Sankofa series: What JB Dankwa told Prempeh II to get Asanteman join Ghana's independence fight

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Stephen Donkor: New York. 2 months ago

And during the time Ashanti Confederation was on itself what was Dormaa Hene’s role in the Ashanti Kingdom and how did Dormaa Hene quickly claimed that he is superior to the Asante Hene? I’m writing this because I’m bir ...
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And during the time Ashanti Confederation was on itself what was Dormaa Hene’s role in the Ashanti Kingdom and how did Dormaa Hene quickly claimed that he is superior to the Asante Hene? I’m writing this because I’m birthed by both Bono and Ashanti parents respectively! I don’t mean any mischief I just need some clarification for peace to reign between the two people!
Bastie Asantefourhene 2 months ago

Kwasia Tutu II is scratching his testicles and laughing hilariously. Hahahaha his uncle Kwame Kyeretwie was scammed by JB Danquah . Hahahaha this is MA TRICKI WO.

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Kwasia Tutu II is scratching his testicles and laughing hilariously. Hahahaha his uncle Kwame Kyeretwie was scammed by JB Danquah . Hahahaha this is MA TRICKI WO.

NB. Dormaa was only part of Asante confederacy for 3 months. Dormaa has never served Asante. Your Asante collapsed in 1896 when the Sakawa boy Prempeh I , was kidnapped and sent to Lunsar, Sierra Loeone and later to Seychelles to pick cotton for the British Empire.

Your Asante became a British colony in 1901. There was no Asantehene. In 1935 the British established the “indirect rule “ , a policy championed by Lord Luggard in Northern Zoogeria.

There’s no Asante kingdom anymore in any statue books of Ghana. There was Asante confederacy which you later changed to Asanteman council. You cannot go to the coirt with any letterhead that says Asante Kingdom.

Let me school you. The Dormaa Aduana piesie has always been a thorn in the flesh of Asante.

For the records. Kwaeman (Kumasi ) first chief who initiated a confederacy was Obiri Yeboah. His accolade was ODI AHENKAN (first among chiefs), his predecessors were all adikro. He was the first Asantehene. This truth has been suppressed because he was murdered by Dormaa. His oblong skull is the footstool of the current Dormaahene.

How did Dormaa serve Asante, when the head of your first asantehene is the footstool of Dormaa?

Dormaa also killed Asante -Offinsohene Dwamena Wiafe Akenteng.

Dormaa killed Asante Agonahene Okomfo Yamoah (okatakyie afrifa of Angel FM’s great great great grandfather and chief)

Dormaa killed Asante Pebosohene Yaw Nwawaah.

All these killings occurred on the same day. Ask your elders why traditional executioners always avoided capturing slot killing and someone from ADUANA CLAN. Ogyaaaaaaaaaa.

Your current Kwasia Tutu II, ask where his biological father is from. You Asantes have one more mission to accomplish , to claim Bono. However, you can never be the firstborn like the Bono.
His Excellency The Ugly Dwarf 2 months ago

The traitor JB Dan Danquah is in hell. Forget about him. He actually opposed Ghana's in dependence - travelling all the way to London to tell the British we were not ready for independence and then his party abstaining in the ...
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The traitor JB Dan Danquah is in hell. Forget about him. He actually opposed Ghana's in dependence - travelling all the way to London to tell the British we were not ready for independence and then his party abstaining in the parliamentary vote for independence. Such an evil man
Fire 2 months ago

How many times do you fools have to be reminded that Asante region was part of THE Gold Coast, especially, after 1902. Kwaku Duah himself said it in his Memphis speech. Youtube it. Asantes are stuck on stupid pretending they ...
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How many times do you fools have to be reminded that Asante region was part of THE Gold Coast, especially, after 1902. Kwaku Duah himself said it in his Memphis speech. Youtube it. Asantes are stuck on stupid pretending they were never colonized, yet they were the most humiliated. If the Asantes were not colonized, why were Asantes fighting UNDER the British ARMY in WW2.
Sylvan 2 months ago

@ Fire, don't mind this revisionist writer. So after the British defeated the Asante and sent the king and queens to islands, they couldn't colonized it. This asantes always made and see themselves above everyone in Ghana but ...
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@ Fire, don't mind this revisionist writer. So after the British defeated the Asante and sent the king and queens to islands, they couldn't colonized it. This asantes always made and see themselves above everyone in Ghana but in reality nothing before the decimal point.
OSAFO KANTANKA 2 months ago

What do you expect if you rope in people to help you in a fight through promises of lies? You will NEVER Succeed. No wonder the Laws of KARMA worked against that particular person. That person started his life as a Con.arti ...
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What do you expect if you rope in people to help you in a fight through promises of lies? You will NEVER Succeed. No wonder the Laws of KARMA worked against that particular person. That person started his life as a Con.artist. He conned Paa GRANT into financing the UGCC with the promise of handing over all the Businesses of The UAC,UTC, GB OLLIVANT, PATTERSON ZOCHONIS (PZ) etc to PAA GRANT after independence. Knowing that all these promises and a few other promises will Not be fulfilled. It was impossible to keep these promises. The wages of sin. It even got to a point that THIS GREAT Man Lost his Parliamentary seat to his own Nephew ARON KOFI ASANTE OFFORI -ATTA, who was the first Minister of LOCAL Government in Dr. KWAME NKRUMAH’s first Government. The Rest is our history. Politics built on Lies never works out for long. It will always catch up with you.
Stephen Donkor: New York. 2 months ago

NKRUMAH’S IDOLS ARE THE BIGGEST ENEMIES OF GHANA! I’M TALKING ABOUT THAT KANKAN MOMONE NYAME!

If you are talking about JB Dankwa then you should be ashamed of yourself for making such unguarded comments. So now betwee ...
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NKRUMAH’S IDOLS ARE THE BIGGEST ENEMIES OF GHANA! I’M TALKING ABOUT THAT KANKAN MOMONE NYAME!

If you are talking about JB Dankwa then you should be ashamed of yourself for making such unguarded comments. So now between JB Dankwa and Kwame Nkrumah whose legacy is now thriving? The Nkrumah party is dead and will never rise up again because Nkrumah was practicing idolatry, and I believe you’ve heard about that demon called kan -kan nyame, right? But God Almighty who created heaven and earth detest idolatry. Which is why the first law in the 10 commandments speaks about loving God and worshipping him only. And that’s Nkrumah’s bane. I don’t think having the courage and skills to build coalitions is deceptive. And that’s the coalitions that brought Kwame Nkrumah from his obscurity as hustler in the United States to the limelight. Even Nkrumah’s kids have embraced Jesus Christ. His son Sekou is a Christian as far as I know, likewise Nathan whose mother is from Egypt. I believe I’m giving the right pronunciation. On the other way JB Dankwa’s legacy will continue to thrive through his descendants and nephews and by the coalitions of politicians he coerced to form the UGCC, UP, Northern’s People Party and many others! Bye!
Kwesi Nyantekyi's Last Born 2 months ago

Lol.
@Stephen Donkor: New York, read your comment and it all sound foolish.
Associating idol worship to the first President of Ghana was all orchestrated by unpatroitic morons against Ghana's independence, knowing that emp ...
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Lol.
@Stephen Donkor: New York, read your comment and it all sound foolish.
Associating idol worship to the first President of Ghana was all orchestrated by unpatroitic morons against Ghana's independence, knowing that empty headed people like you would buy it.
I would at least expect a gracious thank you from you to Kwame Nkrumah for all the sacrifice and fight for Ghana's independence.
Joseph Ouedraogo, Guinea Conakry 2 months ago

@Stephen Donkor, New Yorke. Kankan is the second largest city in Guinea and there is no such deity or 'marabou ' (juju) there now or during President Sekou Touré era. Don't disgrace President Nkrumah.

@Stephen Donkor, New Yorke. Kankan is the second largest city in Guinea and there is no such deity or 'marabou ' (juju) there now or during President Sekou Touré era. Don't disgrace President Nkrumah.
Rastafarian 2 months ago

You are a fool .
Nkrumah's legacy can't be compromised.
He's the champion of Africa.
A Statue at the Africa union headquarters tells you all.
Nkrumah never dies .Who told you CPP is dead ?
His legacy is awakening soon,
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You are a fool .
Nkrumah's legacy can't be compromised.
He's the champion of Africa.
A Statue at the Africa union headquarters tells you all.
Nkrumah never dies .Who told you CPP is dead ?
His legacy is awakening soon,
JB danqua is foolish individual, period !
The Voltarian 2 months ago

This article is full of nonsense. Ashantis were in no way, shape or form integral to the fight for independence. There's no such thing as 'the big six', it is only 'the big one': Nkrumah. Traitors and CIA agents like Danquah ...
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This article is full of nonsense. Ashantis were in no way, shape or form integral to the fight for independence. There's no such thing as 'the big six', it is only 'the big one': Nkrumah. Traitors and CIA agents like Danquah and Addo simply piggybacked on Nkrumah's movement like the parasitic opportunists that they are.

When Nkrumah was fighting for independence, these traitors were advocating to remain a colony of Britain. Stop distorting the real history.
Give Your life to Jesus Christ 2 months ago

This writer is purely an uneducated Asante. First, Ashanti territory did not include Bono and Ahafo regions. Secondly, Ashanti territory was officially declared by British as protectorate, which is the same as colony in 1783 ...
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This writer is purely an uneducated Asante. First, Ashanti territory did not include Bono and Ahafo regions. Secondly, Ashanti territory was officially declared by British as protectorate, which is the same as colony in 1783 after the Sagranti War. In fact, in 1784 the Asante chiefs wrote a letter to the British Queen that they themselves want to be part of the British colony (I have the book about it in my shelve). So before even the fight for independence, the Ashantes were also British's colony. Later, all the northern parts of Ghana willingly committed themselves to the British as their colony for over 100 years (1783 - 1957). Secondly, UGCC never invited Prempeh 1 to join the fights for independence, neither did they promise any Asantehene monarch leadership because Asantes were not willing to be part of the Coastal people because of their hate for them, for allowing the whites to defeat them. So it is a big lie that the independence fighters promised Prempeh 1 to join the fight for independence to become monarch of Ghana. Rather, it was the deceitful nature of the Akyems and selfish interest of Danquah family who fooled Prempeh 1 as usual. That is why I always say, Asantes should go to school to be wise and civilised like the fantes, Nzemas and coastal people. LET US GIVE OUR LIFES TO JESUS CHRIST AND HE WILL GIVE US KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE, PROSPERITY AND ETERNITY.
Tokugawah 2 months ago

You are partly right but your dates have been transposed, Sagrenti War was in 1874. Kofi Karikari the Asantehene ran from Kumasi and Simple r Garnet Wolseley sacked and burnt Kumasi to the ground. Karkari begged for a Peace T ...
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You are partly right but your dates have been transposed, Sagrenti War was in 1874. Kofi Karikari the Asantehene ran from Kumasi and Simple r Garnet Wolseley sacked and burnt Kumasi to the ground. Karkari begged for a Peace Treaty and the Treaty of Fomena stripped the Asante of all their territories, fined them 50,000 ounces of gold, never paid, and Kumasi became part of the Gold Coast colony. After 1874 there was no Asante kingdom, there was just Kumasi.
Fire 2 months ago

AS PART OF THE TREATY, THEY ALSO HAD TO STOP HUMAN SACRIFICE AND SLAVE TRADE.

AS PART OF THE TREATY, THEY ALSO HAD TO STOP HUMAN SACRIFICE AND SLAVE TRADE.
Stephen Donkor: New York. 2 months ago

YOU ARE REAL BANKYE MORI ( CASSAVA DOUGH)

You are the most unexposed person I’ve ever seen. In the subject of psychology: making generalizations and statements without any scientific evidence or data is attributable to ...
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YOU ARE REAL BANKYE MORI ( CASSAVA DOUGH)

You are the most unexposed person I’ve ever seen. In the subject of psychology: making generalizations and statements without any scientific evidence or data is attributable to lack of knowledge. Your view is what’s called or termed as hackneyed phrase or stereotyping. Go and do some advanced research about the current on education or the literacy data in Ghana, I’m talking about the current data, and see if the data supports your infantile layman’s views! Ashantis are uneducated? Do you know how many Asante youth going to school in the Western Countries? Almost every extended family in the Ashanti region have kids getting Western education, some families have more than 50% of their kids and young adults going to school in the US, UK, Canada, France and many others. Though it’s my own opinion but it’s based on the data from the US education departments. Especially the data from the New York, New Jersey the Maryland and Washington DC data! So just keep wallowing in stupid colonial propaganda!
Kweku Tsin 2 months ago

I see how you qualified it, every extended Asante???. How many wofaasi and great, great, grandchildren do you have to count to find a relative educating abroad. The fact still remains that majority of Ghanaians still live at ...
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I see how you qualified it, every extended Asante???. How many wofaasi and great, great, grandchildren do you have to count to find a relative educating abroad. The fact still remains that majority of Ghanaians still live at Home. Every tribe has its own smart people and dumb people. But the Asante Dumb people are a lot, and the loudest. They are corrupt liars who hate the truth. A few educated people cannot make up for the foolishness of Opambour, Ajaguraja, Shugartiti, Afia SchWUar, Kyiri Abosom, Oboy Siki, MAMA PAT AND THE BUNCH OF CHARACTERS ROAMING AROUNG THE COUNTRY LIKE ITS A ZOO.
Sylvan 2 months ago

Thank you. You have the facts unlike this writer who up this stupid article about Asante monarch being invited, the monarch was a slave to the British empire and shipped to scychelle island.

Thank you. You have the facts unlike this writer who up this stupid article about Asante monarch being invited, the monarch was a slave to the British empire and shipped to scychelle island.
onipa 2 months ago

JB is a con.
He'll never elevate Asanteman over Okyeman.
He said that to the Asantehene to get his support.
That family can promise you anything to get power.
Addo-Dee on my mind.

JB is a con.
He'll never elevate Asanteman over Okyeman.
He said that to the Asantehene to get his support.
That family can promise you anything to get power.
Addo-Dee on my mind.
Baba 2 months ago

No wonder we are so divided traitors allover

No wonder we are so divided traitors allover
DANQUAH OUTSMARTED ASANTEHENE 2 months ago

JB Danquah outsmarted Asantehene. He was only interested in being the Prime Minister. Now, when he realized it was not happening under Nkrumah, he mashalled forces around UP, a party based on tribalists from Northern People's ...
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JB Danquah outsmarted Asantehene. He was only interested in being the Prime Minister. Now, when he realized it was not happening under Nkrumah, he mashalled forces around UP, a party based on tribalists from Northern People's Party, NLM(Ashanti), Togoland Congress, Anlo Youth, etc.
This is the beginning of tribal politics in Ghana.

It is in their blood. No wonder Akuffo-Addo thinks he is smarter than everybody, and can outwit anybody.
Augustina Quayson 2 months ago

Please Ashanti and the Northern Territories were joined to the Gold Coast Colony in 1902

Please Ashanti and the Northern Territories were joined to the Gold Coast Colony in 1902
Augustina Quayson 2 months ago

Please Ashanti was part of the lndependence struggle. The CYO, Committee on Youth Organization that turned itself into the CPP at Tarkwa in 1949 was made up of the Ashanti Youth Association, Youth Study Group an ...
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Please Ashanti was part of the lndependence struggle. The CYO, Committee on Youth Organization that turned itself into the CPP at Tarkwa in 1949 was made up of the Ashanti Youth Association, Youth Study Group and Ghana Youth Association of Sekondi.Chapter 8, Ghana Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. Please in the first general election held on 8 February 1951, in the Gold Coast, Ashanti voted en masse for the CPP to win the election to crown Dr Nkrumah as the leader of Government of Business .Please the CPP won 34 out of the 38 contested seats to win the election. The UGCC did not win a single seat in Ashanti. The UGCC won only 3 seats out of the 38 seats and only in the Eastern Province.
Kweku Tsin 2 months ago

YOU ARE TAKING ABOUT POLITICS, NOT independence. The independence struggle started with expensive foreign goods boycott initiated by KING BONNEY of Osu who encouraged all the coastal chiefs from Volta/central/western regions ...
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YOU ARE TAKING ABOUT POLITICS, NOT independence. The independence struggle started with expensive foreign goods boycott initiated by KING BONNEY of Osu who encouraged all the coastal chiefs from Volta/central/western regions to join the boycott. This resistance coincided with WW2 soldiers' march on the Castle. And, all hell broke loose when Atipoe, Odartey Lamptey, and Sargent Adjetey were killed. Nkrumah and members of the BIG SIX were thrown in jail for supporting the boycott. The British eventually realized they could not hold on to the country so negotiated a timeline and a peaceful exit to pave the way for Ghana's independence. All the nonsense you wrote has nothing to do with independence struggle.
Nsia 2 months ago

@Tsin, it seems as if you do not your elbow from your armpit. It is a bit like saying your came through your mum's womb but she did not have sex with your dad. There would have been no Independence without the politics. Our o ...
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@Tsin, it seems as if you do not your elbow from your armpit. It is a bit like saying your came through your mum's womb but she did not have sex with your dad. There would have been no Independence without the politics. Our own Ashanti Kingdom ceased to exist in 1902. Kwaku Dua is talking complete piffle because Ashanti became a colony in 1902. Now, what Augustina wrote are salient historical facts. Yours.... happened as well, but you have completely deviated from the main topic.. It was the elections in 1951 which was won by the indefatigable Nkrumah, who was in prison that compelled the Brits to succumb.. Ashanti was not a
nation or a separate Kingdom after 1902. JB Danquah, was a total reject, so, his nonsensical promise is not worth the crap Kwaku is whingeing about. He was a loser who resorted to bombing and maiming after being rejected in the 1954,1956 & 1960 elections by the sensible voters in Ghana.
Kali 2 months ago

The Asante hene is telling lies. A very deceptive character. The Asante confederacy failed to exist after the defeat in the sagrante war. Asante is liquidated and placed under British rule
The otumfuor is telling lies. JB ...
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The Asante hene is telling lies. A very deceptive character. The Asante confederacy failed to exist after the defeat in the sagrante war. Asante is liquidated and placed under British rule
The otumfuor is telling lies. JB never made such an offer to him
Sir-Riscky 2 months ago

We don't need these stories. What happened after this independence? You overthrew the one who suffered most out of hatred and jealousy and you're speaking of A or B. What was the so-called contributions of these same people y ...
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We don't need these stories. What happened after this independence? You overthrew the one who suffered most out of hatred and jealousy and you're speaking of A or B. What was the so-called contributions of these same people you're speaking of? You want to redirect the history of the country but we know the people who went to tell the Queen that we were not prepared in 1947. These same people are responsible for our current state.
Igp 2 months ago

If the northern Terroriteries were not under British Protectorate, how come the Britsh ruled them and neglected development to those Terroritories? Why is Ashanti is trying to rewrite history of Ghana? JB Danuah would have ba ...
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If the northern Terroriteries were not under British Protectorate, how come the Britsh ruled them and neglected development to those Terroritories? Why is Ashanti is trying to rewrite history of Ghana? JB Danuah would have bankrupted Ghana the way Akufo Addo has sent Ghana reeling backwards to the medieval times. Ashanti can secede and Ghana will be better off. No chief is going to be king over Ghana.
ROGUE LAWYER 2 months ago

Are they not the same Akyem Sakawa mafia traitors who are now selling the dignity , the culture and the values of this country for money?
we still have KWAME TUA AMONG us

Are they not the same Akyem Sakawa mafia traitors who are now selling the dignity , the culture and the values of this country for money?
we still have KWAME TUA AMONG us
Andrew 2 months ago

We were Oman Asante which is Asanteman so all those making noise about us, should know that without Oman Asante or Asanteman, there would not have been GANA. Nkrumah played smart and changed the initial plans of Prime ministe ...
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We were Oman Asante which is Asanteman so all those making noise about us, should know that without Oman Asante or Asanteman, there would not have been GANA. Nkrumah played smart and changed the initial plans of Prime ministerialship to Presidential and that is why we ended up corruption and where we are now.
It's never too late for us change history because we make history all the time.
Ghana is home to all of us now, but Asanteman is the gateway, No politician or some land guard can dispute that.
???? 2 months ago

Agenda tabled ….

Agenda tabled ….
Bastie Asantefourhene 2 months ago

How I wish you Asante aren’t part of Ghana. You’re Ghana’s main problem

How I wish you Asante aren’t part of Ghana. You’re Ghana’s main problem
Ghabay,NY. 2 months ago

Asante succumbed to British rule from 1920.Though we were not part of the independence struggle initially, we were still under British rule. Being that we were rebellious and had the tendency to strike at any given time, th ...
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Asante succumbed to British rule from 1920.Though we were not part of the independence struggle initially, we were still under British rule. Being that we were rebellious and had the tendency to strike at any given time, there was a massive British presence in Kumasi and its surroundings, in order to crush any uprisings and hostilities. Until in the 1940's that JB tried to talk the Asantihene into joining the struggle, hence those concessions which never materialized.
Tupac 2 months ago

Apuu

Apuu

Sankofa series: What JB Dankwa told Prempeh II to get Asanteman join Ghana's independence fight

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