Nelson Mandela buried at Qunu ancestral home

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Kabokabo 10 years ago

Because of political devide in Ghana Atta Mills was left alone at A...Park without the will of his family while Mandela is resting at his home town. May both Rest In Peace

Because of political devide in Ghana Atta Mills was left alone at A...Park without the will of his family while Mandela is resting at his home town. May both Rest In Peace
NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 10 years ago

Thank God that Nelson Mandela'S burial ceremony has shown the whole world that NOT all Africans are as barbaric as Ghanaians Akans, who usually used "innocent human beings" to bury their chiefs in Ashanti Region. You can tell ...
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Thank God that Nelson Mandela'S burial ceremony has shown the whole world that NOT all Africans are as barbaric as Ghanaians Akans, who usually used "innocent human beings" to bury their chiefs in Ashanti Region. You can tell from the simple and prestigious burial ceremony of the great Madiba, that his burial is far greater than all the so-called Akans chiefs put together.

I do hope that those homo Akan bastard boys calling themselve CONTEMNOR AND ROMANO, with their sidekick DEMENTED Abeoku, would learn a lesson or the other from the burial of the great Nelson Mandela, NO 'innocent peosons' should loose their lives as sacrificial objects for the burial of any Akan chief. Need l say more?
NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 10 years ago

should read: 'that NO innocent persons'..lol

should read: 'that NO innocent persons'..lol
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

SEND MANDELA TO ASOMDWEE PARK. GH, TOO MANY CARTOON BRAINS. TAKE NKRUMAH N MILLS REMAINS TO THEIR HOMETOWNS. RENAME KOTOKA TO NKRUMAH AIRPORT. GH NO CLASS. DO THINGS ANYHOW LIKE UNCULTURED, NO DIGNITY ZOMBIES...WAT IS THE SEN ...
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SEND MANDELA TO ASOMDWEE PARK. GH, TOO MANY CARTOON BRAINS. TAKE NKRUMAH N MILLS REMAINS TO THEIR HOMETOWNS. RENAME KOTOKA TO NKRUMAH AIRPORT. GH NO CLASS. DO THINGS ANYHOW LIKE UNCULTURED, NO DIGNITY ZOMBIES...WAT IS THE SENSE IN THIS?
K. Boateng 10 years ago

The parallel you're drawing between Mandela and Mills is neither here nor there. Mandela, unlike Mills, was a clan chief and therefore had to be accorded the traditional burial as this quote indicates "The family had asked fo ...
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The parallel you're drawing between Mandela and Mills is neither here nor there. Mandela, unlike Mills, was a clan chief and therefore had to be accorded the traditional burial as this quote indicates "The family had asked for only a few hundred guests to be present for the traditional Xhosa burial..." I don't see the need to compare South African traditions and culture to that of Ghana since we have distinctive practices. Moreover, Mills' family didn't ask the government for his body to be buried in a traditional way. Indeed, Mills is not the onlly first Ghanaian president to be buried in the national capital, Nkrumah was. We also have other renowned former head of states who have been buried outside their hometowns; JFK and his brother TED were from Massachusetts but were both buried in the Arlington Cemetery in Virginia. It's quite amazing that some Ghanaians would want to do politics out of anything which amounts to nothing at the end of the day. Please let the men rest in peace and not in pieces.
Joe 10 years ago

Thanks Boateng you said it all.

Thanks Boateng you said it all.
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Useless uneducated twerp !!! What is Ghanaian traditions and culture? You are sitting here giving false information to unsuspected Ghanaians as usual. Ofui, how much do you know about Xhosa customs and traditions? Who told yo ...
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Useless uneducated twerp !!! What is Ghanaian traditions and culture? You are sitting here giving false information to unsuspected Ghanaians as usual. Ofui, how much do you know about Xhosa customs and traditions? Who told you only Xhosa clan chiefs are supposed to be buried at their hometowns? And who told you Nkrumah was buried at Accra?

I have always told you to stop using Akan names since you Trokosis do not understand Akan traditions. Akans like Xhosas have almost the exact customs and tradition when it comes to death and burial. There's the need for every Akan to be buried at home whether they are Presidents, chiefs or even slaves. That's the same with the Xhosas. Akans invoke the spirits of their ancestors and pacify them with spiritual drinks and animal blood (which used to be human blood for their kings) to receive the dead in peace. That's the same with Xhosas. Akans celebrate weekly and 40 days and annual anniversaries of the dead. There is a similar thing with the Xhosas.

For your information Nkrumah, Busia, Afrifa, Acheampong, Akuffo and even the non-Akan Limann were buried at their own villages. Nkrumah was buried at Nkroful at the Nzima area but his body was moved to Accra later because his mausoleum was not well taken care of.

Coming to Mills, who told you Mills family did not ask for his corpse? Were you on the moon when Mills died? The NDC paid bribe to the family of Mills to score cheap political points just so he could be buried in Accra. The family had threatened a lawsuit at the High Court when the NDC decided to seize the dead body by force.

Being a dunderhead as usual, you try to compare Ghana with USA who have zero clansmen like you described Mandela. The USA have chosen to bury their soldiers, politicians and Presidents at Arlington because it is designed for that purpose, they did not hire the Chinese to dig 9 instant graves after their President has died and their family is claiming the body. There is always a prior information by a dead U.S. President himself as to where and how they want their dead bodies disposed of.

K. Boateng, you don't have to argue about anything NDC even if you don't have the correct information. I don't think this is an obligation so stop making a childish fool of yourself. Again stop feeding innocent Ghanaians with your false and senseless information
NEMESIS RADAR, WATCHING YOU!! 10 years ago

Do not pull wool over our faces, by comparing your barbaric Akan culture of burring human beings with your chiefs, to Mandela's noble and respectable South African culture.

You evil Ashanti Akans are still practicing tha ...
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Do not pull wool over our faces, by comparing your barbaric Akan culture of burring human beings with your chiefs, to Mandela's noble and respectable South African culture.

You evil Ashanti Akans are still practicing that evil and barbaric culture human sacrifice to bury Asshantene, at this day and age. You are a big Liar, OSEI TAWIAH. You can never continue to hide your evil culture. THE GREAT NEMESIS SHALL SURE CAUGHT UP WITH YOU BARBARIC PEOPLE ONE DAY. AND EVERY EVIL SECRET THINGS ABOUT YOUR BARBARIC CULTURE SHALL BE EXPOSED. MARK MY WORDS.
Koohia 10 years ago

Kwame Nkrumah was originally buried in Nkroful, his home town. The casket was only recently moved to Accra.
Instead of incurring so much to make this move, it would have been better and economical to the develop the original ...
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Kwame Nkrumah was originally buried in Nkroful, his home town. The casket was only recently moved to Accra.
Instead of incurring so much to make this move, it would have been better and economical to the develop the original mausoleum. Then Nkroful will attract all the tourist and the locals can have production ventures to engage in, instead of everything being in Accra
Kofi 10 years ago

I hope Mills finds his way home some day.

I hope Mills finds his way home some day.
Atuku 10 years ago

Now we see the difference. The family of Mills were just hungry for money. Now that village is going to boom with tourist. The family of Mills should regret thier foolishness.

Now we see the difference. The family of Mills were just hungry for money. Now that village is going to boom with tourist. The family of Mills should regret thier foolishness.
NAKED 10 years ago

The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
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The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.

We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.

According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.

I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?

If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).

In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]

A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).

The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]

That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]

LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]

Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?
NANA USED BAWUMIA 10 years ago

MADIBA MANDELA FAREWELL AND RIP!

MADIBA MANDELA FAREWELL AND RIP!
SK 10 years ago

Rest in Peace, Papa.

Rest in Peace, Papa.
EZEKIEL 10 years ago

Madiba,GOODBYE till we meet somewhere else!! Thank you for NOT calling for REVENGE!!!!

Madiba,GOODBYE till we meet somewhere else!! Thank you for NOT calling for REVENGE!!!!
The Onipaba, Akyem Maase 10 years ago

Mills may be forgotten with time because the NDC bought his family out so they could throw his body away from his home. If people will like to follow events after Madiba's funeral, one thing that could be observed is a standi ...
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Mills may be forgotten with time because the NDC bought his family out so they could throw his body away from his home. If people will like to follow events after Madiba's funeral, one thing that could be observed is a standing security over his grave. For Mills, we do not need even a school cadet officer to stand by his grave. I hear that, wee smokers have taken over the park. If he was buried in his own village, at least the people would be stimulated to organize the community in such a way that, tourists would find the place exciting. For Madiba, his family, home village and friends will remain world's infinite monuments. Mills may never be remembered again.
Joe 10 years ago

Its strange how some of us think. Maase man, you must be more intelligent than the family of Mills who allowed the govt to bury MILLS in Accra.

Its strange how some of us think. Maase man, you must be more intelligent than the family of Mills who allowed the govt to bury MILLS in Accra.
ANCESTRAL HOME 10 years ago

Mandela was layed to eternal rest in one grave at his ancestral home of Qunu and not at a version of Asomdwe Park where nine graves are dug for one person, and where cows are buried alive before the dead. Poor Atta Mills! He ...
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Mandela was layed to eternal rest in one grave at his ancestral home of Qunu and not at a version of Asomdwe Park where nine graves are dug for one person, and where cows are buried alive before the dead. Poor Atta Mills! He was held hostage by his Party before his death, and in death by ritually buried cows.
NDC FILM MAKERS 10 years ago

Where are the NDC film makers with the ability to produce films in Heaven? They gave us a film of a bespectacled Atta Mills siting on the right side of Jesus. Maybe they can give us a film showing Mandela siting on the left s ...
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Where are the NDC film makers with the ability to produce films in Heaven? They gave us a film of a bespectacled Atta Mills siting on the right side of Jesus. Maybe they can give us a film showing Mandela siting on the left side of Jesus. What are the NDC heavenly film makers waiting for ?
Asiwome 10 years ago

Another great man!

Another great man!
Afab 10 years ago

I hope our former President JJ will something from Madiba, and again to Mahama

I hope our former President JJ will something from Madiba, and again to Mahama
mugu1 10 years ago

mandela laid to rest !!! can we have some peace now

mandela laid to rest !!! can we have some peace now
AKONFEM JDM ATOPAHENE 10 years ago

OH WHAT A SMHAME,ALL MAHAMA CAN DO IS CORRUPT GHANIANS,

OH WHAT A SMHAME,ALL MAHAMA CAN DO IS CORRUPT GHANIANS,

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