Kofi Awoonor’s death, God’s retribution

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• professor 10 years ago

  Do not accuse any party for this tragedy

  Do not accuse any party for this tragedy

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• CKA 10 years ago

  We shall miss You!

  We shall miss You!

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• JAY 10 years ago

  WHAT DOES HIS ARTICLE TALK ABOUT? IS IT THAT SOME ONE HAS MADE AN IMPROPER COMMENTS ABOUT THE SORROWFUL DEATH OF PROF AWOORNO AND HE DOES NOT LIKE IT? HOW DOES HE TELL THAT THE PERSON/S WHO HE COULD NOT EVEN NAME ARE ASHANT ...
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  WHAT DOES HIS ARTICLE TALK ABOUT? IS IT THAT SOME ONE HAS MADE AN IMPROPER COMMENTS ABOUT THE SORROWFUL DEATH OF PROF AWOORNO AND HE DOES NOT LIKE IT? HOW DOES HE TELL THAT THE PERSON/S WHO HE COULD NOT EVEN NAME ARE ASHANTIS AND BELONG TO NPP? DOES HE THINK ALL THOSE PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE DEAR PROF. ARE ALL NDC MEMBERS? IF SOME FEW PEOPLE EVEN IF THEY BELONG TO NPP HAVE MADE UNSAVOURY REMARKS ABOUT HIS DEATH, DOES IT MEAN ALL ASHANTIS OR ALL NPP FOLLOWERS ARE AGAINST THE PROFESSOR AND DESERVE TO BE ADDRESSED THIS WAY? DID HE READ NANA ADDO'S TRIBUTE TO THE PROF AT THE ANNOUCEMENT OF THE PROFESSOR'S DEATH? EVEN THOUGH NANA IS A MURDERER AS HE DESCRIBES HIM, HE LOVES AND RESPECT PROFESSOR AWOONOR. I WANT TO TELL HIM THAT HE IS EQUALLY GUILTY OF THAT CRIME. THE WRITER SHOULD BE WISE TO KNOW THAT ON THIS WEB, AN NPP SUPPORTER AT TIMES TURNS TO BE AN NDC SUPPORTER JUST TO WRITE TO HURT NDC AND VICE VERSA. HE SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT WHAT WE READ OR WRITE ON THE WEB IS NOT WHAT WE PRACTICE. HE SHOULD GO TO SOME VARIOUS OFFICES, MARKETS, SCHOOLS ETC. AND HE WILL SEE EWES AND ASHANTIS PLAYING AND EATING TOGETHER.AS TRUE GHANAIANS. SO, FOR A PERSON OF THIS CALIBER, WRITING SUCH A CHILDISH AND STUPID ARTICLE AT SUCH A TIME OF MOURNING A HERO, CASTIGATING ASHANTIS AND NPP AS BOMB THROWER AND ALL THOSE FROM HISTORY IS UNCALLED FOR. IF HE IS WISER, HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT SUCH STUPID TALK OR ARTICLE WOULD MAR THE THE FUNNERAL. EVEN PROF. AWOONOR MIGHT NOT BE LIKED BY ALL EWES AND EVEN ALL PEOPLE FROM HIS HOME TOWN. I WOULD THEREFORE ADVICE THIS IDIOT TO PUT HIS STUPID PEN DOWN AND LET US MOURN THE HERO IN PEACE AND LOVE. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS.

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• don`t care !!! 10 years ago

  Jay!you sound as if you have lost in ur imagination!

  Jay!you sound as if you have lost in ur imagination!

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Cousin Kojo T,
  
  Thanks so much for devoting time to write this. Been planning to take on these vile, evil cretins but time is a factor hindering me. Been doing my bits here and there though, even on SIL.
  
  Unlike you, I ha ...
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  Cousin Kojo T,
  
  Thanks so much for devoting time to write this. Been planning to take on these vile, evil cretins but time is a factor hindering me. Been doing my bits here and there though, even on SIL.
  
  Unlike you, I had read Awoonor's book and in addition, the one he specially devoted to both Asantes and Ewes, as a follow up to the criticism he made against reducing the political contest for power in "simple terms" to a contest between Ewes and "Akans/Asantes" by Busia and his PP in the 1969 Gen. Elections and the consequent hounding of Ewes afterwards. They are still at it, as we all know.
  
  I've quoted Dennis Austin several times to illustrate what Awoonor was writing against and they always fall silent! I am coming with more stuff soon, a continuation to where I stopped my previous articles which I intend ti post on this thread for people to refresh their memories or get informed for the first time.
  
  Awoonor was NO tribalist and was dead right in his evaluation, except that he kept the discussion within that simplistic reductionist dichotomy instead of expanding upon his world view which is opposed to such a perception of politics in Ghana. He therefore wrote a second book, devoted to Asantes and Ewes in particular which, I am afraid, I consider more problematic than The Ghana Revolution. But since he was only full of praises for Asantes in that book, we never hear or read anywhere his detractors using that book to show that he hated Asantes! Or are the ignorant of that book too? I doubt very much!
  
  Fact is, I never heard of those books until The Ghana Revolution palaver cropped up on Okyeame. Upon request for people to scan the offending pages for us all to read, the late Dr Francis Appiah, the grandson of Bafo Akoto himself, and my mate in Legon and Dept colleague in the Univ. of Bergen sent me mail that he had a copy. I was a a Teaching Asst then in the Dept but since I was also a research assistant then at CMI, I chose to use their far better facilities, and so my office place was in far away Fantoft from the town centre where the Univ is located. I went there and Francis consequently made copies of the two books for me. I read both and we both concluded that he wasn't tribalist but just "Chazan-like" in his analysis. Francis' Phd dissertation was on the evolution of Ghanaian bureaucracy so he accumulated a load of material on that.
  
  Now this what I have to say to all those evil cretins out there who have seized this sad, tragic event as another opportunity to be releasing their venomous, uncouth and unfounded hatred for Awoonor and Ewes. You are just revealing yourselves as to what you really are: mentally warped evil people without any redemptive features at all.
  
  Awoonor was absolutely right in taking on and exposing the hounding of Ewes by some Akans, led by some core Asante elements from within the former Asante kingdom after the 1966 coup. He was a victim himself. That hounding continues to this day and we who are reasonable and know the facts and have the capability owe a duty to Awoonor, to our ourselves and our children to vindicate what he wrote and expose these rabies infested dogs for what they are!
  
  Awoonor was no tribalist! Writing on the tribal hounding of Ewes by some Akans of the Matemeho tradition who destroyed the UP tradition with their ethncentrism does not make one a tribalist, just as writing about and condemning white racism doesn't make one a racist! To write about racism, one must mention what racists do. Same for evil minded Akan bigots and jingoists who spend their sad, waking lives insulting Ewes and people from northern Ghana.
  
  Kojo T, thanks one again for wading in and taking them on by their balls!
  It was high time for Akans and Asantes in the NP, who don;t share those vile views about others to disassociate themselves openly from the vile ones in their midst.
  
  Andy-K.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1
  
  The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some r ...
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  THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1
  
  The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
  Dza le le leeeeeee!
  Me zu kluvi
  The road to Kontsiabu
  Strewn with gold dusts.
  Only those without
  in their eyes gold dusts
  felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…
  
  then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.
  
  Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.
  
  In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.
  
  Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.
  
  Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.
  
  I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “ekpelekpedzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordiale to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!
  
  Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.
  
  Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.
  
  From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:
  
  "Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."
  
  The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.
  
  As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants of Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?
  
  We read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:
  “We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
  (Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
  We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
  We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself..” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)
  
  And so on it went. I can make long comments on the above quotes but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast.
  
  One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra; better still, Ayawaso! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another, story.
  
  THE EWE BACKLASH
  
  By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyi, as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.
  
  Then come the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup, which increasingly took an ethnic tone. My own father was a sacrificial victim. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:
  
  “A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. ‘Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
  Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
  The strongest poison ever known
  Came from Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)
  
  Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.
  
  The interested reader is referred to the link on the Internet to read an extended abstract of the book in order to get a fuller understanding of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana and so be able to compare events from then and now and subsequent analysis.
  
  Dennis Austin - 1976 - Political Science - 199 pages
  books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=084190278X...
  
  In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.
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  Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
  cyandyk@ymail.com
  
  References:
  
  Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
  Manchester Univ. Press.
  Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
  Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
  Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
  Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.

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• Joy 10 years ago

  When I was a graduate student at Princeton, in my first year, I visited Bronx where my sister was living in the same apartment complex with Prof Kofi Awoonor. At the time, he was lecturing part time at Columbia and pursuing h ...
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  When I was a graduate student at Princeton, in my first year, I visited Bronx where my sister was living in the same apartment complex with Prof Kofi Awoonor. At the time, he was lecturing part time at Columbia and pursuing his final ph.d. dissertation. What I remember about him is that he would often speak FANTI to my sister encouraging her to be closer to his wife rather than the other gullible, gossipy Ghanaians in the same complex because he found my sister articulate and educated. I spoke often with him in Fanti and he was full of excitement whenever Ghana came up. Even at that time he did not look that old; I am surprised that he was 78. May he rest in peace - those who knew him up close really considered him classy and he fitted into many Ghanaian ethnic groups because he spoke so many Ghana languages.... it was always difficult to pin him as an Ewe. His English was nothing like an ewe accent!!! Folks - Kofi was no tribalist. He might have been an Ewe nationalist. I found him more Ghanaian than most people; I can say for a fact that he was not ewe-phobic, if there is such a thing!!

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  "I can say for a fact that he was not ewe-phobic"
  
  Ma'am, but how could he be an Ewe-Phobic and Ewe-Nationalist simultaneously. You lost me.
  
  May he rest in peace.

  "I can say for a fact that he was not ewe-phobic"
  
  Ma'am, but how could he be an Ewe-Phobic and Ewe-Nationalist simultaneously. You lost me.
  
  May he rest in peace.

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• Joy 10 years ago

  Ebei Nyansasem, dont be confused. Prof Kofi Awoonor was neither an ewe-phobic nor akan-phobic. He simply was a Ghanaian Nationalist.

  Ebei Nyansasem, dont be confused. Prof Kofi Awoonor was neither an ewe-phobic nor akan-phobic. He simply was a Ghanaian Nationalist.

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  It still does not make sense to me. Those who are accusing him are saying he is an Ewe Nationalist because he said, he is an EWE first and Ghanaian second. So my question is how do you bring in this Ewe-phobic when no one has ...
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  It still does not make sense to me. Those who are accusing him are saying he is an Ewe Nationalist because he said, he is an EWE first and Ghanaian second. So my question is how do you bring in this Ewe-phobic when no one has accused him of that? Should it not be Ewe-philic rather than Ewe-phobic, which will mean, he hates or fears Ewes.
  
  Anyway, it does not take anything away from your tribute to him. He would still be remembered as a great man.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Nyansasem,
  
  It is just one of the distortions of the deep thoughts of the man his detractors could not understand.
  
  In trying to explain the absence of nationalism in Ghanaians, he used himself as an example, to highlight ...
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  Nyansasem,
  
  It is just one of the distortions of the deep thoughts of the man his detractors could not understand.
  
  In trying to explain the absence of nationalism in Ghanaians, he used himself as an example, to highlight the Ewe. Born as an Ewe, his first awareness of himself is a Ghanaian, later on maybe a Gold Coaster. Ghana only came into being on 6 March 1957, you know. So definitely anyone born as far back as 1935 was definitely an Ewe, ga, Fanti, Asante, Gonja, Grunshie, etc., etc. before becoming Ghanaian! Asantes, i.e, including the present B/A, only became Gold Coasters in 1946 under the Burns Const. Is that so hard to understand that they were Asantes first before becoming Gold Coasters and then Ghanaians?
  
  Andy-K

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  I can say that I am from my hometown first, my tribe/region 2nd, Ghanaian 3rd, Canadian 4th and American 5th and Caribbean 6th. We normally tie our umbilical cords to where we were born, in spite of our travels. I don't see a ...
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  I can say that I am from my hometown first, my tribe/region 2nd, Ghanaian 3rd, Canadian 4th and American 5th and Caribbean 6th. We normally tie our umbilical cords to where we were born, in spite of our travels. I don't see anything wrong with that. I believe those who are accusing him are more worried about what he wrote in the book "Ghana Revolution"
  
  Me, I don't want to spend time to even think about this. And Andy, I think it wrong for you guys to turn this tragedy into tribalism. Your support for this nonsense by Kojo T, is uncalled for. I don't think the family would be happy to see that you guys have given platform to others to dance on the great man's grave. That is unfair to the great man. You are doing this to suit yourself.
  
  I have even read from somewhere that you were not in agreement with him on some Anlo issues. So why are you trying to champion this unwanted and unnecessary course? Or, you feel guilty for not healing old wounds before his untimely death? Andy, do not use the great man's to settle your own scores with the Asantes.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Yes, my section of the bigger family has issues with Kofi Awoonor for backing that impostor but I've always defended him against the vile and false allegations often made against him prior to his death. Ask Akadu.
  
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  Yes, my section of the bigger family has issues with Kofi Awoonor for backing that impostor but I've always defended him against the vile and false allegations often made against him prior to his death. Ask Akadu.
  
  Our families go a long way back. When we fight, we watch each others eyes. And so I can't sit down and allow others to gouge out his eyes and smear his reputation and achievements with falsehood, and now dance on his copse.
  
  No, we haven't turned this into any tribalism. We are only finally responding to the orgy of celebration and vile insults being hurled at him in particular and Ewes in general. Where were u when it all started?
  
  As for the Ghana Revolution, it's clear you haven't read it. When someone finally posted scanned copies of the "offending" sections on SIL, people were asking whether that was all he said! And when sections where he blasted mercilessly Harlley and Kotoka were posted, some wrote back to ask how could an Ewe tribalist write such biting things about such Ewe "heroes"? Actually, the right-wing conservative Ewe elite were just as pissed with him as the Asantes! That's why they don't defend him even though he was right in his evaluation, if not in analysis.
  
  They all have no case so far as the Ghana Revolution is concerned.
  
  Finally, I have no scores to settle with Asantes, since they owe me nothing and caused me no harm, except the foolish and ignorant ones who come here to insult all Ewes ad nauseam. I just want to prepare them for the Internal Reparations cause which I've been championing, as former allies of my ancestors who participated in the African Holocaust.
  
  Andy-K

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• Joni 10 years ago

  Joy, PhD Havard, pls read thru what u write before u post it:
  
  Awoonor, as Ewe, couldn't possibly be "ewe phobic".
  
  He encouraged your sister to be closer to his wife - whose wife? Awoonor's wife or your sister's wife???

  Joy, PhD Havard, pls read thru what u write before u post it:
  
  Awoonor, as Ewe, couldn't possibly be "ewe phobic".
  
  He encouraged your sister to be closer to his wife - whose wife? Awoonor's wife or your sister's wife???

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  Please, getting personal and get your point across nicely. I think she got the Ewe-Phobic wrong, but the second statement is OK. It just mean that, he, Awoonor encouraged Joy's sister, who might be a Fanti to get closer to Aw ...
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  Please, getting personal and get your point across nicely. I think she got the Ewe-Phobic wrong, but the second statement is OK. It just mean that, he, Awoonor encouraged Joy's sister, who might be a Fanti to get closer to Awoonor's wife who was also Fanti, instead of the illiterates in that complex. Hmmmm

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• Joy 10 years ago

  Rubbish Joni. First off I am Ph.D. Princeton not Harvard. Second, the sentence in question relates to Kofi's wife. How can it be my sister's wife...is she a lesbian? Come on. Then, finally, I have stated that Kofi was neither ...
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  Rubbish Joni. First off I am Ph.D. Princeton not Harvard. Second, the sentence in question relates to Kofi's wife. How can it be my sister's wife...is she a lesbian? Come on. Then, finally, I have stated that Kofi was neither an ewe-phobic nor akan-phobic. He was simply a Ghanaian Nationalist. Joni, if you cannot understand the short space alloted to making a point on Ghanaweb, then please go to an Ivy League and also obtain a doctorate. Rubbish galore!!!

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• Kojo T 10 years ago

  Nice and explicit exposition of what the writer is doing. You read the post unlike the " cretins" who do not counter anything but do what they do, pour out vile and venom best

  Nice and explicit exposition of what the writer is doing. You read the post unlike the " cretins" who do not counter anything but do what they do, pour out vile and venom best

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Cousin Kojo T,
  
  That's why they shall always end with the short end of the stick they try to beat others with. The are so hollow and fatuous you wonder where they went to
  school.
  
  For your info, Kofi's father was the Sur ...
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  Cousin Kojo T,
  
  That's why they shall always end with the short end of the stick they try to beat others with. The are so hollow and fatuous you wonder where they went to
  school.
  
  For your info, Kofi's father was the Surveyor sent to re-design Anloga into a modern plan after the big fire there which destroyed much of the old town side. His family was therefore already top-notch before the turn of the last century, not these scions of illiterate peasants who are now insulting him.
  
  Andy-K

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• Okponglo Guy 10 years ago

  The 1966 coup was spearheaded by Ewes: Kotoka, Harley, Deku. So, when you say Ewes were hounded, it really beats my imagination.
  
  You guys have to find something to always accuse Asantes of. Asantes have no time for other ...
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  The 1966 coup was spearheaded by Ewes: Kotoka, Harley, Deku. So, when you say Ewes were hounded, it really beats my imagination.
  
  You guys have to find something to always accuse Asantes of. Asantes have no time for other ethnic groups. Asantes, Kwahus and other Akans are more after wealth. Only if an ethnic group threaten their wealth do they bark. They have nothing against Ewes. Preach it to all!

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Go back and re-read what I wrote.
  
  Andy-K

  Go back and re-read what I wrote.
  
  Andy-K

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• obra 10 years ago

  thank God kofi wudini awoonor is going to perpetual hell, foolish man

  thank God kofi wudini awoonor is going to perpetual hell, foolish man

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  You are worse than an animal; a pig. What an idiot you are. A tribal bigot who is trying to turn this tragedy into tribalism. Gbemela kesevi.
  
  In your senseless article, where did NPP say that the great man's death was God ...
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  You are worse than an animal; a pig. What an idiot you are. A tribal bigot who is trying to turn this tragedy into tribalism. Gbemela kesevi.
  
  In your senseless article, where did NPP say that the great man's death was God retribution? Where did you find that? Did you not read the communique from NPP consoling the family members? What a stinky idiot.
  
  And do you take those fools who come here only to insult as representative of ALL Asantes? So by your logic, anytime an idiot like you write anything about Asantes, the conclusion should be, ALL Ewes are insulting Asantes? What a hopeless idiot. At your age, instead of taking care of numerous grand children and preparing well to leave a legacy, here you are always writing stupid and meaningless articles to make you feel good. Filthy animal.
  
  THIS IS THE MESSAGE from NPP
  
  www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=286586
  
  The NPP has learnt with utter shock this morning, the tragic death of Professor Kofi Awoonor, in Nairobi Kenya.
  
  Professor Awoonor has been a distinguished son of Ghana, a poet and a teacher, who has served our nation in various capacities.
  
  Our deepest condolences will go out to his family and to the President, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, the government and the people of Ghana.
  
  May his soul rest in peace.
  
  ….Signed…….. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey National Chairman
  
  AND THIS IS THE MESSAGE FROM NANA ADDO
  
  www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=286604
  
  Like many Ghanaians, I have heard with shock and dismay the news of the tragic killing of Professor Kofi Awoonor-Williams, former Chairperson of the Council of State, in the terrorist outrages committed yesterday at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
  
  A well-known writer, poet and film maker, Prof Awoonor has played a prominent role in the public life of our country these last three or four decades. Despite our political differences, he and I maintained a good personal relationship.
  
  I shall forever remember with fondness his erudition, wit and courtesy. The Ghanaian nation has lost a distinguished son.
  
  My sincere condolences and sympathies go to his family for their loss, and to his son who was also injured in the abominable incident, and wish him a speedy recovery.
  
  May God bless him and may his soul rest in perfect peace.
  
  ……signed…….
  
  Nana Akufo-Addo
  
  London
  
  Comments:

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• CARDINAL 10 years ago

  What do you expect from this tribal bigot Kojo Tamakloe? He is a merchant of hate whose stock in trade is writing inciting articles and comments that seek to divide instead of uniting. Awonoor was a man of wisdom with his own ...
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  What do you expect from this tribal bigot Kojo Tamakloe? He is a merchant of hate whose stock in trade is writing inciting articles and comments that seek to divide instead of uniting. Awonoor was a man of wisdom with his own foibles like any human being. He was not perfect like everybody but as a public figure, his life was an open book and some things he wrote and did infuriated a section of the populace.
  
  As Rawlings political advisor during the Pndc time, he wrote that, the 1981 revolution was to stop the economic hegemony by Akans, especially the Asantes and the seizure and destroying of Akan businesses like B.A Mensah's Tobacco company, Kofi Owusu's KOWUS Motors, Siaw's Tata Brewery,Appiah Menka Apino Soap factory, Sarfo Adu Pharmaceutical factory and others lent creed to what he said about stopping Akan economic power not knowing othee tribes including Ewes also earn a living working at these Akan owned businesses.
  
  Despite this, Awonoor should not be condemned because he did other things to lift the image of Ghana. I don't see the reason anybody should rejoice in his death because death is an inevitable event for all of us. Nobody will grow wings and fly into the sunset.

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• Coins 10 years ago

  It is a known fact that Awoonor only joined the revolution after it became successful, neither was he part of original planners or executioners of the coup. How then could he ascertain and or come up with such statements of w ...
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  It is a known fact that Awoonor only joined the revolution after it became successful, neither was he part of original planners or executioners of the coup. How then could he ascertain and or come up with such statements of what the coup is all about?
  
  What drove him to make such a statement in his book knowing the back lash that it was going to generate?
  
  These are some of the questions we needed to be asking in search of the truth.

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• Mr. Balazenski 10 years ago

  Reading between the lines, my understanding of what the Prof. said was to actually exposed the evil agenda of Mr. Rawlings. I don't think he personally wanted to annihilate Akan businesses. Have you asked yourself why Mr. Raw ...
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  Reading between the lines, my understanding of what the Prof. said was to actually exposed the evil agenda of Mr. Rawlings. I don't think he personally wanted to annihilate Akan businesses. Have you asked yourself why Mr. Rawlings didn't even mention his name in his tribute?

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• princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

  Who's guilty?
  President Obama told Cardinal that
  An Akan wife wakes up from a dream yelling "Hurry my husband's home!" Her Ewe Husband wakes up and jumps out the window and who is guilty?
  Cardinal"Said OSAMA,OBAMA,YOUR MAM ...
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  Who's guilty?
  President Obama told Cardinal that
  An Akan wife wakes up from a dream yelling "Hurry my husband's home!" Her Ewe Husband wakes up and jumps out the window and who is guilty?
  Cardinal"Said OSAMA,OBAMA,YOUR MAMA .
  ANOTHER OSAMA-BEEN-HIDING.
  YOU ARE ALWAYS FAIR AND BALANCED IN YOUR ARGUMENTS.
  THEY HAVE THE EWE AND AKAN BIGOTS IN GHANA WHO MAY BE WORSE THAN THE EL SHABAZ BUT THEY DONT HAVE THE MEANS TO CREATE TROUBLE.
  PRINCESS DIANNA WAS CALLED A BAD WOMAN BY THE MONARCHY BUT THE BRITISH DID NOT REJOICE OVER HER DEATH.

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• AA 10 years ago

  Most useless article I have ever read on this web. This man must be sick. He needs help. Pse see Dr Osei ASAP.

  Most useless article I have ever read on this web. This man must be sick. He needs help. Pse see Dr Osei ASAP.

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• Nana Appiah (Canadian) 10 years ago

  Listen to this fool, You call these Businesses What??? Ashanti economic Power?? Let me Teach you who the economic powers of the world Are: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Priceline, GM, Ford ,Bombardier, Boeing, Magna, Joh ...
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  Listen to this fool, You call these Businesses What??? Ashanti economic Power?? Let me Teach you who the economic powers of the world Are: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Priceline, GM, Ford ,Bombardier, Boeing, Magna, Johnson& Johnson, Facebook, and so On... Not Apino What?? Kofi Owusu What?? in the Cocoase Jungle? hahahaha These were thieves that were evading taxes on regular basis..Kwasea what do you know?? I will make sure your wings are forever Clipped. Trust me...No One needs your Opinion on how they mourn or celebrate the Death of Prof. Kofi Awunoor.. Its only Uncivilized Morons would rejoice Over the Death of anyone.. Even when Osama Bin Laden was killed, Americans were warned not to Celebrate his DEATH. That is Civilization at its Best..!!! IDIOT

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• Aduanaba 10 years ago

  I am very say today, this country doesn t seem it ll go far. The level of hate is too much.

  I am very say today, this country doesn t seem it ll go far. The level of hate is too much.

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• Nana Appiah (Canadian) 10 years ago

  That Idiot called Cardinal Aka Sarpong was on this web on Daily Basis for five good years insulting Rawlings, Atta Mills, NDC and Ewes at large. wishing Rawlings and Atta Mils were Dead. .Now that it took Hon. Mahama just 6 w ...
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  That Idiot called Cardinal Aka Sarpong was on this web on Daily Basis for five good years insulting Rawlings, Atta Mills, NDC and Ewes at large. wishing Rawlings and Atta Mils were Dead. .Now that it took Hon. Mahama just 6 weeks to defeat their moronic Asses they are all hiding.. Hatred Breeds Hatred.. The hypocrite Sarpong aka Cardinal should not pretend to be nice now. ABOA and a Loser...They should continue Spreading Hatred on this Web and we on the Other hand will Continue Winning Elections....

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• CARDINAL 10 years ago

  Can you illiterate bastard son of a cheap whore bone up your confidence with real achievements instead of calling your failes self a Canadian as if that is an achievement.
  
  You are so stupid you don't even know the history ...
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  Can you illiterate bastard son of a cheap whore bone up your confidence with real achievements instead of calling your failes self a Canadian as if that is an achievement.
  
  You are so stupid you don't even know the history of Apple and Microsoft. These companies were started in garages and grew up to be what they are today. Who knows what these companies destroyed by trokosi jeslousies would have been today?.
  
  I ignore your postings because you are intellectually challenged and reason like a two year old. You are a sorry and poor excuse of a human being, you stupid dog.

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• Nana Appiah (Canadian) 10 years ago

  Delusional fool, What a dreamer..What Would have been What today??Shit hole Sarpong..Start preparing for another supreme Court Petition..in 2016.. Animal like you who does not even have Papers in the States... Useless Baboon ...
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  Delusional fool, What a dreamer..What Would have been What today??Shit hole Sarpong..Start preparing for another supreme Court Petition..in 2016.. Animal like you who does not even have Papers in the States... Useless Baboon with fake Certificates..We don't need any comments from you about Prof..Kofi Awunoor...Stay in your Npp Circles with the rest of your Ugly Bastards.. Defeated Bunch of Animals.....

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• Kojo T 10 years ago

  So cardinal aka I&I builds Unity?

  So cardinal aka I&I builds Unity?

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• CARDINAL 10 years ago

  Fool, check I&I IP address. He lives in Canada not Texas unless you can prove that I post from two places at the same time.
  
  You see eveybody in this forum who does not agree with your bigotry as me, get a life, old fool.

  Fool, check I&I IP address. He lives in Canada not Texas unless you can prove that I post from two places at the same time.
  
  You see eveybody in this forum who does not agree with your bigotry as me, get a life, old fool.

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• Nana Appiah (Canadian) 10 years ago

  Hey Okusea Ba, I can Assure you that You People will not See the Face of Power Again for a very very long time.. Ugly Animals like you will never be allowed to Rule Ghana Again..Sarpong Aka Cardinal YOUR WINGS HAVE BEEN CLIPP ...
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  Hey Okusea Ba, I can Assure you that You People will not See the Face of Power Again for a very very long time.. Ugly Animals like you will never be allowed to Rule Ghana Again..Sarpong Aka Cardinal YOUR WINGS HAVE BEEN CLIPPED FOR GOOD....

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  Hey, the great one, long time no see. Sometimes, I blame Ghanaweb for publishing articles from fools and illiterates. Why should a senseless article like this be allowed on Ghanaweb? But what can we do about an old fool who h ...
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  Hey, the great one, long time no see. Sometimes, I blame Ghanaweb for publishing articles from fools and illiterates. Why should a senseless article like this be allowed on Ghanaweb? But what can we do about an old fool who has more time on his hands?
  
  Yes, like I said it on Ahoofe's article, any AKAN who gloats on someone's death is not really Akan. Has this idiot not insulted Asantes for giving so much time and respect to the dead, instead of the living? There have been articles upon articles by haters trying to condemn Akans, especially Asantes about glorifying the dead. So how do people who glorify the dead turn around and curse dead simultaneously? Only an idiot can write something illogical like that.
  
  Yes, many may not like him for what he stood for and tried to do politically, but personally, no true and wise Akan will rejoice over this tragedy. This is a projection from that idiot, Kojo T and K. Boateng. They would dance on tombs of prominent Asantes and that is why they think Asantes are doing the same.
  
  Bro, enjoy your week

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• CARDINAL 10 years ago

  The wise one, the two idiots you mentioned have done exactly that, dancing at the tomb of dead Asantes. Koo Boateng was at his giddy self when Baa Wiredu died in South Africa. He was happy an Asante and NPP member has died. K ...
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  The wise one, the two idiots you mentioned have done exactly that, dancing at the tomb of dead Asantes. Koo Boateng was at his giddy self when Baa Wiredu died in South Africa. He was happy an Asante and NPP member has died. Kojo T has always supported the killing of Afrifa and Acheampong by the Ewe Mafia.
  
  For the life of me, I don't see why anybody should be happy at the death of another human being no matter what they have done in life. Death awaits us all.

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• Kojo T 10 years ago

  Kojo T nEVER supported the death of IK Acheampong nor Afrifra. June 4th was a military day when they cleansed themselves

  Kojo T nEVER supported the death of IK Acheampong nor Afrifra. June 4th was a military day when they cleansed themselves

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  Psychologists believe that at 50 years, if you still harbor hatred, resentment and have low-self esteem, it means you have come to accept the fact that you had done nothing in your life to be proud of and you are a loser. Tha ...
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  Psychologists believe that at 50 years, if you still harbor hatred, resentment and have low-self esteem, it means you have come to accept the fact that you had done nothing in your life to be proud of and you are a loser. That is what Kojo T finds himself in.
  
  I don't think it is too late for him to turn his life around. He could go to any community college near his hood to pick up a trading course or find something useful like volunteering in his community.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Cardinal wrote:
  
  "As Rawlings political advisor during the Pndc time, he wrote that, the 1981 revolution was to stop the economic hegemony by Akans, especially the Asantes and the seizure and destroying of Akan businesses l ...
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  Cardinal wrote:
  
  "As Rawlings political advisor during the Pndc time, he wrote that, the 1981 revolution was to stop the economic hegemony by Akans, especially the Asantes and the seizure and destroying of Akan businesses like B.A Mensah's Tobacco company, Kofi Owusu's KOWUS Motors, Siaw's Tata Brewery,Appiah Menka Apino Soap factory, Sarfo Adu Pharmaceutical factory and others lent creed to what he said about stopping Akan economic power not knowing othee tribes including Ewes also earn a living working at these Akan owned businesses."
  
  This has been the despicable lies some Akans, chief among them Asantes, have been peddling against Awoonor, JJ and Ewes in general. In fact, the NPP as a party used these very lies and spread them about even to as far as Norway when J.H Mensah came to visit on his campaign of ethnocentric hatred to win the support of faked refugees in 1989 or so, who, btw used same lies to get asylum. he was hotly challenged by some students from northern Ghana who understood Twi.
  
  I challenge you to produce the source where Awoonor wrote or said those things.
  
  What I posted above stopped at 1970. It doesn't mean I don't have verifiable stuff to continue from where I stopped. So many books and articles have been written by Akans demonising Ewes, etc. It is just a matter of time that we shall deal with them.
  
  Andy-K

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• K. Boateng 10 years ago

  Asantes must be told once and for all and in no uncertain terms that they are not Akans and Akans are not them; that they DO NOT represent Akans and therefore CAN NOT speak for the rest of the Akans who are not asantes. I'm a ...
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  Asantes must be told once and for all and in no uncertain terms that they are not Akans and Akans are not them; that they DO NOT represent Akans and therefore CAN NOT speak for the rest of the Akans who are not asantes. I'm a BONO from Techiman, the cradle of the Akan Civilization so the asantes can't be more Akan than I am and for that matter any other non-asante Akans. We the Bono Akans have no beef with any other Ghanaian, be it Ewe, Ga, Northerner or whatever. That's why we have the Dagombahene, Frafrahene, Fantehene, Bandahane, all in Techiman with their enclaves, with asantes and other tribes and ethnic groups having their organizations in Techiman without let or hindrance by any Techiman native. We embrace all without discrimination. If the asantes, as an ethnic group within the Akan tribe, think they have any beef with the Ewes or any other tribe, then they should deal with it on that level and leave the rest of us alone. We're sick and tired of this asante nonsense where they ignorantly think anyone who exposes their primitive tribal bigotry is against them. How can someone living in Techiman-Bamire and have never set an eye on nor even heard of Prof. Awoonor's name be his/her enemy? What did he do to we the Bonos or what did we do to him for us to be enemies? And we have some shallow minded brats swallowing this nonsense bait from the NPP; would they shut up and tell us why Arthur (Fante) and Yeboah (Bono) were executed by Afrifa while leaving out Adusei-Poku, the only asante among the trio who committed the same crime by attempting to overthrow the NLC? It's obvious that asantes are not happy campers in Ghana and I have a message for them: they are at liberty to leave the country and retreat back to Bawure in Ivory Coast where they migrated from, if they think they're not welcomed in Ghana. Asantefuo y'aabre ho!

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• Divine Asempa 10 years ago

  Do not for once think erroneously that you are a human being, for you are not, let alone claim that you belong to an amorphous tribe. Get it in your concrete-crusted skull that you are de-tribalized. Kwasia!

  Do not for once think erroneously that you are a human being, for you are not, let alone claim that you belong to an amorphous tribe. Get it in your concrete-crusted skull that you are de-tribalized. Kwasia!

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• Yaw Poku, USA 10 years ago

  Tell that benkoto besore Kofi Boateng like it is. Me Bro, you said it right to this fool called Kofi Boateng. He is from Techiman and an Ashanti hater like Kofi Awonoor Williams.

  Tell that benkoto besore Kofi Boateng like it is. Me Bro, you said it right to this fool called Kofi Boateng. He is from Techiman and an Ashanti hater like Kofi Awonoor Williams.

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• AA 10 years ago

  Is Kofi Boateng normal. Reading his comment I get the sense of somebody with a very low self esteem.

  Is Kofi Boateng normal. Reading his comment I get the sense of somebody with a very low self esteem.

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• Aduanaba 10 years ago

  I am very sad today
  
  This crap from Bonoland ?
  
  Won t say more.

  I am very sad today
  
  This crap from Bonoland ?
  
  Won t say more.

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  Who care about Kofi Boateng's hatred for the Asantes. You need to cure yourself from that hatred.
  
  You are the one who is talking and writing always about the Asantes and yet you complain about being tired of them. Why don' ...
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  Who care about Kofi Boateng's hatred for the Asantes. You need to cure yourself from that hatred.
  
  You are the one who is talking and writing always about the Asantes and yet you complain about being tired of them. Why don't you get a grip of yourself and face this Asanteman you had problem with in Philadelphia and stop hating the Asantes.
  
  May I ask you again, have you left Philadelphia for Cali because of the problem you had with this Asante Guy?

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• kwaku USA 10 years ago

  OH Boateng why are you mad? What is the truth in this stupid article. I am also bono from Berekum. Take it easy

  OH Boateng why are you mad? What is the truth in this stupid article. I am also bono from Berekum. Take it easy

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• Sammy 10 years ago

  Some wise sayings paa but please take it easy on our Asante folks, Some are different just like any other ethnic group, they are all not the same.
  
  Sometime I just blame Rawlings because his so called revolution only gave t ...
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  Some wise sayings paa but please take it easy on our Asante folks, Some are different just like any other ethnic group, they are all not the same.
  
  Sometime I just blame Rawlings because his so called revolution only gave the tribal bigots the platform to do what they had always wanted to do.
  
  If not why will they leave out all the other victims who were non Akans and concentrate solely on just the Akan victims? Why will they also focus their hateful speeches on just Ewes when the revolution involved many non Ewes? It is even alleged that some of those who drove Rawlings to go after some of the Asante business men were fellow Akans yet we hear no anger and bigotry directed at them.
  
  This are just some of the questions we wish some of them will answer without the infusion of emotions. As for me I can disagree with people but cant hate any one because of tribe.
  
  I have just realize my family consist of all tribal groupings in Ghana and I believe many fall in the same league as I do. God bless Ghana. Have a good night KB

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• CARDINAL 10 years ago

  Stop being an idiot with your lies. What enclaves are you talking about? How big is Techiman to have enclaves for all these tribes you are talking about? Techiman is a big village so stop talking about it as if it is a city w ...
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  Stop being an idiot with your lies. What enclaves are you talking about? How big is Techiman to have enclaves for all these tribes you are talking about? Techiman is a big village so stop talking about it as if it is a city with enclaves for other tribes.
  
  You are making a fool of yourself for calling a village with one street going from. Techiman secondary school to Wenchi as the craddle of Akan civilization. Sorry civilization seems to have left your village behind.
  
  Apuu taa, don't talk about Techiman as if some of us don't know this big village.

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  This Kofi Boateng will kill me oooo. I am beginning to believe he was airlifted from Techiman to KIA and then to Philadelphia. He has never been to anywhere in Ghana.
  
  He was asking me whether I live at Jane and Finch in To ...
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  This Kofi Boateng will kill me oooo. I am beginning to believe he was airlifted from Techiman to KIA and then to Philadelphia. He has never been to anywhere in Ghana.
  
  He was asking me whether I live at Jane and Finch in Toronto, because he is in Canada and want to come for a visit. When I asked him whether he had finally run away from Philadelphia to California because of the Asante guy and his ex, he refused to come back.
  
  I would love to host him and teach him how to be free of hate and let go of the past. I would also teach him to be bold as lion and not a coward to run away from his ex and her new lover. You know that is the genesis of his daily anti-Asante diatribe here, so I read from these pages.

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• CARDINAL 10 years ago

  Nyasasem, this is no forum lies but I know Koo Boateng family from Techiman-Buoyam. Koo Boaten is not from Techiman but a village about five miles from Techiman called Buoyam or a name like that. His uncle, one Boakye who is ...
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  Nyasasem, this is no forum lies but I know Koo Boateng family from Techiman-Buoyam. Koo Boaten is not from Techiman but a village about five miles from Techiman called Buoyam or a name like that. His uncle, one Boakye who is from his father's side was at Techiman secondary school when I schooled there for a year and this guy in blessed memory was as ugly as satan himself with more than 32 normak teeth in his mouth which made it hard for him to close his mouth and an Asante hater as well as his nephew Koo Boateng.
  
  Koo Boateng has a grasscutters teeth.

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• Akwasi Kumahene 10 years ago

  My friend from Techiman, let me tell you something. The Ewes don't know the difference between Asantis and the rest of Akans.We are all their targets.
  
  Go to all the ministries and you will see if the workforce represent Gh ...
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  My friend from Techiman, let me tell you something. The Ewes don't know the difference between Asantis and the rest of Akans.We are all their targets.
  
  Go to all the ministries and you will see if the workforce represent Ghana. Most of them are Ewes. Go to the police, Ghana armed force, 40% are Ewes. Ewes constitutes just 12% of Ghana's population. Go to customs, almost the workforce is Ewe. Even during Atta Mills administration, Ewes who just constitutes 12% of Ghana's population had more than 70% of all the appointments. Know Ewes are up to.
  The Bonos are too humble and will allow anyone to trample upon. Ewe hiring manager will hire Togolese or Benin citizen to take employment instead of Akan. Understand the purpose of Ewes revolution. Don't say I am Bono and Ewes don't hate me. Ewes don't care about you. Know that. Ewes staged a revolution to uplift Ewe tribe not Ghana

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• Shee 10 years ago

  I cant believe some of you can just come up with anything out of your imagination. Where are your evidence for this extreme suspicion for anything Ewe? Where is the prove?
  
  Its true that the black man is the most self destr ...
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  I cant believe some of you can just come up with anything out of your imagination. Where are your evidence for this extreme suspicion for anything Ewe? Where is the prove?
  
  Its true that the black man is the most self destructive of all among mankind because the hate we have for each other, the jealousy, and the greed is second to non on planet earth.

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• Jingo Bell 10 years ago

  Go to the places Kumahene mentioned and you will see the proof. Go to the Ministries, police force and the armed forces and you will really see the proof. Every government department in Ghana, the work force are mostly Ewes. ...
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  Go to the places Kumahene mentioned and you will see the proof. Go to the Ministries, police force and the armed forces and you will really see the proof. Every government department in Ghana, the work force are mostly Ewes. Ewes hate Akans so much that they have deliberately kept Akans from being employed. They have deliberately hired Togolese and Benin citizens for employment instead of Akans. I know a lot of government workers who are Togolese and Benin citizens, while Akans are unemployed. This Ewes "Poorization Program" planned by Ewes, and Kofi Awoonor was one of the architects of this evil program. Akans know Ewes agenda.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1
  
  The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some r ...
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  THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1
  
  The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
  Dza le le leeeeeee!
  Me zu kluvi
  The road to Kontsiabu
  Strewn with gold dusts.
  Only those without
  in their eyes gold dusts
  felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…
  
  then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.
  
  Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.
  
  In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.
  
  Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.
  
  Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.
  
  I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “ekpelekpedzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordiale to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!
  
  Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.
  
  Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.
  
  From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:
  
  "Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."
  
  The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.
  
  As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants of Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?
  
  We read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:
  “We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
  (Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
  We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
  We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself..” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)
  
  And so on it went. I can make long comments on the above quotes but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast.
  
  One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra; better still, Ayawaso! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another, story.
  
  THE EWE BACKLASH
  
  By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyi, as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.
  
  Then come the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup, which increasingly took an ethnic tone. My own father was a sacrificial victim. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:
  
  “A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. ‘Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
  Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
  The strongest poison ever known
  Came from Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)
  
  Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.
  
  The interested reader is referred to the link on the Internet to read an extended abstract of the book in order to get a fuller understanding of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana and so be able to compare events from then and now and subsequent analysis.
  
  Dennis Austin - 1976 - Political Science - 199 pages
  books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=084190278X...
  
  In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.
  .
  Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
  cyandyk@ymail.com
  
  References:
  
  Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
  Manchester Univ. Press.
  Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
  Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
  Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
  Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.

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• Create, loot and share 10 years ago

  What Kumasihene has outlined above is very true. I am surprised Gas in particular and the rest of the people are not complaining. They seem to accept the ewe domination going on right in their backyard and in the country as ...
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  What Kumasihene has outlined above is very true. I am surprised Gas in particular and the rest of the people are not complaining. They seem to accept the ewe domination going on right in their backyard and in the country as a whole.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Educated Ga elite are among the most enlightened and well informed people in Ghana. That's why they haven't joined the ethnocentric Akan elite of the Matemeho tradition (not the UP tradition which they had soiled) to be spewi ...
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  Educated Ga elite are among the most enlightened and well informed people in Ghana. That's why they haven't joined the ethnocentric Akan elite of the Matemeho tradition (not the UP tradition which they had soiled) to be spewing puerile, hateful and envious garbage against the so-called Ewes, a large number of whom are descended from Ga-Adangmes, btw, not to mention those of Akan extraction.
  
  Ga elite read and learn. They therefore know that such claims are false and not supported by any stats. analysis available. In fact, there is even PhD dissertation on the subject. A pity no Akan "intellectual" of the Matemeho tradition knows about that!
  
  Ha! ha! ha! Ignorant, foolish sons of illiterate peasants! The Ga and Ewe elite came from backgrounds of educated ancestors dating back to centuries, even with some of those being Brazilians and Europeans! Tons of books in the house to read!
  
  Want a ref? Bah! Why cast pearls b4 swines? Just read what I've posted here. Contain some few refs. you can begin from and next year I may feed you with some more lessons and reading material if you behave badly enough.
  
  They went to school plenty, plenty like the rest of us but one wonders how they also got 1 in Geography when they did not even know that cocoa is grown in the VR!
  
  Unrepentant, mentally warped scions of mass murdering slavers they are so proud about their "achievements"!
  
  Andy-K

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• Jim Ankrah 10 years ago

  This is the backward thinking of some of you who one would expect to no better. Some of you do not deserve to be in USA. All your life in USA has not thought you how to inovate an idea or somthing to better the lots of your A ...
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  This is the backward thinking of some of you who one would expect to no better. Some of you do not deserve to be in USA. All your life in USA has not thought you how to inovate an idea or somthing to better the lots of your Akan people you are here thinking you are defending.
  
  
  If not computer and the internet someone sat down and inovate, will you be able to come here to spew the nonses you have spewed here. At least the author of this article has put his name to the article which in large part I do not agree with, what about you?
  
  You are not ashamed of fighting your black neighbour for comment or somthing he has written, but you are unable to do anything the white person say or write about you.
  
  All of you who came to this forum to decieving and misleading the young ones in this forum, may our maker forgive you because you all know in your hearts of hearts that what you wrote here are all lies. You should all including the writer bend your heads down in shame.

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• AA 10 years ago

  KUMAHENE, you have hit the nail on the head. Well done. The truth hurts but you can't run away from the truth, it always stands.

  KUMAHENE, you have hit the nail on the head. Well done. The truth hurts but you can't run away from the truth, it always stands.

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• Create, loot and share 10 years ago

  Only gullible Akans do not know the real motives of these fucking ewes. Fellow Akans grow up.

  Only gullible Akans do not know the real motives of these fucking ewes. Fellow Akans grow up.

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• Julor Agyekum Kwakwe JAK 10 years ago

  You don't have to take Ghana web politics serious because we are all Ghanaians and have friends and school mates across the country. Leave Kofi Awoonor to rest in peace, a word to a wise is enough.

  You don't have to take Ghana web politics serious because we are all Ghanaians and have friends and school mates across the country. Leave Kofi Awoonor to rest in peace, a word to a wise is enough.

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• KOLA,LONDON MAIN 10 years ago

  K.Boateng, my advice to you is to ignore all these bigots who have suddenly woken up to throw aspersion, slander and ethnocentric vitriol at Ewes from the untimely death K.Awoonor through a terrorist attack in Kenya.
  
  They ...
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  K.Boateng, my advice to you is to ignore all these bigots who have suddenly woken up to throw aspersion, slander and ethnocentric vitriol at Ewes from the untimely death K.Awoonor through a terrorist attack in Kenya.
  
  They don't even know their fate in the next seconds

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• Adjoa 10 years ago

  You are assuming that all the vituperations are from Akans. How about people pretending to be Akans. Hmmmmmm Ghana we have to atop these sentiments.

  You are assuming that all the vituperations are from Akans. How about people pretending to be Akans. Hmmmmmm Ghana we have to atop these sentiments.

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• TEKS 10 years ago

  thank you my brother, well done.

  thank you my brother, well done.

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• MINOR CASE 10 years ago

  You are very naive indeed . You think Ewes can distinguish your name as a Brong and not Asante ? To them every Akan name is Asante. By the way do you speak your Brong dialect in public ? You see , you have identity crisis a ...
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  You are very naive indeed . You think Ewes can distinguish your name as a Brong and not Asante ? To them every Akan name is Asante. By the way do you speak your Brong dialect in public ? You see , you have identity crisis and you blame Asantes for your plight. Get a grip of yourself before the bile in you eats you up alive.

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• isaac newton 10 years ago

  I refuse to become the narrow minded person that you are Tamakloe, by saying all ewes have serious issues concerning simple logic. Because one, i dont know all ewes and two the few who write rubbish on Ghanaweb cannot be assu ...
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  I refuse to become the narrow minded person that you are Tamakloe, by saying all ewes have serious issues concerning simple logic. Because one, i dont know all ewes and two the few who write rubbish on Ghanaweb cannot be assumed to represent all ewes. Do you understand? Now back to your trbalist minded article, where did the NPP say anything about kofi Awoonor? And if indeed you are Ghanaian like you claim, then you will know that Akans are not all "Asantefo". Please stop promoting your ignorance and primitive minded tribalism on public forums. Silly Tamakloe.

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• Asembeba 10 years ago

  Useless article. Another hatred Ewe. Find your home in Togo and Benin just like your Awoonor you admire so much. Do not casitgate NPP for Amonoor's trouble and death in further afield Kenya. Calm down my brother and find some ...
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  Useless article. Another hatred Ewe. Find your home in Togo and Benin just like your Awoonor you admire so much. Do not casitgate NPP for Amonoor's trouble and death in further afield Kenya. Calm down my brother and find something better to do with your life. Awonoor has joined his maker to face judgement.

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• Akwasi Kumahene 10 years ago

  This empty headed Tamakloe writes for writing sake. His post is empty. It is completely devoid of wisdom. He wants to be heard, and we have heard his nonsense.You would not see such a stupid posting in any country. Why is he ...
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  This empty headed Tamakloe writes for writing sake. His post is empty. It is completely devoid of wisdom. He wants to be heard, and we have heard his nonsense.You would not see such a stupid posting in any country. Why is he accusing NPP? What statement has NPP released that supports Tamakloe's assertion? Produce such statement for all to read.
  Tamakloe is good for nothing. You mouth stinks like your own shit. Think before you write.

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• KOJO BENTSI J burg 10 years ago

  I thought we as Ghanaians have lost a beloved stateman, but if this fool want to use this occasion to hit Asantefo I aint going to sit mute.
  For the likes of Kojo Tamakloe, I want you to know that
  ONE DOWN, MORE TO FOLLOW G ...
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  I thought we as Ghanaians have lost a beloved stateman, but if this fool want to use this occasion to hit Asantefo I aint going to sit mute.
  For the likes of Kojo Tamakloe, I want you to know that
  ONE DOWN, MORE TO FOLLOW GODS RETRIBUTION, IF U WISH TO KNOW
  THE SEGAKOPE MAFIA SHD LOOK OUT. The battle is of the LORDS
  who preached the message of ONE MAN ONE MATCHET. The law of Carma is taking effect. JJ< PV< AHOIS< BOTCWAYS and them them, WE told you so, God will fight our battles for us. IF GOD IS THE GOD OF JUSTICE< THEN YOU PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY FOR YOUR SELFISH GREED SHD WATCH OUT. WE are all going to die, but how do we go? OYIWA!!!!!

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• TEKS 10 years ago

  NO WONDER YOU SUPPORT THE WEE SMOKING KAPUEPUE(PIGMY)FOR PRESIDENT.TODAY IT'S KOFI AWOONOR TOMORROW IT WILL BE JOHN KUFFOUR.GOD HAS A WAY OF DOING THINGS.

  NO WONDER YOU SUPPORT THE WEE SMOKING KAPUEPUE(PIGMY)FOR PRESIDENT.TODAY IT'S KOFI AWOONOR TOMORROW IT WILL BE JOHN KUFFOUR.GOD HAS A WAY OF DOING THINGS.

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• Concern Citizen 10 years ago

  For the sake of National Harmony, peace and stability, it would imperative for GHANAWEB to be circumspect about the kind of articles and comments they choose to publish. We should not forget that Rwanda genocide was partly fu ...
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  For the sake of National Harmony, peace and stability, it would imperative for GHANAWEB to be circumspect about the kind of articles and comments they choose to publish. We should not forget that Rwanda genocide was partly fuelled by a Radio station. GHANAWEB should take a cue.

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• CKA 10 years ago

  I heard of your demise and feel your loss so deeply.
  
  When I return home you will not be there for me to visit.
  
  Mr Agbodza, as you always called me, from your voice will be no more.
  
  Kofi, we shall miss you!
  
  CKA

  I heard of your demise and feel your loss so deeply.
  
  When I return home you will not be there for me to visit.
  
  Mr Agbodza, as you always called me, from your voice will be no more.
  
  Kofi, we shall miss you!
  
  CKA

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• kwaku USA 10 years ago

  CRAB

  CRAB

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• Say the Truth 10 years ago

  THEY SAY THEY SAY & THEIR STUPITY!!!
  WHY SHOULD YOU BRING UP SUCH AN ARTICLE TO ACCUSE A PARTY OF SUCH THING!!!!
  
  THIS IS VERY SUTPID ON YOUR PART TO BRING UP SUCH AN ARTICLE

  THEY SAY THEY SAY & THEIR STUPITY!!!
  WHY SHOULD YOU BRING UP SUCH AN ARTICLE TO ACCUSE A PARTY OF SUCH THING!!!!
  
  THIS IS VERY SUTPID ON YOUR PART TO BRING UP SUCH AN ARTICLE

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• Ogyam 10 years ago

  In your warped thinking and premise, every Akan-speaking person is an "Asantefo". That is what we call in-ward looking.!!! Go and stand in the mirror and look at your face as you point accusing fingers at "Asantefo". Gibberis ...
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  In your warped thinking and premise, every Akan-speaking person is an "Asantefo". That is what we call in-ward looking.!!! Go and stand in the mirror and look at your face as you point accusing fingers at "Asantefo". Gibberish !!!

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• Nana Yaw 10 years ago

  Anybody who thinks Prof Kofi Awoonor's death is a retribution from god is no different from those moslem salvages who carried out that barbaric act of terrorism!!!

  Anybody who thinks Prof Kofi Awoonor's death is a retribution from god is no different from those moslem salvages who carried out that barbaric act of terrorism!!!

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• Uncle Mends, Takoradi 10 years ago

  Nkrumah saved them from turning their region into a landlocked country when they nonsensically threatened to secede from Ghana right after independence. When Busia and Danquah shouted and preached the "Matemeho" slogan they l ...
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  Nkrumah saved them from turning their region into a landlocked country when they nonsensically threatened to secede from Ghana right after independence. When Busia and Danquah shouted and preached the "Matemeho" slogan they lacked foresight on the fact that Ashanti and parts of Eastern Region, and the northern territories will not have access to the ocean, harbor, etc. They should thank the intervention of Nkrumah, Gbedemah, and the CPP. Now they say they founded Ghana. My brother leave these greedy liars to wallow in pity and ignorance.
  
  The good news is that a majority of NPP members don't think along those lines. There are lots of good NPP guys. Some of my best friends are NPP supporters. I also think Kuffour did a good job.

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• BE BOLD 10 years ago

  Do your warped comments count? Perhaps in the Volta Region or Togo? continue to eat the carbohydrates and develop diabetes

  Do your warped comments count? Perhaps in the Volta Region or Togo? continue to eat the carbohydrates and develop diabetes

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• Ayanya 10 years ago

  Look you are a big idiot, go back and learn Ghana history and see if you and that your Gbedemah were Gold Coasters or Trans-Volta Togoland.If you were part of Ghana why didn't that name be rather Trans-volta Gold coast shame ...
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  Look you are a big idiot, go back and learn Ghana history and see if you and that your Gbedemah were Gold Coasters or Trans-Volta Togoland.If you were part of Ghana why didn't that name be rather Trans-volta Gold coast shame on you and you are even scared to mention where you come from , you can never rewrite our history as kofi Awoonor tried to do.Thank God Osagyefo didn't come back to Ghana he was going to chase you out.when I hear people like this Kojo Tamakloe and his ilks talk about CPP it makes me laugh because even your chief kingkong Gbedemah was expelled from CPP. I know Osagyefo might be angry in his grave about these trokosis mentioning his name when Ametowe a trokosi was the first to try to assassinate him.You talk of Kolungugu bomb why didn't he kill those who did that but killed Ametowe who tried to kill him.You can't hide history.

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• Mallam Kankane 10 years ago

  Kojo, I share your sentiments but is it proper to put all Asantes into one basket as you have done? Come on you can do better than this. Efie biarfa Mensah wo mu. You mentioned Kennedy Agyapong who is not even an Asante. Osei ...
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  Kojo, I share your sentiments but is it proper to put all Asantes into one basket as you have done? Come on you can do better than this. Efie biarfa Mensah wo mu. You mentioned Kennedy Agyapong who is not even an Asante. Osei Tawiah and the others might have Akan names but might not be Asantes so stop being childish. I am an Asante but I doubt if I will ever rejoice over the death of a fellow man. Why can't you write something that can unite us as a nation folowing the death of the Emeritus Professor? Come on stop the tribal bashings because it will not help any one.

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• Mallam Kankane 10 years ago

  Efie biara Mensah wo mu. not biarfa please.

  Efie biara Mensah wo mu. not biarfa please.

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• K. Owusu-Yeboah 10 years ago

  Mallam Kankane,a word to the wise is enough. I perfectly agree with you but efo has split the bean. All that he wrote about are true. You can see no comments on this article.

  Mallam Kankane,a word to the wise is enough. I perfectly agree with you but efo has split the bean. All that he wrote about are true. You can see no comments on this article.

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• WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

  You are set to understand the mindset of Ewes of his ilk.

  You are set to understand the mindset of Ewes of his ilk.

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• K. Owusu-Yeboah 10 years ago

  Mallam Kankane,a word to the wise is enough. I perfectly agree with you but efo has split the bean. All that he wrote about are true. You can see no comments on this article.

  Mallam Kankane,a word to the wise is enough. I perfectly agree with you but efo has split the bean. All that he wrote about are true. You can see no comments on this article.

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• princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

  GOLIATH DIED,KING SAUL DIED,KING DAVID DIED,AHIMAZ DIED AND ALL THE LEVITES DIED.IT SHOWS THAT DEATH IS SUPERIOR OVER HUMANS.
  PRINCESS DIANA ALSO DIED AND I DOUBT IF PEOPLE HATED HER LIKE HOW WE ARE HATING OUR FELLOW GHANAIA ...
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  GOLIATH DIED,KING SAUL DIED,KING DAVID DIED,AHIMAZ DIED AND ALL THE LEVITES DIED.IT SHOWS THAT DEATH IS SUPERIOR OVER HUMANS.
  PRINCESS DIANA ALSO DIED AND I DOUBT IF PEOPLE HATED HER LIKE HOW WE ARE HATING OUR FELLOW GHANAIAN DR AWOONOR.
  SOME PEOPLE SAID WHEN HE WAS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA,HE STOPPED MANY AKANS FROM GAINING ADMISSIONS INTO THE COLLEGE.
  PROFESSOR AWOONOR'S OWN BROTHER COULD NOT GET ADMISSION TO GHANA MEDICAL SCHOOL SO HE WENT TO SCHOOL IN RUSSIA.
  IF HE HAD POWER IN THE UNIVERSITY,HIS BROTHER WOULD HAVE STUDIED IN GHANA.
  THE TONGUE IS POISONOUS,WE BLESS GOD AND CURSE OUR FELLOW HUMANS.
  THE BEAUTY OF GHANA IS SLAIN UPON THE HIGH PLACES.HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN,TELL IT NOT IN ACCRA,PUBLISH IT NOT IN THE STREETS OF ACCRA AND LET THE BIGOTS REJOICE.

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• BabaUS 10 years ago

  What a stupid article and how foolish of Ghanaweb to publish it. Idiots

  What a stupid article and how foolish of Ghanaweb to publish it. Idiots

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• Kofi 10 years ago

  Idiot, NPP has said no such thing. You may even say the NPP paid the terrorists to murder Kofi Awoonor. I thought the trokosi gods had been offended and they were exacting a vengeance. Idiot.

  Idiot, NPP has said no such thing. You may even say the NPP paid the terrorists to murder Kofi Awoonor. I thought the trokosi gods had been offended and they were exacting a vengeance. Idiot.

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• AMA 10 years ago

  Please tell me about other deaths. What role does God have in those?

  Please tell me about other deaths. What role does God have in those?

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• Ka na wu 10 years ago

  Hey, come to think of it, I haven't heard nor read about Rawlings talking about Awoonor's death. Is he alive? Hmmmmmm!! Just wondering.

  Hey, come to think of it, I haven't heard nor read about Rawlings talking about Awoonor's death. Is he alive? Hmmmmmm!! Just wondering.

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• Prempeh 10 years ago

  There is an element of skewness in every human, but we Akans are too tribalistic. An Ewe man called Tsala (aka Okomfo Anokye - the Noatsie Medicineman - or the Okomfo from Noatsie)would not have travelled all the way from Ewe ...
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  There is an element of skewness in every human, but we Akans are too tribalistic. An Ewe man called Tsala (aka Okomfo Anokye - the Noatsie Medicineman - or the Okomfo from Noatsie)would not have travelled all the way from Eweland to settle in the Kumasi area to befriend Osei Tutu Barima and conjure the Golden Stool for the Asante Kingdom if Ewes are intrically racist. The Asante behavior is what prompts every other tribe in Ghana today to react the same way.

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• Da Ruse 10 years ago

  Do you believe in what you write? why call yourself Prempeh. 'Be Bold' came from an Asante woman married to an Ewe man. Their children's generation do not belong to the your Association of tribal bashers. I believe the late P ...
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  Do you believe in what you write? why call yourself Prempeh. 'Be Bold' came from an Asante woman married to an Ewe man. Their children's generation do not belong to the your Association of tribal bashers. I believe the late Prof. believed in this. Was he not married to an Asante woman?

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• BE BOLD 10 years ago

  Always someone will find a way to politicize an unwanted event. The NPP is a party of different tribes so why equate the party with the Ashantis. Your comments or article is one of the most stupid thing to read. Perhaps the d ...
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  Always someone will find a way to politicize an unwanted event. The NPP is a party of different tribes so why equate the party with the Ashantis. Your comments or article is one of the most stupid thing to read. Perhaps the death of the man should be a lesson to all of us. Death is an equal opportunity phenomenon and with that we should have respect for every man.

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• Obrefo 10 years ago

  "The large Ewe presence in the civil service, the military and in the institutions of learning is seen as an effective check on Ashanti efforts at hegemony" By Awoonor, The Ghana Revolution, 1984: 57.
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  "The large Ewe presence in the civil service, the military and in the institutions of learning is seen as an effective check on Ashanti efforts at hegemony" By Awoonor, The Ghana Revolution, 1984: 57.
  This is the quote you're playing ostrich game with. Check it out yourself and make your own determination if this man is a national hero or a national divider.

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• Obrefo 10 years ago

  Make your own judgement please.

  Make your own judgement please.

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• BE BOLD 10 years ago

  He paid a great price for endorsing that skewed arrangement that is causing tensions in Ghana. His death has certainly removed the teeth of that wickedness!!

  He paid a great price for endorsing that skewed arrangement that is causing tensions in Ghana. His death has certainly removed the teeth of that wickedness!!

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• Kwame 10 years ago

  Am an Akan I see this as a reaction to counter an insurgence. After all it was evident during the NPP reign. Call a spade one and one other. Presently the NDC is reeling over the northernism of political appointments, it is a ...
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  Am an Akan I see this as a reaction to counter an insurgence. After all it was evident during the NPP reign. Call a spade one and one other. Presently the NDC is reeling over the northernism of political appointments, it is a canker that must be checked by all regimes.

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• Brainy Guy 10 years ago

  Who in Busia's administration or NPP's
  administration was accused, indicted for corruption?

  Who in Busia's administration or NPP's
  administration was accused, indicted for corruption?

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• Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

  Why in the name of God do you refer to "they" to mean both Asantefuo and NPP?
  I hate like hell to insult others but you are biggest tribal bigot I have ever met on the place called Ghanaweb.
  
  You must hide your hide your h ...
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  Why in the name of God do you refer to "they" to mean both Asantefuo and NPP?
  I hate like hell to insult others but you are biggest tribal bigot I have ever met on the place called Ghanaweb.
  
  You must hide your hide your head in shame, Mr Tamakloe.
  
  Ken

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• AMADU SEIDU 10 years ago

  why do ewes worry about asantefuo sooooo very much when asantefuo are busy minding their own businesses and not thinking about ewes at all.....is it envy, skin pain or what at all.........and let the ewes know that asantefuo ...
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  why do ewes worry about asantefuo sooooo very much when asantefuo are busy minding their own businesses and not thinking about ewes at all.....is it envy, skin pain or what at all.........and let the ewes know that asantefuo are not the same as all akans despite the twi language common to all........and npp is not equal to asantefuo....npp is bigger than asantefuo so every ewe shd know this.....

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• WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

  They hate Ashantes for reasons rooted in the fact Ashantes have illustrious place and part in the history of Ghana and they don't.
  
  The hate anyone perceived to have done or doing better than them. Period.
  
  
  I have had ...
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  They hate Ashantes for reasons rooted in the fact Ashantes have illustrious place and part in the history of Ghana and they don't.
  
  The hate anyone perceived to have done or doing better than them. Period.
  
  
  I have had dealings with them and they are the most odiously pernicious bunch ever.
  
  They are very wicked, diabolic and have conscience not that far from that of animals.
  
  There are some few very good ones though.

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• Da Ruse 10 years ago

  Too harsh my brother. Ewes are cool. Probably, or may be they could be said to be back benchers been forced by some few ambitious ones to scuttle for front seats. They are innocuous, Godfearing and hardworking. On a lighter s ...
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  Too harsh my brother. Ewes are cool. Probably, or may be they could be said to be back benchers been forced by some few ambitious ones to scuttle for front seats. They are innocuous, Godfearing and hardworking. On a lighter side, they like "posts" appear to aggregate together in one place. they believe in numbers and use it to best advantage. "Nye-bro!"
  Please don't be too harsh!

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• Agyeman 10 years ago

  It was his appointed time and he died according to God's plan,nothing about retribution here.Thats nonsense.

  It was his appointed time and he died according to God's plan,nothing about retribution here.Thats nonsense.

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• Okponglo Guy 10 years ago

  Kojo, I like your pieces on Nkrumah but this is garbage. You write to fan the very ethnic divisions you condemn. If some Akans dislike Awoonor for proposing an ethnic agenda, why equate those to ALL Asantes and for that mat ...
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  Kojo, I like your pieces on Nkrumah but this is garbage. You write to fan the very ethnic divisions you condemn. If some Akans dislike Awoonor for proposing an ethnic agenda, why equate those to ALL Asantes and for that matter the NPP? Did you read Nana Addo's tribute to Awoonor? Ama Ata Aidoo mourns Awoonor. Is she not Akan? George Awoonor Williams was a member of the UNC. He belonged to the NPP tradition before him, Obed, and Alhaji Mahama Iddrissu and Harry Sawyerr were recruited by the NDC. So was G.K. Agama. Please disassociate a tribe and a party for detractors of Awoonor who may rightly feel that the man was wrong for being anti-Akan. Are you also?

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• Kojo T 10 years ago

  . It is time we pin point the “ haters and envious people” , not as Voltarians but the narrow minded NPP KKK who cannot speak good about any one else

  . It is time we pin point the “ haters and envious people” , not as Voltarians but the narrow minded NPP KKK who cannot speak good about any one else

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• KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 10 years ago

  It pains me to see Ghana,my beloved country,full of hatred and tribalism.No wonder we are finding it difficult to move forward as a nation.I will never hate or bear malice to a ghanaian because of his tribe.Iam a ghanaian,per ...
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  It pains me to see Ghana,my beloved country,full of hatred and tribalism.No wonder we are finding it difficult to move forward as a nation.I will never hate or bear malice to a ghanaian because of his tribe.Iam a ghanaian,period.

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• dawuni 10 years ago

  People like you are hard to find in Ghana. May God bless you!

  People like you are hard to find in Ghana. May God bless you!

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• Nutifafa Gidiglo 10 years ago

  Any sensible person will reflect on his/her life upon hearing another person's death.Those who are rejoicing are not inclusive. Awoonor had lived for 78 years.He had reached levels most of these stupid haters never reached.Th ...
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  Any sensible person will reflect on his/her life upon hearing another person's death.Those who are rejoicing are not inclusive. Awoonor had lived for 78 years.He had reached levels most of these stupid haters never reached.They should rather pray they to God for longer life like that of Awoonor. They think they will never die?

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• Agyeman 10 years ago

  Great comment.

  Great comment.

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• Kofi 10 years ago

  Nutifafa, you are beating about the bush. The writer is accusing NPP of celebrating Awoonor's death. Shouldn't the writer be condemned for that? And the animals says he believes in African unity? Why doesn't he try Ghanaian u ...
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  Nutifafa, you are beating about the bush. The writer is accusing NPP of celebrating Awoonor's death. Shouldn't the writer be condemned for that? And the animals says he believes in African unity? Why doesn't he try Ghanaian unity first. Was the NPP not the first party to issue a statement on the death? Was there any celebatory tone in it? Didn't Nana Addo also express his condolences? Do does the writer feels that because of the supposed inwardness of Kofi Awoonor, the NPP must celebrate as a party? Such stupid articles do not promote Ghanaian unity and it won't promote African unity either.

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• Ajit Babu 10 years ago

  This Tamakloe person has completely lost his mind. His incoherence in this article sucks to the high heavens. What a waste of mind!

  This Tamakloe person has completely lost his mind. His incoherence in this article sucks to the high heavens. What a waste of mind!

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• FIHANKRA 10 years ago

  Kojo,i lived and worked in the Volta Region and i can assure you that Voltaians,especially the ewes and the ayigbes also hate akans especially asantes.We should all accept that hating a person because of his tribe is bad and ...
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  Kojo,i lived and worked in the Volta Region and i can assure you that Voltaians,especially the ewes and the ayigbes also hate akans especially asantes.We should all accept that hating a person because of his tribe is bad and must stop or the nation will not progress.Let us accept that we are ghanaians first with our destinies tied to the nation Ghana.

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• WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

  Kofi Awoonor is a tribal bigot like most of you Ewes.
  
  You can choose to idolize him as expected. Allow others who he hated to say whatever they want about his demise.

  Kofi Awoonor is a tribal bigot like most of you Ewes.
  
  You can choose to idolize him as expected. Allow others who he hated to say whatever they want about his demise.

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• Anne 10 years ago

  "Kofi Awoonor's death,God's retribution so says Npp" is the heading very good my brother.

  "Kofi Awoonor's death,God's retribution so says Npp" is the heading very good my brother.

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• WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

  For the Ewe mind, NPP = Ashantes = Enemies.
  
  He is very senseless to indict a national political party for rightly held opinions by private individuals regarding Kofi Awoonor.
  
  How this person begins his article shou ...
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  For the Ewe mind, NPP = Ashantes = Enemies.
  
  He is very senseless to indict a national political party for rightly held opinions by private individuals regarding Kofi Awoonor.
  
  How this person begins his article should tell you that he does not make any sense.
  
  When you react to their bigotry and evil scheming, you become the bad person

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• Kojo T 10 years ago

  NPP is NOT equal to Asantefo unless you say so. NPP are not enemies until they make themselves so. How and why do you rejoice over the demise of a fellow human being? Is that not an act of hostility?

  NPP is NOT equal to Asantefo unless you say so. NPP are not enemies until they make themselves so. How and why do you rejoice over the demise of a fellow human being? Is that not an act of hostility?

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• AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

  KOJO TAMAKLOE WHY ARE YOU WORRYING YOURSELF ABOUT AKYIM/ASHANTE? THEY HATE AVERY TRIBE. TWI AKANS HAS NOT PRODUCED ANY PRESIDENT OR MINISTER TO THE COUNTRY. THEY WILL NEVER HAVE ONE BECAUSE THEY KILLED OKOFO ANOKYI(E) AN NZE ...
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  KOJO TAMAKLOE WHY ARE YOU WORRYING YOURSELF ABOUT AKYIM/ASHANTE? THEY HATE AVERY TRIBE. TWI AKANS HAS NOT PRODUCED ANY PRESIDENT OR MINISTER TO THE COUNTRY. THEY WILL NEVER HAVE ONE BECAUSE THEY KILLED OKOFO ANOKYI(E) AN NZEMA'S AND HATED KWAME NKRUMAH TO HIS DIETH. PROF. KOFI AWOONOR-WILLIAMS REST IN PERFECT PEACE.

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• Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

  "I have been to his office on a number of occasions and it always had people of diverse tribes"

  "I have been to his office on a number of occasions and it always had people of diverse tribes"

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• Nii Lantey 10 years ago

  Akadu, you have no moral right to call anybody a tribalist or racist. You and Okoampa supported Ken Agyepong's call for Asantes to kill Gas and Ewes. Even some of the most rabid tribal bigots did not. You did.
  
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  Akadu, you have no moral right to call anybody a tribalist or racist. You and Okoampa supported Ken Agyepong's call for Asantes to kill Gas and Ewes. Even some of the most rabid tribal bigots did not. You did.
  
  I would just shut my trap if I were you.

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• Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

  Pure stupidity!

  Pure stupidity!

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• princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

  There were two old geezers living in the backwoods of the Pra River…Rufus and Clarence. They lived on opposite sides of the river, and they hated each other. Every morning, just after sun-up, Rufus and Clarence would go dow ...
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  There were two old geezers living in the backwoods of the Pra River…Rufus and Clarence. They lived on opposite sides of the river, and they hated each other. Every morning, just after sun-up, Rufus and Clarence would go down to their respective sides of the river and yell at each other
  
  “Rufus!!” Clarence would shout. “You better thank yor lucky stars I cain’t swim…er I’d swim this river and whup your butt!!”
  
  “Clarence!!!” Rufus would holler back. “You better thank YOUR lucky stars that I cain’t swim…er I’d swim this river and knock your head off!!!”
  
  This happened every morning for twenty years. One day the Army Corps of Engineers comes along and build a bridge. Still, every morning, every day for another five years this yelling across the river goes on, even with the bridge.
  
  Finally… Mrs. Rufus had had enough. “Rufus!” she squallers one day. “I cain’t take no more!! Ever day for 25 years you’ve been threatenin’ to whup Clarence. Well, there’s the bridge…have at it.”
  
  Rufus thought for a moment. Chewed his bottom lip for another moment. “Woman!” he declared, snapping his suspenders into place, “I’m gonna cross that thar bridge and I’m gonna whup Clarence’s butt!!!” He walked out the door, down to the river, along the riverbank, came to the bridge, stepped up onto the bridge, walked about halfway over the bridge, looked up…
  
  TURNED TAIL AND RAN SCREAMING BACK TO THE HOUSE, SLAMMED THE DOOR, BOLTED THE WINDOWS, GRABBED THE SHOTGUN AND DOVE, PANTING AND GASPING, UNDER THE BED!!!
  
  “Rufus!” cried to the misses. “I thought you wuz gonna whup Clarence’s butt!!!”
  
  “I was, woman, I was!!” he whispered.
  
  “Rufus!” cried the misses. “What in tarnation is the matter?”
  
  “Well,” muttered the terror-stricken Rufus, ” I went to the bridge… I stepped up on the bridge…walked halfway over the bridge… looked up…”
  “And?” asked Mrs. Rufus, breathless with suspense.
  
  “And,” continued Rufus, “I saw a sign that said “Clearance, 13 feet, 6 inches” he ain’t never looked that big from the other side of the river!!!

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• Ghana First 10 years ago

  Hahahahaha!!! Let us laugh and be tribeless.

  Hahahahaha!!! Let us laugh and be tribeless.

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• Kwasi 10 years ago

  Well done brother good write up.
  Rest In Peace Prof.

  Well done brother good write up.
  Rest In Peace Prof.

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• UNITY MIND SET 10 years ago

  ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE, ONE DESTINY. These aren't just words, but vision put into action, an important and essential part of african history that is sadly being eroded by egotistical tribal mind sets! Why do people love the l ...
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  ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE, ONE DESTINY. These aren't just words, but vision put into action, an important and essential part of african history that is sadly being eroded by egotistical tribal mind sets! Why do people love the language of hatred and fear, or is that hatred drives them to fear the language of love?

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• KATAKYIE OF ST.LUKE HOUSE 10 years ago

  THIS ARTICLE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AT ALL

  THIS ARTICLE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AT ALL

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• LONTO-BOY 10 years ago

  Kojo Tamakloe, this article is unwise and disgusting.

  Kojo Tamakloe, this article is unwise and disgusting.

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• Nyansasem 10 years ago

  Kojo T did this on purpose. But he did not realize, he is even causing more pain to the bereaved family by doing writing this piece.

  Kojo T did this on purpose. But he did not realize, he is even causing more pain to the bereaved family by doing writing this piece.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  The bereaved family would be delighted that someone has at last taken on the stray dogs (gbevuviwo) which have been insulting the memory of their beloved.
  
  Andy-K

  The bereaved family would be delighted that someone has at last taken on the stray dogs (gbevuviwo) which have been insulting the memory of their beloved.
  
  Andy-K

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Oh! Really? What about the hail of insults, vilification and falsehood being directed at Awoonor, and by extension, by some here? Kojo T simply is telling it as it is!
  
  It is a fitting response to the NPP supporters.
  
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  Oh! Really? What about the hail of insults, vilification and falsehood being directed at Awoonor, and by extension, by some here? Kojo T simply is telling it as it is!
  
  It is a fitting response to the NPP supporters.
  
  Andy-K

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• oyinasky 10 years ago

  But I do not get the gist of this article. I am an Nkrumaist as well but where is the evidence that NPP as party is rejoicing in the death of this man? Where is the evidence?This is a bad piece

  But I do not get the gist of this article. I am an Nkrumaist as well but where is the evidence that NPP as party is rejoicing in the death of this man? Where is the evidence?This is a bad piece

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• Tsintsinbir 10 years ago

  African Unity? My foot! Only people in a dillusionary mood ever think of African Unity as the solution to Africa's problems. Even intra-nationally do Africans have peace in individual countries? To name a few, Rwmada, Ghana, ...
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  African Unity? My foot! Only people in a dillusionary mood ever think of African Unity as the solution to Africa's problems. Even intra-nationally do Africans have peace in individual countries? To name a few, Rwmada, Ghana, DR Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, do they have peace in their countries of few million people? The so called AU itself, the supposed vehicle to achieve the African Unity, is it not a toothless bulldog, splintered, fractured and petrified into inaction by despots who think they are the only right thinking fellows in their respective countries? Who through the principle of carrot and stick win elections over and over by means of plundering states resources, assasinations. Who the hell can tehn talk of African Unity. We better forget the Utopian vision of Kwame Nkrumah and see the reality on the ground.

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• Naa 10 years ago

  NO SENCE IN THIS PIECE OF WRITING: IF HE IS NOT HAPPY WITH SOME ONE OR TWO PEOPLE HE SHOULD NOT GENERALISE THINGS:
  AKUFU ADDO HAS SENT HIS DEEP CONDOLENCE AND MANY NPP´S:
  THIS WRITER IS INDEED - KWASIA PAAAAA

  NO SENCE IN THIS PIECE OF WRITING: IF HE IS NOT HAPPY WITH SOME ONE OR TWO PEOPLE HE SHOULD NOT GENERALISE THINGS:
  AKUFU ADDO HAS SENT HIS DEEP CONDOLENCE AND MANY NPP´S:
  THIS WRITER IS INDEED - KWASIA PAAAAA

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• Oddikro 10 years ago

  Kojo, how do you portray NPP in such a bad way--has the NPP issued a statement celebrating the death of the good Professor--please stop this devisive propaganda and let's all join to mourn the death of the good professor-and ...
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  Kojo, how do you portray NPP in such a bad way--has the NPP issued a statement celebrating the death of the good Professor--please stop this devisive propaganda and let's all join to mourn the death of the good professor-and know that there may be people even in the VR who are happy with his death.

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• abena ofobea 10 years ago

  Kojo Tamakloe, an honest and well written comment. Efo, was a nice man who had friends from all tribes and cultures. I am shocked by these people who rejoice on another man's death. May God forgive them. Very sad indeed.

  Kojo Tamakloe, an honest and well written comment. Efo, was a nice man who had friends from all tribes and cultures. I am shocked by these people who rejoice on another man's death. May God forgive them. Very sad indeed.

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• alfred 10 years ago

  You should 've read the book

  You should 've read the book

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• Pelicles 10 years ago

  Efo Kojo T, did NPP come out with any statement supporting what you alleges? If so, what did Nana Addo said about the death of Kofi Awoonor?
  
  Look, you can't twist fact to make it look real because a lot of people know wh ...
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  Efo Kojo T, did NPP come out with any statement supporting what you alleges? If so, what did Nana Addo said about the death of Kofi Awoonor?
  
  Look, you can't twist fact to make it look real because a lot of people know who and what Kofi Awoonor stood for. You are a firm believer in Nkrumah's ideology and the utopian African unity but look at your back yard and see if that place is that serene. How united are we in Ghana let alone a continent with over 800 million people?
  
  A Voltarian once said, quote" If a monkey is elected to represent them they will support it than supporting a human from any Akan region" and if we have people with such mentality, why do you think Africa can unite?
  
  No matter what you write about your mentor, Kofi Awoonor is a divisive being and he successfully, brain-washed most of you if not all Ewes to believe that Akans/Ashantis are out to get them without stating the actual reason.

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• Adjoa 10 years ago

  Why will you write this article, for what purpose? I am scared by the extent of your bitterness. I am NPP and I am seriously saddened by the death of Prof especially through terrorist action. Tamakloe you cannot control what ...
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  Why will you write this article, for what purpose? I am scared by the extent of your bitterness. I am NPP and I am seriously saddened by the death of Prof especially through terrorist action. Tamakloe you cannot control what people say. Do not blame it on NPP. NPP people like me, the last time I checked had blood running in their veins and we do feel. Prof RIP. you have served your country well.

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• Futurama 10 years ago

  This article is rubbish. So when an NDC man dies, it is natural but when an NPP man does, it is punishment from God. Idiot ! If you have nothing sensible to write about, spare us your crazy imaginations. Some of you NDC guys ...
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  This article is rubbish. So when an NDC man dies, it is natural but when an NPP man does, it is punishment from God. Idiot ! If you have nothing sensible to write about, spare us your crazy imaginations. Some of you NDC guys think you will be in power forever. Even Rawlings had to go. No condition is ever permanent.

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• abi 10 years ago

  do you want to incite the ewes against the akans , it will not stand and understand the evil that man does always lived after them and their descendants as well.be educated that, the npp is not an ethnic party. note this that ...
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  do you want to incite the ewes against the akans , it will not stand and understand the evil that man does always lived after them and their descendants as well.be educated that, the npp is not an ethnic party. note this that nothing can crumple the akans because we are hard working people

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• SAMMY 10 years ago

  DEATH SIGNIFIES THE END OF THE LIFE OF A PERSON.WHEN ONE DIES, HE/SHE DOES NOT EXIST ANYWHERE SO WE SHOULD NOT DELUDE OURSELVES THAT WE SHALL GO TO A PLACE CALLED "HEAVEN".
  
  THIS BELIEF OF GOING TO HEAVEN IS IS THE TOOL USE ...
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  DEATH SIGNIFIES THE END OF THE LIFE OF A PERSON.WHEN ONE DIES, HE/SHE DOES NOT EXIST ANYWHERE SO WE SHOULD NOT DELUDE OURSELVES THAT WE SHALL GO TO A PLACE CALLED "HEAVEN".
  
  THIS BELIEF OF GOING TO HEAVEN IS IS THE TOOL USED TO EXPLOIT US.

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• Concern Citizen 10 years ago

  For the sake of National Harmony, peace and stability, it would imperative for GHANAWEB to be circumspect about the kind of articles and comments they choose to publish. We should not forget that Rwanda genocide was partly fu ...
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  For the sake of National Harmony, peace and stability, it would imperative for GHANAWEB to be circumspect about the kind of articles and comments they choose to publish. We should not forget that Rwanda genocide was partly fulled by a Radio station. GHANAWEB should take a cue.

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• NAA4U 10 years ago

  HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU SAY THAT? WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO DIED? DOES IT MEAN ALL THE OTHER VICTIMS WERE ALSO PUNISHED BY GOD? IN ANY CASE, PUNISHMENT FOR WHAT?

  HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU SAY THAT? WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO DIED? DOES IT MEAN ALL THE OTHER VICTIMS WERE ALSO PUNISHED BY GOD? IN ANY CASE, PUNISHMENT FOR WHAT?

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• Mataatu Mataatu 10 years ago

  Kojo, great moral perspective and great argument. But one question lingers. Is it true that Kofi Awoonor declared that he was an Eveh first before being a Ghanaian? This allegation - false as it may possibly be - is what has ...
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  Kojo, great moral perspective and great argument. But one question lingers. Is it true that Kofi Awoonor declared that he was an Eveh first before being a Ghanaian? This allegation - false as it may possibly be - is what has driven most people to view Awoonor as a tribalist. Don't get me wrong - we all have a right to be proud of our particular ethnicity. But we do have to subjugate this in all national considerations. As you know, Nkrumah was an out and out pan-Africanist, for whom Africa was the first consideration in any deliberation. If it is true that Awoonor declared tribe over country then one has to question the notion in his many international obituaries that he was close to Nkrumah and even left the country precisely because of Nkrumah's overthrow.
  
  Having made the above points, let me state clearly that I believe firmly that one does not speak foul of the dead, and in no way do I condone the horrendous, tribalistic insults that have been dumped on the late Awoonor in this medium.
  
  Please kindly shed some light on the matter in question!

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• Andrew Kyereh 10 years ago

  Why play propaganda with such a tragic incident by putting words in others mouths. Let's leave the soul of the late Prof to rest in peace without playing dirty party politics.

  Why play propaganda with such a tragic incident by putting words in others mouths. Let's leave the soul of the late Prof to rest in peace without playing dirty party politics.

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