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We will stick to the old tradition - Asantehene

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  • Pelicles 7 years ago

    No pollution whatsoever. I love the old tradition and I know some people will descend heavily on but Nana, don't be bothered because there are those who knows more than the Almighty God yet they are just mere mortal being who ...
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  • Lori 7 years ago

    Kwaku Dua nonsense. Is the stupid celebration of your birthday celebration?

  • CONFUSION TO THE ENEMY 7 years ago

    ROOTLESS AND DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES LIKE YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND.ASK YOUR GRANDFATHER HOW MUCH SALT WAS NEEDED TO BUY YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHER AS A SLAVE.DON'T BE ANGRY JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE ROOTLESS.

  • Sian Larbi 7 years ago

    This backward chief shd know his time is up in this 21st century

  • T and T 7 years ago

    The old traditions are in our way to progress. Africa has many primitive traditions and ours is the worst.
    Culture, like water must flow(change) in order to bring progress to the people.
    You want to keep it as it is because ...
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  • THE REAL GA MAN 7 years ago

    THANK YOU

  • Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

    Those buffoons and numskulls in certain media outlet should note there is no Asante Kingdom in the Republic of Ghana. Ghana's Constitution has never ascribed to Asante Region as a Kingdom, neither has it bestowed the title of ...
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  • Observer 7 years ago

    What`s your problem? just get a life or take it to court.

  • Kojo I 7 years ago

    Blame it on otwibini

  • Moses 7 years ago

    You are the numskulls
    Brainwashed fool,
    Maby you are the republic

  • 4 Year Old 7 years ago

    Why not stick to the old tradition when it all favors none other than Kwaku Duah and his family.
    Why not stick to the old tradition, when money and prestige is nothing to you even if you're doing nothing.
    Why not stick to ...
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  • K. MANU 7 years ago

    If the Asantehene is refusing to modernize the tradition of ancient Asante Kingdom, then l challenge him to keep slaughtering people for ritual purposes when a paramount king dies. I will take him to court pretty soon if he d ...
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  • Emperor 7 years ago

    Comedies

  • Thimgs Will fall Apart Someday 7 years ago

    wearing "danta", being carried in a palanquin for all travel, visiting the healing powers of Antoa Nyamaa instead of round trips from Asante to England and South Africa for healthcare, human sacrifices. That's what I'm talkin ...
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  • Uknown 7 years ago

    Brilliant!!!

  • Abena 7 years ago

    Really jealous much?

  • Kojo I 7 years ago

    Incoherent

  • john mahama 7 years ago

    who cares fool

  • Abena 7 years ago

    Obviously you do

  • Nana Asante, Tuff... CT 7 years ago

    Nana Sticking to the tradition is true, but you have to be fair to the truth.
    In the Olden days people with any type of disability is DISQUALIFIED for enstoolment to any throne, Your sister is no exception. You know and the ...
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  • Uknown 7 years ago

    Hahahahaaaaa! A crook will always stay a crook.

  • Lori 7 years ago

    Nana Panin a bo dam.

  • cuuh!. 7 years ago

    Cast all this gold out & start to build asante kingdom to a class. Build asante kingdom to be a city of gold. Are u not ashamed ruling a kingdom full of dirt & stinging but adore yourself with all this gold. It"s time now to ...
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  • Lori 7 years ago

    Even the jewelry, his shameless Julia has become the chief designer. Melting down tradition for fancy stupidity.

  • Lori 7 years ago

    You cannot outdoor her because your mad sister will jump out of the Palanquin.

  • Akora 7 years ago

    Yoo.Nsem pii

  • harry 7 years ago

    Thank you otumfour..... let them say whatever....osei Tutu is your name is only you we know...apart God in ashanti Kingdom is you and no other royal....the enemy within can be more serious than without.....

  • KUNTU BLANKSON 7 years ago

    Nana Osie Tutu the 2, the only Ashanti king ???? to associate him self with a corrupt government and also deal in cocane

  • Samuel 7 years ago

    Modernise the tradition for the sake of fairness, unity and peace in the confederation. Komfo Anokye Omitted making the stool inheritance both King and Queen rotate from one paramount area to another in the confederation.

  • eddie 7 years ago

    The only tradition of the asante kingdom I like is the cutting of heads. Other tribes in the country should emulate this and start cutting heads when a royal is born or a royal dies or a naming ceremony. Accra and Tamale chie ...
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  • Abena 7 years ago

    Jealousy is a bad thing

  • eddie 7 years ago

    Correction. Assin chiefs are the fools not Swefi chiefs. Sorry to Swefi chiefs who dont run away by heart. They are very brave and will cut your head just for seeing you

  • PATAPAA TRUMP 7 years ago

    WAKEUP WAKEUP the Asante kingdom must come out from old outmoded customs,how do you install an 80 year old woman as Asantehemaa in the name of tradition meaning the stool forbid menstrual?Is the stool a shrine?If it is, the ...
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  • Zamora Lafia 7 years ago

    Stick to only the civilised old customs.

  • Obrefo 7 years ago

    It suits your interest thus why you want to keep the status quo.

  • HOLY SINNER 7 years ago

    You made it known to GHANAIANS that beheading during burial was the thing of the past and you are here now telling us you will stick to old tradition ,so now who are you lying to primitive KING IN THIS ERA OF INNOVATIVE IDEAS ...
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  • Kojo I 7 years ago

    They are satanists plain and simple

  • KK 7 years ago

    Congrats. May the new queen mother follow the footsteps of the brave and iconic Yaa Asantewwa.

  • Michael 7 years ago

    Please give your self to Jesus, and stop saying tradition, tradition, Jesus is above all those things

  • Sam Appiah,Savannah,USA. 7 years ago

    Those who will worship this crooked king and believe in him could do so.I know Kwaku Duah is a thief and a lier. I am a true Ashanti and my father is from the oyoko clan but I am losing the true respect for our culture and tr ...
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  • BB 7 years ago

    Vanity of vanity is all VANITY

  • Sam Appiah,Savannah,USA. 7 years ago

    I agree with you vanity upon vanity. It's about time we do away with this outmoded tradition and culture as well as greedy chieftancy.

  • Frank Andoh 7 years ago

    Ashanti tradition has change it's not the same as it was long time ago, but still the should be more modification it shouldn't be one side needs to spread little bit more, from mother to son, and son to aute shouldn't to be ...
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  • Jesus is Coming Very Soon 7 years ago

    Peter 1:18-19, "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a l ...
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  • Yaw Adu-Asare 7 years ago

    I support Otumfuor's thinking on this occasion. Don't disrupt the rich tradition.

  • Lori 7 years ago

    Dua kotiboto crook.

  • True 7 years ago

    WE CAN'T AFFORD TO TRASH OUR CULTURE AWAY JUST LIKE THAT . WHITE MAN WILL NEVER ABANDON HIS CULTURE SO WHY DO WE HAVE TO ???

  • Dr.Poki 7 years ago

    as you devour and eat your food daily without constant applying Jesus's blood,there are invincibility messengers of satan injecting your fruits ,vegetables which makes you eat anyhow,gets you weak also causes you to misbehave ...
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  • MR. TRUTH 7 years ago

    You greedy chief , stop too much talking and see to repair Ashanti or Kumasi into good shape. Ashanti kingdom is rich but espercially our capital Kumasi is the most dirtiest city in West Afrika. WHY ? You're a greedy King.

  • Kojo I 7 years ago

    Some tradition

  • odeneho 7 years ago

    nyaatwom

  • His Excellenxy 7 years ago

    See how ugly n meen he looks like ....indeed proud of our wise ,intelligent n handsome king....

  • King of Kings 7 years ago

    Kingship is not for boasting, be humble cos there are kings dat are greater dan u .wll not mention names but just take a look at the Gonja king, Wala king, Dagbani king n more . Can u compare interns of intelligence,rich cul ...
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  • Kwadwo Gyamfi 7 years ago

    And the religious organizations, the government and civil rights and human rights orga

  • Kwadwo Gyamfi 7 years ago

    As I was saying ...religious organizations, the government , civil and human rights organizations have not raised a finger to complain about the ritual killings that have secretly been going on the passing of Otumfour mother ...
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  • Truth 7 years ago

    If the Ashantis believe so much in their outmoded and archaic traditions then the queen mother's grandchildren should have been beheaded and buried with her, not innocent, unrelated Ghanaians.

  • Oppong Adenta 7 years ago

    But you could have gone for someone younger than 83

  • dickma 7 years ago

    so who cares about this your barbaric so called culture. foolish idiots

  • punch 7 years ago

    Hahaaaaa! It pains them. Di w) hene ooo

  • OPNINPA 7 years ago

    GOING TO CHURCH AND ABANDONING THE HOARY AKAN PRAYER FORM - NSA GUO - IS NOT STICKING TO TRADITION. AKANS HAVE SPIRITUALITY BUT HAVE ANABDONED IT FOR THE GLITTER SND POMP OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

  • JIM 7 years ago

    WHAT IS A KINGDOM ???