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Prof Awoonor’s body arrives today

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  • PDC MAN 10 years ago

    Kofi Awoonor lived a life full of hate and intolerance against the Akan people and Asante in particular to the extent that he together with Rawlings used state machinery and power to victimise the people of Asante and mounted ...
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  • ROBINSON USA 10 years ago

    give the blame to we americans

  • Alugu 10 years ago

    Kofi Awoonor did not help JJ Rawling in the 1970s. He helped Brigadier K.K. Joy Online is re-producing a story from a newspaper, trying to make some changes and getting it all wrong!

  • PHILTY McNASTY 10 years ago

    Why bring that hateful tribalistic home? Did anybody bring BB Bismack home? The tribal bigot who provided the hatred ideology and justification for the confiscation and destruction of Akan businesses met a deserving end. Alah ...
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  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    OMG! I thought these evil Asshantis only hated Nigerians out of ignorance and jealousy for Nigerians' prosperity, but the 'VENOM' being spewed against their fellow citizen Prof Kofi Awonoor, who was murdered by Al-Shebab terr ...
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  • JK 10 years ago

    I`m so glad that kofi awoonor is dead , and destroyed and confirmed,now let me do my AZONTO!

    Azonto is the next ISH!

    It’s the next biggest thing that hits the world.

    Die ghanaische Musikindustrie boomt!

    Und mit ihr ...
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  • JK 10 years ago

    Awoonor may have been arrested for other activity. Rawlings did not show up until after the Union Government fiasco and palace coup by General Akuffo, which overthrew the SMC led by Gen Achiampong, in 1978.

    It was not unti ...
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  • Ben Apeadu-Leeds-UK 10 years ago

    MAY THIS ENVIOUS INWARD-LOOKING TRIBAL BIGOT ROT IN HELL. THE AKANS ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTIS HAVE CURSED HIM AND THEY WILL ALL REJOICE. KOFI..ROT IN HELL!!!!! WHERE IS JJ RAWLINGS?

  • king agorkoli 10 years ago

    who is the tribal bigot?kokoasini kurasini ashante bat eater.koshiato akrantie shit soup eater i learnt it smells like hell where you will rot

  • Gabby 10 years ago

    He was trokosi high priest. He has misled Ewes in thinking Trokosi was the best culture. Ewes are now free to join the civilised world by getting rid of trokosi

    NO MORE TROKOSI

  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    OMG! I thought these evil Asshantis only hated Nigerians out of ignorance and jealousy for Nigerians' prosperity, but the 'VENOM' being spewed against their fellow citizen Prof Kofi Awonoor, who was murdered by Al-Shebab terr ...
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  • K. Bee 10 years ago

    Who do you think you are deceiving here, you good for scraps empty headed trokosi imbecile. Ashantis never hate any tribe anywhere. Neither are they jealous of Nigerians for anything because Ashantis by nature are hardworking ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    I have always proclaimed that, this NEMESIS idiot is not a Nigerian but a trokosi. These trokosis patriotism lie with Togo and not Ghana and NEMESIS is a true reflection of what the trokosis are.

  • blueprint 10 years ago

    his tribal bigotry landed him in the hands in al shabab

  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    And your will land you in HELLLLLLLLLLL.

  • Rev. Fr.Angsontinghe 10 years ago

    Awoonor tried to knock our heads together but we refused to be driven in that direction. Ghanaians are actually more intelligent than we normally get credit for!

  • Jingo Bell 10 years ago

    Your evil Nigerians are moving in their numbers to Kumasi. Why don't you stay away Kumasi if you know Asantis are haters. Instead, Nigerians are streaming into Asanti like water falls.

  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    Do you want my Nigerian name? Ori e oda. Omo ale jatijati omo Ghana. Eyin Omo eranko Asshanti to npe Yoruba ni Alata. Eyin eyan ke yan to njowu awa omo Nigeria to nse dada ni Ghana, to be je ti elo omo ale Busia ACO fi le ...
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  • Jingo Bell 10 years ago

    It is Nigeria that every five minutes someone is murdered. Go and solve your Nigerian problems. You are also a problem to Africa's development . Big Thieves in Africa are the Nigerians. The killing capital of Africa.

  • The Man 10 years ago

    You are a trokosi, no doubt about it and Cardinal is right. Any fool can come up with a name.

  • Audrey 10 years ago

    He was too limited to see beyond Wheta. How can anyone else, apart from the people of Wheta, be proud of Awoonor when his life was about the destruction of Ghana? By his active campaign against the rest of Ghana, this man r ...
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  • Alugu 10 years ago

    He was too limited to go to school abroad and teach in a University in the U.S.A? What was he doing in Kenya? or is Kenya another name for Wheta? You have such a shalow mind to think for yourself. Stop following what "kids" a ...
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  • big Mouth 10 years ago

    You live in UK;You will taste Death before you achieve any thing positive in Life.Watch your back!!!Ben Apeadu!!!!you are next,Church going would,nt change anything!!!

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Those of you who have seized this sad, tragic event as another opportunity to be releasing your venomous, uncouth and unfounded hatred for Awoonor and Ewes are just revealing yourselves as to what you really are: mentally war ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    The rabies infested dogs are you trokosi animals without any redeeming values like your stupid self. Did you not moron defend Awonoor that he did not write what he is being accused of? Now what you are saying is that he was r ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    PLEASE DON'T LEAVE BOAKYE DJAN AND OTHER AKANS OUT.
    REMEMBER THAT THERE IS AN AKAN PROVERB THAT SAYS THAT"IF AN INSECT WILL BITE YOU,IT WILL COME FROM YOUR OWN CLOTHES"
    THE DEVIL YOU KNOW IN KUMASI ASHTOWN IS BETTER THAN TH ...
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  • NEMESIS, UK 10 years ago

    How about the innocent Nigerians that you EVIL Asshantis violently deported from Ghana in the 60s with your BOGUS EVIL Busia ACO, out of ENVY AND JEALOUSY (and stole their properties and share it among yourself)? Some of the ...
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  • Yaw Mensah 10 years ago

    Did you even finish high school? Your English is horrendous.

  • Naa Tsotsoo 10 years ago

    As a good poet/writer, Kofi Awoonor missed a fine opportunity to impact our country in a positive way. Imagine if Ama Atta, Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Atukwei Okai etc used their pen in the same way that Kofi Awoonor used his! Gh ...
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  • sapato 10 years ago

    The guy is tied with JJ Rawlings in the 70s and JJ have a lot of blood on his hand by using al-shaabab machine gun to overthrow the government, so what is the big deal if his kill by terrorist. JJ rawlings is next ......

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    You are older than most of the people who come but instead of calming down political nerves, here you are stoking tribal embers as usual!

  • James Bamfo 10 years ago

    Andy-K tone down.You are beyond reproach.

  • Observer 10 years ago

    Thanks.

  • Kondendiara Kakraba 10 years ago

    Ben you have rightfully hit the nail on the head. The man was a tribal monster and it shows from his writings and utterances. He incited other tribes especially Ewes against akans, notably, Ashantis. Those terrorists have no ...
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  • K. Bee 10 years ago

    Awoonor Kofi Williams was never and can never ever be a national hero. He could be so to Ewe land and Togo where they all come from. By love or by force they may be forced back to that land so we may use the vacated land for ...
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  • fuck npp 10 years ago

    everything you have written will befall you and your family, God hates evil.

  • ASEMPA NEYE 10 years ago

    To those of your generation who don't know, this man lived by the sword and therefore died by the sword! he was full of hatred in his heart for Ashantis and Akans in general and together with the rest of the Dzulakofe mafia ( ...
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  • Togbe Ekor 10 years ago

    Prof, RIP

  • John Napare 10 years ago

    This man might have been the hidden engine of hatred between the Ashantis and Ewes. Well it is now for GOD to do his work.

  • Togbe Sagadigi 10 years ago

    Majority of you Awoonor and Ewe bashers are just pretending or ignorant of the facts that Ashantis have done more harm to the Ewes than the other way round. Ewes always help Ashantis, but in return the Ashantis always destroy ...
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  • MANU 10 years ago

    DO YOU KNOW HE WAS MARRIED TAN ASHANTI WOMAN? SO COULD HAVE HAPPENED FOR HIM TO HATE US SO MUCH, IF TRUE.DID OUR SISTER DO SOMETHING? I HOPE I CAN BE EDUCATED ON THIS SUBJECT. OR IT IS THE USUAL ASHANTI EWE RIVALRY THAT IS CA ...
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  • KOFI PAPABI 10 years ago

    MARRIED TO AN ASHANTI, SO? FEEBLE MINDER. WASN'T RAWLINGS MARRIED TO AN ASHANTI? WRITE SENSIBLY IN FUTURE. HE CAN ROT IN HELL FOR ALL I CARE

  • The Man 10 years ago

    So what? There are ku klux klan members with Jewish wives and girlfriends but that did not stop them from hating them.

  • KOFI PAPABI 10 years ago

    WELL WRITTEN. AWOONOR DIED THE SAME WAY HE PRESCRIBED FOR OTHERS. GOD PUNISH HIS SOUL MERCILESSLY.

  • Abongo 10 years ago

    The dose he prescribed for Afrifa was the wright medicine. He killed Arthur and Yeboah to hide his sins. Go ask the relatives of Arthuir and Yeboah who killed their children. You are an idiot who knows nothing about Afrifa.

  • Daniel 10 years ago

    I hope you know what you are talking about. It seems to me that you in particcular have no clue about what human life means. Professor Awoonor, was a great man. Get it. You will never come close to what he has done for Ghana, ...
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  • Baby 10 years ago

    Hell

  • Punch-to-Punch 10 years ago

    I challenge you to itemize whta the professor did for Ghana, Africa or the world. He was no Ayi Kwei Armah whose "pen" has contributed significantly to liberation of Africa from Euro-American colonialism and imperialism.He wa ...
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  • Tiffiny Ablorh 10 years ago

    Champagne will pop soon. The devil incarnate tasted his own medicine before he left this world. He did the same to akans and gas ---Odartey Wellington, Yaw Boakye, Afrifa, Amedome, Utuka, Akuffo, Felli, Acheampong, etc. In 19 ...
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  • MANU 10 years ago

    AMEDOME AND UTUKA WERE GAS OR AKANS. THIS IS UNFOUNDED AND YET SEE HOW BITTER YOU SOUND. CAN'T WE ADORE SUCCESS IN THIS LAND?

  • Florence 10 years ago

    As in life, Kofi Awoonor's death is also cloaked in controversy. Definitely not a statesman.

  • Togbe Sagadigi 10 years ago

    So you are confirming that Prof Awoonor alone is more intelligent than the whole of 10 million Akans put together?

  • ROBINSON USA 10 years ago

    blame we Americans in your grave

  • KANIA 10 years ago

    YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.NOW IS THE TIME OF ACCOUNTABILITY BEFORE GOD.

  • ABU 10 years ago

    So your death will be the result of what you sow,and if it's a punishment you will suffer same.

  • KOFI TSIKATA 10 years ago

    WHY IS THE GHANA REVOLUTION NOT LISTED IN AWOONOR'S LITERARY WORKS?

  • ei 10 years ago

    I DID NOT FIND IT IN THE LIST

  • ALIMI YAO 10 years ago

    Never in the History of a Nation,
    Has the Demise of One Citizen,
    Brought So Much Joy,
    To So Many Fellow Citizens.

  • MANU 10 years ago

    WHEN NKRUMAH DIED THERE WAS MORE JOY. THE OSAGYUEFO HIMSELF. AS FOR THIS ONE THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE. JUST SAYING THINGS WITHOUT ANY PROOF AND DEGRADING FELLOW COUNTRYMEN. PLEASE STOP IT.

  • ABU 10 years ago

    AND NKRUMAH WAS FINALLY OVER VINDICATED AND BEING WORSHIPED FOR HIS UNEQUALLED HEROIC ACHIEVEMENTS.

  • ALIMI YAO 10 years ago

    When Kwame Nkrumah, the greatest Ghanaian to have ever lived, died his political opponents did not mourn his death. However, it is equally true that neither did his passing bring joy to the hearts of those who opposed his pol ...
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  • MATIGARI 10 years ago

    hatred, envy and egoistic tendencies are always their hallmark. Even in death the man is being envied. Since when do Ghanaians become so a changed nation that when an individual dies, some sections of the society, who hithert ...
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  • king agorkoli 10 years ago

    they are scared of the ewe profs because ashantes live in the bush and chase akrantie just for its shit for soup fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

    It's for all to condemn the senseless bloody terror attack on innocent people anywhere in the world including the Kenyan.

    George Kofi Awoonor Williams was not arrested with Rawlings and even if he was, then it was for the ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    You forgot to mention that he lived and died by the sword! His heart was full of hatred for his fellow Ghanians who were not Ewe. he was one of the masterminds for the killing of prominent Asantes by Rawlings together with th ...
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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    Listen to what the Koran says in Sura 19:71-72. There is none of you that shall not go there(Hell)- this is the judgment your lord has proposed. Then we shall save those who fear Allah, and we shall leave the evil doers in th ...
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  • Natural Mystic 10 years ago

    It is rather sad that you guys take joy in the passing on of an individual. Funny, and I bet you go to Church/Mosque etc on your days of rest to pray.

    Tiffiny, for your information, Amedume was an Ewe and Utuka was from th ...
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  • Ibrahim 10 years ago

    Kofi Awoonor brought all this on to himself. The divide and rule tactics have caught up with him, even in his grave.

  • ABU 10 years ago

    Awoonor was imprisoned under the Kutu Acheampong regime on a coup plot allegation and not because of the Rawlings's engineered coup plot of 1979

  • KK 10 years ago

    He smuggled Ex Capt kojo Tsikata to the Togo border in 1976 when Gen Acheampong was looking for Tsikata to finish him for plotting an attempted coup

  • Agyei twum Adade Gilbert 10 years ago

    may him RIP

  • KUSASI KOKU 10 years ago

    Historical untruth isn the statement that he was arrested soon after 1975 for allegedly tring to help Rawlings organize a coup. He was arrested during the Kutu Acheampong era for allegedly joining Kojo Tsikata and others to o ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    Rest in perfect peace , Prof.

  • ADZO 10 years ago

    THE DANGEROUS TRIBALIST IS GONE, IT IS TIME FOR EWES AND ASHANTIS TO UNITE.

  • abi soka 10 years ago

    Am very afraid that the evil wind that caused havoc and senseless killings in places like RWANDA and LIBERIA is looking for a lodging in the Ghanaian society. STOP IT before it sows its seed. if not get ready to run to TOGO ...
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  • HAMID IBRAHIM( BRAIMAH) OF KETA 10 years ago

    Professor is still alive in our hearts . May his gentle soul rest in peace.

  • HAMID IBRAHIM( BRAIMAH) OF KETA 10 years ago

    Prof. you are still alive in our hearts.May his gentle soul rest in eternal peace.

  • Big George 10 years ago

    it is unfortunate your coward son did not think of protecting you in time of danger ; he left you alone whether you could run or not .now I know one should not count on his children in case of Danger.

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Was thinking the same. The son lied about how it happened. He said by the time he got out of the car, the father has already entered the mall, unbelievable. A 78 year old walked faster to the mall and left his son outside? ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU.
    A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise and yelled over to the boy, "Hey Willis, forget your troubles. Come in and visit with us. I'll help yo ...
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  • Perpetual hagan 10 years ago

    May his soul rest in perfect peace

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    There were two old Akan and Ewe bigots living in the backwoods of the Densu 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 Clarenc ...
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  • fuck npp 10 years ago

    Well said!

  • Teisi 10 years ago

    No one is without blemish - may the good Lord grant him eternal rest. prince, good one there. Now, see what free education could do.....if only rufus had taken spelling serious...

  • ASEMPA NEYE 10 years ago

    IN ONE OF HIS WRITINGS HE SAID THAT HE WAS AN EWE FIRST BEFORE A GHANAIAN.
    HE STOOD BESIDE RAWLINGS AND SAID THAT THE AIM OF THE OF THE REVOLUTION WAS TO REMOVE AKAN HEGEMONY ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTI AND HE REJOICED WHEN RAWLI ...
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  • MAHAMA KILLED MILLS 10 years ago

    THIS GUY WAS KILLED BECUASE HE WAS CAUGHT STEALING SOMEBODY'S CAT, THEY WERE GOING TO PREPARE CATMEAT PEPER SOUP,WHEN HE WAS CAUGHT. EWES ARE WELL KNOWN STEALING CAT EVERYWHERE THEY GO. THEY ARE JUST EVILS.

  • Salutation 10 years ago

    People! Let's becareful nobody knows how he or she will end. Those who are happy today can die a more painful or rather disgraceful death than this and nobody will even hear about them.

  • KEDU 10 years ago

    IS IT OUR FAULT THAT GOD CREATED AND MADE EWES ACADEMICALLY INCLINED AND INTELLECTUAL SOUL OF MOTHER GHANA? EVEN IF SO, IT IS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE WHOLE GHANA. FROM VICTOR GBEHO TO AWOONOR , EWES HAVE COMPOSED NATIONAL ...
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