Manasseh's Folder: Mahama isn’t the problem, our hypocrisy is!

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1 Loaf 7 years ago

Hmn scar-face boy from Bongo. So you now refer to the northerners as "them" but not us. Your wife will forever remain a southerner even though our culture thought us otherwise. Yes president Mahama said northerners but not Go ...
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Hmn scar-face boy from Bongo. So you now refer to the northerners as "them" but not us. Your wife will forever remain a southerner even though our culture thought us otherwise. Yes president Mahama said northerners but not Gonja's unlike someone who said "Yen akanfuo. No the difference, scar face?
MAMA FAUSTIE 7 years ago

And what is your point!

And what is your point!
C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

Nothing to do with hypocrisy "BUT" it's all about the soul "STUPIDITY" of John D(ead)-Goat Mahama.

Nothing to do with hypocrisy "BUT" it's all about the soul "STUPIDITY" of John D(ead)-Goat Mahama.
Mr Bond 7 years ago

Folks,this is very funny article.Its look like the author wants to create jokes.If the president who is command in chief is not the problem and deliberately blame it on hypocrite as if hypocrite is a rational thinking human ...
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Folks,this is very funny article.Its look like the author wants to create jokes.If the president who is command in chief is not the problem and deliberately blame it on hypocrite as if hypocrite is a rational thinking human being is absolutely nauseating.Bro,Kindly explain to us why we should blame hypocrite who is not human being and not Mahama who received bribes and stealing our money?Thief president John Dramani Mahama is possess of avarice and he has already stolen $10 billion reveal by Panama Papers.Hypocrite,I cant blame you for you are not human being but I blame my president who is a human being and has develop hypocrite stealing our money with his thieves.
Nana ado 7 years ago

Manaseh now that you have spoken against the npp you see those stupid uncivilised foot soldiers are now insulting you. This is what the president was talking about. They will use you need damp you. You brought them ford n ...
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Manaseh now that you have spoken against the npp you see those stupid uncivilised foot soldiers are now insulting you. This is what the president was talking about. They will use you need damp you. You brought them ford now they are after your blood. They have damped you Manaseh. How sad. These people font respect you and they will use you n bawumia well and dump you successfully like they did to Aliu mahama. It's about time you start thinking and stop supporting a party whose leader is dangerously violent and can even kill you when he is high on drugs. Remember all die be dieeeee.
Nana ado 7 years ago

Manaseh now that you have spoken against the npp you see those stupid uncivilised foot soldiers are now insulting you. This is what the president was talking about. They will use you need dump you. You brought them ford now t ...
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Manaseh now that you have spoken against the npp you see those stupid uncivilised foot soldiers are now insulting you. This is what the president was talking about. They will use you need dump you. You brought them ford now they are after your blood. They have dumped you Manaseh. How sad. These people font respect you and they will use you n bawumia well and dump you successfully like they did to Aliu mahama. It's about time you start thinking and stop supporting a party whose leader is dangerously violent and can even kill you when he is high on drugs. Remember all die be dieeeee
1 Loaf 7 years ago

Hmn scar-face boy from Bongo. So you now refer to the northerners as "them" but not us. Your wife will forever remain a southerner even though our culture teaches us otherwise. Yes president Mahama said northerners but not Go ...
read full comment

Hmn scar-face boy from Bongo. So you now refer to the northerners as "them" but not us. Your wife will forever remain a southerner even though our culture teaches us otherwise. Yes president Mahama said northerners but not Gonja's unlike someone who said "Yen akanfuo. No the difference, scar face?
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

Twum Boafo has said it as it is without mincing words. And now Manasseh is finally saying the obvious too. I have been saying it as it is for over two decades now. The other day, an Akan client came to do business with me and ...
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Twum Boafo has said it as it is without mincing words. And now Manasseh is finally saying the obvious too. I have been saying it as it is for over two decades now. The other day, an Akan client came to do business with me and raised the elections brouhaha. I asked him if he'd vote for any of the anti-immigrant parties in the UK. He said no. I asked him if he were from Northern Ghana, he'd vote for a party whose members go about calling them pepeni and ntafuour. He said no. SO WHAT THE HECK WHEN THE SHITE HITS THE CEILING? Mahama was simply trying to profit from the gross and blatant ethnocentric credentials of the NPP and that's a valid strategy in politics even in the advanced democracies.

Having read a more accurate version of what Mrs Attivor reportedly said, I agree 100% that it is simply hypocritical for anyone to come out to denounce her and ask her to apologise WITHOUT at first or ever condemning the ethnocentric utterances and actions of the NPP leaders and elements that gave grounds for her own utterance, which simply sought to benefit from the ethnocentric politics and actions of the NPP tradition when in power. She might have goofed badly by misspeaking factually but what she said was simply a reaction, albeit a skewed one, thereby giving a golden opportunity to hypocrites to bare their rotten teeth. And now they are barking at Mahama!

I myself had pointed out those things that instigated her (Ativor) [and now Mahama] many times in articles. An anti-PNDC refugee, an Ewe himself, Dr Kodzi, even wrote a book in the early 1990s in which he pointed out the Anlos as the Ewes to be killed, in response to the rampant loose talk by some Akans that Ewes would be killed by them. That was long before Agyapong's loose talk a few years ago.

I had narrated and posted many times my own personal experiences in Nigeria with some of those would-be assassins. All of you pretending and insulting Attivor [and now Mahama] should therefore fcuk off!

Hypocrites! Attivor’s faus pas is just the tip of the discontent in the VR she tried to mine. For an increasing number of people from there, particularly Ewes, secession from Ghana is the only option and they say worse things.

I welcome Manasseh's plead that we don't sweep the matter under the carpet but discuss it, as he has now done in this article. I have been doing that since the early '90s. I have a 10-series continuation of my Ethnic Imbroglio waiting on ice for years now. I shall post the Part 1 here to refresh the memories of all and inform those who didn't read it before. First, another refresher.

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 betray. 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), - 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 the 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? Well, after all, it was in Lome, an Ewe centrepiece city even if many are of Ga-Elmina(Anyi) extraction, that they first congregated and started those loose 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 fetri detsi 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! How come?!

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 Austen to show 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 1988 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 Ewe 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 Ghana and in 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 BA 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, besides many of the main speakers speaking in Twi which pissed off the Gas! 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. My own Anlo Constituency elected an independent MP though linked to the NDC too, having rejected the NDC official candidate, the late Rtd. Captain Sowu.

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 "Anlos” in his own virulently anti-Rawlings/PNDC book, "Ghana: Worse than Apartheid S. Africa," as the Ewes to be killed, for being allegedly 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 the so-called Anlo-Ewes, regarded as an honorary Anlo and entrusted with pouring the libation at the Hogbeza celebration of the Noviha association 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, 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 based in the UK, (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 to a dichotomy delineated on one side by Ewes and the other Akans/Asantes. 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.

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 journeyman, without being double hypocrites? At least, there must be some honour among thieves (and tribal bigots, if we may add).

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 (Prof. Steven Kwaku Asare) 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 on 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 JoyFM 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 JoyFM 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, but he did and nothing untoward ever happened to him afterwards.

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 their ancestors. We shall therefore make sure that these appeal to ethnic differences backfire big time on their stupid, ugly 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?

C. Y. Andy-K

cyandyk@ymail.com
London

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 “ekpelekpedzi” 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 cordiale 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 of 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 movements 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 (Anyis) and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyis through intermarriages, as Anlos refer to them, 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 comes 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 expressed 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.
Douglas. Bristol-UK`° 7 years ago

Full of yourself! Poor writing skills! You couldnt even understand Azure's point of view!

Full of yourself! Poor writing skills! You couldnt even understand Azure's point of view!
C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

All what you durty primitive Togolese Trokosi Ewe keeps saying is Twum Boafo said this and Twum Boafo said that, what have you imbecilic idiot got to say?

Don't have your own opinion?
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All what you durty primitive Togolese Trokosi Ewe keeps saying is Twum Boafo said this and Twum Boafo said that, what have you imbecilic idiot got to say?

Don't have your own opinion?
Sorry to ask! ...how can an "IDIOT" have an opinion?
Idiot Contemnor Mugabe 7 years ago

Nonsense! You (miseducated buffoon), the rapist Twum Boafo and the flamboyant journalist with average intelligence, Mannasseh are endorsing the tribal idiocy of corrupt and incompetent Mahama, so what? You are non entities!
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Nonsense! You (miseducated buffoon), the rapist Twum Boafo and the flamboyant journalist with average intelligence, Mannasseh are endorsing the tribal idiocy of corrupt and incompetent Mahama, so what? You are non entities!

If Mannasseh is indeed intelligent as he would want Ghanaians to believe, he would not suggest that since there has never been any Ewe, Northerner or Ga person as a flagbearer of NPP Party means it is an Akan party. By his logic, can we say NDC is an anti Ashanti as there has never been an Ashanti flagbearer?

Miseducated buffoons!
Kk abdona 7 years ago

Pretending to be neutral but in reality a firm believer in tribal bigotry. If someone says yen akanfo at a place where an incident is taking place, how can this be similar to what mahama said. Please credit people with some ...
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Pretending to be neutral but in reality a firm believer in tribal bigotry. If someone says yen akanfo at a place where an incident is taking place, how can this be similar to what mahama said. Please credit people with some intelligence and stop using using your opportunity to play on the conscience of others. Please stop your pseudo neutrality and come out clear in defence of your kinsman. Nanghan wali
MAMA FAUSTIE 7 years ago

He wrote like he is neutral, but in the end he stuck to his tribal marks!

He wrote like he is neutral, but in the end he stuck to his tribal marks!
Clem 7 years ago

The slogan of the NPP in 1992 was "Ye gye ye mengh'.It means we Akans are taken back our country. From who? Foreigners, eves and northerns.

The akans especially the Ashantis and Akims have never considered people from the ...
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The slogan of the NPP in 1992 was "Ye gye ye mengh'.It means we Akans are taken back our country. From who? Foreigners, eves and northerns.

The akans especially the Ashantis and Akims have never considered people from the north and Volta region as Ghanaians fit to rule this country.

Mahamudu Bawumia will regret in the future.
Bako 7 years ago

very insulting and disrespectful journalist, so do you expect the President's brother to sell his helicopter and distribute the money to the people of the three regions of the North? since you are a 'senior' and 'investigati ...
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very insulting and disrespectful journalist, so do you expect the President's brother to sell his helicopter and distribute the money to the people of the three regions of the North? since you are a 'senior' and 'investigative' journalist, you ought to know his benevolence to Ghanaians. Maybe you should start by selling your car and share the money to the people of the three regions of the north to set an example for Ibrahim Mahama to emulate. Always on a mission to insult, shameful!!
yendi noy 7 years ago

Let your yes be yes. Define your position.

Let your yes be yes. Define your position.
Charles Agbenu 7 years ago

''Since 1992, the NDC has been led by an Ewe from the Volta Region, a Fante from the Central Region and a Gonja from the Northern Region. But the NPP has never been led by a non-Akan, lending credence to the perception of the ...
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''Since 1992, the NDC has been led by an Ewe from the Volta Region, a Fante from the Central Region and a Gonja from the Northern Region. But the NPP has never been led by a non-Akan, lending credence to the perception of the party as an Akan party. is '' My answer is since 1992, NDC has never been led by an Asante/Akyem so that I think NDC is anti-Asante party.------- The whole argument of NPP not having been led by personalities outside Asante/Akyem is provocative. It does not make sense to me. What the advocates of that argument really mean is that Asante/Akyem must be cut off from the Presidency. NDC clearly are not going to pick from Asante/Akyem and they provocatively want NPP to stop picking from Asante/Akyem. That means Asante /Akyem must be cut off from the Presidency. I think it is arrogant attack on Asantes. If NDC has been picking from all tribes including Asantes/Akim and NPP has been picking from from the latter only, then the argument can be accepted that NPP pick from only that group and they should stop it. NDC does not go there. They dont want NPP to go there too. I think it is arrogantly provocative and an insult to Asantes. Has somebody picked on PNC who always pick their candidates from the North? Why are yu doing this to Asantes?. Why, are they not Ghanaians? I challenge NDC to pick an Asantes bwho sre being treated like doormats in NDC. Preharps, perharps 20 years period is too short a time to make the statistics about the choices of Candidates and their home regions. Another point is that NDC have been using only Fantes to represent Akans in their socalled akan-choices in the Presidency.. Kow Ackaah, Mills and Amissah Arthur are all Fantes to which NDC is stuck to. Are Fantis the only Akans in Ghana? The Asantes, Akuapems, Bonos, sefwius, Kwawus, assins, Twifos etc where are they in the NDC Presidency. I wonder why NPP should allow NDC to arrogantly play tribal card against them. NDC are worse
Idiot Contemnor Mugabe 7 years ago

You've said it all my friend. I used to think Mannasseh has some intelligence, but how I was. In fact, some of his recent thought processes leave much to be desired. Actually, he is only has some level of command on the engl ...
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You've said it all my friend. I used to think Mannasseh has some intelligence, but how I was. In fact, some of his recent thought processes leave much to be desired. Actually, he is only has some level of command on the english language, but lacks critical thinking judging his undeveloped analysis. What a shame. He is a clear example of Ghanaian mediocrity.
MAMA FAUSTIE 7 years ago

nope

nope
Boss 7 years ago

As for this Manasseh, you missed the mark.

As for this Manasseh, you missed the mark.
NiiM3Niim3 7 years ago

Efficiency drive is measured differently and depending on the scale being used. There was 19 years of an Ewe and the North remained remote. And there was another 8 years of an Akan and the North remained still remote. Then c ...
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Efficiency drive is measured differently and depending on the scale being used. There was 19 years of an Ewe and the North remained remote. And there was another 8 years of an Akan and the North remained still remote. Then came another Akan (Fante) and the North remained remote. A northerner came in, sincerely speaking not to redress any seeming imbalance all at once. If the North had suffered under all successive regimes, why are they happy to denigrate the first Northerner who had being in office for only 4 years against a combined 31 years of an Ewe and Akan Regimes?
When the issue of Ibrahim Mahama came up a while ago, it was obvious he made a lot of capital gains during the Kufour (NPP ) regime. A businessman who was already flying with over 4,000 employees before his brother, became President. Should he all of a sudden become poor? Now in the News is Mr Alfred Woyome whose initial deal if not faulted would have happened during the era of Kufour’s NPP Regime. It is therefore safe to say, there are so many NPP sympathizers who are doing extremely well in business even under this NDC Regime or the previous NDC regime. That a family is richer than their kinsmen does not make them enemies of the people. Alhaji Ayariga boast of making his first million dollar at age 24 and he was not affiliated to a political party then? Party politics is sincerely speaking not the only vehicle but which people become rich. It is, however very sad how every rich man is later judged on the basis of his party affiliation. Mr Azure is self-assuring us that he has nothing to make him feel an inferiority complex – party affiliation notwithstanding. People do not become what they become because of Party politics. Or should Ibrahim Mahama with the coming of NDC lose all his contract deals which he had secured when NPP were in power? Ghana is not owned by the Party in power and it is sad how everything dovetails to Party politics.
Some Africans who have had the opportunity to live in the whiteman’s land may claim racism. But what really is racism when black power symbol is equally deemed racists act? The “ism” becomes a problem when it oppresses others and not when it was a cautionary move. I had a Northerner friend who did not want to marry from any other tribe in Ghana because some in-law may insult him and he would not be happy.
As a political party, there are things which cannot be hidden. That NPP from UP tradition has had all Akan Party Leaders to date has nothing to do with their marginalizing Alhaji Alliu Mahama. They will tell you clearly that they followed democratic rules in the Party which co-incidentally favours an Akan and not because of prejudice. You have to believe this or not. NDC is an infant Party of yesterday. This party was just started by J.J. Rawlings with no roots in the then Gold Coast, now Ghana. But they have already displayed the cultural mix.
If you accuse a President who had been in office for just 4 years of gigantic corruption, then you must have the figures of what happened in all contracts NPP and previous NDC has signed to date. Were there no corruption in Ghana till now? To get a Passport, Birth Certificate, to get electric meter, to get driving licence, to get Ghana telecom line a while ago. What does all these represent? Were there no over-priced contacts in any era? In our fledgling democracy, can a sitting President eradicate all corruption in his cabinet in one swipe?
The wife of Freddie Blay, was on record alluding that their paper gets lots of adverts from Kotoko fans and by extension NPP sources. Is it wrong and corrupt? It is a tactical business decision they made and they could not be faulted.
If the North is slightly poorer than any parts of Ghana and there are very few mega rich Northerners – late Alhaji Aliu Mahama was one of such rich individuals. Alhaji Ayariga and Ibrahim Mahama – is it not too early to judge a President who had projects on his hand in his first term? The whole landscape of parts of Ghana are breathing with massive infrastructural developments. If it has not reached the North, will they trust Nana to usher in this development or a President who is bent on developing the entire landscape of Ghana? In Bole from where he hails from, the news is that new pipes are being laid for water supply at a scale unprecedented. Who will continue that work? The Teshie LasCala to Spintex Link Road started by NDC laid dormant until they returned to power again to get it moving again.
Most people who will be voting for another Party have vested interest and hope to get something from someone from the other party which is veiled corruption. Greater Accra metropolis are breathing fresh air. When Dr Nkrumah was developing Ghana, the UP were shouting about the debt he was incurring. Nothing will ever change. Somehow, it will need a daring move to take a country to the next level. If His Excellency is corrupt, there are no cases before Parliament. Mr Amidu is trying hard to tarnish his image with contracts which pre-dates him. There is lack of understanding. Corruption must be defined. Corruption must be reported and proof that it is being prosecuted. If you call a Monarch corrupt without proof of any description, you are insulting him k3k3.
Woyome case is making the rounds in the courts now. Mr Amidu want to case heard before 7th December 2016 and if the Supreme Court is neutral or pro NDC, fixing the dates will reflect that. Every institution in this world is tainted with something. Northerners must be extremely happy with their pride from the North. Afterall, it is on record that Alhaji Bawumiah presided over the re-denomination of the Ghana Cedis. Contracts and all were foolproof? Who really is the corrupt person? What about the legal axiom INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY.
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

This is a high quality rejoinder the like of which are uncommon on Ghanaweb. Better than many articles we read here.

Andy-K

This is a high quality rejoinder the like of which are uncommon on Ghanaweb. Better than many articles we read here.

Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago

Waht do you know about a high rejoinder with you squuzed brain. Ask Twum Boafo to tell you what! you Ewe goat!

Waht do you know about a high rejoinder with you squuzed brain. Ask Twum Boafo to tell you what! you Ewe goat!
kk 7 years ago

bro, u have made my day with your rejoinder, objective thinking Ghanaians should read this and know that Manasseh azuure is an ash who is also doing his stomach journalistic acrobatics to excite his pay masters. please keep w ...
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bro, u have made my day with your rejoinder, objective thinking Ghanaians should read this and know that Manasseh azuure is an ash who is also doing his stomach journalistic acrobatics to excite his pay masters. please keep writing many of this to inspire us. thanks man!
MAMA FAUSTIE 7 years ago

THIS EQUALIZATION IS STUPID INTELLECTION.WE MOVE FORWARD, NOT REPEATING WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE

"If you accuse a President who had been in office for just 4 years of gigantic corruption, then you must have the figures of wha ...
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THIS EQUALIZATION IS STUPID INTELLECTION.WE MOVE FORWARD, NOT REPEATING WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE

"If you accuse a President who had been in office for just 4 years of gigantic corruption, then you must have the figures of what happened in all contracts NPP and previous NDC has signed to date. Were there no corruption in Ghana till now? To get a Passport, Birth Certificate, to get electric meter, to get driving licence, to get Ghana telecom line a while ago. What does all these represent? Were there no over-priced contacts in any era? In our fledgling democracy, can a sitting President eradicate all corruption in his cabinet in one swipe?"
Francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Thank you!

Thank you!
Ben writes from China 7 years ago

I concur @ Andy K. I haven't read something this good for a while. NiiM3NiiM3 made me crave for more, and it's all good he didn't end with a period. I hope people would take a cue from this and bring sanity to the forum. Kudo ...
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I concur @ Andy K. I haven't read something this good for a while. NiiM3NiiM3 made me crave for more, and it's all good he didn't end with a period. I hope people would take a cue from this and bring sanity to the forum. Kudos to Manasseh, NiiM3NiiM3, and God bless you Andy-K, for giving praise where it's due. With people like you around, there's hope for a better tomorrow. All is never lost, Ghana!!!
Emmanuel abanti 7 years ago

Philosophical and deep thought by all standard. Kudos Bros.

Philosophical and deep thought by all standard. Kudos Bros.
MAMA FAUSTIE 7 years ago

You use s many words covering all spheres in search of balance perspectives, but you pitching points show that you are a tribalistic like all of us! You scouted against Akans, NPP, but covered up for non-Akans and NDC! Tell u ...
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You use s many words covering all spheres in search of balance perspectives, but you pitching points show that you are a tribalistic like all of us! You scouted against Akans, NPP, but covered up for non-Akans and NDC! Tell us about the history of P/NDC and what they did against Akans! What did Mills say about Asantes,etc.
Patriot 7 years ago

Well said. Thumbs up!

Well said. Thumbs up!
Dr. philip 7 years ago

That is the point. you have pointed out the fact and we need to find a way of solving this. Is not about NDC or NPP. POliticians are taking advantage of this for their own political.We have a problem as a nation.

That is the point. you have pointed out the fact and we need to find a way of solving this. Is not about NDC or NPP. POliticians are taking advantage of this for their own political.We have a problem as a nation.
Dr. philip 7 years ago

That is the point. you have pointed out the fact and we need to find a way of solving this. Is not about NDC or NPP. POliticians are taking advantage of this for their own political again. We have a problem as a nation.

That is the point. you have pointed out the fact and we need to find a way of solving this. Is not about NDC or NPP. POliticians are taking advantage of this for their own political again. We have a problem as a nation.
Bitter Truth Pill 7 years ago

The mark of a democratic political party is that people stand for elections to get elected by members snd members alone for leadership position. Primary elections are the same. No matter how you see it every Vice President is ...
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The mark of a democratic political party is that people stand for elections to get elected by members snd members alone for leadership position. Primary elections are the same. No matter how you see it every Vice President is selected by an elected Presidential candidate for the strength he or she to that particular ticket. As soon as the term of office ends he or she returns back to the pool to offer himself for election as a Presidential cadidate on his own merit. I don't care which tribe or relogion the person is, the onus is for him to convince the delegates that he is the right man in his own right. i does not matter if you believe John Mahama would have been the automatic choice of the NDC if Prof. Mills had served his full term. We will never know but the NDC has also never had a Presidential candidate elected from the North on his own account even though they have a larger following in the North. I can assure that no one will ever assume the flabearship of the NPP without a contest to confirm that he is indeed the choice of the delegates. That is a democratic standard that will never be waived for any individual or tribe, unless you are sitting President going for a second term. And that is why does who love democracy swear by the NPP. I will rather lose an election than have an unelected leader. If you want to be our candidate you got to prove that you have the backing of the majority of electors not just the outgoing President.
Chief Obonfi 7 years ago

My brother, Iets be trueful to ourselves, tribal politic are in two ways, if I come to you and say, "vote for me, I am your own son". Another one comes and say don't vote for this party because they are a particular tribe. In ...
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My brother, Iets be trueful to ourselves, tribal politic are in two ways, if I come to you and say, "vote for me, I am your own son". Another one comes and say don't vote for this party because they are a particular tribe. In every job it is normal to hear people saying this is your own son. ...and that is not dangerous. NDC under no circumstances would ever say don't vote for npp because the are Ashanti's. One is dangerous and another one is recommendation
sk 7 years ago

This idiot called Azure has a very weak analytically power so in many of his articles, he reveals his hatred for the president and close affinity to the NPP.You have embarked on a mission impossible and very soon your true na ...
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This idiot called Azure has a very weak analytically power so in many of his articles, he reveals his hatred for the president and close affinity to the NPP.You have embarked on a mission impossible and very soon your true nature will be uncovered.
sk 7 years ago

Azure is a paid agent of evil dwarf whose mission is to destroy innocent souls but you will not succeed.

Azure is a paid agent of evil dwarf whose mission is to destroy innocent souls but you will not succeed.
KPE COBLA 7 years ago

Hi Menasseh, I think you have mis-represented what Nana Addo said on the "Ye Akanfuo " issue. Nana Akufo ado's statement actually began as follows: "Ye se, yen Akanfuo..." to wit " They say we Akans..."

The point could sti ...
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Hi Menasseh, I think you have mis-represented what Nana Addo said on the "Ye Akanfuo " issue. Nana Akufo ado's statement actually began as follows: "Ye se, yen Akanfuo..." to wit " They say we Akans..."

The point could still have been made more forcefully without this little "faux pas".
Patriot 7 years ago

Manasseh, I wish I could meet with you personally to argue this issue out with you. You allege that some NPP members, including Nana Addo are also guilty of ethnocentrism. I am not surprised but like you I believe you are fal ...
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Manasseh, I wish I could meet with you personally to argue this issue out with you. You allege that some NPP members, including Nana Addo are also guilty of ethnocentrism. I am not surprised but like you I believe you are falling into the same hypocrisy you accuse Ghanaians of. Your anti-Akan and anti-NPP stance is glaring here. I have always admired your integrity as a journalist but anytime I read you I get crestfallen when you make references to the NPP even when it is not necessary. Nana Addo has always denied the 'yen Akanfuo' statement and tried severally to explain the context but you and people like you never stop to critically examine his explanation. You also imply here that Nana Addo might have been guilty of all the lies Haruna Atta has accused him of. I think that is bad journalism. As a journalist you were too judgmental and compromised, without hiding your disdain for Nana Addo.
Instead of descending heavily on Nana Addo and the NPP. If only you would be objective and intellectual, especially in your write-ups you would earn your place in the honor roll of journalists in this country. What happens in the NPP concerning the way they choose their flag bearers should be respected and not labeled as tribalistic. Being married to an Akan from the south does not make you different from those prejudiced against Akans.
Mahama's references to his ethnicity as the reason for Northerners to vote for him is wrong and unethical and must be condemned. So must anyone who appeals to ethnicity for votes must be condemned no matter where they come from. Speak for yourself and do not refer to all Ghanaians as hypocrites. I think you are too and you fan hypocrisy as a virtue.
Nana 7 years ago

This sounds like one sentence: President Mahama is right about what he said, but not the right person to say it. I get it: those who know the facts and are "condemning" him - not even the utterance rather - are all saying the ...
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This sounds like one sentence: President Mahama is right about what he said, but not the right person to say it. I get it: those who know the facts and are "condemning" him - not even the utterance rather - are all saying the same thing. He is right but he should not (be the one to) say it. In my view, that is hypocrisy - yes, OUR hypocrisy, which you simply just repeat. Do something different, something BOLD. Don't just say one sentence/thing in a long and winding piece of I-want-to-remain-relevant-although-I-wish-to-say-I-agree-with-the-President-because-I-also-face-it-daily crap. "Call a spade a spade" is a common cliché will be better to read than your pathetic and hypocritical plea. Thanks for trying nonetheless.

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