Bantama: How Dagombas became warriors of Asanteman

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  • Sethoo 3 months ago

    Pls stop this Nonsense. How many Ghanaian boxers are Dagombas?These Dagombas are only known to be violent thieves, bullying their neighbours for their properties. They are the least intelligent in the North but are braggarts ...
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  • Shh 3 months ago

    Anytime there is some credits given to the north ,automatically your jaleousy get activated ,as if your big head is without brain for you to think ,do research and get cultivated ,who are you without the northners ,ur king ...
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  • Nana 3 months ago

    @ Shh
    Are you saying Sofo Azorka,NDC National vice chairman is an intelligent person?As for Haruna Iddrisu and Suhuhini they are all empty Headed Corrupt braggarts.Violence runs thru their blood.Ghana needs good Northerners ...
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  • Broni Panayoti 3 months ago

    @ nana. Please learn how to write good English for us the readers to understand you better.

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  • Benji 3 months ago

    Ashantis use Ntafuo to do their dirty work up to now. Look at them making all the noise in NPP, thinking they're Akan. Nitiwul comes to mind.

  • Ibrahim Muhammad 3 months ago

    First you are idiot descendant of pigs

  • Ibrahim Muhammad 3 months ago

    Second Prophet Muhammad Moses are all prophets of God including Jesus Christ

  • Ibrahim Muhammad 3 months ago

    Prophet Muhammad Moses and Jesus peace be upon them use to bow down when praying to God we never saw Jesus singing and dancing

  • Freedom of Speech not good for the Ghanaian 3 months ago

    It is only in Ghana that an idiot like this so called lawyer will be given the opportunity to sit on TV and miseducate the public without anything in place to call him to order. Never have I heard him even quote one authority ...
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  • THE ROMANS ALSO NEEDED DAGOMBAS 3 months ago

    Slaves have also played significant roles in warfare and empire building. Anokye Frimpong should know better, The Romans who conquered the world used slaves as did all others who embarked upon conquest. The Muslims, the Turks ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

    That lawyer loves to embellish his historical representations. Bantama got its when folks from the Northern and Upper Regions brought shea nut fruits (known in their languages as 'tama') to Kumasi many decades ago and would e ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

    "Bantama got its name when folks from the Northern and Upper Regions brought shea nut fruits (known in their languages as 'tama') to Kumasi many decades ago and would eat those fruits and discard the nuts all over the streets ...
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  • The Spear 3 months ago

    And your "Ban" derives from which language?

  • Markito 3 months ago

    And Kumasi people were speaking ENGLISH AND USING THE WORD 'BAN?' to protest? They didn't speak twi? Kumasi folks who abhor speaking English and LOVE their twi? Does bantama also mean 'My father gave it to me?' in dagomba as ...
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  • Your Abuse back to you in droves. 3 months ago

    Foolish person. Azoka represents all Dagombas?

  • Nana 3 months ago

    Where is your intelligents ? Empty tribal bigot

  • Maximos maxi. 3 months ago

    I thought you were also going to talk sense. You didn't get anyone to talk about than that stupid foolish liar called bawumia. I'm very sad and ashamed for you. Another fool. Do you know your father?

  • TRUTH 3 months ago

    Leave the fool. He can not accept his great grand dad was a Dagomba,

    I wonder what he would think when he finds out his ancestors came from the KWA BELT in Nigeria.

    Sad fools who don't check their history.

  • Onipa 3 months ago

    Kwa is not Nigeria. Recently it has been downscaled to the Tano branch, which is basically just Akan and Guan. Kwa is indigenous to Ghana.

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  • Efo magavu 3 months ago

    Haruna, bawumia, Bahama brothers and a lot. Yet you say northerners are not learn

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  • Rotten Kingdom of Donkeys 3 months ago

    Why is this so-called, self-styled, anti-Ashanti lawyer always bent on demeaning the Great Ashanti Kingdom? Dagombas, and in fact many northerners were slaves and labourers to the Ashantis and as such were used to lead wars. ...
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  • Onipa 3 months ago

    This is always what I’ve said. It is intellectually dishonest to label this relationship as an “alliance.” No, it was a master to slave relationship, but revisionists like this guy try to sugarcoat it.

  • Ujah 3 months ago

    Yes, true but masters encouraging their daughters n sisters to marry sales to have strong nice looking men, is another story

  • Kwaku Danquah 3 months ago

    Not true sir Dogomba are brave people

  • Shai 3 months ago

    Your discription makes them good warriors

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  • Olaf Adjetey 3 months ago

    Wow you have written was exactly on my mind! Somebody have to confront this idiot to stop adding lies and distorting history. If you were conscripted to lies for the purpose of swaying votes, it worked. The fools were deciev ...
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  • AYIGBE, DAGOMBA CLAIMING ASHANTI? 3 months ago

    Then Ashanti must be so great and enviable.

  • Maximos maxi. 3 months ago

    He's a nothner by birth. He should ask about his root and I'm sure he'll bow his head down. Foolish you. Do you know your father?

  • Bk 3 months ago

    Even Asante toilet munching Pygmy monkey and dwarves like yourself feel like they’re human

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  • godfather 3 months ago

    You really need native upbringing.

  • Tommy 3 months ago

    In Dagbani Mbantima means my father gave it to me, so yes, his narrative is close to being accurate.

  • Onipa 3 months ago

    Also, Nobody mentions how Hausa people were part of the Asante kingdom as well. And they weren’t used for war purposes. Believe it or not, their Ajami writing could have been adopted for the Twi language if it wasn’t for ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 3 months ago

    And who was the father of Osei Tutu? Asante oral tradition is silent on that. He is widely believed to be from the North of Ghana but that is never mentioned. Asante history is silent on the Father of the Great Osei Tutu who ...
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  • Broni Panayoti 3 months ago

    @Frank Agyena-Karikari. Thanks a lot for speaking the truth. God bless you.

  • Nana 3 months ago

    @ Broni Panayoti
    Shame on you Broni Panayoti.You're behaving like the Mosquito who was feeling shy to visiti his in-laws house, but was blown by the strong wind to go there finally. You've been dreaming of getting close to ...
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  • The Spear 3 months ago

    Are Northerners not humans? Why is it shameful or problematic for a Northerner to marry to an Ashanti? What's wrong with it?

  • Onipa 3 months ago

    Please, the height thing is partially a myth. According to some studies west africans have experienced stunting beneath their actual genetic potential, the same applies to south asians. The people who live in the FOREST REGIO ...
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  • John,Tema 3 months ago

    It's also a fact that among all the tribes in Ghana,Asantes were the most stubborn who fought the whites for a long time.Many of their tall men and women were captured by the slave merchants and taken away.They there4 had to ...
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  • Kwame 3 months ago

    You uou idiots like Tema John, who is the original Ashantis like Kodwo Pianim and Wereko Brobey as you mentioned in your write up. You are a fool! Every body can read and understand your intent. You are just trying to reach a ...
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  • A hole is not a cathedral 3 months ago

    Usually forest dwellers are smaller compared to their Savannah or grassland cousins. Elephants in heavily woody areas are smaller than those from more open landscapes. Humans are no different. Mobility, ease of it may be one ...
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  • A hole is not a cathedral 3 months ago

    And there is nothing wrong with being smallish. Napoleon and NADA are good examples of famous persons. Stalin, Winston Churchill, Lenin, Abraham Lincoln, Agyapong ( insulting machine), many others are not tall.

  • IQ 3 months ago

    @ tommy, .... is Dagbani same as Dagomba ?. wake up there !!. Any way, what i 've learnt from books and knew very well, is that ... Asantes as a tribe, have "distorted" history, and thus, a critical check on different hist ...
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  • Tommy 3 months ago

    @IQ, you are really pathetic and ignorant. Dagbani is the language of the Dagomba tribe. I have woken up.

  • Sethoo 3 months ago

    Are Gonjas the same as Dagombas? There's also this rumour that the forefathers of the Tetteh Yohunus of Ada - Ningo are also Dagombas. Pls I'm not insinuating anything here. No provocation to call in for an arrest.

  • Tahiru Bashiru 3 months ago

    Your assertion may be true. You are saying something.

  • Esii 3 months ago

    Please watch this " Yomo" confusion creator. What exactly are you aiming at? Tell us something that can liberate Africans from being reliant on developed countries....... So Ghanaians should do what on your narrative? There's ...
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  • Tolon 3 months ago

    Dagbani is the language and the Dagomba is the tribe.But Our slaves ( Moshi) were cowards

  • Onipa 3 months ago

    Didn’t the mossi defeat the mali empire

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 3 months ago

    No, it was the Songhai people that defeated the Mali people.. Later on, the Songhai people were defeated by the Almoravids who were from Morocco. I think that was the Almoravid invasion of 1471. I am not very sure of the date ...
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  • Tolon 3 months ago

    Buy the way Sofo Azorka is not a Dagomba and we don't need him in our mist

  • Ruthan 3 months ago

    Quickly disown and deport all troublemakers including Sofo Azorka from Dagomba territory .Dagomba is becoming synonymous with violence. The image of the tribe will come back if they sack all those ppl.

  • Navrongo man 3 months ago

    Chew and pour historian

  • Ojatanaa 3 months ago

    This talks too much and he is everywhere instead of writing books

  • A hole is not a cathedral 3 months ago

    Evidence of genetic improvement.

  • John 3 months ago

    Ghanaians don't like reading if we want to know how ghana was established let's Google pre independent ghana map,it will help us to get better understanding about the history of Ghana. Most of Ghanaians talk and argue without ...
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  • @Tolon 3 months ago

    You have no idea about Mossi history. I'm a direct descendant of Naba Oubri, the grandson of Naba Ouedraogo. Mossi, once captured Timbuktu before they were repelled by the Songhai.
    I know you are just joking as a Dagbana. Mo ...
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  • The King of Ghana Otumfour Osei Tutu 3 months ago

    The King of Ghana Otumfour Osei Tutu Nyamekese.

  • Osman. 3 months ago

    Wow this makes a load of sense. I heard this from a 95 years old man at Ofinso nearly 45 years ago but just kept it for fear of attack dogs.

    Thanks this information.

  • Kwaky 3 months ago

    This discredited man again.

  • Prayer 3 months ago

    Has anyone observed how an Asante man is swift to present himself as an "Asante Pure?" They so fear their own shadow made up of half Dagomba/Mossie zongo.The Asante man is a natural braggard even without being asked.

  • Onipa 3 months ago

    It was more common for Hausa men to marry Asante women, that’s why there’s more DNA results tracing to Nigeria than to Gur speakers.

  • Brigadier Sabari v.2 3 months ago

    Which idiot keeps giving this empty headed man platform to disturb our ears

  • Ozymandias 3 months ago

    Does this lawyer have any time to practise this profession in court at all? I am just wondering.

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  • Papa Sey 3 months ago

    Where did this man learn history? Which university? Wabon papa

  • Ayamba 3 months ago

    Bantama came during Opoku ware time not Osei tutu

  • John 3 months ago

    The historian is afraid of the truth and so decided to tell 70% truth.
    1. The whole Bantama and somewhere on the Kumasi - Tamale road (Namong) were given to the Northern settlers.
    2. They weren't only worriers, but builde ...
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  • African 3 months ago

    But who doesn't know what this man is not the truth? We all know it, including those who will attack him. A typical Asante man in those days was short, dark-skinned with lots of hair in the ears. The Dagombas through inter-ma ...
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  • Onipa 3 months ago

    What about one who is short and light skinned? Or tall and dark skinned? Y’all that think you know biology, all you’ll get out of this is animguase3.

  • SANDALWOOD 3 months ago

    Mr Frimpong looks like he knows what he"s on about.. The collective effort of the Ashantis and the Dogombas in the past is well known and indeed the Ashantis and Dagombas have a lot in common and are brothers.

  • Kofi Adu 3 months ago

    Please you so called history professor Frimpong stop this nonsense immediately. Don't you know such things can create violence? You are a grown man use common sense.

  • Tosh 3 months ago

    Asantehene Opuku Ware, from history was the first to use mercenary Hausa warriors from northern Nigeria, in his expedition into Akyem. The Hausa corps was incorporated into Ashanti army, and later served as a "Kings guards" r ...
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  • Onipa 3 months ago

    Hausa were used as warriors? That’s new information to me. My impression was that they were scholars and scribes.

  • Oli 3 months ago

    Stop your nonsenses about our Ashantis.

  • Ujah 3 months ago

    So next time before u say teni, u should get ur DNA ready to proof other wise. We know very well deep history into this than what this historian put out. So we all Ghanaians let's all look for the development of Ghana n defe ...
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  • Onipa 3 months ago

    “Teni” is not an insult.

  • Ujah 3 months ago

    I like ur answer but what always follow up teni, not pleasant.

  • NYEBRO 3 months ago

    TANII PEPENII ABOA.
    YOU CARRY AKAN PEOPLE SHIT FOR OCCUPATION.
    NOW YOU CLAIM TO BE MORE ASANTE THAN REAL AKANS.
    NATAFOO ARE DESCENDENTS OF SHIT CARRIERS.

  • Bk 3 months ago

    The effects of eating toilet as food is making you short ,dark Asante dwarfs with ears full of hair crazy. Animals are better than you bush people because they know the difference between toilet and food

  • Jerry 3 months ago

    This actually confirms that Akomfo Anokye is pure 100%
    Anlo man

  • Abokyi 3 months ago

    Let Asantehene be generation of BUSANGA AND BIMOBA origin.... He will still be Asantehene ..... haaaaba

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  • JULOR CAESAR 3 months ago

    Funny. How can lies be considered history? The Asantehene discovered that he was losing many of his Dagomba warriors, so he encouraged his subjects to marry them so that they can produce more children, so states the writer. I ...
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  • Fred 3 months ago

    Basically Asantes were bitch ass niggaz. They had to call Dagombas to fight for them. Hahahaha

  • Bastie -the emperor of Kumasi 3 months ago

    Asantes were short dwarfs . They needed big dick dagomba and Moshi men to change their dwarfism gene pool.


    Kwasia tutu is a Moshihene not Asantehene

  • The Great 3 months ago

    Interesting. Mr. Historian I don't think the Batamahene is a Paramount chief and the current War General of Asanteman. The Mamponghene of Ashanti is the War General (Kontihene) of Asanteman.
    Batamahene however, is the War Ge ...
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  • Bastie the Emperor of Kumasi 3 months ago

    He's krotihene is Kumasi. Not Asanteman

    kumasi Traditional council is different from asanteman council of paramount thieves

  • Asemsebe 3 months ago

    Poverty associated with jealousy and envious is destroying most Ghanaians..... Whenever you wake up from bed, think about yourself positively , as well as for others too. Don't worry yourself about how other tribes or people ...
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  • Kwaku Afriyie 2 months ago

    The statement that the "Akans were afraid" in wars must be false. Dagomba and other soldiers were part of the tribute that the groups that were part of the Asante Kingdom had to give to the Asantehene. How could the Asante/Ak ...
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  • Kwaku Afriyie 2 months ago

    Note that most of these "facts" are oral history. Lawyer Anokye gets most facts right, but explanations of motivations are not factual, and he sometimes gets them wrong. By the way, for those who do not know. Asante/Akan Gene ...
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