JJ caused Northerners, Ewes to hate Akans – Ocquaye

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Tommy 10 years ago

TRIBAL ETHNIC GROUIP

TRIBAL ETHNIC GROUIP
Tommy 10 years ago

TOO MUCH TRIBALISM WITH THE AKAN TRIBE

TOO MUCH TRIBALISM WITH THE AKAN TRIBE
champion 10 years ago

how could oquaye say this? has he forgotten about what victor owusu did to the ewes? has forgotten what nana addo said "y3 akanfo"? please npp. stop blaming anybody for your failures. blame your own visionless leaders.

how could oquaye say this? has he forgotten about what victor owusu did to the ewes? has forgotten what nana addo said "y3 akanfo"? please npp. stop blaming anybody for your failures. blame your own visionless leaders.
PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

MAHAMA AND HIS CORRUPT NDC MUST TELL US WHAT EXACTLY THEY HAVE DONE WITH THE MASSIVE $20 BILLION THEY HAVE BORROWED IN JUST THE LAST 5 YEARS, IF HE IS SAYING,HE HAS NOT BORROWED FOR DRINK AND MERRY MAKING, WHICH MEANS CREATE, ...
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MAHAMA AND HIS CORRUPT NDC MUST TELL US WHAT EXACTLY THEY HAVE DONE WITH THE MASSIVE $20 BILLION THEY HAVE BORROWED IN JUST THE LAST 5 YEARS, IF HE IS SAYING,HE HAS NOT BORROWED FOR DRINK AND MERRY MAKING, WHICH MEANS CREATE, LOOT AND SHARE. HOW COULD YOU STEAL MONEY BELONGING TO THE POOR CHILDREN STRUGGLING TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREETS, DRIVE PAST THEM AND HAVE A LAUGH???---- GHANAIANS MUST WAKE UP!! OUR FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK. WE CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS. BAWUMIA HAS ADMONISHED NDC AS A PATRIOTIC CITIZEN BUT THEY WOULDN'T LISTEN. NDC HAS RATHER VOWED TO BORROW MORE TO PLUNGE GHANA INTO MASSIVE DEBT. HABA! NDC.
NKWASEAFO BI NTI GHANA IS SICK!!! THE CEDI HAS ALREADY DIVED DEEP DOWN!!!!!!!------ WE NEED NANA'S WISDOM. HIS LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS. WE CAN'T PUT OUR TRUST IN THESE YOUNG NDC THIEVES (WITH NO WORK RECORD) WHO WANT TO LIVE LIKE KINGS OVERNIGHT, OWNING JETS, BIG MANSIONS, BANKS, ROLLS ROYCE, DATING MODELS ETC. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR. BEING A PRESIDENT REQUIRES THE USE OF BRAIN NOT BRAWN. A PRESIDENT DOES NOT "THROW" PICK AXE!!! WHO CAN DO THE JOB BETTER THAN NANA, AT THIS TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHERE GREEDY CORRUPT , SHARP TEETH ROTTEN PLANK NDC SMALL BOYS, PARADING AS POLITICIANS, HAVE PLUNDERED OUR RESOURCES TO THE BONE, THAT OUR OIL ECONOMY INHERITED FROM THE GREAT KUFFOUR HAS HAD NO IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF OUR COUNTRY???? LONG LIVE GHANA!! LONG LIVE NANA ADDO. MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS!! EVERY THIEF IN GHANA, TODAY, IS SCARED OF BOLD AND MIGHTY NANA ADDO. NANA IS CLEAN !! CLEAN TO THE BONE!!!
Frank Thompson 10 years ago

Too many idiots calling themselves professors. How can this buffoon call himself a professor.

Has he forgotten what Ken Agyapong said about killing Ewes and Gas?

Too many idiots calling themselves professors. How can this buffoon call himself a professor.

Has he forgotten what Ken Agyapong said about killing Ewes and Gas?
facts 10 years ago

The truth is one. Ewes and their nyebro favoritism is from years. Akans by the Ntafo history were very close to the northerners as brothers. It is in fact true that Rawlings and his tacticians were able to bring some hatred b ...
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The truth is one. Ewes and their nyebro favoritism is from years. Akans by the Ntafo history were very close to the northerners as brothers. It is in fact true that Rawlings and his tacticians were able to bring some hatred between them . The Prof. Is right.
oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana 10 years ago

Rawlings is idiot and everyone that follows him is also full of evil and has demonic power. That is the reason why Ghanaians are suffering now.

Rawlings is idiot and everyone that follows him is also full of evil and has demonic power. That is the reason why Ghanaians are suffering now.
why 10 years ago

An idiot was able to rule u for 20yrs with his idiocity. Than u urself must be a very big idiot

An idiot was able to rule u for 20yrs with his idiocity. Than u urself must be a very big idiot
JULO 10 years ago

The problem was with Victor Owusu and his acrimonious campaign in 1979 where h accused Ewes of backwards thinking. Check your history

The problem was with Victor Owusu and his acrimonious campaign in 1979 where h accused Ewes of backwards thinking. Check your history
GIRLS SP 10 years ago

You see how stupid some Northners and Ewes are to believe in that thief Rawlings?

You see how stupid some Northners and Ewes are to believe in that thief Rawlings?
NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

IMAGINE THERE WAS NO RAWLINGS!

JEREMIAH JOHN RAWLINGS
The true son of mama Africa
You came, you saw and you
conquered your corrupt enemies.

He first appeared on the Ghanaian
political scene on June 4, 1979.
Then ...
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IMAGINE THERE WAS NO RAWLINGS!

JEREMIAH JOHN RAWLINGS
The true son of mama Africa
You came, you saw and you
conquered your corrupt enemies.

He first appeared on the Ghanaian
political scene on June 4, 1979.
Then he came back on December 31, 1981
and restored Ghana into the path of
total political and economic emancipation.

Imagine there's no Rawlings
Ghana could have become
a basket case, but he averted an
impending disaster in Ghana,
by taking a drastic but effective actions
of getting rid of some corrupt elements
in Ghana political arena..

Some say the story of Ghana is like the
story of the biblical Moses and the Jews.
It required a certain J.J Rawlings to play
the role of the powerful Hebrew.
It is a story of emancipation,
bravery and patriotism.
A story of belief, national commitment,
sacrifice, hardwork and honesty
to fellow citizens.

Imagine there's no Rawlings
Ft Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings Liberated
Ghana from militarism, mis-governance,
economic paralysis, hunger, and
perpetual doom when he publicly
executed the likes of Gen. Afriffa,
Gen Akuffo, Gen Acheampong,
and all those who plunged Ghana
into untold hardship.

Imagine there's no Rawlings
Today, Ghana is laughing loud
and thankful to God for using
J.J to emancipate the country.

JJ you came, you saw and you
conquered your corrupt enemies
Rawlings you are blessed
He who Jah blessed, no one curse
Not even the descendants of
destructive metimehu elements.

NEMESIS RADAR, UK!!
ASUNNYJOH 10 years ago

HEY NEMESIS DON'T TRY TO PROVOKE SOME OF US.ARE YOU TELLING US ABACHA TOO WAS GOOD FOR NIGERIA?WHERE DO YOU LIVE IN UK TELL ME AND I WILL BE THERE TO CASTRATE YOU,FOR YOU TO BEAR IN MIND ANYTIME YOU COME ACROSS GHANA AFFAIRS. ...
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HEY NEMESIS DON'T TRY TO PROVOKE SOME OF US.ARE YOU TELLING US ABACHA TOO WAS GOOD FOR NIGERIA?WHERE DO YOU LIVE IN UK TELL ME AND I WILL BE THERE TO CASTRATE YOU,FOR YOU TO BEAR IN MIND ANYTIME YOU COME ACROSS GHANA AFFAIRS.YOU BETTER SHUT YOUR BIG ALATA MOUTH.WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY DESTRUCTIVE METIMEHU ELEMENTS? LOOK AT THIS AMALA[DIRTY FOOD]CONSUMER.GHANA SPORTS NEMESIS GHANA POLITICS NEMESIS ALWAYS SPEWING RUBBISH BECAREFUL YOU ALATA BOY NEMESIS THE PEPPER SELLER.
STOP AND THINK 10 years ago

WE ARE ONE PEOPLE EXCEPT THE IDIOT POLITICIANS WHO WANT TO CAPITALIZE ON THE WEAK THINKING PEOPLE. THEY SHOULD STOP THE NONSENSE.

WE ARE ONE PEOPLE EXCEPT THE IDIOT POLITICIANS WHO WANT TO CAPITALIZE ON THE WEAK THINKING PEOPLE. THEY SHOULD STOP THE NONSENSE.
STOP AND THINK 10 years ago

POLITICIANS WITH THE POWER THEY WANT, LIKE TO TRY EVERY AVENUE AVAILABLE TO THEM, BY CAPITALIZING ON WEAK THINKING PEOPLE. WHO IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER IN THIS COUNTRY? STUPID POLITICIANS PUT US TOGETHER THAN DIVIDING US FOR ...
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POLITICIANS WITH THE POWER THEY WANT, LIKE TO TRY EVERY AVENUE AVAILABLE TO THEM, BY CAPITALIZING ON WEAK THINKING PEOPLE. WHO IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER IN THIS COUNTRY? STUPID POLITICIANS PUT US TOGETHER THAN DIVIDING US FOR POWER. FOOOOOOOOOOOOLS
Foli 10 years ago

Stupid professor, You want to lead this country with that mentality? You forgot who said "inward looking people".

Stupid professor, You want to lead this country with that mentality? You forgot who said "inward looking people".
Mark 10 years ago

Is time the leadership of NPP should stand and condemn this type of talks,'MATI MIHUN' was JJ there before this nonsense start?the only Region which is a "Country" in Ghana is Volta Region.Region. Transvolta Togo-land was div ...
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Is time the leadership of NPP should stand and condemn this type of talks,'MATI MIHUN' was JJ there before this nonsense start?the only Region which is a "Country" in Ghana is Volta Region.Region. Transvolta Togo-land was divided into two. we need Professors who tells the truths and bring a policy to out-wit the opponent so that the Nation will develop.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to br ...
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WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to brush this issue under the carpet by some linked to the NPP as just a one off aberration. These people pretend or do not seem to know that Agyapong’s threats were not the first admonishing the killing of Ewes, something the readily available facts testify to. Facts I have been referring to from 1994 in cyberspace, recounting my own personal experiences with some of those advocates of Ewe killers in Nigeria during the early years of the PNDC. Of course, I have not as yet told the full story. But as Fela said, “I no kpata de finish!”

Hmm! As I found out when I was insulted “basabasa” by a man who turned out to be one of my many uncles, when I apparently misspoke on the hike in petrol prices in the 1993 budget, (on a bus from Anloga to Dzelukope in 1993), for being mistaken for a Quashiga hireling who had joined the “Eblutorwo” (Akans) preparing to come and kill them, my people back home were fully prepared and waiting for us quislings to start the attacks; I was assured. That was long before anyone heard of Justice Kpega as a political pundit! Phew! Me, a die-hard Nkrumaist in league with NPP assassins, to go and kill my fellow Anlos over whom my own forebears had ruled for centuries? Well, after all, it was in Lome, an Ewe centrepiece city even if many are of Ga-Anyi extraction, that they first congregated and started those lose talks against Ewes, thus forcing most Ewes in exile opposed to the PNDC to abandon the opposition to the PNDC and the anti-Ewe bent it had taken. So, many of us Ewes knew about their evil intents a long time ago, as they were eating our akple and fetridetsi and planning it in our kinsmen homes! Hardly any of them knew that much of the land of Lome is owned by people from Aflao and environs. Ignorant morons come in all shapes, you know. They were lucky no one poisoned them in Lome.:-)

Equally, I have read opponents to Agyapong’s utterances, including some Ewes, made some false and misleading statements, which shows that they are ignorant of the facts of the origins of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana, despite my persistent efforts and write-ups sketching that sordid history, from the pre-colonial to the post-independence era. I read someone situated in the 1979 elections period Victor Owusu’s scathing attacks on Ewes as “inward-looking” during the exchanges with Dr Agama in Parliament after the Apollo 586 sacking of mostly Ewes by the Busia regime which was overthrown in Jan. 1972!

Ignorance and superstition are recognised as key cogs in the vicious cycle of backwardness that is our lot as developing people but the extent most so-called educated Ghanaians wallow in these two inhibiting traits is just stupendous and disheartening!

Many try to claim that Rawlings introduced tribalism into Ghana by employing predominantly Ewes into sensitive public posts, especially the security sector; whereas the same claims of Ewe domination of posts had already been used effectively against Gbedema’s NAL by Busia’s Progress Party during the 1969 General Elections, as I had quoted from Dennis Austin’s book “Ghana Observed” but something all grown-ups at the time knew about. It was therefore unfortunate, that the late Prof Adu Boahen, as a historian who knew or ought to know better, fed into these fabrications of Ewe dominance, creating his own when he reportedly claimed in a British Council lecture in the 1980s that Prof. Akilagpa Sawyerr, a Ga who was given the VC post which he thought he deserved at the time, was an Ewe, and promised in his interview granted to Mahoney and his Africa Watch magazine to redress the presumed ethnic disparity when the NPP was elected into office. To me and many discerning Ewes, especially the Ewe elite, it was all déjà vu. But I was still surprised to find out that some decade long opponents of the PNDC voted for the NDC in 1992! It would not even surprise me if someone who knew Justice Kpegah’s political views very well in the 1980s came out to say that he was an arch-enemy of the PNDC in the Bar Association. I was visiting Ho in 1990 when the people of the VR angrily rejected the no party idea that the PNDC was then lobbying for, effectively halting the campaign for it. Those in B/A had already voted yes.

Yes! The NPP had itself to blame for their dismal reception in the VR, as they lost the plot with their tribal agenda reminiscent of the 1969 campaign. In Accra, they lost a lot of Ga support when the same Prof Adu Boahen at a rally, in trying to whip the anti-Ewe venom made that gaffe about Gas being pushed by the PNDC to be sleeping 10 persons to a room, after many of the main speakers had spoken in Twi! In 2000, they (NPP) won simply because of JJ’s unwholesome Swedru Declaration and the disrespectful Obed Asamoah led attempts to impose sitting candidates on their constituents, which nearly got him beaten at Dzelukope/Keta. Even my own Anlo Constituency voted for an independent linked to the NDC but not the NDC official candidate who was the re-imposed incumbent!

Fact is, I have been aware, just as many other people, since the early 1980s of various threats by some Akans opposed to the PNDC to have Ewes killed and had written about that many, many times on Okyeame and SIL. Perhaps, adding Gas to those to be killed is just the new dimension added by Agyapong, since it appeared, this time, the Gas, in Agyapong's warped mind, had acted in prosecuting the "Ewe agenda" by beating up Ursula on behalf of the Ewes! Well, warped minds think in strange, circular terms!

After all, the threats were so opened and so rampant that one Ewe, the late Dr Kodzi who died here in London in exile, pointed out the "Anlo-Ewes” in his own virulently anti-Rawlings PNDC book, "Ghana: Worse than Apartheid S. Africa," as the Ewes to be killed, for being the culprits of the complaints and angst of the Akans! That was long before anyone heard of Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe and his renewed “war” on “Anlo-Ewes,” a war his ancestor joined the Akyem Gen. Dompey to fight in "Krepi" against the Asantes and their allies and lost way back in the 1860s and got stranded there, lucky enough not to have been killed like others. That’s another story I had re-told elsewhere and needs a re-visit soon in order to let the populace know what makes bozos like Ahoofe tick. For a man, (I mean Dr Kodzi, not the jerk Ahoofe) who, due to his sterling stewardship when in charge of the Keta Govt Hospital, was much beloved by Anlos, regarded as an hononary Anlo and entrusted with pouring the libation at the Hogbeza celebration of the Noviha group here in London, that was something to write! How could he be sure that the would-be killers would not mistake him for an Anlo man, in spite of the pain he took to identify the other Ewe groups in his book? Well, the failure of the so-called Ewe elite - academic and traditional and the political - to deal rationally with this animus against Ewes is itself an intra-Ewe shambolic intellectual failure I shall deal with by and by. I have right here on my table the rantings of some other Ewes from northern Eweland, or Ewedome, as we Anlos refer to the area referred to by Europeans as Krepi, against the PNDC and Anlos in particular which I have not even as yet dealt with in my writings.

I must, however, make exception here, as Prof. Kofi Awoonor’s much distorted and maligned prison book (in league with Soyinka’s The Man Died) is probably the first book by a Ghanaian which tried to explain the tribal imbroglio and to point the way forward. His only mistake was that he fell prey to the standard Western simplistic, linear and reductionist methodology of reducing what is without doubt a complex articulation of interests and forces which cut across the ethnic divide with people from all ethnic groups found in both or all contesting camps for political ascendancy, or “hegemony”, as he put it, in Ghana. So, for instance, those who imprisoned him for helping Brig. Kattah to escape to Togo were not only “Akans/Asantes” but included Ewes, Gas, Gonjas, etc., as Kutu’s NRC comprised a cross-section of Ghanaian ethnic groups. And some members of other ethnic groups supported Busia and demonization of the Ewes, not only Asantes or Akans alone.

You have to be wilfully blind or totally ignorant of what has been happening in the opposition to the P/NDC camp in order to claim today that you are not aware of talk of and even attempts to foment what would have become an ethnic war in Ghana prior to 1992. I personally had to intervene and quelled a serious fracas on Okyeame between two well known non-Ewes when the “brave Asantes” were queried again by a non-Asante why they could not deal with the apparently Ewe P/NDC which allegedly committed atrocities on they Akans only, I suppose. I bet many can remember J.H Mensah's arrest in America for allegedly attempting to buy weapons to prosecute their “liberation war” to get their country back. It is no wonder the NPP gurus, many of whom shared in those nefarious ideas, talked about it, plotted to carry it, etc., are finding it very hard to distance themselves from this public utterance of it again. How can they desert their fellow journey man, without being double hypocrites? At least, there must be some honour among thieves!

There are many questions to ask and many issues to take up. Had my PC not kaput and eventually leading to the loss of a huge part of what I had painstakingly written with references while in Norway with additions in London, my intended book taking up those issues would have been out years ago.

Incidentally, my next intended article after writing "How Some "Ewes" Became a Part of Ghana" is titled "Who Are the Ewes". It is just a revisit to my first ever post to a cyber forum in early 1994, Okyeame precisely, which Azar should remember so well, as in spite of my providing a reference, he still challenged me to give that! It was sent as my contribution, incidentally, to another NPP instigated scare against poor but hard working Ewe and Ada fishing cum farming pioneers (won't call them settlers) displaced by the effects of the Akosombo Dam on the neglected downstream people who opened up the mosquito infested and disease-ridden Afram Plains. The claim was that the NDC wanted to carve a district for them there and thereby claim the land for them! Wives and children were hastily sent home in order to keep them out of harm’s way in the event of attacks on the communities. That was when I decided not to sit any longer on the fence, just like the majority of my fellow educated Ewes, who think responding to such attacks on Ewes is beneath them, since madmen, "dzimakplawo" and "gbemelawo" were responsible! That was the common “wisdom” repeated by Rawlings at Tsiame, when he was queried by the worried chiefs and people about the ongoing Ewe demonization in the opposition media and political platforms in the ‘90s.

Gratuitous counter abuse, especially directed at Asantes ad nauseam, is not the way to tackle the issues, as some are presently doing on Ghanaweb. In the ‘90s, the Ghanaian stage was left to a novice like Komla Dumor to deal with on Myjoyonline with his “Ayigbe Jokes” series., which horrified and mortified me when I first listened to it online in 1997 or so. A programme like that would have found him and Myjoyonline foul of the Anti-Vilification Laws of any of the Western Europe countries and sanctioned appropriately. I doubt though whether half of our “honourable” MPs have heard of such a law, but that is the way we must go and huge revision of the school curricula. But that calls for another article.

Well, simply, many do not know how to deal with the madmen who repeatedly take their loins cloth while in the bath house! I know how! After all, I know the story of how the Anloga man dealt with the mad man of Tegbi and remained sane; the mad man who used to way lay the “asisiawo” - the market women - from the Keta market with a club and the question: axor a ava lo, alo axor a ekpo?, i.e., do you want penis or do you want club? And one day he raped and killed the heavily pregnant wife of the Anloga man. Of course, it is a taboo to deal with mad men in our society.

Ahoofe and his ilk’s tribalistic insults directed at Anlo-Ewes in particular and Agyapong's call to mayhem can be placed in perspective if you are informed about their origins. They used the tribal card so well in 1969 and think they can continue using it forever. No! Some of us decided long ago that ourselves and children shall not remain objects of demonization and vilification for the political objectives of some people who are still suffering from the mental warpedness that the slave trade had foisted on our ancestors. We shall therefore make sure that these appeal to ethnic differences backfire big time on their stupid faces!

I am therefore re-sending and shall continue re-posting this short piece I had put together especially for the readership of Ghanaweb and shall continue with my series on the Ethnic imbroglio in Ghana. Agyapong's outburst is simply the tip of the canker that permeates our body politic that must be dealt with at its roots. They are not the only Akans who suffer from what I have dubbed “Ewe angst and fears”, which afflict the generality of Akans due to how they are weaned and socialised. What do you expect from people who, as kids, are frightened to drink their Mist Alba, behave themselves or go to bed early with the Ewe bogeyman imagery?

Andy C. Y. Kwawukume

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THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!
Me zu kluvi
The road to Kontsiabu
Strewn with gold dusts.
Only those without
in their eyes gold dusts
felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…

then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.

Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.

In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.

Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.

Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.

I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “akpeledzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordial to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!

Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.

Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.

From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:

"Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."

The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.

As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?

I can make long comments on the above quote but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast. So we read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:

“We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
(Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself..” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)

And so on it went. One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another story.

THE EWE BACKLASH

By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyi, as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.

Then come the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:

“A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of 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 an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance 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 Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)

Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.

In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.
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Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
cyandyk@ymail.com

References:

Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
Manchester Univ. Press.
Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.
123 10 years ago

You are really sick and will die as stupid trokosi child molester.

You are really sick and will die as stupid trokosi child molester.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

Savage gbemela and dzimakplaviwo!

Savage gbemela and dzimakplaviwo!
francis 10 years ago

and you call this ghana a liberated country! i wonder which part of uk that you claim you live! wise up! and stop that sycophantic behavior

and you call this ghana a liberated country! i wonder which part of uk that you claim you live! wise up! and stop that sycophantic behavior
Fuzzy 10 years ago

It's ur entire generation that is stupid

It's ur entire generation that is stupid
BE WISE 10 years ago

Don't mind them, even recently when Akuffo Addo went to the VR, he said a similar thing. Now tht they can't get votes frm these two regions, they want smone to blame it on. Prof. Ocquaye shd stop it right there. They started ...
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Don't mind them, even recently when Akuffo Addo went to the VR, he said a similar thing. Now tht they can't get votes frm these two regions, they want smone to blame it on. Prof. Ocquaye shd stop it right there. They started the 'Mate meho' & thought everybody else is nobody apart frm themselves. Mike Ocquaye, address JJ as Prez Rawlings jst as u do to Prez Kuffour. U ppl & Kweku Baako are trying hard to remove the title Prez. from him. U'will not succeed.
INDEPENDENT MAN 10 years ago

HE CALLED EWES INWARD LOOKING

HE CALLED EWES INWARD LOOKING
STOP AND THINK 10 years ago

AND EWES ARE TYING TO DIFFUSE THE CAPTIVITY JJ PUT THEM IN. ALL HAVE TO BE FREE TO JOIN ANY PARTY. ALL PARTY ARE CORRUPT EXCEPT CPP, PPP, AND OTHERS WE ARE YET TO TRY.

AND EWES ARE TYING TO DIFFUSE THE CAPTIVITY JJ PUT THEM IN. ALL HAVE TO BE FREE TO JOIN ANY PARTY. ALL PARTY ARE CORRUPT EXCEPT CPP, PPP, AND OTHERS WE ARE YET TO TRY.
IDIOT CAT STEALER EWE 10 years ago

BUT DON´T YOU KNOW IF VICTOR OWUSU DIDN´T EVEN SAY IT,DON´T BE HYPOCRITE!

BUT DON´T YOU KNOW IF VICTOR OWUSU DIDN´T EVEN SAY IT,DON´T BE HYPOCRITE!
dr kwofie 10 years ago

let me tell you out there that we akans are more than any other tribe in ghana so if all akans will vote for the akan party as you have been saying what will ndc be in ghana.please be wise and stop that tribal thing.

let me tell you out there that we akans are more than any other tribe in ghana so if all akans will vote for the akan party as you have been saying what will ndc be in ghana.please be wise and stop that tribal thing.
ANNAN AKWELEY 10 years ago

PROF HAS A PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEM LONG TIME AGO. HE STILL SEES HIS PSYCHIATRIST ANYTIME HIS DRAGS RUN OUT.WE KNOW HIM. WE HIS RELATIVES.

PROF HAS A PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEM LONG TIME AGO. HE STILL SEES HIS PSYCHIATRIST ANYTIME HIS DRAGS RUN OUT.WE KNOW HIM. WE HIS RELATIVES.
Tony H 10 years ago

A Prof or not a Prof, the person belongs to NPP, nation of primitive people, his thinking is primitive as he is himself.

A Prof or not a Prof, the person belongs to NPP, nation of primitive people, his thinking is primitive as he is himself.
jerry junior 10 years ago

thank you for this

thank you for this
Okey Man 10 years ago

The Ashanti popular prophet said it all. Ashantis by nature are goats and behave by demonstrating the full natural and artificial characteristics of matured, experienced and serious Ghana goat. When have Ashatis started going ...
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The Ashanti popular prophet said it all. Ashantis by nature are goats and behave by demonstrating the full natural and artificial characteristics of matured, experienced and serious Ghana goat. When have Ashatis started going to school in the history of Ghana? Till date, do they even know how to pronounce letter "R"? They are lazy and thieves by nature and whoever is lazy is a burden on the hardworking while a thieve is a threat to the hardworking. Their talent is how to steal, hijack what does not belong to them, talk bigger than they are without simple logic, autocratic thieves and monopolistic liars. Someone out they should get Ghanaians well informed about the truth. How can a goat rule humans? Technology has simplified imaginations. What are the international criminal records on each tribe in Ghana? I wonder if any voltarian is in any foreign prison. Can Ashantis and Akans for that matter Ashantis in challenge this fact? Who were the people who sponsored autocratic thief Kufuour to win power before they could return abroad to Ghana when Rawlings was bitterly in search of them for heavily looting the country? In fact, for Crist sake, Ashantis can only be managed everywhere in this world, particularly in Ghana and Nigeria. How can Rawlings whose wife is an Ashanti cause Ewes and Northerners hate Akans? It is only a self-acclaimed professor with no logic who only seeks public attention can think like that. Nonsense!
i and i 10 years ago

Nonsense like what you wrote.

Nonsense like what you wrote.
STOP AND THINK 10 years ago

STOP DIVIDING US FOR POWER, AND UNITE US.

STOP DIVIDING US FOR POWER, AND UNITE US.
STOP AND THINK 10 years ago

WE ARE TIRED OF YOU.

WE ARE TIRED OF YOU.
oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana 10 years ago

Listen to me, l have never ever seen any stupid man like you before. Okay? Ofui ba!

Listen to me, l have never ever seen any stupid man like you before. Okay? Ofui ba!
Gonzaga 10 years ago

JJ Rawlings is useless, idiot, foolish, corrupt, opportunist and senseless human being. I don't know why idiots follow him. I blame Boakye Gyan and others who made the coup and made him chairman. AFRC, PNDC, NDC and now see h ...
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JJ Rawlings is useless, idiot, foolish, corrupt, opportunist and senseless human being. I don't know why idiots follow him. I blame Boakye Gyan and others who made the coup and made him chairman. AFRC, PNDC, NDC and now see how people are suffering. Oh! GHANA
Osei Bonsu 10 years ago

The Prof is very right indeed. The need to correct Nkrumah's mistake for the unity with Trans Volta Togo is paramount in any future progress of our Republic. It is more and more becoming clear to our people that Eves have bee ...
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The Prof is very right indeed. The need to correct Nkrumah's mistake for the unity with Trans Volta Togo is paramount in any future progress of our Republic. It is more and more becoming clear to our people that Eves have been prominent in all past Military Coups.
They have never forgiven Nkrumah, they continue to hate any progress initiated by AKANS.
We can never see peace and sincere unity with this tribe.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

ANOTHER TROPICAL RAIN FOREST FOOL.

ANOTHER TROPICAL RAIN FOREST FOOL.
i and i 10 years ago

Like your bastard tribe who don't have anything to boast off.

Like your bastard tribe who don't have anything to boast off.
ASUNNYJOH 10 years ago

ALWAYS A THIEF IS THIEF,AS LIARS ALWALYS LIES,BELIEVE IT OR NOT BOTH THE PROF AND OSEI OWUSU WERE RIGHT.RAWLINGS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS HEAD OF STATE THAT MOTHER GHANA HAS EVER GOT.ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT THE COUNTRY IS FACING N ...
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ALWAYS A THIEF IS THIEF,AS LIARS ALWALYS LIES,BELIEVE IT OR NOT BOTH THE PROF AND OSEI OWUSU WERE RIGHT.RAWLINGS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS HEAD OF STATE THAT MOTHER GHANA HAS EVER GOT.ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT THE COUNTRY IS FACING NOW WAS CAUSED BY THIS EVIL BASTARD.HE JUST JUMPED INTO THE SCENE WITH ONE HATED.HE HATES EVERYHING OF AKAN,ONLY THE AKAN LADY HE HAS MARRIED AND OUR GOLD HE HAS STOLEN AND DEPOSITED IT SWISS BANK.HE THINKS HE IS NOT CORRUPT WHY THEN INDEMNITY CLAUSE?.TIME WILL TELL,IF WE DO'T CHANGE OUR COMMENTS IN GENERAL WE ARE HEADING TOWARDS DISASTER,AND IAM SURE THERE ARE SCANVENGERS HIDING AROUND WHO ARE READY TO COME WITH THEIR DIRTY JIHAD SO MIND YOU GUYS.STOP THESE NONSENSICAL POLITICS.BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT EVIL BASTARD IS STILL A DIVIDER JUST RECENTLY HE WENT TO UPPER REGION TRYING TO DIVIDE THEM,ABAH THIS BATARD DIVIDER IS REALLY AN EVILMAN!.
ASANTE MOTHER FUCKERS 10 years ago

If you see him taking your gold take him to court. If you have evidence, what the FUCK are you waiting for?

If you see him taking your gold take him to court. If you have evidence, what the FUCK are you waiting for?
IDIOT CAT STEALER EWES 10 years ago

HE KNOWS THAT HE WILL BY ALL MEANS BE JUDGED BECAUSE EVERY THAT HAS A BEGINNING HAS AN END HIS END WILL COME AND YOU WILL CRY YOUR UGLY EWE CRY.IF I SEE HIM TAKING OUR GOLD,JUST WAIT WOWA[BEE]!

HE KNOWS THAT HE WILL BY ALL MEANS BE JUDGED BECAUSE EVERY THAT HAS A BEGINNING HAS AN END HIS END WILL COME AND YOU WILL CRY YOUR UGLY EWE CRY.IF I SEE HIM TAKING OUR GOLD,JUST WAIT WOWA[BEE]!
ASANTE MOTHER FUCKERS 10 years ago

Yes indeed. Gen Afrifa, Gen Acheampong, Gen Akuffo, Boakye-Gyan all EWES. YOU IDIOT!!!

Yes indeed. Gen Afrifa, Gen Acheampong, Gen Akuffo, Boakye-Gyan all EWES. YOU IDIOT!!!
AGYAAKU 10 years ago

It's a pity the Prof.'s aguement is not based on any research finding. Is this what politics can do to a man with such credentials? The Ashanti/Ewe/Northen hegemony dates far long before the advent of Rawlings on the politica ...
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It's a pity the Prof.'s aguement is not based on any research finding. Is this what politics can do to a man with such credentials? The Ashanti/Ewe/Northen hegemony dates far long before the advent of Rawlings on the political scene. This phenominom has it's roots on geographical positioning of these groupings. The truth is that as far as colonial time, People have always migrated from poorer parts to seek their daily bread from the affluent parts. The Akan dominated regions have had the rich farming areas which produced abundant food as well as cash crops such as cocoa. People have had to migrate to the forest areas to work as farm-hands as well as casual "bob-a-job" workers. This has made the migrants to play sub-servant roles. If anything at all, Rawlings era ignited/encouraged the migrants to seek better/equal relationship from the land owning Akans who who hitherto, maintained the "master/servant roles. The professor is very wrong in accusing Rawlings of being the cause of this long standing hegemony. On the contrary, it was the former president who rather advocated for the abolition of the master/servant relationship between these people. The Prof. surely will remember the popular chants of the "we no go sit down for them to cheat us every day", in the later parts of the 70s and the 80s.
THE TRUTH 10 years ago

And put that Ape-Monkey-Look Alike as King!!! . Ewes will PROGRESS with the rest of Ghana WITHOUT ASHANTIS!!!

And put that Ape-Monkey-Look Alike as King!!! . Ewes will PROGRESS with the rest of Ghana WITHOUT ASHANTIS!!!
francis 10 years ago

i want to believe that you look like "rosalinda" and the "togbes" in your land.

i want to believe that you look like "rosalinda" and the "togbes" in your land.
IDIOT CAT STEALER EWES 10 years ago

YOU IDOT EWES MUST GO BACK TO YOUR TOGOLAND DO YOU HAVE LAND MOTHER FUCKERS,YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING,IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE MAJORITY OF THE LAND THEN YOU BETTER LEAVE BECAUSE EVEN YOUR STEALING IS HAMPERING OUR ECONO ...
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YOU IDOT EWES MUST GO BACK TO YOUR TOGOLAND DO YOU HAVE LAND MOTHER FUCKERS,YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING,IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE MAJORITY OF THE LAND THEN YOU BETTER LEAVE BECAUSE EVEN YOUR STEALING IS HAMPERING OUR ECONOMY GROWTH,YOU BETTER LEAVE SCANVENGERS!.IS THAT UGLY APE TSATSU NOT AN EWE? WHO IS MORE APE-MONKEY LOOK ALIKE THAN THAT YOUR UGLY TEETH ROTTEN TSATSU.STINKY BACKWARD EKOROO EWE MAN!
gh vi 10 years ago

yes truth. u just told them the bitter truth. hahahahaha. they can go and form the baboon ashanti republic and then nana addo can finally become the president he so desperately wants to become. but as long as this country rem ...
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yes truth. u just told them the bitter truth. hahahahaha. they can go and form the baboon ashanti republic and then nana addo can finally become the president he so desperately wants to become. but as long as this country remains the republic of Ghana with humans as citizens, nana addo will never become president
FOOLISH VICTOR OWUSU 10 years ago

Ashanti monkeys should take DNA test

Ashanti monkeys should take DNA test
TEE 10 years ago

TRANS VOLTA TOGO THE BIG MISTAKE MADE BY OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND THAT IS WHY RAWLINGS BASTARD THE SON OF A PROSTITUTE TOGOLESE BITCH COULD COME FROM TOGO AND MADE A COUP IN OUR AKAN NATIVE LAND GHANA

TRANS VOLTA TOGO THE BIG MISTAKE MADE BY OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH AND THAT IS WHY RAWLINGS BASTARD THE SON OF A PROSTITUTE TOGOLESE BITCH COULD COME FROM TOGO AND MADE A COUP IN OUR AKAN NATIVE LAND GHANA
Nana Kwaku 10 years ago

Frank, I agree with you to the max. In the first place this article refers to him as political historian. How can such a personality belong to a political party? What makes us think he will expose his party's negative past, w ...
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Frank, I agree with you to the max. In the first place this article refers to him as political historian. How can such a personality belong to a political party? What makes us think he will expose his party's negative past, which all political parties worldwide seem to suppress at all cost. Here we have Mike Ocquaye to do it free.
william 10 years ago

a TRUE POLITICAL SCIENTIST WILL NOT MAKE SUCH FACILE AND CLAIMS! A true politician, will not engage in the blame game and self-serving comments but will focus on a dispassionate analysis to help heal wounds and build the nati ...
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a TRUE POLITICAL SCIENTIST WILL NOT MAKE SUCH FACILE AND CLAIMS! A true politician, will not engage in the blame game and self-serving comments but will focus on a dispassionate analysis to help heal wounds and build the nation, an on-going process!!!Prof Ocquaye should think again!
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

Nana binladdo is not a unifier, but rather a divider. After Nana disgraceful hiding in London for more six months, Nana binladdo came back to Ghana just to create a confusion and divide the country on regional and tribal basi ...
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Nana binladdo is not a unifier, but rather a divider. After Nana disgraceful hiding in London for more six months, Nana binladdo came back to Ghana just to create a confusion and divide the country on regional and tribal basis. Some of us in eastern region can't understand why Nana should ignore a whole " okyehene " and rushed to "Manshia " and offered " Asantehene his highest respect and even said he respected he "Asantehene" more than that of his own grandfather and a paramount chief of Akyen Abuakwa " traditional area . Nana is a digrace to our area, he didn't bother to visit " Okyehene" who is closer to his Nana's Nima residence , from Nana' house to Kyebi , is closer than that of Manshia, but because he is arrogant, he chose to go to Manshia first. We the people of Akyen Abuakwa traditional area want to let Nana addo knows very well that we acknowledged the disrespect he showed to our Okyehene and his elders in the area, we shall respond to his call in the same measure at the right time coming 2016 election.
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Why is it that Ewes never accept the truth. You said you want unity but you don't want to know what caused the division as long as you are in power, right? This is coming from Prof Ocquaye, a man who is neither an Akan nor an ...
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Why is it that Ewes never accept the truth. You said you want unity but you don't want to know what caused the division as long as you are in power, right? This is coming from Prof Ocquaye, a man who is neither an Akan nor an Ewe. People who were born before JJ Rawlings know how close Ashantis in particular were to Northerners and even to Ewes. The people who were noted to hate each other were Akans themselves, notably Fantis and Bonos against Ashantis due to war history. Rawlings started preaching his anti-Akan gospel as soon as he came to power and declared himself a saviour of the Northerners as captives from Akans. The Trokosis keep talking about unity while preaching hatred and capitalize on Ashanti bashing just so they can win the hearts of other Akans and Northerners to stay in power, but blood is thicker than water, and when this divide and rule tactics stops, these non-Akans are the ones who will be at the receiving end.
Amenuveve Kobla 10 years ago

Prof Ocquaye. You have forgotten your history.Stop fanning this tribal sentiment. Beware. You are no good historian.

Prof Ocquaye. You have forgotten your history.Stop fanning this tribal sentiment. Beware. You are no good historian.
okofo 10 years ago

Your words are prophetic Tawiah. Akan hatred will not be in he interest of Ghana. Dr Apaaks,Ayarigas, Humados and so called Fiifi Kwerteys are mainly running things now: the booming economy we're enjoying now are there for al ...
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Your words are prophetic Tawiah. Akan hatred will not be in he interest of Ghana. Dr Apaaks,Ayarigas, Humados and so called Fiifi Kwerteys are mainly running things now: the booming economy we're enjoying now are there for all of us to see, or feel.
Kojo T 10 years ago

Ewes and Northerners do not hate Akans. NLM was the start of it and then Busia came in with his hate of anything Non Akan Apollo 568 and aliens compliance order. Even Kutu Acheampong and Joe Appiah were digusted

Ewes and Northerners do not hate Akans. NLM was the start of it and then Busia came in with his hate of anything Non Akan Apollo 568 and aliens compliance order. Even Kutu Acheampong and Joe Appiah were digusted
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

You are a damn fool. Was Busia not trying to protect Ghana? Look at Ghana today, full of Trokosis, Moshis and Kotokolis from Togo. How long do you think Akans are going to work for you? You will soon realize that your Ghana t ...
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You are a damn fool. Was Busia not trying to protect Ghana? Look at Ghana today, full of Trokosis, Moshis and Kotokolis from Togo. How long do you think Akans are going to work for you? You will soon realize that your Ghana today is fake.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

Busia was trying to "protect" Ghana indeed with his reprehensible "Apollo 568 Saga"!!! And who are the trokosis? Southern Volta Region was in the Gold Coast Colony since 1851 after the Danes divested themselves from their ove ...
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Busia was trying to "protect" Ghana indeed with his reprehensible "Apollo 568 Saga"!!! And who are the trokosis? Southern Volta Region was in the Gold Coast Colony since 1851 after the Danes divested themselves from their overseas territories and that area came under British rule since then.

Osei Tawiah, I don't know from where you hail in Ghana, but in 1860, where was your great-grandfather? Was he not busy raping the giant she-apes in your forests? My own grandfather was born in 1845 and his birth was recorded by the Danish authorities. That record is in the Danish archives on Keta.

Finally, I don't think either the Akans, Ewes, Northerners, Gas etc hate some and love one. We have gone a long way and should always remain as one united Ghana.

Don't be a fool next time, nyebro Osei Tawiah.
i and i 10 years ago

Stupid fool who love your bastard trokosilian imp lout loutish Ewes? No sensible Asante will love your bastard tribe get lot before i bite you with my venom.

Stupid fool who love your bastard trokosilian imp lout loutish Ewes? No sensible Asante will love your bastard tribe get lot before i bite you with my venom.
gh vi 10 years ago

u idiots are so bitter just because your tribal party is not in power and because of that u have gone berserk and raining insults on anybody in your way. "get lot before i bite you with my venom." this is an expression of an ...
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u idiots are so bitter just because your tribal party is not in power and because of that u have gone berserk and raining insults on anybody in your way. "get lot before i bite you with my venom." this is an expression of an embittered person who has gone haywire and out of control. u people will never rule again. insha Allah
YELLOW YELLOW 10 years ago

just listen to this monkey with no tail

just listen to this monkey with no tail
okofo 10 years ago

Listen to your yourself Vodoo Xebieso: Osei Tawiah's grandfather "was... busy raping the giant she-ape in [the] forest..."

But your "own grandfather was born in 1845... recored by the Danish right? Statements like that are ...
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Listen to your yourself Vodoo Xebieso: Osei Tawiah's grandfather "was... busy raping the giant she-ape in [the] forest..."

But your "own grandfather was born in 1845... recored by the Danish right? Statements like that are the reasons why tribal hatred is rampant in contemporary Ghana. How about if someone told you that what you said was not the record of your grandfather's birth, but rather a monkey's? And that monkey actually ended up in Copenhagen?

Stop these NONSENSE, and think straight, because my friend, we can sit at the computer and spill stupidity, but if it comes up to facing TRIBAL war, it'll be an UGLY incident one could hardly visualize. So, stop that crap my friend!!
Togbe Amekudzi 10 years ago

Had it not been the wisdom of the great Ewe security consultant Togbe Kondo's brother (Okomfo who hails from Notsei) Okomfo Anokye, the tricky "golden stool" (a trokosi amlima creation), the divided warring states could not c ...
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Had it not been the wisdom of the great Ewe security consultant Togbe Kondo's brother (Okomfo who hails from Notsei) Okomfo Anokye, the tricky "golden stool" (a trokosi amlima creation), the divided warring states could not call themselves today as Asante kingdom. you those little children who have refused to learn but chase money always write nonesense. One day, somebody will you where your great great grandfather hailed from. Akans killed Okomfo Anokye, Kotoka, Avevor and many more. Your cups have been full long ago.
YOUR STEPFATHER 10 years ago

OSEI "BABOON" TAWIAH a clinical fool like you should better shut up,monkeys like you...

OSEI "BABOON" TAWIAH a clinical fool like you should better shut up,monkeys like you...
i will say 10 years ago

no wonder npp will never come back to power with professors like this parading in that party.when did he get his professor's certificate from?shame on you u useless historian

no wonder npp will never come back to power with professors like this parading in that party.when did he get his professor's certificate from?shame on you u useless historian
koffi parker 10 years ago

Npp should stop this nonsense who are the Akans? the Ashantis? the Akyems?If Rawlings hate anyone at all (if any) it may probable be the Ashantis not Akans, neither Akyems nor Ashantis speak for or made up of Akans, Yen Akanf ...
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Npp should stop this nonsense who are the Akans? the Ashantis? the Akyems?If Rawlings hate anyone at all (if any) it may probable be the Ashantis not Akans, neither Akyems nor Ashantis speak for or made up of Akans, Yen Akanfuo Party. NDC is well organized any one can become a president if you qualify.
Osei Bonsu 10 years ago

THE TRUTH IS DEFINITELY HURTING MANY OF THEM AS IT DID WITH VICTOR OWUSU'S STATEMENT. IT IS A FACT NKRUMAH MADE THE HUGE MISTAKE WHICH HURT HIM ALSO. MISTAKES NEED TO BE CORRECTED AT ALL COST IF WE NEED TO MOVE ON AND TIME WI ...
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THE TRUTH IS DEFINITELY HURTING MANY OF THEM AS IT DID WITH VICTOR OWUSU'S STATEMENT. IT IS A FACT NKRUMAH MADE THE HUGE MISTAKE WHICH HURT HIM ALSO. MISTAKES NEED TO BE CORRECTED AT ALL COST IF WE NEED TO MOVE ON AND TIME WILL TELL.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

He is not only a Yaka Gbomo but a damn hypocrite! A blasted liar! What does he take us for? Morons? Who is JJ to make some of us think the way he JJ allegedly does? When Busia and his PP were demonising, vilifying and target ...
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He is not only a Yaka Gbomo but a damn hypocrite! A blasted liar! What does he take us for? Morons? Who is JJ to make some of us think the way he JJ allegedly does? When Busia and his PP were demonising, vilifying and targeting Ewes for bad treatment, JJ was a mere young man, I think getting to 20.

If he knows anything about the source of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana at all, he won't come out to insult the intelligence of we Ewes and so-called Northerners like this! Me nye mi nu me ne! (I shit in his mouth!).

Has he read, as Professor of history, Denise Austin's Ghana Observed before? Has he read Kofi Awoonor's The Ghana Revolution? And has he read Dr Kofi Kodzi's Ghana: Worst Than Apartheid S. Africa in which he pointed out which group of Ewes Akans could kill, in response to what we all Ewes knew before that crazed Agyapong went on air to call on Asantes to kill Ewes [and Gas]? And Dr Kodzi was an Ewe and hated the guts of Rawlings!

Since the early 1990s I've been writing on this issue. Time to move to the next stage of my write-up and shut up these foolish and ignorant people for good.

Andy-K
george aggrey. 10 years ago

Northerners and ewes hate Akans?Strange,northerners love brongs and fantis.be specific.The brongs hate Asantis even more.Is ur arrogant character not bad enough 2 cost this.u think u are better than the Fantis,brongs,Gas,Nort ...
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Northerners and ewes hate Akans?Strange,northerners love brongs and fantis.be specific.The brongs hate Asantis even more.Is ur arrogant character not bad enough 2 cost this.u think u are better than the Fantis,brongs,Gas,Northerners .All these tribes dont like u people bcos u disrespect all.u are a common enemy to all.Why do u think 8 regions often vote for ndc.The country is divided.
KB,LONDON. 10 years ago

a bunch of hungry and useless crooks who only formed a party to kill ghanaians and destroy our God given resources. that party is a curse to ghana.

a bunch of hungry and useless crooks who only formed a party to kill ghanaians and destroy our God given resources. that party is a curse to ghana.
Joe Canada 10 years ago

how does statement "y3n akanfo" makes one a hater?. and what did victor owusu did to ewes. you can continue to live with your hatred heart for akans. what you to have understand is that at the end of the day its ordinary peop ...
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how does statement "y3n akanfo" makes one a hater?. and what did victor owusu did to ewes. you can continue to live with your hatred heart for akans. what you to have understand is that at the end of the day its ordinary people like you that suffers irrespective of your ethnicity. open you eyes and don't allow those stupid, greedy politicians to corrupt your mind for their selfish interest. I am an ashanti, and I can tell you, under no circumstance will I allow anybody to corrupt me to hate any human being because we are different NO FUCKING WAY. love each other and hate no more.
Patrick 10 years ago

Why wont Ocquaye consult with his tribes man Ayikoi Otu about NPP tribalism first b4 making thw above statement?

He is fast becoming a none entity in Ghanaian politics.

Why wont Ocquaye consult with his tribes man Ayikoi Otu about NPP tribalism first b4 making thw above statement?

He is fast becoming a none entity in Ghanaian politics.
Antoa 10 years ago

What is this prof talking about? Check the events throughout the Nkrumah era all through to Rawlings era. Tribal politics which pitched Asante/Akyem against other Ghanaians began the day Nkrumah stole the show from the Danqua ...
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What is this prof talking about? Check the events throughout the Nkrumah era all through to Rawlings era. Tribal politics which pitched Asante/Akyem against other Ghanaians began the day Nkrumah stole the show from the Danquah/Busia Fraternity.

Initially the Northners, Ewes, Gas, and other Akans joined the fight with the Asante/Akyems politicians against the Nkrumah dictortorial Govt, only to end the divorce so quickly due to the Intolerant nature of the Asante/Akyem politicians.

Adu Boahen had the opportunity to Unite Ghana against the Rawlings regime in 92 but rather turned the entire NPP into an Ewe hating entity by making it a revenge seeking Akan party led by Asante/Akyem supremacist.

That coupled with so many loose talks from the supremacist in the party made things worse for the NPP making it to look more like an anti minority party.

Ocquaye is wrong on this assertions. JJ's coupe only gave the tribalist the opportunity to show case to us what they are capable of doing by contributing to their anger.
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

Go back and read the story all over again. Was Nkrumah a Northerner or an Ewe?

Go back and read the story all over again. Was Nkrumah a Northerner or an Ewe?
Tommy 10 years ago

This is how the cowards call Ashantis gain the so call kingdom hiding behind other tribes especially the Northerners to do all thier dirty work for them,only for trhem to enjoy and dump you,I believe the Northerners and the o ...
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This is how the cowards call Ashantis gain the so call kingdom hiding behind other tribes especially the Northerners to do all thier dirty work for them,only for trhem to enjoy and dump you,I believe the Northerners and the other tribes are gaining knowledge that Nkrimah and Rawlings were indeed for the unity of Ghana.
James 10 years ago

You are a sick donkey without sense. If not you mother fucker monkey shit eater would have know the seriousness of the dirty and tribal words from your equally foolish and drug addict Akufo Addo. You are out of your ugly blac ...
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You are a sick donkey without sense. If not you mother fucker monkey shit eater would have know the seriousness of the dirty and tribal words from your equally foolish and drug addict Akufo Addo. You are out of your ugly black head!
BE BOLD 10 years ago

@James. All you need to do is to start feeling good about yourself and you will stop the insult. Joe did not say anything to arouse such an anger from you. Please work on your self esteem.

@James. All you need to do is to start feeling good about yourself and you will stop the insult. Joe did not say anything to arouse such an anger from you. Please work on your self esteem.
francis 10 years ago

i support you 100 percent be bold, that man needs a psychiatric to erase that inferiority from his head

i support you 100 percent be bold, that man needs a psychiatric to erase that inferiority from his head
joe canada 10 years ago

you have so much hatred in your heart, and I must warn you, you will die young if you don't stop. because, like it or not one cannot wipe out a particular ethnicity from the face of the world in this 21 century. some people h ...
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you have so much hatred in your heart, and I must warn you, you will die young if you don't stop. because, like it or not one cannot wipe out a particular ethnicity from the face of the world in this 21 century. some people have tried and we all know the results. the earlier you learn to love the better it will be for you and together we can make this world a better place to live. thanks for your insults but I still love all Ghanaians including you.
Kwame 10 years ago

We must celebrate differences and learn from each other because its the only way to develop and improve our country, and make it a place good for all.

We must celebrate differences and learn from each other because its the only way to develop and improve our country, and make it a place good for all.
concern citizen 10 years ago

If Nana Addo said "Yen Akanfuo" and Mahama "We Northerners", can someone tells me the difference. Ghanaians should think as human being. I personally thinks the hatred for Akans is only jealousy from the poor ewes.

If Nana Addo said "Yen Akanfuo" and Mahama "We Northerners", can someone tells me the difference. Ghanaians should think as human being. I personally thinks the hatred for Akans is only jealousy from the poor ewes.
Atuguba 10 years ago

The comments on this forum is below par. especially when it supposed to be a cross section of educated Ghanaians. This prof wrote a fabulous piece of this GAY issue. I think we should get this Prof to substantiate his stateme ...
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The comments on this forum is below par. especially when it supposed to be a cross section of educated Ghanaians. This prof wrote a fabulous piece of this GAY issue. I think we should get this Prof to substantiate his statement at a bigger forum as this issue is somethings Ghanaians will have to face up to. if not addressed in less than 20 years i can see Ghana changing to something along a Federal system as a solution the country going up with civil war
SHAMU 10 years ago

How can Ghanaians gain access to education if our so called professors can`t think? Look at what someone is talking about. Is that what he understand from his many years of education? God really for bid. If this is how foolis ...
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How can Ghanaians gain access to education if our so called professors can`t think? Look at what someone is talking about. Is that what he understand from his many years of education? God really for bid. If this is how foolish I will become if I get there, then, I should better not go to school. Ghana is in really problem. What research this professor did and concluded with this conclusion? Not far long ago, another professor came out with his finding that, if a person drink cow milk, he will behave like cow. Excuse me something has to be done with all this professors. They need serious medical attention before they explode the country.
However, what about Akans and their party of hate, steal, loot, and corrupt? Are they not those who hate others, are they not those who caused their to Ghanaians? i mean there are soo many question to what this paper professor is saying. We now need to demolish our universities and start afresh. Sooner is the best. Let`s do it like that of china who prison almost all their professor soon after the revolution. Today they are bearing the fruit of their positive moved 60 year later.
Nii 10 years ago

This supposed historian wants to tell us the he doesnt know that it is only Akans who have derogatory names they use to refer to other tribes in this country? Of course, he is a Ga! Why wont we sit here and allow the Akans to ...
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This supposed historian wants to tell us the he doesnt know that it is only Akans who have derogatory names they use to refer to other tribes in this country? Of course, he is a Ga! Why wont we sit here and allow the Akans to come and own our lands?
OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

You see how stupid you are? Is Ocquaye the caretaker of lands in Accra? Your foolish and greedy chiefs sold the land for kenkey. It does not matter whether Non-Akans hate Akans or vice versa. The only thing that's holding thi ...
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You see how stupid you are? Is Ocquaye the caretaker of lands in Accra? Your foolish and greedy chiefs sold the land for kenkey. It does not matter whether Non-Akans hate Akans or vice versa. The only thing that's holding this Ashawo-ba JJ agenda together is the lack of Akan unity. Once that's achieved, fools like you are toast because you don't produce nothing but eat double kenkey like donkeys and shit all over your God given beaches. Prepare yourself because that day of Akan unity is coming soon.
tommy 10 years ago

Just ask your self can NPP ever chose a Presidential candidate outside Ashanti/Akyem tribe dont look far you will recognize that fool is not far fetched stay tuned

Just ask your self can NPP ever chose a Presidential candidate outside Ashanti/Akyem tribe dont look far you will recognize that fool is not far fetched stay tuned
Crush, London 10 years ago

Fortunately or unfortunately, that message to the Prof from Osei Tawiah is rather true and a good advise to all Gas. You can never trust the Akan and this stupid man's message is quite reminiscent and reflective of the averag ...
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Fortunately or unfortunately, that message to the Prof from Osei Tawiah is rather true and a good advise to all Gas. You can never trust the Akan and this stupid man's message is quite reminiscent and reflective of the average Asanti perception of not just Gas but all other minority tribes including, Ewes, Northerners, Krobos, Adas and other affiliated tribes. As a Ewe person, I tend to trust northerners and other minority tribes including gas as true brothers and sisters. It’s rather unfortunate that it is impossible to trust the Akan even though we are all supposed to act as Ghanaians. How could some tribes be so demeaning of others like this? Don’t waste your time and energy and watch out Prof for you may never know whom to trust. You definitely need to read history and do some home work.
Kwame Maclean 10 years ago

Fellow citizens of Ghana please calm down. You see, this is one of the problems I have with the soo called Ghanaian professors. Mike Oquaye just talked like a child. Does it mean this is what he has injected into the blood of ...
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Fellow citizens of Ghana please calm down. You see, this is one of the problems I have with the soo called Ghanaian professors. Mike Oquaye just talked like a child. Does it mean this is what he has injected into the blood of his children? I shall refer him to go and read j.h.s.social studies textbooks. After that. he will know what instigated the difference. Mike Oquaye, you're a Liar indeed. There is no veracity in what Mike Oquaye said. What he said is just a cacophony. Exploded professor, a liar, go and learn History very well though am not a Historian. Arhhhhhhhhhhh Ghana professors, they are just retarding and distorting education in Ghana. God have mercy on we the youth and the future leaders of our dear motherland Ghana. We the youth, refuse these wicked behaviour of our fathers, mothers and siblings that Ghana has been entrusted. Mike Oquaye you're the biggest liar in the history of Ghana. Make research well.
francis 10 years ago

shamu you need medical attention now. remember hate akans or love akans, akans or for that matter any other tribe will be there til thy kingdom comes. this earth is dwelled by people of different race, age, sex, ethnicity, re ...
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shamu you need medical attention now. remember hate akans or love akans, akans or for that matter any other tribe will be there til thy kingdom comes. this earth is dwelled by people of different race, age, sex, ethnicity, religion, etc, and it will forever be so.
Noah 10 years ago

I want you to hold your breath. I seriously want to believe that this man is gradually getting out of his mind. If this is not mischief by this hopeless old man, what else is this? Unless this foolish and useless good for not ...
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I want you to hold your breath. I seriously want to believe that this man is gradually getting out of his mind. If this is not mischief by this hopeless old man, what else is this? Unless this foolish and useless good for nothing idiot want to tell Ghanaians that he is the defender of the uncouth bush behaviour of the Ashantis and the Akyems. Never have anybody accuse any other Akan speaking tribe of being arrogant and insulting than these Ashantis and Akyems. What a foolish hopeless man! We have not forgotten the insults from Victor Owusu and the rest. Ocquaye, you are a very stupid and foolish and mental disturbed idiot.May you never know peace and die a disgraceful death.Curse on all of your offsprings.Stupid and stupid man!
Sheikh 10 years ago

Just to add to what you have just expressed, 'historians' like Ocquaye, let alone 'political,' should be blamed for the retrogression in Ghana at all levels. Why do you have to MISINFORM the newer generation except for you hi ...
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Just to add to what you have just expressed, 'historians' like Ocquaye, let alone 'political,' should be blamed for the retrogression in Ghana at all levels. Why do you have to MISINFORM the newer generation except for you hidden agenda. Half truths have always been enemy of development. Please, do stop addressing this guy as political historian. Call him NPP historian. Even with this he will mislead the party. This guy fits very well in George Owell's novel "1984."
Joshua 10 years ago

The NPP is no longer an Akan party.Is now an Asanti/Akyem party since 2008.Prof. please check your facts well.Again,if the NPP is not an Akan party choose non-Akan as the flag bearer of the 2016 election & till you do that,yo ...
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The NPP is no longer an Akan party.Is now an Asanti/Akyem party since 2008.Prof. please check your facts well.Again,if the NPP is not an Akan party choose non-Akan as the flag bearer of the 2016 election & till you do that,your party will forever be labelled as such.
prempeh 1 10 years ago

As he forgotten about Mate meho party, Okyeame Baffour Akoto the illiterate Ashanti man pushing Busia and co, forcing Osagyefo Dr.Nkrumah to seperate Ghana, Nkrumah had refused that agenda from the Ashantis, but when Busia ca ...
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As he forgotten about Mate meho party, Okyeame Baffour Akoto the illiterate Ashanti man pushing Busia and co, forcing Osagyefo Dr.Nkrumah to seperate Ghana, Nkrumah had refused that agenda from the Ashantis, but when Busia came to power, Nana Prempeh, asked Busia about the Mate meho, he replied, that has been discarded. The CPP supporters in Ashanti Kumasi were humiliated by Mate meho in the 60s, as he forgotten about that story.
Yaw 10 years ago

This assertion cannot be true. Akans are the least tribalistic. Go to Kumasi and see how other tribes are accepted and live together, how can you say Akans are the most tribalistic. Go to the public service, where an Akan hap ...
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This assertion cannot be true. Akans are the least tribalistic. Go to Kumasi and see how other tribes are accepted and live together, how can you say Akans are the most tribalistic. Go to the public service, where an Akan happens to be the boss you cannot see him recruiting akans. But this is not so with other trbes. The evidence is so glaring.
AHITOPHEL 10 years ago

It is very sad that in the name of Politics, fine academics of par excellence can fall into abyss just to court the sympathy for his parochial interest and convenience.

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It is very sad that in the name of Politics, fine academics of par excellence can fall into abyss just to court the sympathy for his parochial interest and convenience.

The issue of tribal acrimony among ethnic groupings in Ghana goes beyond the myopic postulation of the origin of the problem as enumerated by the learned Prof.

Interestingly, he left out his own tribe who consistently and predominantly vote NDC. Do they also hate the Akans?

The rivalry is deep seated and misinformation of this nature will only aggravate already porous situation.

Rawlings on 2 occasions picked Akans as running mates. What did we see NPP do? Tried to exploit the tribal alignment by choosing consistently a running mate from the North and this albatross has become a convention.

Come again, Prof so we can gain from your depth of knowledge and tons of experience in academia.

Don't let us approach this canker with this mindset of blaming the dog and hang it. Tribal issues are very sensitive in nature so lets be careful how we approach it in order to avoid conflagration.
Nnnn 10 years ago

How can a poilitcal historian forget Victor Owusu's "EWES ARE INWARD LOOKING" statement when JJ was still buying yorkor gari on credit? What kind of political academic is this man

How can a poilitcal historian forget Victor Owusu's "EWES ARE INWARD LOOKING" statement when JJ was still buying yorkor gari on credit? What kind of political academic is this man
NOKWARE 10 years ago

OCQUAYE, AS SOME SAID IS A YAKA GBOMO! HIS LIES AND FABRICATION OF TRUTHTO ENABLE HIM DEMONIZE RAWLINGS HAVE BEEN EXPOSED.
WELL SAID AHITOPHEL

OCQUAYE, AS SOME SAID IS A YAKA GBOMO! HIS LIES AND FABRICATION OF TRUTHTO ENABLE HIM DEMONIZE RAWLINGS HAVE BEEN EXPOSED.
WELL SAID AHITOPHEL
jj 10 years ago

Indeed ur name matches ur point of veiw

Indeed ur name matches ur point of veiw
Pround pepeni. 10 years ago

YES THE OTHER TRIBES ARE LIVING IN KUMASI BY THE SKIN OF THEIR TEETH. ANYTIME THE ASHANT KINGDOM IS BROKE, THEY SINGLE OUT THE VISITORS AND TAX THEM. ONLY IN KUMASI THAT THIS HAPPENS. IMMAGINE IF THE GAS DECIDED TO CHOOSE TO ...
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YES THE OTHER TRIBES ARE LIVING IN KUMASI BY THE SKIN OF THEIR TEETH. ANYTIME THE ASHANT KINGDOM IS BROKE, THEY SINGLE OUT THE VISITORS AND TAX THEM. ONLY IN KUMASI THAT THIS HAPPENS. IMMAGINE IF THE GAS DECIDED TO CHOOSE TO STOP ALL TRO-TROS AND ASK ALL GAS TO STAND ASIDE AND THEN TAX ALL THE NON-GAS. IT WILL CAUSE AN UPROAR. THIS HAPPENS IN KUMASI ON A REGULAR BASIS. YOU CAUSE YOUR OWN HATRED.
YET TO HEAR FROM EWES 10 years ago

No matter what you do to EWES, they will never like anything that originates from Akan. Ewes just love to live in AKAN towns.

I can not understand Ewes hatred towards Akans. Akans welcome Ewes in their towns and cities. Ak ...
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No matter what you do to EWES, they will never like anything that originates from Akan. Ewes just love to live in AKAN towns.

I can not understand Ewes hatred towards Akans. Akans welcome Ewes in their towns and cities. Akans live harmonious with Akans in Akan areas. I am at a loss to understand Ewes hatred towards Akans. Akans are the most hospitable people in Ghana.

Ewes hatred towards Akans are all just jealous. Ewes jealousy against Akans are killing and destroying Ewes. Ewes who live among Akans must speak out. I hate this hatred. Most of you Ewes came from Togo.

Akans whose land are endowed with rich natural resources, and for that reason has made Akans very rich do not discriminate against you. Most ewes who are living among Akans are very nice people. The difficult ones are those who live in Volta region and has never gone out from Eweland.

The Ewes who write nasty about Asantis have one style of insulting. Some of them take Asanti names, but one is able to know them by the way they insult. What has Akans done to EWES? I am ready to hear from any Ewe.
ASANTE MOTHER FUCKERS 10 years ago

It is Asantes that hate Ewes because Asantes want to rule Ghana. Ewes OUTSMART them in that.

It is Asantes that hate Ewes because Asantes want to rule Ghana. Ewes OUTSMART them in that.
FIFI WILLIAMS 10 years ago

The sad thing about these primitive Ewes is that ;they are in their numbers in Akan areas. The Ewes who live in Akan areas are more than Ewes living in Volta Region.

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The sad thing about these primitive Ewes is that ;they are in their numbers in Akan areas. The Ewes who live in Akan areas are more than Ewes living in Volta Region.

Why do Ewes continue to pour in Akan towns if Akans are not hospitable? We have allowed these barbaric people to settle in Ghana. It is sad. Imagine, if JJ Rawlings mother had not come to Ghana to prostitute herself, what would have JJ Rawlings been?

Imagine, if we Ghanaians had not allowed you Togolese to settled Ghana, what would have majority of you been?
Ewe, be grateful to Akans, at least we are hospitable people than you Ewes.
Virgin Cobra 10 years ago

Has any one gone to Eweland or Northern part of Ghana and heard of Asante town, Fante town,but when you go to akanland you see these settlers from Eweland and northern part welcome by the akans and living happily without any ...
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Has any one gone to Eweland or Northern part of Ghana and heard of Asante town, Fante town,but when you go to akanland you see these settlers from Eweland and northern part welcome by the akans and living happily without any malice against them.
Close Observer 10 years ago

The GUY from the OTHER TRIBE is NOT YOUR ENEMY; he is also a GHANAIAN. Some BAD POLITICIANS would want you to believe otherwise. DON'T VOTE for such POLITICIANS. We have attended the SAME SCHOOL, worshiped in the SAME CHURCH ...
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The GUY from the OTHER TRIBE is NOT YOUR ENEMY; he is also a GHANAIAN. Some BAD POLITICIANS would want you to believe otherwise. DON'T VOTE for such POLITICIANS. We have attended the SAME SCHOOL, worshiped in the SAME CHURCH and even INTER-MARRIED; why would we let some BAD POLITICIANS SOW A SEED OF HATRED among us? It is only in their interest that we fight among ourselves, NOT in our interest. REJECT 'WE AND THEM POLITICS'. RESPECT and EMBRACE EVERY TRIBE. We are STRONGER by so doing. REMEMBER, 'WE ARE ALL INVOLVE IN BUILDING OUR MOTHERLAND. God bless every GHANAIAN, and LONG LIVE GHANA.
YET TO HEAR FROM EWES 10 years ago

Continue to hold onto the good ideas you have. People like you are our future. Thank you.

Continue to hold onto the good ideas you have. People like you are our future. Thank you.
DR KUFFOUR 10 years ago

Tommy, say it again. They are pointing at the wrong person. They are poeple who for their selfishness will stab a Love one. Just look at them within the NPP Party? Just think of the Kuffour and Nana saga or Nana and Alan sag ...
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Tommy, say it again. They are pointing at the wrong person. They are poeple who for their selfishness will stab a Love one. Just look at them within the NPP Party? Just think of the Kuffour and Nana saga or Nana and Alan saga. That is their problem and nobody's. End of story. Peace!!!
AKAN AUTONOMY 10 years ago

THIS WILL BRING PEACE.

THIS WILL BRING PEACE.
DR KUFFOUR 10 years ago

Yaw, no part in Ghana belongs to any single tribe and your lack of knowledge of socialogy is a your big problem. My bro try to learn from others and that can bring peace.

Yaw, no part in Ghana belongs to any single tribe and your lack of knowledge of socialogy is a your big problem. My bro try to learn from others and that can bring peace.
Akan Unite 10 years ago

then it belong to who, very soon we wil chase u all frm Akan land, u the evils

then it belong to who, very soon we wil chase u all frm Akan land, u the evils
DI ASEMPA 10 years ago

ewes don't have a land as you think.

ewes don't have a land as you think.
Nii 10 years ago

Thats why you think the Ga lands belong to you! Why dont you go build your houses in your favourite kumasi and leave us alone here in Accra? We love Ewes, Northerners, Krobos, etc. We'll prefer to have them as neighbours than ...
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Thats why you think the Ga lands belong to you! Why dont you go build your houses in your favourite kumasi and leave us alone here in Accra? We love Ewes, Northerners, Krobos, etc. We'll prefer to have them as neighbours than you akans!
fadikafuta 10 years ago

We are here with them in germany and the work they do is aplapla while the other tirbes do better work

We are here with them in germany and the work they do is aplapla while the other tirbes do better work
gh vi 10 years ago

ashantis are here in Ghana and because of their fake yellow painted "golden stool" they want to look down on any other Ghanaian. they start hating u when u begin to prosper, yet they will kneel and lick a white man's boot. in ...
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ashantis are here in Ghana and because of their fake yellow painted "golden stool" they want to look down on any other Ghanaian. they start hating u when u begin to prosper, yet they will kneel and lick a white man's boot. inferiority complex, that's their problem
Close Observer 10 years ago

Jerry Rawlings is not the wrong person to point at. He intensified 'WE AND THEM' POLITICS IN GHANA

Jerry Rawlings is not the wrong person to point at. He intensified 'WE AND THEM' POLITICS IN GHANA
insight to the bone 10 years ago

at last you admit it , how can you hate the majority and still hope to participate in power ? your days are numbered

at last you admit it , how can you hate the majority and still hope to participate in power ? your days are numbered
Peace 10 years ago

Look at this prof. that is not ashamed of lying. He should go and ask his father the late Victor Owusu. A big shame on you prof.

Look at this prof. that is not ashamed of lying. He should go and ask his father the late Victor Owusu. A big shame on you prof.
Pelicles 10 years ago

Why Victor Owusu? What prompted Victor to make that "inward looking" statement? If you are sure of yourself, tell us why Victor said that. Look, some body said something that forced Victor to make that statement because the ...
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Why Victor Owusu? What prompted Victor to make that "inward looking" statement? If you are sure of yourself, tell us why Victor said that. Look, some body said something that forced Victor to make that statement because the man was too wise to just cast insult on an entire tribe.

How would you categorize Kofi Awoonor?
AKAN AUTONOMY 10 years ago

EWES.

EWES.
Kwaku 10 years ago

The statement by Prof. Ocquaye need to be discussed dispassionately and examined scientifically from period 1981Decembre to 2000 when Rawlings was the Head of State and President of the country whether it can be proved and ...
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The statement by Prof. Ocquaye need to be discussed dispassionately and examined scientifically from period 1981Decembre to 2000 when Rawlings was the Head of State and President of the country whether it can be proved and also his utterrance and actions after he was out of power should be evaluated to see if it true or false.
Jam 10 years ago

Tribalism, nepotism, dirty arrogance and looking down on other tribes are the cause of hatred against the largest vernacular speaking party in the world i.e NPP

Tribalism, nepotism, dirty arrogance and looking down on other tribes are the cause of hatred against the largest vernacular speaking party in the world i.e NPP
oba nyansani baako Pe in Ghana 10 years ago

You called yourself a human being but you have animal brain in your head. What is wrong about what the professor said? Was it not true? Aaaba! Wagyimi do do.

You called yourself a human being but you have animal brain in your head. What is wrong about what the professor said? Was it not true? Aaaba! Wagyimi do do.
THE WAY 10 years ago

I DISAGREE WITH MIKE OQUAYE,THE AKANS DISRESPECT THE EWES AND THE NORTHNERS.

I DISAGREE WITH MIKE OQUAYE,THE AKANS DISRESPECT THE EWES AND THE NORTHNERS.
yaw b 10 years ago

And the Ewes and Northerners respect Akans, abi? Are you sure it's not jealousy and inferiority complex on your part?

And the Ewes and Northerners respect Akans, abi? Are you sure it's not jealousy and inferiority complex on your part?
Abraham Dia 10 years ago

Inferiority? what bullshit. No Ewe or Northerner feels inferior, they just feel angry that another dirt ugly looking african thinks he is superior to him. So there is no inferiority only anger. Dont ever think that I feel inf ...
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Inferiority? what bullshit. No Ewe or Northerner feels inferior, they just feel angry that another dirt ugly looking african thinks he is superior to him. So there is no inferiority only anger. Dont ever think that I feel inferior to any Akan just because I live in Kumasi. You are so ignorant. Here again is a sign of your stupidity, which brings you more troubles.
NKETIAH ASIEDU 10 years ago

BUT DON'T YOU KNOW YOU PEOPLE ARE BACKWARD AND INFERIOR,HAHAHHA!YOUR MIND TELLS YOU.YOUR ZONGOS AND AYIGWE TOWNS SHOW HOW YOU PEOPLE ARE.THERE WILL BE NO MISTAKE IF I GIVE YOU DIRTY DOUBLE SLAPS ON YOUR IDIOT UGLY FACE FOR YO ...
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BUT DON'T YOU KNOW YOU PEOPLE ARE BACKWARD AND INFERIOR,HAHAHHA!YOUR MIND TELLS YOU.YOUR ZONGOS AND AYIGWE TOWNS SHOW HOW YOU PEOPLE ARE.THERE WILL BE NO MISTAKE IF I GIVE YOU DIRTY DOUBLE SLAPS ON YOUR IDIOT UGLY FACE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE STILL BACKWARD AND INFERIOR MOTHER FUCKER.IF YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT INFERIOR WHY DO WE GIVE YOU IDIOTS SCHOLARSHIPS,SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING AT SADA ONLY INFERIOR PEOPLE WILL BLOCK THIS CHANCE,BE MUTE MOTHER FUCKER!.
gh vi 10 years ago

the person who calls himself superior goes to the white man's country with a masters degree to go carry toilet whilst the people he thinks are inferior are employed in more respectable jobs. what a paradox. ashantis primitive ...
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the person who calls himself superior goes to the white man's country with a masters degree to go carry toilet whilst the people he thinks are inferior are employed in more respectable jobs. what a paradox. ashantis primitiveness knows no bounds
Dunga 10 years ago

Ocquaye is talking rubbish, when Akans think they are better than other tribes, the insult being poured on the sitting president because he is from the north.Npp will bring Ghana into war if the president dont stop being soft ...
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Ocquaye is talking rubbish, when Akans think they are better than other tribes, the insult being poured on the sitting president because he is from the north.Npp will bring Ghana into war if the president dont stop being softie.
AKAN AUTONOMY 10 years ago

AKAN AUTONOMY NOW

AKAN AUTONOMY NOW
yaw b 10 years ago

You see what we've been saying always? Inferiority complex and low self esteem!!! So all the insults on Kufuor and Mills were because they are Akans, eh? Fools, always seeing everything through the tribal lens instead of the ...
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You see what we've been saying always? Inferiority complex and low self esteem!!! So all the insults on Kufuor and Mills were because they are Akans, eh? Fools, always seeing everything through the tribal lens instead of the substance or the real issues.
Maame Grace 10 years ago

Kwasea what about the insult on all the other presidents gone before the current one.Though i dont condone any insults Mahama is not the only person being insulted by the current group of youth who think the only way to addre ...
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Kwasea what about the insult on all the other presidents gone before the current one.Though i dont condone any insults Mahama is not the only person being insulted by the current group of youth who think the only way to address any issue is to insult.
NANA 10 years ago

Unfortunately most of the comments I am reading are from the young generation who would not understand what the good Prof is saying.Ghana used to be one till Rawlings regime,where he divided us just to be in power.

Unfortunately most of the comments I am reading are from the young generation who would not understand what the good Prof is saying.Ghana used to be one till Rawlings regime,where he divided us just to be in power.
Nnnn 10 years ago

When Victor opeened a can of worm with his popular Ewes are inward looking where was Rawlings then? If you are sincere you should have remembered this

When Victor opeened a can of worm with his popular Ewes are inward looking where was Rawlings then? If you are sincere you should have remembered this
Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 10 years ago

JJ is in deed a selfish pot bellied man. He is a failure and so always want to ignite tribal passion to solicit sympathy.

JJ is in deed a selfish pot bellied man. He is a failure and so always want to ignite tribal passion to solicit sympathy.
Tackson 10 years ago

Mik u need to know that northerners are wise enough to be manipulated by JJ and also want to think that Mik is saying that ewes do not think.

Mik think againh

Mik u need to know that northerners are wise enough to be manipulated by JJ and also want to think that Mik is saying that ewes do not think.

Mik think againh
Abraham Dia 10 years ago

Konadu Rawlings is acutally an Ewe and that is why she endorsed her Ewe Husband. Ghana was one ideed....before Rawlings came. Hahaha. It seemed as if Ghana was one because we the Majority decided to watch you these thieves fo ...
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Konadu Rawlings is acutally an Ewe and that is why she endorsed her Ewe Husband. Ghana was one ideed....before Rawlings came. Hahaha. It seemed as if Ghana was one because we the Majority decided to watch you these thieves for a while. Now that we have woken up, you will never cheat us again
APOLLO T 10 years ago

After our grand parents have lived and engaged them to stay and work with them, they now turn round to fights us.

After our grand parents have lived and engaged them to stay and work with them, they now turn round to fights us.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

Little John was standing in front of his mirror with his eyes closed.
Why are you standing there with your eyes closed? asked his sister.
So I can see what I look like when Im asleep, he replied.

Little John was standing in front of his mirror with his eyes closed.
Why are you standing there with your eyes closed? asked his sister.
So I can see what I look like when Im asleep, he replied.
Kumordzi 10 years ago

Has Prof Mike Ocquaye ever listened to an Akan insulting Ewes and Northerners. He sit back and come again.

Has Prof Mike Ocquaye ever listened to an Akan insulting Ewes and Northerners. He sit back and come again.
paapa 10 years ago

My name is fordjour but my ewe friends call me fojo thinking am an ewes, I relies it sounded like an ewe name, so I decided to lie to them am an ewe but I av always lv in ksi so I can't speak the language, I tell u is only o ...
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My name is fordjour but my ewe friends call me fojo thinking am an ewes, I relies it sounded like an ewe name, so I decided to lie to them am an ewe but I av always lv in ksi so I can't speak the language, I tell u is only one of the lot ewe friend still chart with me when they relies am an Akan. My point is hw can we call our self ghanaians when we r soo trabalistic in every thing we do may God help u
KID 10 years ago

Akyems and Asantes are the cause of their problem. Party is just full of Twi-speaking arrogant empty idiots.

Akyems and Asantes are the cause of their problem. Party is just full of Twi-speaking arrogant empty idiots.
Worried Citizin 10 years ago

Fool, who are the causes of your problems. Such premitive and stupid people like you are the causes of your own problems.

Fool, who are the causes of your problems. Such premitive and stupid people like you are the causes of your own problems.
ETA 10 years ago

Don't blame the said discrimination on anybody,the Akans shoul learn how to respect other tribes and see them as human beings since they can't be Ghanaians than anybody.

Don't blame the said discrimination on anybody,the Akans shoul learn how to respect other tribes and see them as human beings since they can't be Ghanaians than anybody.
Mandela Nelson 10 years ago

PROF.,SO WHERE DID JJ PUT THE GA-DANGBES?YOU ARE RATHER CREATING DIVISION IN THE COUNTRY.YOU ARE A BAD HISTORIAN AND FOR THAT MATTER A CHEAP PROFFESSOR.LEAVE JJ ALONE.

PROF.,SO WHERE DID JJ PUT THE GA-DANGBES?YOU ARE RATHER CREATING DIVISION IN THE COUNTRY.YOU ARE A BAD HISTORIAN AND FOR THAT MATTER A CHEAP PROFFESSOR.LEAVE JJ ALONE.
AMA 10 years ago

Prof you are talking nonsense. How come? You are rather dividing this Nation.live JJ alone, and face your music.

Prof you are talking nonsense. How come? You are rather dividing this Nation.live JJ alone, and face your music.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

Sack him. You cant employ a politician as a CEO of a bank. Are you saying NPP sympathisers should withdraw their moneys from STANBIC? You have one week to respond.

Sack him. You cant employ a politician as a CEO of a bank. Are you saying NPP sympathisers should withdraw their moneys from STANBIC? You have one week to respond.
ETA 10 years ago

The stomack Prof.should learn how prevent fire than to fight it since he can't stop what he is about to start, he suppose to be a Professor but not devisor.

The stomack Prof.should learn how prevent fire than to fight it since he can't stop what he is about to start, he suppose to be a Professor but not devisor.
kofi yalley 10 years ago

when the late best and visionary leader and president, dr osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was preaching unity and nationalism in Ghana, busia,jb danquah,edward akuffo addo (the father of the Lilliputian),Jake obestsebi lamptey, the bo ...
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when the late best and visionary leader and president, dr osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was preaching unity and nationalism in Ghana, busia,jb danquah,edward akuffo addo (the father of the Lilliputian),Jake obestsebi lamptey, the bomb thrower,ic quaye senior, second in command to the bomb throwers, malam tula, teiko taigoe and co came in with tribalism and divisiveness and disintegrated the country on both tribal and political lines. whereas Kwame Nkrumah was doing his best to de- tribalize the country, so that every Ghanaian sees a fellow Ghanaian as a brother or sister, these demonic and destroyers of Ghana led by dr abrefa busia, rather came in with violence and mate meho madness to create division amongst fellow Ghanaians. the descendants of these nation wreckers are today leading the elephant party and continuing the bad examples set by their late fore fathers and uncles. if we have such characters in our country, how could our dear country move in the right direction?
kofiga 10 years ago

The only truth so far

The only truth so far
gyan 10 years ago

The Akans were conquered by Ewes as the history will tell. The reason why the Akans are plenty in the Volta region. Prof you are not a proper historian. Do you know the name Ayigbe?

The Akans were conquered by Ewes as the history will tell. The reason why the Akans are plenty in the Volta region. Prof you are not a proper historian. Do you know the name Ayigbe?
Obaa Yaa 10 years ago

The NPP too has added to the problem if any by looking down on those who are not akans.

The NPP too has added to the problem if any by looking down on those who are not akans.
Sani not Abacha 10 years ago

When this JJ you hate so much wanted to electrify the North, ask yourself, what did you [NPP] say.? If you don't know the answer, request Mr. Dan Afari Yeboah to include it in his questions of 'What do you know?' on Sunday. T ...
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When this JJ you hate so much wanted to electrify the North, ask yourself, what did you [NPP] say.? If you don't know the answer, request Mr. Dan Afari Yeboah to include it in his questions of 'What do you know?' on Sunday. There are more than one reason why. Go dig Victor Owusu's grave you find another reason. Go dig Prof. Busia's grave you find another in the sacking of all non-Akans from GOG positions when he took the mantle of governance by default.
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

ANDANI SHOULD BE SACKED AS CEO OF STANBIC BECAUSE HE IS A POLITICIAN!!!

ANDANI SHOULD BE SACKED AS CEO OF STANBIC BECAUSE HE IS A POLITICIAN!!!
Close Observer 10 years ago

Don't buy his soap, because he is a politician, Kwabena Darko also became Akukor Darko - What kind of a leader was JJ RAWLINGS? A destroyer.

Don't buy his soap, because he is a politician, Kwabena Darko also became Akukor Darko - What kind of a leader was JJ RAWLINGS? A destroyer.
Ray 10 years ago

Ashantis are different from all others within the akan group.for ashantis their selfishness and greed has caused their hatred.Am a Ga but will always hate ashantis and avoid them as much as possible.

Ashantis are different from all others within the akan group.for ashantis their selfishness and greed has caused their hatred.Am a Ga but will always hate ashantis and avoid them as much as possible.
Onipanua 10 years ago

Because Gas are fools, lazy and idiots. Avoid Ashantis and who care for your dirty environment. The only thing you know is food that is why all your songs food is mentioned. Who cares about such a foolish Gas hating Ashantis. ...
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Because Gas are fools, lazy and idiots. Avoid Ashantis and who care for your dirty environment. The only thing you know is food that is why all your songs food is mentioned. Who cares about such a foolish Gas hating Ashantis. Ray or whatever you call yourself, it is damned jealousy that makes you hate Ashantis. Aboa bi ba. Wonya sccme.
Merlic, London 10 years ago

I am not Ga but married to a Ga woman. So, my children are both Ewes and Gas. Before marriage, all my girlfriends had been Akans and I have nothing against any woman. My little worry is this. What makes some tribes hate other ...
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I am not Ga but married to a Ga woman. So, my children are both Ewes and Gas. Before marriage, all my girlfriends had been Akans and I have nothing against any woman. My little worry is this. What makes some tribes hate other tribes? In other words, why are some tribes more forgiving than others?

This twit calling himself Onipanua just made that backward, afuom, kookoase and xenophobic tirade against Gas. His half-baked ideas and ignorance is breathtaking. In truth, are Ga people that forgiving? It is amazing how some Ghanaians can be so uncivilised. Please other than blaming JJ, please look deeper into xenophobia and your crude local bigotry.
Ghanaman 10 years ago

This statement from a politician historian is unfortunate,Rawlings should not be blamed for this tribal hatred if he really knows the history of Ghana,This is the time for Nana Addo Dankwa or any NPP presidential candidate to ...
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This statement from a politician historian is unfortunate,Rawlings should not be blamed for this tribal hatred if he really knows the history of Ghana,This is the time for Nana Addo Dankwa or any NPP presidential candidate to win more votes from the Ewes and our brother Northerners,You are rather blaming them for a hatred that started when the Ashantis were at war with other tribes in the Gold coast,Ashatis are at peace with those who killed King Osei Tutu the first whiled crossing river pra, NOT river volta then why the Ewes and Northerners? The professor should help the Ashantis to know that, Respect is give and take.so they should stop showing arogant and disrespect to other tribes then we can live as true Ghanaians.Ashantis should lean from other akan groups especially the Okwawus from Abetifi,Mpreiso,Bomeng and others,If you dont like the apple then do not shake the tree.
KK 10 years ago

Somebody ask the Prof said 'yen Akan UFO' in reference to members of NPP? Or was the statement an endorsement of what Prof is alleging and if an endorsement, then Rawlings did the right thing. However, if the comment is not a ...
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Somebody ask the Prof said 'yen Akan UFO' in reference to members of NPP? Or was the statement an endorsement of what Prof is alleging and if an endorsement, then Rawlings did the right thing. However, if the comment is not an endorsement, then the Prof is not being honest.
Charles Agbenu 10 years ago

Who said You Notherners should vote for me ?

Who said You Notherners should vote for me ?
PROUD PEPENI 10 years ago

THE CAUSE IS THEIR ARROGANCE AND LACK OF RESPECT FOR OTHER TRIBES. IT BAFFLES ME WHY A GROUP OF DARK UGLY BAT EATING MONKEYS CAN BE SOO ARROGANT.

THE CAUSE IS THEIR ARROGANCE AND LACK OF RESPECT FOR OTHER TRIBES. IT BAFFLES ME WHY A GROUP OF DARK UGLY BAT EATING MONKEYS CAN BE SOO ARROGANT.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

Because they enslaved you for so many years .Infact ,the enslavement still goes on . They have made you to hate your own language ,you do not have any music of your own etc. They have given you identity as a Ghanaian. You sh ...
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Because they enslaved you for so many years .Infact ,the enslavement still goes on . They have made you to hate your own language ,you do not have any music of your own etc. They have given you identity as a Ghanaian. You should be thankful . Don,t be ungrateful.
BE BOLD 10 years ago

The welcome message at the national airport says "Akwaaba". The official language to greet visitors and tourists

The welcome message at the national airport says "Akwaaba". The official language to greet visitors and tourists
SLY 10 years ago

The NPP hasn't learnt any lesson as far as tribal politics is concerned. It has been their practice from the colonial days yet they can't stop. Remember the "Mate me ho, yen akanfuor die" just a few among others.

The NPP hasn't learnt any lesson as far as tribal politics is concerned. It has been their practice from the colonial days yet they can't stop. Remember the "Mate me ho, yen akanfuor die" just a few among others.
Cantankerous 10 years ago

Rawlings is a nuisance in our county's political dispensation. This creep infiltrated in our socio-political system with his so called revolutions and messed us up big time! Entrepreneurs were branded kalabules and disgraced ...
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Rawlings is a nuisance in our county's political dispensation. This creep infiltrated in our socio-political system with his so called revolutions and messed us up big time! Entrepreneurs were branded kalabules and disgraced and some killed, and their businesses destroyed. Rawlings is a real bane in Ghana!
KWAME A. 10 years ago

The man is sick. If people like this teach our children then we are in trouble.

The man is sick. If people like this teach our children then we are in trouble.
still rastafari 10 years ago

rawlings judgement soon come !!!!!!

rawlings judgement soon come !!!!!!
Ahmed 10 years ago

Prof should know better.Remember Rwanda,Central Africa Republic,Ivory Coast,Former Yugoslavia ...the list goes on on on.This tribal politics in not in the interest of anybody.
Let's cherish the peace we are enjoying in the ...
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Prof should know better.Remember Rwanda,Central Africa Republic,Ivory Coast,Former Yugoslavia ...the list goes on on on.This tribal politics in not in the interest of anybody.
Let's cherish the peace we are enjoying in the country.
Kwame 10 years ago

Down memory line, it is on record that former President John Agyekum Kufuor told the whole world that it is like killing a fly with a hammer sledge if the state take Mr. Kennedy Agyapong to court for instigating genocide agai ...
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Down memory line, it is on record that former President John Agyekum Kufuor told the whole world that it is like killing a fly with a hammer sledge if the state take Mr. Kennedy Agyapong to court for instigating genocide against Ewhes.
It is on record that Kufuor was a deputy minister in Busia's government that dismissed 516 Ehwes from the Civil and Public Service in 1969 and was unable to prove what crime they committed against the state. Legal men still claim today that Busia as the Prime Minister has the right to dismiss the 516 Ewhes, since he deserve the right to employ and unemploy. Those legal brains do not take into consideration that not that one or two persons where dismissed from state employment, but hundreds, all belonging to one tribe. Since Busia and his apologists have not been able to prove why those people were dismissed from the civil and public service without any recourse to the courts, then, that act is qualified as ethnic cleansing.
Again when Kufuor and his NPP came to power in 2001 he also dismissed some Ewhes from both the Civil and Public Service, also without giving and reason.
Kwame is an Ewhe, specifically an Anlo who gave a lot of assistance to any Ghanaian he come across, of which Akan are not an exception. In assisting people I do not fear injury nor cast pearl at swine. But he fact remain that our Akan brothers most of the time use the back of their hand to thank you when you give them help. For instance Komla Agbeli Gbedema accommodated and assisted Prof. Kofi Abrefa whiles he was in exile in Togo. In 1969 Busia caused Gbedema to be dismissed from parliament because he had been a minister in the C.P.P. government.
Roland Ekuban 10 years ago

It's an undeniable fact that the Northerners and the Ewes have always voted for the NDC, but it does not in any way suggest that Dr. Rawlings or the NDC have pitted Northerners and Ewes against Akans. Personally, I think the ...
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It's an undeniable fact that the Northerners and the Ewes have always voted for the NDC, but it does not in any way suggest that Dr. Rawlings or the NDC have pitted Northerners and Ewes against Akans. Personally, I think the Professor should come AGAIN.
agbodzenkple 10 years ago

Is coming from whole learned professor? Is not a historian? Oh! I am afraid.

Is coming from whole learned professor? Is not a historian? Oh! I am afraid.
Samson 10 years ago

Oh prof, I thought you were above this kind of thinking. How come you have stooped so low and gotten into the type of analysis as illitrates do. This is shameful. What you have done is to stoke the fires of tribalism. We shou ...
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Oh prof, I thought you were above this kind of thinking. How come you have stooped so low and gotten into the type of analysis as illitrates do. This is shameful. What you have done is to stoke the fires of tribalism. We should all work towards eradicating tribalism rather than this knid of loose talk. Dagbon is not part of eweland, so why draw in the Ewes?
YAW ODURO 10 years ago

RAWLINGS ORHESTRATED THE DEATH OF YA-NA IN TENDI IN A WAY TO DISENGAGE THE FRATERNAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DAGBONIS AND ASHANTIS. THE RAWLINGS GROUP TOGETHER WITH THE TSIKATAS HATCHD A CLANDESTINE MOTIVE CAUSE ATROCITY IN ...
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RAWLINGS ORHESTRATED THE DEATH OF YA-NA IN TENDI IN A WAY TO DISENGAGE THE FRATERNAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DAGBONIS AND ASHANTIS. THE RAWLINGS GROUP TOGETHER WITH THE TSIKATAS HATCHD A CLANDESTINE MOTIVE CAUSE ATROCITY IN THE WAKE OF KUFFOUR'S RULE SO THAT THE NORTHERNERS WOULD HATE TH ASHANTIS AND THE AKANS PER SE. THAT PLOT WORKED SO RAWLINGS HAS TO APPEASE THE NORTH WITH A UNIVERSITY TO COVER HIS MISDEEDS. YES RAWLINGS WOULD END UP LIKE GADDAFI -FOR THE EVIL THAT MEN DO WOULD LIVE AFTER THEM........
TTK 10 years ago

All these stupid, unnecessary loose talks must stop in this country.NO TRIBE HATES ANY TRIBE. See how the akans men are now chasing ewe women for marriage.

All these stupid, unnecessary loose talks must stop in this country.NO TRIBE HATES ANY TRIBE. See how the akans men are now chasing ewe women for marriage.
Kofi Afari 10 years ago

Did Rawlings ask Nana Addo to say 'yen akanfo dee'? Man, know where you belong and preach. Ruling Ghana is not talking; it's your policies and programmes. Period!!!!!

Did Rawlings ask Nana Addo to say 'yen akanfo dee'? Man, know where you belong and preach. Ruling Ghana is not talking; it's your policies and programmes. Period!!!!!
Charles Agbenu 10 years ago

Kofi, who said ''You Northenrers should vote for one of your own?'' Why nis there no Ashanti Region representation in Mahama cabinet of 19?

Kofi, who said ''You Northenrers should vote for one of your own?'' Why nis there no Ashanti Region representation in Mahama cabinet of 19?
Kojo 10 years ago

I cannot believe this. Mike, the ordain minister of the gospel, indulging in such foolish talk?

Indeed, politics possesses the soul and dulls the conscience.

I cannot believe this. Mike, the ordain minister of the gospel, indulging in such foolish talk?

Indeed, politics possesses the soul and dulls the conscience.
Kwame Osei 10 years ago

Did Rawlings coin the slogans, "Yere gye yen man" and "Akonta besi fom"?

Did Rawlings coin the slogans, "Yere gye yen man" and "Akonta besi fom"?
DAN 10 years ago

THEN WHY DO THEY DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM?

THEN WHY DO THEY DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THEM?
DAN 10 years ago

WHO INSULTED THE EWES?

WHO INSULTED THE EWES?
Nana Akwasi Boachie 10 years ago

The Prof's assertion is a mere hatred. We must bear in mind that not all Akans are Ashantis. The issue is between the Ashantis and all the other tribes in Ghana; not only Ewes and Northerners. A typical Ashanti-man will never ...
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The Prof's assertion is a mere hatred. We must bear in mind that not all Akans are Ashantis. The issue is between the Ashantis and all the other tribes in Ghana; not only Ewes and Northerners. A typical Ashanti-man will never want to be second to any other tribe in the country. Nana Akuffu Addo uses this same argument to become the leader of the NPP; he alleged and I quote, ' This is the time for Akyems' This shows that the Ashantis have been domineering in the Busia- Danqua-Dombo tradition since. I pity my own Bonos; I do not know when a Bono-man shall ever again lead the NPP Party. NDC on the other hand do not care much about who leads the party. The person can be an Ewe, an Nfante, a Northerner (Otani) etc, they don't care. This is unity in diversity. So it just unfortunate that a Prof can make such an unguarded statement. Can a Northerner (Otani) or even any other tribe ever lead the NPP party again, if not for Nana's dream to become a President by hook or crook?? I cannot imagine the number of decades to come before a "Yes" answer may be possible. The best "Otani" can get in the NPP Party is the Chairman or the Vice Prez; for the Prez, na liar, liar. The Party should rather work towards that assertion than to blame any individual for their woes in the political divide.
kofi yalley 10 years ago

the minority leader in parliament once proclaimed that beside prof Ocquaye aka 'Ajasco', no any other Ga was qualified or fit to lead their Akan stricken party, the npp. Gas heard of this insult and yet some fools in their mi ...
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the minority leader in parliament once proclaimed that beside prof Ocquaye aka 'Ajasco', no any other Ga was qualified or fit to lead their Akan stricken party, the npp. Gas heard of this insult and yet some fools in their mist continue to follow the akan stricken party, like sheep. I pity them. they will only use and dump them. let's wait and see!
NOKWARE 10 years ago

NA WHO CAUSE AM? DELVE INTO THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF GHANA MY DEAR PROF. OCQUAYE WHOSE HEAD IS BURIES IN THE SAND APART FROM THE POLITICAL BLINKERS HE WEARS - ASK K.A. BUSIA AND VICTOR OWUSU TO EXPLAIN THEIR "APOLLO 568" AND ...
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NA WHO CAUSE AM? DELVE INTO THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF GHANA MY DEAR PROF. OCQUAYE WHOSE HEAD IS BURIES IN THE SAND APART FROM THE POLITICAL BLINKERS HE WEARS - ASK K.A. BUSIA AND VICTOR OWUSU TO EXPLAIN THEIR "APOLLO 568" AND EWES ARE "INWARD LOOKING" COMMENTS.
THEREIN LIES THE ROOTS OF THE NDC BEING AN NDC WORLDBANK FOR VOTES. ATTA-MILLS WAS NOT AN EWE NOR MAHAMA BUT THE NDC CONTINUES TO SWEEP THE VOLTA REGION JUST AS THE NPP CONTINUES TO SAFELY SWEEP THE ASHANTI REGION. IF THE NPP SWEEPING THE ASHANTI REGION IS GOOD FOR THE GOOSE THENTHE NDC SWEEPING THE VOLTA REGION IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER.
OCQUAYE, INTELLECTUAL SOPHISTRY WILL GET YOU NOWHERE. I AT LEAST EXPECTED SOMEONE WHO IS A "REVEREND" TO SPEAK WITH REVERENCE CONCERNING FACTS AND NOT SACRIFICE TRUTH ON THE ALTAR OF POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY.
RAWLINGS AND YA-NA'S DEATH AND "TAPE" HAVE CAUSED NO DISAFFECTION - ASK THAT TWIT CALLED KENNEDY AGYAPONG TO EXORCISE HIS TRIBALISTIC HATRED AGAINST GAS AND EWES INSTEAD OF BLAMING RAWLINGS. HOLKY MOSES , SUCH TWADDLE FROM OCQUAYE. KENNEDY AGAYAPONG SAID HIS WIFE COMES FROM ADIDIME- DOES THAT EXCULPATE HIS ETHNOCENTRIC HATRED? NO!!!!!
Joe 10 years ago

A political historian indeed. Perhaps a british political historian. Free talk, no wisdom.

A political historian indeed. Perhaps a british political historian. Free talk, no wisdom.
Kwame Osei 10 years ago

Thank you! Those were the NPP slogans that alienated the Ewes and the other tribes. They were not coined by Rawlings.
If these guys don't accept and deal with the truth, they cannot do well in non-Akan regions, period!

Thank you! Those were the NPP slogans that alienated the Ewes and the other tribes. They were not coined by Rawlings.
If these guys don't accept and deal with the truth, they cannot do well in non-Akan regions, period!
Kwame Osei 10 years ago

Thank you! Those were the NPP slogans that alienated the Ewes and the other tribes. They were not coined by Rawlings.
If these guys don't accept and deal with the truth, they cannot do well in non-Akan regions, period!

Thank you! Those were the NPP slogans that alienated the Ewes and the other tribes. They were not coined by Rawlings.
If these guys don't accept and deal with the truth, they cannot do well in non-Akan regions, period!
Justice 10 years ago

Even when the NPP rank and file pick up guns/arms against themselves, they will try to link NDC to it instead of stepping up efforts to bring calm, peace and order among their activists. Your mother is dying and have died but ...
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Even when the NPP rank and file pick up guns/arms against themselves, they will try to link NDC to it instead of stepping up efforts to bring calm, peace and order among their activists. Your mother is dying and have died but you keep telling people that she is asleep, it is you who will smell the carcass first before the community. What have our so called professors or intellectuals have reduced themselves too? It is therefore not surprising that we have so many intellectuals in Ghana but can't solve our numerous socio-economic challenges facing us as a nation. It is a shame
Jay 10 years ago

Please esteemed prof spare us your nonsesne. How can a party like NPP who have Akans at the helm of all affairs suddenly say otherwise? I mean you have the whole party structure consisting of Akans and specifically Ashanti's. ...
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Please esteemed prof spare us your nonsesne. How can a party like NPP who have Akans at the helm of all affairs suddenly say otherwise? I mean you have the whole party structure consisting of Akans and specifically Ashanti's. I mean you are a GA man and by all accounts highly reveered yet did you get a look in as chairman? No. As Presidential candidate? No. I wonder what your motive to push this issue onto Rawlings is? This man as much as we don't like his actions has was able to stablise this country and guess what the party which you are bashing has had an Ewe, Fante and now a northerner as presidential candidates. The least said about the NPP stands on ethnic issues the better as we all know what their perceptions are about the other ethnic groups in our dear nation. Long Live Ghana
Qwame 10 years ago

What has the reason of Dagbon as the basis of the Northerners hating Akans got to do with the Ewes hating the Akans. The mam Ocquaye is delusional to say the least with this baseless and dangerous statement.

What has the reason of Dagbon as the basis of the Northerners hating Akans got to do with the Ewes hating the Akans. The mam Ocquaye is delusional to say the least with this baseless and dangerous statement.
WOFA YAW 10 years ago

AKANS DONT RESPECT NORTHERNERS.ALWAYS INSULTING THEM.BUT WETHER U ARE EWE,PEPENI,AKAN,GA,NZIMA,FANTI WATEVER YOUR TRIBE IS NDC LOVE U.

AKANS DONT RESPECT NORTHERNERS.ALWAYS INSULTING THEM.BUT WETHER U ARE EWE,PEPENI,AKAN,GA,NZIMA,FANTI WATEVER YOUR TRIBE IS NDC LOVE U.
Ghana 4 Ghanaians 10 years ago

Gentleman make ur point properly and stop displaying ur ignorance in public. The Akan in Ghana transcend Ashanti. While it is true that a tribe in Ghana does not respect the rest of the tribes in Ghana, it cannot be said that ...
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Gentleman make ur point properly and stop displaying ur ignorance in public. The Akan in Ghana transcend Ashanti. While it is true that a tribe in Ghana does not respect the rest of the tribes in Ghana, it cannot be said that all Akans hate or disrespect Ewes & Northerners.
Awudu 10 years ago

WHAT PRO.OCQUAYE(PAPA AJASCO) IS SAYING IS TOTALLY NONSENSE,IT IS TRUE THE NPP IS A PRO AKAN PARTY,WE HAVE HAD THE CAUSE TO BELIEVE IT,LOOK AT THE WAY THEY TALK WHEN YOU GET CLOSE TO THEM,EVEN ON THE AIR WAVES.JUST RECENTLY,L ...
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WHAT PRO.OCQUAYE(PAPA AJASCO) IS SAYING IS TOTALLY NONSENSE,IT IS TRUE THE NPP IS A PRO AKAN PARTY,WE HAVE HAD THE CAUSE TO BELIEVE IT,LOOK AT THE WAY THEY TALK WHEN YOU GET CLOSE TO THEM,EVEN ON THE AIR WAVES.JUST RECENTLY,LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED AT THE NPP PARTY HEAD-OFFICE BETWEEN KWABENA AGYEPONG AND NII TEIKO TAGOE YOUR OWN TRIBAL MAN,.WHAT THEN IS THE SO CALLED STUPID PROFESSOR,OCQUAYE IS TELLING US,OR WANT US TO BELIEVE? NOW YOU ARE DESPERATE LOOKING FOR POWER AND YOU ARE DOING ALL SORTS OF TRICKS AND DIRTY PROPAGANDA TO WIN OUR VOTES ,NO WAY,PAPA AJASCO,BUT LET ME TELL YOU AND YOUR PARTY FOLKS THE PICTURE IS VERY CLEAR AND YOU ALSO KNOW THAT THE NPP IS A PRO. AKAN PARTY. LEAVE JJ ALONE . GOD BLESS HIM. SHAME PROF. OCQUAYE (PAPA AJASCO)WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT AND VOTE FOR THE NDC.YES, THE NDC UNDER JERRY JOHN RAWLINGS HAS BROUGHT MASSIVE DEVELOPMENTS TO THE THREE NORTHERN REGIONS THAN ANY GOVERNMENT.YOU JUST LOOK AT THOSE CONTESTING FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP AND THE FLAG BEARER SHIP POSITIONS AND YOU WILL SEE THE DESPERATE AND THE DECEPTIVENESS OF PRO. OCQUAYE (PAPA AJASCO).
asare 10 years ago

i spent more than 15 years in Volta Region and i can say here and now without any fear or lies that Ewe are not tribalism but we Ashanti are the only tribalist in Ghana..shame on us

i spent more than 15 years in Volta Region and i can say here and now without any fear or lies that Ewe are not tribalism but we Ashanti are the only tribalist in Ghana..shame on us
yaw 10 years ago

You have also forgotten statements made by gurus of NPP

You have also forgotten statements made by gurus of NPP
osigi 10 years ago

all the akans especially the ashantis holding senior post lost thier position in so many departments. even in civil servant position. ipersonally know alot of such people 2who run and left their shoes behind relocation from v ...
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all the akans especially the ashantis holding senior post lost thier position in so many departments. even in civil servant position. ipersonally know alot of such people 2who run and left their shoes behind relocation from various region back to ashanti region because of fear for their lives. it was terrible for most akans in pnc era
Abraham Dia 10 years ago

They lost their jobs, who cares? They can go and commit suicide, we dont care. They have raped Ghana for a long time and this made them more arrogant.

They lost their jobs, who cares? They can go and commit suicide, we dont care. They have raped Ghana for a long time and this made them more arrogant.
FA 10 years ago

LOOK, THE NEXT ELECTION WON'T BE LIKE THE PREVIOUS . .WHAT DO WE SEE IN THE MINISTRIES AND THE STATE DEPARTMENTS ? MISMANAGEMENT AND ROBBERY IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY .WE THE AKANS CAN PROVIDE OUR OWN JOBs. Gwene wo ho .

LOOK, THE NEXT ELECTION WON'T BE LIKE THE PREVIOUS . .WHAT DO WE SEE IN THE MINISTRIES AND THE STATE DEPARTMENTS ? MISMANAGEMENT AND ROBBERY IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY .WE THE AKANS CAN PROVIDE OUR OWN JOBs. Gwene wo ho .
ERIC MOORE 10 years ago

Ocquaye is not a good historian he should remember what VICTOR OWUSU did to Ewes

Ocquaye is not a good historian he should remember what VICTOR OWUSU did to Ewes
Brian 10 years ago

The hatred for akans in the country these days is too much. Appointees in Mahama's government is a good reflection.

The hatred for akans in the country these days is too much. Appointees in Mahama's government is a good reflection.
apuuu 10 years ago

Like they say divide you conquer and Jerry Rawlings had evil mind and some idiots accepted it Ghana wasn't like that before until the evil guy shows up this northerners and ewe were had working people but Jerry Rawlings able ...
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Like they say divide you conquer and Jerry Rawlings had evil mind and some idiots accepted it Ghana wasn't like that before until the evil guy shows up this northerners and ewe were had working people but Jerry Rawlings able to fool them against akans apuuu
the devils advocate 10 years ago

The Akans are Akans but everyone else is either a northerner or a ewe and they hate the Akans because THEY ARE AKANS.Do the akans love the ewesand northerners?I am a NORTHERNER and long before the coming of J J Ifirst visite ...
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The Akans are Akans but everyone else is either a northerner or a ewe and they hate the Akans because THEY ARE AKANS.Do the akans love the ewesand northerners?I am a NORTHERNER and long before the coming of J J Ifirst visited the south,specifically Kumasi.I did not see or feel any acceptance let alone love.Love and respect is a two way street Mr Ocquaye.Get it through your thick skull you arrogant prick.
The truth 10 years ago

Maybe it was just you.

Maybe it was just you.
sted 10 years ago

Tribalism is evil whether hidden or not. Love your neighbour as yourself. Even within same tribe brother hates brother ans sister against sister.

Why fight over what you cant take with you when you die? All things belong t ...
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Tribalism is evil whether hidden or not. Love your neighbour as yourself. Even within same tribe brother hates brother ans sister against sister.

Why fight over what you cant take with you when you die? All things belong to God. The land you walk on doesn't belong to you. It was here before you were born and will be when you are gone. Haha.
APOLLO T 10 years ago

AFTER OUR GRAND PARENTS HAVE WORKED AND LIVED WITH THEM IN THEIR HOMES AND FARMS AND EVEN ASSISTED IN EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN, THEY NOW TURN AGAINST THEM BCOS OF JJ UTTERANCES.

AFTER OUR GRAND PARENTS HAVE WORKED AND LIVED WITH THEM IN THEIR HOMES AND FARMS AND EVEN ASSISTED IN EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN, THEY NOW TURN AGAINST THEM BCOS OF JJ UTTERANCES.
JAMES CONGO 10 years ago

I think Prof Mike doesn't know the history between the Ewes and Akans very well. He must go back and read the history book which talks about the war between the Ewes and Akans.

I think Prof Mike doesn't know the history between the Ewes and Akans very well. He must go back and read the history book which talks about the war between the Ewes and Akans.
Acolatse 10 years ago

pls lets focus as a nation and stop the blame game JJ Rawlings is not an Akan man so how can his sayings or perception be taking by other tribal group this political talk is below the belt.

pls lets focus as a nation and stop the blame game JJ Rawlings is not an Akan man so how can his sayings or perception be taking by other tribal group this political talk is below the belt.
KOFI ASIEDU 10 years ago

NOT LONG AGO YOU WERE CARRYING OUR CHITS.I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE THAT YOU STOP CARRYING OUR SHIT. I LEFT GHANA IN MAY 1985 AND AT THAT TIME YOU WERE STILL CARRYING OUR SHIT.OF COURE YOU ARE INFERIOR PEOPLE AND THAT INCLUD ...
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NOT LONG AGO YOU WERE CARRYING OUR CHITS.I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE THAT YOU STOP CARRYING OUR SHIT. I LEFT GHANA IN MAY 1985 AND AT THAT TIME YOU WERE STILL CARRYING OUR SHIT.OF COURE YOU ARE INFERIOR PEOPLE AND THAT INCLUDE JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA.
liv 10 years ago

Everyone (all tribes) who grew up in the '60s understand what Ocquaye is talking about. Akans have always embraced other tribes and I can assure you all that no Akan hates any other tribe, deep down in our hearts we all know ...
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Everyone (all tribes) who grew up in the '60s understand what Ocquaye is talking about. Akans have always embraced other tribes and I can assure you all that no Akan hates any other tribe, deep down in our hearts we all know that. People, "Travel to Akan Regions and see for yourselves".
selorm 10 years ago

prof.suggest measures to correct it. dont just say it .

prof.suggest measures to correct it. dont just say it .
Babs 10 years ago

Sorry for the Prof.

Sorry for the Prof.
Wofa Koo 10 years ago

Prof Ocquaye has pushed the right bottom for a correct lineup.Rawlings has absolutely divided Ghana tribally. How much is it going to benefit the ewes and the northerners?
It doesn`t make no sense to hate the Akans for the ...
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Prof Ocquaye has pushed the right bottom for a correct lineup.Rawlings has absolutely divided Ghana tribally. How much is it going to benefit the ewes and the northerners?
It doesn`t make no sense to hate the Akans for the phrase "Y3n Akanfo". There is nothing wrong for the Asantes/Akans to be proud of themselves. Even African-Americans are proud of the Asantes/Akans and some are changing their names to Akan names.

Ewes must know the Asantes/Akans can`t be proud for them, they have to be proud of themselves. The continuity of the ewes tribal hatred is not going to change nothing among the Akans` pride. There is always pro and cones but Kumasi is a lovely city for every tribe.The ultimate answer is "Baba Yala stadium". Stop your against Akans is not healthy.
Kwami - US 10 years ago

Some Prof cannot think straight. Even UP/NPP choose their presidential candidate based on tribalism. If not, why is it that Akufo Addo could not hand over to Dr Bawumia, the man who defended him (Akufo Addo) at the Supreme Co ...
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Some Prof cannot think straight. Even UP/NPP choose their presidential candidate based on tribalism. If not, why is it that Akufo Addo could not hand over to Dr Bawumia, the man who defended him (Akufo Addo) at the Supreme Court? Are Busia, Victor Owusu, Kufuor, Akufo Addo all not Akans? How many African-Americans are bearing Asantes/Akans names. You also forgot to think that in the first place, all African-Americans are Africans?
Asemfofro Eli 10 years ago

It is nit true that Rawlings caused that hatred.It is caused by the Akans themselves when some section of them believe that their riches can rule Ghana others believe the rest of Ghana is inferior to them otherwise why did so ...
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It is nit true that Rawlings caused that hatred.It is caused by the Akans themselves when some section of them believe that their riches can rule Ghana others believe the rest of Ghana is inferior to them otherwise why did some tried to rewrite Ghana's history by saying that it was an Akan man who gained Independence for Ghana?
3fa me ho b3n? 10 years ago

Ewes and Northners are idiots who can't think! Who cares about them anyway, they hate us and yet come to our land to carry our shit! Hahaha idiots!

Ewes and Northners are idiots who can't think! Who cares about them anyway, they hate us and yet come to our land to carry our shit! Hahaha idiots!
koffie 10 years ago

RUMOURS OF WAY ???

RUMOURS OF WAY ???
BB 10 years ago

The Alans brought this upon themselves period. You see, you can't expect people you refer to as 'ayigbefuo/trokosis and or ntafuo to love you. I had my primary education at Takoradi. Those of us who ewes were referred to as ' ...
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The Alans brought this upon themselves period. You see, you can't expect people you refer to as 'ayigbefuo/trokosis and or ntafuo to love you. I had my primary education at Takoradi. Those of us who ewes were referred to as 'number 9'
FA 10 years ago

WHO DO YOU GUYS CALLED THE KABONGA, KOOKOASE AND AHABEMUFOH ? HOWEVER THE AKANS ARE HARD WORKING PEOPLE AND ACCEPT ALL NON AKAN TRIBES TO THEIR AREA.THAT CAN NOT BE SAID OF JJ EWES IN PARTICULAR. THE ONLY PROBLEM THE NORTH ...
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WHO DO YOU GUYS CALLED THE KABONGA, KOOKOASE AND AHABEMUFOH ? HOWEVER THE AKANS ARE HARD WORKING PEOPLE AND ACCEPT ALL NON AKAN TRIBES TO THEIR AREA.THAT CAN NOT BE SAID OF JJ EWES IN PARTICULAR. THE ONLY PROBLEM THE NORTH FACE IS THEIR INTER FIGHTING BUT THEY ARE LOVELY.
B Ranks 10 years ago

The lines are drawn and tribes are entrenched in their tribal positions,Nkruma`s fake unity has failed,new Ghana-order must be now,federation is the only solution if we want to avoid a near future all out tribal war,and I don ...
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The lines are drawn and tribes are entrenched in their tribal positions,Nkruma`s fake unity has failed,new Ghana-order must be now,federation is the only solution if we want to avoid a near future all out tribal war,and I don`t want hear anything about any national cake taken from the Akans.
B Ranks 10 years ago

I don`t want to hear anything about any national cake that is being produced by the Akans and their lands.

I don`t want to hear anything about any national cake that is being produced by the Akans and their lands.
Kumapem 10 years ago

Let the ayigbefou go fuck themselves who cares about them.

Let the ayigbefou go fuck themselves who cares about them.
Osei Bonsu 10 years ago

ONE OF SUCH NEEDED SOLUTIONS

ONE OF SUCH NEEDED SOLUTIONS
osei yaw - london 10 years ago

I am a true blue Asante; my top man is powerful Otumfuo at Kumasi

- Akufo Ado Danquah Ado Akufo Danquah Akufo Ado is an Akyem; his top man is Okyenhene at Kyebi; we are two different animals yet Kwame Nkrumah Ghanaians; wh ...
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I am a true blue Asante; my top man is powerful Otumfuo at Kumasi

- Akufo Ado Danquah Ado Akufo Danquah Akufo Ado is an Akyem; his top man is Okyenhene at Kyebi; we are two different animals yet Kwame Nkrumah Ghanaians; who is therefore

- the top man of Akufo Ado Danquah Akufo Ado and I if both of us are of a fantasy "Akans"?

- let us not talk about once upon a time sub-human Akans who roamed borderless West Coast of Africa without a written language and spoke mumbo-jumbo; and who are now dead as the dodo

Osei Wusu-Khanin/osei yaw - london
Nii 10 years ago

The problem with you Akans is that your supremacist thinking would land you somewhere. Ashantis think they are the boss of the Akans! or you dont know! Funny people! Secede and leave Ghana alone!

The problem with you Akans is that your supremacist thinking would land you somewhere. Ashantis think they are the boss of the Akans! or you dont know! Funny people! Secede and leave Ghana alone!
i and i 10 years ago

Listen when Asantes secede and leave Ghana they can develop their region because they have everything or what it takes to develop a nation so never think about the Asantes.

Listen when Asantes secede and leave Ghana they can develop their region because they have everything or what it takes to develop a nation so never think about the Asantes.
Agbedefu 10 years ago

Is this man really a Historian? What a shame to say this.

Is this man really a Historian? What a shame to say this.
Makuna Deee 10 years ago

So you didn't know that the Akan (Ashanti's) are too KNOWN? They should change and change Nana so that you can get our vote.

So you didn't know that the Akan (Ashanti's) are too KNOWN? They should change and change Nana so that you can get our vote.
BE BOLD 10 years ago

They should change from what to what? If you don't accept this fact, please keep voting for the wrong party and incompetent appointees dstroying the country. So you would rather see the country destroyed than to vote for an A ...
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They should change from what to what? If you don't accept this fact, please keep voting for the wrong party and incompetent appointees dstroying the country. So you would rather see the country destroyed than to vote for an Akan? Ghana is done. Remember though that you are only around for a short time and it is those left behind who will suffer the most. The problem is far deeper than the attention we give it. The conversation the Professor has started is to be commended towards national reconstruction.
Ibrahim Adam 10 years ago

The NPP as a party caused their hatred by the Northeners and not the former President Rawlings. The issue of this was eroded from the minds of all Northeners until they(northeners) marshall all forces and supported NPP to pow ...
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The NPP as a party caused their hatred by the Northeners and not the former President Rawlings. The issue of this was eroded from the minds of all Northeners until they(northeners) marshall all forces and supported NPP to power in 2000 only for them to come and killed the OVERLORD of Dagban traditional area. What can cause more division than this! Good afternoon.
Papasee 10 years ago

Ooh! this man paaah were you not there when Ken said ewes & co should be killed?

Ooh! this man paaah were you not there when Ken said ewes & co should be killed?
Hamsa 10 years ago

Where was Ocquaye when Victor Owusu refferred to Ewes as inward looking people.
Where was he when Kennedy Adjepong said that all Ewes and Gas should be clubbed to death. Did ursula Owusu not refer to the northerners as peopl ...
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Where was Ocquaye when Victor Owusu refferred to Ewes as inward looking people.
Where was he when Kennedy Adjepong said that all Ewes and Gas should be clubbed to death. Did ursula Owusu not refer to the northerners as people only good for cattle rearing?

Leave JJ alone. Even in the Ashanti Region, he enjoys massive following.
princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, "I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment ..."

The husband re ...
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A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, "I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment ..."

The husband replies: "Your eyesight's damn Perfect."
DKA 10 years ago

This lacks logic.....

This lacks logic.....
Oheneba 10 years ago

Mike you are perfectly right. Rawlings sowed that seed for his own stupid and selfish interest. Gone are those days you ayigbe and the ntafo3 were our labourers. Nkwaeafo3, akronfo3!!!!!!!!!!.

Mike you are perfectly right. Rawlings sowed that seed for his own stupid and selfish interest. Gone are those days you ayigbe and the ntafo3 were our labourers. Nkwaeafo3, akronfo3!!!!!!!!!!.
gyan 10 years ago

Ayigbe and ntafo3 born our grandfathers and mothers so we don't hate them ok. Ask your NPP leaders well before the insult.

Ayigbe and ntafo3 born our grandfathers and mothers so we don't hate them ok. Ask your NPP leaders well before the insult.
IDIOT CAT STEALER EWE 10 years ago

I THINK YOU AYIGWE GYAN BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM.BORN WHO AND WHO STUPID TALK.

I THINK YOU AYIGWE GYAN BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU COME FROM.BORN WHO AND WHO STUPID TALK.
Joe Turkey 10 years ago

Where was Professor Ocquaye when Victor Owusu took to the stage and saw all Ewes as "in-ward thinking". At the time, Jerry Rawlings did not even have any pubic hair. It was foolish, then and now, for any politician to imagine ...
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Where was Professor Ocquaye when Victor Owusu took to the stage and saw all Ewes as "in-ward thinking". At the time, Jerry Rawlings did not even have any pubic hair. It was foolish, then and now, for any politician to imagine that people of any one tribe (Ewe, Ga or Ashanti) would think in the same way. Yes, Jerry Rawlings contributed to it but he definitely did not plant it. This is no historical analysis. It is just as corrupt as Adu Boahen's records of Ghana's History.
Close Observer 10 years ago

I'm glad you said Jerry Rawlings contributed to it, and that is an honest comment. It is still stuck in my mind that he intensified 'we and them' politics in Ghana, and it has become a big problem for all of us. We must not r ...
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I'm glad you said Jerry Rawlings contributed to it, and that is an honest comment. It is still stuck in my mind that he intensified 'we and them' politics in Ghana, and it has become a big problem for all of us. We must not run away from the fact that TRIBALISM IS HERE WITH US, and it is a threat to the unity of our country. We need to discourage politicians from using it to their advantage, rather than fight with each other over how it got here.
BUHARI 10 years ago

When the issue of the gambling debacle in Japan was exposed, the Fanti man Dr. Brandful was the one who was accused and made the scapegoat. The current Ambassador was recalled and the story they put on the issue was that, he ...
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When the issue of the gambling debacle in Japan was exposed, the Fanti man Dr. Brandful was the one who was accused and made the scapegoat. The current Ambassador was recalled and the story they put on the issue was that, he did not know about it, so it was previous Ambassador.
That is just one classical example of exactly what Prof. Ocquaye is talking about, very recent and fresh in the minds of Ghanaians.
Major C J Fulani 10 years ago

Who is not Ghanaian?

Who is not Ghanaian?
Owusu 10 years ago

With charatcers like this foolish and empty man in charge of affairs in this country, we are doomed. No amount of his rubbish and demetia mind can make any change for these primitive bat and its shit eating Bonobo monkeys. W ...
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With charatcers like this foolish and empty man in charge of affairs in this country, we are doomed. No amount of his rubbish and demetia mind can make any change for these primitive bat and its shit eating Bonobo monkeys. What made this mentally sick and foolish old man open his mouth to say such rubbish. Is he trying to incite a tribal war before he die very soon? What nonsense is this! No wonder, such idiots like this stupid so called professor live to see their disgraceful end. Aboa! Do not incite us against the Ewes! You are not a spokesman for the Akans. You are mad!
OSEI WIAFE 10 years ago

YESSS YOU 1000000% RIGHT PROF. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DID AND WITH HIS FOLLOWERS WHO NEED THE FREE SHS BADLY, THEY COULD NOT FORESEE HIS INTENTIONS. DIVIDE AND RULE & PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER TO FIGHT YOUR BATTLES FOR YOU.

YESSS YOU 1000000% RIGHT PROF. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE DID AND WITH HIS FOLLOWERS WHO NEED THE FREE SHS BADLY, THEY COULD NOT FORESEE HIS INTENTIONS. DIVIDE AND RULE & PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER TO FIGHT YOUR BATTLES FOR YOU.
Solomon Nyaxo 10 years ago

I don't think dis statment is true cos during JJ's time it was akans dat benefited a lot.we de votarians gain less.anyway what about de staments made by Kenedy Agyepong and Nana Akuffo Addo.stop dis statments cos we ghanain ...
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I don't think dis statment is true cos during JJ's time it was akans dat benefited a lot.we de votarians gain less.anyway what about de staments made by Kenedy Agyepong and Nana Akuffo Addo.stop dis statments cos we ghanains don't have short memories.
fredsaid 10 years ago

TRIBALISM IS NOW GHANA'S NO. 1 PRIORITY. IT IS NOT ABOUT DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING, EDUCATION, PRODUCTION OF GOODS AND SERVICES, IMPROVING STANDARDS OF LIVING FOR EVERYONE. IT IS ABOUT EXPLOITING TRIBALISM TO POLITICAL ADVANTAGE. ...
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TRIBALISM IS NOW GHANA'S NO. 1 PRIORITY. IT IS NOT ABOUT DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING, EDUCATION, PRODUCTION OF GOODS AND SERVICES, IMPROVING STANDARDS OF LIVING FOR EVERYONE. IT IS ABOUT EXPLOITING TRIBALISM TO POLITICAL ADVANTAGE. IT IS ABOUT PLANNING, LOOTING AND SHARING THE COUNTRY'S RESOURCE BY A FEW WHO WHO CONTROL EVERYTHING SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE VOTED FOR. TIME FOR THE MILITARY TO STEP BACK IN
xtina 10 years ago

mike, tell akans to stop insulting, underrating and seeing themselves as superior over other tribes when in actual fact they are not.

mike, tell akans to stop insulting, underrating and seeing themselves as superior over other tribes when in actual fact they are not.
peace 10 years ago

You, are rather dividing GHANA and we shan't go with you.Why can't people accept defeat?

You, are rather dividing GHANA and we shan't go with you.Why can't people accept defeat?
LuckKOJO 10 years ago

Prof. this is dangerous analysis. this kind of analysis is not healthy for the country. your citing is more seditious than what you think JJ and his people did.

Prof. this is dangerous analysis. this kind of analysis is not healthy for the country. your citing is more seditious than what you think JJ and his people did.
LuckKOJO 10 years ago

Prof. you have hidden agenda before making this analysis. What didn't you mention Gas?

Prof. you have hidden agenda before making this analysis. What didn't you mention Gas?
EMABI OCRAN 10 years ago

You are 100% right. It is only the NDC fools who will not accept this claim but as Rawlings, he has to pray hard

You are 100% right. It is only the NDC fools who will not accept this claim but as Rawlings, he has to pray hard
STEVE 10 years ago

Why blame J.J. Rawllings for something that was created by the Ashanti/Akyeams? Had there been anytime in Ghana's history on politics that a non Ashanti/Akyeam had been elected as flagbearer of the UP/NPP? They brought about ...
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Why blame J.J. Rawllings for something that was created by the Ashanti/Akyeams? Had there been anytime in Ghana's history on politics that a non Ashanti/Akyeam had been elected as flagbearer of the UP/NPP? They brought about this division by themselves. They only needed votes from other tribes to back up their Ashanti/Akyeam Agenda. No way.
akyekyedie 10 years ago

Boloney!

Boloney!
Kofi J 10 years ago

But i believed there are many Akans in the NDC or are the Fantse not regarded as Akans stupid professor. Why are are Most Ashantis NPP stupid Pro

But i believed there are many Akans in the NDC or are the Fantse not regarded as Akans stupid professor. Why are are Most Ashantis NPP stupid Pro
Kofi J 10 years ago

Why do u keep it to yourself all this years if you know better..Prof.. you are an idot

Why do u keep it to yourself all this years if you know better..Prof.. you are an idot
ABU MAJEED 10 years ago

PROF. I THINK YOUR PARTY PEOPLE CAUSE AM NOT RAWLING OK. NPP CAN ONLY RULE A DIVIDED NATION, ITS ON RECORD CLEARLY. YOU GUYS HAS BEEN CALLING KUMASI AS YOUR WORLD BANK RIGHT? NO BODY COMPLAIN, SO WHY WILL PAPA J.. CALL NORHT ...
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PROF. I THINK YOUR PARTY PEOPLE CAUSE AM NOT RAWLING OK. NPP CAN ONLY RULE A DIVIDED NATION, ITS ON RECORD CLEARLY. YOU GUYS HAS BEEN CALLING KUMASI AS YOUR WORLD BANK RIGHT? NO BODY COMPLAIN, SO WHY WILL PAPA J.. CALL NORHT AND VOLTA WORLD BANK AND IT WILL BE A PROBLEM? "MUNAFIKI" GREEDY BASTARDS AS OUR PAPA J USAULLY CALL THEM.
MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 10 years ago

EVIL JJ SHOULD BOW HIS EVIL HEAD DOWN,IS WE CAN BE WITH WHITES WHY CANT WE TOO??? JJ DID IT ALL,GOD WILL PUNISH HIM SOON,PERIOD

EVIL JJ SHOULD BOW HIS EVIL HEAD DOWN,IS WE CAN BE WITH WHITES WHY CANT WE TOO??? JJ DID IT ALL,GOD WILL PUNISH HIM SOON,PERIOD
AKANS REIGN 10 years ago

TRUTH HURTS BUT WHETHER ALL THESE EMBITTERED NON-AKANS LIKE IT OR NOT, SOME TRIBES ARE MORE SUPERIOR THAN OTHERS. We all can never be equal. Some will rule and some will slave...lol!! Even the world consider some countries SU ...
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TRUTH HURTS BUT WHETHER ALL THESE EMBITTERED NON-AKANS LIKE IT OR NOT, SOME TRIBES ARE MORE SUPERIOR THAN OTHERS. We all can never be equal. Some will rule and some will slave...lol!! Even the world consider some countries SUPER POWERS. If you can't beat the Akans (esp. the GREAT ASHANTIS) please, join them - otherwise your bitterness will KILL YOU and they're keep GROWING biiiiiggg!! AHYE MO!
Nana Kwaku 10 years ago

I believe you get very angry when mostly at the world cup, white refs help eliminate the tournaments African competitors. So, if you do believe there is such a negative concept as superiority in we humans, then please allow t ...
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I believe you get very angry when mostly at the world cup, white refs help eliminate the tournaments African competitors. So, if you do believe there is such a negative concept as superiority in we humans, then please allow the white man to have his way.
JOJO KODWO 10 years ago

A whole Prof. has lost it this time round. Mike Quaye should be ashamed of himself. He should remember that he has a family and posterity will definitely judge stomach politicians like him.

A whole Prof. has lost it this time round. Mike Quaye should be ashamed of himself. He should remember that he has a family and posterity will definitely judge stomach politicians like him.
Yendi boy 10 years ago

The Akans feel they are better than any other Ghanaian tribe,which I feel is causing the whole problem and not Rawlings.Advice your people that all Ghanaians are equal regardless of your tribe.If the Akans fix these problems ...
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The Akans feel they are better than any other Ghanaian tribe,which I feel is causing the whole problem and not Rawlings.Advice your people that all Ghanaians are equal regardless of your tribe.If the Akans fix these problems then everything will be ok in my view.
Dan 10 years ago

Ooooh Prof, blame Nana for using the word (YEN AKAN FO)

Ooooh Prof, blame Nana for using the word (YEN AKAN FO)
Professor Banza 10 years ago

This absent minded professor Ocquaye should realize that if there is any hatred it is coming from the Akans who themselves were enjoying the country's resources namely Gold, Cocao and timber. Their elites are rich and don't r ...
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This absent minded professor Ocquaye should realize that if there is any hatred it is coming from the Akans who themselves were enjoying the country's resources namely Gold, Cocao and timber. Their elites are rich and don't respect the other tribes. Further, the Akans especially the forest people have very bad utterances. JJ rather tried to better the lives of the Northerners and Ewes.
Kwame Obonti 10 years ago

Please ignore the professor's comments. He says anything whenever he doesn't eat his Kenkey for dessert

Please ignore the professor's comments. He says anything whenever he doesn't eat his Kenkey for dessert
Nii Yemoh 10 years ago

while occuaye want to put dust into our eyes,if i were him i will put my head in shame for supporting such party.We were in this country when they flagbearer said ye akanfo.someone also said they should kill the gas and the e ...
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while occuaye want to put dust into our eyes,if i were him i will put my head in shame for supporting such party.We were in this country when they flagbearer said ye akanfo.someone also said they should kill the gas and the ewes,another man also said there is no competent ga to lead the party and a such a man who called himself a learned man is in party,is a big shame to all the gas in the party because majority of them dont know their family house
Kofi kwame 10 years ago

Is this man telling us to fights ourselves ??oh Ghanians,cants these old men sit back and let bygones be bygones?the world is moving fast with the youth not old men ,foreget Akans,Ewes,Northerners,Gas,And think Ghana,only G ...
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Is this man telling us to fights ourselves ??oh Ghanians,cants these old men sit back and let bygones be bygones?the world is moving fast with the youth not old men ,foreget Akans,Ewes,Northerners,Gas,And think Ghana,only Ghana,One Ghana.
why 10 years ago

Ah prof did u sleep well last night? I dont think. Jj married an akan roly named his chlidren with other tribal names. What about u. Infact u are a disgrace to the accadermia.

Ah prof did u sleep well last night? I dont think. Jj married an akan roly named his chlidren with other tribal names. What about u. Infact u are a disgrace to the accadermia.
Nana 10 years ago

Prof well said. Peple like jj &his cohorts will die ®ret that they did this to Ghana. Can u blame them anyway? If u are not confident u resort of these to make ur self relevant. The creation of Rawlings are things like Tsi ...
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Prof well said. Peple like jj &his cohorts will die ®ret that they did this to Ghana. Can u blame them anyway? If u are not confident u resort of these to make ur self relevant. The creation of Rawlings are things like Tsikata ,Awoonor Williams, Atuguba ,Amartey Quaye& Asiedu Nketia. They will exit the scene ignoramously like Awoonor. They are a shame to this beautiful country.
THE FACT IS NOT WHISPERED 10 years ago

Over the years, Akans have been perceived as pro-NPP while Ewes and Northerners are seen as pro-NDC.There is nothing worrong wif this fact.its just hundred percent true.
let as face fact.the AKANS don't respect the ewe and t ...
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Over the years, Akans have been perceived as pro-NPP while Ewes and Northerners are seen as pro-NDC.There is nothing worrong wif this fact.its just hundred percent true.
let as face fact.the AKANS don't respect the ewe and the northerners,they think they are far wise then the other tribs.warning to the Akans it only the ewes and the northerners who decide which party lead ghana.
MAHOCK 10 years ago

OCQUAYE SHOULD THINK WELL AND STOP FOOLING.THE AKAN RE SOME CLASS OF PEOPLE WHO SERIOUSLY LOVE CORRUPTION AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OVER VERY TRIB THAT COME IT WAY.THE NPP PARTY IS FRANKLY AN AKAN FAMILY PROPERTY,SO NO OTHER TRIB IS ...
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OCQUAYE SHOULD THINK WELL AND STOP FOOLING.THE AKAN RE SOME CLASS OF PEOPLE WHO SERIOUSLY LOVE CORRUPTION AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OVER VERY TRIB THAT COME IT WAY.THE NPP PARTY IS FRANKLY AN AKAN FAMILY PROPERTY,SO NO OTHER TRIB IS ALOW ANY BIG OFFICE.THE EWES AND THE NORTHERNERS WILL FOR EVER BE ONE.WISE BUT FOOLISH AKANS.
Iman Erskine 10 years ago

The damage that J J Rawlings machinated for his self aggrandisement and political gain is there for those who can sort through the smoke screen . He murdered his way to the top and violently ruled for 19 yrs with nothing to ...
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The damage that J J Rawlings machinated for his self aggrandisement and political gain is there for those who can sort through the smoke screen . He murdered his way to the top and violently ruled for 19 yrs with nothing to show for those 19 yrs except retrogression. He pitted one tribal group against each other all for his selfish gain. Today the country is dangerously divided along tribal lines because of Rawlings and his NDC. If Rawlings and his NDC continue on this path of deception the country could plunge into civil war.
ANA 10 years ago

So why is he married to an Akan?

So why is he married to an Akan?
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TOHUGU 10 years ago

Was Rawlings around during Busia and the Progress Party time? I was in Secondary school then and remember very vividly how the Ashantis were calling the Ewes 'number nine' and the Northerners, 'Pepefuoo'. During Hilla Liman's ...
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Was Rawlings around during Busia and the Progress Party time? I was in Secondary school then and remember very vividly how the Ashantis were calling the Ewes 'number nine' and the Northerners, 'Pepefuoo'. During Hilla Liman's time the Krobo Edusei's and Okutwer Bekoe's so frustrated every effort he made and reduced him to a mere figure. The Ashantis poked fun at him, saying he splashed the Castle walls with Goro. Where was BIG MOUTH Mike Ocquaye then? The arrogancy of Ashantis is what has caused not only Ewes and Northerners but most humble hearted and level headed Ghanaians to steer clear of them, particularly any party like the NPP,that is 95% Ashanti dominated at the executive level.
Please Mike Oquaye stop blaming Rawlings for something you and your cohorts caused. Remember Rawlings is married to an Ashanti and has named all their children with names hailing from different regions in Ghana. If Mr. Ocquaye is God-fearing, and loves Ghana as he wants us to believe, he should be rather commending Rawlings for the love he has for all the tribes in Ghana. The only thing he hates is dishonesty, Lies,Sycophancy, hypocrisy and Arrogant Pride which seem to be what Mike Ocquaye and his NPP cohorts love to wear on their sleeves and revel so glamorously in.
KWAME GHANA 10 years ago

PROF. SO YOU NOW KNOW THIS? WE KNEW THIS LONG TIME. RAWLINGS KICKED THE NORTHERNERS THE EWES and THE GAS ETC AGAINST THE ASHANTIS.HE SOMEHOW DID NOT SUCCEED WITH THE FANTIS.HE MADE THEM BELIEVE THAT THE ASHANTIS HAVE TRAMPLED ...
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PROF. SO YOU NOW KNOW THIS? WE KNEW THIS LONG TIME. RAWLINGS KICKED THE NORTHERNERS THE EWES and THE GAS ETC AGAINST THE ASHANTIS.HE SOMEHOW DID NOT SUCCEED WITH THE FANTIS.HE MADE THEM BELIEVE THAT THE ASHANTIS HAVE TRAMPLED,DISRESPECTED AND BRANDED THEM AS ('FAECES CARRIERS')THEM FOR FAR TOO LONG AND IT'S TIME THEY GIVE THEM BREAK. Now in GHANA MEET SEVERAL NORTHERNERS AND EWES,THEY PRETEND ARROGANTLY NOT TO UNDERSTAND TWI/AKAN OUR OWN NATIVE FIRST LANGUAGE.GO TO OUR EMBASSIES ABROAD,IF YOU'RE AN ASHANTI MAN YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SPEAK GA OR EWE BEFORE YOU FIT IN THERE. WOE BETIDE AN ASHANTI MAN WHO SPEAKS TWI IN THE EMBASSIES WILL BE BRANDED AS AN ILLITERATE/PRIMITIVE PERSON. THEY EVEN SEE THE AKAN CULTURE AS BAKWARD. THIS RAWLINGS MAN CAUSED ALL THESE HUGE ETHNIC DIVIDE AND MISTRUST AMONG US.
Bo 10 years ago

you said it right

you said it right
KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON 10 years ago

Are ghanaians really serious? Tribalism was never a problem in Ghana when Osagyefo's CPP was in power.Ghana was a nation united for progress but now what do we see.Since February,1966 tribalism has reared its ugly head in Gha ...
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Are ghanaians really serious? Tribalism was never a problem in Ghana when Osagyefo's CPP was in power.Ghana was a nation united for progress but now what do we see.Since February,1966 tribalism has reared its ugly head in Ghana-dividing ghanaians and setting one tribe against the other.A disunited nation can never progress and this is what is exactly happening to the nation.As Osagyefo did a CPP government will unite all ghanaians and move the nation forward for the benefit of all ghanaians.Next time you vote be wise and vote CPP for a united Ghana for peace and progress.
Obiba J.K 10 years ago

Dear people of Ghana,what pro.Ocquaye said is a lie to himself its not Rawling who brought trabalism in Ghana but by ourself because some people things they are superior and others are inferior but we have to respect every tr ...
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Dear people of Ghana,what pro.Ocquaye said is a lie to himself its not Rawling who brought trabalism in Ghana but by ourself because some people things they are superior and others are inferior but we have to respect every tribe because if you travell outside Ghana nobody knows you as dagomba,frafra or asante but they know you as a Ghanainain and even when Rawling wasn"t a Head of state or president of Ghana that time there is a trabalism within we Akans,I am a real Akan but the truth is truth and i wont lie.
kpakpo osu 10 years ago

Ocquaye the fool, the Ga ingrate. Northerners hate u becos of Ashanti denigration, derision n disdain for northerners from time immeorial. U use them then dump them. They never vote for npp until u shake off the Ashanti/Alan ...
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Ocquaye the fool, the Ga ingrate. Northerners hate u becos of Ashanti denigration, derision n disdain for northerners from time immeorial. U use them then dump them. They never vote for npp until u shake off the Ashanti/Alan hegemony in ur party.
Nii 10 years ago

Oh! dear. I never have seen a Prof. talk so loosely like Pro. Ocquaye. Akan caused their own hatred by their behaviour. Prof Ocquaye should stop spreading political hatred and division as an elderly politician.

Oh! dear. I never have seen a Prof. talk so loosely like Pro. Ocquaye. Akan caused their own hatred by their behaviour. Prof Ocquaye should stop spreading political hatred and division as an elderly politician.
kpakpo osu 10 years ago

Npp always stoking inflamed tribal passions.

Npp always stoking inflamed tribal passions.
Shame on you Oquaye 10 years ago

Was it Jerry Rawlings who forced Nana Addo to make the Yen Akanfuo statement?

Was it Jerry Rawlings who forced Nana Addo to make the Yen Akanfuo statement?
Yaw 10 years ago

The professor is losing his mental faculty. Has not read about the ''inward looking'' speech by Victor Owusu? Shame on this professor

The professor is losing his mental faculty. Has not read about the ''inward looking'' speech by Victor Owusu? Shame on this professor
seidu gamel a.k.a honda 10 years ago

to an akan man espeially ashanti, nothing good in this country deserves northerner nor ewe i remember going to vote from nsawam to akomadan, i fell i was not a ghanaian infact the insults & humiliation alone is enough to call ...
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to an akan man espeially ashanti, nothing good in this country deserves northerner nor ewe i remember going to vote from nsawam to akomadan, i fell i was not a ghanaian infact the insults & humiliation alone is enough to call myself an ivorian. i can remember vividly when president rawlings as part of developmental agenda made mention of extending national eletricity grade to northern sector our akan brothers said we don't deserve it, president rawlings was insulted & still recieving more.
jayme 10 years ago

rawlings is a pathetic ewe

rawlings is a pathetic ewe
kofi Antwi 10 years ago

I'm an AKAN , yet I don't give a darn about the liars, corrupt, selfish , and cheating NPP. So there, professor !!!!

I'm an AKAN , yet I don't give a darn about the liars, corrupt, selfish , and cheating NPP. So there, professor !!!!
kretz - d 10 years ago

No doubt JJ Rawlings is the cause of many problems in Ghana not only hate between different tribes but also he is the cause of our political problems

No doubt JJ Rawlings is the cause of many problems in Ghana not only hate between different tribes but also he is the cause of our political problems
Afua US 10 years ago

Kofi save your breath on this saying of Ocquaye he is from a confused party blaming everybody on everything excerpt themselves

Kofi save your breath on this saying of Ocquaye he is from a confused party blaming everybody on everything excerpt themselves
AKU JASIKAN 10 years ago

HAVE YOU JUST FORGOTTEN WHAT VICTOR OWUSU SAID? HAVE YOU JUST FORGOTTEN WHAT URSLA OWUSU SAID THAT ALL NORTHNERS WOULD BE CATLE REARERS? HAVE YOU JUST FORGOTTEN WHAT KENNEDY AGYAPONG SAID THAT WE SHOULD BEAT AND KILL THE EWE' ...
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HAVE YOU JUST FORGOTTEN WHAT VICTOR OWUSU SAID? HAVE YOU JUST FORGOTTEN WHAT URSLA OWUSU SAID THAT ALL NORTHNERS WOULD BE CATLE REARERS? HAVE YOU JUST FORGOTTEN WHAT KENNEDY AGYAPONG SAID THAT WE SHOULD BEAT AND KILL THE EWE'S AND THE GA'S? HAVE YOU JUST FORGOTTEN AKUFO ADDO WHO CALL HIMSELF A LAWYER WOULD GO AND DISGRACE DR BAWUMIA IN THE WITNESS BOX? ABOA BE KWA,
KOFI 10 years ago

HAIL DR OPUNI. DR OPUNI HAS BROUGHT REVOLUTION TO COCOBOARD, ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE CHANGES? SOME CRIMMINALS WHO HAVE ENTRENCHED POSITIONS HAVE BEEN MOVED FROM THEIR POSTS AND DEPARTMENTS TO NEW SCHEDULES, DR OPUNI YOU ARE A S ...
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HAIL DR OPUNI. DR OPUNI HAS BROUGHT REVOLUTION TO COCOBOARD, ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE CHANGES? SOME CRIMMINALS WHO HAVE ENTRENCHED POSITIONS HAVE BEEN MOVED FROM THEIR POSTS AND DEPARTMENTS TO NEW SCHEDULES, DR OPUNI YOU ARE A SOLOMON, GOD BLESS YOU.,
w3 10 years ago

Obvious. He used other ranks against officers in the army, police etc for his own benefits. Why? Because he knows we are stupid.

Obvious. He used other ranks against officers in the army, police etc for his own benefits. Why? Because he knows we are stupid.
Abdul Fatao of Ahenkro 10 years ago

Oh Ghana
Why tribalism
We need all hands on deck
Too much undeveloped resources
Each side of the divide has enough rich folk thanks to corruption
Do not pretend, my bro/sis
Lets cease fire and go to work
For God and co ...
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Oh Ghana
Why tribalism
We need all hands on deck
Too much undeveloped resources
Each side of the divide has enough rich folk thanks to corruption
Do not pretend, my bro/sis
Lets cease fire and go to work
For God and country!!!
Too many poor folk around
Work hard to help the needy
MAHAMA - DOING MY JOB 10 years ago

JJ DID MURDERED MORE AKANS - BUT JJ DIDN'T TURN NORTHERNERS AND EWE AGAINST AAKAN .

JJ DID MURDERED MORE AKANS - BUT JJ DIDN'T TURN NORTHERNERS AND EWE AGAINST AAKAN .
w3 10 years ago

Recently the same JJ was saying Kussasi Mahama should help Mamprosi people to get into govt. Was it necessary? Of course not.

Recently the same JJ was saying Kussasi Mahama should help Mamprosi people to get into govt. Was it necessary? Of course not.
w3 10 years ago

Demon on earth

Demon on earth
Batuuro Baba Mujeeb 10 years ago

How could prof. Mike Oquaye says such a thing? Is he saying the Northerners and Ewes can't think or what? They shouldn't again start their tribal politics.

How could prof. Mike Oquaye says such a thing? Is he saying the Northerners and Ewes can't think or what? They shouldn't again start their tribal politics.
Man O War 10 years ago

In the US, Northerners pro democratic party and southerners are pro GOP. They may dislike each other in terms of policy.

In the US, Northerners pro democratic party and southerners are pro GOP. They may dislike each other in terms of policy.
genesis 10 years ago

Who made gas hate akans too becos i knw the same way the akanns hate the gas is the way the gas hate the akans too.so who caused that

Who made gas hate akans too becos i knw the same way the akanns hate the gas is the way the gas hate the akans too.so who caused that
Iwan 10 years ago

Political lying git. This man cannot differentiate between his imaginations and the truth. He comes out with stories as if he was the only person in this country at a certain time.

Political lying git. This man cannot differentiate between his imaginations and the truth. He comes out with stories as if he was the only person in this country at a certain time.
EMEFA 10 years ago

The National Security should quickly invite Prof. Ocquaye for inciting these tribes against each other. Ghana has gone past such mischievous comments.

The National Security should quickly invite Prof. Ocquaye for inciting these tribes against each other. Ghana has gone past such mischievous comments.
apuuu 10 years ago

Let blame Jerry Rawlings everything that goes wrong in Ghana because he deserves apuuu man

Let blame Jerry Rawlings everything that goes wrong in Ghana because he deserves apuuu man
jim 10 years ago

pathetic man

pathetic man
Amenuveve Kobla 10 years ago

It was not Rawlings. Remember long before Rawlings was a Progress Party flight bearer and minister who refered to the Ewes as inward-looking. He started it all. Before then the Ewes and Akans were very cordial. They even sta ...
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It was not Rawlings. Remember long before Rawlings was a Progress Party flight bearer and minister who refered to the Ewes as inward-looking. He started it all. Before then the Ewes and Akans were very cordial. They even staged a number of successful coups together. Remember Kotoka/Afrifa, Acheampong/Agbo/Selorme and remember Rawlings/Boakye-Djan. Prof Ocquaye, you lie bad.
KWAME, BELGIUM 10 years ago

You are very correct with your point here. The PP did and said a lot about the Ewes. I am not an Ewe but do remember this very well.

You are very correct with your point here. The PP did and said a lot about the Ewes. I am not an Ewe but do remember this very well.
KWAME, BELGIUM 10 years ago

This Mr. Prof does not know what he is speaking about. I wish to know where he was during the PP era with Busia. Can he recollect the SALLAH case in Ghana. Does he remember what Victor Owusu and J.H. Mensah said about the Ewe ...
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This Mr. Prof does not know what he is speaking about. I wish to know where he was during the PP era with Busia. Can he recollect the SALLAH case in Ghana. Does he remember what Victor Owusu and J.H. Mensah said about the Ewes? He must do his re-search well and leave the old man J.J. alone.
Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

Look at the comments that short devil made

Look at the comments that short devil made
ghanaba 10 years ago

so for so long now that you have seen it.

so for so long now that you have seen it.
Agbee 10 years ago

Is prof. Ocquaye a stranger in Ghana? Has he forgotten Nana Addo's 'ye akanfo' slogan? what. Prof. allegation lacks merit. Ghanaians know that EWES, NORTHERNERS, BONOS, FANTES AND GANS are in good terms with one another.ARE F ...
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Is prof. Ocquaye a stranger in Ghana? Has he forgotten Nana Addo's 'ye akanfo' slogan? what. Prof. allegation lacks merit. Ghanaians know that EWES, NORTHERNERS, BONOS, FANTES AND GANS are in good terms with one another.ARE FANTES NOT AKANS? who can be in good terms with a TRIBE WHICH LOOKS MEAN UPON OTHER TRIBES? prof Ocquaye should stop creating hatred for Prez. Rawlings.
KWAKU 10 years ago

A whole professor talking like this?

A whole professor talking like this?
AKAN MAN 10 years ago

WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABT HATERS. THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE... THE AKANS ARE RICHLY BLESSSED & SO ITS NATURAL FOR OTHERS TO HATE US. WHEN JOSEPH WAS BLESSED, EVEN HIS BROTHERS HATED HIM BUT THAT DIDNT STOP THE BLESSINGS.. WHEN ABRA ...
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WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABT HATERS. THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE... THE AKANS ARE RICHLY BLESSSED & SO ITS NATURAL FOR OTHERS TO HATE US. WHEN JOSEPH WAS BLESSED, EVEN HIS BROTHERS HATED HIM BUT THAT DIDNT STOP THE BLESSINGS.. WHEN ABRAHAM & ISAAC PROSPERED, THEY GOT LOTS OF HATERS.. WHATEVER THE CASE, WE ARE A BLESSED SET OF PEOPLE.
fuseini Issaka 10 years ago

No Ewes don't hate Akans they hate theme self

No Ewes don't hate Akans they hate theme self
Serum spa 10 years ago

When JJ was not born ,Akan do not allow their children to marry ewe , stupid old man!

When JJ was not born ,Akan do not allow their children to marry ewe , stupid old man!
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

I Vodoo Xebieso have read all the comments. My only suggestion right now is that there should be a national confab to chart or agree on the way forward.

If some sections feel Ghana belongs to them only and demand for feder ...
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I Vodoo Xebieso have read all the comments. My only suggestion right now is that there should be a national confab to chart or agree on the way forward.

If some sections feel Ghana belongs to them only and demand for federalism, then so be it. I welcome and support the idea. I am an Ewe hardliner from Keta and Nogokpo. I am very confident that if Ghana breaks up tommorrow, the Ewes can survive in their poverty. So, let it be "TO YOUR TENTS OH ISRAEL"
THE TRUTH 10 years ago

I would love that. They should have THEIR OWN COUNTRY. You know what gonna happen?
Asante man born 1 mile away from the Asantehene Palace thinks he is better than the one born 2 miles away. The one born 2 miles away thinks h ...
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I would love that. They should have THEIR OWN COUNTRY. You know what gonna happen?
Asante man born 1 mile away from the Asantehene Palace thinks he is better than the one born 2 miles away. The one born 2 miles away thinks he is better than the one born 3 miles away. They will FIGHT and KILL each other. Just look at NPP leadership!!!
They are already insulting each other in Kumawu and Kumasi. Add Brong Ahafo to the mix. LET THEM GO
DOKORDOKO 10 years ago

JUST TAKE A LOOK AT ELECTION TRENDS IN GHANA AND YOU WILL SEE THAT EWES ARE THE MOST TRIBALIST IN GHANA. AKANS ARE NOT,JUST LOOK AT ELECTION RESULT IN GHANA.

JUST TAKE A LOOK AT ELECTION TRENDS IN GHANA AND YOU WILL SEE THAT EWES ARE THE MOST TRIBALIST IN GHANA. AKANS ARE NOT,JUST LOOK AT ELECTION RESULT IN GHANA.
Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

Idiot, wash your mouth first before you speak on this forum.

Idiot, wash your mouth first before you speak on this forum.
MINOR CASE 10 years ago

I thought you were going to dispute what he said .

I thought you were going to dispute what he said .
DOKORDOKO 10 years ago

WO MAAME TWE GREEN.

WO MAAME TWE GREEN.
joe 10 years ago

prof. you have hit the nail right on the head.some people would call you names but you have said the truth.jj is the cause of the woes of this country being tribal, socially, politically,economically.you may hate the akans bu ...
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prof. you have hit the nail right on the head.some people would call you names but you have said the truth.jj is the cause of the woes of this country being tribal, socially, politically,economically.you may hate the akans but if the akan were the people ruling this country,we would not gone through this hardship.hate it or like it, the akans are the best tribe to live with.jj destroyed the akans business and chase out the rich ones from the country to exile.Ghana would have be a nation where the ewes, northerner and akans would have live happily if that idiot man call jj has not ferment that tribal issue.
Gaisey R cape coast 10 years ago

Stop the arguments and express some constructive ideas. Mahama is running with Ghana.

Stop the arguments and express some constructive ideas. Mahama is running with Ghana.
ALHAJI KUKRUDU 10 years ago

Listen to this FOOLISH Professor. And he calls himself a Reverend? There is no way Ghana can develop because we have many of such FOOLISH "Big Men" and worse ones in the helm of affairs in this country.

Listen to this FOOLISH Professor. And he calls himself a Reverend? There is no way Ghana can develop because we have many of such FOOLISH "Big Men" and worse ones in the helm of affairs in this country.
mugu1 10 years ago

Prof Ocquaye says the time of Dagbon crisis as Prof Ocquaye put it was the govt at that time akan govt !!!

the npp destroying ghana at any means neccesary.
and you have very foolish professor who waist all his time not fo ...
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Prof Ocquaye says the time of Dagbon crisis as Prof Ocquaye put it was the govt at that time akan govt !!!

the npp destroying ghana at any means neccesary.
and you have very foolish professor who waist all his time not for invention
Yaa, Orange U S . 10 years ago

Mr. Ocquaye are you serious. If really Rawlings is the cause of all these, and NPP is innocent, then why did you by pass the Late Vice President Aliu Mahama and went in for Akan man? Answer me this question. Is that one also ...
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Mr. Ocquaye are you serious. If really Rawlings is the cause of all these, and NPP is innocent, then why did you by pass the Late Vice President Aliu Mahama and went in for Akan man? Answer me this question. Is that one also caused by Rawlings? I am not a friend of Rawlings but you must always tell the truth and be free.
Edward 10 years ago

Prof, this is not a fair statement to make. Dagombas are part of Northerners but not all Northerners are Dagombas. Dagombas are just a small fraction of Northerners. Therefore, if JJ was instigating Dagombas about Yana's murd ...
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Prof, this is not a fair statement to make. Dagombas are part of Northerners but not all Northerners are Dagombas. Dagombas are just a small fraction of Northerners. Therefore, if JJ was instigating Dagombas about Yana's murder, He was not instigating Northerners. So blame yourselves not JJ. Northerners have no ill feeling against Akans at all and for NPP to hold its delegates conference in Tamale is a proof that we are one people. Prof. I think you are rather creating a problem for Ghanaians.
Al Hajj AAA Rashid(OH. USA) 10 years ago

Mike Ocquaye has not changed a bit since I got to know him in Legon, decades ago.

What a stupid statement to make! Is Mike trying to suggest that Northeners, and Ewes can not think for themselves and it is Rawlings who th ...
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Mike Ocquaye has not changed a bit since I got to know him in Legon, decades ago.

What a stupid statement to make! Is Mike trying to suggest that Northeners, and Ewes can not think for themselves and it is Rawlings who thinks for them? What an insult!

Mike, knows very well and is only being selective in his thinking, that this problem is even older than Rawlings. If anything could be said about this mistrust between Akans and the rest of Ghana and not only Northerners and Ewes could be traced even to the formation of the NLM and has been aggravated by statements from successive Akan politicians over the years.

I want Mike to remember that Busia caused the UP tradition (then Progess Party )a lot of harm when he cooked up the APOLLO 568, by dismissing civil servants mostly Ewes, that led to Sallah taking him to court and BUSIA declaring NO COURT. How democratic(DESPOTIC)!

Mike where were you when the PP used Article 70 or 72 (please refresh my memory) to disqualify Gbedemah his political opponent from parliament in 1969.

Remember those who killed Gen Kotota? the most powerful man in the then NLC? Lt. Arthur and Yeboah both Akans with the help of Gen. AA Afrifa a member of the NLC.

Victor Owusu called all Ewes inward looking on the floor of the old parliament, and you expect the EWES to smile at Akans? How old was Rawlings at the time?

What did we also see in the run up to the 1979, elections that the PNP won? Alhaji Yakubu Tali was sidelined for Victor Owusu, and some of the nonsense we heard was "Opepeni" must not head the PFP.

It even got worse when Dr. Limann became President of the 3rd Republic.
all sorts of unprintable invectives from Akans, worse than what is labelled against Prez. Mahama now.

Mike was it Rawlings who declared the NPP yen "Akanfour" party? Please you should first examine yourselves before blaming others for your problems.

Mike you are as old as time and it would do you and your cohorts a lot of good if you stop blaming Rawling and others for all the troubles you have brought onto yourselves.

What a bankrupt intellectual!
ananseba 10 years ago

Mr. Ocquaye reads his History through tainted glasses. For a Professor, his recent public comments display a level of ignorance that beggars belief.

Mr. Ocquaye reads his History through tainted glasses. For a Professor, his recent public comments display a level of ignorance that beggars belief.
Kwasi 10 years ago

Prof is not telling us the truth, i remember during JJ's era there wasn't anything like tribalism, we were all one, we eat, drink,play football together, do everything together without pointing fingers at anybody in regards t ...
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Prof is not telling us the truth, i remember during JJ's era there wasn't anything like tribalism, we were all one, we eat, drink,play football together, do everything together without pointing fingers at anybody in regards to ethnicity, so what is he talking about. Prof should leave JJ alone cause it was his own party who brought in this division when they came to power from 2001-2008. so he should keep quiet.The Akans think they know it all. In fact things are getting out of hand and instead of thinking of how possible we can put our heads together to heal the nation he is dreaming of coming to power and if so, when you come back to power, can you solve the series of problems we are facing now? why don't He put the tribal sentiments away and bring ideas instead. Am tired of all these jokers who call themselves politicians
Jojo 10 years ago

OCQUAYE,YOU ARE WARNED TO BE CARFUL WITH YOUR TRIBAL ANALYSIS.

TO NPP AKANS ARE ASHANTIS AND KYEBIS,AND EXCLUDES FANTIS, ASSIN, DENKYIRAS,BRONGS AND AKWAPIMS.

ONCE AGAIN,DO NOT TRY TO INSULT THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE PEOP ...
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OCQUAYE,YOU ARE WARNED TO BE CARFUL WITH YOUR TRIBAL ANALYSIS.

TO NPP AKANS ARE ASHANTIS AND KYEBIS,AND EXCLUDES FANTIS, ASSIN, DENKYIRAS,BRONGS AND AKWAPIMS.

ONCE AGAIN,DO NOT TRY TO INSULT THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE PEOPLE IN GHANA.
KWAME 10 years ago

WELL SPOKEN PROF. GOD BLESS YOU

WELL SPOKEN PROF. GOD BLESS YOU
Saman Pa 10 years ago

is it not true that even the Akans in NDC still label NPP as Akan party? Why? If NPP is an Akan party then why do the Akans find themselves as stalwarts in NDC. Mention them, a tall list. I continue to say that NPP should sum ...
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is it not true that even the Akans in NDC still label NPP as Akan party? Why? If NPP is an Akan party then why do the Akans find themselves as stalwarts in NDC. Mention them, a tall list. I continue to say that NPP should summon any person who laberls the party as Akan to court to prove his case. The Constitution of Ghana debars parties being formed on tribal or ethnic lines. So if NPP is such a tribal based party then it must be banned. If it is not then the courts should bring all accusers to book.
christian brotherhood 10 years ago

Kennedy Agyepong called upon Ashantis to kill GAS INCLUDING you MIKE OQUAYE because you are a GA by tribe and EWES so don't forget that unfortunate statement by a law maker and for that matter a parliamentarian from your N ...
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Kennedy Agyepong called upon Ashantis to kill GAS INCLUDING you MIKE OQUAYE because you are a GA by tribe and EWES so don't forget that unfortunate statement by a law maker and for that matter a parliamentarian from your NPP party,Jerry Rawlings had been a leader of our country and history cannot be changed and Rawlings had never and will never sideline his tribe to rise up against Ashantis his own in-laws,Mike Oquaye is a cheap propagandaist who must not be taken seriously.
OXYGEN 10 years ago

U GUYS GET TU CONCERNTRATE ON FORMING UR OWN PARTIES, AM TIRED.U WOULD NOT TALK ON LORRY FARES N U RE ALL CRAZY 4 NOTHING

U GUYS GET TU CONCERNTRATE ON FORMING UR OWN PARTIES, AM TIRED.U WOULD NOT TALK ON LORRY FARES N U RE ALL CRAZY 4 NOTHING
Whatever 10 years ago

Was Jerry Rawlings the one who said "Akans should rise up to reclaim their birthright like their tribesmen in Ivory Coast did" or the one who referred to himself as "Yen Akanfo"

Was Jerry Rawlings the one who said "Akans should rise up to reclaim their birthright like their tribesmen in Ivory Coast did" or the one who referred to himself as "Yen Akanfo"
Kofi 10 years ago

Kofi Awoonor was Akan, right?

Kofi Awoonor was Akan, right?
Whatever 10 years ago

Jake said that Akans just like their brothers and sisters in Ivory Coast did, should rise up and reclaim their birthright. I mean... Will this message endear Akans to other tribes? I don't know about Kofi Awonor or whatever h ...
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Jake said that Akans just like their brothers and sisters in Ivory Coast did, should rise up and reclaim their birthright. I mean... Will this message endear Akans to other tribes? I don't know about Kofi Awonor or whatever he might have said. I'm not the one to defend him.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago

Mike Oquaye must boldly tell the truth on the trajectory of our now worsening ethnic rifts, or shut up. He should not blame Rawlings alone for this deplorable state of affairs in our inter-tribal relationships. The proble ...
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Mike Oquaye must boldly tell the truth on the trajectory of our now worsening ethnic rifts, or shut up. He should not blame Rawlings alone for this deplorable state of affairs in our inter-tribal relationships. The problem began way before Rawlings came along. Our early pre-Independent Politicians were not as blatant in any xenophobia, or superiority/inferiority complexes they had. Both the CPP and the UP/NLM had high percentage mixture of the Tribes, even as the latter predominantly comprised Akans. I am not absolving Rawlings completely from the problem. But the truth is he got in a web that already existed. The situation is more complicated than Ocquaye would conveniently and shoddily pin on J. J. alone. Rawlings earned his part of the problem when he executed Afrifah, informally implicated in the murder of the 3 Akan Judges, hastily executed my grand-nephew, Joe Gyekye, Giwa and Kyeremeh-Gyan, the younger brother of Boakye Gyan, the guy that saved Rawlings life from the brink of firing squad. Rawlings' initial high-handedness in clamping on small Market Women in his attempt to curtail hoarding, also rubbed badly on many Akans whose mothers and sisters were the core of that Business sector.

But was that the decision of only Rawlings'? No. However, he was the face of the Revolution and personified everything that went on in the process.

Looking closely into the past, we can honestly say that the ethnic distrust grew sharper with the overthrow of Nkrumah and Ocquaye did not help his colleagues to recognize it early enough to correct it. Rawlings only might have done things under paranoia to deepen the mistrust that already existed and our Politicians never really tried to correct it when they had the opportunity. They all played us against each other at their convenience.

We Akans always saw ourselves as better off than the Northerners, and many of us looked down upon them because we were employing many of them on our Farms. It was all a form of the same Master-Servant regard the Colonial Masters had with us.

The rift between Akans and Ewes, in particular, reared its ugly head after Kotoka's death in the aborted 1967 coup led by Arthur and Yeboah who were subsequently executed. It was widely circulated but never substantiated that Gen. Afrifah was the brain behind that failed Coup. That rumor gained some significant traction all through Gen. Acheampong's and Gen. Akuffo's era. Any subsequent ethnic collaboration among the leaders in the governments that followed was only superficial.

Then came Victor Owusu and his infamous nationally broadcast denigration of Ewes, calling them "inward looking" people which further alienated the Ewes from the Akans.
Between the Ewes and Northerners, it was a relationship of " the enemy of my enemy is a firend". The Northerners saw Ewes as an ally with whom they could effectively confront Akans to extract recover their dignity often trampled upon by Akans.

I know many Akans would not take this easily. But we must admit that we had, for a long time, been verbally, at least, contemptuous to the Northerners. So, the two minority groups found a common disliked neighbor in Akans.

During Liman's rule it was mainly we Akans that ridiculed his Presidency with blatant tribal slurs. It was common to hear folks say things like Liman "was ruining the Castle with his Cola chewing". This, and many such belittling tribal insults subtly deepened the already general perception of Akans holding Northerners in very low esteem. The many dehumanizing insults we dump on each other did not just pop up with the advent of Rawlings. His perceived preponderant victimization of Akans, whether in sheer proportionality to our composite share if the population or not, set him up as a hater of Akans. Not even Rawlings' marriage to an Akan Royal, Konadu Agyemang, whose amorous relationship with him at school preceded his popularity seem to convince many Akans otherwise of their perception of him as Akan hater. Some of these Akans even think J. J. only conveniently married her to mitigate that perception of him, and that Konadu had betrayed her Tribe for consenting to the marriage.

We also have to note that the Military leaders drawn from various ethnicities, during J. J.'s era were highly suspicious of each other. The story of Akatapore and others, and the overthrow of Dr. Liman do not portray any that exceptional bond between Northerners and Ewes to keep Akans in check lasted beyond the Coup days.

The Ya Na murder case was one example of how Rawlings would take advantage of situations more for Partisan benefits than Tribal. After all, the suspected culprits were also Northerners, and not amused by J. J.'s claims about the mysterious tape.
If any other cause exists that foments the Akan-Northerners feud it might be treatment of The late VP, Aliu, and Paul Afoko within the NPP wrongfully perceived as an Akan Party. How does J. J. Rawlings impact on that? The rift between the two groups would lay squarely on the door steps of the Mike Oquayes and others in the Party who timidly follow popular colleagues and never initiate any constructive unifying policies.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Yaw, USA 10 years ago

Mr. Berko, your analysis is on point and well written. Thanks you sir!

Mr. Berko, your analysis is on point and well written. Thanks you sir!
Kwadwo Asare 10 years ago

You did a great job educating this professor because this so called "hatred" existed before Rawlings.
You are a Professor.

You did a great job educating this professor because this so called "hatred" existed before Rawlings.
You are a Professor.
KKO 10 years ago

GK,
One thing you missed is the fact that being the majority, Akans are probably more forgiving than any of the ethnic groups in Ghana.

Victor Owuus's quip in Parliemant was actually in reaction to a remark that Dr Agama ...
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GK,
One thing you missed is the fact that being the majority, Akans are probably more forgiving than any of the ethnic groups in Ghana.

Victor Owuus's quip in Parliemant was actually in reaction to a remark that Dr Agama had made in Parliament. Rawlings has done a lot worse to Akans and if we really behaved like the rest of the groups in Ghana, no party remotely related to Rawlings would ever get 100 votes in any Akan area in Ghana, as it is consitently displayed in the Volta Region.

Didn't Rawlings compare Fantis to cats in Cape Coast? Did he not say in Kumasi that "if the Asante stopped eating wele, the shoe factory in Kumasi would make progress?" As you rightly pointed out, did he not execute the younger brother of Boakye-Gyan who saved his sorry coward arse?

How about all the Akan businesses he destroyed, not to mention the judges and military officers, leaving rogues like Nkegbe, Sowu, Habada, Kattah and others?

Whatever Akans said about Northerners was usually jocular, as exemplified by the large zongos in the Central Western, Eastern and Ashanti regions. Even more importnatly, when the Asantehene sits in state, ALL tribal heads in Ashanti are recognised. Soemthing that does NOT happen anywhere else in Ghana.

May be it is time for us Akans to become inward looking too. That is the only way Ghana can be saved, from what has transpired so far!
EZEKIEL 10 years ago

You are a TRUE SON of Ghana,saying it AS IT IS.Thank you fou your MATURE STAND.
That Oquaye-man is a DUNCE.....telling us TO PRAY for Engineers Not to leave TOR,because EVIL SPIRITS were drawing them away!!

You are a TRUE SON of Ghana,saying it AS IT IS.Thank you fou your MATURE STAND.
That Oquaye-man is a DUNCE.....telling us TO PRAY for Engineers Not to leave TOR,because EVIL SPIRITS were drawing them away!!
Jt 10 years ago

I have a question for u aque, serim- ni and Agnoloni are not words from Jj ask Kwabena Agyepong for his motives.

I have a question for u aque, serim- ni and Agnoloni are not words from Jj ask Kwabena Agyepong for his motives.
Shafiu 10 years ago

This sort of hatred is too ridiculous!!!

This sort of hatred is too ridiculous!!!
chris 10 years ago

Not true! Akans have always felt they are superior to other ethnic groups. Dr. Busia was extremely tribalistic. This problem has been around for a very long time.Just saying!

Not true! Akans have always felt they are superior to other ethnic groups. Dr. Busia was extremely tribalistic. This problem has been around for a very long time.Just saying!
JOE ATISO 10 years ago

CHRIS OR WHATEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF, IT'S A PLAIN FACT THAT AKANS ARE ECONOMICALLY SUPERIOR TO OTHER GROUPS IN GHANA BY DEFAULT. THIS IS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND QUITE EVIDENT IN INDIA AND OTHER PLACES. RAWLINGS AND HIS SATANIC ...
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CHRIS OR WHATEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF, IT'S A PLAIN FACT THAT AKANS ARE ECONOMICALLY SUPERIOR TO OTHER GROUPS IN GHANA BY DEFAULT. THIS IS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND QUITE EVIDENT IN INDIA AND OTHER PLACES. RAWLINGS AND HIS SATANIC/JEALOUS/LAZY EWE DISCIPLES USED THE ILLEGAL COUPS TO INDOCTRINATE OTHER TRIBES AGAINST AKANS.UNTIL THOSE LAZY EWES PLUS OTHER OPPORTUNISTIC TRIBES REJECT THIS MEGALOMANIAC RAWLINGS WORTHLESS RANTINGS AND FALSE IDEOLOGY, GHANAIANS FROM ALL ETHNIC BACKGROUND SHALL NEVER KNOW PEACE. CHRIS, LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH HARD FACTS AND MOVE ON.....
Kodzovi 10 years ago

U, Akans thinking that you know are rather fooling yourself. GBEHAWO

U, Akans thinking that you know are rather fooling yourself. GBEHAWO
DAGADOO NY USA 10 years ago

Oh shut the f_ck up. What are you talking about? If anything at all, JJ 's timely action was that of Emancipation. Thank God he did what he did. A dangerous outcome was looming. Political historian indeed. A bigot of a histo ...
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Oh shut the f_ck up. What are you talking about? If anything at all, JJ 's timely action was that of Emancipation. Thank God he did what he did. A dangerous outcome was looming. Political historian indeed. A bigot of a historian... Of sort. Just shut up . will you?!
...... 10 years ago

LOOK AT #9 MURDERER FACE.DR. DEATH IS NOCKING UR DOOR NOW.ASIEDU NKASEE WAS EATING UR KIDS LEFT OVERs NOW,JJ DUE TO UR STUPIDITY U WILL EAT ASIEDU NKASEE DOG SHIT.YOU STARTED THIS NDC SHIT AND TURNED IT TO ASIEDU NKASEE HE IS ...
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LOOK AT #9 MURDERER FACE.DR. DEATH IS NOCKING UR DOOR NOW.ASIEDU NKASEE WAS EATING UR KIDS LEFT OVERs NOW,JJ DUE TO UR STUPIDITY U WILL EAT ASIEDU NKASEE DOG SHIT.YOU STARTED THIS NDC SHIT AND TURNED IT TO ASIEDU NKASEE HE IS THE 11TH RICHEST MAN IN GHANA.BASTARD!
EFO 10 years ago

The BASTARD J J do not know his father and wanted to devid ghana.

The BASTARD J J do not know his father and wanted to devid ghana.
Onslopogas 10 years ago

Who say na lie?

Who say na lie?
DUNAA, Chorkor 10 years ago

So where are the Gas in all these? And therefore what is the crime of the Gas to incur the wrath of the NPP in calling on Ashantis to kill the Gas and the Ewes? Never has there been a stupid Ga as we are experiencing in this ...
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So where are the Gas in all these? And therefore what is the crime of the Gas to incur the wrath of the NPP in calling on Ashantis to kill the Gas and the Ewes? Never has there been a stupid Ga as we are experiencing in this prof. He is the most disgraceful Ga aside Jake.
AM-GERMANY 10 years ago

I THOUGHT THE PROF WOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, TO CALM DOWN THESE UNNECESSARY HATRED. WE NEED FOOD ON OUR TABLES, GREEDY BASTARD "PROFETISIANS"

I THOUGHT THE PROF WOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, TO CALM DOWN THESE UNNECESSARY HATRED. WE NEED FOOD ON OUR TABLES, GREEDY BASTARD "PROFETISIANS"
Big Jay 10 years ago

Prof. Mike Oquaye is right. Rawlings and his Ewe tribe are inward looking.

Prof. Mike Oquaye is right. Rawlings and his Ewe tribe are inward looking.
ADONGO 10 years ago

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT ,THIS IS THE GOSPEL TRUTH!!!

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT ,THIS IS THE GOSPEL TRUTH!!!
Uncle Al 10 years ago

Prof. Ocquaye you are an idiot, stop your nonsense.

Prof. Ocquaye you are an idiot, stop your nonsense.
nunana 10 years ago

NONSENSE, NONSENSE, NONSENSICAL

NONSENSE, NONSENSE, NONSENSICAL
afuath 10 years ago

Yes he did,you can say that again

Yes he did,you can say that again
afuath 10 years ago

Yes he cause it the division

Yes he cause it the division
BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

BLESSED PEOLE OF FRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA,-POLITICS- CAN BE DONE WITHOUT IT BEING DONE AT THE EXPENSE OF -NATIONAL PEACE, SECURITY, STABILITY, UNITY AND ADVANCEMENT. PULSE. ...
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BLESSED PEOLE OF FRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA,-POLITICS- CAN BE DONE WITHOUT IT BEING DONE AT THE EXPENSE OF -NATIONAL PEACE, SECURITY, STABILITY, UNITY AND ADVANCEMENT. PULSE. BLESSED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, -"IT IS FINISHED", -"OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AND -UNIT- THAT ABSOLUTLY -NOTHING- 'DISUNITE'- HER FROM TAKING -"THE VISION AND THE MISSION"- TO GREATER HEIGHTS. GOD BLESS THE EX-PRESIDENT OF GHANA; HIS EXCELLENCY JERRY -JOHN- RAWLINGS TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" WTH "THE 7000 MORE" OF AFRICA THAT AFRICA RISES TO TAKE HER FULL PLACE ON EARTH IN THIS PERFECTLY " APOINTED TIME" ORDAINED BY THE MOST HIGH GOD FOR AFRICA. GOD BLESS THE INNOCENT AND DIGNIFIED NORTHERNESS, EWES AND AKANS OF GHANA TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AND "SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT". GOD BLESS YOUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AGAINST THIS GLOBAL MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE". AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
NOTE
APPRECIATIONS TO -GHANAWEB- FOR THE SPACE. AND TO -MIGHTY FM- FOR THE LORD'S SONGS.
The truth 10 years ago

Let them hate all they want, they are only deceiving their self

Let them hate all they want, they are only deceiving their self
Dale Johnson 10 years ago

It is unfortunate that this idiot who is supposed to be a teacher and a former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament under the Kufour government, would concoct an uncouth story like this one. Under whose government did Twi beco ...
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It is unfortunate that this idiot who is supposed to be a teacher and a former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament under the Kufour government, would concoct an uncouth story like this one. Under whose government did Twi become a dominant language of radio and television local news when English is our official language? Who are the ones trying to divide the country on tribal basis ever since the time of Busia and his henchmen? Probably, this so–called professor is leaving in denial of facts about tribalism in the country and, needs to go back to school to learn something about the history of the country first before opening his mouth. It is not the Northerners or the Ewes that are waging tribal wars in the country; it is not all the Twi–speaking people who are waging tribal war in the country; but only the few politically self–promoting idiots within the NPP, who are trumpeting Twi–speaking superiority complex on the country. That is why since Kufour's time, they have made all the attempts to implant their people across the country to speak nothing but Twi in all the regions. They did this by enforcing their plans of not letting their people speak the languages of the people amongst whom they reside. They make the concerted effort of ensuring that, the people amongst whom they reside as traders, learn and speak to them in Twi. That is why wherever one goes today in Ghana, it would look like Twi is our national language. Rawling's government did nothing of the sort and, it is time the truth comes out. Since Afrifa and Busia's time, they have been drawing Ghana into tribal tension by trying to pitch the Ewes and all other tribes against the so–called Akan–speaking groups. There is nothing new in the tactics of the NPP to continue working on this tribal tension in the country. That is why the only way for them to come back to power and govern the country, will be for them to steal the election through their dubious means with their cronies within the electoral commission. I hope Ghanaians will see through the tactics of this party and their leadership, not to make any mistakes voting them to power ever again until they change their tactics of winning an election on tribal basis.
Tweaa 10 years ago

This ocquaye guy is an idiot....may be he just finished banku and shito so he has the need to say something....Next time Mr. ocquaye, do us a favor, shut the fu**k up!!!

This ocquaye guy is an idiot....may be he just finished banku and shito so he has the need to say something....Next time Mr. ocquaye, do us a favor, shut the fu**k up!!!
Tweaa 10 years ago

This is guy is an idiot. He probably just finished eating banku and shito so he felt the need to say something. Next time, please do us a favour...shut the fu**k up!!!

This is guy is an idiot. He probably just finished eating banku and shito so he felt the need to say something. Next time, please do us a favour...shut the fu**k up!!!
USTARZ 10 years ago

Ocquaye, you are big foolish, stupid, crooked and useless man of all time. How come in these era you are writing such story's. You are a disgrace person to Ghana. Hopeless professor.

Ocquaye, you are big foolish, stupid, crooked and useless man of all time. How come in these era you are writing such story's. You are a disgrace person to Ghana. Hopeless professor.
Aba 10 years ago

IS IT NOT TRUE WHAT THE PROFESSOR HAS SAID? IT IS SO INTERESTING HOW PEOPLE CAN RESIST THE TRUTH. THAT IS THE GOSPEL TRUTH!

IS IT NOT TRUE WHAT THE PROFESSOR HAS SAID? IT IS SO INTERESTING HOW PEOPLE CAN RESIST THE TRUTH. THAT IS THE GOSPEL TRUTH!
Frimpong Enoch. Harrisburg, PA 10 years ago

Is about time Ghanians we see ourselves as one people, one ethnic group with a common destiny. Let us use words that will promote National Unity and stop this Akan - Ewe- Northern divisions.Gold Coast was there even long befo ...
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Is about time Ghanians we see ourselves as one people, one ethnic group with a common destiny. Let us use words that will promote National Unity and stop this Akan - Ewe- Northern divisions.Gold Coast was there even long before the formation of these political parties
raskimo 10 years ago

Don't being afraid fill mentions your name ok don't abravation again ok. Thanks, by nnn

Don't being afraid fill mentions your name ok don't abravation again ok. Thanks, by nnn
kantinka 10 years ago

@ tommy. when you go to ashanti we have ayigbe town and aloga ,they all go to manhyia palace. can the akans in volta be accorded the same at asogli? kofi adam is a known togolese.

@ tommy. when you go to ashanti we have ayigbe town and aloga ,they all go to manhyia palace. can the akans in volta be accorded the same at asogli? kofi adam is a known togolese.
Kwame 10 years ago

The akans should blame themselves because to them,no other tribes matters.

The akans should blame themselves because to them,no other tribes matters.
YELLOW YELLOW 10 years ago

Mike Acquah onukpa amalelor,onukpa shamorlor...

Mike Acquah onukpa amalelor,onukpa shamorlor...
insight to the bone 10 years ago

some people dont realize outspoken people like sir john and ken agyapong dont need some position or party post to build their careers or remain influential . All they need to do is continue speaking the truth and defending th ...
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some people dont realize outspoken people like sir john and ken agyapong dont need some position or party post to build their careers or remain influential . All they need to do is continue speaking the truth and defending the interests of the Akan people and they will remain bigger and better than any fake pepeni president sitting in the flagstaff house . let the fight for justice continue , forward ever backward never the propaganda smears , lies from the engine room of the ndc will never take root as he who feels it knows the truth . we must prepare our people well to overthrow this corrupt ,racist tribalistic anti Akan oligarchy in a revolution of blood . In the NDC the only way to build one's career is the secretly promote hatred of the Akans and facilitate the division among the various tribes of the Akan exploiting on the differences and undermining the natural desire for development and progress.This phenomenon we see with some of the Gas like the mp namoale openly showing his hate here in the hope that he will get a ministerial appointment so he can continue in his extremely corrupt ways like before . the election engineer mathematics goes like this , the Akans are highly democratic in culture and as such will always exist a difference in opinion and divisions so to exploit that they take court idiots and clowns like yaw boateng gyan and gen mosquito and give them empty posts with no real power to chip off on the unity . then use the ahwois with hannah tetteh none who are even Fantis to facilitate divisions among the fantis and mislead the western and central regions. they then work on creating a political atmosphere and climate which says that ewes and northerners must be dominant everywhere as only they have the right to rule over the Akans and can be trusted not to betray the anti Akan agenda . A house divided can never stand this the root cause why NDC can never pool together the potential of the nation to effect sustainable development as without unity there can only be corruption and retrogression . in their so called winning strategy are the elements of their continuous failure as there is no true justice for the people , ultimately and paradoxically they dont see its their own people that will suffer the most and eventually disappear for the face of this planet as if they never were . Long live the republic of Akan
William K. Kyei 10 years ago

We,the Akans always think we are superior to the rest of the tribes in Ghana. That has always been our assertion and notion. Rawlings was, and has been the second best Head Of State Ghana has ever had, aside of Dr.Kwame Nkrum ...
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We,the Akans always think we are superior to the rest of the tribes in Ghana. That has always been our assertion and notion. Rawlings was, and has been the second best Head Of State Ghana has ever had, aside of Dr.Kwame Nkrumah. I remember, before Rawlings came to the limelight, one could hardly get kenkey to buy after 6:30pm at circle in Accra. Afrfa, Busia,Acheampong,Liman were all flops on the political scene. Have Ghanaians so easily forgotten the past? Before Rawlings one could hardly get an electric bulb to buy. In those days,"trotro" was even a luxury to ride. The Akans, espescially, the Ashantis, in those times,perceived themselves as superior. They were mostly into "kalabule" and did not want to take to formal education. So when Rawlings came into power through a coup detat, with iron fist, which was necessary at that time, we the Akans, saw him as a torn in our flesh. And we still see him as such to date. Grow up,Akans!!! How can you so easily forget?
TEE 10 years ago

WHY IS IT A PROBLEM FOR THE NORTHERNERS BY SAYING NPP IS AN AKAN PARTY, YES WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT. IF THE NORTHERNERS WANTS A PARTY WHY THEY DON'T FORM THEIR OWN PARTY AND STOP DISTURBING OUR PEACE WITH NPP AKAN PARTY PLEAS ...
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WHY IS IT A PROBLEM FOR THE NORTHERNERS BY SAYING NPP IS AN AKAN PARTY, YES WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT. IF THE NORTHERNERS WANTS A PARTY WHY THEY DON'T FORM THEIR OWN PARTY AND STOP DISTURBING OUR PEACE WITH NPP AKAN PARTY PLEASE PERIOD
jacobo 10 years ago

Prof you got it wrong, cross check issues just before and after independence.

Prof you got it wrong, cross check issues just before and after independence.

JJ caused Northerners, Ewes to hate Akans – Ocquaye

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