English names are mostly ‘Slave Names’ - KKD

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  • Nana Yaa Adom Adepa 8 years ago

    Yes you are right, I remember my geography teacher back in school when you mention your English name he will tell you it not a name but that is a cat or dog name. let use our local names to show our identity..

  • Nokware 8 years ago

    Write wat u jux said in a local language and not English, u re speaking english buh u are against their names. Bullshit

  • Anokye 8 years ago

    In that case then why using the things the white people brought? Our fathers used to walked around naked and shit. I think the media in Ghana broadcast irrelevant crap for their readers

  • Kwadwo 8 years ago

    Who told you so?

  • Mensah 8 years ago

    They may be slave names, but they are a thousand times better than the name RAPIST

  • sir 8 years ago

    is that the guy who fuck the lady on the toilet? nasty person whom i will never never give my hand in public.

  • don`t care !!! 8 years ago

    hahaha!this guy kkD sound as if he is disturb by his village mentalities!

  • AGBESI. KWESI 8 years ago

    KKD is preaching virtues but practices vice. I remember Ken Sarow Wiwa once said: 'It is lazy for a blackman to say I am black, I am proud. The whiteman will never say that but the good things they do make them superior'. You ...
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  • Apuskele 8 years ago

    I have the right to call myself any thing I want. If KKD believes in what he says, why does he dress like a slave master? He looks like a clown.

  • POW@ MINISTER 4 ZONGO AFFAIRS 8 years ago

    Your father named you George Kwesi Kyei Darkwa. You proudly used it at the Tema community 7 DATUS preparatory School as a student. When you started disc jockeying, you were still known as George aka "The Musical Medico" with ...
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  • Mr ROMANO . 8 years ago

    COMOT FOR THERE , YOU YOURSELF WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME ?? EVERYTHING YOU GO CRITICIZE , GOSH !!! WHAT THE FUCK WRONG WITH YOU AT ALL ?????

  • stinky Finger 8 years ago

    It makes you wonder why the British don't name their children after Ashanti,Ga,Ewe and Fanti chiefs.Why not Princess Diana Oduro or Prince Charles Bonti.May be the current Prime Minister should have been named Theresa Abebres ...
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  • POW @MINISTER 4 ZONGO AFFAIRS 8 years ago

    See what boil too dey show under armpit. "Hw3 nia pompo nso kyer3, wo amotoam'. Mtchewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • KWEKU DZANGMA 8 years ago

    SO WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GROW UP AND BE WISE. DO YOU HAVE TO BATHE IN THE FOOLISHNESS, STUPIDITY OR THE MISTAKES OF YOUR FATHERS OR OTHERS ALL YOUR LIFE? WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO USE YOUR OWN BRAIN AS YOU GROW. KKD IS ABSOLUTELY ...
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  • POW @MINISTER 4 ZONGO AFFAIRS 8 years ago

    Dude so when did you realize this? You even speaks and writes someone else's language. If you're asked to speak your local language, one sentence kwraa will not end without you adding one or two English words. You sit there a ...
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  • Mr ROMANO . 8 years ago

    POW YOU SEE HOW CONFUSED YOU ARE . YOU ARE JUST UNBELIEVABLE . DUDE YOU GOT A PROBLEM , PLEASE SEEK A MEDICAL HELP ASAP .

  • Nee-boye 8 years ago

    So why is kkd dressed in suit and tie with a cap on if he is that smart? What does it represent?

  • shef27 8 years ago

    So what exactly is your problem now??? If he uses the name his dad gave him and later dropped "George" the english name, is that a problem??? You are the problem. I think u are stressed...

  • Kofi Adjei Nkrabea 8 years ago

    Awoyaa Aba Nyameama Antwiwaa Adjei

  • BARIMA BA 8 years ago

    Yes, it's true, if you lose your name and your language, you lose your identity.
    The so called Christian names are slave names. It creates inferiority complexes. No Englishman will call himself Akoto, why do we take delight ...
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  • DJ 8 years ago

    Look at this stupid idiot. Are slaves not human beings? kwaseaaaa !!!!!

  • Kaya 8 years ago

    Slaves are not treated like humans. They have no pride and respect from their masters

  • Abeiku SW2 London 8 years ago

    U Fuc*ing Rapist should have told your Dad so and probably wouldn't have named u George ... arrogant ba*stard ...

  • KWAPPS 8 years ago

    KKD, like you, I have long ceased calling myself by foreign names because I have seen the light. Unfortunately, the majority of blacks haven't reached that level of thinking, in fact, it seems the veil of religion has permane ...
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  • Atopa 8 years ago

    Clothing can be shed in a minute but names identify who you and your family are.

  • Brofo 8 years ago

    And you dress like a slave master performing at a circus. You must have a lot of complex to be dressed like that all the time.

  • Stone 8 years ago

    Studies have shown that when the white man came to Africa ( missionaries) they made our forefathers believe that when they name u after them you will go to heaven when you die. That was the genesis of white names. When I foun ...
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  • Wise 8 years ago

    It is not about the name,its about character. A decorated monkey will always be a monkey.STOP sleeping around with your daughters and get busy with something better. This is all diversionary tactics. Shameless man.

  • KS 8 years ago

    Kkd perhaps one of th e sanest Ghanaians. All the others are going to church and following nonsense. This is someone who understands his own culture and identity and understands the world too

  • Abeiku SW2 London 8 years ago

    Yet dress and speak like them ...Lol

  • Abeiku 8 years ago

    The slave masters raped our women KKD just like u did and please stop wearing their garments ....

  • TnI 8 years ago

    And he is dressed like a slave master.

  • Eagle 8 years ago

    Hahahahaha.... We are slaves my people, have you forgotten about that? We were discovered. Slaves don't do what they like or want but are always instructed including change of names. Beat your chest and tell me you are not a ...
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  • eddie-usa 8 years ago

    is this guy still talking? rapist are not to be giving any platform to talk. so shut the fuck up.

  • Paul 8 years ago

    I would've agreed with KKD if he had stated "English names" instead of "Christian names". What's wrong with a Christian given a name from the Bible?

  • luca 8 years ago

    I do not dispute that we have been influenced.but kkd is always spotted in a suit.western clothes,so is he a slave?

  • Oheneba Kwaku 8 years ago

    Are you trying to be a Traditionalist or you want to be heard all the time.Don't forget you are all the time seen around wearing suit.Let me remind you that slavery and it's trade was and is everywhere.Which will mean every n ...
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  • Dundu Banza 8 years ago

    ......and go back to our way of dressing,food,music etc. You can't pick and choose. By the way not all Christian names are slave names. Also,one would be very hesitant naming a child "Owuo".for instance. Do you speak your own ...
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  • Kwabena Ofori Yeboah 8 years ago

    Then better ask us not to travel to the countries of our 'slave masters' voluntarily to seek greener pastures. What we should be ashamed of is that, our leaders since history have let us down. This makes it difficult for us t ...
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  • kr 8 years ago

    l love English names and as an Ashanti will never name or use local names on my kids...kkd then stop speaking English too and that ur fake accent...is a disgrace.... why shd l name my kid after a generation full of hatred,lie ...
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  • i and i 8 years ago

    You can't be an Asante stop that inferiority complex all proud Asantes do not have an english name.

  • Law of Kama 8 years ago

    its your personal view so keep it KKD. Allow us to follow what we each believe in.

  • Hassan Anabah 8 years ago

    I was working with english men's in Europe here,that's where I discovered that we the Africa's are cheating ourselves with english names.anytime I mentioned my English you could them laughing at me so I change my passport wit ...
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  • Robert djan 8 years ago

    Kkd . You dress like them. Stop taking noisence.

  • DI ASEM PA 8 years ago

    A white lady asked for my name and i said my name is Michael. She looked at my face and asked me again. Where you from? I answered Ghana. And then, she asked me again so, what is your African name? I then wrote my name on a ...
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  • Elilawal 8 years ago

    Rapist.......shut e fuck up!

  • Nee-boye 8 years ago

    Look at kkd's dressing....
    So why is kkd dressed in suit and tie with a cap on if he is that smart? What does it represent?

  • Yaa 8 years ago

    Yesooo, dressed up in suit, tie and trilby. That is more of "slavery" than the "slave names" some Ghanaians are such hypocrites they always contradict themselves.

  • Johannesburg 8 years ago

    That is your belief. I got my job I am doing because of my English name. When the interview was arranged they all thought I was a white guy. Fortunately I impressed them during the interview and I was hired. So your belief is ...
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  • Efo Korba 8 years ago

    It's true. I agree with him 100%. I have regretted not know this earlier

  • Kaakie 8 years ago

    English names are different from Biblical names. I prefer to choose Biblical names for my kids bcz names have an effect on ppl. Why won't I name my kid David, Joseph, Joshua, Caleb, Ruth, Rebekah etc than going to choose Bayi ...
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  • Eric 8 years ago

    Unfortunately, KKD dresses like the Slave Master although he does not like to use the slave name. Can't understand this man,

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    The country Ghana is itself a English creation. There was nothing called Gold Coast before the white man came to West Africa. Our history is intrinsically linked to the white man. Changing only your name changes nothing! Shal ...
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  • Nkrumah 8 years ago

    What have you been teaching your children, KKD? That you are a disgusting rapist? And how do they feel when they go to school? We hope you are not going to protest,when other children whose parents have told them who you are, ...
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  • TOGBE 8 years ago

    HE KNOWS NO SHAME

  • Tutugyagu 8 years ago

    I personally believe using local Ghanaian names is an appreciation of our cultural heritage.It's a matter of choice as to whether a Ghanaian would like to use an English name or purely local name handed down from our ancestor ...
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  • Joe 8 years ago

    Suit and bow tie is not from your ancestors.

  • Joe 8 years ago

    Over to you KKD.

  • kweku 8 years ago

    KKD has complexes so he tries to seek solace in Royalty which Is not even the Asantehene Royal lineage. Keep quiet there go get a decent job and stop galavanting. Presecans know you shush!!!!

  • kweku 8 years ago

    you dress like them yet you diss them conflict of interest right?what an arsehole

  • Omega 8 years ago

    the names may have been given by parents no knew nothing better, but you yourself sitting in tropical Ghana is wearing a suit a tie and a hat as if you are in Alaska. let your actions speak for you. KKD

  • THE CITIZEN 8 years ago

    THE SUIT YOU ARE WEARING MAKES YOU MORE A SLAVE THAN A NAME.

    THE LANGUAGE YOUR SPEAKING IN.

    YOUR HAT.

    YOUR EYEWEAR .

    YOUR SHOES.

    DUMMY

  • Kwasi 8 years ago

    Yes, Kwasi, you may be right to suggest that "Christian/English" names are not authentic African names; and are borrowed from the Western Europeans. You opted for a African names for yourself and your kids after you came to d ...
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  • Bobo Dialaso 8 years ago

    have you seen Obroni name his or her kid after an African before? We are a joke keeping these useless obroni names.

  • Kofi 8 years ago

    Bobo, read my earlier post. Even our country Ghana was created by the white man. That is our history. Our names reflect our history. Why not break up the country created by the white man into its original forms, Asante kingdo ...
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  • Eagle 8 years ago

    Hahahahaha.... We are slaves my people, have you forgotten about that? We were discovered. Slaves don't do what they like or want but are always instructed including change of names. Beat your chest and tell me you are not a ...
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  • Kwabena Tabiri Kumasi 8 years ago

    Mr KKD what about your dressing?You have never been found dressed in clothes or batakali for example as an African.What about that?

  • TOGBE 8 years ago

    I take such messages from people of descency not from those who rape or take advantage of small girls. shut up and disappear from the public domain.

  • ISA. 8 years ago

    It's up to the individual. English names has nothing to do with slavery. All you talking is garbage. Then don't ware suit and trousers, don't ware shoes as it's western culture.