Pepenii tribalistic Sangaparee has low inferiority complex. Sad at an old age of 70 this dagarti fool is still mired in tribal foolishness.
Pepenii tribalistic Sangaparee has low inferiority complex. Sad at an old age of 70 this dagarti fool is still mired in tribal foolishness.
abdallah mexico 11 years ago
You just mentioned DAGATI which makes it real that,there is a real cold tribal wars in Mother Ghana...
You just mentioned DAGATI which makes it real that,there is a real cold tribal wars in Mother Ghana...
Capt. X 11 years ago
This foolish sangapari is really an imbecile. If ever there will be a bomb, tribal or whatever, it will explode in sangapari's face as well as the faces of other P/NDC criminals who have looted, and continue to loot, from the ... read full comment
This foolish sangapari is really an imbecile. If ever there will be a bomb, tribal or whatever, it will explode in sangapari's face as well as the faces of other P/NDC criminals who have looted, and continue to loot, from the nation's coffers. Have you forgotten how you and your PNDC brutalised and murdered thousands of innocent Ghanaians mostly Akans? Have you forgotten how you seized our properties at gun point? If there is any brain in your head it is not a human brain but mule's brain because any normal human being would shut his mouth rather than reminding the victims of your barbaric behaviour. I assure you a time will come when you will suffer the consequences of your stupidity, lies and foolishness. The same Kuffour that you accuse is the one who has saved you otherwise a criminal like you would not be alive to continue writing nonsense against Akans who have allowed you to live free in their midst.
Pumpuni 11 years ago
Thank you, Captain X.
Thank you, Captain X.
Be Bold 11 years ago
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
Kwaku 11 years ago
You will soon see
You will soon see
ASMAH TEMA 11 years ago
Was enjoying your piece until you expressed anger and showed your polical affiliation.
It is a shame, could have been a good article
Was enjoying your piece until you expressed anger and showed your polical affiliation.
It is a shame, could have been a good article
AKWERTEY 11 years ago
THE TRUTH,
THE REAL TRUTH,
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH;
IS THAT EWES ARE THE WORSE TRIBALISTS IN GHANA. THEY ARE SO TRIBALLY-CENTERED THAT ONE IS NOT ABUSING THEM BUT DESCRIBING THEM TRULY WHEN ONE SAYS THEY ARE INWARD-LOOKING ... read full comment
THE TRUTH,
THE REAL TRUTH,
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH;
IS THAT EWES ARE THE WORSE TRIBALISTS IN GHANA. THEY ARE SO TRIBALLY-CENTERED THAT ONE IS NOT ABUSING THEM BUT DESCRIBING THEM TRULY WHEN ONE SAYS THEY ARE INWARD-LOOKING.
AN EWE WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING TO ANOTHER EWE TO THE EXCLUSION OF ANY OTHER TRIBE, AND WOULD PUSH EWES ANYWHERE GOOD TO THE EXCLUSION OF OTHERS; EVEN THOUGH AT THE END OF IT, WHEN THEY GET HOME WITH WHATEVER THEY GET FROM THAT, THEY TAKE IT HOME AND DESTROY, HATE EACH OTHER AT HOME.
EVERYBODY IN GHANA PLUS AYIGBES AND ANYTHING, KNOW THAT ASANTES THOUGH VERY NEPOTISTIC ALSO, ARE VERY VERY DIFFERENT FROM EWES.
AN ASANTE DOES NOT CARE WHETHER YOU ARE RICH OR YOU HAVE THIS OR THAT, ALL HE WANTS IS TO DO WHAT HE CAN(EVEN IF CROOKEDLY) TO GET IT ALSO. AN EWE WOULD WANT TO HAVE IT TO THE EXCLUSION OF YOU. AND WOULD DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT YOU FROM HAVING IT, EVEN IF THE THING WOULD GET WROTTEN OR REMAIN STANDSTILL FOR 19YEARS, HE ODOESN'T ACRE.
AN ASANTE CAN GIVE FOR FREE, HELP, AND MAKE A MILLION PEOPLE RICH WHO ARE NOT ASANTE, AS LONG US HE ALSO GETS RICH, HE HAS NO PROBLEM WITH YOU GETTING RICH.
ANYBODY IN GHANA PLUS SANGAMPERETEE THE WRITER HERE, SHOULD COME AGAIN AND DARE ME SAYING THAT I AM LIEING ABOUT THIS ATTITUDE OS ASANTES. AND I AM READY TO COME OUT AND WE GO TO THE SUPREME COURT (Ha ha ha !).
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THE NEXT WORSE TRIBE IS GA ADANGBE, BUT THEIR NASTY WAYS ARE HIDDEN BECAUSE EVERYBODY THINKS ITS JUST ASANTE AND EWE WHO ARE TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING. ITS NOT SO.
LETS BE HONEST ABOUT IT, THE GAS ARE GHANA’S MORAL ARCHILIS HEELS. THE WORSE, MOST IMMORAL, MOST CORRUPT, MOST TRIBALISTIC, MOST NOISY,MOST SHOUTING, MOST QUARRELSOME, MOST TROUBLESOME, MOST STEALING, MOST EASILY-BRIBABLE, MOST IN-HYGENIC, MOST GHANA-CORRUPTING, MOST DISOBEDIENT TO RULES AND LAWS,MOST ELDERS-DISRESPECTING, MOST THIEFING LADIES, MOST CHEATING, MOST LAZY, MOST BOASTFUL-FOR-NOTHING, WANTING EVERYTHING FOR FREE WITHOUT WORKING FOR IT, MOST WASTEFUL, MOST SELLING-OUT, MOST DESTRUCTIVE OF NATIONAL ORDERLINESS, SO IMMORAL THAT EVEN RELIGION AND EDUCATION CANNOT PURIFY THEM, SO DUMM AND UN-INNOVATIVE, AND LEAST AND NOT THE LEAST, THE MOST IMMORAL , PROMISCUOUS AND DIRTY, IS THE GA TRIBE.
SHOW ME ONE (JUST ONE) OTHER TRIBE IN GHANA THAT IS LIKE THIS, AND I WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE REALLY HONEST AND YOU REALLY KNOW THE TRIBES OF GHANA. ASANTE AND EWE ARE NOT LIKE THIS.
GA, THE ORIGIN OF ALL IMMORALITY, CORRUPTION, DIRT AND LAWLESSNESS IN GHANA !. THE ACHILIS HEELS OF GHANA. GA STUPIDITY KILLS GHANA.
THERE IS CORRUPTION IN THE BLOOD OF EVERY GA, LIVING, DEAD AND UNBORN. UNLESS GHANA DEALS WITH THIS DIRTY NATURE IN THE GA PSYCHE AND REALITY, ALL GHANA WILL CONTINUE TO BE POISONED BY GA CORRUPTOLOGY.
DON’T TAKE MY WORDS, FIND IT OUT YOURSELF HONESTLY AND SINCERELY, YOU WOULD FIND IT SO. GAS ARE TOO CORRUPT FOR ANTHING GOOD PLUS EVEN RELIGION .
GHANA MUST WATCH OUT GA CORRUPTION, ELSE IT WILL KILL GHANA,.
AKANLAND 11 years ago
this will bring peace
this will bring peace
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Whatever is your problem, it is clear you've got a serious problem with Gas in particular. I am inclined to believe that a Ga beat you to a girl friend, a girl you loved so badly you thought there was no life for you without ... read full comment
Whatever is your problem, it is clear you've got a serious problem with Gas in particular. I am inclined to believe that a Ga beat you to a girl friend, a girl you loved so badly you thought there was no life for you without her, and so you nearly committed suicide. Where else can this rabid animus for Gas be coming from, if not from the strongest passion man has, according to Socrates, the desire to have sex with a woman? Ha! ha! ha! So you lost the object of your humongous sexual desire for a Ga girl and all Gas are all those those things? She must be some hot chic!
Btw, I am an Anlo, featured in this piece too. I can now confidently claimed the title of foremost expert in dealing with the issues raised by Sangaparee. I am preparing to present my definitive take on the tribal imbroglio in Ghana and so won't comment much on this post except, perhaps, post something/s I had posted already before.
Andy-K
LARYEAH 11 years ago
SHUT UP! YOU ARE TOGOLESE TROKOSI BEHAVING LIKE A NOBLE GHANAIAN-EWE. ALL GHANAIAN-TROKOSI, WHETTHER POOR OR RICH HAVE BOTH VILLAGES AND FAMILY FARMS LIKE THEIR OTHER GHANAIAN BROTHERS. BUT YOU TOGOLESE TROKOSES CAN ONLY TRAC ... read full comment
SHUT UP! YOU ARE TOGOLESE TROKOSI BEHAVING LIKE A NOBLE GHANAIAN-EWE. ALL GHANAIAN-TROKOSI, WHETTHER POOR OR RICH HAVE BOTH VILLAGES AND FAMILY FARMS LIKE THEIR OTHER GHANAIAN BROTHERS. BUT YOU TOGOLESE TROKOSES CAN ONLY TRACE YOUR VILLAGES IN TOGO. NOW, ALL YOU DO IS COURSE MAYHEM IN GHANAIAN WITH YOUR DIRTY TRICK OF TRIBALISM.
Real Ghanaian 11 years ago
We heard that before, and have seen what your recycled poits. It will still be interesting see how you rebut or support this idiotic human- Sangaponkye. An embittered soul, who remains so because he was fooled by J.J. Rawling ... read full comment
We heard that before, and have seen what your recycled poits. It will still be interesting see how you rebut or support this idiotic human- Sangaponkye. An embittered soul, who remains so because he was fooled by J.J. Rawlings and his hungry and angry opportunistic revolutionaries. The truth is, as stupid as he is, thinking outside the box was far-fetched as a consequence. The result is that he was left as a cadre, fighting against successful people in Ghana, in order to engineer an environment conducive for J.J. Rawlings and his people to kill, cheat and steal to wealth. In the end they- Rawlings and Co. climbed their way to wealth and allowed the moronic followers to hold unto the "fake" revolution, which became useless in a "democratic" setting.
The good hypothetical question/s, any sensible Ghanaian should ask is;If wealth is what you craved all this time, why did you have to kill others for it ? My answer lies in what jealousy does to the psyche.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
SWINE. EVEN YOUR NAME EXPOSES YOU AS AN IMPOSTOR - THE GAS OR EWES DON'T WRITE AKWETTEY THE WAY YOU WRITE YOURS. YES, EWES AND GAS CAN BE WHATEVER YOU MAY CALL THEM AND THEY CERTAINLY ARE PROUD TO BE WHAT THEY ARE. NOW WHAT A ... read full comment
SWINE. EVEN YOUR NAME EXPOSES YOU AS AN IMPOSTOR - THE GAS OR EWES DON'T WRITE AKWETTEY THE WAY YOU WRITE YOURS. YES, EWES AND GAS CAN BE WHATEVER YOU MAY CALL THEM AND THEY CERTAINLY ARE PROUD TO BE WHAT THEY ARE. NOW WHAT ABOUT YOUR OWN STOCK? TELL ME WHETHER THEY ARE WHITER THAN SNOW OR PLAIN AS PAPER?
Bonso 11 years ago
In the last elections so many Fantes and Guans voted for NPP. If the tribalistic Anlos/Ewes and Northerners in the fante areas were not there NPP would have won in the Fanteland. NDC bribed electorate in gargantuan ways unp ... read full comment
In the last elections so many Fantes and Guans voted for NPP. If the tribalistic Anlos/Ewes and Northerners in the fante areas were not there NPP would have won in the Fanteland. NDC bribed electorate in gargantuan ways unprecedented in the annals of Ghana politics, yet their so-called winnings were marginal. Even in the controversial pink sheets before the Supreme Court, you will find the following figures in most polling stations:
NDC - 235
NPP - 201
Its only in Volta Region and Northerner regions, full of illiterates who can easily be bribed, that you see a whole gamut of people behaving like North Koreans.
Tribalism wont last in Ghana! Rawlings brought it into Ghana politics and will vanish as himself...
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Another bigoted moron with his jejune nonsense! So the NPP didn't put up candidates in the "Anlo/Ewe" areas of the VR and got some votes, eh? I actually wonder why some people from those areas still even agree stand for elect ... read full comment
Another bigoted moron with his jejune nonsense! So the NPP didn't put up candidates in the "Anlo/Ewe" areas of the VR and got some votes, eh? I actually wonder why some people from those areas still even agree stand for elections for them ugly, black racists and campaign for them!
Andy-K
Bonso 11 years ago
If a whole tribe supports a political party in a multi-party system of government, then there is something seriously wrong with that tribe. I would be so ashamed if Fantes supported one Party...but it wont ever happen...we a ... read full comment
If a whole tribe supports a political party in a multi-party system of government, then there is something seriously wrong with that tribe. I would be so ashamed if Fantes supported one Party...but it wont ever happen...we are not so uncivilised or backward...when Atta Mills brought his nonsense of 'adze wo fie oyie', fantes were so ashamed...It's Gbedemah, Obed Asamoah, G K Agama, Sam Okudzeto who formed NAL and moved EWES/ANLOS astray...whiles bigoted tribalistic academically challenged J J Rawlings and the Tsikatas took it a notch higher by appointing these lazy minded unprogressive people into sensitive positions in Ghana to ruin a fine country...Ewes/Anlos must be ashamed to read back their electoral votes...shame on you...yet you got nothing from this copious ethnocentrism.. Tribal groupings are not a political party...no wonder...thank God am not from Volta Region...Black racists are tribalistic ewes...
Isaac 11 years ago
Your NPP and its leadership have decided to be anti Ewe from day one, They wanted to kill Ewes, marginalize them cos they see them as their political nemesis and you expect the Ewes to vote for them so they can turn around an ... read full comment
Your NPP and its leadership have decided to be anti Ewe from day one, They wanted to kill Ewes, marginalize them cos they see them as their political nemesis and you expect the Ewes to vote for them so they can turn around and kill them? Its called a political suicide.
If you are stupid Ewes are not.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
Swine, where was your grandmother when the trokosi Justice Annie Jiagge (RIP) was the first woman judge in Ghana?
Swine, where was your grandmother when the trokosi Justice Annie Jiagge (RIP) was the first woman judge in Ghana?
Bonso 11 years ago
I will tell you if you tell me when Ewes arrived in their present location...or where were the anlos and ewes when the Portuguese came...Annie Jiaggie my foot...you tribalistic goons must be ashamed of yourselves...check the ... read full comment
I will tell you if you tell me when Ewes arrived in their present location...or where were the anlos and ewes when the Portuguese came...Annie Jiaggie my foot...you tribalistic goons must be ashamed of yourselves...check the ewe votes and compare it to voting patterns of civilised tribes in Ghana, then weep into your totemic images
Abokyi 11 years ago
THIS ARTICLE IS VERY VERY INFLAMATORY AT THIS TIME WHEN THERE IS KIND OF TENSION IN THE COUNTRY. I SUGGEST GHANAIANS AND THIS WRITER SHOULD WATCH THEIR MOUTHS.
BY THE WAY WHAT IS "United Cadres Front?" AN NDC BRAINCHILD ... read full comment
THIS ARTICLE IS VERY VERY INFLAMATORY AT THIS TIME WHEN THERE IS KIND OF TENSION IN THE COUNTRY. I SUGGEST GHANAIANS AND THIS WRITER SHOULD WATCH THEIR MOUTHS.
BY THE WAY WHAT IS "United Cadres Front?" AN NDC BRAINCHILD?
EKOW MENSAH 11 years ago
RAWLINGS IS THE ONE WHO BROUGHT TRIBAL INTO GHANA
RAWLINGS IS THE ONE WHO BROUGHT TRIBAL INTO GHANA
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
ASK BUSIA IN HIS GRAVE THAT QUESTION!!!
ASK BUSIA IN HIS GRAVE THAT QUESTION!!!
Bonso 11 years ago
SUCH A WASTEFUL EWE BARKING DOG RULED GHANA FOR 20 YEARS WITHOUT QUALIFICATIONS...APPOINTING EWES INTO SO MANY POSITIONS LEADING TO ALL THE ROBBERY AND DIVESTITURE BY THESE TRIBALISTIC GOONS...EWEDOM MY FOOT...YET LOOK AT THE ... read full comment
SUCH A WASTEFUL EWE BARKING DOG RULED GHANA FOR 20 YEARS WITHOUT QUALIFICATIONS...APPOINTING EWES INTO SO MANY POSITIONS LEADING TO ALL THE ROBBERY AND DIVESTITURE BY THESE TRIBALISTIC GOONS...EWEDOM MY FOOT...YET LOOK AT THEIR POVERTY IN THESE OUTLYING HAMLETS FULL OF TOTEMS...EWE KILLERS...KOJO MURDERER TSIKATA
ITA 11 years ago
Yes Jerry as a military man, very young and inexperienced still appointed many non Ewes into his govt than your Lawyer KU4 who is much older, experienced, and considered a democrat did in his eight year term.
By the time K ... read full comment
Yes Jerry as a military man, very young and inexperienced still appointed many non Ewes into his govt than your Lawyer KU4 who is much older, experienced, and considered a democrat did in his eight year term.
By the time KU4's govt came to an end, Northners were agitating to succeed from Ghana, Gas wanted everything NPP away from Accra, as for Ewes the least said the better.
So you tell me which of the two were worse? Neither did well but KU4 with his age, experience, and education in western democracy performed worse when it came to dealing with members of other tribes.
As if that wasn't enough he choose to make Asante Hene Ghana Hene. Open your eyes son.
Be Bold 11 years ago
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
Be Bold 11 years ago
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Yes, he lives in Obuasi but how do you know that he comes from the North? For all we know, he might be a descendants of the tens of 1000s captives the Asantes received as tributes from their Dagbon and Dagomba "vassals", apar ... read full comment
Yes, he lives in Obuasi but how do you know that he comes from the North? For all we know, he might be a descendants of the tens of 1000s captives the Asantes received as tributes from their Dagbon and Dagomba "vassals", apart from what the bought from the mighty Salaga slave market and or captured themselves. So, he might be among the 33% of Asantes said to be of slave origins!
BTW, he didn't make up any story even if his presentation is not 100% factually correct. Did he?
Andy-K
SYDNEY 11 years ago
CLEMENT SANGAPAREE'S HEAD IS FULL OF FAECES SO HE DOES NOT SEE THE POVERTY OF THE NORTH WHICH IS WORSENED BY NDC GREED AND STUPIDITY BY GIVING PRECIOUS MONEY AWAY TO WOYOME AND CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS WHISLT HIS PEOPLE SUFFER D ... read full comment
CLEMENT SANGAPAREE'S HEAD IS FULL OF FAECES SO HE DOES NOT SEE THE POVERTY OF THE NORTH WHICH IS WORSENED BY NDC GREED AND STUPIDITY BY GIVING PRECIOUS MONEY AWAY TO WOYOME AND CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS WHISLT HIS PEOPLE SUFFER DAILY IN HUMILIATION.
Kwaku 11 years ago
You are a fool and when that day come, people like you will be hiding.
You are a fool and when that day come, people like you will be hiding.
Asante 11 years ago
Mind you, Kufour is part of the PNDC looters and don't forget that when the going was good for Sangapari he littered Obuasi town with Babies with Obuasi women. I am not saying they were Akans, but your guess is as good as min ... read full comment
Mind you, Kufour is part of the PNDC looters and don't forget that when the going was good for Sangapari he littered Obuasi town with Babies with Obuasi women. I am not saying they were Akans, but your guess is as good as mine. What do you call the children? could i.t DAGAKAN? Laugh it off
Kwaku 11 years ago
My brother, I am a Buem and tell you what I hate Ashantis. I know who the are for I had an Ashanti friend in Nigeria in the 70s who told me Ashantis destroyed Ghana. Tell these Ashantis that all the so called minority tribes ... read full comment
My brother, I am a Buem and tell you what I hate Ashantis. I know who the are for I had an Ashanti friend in Nigeria in the 70s who told me Ashantis destroyed Ghana. Tell these Ashantis that all the so called minority tribes combined can destroy them and we will.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
For those bursting at the seam and hurling insults at Sangaparee for touching on a controversial subject which put Asantes/Akyems in a bad light (note, he didn't include a whole gamut of other Akan tribal groupings guilty of ... read full comment
For those bursting at the seam and hurling insults at Sangaparee for touching on a controversial subject which put Asantes/Akyems in a bad light (note, he didn't include a whole gamut of other Akan tribal groupings guilty of the same offence), here is something to put you more on edge and grit your teeth on. The blockbuster itself is coming later.
The seeds of the presently glaring tribal schism/s, divisions, prejudices, and bigotry, were planted in Ghana long before Rawlings was conceived and born! They were watered and harvested by Busia and the PP when he JJ had just joined the Ghana army as a gangling young man. It is to his credit that he managed it quite well (could've done better) and it never exploded into any ethnic violence.
Andy-K
EWE DEMONISATION: HOW IT ALL STARTED.
How the anti-Ewe hatred AND DIATRIBE, encapsulated in Ewe demonisation and vilification, began deserves a major article or book to cover. Of course, I had written extensively about the genesis of that on many occasions in the past on the Ghanaian premier forum Okyeame and Ghanaweb’s SIL in its early years in the ‘90s, covering the pre-colonial era to the present. This is therefore just a trip down memory lane.
If you know the facts and you are indeed an honest person, you cannot fault some Ewes for finally responding to decades, nay centuries, of abuse, both physical and verbal, against them by people from the Akan stock in particular. The historical records are there for all to review. I need to unpack my archives to deal exhaustively with this claim again but that's too much to handle now. Just a bit from Sandra Greene's and Dennis Austen’s books will do for now.
I have never seen the cleavage as an Asante/Ewe one, even though some Asantes and Ewes seem to be at the core of the squabble on both sides. Fact is, just as some of the choicest anti-Asante insults come from say Gas, Brongs and Fantis, some of the most virulent anti-Ewe diatribes come from non-Asantes, be they from B/A, E/R, C/R or W/R. They all share a commonality of belonging to the Matemeho tradition which coalesced under the Progress Party and sowed the seed of ethnic chauvinism and divisionism in Ghana; a fact captured in Dennis Austin' book “Ghana Observed.” With what he knew, he still marvelled at the highly inflammatory anti-Ewe rhetoric of the PP's campaign - the origin of the Ewes-are-dominating-us-mantra we still hear today on Ghanaweb in particular. So Austin observed in 1969:
“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 departments 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.
Of course, this apprehension of Ewe dominance, induced by already held pre-colonial and colonial prejudices against them, led to the sacking of mostly Ewes in the infamous Apollo 585 and the celebrated Sallah cases which exposed Busia as not a true believer in the rule of law principles with his infamous shouts of “No court! No court!….”
Prior to WW1, the Ewes were a very divided lot and didn't see themselves as same people. In fact, “enemies” is best word to describe the relationship amongst some Ewe states. Sandra Greene, writing about how the Anlos in particular started to view other Ewes as kindred folk, or in popular parlance, nyebros, wrote:
"Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbors may have also been enhanced by the experiences many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War 1, 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 new locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they came 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 (1969) indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers and ritual murderers."11. The social tensions that accompanied these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlos' awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with other Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast" (Sandra Greene 1995: 148).
The same kind of negative beliefs not based on facts were spread throughout where Ewes settled and became successful, from often arriving as "poor" migrant labourers and farm hands. Of course, there were the educated and resourceful Ewes too whose dedication and loyalty to duty ensured that Ewes became the preferred choice of employees not only in the foreign merchant houses but in the colonial administration too in the big towns. The typical rural Akan, upon gaining some education and moving to the city to look for white collar job, is often surprised to see that Ewes were already employed in such positions. How? They often wonder, just as a mate in Legon who thought I was an Akan asked while we were all waiting in queue at the Infirmary under the Cafetaria to see that white lady doctor in 1978 or so.
Jealousy and unfounded suspicions, as put by even foreign observers, derived from ancient prejudices against Ewes some see as weak, divided and unorganised people their ancestors could raid for captives, people who were mere labourers on their fathers’ farms, or struggling fisherfolk are at the root of the anti-Ewe diatribe, to which some of us had said enough is enough!
More later.
Andy-K
Pelicles 11 years ago
You know where you are coming from and where you will end. I have said on many occasion that you are a bigot and if I were you, the best I will do is to advice my folks who have spread far and wide away from the Volta Region ... read full comment
You know where you are coming from and where you will end. I have said on many occasion that you are a bigot and if I were you, the best I will do is to advice my folks who have spread far and wide away from the Volta Region, to go back because they are being watched and sooner than later, they will be annihilated.
Who burnt, destroyed and looted the chief palace at Hohoe or whatever recently?
I can bet you to travel across the country and go into the hinterland and see how your folks are living peacefully with other tribes. They care about where the next meal will come from and nothing else. At the end of the day, the educated Ghanaian, who is supposed to know better will rather, ruffled the feathers or poked the eyes of the dead trying vainly to see a ghost like you.
Go to Kumasi, Adawso and other places, where Ewes have been living for years and advice them to leave. Trust me, the most evil and demonic creatures in Ghana are the educated ones not the uneducated. The later are always minding their business and nothing else. Peace.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Indeed, I know where I am coming from and where I am going! But cos I write against bigots doesn't make me one since cos I stepped into the mud pit to rub the faces into the mud. sure, some mud get stuck to me too bu the diff ... read full comment
Indeed, I know where I am coming from and where I am going! But cos I write against bigots doesn't make me one since cos I stepped into the mud pit to rub the faces into the mud. sure, some mud get stuck to me too bu the difference between the pigs and the farmer is always clear, except to the profoundly inebriated observer!
Yes, I agree with you 100% that it is the miseducated Africans that are in the forefront of the rise of tribalism after the post-indpendent era. So Ian Wallerstein, writing in 1972 or so on the rise of the phenomenon in Zambia in the late 1960s wrote that it was the educated young ones who returned from school and started pointing out that these and that are not our people and they got these and those posts at our detriment. Before, he noted, Africans used to raid other tribes, captured and assimilated those very same people into their own tribes, performing rituals on them which forbade the revelation of their true origins to even their own children!
I had made those journeys into Akan territory already and had said so many times before. I did my National Service at Akyem Swedru and so know those parts quite well. It was amazing to discover some Ewes living deep in the bush at Otwereso Camp or so when my adventures took me there. I was then under the impression that I was the first Ewe travelling there!
Then, I've collected data at Cape Coast, Shama, Elmina and been to Sekondi-Takoradi, Jacobu and Nyinhain, last two in the Ash/R. For several years, a senior sister was the Head of the AG's Office in Kumasi and I've got loads of relatives there who have made Kumasi their home for decades. An auntie was Mrs Odamtten (nee Kwawukume), whose midwifery gave birth to many Asantes. The only house a cousin who was not even born there was building when he died at the tender age of 48 is in Kumasi. His Asante wife is now in control of that building. We don't have a Wofa system, you know? Hmm! That may be one reason the Asante ladies dig us so much. I never failed to score in my heady days!:-) Phew!
So in short, I am not after those poor and innocent Akans or Asantes, whatever, but the miseducated ones among them who started all this tribalism nonsense by attacking Ewes. The records speak for themselves. Don't they? Just posted what some foreign observers of Ghana wrote, so don't take my words for it; do your own soul-searching or research if you don't know. I've done both and you are only benefiting from those efforts!
Andy-K
LARYEAH 11 years ago
ALL TOGOLESE TROKOSI ARE LAZY,CROOKS DOMICILING FREELY IN GHANA COUNTING ON GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS, BUT WISHING FOR GHANA'S DOWNFALL.
ALL TOGOLESE TROKOSI ARE LAZY,CROOKS DOMICILING FREELY IN GHANA COUNTING ON GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS, BUT WISHING FOR GHANA'S DOWNFALL.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
LARYEAH, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THESE DAYS? BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU. JUST TO REMIND YOU THAT YOUR STOCK ARE STILL BUSY CARRYING TROKOSI SHIT IN LOME AND COTONOU. YOUR WOMEN, SOME AS OLD AS 70 YEARS WITH GREY PARTICLES OF BEARDS ... read full comment
LARYEAH, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THESE DAYS? BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU. JUST TO REMIND YOU THAT YOUR STOCK ARE STILL BUSY CARRYING TROKOSI SHIT IN LOME AND COTONOU. YOUR WOMEN, SOME AS OLD AS 70 YEARS WITH GREY PARTICLES OF BEARDS, ARE DOING PROSTITUTION IN LOME AND COTONOU. JUST CHECK IT OUT HOTEL ROYALE IN LOME AND DANTOKPASIME IN COTONOU. PLEASE BRING THEM HOME.
LARYEAH 11 years ago
HEY MY GOOD BROTHER, I DEY! KWAME KPODO NEED TO CONTACT YOU. CERTAINLY THE GOOD MUST THRIVE OVER THE EVIL POLITICIANS.
HEY MY GOOD BROTHER, I DEY! KWAME KPODO NEED TO CONTACT YOU. CERTAINLY THE GOOD MUST THRIVE OVER THE EVIL POLITICIANS.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
Man Andy-K, the foreign observers have said it all from the prism of objectivity. Those who claim Ghana as their property can say everything bad about the Ewes. But we gave them their national anthem. What else again?
Man Andy-K, the foreign observers have said it all from the prism of objectivity. Those who claim Ghana as their property can say everything bad about the Ewes. But we gave them their national anthem. What else again?
Steve 11 years ago
Hehehe. Why? Bcos Ewe men are habitually lazy, irresponsible akpeteshie drinkers whereas Ashanti men are hardworking , enterprising, resourceful, always seeking to bring good to the society. Ewes are always seething with envy ... read full comment
Hehehe. Why? Bcos Ewe men are habitually lazy, irresponsible akpeteshie drinkers whereas Ashanti men are hardworking , enterprising, resourceful, always seeking to bring good to the society. Ewes are always seething with envy, always wanting to destroy. No wonder their towns lack development.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
Swine, say that to your stupid grandfather who raped giant she apes in your forests.
Swine, say that to your stupid grandfather who raped giant she apes in your forests.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Xebioso, we gave Ghana more than the National Anthem and are still giving. In fact, I can't start counting as it is impossible to list all. But let me just say tilapia and akple (banku) is now reining as the national champion ... read full comment
Xebioso, we gave Ghana more than the National Anthem and are still giving. In fact, I can't start counting as it is impossible to list all. But let me just say tilapia and akple (banku) is now reining as the national champion in Ghanaian dishes. Even here in London, that's what Nigerians talk about! But at £12 minimum per plate, I prefer to make my own at home. Hmm! Just finished the weekend round, hence this nostalgia.:-)
Andy-K
LARYEAH 11 years ago
XEBIESO, THIS ANDY-K IS NOT A GHANAIAN BUT A TOGOLESE TROKOSI FROM THE SOUTHERN BELT OF TOGO LAND. WHILST THEY CHASED YOU OUT OF TOGO, WE GAS AND THE ASANTES ACCEPTED YOUR FOREFATHERS FROM TOGO AND FED YOU.
XEBIESO, THIS ANDY-K IS NOT A GHANAIAN BUT A TOGOLESE TROKOSI FROM THE SOUTHERN BELT OF TOGO LAND. WHILST THEY CHASED YOU OUT OF TOGO, WE GAS AND THE ASANTES ACCEPTED YOUR FOREFATHERS FROM TOGO AND FED YOU.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Time waster! Stop your moronic postings.
Andy-K
Time waster! Stop your moronic postings.
Andy-K
LARYEAH 11 years ago
ANDY-K THE LAZY TROKOSI MAN, GO BACK TO TOGO. YOU CAT-EATER!! FOOL!!!
ANDY-K THE LAZY TROKOSI MAN, GO BACK TO TOGO. YOU CAT-EATER!! FOOL!!!
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Time waster! Why don't you drop the Ga moniker and use one from your Akanland? You are embarrassing my Ga friends.
BTW, go on youtube and see how Homowo is celebrated in Togo by the Ga descents there.
Andy-K
Time waster! Why don't you drop the Ga moniker and use one from your Akanland? You are embarrassing my Ga friends.
BTW, go on youtube and see how Homowo is celebrated in Togo by the Ga descents there.
Andy-K
WOYOME 11 years ago
EWES ARE THIEVES:
EWES ARE THIEVES:
OSEI ASSIBEY-UNI OF PHOENIX-USA 11 years ago
Listen to self, no Ashanti I know would ever insult his or her own tribe, let alone disgrace self to a foreigner ! Ask me why?
We may be boastful sometimes when being nutty because of our rich land- (gold) and rich cultur ... read full comment
Listen to self, no Ashanti I know would ever insult his or her own tribe, let alone disgrace self to a foreigner ! Ask me why?
We may be boastful sometimes when being nutty because of our rich land- (gold) and rich culture but remains one of the resourceful, hard-working and ingenious tribes in Ghana, and I say this with no qualms and from the bottom of my heart!
I really don't have to say this because I am all for peace in Ghana. But to those who hate Ashantis, open your ears and open it widely, we really do not care because if you touch us, we will hunt you down! if you think am lying, read our history.
CROSS 11 years ago
Please don't repeat Sangaparee's mistakes by also calling him tribal names even if you disagree with him. In my humble view, anyone who denigrates another tribe other than their own is shallow in mind and at worse sick and ne ... read full comment
Please don't repeat Sangaparee's mistakes by also calling him tribal names even if you disagree with him. In my humble view, anyone who denigrates another tribe other than their own is shallow in mind and at worse sick and needs social and medical help and that includes the author of this article.
insight to the bone 11 years ago
pepeni can not be trusted period , in this world today when Muslims and their undercover agents disguised as Christians have the agenda to destroy all virtues and values we uphold we must be vigilant and not be deceived. Bost ... read full comment
pepeni can not be trusted period , in this world today when Muslims and their undercover agents disguised as Christians have the agenda to destroy all virtues and values we uphold we must be vigilant and not be deceived. Boston paid the price already and here in Ghana we see the inflation of northerners across all parties following the instructions of their imams and religious leaders to seize control of the country to undermine and destroy the Akans, for which pepeni found allies with ewes and gas who have the same agenda and motives. look at akuffo addo the bofrot of a fool who took as his vice bawumia who could even bring him a single vote from the north and even whose mother campaigned against him . see general mosquito the court jester of a goat serving this regime that will annihilate his own people one day. these are serious times for those who can look at the ugly truth in the face and tell these devils to get lost. our people get poorer by the day despite the wealth we sit on , no water and electricity , every week one shortage or another of basic goods and services yet their propaganda machinery tell us all is well and normal . every office and institution of govt is in the vice grip of corruption as they make sure only selfish greedy bastards control them, no jobs or development as kotoka and rawlings the ewes saw to that now pepeni will finish the job of putting the final nails in the coffin of the Akans but we have the medicine for him. we shall most surely be free sooner or later from this devil, long live the republic of Akan
Atia 11 years ago
The ewes started the tribalism in Ghana,
Kotoka dispatch three tonners bedfords trucks to carter fisher men from the Volta region and into the army.
Rawlings started with Arnold quinoo the coward who was lying under his bed ... read full comment
The ewes started the tribalism in Ghana,
Kotoka dispatch three tonners bedfords trucks to carter fisher men from the Volta region and into the army.
Rawlings started with Arnold quinoo the coward who was lying under his bed during the heat of the revolution and later under tables in Leberia when he should be defending a head of state Samuel canyon doe.
This buffallo coward started dismising all northen and akan officers during Rawling time, were were you at the time when sousoudis an evwe spy was used to exchange 7 Ghanaians good citizens.Were were you when the kofi Awonor stated that, the Revolution was for the ewes to demonstrate their superiority over the other tribes,
were were you when your own brother sgt alidu zinata was been shot by sgt omega with the bleesings from Rawlings.
When shall we the northerneers stop singing our masa yes sir praise!
Kojo Opoku-London 11 years ago
PLEASE EWES BETRAYED DR KWAME NKRUMAH WHO EDUCATED AND PRMOTED KOTOKA. 28 YEARS OF EWE DOMINATED PNDC/NDC PERSECUTING ASHANTIS AND AKANS. DR NKRUMAH ALLOWED EWES TO BECOME PART OF MODERN GHANA AND EWES STARTED COUP DETAT. EWE ... read full comment
PLEASE EWES BETRAYED DR KWAME NKRUMAH WHO EDUCATED AND PRMOTED KOTOKA. 28 YEARS OF EWE DOMINATED PNDC/NDC PERSECUTING ASHANTIS AND AKANS. DR NKRUMAH ALLOWED EWES TO BECOME PART OF MODERN GHANA AND EWES STARTED COUP DETAT. EWES ARE FROM TOGO NOT PART OF BRITISH GOLD COAST-SECEDE EWES
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago
A Lion was walking through the jungle and met a Zebra. "Do you know who the king of the jungle is?" he asked the Zebra. "You are the king of the jungle," replied the Zebra.
The Lion kept walking and came upon a Gorilla. The ... read full comment
A Lion was walking through the jungle and met a Zebra. "Do you know who the king of the jungle is?" he asked the Zebra. "You are the king of the jungle," replied the Zebra.
The Lion kept walking and came upon a Gorilla. The Lion roared and said, "Gorilla, do you know who the king of the jungle is?" The Gorilla said, "Lion, you are the king of the jungle."
Next the Lion met an Elephant. He asked the Elephant if he knew who the king of the jungle was. Without ado, the Elephant reached down with his trunk, grabbed the Lion by the tail, and slammed him up against the nearest tree.
The Lion, dazed, got to his feet and said, "Geez, you don't have to get mad just because you didn't know the answer.
Kwaku 11 years ago
The Asante-Akyems will soon be on their knees enough with these people.
The Asante-Akyems will soon be on their knees enough with these people.
GHAZI 11 years ago
Kuffour will never die, but will live to repay all his atrocities exercise against God loving people. I am will to donate blood to keep Kuffour alive to repay all his evil presidency. God will definitely punish him. Rawlings ... read full comment
Kuffour will never die, but will live to repay all his atrocities exercise against God loving people. I am will to donate blood to keep Kuffour alive to repay all his evil presidency. God will definitely punish him. Rawlings was a redeemer, just that his greedy ashanti wife tarnished his image. All the other tribes in NPP are fools, especially Jake Obetsebi. What an idiot
SYDNEY 11 years ago
GHAZI, UR STUPIDITY IS TO BLAME FOR UR POVERTY..WHEN NDC STOLE MONIES FOR WOYOME AND CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS, IN WHAT WAY DID IT BENEFIT TROKOSIS AND KAYAYEIS?.....AND YET U VOTED FOR NDC TO STAY IN POWER AND BLAME KUFFUOR..... ... read full comment
GHAZI, UR STUPIDITY IS TO BLAME FOR UR POVERTY..WHEN NDC STOLE MONIES FOR WOYOME AND CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS, IN WHAT WAY DID IT BENEFIT TROKOSIS AND KAYAYEIS?.....AND YET U VOTED FOR NDC TO STAY IN POWER AND BLAME KUFFUOR......FOOLISH MAN IF KUFFUOR HAD NOT STRUCK OIL IN COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES HOW COULD U AND UR NDC HAVE MANAGED TO RULE GHANA WITH UR LACK OF IDEAS AND COMMON SENSE ABOUT GOVERNANCE.....FOOLS, GREEDY IDE BII KEKE..
Bigbone 11 years ago
IT'S ONLY U AYIGBE AND NTAFOUR FOOLS WHO WOULD CHOOSE "EDEY BE K3K3" OVER FREE EDUCATION...NO WONDER U PPL ARE WALLOWING IN POVERTY...SERVES U RIGHT...
IT'S ONLY U AYIGBE AND NTAFOUR FOOLS WHO WOULD CHOOSE "EDEY BE K3K3" OVER FREE EDUCATION...NO WONDER U PPL ARE WALLOWING IN POVERTY...SERVES U RIGHT...
Pumpuni 11 years ago
"...TRIBAL TIME BOMB will explode in our faces one bloody day..."
And where will you run to, on that day?
Adansi Obuasi has been your home for all of your adult life. If Akans have not treated you well, you still have the l ... read full comment
"...TRIBAL TIME BOMB will explode in our faces one bloody day..."
And where will you run to, on that day?
Adansi Obuasi has been your home for all of your adult life. If Akans have not treated you well, you still have the liberty to relocate, don't you? "Boni aye" bastard!!!
SYDNEY 11 years ago
THIS STUPID FOOL CALLED CLEMENT SANGAPAREE SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH KAYAYEIS POVERTY AND TROKOSIS POVERTY IN THE NORTH AND VOLTA.....DESPITE THEIR POVERTY NDC USED BETTYMOULD AND BARTON ODURO TO LOOT GHANA THRO FAKE J-DEBTS TH ... read full comment
THIS STUPID FOOL CALLED CLEMENT SANGAPAREE SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH KAYAYEIS POVERTY AND TROKOSIS POVERTY IN THE NORTH AND VOLTA.....DESPITE THEIR POVERTY NDC USED BETTYMOULD AND BARTON ODURO TO LOOT GHANA THRO FAKE J-DEBTS THUS FURTHER IMPOVERISHING THE NORTH AND VOLTA...AND YET THIS STUPID CLEMENT SANGAPAREE KEEPS ANTIAKAN POLITICS IN HIS STUPID MIND......HE SHD GO TO THE NORTH AND ENJOY LIFE IF HE THINKS AKANS ARE SO EVIL.....FOOLISH MAN CLEMENT SANGAPAREE......BLAME UR POVERTY ON BETTYMOULD AND WOYOME AND STUPID ATTAMILLS WHO ALLOWED THE THIEVERY....ONLY MARTIN AMIDU FEELS THE POVERTY OF THE NORTH THATS WHY HE KICKED AGAINST J-DEBTS...THE REST ARE ALL FOOLISH AND GREEDY BASTARDS WHO BLAME THEIR POVERTY ON AKANS.
SYDNEY 11 years ago
SO THIS STUPID WRITER CALLED CLEMENT SANGAPAREE THINKS IT WILL BE EASY TO IDENTIFY AKYEMS AND ASHANTIS FROM THE REST OF ALL AKANS?.....STUID FOOL, ALL AKANS SHARE VERY SIMILAR NAMES AND HAVE INTERMARRIED SO MUCH THAT IT IS IM ... read full comment
SO THIS STUPID WRITER CALLED CLEMENT SANGAPAREE THINKS IT WILL BE EASY TO IDENTIFY AKYEMS AND ASHANTIS FROM THE REST OF ALL AKANS?.....STUID FOOL, ALL AKANS SHARE VERY SIMILAR NAMES AND HAVE INTERMARRIED SO MUCH THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SIFT OUT AKYEMS AND ASHANTIS FROM THE REST OF ALL AKANS...SO PLEASE GET OVER UR OWN INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND BUILD UR OWN LIFE INSTEAD OF DAILY BLAMING AKANS FOR UR LOW LIFE.....INDEED NO ASHANTI OR AKYEM OR KWAHU MAN OR AKUAMPEM MAN WILL GLADLY FIND NOTHING WRONG WITH LOOTING OUR MONEY FOR WOYOME AND CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS ETC LIKE BETTYMOULD AND BARTON ODRO DID...WHICH WAS SO WICKED TO THE POOR IN GHANA EPITOMIZED BY TROKOSIS AND KAYAYEIS....BUT IF THE EWES AND NORTHERNERS ARE OK WITH SUCH THIEVERY AND ARE IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE NDC, THEN THEY SHD KNOW THAT ANY POVERTIES THEY ARE FACING NOW IS NOT DUE TO AKANS BUT DUE TO THEIR OWN PENCHANT TO ALLOW STUPID LOOTING BY ONLY A HANDFUL OF NDC THIEVES IN THE NAME OF FAKE J-DEBTS...SO STUPID CLEMENT SANGAPAREE, PLS GET A LIFE AND STOP THIS TRIBALISM BCOS AKANS ARE NOT BOTHERED ABOUT TRIBALISM AT ALL...ALL AKANS THINK OF IS HOW TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST THRO HARD WORK BUT NOT THRO CHEATING AND LOOTING BY PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES LIKE ATTAMILLS DID AND LIKE WOYOME AND BARTON AND BETTY DID.
Gadhafi verona Italy 11 years ago
All your comment is nonsense.Arrogant ppl
All your comment is nonsense.Arrogant ppl
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
Gadhafi verona Italy 11 years ago
Kwasia man u claim U dey in USA,is USA your mothe or your father country idiot why dont you come to Ghana and enjoy your so called gold.Aboa tribalism,racism and arrogant will kill u and your akans leader.The man is trying to ... read full comment
Kwasia man u claim U dey in USA,is USA your mothe or your father country idiot why dont you come to Ghana and enjoy your so called gold.Aboa tribalism,racism and arrogant will kill u and your akans leader.The man is trying to let the cat out frm the bag,nd u are there talkin nonsense.
sam 11 years ago
What makes you think that your stinking poverty-stricken kumasi is better than sangaparee's home town? Maybe gov't work has sent him there. I worked there for a private compzny and what I saw in your stinking kumasi was abjec ... read full comment
What makes you think that your stinking poverty-stricken kumasi is better than sangaparee's home town? Maybe gov't work has sent him there. I worked there for a private compzny and what I saw in your stinking kumasi was abject poverty and 10, 12-year kids getting pregnant because of poverty.
Gadhafi verona Italy 11 years ago
What u said is 100% true even most of akan ppl were not able to take their children to school bcos of tipical poverty,na so dey go sell ice water on street.
What u said is 100% true even most of akan ppl were not able to take their children to school bcos of tipical poverty,na so dey go sell ice water on street.
Real Ghanaian 11 years ago
They have no money to send their children to school, yet Northerners get free funding right. You go figure.
They have no money to send their children to school, yet Northerners get free funding right. You go figure.
yaw, USA 11 years ago
NOW YOU ALL SEE THE PROBLEMS WE ARE HAVING IN GHANA RIGHT? KIDS GETTING PREGNANT, LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION, STINKING CITIES NOT BEING TAKEN CARE OF,DISESES AND SICKNESIS HERE AND THERE. ALL BECAUSE OF SOME GREEDY BASTARDS WHO ... read full comment
NOW YOU ALL SEE THE PROBLEMS WE ARE HAVING IN GHANA RIGHT? KIDS GETTING PREGNANT, LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION, STINKING CITIES NOT BEING TAKEN CARE OF,DISESES AND SICKNESIS HERE AND THERE. ALL BECAUSE OF SOME GREEDY BASTARDS WHO DONT CARE ABOUT THE MASSES. AS CONCERN CITIZENS LIKE YOU AND I, IS THERE ANYTHING BETTER WE CAN DO, OR ALLOW THIS MAN TO ALWAYS RIGHT SOMETHING THAT TENDS TO DIVIDE US MORE THAN UNITING US? NO MATTER WHAT WE ARE ALL GHANAIANS AND WE ARE ONE. GHANA WILL NEVER SEE WAR LIKE THE WRITER WANTS. THANKS ANYWAY FOR YOUR COMMENTS
Fredsaid 11 years ago
You appear not to understand the potential threat of inflaming passions by reading tribe, language, ethnicity into every single argument, debate about politics and economics in Ghana.
Take a look at what happened in other ... read full comment
You appear not to understand the potential threat of inflaming passions by reading tribe, language, ethnicity into every single argument, debate about politics and economics in Ghana.
Take a look at what happened in other parts of the world and learn some lessons for the future; Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and all those terrible deaths that occurred as a result of ignorance, tribalism and racism.
Nkrumah and earlier politicians gained independence for Ghana on the basis of one country, one nation and one people. It appears current commentators and politicians are behaving badly and retrogressively, in bringing into Ghana a new politics of tribalism, divide and rule or not and possible development which might lead to tribal war.
We should stop this nonsense and address issues that we all have in common; medical care, unemployment, education, housing, prices, water, electricity, the well being of everyone in this country and not just a particular tribe or two.
If you guys carry on like this with tribal and racial insults in every subject you will be preparing the grounds for something you will not be able to control and set this country back so many years
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
Asante 11 years ago
He had sex with your sister yesterday and stop collecting toilet and washing plates like a maidservant in Ghana and come for the naming ceremony. Should the baby be a boy, I bet the name would be Yaw Dagati. Bye
He had sex with your sister yesterday and stop collecting toilet and washing plates like a maidservant in Ghana and come for the naming ceremony. Should the baby be a boy, I bet the name would be Yaw Dagati. Bye
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
Fredsaid 11 years ago
You appear not to understand the potential threat of inflaming passions by reading tribe, language, ethnicity into every single argument, debate about politics and economics in Ghana.
Take a look at what happened in other ... read full comment
You appear not to understand the potential threat of inflaming passions by reading tribe, language, ethnicity into every single argument, debate about politics and economics in Ghana.
Take a look at what happened in other parts of the world and learn some lessons for the future; Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia and all those terrible deaths that occurred as a result of ignorance, tribalism and racism.
Nkrumah and earlier politicians gained independence for Ghana on the basis of one country, one nation and one people. It appears current commentators and politicians are behaving badly and retrogressively, in bringing into Ghana a new politics of tribalism, divide and rule or not and possible development which might lead to tribal war.
We should stop this nonsense and address issues that we all have in common; medical care, unemployment, education, housing, prices, water, electricity, the well being of everyone in this country and not just a particular tribe or two.
If you guys carry on like this with tribal and racial insults in every subject you will be preparing the grounds for something you will not be able to control and set this country back so many years
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
yaw, USA 11 years ago
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Or, you don't think he is the fool, in the light of what you had read so far?
Then you are a fool too! Go read the things I've posted, soul-search and advise yourself, thou ignorant and foolish person. Quick! quick! Go and e ... read full comment
Or, you don't think he is the fool, in the light of what you had read so far?
Then you are a fool too! Go read the things I've posted, soul-search and advise yourself, thou ignorant and foolish person. Quick! quick! Go and enlighten yourself!
Andy-K
WAR VETERAN 11 years ago
YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT. CHECKING THROUGH THE LIST, I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO LOCATE ONE EWE IN COMMAND POSITION OF THE GAF OR THE POLICE SERVICE. WHAT A SHAME OF KUFUOR AND NANA AKUFO-ADDO. DO YOU THINK GHANAIANS ARE FOOLS TO VO ... read full comment
YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT. CHECKING THROUGH THE LIST, I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO LOCATE ONE EWE IN COMMAND POSITION OF THE GAF OR THE POLICE SERVICE. WHAT A SHAME OF KUFUOR AND NANA AKUFO-ADDO. DO YOU THINK GHANAIANS ARE FOOLS TO VOTE FOR A PARTY THAT IS RATHER 'INWARD LOOKING' THAN THE VOLTARIANS THEMSELVES. CHANGE YOUR STRATEGY BUT YET YOU WILL LOSE ANY ELECTIONS CONDUCTED IN GHANA,
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
The solution to all this rubbish is for those who claim Ghana as their property to excise the Ewes from their Ghana, or the Ewes excise themselves peacefully from Ghana. The so-called "real Ghanaians" would then see whether t ... read full comment
The solution to all this rubbish is for those who claim Ghana as their property to excise the Ewes from their Ghana, or the Ewes excise themselves peacefully from Ghana. The so-called "real Ghanaians" would then see whether the poor and wretched Volta Region could survive in poverty.
abe 11 years ago
Thanks for the truth. 100%. Sometimes the truth hurts but u r a hundred percent right.
Thanks for the truth. 100%. Sometimes the truth hurts but u r a hundred percent right.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
Thanks abe. All Ewes should give serious thought to this idea of excision by them or us.
Thanks abe. All Ewes should give serious thought to this idea of excision by them or us.
LARYEAH 11 years ago
XEBIESO, THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION AT ALL. DO YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU WHY?
XEBIESO, THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION AT ALL. DO YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU WHY?
Real Ghanaian 11 years ago
Believe me your desire for secession can be easily achieved by drumming it in your ayigbe kinsmen. I say you people should present it for voting in parliament, and see the number of people who will be happy to see you go.
Believe me your desire for secession can be easily achieved by drumming it in your ayigbe kinsmen. I say you people should present it for voting in parliament, and see the number of people who will be happy to see you go.
Bonso 11 years ago
THANK YOU AND GOOD NITE, AWONAMAN...YOU CAN EVEN TAKE THE OIL DISCOVERED BY THE VOLTA WITH YOU TO NOTSIE FOR YOUR WAHALA APLENTY, ANLOGAMAN...EWEDOM!
THANK YOU AND GOOD NITE, AWONAMAN...YOU CAN EVEN TAKE THE OIL DISCOVERED BY THE VOLTA WITH YOU TO NOTSIE FOR YOUR WAHALA APLENTY, ANLOGAMAN...EWEDOM!
JAMES, 11 years ago
God will punish you for writing this,do you think we will sit down for mahama and his stupid N.D.C to destroy ghana NO way.mahamas presidency will soon come to an end.idiot
God will punish you for writing this,do you think we will sit down for mahama and his stupid N.D.C to destroy ghana NO way.mahamas presidency will soon come to an end.idiot
Kwaku 11 years ago
You don't know yourself
You don't know yourself
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
And the DEVIL will punish you and your family. Swine.
And the DEVIL will punish you and your family. Swine.
Kwaku 11 years ago
As for this Ashanti-Akyem politicians they don't know what is in store for them. Look my brother, Rwanda is progressing today after the civil disturbances. Tell those Ashanti-Akyems that the other tribes in Ghana are ready fo ... read full comment
As for this Ashanti-Akyem politicians they don't know what is in store for them. Look my brother, Rwanda is progressing today after the civil disturbances. Tell those Ashanti-Akyems that the other tribes in Ghana are ready for them. Ghana is on a time bomb it is just a matter of time and it will explode.
Bigbone 11 years ago
Kwasiampani bi ba, where did u get da name kwaku from, if u admire sambody go ahead n tell 'em...proud ASANTE ...WE ARE THE BEST....ANYWAY U CAN GO N LIVE IN RWANDA after all u probably an ayibge or tani n situations in ur ho ... read full comment
Kwasiampani bi ba, where did u get da name kwaku from, if u admire sambody go ahead n tell 'em...proud ASANTE ...WE ARE THE BEST....ANYWAY U CAN GO N LIVE IN RWANDA after all u probably an ayibge or tani n situations in ur homelands don't differ much from what's happening in Rwanda...STUPID FOOL...
Bigbone 11 years ago
You shouldn't entertain such stupidity on this platform....this is
pure exhibition of ignorance...nkwasias3m k3k3!!!!!!!!
You shouldn't entertain such stupidity on this platform....this is
pure exhibition of ignorance...nkwasias3m k3k3!!!!!!!!
SHIFFMAN4REAL 11 years ago
WHY ARE YOU IN THE NDC SO TRIBALISTIC? YOU ARE INDEED FOOLS BY ALL STANDARDS.
WHY ARE YOU IN THE NDC SO TRIBALISTIC? YOU ARE INDEED FOOLS BY ALL STANDARDS.
Kofi mensah 11 years ago
What has A shantis done to you people? Is it a shear envyness or what? Where else in this country can you enjoy peaceful co-existence than Ashanti Region? Ashantis are not afraid of any tribe and if non entity like you want ... read full comment
What has A shantis done to you people? Is it a shear envyness or what? Where else in this country can you enjoy peaceful co-existence than Ashanti Region? Ashantis are not afraid of any tribe and if non entity like you want to wage war against us,then we are also ready.... Nonsense
Asante 11 years ago
Kofi, I share your sentiments and donot forget that for centuries now the Ashantis have not gone to war. The other tribes have been waging wars most often and as the saying goes practice make perfect. Don't forget also that t ... read full comment
Kofi, I share your sentiments and donot forget that for centuries now the Ashantis have not gone to war. The other tribes have been waging wars most often and as the saying goes practice make perfect. Don't forget also that the long history of Asante invasion is still fresh in the memories. I was told that was the under current of the fight between the Dagaomba and the Konkombas. We should therefore discourage war as much as possible.
AKWERTEY 11 years ago
SEE MY COMMENTS AT THE TOP
SEE MY COMMENTS AT THE TOP
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
See my comments above too! Yours is a load of cow dung! Good as fertiliser for those of us who are farmers of ideas and shrinks though. The shit you dispense liberally helps us to diagnose your mental state of well-being. You ... read full comment
See my comments above too! Yours is a load of cow dung! Good as fertiliser for those of us who are farmers of ideas and shrinks though. The shit you dispense liberally helps us to diagnose your mental state of well-being. You really loved that Ga girl you didn't get.:-)
Andy-K
ERICUS-ERICUS 11 years ago
WHOEVER THINKS TRIBAL POLITICS WILL EARN HIM ANY POLITICAL ADVANTAGE IS JOKING - THIS WHOLOE ARTICLE ABOUT "The Asante/Akyem Politicians Verses The Other Tribes In Ghana" IS STUPIDITY & NONSENSE THAT MUST NOT BE ENTERTAINED.
WHOEVER THINKS TRIBAL POLITICS WILL EARN HIM ANY POLITICAL ADVANTAGE IS JOKING - THIS WHOLOE ARTICLE ABOUT "The Asante/Akyem Politicians Verses The Other Tribes In Ghana" IS STUPIDITY & NONSENSE THAT MUST NOT BE ENTERTAINED.
Steve 11 years ago
Very true
Very true
Akosua Tabuwaa 11 years ago
When we Asantes are in trouble we call upon all Akans and say we are blood.When the Ashanti Confederacy refused to join the Gold Coast and wanted to form a country of our own 'Yate ye ho' we did not call on the Akans to join ... read full comment
When we Asantes are in trouble we call upon all Akans and say we are blood.When the Ashanti Confederacy refused to join the Gold Coast and wanted to form a country of our own 'Yate ye ho' we did not call on the Akans to join us.Akans are not all the same but we are all Ganaianas like others.We call the Ewes No.9 because they were the last region to join Ghana.What about about the Ashantis?We were the last but one to be forced to abandon our 'Yate ye ho' to join the country.
Dorothy Clottey. from the heart of Ac 11 years ago
When an Asante in trouble he or she call himself AKAN but when something good he called himself an ASANTE, Asantes value the dead more than the living being , My advise to u all is to ignore them and continue with our life.
When an Asante in trouble he or she call himself AKAN but when something good he called himself an ASANTE, Asantes value the dead more than the living being , My advise to u all is to ignore them and continue with our life.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Akosua,
Ewes are not called No. 9 because their region was the last to join Ghana! The VR got the tag No. 9 because the contestant No.9 from the newly created VR won the Ghana independence Beauty Pageant! Regions in Ghana ... read full comment
Akosua,
Ewes are not called No. 9 because their region was the last to join Ghana! The VR got the tag No. 9 because the contestant No.9 from the newly created VR won the Ghana independence Beauty Pageant! Regions in Ghana by 1957 were not up to 9 in number, btw.
And btw, not all Ewes were in the TVT. Much of Eweland, from Peki, thru Tongu to the coastal Anlo area, was already part of the Gold Coast colony before Asante became a Protectorate in 1900, and part of the Gold Coast Colony in 1946 under the Burns Const.
Much of the nonsense we get on Ghanaweb is due to the vulgar ignorance about our history, geography and political economy of Ghana, since the pre-colonial times.
Andy-K
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
HOW SOME “EWES” BECOME PART OF PRESENT GHANA
To say that one is sick and tired of reading ignorant utterances about how “Ewes” were given the chance to join Ghana by Nkrumah from patently jaundiced and bloody-minde ... read full comment
HOW SOME “EWES” BECOME PART OF PRESENT GHANA
To say that one is sick and tired of reading ignorant utterances about how “Ewes” were given the chance to join Ghana by Nkrumah from patently jaundiced and bloody-minded, ignorant fellow Ghanaians is a big understatement. I have therefore put together a concise history of how some “Ewes” became part of Ghana for all readers.
I am under no illusion whatsoever that this brief piece will stop the bozos who indulge in this kind of display of ignorance from doing so even after reading this; not only because of the scientifically recognised fact that awareness and knowledge of adverse causes and better practices do not necessarily stop continuation of adverse behavioural practices nor adoption of best practises, but also because the putrid and rotting worm-wood from which they emerge from, that is, our educational system, continues to churn out similarly ignorant and foolish elements on an annual basis. The problem must therefore be addressed at source.
Steeped in the foregoing knowledge, I have carved for myself a monstrous-looking spikes studded club to deal with any such miscreants who might be provoked by this article to begin their ethnic cleansing of the much vilified “Ewes” from Ghana to Togo.
I would not bother myself now and again with a recount of how the groups of linguistically and culturally different peoples who now comprise the ethnic group known to many as “Ewes”, but which linguists now have tagged the “Gbe” people, migrated and settled within the borders of Togo and present Ghana up to seven hundred years ago, as Ghana came into being on 6 March 1956, and that is where my story begins.
After all, it was Gbedemah, an “Ewe,” and the leader of the Committee for Youth Organisation (CYO), who was asked to replace him (Nkrumah) as General Secretary of the UGCC, who convinced him to leave the UGCC and gave him the chance to lead the CPP which was being formed by elements within the CYO; and who again gave him his Accra seat and led the campaign for the CPP and Nkrumah to win while in prison to become Leader of Government Business. Gbedema himself went to stand for the Keta seat. If Gbedema had not done that, he would have become the first Leader of Government Business, not Nkrumah; so Gbedema, an “Ewe,” gave Nkrumah the chance in more ways than what I have referred to in the foregoing to become leader of independent Ghana.
Nkrumah, of course, a chief in his own right in Nzema, got his first ceremonial chieftaincy title in Anloga, when he came on his Thank You visit, for the valiant roles Ewes played in the election victory of the CPP. That was before everything turned sore and Anloga led the revolt against the CPP in 1953 for breach of election promises not to enforce the much hated poll tax and not properly dealing with grievances about the cutting of swollen shoot diseased cocoa trees and failing to increase cocoa prices when the world price was hitting the roof, thanks to the Korean War. The decision not to increase cocoa prices paid to farmers was due to the infamous “anchor of safety” (it created the large reserve on attainment of independence, btw) and stemming inflation advice he, Nkrumah, accepted from the West Indian Nobel Laureate Sir Arthur Lewis. Some Anlo elite were also major cocoa farm owners in the TVT and elsewhere. The riots that started in Anloga and spread to the rest of the country were well documented by Dennis Austen in his seminal book on Ghana, so check it, if you want to be properly informed. Those events had deep impacts on the Anlo elite and eventually led to the coup of 1966 spearheaded by some Anlo officers in the Police and Army.
Those of you who like to criticise Kofi Awoonor for what he wrote in his book “The Ghana Revolution” should also look up his book specially devoted to Asantes and Ewes to read what he said about how they escaped from Anloga across the Volta to Ada Foah when the “Buga Buga War” started. I bet you never heard of that war before, eh?
So, nobody gave Ewes the chance to join Ghana in 1957, as some Ewe stalwarts led in the fight to create modern Ghana. Left to some Ewes though, they'd have seceded from the Gold Coast, to which they were lampooned by the British many decades earlier and had become fed up with because of the nascent demonization and vilification started by the forebears of today's Ghanaweb jaded jingoists. I had already partially dealt with that in an earlier article.
Moreso, the coastal areas from Anlo, through Tongu up to Peki and Awudome, part of the Eastern Province of the Gold Coast, were even indeed declared part of the British sphere of influence way back in 1850, 6 yrs after the signing of the Bond of 1844 with the Fantes. The British “bought” in 1850 the area from the Danes who were forced to leave the Gold Coast after they were defeated with Napolean at Waterloo. Interesting to note that Norway, then under Danish control for over 400 years, was also passed over to the Swedes, allies of Britain at Waterloo.
The area was declared part of the Gold Coast proper in 1876 or so. Before that, the Anlos had sued for peace with the British at the close of the Glover War and a Peace Treaty was signed at Dzelukope after the Sagrenti War of 1874. I have a sketch of that historical event which appeared in the UK Graphic of Oct, 10 1874, which I am attaching to this article, as it is a historical relic of interest to many. You’d see sitting with a King Adjaba of Awoonah, War Captain “Cocoomay” and Chief Asantee Ambassador “Okobim Paba” addressing them and you’d know where yours truly comes from. Our ancestors played their roles on the battle fields and on the high table when the Gold Coast and its history were being carved, so before you open your mouth against us, ask yourself who born you? The Ga kings Tackie from Accra and Solomon from James Town were also there, among others.
In fact, those wars were fought due to events which occurred in northern Eweland (precisely at Ho), when Asante slave raiders kidnapped and took the missionaries there too to Kumasi as hostages for ransom. Of course, not only the missionaries were taken, as even some who helped the Asantes soon found themselves as captives at Kontsiabu instead of the promised gold dusts but that is another story altogether I had recounted elsewhere and is due for recounting soon. With the decisive defeat of Asante and her steadfast Anlo ally, that Ewe area known in the annals as “Krepi” through Buem, Dagbon in N/R to present Upper East, which later on became known as the TVT, became a British Protectorate until after the Berlin Conference when Queen Victoria gave it as a birth day present to her German cousin, who famously wanted a "place in the sun" in 1884. The Germans already had a small trip of Togoland. So the TVT was even under British sphere of influence for some years before being given to the Germans.
In 1915, at the start of WWI, the British took back the area and much of German Togoland (the French took the eastern part) with the help of troops raised by Torgbui Sri II, for which he was awarded the KMAC and sword of honour, and inducted into the LegCo in 1916 with Nana Ofori Attah of Akyem Abuakwa. After WWI, despite the campaign by the natives to unite the whole of Togoland to the Gold Coast, the British kept what they gave to the Germans in 1884 (TVT) and gave the rest - what the Germans had before - to the French, thus forming present Republic of Togo. Of course, the records show that it was Torgbui Sri II who was the first to call for the unification of Togo to the Gold Coast way back in 1915. By the end of the war, it was fully embraced by some native leaders of German Togoland, some of whose leaders sent a letter to the colonial government of the Gold Coast which curiously stated inter alia:
“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...” (“December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine, culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)
I have always wondered why no mention of being “Ewes” was made by the supplicants. Of course, conspicuously absent too were names of many others such as Dagombas, Konkombas, Dagbons, Akans, Kabres, Mamprusis, Frafras, Nkonyas, etc., etc., who also have the TVT and Togo as their homeland at the time too. That was not an auspicious beginning for their objective, being what they were: descendants of fugitives who have settled amongst the original Ewe speakers!
Anyway, how those claiming to be Gas and Anes (Anyis) in Togo got there is quite another story I had re-told a number of times but I’d like the Akwamus and Asantes, former allies of we Anlos, to tell us their versions respectively. And to those ignorant and jaded MPs of the NPP who went to Lome to look for the roots of Fiifi Kwetey, who of course, claimed to be from Nogokpo in the Klikor area, and thereby rubbing a sore spot in my memory, next time they should begin the search in Ayawaso so that I am not reminded of Dzenunyegbodzi and the treacheries of Klikor!
How that desire for a union with the Gold Coast turned into the drive for secession is quite another story I had already touched upon in a previous article. In any case, the plebiscite of 1956 was to determine whether TVT, a UN Mandated Territory, should be added to the Gold Coast or rejoin present Togo. It was a messy affair, as it did not take into account the wishes of the Ewe Unification Movement, which had reached fever pitch in southern Eweland from Anlo to Peki, already part of the Gold Coast, and which was prevented from taking part in the plebiscite. Had those areas taken part, enough votes would have been garnered to secede from the Gold Coast, as a majority voted in the Ewe areas of the TVT to secede. Unfortunately, their votes were outweighed by votes from the non-Ewe areas of the TVT stretching from northern VR through eastern section of Northern Region to much of present Upper East. Indeed, parts of the TVT were also later added to the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions too by Nkrumah and Busia. So, only a portion of the TVT was added to the Eweland within the Gold Coast to form the present VR. Those of us who come from the south were thus part of the Gold Coast decades earlier before 1900 when the Protectorate of Asante was declared after their defeat in the Yaa Asantewa War; and before 1946, when the Burns Constitution made Asante and Northern Territories part of the Gold Coast Colony proper too.
That, in brief, is how parts of Eweland and some Ewes became a part of present Ghana. It is a pity that this basic history is not taught in our basic schools so that all know this somehow. Rather, we get all kinds of ignoramuses spewing rubbish about how Nkrumah allowed Ewes to join Ghana and they would deport Ewes to Togo! I am waiting for them bozos with my spikes studded club. Let no one say I didn’t warn them!
[This article can be freely quoted or reproduced without my permission.]
Andy C.Y. Kwawukume
cyandyk@ymail.com
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
That's the nonsense even their seemingly educated ones pumped into their cotton wool-filled ears. Did Busia himself not even said at a time that Ewes became Ghanaians by plebiscite knowing quite well the truth?
Look Andy, ... read full comment
That's the nonsense even their seemingly educated ones pumped into their cotton wool-filled ears. Did Busia himself not even said at a time that Ewes became Ghanaians by plebiscite knowing quite well the truth?
Look Andy, the best solution to this Ewe-bashing is for those claiming Ghana as their property to excise the Volta Region from their midst or we the Ewes peacefully exit/excise ourselves from the entity called Ghana.
I bet you we can survive and prosper in our so-called and so-perceived poverty.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Yes, Xebioso, even their educated ones are alarmingly so ignorant! But who to blame? Are there not Ewe teachers in almost all their wicked villages teaching them? Not in their secondary schools? Not teaching them in the highe ... read full comment
Yes, Xebioso, even their educated ones are alarmingly so ignorant! But who to blame? Are there not Ewe teachers in almost all their wicked villages teaching them? Not in their secondary schools? Not teaching them in the higher institutions? Blame the educational system which does not cover a lot about us as Ghanaians! Our history, geography, political economy since pre-colonial times, etc. are exclusive preserves for a very few.
In the 1970s, you can get 1 in Geography without even knowing that cocoa is produced in the VR too. In fact, without knowing where and where cocoa is produced in Ghana! That's why, in spite of Dr Frimpong-Ansah's superlative book, Ghana: The Vampire State, Dr Kofi Ellison, one of the most informed Asantes in cyberspace could get into an argument with me in the '90s about whether VR also produce cocoa! And we read daily on Ghanaweb about how Voltarians are sponging on them! Phew! Ignorance is killing us as a people!
Andy-K
LARYEAH 11 years ago
XEBIESO, WAS BUSIA AN ASANTE?
XEBIESO, WAS BUSIA AN ASANTE?
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
Nonsense. To join Ghana?
Nonsense. To join Ghana?
Akosua Tabuwaa 11 years ago
Go read your History.The Ashantis did not want to be part of Gold Coast which later became Ghana.
Go read your History.The Ashantis did not want to be part of Gold Coast which later became Ghana.
Real Ghanaian 11 years ago
The name Ghana was suggested by J.B. Danquah,so we shouldn't even make it an extension of the Gold Coast. Why were others so badly against Ashantis and most Akans wanting no part of the new creation ? Better still, why was Nk ... read full comment
The name Ghana was suggested by J.B. Danquah,so we shouldn't even make it an extension of the Gold Coast. Why were others so badly against Ashantis and most Akans wanting no part of the new creation ? Better still, why was Nkrumah so dead set on holding together a pseudo-nation cobbled together by the colonialist to serve their exploitative posture. People just want think and when they do it is based on emotion.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Akosua, my history??? Is it because I didn't write about the gory details of the causes of the Sagrenti War that made you think it is not your Asante history too?
BTW, no one wanted to be part of a Gold Coast colony; not ... read full comment
Akosua, my history??? Is it because I didn't write about the gory details of the causes of the Sagrenti War that made you think it is not your Asante history too?
BTW, no one wanted to be part of a Gold Coast colony; not even the Fantes and those who signed the Bond of 1844 with them, which, btw, was just a treaty of friendship, not colonisation! Did uou read somewhere of the Fante Confederacy and King Ghartey and how the British stopped them from establishing their indep. entity? Fantes acquired machinery to start the Obuasi Mines before a colonial legislation banned them from doing so and selling to the British. Colonisation was bad for us all. Some Fantes would have been world class multi-billionaires long time ago.
And in spite of regular bombardment of our coastal towns from boats on the sea, or from the fort in Keta, we Anlos continued to fight the British until they managed to get some new steam gun boats to enter the Volta river to bombard inland towns too before we surrounded in 1874.
Pls, drop that myth about only the Asantes fighting against British imperialist encroachment.
Andy-K
Boateng 11 years ago
Bitch, are u a ghanaian at all.foolish national security shud call this guy and question him instead of doing wht they havent call for
Bitch, are u a ghanaian at all.foolish national security shud call this guy and question him instead of doing wht they havent call for
Eno 11 years ago
To say the lest, this piece is rubbish.
To say the lest, this piece is rubbish.
Danny 11 years ago
I'm sorry but this is utter nonsense.
I'm sorry but this is utter nonsense.
Floating Voter 11 years ago
Mr Sangaperee your article is not rich. It has no depth. You mis-represent UNITY. You are only exposing your ethnocentricism. If Ghana is not for the Asante/Akyems it's also not for the Anlos and the Ewes.
Mr Sangaperee your article is not rich. It has no depth. You mis-represent UNITY. You are only exposing your ethnocentricism. If Ghana is not for the Asante/Akyems it's also not for the Anlos and the Ewes.
Boateng 11 years ago
Is not ur fault is the fault of we the Akans and the greedy kwame Nkrumah who has done this .may God punish him for his greedyness.
Is not ur fault is the fault of we the Akans and the greedy kwame Nkrumah who has done this .may God punish him for his greedyness.
Antus 11 years ago
Blinking idiot. Bawumia is an Asante, Nyaho-Tamakloe isa an Assin, Ciurage Quarshigah was an Akyem.
Ifd thewse publishers knew mtheir job -- or their country -- such idioys mwould be asked to export their nonsense to the ... read full comment
Blinking idiot. Bawumia is an Asante, Nyaho-Tamakloe isa an Assin, Ciurage Quarshigah was an Akyem.
Ifd thewse publishers knew mtheir job -- or their country -- such idioys mwould be asked to export their nonsense to the Rwanda of 1994.
KANAWU 11 years ago
HE FORMED THE NDC ON TRIBAL BASES AND TRIED TO WIN PEOPLE BY PUTTING THEM AGAINST THE AKANS... BUT HE IS MARRIED TO ONE.
HE FORMED THE NDC ON TRIBAL BASES AND TRIED TO WIN PEOPLE BY PUTTING THEM AGAINST THE AKANS... BUT HE IS MARRIED TO ONE.
2 REGIONS PARTY=NPP 11 years ago
NPP CAN DEFINITELY NEVER WIN ANY ELECTIONS IN GHANA ANY MORE. WE THE OTHER TRIBES WILL ENSURE THAT NPP REMAINS IN OPPOSITION FOR DECADES. THEY HAVE ALREADY LOST IN 2016. SO THEY SHOULD BEGIN THINKING OF 2020, WHICH, I AM SURE ... read full comment
NPP CAN DEFINITELY NEVER WIN ANY ELECTIONS IN GHANA ANY MORE. WE THE OTHER TRIBES WILL ENSURE THAT NPP REMAINS IN OPPOSITION FOR DECADES. THEY HAVE ALREADY LOST IN 2016. SO THEY SHOULD BEGIN THINKING OF 2020, WHICH, I AM SURE THEY WILL LOSE AGAIN. THESE TWO TRIBES WILL SMELL WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IN OPPOSITION AGAIN FOR LONG AFTER THEIR FLUKE IN 2000-2008.
shamu 11 years ago
Loo! putting this topic completely change the colour of the topic. In other words, the two tribes that were mentioned, really diluted the whole issue. This are people with hateful mind, corrupt idealogy, tribalistic minded, m ... read full comment
Loo! putting this topic completely change the colour of the topic. In other words, the two tribes that were mentioned, really diluted the whole issue. This are people with hateful mind, corrupt idealogy, tribalistic minded, most of it all xenophobias. So, what is the issue now? ahahahahahaah
2 REGIONS PARTY=NPP 11 years ago
WELL DONE CLEMENT, FOR THE NICE PEACE. IT IS REFRESHING. I CAN'T WAIT TO READ YOUR NEXT PIECE.
KEEP UP WITH THE GOOD WORK.
WELL DONE CLEMENT, FOR THE NICE PEACE. IT IS REFRESHING. I CAN'T WAIT TO READ YOUR NEXT PIECE.
KEEP UP WITH THE GOOD WORK.
FROM PARAHINDO UDS WA CAMPUS 11 years ago
U HAVE SAID IT ALL MY BROTHER, AM PROUD OF U, BUT NEVER PAY ATTENTION TO THE INSULT BCOS AKANS ARE ONLY GOD AT INSULT AND NOTHING MORE. HOW MANY OF THEM CAN WRITE SUCH AN ARTICLE, BRAVOOOOOO!!!
U HAVE SAID IT ALL MY BROTHER, AM PROUD OF U, BUT NEVER PAY ATTENTION TO THE INSULT BCOS AKANS ARE ONLY GOD AT INSULT AND NOTHING MORE. HOW MANY OF THEM CAN WRITE SUCH AN ARTICLE, BRAVOOOOOO!!!
JB AMOATENG 11 years ago
I THINK MR CLE%ENT SANGAPARE HAS LIVED FOR A ALONG TIME IN OBUASE AND HAS ENJOYED THE HOSPITALITY OF THIS TOWN AND ITS PEOPLE AND ITS WEALTH.IHOPE HE WILL STOP DOING POLITICS WITH THIS AND LOOK FORWARD SEEKING GOOD THINGS FOR ... read full comment
I THINK MR CLE%ENT SANGAPARE HAS LIVED FOR A ALONG TIME IN OBUASE AND HAS ENJOYED THE HOSPITALITY OF THIS TOWN AND ITS PEOPLE AND ITS WEALTH.IHOPE HE WILL STOP DOING POLITICS WITH THIS AND LOOK FORWARD SEEKING GOOD THINGS FOR HIS FAMILY AND THE INDIGENES WHO HAVE SO WELL ACCEPTED HIM.
THIEF JOHN MAHAMA 11 years ago
THE WRITER IS A BIG FOOL. ENVINESS WILL KILL HIM. STOP TRIBALISM , N GET CLOSER TO PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM WELL. AKANS ARE ONE OF THE FINEST PEOPLE IN GHANA. FOOOLISH WRITER
THE WRITER IS A BIG FOOL. ENVINESS WILL KILL HIM. STOP TRIBALISM , N GET CLOSER TO PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM WELL. AKANS ARE ONE OF THE FINEST PEOPLE IN GHANA. FOOOLISH WRITER
HASSAN RASTA 11 years ago
ASHANTI/AKYIMS ARE EXACTLY WHAT HE IS SAYING. ARE YOU NOT EVERY BLESSED DAY INSULTING THE NORTHERNERS ANG THE OTHER TRIBES CALLING THEM NAMES? IT IS ONLY A BASTARD WHO HAS NO LOVE FOR HIS TRIBE THAT SUPPORTS THIS ASH/AKYIM N ... read full comment
ASHANTI/AKYIMS ARE EXACTLY WHAT HE IS SAYING. ARE YOU NOT EVERY BLESSED DAY INSULTING THE NORTHERNERS ANG THE OTHER TRIBES CALLING THEM NAMES? IT IS ONLY A BASTARD WHO HAS NO LOVE FOR HIS TRIBE THAT SUPPORTS THIS ASH/AKYIM NPP PARTY. YOU PEOPLE ALWAYS THINKS YOU ARE THE BEST. THAT IS YOUR STUPID BELIEVE. SO YOU ARE GOING TO REMAIN OPPOSITION UNTIL YOUR PARTY IS DIVIDED INTO PIECES. SHAMELESS AND GREEDY FOOLS.
Bozo 11 years ago
Grammar!
Grammar!
akora oteng 11 years ago
hEI Mr., are you threatening us? Have you checked how many Presidents we have had since Independence? How many of them are AKYEM/Ashanti? So how many of your own tribe make up for the population of Ghana.Now, MR., THIS SHOULD ... read full comment
hEI Mr., are you threatening us? Have you checked how many Presidents we have had since Independence? How many of them are AKYEM/Ashanti? So how many of your own tribe make up for the population of Ghana.Now, MR., THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST TIME YOU CALL US TRIBALISTIC.And mind you,just us our elders were bold to get the Europeans away and secured our land, that is how we, their children, intend to keep it. If you want to use lies and manipulations to rule this land after all the opportunities that is abound for all Ghanaians ,then bring it up.The foolish thing about you is , you can not live among your own people and if you people are always fighting among yourselves, how do you thinkwe the others have to trust you? Those of you who have gotten schorlarships to study in Europe just allow the Europeans to brainwash you about under- developement of your areas.Thatat was the fault of the Europeans who colonised us for Centuries. All the developments now are done by Ghanaian leaders after Independence, eventhough it is slow. But that does not merit your people to steal votes to perpetrate in power and arrogate to themselves National Funds to their private businesses.That is CORRUPTION.
Ny 11 years ago
Sangaparee or whatever you call yourself, listen. No Asante/Akyem need you. You can go back to the North and mingle with your folks. You are comfortably living among Adansis and remember that they are all Asantes. You are ... read full comment
Sangaparee or whatever you call yourself, listen. No Asante/Akyem need you. You can go back to the North and mingle with your folks. You are comfortably living among Adansis and remember that they are all Asantes. You are a fool.
Pelicles 11 years ago
You are a fool. You have been living among Adansis all of your life and here you are insulting the very people who have given your sanctuary.
You are a Northerner really.
You are a fool. You have been living among Adansis all of your life and here you are insulting the very people who have given your sanctuary.
You are a Northerner really.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Pelicles, here you are showing your true self: chief among the real mentally jaundiced bigots on Ghanaweb!
Perhaps, it doesn't occur to your pea brain that he might even have been born there! And/or his long sojourn there ... read full comment
Pelicles, here you are showing your true self: chief among the real mentally jaundiced bigots on Ghanaweb!
Perhaps, it doesn't occur to your pea brain that he might even have been born there! And/or his long sojourn there made him most acutely aware of what he was writing about. BTW, he didn't insult Adansis, nor Asantes, or even Akans, for that matter. He only mentioned certain things they who support the NPP (so not all of them) have been saying which he claimed accounted for the electoral failure of Nana in 2008 and 2012. True or false? Challenge him on that, instead of your lame duck blanket insults.
Wo nim nyansa, wo ti? Ha! ha! ha! That's all the Twi I know, apart from aboa! Wo nim ahari! Kwasia!
Andy-K
HASSAN RASTA 11 years ago
HI HOW ARE YOU DOING MR. CLEMENT? WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR MORE. EVEN IF YOU DIDN´T SAY IT EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
HI HOW ARE YOU DOING MR. CLEMENT? WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR MORE. EVEN IF YOU DIDN´T SAY IT EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
con 11 years ago
why not reove him from obuasi with his stupid statement.i think those such a person created for war to killed YAANAA and other chiefs.Asante man and akyem we loves our selves. Why not add nfante,brong too bcos all are akans w ... read full comment
why not reove him from obuasi with his stupid statement.i think those such a person created for war to killed YAANAA and other chiefs.Asante man and akyem we loves our selves. Why not add nfante,brong too bcos all are akans when they speak all hear it. apart from Ewe and north. it is propaganda
con 11 years ago
if u bring this stament again run from obuasi i warn u. Bcos u want creat tribal war.i wonder that this national security is not do anything for this statement.
if u bring this stament again run from obuasi i warn u. Bcos u want creat tribal war.i wonder that this national security is not do anything for this statement.
KWABENA WARNING.NJ 11 years ago
NONSENSE.
NONSENSE.
Madam Zorro 11 years ago
dumb writing from an infantile mind.
dumb writing from an infantile mind.
mm .hamburg 11 years ago
oh ghana man na mumu.see how dey insult demself.na so their politicians teach dem.respect urself.
oh ghana man na mumu.see how dey insult demself.na so their politicians teach dem.respect urself.
Nana 11 years ago
Andy, may almighty God bless you for the precious history on one of the hard working peoples of Ghana. These are the people I knew through invented false story,mindsets, suspicions. I understand now that EWE people have been ... read full comment
Andy, may almighty God bless you for the precious history on one of the hard working peoples of Ghana. These are the people I knew through invented false story,mindsets, suspicions. I understand now that EWE people have been always victim of their good african values here and other part of West Africa, Togo for example. Please disseminate this in all the Volta region for their children to know their history and defend it as well as their values and region not against anybody but against the ignorance and mindsets. I have an EWE friend, he is the best person I ever met since in this life. Just to say that you have holy persons and devils in all the tribes and that these people are not the monopolies of specific tribe or people.
Vodoo Xebieso 11 years ago
Akpe.
Akpe.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Nana, thanks for calling God's blessing on me even though I am an avowed pagan in its truest meaning: a non-believer!
Btw, it is not only Ewes and those from the VR who must learn about our history and these things and di ... read full comment
Nana, thanks for calling God's blessing on me even though I am an avowed pagan in its truest meaning: a non-believer!
Btw, it is not only Ewes and those from the VR who must learn about our history and these things and disseminate them to their children, so that they are well armed against the Armada of Ignoramuses that have been assaulting us and insulting our sensibilities for ages now. The Ignoramuses must also be forcefully made to learn these things so that they change their mindsets. We must campaign to have these things taught to pupils and students in our schools, the public through the media, forums, books, etc. so that the high level of ignorance behind these gross behaviour and misconceptions are curbed drastically.
I am just doing my small bit on cyberspace.
Andy-K
asmoah bla 11 years ago
long live god bless u mr truth
long live god bless u mr truth
Steve 11 years ago
Koko Latrine boy, dog meat eater, thief. You Northerners are the most backward, least civilized of all tribes in Ghana. We know you are stupid and lazy from the days of your forefathers that's why up till tomorrow you remain ... read full comment
Koko Latrine boy, dog meat eater, thief. You Northerners are the most backward, least civilized of all tribes in Ghana. We know you are stupid and lazy from the days of your forefathers that's why up till tomorrow you remain parasites on the state. Northerners only know how to steal akonfem .
azagi 11 years ago
So they say!!
So they say!!
asmoah bla 11 years ago
god bless u long live mr truth
god bless u long live mr truth
AMARH 11 years ago
THE STUDID ALUTA AND TRIBAL TIME BOMB IS WHAT MAHAMA IS PREPARING,TELL HIM TO CONTINUE.HE SHOULD GIVE ALL THE POST TO YOU PEOPLE,SO THAT AFTER YOU HAVE FILLED YOUR STOMACH YOU CAN COME OUT AND TALK NONSENSE.
FREE EDUCATION H ... read full comment
THE STUDID ALUTA AND TRIBAL TIME BOMB IS WHAT MAHAMA IS PREPARING,TELL HIM TO CONTINUE.HE SHOULD GIVE ALL THE POST TO YOU PEOPLE,SO THAT AFTER YOU HAVE FILLED YOUR STOMACH YOU CAN COME OUT AND TALK NONSENSE.
FREE EDUCATION HAS PRODUCE A LOT OF ALQEIDAS AND TERRORIST FROM NORTH.YOU HAVE NOW SEEN THE LIGHT SO YOU HAVE TAKEN OVER THE GOVT.BUT MIND YOU ARTICLES LIKE THIS BECOMES AN EYE OPENER TO THOSE YOU INTENDED TO CONDEM.NDC HAS HAD 3 DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS FOR THIS NATION BUT I DONT THINK THEY WERE ALL THE SAME,SO CALM DOWN BECOS GHANAIANS WILL AGAIN TRY NANA ADDO AND SEE.YOU KNOW WHAT NPP IS NOT MADE UP OF ASANTE/AKYEM LIKE YOU WANT PEOPLE TO ACCEPT,IF YOU CARE TO KNOW THE MAN WHO STARTED THE GATHERING WHICH FINALLY BECAME NPP IS A GA MAN.IN EVERY CLUB,ASSOCIATION OR PARTY,FINANCIERS PLAYS A LEADING ROLE,SO DONT BE CONFUSED,NPP HAS ALL THE TRIBES.
IT IS YOU AND YOUR MAHAMA WHO THINKS IT IS YOUR TIME TO STEAL ELECTIONS AND BECOME PRESIDENT.THE AKYEMS NEVER SAID THEY WERE FED UP SO THEY WILL BE PRESIDENT AT ALL COST.YOU ARE DECEND ALQEIDA TERORRIST IN POWER.TALAMANS DO WHAT YOU KNOW DOING BEST. FIGHT.YOU THINK LIKE A BULL.IMAGINE HOW MUCH MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT ON YOUR STUPID CIVIL WARS IN THE NORTH,AND MONEY SPENT ON YOUR FREE EDUCATION,THE MONEY ON SADA,AND GUINEA FLOW AND TREE PLANTING INVESTMENT PROJECTS.
YOU MOVE TO THE SOUTH TO LOOK FOR GREENER PASTURES AND WHEN YOU ARE GIVING LAND TO SETTLE YOU INSULT YOUR HOST,IN ASANTE REGION YOU HAVE TAKEN OVER ASAWAASE WITH YOUR ZONGO,IT IS THE SAME IN THE AKYEM LAND,IT IS THE SAME IN THE OTHER REGIONS YET YOU HAVE GUST TO INSULT THEM,YOU ARE VERY UNGRATEFUL,MIND YOU IT IS VERY EASY TO IDENTIFY A TALABAN.SWINE YOU. YOU WANT TO DIVIDE AND RULE,IT WILL BACK FIRE IN YOUR DIRTY FACE.WATCH MAN SON.
avorka bannor teteh fofoe 11 years ago
Am ewe and wot u are saying not true.please stop these stupid articles cos when we start the whole ghana will come to standstill if u dont stop we are going to start foolish asshole
Am ewe and wot u are saying not true.please stop these stupid articles cos when we start the whole ghana will come to standstill if u dont stop we are going to start foolish asshole
Yussif , Tamale 11 years ago
This kinds of articles should not be published on the web because its bias , threatening to peace, irresponsible, uncultured and above all insulting to the journalism profession. The writer must be insane to have put such a j ... read full comment
This kinds of articles should not be published on the web because its bias , threatening to peace, irresponsible, uncultured and above all insulting to the journalism profession. The writer must be insane to have put such a juvinal analysis of the ghanaian political setting. He/she should be given a second chance to study com. skills if he has ever.
Kojo Opoku-London 11 years ago
You are a fool. Dr Kwame Nkrumah educated and promoted KOTOKA. What did KOTOKA do to Kwame Nkrumah?. DR Kwmame Nkrumah allowed EWes-INWARD LOOKING EWQES TO BECOME PART OF GHANA> WHAT DID EWES DO TO HIM? THEY BETRAYED HIM. WHA ... read full comment
You are a fool. Dr Kwame Nkrumah educated and promoted KOTOKA. What did KOTOKA do to Kwame Nkrumah?. DR Kwmame Nkrumah allowed EWes-INWARD LOOKING EWQES TO BECOME PART OF GHANA> WHAT DID EWES DO TO HIM? THEY BETRAYED HIM. WHAT ABOUT 20 YEARS OF ASHANTIS PERSECUTION BY RAWLINGS EWE PNDC/ NDC
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Ignorant idiot! Kotoka got education to be a teacher, taught as a teacher before leaving to join the army while Nkrumah was still abroad!
And so Asantes were not in the PNDC? And no Ewes were "persecuted" under the same P ... read full comment
Ignorant idiot! Kotoka got education to be a teacher, taught as a teacher before leaving to join the army while Nkrumah was still abroad!
And so Asantes were not in the PNDC? And no Ewes were "persecuted" under the same PNDC? Did u hear at least that even the then Anlo Awoamefia was slapped and nearly killed? It was in the news after the public revelations at the Reconciliation C'ttee. Some of us knew about that when it happened. Your stupid and ignorant accusations inflame our anger!
Andy-K
Kojo Opoku-London 11 years ago
YOU ARE A BIG FOOL. EWES SECEDE. EWES ARE PART OF TOGO NOT BRITISH GOLD COAST. IT WAS THROUGH THE MAGNAMITY OF DR KWAME NKRUMAH THAT YOU INWARD LOOKING BASTARDS CAME TO DESTABILISE GHANA. EWES SECEDE TO JOIN YOUR BROTHERS IN ... read full comment
YOU ARE A BIG FOOL. EWES SECEDE. EWES ARE PART OF TOGO NOT BRITISH GOLD COAST. IT WAS THROUGH THE MAGNAMITY OF DR KWAME NKRUMAH THAT YOU INWARD LOOKING BASTARDS CAME TO DESTABILISE GHANA. EWES SECEDE TO JOIN YOUR BROTHERS IN TOGO. ITS SIMPLE. WE DONT NEED EWES. MY NICE WENT FOR AN INTERVIEW AT A HOTEL IN ACCRA. SHE WAS ASKED IF SHE IS AN EWE DURING THE PNDC/NDC ERA. SHAME. WE THE AKANS ARE THE MAJORITY BUT WHY ARE WE BEING MARGINALISED?
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Well, if you want to read an ignorant idiot after reading my post, How some Ewes Became Part of Ghana, it is up to you. I've my spikes studded club ready for the likes of you, I warned already!
Andy-K
Well, if you want to read an ignorant idiot after reading my post, How some Ewes Became Part of Ghana, it is up to you. I've my spikes studded club ready for the likes of you, I warned already!
Andy-K
ONUA 11 years ago
How can a bigot like yourself present any article to enhance inter-tribal relations in our beloved Ghana? You reprimand Busia but give Rawlings a slap on the wrist or no comment, you go through avery comment posted and re ... read full comment
How can a bigot like yourself present any article to enhance inter-tribal relations in our beloved Ghana? You reprimand Busia but give Rawlings a slap on the wrist or no comment, you go through avery comment posted and respond to anti Ewe slants and agree with a fool like Clement? Don't write anything to make a mild situation a dicey one.
Mr. 11 years ago
Animals like makes Asantes an enemy of many. If you hate Ewes so much why not start pushing them out of Ghana? A coward and an animal like you.
Animals like makes Asantes an enemy of many. If you hate Ewes so much why not start pushing them out of Ghana? A coward and an animal like you.
Mr. 11 years ago
Start pushing Ewes out of Ghana and lets see how it ends. Ewes and other minorities have a good reason to stay away from the NPP because that is what they represent, bigots, intolerant tribalist, arrogant fools, and plain stu ... read full comment
Start pushing Ewes out of Ghana and lets see how it ends. Ewes and other minorities have a good reason to stay away from the NPP because that is what they represent, bigots, intolerant tribalist, arrogant fools, and plain stupid, many have now come to realize that your types are many in the NPP hence the NPP will continue to win two regions in every election till your kinds are far away from the party.
I feel sorry for the blind minorities following this tribal groupings called the NPP.
OSEI ASSIBEY-UNI OF PHOENIX-USA 11 years ago
Ewes on the other hand, act sometimes as if they own Ghana forgetting that, they only became part of Ghana via a plebiscite in 1958.
Stop preaching virtue and practicing vice. You talk of a bigot, an arrogance, stupidity a ... read full comment
Ewes on the other hand, act sometimes as if they own Ghana forgetting that, they only became part of Ghana via a plebiscite in 1958.
Stop preaching virtue and practicing vice. You talk of a bigot, an arrogance, stupidity and tribalism and sees John Jeremiah Rawlings staring at you.
Who is arrogant than J.J Rawlings? His ego and stupidity, led to the killing of the supreme court judges and innocent Ghanaians in the 80's.
These killings were senseless and could have been avoided but what did he do, he ordered for the killing of a pregnant judge!
And you think the NDC won the 2012 election? You must be in a dream-man's land. Every body including you knows that this election was not only manipulated but stolen in the clear day of light by greedy NDC bigots and 'Yes' men who would do anything to hold on to power regardless it's consequence and you wonder why the country is deteriorating so rapidly than the speed of light as this very administration can not even provide it's people with electricity and water.
And to those who hate us-Ashantis, open your ears and open it widely, we really do not care because let me tell you all right now, if you touch even a single stroke of hair on any Ashanti, we will hunt you down. If you think am lying , learn our history for we are not scared of anything but God!
Kojo Opoku-London 11 years ago
KUDOS to you brother. Huh. Where are you. I want to eat ampesi with you whereever you are. These my Grandfather farm hands are annoying me. How ungrateful these INWARD LOOKING Ewes are. My parents house helps were Ewes. Afia ... read full comment
KUDOS to you brother. Huh. Where are you. I want to eat ampesi with you whereever you are. These my Grandfather farm hands are annoying me. How ungrateful these INWARD LOOKING Ewes are. My parents house helps were Ewes. Afia Ayigbe, Ama Ayogbe, Agya Mensah, Akwasi Ayigbe etc. My mother bought Ama clothes load of things when she was going to marry. My mother protected Afia Ayigbe from a neighbour son who was interested in her. My mother never allowed Ama or Afia to sleep after her. They all served us and was deservedly rewarded and seen off.
#They came to visit us with thei children.
#Hey Ama and Afia carried me on their backs. It is sad this guy has forgotten his MAKER and insulting me.
#Agya Mensah will come for loans upon loans from my mother. I used to type the loan agreements for them. How can you accuse Kuffour, when for 28 years- J J RAWLINGS EWES PNDC/NDC were persecuting Akans and killing them. I dont support Kuffour but I support freedom of speech and association and Kuffour guaranteed them. Kotoka betrayed Dr Kwame Nkrumah, hence Kuffour was just afraid of being overthrown. Kuffour only learnt from history and experience with Busia and Nkrumah. I would have done the same, to cover my back. The Coup detat Ewes risk.
akos 11 years ago
you northerners are fools and if u don't have anything to offer ghana shut the fuck up and step aside, cuz i'm ghanaian and i don't see myself as useless..speak for urself!
you northerners are fools and if u don't have anything to offer ghana shut the fuck up and step aside, cuz i'm ghanaian and i don't see myself as useless..speak for urself!
AKWESI SEY 11 years ago
ASANTES ARE GOOD PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THEM.
ASANTES ARE GOOD PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THEM.
Pepenii tribalistic Sangaparee has low inferiority complex. Sad at an old age of 70 this dagarti fool is still mired in tribal foolishness.
You just mentioned DAGATI which makes it real that,there is a real cold tribal wars in Mother Ghana...
This foolish sangapari is really an imbecile. If ever there will be a bomb, tribal or whatever, it will explode in sangapari's face as well as the faces of other P/NDC criminals who have looted, and continue to loot, from the ...
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Thank you, Captain X.
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
You will soon see
Was enjoying your piece until you expressed anger and showed your polical affiliation.
It is a shame, could have been a good article
THE TRUTH,
THE REAL TRUTH,
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH;
IS THAT EWES ARE THE WORSE TRIBALISTS IN GHANA. THEY ARE SO TRIBALLY-CENTERED THAT ONE IS NOT ABUSING THEM BUT DESCRIBING THEM TRULY WHEN ONE SAYS THEY ARE INWARD-LOOKING ...
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this will bring peace
Whatever is your problem, it is clear you've got a serious problem with Gas in particular. I am inclined to believe that a Ga beat you to a girl friend, a girl you loved so badly you thought there was no life for you without ...
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SHUT UP! YOU ARE TOGOLESE TROKOSI BEHAVING LIKE A NOBLE GHANAIAN-EWE. ALL GHANAIAN-TROKOSI, WHETTHER POOR OR RICH HAVE BOTH VILLAGES AND FAMILY FARMS LIKE THEIR OTHER GHANAIAN BROTHERS. BUT YOU TOGOLESE TROKOSES CAN ONLY TRAC ...
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We heard that before, and have seen what your recycled poits. It will still be interesting see how you rebut or support this idiotic human- Sangaponkye. An embittered soul, who remains so because he was fooled by J.J. Rawling ...
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SWINE. EVEN YOUR NAME EXPOSES YOU AS AN IMPOSTOR - THE GAS OR EWES DON'T WRITE AKWETTEY THE WAY YOU WRITE YOURS. YES, EWES AND GAS CAN BE WHATEVER YOU MAY CALL THEM AND THEY CERTAINLY ARE PROUD TO BE WHAT THEY ARE. NOW WHAT A ...
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In the last elections so many Fantes and Guans voted for NPP. If the tribalistic Anlos/Ewes and Northerners in the fante areas were not there NPP would have won in the Fanteland. NDC bribed electorate in gargantuan ways unp ...
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Another bigoted moron with his jejune nonsense! So the NPP didn't put up candidates in the "Anlo/Ewe" areas of the VR and got some votes, eh? I actually wonder why some people from those areas still even agree stand for elect ...
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If a whole tribe supports a political party in a multi-party system of government, then there is something seriously wrong with that tribe. I would be so ashamed if Fantes supported one Party...but it wont ever happen...we a ...
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Your NPP and its leadership have decided to be anti Ewe from day one, They wanted to kill Ewes, marginalize them cos they see them as their political nemesis and you expect the Ewes to vote for them so they can turn around an ...
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Swine, where was your grandmother when the trokosi Justice Annie Jiagge (RIP) was the first woman judge in Ghana?
I will tell you if you tell me when Ewes arrived in their present location...or where were the anlos and ewes when the Portuguese came...Annie Jiaggie my foot...you tribalistic goons must be ashamed of yourselves...check the ...
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THIS ARTICLE IS VERY VERY INFLAMATORY AT THIS TIME WHEN THERE IS KIND OF TENSION IN THE COUNTRY. I SUGGEST GHANAIANS AND THIS WRITER SHOULD WATCH THEIR MOUTHS.
BY THE WAY WHAT IS "United Cadres Front?" AN NDC BRAINCHILD ...
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RAWLINGS IS THE ONE WHO BROUGHT TRIBAL INTO GHANA
ASK BUSIA IN HIS GRAVE THAT QUESTION!!!
SUCH A WASTEFUL EWE BARKING DOG RULED GHANA FOR 20 YEARS WITHOUT QUALIFICATIONS...APPOINTING EWES INTO SO MANY POSITIONS LEADING TO ALL THE ROBBERY AND DIVESTITURE BY THESE TRIBALISTIC GOONS...EWEDOM MY FOOT...YET LOOK AT THE ...
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Yes Jerry as a military man, very young and inexperienced still appointed many non Ewes into his govt than your Lawyer KU4 who is much older, experienced, and considered a democrat did in his eight year term.
By the time K ...
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He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
He cannot go to his own hometown because they are fucking killing each other over chicken and goats. Just shut up and enjoy the hospitality of the Ashantis in the Ashanti region
Yes, he lives in Obuasi but how do you know that he comes from the North? For all we know, he might be a descendants of the tens of 1000s captives the Asantes received as tributes from their Dagbon and Dagomba "vassals", apar ...
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CLEMENT SANGAPAREE'S HEAD IS FULL OF FAECES SO HE DOES NOT SEE THE POVERTY OF THE NORTH WHICH IS WORSENED BY NDC GREED AND STUPIDITY BY GIVING PRECIOUS MONEY AWAY TO WOYOME AND CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS WHISLT HIS PEOPLE SUFFER D ...
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You are a fool and when that day come, people like you will be hiding.
Mind you, Kufour is part of the PNDC looters and don't forget that when the going was good for Sangapari he littered Obuasi town with Babies with Obuasi women. I am not saying they were Akans, but your guess is as good as min ...
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My brother, I am a Buem and tell you what I hate Ashantis. I know who the are for I had an Ashanti friend in Nigeria in the 70s who told me Ashantis destroyed Ghana. Tell these Ashantis that all the so called minority tribes ...
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For those bursting at the seam and hurling insults at Sangaparee for touching on a controversial subject which put Asantes/Akyems in a bad light (note, he didn't include a whole gamut of other Akan tribal groupings guilty of ...
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You know where you are coming from and where you will end. I have said on many occasion that you are a bigot and if I were you, the best I will do is to advice my folks who have spread far and wide away from the Volta Region ...
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Indeed, I know where I am coming from and where I am going! But cos I write against bigots doesn't make me one since cos I stepped into the mud pit to rub the faces into the mud. sure, some mud get stuck to me too bu the diff ...
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ALL TOGOLESE TROKOSI ARE LAZY,CROOKS DOMICILING FREELY IN GHANA COUNTING ON GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS, BUT WISHING FOR GHANA'S DOWNFALL.
LARYEAH, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THESE DAYS? BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU. JUST TO REMIND YOU THAT YOUR STOCK ARE STILL BUSY CARRYING TROKOSI SHIT IN LOME AND COTONOU. YOUR WOMEN, SOME AS OLD AS 70 YEARS WITH GREY PARTICLES OF BEARDS ...
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HEY MY GOOD BROTHER, I DEY! KWAME KPODO NEED TO CONTACT YOU. CERTAINLY THE GOOD MUST THRIVE OVER THE EVIL POLITICIANS.
Man Andy-K, the foreign observers have said it all from the prism of objectivity. Those who claim Ghana as their property can say everything bad about the Ewes. But we gave them their national anthem. What else again?
Hehehe. Why? Bcos Ewe men are habitually lazy, irresponsible akpeteshie drinkers whereas Ashanti men are hardworking , enterprising, resourceful, always seeking to bring good to the society. Ewes are always seething with envy ...
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Swine, say that to your stupid grandfather who raped giant she apes in your forests.
Xebioso, we gave Ghana more than the National Anthem and are still giving. In fact, I can't start counting as it is impossible to list all. But let me just say tilapia and akple (banku) is now reining as the national champion ...
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XEBIESO, THIS ANDY-K IS NOT A GHANAIAN BUT A TOGOLESE TROKOSI FROM THE SOUTHERN BELT OF TOGO LAND. WHILST THEY CHASED YOU OUT OF TOGO, WE GAS AND THE ASANTES ACCEPTED YOUR FOREFATHERS FROM TOGO AND FED YOU.
Time waster! Stop your moronic postings.
Andy-K
ANDY-K THE LAZY TROKOSI MAN, GO BACK TO TOGO. YOU CAT-EATER!! FOOL!!!
Time waster! Why don't you drop the Ga moniker and use one from your Akanland? You are embarrassing my Ga friends.
BTW, go on youtube and see how Homowo is celebrated in Togo by the Ga descents there.
Andy-K
EWES ARE THIEVES:
Listen to self, no Ashanti I know would ever insult his or her own tribe, let alone disgrace self to a foreigner ! Ask me why?
We may be boastful sometimes when being nutty because of our rich land- (gold) and rich cultur ...
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Please don't repeat Sangaparee's mistakes by also calling him tribal names even if you disagree with him. In my humble view, anyone who denigrates another tribe other than their own is shallow in mind and at worse sick and ne ...
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pepeni can not be trusted period , in this world today when Muslims and their undercover agents disguised as Christians have the agenda to destroy all virtues and values we uphold we must be vigilant and not be deceived. Bost ...
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The ewes started the tribalism in Ghana,
Kotoka dispatch three tonners bedfords trucks to carter fisher men from the Volta region and into the army.
Rawlings started with Arnold quinoo the coward who was lying under his bed ...
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PLEASE EWES BETRAYED DR KWAME NKRUMAH WHO EDUCATED AND PRMOTED KOTOKA. 28 YEARS OF EWE DOMINATED PNDC/NDC PERSECUTING ASHANTIS AND AKANS. DR NKRUMAH ALLOWED EWES TO BECOME PART OF MODERN GHANA AND EWES STARTED COUP DETAT. EWE ...
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A Lion was walking through the jungle and met a Zebra. "Do you know who the king of the jungle is?" he asked the Zebra. "You are the king of the jungle," replied the Zebra.
The Lion kept walking and came upon a Gorilla. The ...
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The Asante-Akyems will soon be on their knees enough with these people.
Kuffour will never die, but will live to repay all his atrocities exercise against God loving people. I am will to donate blood to keep Kuffour alive to repay all his evil presidency. God will definitely punish him. Rawlings ...
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GHAZI, UR STUPIDITY IS TO BLAME FOR UR POVERTY..WHEN NDC STOLE MONIES FOR WOYOME AND CONSTRUCTION PIONEERS, IN WHAT WAY DID IT BENEFIT TROKOSIS AND KAYAYEIS?.....AND YET U VOTED FOR NDC TO STAY IN POWER AND BLAME KUFFUOR..... ...
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IT'S ONLY U AYIGBE AND NTAFOUR FOOLS WHO WOULD CHOOSE "EDEY BE K3K3" OVER FREE EDUCATION...NO WONDER U PPL ARE WALLOWING IN POVERTY...SERVES U RIGHT...
"...TRIBAL TIME BOMB will explode in our faces one bloody day..."
And where will you run to, on that day?
Adansi Obuasi has been your home for all of your adult life. If Akans have not treated you well, you still have the l ...
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THIS STUPID FOOL CALLED CLEMENT SANGAPAREE SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH KAYAYEIS POVERTY AND TROKOSIS POVERTY IN THE NORTH AND VOLTA.....DESPITE THEIR POVERTY NDC USED BETTYMOULD AND BARTON ODURO TO LOOT GHANA THRO FAKE J-DEBTS TH ...
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SO THIS STUPID WRITER CALLED CLEMENT SANGAPAREE THINKS IT WILL BE EASY TO IDENTIFY AKYEMS AND ASHANTIS FROM THE REST OF ALL AKANS?.....STUID FOOL, ALL AKANS SHARE VERY SIMILAR NAMES AND HAVE INTERMARRIED SO MUCH THAT IT IS IM ...
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All your comment is nonsense.Arrogant ppl
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
Kwasia man u claim U dey in USA,is USA your mothe or your father country idiot why dont you come to Ghana and enjoy your so called gold.Aboa tribalism,racism and arrogant will kill u and your akans leader.The man is trying to ...
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What makes you think that your stinking poverty-stricken kumasi is better than sangaparee's home town? Maybe gov't work has sent him there. I worked there for a private compzny and what I saw in your stinking kumasi was abjec ...
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What u said is 100% true even most of akan ppl were not able to take their children to school bcos of tipical poverty,na so dey go sell ice water on street.
They have no money to send their children to school, yet Northerners get free funding right. You go figure.
NOW YOU ALL SEE THE PROBLEMS WE ARE HAVING IN GHANA RIGHT? KIDS GETTING PREGNANT, LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION, STINKING CITIES NOT BEING TAKEN CARE OF,DISESES AND SICKNESIS HERE AND THERE. ALL BECAUSE OF SOME GREEDY BASTARDS WHO ...
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You appear not to understand the potential threat of inflaming passions by reading tribe, language, ethnicity into every single argument, debate about politics and economics in Ghana.
Take a look at what happened in other ...
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MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
He had sex with your sister yesterday and stop collecting toilet and washing plates like a maidservant in Ghana and come for the naming ceremony. Should the baby be a boy, I bet the name would be Yaw Dagati. Bye
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
You appear not to understand the potential threat of inflaming passions by reading tribe, language, ethnicity into every single argument, debate about politics and economics in Ghana.
Take a look at what happened in other ...
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MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
MR. PEPENI ABOA, WHY DONT YOU GO TO YOUR NTAFO)KUROM WHERE AKOMFEM VALUES MORE THAN YOUR LIFE BUT ENJOYING THE HOSPITALITY OF ASANTES IN THEIR GOLD RICH CITY?
Or, you don't think he is the fool, in the light of what you had read so far?
Then you are a fool too! Go read the things I've posted, soul-search and advise yourself, thou ignorant and foolish person. Quick! quick! Go and e ...
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YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT. CHECKING THROUGH THE LIST, I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO LOCATE ONE EWE IN COMMAND POSITION OF THE GAF OR THE POLICE SERVICE. WHAT A SHAME OF KUFUOR AND NANA AKUFO-ADDO. DO YOU THINK GHANAIANS ARE FOOLS TO VO ...
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The solution to all this rubbish is for those who claim Ghana as their property to excise the Ewes from their Ghana, or the Ewes excise themselves peacefully from Ghana. The so-called "real Ghanaians" would then see whether t ...
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Thanks for the truth. 100%. Sometimes the truth hurts but u r a hundred percent right.
Thanks abe. All Ewes should give serious thought to this idea of excision by them or us.
XEBIESO, THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION AT ALL. DO YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU WHY?
Believe me your desire for secession can be easily achieved by drumming it in your ayigbe kinsmen. I say you people should present it for voting in parliament, and see the number of people who will be happy to see you go.
THANK YOU AND GOOD NITE, AWONAMAN...YOU CAN EVEN TAKE THE OIL DISCOVERED BY THE VOLTA WITH YOU TO NOTSIE FOR YOUR WAHALA APLENTY, ANLOGAMAN...EWEDOM!
God will punish you for writing this,do you think we will sit down for mahama and his stupid N.D.C to destroy ghana NO way.mahamas presidency will soon come to an end.idiot
You don't know yourself
And the DEVIL will punish you and your family. Swine.
As for this Ashanti-Akyem politicians they don't know what is in store for them. Look my brother, Rwanda is progressing today after the civil disturbances. Tell those Ashanti-Akyems that the other tribes in Ghana are ready fo ...
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Kwasiampani bi ba, where did u get da name kwaku from, if u admire sambody go ahead n tell 'em...proud ASANTE ...WE ARE THE BEST....ANYWAY U CAN GO N LIVE IN RWANDA after all u probably an ayibge or tani n situations in ur ho ...
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You shouldn't entertain such stupidity on this platform....this is
pure exhibition of ignorance...nkwasias3m k3k3!!!!!!!!
WHY ARE YOU IN THE NDC SO TRIBALISTIC? YOU ARE INDEED FOOLS BY ALL STANDARDS.
What has A shantis done to you people? Is it a shear envyness or what? Where else in this country can you enjoy peaceful co-existence than Ashanti Region? Ashantis are not afraid of any tribe and if non entity like you want ...
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Kofi, I share your sentiments and donot forget that for centuries now the Ashantis have not gone to war. The other tribes have been waging wars most often and as the saying goes practice make perfect. Don't forget also that t ...
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SEE MY COMMENTS AT THE TOP
See my comments above too! Yours is a load of cow dung! Good as fertiliser for those of us who are farmers of ideas and shrinks though. The shit you dispense liberally helps us to diagnose your mental state of well-being. You ...
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WHOEVER THINKS TRIBAL POLITICS WILL EARN HIM ANY POLITICAL ADVANTAGE IS JOKING - THIS WHOLOE ARTICLE ABOUT "The Asante/Akyem Politicians Verses The Other Tribes In Ghana" IS STUPIDITY & NONSENSE THAT MUST NOT BE ENTERTAINED.
Very true
When we Asantes are in trouble we call upon all Akans and say we are blood.When the Ashanti Confederacy refused to join the Gold Coast and wanted to form a country of our own 'Yate ye ho' we did not call on the Akans to join ...
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When an Asante in trouble he or she call himself AKAN but when something good he called himself an ASANTE, Asantes value the dead more than the living being , My advise to u all is to ignore them and continue with our life.
Akosua,
Ewes are not called No. 9 because their region was the last to join Ghana! The VR got the tag No. 9 because the contestant No.9 from the newly created VR won the Ghana independence Beauty Pageant! Regions in Ghana ...
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HOW SOME “EWES” BECOME PART OF PRESENT GHANA
To say that one is sick and tired of reading ignorant utterances about how “Ewes” were given the chance to join Ghana by Nkrumah from patently jaundiced and bloody-minde ...
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That's the nonsense even their seemingly educated ones pumped into their cotton wool-filled ears. Did Busia himself not even said at a time that Ewes became Ghanaians by plebiscite knowing quite well the truth?
Look Andy, ...
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Yes, Xebioso, even their educated ones are alarmingly so ignorant! But who to blame? Are there not Ewe teachers in almost all their wicked villages teaching them? Not in their secondary schools? Not teaching them in the highe ...
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XEBIESO, WAS BUSIA AN ASANTE?
Nonsense. To join Ghana?
Go read your History.The Ashantis did not want to be part of Gold Coast which later became Ghana.
The name Ghana was suggested by J.B. Danquah,so we shouldn't even make it an extension of the Gold Coast. Why were others so badly against Ashantis and most Akans wanting no part of the new creation ? Better still, why was Nk ...
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Akosua, my history??? Is it because I didn't write about the gory details of the causes of the Sagrenti War that made you think it is not your Asante history too?
BTW, no one wanted to be part of a Gold Coast colony; not ...
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Bitch, are u a ghanaian at all.foolish national security shud call this guy and question him instead of doing wht they havent call for
To say the lest, this piece is rubbish.
I'm sorry but this is utter nonsense.
Mr Sangaperee your article is not rich. It has no depth. You mis-represent UNITY. You are only exposing your ethnocentricism. If Ghana is not for the Asante/Akyems it's also not for the Anlos and the Ewes.
Is not ur fault is the fault of we the Akans and the greedy kwame Nkrumah who has done this .may God punish him for his greedyness.
Blinking idiot. Bawumia is an Asante, Nyaho-Tamakloe isa an Assin, Ciurage Quarshigah was an Akyem.
Ifd thewse publishers knew mtheir job -- or their country -- such idioys mwould be asked to export their nonsense to the ...
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HE FORMED THE NDC ON TRIBAL BASES AND TRIED TO WIN PEOPLE BY PUTTING THEM AGAINST THE AKANS... BUT HE IS MARRIED TO ONE.
NPP CAN DEFINITELY NEVER WIN ANY ELECTIONS IN GHANA ANY MORE. WE THE OTHER TRIBES WILL ENSURE THAT NPP REMAINS IN OPPOSITION FOR DECADES. THEY HAVE ALREADY LOST IN 2016. SO THEY SHOULD BEGIN THINKING OF 2020, WHICH, I AM SURE ...
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Loo! putting this topic completely change the colour of the topic. In other words, the two tribes that were mentioned, really diluted the whole issue. This are people with hateful mind, corrupt idealogy, tribalistic minded, m ...
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WELL DONE CLEMENT, FOR THE NICE PEACE. IT IS REFRESHING. I CAN'T WAIT TO READ YOUR NEXT PIECE.
KEEP UP WITH THE GOOD WORK.
U HAVE SAID IT ALL MY BROTHER, AM PROUD OF U, BUT NEVER PAY ATTENTION TO THE INSULT BCOS AKANS ARE ONLY GOD AT INSULT AND NOTHING MORE. HOW MANY OF THEM CAN WRITE SUCH AN ARTICLE, BRAVOOOOOO!!!
I THINK MR CLE%ENT SANGAPARE HAS LIVED FOR A ALONG TIME IN OBUASE AND HAS ENJOYED THE HOSPITALITY OF THIS TOWN AND ITS PEOPLE AND ITS WEALTH.IHOPE HE WILL STOP DOING POLITICS WITH THIS AND LOOK FORWARD SEEKING GOOD THINGS FOR ...
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THE WRITER IS A BIG FOOL. ENVINESS WILL KILL HIM. STOP TRIBALISM , N GET CLOSER TO PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THEM WELL. AKANS ARE ONE OF THE FINEST PEOPLE IN GHANA. FOOOLISH WRITER
ASHANTI/AKYIMS ARE EXACTLY WHAT HE IS SAYING. ARE YOU NOT EVERY BLESSED DAY INSULTING THE NORTHERNERS ANG THE OTHER TRIBES CALLING THEM NAMES? IT IS ONLY A BASTARD WHO HAS NO LOVE FOR HIS TRIBE THAT SUPPORTS THIS ASH/AKYIM N ...
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Grammar!
hEI Mr., are you threatening us? Have you checked how many Presidents we have had since Independence? How many of them are AKYEM/Ashanti? So how many of your own tribe make up for the population of Ghana.Now, MR., THIS SHOULD ...
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Sangaparee or whatever you call yourself, listen. No Asante/Akyem need you. You can go back to the North and mingle with your folks. You are comfortably living among Adansis and remember that they are all Asantes. You are ...
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You are a fool. You have been living among Adansis all of your life and here you are insulting the very people who have given your sanctuary.
You are a Northerner really.
Pelicles, here you are showing your true self: chief among the real mentally jaundiced bigots on Ghanaweb!
Perhaps, it doesn't occur to your pea brain that he might even have been born there! And/or his long sojourn there ...
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HI HOW ARE YOU DOING MR. CLEMENT? WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR MORE. EVEN IF YOU DIDN´T SAY IT EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
why not reove him from obuasi with his stupid statement.i think those such a person created for war to killed YAANAA and other chiefs.Asante man and akyem we loves our selves. Why not add nfante,brong too bcos all are akans w ...
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if u bring this stament again run from obuasi i warn u. Bcos u want creat tribal war.i wonder that this national security is not do anything for this statement.
NONSENSE.
dumb writing from an infantile mind.
oh ghana man na mumu.see how dey insult demself.na so their politicians teach dem.respect urself.
Andy, may almighty God bless you for the precious history on one of the hard working peoples of Ghana. These are the people I knew through invented false story,mindsets, suspicions. I understand now that EWE people have been ...
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Akpe.
Nana, thanks for calling God's blessing on me even though I am an avowed pagan in its truest meaning: a non-believer!
Btw, it is not only Ewes and those from the VR who must learn about our history and these things and di ...
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long live god bless u mr truth
Koko Latrine boy, dog meat eater, thief. You Northerners are the most backward, least civilized of all tribes in Ghana. We know you are stupid and lazy from the days of your forefathers that's why up till tomorrow you remain ...
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So they say!!
god bless u long live mr truth
THE STUDID ALUTA AND TRIBAL TIME BOMB IS WHAT MAHAMA IS PREPARING,TELL HIM TO CONTINUE.HE SHOULD GIVE ALL THE POST TO YOU PEOPLE,SO THAT AFTER YOU HAVE FILLED YOUR STOMACH YOU CAN COME OUT AND TALK NONSENSE.
FREE EDUCATION H ...
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Am ewe and wot u are saying not true.please stop these stupid articles cos when we start the whole ghana will come to standstill if u dont stop we are going to start foolish asshole
This kinds of articles should not be published on the web because its bias , threatening to peace, irresponsible, uncultured and above all insulting to the journalism profession. The writer must be insane to have put such a j ...
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You are a fool. Dr Kwame Nkrumah educated and promoted KOTOKA. What did KOTOKA do to Kwame Nkrumah?. DR Kwmame Nkrumah allowed EWes-INWARD LOOKING EWQES TO BECOME PART OF GHANA> WHAT DID EWES DO TO HIM? THEY BETRAYED HIM. WHA ...
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Ignorant idiot! Kotoka got education to be a teacher, taught as a teacher before leaving to join the army while Nkrumah was still abroad!
And so Asantes were not in the PNDC? And no Ewes were "persecuted" under the same P ...
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YOU ARE A BIG FOOL. EWES SECEDE. EWES ARE PART OF TOGO NOT BRITISH GOLD COAST. IT WAS THROUGH THE MAGNAMITY OF DR KWAME NKRUMAH THAT YOU INWARD LOOKING BASTARDS CAME TO DESTABILISE GHANA. EWES SECEDE TO JOIN YOUR BROTHERS IN ...
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Well, if you want to read an ignorant idiot after reading my post, How some Ewes Became Part of Ghana, it is up to you. I've my spikes studded club ready for the likes of you, I warned already!
Andy-K
How can a bigot like yourself present any article to enhance inter-tribal relations in our beloved Ghana? You reprimand Busia but give Rawlings a slap on the wrist or no comment, you go through avery comment posted and re ...
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Animals like makes Asantes an enemy of many. If you hate Ewes so much why not start pushing them out of Ghana? A coward and an animal like you.
Start pushing Ewes out of Ghana and lets see how it ends. Ewes and other minorities have a good reason to stay away from the NPP because that is what they represent, bigots, intolerant tribalist, arrogant fools, and plain stu ...
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Ewes on the other hand, act sometimes as if they own Ghana forgetting that, they only became part of Ghana via a plebiscite in 1958.
Stop preaching virtue and practicing vice. You talk of a bigot, an arrogance, stupidity a ...
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KUDOS to you brother. Huh. Where are you. I want to eat ampesi with you whereever you are. These my Grandfather farm hands are annoying me. How ungrateful these INWARD LOOKING Ewes are. My parents house helps were Ewes. Afia ...
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you northerners are fools and if u don't have anything to offer ghana shut the fuck up and step aside, cuz i'm ghanaian and i don't see myself as useless..speak for urself!
ASANTES ARE GOOD PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THEM.