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The “Asante-phobia” Hoax: Stop the NPP/NDC Tribal Wars!!

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  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Haha,this author is living in utopia that no tribe can dominate others in Ghana.The kikuyu in kenya certainly have singlehandedly dominated all other 40+tribes there.Asante don't have anything close to the power exercised by ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    This Author tried to delve into the meaning of the word Asanti-phobia but he needs the help of the person who came up with that word. Asantephobia is real and it manifests itself by how those who fear and hate Asantes always ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    ASANTEPHOBIA IS REAL

    This Author tried to delve into the meaning of the word Asanti-phobia but he needs the help of the person who came up with that word. Asantephobia is real and it manifests itself by how those who fear ...
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  • BISHOP 10 years ago

    "Asantephobia is real and it manifests itself by how those who fear and hate Asantes always attribute anything bad that is done by any Akan to Asantes. Let a Boateng, Opoku, Sarpong or any other Akan name commit a crime even ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    I respectfully disagree with you on your assertion that there is nothing like Asantephobia. When I wrote an article about Asatephobia, the word was put in quotation marks to warn readers that, the phobia being talked about sh ...
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  • Kanawu 10 years ago

    I totally agrees with your argument here. Ghanaians have a tendency to close our eyes to problems wishing they will go away if we act like those problems don't exist and that is why we are where are today because people are a ...
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  • Mathias 10 years ago

    Was it that bad in Asante regarding the fear of Ewes? I thought growing up in Takoradi as an Ewe was the worse experience i ever went through in my life. Comment like "Awoneni" did really upset me.

  • Mark (UK) 10 years ago

    Perhaps the author of this article should have consulted you before writing this piece. He talks of Asante-phobia and forgets that to do justice to this he needs to talk of other tribal phobias in Ghana. Besides Ewe-phobia do ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Cardinal,

    Since I am in the middle of editing my ultimate take on the ethnic imbroglio, I won't say much on this piece and your comments except to say that I agree with your thrust. After all, I had posted enough to make m ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    KOFI AWOONOR IS MY WITNESS


    Actually Rawlings started it in 1982 when his chief political policy Advisor, Kofi Awoonor reveasled that, the purpose of the June 4th revolution was to stop the Akan, especially the Asantes e ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Fibbs . Some Grand ma tales

  • GEORGE 10 years ago

    KOJO T, WHAT HOLE HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN? IT IS IN THE BOOK WRITTEN BY KOFI AWOONOR WILLIAMS AND HE HAS. APOLOGIZED FOR THAT.

  • ROYAL AKANLAND 10 years ago

    THIS WILL BRING PEACE

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Cardinal, please stop peddling that half-truth. The June 4th Revolution was led by an Akan - Major Boakye Djan and not Rawlings. Kofi Awoonor has more Akan friends than Ewe friends.

    Late Victor Owusu's "inward-looking" tag ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Cardinal, shame on you! That's a blatant lie if you had really read that book, which MOST of you DIDN'T. You simply reguritate the dubious lies of mischievous characters. Prove me wrong by quoting the whole paragraph in which ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?

    I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to br ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    I thought you idiot is going to shed your ANLO nonsense today and face facts but your bigotry will not allow you to admit that we have bigots like Awomoor among Ewes.

    KOFI Awonoor wrote,

    "The purpose of the June 4th re ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    I AM 50% EWE AND 50% AKAN WHO SHOULD I FEAR?I AM AFRAID OF A TILAPIA THIEF AND GRASS CUTTER THIEF.
    REMEMBER IF A WOMAN IS HAVING ORGASM AND SAYS"MEVA,MEVA"I AM COMING IN EWE AND MEBA,MEBA"I AM COMING IN AKAN IS THE SAME THIN ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Ewes and other tribes were not made to be afraid of or to hate Asnatefo. No , that did not happen. I knew all along it is what happened to you folks in your up bringing that is the cause of the problem

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    You are not a truth teller, at least ANDY K has admitted to things that they were made to afraid Akans and Asantes as cheats. We all know you idiots were trained to hate Asantes.

    Asante mothers were right to warn their kid ...
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  • KATH 10 years ago

    Ashantis rather kill for money because of their evil love for money!

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Thanks, Cardinal. But in your heart of hearts, do you think Ewes are that bad? Or in my own heart of hearts, do I believe Akans [Ashantis] are all that bad? All human beings are bad and good.

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    What Sarpong has described is practiced by the Akan tribalists. If some one opposes the NPP then he is Ewe. If a Voltarian commits incest then Voltarians are like that. Kofi Awoonor is cited time and time again . It is the Ak ...
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  • BISHOP 10 years ago

    There have been many instances when Asantes have also been so labled, its not just Ewes. This finger pointing will not lead us far. We know and admit we have a problem, the questione next should be how do we confront it?

    T ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1

    The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some r ...
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  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    I think its most unfortunate that you and other Ghanaians only attach the word "phobia" to negatives in society.My point was to disprove him that no tribe can dominate and thus i had no negative traits in mind.In fact the exa ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Mr Agyeman, though my comment is attached to your comment, my response was not to what you said whether I agree with you or not. I know the Kikuyu is a large tribe in Kenya, in terms of percentage, I don't have any idea so it ...
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  • Seal 10 years ago

    Nii well spoken there is a tribe hinding behind NDC as you asked ,trying to manipulate other tribes against Ashanti for their own interest. Just to gain power to destroy Ashanti their main aim is Ashanti must be wiped from th ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    1]AKADU CAME UP WITH PEN THIEVES.
    2]CARDINAL CAME UP WITH TILAPIA THIEVES.
    3]WHEN THEY ARE NOW ARGUING ABOUT WHO CAME WITH ASANTEPHOBIA AND BLAMING ASHANTIS FOR EVERYTHING LIKE AL CAPONE BEING BLAMED FOR THE CHICAGO FIRE AN ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    HE NEED YOUR HELP BECAUSE YOU CAME UP WITH ASANTEPHOBIA.DID YOU GIVE MY GIRL AMA SERWAAH TO COLLECT THE COINS WHEN SHE WAS HAVING DOGGY DOGGY STYLE WITH YOU ON ASEDU NKETIA'S BRICKS?

  • Nana 10 years ago

    'I have a strong inclination that, the “Asante-phobia” charge is more about perceived hatred for Asantes as opposed to fear of Asantes. We should not confuse hatred with fear'. Perceived hatred from where? Your perception ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    It is really childish for anybody to say that the fear of Asantes is a hoax. Does the Author understand the meaning of hoax? What does Kofi Awonoor meant when he said;

    The purpose of the June 4th revolution was to stop the ...
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  • RC-Truth 10 years ago

    Is that the reason there is EWE looting in high places all over Ghana ? Ewes are woyomising Ghana's economy to equalise Ashanti economic power.

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Haha,economic pwr cannot be taken from or redistributed by govt or thru revolution.Economic pwr is not just havin money but more importantly its a way of thinking or certain built in traits that a govt can never transfer from ...
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  • AKWA 10 years ago

    It's all partisan politics.Some people think that the only way for their party to have a clear shot at winning an election without rigging is to label the other party with huge numbers with an ethnocentric tag in an effort to ...
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  • BISHOP 10 years ago

    "There are some among us who are incurably tribal in their approach. They hear a name and they assume tribe. They see an act and they assume tribe. They catch a scent and the fumes reeks tribe. They are not able to decipher a ...
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  • Kwaku Boateng 10 years ago

    Maybe Okunka can explain this phenomena where everything bad done by anybody with an AKAN name is attributed to an Asante. Are Bonos,Kwahus, Akyems, Akuapems Ahafos etc who share similar names not AKANS?

    I am from WENCHI i ...
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  • Seal 10 years ago

    Stop what you are saying and go back to the article and read it well.is a tribe behind NDC for all this Ashantiphobia or anti-Akan which is hinting at a raging tribal war?that is the question you need to answer,he went on to ...
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  • HARRY 10 years ago

    LONG LIVE NII LANTEY OKUNKA!.BRAVO!.MORE GREASE TO YOUR ELBOWS. FOR ME,THERE'S NO MINORITY IN GHANA BECAUSE WE'RE ALL BLACKS.NO ONE CAN CLAIM SUPERIORITY OVER ANOTHER. FOR THOSE WHO ARE PLAYING THE TRIBAL CARDS BECAUSE OF THE ...
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  • Seal 10 years ago

    Did you understand what he wrote? Is there a tribe behind NDC?Causing this Ashanti-phobia or anti-Akan? You writing about Fidel Castro and Batista is not the answer,he said anyone perpetrating tribalism must be denied any com ...
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  • --- 10 years ago

    In case of a tribal war most Ewes and Gas would attack non-Asantes because of their names. Living in Accra I saw how many Gas had never gone as far as Nsawam, thinking the whole of Ghana is just Accra. I also know a man from ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    K4 started this with proceed on leave, and turned around and filled all the important positions with his people.WhIn Nkrumah's era we lived together peacefully even with Nigerians Cpp was broad based including all ethnic gro ...
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  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Can you fuck off idiot, where were you when Rawlings turned scholarship Secretariat to Ewe Secretariat and only Ewes were awarded scholarships to study abroad.

    In his 19 years rule, Rawlings filled all important positions ...
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  • kantamanto 10 years ago

    I admire Asantes for their hard work and bravery. They stood up against the white man and fought several wars against them. Their sweat on those cocoa plantations have helped Ghana in the past and present. Other ethnic groups ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    You are an ignorant fool! Every ethnic grp in Ghana work hard to fend for themselves; in fact, some even much harder than the Asantes who were just lay-about landlords while others did the sweating on the cocoa farms and mine ...
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  • Kofi Mensuo 10 years ago

    Kantamanto - In fact you said it all.

    There would have been no Ghana history without Ashanti.

    And to those who refuse to admit, the Asante Kingdom was more than twice greater and covered bigger and wider area than pr ...
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  • Kofi Mensuo 10 years ago

    Kantamanto - In fact you said it all.

    There would have been no Ghana history without Ashanti.

    And to those who refuse to admit, the Asante Kingdom was more than twice greater and covered bigger and wider area than pr ...
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  • Kofi Mensuo 10 years ago

    Kantamanto - In fact you said it all.

    There would have been no Ghana history without Ashanti.

    And to those who refuse to admit, the Asante Kingdom was more than twice greater and covered bigger and wider area than pr ...
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  • Kofi Mensuo 10 years ago

    Kantamanto - In fact you said it all.

    There would have been no Ghana history without Ashanti.

    And to those who refuse to admit, the Asante Kingdom was more than twice greater and covered bigger and wider area than pr ...
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  • Kofi Mensuo 10 years ago

    Kantamanto - In fact you said it all.

    There would have been no Ghana history without Ashanti.

    And to those who refuse to admit, the Asante Kingdom was more than twice greater and covered bigger and wider area than pr ...
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  • Kofi Mensuo 10 years ago

    Kantamanto - In fact you said it all.

    There would have been no Ghana history without Ashanti.

    And to those who refuse to admit, the Asante Kingdom was more than twice greater and covered bigger and wider area than pr ...
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  • akos 10 years ago

    the akan tribe altogether are just some hard working folks, if only the rest of the lazy tribes will follow then ghana will be paradise!!!

  • Good Citizen 10 years ago

    but akos is prostitution also hard work, because i picked you last night at keravi as a prostitute.

  • Good Citizen 10 years ago

    what did the british do

  • AKWESI SEY 10 years ago

    ASANTES ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE AS SOME TRIBES IN GHANA THINK. THEY ARE PEACEFUL AND KIND PEOPLE.THOSE WHO HATES THEM SHOULD LEAVE THEM ALONE.

  • Good Citizen 10 years ago

    Idiot the article is meant for you.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Harry Truman was one of the U.S. presidents that enforce the abnoxious policy of racial segregation in the U.S. I think that one of the truth that is hell to Truman is that Negroes are inferior even compared with the white m ...
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  • mensah abrampa 10 years ago

    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Xenophobia as the fear and hatred of strangers and foreigners....Asante or Ewe phobia is not any different from the general term of xenophobia.
    We're engaged in the discussion because t ...
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  • jpeg 10 years ago

    The writer should know that the tribal war drums are beaten when NDC ascends to the office of President illegally. The NPP is more decent than any political party I have known in my life time.

  • jpeg 10 years ago

    No matter what the NDC does, the Asantes will forever remain strong. We have not forgotten the Awoonors, Tsikatas, Rawlings and their desire to see the fall of Ashanti Region but they have failed and unfortunately, Volta Reg ...
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  • papillon 10 years ago

    We all Know who started this shit stuff and now that they have been engulfed by the implications they are pointing fingers. Wars are started by politicians and that is what we are heading for. We have lived together in peace ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Actually Rawlings started it in 1982 when his chief political policy Advisor, Kofi Awoonor reveasled that, the purpose of the June revolution was to stop the Akan, especially the Asantes economic hegemony. A whole revolution ...
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  • Azar 10 years ago

    Some will also say all these rifts between tribes started when Busia declared that some people werent Ghanaians and that they must go, then went further to claim that some Ghanaians were over dominating some areas of the Ghan ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    You are not telling the truth about the Agama and Victor Owusu's debate. It was AGAMA who accused AKANS of being tribalists by dismissing Ewe workers and replacing them with AKANS which Victor retorted that, an Ewe should not ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Mr Cardinal comes home to find his wife, Amavi, crying. "I found out from Mrs. Serwaah that you've been having an affair with that cheap secretary in your office. Why would you do that to me? Haven't I always been the good wi ...
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  • CAPII 10 years ago

    THE LIKES OF KOFI AWORNOOR FEAR & HATE ANYTHING ASANTE. THE GOLDEN STOOL IS THE SPIRITUAL POWER THEY FEAR; REMEMBER 2 AIRFORCE PLANES MYSTERIOUSLY CRASHED IN KUMASI IN 1982.? TRADITIONAL POWER IS ABOVE POLITICAL (SHADOW) SUPR ...
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  • Komla 10 years ago

    When is this tribal war between the Asantes and the Ewes here at the forum going to stop? It is rather a very sad state of affairs. The folks on the ground back home get along just fine why can't we do just that on here? Are ...
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  • KWESI 10 years ago

    I agree with you. I don't seriously think that any tribe is in fear of the Asantis or any other tribe for any reason whatsoever. The problem is that the majority tribe must learn to respect other tribes and their languages, c ...
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  • AKWA 10 years ago

    That's the way it is and that's the way it's gonna be until the underlying factors change.What we are seeing is a by-product of the differences in culture and natural resources. The haters are just jealous but there is nothin ...
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