Ethnocentrism Goes With Kleptomania 2

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Ghanaman1 9 years ago

They are in jails all over Europe and America

They are in jails all over Europe and America
Otuo 9 years ago

Kwarteng, the professed Asante is doing a good job building his ayigbe daughter fuckers cheering crowd. Kwarteng is not a bigot as long as the ayigbes bigotry is displayed but woe to any Akan, especially an Asante to respond ...
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Kwarteng, the professed Asante is doing a good job building his ayigbe daughter fuckers cheering crowd. Kwarteng is not a bigot as long as the ayigbes bigotry is displayed but woe to any Akan, especially an Asante to respond to these ayigbe daughter fuckers.
Kwame Nyame 9 years ago

KWARTENG, I HAVE LOVED UR POSTS, ESPECIALLY THE WAY YOU DISMANTLED OKOAMPA'S TRIBAL BIGOTRY. YOU MADE UR POINT THAT DANQUAH WAS A NONENTITY COMPARED TO NKRUMAH AND THAT WAS POWERFUL.

BUT THIS TIME I DISAGREE. TRIBAL BIGOT ...
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KWARTENG, I HAVE LOVED UR POSTS, ESPECIALLY THE WAY YOU DISMANTLED OKOAMPA'S TRIBAL BIGOTRY. YOU MADE UR POINT THAT DANQUAH WAS A NONENTITY COMPARED TO NKRUMAH AND THAT WAS POWERFUL.

BUT THIS TIME I DISAGREE. TRIBAL BIGOTRY IS NOT JUST THE DOMAIN OF ASANTES. I WENT TO SCHOOL IN CAPE COAST AND HEARD MANY TIMES FANTIS DERIDE AND MAKE FUN OF ASANTES AS BUSH PEOPLE.

LETS ALL WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE GHANA A BETTER PLACE FREE OF TRIBALISM.

I LOVE MOST OF YOUR POSTS, THOUGH.
Otuo 9 years ago

Say it loud, I am Asante and proud.

Say it loud, I am Asante and proud.
Ghanaman1 9 years ago

You are proud crook

You are proud crook
Otuo 9 years ago

Are you ayigbe daughter fucker or what? My crook ways pay my ayigbe farm labourer. I am spreading the wealth around.

Are you ayigbe daughter fucker or what? My crook ways pay my ayigbe farm labourer. I am spreading the wealth around.
123 9 years ago

Where is that idiot who calls himself Kola London proper accusing me of being Sarpong? Check my IP address if I live in Texas USA.

I Iive Kansas state, USA, you uneducated London toilet cleaner.

Where is that idiot who calls himself Kola London proper accusing me of being Sarpong? Check my IP address if I live in Texas USA.

I Iive Kansas state, USA, you uneducated London toilet cleaner.
CARDINAL 9 years ago

Really? Mr children is a group of children Kola thought I am 123? The illiterate fool cannot even do an IP check, huh?

Really? Mr children is a group of children Kola thought I am 123? The illiterate fool cannot even do an IP check, huh?
Kojo T 9 years ago

U work as a security in the diaspora. get back to

U work as a security in the diaspora. get back to
Osei Kwame 9 years ago

Primitivity is when you sleep with your own daughter and make babies with them as Ewe culture allows. What will you rather be, Ghanaman 1, a crook or be an inbreed Ewe making babies with your daughter?

Primitivity is when you sleep with your own daughter and make babies with them as Ewe culture allows. What will you rather be, Ghanaman 1, a crook or be an inbreed Ewe making babies with your daughter?
ECONOMIC ANALYST 9 years ago

All those nonsense and lies about a stool which is gold, came from the skies.....hahahahaha

Are these porcupines serious? Who are they fooling? Yet they hate to hear the truth from Francis Kwarteng. Illiterate Foolish bigo ...
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All those nonsense and lies about a stool which is gold, came from the skies.....hahahahaha

Are these porcupines serious? Who are they fooling? Yet they hate to hear the truth from Francis Kwarteng. Illiterate Foolish bigots in Ghana who overthrew Dr. Kwame Nkrumah by their aggressive and bakward rantings all day, did same to Atta Mills till he passed away, doing same to John Mahama but they feared the brave JJ Rawlings as JJ Rawlings ensured they remain in Bush.

The porcupine fears JJR.
Bernard 9 years ago

Yes, they feared JJR and still do. He even compounded their problems by marrying their princess, Nana Konadu. And to make their case even worse, he promulgated a law that allow their children to inherit their father's estate ...
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Yes, they feared JJR and still do. He even compounded their problems by marrying their princess, Nana Konadu. And to make their case even worse, he promulgated a law that allow their children to inherit their father's estate instead of nephews.
CARDINAL 9 years ago

You dumb illiterate fool Kola calling your stupid self ECONOMIC ANALYST when you don't even know the meaning of MONETIZATION.

Author:KOLA,LONDON MAIN PROPER

Date:2014-03-29 13:05:38

Comment to:NDC! TWEAAA!!!

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You dumb illiterate fool Kola calling your stupid self ECONOMIC ANALYST when you don't even know the meaning of MONETIZATION.

Author:KOLA,LONDON MAIN PROPER

Date:2014-03-29 13:05:38

Comment to:NDC! TWEAAA!!!

The Kuffuor led Maladroit government promised the world of a new Ghana cedi will gain value when pegged with the dollar, what we have now is not what was promised.Nothing was put in place by this illiterate Bawumia and his Kookoase economic gurus to sustain the parity of the cedi with other major currency.

When you do monetization, it means you have deliberately pegged your currency to the major ones with the hope that it's value will cope or improve.

Having this, we expected the BOP to improve through prudent economic policies but Bawumia's Dagati economic policies coupled with that of Koookoase bush meat economics only saw more importation of rice from india when Ghana could have invested in agriculture to produce own rice.And so, Bawumia should not think Ghanaians are illiterate as he is.

At this stage of our economic development, the only way is to borrow but invest the borrowing wisely into productive activities such as what the current government is doing.

That said, Bawumia should stop his Dagati economics as these days even the Kookoase opposition npp MP's are well awake.

"When you do monetization, it means you have deliberately pegged your currency to the major ones"

Illiterate fool, do you know the difference between 'monetization' and redenomination?. Kuffour did redomination and not monetization.

Other major currencies NOT currency

Ghanaians are illiterate? --Ghanaians are illiterates.

borrow but invest the borrowing wisely? Hahaha, the word borrowing is a verb, you cannot invest borrowing.

Listen to this illiterate watchman in London who can't even buy a computer of his own and can only post from his watchman's job telling a Doctor and Professor of Economics he is an illiterate when this jss drop out cannot even put two sentences together.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear My Good Brother Otuo,

Say "I AM ASANTE" loud as James Brown said in "Say it Loud--I am Black and I'm Proud."

I will like my Dangomba, Ga, Gonja, Fanti, Nzema, Yoruba, Hausa, Oromo, Zulu, Mamprusi, Ewe, Wolof, Baul ...
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Dear My Good Brother Otuo,

Say "I AM ASANTE" loud as James Brown said in "Say it Loud--I am Black and I'm Proud."

I will like my Dangomba, Ga, Gonja, Fanti, Nzema, Yoruba, Hausa, Oromo, Zulu, Mamprusi, Ewe, Wolof, Baule, Hutu, Kikuyu, Luo, Tutsi, etc., to be singing along with James Brown!

Enjoy the piece. Have fun with it. Ghanaweb is a great place to be. It is like a discoteque.

Let's learn to love and marry each other even as we agree to disagree. This is what makes us human.

Be proud because this piece of polical satire does not say otherwise.

Thanks.
Concerned citizen 9 years ago

Kwarteng, as someone who wants to build a reputation as anti bigot, I find it it baffling why you have not cautioned those people who make bigotry comments against your own Ashanti folks and rather seems to encourage them, li ...
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Kwarteng, as someone who wants to build a reputation as anti bigot, I find it it baffling why you have not cautioned those people who make bigotry comments against your own Ashanti folks and rather seems to encourage them, like Andy K telling him to continue publishing his bigotry articles and Kola whose hate comments against Ashantis are legendary in this forum.

You are rather quick to respond to any Akan or Ashanti who responds to the bogoted statements against them.

I find Andy K as a hardened Anlo bigot. He seems to believe the Anlo Ewes are even better than other Ewes and as an Ewe who is not Anlo, I find him as a disgusted human being.

If you are really anti bigot crusader, so far you have portrayed yourself of even hating your own tribe and that I can't wrap my brains around it.
Mallam Kankane 9 years ago

Open your eyes. Kwarteng is not an Asante. He is a Voltarian using his slave name.

Open your eyes. Kwarteng is not an Asante. He is a Voltarian using his slave name.
Yaw Poku, USA 9 years ago

That is the truth.

That is the truth.
Patriotic citizen 9 years ago

Mallam Kankane, wonim Akan kasakoa? My eyes are aiways open and there is nothing like Voltarians. You have swallowed what Ewes who have inferiority complex running away from their own ethnicity or tribe called Ewe and callin ...
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Mallam Kankane, wonim Akan kasakoa? My eyes are aiways open and there is nothing like Voltarians. You have swallowed what Ewes who have inferiority complex running away from their own ethnicity or tribe called Ewe and calling themselves Voltarians or Jews.

If you feel comfortable in your own skin, you will not try to tie your trailer trash to to somebody's Winnebago and that is what these Ayigbes have been trying to do.

There was one guy in this forum called SECKAGO, an Ewe extremist who bragged like Bokor, Andy K, Kola, Kojo T and other Ewes like he was an educated genius and a financially successful Ewe.

He died a couple of years ago in a low class nursing home alone and was buried in a paupers cemetery with less than five mourners in attendance.

For all you know, this kwartengvi living in low cost city subsidized Tracy Towers apartment might be the second coming of SECKAGO.
Yaw Poku, USA 9 years ago

Francis Kwarteng is no damn fucking Ashanti. He is rather an impastor who is pretending to be an Ashanti but he is not.

Francis Kwarteng is no damn fucking Ashanti. He is rather an impastor who is pretending to be an Ashanti but he is not.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Brother,

How are you? Thanks for the question.

First, I do not use the word "tribe" or any of its derivatives to refer to any human being. I personally think they should better be reserved for animals or unciviliz ...
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Dear Brother,

How are you? Thanks for the question.

First, I do not use the word "tribe" or any of its derivatives to refer to any human being. I personally think they should better be reserved for animals or uncivilized, neither of which Africans are.

Second, I do not think our Brother Andy K is ethnocentric. I have personally not read or seen and remarks where he directly said one group of human beings are better than or superior to other groups. I know he has repeatedly jestingly said Ghanaians are "uncivilized."

Third, I think our good, decent, and extremely intelligent Brother Andy K is trying to undo stereotypical myths made against our Ewe brothers and sisters by those he calls "These Akans. Any well-meaning person will do exactly that. I fully support him in that direction. Brother Andy K simply wants us all to live as good neighbors, sisters ad brothers.

Fifth, I had many friends of diverse elasticities when I was a student at KNUST. I did not understand why some of my Asante friends always insulted or made blanket derogatory remarks about Gas, Ewes, Bonos, etc., without provocation. There were also occassional squabbles betwwen Asantes and Bonos on my university hall floor which I did not understand until relatively recently.

Sixth, I have five other siblings. We all speak fluently (except for our youngest brother who came to America when he was seven or so). At home when the family was gathered we spoke Asante-Twi with our Asante father and Fanti-Twi with our Fanti mother and, strangely, in the same conversational setting we turn to each other and spoke Ga and then turn to our mother in Fanti-Twi and our father Asante-Twi.

Our mother understand and speaks Ga fluently, but our father is not. Moreover, we lives all our lives in Teshie (Teshie Military and Training School (MATS), Teshie Manguase).

Seven, the sixth point is important because it sets up another context for me. I myself had been insulted and derogatory remarks had been leveled against some of my KNUST Asante friends who thought I was Ga until they later realized I was Asante/Fanti.

Eighth, I used to live in a Bronx building with one of my brothers and we had some elderly Asante neigbors. And they always my brother and I speak Ga and, like I said before, these Asante neighbors of ours mistook our Ga fluency for Ga ethnicity.

Yet we heard them rain insults on us as Gas for no apparent reason. These are questions I am still trying hard to understand. In fact, these Asante neighbors did not have greed cards (and hardly worked) and they had a Ga friend who occassionally visited them and bought them food and drinks. He sometimes even gave them money to add to their rent. Initially these Asante neigbors of ours hardly said anything negative about this generous man until they became convinced that my and I were Akans (Asante/Fanti) until I made one of them speak with my father.

Ninth, as soon as they realized that our father was Asante and our mother Fanti they began destroying this generous man to us.They even privately accused their Ga friend to us, my brother and I, of not saving his money and using his own money to buy alcohol, etc, the same alcohol he shared with them when he paid them a visit.

Tenth, on weekends these Asante elderly neighbors of ours had a group of elderly Asante men and women who visisted them. Most of their conversations came with insults and derogatory remarks about Ewes, Gas, etc. My brother and I did not understand them so we refused to join their company when they gathered outside on the weekend.

Eleventh, don't get me wrong. I am not saying all Asantes are like that. I have good Asante friends. Remember I am also part Asante. That aside, I also had an Asante friend in the Bronx who worked with a private Ghanaian shipping company.

I have forgotten where this friend of mine and his boss came from (but I do recall they came from the same town as Eric Agyemang, the famous guitarist and highlife).I went to work with on off-days and most of his customers were Asantes, mostly from his hometown. I became friends with many of them and whenever our conversations centered on politics, etc., these Asantes talked about Ewes, Gas, and others as if they were not human beings. One Asante even had the nerve to tell me that Ghana was not doing well because Asantes were not ruling the country. And when I asked why he ignorantly replied that Asantes were the most intelligent of Ghanaiasn.

Again, like I said before, I have been insulted, laughed, and derogatory remarks made by Asantes who mistook me for a Ga because of my Ga proficiency. What is wrong if I Ga, Ewe, Gonja, Mamprusi, Dagomba, etc? Are they not human beings? Why would anyone insult me or looked down upon me because he perceived me as Ga? Why?

In fact, I have raised this issue on many occassions with one of my good KNUST Asante classmate who is here in the states. I will not say everything here but he does undertsand my anger against "Asantes" for their false sense of ethnic superiority.

The final question is, if some Asantes will do this to me, their fellow Asante, what can't they do to Mamprusi, Gomjas, Gas, Ewes, etc. This is not to say Asantes are the only one guilty of this "crime" of superiority complex. But I have not experienced this from our Ga, Gonja, Dagomba, Ewe, etc., brothers and sisters. The insults and dehumanization had always come from our Asante brothers and sisters.

This is why I think Brother Andy K's running series on the same moral and phylosophical questions I have been grappling with all my life will help! Let us all support him with open-mindedned.

Thanks to you all. All errors are mine. I never had time to proofread it.

Remember ethnicity is not an issue for me. Forget ethnocetrism! I love you all!

Thanks.
Nii 9 years ago

Francis, I am glad as an Asante you have experienced insults because your Asante folks think you are Ga. Now imagine what Ga people experience from Asantes. I have a lot of stories to tell you. Thanks for sharing your experie ...
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Francis, I am glad as an Asante you have experienced insults because your Asante folks think you are Ga. Now imagine what Ga people experience from Asantes. I have a lot of stories to tell you. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Concerned citizen 9 years ago

You have proved the point I was trying to make to you Satirist that you are not Asante but Ewe supremecist.

You are the only person in Ghana who has witnessed Asantes bigotry but has never heard other tribes bigotry agains ...
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You have proved the point I was trying to make to you Satirist that you are not Asante but Ewe supremecist.

You are the only person in Ghana who has witnessed Asantes bigotry but has never heard other tribes bigotry against Asantes. Are there Asante bigots? Definitely but for you to come here and write all these nonsense about Asantes living in Bronx and not working with Ga man feeding them, that is bollocks and you know it.

At least you admitted you hate Asantes. You are really lucky you have witnessed only Asante bigotry against other tribes and not the other way round but cut your bullshit out, you have no Asante father and Fanti mother and your bullshit of your uncle being the murdered Commodore Yaw Boakye from Aduman is all bullshit crap you devious Ayigbe sjpremecist picked from some Asantes who think they you are a friend and using the information you gleaned from them to embark on your tribalistic foolishness.

Somebody asked you to tell him how to get to Aduman which you have claimed to be your hometown and tell him the history of Aduman secondary school and you couldn't even do it.

If you want to be an ayigbe bigot, be bold like the Bokors who also started in this forum writing under Anthony Kumah's moniker.

You Ewes are really devious hiding under Akan names to disseminate your hateful messages. To say that Andy K is not a bigot is like saying he is not a KKK but only wearing a white hood to cover his face.

The sad part about your sorry self is that, you are not even intelligent enough to pull your faking off. The only person who believes you is you. Your Ayigbe friends even know you are a low self esteem inferiority complexed ayigbe daughter fucker.
Adam 9 years ago

Lucky you, Kwarteng. Your parents brought you to the US, paid your fare and fixed your permit. The same with Okoampa too.

You guys were very lucky. MOST of your fellow country men got there the very very hard way. They ha ...
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Lucky you, Kwarteng. Your parents brought you to the US, paid your fare and fixed your permit. The same with Okoampa too.

You guys were very lucky. MOST of your fellow country men got there the very very hard way. They had to fix their own papers apart from getting money to buy their own tickets. Even those who won Uncle Sam's lottery had to borrow money to buy a ticket.

Good for you. You can talk about Ghanaians who don't have green cards.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Adam,

I did not mean that in a negative way.

I only meant to say that the Ga guy, their friend, helped them with part of their finances because they hardly worked since they did not have green cards. I provided t ...
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Dear Adam,

I did not mean that in a negative way.

I only meant to say that the Ga guy, their friend, helped them with part of their finances because they hardly worked since they did not have green cards. I provided that specific background information for readers to appreciate my point!

Besides, you have forced me to say what I did not want to say here. My brother and I occassionally gave them money too! I think we should be helping each other when the need arises--without regard to ethnicity, class, regionalism, education. That is my point!

I hope I have made myself clear!

Thanks.
Adam 9 years ago

So you see how the things we write on ghanaweb can be interpreted (or twisted) in many ways? Of course I know you didn't mean any harm but your piece can be read in one (of several) way as being condescending to your paperles ...
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So you see how the things we write on ghanaweb can be interpreted (or twisted) in many ways? Of course I know you didn't mean any harm but your piece can be read in one (of several) way as being condescending to your paperless country men.

That's why we have to weigh well what we write on ghanaweb especially those who write features purporting to be above the ethnic fray and attempting to show the foolishness in the arguments of those who insist that their language group is better than another group of people speaking a different language.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Adam,

I have clearly stated a disclaimer telling readers this is merely political satire.

I did a tribute to our great Prof. Kofi Awonoor and got some serious trashing. Some readers called me trokosi and all kinds ...
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Dear Adam,

I have clearly stated a disclaimer telling readers this is merely political satire.

I did a tribute to our great Prof. Kofi Awonoor and got some serious trashing. Some readers called me trokosi and all kinds of bad names.

Some Ghanaweb readers said Rawlings shuld have left Afrifa, Amedume, Feli, Yaw Boakye, etc., and shot me instead.

I did another essay to let readers understand that human geogaraphy made obsessions with ethnicity scientifically unnecessary. I received another trashing.

When you write about science, technology, and mathematics without even mentioning race/ethnicity or political parties some Ghanaweb readers will still twist them and somehow bring ethnicity and partisan politics into them.

I have written about GMO (and EPA) and some Ghanaweb readers insulted me because I suggested our leaders need to take these issues seriously.

I once used music to discuss corruption in Ghana and some Ghanaweb readers insulted me for writing rubbish.

I wrote about the likelihood of religion destroying our "democracy" and I got some serious verbal trashing.

I began a series in which I profiled some of the creative work Ghanaian scholars based here in America are doing for the world. Again, I got some thrashing.

Yet another good Ghanaian professor, based in Southern Africa saw something positive in the series and snt me some names to profile for Ghanaian youth.

I wrote about educational reform where we introduce critical thinking, science, mathematics, technology, critical reading, and "multiple intelligences) and still some people said referencing scholarly works did not demonstrate critical thinking on my part.

I wrote about Afrocentricity and showed how that should help Africans protect their strategic interests and how we should use our mineral wealth to benefit Africans rather than foreigners. Some readers gave insults.

There is one Ghanaweb reader here on this forum (he has been following me closely) who uses different Ewe-sounding monikers to insult me.

This guy gives readers the wrong impression that some of our Ewe brothers and sisters who read my artcles are the ones insulting me. I suggested to him that I have his IP and know he's a Ghanaweb columnist.

He's an Asante and most readers know him as a bigot. He is always attacking our Ewe brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, he sees a political satire and goes haywire.

Yesterday he was on the forum for Part 1 using different monikers. I got his IP and tried to neutralize his insults with jokes. And yet this is a writer who is always supporting the bigotry of other Ghanaweb columnists. Does this not surprise you?

I also wrote and used references to alow readers to go further than what I discuss. Some readers still complained.

Now I stopped quoting and have since adopted political satire to express my ideas. And some readers are still complaining.

Who pays us to write? That is, are we paid to write at all? No. And I know readers are aware of the intense thinking that goes into these writings.

If some readers will still go ahead and twist anything I write to suit their idiosyncrasis, so be it.

We were each raised differently, attended different schools, have different education backgrounds and reading levels, as well as different expectations when we read something and, therefore, I don't expect my writings to satisfy every reader. Neither do I expect every single commentor to demonstrate a clear understanding of what I write.

Should I have to go about soliciting readers' expectations before putting pen to paper?

That is one feature I have come to associate with some Ghanaweb readers. No matter what you write some readers will not doubt twist them. That I don't care.

You write poetry, they complain. You write prose, they complain. You put a few Ewe, Twi, Ga sayings in an article, some readers still complain.

Some complain when you do book reviews. You use "big" words and some readers see it as boastfulnness. You use everyday words and some say you write like a child and even call you "illiterate."

Do these readers pay us to write?

Adam, please let such readers allow me to have my piece of mind. I have sent in another installment touching on other dimensions of ethnocentrism and ethnic chauvinism/nationalis.

Raders can do whatever they like with it or refuse to read. In fact, those readers should stop attacking and maligning Gas, Ewes, Gonjas, Dagombas, etc., without provocation.

Again, unfortunately, it is these same readers who always attack, insult, malign Gas, Ewes, etc., who have problems with such write-ups. I have a friend who gives e their IPs! Justice Sarpong is the interesting one. He's all over the place. I have all their IPs!

You see these readers praising Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Akadu Mansema, Justice Sarpong, and Adofo Rockson.

All errors are mine.

Thanks.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago

You are not alone.

You are not alone.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Hello,

I will know who you really pretty soon.

And since you did not read the article at all, let me paste last but four paragraph to you:

"The final question is, if some Asantes will do this to me, their fello ...
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Hello,

I will know who you really pretty soon.

And since you did not read the article at all, let me paste last but four paragraph to you:

"The final question is, if some Asantes will do this to me, their fellow Asante, what can't they do to Mamprusi, Gomjas, Gas, Ewes, etc. This is not to say Asantes are the only one guilty of this "crime" of superiority complex. But I have not experienced this from our Ga, Gonja, Dagomba, Ewe, etc., brothers and sisters. The insults and dehumanization had always come from our Asante brothers and sisters."

Anyway, I am not beholden to you by way of proving my identity to you. Ethnicity is not my problem. I know you are obsessed with it!

Take me for Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Ali Baba Foster, or even Mother Teresa, whichever suits you. Finally, am describing my own unique experiences with my own Asante.

Besides, are there scientific tests such as paternity test/maternity test to determine my ethnicity or even yours?

Please read the article again or stop reading as I turn to Michael Bolton, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Whitney Houston, Patti La-belle, Bon Jovi, U2, Seal, Sam Cooke, Babyface (Keeny Edmonds), Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Earl Klugh, Kirk Whalum, etc.

Currently I am enjoying Michael Bolton's "A Whiter Shade of Pale." You should find time to listen to this powerful track.

Bye.
Hammond, San Francisco, CA 9 years ago

Concerned citizen should leave you lonely tribalistic idiot alone .Almost two in the morning in the East Coasf and you lonely msn is has your nose touching the computer monitor. Go to bed, you tribalistic awona fool.

Concerned citizen should leave you lonely tribalistic idiot alone .Almost two in the morning in the East Coasf and you lonely msn is has your nose touching the computer monitor. Go to bed, you tribalistic awona fool.
MaKER 9 years ago

I think you are now toning down having realized the barrage of attacks on this ethnocentric article of yours. If you are truly an Asante as you claim let your 'Asante father'read this nonsense you call political satire and se ...
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I think you are now toning down having realized the barrage of attacks on this ethnocentric article of yours. If you are truly an Asante as you claim let your 'Asante father'read this nonsense you call political satire and see his reaction. Next time write about the entrepreneurial skills of the Asantes that you saw at least during your time at KNUST for your folks in that desolate part of Ghana to read, to at least help them.You from Aduman? Go and tell that to kindergaten kids.
Antoa 9 years ago

I bet you, you didn't write the article, reading your comments. you write an article calling others animals, and you turn around and tell me you want to live peacefully with them? well, it's up to you to suffer sleepless nigh ...
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I bet you, you didn't write the article, reading your comments. you write an article calling others animals, and you turn around and tell me you want to live peacefully with them? well, it's up to you to suffer sleepless nights hating on Asantes because of a perceived 'Ashanti superiority'. if you are wise enough, personally confront those who insult you rather than go to bed, think of insulting Asantes, wake up, type nonsense and post then on the web. No Asante will write to insult Asantes. If you think Asantes are animals, so are ewes, gas, dagombas, and the rest.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Hello Antoa,

Do some of you read critically at all? I still wonder.

I have referred to Kwame Nkrumah, my greatest hero of all time, as The Scarab Beetle, another animal, and here you are still complaining.

Did you ...
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Hello Antoa,

Do some of you read critically at all? I still wonder.

I have referred to Kwame Nkrumah, my greatest hero of all time, as The Scarab Beetle, another animal, and here you are still complaining.

Did you not read where I said The Scarab Beetle ate "dung" (Part 1)?

Have you read a novel such as George Orwell's "Animal Farm"? Have you read any of the Synoptic Gospels where Christ used figures of speech, allegory, etc., to spread his message?

Have you read the Koran or Hadith to see Prophet Muhammad do the same thing? And several of our African writers?

Moreover, I even referred to those of our brothers and sisters living in the North as Dinosaurs, Mammmoths, Horses, Elephants, etc., in Part 1, and here you are still complaining.

I chose to conflate human and animal essences to enrich this serial satire. If you cannot read critically and push your understanding beyond animal characters, then, reader, you mght as well reserve your comments.

For instance, when I say "the grinding teeth of history," my friend, do you think "history" has teeth as humans? No. It is merely figurative.

Have you listened to the rap song "Self-Destruction"? Let me assure you that I did mention that song for a sicial and political purpose. You should listen to the lyrics. The song embodies the political crisis Ghana is facing now. This one example should alert you to the fact that the characters have deeper sociopolitical meanings than your facile comments suggest!

My frend I don't go to bed thinking about any group of people. Writing is a hobby and always try to explore different writing styles. That is all. I do not hate any ethnic group. Please understand that.

How else do I have to write to spread my message?

Geez!

Thanks.
OYIRIFI AMPASACHI 9 years ago

MR KWARTENG OR WHATEVER U CHOOSE TO CALL
YOURSELF....HAVE U TAKEN YOUR MEDICATION THIS MORNING?....JUST CHECKING.....! BECAUSE YOU CONTINUE TO SOUND MORE AND MORE LIKE SOMEONE WHO TIME FORGOT...AND LEFT BEHIND......!,AND TRU ...
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MR KWARTENG OR WHATEVER U CHOOSE TO CALL
YOURSELF....HAVE U TAKEN YOUR MEDICATION THIS MORNING?....JUST CHECKING.....! BECAUSE YOU CONTINUE TO SOUND MORE AND MORE LIKE SOMEONE WHO TIME FORGOT...AND LEFT BEHIND......!,AND TRUST ME, I AM BEING VERY POLITE!!!!!!!!
Kojo T 9 years ago

No where did CY Andy K indicate Anlo Ewes were better than others. He was responding to "these akans' who rejoice when Akpini ewes drown in the Volta dam . "These Akans" mock anything that comes from the Volta region be it so ...
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No where did CY Andy K indicate Anlo Ewes were better than others. He was responding to "these akans' who rejoice when Akpini ewes drown in the Volta dam . "These Akans" mock anything that comes from the Volta region be it south or North They wrote EP sta ds for Ewe Presbyterrian instead of EVANGELICAL Presbyterrian . It is such stack ignorance he attacked . Here today you read Ewes sleep with their sisters . Daily they label ALl Ewes as trokosi . Are you one? Should steps not be taken to EDUCATE such bigots?
MaKER 9 years ago

No wonder the educated voltarians live in poverty and struggle to have a descent living after retirement.Does Justice Kpegah ring a bell? The supreme court Judge who is still occupying a govt bungalow because he has nowhere t ...
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No wonder the educated voltarians live in poverty and struggle to have a descent living after retirement.Does Justice Kpegah ring a bell? The supreme court Judge who is still occupying a govt bungalow because he has nowhere to go. When the ordinary Asante is thinking hard about his business you spend time writing this thrash.An idle trokosi hand indeed.You are lucky your slave name has given you an identity and I wish you could write sth better that could help your trokosi brethren to be industrious as the Asantes to keep them in your poor region to stop them from trooping to the farms of the people whose history and pride you are denigrate. I am a typical Bono man and I sometimes wonder how you people live your lives in Eweland. Go to my home town Nkoransa to see the plight of your people spending their hard earned income and precious times drinking ogogro. Your writings now tell me the reason you people envy hard working people Akans esp Asantes. Your language, culture, food, dressing, music is alien to Ghanaians so continue to live with your trokosi culture and inferiority complex. You inward looking tribalist should write sth that will motivate your people weeding in the farms of Akans to learn the ways of their masters - to save and invest but not to spend their hard earned incomes on ogogro.
MaKER 9 years ago

... whose history and pride you denigrate.

... whose history and pride you denigrate.
MaKER 9 years ago

Sorry folks, I didn't read over so forgive any grammatical errors.I should have said ...hard working Akans esp Asantes.

Sorry folks, I didn't read over so forgive any grammatical errors.I should have said ...hard working Akans esp Asantes.
Maria 9 years ago

To Maker.
Remember ur people clean wc in Germany.

To Maker.
Remember ur people clean wc in Germany.
CAPII 9 years ago

YOU NEED TO CHECK INTO A PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION & RECOVERY FACILITY. DO YOU ROUTINELY TAKE MEDICATION TO STABILIZE YOUR CRAZY THOUGHTS? SEEK IMMEDIATE HELP PLEASE !!!

YOU NEED TO CHECK INTO A PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION & RECOVERY FACILITY. DO YOU ROUTINELY TAKE MEDICATION TO STABILIZE YOUR CRAZY THOUGHTS? SEEK IMMEDIATE HELP PLEASE !!!
Brother 9 years ago

Most of what Brother Kwateng has put here is already out there. And yet we are trying so hard to make him Ewe from Volta region? Lets hope, Otumfuo will not turn into Ewe one day for saying the truth. I from the extreme part ...
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Most of what Brother Kwateng has put here is already out there. And yet we are trying so hard to make him Ewe from Volta region? Lets hope, Otumfuo will not turn into Ewe one day for saying the truth. I from the extreme part of Northern Ghana went through seven years of secondary education in Kumasi. I hope you will understand my plight. I have lived in Accra, Takoradi, Enchi, Navrongo, Sandema,Denu, Swedru and I have never seen derogation at that level. I just hope my brothers will realize that, when every body is complaining, it is because you need to take an introspection. Other regions have similar problems but yours is national. Take it or leave, it is the truth. My question is, why wont people say Brother Kwateng is Nzema, Brossa or Fante but Ewe? Because you a still having the same mind set. Does it mean it is only Ewes who speak the truth?
MaKER 9 years ago

Yes ethnocentric comments are everywhere. I went to sch in Tadi and I also had my fair share. I was most of the time called habanase ni (a forest guy). I'm from Nkoransa and had to get use to it cos i realised it wasn't just ...
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Yes ethnocentric comments are everywhere. I went to sch in Tadi and I also had my fair share. I was most of the time called habanase ni (a forest guy). I'm from Nkoransa and had to get use to it cos i realised it wasn't just me a Bono guy. The Nzimas, Ahantas and the Northerners had their share as well. It is everywhere in Gh but Kwarteng's article went beyond that if we have to be honest. Don't buy his apologetic comments here and his childish excuse that he is an Asante/Fante guy but go back to read the article carefully.We can agree to disagree but is this the kind of article that Ghanaians need at the moment, brother?
Asiwome 9 years ago

There is nothing wrong with Ewes using their hard earned money (your words) anyway they want to. They drink because they cannot take inhuman treatment from their fellow humans. Those of you who talk about your sons marrying E ...
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There is nothing wrong with Ewes using their hard earned money (your words) anyway they want to. They drink because they cannot take inhuman treatment from their fellow humans. Those of you who talk about your sons marrying Ewe women fail to talk about your daughters going after high profile men from other tribes. Hmmm..., because, because of what? Think before you write.
Otuo 9 years ago

I went to Mawuli secondary school in early eighties and was one of about five Asantes sho dare thread in a school that was more than 97 percent Ewes. The other Akans there were from the Kajebi and Jasikan areas.

The Ewe bi ...
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I went to Mawuli secondary school in early eighties and was one of about five Asantes sho dare thread in a school that was more than 97 percent Ewes. The other Akans there were from the Kajebi and Jasikan areas.

The Ewe bigotry was so pervasive and I have to leave after my first year to Accra Academy. I grew up in Odorkor, Accra in a neighborhood of all tribes and never experienced that kind of bigotry until I went to Mawuli, a great academic school but closed minded institution hijacked by trained bigots.

I did my sixth form at T.I Ahymadhia
Brother 9 years ago

That is the point MaKAR, we are all guilty. Look at the generalization you made on Ewes living in poverty after retirement. Being a northern boy, I know what a Kasina tells a Nankana, what a Dagao tells a Sisala, what a Dagba ...
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That is the point MaKAR, we are all guilty. Look at the generalization you made on Ewes living in poverty after retirement. Being a northern boy, I know what a Kasina tells a Nankana, what a Dagao tells a Sisala, what a Dagbana tells a Mampilinga. What a Mampilinga tells a Kosal etc. No kidding. I have covered Ghana very well except Volta region where I am limited to Aflao and its environs. I also lived at Atebubu (Bono with Komkoma) dealing with Amanteng, Prang, Beposu, Abase, Kwame Danso (Dwan) and Yeji (Chumburru). I had a one year stint at Nkoranza as well. I have virtually covered Bono and Ahafo areas to Goaso, Mim, Akodie, Kukuom,Bekyem and Techimantia. I have lived at Kumawu briefly, Bekwai covering Fomena areas. Obuasi covering Akrokyere to Dunkwa. I Covered Nzema, Ahanta and Wassa from Tdi too. We are same to the core. I know what am saying. It is pervasive but not as national as we have with Kumasi. Why do you think Bono is so Massive; Dormaa to Berekum, to Badu, through Wenkyi,cutting off the Moo areas back to Techiman, Nkoranza to Atebubu but is dying out? Fear of being derogated.If you really come from Nkronza, then you will understand what am saying.
Kojo T 9 years ago

Otumfuo is 120% Ewe

Otumfuo is 120% Ewe
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Hello,

Tell them like it is.

I am still waiting for someone to say I am Nzema because I a militant supporter of Kwame Nkrumah/Nkrumahism.

The question is, what is wrong if I am Ga, Dagomba, Gonja, Ewe?

Brother, ...
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Hello,

Tell them like it is.

I am still waiting for someone to say I am Nzema because I a militant supporter of Kwame Nkrumah/Nkrumahism.

The question is, what is wrong if I am Ga, Dagomba, Gonja, Ewe?

Brother, interestingly, I have also been called a Ga at many different places! I was happy when others saw me as Ga, though.

I am happy when others say I am Ewe. I am happy when I am called a Mamprsi, Dagomba, or Gonja!

Are they not our brothers and sisters?

Someone is even suggesting I write about the entrepreneurial abilities of the Asante as if Ewes, Gonjas, Gas, Fantes, Kwahus, Mamprusis, Nzemas, etc., are not entrepreneurial.

You see how far the typical Asante will go to prove his exceptionalism when that is a social mirage. Who says the Asante is the only one with entrepreneurial skills in the body politic? Let's shun this nonsense and advocate national unity!

Finally, Brother, as always, I know a reader is going to come here and say Brother is the same person as Francis Kwarteng. And that Francis Kwarteng enjoys self-adulation. Some readers say I use different monikers to heap praises on myself. As if I am Narcissus.

Brother, you used an interesting word "introspection," which is what we should all be doing!

In fact, we even need national introspection on this matter of ethnic chauvinism!

Thanks for your creative contributions.
CARDINAL 9 years ago

There is nothing wrong at all if you are Ga, Nzema, Gonja, Dagomba or whatever but be bold and proud of who you are and not to pretend to be what you are not.

Asantes are hated because people think they are too boisterious ...
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There is nothing wrong at all if you are Ga, Nzema, Gonja, Dagomba or whatever but be bold and proud of who you are and not to pretend to be what you are not.

Asantes are hated because people think they are too boisterious and loud and I can understand that because we are not afraid to tell you who we are and don't care to speak our language either which riles the people.

I have read somewhere here where people say you have said to be from Aduman, a town I have been to more than twenty times because I am from Buoho, the same Kwabre people like Aduman people but you couldn't tell where Aduman is which is not more than six miles from Buoho.

If you remember, in one of your articles, I also accused you of being an Ewe who have taken an Akan name because you wrote a two or three part article where you accused Afrifa of master minding the 1966 coup you might not have studied expeditiously. You intentionally left Kotoka, Harlley and Deku who planned that coup and Afrifa was only brought in because the coup would not have been breached without him knowing it since he was Kotoka's adjugtant who was also married to an Ewe woman rumoured to be related to Kotoka or from the same Kotoka's hometown.

You have done a lot of things with your articles that a true Asante will not do. Don't get me wrong, I know some Asantes who also don't agree with a lot of what some Asantes do and as an Asante, I sometimes don't agree with what some of us do either but yours borders on extreme hate of Asantes and nobody will ever hate his or her ethnic people.

As a matter of fact, you are more bigoted than some of the extremist Ewe writers in this forum.

Dr SAS, a very intelligent man whose intelligence borders on the genius strastosphere also love Ewes and speak very highly of them but nobody accuses him of being an Ewe so you might have to measure your words with decorum.
Brother 9 years ago

This is the big problem. Cardinal of truth knows it all. If you think he is Ewe, he might as well be Nzema. "why is it that any thing good is European but any thing bad is African; any rat with pointed nose is Scotland yard r ...
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This is the big problem. Cardinal of truth knows it all. If you think he is Ewe, he might as well be Nzema. "why is it that any thing good is European but any thing bad is African; any rat with pointed nose is Scotland yard rat." you think you can say it the way it is but your fellow brother, whose father is Asate can not. In that vain take it that, your blood (his father, an Asante) has dominated and so his behavior. He is living his inheritance. Stop forcing him into Ewe land. He said his father comes from Aduman, gave you his uncle's name and all that, go check it out. Even children who were born in the 70s and 80s know the facts big boy. write about what he wrote and stop writing about who he is or not.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

Brother,

That's a good one to Sarpong. He couldn't believe that an Asante can write such things cos he is still encrusted in the mental warpedness of the pre-colonial times when his predatory ancestors raided and plundered ...
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Brother,

That's a good one to Sarpong. He couldn't believe that an Asante can write such things cos he is still encrusted in the mental warpedness of the pre-colonial times when his predatory ancestors raided and plundered others for the slave forts and castles along the coast. And he is still mightily proud of those exploits of his "great" ancestors, of course. Francis, on the other hand, has transcended those times and developed a world conscience based on the one-ness of human kind, of the African in particular as a distinct group in solidarity, and must be in solidarity with each.

Sarpong should wait until he reads how I put meat to Francis' by telling about how my own Anlos and some other Ewes used to help Akwamus, Gas and Asantes to raid even other Ewes for loot and slaves! Did that before. It doesn't mean I hate my people the Anlos of today, nor my ancestors who played dominant roles in that old order except that I take a distance from that heritage and takes no pride in it. It doesn't make me a bigot against them, so I fail to understand how Francis' writing makes him one, even though he is a bonafide Asante. Or Akan.

Andy-K
CARDINAL 9 years ago

Brother, I really don't care that much what he wants to be, that is his prerogative but the names you are referring to that you said he quoted cannot be true because he picked the wrong town to lie about.

My father is actu ...
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Brother, I really don't care that much what he wants to be, that is his prerogative but the names you are referring to that you said he quoted cannot be true because he picked the wrong town to lie about.

My father is actually a royal from Aduman and I know the nook and cranny of every part of Aduman. I wonder if your wannabe Asante Kwarteng can tell me what is Canaan in Aduman. I wanted to trap this fraudulent wannabe Aduman citizen. He can choose another village or town in Ashanti region to lie about because Air Marshal Yaw Boakye who was murdered by Rawlings is my father's cousin who this fake says is his uncle . He should stay away from my family because this guy cannot even give me directions to Aduman from Afrancho.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Dear Sarpong,

I refuse to continue to address Justice Sarpong's remarks if he does not sufficiently explain to me what this statement of his means:

"You have done a lot of things with your articles that a TRUE ASANTE wi ...
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Dear Sarpong,

I refuse to continue to address Justice Sarpong's remarks if he does not sufficiently explain to me what this statement of his means:

"You have done a lot of things with your articles that a TRUE ASANTE will not do."

Who is "true Asante"? What does the word "true" in "true Asante" mean?

I ask another reader yesterday, are there scientific tests like paternity/maternity tests to determine one's ethnicity?

This question does not mean we should not come together as one people to do for ourselves what Asians, Europeans, etc., are doing for themselves as a group. Andy K has made that eloquently clear, I am more African than Asante, Ga, Ewe, or Zulu! Add Brother's excellent advice to Andy K's!

That said, I will proceed further if Sarpong tells me what that statement of his means!

Justice Sarpong, if you have any idea the kind of TERRIBLE experiences I have had with other Ghanaians, mostly Asantes, who had mistaken me for a Ga, you will not be addresssing me this way.

These esays speak to that "anger."

Anyway, I don't take umbrage at being seen as Ga, Ewe, Dagomba, Mamprusi, Gonja, Nzema, etc. I am happy because then I am being identified with my Ghanaian-ness (Africanness), not with any particular ethnic group.

As usual, I love my Dagomba, Ga, Gonja, Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, etc., brothers and sisters.

Mind you, Sarpong, Dr. SAS is like a brother to me. I love him as I love Brother, Andy K, Kwesi Atta Sakyi, G.B. Berko, Kojo T, Daniel K. Pryce, Dr. Michael Bokor, and several others. Their ethnicities do not atter to me.

Andy K treats me like a blood brother, so is Dr. SAS, Daniel K. Pryce, Brother, and Dr. Michael Bokor!

I see everyone here as a brother or a sister! Maybe one when I meet you Justice Sarpong in person I will tell you more about! For now, let's deal with the substantive issues, my brother Sarpong.

All errors are mine!

Thanks.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Hello Brother, CY-ANDY-K, Sarpong,

Please allow me to rephrase my question:

Could it be possible that Sarpong is implying I am not a "true Asante" because my mother is a Fante?

Maybe he would not have used those two ...
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Hello Brother, CY-ANDY-K, Sarpong,

Please allow me to rephrase my question:

Could it be possible that Sarpong is implying I am not a "true Asante" because my mother is a Fante?

Maybe he would not have used those two words if both of my parents had been "true Asantes."

Finally, I have said several times that I use General Akwasi Afrifa as "epitome of evil."

I have also told readers I am taking full advantages of literary freedoms offered to writers (literary/poetic license) to develop characters any way I deem fit.

I even suggested writers could as well use Angel Gabriel as "epitome of evil," something Salman Rushdie chose to do in "The Satanic Verses." Elsewhere I have also used Busia and Danquah to demonstrate what is bad about African (Ghanaian) politics!

Simply, I use Afrifa to show what is bad about African, particularly, Ghanaian politics! As simple as that! Others havd replaced Afrifa with Kwame Nkrumah and I have not complained.

Thanks
CARDINAL 9 years ago

Kwarteng, I have nephews and nieces who have Ewe mothers. My brother in London is married to an Ewe woman from Akatse in Volta region with three children and I will not call them not to be true Asantes because they have an E ...
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Kwarteng, I have nephews and nieces who have Ewe mothers. My brother in London is married to an Ewe woman from Akatse in Volta region with three children and I will not call them not to be true Asantes because they have an Ewe mother.

I have a cousin in Hanover, Germany married to another Ewe lady who was born and raised at Anloga, Kumasi and she speaks better Twi than me and she has two children with my cousin and they are true Asantes to me.

Now let me explain why I called you not a true Asante.

You said these articles are satires and I actually did not read them so I don't know but your comments to others and my previous encounter with you where you showed spastic hatred towards Asantes is the reason why I called you not an Asante because I cannot see how an Asante like you who profess Air Marshall Yaw Boakye to be your uncle who did not even build a decent house at Aduman and was murdered because Rawlings blamed him for his constant failings of his promotional examination. How can an Asante hate his own like you are doing is the reason why I called you not a true Asante. Thank you.
francis kwarteng 9 years ago

Hello,

This is the last slot I have to make a final statmen!

Do you think there are not Ghanaweb readers who sat with me in class (KNUST) and knew BOTH SIDES of my family very well? I dare any of them to come here and s ...
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Hello,

This is the last slot I have to make a final statmen!

Do you think there are not Ghanaweb readers who sat with me in class (KNUST) and knew BOTH SIDES of my family very well? I dare any of them to come here and say otherwise to the entire world! Do you think I will come to a public forum like Ghanaweb to make up stories?

This is my final statement to you about Aduman. LET ME CAPITALIZE IT TO MAKE IT CLEAR:

GO TO ADUMAN AND ASK FOR KOFI GYEBI, THE KING AND MY FIRST COUSIN.

TELL HIM WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING TO THE WHOLE WORLD ABOUT ADUMAN, MY FATHER, AND YAW BOAKYE ON GHANAWEB.

THEN COME BACK HERE ON GHANAWEB AND TELL THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT HE TELLS YOU. LET ME KNOW BEFOREYOU GET THERE AND I WILL GIVE YOU MY PHONE SO YOU, KOFI GYEBI, AND I WILL TALK. WE CAN EVEN SKYPE TOGETHER.

I CAN EVEN SEND YOU MY FAMILY PICTURES (INCLUDING MY FATHER'S) AND YOU CAN TAKE THEM TO HIM.

LATER WHEN YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL TIME ON YOUR HAND I CAN SEND YOU TO MY MOTHER'S FAMILY SO THAT YOU CAN TALK TO THEM.

LISTEN, JUSTICE SARPONG, I AM NOT ONE OF THOSE ASANTES WHO GO ABOUT BRAGGING AND MAKING UP STORIES. I HAVE GIVEN YOU ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO START YOUR INVESTIGATION. COME BACK HERE TO SHARE YOUR FINDINGS WITH THE WHOLE WORLD.

IF YOU NEED MY PICTURES TO SHOW KOFI GYEBI LET ME KNOW. AND PLEASE STOP THE NONSENSICAL SPECULATIONS. I DO NOT BOAST OR ENJOY MAKING UP STORIES.

LET ME SAY THSI TO THE ENTIRE WORLD: AGREE TO PAY MY PLANE FARE AND OTHER EXPENSES IN GHANA AND I SHALL GO TO ADUMAN WITH YOU. WE CAN ALSO PROCEED TO MY MOTHER'S FAMILY.

IF YOU FAIL TO DO THESE, PLEASE DON'T CONTINUE WITH YOUR UNFOUNDED SPECULATIONS.

THE WHITE-AMERICA WRITER TIM WISE, AUTHOR OF "BETWEEN BARACK AND A HARD PLACE: RACISM AND WHITE DENIAL IN THE AGE OF OBAMA," HAS COME UNDER SIMILAR BY WHITES WHO ALSO CLAIM HEIS NOT WHITE BECAUSE HE'S ALWASY SAYING THE TRUTH ON BEHALF OF AMERICAN MINORIES, PARTICULARLY, AFRICAN-AMERICANS.

I THROW THE CHALLENGE. GO TO ADUMAN AND STOP THE CHILDISH WHINING!

ANYWAY I HAVE NOTHING TO PROVE TO YOU. JUST PAY MY FARE AND LET'S GO. GET A CAMERAMAN WHO WILL COVER THE ENTIRE TRIP TO BOTH SIDES OF MY FAMILY.

I AM EVER READY! AND DON'T FORGET TO DEAL WITH THE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES. I HAVE DONE MY PART. THE REST IS YOURS. PROVE MY FAMILY WRONG!
CARDINAL 9 years ago

Oh Brother, you are behaving like a little boy being angry and all that. You will never answer simple questions and asking me to go to Aduman with your pictures or whatever to Gyebi.

You know perfectly well you and I are i ...
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Oh Brother, you are behaving like a little boy being angry and all that. You will never answer simple questions and asking me to go to Aduman with your pictures or whatever to Gyebi.

You know perfectly well you and I are in USA and asking me to go to Aduman. Somebody gave you that little information about Gyebi and telling us little boys story about giving me pictures.

You can't even tell me something as simple as how to get to Aduman from Afrancho.

What is Canaan to Aduman citizens.

A little background about Aduman secondary school. What building in that school is famous and why.

These are simple things you can do without your pictures, phone numbers and all these yada yada ramblings. If Yaw Boakye was your uncle, what is his mother's name.

You getting angry and shouting will not stop me for asking you to answer these simple questions.

Answer them and then I will accept that you are from Aduman. I can also name some chiefs names from Techiman, Atebubu, Berekum and others frominformation I got from friends from these areas and that does not make me a citizen from these towns.

Answer those easy questions and I will leave you alone because I know you are not from Aduman.

We have Akua Donkor the illiterate politician and Kwaku Bonsam the fake fetish Priest from our neck of the woods and we don't need another cuckoo, thank you.
Fiwisintin 9 years ago

Commendation:
Again, when appreciated from a literary perspective, the reader finds the writer’s imagery superlative! His style is captivating because of its poetic prose-like structure. This is a ludicrously sobering pol ...
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Commendation:
Again, when appreciated from a literary perspective, the reader finds the writer’s imagery superlative! His style is captivating because of its poetic prose-like structure. This is a ludicrously sobering political and social satire that bites real hard into the flesh, into the psyche; it makes one wonder, want to reject what you think the writer is saying…might be saying… can’t be SAYING ? But then the humor interspersed with a variety of cultures hits right in the gut and you double over…off the chair!

Kwarteng, you too paa!

Recommendation:
Even as historical truths must be told, even as we would forever remain victims were we to follow the moral principal behind the proverb: “turn the other cheek,” yet as an intellectual savant and a new-age warrior, the manner you choose to fight Ghana’s battles must yield success, not aggravate an already volatile environment. Recent write-ups on Ghanaweb by certain columnists, commenters, including the President’s unfortunate remarks in Kumasi have deepened existing ethnic tensions in all regions – even in the Diaspora.
You are touching a subject area that requires extraordinary sensitivity towards those whose actions are being critically examined/questioned. The fact that there is a regular set of members from the same ethnic group you stem, who choose to unwisely, deliberately, and continually abuse others of an opposing set, does not excuse you from treating your response to them with a kindly attitude. Hence, I besiege you, for I do indeed admire your literary talent, speak truth with fortitude in your write-ups but please do so also with kindness!
From comments made, few readers know about satire. It was wasted on them. Yet the message was your objective! Is a new approach then not in order? We must move beyond this stage of hostilities.
I bless you, My Brother, I bless Asantes, Fantes, Ewes, Gas, Dagombas, Gonjas, Hausas etc… I bless you, Ghana!
Cantankerous 9 years ago

Is there a psychiatrist here?

Is there a psychiatrist here?
G. K. Berko 9 years ago

I had been captivated by the courage of Mr. Kwarteng in confronting known bigots on this Medium but now I find his shifting of targets to attack the Ashanti Empire and its legacy incongruous with that initial trajectory.

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I had been captivated by the courage of Mr. Kwarteng in confronting known bigots on this Medium but now I find his shifting of targets to attack the Ashanti Empire and its legacy incongruous with that initial trajectory.

I believe all Empires, however big or small, came into existence with the typical mechanism of trampling on the freedoms of others to create both the physical premise of that political entity and the coalescence of humanity that became its Citizenry or subjects.

The process of Empire formation was no humane exercise any modern enlightened individual would readily welcome.
But we ought to understand that the most prevalent motive behind the processes was self-preservation. The History of Humans on this Earth has always been one dominated by our mutual distrust, fear and shared zeal to protect our kind, mostly at the expense of all others. The relief we enjoy today has not been the norm for long. In fact, the Civil Rights Movement associated with Martin Luther King Jr. became necessary because the puritanical, moralistic route for equality among all People had stagnated on selective qualifiers. Even as Democracy had been given pronounced publicity in the USA Constitution, for example, Discrimination against other Races, especially Blacks, was institutionally practiced there. South Africa was clamped under Apartheid.

It has not been merciful, morally upright, nor democratically respectful of the rights of fellow humans. We are therefore obliged to contextualize the behavior of the Empires and evaluate them according to the general moral standards and beliefs of their days and not whip their current members just for hailing from them.

Any lingering relics of inhumane, unsociable characteristics of residual Empires that exist today must be deplored but with the understanding that most things about us and in our Cultures take time to change. We must therefore be lenient to ourselves for any shortfalls we notice among ourselves with the lenses of modern Social and political values and expectations.

We should not just think that the fact that some now-unacceptable attitudes still exist among People of old Imperial vicinities those People are necessarily morally bankrupt.

If we would like to brag about our relative enlightenment today, we need to accept that our regard for all others must conform to the Same tenets of enlightenment we are claiming. The question of why People still indulge in bigotry is one that Anthropologists and Sociologists have adequately answered but we would need a special forum to discuss it meaningfully and effectively as it relates to us.

I do not think it is fair to single out any particular Ethnic group, in this case Ashantis, to chastise for any remnants of Imperialistic fervor without giving full exposure to the factors causing them to hold on to that fervor. It is easier said than done to expect that any superiority complexes would just fizzle out from among any such Group that took the brunt of change as the Ashanti Empire went through. It takes level-headed assessment of the factors at play, including the behavior of other Ethnic Groups towards the Old Empires, in this case, again, Ashanti. We can discern similar condescending behavior among other Groups towards Ashantis, too.

We must admit that any effusion of superiority complex by some Ashantis today could be in part due to certain suspicious behaviors by some folks in the other Groups. So, even as we denounce that condescending attitude among us, we ought to confront it intelligently enough to avoid deepening the rift that we fear it could be causing among us.

We should not get ourselves caught up in the vicious cycle of some revenge of the Nerds combat. The writings we put out for public consumption on the state of our Politics and Social and Economic well-being must seek to promote our mutual cohabitation and conviviality, instead of driving the wedges among us deeper.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Frank Appiah 9 years ago

Your thought-provoking response is very much appreciated.God bless you,G.K.Berko.

Your thought-provoking response is very much appreciated.God bless you,G.K.Berko.

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