How Okomfo Anokye ‘tricked’ Akan states into giving up their stools for the ‘Golden Stool’

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  • DotCom 1 year ago

    Don’t twist history. Okomfo Anokye didn’t trick Akan states but lied to the other small Ashanti states to give up their stools. Consequently, this action enabled all the small chiefs to pay allegiance to the Asantehene an ...
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  • Canada fraud 1 year ago

    And this is why all the Akan states under Kumasihene like Mampong and Kumawu are like slaves cause Otumfur has control over their chieftaincy which should never happen. Look at Offinso and Essumeja. Otumfur influenced for the ...
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  • Dr. Allen Smith Jackson, UK 1 year ago

    You mental patient Bastie and your gay chief hate Ashanti because they are united under one King for over 4 centuries, and it will continue like this till the end of this world. Jack Daniel Mensah the drunkard couldn’t cont ...
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  • Willy 1 year ago

    At least osagyefo has no criminal record unlike your Canadian fraudster chief

  • TT 1 year ago

    Provide proof of the criminal record...toothless clown

  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    Osagyefoo is a murdered who killed his own mother!

    Go and figure BUM


    Your hero is a KILLER who killed his own mother because of that SHITTY, TOILET HALF PLOT wapaamu stool

    @ Willy….

  • ST GHFUO: GH LEADERS ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED 1 year ago

    asanteni wa tricki miooo oooo 3x (say this using an ewe accent 3 times) muahahahaaaa

  • 419 stool 1 year ago

    another black stool sprayed with gold dust asantfuo and matricki

  • Eddy the King 1 year ago

    Please pay no attention to this story those Ashanti Chiefs were no fools they understood what they were asked to do, all the Chiefs Stools were buried to gather and Okonfo Anokye used his sword to seal the agreement which is ...
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  • KOO TIPEA 1 year ago

    I don't see it as a lie. Rather he was perfectly adroit in convincing the other Akan states into giving up some of their powers to a greater power who will reside in Kumasi as the head of all the new state which was named as ...
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  • DotCom 1 year ago

    The Akan states you are referring to were all Ashantis. The rest of the Akans in different parts did not join in. Those who did became the Ashanti kingdom and those who didn’t remained the Akyems, Akwapims, Kwahus, and the ...
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  • GPS 1 year ago

    Do you belief all these stories? Okomfo Anokye helped to unite the Ashantis so he did great for the Ashanti kingdom. Unity is good that is why Bob Marley tells Africans to unite to become strong. I don't belief the golden sto ...
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  • Ama Aniwaa 1 year ago

    YOU SEE HOW STUPID THE WRITER IS? He cannot even tell a lie with a modicum of plausibility.
    Firstly, when did an Akan kingdom or chiefdom have a royal stool rotating among all the clans? YOU'RE NOT JUST A LIAR BUT A FOOL A ...
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  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Hahahah MATRICKI WO….

    So we all now agree the stool didn’t descend from heaven.

    The STOLEN STOOL

  • The Spear 1 year ago

    There's NO ONE in world who can conjure an atom of anything from thin air. Are they God?
    And he could only conjure an imperfect gold stool if he had that power?

  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    So how did JOSHUA commended the SUN to still
    Stand if no one can commend an ATOM from thin air

    Again, the SUN is also a GIANT MOLECULES OF ATOMS so how did Joshua commended the atoms of the sun to stand still in the atmo ...
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  • The Spear 1 year ago

    Probably you believed that nonsense? I DO NOT! That's the huge difference between you and I.

    The Earth cannot stop its orbit around the Sun (Which brings about the Seasons year long), nor its rotation on its axis (Cause o ...
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  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    This is why is called a MIRACLE, dumbo lol

    Whats science, to u fool?

    I ll teach your pea brains some sense today!

    “ the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through ob ...
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  • Atiabia 1 year ago

    There are miracles, yeah, but the Okomfo Anokye story is a cock and bull story.

  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    Whether Okomfo Anokye 'tricked' the various states or not he ended up creating a very power nation/kingdom. Afterall as is often said, there's STRENGTH IN UNITY. Asante Kingdom wouldn't have been this powerful if they didn't ...
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  • The Spear 1 year ago

    Your pompous and talkative heads like blasphemy! Asantehene can hardly even deal with the buffoon Wontumi!

    Wontumi has swelled so much he looks more like a bullfrog than a turkey such that, he's almost occupying part of M ...
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  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    Effusions of a low life fellow like you calling yourself The Spear.

  • The Spear 1 year ago

    Effusions, eh?

    Sorry, continue being loudmouthed forever while the Asantehene enriches himself at your expense and your fiefdom keeps wallowing in dirt and filth.

  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    But wontumi can give your mother some of his gold money to SUCK his hairy balls for him and u MAMA ll jump on the offer lmaooo

    Your rotten, YELLOW TEETH like NIGERIEN CARMEL lmaooo

    Haha …. Goofy womtumi ll get your ...
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  • TT 1 year ago

    Hahaha..what a verbal left hook

  • The Spear 1 year ago

    See? You're famous for your high level savagery. Its staggering and awful!!

    Anyone more uncultivated more than you in that region must be the devil himself. The level of indiscipline is the hallmark of the people of your r ...
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  • Yohanne, NYC 1 year ago

    This is definitely a vicious uppercut to hahahahahahaha

  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    The Golden Stool is a fetish object and will remain so.
    I don't have a problem with it because that's what humanity are made to believe.
    There are differences between the sky,heaven, galaxy and the universe.
    These are all ...
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  • People matter 1 year ago

    So why always stories about Akan state. Are they the only state in Ghana. We have lot of ethics groups in Ghana who also have rich stories... Talk about them.

  • Yoo 1 year ago

    Who do you want to tell your story for you?

  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    Awwww my bro

    Tell your chief to come and join ASANTEMAN and we ll
    take notice of him

    Wishing your chief and your tribe nothing but the best!

    NII GA, the ga mantse is now the most well known face in Ghana becasue h ...
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  • godfather 1 year ago

    Commanding a stool from the sky? How was it done.

  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    How did Moses opened the REED SEA?

    U believed that one right?

  • Nii Adjetey 1 year ago

    Hahaha...you have made my day

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    This SUAME MAGAZINE ALUMI with Rough uneven edges cannot be from heaven. You asantes are known braggarts and liars. History twisters. The story of Moses is more credible than this fetish , useless alumi stool, designed by Ok ...
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  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    What is REED sea? Wa bon ooooo

  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    U dumb like a TOILET SEAT!!

    Man, am above u in every aspect of intelligence and intellectually thinking!

    It wasn’t CALLED RED SEA as there was no historical RED SEA anywhere in the world! Suakai

    I don’t blamed u ...
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  • Because of Greed, they Could not Practice What we Taught Them 1 year ago

    The Moshies and Dagombas taught the Ashantis the System of Chieftaincy. Infact many of their chiefs are our Children. But the Ashantis are so greedy that they kept fighting among themselves and could not practice the Gate suc ...
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  • TT 1 year ago

    Hahahaha...too bad your story is conjured out of envy and self pity else you would have boldly stated your ethnic background.We know you imbeciles who try to exhibit fake history.I challenge you to state the source of your in ...
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  • 419 stool 1 year ago

    is an asanteman tells you anythin about ghana or gold coast history you better turn your butt cheek because its all concorted

  • ANOTHER LOW LIFE ANIMAL 1 year ago

    JUST A MORON

  • Kwaku 1 year ago

    This so called historian is just a story teller. If you had listened to him at the Kwame Nkrumah lectures at Onua FM it was the same strategy he used. His speeches are half truths.

  • Oyewa 1 year ago

    Has the unity been bad or good for the Asante Kingdom. The Golden Stool is the primus inter pares, holding the soul and spirit of the Wise and Powerful Ashanti Nation

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    After 25 years. Asantehene MUST GO TO CANADA....

    We will force him to go to CANADA. There's no more excuses. The airport is just at his doorstep

  • TT 1 year ago

    Let me know when you are ready to carry out your actions..clown

  • Askantwi 1 year ago

    Looks like this website, NDC and Domaa chief have teamed up to attack Otumfour and the Ashanti Kingdom by all means.

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Fawo Gyimie k) . There’s Asanteman council. There’s no Asante kingdom anywhere in the Republic of Ghana

  • Sansiro 1 year ago

    Please can the historian tell the place okomfo anokye manufacture the stool,is okomfo anokye a GOLDSMITH?

  • THEREALTRUTH 1 year ago

    In 1717, Osei Tutu was killed in a war against the Akyem. At the onset of the struggle, he had underestimated the Akyem because they were few in number, going into battle without his usual "magical amulets", and even leaving ...
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  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Very true. They celebrated their defeat in Sargrenti war. They should celebrate the Swimming king (river Pra) version soon .

  • TT 1 year ago

    When will you celebrate the first time the dormaa's got their asses kicked permanently?

  • Brigadier Sabari v.2 1 year ago

    Borla web God will punish you.

  • Stone age Ashanti's 1 year ago

    Because of all this nonsense that's why they used 40million dollars to transport Ameri plant from Takoradi to Kumasi just for them to get stable light to celebrate this nonsense.Ghanaians are suffering but this old fools does ...
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  • TT 1 year ago

    We are that relevant ..FOOL.Deal with it...hahaha.

  • Bastie Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Asantes truly have no shame. Hahahahahahaha what a stool. Looks like a JHS kid’s craft day project

  • KOFI YESU 1 year ago

    Is this Dormaahenes version?

  • Ataa Kwashie 1 year ago

    Since the Ashantis have been belittling and asking ewes to go back to Notse-Togo, they should stop guarding and protecting the golden stool since it was conjured from an ayigbe man from Notse called Okomfo Notse which later b ...
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  • Selfmade SMOKE em’ 1 year ago

    So why haven’t the ewe priest presently conjured one for the EWE people so that their kingdom ll be great as it now? Lmaooo

    Clap for yourself becasue u have earned the AGYIMIFOO BADGE for today lol

    Your RED TEETH lik ...
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  • TT 1 year ago

    Am about to stick my shoe up your cat-chasing ass.Your dumb 1 cedi ass doesnt even know your own history.How on earth did an ayigbe just decide to come and help Ashantis when you were sacked by your king agorkoli?Do you even ...
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  • FOOLISH TROKOSI DOG 1 year ago

    WHY DIDNT THE SO CALLED TSALI CONJURE ONE FOR THE AYIGBE PEOPLE STUPIDITY AND HATRED CLOUDED YOUR BRAINS

  • Beff 1 year ago

    AM GOING TO SUE WHO WVWR THAT POSTED THESE NONESEN AND THE PUBLISHERS, SO THESE CLOWNS MUST INJECTED. I Swear.

  • Okomfo Anokye didn't trick anyone 1 year ago

    He was ordered by the gods to do that. The gods are the givers of wisdom.

  • Kwami 1 year ago

    You shall have no other gods before Me. These kind of stools have the backing of evil dark spirits. Be careful what you worship. Our creator, God forbids us to worship other gods. Repent and believe Jesus, the Christ.

  • GYIMI SAA 1 year ago

    GO AWAY WITH THIS YOUR BIBLE NONESENSE FOOLS LIKE YOU STILL BELIEVE ALL THE NONSENSE THE WHITE MAN TAUGHT YOU

  • Ewes Have Always Being a Kwaku Ananse 1 year ago

    Real tricksters but for the good of Ashanti

  • WGoku 1 year ago

    Whichever way you look at it, Okomfo Anokye, was fighting for a permanent UNITY that will stand time after times and generation after generations. THIS IS AWESOME.

  • Kwame Peter 1 year ago

    This Anokye Frimpong’koraa’, where did he emerge from and being touted as a historian,this man goes to read books by FK Buah,Adu Boahen,Rattray and other illustrious historians,sit at FM stations to spew nonsense which ar ...
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  • Bastie-Asantefournyinaahene 1 year ago

    Ashanti’s should forgive me, I’ve insulting their king all because my dormaahene who envy them asked to do so, I have noticed what I’m doing will have negative replication on me and society we live, at my old age childr ...
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  • Eben 1 year ago

    I dont think it the real golden stool... it has been remade by the white men after they took it away

  • Danny 3 months ago

    Okomfo Anokye is not an Ashanti as stated in the article.