We abandon our customary practices at our own peril – K. B. Asante

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BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8 years ago

Nana Binaddo is a Snake egg and should NOT be allowed to hatch any further eggs. His father is a dangerous man , he took money from outsiders and threw this country into chaos in 60s.

Nana Binaddo is a Snake egg and should NOT be allowed to hatch any further eggs. His father is a dangerous man , he took money from outsiders and threw this country into chaos in 60s.
APONKYE 8 years ago

Why should African women feel ashamed to retain their natural hair? They must treat it to look 'like' white hair before they feel comfortable. Very soon they they will start perming the hair over that private part!

Why should African women feel ashamed to retain their natural hair? They must treat it to look 'like' white hair before they feel comfortable. Very soon they they will start perming the hair over that private part!
CITIZEN ONE 8 years ago

Don't blame our poor girls, blame those male chauvinists and genetically inferior Ghanaian women who think cutting off all little girls hair before they start early childhood education is a psychological benefit.

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Don't blame our poor girls, blame those male chauvinists and genetically inferior Ghanaian women who think cutting off all little girls hair before they start early childhood education is a psychological benefit.

Matter of fact it is he bane of your attitude towards Ghanaian and African women. Secondly, if we start to nourish our babies with right lactation maybe we won't have such deficiencies. Even animals in the jungle lactate their babies, before teaching them to hunt and become carnivorous.That is the reason why animals in the wild have consistent beautiful fair, almost like white people. Many monkeys in the wild even look better than some of us humans. We in Ghana want to feed our babies fufu, banku, kenkey and gari when they not ready for it. Keep blaming white people for all our ignorant transgressions and we will not only be left behind, we regress.
The African Patriot 8 years ago

It is an unbelievable pity that we have sold minds like yours that post nonsense even on such a reportage by Prof. Asante. It beats my understanding and shows clearly your hired job you are doing.

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It is an unbelievable pity that we have sold minds like yours that post nonsense even on such a reportage by Prof. Asante. It beats my understanding and shows clearly your hired job you are doing.

Pleae try to remain neutral some times or get lost.
What you are doing confirms exactly what prof is saying.

It is indeed a sad issue and our intellectuals should stand and demonstrate for the interlectual property of this nation others the mess we have falling in we will never climb up.
Christian and Muslim religion are the cause of our downfall. We are too busy with the bible and coran than what brings us development.
Ghanaman 8 years ago

Why do Ashantis bury their Chiefs with murdered people?

Why do Ashantis bury their Chiefs with murdered people?
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

Every culture used to do it. So Asante were are among the last of the subcultures in our cultural region to give it up! SO WHAT???!! It's in the past. You better worry about the folks who steady carrying out their modern day ...
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Every culture used to do it. So Asante were are among the last of the subcultures in our cultural region to give it up! SO WHAT???!! It's in the past. You better worry about the folks who steady carrying out their modern day versions of "Periodic Customs" routinely sacrificing innocent people by the thousands daily, punctuated by peaks of slaughter in the mode of Vietnam, Iraq Afghanistan Congo Mozambique Libya Yemen Egypt CAR Rwanda etcetera ad nauseum!!

IDIOT GHANAIANS PURGE THIS ETHNIC BIGOTRY VIRUS.

Dude people like you routinely make an ass of your selves jumping to wild conclusion off a simple name. Mr Asante is Ga from Laa!!! He was talking about the naming ceremony for crying out loud!!! What about if my name was Katahena? Okudzieto? Eseama? Bissansu? You would be 0 for 5!!!

Chill out people our ethnic heritage is very complex far different from what bigots try to make it look like.
Real African 8 years ago

Very good question . ???

Very good question . ???
KOFI 8 years ago

Well said!

Well said!
Joe Turkey 8 years ago

The civilized world now agrees that slavery is an abomination. What moral justification do we get from the God of Abraham on slavery? It appears the creator of the universe clearly expected the black man to be a slave. See Le ...
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The civilized world now agrees that slavery is an abomination. What moral justification do we get from the God of Abraham on slavery? It appears the creator of the universe clearly expected the black man to be a slave. See Leviticus 25: 44- 66, Exodus21: 7 - 11, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1-4 among others. Indeed, Christian conservatives in US Congress used the Bible to justify their enslavement of the black man. No wonder the Japanese and Chinese rejected it.
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

Bravo!! Ayekoo Wutrinkwa!!
Well said!

Bravo!! Ayekoo Wutrinkwa!!
Well said!
Aj 8 years ago

Mr Joe,I strongly disagree with you. Most High GOD didn't justify slavery, it's was human institution due to idol worshiping and territorial behaviour.we see it happening in some areas as at now.the white man didn't bring Chr ...
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Mr Joe,I strongly disagree with you. Most High GOD didn't justify slavery, it's was human institution due to idol worshiping and territorial behaviour.we see it happening in some areas as at now.the white man didn't bring Christianity no,the oldest church is in Africa (Kush) Ethiopia. pls read this books (hebrewlism in west Africa) (from Babylon to Timbuktu) (Russian icons).or you can Google.I don't no why some people think worshiping of idols is the ultimate for us no,we rejected Most high God to worship idols at end of the day the whites took what's belong to blacks and turn it against us.Jeremiah 8:21.,Songs of Solomon 1:5-6.,Job 30:30,Revelations 1:1,1:14-15...?just imagine how foreigners are polluting our rivers,forest and yet the idols are watching them mess up everything.it's time we go back to Most high God to worship Him fully for God to help us.
Solokoko 8 years ago

Cultural practices should benefit and develop us in the society; so what practices is this man talking about?? Putting blood on stones/stools and perpetuating our chieftaincy system is not going to help us; it belongs to hist ...
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Cultural practices should benefit and develop us in the society; so what practices is this man talking about?? Putting blood on stones/stools and perpetuating our chieftaincy system is not going to help us; it belongs to history. We need to think differently.
kofi adu 8 years ago

This common sense has my consideration for the longest. They tried as much to bring us Christianity but got lost along the way,sanctioning(gay).Keep our own. Please.

This common sense has my consideration for the longest. They tried as much to bring us Christianity but got lost along the way,sanctioning(gay).Keep our own. Please.
Anita 8 years ago

Who are we fooling. When we respected our own cultural practices gay issues was not part of the agenda. Has anyone seen a He goat mounting another he goat with a goat. Or a bull cow mounting a a fellow bull cow.
This is what ...
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Who are we fooling. When we respected our own cultural practices gay issues was not part of the agenda. Has anyone seen a He goat mounting another he goat with a goat. Or a bull cow mounting a a fellow bull cow.
This is what the so called Westyern world is doing and telling every country to allow this to happen in order to call themselves "civilised lot" Indeed if their Prime Minister sleep put his dick into a a dead pig 's month what do you expect? Those cultural practice which upholds our society should be kept whilst those causing pain and suffering like Trokosi, female circumcision, tribal marking of the face and beating of people with learning disabilities should be bannned.
ZOMAYI 8 years ago

WHEN OTHER COUNTRIES ARE TRYING TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND DEVELOP, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MAINTAINING CULTURAL PRACTICES. WHAT NONSENSE!!! WE SHALL MAINTAIN THESE PRACTICES IN COMPLETE AND UTTER DUMSOR DARKNESS!!!!!

WHEN OTHER COUNTRIES ARE TRYING TO ERADICATE POVERTY AND DEVELOP, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MAINTAINING CULTURAL PRACTICES. WHAT NONSENSE!!! WE SHALL MAINTAIN THESE PRACTICES IN COMPLETE AND UTTER DUMSOR DARKNESS!!!!!
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

A Ghanaian Tourist, looking for sex, accepted a prostitute's terms. When she undressed, he noticed that she had no pubic hair. The man shouted, "What, no wool? In my country all women have wool down there." The prostitute sna ...
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A Ghanaian Tourist, looking for sex, accepted a prostitute's terms. When she undressed, he noticed that she had no pubic hair. The man shouted, "What, no wool? In my country all women have wool down there." The prostitute snapped back, "What do you want to do, knit or fuck?
OSAMAN BIN KARIM 8 years ago

THW PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE LIKE KB ASANTE IS THAT THEY EVELUATE THEMSELVES WITH CRITERIA SET BY OTHERS. GHANAIANS HAVE A DOCTRINE OF GOD FAR SUPERIOR TO THE BIBLICAL NOTION, YET WE SEEK TO BE CHRISTIANS. GHANAIANS POSIT THAT MAN ...
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THW PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE LIKE KB ASANTE IS THAT THEY EVELUATE THEMSELVES WITH CRITERIA SET BY OTHERS. GHANAIANS HAVE A DOCTRINE OF GOD FAR SUPERIOR TO THE BIBLICAL NOTION, YET WE SEEK TO BE CHRISTIANS. GHANAIANS POSIT THAT MAN IS GOD, WHILE CHRISTIANITY SAYS HE IS SINFUL. AKANS SEEK TO ASSUME THEIR GODLIKE NATURE WHILE CHRISTIANS WORSHIP GOD. UNLESS WE JUDGE OTHERS FROM OUR OWN PERCEPTIVE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO PERPETRATE OUR INFERIORITY COMPLEX.
Ghanaman THE REAL 8 years ago

Most of the abhorrent fashion faux pas indicated by KB are committed by our ignorant sisters in their ridiculous Brazilian wigs! The wearing of wigs is so past tense as prevailed in the Elizabethan age, so why do our misguide ...
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Most of the abhorrent fashion faux pas indicated by KB are committed by our ignorant sisters in their ridiculous Brazilian wigs! The wearing of wigs is so past tense as prevailed in the Elizabethan age, so why do our misguided sisters think this is so modern or fashionable in the 21st century!! Give me the cut/styled or plated natural African hair any time, sisters!!!
Real African 8 years ago

K.B. Asante , I salute u , u hv said it all, people like u should rule Ghana, not those sellouts like Akufo Addo, these people don't deserve to rule anything let alone a nation. These people bow for a White man, they dont hv ...
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K.B. Asante , I salute u , u hv said it all, people like u should rule Ghana, not those sellouts like Akufo Addo, these people don't deserve to rule anything let alone a nation. These people bow for a White man, they dont hv any pride or shame . Africa should change their way of Education , History , for instance should be completely change , start teaching our children their own History , right from the day when we used to rule the world , I bet alot of Africans dont even know civilization begin with ur when the white man was not in existance. Wake up African. Wake up .
Whatever 8 years ago

We've let ourselves down. God's creatures

We've let ourselves down. God's creatures

We abandon our customary practices at our own peril – K. B. Asante

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