Private funeral ceremony held for Awoonor

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Kay 10 years ago

Strangers saw his body lying on the streets of Nairobi

Strangers saw his body lying on the streets of Nairobi
ATSU, HO 10 years ago

DID I READ THIS; No strangers are also to see his body, according to his own directives. THAT IS INTERESTING BECUASE I PERSONALLY FOR INSTANCE DO NOT KNOW WHAT I WILL WANT TO BE AT HIS FUNERAL FOR. I HEAR HE WAS A TRIBALIST I ...
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DID I READ THIS; No strangers are also to see his body, according to his own directives. THAT IS INTERESTING BECUASE I PERSONALLY FOR INSTANCE DO NOT KNOW WHAT I WILL WANT TO BE AT HIS FUNERAL FOR. I HEAR HE WAS A TRIBALIST I DID NOT WANT TO BELIEVE IT BUT NOW ...
Alugu 10 years ago

Yes, you are anxious to read my comment because my heading is Tribalist! What is your understanding if they call a person tribalist? Remember this is not tribalism. Awoonor was an educated person who believed and valued the c ...
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Yes, you are anxious to read my comment because my heading is Tribalist! What is your understanding if they call a person tribalist? Remember this is not tribalism. Awoonor was an educated person who believed and valued the culture of his tribe. He admired the richness and always promoted his culture in everything he did. Most chiefs are tribalists. Does Otumfuo not accept and follow the rich culture of the Asantes? Would you have him on your lips as oh! that tribalist? Shame on you guys who don't use your brains but follow what hoodlums say!
Yaa 10 years ago

Hmm this earth, my brother, you left such instructions...and you pass on in such circs- in a strange land, killed by foolish strangers, carried definitely by strangers to the mortuary etc...hmmm, this earth, my brother is a s ...
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Hmm this earth, my brother, you left such instructions...and you pass on in such circs- in a strange land, killed by foolish strangers, carried definitely by strangers to the mortuary etc...hmmm, this earth, my brother is a strange place.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

I always want the dead to be respected but it looks to me now that this man never changed from his tribal hatred that earned him many insults especially from the Akans. If he set up his own funeral directives, why should the ...
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I always want the dead to be respected but it looks to me now that this man never changed from his tribal hatred that earned him many insults especially from the Akans. If he set up his own funeral directives, why should the state even bother to have a state funeral for him. Let him be buried as he wishes. It is a big shame on him for a learned man like him to think this way and never changed. His ghost should now understand that IT WERE STRANGERS WHO SAW HIS BODY FIRST EVEN BEFORE HIS FAMILY MEMBERS.
Dumega 10 years ago

Kofi Nyidevu Awoownor was very esteemed in trokosi, voodoo, juju, legba, tukpe and all sorts of evil worship. He, in death, had proved this beyond doubt

Kofi Nyidevu Awoownor was very esteemed in trokosi, voodoo, juju, legba, tukpe and all sorts of evil worship. He, in death, had proved this beyond doubt
Albert 10 years ago

Yes, sometimes you are forced to believe certain things.
If not for reasons occult, why should a funeral be so restricted like this.
Those of us who believe that there is another home after here are asking which side of the ...
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Yes, sometimes you are forced to believe certain things.
If not for reasons occult, why should a funeral be so restricted like this.
Those of us who believe that there is another home after here are asking which side of the home is Awoonor going.

Peace be unto him.
Mensah 10 years ago

Its simply his freedom of worship ok?

Its simply his freedom of worship ok?
insight to the bone 10 years ago

whatever the case , good riddance to this evil man . hope he suffered before he died

whatever the case , good riddance to this evil man . hope he suffered before he died
Yaw Poku, USA 10 years ago

Yes he did na soso. He did suffered, this tribalistic fool, Awonoor.

Yes he did na soso. He did suffered, this tribalistic fool, Awonoor.
OPANIN KWAKU ATTA 10 years ago

IF PRIVATE FUNERAL WAS HELD FOR HIM,WHY SHOULD WE EXHUME HIS BODY FOR THE STATE TO GIVE HIM A STATE BURIAL?

IF PRIVATE FUNERAL WAS HELD FOR HIM,WHY SHOULD WE EXHUME HIS BODY FOR THE STATE TO GIVE HIM A STATE BURIAL?
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ.
THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS ACCUSED OF BEING A MURDERER BUT HE WROTE MOST OF THE PAULINE EPISTLES IN THE HOLY BIBLE AND SADLY HE LOST HIS HEAD IN ROME.
ADOLF HITLER WAS ACCUSED OF KILLING THOUSAN ...
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DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ.
THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS ACCUSED OF BEING A MURDERER BUT HE WROTE MOST OF THE PAULINE EPISTLES IN THE HOLY BIBLE AND SADLY HE LOST HIS HEAD IN ROME.
ADOLF HITLER WAS ACCUSED OF KILLING THOUSANDS OF JEWS BUT HE HARDLY STEPPED ON THE BATTLE FIELDS.
DURING THE BATTLE OF DUNKIRK IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR OF 1940,THE GERMANS HAD THOUSANDS OF ALLIED FORCES SURROUNDED.THE GENERALS BEGGED HITLER TO MASSACRE ALL OF THEM AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE END OF THE WAR BUT HITLER REFUSED.
HE SAID HE DON'T WANT TO BE A KILLER OF YOUNG,BRITISH,AMERICAN AND FRENCH SOLDIERS.
GOD SPEAKS TO THE HEART OF EVERY HUMAN
THE STRANGER THING WAS MADE BY A BIGOT YOU MAY NOT KNOW.
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW IS BETTER THAN THE ANGEL YOU DON'T KNOW.
ADOLF HITLER LOVED EVA BRAUN.
THE DOG THAT LOVES YOU IS THE ONE THAT WILL BITE YOU.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

Prince, you know better than this. I am not that young but I remember Victor Owusu apologizing to the Ewes and Togbes for his infamous statement of calling them as INWARD LOOKING PEOPLE. I have read many of Prof's books, some ...
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Prince, you know better than this. I am not that young but I remember Victor Owusu apologizing to the Ewes and Togbes for his infamous statement of calling them as INWARD LOOKING PEOPLE. I have read many of Prof's books, some of which I used for literature. Why couldn't he also apologize for what he is accused of, especially against Akans and Asantes especially. I am not tribal and have many times said my best teachers in school were Ewes even up to the university level. I lived in Ashante region most of my formative years and my father's residence what seperated f me and and the Zongo community was a gutter. My best friend in the USA is a northner and a staunch NDC. My other friend is an Ewe. Admit that Awonor was too tribal. I thought he changed but he did not. Hitler is no more even liked by Germans. Check the history. Awonor's pronunciations were sometimes ugly are despicable. I wish Ewes and Asante/Akans can live in peace. I am a history educationist and shall one day discuss with you on phone about the harmony that was between Ewes and Ewes. Perhaps you know about Peki and Tsito. I will tell you more later.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ.
LET THE AKANS PROVE IT.
AWUNOOR SPOKE FLUENT TWI AND IF HE WAS A TRIBALIST,HE WOULD NOT LEARN OR SPEAK THE DIALECT OF THE PEOPLE HE HATED.
THE AKAN'S SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THE DO FOR NOTHING UNCLE ...
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DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ.
LET THE AKANS PROVE IT.
AWUNOOR SPOKE FLUENT TWI AND IF HE WAS A TRIBALIST,HE WOULD NOT LEARN OR SPEAK THE DIALECT OF THE PEOPLE HE HATED.
THE AKAN'S SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THE DO FOR NOTHING UNCLE{WOFA]WHO COMES AND TAKE EVERYTHING FROM THOSE WHO TOIL HARD FOR IT.
DR AWOONOR UNDER PNDC HELPED CRUSHED THAT BELIEVE.
SOME PEOPLE SAID WHEN HE WAS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA,HE DEPRIVED MANY AKANS FROM GAINING ADMISSION THERE,BUT SADLY HIS BROTHER JOHN WENT TO SCHOOL IN RUSSIA.
IF HE HAD THAT INFLUENCE,WILL HIS BROTHER GO TO MEDICAL SCHOOL IN RUSSIA?
Adjah Bassaw 10 years ago

I strongly believe strangers here mean Akans, especially Ashantis!

I strongly believe strangers here mean Akans, especially Ashantis!
Mensah 10 years ago

Atsu,HO do u understand tribalism at all?

Atsu,HO do u understand tribalism at all?
Kweku Boateng Jnr. 10 years ago

RIP Prof, this earth.....

RIP Prof, this earth.....
FOUNDING MEMBER 10 years ago

SUPERMAN and ROBIN HOOD are still alive in HOLLYWOOD,so too,you will be remembered on paper/poems and academia...R.I.P great KOFI AWOONOR(xedé nyuei)

SUPERMAN and ROBIN HOOD are still alive in HOLLYWOOD,so too,you will be remembered on paper/poems and academia...R.I.P great KOFI AWOONOR(xedé nyuei)
Kofi K, London 10 years ago

What kind of conflicting news is this? You suggest the man has already been buried privately at an undisclosed Accra location. Then you go on to say the final burial will take place on October 11. A phantom burial or what? W ...
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What kind of conflicting news is this? You suggest the man has already been buried privately at an undisclosed Accra location. Then you go on to say the final burial will take place on October 11. A phantom burial or what? What is the point on spending state resources on a "similar" burial/funeral ceremony? We will never learn!!!!!!
Alhajj 10 years ago

When an Occultist, murderer, tribal bigot dies, righteous men are not allowed to see the remains. May his soul burn and rot in hell

When an Occultist, murderer, tribal bigot dies, righteous men are not allowed to see the remains. May his soul burn and rot in hell
Jingo Bell 10 years ago

Awoonor is already down, and we don't continue to throw punches at him.Let him go now. Now,the judgement is between him and God.The only true judge is God Almighty.He could confess Jesus Christ in his last moment.

Awoonor is already down, and we don't continue to throw punches at him.Let him go now. Now,the judgement is between him and God.The only true judge is God Almighty.He could confess Jesus Christ in his last moment.
Kwesi Agbenu 10 years ago

I have asked this question before. I will ask again. Are strangers allowed to sign the book of condolence?

I have asked this question before. I will ask again. Are strangers allowed to sign the book of condolence?
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

You know the answer to that question,right?
Signing the book of condolence and viewing the body are two different things. The Prof did not state in his planned funeral that strangers are NOT to sign the book of condolence.

You know the answer to that question,right?
Signing the book of condolence and viewing the body are two different things. The Prof did not state in his planned funeral that strangers are NOT to sign the book of condolence.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Funny, He does not want strangers to see his body ,but would not mind strangers consoling his grieving family . Afraid strangers will spit,on his body not on his picture.

Funny, He does not want strangers to see his body ,but would not mind strangers consoling his grieving family . Afraid strangers will spit,on his body not on his picture.
EFFOH 10 years ago

LOOK AT AN INWARD LOOKING JUJU PROF!!!!!!!!!!

LOOK AT AN INWARD LOOKING JUJU PROF!!!!!!!!!!
HIS GHOST IS EVIL 10 years ago

EVEN HELL DOESN'T WANT HIM

EVEN HELL DOESN'T WANT HIM
BLOODY-EVIL 10 years ago

GHANA BETTER-OFF,WITH ONE LESS EVIL-EWE

GHANA BETTER-OFF,WITH ONE LESS EVIL-EWE
Yaw Poku, USA 10 years ago

A friend of mine told me that a good ewe is a dead ewe. They are all evil.

A friend of mine told me that a good ewe is a dead ewe. They are all evil.
SANKOFA 10 years ago

GHANAWEB PUBLISHED LAST WEEK THAT THE BODY OF PROF. AWOONOR WILL BE CREMATED.

TODAY, THE BODY WILL BE BURIED.

GHANAWEB IS A DISGRACE.

GHANAWEB PUBLISHED LAST WEEK THAT THE BODY OF PROF. AWOONOR WILL BE CREMATED.

TODAY, THE BODY WILL BE BURIED.

GHANAWEB IS A DISGRACE.
NORVINYO 10 years ago

The Methodist hymnal put it simple:We will be remembered by what we have done.What is de tradition of the Anlos if someone dies like these, this is a prep for everyone.May the words of his mouth and the meditation of his hea ...
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The Methodist hymnal put it simple:We will be remembered by what we have done.What is de tradition of the Anlos if someone dies like these, this is a prep for everyone.May the words of his mouth and the meditation of his heart lead him to what he believe whiles alive
MAWUENYEGAH 10 years ago

He died in a strange land,handled by strangers,viewed by strangers and put in a strange cold room amongst strange dead folks."Dzorgbese Elisa,why treat him so".The gods of the Anlo land went to bed whiles their clansman fell ...
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He died in a strange land,handled by strangers,viewed by strangers and put in a strange cold room amongst strange dead folks."Dzorgbese Elisa,why treat him so".The gods of the Anlo land went to bed whiles their clansman fell into the trap of "mohamed adzoblasuwo".
JACOB 10 years ago

WILL NEVER GIVE UP HIS TRIBAL STANDS EVEN IN DEATH

WILL NEVER GIVE UP HIS TRIBAL STANDS EVEN IN DEATH
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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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 (Kojo Tsikata, Tatsu Tsikata and the rest) masterminded the killing of prominent Ashantis like Gen. Afrifa etc. It's the long arm of God's justice that has taken him away. Look at where he fell; far away from home. We shed no tears for a quintinessential tribalist like Kofi Awoonor!
AWOONOR STOOD BESIDE RAWLINGS AND SAID THAT THE AIM OF THE REVOLUTION WAS TO TAKE AWAY AKANS INFLUENSE IN GHANA ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTIS HE GREATELY REJOYCED WHEN RAWLINGS SLAUGHTERED TWO HEADS OF STATES AND SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIALS 90% OF WHOM WERE NON EWES
IN ONE OF HIS WRITINGS HE SAID THAT HE WAS AN EWE FIRST BEFORE GHANA.
LET THE LORD JUDGE HIM!
I DO NOT SEEK TO DENIGRATE THE OLD PROFESSOR OF MY OLD UNIVERSITY BUT TO COMMENT ON THIS PARTICULAR STATEMENT OF THE TALKATIVE RAWLINGS,NDC FOUNDER:

JOHN JERRY RAWLINGS candidly makes a most poignant revelation here below thus:

"He said it was those qualities that struck him when he first met the Professor during a visit to the University of Cape Coast in 1982 to address students on the principles behind the December 31 Revolution." ----

By 1982 when he came to the UCC NUGS CONGRESS, Rawlings did not therefore know Kofi Awoonor prior to his second coming to power). I remember Rawlings was not so tribalistic and rather moved with radicals from other tribal groupings; but then all changed when he met the Professor who had identified the impoverishment of his people as caused by non-existent Asante hegemony and even written about it to popular condemnation of most scholars.

I was an undergraduate when J J Rawlings visited Cape Coast University in May 1982, where he met Professor Awoonor (pronounced Anlo or “Awona”). I even recalled with fond memories my question to JJ Rawlings on this occasion thus: “For how long will PNDC be provisional”?:

That time the Revolution had just begun with a cosmopolitan mix of young pretenders from different tribal backgrounds such as King Bosu of Winneba, Ato Austin, Chris Atim, James Quarshie, Akata Pore, Totobi Quakyi, and some few Anlos and Ewes. The Ewe hegemony was not pronounced until the chief secessionist socialist politician, Kofi Awoonor, hankering for political power joined up.

Kofi Awoonor was a former Secretary General of Cape Coast based Action Congress Party led by Colonel Bernasko…BUT there was something he was doing in Cape Coast University that caught my eye: As an English Lecturer in the Teacher’s University, and so desperate for political power, he became the mastermind of radical student political agitation against the ‘status quo ante bellum’ until they won and retained political power in Ghana between 1982 and 2000, and still ruling the country as NDC Government from 2008 to 2013.

Rawlings indeed did not know his nyebro until he was introduced by the socialist league students like Totobi Quakyi and Gardiner who used to rendezvous with him in UCC….and the rest is history that ended in such inexplicable tragic circumstance by radical Al Shabab, a group moulded like the pseudo-Nkrumaist revolutionary ideologues.

In his bungalow at Old Site of Cape Vars, student of the left-wing persuasion such as Totobi Quakyi, Avakame, Joe B, Turkson, Philip Gardiner, EKT Aidoo, Kweku Arhin and many others still in present NDC Government flooded there: They were always in Kofi Awoonor’s bungalow: They looked desperate and anxious for power, and rather than go into the world to work will rather than stay on after graduation in the University campus to agitate for more political power until they got it…. The student movement had leaders who will rather read Communist Books than their own Curriculum Readings…Acdemic bibliographies were jettisoned for hard copy socialist ideological Books and that is why in power they are so bereft of ideas to administer a country…

With radicals as Kofi Awoonor preaching their bile, it added to the spirit of instability in Ghana. Having being caught in coup de tat with his ewe chums of Brigadier Kattah and some evil Anloga power hungry men, they turned their attention to organising caucuses of Student Militant Groups to wage insurrection against the “bourgeoisie”. I used to hear them crying out aloud: "Workers of the World; Unite: You have nothing to lose but your chains". They were all united by one word – POVERTY and therefore HATED the Rich in society. But these people were very poor because of their laziness. They were all stuck in the Ivory Towers not willing to soil their hands by going out to work in the real world after their graduation as they looked at successful men with much envy and jealousy. Kofi Awoonor and Ama Atta Aidoo were doing in University of Cape Coast, what Fui Tsikata, Kwamena Ahwoi, Tsatsu and other left wing political pursuers were doing in University of Ghana in Legon: they gave accommodation to radical students cast in the Nkrumaist/Castro mould to forment trouble in Ghana …It was all glib talking of poisonous nature…preaching for a revolution with no objective of development but equalisation: They were the people who did not want Rawlings and Boakye Djan to hand over power to a Constitutional Civilian Rule with their bellicose and infantile cries of Let the Blood Flow: I had been watching the Student Radicals who had confronted the corrupt Military Regime of Kutu Acheampong and even lost their Secretary Yorke in the famous Car Accident that caused Kofi Totobi Quakyi to limp on.

When I was in Sixth Form in Adisco I used to see these so-called Nkrumaists and student leaderss trooping to Kofi Awoonor’s house in their Che Guevara T Shirts, black berets, faded jeans, Car Tyre sandals of Afro Moses, unkempt and wearing long beards as the present day Taliban. Infact they were the Taliban of the time.

Kofi Awoonor spent all his leisure time with these talkative socialist intelligentsia, feeding them both food and ideology all for his political kingdom…They were the people who joined the Student Task Force right from the onset of the revolution and then introduced their guru to the empty headed J J Rawlings: With his recent experience in 1979 Political Campaign as ACP Secretary, and having written a Book that advocated for secession of the Anlos and Ewes, Professor Kofi Awoonor was sold the perfect person. As Rawlings needed to pursue a bitter envious war against successful men and women of Ghana the meeting with the chief propagator of ethnocentrism was a match made in heaven to redeem their people and take over the top echelons of power and administration.

I saw all these things and sooner than later I will write properly about these things.

Ghana has suffered at the hands of bad people, indeed!...These radicals were the ones who sold Kofi Awoonor to Rawlings in May 1982, when Rawlings came to the August NUGS CONGRESS to inaugurate the new leadership of Amoah Larbi, Hans Djaba, and Dan Botwe etc. who had defeated the socialist brigade of Nazir Brown in UST for the first time. It was in this August Congress and personally saw all the socialist agitators who joined the Revolution to rule the country from 1982 to 2000, including Kofi Adu, Kyeretwie Poku, Obre, Adu Gyamfi (Cotopaxi), Amissah Arthur, Goosie Tanoh, Karl Marx Hamilton (now writing as Margaret Jackson), Atampugre, B B Bayor, Philip Gardiner, Samora Machel Turkson, Oteng Agyei etc.

When Ghanaians were being murdered by the revolution, you never heard a word from these leeches and parasites who have ruled us for most of their personal lives. They all received free education from cradle to manhood but destroyed it for others. They cried out aloud: Let the Blood Flow…Let the Blood Flow…Let the Blood Flow indeed.

The Talibanisation of Ghana under the above named radicals have come to bite the roost…As my Father’s at the coast say in their local parlance “Itur edur bon a; ibi ka woano”! We used to interprete as “If you throw a ball against the wall…it comes back to hit you”. May God touch the hearts of wicked men to repent of their sins before it revisits their next generation!

Private funeral ceremony held for Awoonor

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