakingly read on e history of Guans.Ewes,Guans dont make 'noise' as e Ashantis so pls when making such an argument let historians help u with facts.
the purpose of this article i blv is to educate.am a Guan n has painstakingly read on e history of Guans.Ewes,Guans dont make 'noise' as e Ashantis so pls when making such an argument let historians help u with facts.
NATIVE 7 years ago
Tell it to the revisionists historians, brother Kwasi Martey. They don't know the truth. Rather than visit these towns in the north Volta and talk to royal houses as to their origins, they sit on Ghanaweb and spread lies. The ... read full comment
Tell it to the revisionists historians, brother Kwasi Martey. They don't know the truth. Rather than visit these towns in the north Volta and talk to royal houses as to their origins, they sit on Ghanaweb and spread lies. These later day historians should explain to us why we call the Worawora and Jasikan( ge asekan) area Buem (Ya bue mu) ?
Go talk to the Guan and Nkoya of the area.
Why are the Nkonya and Alavanyo still at each other's throats? And can anyone tell us how we have Peki and Asikuma ( yasi Kuma )in the Volta Region as we have in Ashanti and central regions.? And how did the Anum/ Boso ( Guans) ended up near Peki and Asikuma ? And Why are they part of Asuogaman ( Eastern Region ) and not Volta? And for the curious why are towns like Bereman Asikuma, Bisease, Kuntunase, Kokoben, Agona in the Central region.?
Folk we must stop tribalisiing the creation of regions and see it in political power devolution and economic and social development terms and stop the tribal nonsense! Otherwise we must as well call a greater part of Southern Ghana as Ashanti Region.? The history and settlements of the people in the confinement of the area Ghana is replete with a mix of Ashanti and Guans due to Wars. To be ridiculous, let's create a region each for the Kwawu, Akyem( Abuakwa, Kotoka, Bosome. Agogo), Akwamu( Ga Gbese/James Town to Osu ), Assin, Denkyira- Twifo , Dangbe, Gomioa and Mfantiman, etc.
The Ewe and the Gonja tribal hegemonist better get a life. NADAA vison of political devolution as a gateway for quicker development and poverty reduction must proceed. All shortsighted tribal crazies just can work to defeat it. The train of progress is about to leave that station. All on board !!
CORNEY 7 years ago
Please, give us a break with these lies,the people of Avatime are not Akans the people of Jasikan are not Akans, of course those in Worawora claim they are Akans but they are not Ashantis as some are recently claiming,stop ... read full comment
Please, give us a break with these lies,the people of Avatime are not Akans the people of Jasikan are not Akans, of course those in Worawora claim they are Akans but they are not Ashantis as some are recently claiming,stop twisting history.
Nii Teiko 7 years ago
Whether Akans, Asantes or whatever is immaterial; the good news is that they are not Trokosis, they are true Ghanaians.
Whether Akans, Asantes or whatever is immaterial; the good news is that they are not Trokosis, they are true Ghanaians.
Obuoba 7 years ago
Are you a fool? The original Gold Coast were the Anlos (ewe), Gas/Adangbes, Fantis and Nzemas. So some parts of Ewes were part of the Gold Coast before the Ashantis. Give us a break and learn history.
Are you a fool? The original Gold Coast were the Anlos (ewe), Gas/Adangbes, Fantis and Nzemas. So some parts of Ewes were part of the Gold Coast before the Ashantis. Give us a break and learn history.
NDC IS SATANIC 7 years ago
You are just a foolish tribal craziest. Why didn't Ashanti vote to join Gold Coast but you ewes were asked by the Commonwealth to choose between Togo and Ghana in 1956? Ask your elites the meaning and purpose of plebiscite ... read full comment
You are just a foolish tribal craziest. Why didn't Ashanti vote to join Gold Coast but you ewes were asked by the Commonwealth to choose between Togo and Ghana in 1956? Ask your elites the meaning and purpose of plebiscite and why it was restricted only to your area but not any other part of the country? You people are just deceiving your own selves. I can't understand how and why Ashanti in the middle if Ghana can't be part of the country but those outside the map of Ghana claiming to be true sons and daughters. So called Obuoba I'm giving you an assignment, take the Ghana map and watch carefully where Ashanti is if possible the Ashanti Kingdom and look at the Volta region you can see Ashanti is inside and Volta by the side with a very clear and conspicuous line drawn between the rest of Ghana and your region. Your grand parents came to Gold Coast in search of jobs when the GGermans who colonized the Trans Volta Togoland left there was nobody to take care of your area so the Common Wealth decided to help you through their representative in Gold Coast. That's why when the French colonized the Togo and Ghana was going to be independent the British government decided to allow you to vote and choose which way to go either to be part of Ghana or join Togo. Your elites are deceiving you with wrong information but the History is still in the archives and library in the UK. The Queen of England has everything in her pocession so nobody can lie about Ghana history. Check why the Queen invites the King of Ashanti but not your chief. That's history and tradition can never be wiped off.
Nkrumah 7 years ago
How come you are soo dumb
How come you are soo dumb
Nkrumah 7 years ago
Don't add Fantis and Nzemas our Alan brothers and sisters
Don't add Fantis and Nzemas our Alan brothers and sisters
Etse 7 years ago
I love that bro.
I love that bro.
Monsuraa 7 years ago
The Original Slave Towns are what you mentioned. Asantes were never colonised. They conquered ur forefathers n sold them as slaves. You belong in the Caribbeans n US farms
The Original Slave Towns are what you mentioned. Asantes were never colonised. They conquered ur forefathers n sold them as slaves. You belong in the Caribbeans n US farms
kweku trouble 7 years ago
Did you just ask if he's a fool? I guess you're new to this platform. Nii Teiko is the resident moron. Expect more lunacy from him.
Did you just ask if he's a fool? I guess you're new to this platform. Nii Teiko is the resident moron. Expect more lunacy from him.
anane 7 years ago
Corney u have to go back to school the fact that u are in the Volta region doesn't qualify to be ewe we have cleared all de ewes from worawora land so never ever think that the people of worawora are ewes
Corney u have to go back to school the fact that u are in the Volta region doesn't qualify to be ewe we have cleared all de ewes from worawora land so never ever think that the people of worawora are ewes
Pops 7 years ago
I THINK WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. PEOPLE ON EARTH.
I THINK WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. PEOPLE ON EARTH.
Ken Ntiamoa 7 years ago
A good number of the people of Peki in the Volta Region share a common ancestry with my people at Pakyi in the Ashanti Region.
Ken
A good number of the people of Peki in the Volta Region share a common ancestry with my people at Pakyi in the Ashanti Region.
Ken
AUTHENTIC C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
I couldn't believe my eyes reading this! So much kpakparations - pure tolis - I'd a major historical treatise to correct all of them.
Btw, tsoo boi is simply a corruption of English words used when pushing the surf boats f ... read full comment
I couldn't believe my eyes reading this! So much kpakparations - pure tolis - I'd a major historical treatise to correct all of them.
Btw, tsoo boi is simply a corruption of English words used when pushing the surf boats from the sea or into the sea. The accompaniments as ho-ja!
"Choke the boat!" became tsoo-boi
"Halt, jack" became ho ja!
You have to watch a surf boat being pushed into the sea or from the sea to appreciate the rythm of this.
I think I should leave the rest of the toli for people from the area to deal with.
Andy-K
AUTHENTIC C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
The spelling is chock, not choke, i.e.,
chock the boat.
The spelling is chock, not choke, i.e.,
chock the boat.
Koku 7 years ago
And chock is defined as: a wedge or block for steadying a body (as a cask) and holding it motionless, for filling in an unwanted space, or for blocking the movement of a wheel.
The same word was used in the olden days fo ... read full comment
And chock is defined as: a wedge or block for steadying a body (as a cask) and holding it motionless, for filling in an unwanted space, or for blocking the movement of a wheel.
The same word was used in the olden days for the wedge used to block trucks when they are stationary. It is still used at times on heavy duty trucks on an incline. In the 60s, every vehicle had it and it was the duty of the "draivamet" to remove it when the vehicle moves.
The rest of the article is full of lies and lies and pure misinformation.
There are only few native Akan speakers in the VR - in Worawora, Apesokubi, Asato and Kadjebi. Kadjebi is the biggest of these but the town is full of immigrants, mainly Ewes.
Jasikan people are Guans. Avatime people may also be Guans. They speak Ewe because German missionaries used Ewe in their work in the area - both in church and in schools.
Andrew Kwaku Kumi 7 years ago
Andy-K, you son of a bitch and a criminal must shut your silly ugly okro Ewe mouth.
Andy-K, you son of a bitch and a criminal must shut your silly ugly okro Ewe mouth.
AKRANTIE BINI EATER 7 years ago
Get the fuck OUTTA here, you RAT SHIT EATER. You think writing history topics is like digging out RATS from a hole and cooking and eating the RAT-SHIT?
Get the fuck OUTTA here, you RAT SHIT EATER. You think writing history topics is like digging out RATS from a hole and cooking and eating the RAT-SHIT?
Gbemi 7 years ago
Not fooled by your pretentiousness as some historical authority. You once claimed on this very forum that the Gonja archers of the imperial Asanti army were Hausas! No doubt, every Northener is a Hausani to you.
When and whe ... read full comment
Not fooled by your pretentiousness as some historical authority. You once claimed on this very forum that the Gonja archers of the imperial Asanti army were Hausas! No doubt, every Northener is a Hausani to you.
When and where did the English land to teach the natives your imaginative "Chock the boat"?
It seems everything in our culture came from others, right? In elementary school we were taught that the Spanish brought all the tubers and plantain and corn to us from South America. If this were true, then it would ridiculously and preposterously mean that before European contact and settlement, our ancestors were hunter gatherers with a very limited diet. I choose not not believe this nonsense still being taught until I see DNA and other proof. (Plantain and cassava grow also in Southern India. South America and Africa used to be one continent!).
francis kwarteng 7 years ago
All the continents used be one, not just South America and Africa.
All the writer of this article was to feed us anecdote.
And did Andy-K mention plantain, tubers and corn in his comments and say the Spanish brought th ... read full comment
All the continents used be one, not just South America and Africa.
All the writer of this article was to feed us anecdote.
And did Andy-K mention plantain, tubers and corn in his comments and say the Spanish brought this to us?
Andy-K has promised to write a piece to debunk or correct the claims in this article, so why don't you wait and see his evidence?
At least Andy-K has provided one theory/hypothesis to explain the possible root of "tsoo-boi" as the corruption of "chock the boat."
Let us wait for Andy-K's version of accounts. Give him the benefit of the doubt at least for now.
Thanks.
AUTHENTIC C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
Nyebro Yaw,
Is that you? Or the moniker thief trying to be reasonable, for a change?
Anyway, I don't deal in writing wild tolis! At least he admitted that cassava and maize (corn) were brought from the Americas by the E ... read full comment
Nyebro Yaw,
Is that you? Or the moniker thief trying to be reasonable, for a change?
Anyway, I don't deal in writing wild tolis! At least he admitted that cassava and maize (corn) were brought from the Americas by the Europeans. Anyone can check those facts on the web these days, unlike before.
Potato, tomotoes, turkey, and many others were also introduced from the Americas.
Millet used to be the major African food crop in sub-Saharan Africa. Some areas, like Sa Leone (thus high demand for slaves from there to help to grow rice which whites didn't know how to grow then; legacy being Uncle Ben's Rice), had rice though, introduced 1600 earlier from Asia.
That taken care of, I might just whet his appetite with a bit of authentic history, taken from what I had written years ago and not published yet. Of course, all claims are referenced.
Btw, another variant of those corrupted English words Ewes use is "hoo-too-bo-je", used to refer to a fat, stout woman, signifying something heavy to carry - hold to [the] boat, jack! It's kind of derogatory so one can't say that to the woman's face, mind you.
Andy-K
HMMM 7 years ago
Hahaha- "Hoo-to-bo-je" I have not heard that one for a long time. I guess "Helu--porportsi" is from the same source.
Hahaha- "Hoo-to-bo-je" I have not heard that one for a long time. I guess "Helu--porportsi" is from the same source.
Be wise 7 years ago
Na true talk. People just like making up things that does not exist and never existed. Like some time back someone wrote about 'why asante kotoko and others..' full of blatant lies which others sources here on the ghanaweb pl ... read full comment
Na true talk. People just like making up things that does not exist and never existed. Like some time back someone wrote about 'why asante kotoko and others..' full of blatant lies which others sources here on the ghanaweb platform (facts about ashanti empire) debunks..It is so pathetic.
Amazingly they mix it with some truth to cause greater confusion in the minds of people.
I just don't understand why some people have some sort of bloated claims. In my candid opinion, it is because they have inferiority complex.
Dave 7 years ago
Your comments on akans in the volta region is nothing accurate at all the akans in in the region are prisoners of war not as you reported. No 2 Akan language is the last language to be written in Ghana so the words tsoo-booi ... read full comment
Your comments on akans in the volta region is nothing accurate at all the akans in in the region are prisoners of war not as you reported. No 2 Akan language is the last language to be written in Ghana so the words tsoo-booi is wholy Ewe read your ristory before you write
HOWIE 7 years ago
Akuapem is the first language to be put into writing.
Akuapem is the first language to be put into writing.
NATIVE 7 years ago
What dialect is Akuapim Twi.? It is Akan, the dialect of the Akwamu who controlled the present day Akuapim. You are correct about Twi being the first local dialect to be written by a Missionsry from Basel, Switzerland named ... read full comment
What dialect is Akuapim Twi.? It is Akan, the dialect of the Akwamu who controlled the present day Akuapim. You are correct about Twi being the first local dialect to be written by a Missionsry from Basel, Switzerland named Christeller.
Be wise 7 years ago
the Akans were never slaves. They either conquered or made peace until the whiteman set his foot on our shores. These are documented history don't also bloat yourself in arrogance. I dey beg...
the Akans were never slaves. They either conquered or made peace until the whiteman set his foot on our shores. These are documented history don't also bloat yourself in arrogance. I dey beg...
AUTHENTIC C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
Dave,
You're wrong on all counts too.
Andy-K
Dave,
You're wrong on all counts too.
Andy-K
NDC IS SATANIC 7 years ago
What do you mean by Akan Language is the last to be written in Ghana? Name any scholar from the Volta region in the 17th century? but we had Mensah Saabah, Dr Kwergyir Aggrey and so many during that era. When did you come i ... read full comment
What do you mean by Akan Language is the last to be written in Ghana? Name any scholar from the Volta region in the 17th century? but we had Mensah Saabah, Dr Kwergyir Aggrey and so many during that era. When did you come in? Did your ancestors had money to send you to school through their carpentry and laborer work? Kofi Awoonor is your role model who opened your eyes into politics during the PNDC era and he was the one who encouraged you to get higher education to compete with the Akans so don't bring in your matter at all for you are latter days saints who have messed up this country with your rush and envious half baked education. Give us a break!
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
Another blasted ignorant fool! Mensah and Aggrey lived in the C17th? Tweah! It surprising u even know how to write!
It'd take too much time to re-educate you, so I shall leave you to continue to stew in your ignorance.
... read full comment
Another blasted ignorant fool! Mensah and Aggrey lived in the C17th? Tweah! It surprising u even know how to write!
It'd take too much time to re-educate you, so I shall leave you to continue to stew in your ignorance.
Too many ignorant fools on Ghanaweb!
Andy-K
HOWIE 7 years ago
The premise of the whole history is wrong. Crossing a river to go to school in the 18th century in that region! What a joke.
The premise of the whole history is wrong. Crossing a river to go to school in the 18th century in that region! What a joke.
kweku trouble 7 years ago
Hahahaha! You're hundred percent right. I laugh enter 'azaa' historians house.
Hahahaha! You're hundred percent right. I laugh enter 'azaa' historians house.
Asiwome 7 years ago
Places like Ahamansu, Kadzebi, etc. had Ewe as well as Akan settlers who took advantage of the cocoa boom to grow cocoa on available land. They are still many Ewes in these areas. My grandfather had a farm in name withheld, s ... read full comment
Places like Ahamansu, Kadzebi, etc. had Ewe as well as Akan settlers who took advantage of the cocoa boom to grow cocoa on available land. They are still many Ewes in these areas. My grandfather had a farm in name withheld, so I know what I am taking about.
fiction 7 years ago
The tsoo boi side of the write up is NOT true. Ewes don't draw attention by using or saying such word. That word is simply a word of exclamation., surprise etc.
please get your facts right , what you wrote is a fiction. We' ... read full comment
The tsoo boi side of the write up is NOT true. Ewes don't draw attention by using or saying such word. That word is simply a word of exclamation., surprise etc.
please get your facts right , what you wrote is a fiction. We've heard it said several times just for fun. There is no truth in it.
This is the only line that discredits otherwise a nice write up.
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Kwame 7 years ago
Verily, Verily we push you into the sea.
It is a fact that my brother C.Y.Andy Kwawukume has already narrated the history of how the Ashantis came to become part of the Volta Region, from Northern Volta to Tefle and Sogakofe ... read full comment
Verily, Verily we push you into the sea.
It is a fact that my brother C.Y.Andy Kwawukume has already narrated the history of how the Ashantis came to become part of the Volta Region, from Northern Volta to Tefle and Sogakofe.
It was as a result of the defeat of the Ashantis and their allies who intend to push all he tribes at the coast into the sea and take their salt pans.
The Ashantis and their allies swear that they will surely make salted fish out of the people at the coast including the Nfantis. When they were defeated by my great grandfather Adzaba with Kwawukume by his side he told the Ashanti captives "Woka atam wom di su" to wit "you swear but you never accomplish it". My grandfather who was my father's father Kumordzi fought the Ashantis on the River Atsitowhui and defeated them.
When the defeated Ashanti warriors took to the forest the people teased them that they were walking wura wura through the forest. I live it here because C.Y. Andy Kwawukume will tell the rest.
Let as always animate history that it could be able to walk.
Kwame 7 years ago
Sabolai, Aspatre are Spanish words..
Sabolai, Aspatre are Spanish words..
Kwame Nyarko 7 years ago
Centuries of history has just narrated.
Centuries of history has just narrated.
KOFI APRAKU 7 years ago
We should notthink that only Akans migrated to the Volta region. Different tribes migrated to different places. People from Volta region migrated en masse to the Ashanti region. There is even a place in Kumasi called "Anloga" ... read full comment
We should notthink that only Akans migrated to the Volta region. Different tribes migrated to different places. People from Volta region migrated en masse to the Ashanti region. There is even a place in Kumasi called "Anloga" in Kumasi.
k, no problem, a 7 years ago
Idiot, the Akans have always demande their region. They can thus pay homage to their king without any fuss
Idiot, the Akans have always demande their region. They can thus pay homage to their king without any fuss
Dd 7 years ago
Don't understand, Volta region is togoland, now how come an Akan who said he/she is a Ghanaian but wants to claim togoland as his own. This's confusing
Don't understand, Volta region is togoland, now how come an Akan who said he/she is a Ghanaian but wants to claim togoland as his own. This's confusing
Oti Akenteng 7 years ago
Another great piece article,but we don,t need any division, Peace Love and Happiness.Together yes we can.
Another great piece article,but we don,t need any division, Peace Love and Happiness.Together yes we can.
Koku 7 years ago
Please Oti Akenteng,
Let's get serious for once. This is NO GREAT ARTICLE. The writer's research is extremely shallow. He doesn't exactly know what he's talking about. He has no intimate knowledge of the Volta Region. His ... read full comment
Please Oti Akenteng,
Let's get serious for once. This is NO GREAT ARTICLE. The writer's research is extremely shallow. He doesn't exactly know what he's talking about. He has no intimate knowledge of the Volta Region. His narrative about TSOOBOI is completely fake and an old maid's tale. No doubt he cannot cite sources. He doesn't even know which Asantehene visited WORAWORA and when. He says the London Times reported this in the 1800s when the time Osei Tutu II visited Worawora was about three years ago!!! Osei Tutu I is never known to have visited Worawora which even may not have existed at the time he reigned.
There's no conflict between the Akans of VR and the other citizens. No Volta chief can ask an Akan chief in Worawora to pay homage to him. The people of Avatime don't speak Twi.
How can you term this poorly researched article a great article?
Let us be more critical of the things we read even if they are on "cheap" ghanaweb!!!
NDC IS SATANIC 7 years ago
You are wrong Koku, you rather go and do the research yourself. The late Otumfuo Opoku Ware visited Worawora in 1980s,he visited Koforidua N/J the same time,he went to the Central region and visited those with ancestral roots ... read full comment
You are wrong Koku, you rather go and do the research yourself. The late Otumfuo Opoku Ware visited Worawora in 1980s,he visited Koforidua N/J the same time,he went to the Central region and visited those with ancestral roots from Ashanti eg Agona Nyakrom pictures and documentations are available for all to see. He visited so many areas in Ghana whose ancestral home is Ashanti and invited them to come back home hence they all started going to Manhyia. History can never be rewritten. Those Ashantis/Akans in the Northern Volta still speak twi/Akan. They've never considered themselves as ewes so as hard that you will try they still know their roots and will never consider themselves as ewes. Otumfuo Osei Tutu is following the path of his predecessor hence his visits to that area. But why are you Ewes worried? Leave the people of the Northern Volta to take their own decision. I remember even Torgbe Gbi of Hohoe has come out to embrace the separation to start from Asikuma junction to add his area to the supposed Oti region. The question you must ask is who brought the name Oti region? It will interest you to know the good people of the Northern Volta which means they've premeditated it long time to separate from the present Volta region so leave them alone . I don't understand you, supposing I've rented a room from you don't I have a right to move out? The people even don't like the idea of ignorant people calling every one from the Volta region an ewe. Let My People Go ! Allow them to take their own decision and stop the talking ,you like talking too much. None of those regions supposed to be separated is talking. Why? LET OUR PEOPLE GO !
Bossman 7 years ago
I have been thinking about the origin of Tsoo-boi. It is good the author has put my mind at rest.
I have been thinking about the origin of Tsoo-boi. It is good the author has put my mind at rest.
JOE PROMISE 7 years ago
mR aTTA oWUSU, WHICH PART OF Volta REGION ARE YOU FROM? yOU HAVE BEEN WRITING VERY GOOD ARTICLES ABOUT THE Volta REGION. KUDOS
mR aTTA oWUSU, WHICH PART OF Volta REGION ARE YOU FROM? yOU HAVE BEEN WRITING VERY GOOD ARTICLES ABOUT THE Volta REGION. KUDOS
apuuuu 7 years ago
Go and ask your grandpa for the right information. Go sleep somewhere...
Go and ask your grandpa for the right information. Go sleep somewhere...
YP 7 years ago
The people of worawara are the people captured during the war and have know options than remaining in VR as war slaves
The people of worawara are the people captured during the war and have know options than remaining in VR as war slaves
Akosua K 7 years ago
It seems today youngsters argue about everything they don't know and disagree with. Didn't any of you study history in your schools? I was in school during Nkrumah's days and we learnt a lot of our own history. That time a lo ... read full comment
It seems today youngsters argue about everything they don't know and disagree with. Didn't any of you study history in your schools? I was in school during Nkrumah's days and we learnt a lot of our own history. That time a lot of the old folks who have lived through the slave trade and wars were still alive so we had the first hand accounts of our histories. All our history books were published and printed here in Ghana from these first accounts. Where are all the text books now? These youngsters, whenever they hear something they do not agree , then they reject it and argue. They don't accept what and how the history was but rather what they think it should have been in this modern times. Very funny!! This is how our history is been eroded by such young people of today who have sunk so deep in their minds in tribalism and disrespect our history. It seems you youngster are refusing to learn what you don't know about yourselves but ready to take on what the white man says. Lord have mercy on us, for with such attitudes we will lose our heritage in the near future. We cannot hand over our traditions and cultures to you? Mind you, we had these traditions and cultures before the white man stepped here. This is who we are, folks! So be proud of yourselves. Bring down your arrogance and learn about who you are. Secondly, I think it would be very wrong to divide this settlement. It's unheard for. Why? These people have lived together for centuries why would any sensible person would like to divide them? War mongerers? Asante's were never slaves there, they conquered the people and settled there with them and imposed their cultures, names and traditions on them. However, they lived peacefully side by side.
Kweku 7 years ago
Are you saying anything any older person says about our history should be accepted by our youth?
Me too I started school during the Nkrumah regime but I will not tell the youth to accept anything I say because I am old. T ... read full comment
Are you saying anything any older person says about our history should be accepted by our youth?
Me too I started school during the Nkrumah regime but I will not tell the youth to accept anything I say because I am old. The youth should be skeptical and require proof of any historical narrative. They should be inquisitive to know more and be critical.
Whatever I tell the youth should also be solid.
The account presented by the writer here is incomplete and misleading. It is like anansensem. He didn't even provide any sources or references but presented things as if they are gospel truths. Even trained historians disagree among themselves about the course of events and are ever searching for new evidence to support their findings and theories.
Patriot 7 years ago
I'm proud to be a Ghana especially such revelations suggest that irrespective of our seemingly tribal differences, we are actually so linked each that we inseparable.
Long live Ghana!!!!!
I am an Ashanti and I want to use ... read full comment
I'm proud to be a Ghana especially such revelations suggest that irrespective of our seemingly tribal differences, we are actually so linked each that we inseparable.
Long live Ghana!!!!!
I am an Ashanti and I want to use this platform to declare my RESPECT and my LOVE for GHANAIAN.
To the author of this piece,I say AYEKOO
Ghana for you 7 years ago
okay if you are akan pack your belongings and go to where ever you are coming from we don't need division
okay if you are akan pack your belongings and go to where ever you are coming from we don't need division
Edem Peki 7 years ago
Waow..interesting piece..read al de comments that followed. .can someone plz tel me mire abt the pple of Peki, my hometown. Hw come ee hv so much akan names. .my elder brother hv hiz surname as Addae,my cousin sister hv Ampa ... read full comment
Waow..interesting piece..read al de comments that followed. .can someone plz tel me mire abt the pple of Peki, my hometown. Hw come ee hv so much akan names. .my elder brother hv hiz surname as Addae,my cousin sister hv Ampah as her surname. .we hv other names lyk Asamoah,Bonney (part of my family) among others..I luv history nd I luv reading as wel..need more education. ...what abt Gbi (Peki/Hohoe)..?
Happiness Mawulitegbe 7 years ago
Oh how glad I am that the Akpinis, people from Kpando, have never been conquered by the Ashanti. It would have been the greatest insult I wouldn't have loved to live with. If Nana Akuffo Addo wants to segment the Volta Region ... read full comment
Oh how glad I am that the Akpinis, people from Kpando, have never been conquered by the Ashanti. It would have been the greatest insult I wouldn't have loved to live with. If Nana Akuffo Addo wants to segment the Volta Region into one million regions, let him go ahead and do it. The Akpinis dared the Ashantis and still dare them today, period!
Sunkwa. 7 years ago
You are a fool on a mission with your half bake joke.
You are a fool on a mission with your half bake joke.
Leap Boah 7 years ago
Volta Region virtually ends at Hohoe and the rest up north after the Hohoe river don't actually matter to the average Ewe.The Guan's and Akans north of Hohoe have discriminated against for years! Now that they want out you ar ... read full comment
Volta Region virtually ends at Hohoe and the rest up north after the Hohoe river don't actually matter to the average Ewe.The Guan's and Akans north of Hohoe have discriminated against for years! Now that they want out you are crying foul! Hypocrites!
Sitso 7 years ago
Eiiih, you sat down in a tiny corner of your room claiming you're writing a history, full of lies.
Let me educate you a little on this, all those you see in the upper volta are who we called Auasilawo/Aualelawo meaning capti ... read full comment
Eiiih, you sat down in a tiny corner of your room claiming you're writing a history, full of lies.
Let me educate you a little on this, all those you see in the upper volta are who we called Auasilawo/Aualelawo meaning captives.
They were defeated in a war and can't go back home.
Thanks to our ancestors who allowed them to settle there, you wouldn't have been writing this rubbish
Maame Tawiah 7 years ago
Thank you blaa for the article, it is helping those with other insightful historical info share also.
Thank you blaa for the article, it is helping those with other insightful historical info share also.
comfort 7 years ago
Now I know that is where my is duah but am from jasikan .tanx Nana Addo do dat .
Now I know that is where my is duah but am from jasikan .tanx Nana Addo do dat .
bryan dopp 7 years ago
Tsoo buuitiful. Good article. interesting how people of different tribes have come to live together and get along. I think the two cries for help may relate semiotically to English and finnish ones. Tsoo reminds of the H ... read full comment
Tsoo buuitiful. Good article. interesting how people of different tribes have come to live together and get along. I think the two cries for help may relate semiotically to English and finnish ones. Tsoo reminds of the Hebrew Shua! meaning help or save, from which Jesus' name is derived, as well as the English word save.Hosanna is Hoshianna in Hebrew, of which Hoshia means save us, and na means now. The sh sound means to act. The Word Buui reminds of the Finnish cry 'Apua!', meaning 'help me!' In this case the B sound means come, semiotically.
Apaw 6 years ago
This a distorted historical facts. Guans were in the the Northern Volta before the Asantes arrived just because the British blocked their slave trading routes to Salaga. These Guans are the Buems, Akpafus Satrokofis and Nkoya ... read full comment
This a distorted historical facts. Guans were in the the Northern Volta before the Asantes arrived just because the British blocked their slave trading routes to Salaga. These Guans are the Buems, Akpafus Satrokofis and Nkoyas. There is no where in recorded history that the Woraworas conquered. The Tapas their close neighbors has no college tonight of that.
Dear author,
Your article is insightful, provides good historical information and food for thought for the proposed creation of new regions.
The history of "too-boi" is indeed interesting, but I notice you did not cite ...
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The Whiteman came to divide Africa so it can weaken us .Akufo Addo short man do NOT divide us.We Voltarians have been at peace for centuries , so whet in?Have you heard of wars among us?If th ...
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The majority Voltarians must do all they can to get the Akans completely out of Volta Region. They have nothing bto seek there!
Francis kwarteng, Ghanaweb/Modernghana Columnist
It is easy to see what kwarteng has written and what others have written in his name.
Anybody who has read kwarteng for some time knows he, Kwarteng, will never call for any body of Ghanaians to be gotten out of any part ...
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These bush boys always try to confuse.They do it also with De Bokor and C Y & K and even myself
To the author, its true that most parts of Northern Volta has so many tribes living there including Ewes, Akans, Guans and as you move towards the extreme North of the region like Ketekrachie many Northnern tribes.
So even ...
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The author has never heard of Kwamekrom, Ahamansu, Dodi Papase, Pampawie and other places with some enclaves of Akans in areas with immigrants from different tribes among them many Ewes who moved there to farm. He didn't even ...
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Francis Kwarteng, how about getting all Ewes out of Akan lands? They too have nothing to seek there? You are an educated fool
Can't you see Francis will never write a thing like that?
Someone is using his name!!!
Akufo Addo didn't suggest to create a new region but the chiefs and people of those areas requested for their own region. I remember somebody from Jasikan told me during President Kuffuor's government that they've written to ...
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You have said it all for we the people of Volta North. I'm from the Jasikan district specifically Guaman and we want our own region. We wont allow this trokosi ewe people to tell us what we want. The major reason we want the ...
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"CHOKE THE BOAT". The Ewe Fisherfolks mispronounced it to "Tsoo boi"
As it always sounded, I thought it's been written: TWOO-BOI instead,
never heard of tsoo-boi as written here with the same meaning,
well perhaps in other dialects out of the many?
This fake writer is twisting history. The Avatimes are not your crooked ashantis.
We will take our land back.
We are never and will never be nyebros
We are 100% Akans
see ur self.man if u are Nkrumah ask ur self where from you before reciting in Volta region.my guy begin to look for your root.
Fool, akans in volta are slave descendants. Ewes will drive you u akans out and reclaim our land. u've outlived your welcome. Egb emela.
It true bro. Whats wrong with the writer?
hope u didn't speak from ur sane
January is almost gone. Are you yet to start something? Still confused about what investment options to choose for the year to maintain steady cash flow? Think about it -everyday, both the employed and the idle are hooked to ...
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The idea of dividing the Volta Region is great and supported by most of the inhabitants of the Northern part of Volta Region. No matter how convincing this author is, the fact remains that most of the developments are concent ...
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The people of Worawora are true Ashantis but the people of Jasikan are Guans. I am a citizen of Worawora who knows our history very well.
Theses are Asantes that came to Volta Region to CHOP ADRO. They are ADRO CHOPPERS.
the purpose of this article i blv is to educate.am a Guan n has painstakingly read on e history of Guans.Ewes,Guans dont make 'noise' as e Ashantis so pls when making such an argument let historians help u with facts.
Tell it to the revisionists historians, brother Kwasi Martey. They don't know the truth. Rather than visit these towns in the north Volta and talk to royal houses as to their origins, they sit on Ghanaweb and spread lies. The ...
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Please, give us a break with these lies,the people of Avatime are not Akans the people of Jasikan are not Akans, of course those in Worawora claim they are Akans but they are not Ashantis as some are recently claiming,stop ...
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Whether Akans, Asantes or whatever is immaterial; the good news is that they are not Trokosis, they are true Ghanaians.
Are you a fool? The original Gold Coast were the Anlos (ewe), Gas/Adangbes, Fantis and Nzemas. So some parts of Ewes were part of the Gold Coast before the Ashantis. Give us a break and learn history.
You are just a foolish tribal craziest. Why didn't Ashanti vote to join Gold Coast but you ewes were asked by the Commonwealth to choose between Togo and Ghana in 1956? Ask your elites the meaning and purpose of plebiscite ...
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How come you are soo dumb
Don't add Fantis and Nzemas our Alan brothers and sisters
I love that bro.
The Original Slave Towns are what you mentioned. Asantes were never colonised. They conquered ur forefathers n sold them as slaves. You belong in the Caribbeans n US farms
Did you just ask if he's a fool? I guess you're new to this platform. Nii Teiko is the resident moron. Expect more lunacy from him.
Corney u have to go back to school the fact that u are in the Volta region doesn't qualify to be ewe we have cleared all de ewes from worawora land so never ever think that the people of worawora are ewes
I THINK WE ARE WHAT WE ARE. PEOPLE ON EARTH.
A good number of the people of Peki in the Volta Region share a common ancestry with my people at Pakyi in the Ashanti Region.
Ken
I couldn't believe my eyes reading this! So much kpakparations - pure tolis - I'd a major historical treatise to correct all of them.
Btw, tsoo boi is simply a corruption of English words used when pushing the surf boats f ...
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The spelling is chock, not choke, i.e.,
chock the boat.
And chock is defined as: a wedge or block for steadying a body (as a cask) and holding it motionless, for filling in an unwanted space, or for blocking the movement of a wheel.
The same word was used in the olden days fo ...
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Andy-K, you son of a bitch and a criminal must shut your silly ugly okro Ewe mouth.
Get the fuck OUTTA here, you RAT SHIT EATER. You think writing history topics is like digging out RATS from a hole and cooking and eating the RAT-SHIT?
Not fooled by your pretentiousness as some historical authority. You once claimed on this very forum that the Gonja archers of the imperial Asanti army were Hausas! No doubt, every Northener is a Hausani to you.
When and whe ...
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All the continents used be one, not just South America and Africa.
All the writer of this article was to feed us anecdote.
And did Andy-K mention plantain, tubers and corn in his comments and say the Spanish brought th ...
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Nyebro Yaw,
Is that you? Or the moniker thief trying to be reasonable, for a change?
Anyway, I don't deal in writing wild tolis! At least he admitted that cassava and maize (corn) were brought from the Americas by the E ...
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Hahaha- "Hoo-to-bo-je" I have not heard that one for a long time. I guess "Helu--porportsi" is from the same source.
Na true talk. People just like making up things that does not exist and never existed. Like some time back someone wrote about 'why asante kotoko and others..' full of blatant lies which others sources here on the ghanaweb pl ...
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Your comments on akans in the volta region is nothing accurate at all the akans in in the region are prisoners of war not as you reported. No 2 Akan language is the last language to be written in Ghana so the words tsoo-booi ...
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Akuapem is the first language to be put into writing.
What dialect is Akuapim Twi.? It is Akan, the dialect of the Akwamu who controlled the present day Akuapim. You are correct about Twi being the first local dialect to be written by a Missionsry from Basel, Switzerland named ...
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the Akans were never slaves. They either conquered or made peace until the whiteman set his foot on our shores. These are documented history don't also bloat yourself in arrogance. I dey beg...
Dave,
You're wrong on all counts too.
Andy-K
What do you mean by Akan Language is the last to be written in Ghana? Name any scholar from the Volta region in the 17th century? but we had Mensah Saabah, Dr Kwergyir Aggrey and so many during that era. When did you come i ...
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Another blasted ignorant fool! Mensah and Aggrey lived in the C17th? Tweah! It surprising u even know how to write!
It'd take too much time to re-educate you, so I shall leave you to continue to stew in your ignorance.
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The premise of the whole history is wrong. Crossing a river to go to school in the 18th century in that region! What a joke.
Hahahaha! You're hundred percent right. I laugh enter 'azaa' historians house.
Places like Ahamansu, Kadzebi, etc. had Ewe as well as Akan settlers who took advantage of the cocoa boom to grow cocoa on available land. They are still many Ewes in these areas. My grandfather had a farm in name withheld, s ...
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The tsoo boi side of the write up is NOT true. Ewes don't draw attention by using or saying such word. That word is simply a word of exclamation., surprise etc.
please get your facts right , what you wrote is a fiction. We' ...
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Do you want to have a nice shape?
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Verily, Verily we push you into the sea.
It is a fact that my brother C.Y.Andy Kwawukume has already narrated the history of how the Ashantis came to become part of the Volta Region, from Northern Volta to Tefle and Sogakofe ...
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Sabolai, Aspatre are Spanish words..
Centuries of history has just narrated.
We should notthink that only Akans migrated to the Volta region. Different tribes migrated to different places. People from Volta region migrated en masse to the Ashanti region. There is even a place in Kumasi called "Anloga" ...
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Idiot, the Akans have always demande their region. They can thus pay homage to their king without any fuss
Don't understand, Volta region is togoland, now how come an Akan who said he/she is a Ghanaian but wants to claim togoland as his own. This's confusing
Another great piece article,but we don,t need any division, Peace Love and Happiness.Together yes we can.
Please Oti Akenteng,
Let's get serious for once. This is NO GREAT ARTICLE. The writer's research is extremely shallow. He doesn't exactly know what he's talking about. He has no intimate knowledge of the Volta Region. His ...
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You are wrong Koku, you rather go and do the research yourself. The late Otumfuo Opoku Ware visited Worawora in 1980s,he visited Koforidua N/J the same time,he went to the Central region and visited those with ancestral roots ...
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I have been thinking about the origin of Tsoo-boi. It is good the author has put my mind at rest.
mR aTTA oWUSU, WHICH PART OF Volta REGION ARE YOU FROM? yOU HAVE BEEN WRITING VERY GOOD ARTICLES ABOUT THE Volta REGION. KUDOS
Go and ask your grandpa for the right information. Go sleep somewhere...
The people of worawara are the people captured during the war and have know options than remaining in VR as war slaves
It seems today youngsters argue about everything they don't know and disagree with. Didn't any of you study history in your schools? I was in school during Nkrumah's days and we learnt a lot of our own history. That time a lo ...
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Are you saying anything any older person says about our history should be accepted by our youth?
Me too I started school during the Nkrumah regime but I will not tell the youth to accept anything I say because I am old. T ...
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I'm proud to be a Ghana especially such revelations suggest that irrespective of our seemingly tribal differences, we are actually so linked each that we inseparable.
Long live Ghana!!!!!
I am an Ashanti and I want to use ...
read full comment
okay if you are akan pack your belongings and go to where ever you are coming from we don't need division
Waow..interesting piece..read al de comments that followed. .can someone plz tel me mire abt the pple of Peki, my hometown. Hw come ee hv so much akan names. .my elder brother hv hiz surname as Addae,my cousin sister hv Ampa ...
read full comment
Oh how glad I am that the Akpinis, people from Kpando, have never been conquered by the Ashanti. It would have been the greatest insult I wouldn't have loved to live with. If Nana Akuffo Addo wants to segment the Volta Region ...
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You are a fool on a mission with your half bake joke.
Volta Region virtually ends at Hohoe and the rest up north after the Hohoe river don't actually matter to the average Ewe.The Guan's and Akans north of Hohoe have discriminated against for years! Now that they want out you ar ...
read full comment
Eiiih, you sat down in a tiny corner of your room claiming you're writing a history, full of lies.
Let me educate you a little on this, all those you see in the upper volta are who we called Auasilawo/Aualelawo meaning capti ...
read full comment
Thank you blaa for the article, it is helping those with other insightful historical info share also.
Now I know that is where my is duah but am from jasikan .tanx Nana Addo do dat .
Tsoo buuitiful. Good article. interesting how people of different tribes have come to live together and get along. I think the two cries for help may relate semiotically to English and finnish ones. Tsoo reminds of the H ...
read full comment
This a distorted historical facts. Guans were in the the Northern Volta before the Asantes arrived just because the British blocked their slave trading routes to Salaga. These Guans are the Buems, Akpafus Satrokofis and Nkoya ...
read full comment