Late Prof. Kofi Awoonor to be celebrated on Friday

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MP 10 years ago

LET THE DEAD MAN "RIP"

LET THE DEAD MAN "RIP"
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GIRLS SP 10 years ago

The bloody tribal Ewe beast will die again in HELL

The bloody tribal Ewe beast will die again in HELL
Oscar 10 years ago

YOU ARE MAD. WHERE DO U COME 4RM IN GHANA? BUSH ANIMALISTIC TRIBALIST

YOU ARE MAD. WHERE DO U COME 4RM IN GHANA? BUSH ANIMALISTIC TRIBALIST
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!
Kofi 10 years ago

Didn't the state officials hear what he requested in his last will? The man was not interested in all these, why the bother? Is it a chance to waste some more funds?

Didn't the state officials hear what he requested in his last will? The man was not interested in all these, why the bother? Is it a chance to waste some more funds?
Hello 10 years ago

The guy before his death asked for a low profile ceremony. Why are we bent on wasting money at every turn? Why? Why? oh why?

The guy before his death asked for a low profile ceremony. Why are we bent on wasting money at every turn? Why? Why? oh why?
Bea (UK) 10 years ago

Oh! Ghanafo. Our leaders look for any stupid opportunity to waste money!

Oh! Ghanafo. Our leaders look for any stupid opportunity to waste money!
abenayankey@gmail.com 10 years ago

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ASHANTI TERRORIST LIKE ADJEPONG AND AN AKYIM TERRORIST LIKE NANA ADDO.
PROVE THE TERRORISM HE HAS COMMITTED.
HE KNOWS THE EWES WEAR USED,THAT'S WHY HE WROTE THE BOOK ABOUT ASHANTI HEGEMONY ...
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THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ASHANTI TERRORIST LIKE ADJEPONG AND AN AKYIM TERRORIST LIKE NANA ADDO.
PROVE THE TERRORISM HE HAS COMMITTED.
HE KNOWS THE EWES WEAR USED,THAT'S WHY HE WROTE THE BOOK ABOUT ASHANTI HEGEMONY
HE IS THE YASSAR ARAFAT OF THE EWES WHO SAW THE INJUSTICE BEING DONE AGAINST THE EWES.
THE VOLTA REGION WHICH HAS RICH WATER BODIES HAVE BEEN MADE TO LOOK LIKE THE MISSISSIPPI OF GHANA.
IF A BREAD CRUMB IS PASSED TO THE VOLTA REGION.THE BIGOT GHANAIAN'S CRY FOUL.
DESPITE HIS DEATH HE IS A TRUE HERO.
LIKE THE APOSTLE PAUL,HIS WORKS WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED.
AHMED JACOB 10 years ago

Abena Yankey or whoever you are. Let me tell you something, There are better EWE heroes than Kofi Awoonor. If he thought that a certain tribe had taken sway of the country, you use proper channels to change it. You do not hid ...
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Abena Yankey or whoever you are. Let me tell you something, There are better EWE heroes than Kofi Awoonor. If he thought that a certain tribe had taken sway of the country, you use proper channels to change it. You do not hide behind a vale and abduct three high court judges and others and kill them. He was no hero, he was a COWARD and a TERRORIST. That is what he was. Now the corruption and the hegemony you are talking about is worse even under his watch as chairman of the council of state. Never before have I seen a Ghanaian die and be condemned by so many. Anyway may he rest in peace. The judgement is the lords!!
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

JESUS CHRIST DIED AND WAS CONDEMNED BY SO MANY.MY HERO MAJOR GENERAL BAWAH THE FORMER COMMANDER OF OUR BARRACKS DIED AND WAS CONDEMNED BY SO MANY BECAUSE HE WAS A FRIEND OF DR KWAME NKRUMAH.
I GREW UP IN THE ARMY BARRACKS AM ...
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JESUS CHRIST DIED AND WAS CONDEMNED BY SO MANY.MY HERO MAJOR GENERAL BAWAH THE FORMER COMMANDER OF OUR BARRACKS DIED AND WAS CONDEMNED BY SO MANY BECAUSE HE WAS A FRIEND OF DR KWAME NKRUMAH.
I GREW UP IN THE ARMY BARRACKS AMONG THE HAUSA SPEAKING SOLDIERS AND THERE WAS ALWAYS LOVE.
WE DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE OF EWE,HAUSA,AKAN AND OTHER TRIBES,WE ARE ALL ONE.
OWEN, NEW YORK 10 years ago

But kofi kofi Awoonor was so much inward looking. He was always planning evil for other tribes except his people-EWES.As for the Ashantis only God saved them because he advised J.J to wiped them from the Ghana map.BinLadin Ko ...
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But kofi kofi Awoonor was so much inward looking. He was always planning evil for other tribes except his people-EWES.As for the Ashantis only God saved them because he advised J.J to wiped them from the Ghana map.BinLadin Kofi Awoonor. Al Shabab treated him like bush meat-antelope.
PHILOINA 10 years ago

KOFI WILL 4EVER BE REMEMBERED .WHAT ABOUT YOU?

KOFI WILL 4EVER BE REMEMBERED .WHAT ABOUT YOU?
Rans F 10 years ago

... the Chief Tribalist!

... the Chief Tribalist!
Kwaame 10 years ago

Where is the so-called Ashanti hegemony he is talking about? Who used the Ewes? Were they forced by the Asantes to leave Keta to sell gari or wash clothes in Asante? What nonsense are spewing? When did an Asante stop the Ewes ...
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Where is the so-called Ashanti hegemony he is talking about? Who used the Ewes? Were they forced by the Asantes to leave Keta to sell gari or wash clothes in Asante? What nonsense are spewing? When did an Asante stop the Ewes from developing the rich Volta water body. Abena, the Volta river is not the property of the Ewes. He is your hero because you are small brain. Please stop this Asante, Akyem terrorist nonsense. You should get a life of your own. Your Arafat and Awonor are dead forever.
Papa Yaw 10 years ago

How

How
Aryeequaye 10 years ago

Spending money on the dead? Well, it's typical of Ghanaians.What his death should teach us as a people is that sectionalism in all its forms is detrimental to nationl cohesion and progress. Isn't it ironic that the late prof ...
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Spending money on the dead? Well, it's typical of Ghanaians.What his death should teach us as a people is that sectionalism in all its forms is detrimental to nationl cohesion and progress. Isn't it ironic that the late prof who was a consummate Ewe Tribalist, who spent his life scheming to foster a tribal dominance of this country, was killed by like-minded people who were fighting to foster Islamic dominance of another country? Food for thought.
kwame osei 10 years ago

awoonor is a true ghanaian and a pan africanist....We have lost a great man

awoonor is a true ghanaian and a pan africanist....We have lost a great man
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

You lot haven't read Awoonor's book and you simply follow the lies and distortions of those he actually criticised as mounting a tribal agenda against Ewes in order to create their hegemony over Ghana. And since they are stil ...
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You lot haven't read Awoonor's book and you simply follow the lies and distortions of those he actually criticised as mounting a tribal agenda against Ewes in order to create their hegemony over Ghana. And since they are still at it, constant attacks on Ewes similarly to what Busia and his PP started in the 1960s which led to Awoonor's book, what some of us are going to write, and indeed writing, is going to be even more biting than what Awoonor wrote.

Meanwhile, you can continue in your blissful ignorance that you are demeaning the man. After all, when Lady Thatcher died, there were many even in Britain who went on parades celebrating her death with much joy! just type "celebration of Lady Thatcher's death" into google and see for yourselves. So what's the big deal?

Andy-K
AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

SIERA LEONE LAYER BASED IN AXIM I860'S GRANDSON, PROF.KOFI AWOONOR WILLIEMS RIP.

SIERA LEONE LAYER BASED IN AXIM I860'S GRANDSON, PROF.KOFI AWOONOR WILLIEMS RIP.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

Bawumia is the only idiot from the north,does he think he will get a chance in "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY? He should go and ask the late ALIU MAHAMA THIEF KUFOUR'S VICE. When kufour was travelling allover the world, vice president AL ...
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Bawumia is the only idiot from the north,does he think he will get a chance in "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY? He should go and ask the late ALIU MAHAMA THIEF KUFOUR'S VICE. When kufour was travelling allover the world, vice president ALIU was the one does the dirty job for "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY. At the end of all this struggling by ALIU, the evil "Y3N AKANFO" PARTY NPP denied him the presidency,and humble VICE PRESIDENT ALIU got heart attack which ends him up in his early GRAVE.
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ko 10 years ago

rest in peace awoonor.

rest in peace awoonor.
NII LARTEY NARTEY 10 years ago

The local terrorist tribaist met his Waterloo at Kenya and was sprayed with the gun by which he had sent many more innocents to their death.

He who ever draws the sword will shall fall by the sword.

What a worrying les ...
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The local terrorist tribaist met his Waterloo at Kenya and was sprayed with the gun by which he had sent many more innocents to their death.

He who ever draws the sword will shall fall by the sword.

What a worrying lesson for the now silenced fake criminal revolutionary Rawlings and his monstrous heartless cronies.
MR. AVEDZI EMMANUEL 10 years ago

Late prof. A. R.I.P.P

Late prof. A. R.I.P.P
Tiffiny Ablorh 10 years ago

We the good people of Ghana are planning to mount a mammoth demonstration to protest this wasteful vent. The guy was a tribalist and a bigot why spend a penny on him? Oh my God!!!
Becareful of terrorists coming to moan peopl ...
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We the good people of Ghana are planning to mount a mammoth demonstration to protest this wasteful vent. The guy was a tribalist and a bigot why spend a penny on him? Oh my God!!!
Becareful of terrorists coming to moan people down at the event. This is very very SHAMEFUL!!!!!
BE BOLD 10 years ago

This is a nation that does not know its priorities. Always looking for opportunity to put productivity aside to attend to the trivial. A nation does not develop and prosper like that!

This is a nation that does not know its priorities. Always looking for opportunity to put productivity aside to attend to the trivial. A nation does not develop and prosper like that!
OWEN, NEW YORK 10 years ago

If you do good, you do for yourself, if you do bad , you do for yourself-courtesy Akwasi Ampofo-Adjei. Kofi Awoonor is nicely remembered by all Akans as a monster who wished and planned evil for them during the revolution day ...
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If you do good, you do for yourself, if you do bad , you do for yourself-courtesy Akwasi Ampofo-Adjei. Kofi Awoonor is nicely remembered by all Akans as a monster who wished and planned evil for them during the revolution days. You draw a sowrd, you die by the sowrd.He was killed like an antelope in the bush.His son, harbors no evil so he survived. Judgment await him either in hell or heaven.
Kwaame 10 years ago

This monster tried to take advantage of the nitwit JJ Rawlings' so-called revolution to decimate the Asante people, but failed miserably. Very soon it will be Kojo Tsikata who face a slow and painful death. Kofi Awonor can ro ...
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This monster tried to take advantage of the nitwit JJ Rawlings' so-called revolution to decimate the Asante people, but failed miserably. Very soon it will be Kojo Tsikata who face a slow and painful death. Kofi Awonor can rot in hell, and please don't waste our time, ears, and eyes with his nonsense and useless celebration.
TRAGEDI OKTOBER 10 years ago

It is sad to lose such an intellectual giant to people using religion to settle political scores. As a youngster and an undergraduate student at Legon, I was enthralled by a masterful speech Prof gave at the N-Block. He boldl ...
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It is sad to lose such an intellectual giant to people using religion to settle political scores. As a youngster and an undergraduate student at Legon, I was enthralled by a masterful speech Prof gave at the N-Block. He boldly predicted that there would be a "revolution" in Ghana and that blood would flow. Prof also assured us that it would not be his blood. The rest is history. There was indeed a "revolution" in Ghana and blood did flow and it did not include his blood. How ironic that many years later, Prof's blood was unnecessarily spilt in Kenya. Ghana, Africa and the world has lost an intellectual giant. May Prof Rest in Peace.

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