Ashanti Kingdom could have easily been a country - Prof Ahwoi

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 3 days ago

    ##WHERE IS BAWUMIA!!! WHY LEAVE THE JOB OF OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP TO AFENYO MARKIN?????????
    BAWUMIA MUST FLEX HIS MUSCLES!!! THE COUNTRY IS HEADING BACK TO THE AFRC/ PNDC STONE AGE NKWASEASEM. YOU ARE THE OPPOSITION LEADER, B ...
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  • Reap what you sow 3 days ago

    Although the Ghana boarders were drawn by the colonial powers, the examples of for USSR, Yugoslavia, Ukraine and others are impilically different circumstances

  • Adubofuo 3 days ago

    Time will tell. There is no doubt that day will come when ASANTE shall declare INDEPENDENCE. Very soon.
    Asanteman has been on the loosing end in this enterprise called Ghana. Asanteman contributes much but gets less in retur ...
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  • The Spear 2 days ago

    Declare independence with what? A very poor and degraded Kumasi? Think of Kumasi when it used to be called Garden City? Or Ashanti will wait till its infrastructure is updated?

    Charley, take your pill.

  • Mandela 2 days ago

    Fools Paradise. Ashanti is R 16, and will remain R 16.

  • Oywaa. Riddle-Riddle 2 days ago

    Let them go with their unique unruly idiosyncrasies. And create their own sea, as they always boast. There will be sanity and peace. I swear, how they will suffer to get visa into Ghana to fetch fresh water.

  • Mangana Yazo 2 days ago

    Yes! Where brothers'-in-law can horrifyingly change guards, over wedded wives in classical cases of incest

  • Oyiwaa Riddle-Riddle 2 days ago

    Thank you. In typical Chinese fashion too, we shall dash them with 1-Way Tickets, all non-Ashanti women already married to them eternally. For fresh air to prevail in abundance, in Ghana

  • Ghanaba 2 days ago

    Dreamer

  • Safohene Nana Obuo-Gyan 3 days ago

    This is the very first time I've read something sensible from the "fufu ne abɛnkwan" professor and the Sefwi criminal indigene.

    If the 'akpeteshi' and palm wine loving NDC professor throws away his medieval-oriented poli ...
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  • OYOKOBA 2 days ago

    Asante phobia and scaremongering has been the stock in trade of Kwamena Ahwoi. He has used this tactic to elicit policies designed to weaken Asanteman, albeit to make them dependent on the central government.

    But the Asant ...
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  • Outstanding 2 days ago

    Prof! An outstandingly brave AGENDA. An AGENDA too well overdue. The responses, are the Askings, as expressed, for quick attention. Respected Prof, you have recorded a VOICE! A MUST, FOR HISTORY BOOKS.

  • That is African leaders for you 3 days ago

    We prefer natural decentralisation and prosperity than colonial centralised structure which is taking us nowhere except poverty.

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  • Pelicles 3 days ago

    Professor Ahwoi, what are you up to? Decentralization is the fastest way to develop a nation. Nigeria is a federal state and are they tearing themselves part, and why do you think the Ashantis would destroy the unity we are c ...
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  • OYOKOBA 2 days ago

    For years, a certain brand of politics has relied on stoking fear about Asanteman—whipping up suspicion, peddling half-truths, and quietly pushing policies meant to weaken the region while making it dependent on the centre. ...
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  • kuuro 3 days ago

    Why this old fool is bringing these issues up at this time, these are the old people in leadership position who wanna divide the country before they die, this matter he is raising now can create serious problems for the c ...
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  • john 3 days ago

    i hope no the idiots who have always doubted the potential and strength of the Asantes are now learning the hard way.I keep saying that if the government does not develop asante,we may have one asantehene one day who will dec ...
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  • Adubofuo 3 days ago

    PIAAWWW!!!

    Asante is ready and making preparations to break away. The true sons and daughters of Asanteman should prepare and be ready for that when Asanteman finally declares independence. We are ready to sacrifice a mill ...
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  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS undualized intercity roads 3 days ago

    OK. Independence as you wish.
    Wait. 1 sec.
    Would you build China greate wall to separate from former ghana and put border post around the wall, region by region.
    Cut own passport
    Cut own money
    Create own parliament
    Ne ...
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  • Adubofuo 3 days ago

    GO AND READ ABOUT VATICAN IN ITALY. THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS ARE ALL THERE.

  • Agyengo. 3 days ago

    Read about kingdom of Eswathini formally known as Swaziland and Kingdom of Lesotho and you will understand what Ashanti can do. Ashantes have their own traditional parliament at Manhyia if you care to know. Have their own tra ...
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  • Bakogone Tiblisi Honest VIEWS undualized intercity roads 3 days ago

    Clarify the following questions also:

    How about electricity?
    How would you get import for factories, since you'renow landlocked?
    Won't former ghana charge you high rates for usingthe ports?

  • Opon owusu 2 days ago

    Some countries are landlocked...

  • Popee 3 days ago

    Ashantis will surely separate themselves from Ghana it's doesn't matter how long it will take, majority of Ashantis support that idea, they are just waiting for their leaders to make the move.

  • Nii Odenke 3 days ago

    Get ready to be kicked out of Accra soon as you guy become independent.
    Fools.
    You get the lion share of the national cake but you are still not satisfied.
    Buluuiaa

  • Adubofuo 3 days ago

    KICKED OUT OF ACCRA??? HAHAHAHAHA YOU MADE ME LAUGH!! LET ME TELL YOU WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THAT DAY FINALLY COMES.

    AKANS AND FOR THAT MATTER ASANTES DO NOT GLORIFY THEMSELVES IN ABROAD NOT TO TALK OF ACCRA. THE ONLY PLACE ...
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  • Ahene 2 days ago

    I laugh saa aaaaa, it's sad Gas still don't know they are squarters with some parading themselves as 'His Royal Majesty'. You are settlers from Ile Ife Nigeria. The Akuapems hosted you and now you want to claim land like Libe ...
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  • nii ga 2 days ago

    @ NII ODENKE BUT WHY ARE YOU FOOLS WORRIED
    ALMIGHTY ASHANTE BREAKING OFF FROM YOU
    LOW LIFES? I THOUGHT IT IS GOOD
    NEWS TO REJOICE OVER YOUR TORMENTOR
    LEAVING THE SHITHOLE...NKWASIAFUOR

  • ARE YOU GAS GHANAIANS? - Omanba 1 day ago

    Are you Gas ghanaians? Go back to your dirty Yorubaland. Look at how dirty and stinky James town is. And Lavender city is just near James Town.

  • Okukuseke wofa 1 day ago

    Then after that what next?

  • Kofi Jesus, 3 days ago

    Most non Akans believe that Ashantis is the Ghana's biggest problem, so they should declare their independence and let us see Ghana will become American.

  • SOS 3 days ago

    The people of Ashanti were a blessing to Ghana and remain so today.

    With a history of imperial power, the fear of Ashanti (a region curved out by colonialism) remain unfounded - except inthe heads of those who pander belie ...
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  • Kwame 3 days ago

    Prof. Ahwoi, my Vandal friend, you are forgetting the march of history. Prior to 1699 - 1700 CE, there was no Ashanti Empire but there were powerful states like Akwamu and Denkyera. These states are no longer so powerful. If ...
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  • Agyengo. 3 days ago

    So ask yourself, what happened to Denkyira. Simply put they were defeated by the Ashantes. That is why Ashantes became conquerers and whoever they defeated was not treated as outcast but was integrated into the Ashanti kingdo ...
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  • SOS 3 days ago

    Professor Ahwoi is speaking from the past - the reason is that Ghana is stuck!

    1. The country is too big and growing too fast to remain a Unitary-Centralised entity. Technically speaking, it is becoming ungovernable by its ...
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  • SOS 3 days ago

    Our current concept of a decentralised state points us to tribalised regions - that is a result of neo(colonial) upbringing!

    We have to dialogue to replace the colonial model/ideology of a tribalised-region with diverse on ...
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  • SOS 3 days ago

    Our current concept of a decentralised state points us to tribalised regions - that is a result of neo(colonial) upbringing!

    We have to dialogue to replace the colonial model/ideology of a tribalised-region with diverse on ...
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  • Ewvevi 3 days ago

    Another useless ugly bat meat eating fool. He's saying this because he doesn't look any different from those ugly forest monkeys. The asantehene can't do FOKO. Get that straight into your stupid head.

  • Steiner 2 days ago

    Forest monkeys?What are you,a shrine dwelling baboon?

  • nii ga 2 days ago

    @ EWVEVI...THE TROKOSI DOGS ARE WORRIED
    ALMIGHTY ASHANTES ARE BREAKING AWAY FROM
    THIS MEDIOCRE LOW LIFE FOOLS....I THOUGHT
    WE ARE GHANAS PROBLEM? YOU FOOLS SHOULD BE
    REJOICING THAT YOUR TORMENTOR IS BREAKING
    AWAY FROM ...
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  • SOS 3 days ago

    All nations are advanced by leaders within a process that sideline bigots and tribalists!

    And that time has come upon Ghana to advance (and not just develop) because the natural lifecycle of a colonial Ghana is over - soci ...
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  • SOS 3 days ago

    Where Professor Ahwoi is right - too advance, the number of regions in a country has to be optimal - not too many (3-5 million people per region)

    Creating more regions renders governance difficult and a negative developme ...
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  • RUBBISH 3 days ago

    Nonsense TALK.

  • A LAND-LOCKED NATION? 3 days ago

    A land-locked "kingdom"?

  • Agyengo. 3 days ago

    You are just Naive. Period!!!!

  • nii ga 2 days ago

    KWASIA SWITZERLAND IS LAND LOCKED

  • Let My People Go~ Kabakaba 2 days ago

    Like Swaziland and others, who run royal independent democratic kingdoms, yet enclaved. They can do it! In their 'Superior' domain. Deep in their minds, all Ghanaian non-ashantis are inferior. Let them go! For go, they mu ...
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  • Let My People Go~ Kabakaba 2 days ago

    I beleive Eswatini is another one as such. They have outstanding bilateral relations with Taiwan. Let them go in peace. Period; FullStop; End of Story

  • Yaw 3 days ago

    Ashanti people must move away from Ghana and create state

  • Mandela 2 days ago

    Ashanti Kingdom is only possible in the Sahara Desert. The Republic of Ghana is untouchable. Illiterate forest fools, keep on dreaming.

  • Nipa Dasani 2 days ago

    The banana republic you call Ghana is not inseparable get real

  • nii ga 2 days ago

    HAHAHAHAH NOW YOU LOWLIFE ANIMALS ARE SHITTING IN YOUR
    PANTS THE DAY ALMIGHTY ASHANTE BREAK AWAY WILL BE THE
    END OF GHANA...KWASIA

  • AKUA POBEE 3 days ago

    KWAMENA AHWOI IS A TOO KNOWN OVERRATED PROFESSOR. ONE OF THE FANTE ACADEMIC IMPERIALISTS WHO TRIED TO SUPPRESS SMALLER AKAN TRIBES IN CENTRAL REGION BY STEALING THEIR LANDS FOR FANTES WHEN HE WAS THE MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNM ...
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  • KWAME MUMUNI 3 days ago

    I AGREE WITH YOU AKUA POBEE. KWAMENA AHWOI'S IDEAS ARE OUTDATED LIKE MANY IDEAS FROM THE PNDC ERA. GHANA NEEDS MORE EFFECTIVE DECENTRALIZATION WITH DIRECTLY-ELECTED MAYORS. ASK THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED AND LIVED EXTENSIVELY ARO ...
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  • Nana Safro 3 days ago

    The Gentleman is finally telling the true to the Nation State of Ghana. The PNDC/NDC era has really damage lives of the Ashanti people. They have been abused and used with no developments in the Region. Their infrastructure u ...
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  • Be concerned with the structural weaknesses in the decentralisation 3 days ago

    The MMDA's he created have become the weakest chain in the governance system and toothless. All the environmental sanitation issues lies at the door step of a weak functioning bearucratic system with capacity to enforce decen ...
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  • SOS 2 days ago

    1. The MMDA' is a State-District (districtisation) process which entrenches the authoritarian nature of a Unitary-Centralised state (neocolonialism).

    2. What is needed for managing a bloated nation approaching 50 million ...
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  • Catekastyle 2 days ago

    What stopped the Ashanti region to become a country ?
    A country inside a country ?
    Ghana is not Gambia ore Senegal.

  • Ricardo 2 days ago

    Well, Mr Ahwoi has made very brilliant and compelling argument. The government must tread cautiously regarding the decentralization structures, so as not provoke the Ashanti Kingdom. As he said, so far we’ve had peaceful Ki ...
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  • Ahene 2 days ago

    Facts are sacred but opinions are free and that's the truth Kwamena has spelt out. This continuous disdain of the Ashantis by the minority Ewe must be looked at seriously....so should Ashantis protect their sovereignty

  • Abrefa 2 days ago

    @Ahene. We Ashantis envy the Ewes because they are highly educated and good looking people.

  • EWES ARE PROFESSIONAL SMUGGLERS- Omanba 1 day ago

    Ewes highly educated and goodlooking? I just cannot help laughing.Ewes are the most backward,lazy people in Ghana. All they know is smuggling. They are professional smugglers.Because of juju when they come to live in other ar ...
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  • The Spear 2 days ago

    Why do you guys worry your heads with so much nonsense? It is on Ghanaweb that there's this perception about Ewes hating Asantes. In reality, they do not. The opposite is the case. You in the Ashanti Region look down on them, ...
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  • Nipa Dasani 2 days ago

    I could probably count the number of asantes in the volta region with my fingertips. Not even enough to compare to the amount of ayigbes in the adanse province alone.

  • The Spear 2 days ago

    Agreeing/acknowledging that there are Asantes in the Volta Region enjoying peace however, is already enough.

  • Kofi 2 days ago

    Go ahead and create your landlocked country and we will also go ahead and close our airspace for any aircraft to land in your country. Don't forget that you don't have access to the sea for import and export of goods. Geograp ...
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  • nii ga 2 days ago

    KWASIA I THOUGHT YOU FOOLS WILL BE
    HAPPY TO HEAR ALMIGHTY ASHANTES LEAVING
    THIS SHITHOLE UNION...BUT YOU ARE WORRIED
    AND SHITTING IN YOUR PANTS

  • Yaw Bee 2 days ago

    Ok we hear you professor. OTUMFOUR, over to you. Amoatia, S3 woate. Gathering Mantse, oyiwala dooooonnnn!!!!!

  • Kas 2 days ago

    Professor Ahwoi.again. He tried to destroy Rawlings with his unessasry pronouncements and writings.he failed because the NDC leadership and many Ghanaians didn't buy ir. Now Professor is more relevant in this morden Ghana and ...
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  • The Devil's Advocate 2 days ago

    Please Prof Do-Little,what is all this uncalled for nonsense about? Are you here to build a nation or destroy Ghana?
    Why don't you go back to sleep instead of spewing inane nation-wrecking musings.

  • Koo, Germany 2 days ago

    @Prof Ahwoi: please, if you as a Prof, don't have any thing sensible to say, just keep quiet. You are an idiot to incite division into us peaceful Ghanaians. Why should you bring the USSR & YUGOS into this? This is what you & ...
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  • Mandela 2 days ago

    What is this fool talking about? Traitors of the Republic of Ghana. Ashanti is Region No 16. Nothing more. Kwaku Duah can never create a Kingdom. We will not allow the weak President to betray the Republic.

  • Kabakaba 2 days ago

    Soon after their independence, Ghana will declare Aliens Compliance Order within 90 Days. For 90 days full implementation

  • Anna 2 days ago

    Please can you even prove you are asante. According to otumfour they had to bring northerners to impregnate their women so they could get tall and handsome people in ashanti.

  • Nipa Dasani 2 days ago

    Hey dumbass, Ahwoi is a Sefwi and the brains behind the local government system that exists in Ghana today. Also a dɔnkɔ becoming a partner for a widow who lost her previous husband in war had nothing to do with height or l ...
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  • AMARIYA 2 days ago

    Thank you Prof.
    Let the Ashanti haters know that. Ghanaian unity have been possible due to the unselfish nature of Ashantis and wise leadership of the traditional kings. Federalism at independence could have led up the brea ...
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  • Joe Public 2 days ago

    Matemeho people.

  • Signs of Early Beginnings 1 day ago

    Forthwith, Black Stars matches must be played in Accra Sports Stadium. No more Kumasi. That stadium must be renamed. It is their choice, perhaps Wontumi stadium. We means business. Ghana deserves better.

  • THEY WANTED ASHANTI REGION TO SECEDE- ghanawatch 1 day ago

    Professor Ahwoi should have boldly told Ghanaians that the Matemeho(seperatist) movement of Busia, Nana Sir Agyemang Prempeh the second Asantehene and his chief linquist Baffuor Osei Yaw Akoto advocated for the secession of t ...
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