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ROYAL AKANLAND 10 years ago

HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS HITLER FROM EWELAND

HE WILL BE REMEMBERED AS HITLER FROM EWELAND
Eonam 10 years ago

No he was a Siera Leonean. Anlos are claiming what does not belong to them.

No he was a Siera Leonean. Anlos are claiming what does not belong to them.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

Author: OYOKOBA...

The truth must be told, anokware John Mahama cannot do the job.

This guy came to the job offering no real vision for the nation, instead he only served up absolute nonsense - Ede be keke - which for s ...
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Author: OYOKOBA...

The truth must be told, anokware John Mahama cannot do the job.

This guy came to the job offering no real vision for the nation, instead he only served up absolute nonsense - Ede be keke - which for some, loosely translates into just existing at the wheels, not knowing which direction to go. To add insult to injury, he is telling us that, like a car, he is only in the first gear in a four-year term, so we can expect to see a fourth gear only in the fourth year. To hear that allegory from a guy and a president who had been a vice-president for the previous four years, and claims that because of the ill-health of Atta Mess, he John Mahama was really the one in charge behind the scenes, then we have reasons to conclude nothing good or extraordinary can be expected that is different from what we have seen from the last four years. The value is going to be the same, and corruption is going to consume all of us under Mahama. Our people tell us, 'Edwa beso'a efiri anopa', to wit, one can gauge the prospects of a good market day from the signs the morning activities project. Right now the country is sinking fast from all reliable indicators. In the last four years, the cedi has depreciated a whole 100 percent under Mahama and Atta Mess. What other assurances are we waiting for? To be hit on the head with bricks?

Look, John Mahama is not cut for prime time, he does not know how, and all his protestations are excuses to cover incompetence and corruption in high places, of which him and his party are direct beneficiaries. What the fuck is Ede be keke? Nonsense!
Susubribri 10 years ago

GOd have mercy on you Oyoko solder man. JM is still better than your CROOK who sold Ghana and shared with his children and left. ABOA funu where were you then?

GOd have mercy on you Oyoko solder man. JM is still better than your CROOK who sold Ghana and shared with his children and left. ABOA funu where were you then?
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

MY NAME WAS WILLIAM ANTHONY UNTIL I CHANGED IT TO MY FATHERS LAST NAME WHICH IS KUGBLENU SO WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE.
AWOONOR'S LATE UNCLE WHO WAS THE HEAD MASTER OF KETA SECONDARY SCHOOL USED WILLIAMS.
WHAT ABOUT TH ...
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MY NAME WAS WILLIAM ANTHONY UNTIL I CHANGED IT TO MY FATHERS LAST NAME WHICH IS KUGBLENU SO WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE.
AWOONOR'S LATE UNCLE WHO WAS THE HEAD MASTER OF KETA SECONDARY SCHOOL USED WILLIAMS.
WHAT ABOUT THE FANTES WHO ARE CALLED BRUCE,PLANGE,HAMMER,BATELS,WRIGHT,KOMSON,SCHECHK,SMITH,MENDS ARE THEY NOT FANTES.
LARYEAH 10 years ago

WHAT IS IN A NAME? GOD PLACES ABSOLUTE SIGNIFICANT IN A NAME. "... AND SHALL BE CALLED JESUS." GOD IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM CHANGED 'ABRAM' NAME TO 'ABRAHAM' AND 'JACOB' TO 'ISRAEL'. IF 'SAUL'(NEW TESTAMENT) DEEMED FIT TO CHANG ...
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WHAT IS IN A NAME? GOD PLACES ABSOLUTE SIGNIFICANT IN A NAME. "... AND SHALL BE CALLED JESUS." GOD IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM CHANGED 'ABRAM' NAME TO 'ABRAHAM' AND 'JACOB' TO 'ISRAEL'. IF 'SAUL'(NEW TESTAMENT) DEEMED FIT TO CHANGE HIS NAME TO PAUL, THEN CHANGE YOUR VOODOO NAME TO AJITTEY, NII OR MENSAH.
Eonam 10 years ago

Why is the people of Anlo trying to deceive the whole world that Awoonor Williams is an Anloman. They should explain to the world his maiden name George Awoonor Williams and why he changed it to Nyidevu Awoonor. He is a Siera ...
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Why is the people of Anlo trying to deceive the whole world that Awoonor Williams is an Anloman. They should explain to the world his maiden name George Awoonor Williams and why he changed it to Nyidevu Awoonor. He is a Siera Leonean fuuul Stop
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

We all came from somewhere. So his forebear came from Sa. Leone, and so what? But do you know where he came from before ending up in Sa Leone and then spreading again, from Sa Leone to Nigeria? The Awoonor-Williams-Renner fam ...
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We all came from somewhere. So his forebear came from Sa. Leone, and so what? But do you know where he came from before ending up in Sa Leone and then spreading again, from Sa Leone to Nigeria? The Awoonor-Williams-Renner family had always been pioneers and achievers wherever they made home. They leave a legacy and history behind. Can that be said of any of his detractors' families?

Anyway, if he was a Sa Leonean, that wouldn't make him an "Ewe tribalist," as his enemies would have us believe, would it?

Andy-K
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

HIS BROTHER DR JOHN STILL USES THE WILLIAMS AS HIS LAST NAME.
WHAT ABOUT THE FANTES WHO USE,SMITH,BRUCE,JOHNSON,BARTELS ARE THEY NOT FANTES?
AWOONOR WILLIAMS WAS NOT IN THE COUNTRY FROM 1980 TO 1990'S BUT THE BIGOTS BLAMED ...
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HIS BROTHER DR JOHN STILL USES THE WILLIAMS AS HIS LAST NAME.
WHAT ABOUT THE FANTES WHO USE,SMITH,BRUCE,JOHNSON,BARTELS ARE THEY NOT FANTES?
AWOONOR WILLIAMS WAS NOT IN THE COUNTRY FROM 1980 TO 1990'S BUT THE BIGOTS BLAMED HIM FOR EVERYTHING.
SOME SAID HE DEPRIVED MANY AKANS FROM GAINING ADMISSION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA AS IF HE WAS IN CHARGE OF ADMISSIONS.
IF HE HAD THE POWER,HIS BROTHER JOHN WOULD HAVE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT THE GHANA MEDICAL SCHOOL BUT HE WENT TO SCHOOL IN RUSSIA.
LARYEAH 10 years ago

EWE CLAIMED THE KOFI AWOOONOR, IF THAT'S HIS REAL NAME IS AN INCARNATE KING OF THE THE EWES, AND THAT HE HAD A BIRTH MARK TO PROVE. NOW WE KNOW THAT HIS ORIGINAL FROM SIERRA LEONE. NOW, RAWLINGS TELLS YOU THAT EWES MIGRATED ...
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EWE CLAIMED THE KOFI AWOOONOR, IF THAT'S HIS REAL NAME IS AN INCARNATE KING OF THE THE EWES, AND THAT HE HAD A BIRTH MARK TO PROVE. NOW WE KNOW THAT HIS ORIGINAL FROM SIERRA LEONE. NOW, RAWLINGS TELLS YOU THAT EWES MIGRATED TO GAS' LAND. I CURSE THE ASHANTES FOR GIVEN PART OF OUR LAND TO THE UNGRATEFUL EWES.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

First, stop using a Ga moniker, as you are an Asante, not a Ga.

Secondly, your ignoramus knows no bounds! Everybody knows about Kofi Awoonor's background and names. Only foolish and ignorant Akans like you don't!

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First, stop using a Ga moniker, as you are an Asante, not a Ga.

Secondly, your ignoramus knows no bounds! Everybody knows about Kofi Awoonor's background and names. Only foolish and ignorant Akans like you don't!

Thirdly, we Ewes don't claim Awoonor. By the traditional rules of becoming one of us, his forebear became one of us a long time ago before he was even born! He embraced the land of his birth with opened arms and carried the words and wisdom of Ewe song poetry to the whole world just as Ephraim Amu carried same in songs to you Akans and became an icon of the Akans to the extent that many Akans thought he was one of them, something his [Akan] biography couldn't help mentioning. And Joe Atiso anchored the Ramblers to produce those memorable songs.

4thly, the bloody, ignorant fool that you are, you don't know that Ewes were long settled in present Ghana before the Asante kingdom came into being after 1701. If anything at all, some Akans came to settle on land already occupied by Ewes and other indigenous peoples in the VR and as far as in Togo Rep.

It is cos of this overwhelming ignorance of fellow Ghanaians like you that I am devoting my next series of articles to the pre-colonial era and tell it like it was; not that F.K. Buah and Adu Boahen fairy tales!

Andy-K
ROYAL AKANLAND 10 years ago

AKANS HAVE AKANLAND

AKANS HAVE AKANLAND
LARYEAH 10 years ago

WO MAAME TWE! STINKY EWE TROKOSI CLOWN, MOTHERFUCKER LIKE YOU CANNOT AND WILL NEVER FACE THE TRUTH. EWES HAVE NO LAND IN GHANA. THE THEN STUPID ASHANTES GAVE LAND THEY OCCUPIED IN THE AREA TO YOU. FOOL!

WHEN EWES ESCAPED ...
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WO MAAME TWE! STINKY EWE TROKOSI CLOWN, MOTHERFUCKER LIKE YOU CANNOT AND WILL NEVER FACE THE TRUTH. EWES HAVE NO LAND IN GHANA. THE THEN STUPID ASHANTES GAVE LAND THEY OCCUPIED IN THE AREA TO YOU. FOOL!

WHEN EWES ESCAPED LIKE CRIMINALS FROM TOGO(THAT DREADED LAND OF SATAN WHICH HAUNTED EWE FOREFATHERS, SO THEY CLAIMED) THEY WERE SO HUNGRY AND NEAR DEATH. THE ASHANTES IN THAT AREA CAME TO THEIR RESCUED. THEY FED THEM AND GAVE THEM LAND TO SETTLE AND FARM, GAS' LAND. BUT THE EWES WE TOO LAZY AND REFUSED TO FARM. DURING HARVEST SEASON THEY(EWES) APPLIED THEIR OLD TRADE(THIEVERY) AND STOLE FROM THE ASHANTES' FARMS. THE ASHANTES BEAT THEM AND CHASED TO THE SEA.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Moron! It is cos of nimcompoops like you that some Ewes say that those of us who respond to your drivel are just wasting our time. You see, they say "egbe tso mo na mi", [the bush has covered your faces] and no amount of educ ...
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Moron! It is cos of nimcompoops like you that some Ewes say that those of us who respond to your drivel are just wasting our time. You see, they say "egbe tso mo na mi", [the bush has covered your faces] and no amount of educating you will make a difference to what you are: jaded, ignorant fools who are deluded in their own deceptive self importance!

I am sorry to have wasted my time on you! As a rule, I ignore your semi-literate drivel.

Andy-K
Ama Serwaah 10 years ago

YOU HAVE BEEN SLEEPING ON VERANDA LIKE HOW THE GAS DOO.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE BLOOD DIAMONDS YOU SMUGGLED FROM SIERRA LEON TO GHANA AND CHANGED YOUR NAME TO LIAR{LARYEAH}

YOU HAVE BEEN SLEEPING ON VERANDA LIKE HOW THE GAS DOO.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE BLOOD DIAMONDS YOU SMUGGLED FROM SIERRA LEON TO GHANA AND CHANGED YOUR NAME TO LIAR{LARYEAH}
Ama Serwaah 10 years ago

HE IS FROM FUCK ARE WE,WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE.

HE IS FROM FUCK ARE WE,WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE.
bet 10 years ago

well done on this planet earth, you are an achiever in life, may your soul rest in peace

well done on this planet earth, you are an achiever in life, may your soul rest in peace
Ato 10 years ago

I'm a student of literature,especially African literature and it saddens me that within a short space of time we've lost two of our own CHINUA ACHEBE and KOFI AWOONOR May their souls rest in perfect peace.

I'm a student of literature,especially African literature and it saddens me that within a short space of time we've lost two of our own CHINUA ACHEBE and KOFI AWOONOR May their souls rest in perfect peace.
BB 10 years ago

Ya, the guy has really achieved so much in life! But it amounts to nothing if you do not have a personal relationship with God. I am not necessarily saying he should have been 'christian fanatic' modern day charismatic prospe ...
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Ya, the guy has really achieved so much in life! But it amounts to nothing if you do not have a personal relationship with God. I am not necessarily saying he should have been 'christian fanatic' modern day charismatic prosperity church goer. But having a personal relationship with God, who knows he may have had it but we do not know because we all think he was a 'traditionalist'.
Nana 10 years ago

Prof Anwoonor, may your soul rest in peace! Ghanaians and the whole Africa are proud of you. Africa needs people like you who will be remembered forever for their concrete achievements and not false politicians just strong by ...
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Prof Anwoonor, may your soul rest in peace! Ghanaians and the whole Africa are proud of you. Africa needs people like you who will be remembered forever for their concrete achievements and not false politicians just strong by talk talk.
Citizen Y 10 years ago

Speak for yourself. No one appointed you a spokesman for Ghanaians and the whole of Africa. Maybe you should do yourself a favour by going back to read what some readers said about him when he died. Also read what he wrote in ...
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Speak for yourself. No one appointed you a spokesman for Ghanaians and the whole of Africa. Maybe you should do yourself a favour by going back to read what some readers said about him when he died. Also read what he wrote in his last will about strangers like you.
LET'S FORGET HIM 10 years ago

EVIL EWE-MAN

EVIL EWE-MAN
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

I should be the last person to be defending Kofi Awoonor because at the time of his death, I was also contributing money towards paying the lawyers we have hired to imprison him and others for the role he played in foistering ...
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I should be the last person to be defending Kofi Awoonor because at the time of his death, I was also contributing money towards paying the lawyers we have hired to imprison him and others for the role he played in foistering an impostor over us as Awoamefia. But in spite of that, I had always come to his defence when dubious elements like Akadu attacked him on Ghanaweb and falsely accused him of being the cause of the ethnic ferment in Ghana, when all that he did was wrote against it. He put the blame squarely on the Akans, "Asantes" in particular. And when he writes "Asantes", he meant Asante of old in the generic sense, which includes people like Busia too, though a Bono.

Yes, he wrote the truth except that he didn't tell all of it and his methodology was based on the simplistic, linear dichotomy, a perfectly accepted form of analysis in Western scholarship. Those of us who embrace the multifaceted, multi-disciplinary outlook to view the complex articulation of interests at work in the political struggle in Ghana shall therefore fill in the gaps and vindicate him.

Andy-K
KELEVE KORMI 10 years ago

well done, worthy son of anlo. he has really played his part. over to you, his enemies.

well done, worthy son of anlo. he has really played his part. over to you, his enemies.
DS 10 years ago

RIP.bt u av also spent a lot of Ghana 's money.hw many positions did u get for linking urself to politics??

RIP.bt u av also spent a lot of Ghana 's money.hw many positions did u get for linking urself to politics??
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

DR AWOONOR WILLIAMS WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN TO CHAIR AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK.
DURING THE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS IN AMERICA,HE HELPED MANY GHANAIANS,TO GET PERMANENT STATUS W ...
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DR AWOONOR WILLIAMS WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN TO CHAIR AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK.
DURING THE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS IN AMERICA,HE HELPED MANY GHANAIANS,TO GET PERMANENT STATUS WITH THE TRAVELLING CERTIFICATES.
AWOONOR SPOKE MANY GHANAIAN LANGUAGES AND BIGOTS DONT LEARN OTHER PEOPLES LANGUAGE.
EWE-KILLER 10 years ago

FORGET HIM,HE'LL ROT IN HELL

FORGET HIM,HE'LL ROT IN HELL
Insider 10 years ago

Its sad that this Ewe hates Akans so much. God created Akans and Ewes as it was and one Ewe could change what has been ordained

Its sad that this Ewe hates Akans so much. God created Akans and Ewes as it was and one Ewe could change what has been ordained
Paa Nii 10 years ago

I am a Ga and I know Gas don't like Ashantis but it doesn't go that deep as Ewes hate Ashantis? Why? Envy? There are several Ashanti hated Ewes around So Ahantis must watch it

I am a Ga and I know Gas don't like Ashantis but it doesn't go that deep as Ewes hate Ashantis? Why? Envy? There are several Ashanti hated Ewes around So Ahantis must watch it
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Paa Nii,

You need to inform yourself. I had posted enough on Ghanaweb to enlighten all ignoramuses about the genesis of the tribal imbroglio in Ghana and who is to blame for it. Well, since you Gas have also been marked do ...
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Paa Nii,

You need to inform yourself. I had posted enough on Ghanaweb to enlighten all ignoramuses about the genesis of the tribal imbroglio in Ghana and who is to blame for it. Well, since you Gas have also been marked down for killing, let's see how deeply Gas will feel in 10 yrs if that kind of intended assault on them continue unchecked.

Perhaps, what you should be asking is why so many Asantes hate Ewes, rather than asking that silly qs.

Have you seen Ewes coming to Ghanaweb to insult Asantes under every post, even if the post is about kwashiorkor among kids at Chorkor?

Andy-K
ROYAL AKANLAND 10 years ago

WILL THERE BE PROBLEMS? THERE WILL BE PEACE.

WILL THERE BE PROBLEMS? THERE WILL BE PEACE.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Go and read about intra-Akan wars and then answer your on qs again.

Andy-K

Go and read about intra-Akan wars and then answer your on qs again.

Andy-K
Hatefilled Tribalist 10 years ago

Awonoor is nothing . NDC are just propping an evil man. Noone must be impressed. Awoonor full of hatred and vile.

Awonoor is nothing . NDC are just propping an evil man. Noone must be impressed. Awoonor full of hatred and vile.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Folks,

Here is another post from the archives. It should be an eye opener to all those who are claiming that tribal politics started under Rawlings and the PNDC. For others, it should reveal to them the origins of the ethn ...
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Folks,

Here is another post from the archives. It should be an eye opener to all those who are claiming that tribal politics started under Rawlings and the PNDC. For others, it should reveal to them the origins of the ethnic foment and ethnic politics in Ghana under the NLC and then the PP regime.

I wrote the piece in response to Prof. George Ayittey, a major exponent of tribalistic analysis of politics in Africa. He failed to write a response though, since he has none. What I wrote then is still very relevant today and on this forum.

Date: Wed Aug 05 20:03:14 1998
To: a@american.edu, VILLAGE@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
From: Andy
Subject: Re: [VILLAGE] Ghana Leader Seeks Unity of Black Race
Cc:
Bcc:

Villagers,
This is something I can't pass over. As usual, it is designed to inform you all, not to enter into any discussion with Prof. Ayittey. He may however issue rebuttals to what I have written if false, or not entirely correct. After all, I never make claims to holding the monopoly to the elusive truth. I am just a lonely Seeker after the Truth.

>>Cinque "Sengbe" Brown wrote:

>George may not like this post (BELOW)

Andy concurs:
He certainly DIDN'T!

At 19:07 03.08.1998 -0400, George B.N.Ayittey wrote:
>*************
>
>AYITTEY: Cinque, and look who's calling for unity of the black race? A
>"Clarence Thomas" :) Ooops, a Freudian slip :)
>
>Seriously, Cinque, in my view, Rawlings is NOT the person for this job
>because:
>
>1. His 17 years in power in Ghana have been the MOST DIVISIVE. Ethnic
>tension is very high in Ghana today. Ask any Ghanaian. There is a public perception that key positions in Rawlings' government are occupied by his ethnic group, the Ewe. Note: I said public PERCEPTION. Ask any Ghanaian. If he cannot unify his own citizens, how much more those outside the country?

Andy-K writes in reply:
That ethnic tensions in Ghana are very high, first of all, is an overstatement. Rather, it is high among Ghanaians in the diaspora. Secondly, whatever ethnic tensions are there are not due to Rawlings' doing. Rather, it is the doing of some bankrupt and jaded politicians who have been arousing ethnic hatred against Rawlings' mother's ethnic group members, the Ewes, as a political tool to gain power. So far, it has failed resoundingly. In fact, it has backfired so badly the culprits, found mainly in the NPP which George also belong to, are now openly writing and saying that they had to reassess their strategy.

The issue is not a "public perception", shared by a majority of Ghanaians. The "perception" is insidiously and virulently promoted by a narrow group of Ghanaians, of whom George indeed is one of them. He clearly and ambiguously promoted this in a mail he posted on Okyeame sometime ago. As to be expected, I took him on and referred him to the English Sociologist, Charles Elliott's book (1975). A great comparative study of poverty and its causes in some "Third World" countries, it presented statistics on the ethnic distribution in different occupations, including the public services in Ghana too. As I told George, the figures show that by 1975, his own ethnic group, the Gas, proportionately have more of their people in higher govt. positions than any other ethnic group in Ghana! I wanted to know whether that has changed since Rawlings assumed office again on 31 Dec., 1981, less than a day to 1982. As to be expected no answer came from him.

Of course, I am aware of newer researches as that of Jeffrey, which clearly demonstrate that Rawlings has not packed higher offices with Ewes since his second coming to power. (BTW, same accusations were made during his brief first coming of 3 months too). What anyone having the pretensions to being a scholar or an intellectual should do is to read those studies and stop spreading such venomous and virulent lies which are in fact reminiscent of 1920 and '30s nazi campaigns against Jews. Or what we Africans get from anti-aliens groups and parties in Europe presently. But that is not the way of George. His is abstract empiricism! Just repeat the nonsense without bothering to cross-check!
Anyway, I can recollect that when he posted the same offending post to the Village, he had amended the offending portion about one ethnic group in Ghana dominating to a multiplicity of ethnic groups, thanks to my biting criticism of him. He left intact that simplistic level of analysis for Nigeria and Kenya, which I also objected to too. Some of you may recollect that post.

What actually is the problem? Is that "perception," (actually it's nothing more than sheer, deep-seated expression of "native prejudice," - my coinage - against Ewes, which stock I belong to). Is what they now dubbed "Ewenisation" a new thing, arising after Rawlings became head of the PNDC, which PNDC and later NDC Party comprise a cross-section of Ghanaians, indeed all the political parties in Ghana for the PNDC in its early era? Far from it!

Villagers, it is the confrontation of the source of that native prejudice that recently spilt over into the Village under the title of Yaa Asantewaa.... We aren't finished yet! So let me take you back just to the late 1960s, not 1900.:-)

From Denis Austin's book, Ghana Observed (1976: 125), Manchester University Press and Africana Publishing Company, we read about the anti-Ewe hysteria prior to the election that brought Dr K.A. Busia's Progress party to power in 1969. Please bear with my long quote.
"A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was expressed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this very strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema's reappearance in political life but in relation to events after 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone bust out singing, but when the music died away it was noticed that the NLC was commanded (it seemed) by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankra (a Ga) was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of the 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 Ewe. So the argument ran."

[MY COMMENTS: AS IT IS STILL RUNNING TODAY, AS SHOWN BY A PIECE ON THE WEB SITE OF THE GHANAIAN CHRONICLE I HAVE POSTED BELOW - ONE REASON FOR THE ONGOING YAA ASANTEWAA FRACAS).

"And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their barren region, have for many years been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government departments and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be so in view of their number. (MY COMMENT: JUST ABOUT 13 % OF GHANA'S POP.). But a belief does not, of course have to be true for people to hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan-dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable change 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 Caesar's laurel crown".

Here we end the extended quote!

Wise words indeed! But were the reactionary PP members told then, they would not have paid any heed. After assuming power, after a coup in which some Ewe officers played dominant roles, they set out to dismiss mostly Ewes, some few Gas and others known to be sympathetic to the banned CPP from their posts. They did not last even 2 years in office! I can comment deeper on the above quote, since my own father was one key person who gave evidence. And there was plenty to tell, since the charges were true. Hope the official documents of the hearing in camera should now be declassified to stop future speculation. I was big enough to know what was happening then, right from the 1966 coup. My own father, being the most qualified around, was persuaded to forego confirmation for a post he had been acting in for years under the CPP regime (the CPP big-wigs thought only whites could hold the post!), just to allow a Ga to assume it. It was indeed a case of jobs for the boys all over again! So there was some sort of Affirmative Action going on to allow newly qualified Akans and others to also assume posts they did not formerly want. I suffered same fate with another Ewe friend too before, in our seeking a simple vacation job! And to think an Ewe, a father to a dormitory mate in school was in charge of the recruitment! But he explained, and we accepted, that even though far better qualified, they must take some others too, or they'd be hearing complaints again!

Unfortunately, they (PP, now NPP cohorts) have not learned anything from their past folly and are condemned to the political wilderness, raining insults on all and sundry. Most Ghanaians don't trust them any longer.

Anyway, some of us said enough is enough with this ethnic demonisation, while we are not even enjoying the fruits of office. Our region ranks among the lowest on the development ladder, a permanent position of "Number 9" among 10!:-) We gonna respond and do you in proper, exposing you down to your fathers and mentally warped ancestors who passed on to you those kinds of native prejudice; not better than those held by white supremacists we have come to know in our sojourn among white people.

After all, some of us know that white supremacist ideas had origins from ideas held by the incestuous ancient Egyptians about other peoples! The demon in our midst is our own creation! Let us deal with it right from our homes! To UNIFY any people in a meaningful way, some would have to be made to drop their feelings of superiority and prejudices they hold about others within the same group. Period!
I think Rawlings has done enough to remove that image from the eyes of the mass of Ghanaians. In 1966, Kotoka would have been quite unacceptable to most non-Ewe Ghanaians as Head of State. That's why Ankrah was brought out of retirement to be head of the NLC. After all, by 1966, Ewes were just "Ayigbe dzorlor," i.e., "Ayigbe thieves," the pejorative term you Gas had coined for us Ewes, George. And I did not hear crying "you've changed meter band to Number 9," at the sound of Ewe when last in Ghana. We'd get to the bottom of all this, just wait long enough!

Please find below a "modern" version of the Ewes are dominating us hysteria. Make up you own mind about the import of the purported letter to the "Chronicle."

>Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:17:28 +0200
>To: Okyeame@africaonline.com
>From: Andy
>Subject: Tribal Conspiracy at Wesley College?
>Cc: africa_think_tank@databack.com,

Folks,
As you can see, they are still at it, the T-mongers! By their words, we shall know them!

As an Ewe, as you all know of course, I have said no to this kind of
demonisation. I have renounced the "si kpi kpowo" (don't mind them)
mentality which our elders brought us up with, and is out to confront bare hands, if need be, all who think they have grievances against Ewes.

That this should be happening within a church organisation is even more pathetic.

Andy Kwawukume
Norway

> Tribal Conspiracy At Wesley College
>
> In the November 11, 1997 issue of the "Free Press", Mr. A. Bosompem Boaboduro wrote inter alia:
> "That is the reason why a place becomes Ewenized in no time, the moment you put one Ewe there."
>
> In this write-up we intend to prove why and how there has been a
>conspiracy to subject Ashantis to humiliation, in Wesley College and as a>result Ewenize the college. We know that at the end of it all we will be accused of fanning tribalism, but we are sure that whoever reads this article carefully and objectively will sympathise with us, the students of Wesley College and particularly the Ashantis among us.
>
> When a little over two years ago it became necessary for the then
>Principal of Wesley College, Rev. Kofi Amponsah to retire from the Ghana Education Service, it became necessary for the Methodist Church to recommend somebody to replace him.
>
> Also in 1984 when Rev. Brew-Riverson left the college as principal, two people, Rev. Kofi Amponsah and Rev. M. O. Antwi vied for the post of principal of the college. Rev. Kofi Amponsah eventually got the post and Rev. M. O. Antwi was appointed General Manager of Methodist Schools. Now as General Manager, Rev. M. O. Antwi became the Appointing Officer when Rev. Amponsah was to be replaced as the principal of the college in 1996.
>
> It was at this stage that the conspiracy began. Apparently Rev. M. O. Antwi was peeved because in 1984 an Ashanti was appointed to the post of principal of the college, now that he was the Appointing Officer, he decided to "show" Ashantis, who he had thought, manouvred to side-step him in favour of Rev. Amponsah.
>
> It is pertinent to note that even though in June 1996, a date was fixed for an interview to select a principal for the college, long before the interview many people in GES circles knew that Rev. Ametefe would be the principle of the college. This, the General Manager was capable of doing, because as the Appointing Officer, he was in a position to advise whatever panel conducted the interview on whom to appoint. So eventually Rev. Ametefe got the post after a farce of an interview had been conducted.
>
> Now after Rev. Ametefe had got the post of principal, the scene was set to "show" the Ashantis. In less than two years as Principal of Wesley College, Rev. Ametefe's administration has been so fraught with tribalism and mal-administration that if nothing is done about the situation, Wesley College will lose its glory as one of the best training colleges in Ghana.
>
> Now let me enumerate a few examples of tribalism and poor
>administration under Rev Ametepe. A few months after taking over the
>administration of the college, he declared that he could not work any more with the domestic bursar, her assistant, the college store-keeper, all Ashantis. Although, he could not assign any tangible reason for this action, he put so much pressure on the regional office that the two women were transferred from the college. Our information is that he wanted to replace those transferred with Ewes but he apparently met resistance somewhere.
>
> In furtherance of his plan to Ewenize the administrative set-up of the college, Rev. Ametefe has made the college librarian (an Ewe), Gershon Tsadidey, virtually a vice-principal of the college. All construction works are under his care.

> Obviously all these are creating tension in the college, and certainly if nothing is done about this, there will soon be an explosion on campus.
>
> We plead with the GES Directorate in Ashanti and opinion leaders in the region to do something about it. We warn that this should not be
>interpreted as merely crying wolf or making false allegations. Whoever
>doubts what we have said can conduct his own investigations to find out the truth.

> CONCERNED STUDENTS.WESLEY COLEGE, KUMASI, ASHANTI.
>
> Homepage
>//www.africaonline.com.gh/AfricaOnline/newsstand/chronicle/1/page07.htm

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Now, how can appointing a principal to a school in Ghana be the concern of some students? BTW, the Rev. Antwi is most likely an Akan too, as Antwi is a common Akan name, though there are some Ewes of Akan origins with Akan names. And there is a whole bunch of an Ewes sub-group with Ga-Fanti origins marrying with Ewes, the so-called Mina-Ewes centred around southern Togo Republic. Ewes are thus people of mixed linguistic origins, not any single tribal group from the past. Our eventual homeland became the so-called Slave Coast, as some of you surely know already. But that is quite another story, even though it is much a part of the reason for the formation of what I've dubbed "native prejudice" against us by non-Ewe Ghanaians.

Andy-K
HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

MY HERO AWOONOR REST IN PEACE
WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU
HOW THE AKANS NEGLECTED OUR VOLTA REGION
ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY THE FUTURE OF THE VOLTA REGION.NO BODY STAND FIRM AND BOLD TO TALK ABOUT IT ONLY OUR HERO
AWOONOR.WE ...
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MY HERO AWOONOR REST IN PEACE
WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU
HOW THE AKANS NEGLECTED OUR VOLTA REGION
ATTEMPTED TO DESTROY THE FUTURE OF THE VOLTA REGION.NO BODY STAND FIRM AND BOLD TO TALK ABOUT IT ONLY OUR HERO
AWOONOR.WE SHALL CONTINUE TO FIGHT IN YOUR NAME TO SEEK FOR JUSTICE
GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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