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Flawed Northern Leaders: Dead Guinea Fowls & Trees

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  • Hawa 11 years ago

    Africa-area studies. No wonder. You write without researching. Stupid. And oh yes, I am very educated.

  • AFI 11 years ago

    Truth is absolute. The is telling the truth.

  • Great One 11 years ago

    There is a 99% chance that any most tribal articles on Ghana web will either be written by Akadu or Okoampa.

    They are both NPP Akans and suffer from the disease of intolerance. They hate anything non Akan/NPP.

    Does it s ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 11 years ago

    THIS VERY TRUE OF THESE TWO DIRTY PERSONALITIES.

  • JOHN MAKPORI 11 years ago

    Truth is painful

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Ha! ha! ha! Akadu, I honestly don't find any redeeming features on the Northern elite in order to defend them against your sharp barbs! I consider them as hopeless, together with the V/R elite, among whom my own Ewe "elite" t ...
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  • WE KNOW THE SOUTH WELL 11 years ago

    The only reason the south got it better than the north is not its people, but its geographical advantage. People wise, the north has better people.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    I wholeheartedly agree with you. Considerintg the many years advantages the south had in education and contact with the white people, the southern elite are quite crass, reactionary and utterly selfish compared to the norther ...
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  • DB 11 years ago

    The Ghanaian intellectual is very wicked and the sooner we realize this the better. One thing I've realized about my own Asantes is that we don't hold "elites" superior. We rather cherish our entrepreneurs and businessmen. It ...
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  • SARPONG 11 years ago

    It's really sad the Northern Elites and the educated Politicians keep their poor folks in perpetual poverty but it is the same poor people in the North that are the staunch defenders of the people who are keeping them down.

  • JOHN MAKPORI 11 years ago

    We expected you to be educated so that you can appreciate your problems. Truth hurts all of us. Akadu has really addressed problems facing Northern elites and all you can say area-studies! Where is the free education?

  • THIEF JOHN MAHAMA 11 years ago

    TRIBALISM IS DESTROYING THEIR BRAINS

  • ATINGA ATONGO PITO MAN MAHAMA 11 years ago

    THEY WILL START ANOTHER FOOLISH WAR OVER THIS ARTICLE SOON. THEY HAVE SMALL BRAINS

  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    Even though the money went in to this SADA can't be explained as nothing on the ground can equal to the millions used by Mahama's hand-picked cronies, Ms. Akadu could do better than lumping the whole North in this stereotypi ...
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  • JOHN MAKPORI 11 years ago

    Why blame Akadu, Mahama lumped all together and asked all to vote for him

  • BONSO 11 years ago

    The truth is bitter but facts are sacred: Free Education of Northerners was to help the people from the North to emancipate their people from poverty but has it happened?

    No! As Akadu brilliantly writes here, we expected ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Bonso,

    I was agreeing with what you're writing until I reached your ignorant, ethnocentric attack on Ewes and Northerners. Look, Northern Ghana became a British Protectorate before Asante just in 1900. And the Anlos, Tong ...
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  • KUTIN MENKAH - KSI 11 years ago

    PHD IS DOUBTFUL BECAUSE A PHD HOLDER WILL NEVER WRITE SUCH A STUPID ARTICLE.
    YOU ARE INDEED A BIG FOOL. STUPID MAN

  • DABUO NAALOKUU- WA 11 years ago

    NORTHERNER RULING GHANA IS PAINING THE AKANS

  • Chabba 11 years ago

    The truth is always unpleasant but you have said it all--- you have called a spade a spade, not a digging tool. You are brave and intrepid writer. You are not a professor for nothing! More grease to your elbows.

  • John Jerry 11 years ago

    For a PhD to be writing such a divisive article is quite shocking and disappointing. Akans have always looked down upon Northerners and Ewe's and it is sad as some of us strive to promote peace and a united Ghana, you opt to ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    Nonsensical tribalis

  • Be Bold 11 years ago

    John Jerry and some of his people think Akans look down on them when in actual fact John Jerry and his people are rather looking up to Akans. The fact that you have positioned yourself to look up to others does not necessaril ...
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  • Kwadwo 11 years ago

    It will be unpatriotic for anyone to defend the Akomfem and the tree planting projects by SADA. The country was robbed.

  • MAHAMA GBAGBO 11 years ago

    Do not be shocked. Northerners and Ewes are so used to stealing that it has become a norm for them. They Do not see anything wrong with it.

  • KOFI LAMPTEY 11 years ago

    AN AKAN WUD HAVE DONE MUCH MUCH BETTER WITH THE SADA FUNDS THAN THE NORTHERNERS WHO NOW CONTROL THE FUNDS,,,,,NORTHERN MPS DONT CARE A HOOT ABOUT THE NORTH AND ITS POVERTY THAT IS WHY JOHN TIA COULD SPEAK FOR WOYOME WHEN WOYO ...
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  • Aduanaba 11 years ago

    What we are all witnessing emanates from the foundation JJ and his clueless revolutionaries built.

  • MERLIC 11 years ago

    So this stupid kotoko man has not stopped writing his stupid poems. Have he got a flute anyway? If he hasn't then could he come for my trumpet? And, has he not heard that sometimes, the type like him will have to write histo ...
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  • MERLIC 11 years ago

    So this stupid kotoko man has not stopped writing his stupid poems. Has he got a flute anyway? If he hasn't then could he come for my trumpet? And, has he not heard that sometimes, the type like him will have to write history ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 11 years ago

    Merlic, go back and take your time to read the poem very carefully and ponder over it very well. You will realize that Akadu has come out with factual and not fabricated poem which our brothers in the Northern Region should ...
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  • ASEM 11 years ago

    SHE ATTACKED ONLY THE ELITE WHO HAVE LET THE POOR NORTH DOWN.

  • DUUT 11 years ago

    STUPID MAN. WHO TOLD YOU WE HAVE NOT HAD FLAWED SOUTHERN LEADERS. TRIBAL SUPREMACIST LIKE YOU. WHEN KUFFUOR'S AYENSU STARCH PROJECT FAILED, IS KUFFUOR A NORTHERNER

  • MAHAMA GBAGBO 11 years ago

    Northerners are more comfortable carrying shit and drinking pito than managing anything.

  • Jibril 11 years ago

    Hi Writer, I would be happy to contact you directly to give you some feedback. The thesis of your poem is on track, you have miserably demonstrated and reinforced the very arrogance that makes other ethnic groups in Ghana hav ...
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  • A.D.A,G 11 years ago

    @ Jibril i am on your side though. But if this Columnist Akadu Ntiriwa chooses to call a spade a spade, then he or she should do that. I have read all comments and i will stay neutral. I will suggest we all ponder on what ...
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  • MAHAMA GBAGBO 11 years ago

    Well said. What good can you expect from a pepeni president. All Pepe elites are opportunistic vulutures and pretenders , as you rightly said. Thank. You made my day.

  • Iddi Maltiti 11 years ago

    If all your Phd can do is to incite tribalism and ethnocentricism, i am afraid your PHd is useless. you are a nonentity. You and your lot feel nothing is good for northerners. Shame unto you

  • Truth Investigator 11 years ago

    Very good poem; it tells the truth in a refined, subtle and exact manner.thanks a lot and keep up with more of your good poems.

  • Simon A. 11 years ago

    It is important to note that Akadu has never written or said anything good about the north. Her writings are always based on her shamelessly primitive illogical context of hate. It is unfortunate that with all her alleged edu ...
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  • K. K. BOLE 11 years ago

    THE ENEMY OF A NORTHERNER IS THE EDUCATED NORTHERNER.

  • ATINGA FRAFRA 11 years ago

    MAHAMA AND CO HAS A CASE TO ANSWER WE THE NORTHERN FOLKS WHY THEY ARE MISUSING THE MONEY ALLOCATED TO THE REGION TO HELP IMPROVE OUR LIVING.

  • Ayamga Edmond 11 years ago

    you have be sensitive when speaking in public.

  • m o 11 years ago

    u are simply stupid and xenophobic

  • m o 11 years ago

    maybe u hold a PHD for STUPIDITY......

  • Nurudeen Hamidu 11 years ago

    Great peom by Akadu Ntiriwa. Totally spot on! My only disagreemnt is your allusion of Northerners enjoying free akan chocolates and gold. This is where the plot is lost and degenerated into tribal jibes and taunts at us! Othe ...
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