"A trip down history lane would disclose that the name Ghana was given to present day Ghana by Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah at independence in 1957"---Mensah Dekportor
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That is not true
Ken
"A trip down history lane would disclose that the name Ghana was given to present day Ghana by Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah at independence in 1957"---Mensah Dekportor
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That is not true
Ken
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
So,what is true?
So,what is true?
REBELL 10 years ago
"Wo Maame Twe Kankan" is true.
"Wo Maame Twe Kankan" is true.
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
Oh,your prostitute mother with her rotten pussy is true. Kwasea Aboafonu.
Oh,your prostitute mother with her rotten pussy is true. Kwasea Aboafonu.
Jay Maze 10 years ago
Please exercise some decorum. What example are you setting for our future leaders if our arguments are based on foul language and lack of facts. Note if you answer to no one at all you answer to God.
Please exercise some decorum. What example are you setting for our future leaders if our arguments are based on foul language and lack of facts. Note if you answer to no one at all you answer to God.
Osei Bonsu 10 years ago
please it time for us to think about issues before we open our dirty mouth to insult the writer who intended to bring important issue on the table to be debate on. frankly speaking it is time for us to think. please have you ... read full comment
please it time for us to think about issues before we open our dirty mouth to insult the writer who intended to bring important issue on the table to be debate on. frankly speaking it is time for us to think. please have you ask yourself the meaning of Ghana. What does it mean. does it have a bearing on the present day Ghana. Please think and if you do not want to contribute meaningfully, zip your mouth and let the thinkers deliberate on this issue. thank
Kwabena 10 years ago
if it is not true why do you not state the 'truth'? Or is it because you know it is true and you do not want to go into details and r just mis leading the public? A person who knows the truth, after making such a comment wi ... read full comment
if it is not true why do you not state the 'truth'? Or is it because you know it is true and you do not want to go into details and r just mis leading the public? A person who knows the truth, after making such a comment will then tell the nation the real truth. So which one is it?
fred 10 years ago
we need more education abt d real history if d nation
we need more education abt d real history if d nation
EWES ARE TOGOLESE 10 years ago
SO FAR AS GHANA HISTORY IS CONCERNED SOMEBODY LIKE YOU LAZY EWE MENSAH DEKPOTOR IS A TOGOLESE.
DO YOU BLOODY TOGOLESE WANT TO TELL GHANAIANS OUR HISTORY? "KWASEA" GO AND TELL YOUR LAZY TROKOSI PEOPLE TO FIND WORK TO DO.
SO FAR AS GHANA HISTORY IS CONCERNED SOMEBODY LIKE YOU LAZY EWE MENSAH DEKPOTOR IS A TOGOLESE.
DO YOU BLOODY TOGOLESE WANT TO TELL GHANAIANS OUR HISTORY? "KWASEA" GO AND TELL YOUR LAZY TROKOSI PEOPLE TO FIND WORK TO DO.
YB 10 years ago
Oh my friend. This is really uncalled for. All our ancestors came from one place or the other. Imagine what many of you would say if some white Americans embark on a crusade against Barack Obama because of his African root. H ... read full comment
Oh my friend. This is really uncalled for. All our ancestors came from one place or the other. Imagine what many of you would say if some white Americans embark on a crusade against Barack Obama because of his African root. Honestly your comments were unfortunate and unnecessary.
GO AND JOIN THE NDC 10 years ago
YB! GO AN PREACH ON THE STREETS ABOUT THE GOODNESS OF THE NDC AND STOP YOUR NONSENSE HERE ON THE PLATFORM, KWASEA!
YB! GO AN PREACH ON THE STREETS ABOUT THE GOODNESS OF THE NDC AND STOP YOUR NONSENSE HERE ON THE PLATFORM, KWASEA!
YB 10 years ago
This is not about politics, contrary to your stupid mind. And for your information, I don't support the NDC. In fact I think the NDC is cursed and any person that supports it commits evil against himself and Ghanaians. And yo ... read full comment
This is not about politics, contrary to your stupid mind. And for your information, I don't support the NDC. In fact I think the NDC is cursed and any person that supports it commits evil against himself and Ghanaians. And your behaviour here is disgraceful and not typical of a discerning NPP sympathizer.
GO AND JOIN THE NDC 10 years ago
NO MATTER WHICH PARTY YOU BELONGS, YOU SOUNDS LIKE A FOOL AND I AM COCK SURE YOU ARE.
NO MATTER WHICH PARTY YOU BELONGS, YOU SOUNDS LIKE A FOOL AND I AM COCK SURE YOU ARE.
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
You don`t have to be a Ghanaian to know Ghana`s history.If have a bigger brain like Mensah Dekportor you can study any country`s history.
You see,the Togolese man is telling you your history.
ABOAFONU.
You don`t have to be a Ghanaian to know Ghana`s history.If have a bigger brain like Mensah Dekportor you can study any country`s history.
You see,the Togolese man is telling you your history.
ABOAFONU.
REBELL 10 years ago
"You don't have to be a Ghanaian to know Ghana's history" "OFFUI" compare the development of Trokosi Volta with Akanland to see who has a bigger brain.
"You don't have to be a Ghanaian to know Ghana's history" "OFFUI" compare the development of Trokosi Volta with Akanland to see who has a bigger brain.
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
Kwaseakwa.hahahahaha.Development my clean ass.Take a look at your regional capital and stop telling us about development.The so-called garden city is now A SHITY CITY.
KWASEA.
Kwaseakwa.hahahahaha.Development my clean ass.Take a look at your regional capital and stop telling us about development.The so-called garden city is now A SHITY CITY.
KWASEA.
Jay Maze 10 years ago
I must say Sir you are displaying your ignorance. If it happened that the Volta Region was maintain as Togoland I would have seconded but it happens that we have akans and others there too. People make sacrifices that many wo ... read full comment
I must say Sir you are displaying your ignorance. If it happened that the Volta Region was maintain as Togoland I would have seconded but it happens that we have akans and others there too. People make sacrifices that many would never come to understand.
Mozato 10 years ago
Ghana has become so cheap a nation that a foreigners, Togolese Trokosi squatters are writing our history for us. I don't blame this trokosi writer but Asiedu Nketia,s NDC
Ghana has become so cheap a nation that a foreigners, Togolese Trokosi squatters are writing our history for us. I don't blame this trokosi writer but Asiedu Nketia,s NDC
Repugnant. 10 years ago
The writer does not know the history of Ghana. The historically constituted conditions of his own appendaged inclusion in the experiment Ghana has been a 'putative' miasma of no small proportions, such as the presences of JJR ... read full comment
The writer does not know the history of Ghana. The historically constituted conditions of his own appendaged inclusion in the experiment Ghana has been a 'putative' miasma of no small proportions, such as the presences of JJR AND KOTOKA'S blood letting as anathematized in our psyche. The writer in his efforts seems indignant with some injustice, I therefore think he may be 'reconciling with some injustice.' This discourse without any oversimplification is putatively, full of 'Stuff and nonsense.' Sadly, the history of Ghana could be an anathema to Mr Deport!
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
You see,anyone with a super brain can write any country`s history like Mensah Dekportor.
Your brain is so small to even know that people go to school to study history.
KWASEAKWA.
You see,anyone with a super brain can write any country`s history like Mensah Dekportor.
Your brain is so small to even know that people go to school to study history.
KWASEAKWA.
Kwasipong 10 years ago
Ignorance and illiteracy they say are forms of disease and sheer jealousy can never help change a fact no matter how it is distorted.
You and this ignorant semi-literate writer obviously know nothing at all about the hist ... read full comment
Ignorance and illiteracy they say are forms of disease and sheer jealousy can never help change a fact no matter how it is distorted.
You and this ignorant semi-literate writer obviously know nothing at all about the history of Ghana. On the other hand if you do know then out of your jealousy based on the fact that the name Ghana was arrived at by prominent, learned and well informed Akan elders including JB Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah who through a thorough research could trace the roots of Akans not only of Ghana but other neighbouring West African states as Ivory Coast and Gambia and lots of tribes in the north to ancient Ghana; you would rather deny and rubbish these facts.
There are ample linguistic and cultural researches that are available regarding some Akan and northern Ghana names such as Nana, Yaa Naa, Nandom, Gambaga, Bolgatanga etc and their links to the ancient name Ghana.
The syllables Gha and Na are major in Akan and Northern languages, the name Ghana was titles given to the kings of the ancient Songhai empire, the name Ghana in literal sense means Kinston of Kingsland or Kings city as the Gha means city, land, or town as in the Bol-Ga-tan-Ga, Ga-mbaga and Na means King or chief as in Yaa-Na, Na-Na, etc. These are all linguistic syllable traces to the ancient name Ghana. Lastly the ancient migration story of the Akans from around the ancient city of Timbuktu are all well known oral traditions in Akan homes across Ghana. This writer should read more and do a credible research rather than this sloppy work he's done here trying to throw dust in the eyes of the ignorant and mis-educating Ghanaians.
Antef 10 years ago
Hear! Hear!!
Hear! Hear!!
Abrewanana 10 years ago
It wasn't too long ago when the great mind, Oyokoba, gave a discourse similar to what you've given. This Dekpotor guy is surely mis-educating the uneducated. I hope he finds time to read ur response, Kwasi.
It wasn't too long ago when the great mind, Oyokoba, gave a discourse similar to what you've given. This Dekpotor guy is surely mis-educating the uneducated. I hope he finds time to read ur response, Kwasi.
REBELL 10 years ago
A foreigner with super brain is only good to do my carpentry work and not lecture me on who my family were
A foreigner with super brain is only good to do my carpentry work and not lecture me on who my family were
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
A carpentry work is for people with brain and a DOG CHAIN seller like you can`t do it.
That`s a fact.
KWASEAKWA.
A carpentry work is for people with brain and a DOG CHAIN seller like you can`t do it.
That`s a fact.
KWASEAKWA.
Nationalist 10 years ago
When you forfeit your Language you looses your Culture as well. What did you expect by Imposing someone else's Language upon yourself as official Language?
Teaching and Training the Population with their own given Tongue ... read full comment
When you forfeit your Language you looses your Culture as well. What did you expect by Imposing someone else's Language upon yourself as official Language?
Teaching and Training the Population with their own given Tongue (language), Math, Science, Physics, Chemistry and Biology subjects would be well understood. 75% of our Population will hardly understand The Self impose disorder Language. Trace your Culture by reading from www.odwirafo.com and Ancient Egypt, Kamit and Khanit, Kanem ,(pre-Bornu)Black Berber, Kong empire(Kan), Akana and Ivory Coast. Also read about contemporary Sudan and South Sudan.
GAWUKO 10 years ago
Mensah are you sure there is no historical link between present day Ghana and Old Ghana. Do more research on this and come back.
Mensah are you sure there is no historical link between present day Ghana and Old Ghana. Do more research on this and come back.
oyinasky 10 years ago
arrant nonsense. this guy spend his time to write this?
arrant nonsense. this guy spend his time to write this?
YB 10 years ago
Why don't you counter his assertions with your version so that we know you use your time usefully? Can we not argue or comment at all without being insulting?
Why don't you counter his assertions with your version so that we know you use your time usefully? Can we not argue or comment at all without being insulting?
km agyin 10 years ago
Yes, so sad the history of Ghana is no longer taught in our schools. The powers that be in their myopic visions think it is irrelevant. You cannot instil any meaningful sense of patriotism in the youth if they do not know the ... read full comment
Yes, so sad the history of Ghana is no longer taught in our schools. The powers that be in their myopic visions think it is irrelevant. You cannot instil any meaningful sense of patriotism in the youth if they do not know their history. You cannot know where you are going if you do not know where you coming from and the history of Ghana does not start with independence, it starts as far back as 50,000 BC when our ancestors started the migration from the Sahel regions to present day Ghana. It continues with the formation of city states from around 1000 AD to our struggle with the colonial powers especially Britain. Why don't we commemorate the victory we had over the British when the Asante Army defeated them. We lost our sovereignty when the British finally defeated us in the last war with the Asante nation. The Scottish still celebrate the only victory the had over the English. We can only be proud as a nation if we know our achievements in the past. We have heroes even from this era. We are rather engulfed in hatred for one another and waste our time in haughty mantras.
The Archivist 10 years ago
I thought I would share with you a little-known, never-taught bit of ironic historical fact, regarding the defeat of the Asante Empire. The defeat of the Asante Empire in the 4th (and last) Anglo-Asante War appears to have be ... read full comment
I thought I would share with you a little-known, never-taught bit of ironic historical fact, regarding the defeat of the Asante Empire. The defeat of the Asante Empire in the 4th (and last) Anglo-Asante War appears to have been caused by the use of West Indian troops (mainly from Jamaica and Barbados)! Some sources claim that most of these Caribbean troops were of Akan (mostly Asante) origin themselves!
As kids, we were taught in school that it was the use of the "Gatling gun" that turned the tide against the Asante. No doubt there were many causes - including the incomprehensible edict from the Asantehene to his subjects not to resist!
The Caribbean soldiers were also said to be less susceptible to malaria than the white, British soldiers.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
You just mixed two historical events: the Akatamansu War of 1826 (Gatling guns/rockets) and the Sagrenti War of 1874 (West Indian and Hausan troops from Nigeria).
These are no secrets but most important parts of the histor ... read full comment
You just mixed two historical events: the Akatamansu War of 1826 (Gatling guns/rockets) and the Sagrenti War of 1874 (West Indian and Hausan troops from Nigeria).
These are no secrets but most important parts of the history.
Andy-K
Sawyerr Alfred 10 years ago
Ancient Ghana is similar to present Ghana in the following ways: abundance of gold deposits, majority of ethnic groups practising the matrilineal system of inheritance, ancient Ghana was the first of the western Sudanese stat ... read full comment
Ancient Ghana is similar to present Ghana in the following ways: abundance of gold deposits, majority of ethnic groups practising the matrilineal system of inheritance, ancient Ghana was the first of the western Sudanese states to rise and become very powerful so was and is Ghana, the first nation in sub Saharan Africa to gain independence and be seen as the beacon of light and power. The name Gold Coast was also changed because it was just a description given by an exploiter to a place he benefits from. The name Ghana was to show a break with the colonial master and a regaining of independence. The name Ghana was suggested first by J.B Danquah after initial ones of Akanland and Galand had been refused. In naming the Gold Coast Ghana, Nkrumah sought to ancientise and modernise the nation at the same time. Thank You and God bless Mother Ghana.
Peter 10 years ago
An islamic empire that was properous in present Sudan in the middle ages was called Ghana
An islamic empire that was properous in present Sudan in the middle ages was called Ghana
Abrewanana 10 years ago
I hope Mr. Dekportor will be humble enough to read the factual responses to his piece and come back with an apology - for his mis-education of the ignorami.
I hope Mr. Dekportor will be humble enough to read the factual responses to his piece and come back with an apology - for his mis-education of the ignorami.
Jay Maze 10 years ago
Wow! Now this is what I call argument with facts. Everyone reads it, and appreciates it and learns something new. Thanks Sawyerr and Peter.
Wow! Now this is what I call argument with facts. Everyone reads it, and appreciates it and learns something new. Thanks Sawyerr and Peter.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Mensah,
Most Ghanaians certainly don't know their history. It appears you don't know much too, as what you left out of your piece indicates. Your veering into the occult, with the name Ghana having a possible effect on ou ... read full comment
Mensah,
Most Ghanaians certainly don't know their history. It appears you don't know much too, as what you left out of your piece indicates. Your veering into the occult, with the name Ghana having a possible effect on our fortunes, is even more a-historical! History deals with facts from the past, not fortune telling!
Anyway, most will credit JB Danquah with foisting the name Ghana on the future independent Gold Coast colony. Yes, he did more than any one else in propagating that the Akans migrated from ancient Ghana, known to the natives as Wagadu. But JB did not originate that claim, a white man Rev. W.T. Balmer did in 1926! As Ivor Wilks put it in his Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures of 1995, "One Nation, Many Histories: Ghana Past and Present," the publication which must be compulsory reading for every Ghanaian student and the Brotherhood of Nitwits on Ghanaweb, "Dr J.B. Danquah found the thesis an attractive one, though as late as 1955 he still stressed that it was no more than an hypothesis to be explored. It has to be said, I think, that it is very difficult to sustain the hypothesis" (pp.22-23). He went on to debunked it. He however showed the links some like the Gonjas and Akans had with the old kingdom of Mali. I think it was high time the Ghana Univ. Press makes its publications available online to purchase, so that all and sundry can buy them without having to travel to Legon, Cape Coast or Kumasi!
BTW, the Gold Coast colony was carved out of many entities: the Gold Coast proper stretching from Ada to the Ivory Coast border, then the Upper Slave Coast, stretching from east of the Volta to Aflao, and later the Ashanti kingdom and the Northern Territories. The TVT, stretching from Ho to Upper East Region, was added to
create present Ghana.
You can see some are calling you a Togolese even though your name is also Mensah and you probably come from the Gold Coast Colony before Asante and the NT joined in 1946 under the Burns Const., the ONE DECLARED AS OUTMODED AT BIRTH.:-)
Andy-K
Asiwome 10 years ago
INFORMATIVE
INFORMATIVE
TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago
"the publication which must be compulsory reading for every Ghanaian student and the Brotherhood of Nitwits on Ghanaweb, "
hahahahaha.Andy,the nitwits made up their minds on Ghana`s history.
"the publication which must be compulsory reading for every Ghanaian student and the Brotherhood of Nitwits on Ghanaweb, "
hahahahaha.Andy,the nitwits made up their minds on Ghana`s history.
The Archivist 10 years ago
Many thanks, by the way, for the historical background you provided, referenced with sources.
Could you enlighten me a bit about the Ghanaians who hail from the Volta Region and bearing Akan names? (Famous among them is Dr ... read full comment
Many thanks, by the way, for the historical background you provided, referenced with sources.
Could you enlighten me a bit about the Ghanaians who hail from the Volta Region and bearing Akan names? (Famous among them is Dr Obed Asamoah, a past Foreign Minister). Is this due to Asante conquest of the natives of this area or due to a history of migration and settlement?
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
The Archivist,
I am surprised you didn't know about how some Akans got into the VR not more than 400-450 yrs ago but is so damn sure about their origins from ancient Wagadu 1500 yrs ago! Historiography has advanced to sci ... read full comment
The Archivist,
I am surprised you didn't know about how some Akans got into the VR not more than 400-450 yrs ago but is so damn sure about their origins from ancient Wagadu 1500 yrs ago! Historiography has advanced to scientific level and not just guess work, so every claim can be subjected to verification.
Anyway, Dr Obed Asamoah is not an Akan, as he is a Likpe man, one of the many autochthonous linguistic groups in the VR before the Ewes and Akans moved in and swamped them. There are over a dozen of them! Many have either Ewe or Akan names but it is just like how Guans in the Akan areas now have Akan names, and had even adopted Twi as their mother tongue.
Akans started moving into the VR long before the rise of the Asante Kingdom in 1700. Kwawus (Kwahus) were already in the proximity, especially in the Afram Plains, and so the new settlers started mixing with them. Then the Ahantas (Santrokofi) came in as fugitives. The Chokosi are also grouped as Akans and no doubt arrived very early as migrants. The Nkonyas, Akan names bearing Guans from Larteh, Akwapim, also came after the rise of Akwamu at Nyanoase which displaced them. Later the Akwamus also came as fugitives in 1730 after they were thrashed by the Ga-Akyem alliance. They came to dominate the middle of the VR or northern Eweland for a long time. The expansion of Asante forced many Akans to flee to the VR, from Tongu (the Denkyeras)to northern VR. In fact, to as far as Togo, e.g., the Akyems at Kpessi in Togo. The Asantes also came in later, expanding to northern VR and beyond.
After the defeat of Asante in the Sagrenti War in 1874, many of them remained in the VR and in Togo, since they had been their homes for generations.
That, in brief, is how people of Akan origins, are found in the VR and in Togo. More details later in a series I'd be unleasing pretty soon.
Andy-K
YB 10 years ago
Great. I wish you could have given more details.
Great. I wish you could have given more details.
Abrewanana 10 years ago
Andy,
Why do u say the name GHANA was "foisted" on us by JBD? At the time of our independence, what power did JBD have that he could (unilaterally) foist a new name on us? You appear knowledgeable, from ur writings, but u ... read full comment
Andy,
Why do u say the name GHANA was "foisted" on us by JBD? At the time of our independence, what power did JBD have that he could (unilaterally) foist a new name on us? You appear knowledgeable, from ur writings, but u have to choose ur word carefully.
Napari 10 years ago
i suggest you do more research on the subject for i was made to understand the mole group of tribes are descendants of the ancient Ghana
i suggest you do more research on the subject for i was made to understand the mole group of tribes are descendants of the ancient Ghana
The Archivist 10 years ago
First of all, the location of the ancient Ghana Empire was in an area roughly between modern, southeastern Mauritania and western Mali.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Empire)
Osagyefo is credited with enacting the n ... read full comment
First of all, the location of the ancient Ghana Empire was in an area roughly between modern, southeastern Mauritania and western Mali.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Empire)
Osagyefo is credited with enacting the name change and making it reality but J.B. Danquah is said to have first mooted the idea.
Second, I could care less about any Western-fabricated mythologies that German and other historical imperialist powers who were involved in the partition of Africa might be disseminating these days and swallowed hook, line and sinker by the likes of you. Nothing new - the history Egypt and the Great Wall of Zimbabwe, to mention a few, were separated from the African race for so long and with all kinds of theories! We're just not supposed to be connected to anything fabulous, right?
It is no secret that the vast majority of African peoples do not have a written language and history is preserved through an oral tradition. The oral history of the Akan people of modern-day Ghana speaks of an epic flight from the ancient empire of Ghana, led by 3 leaders: Oburumankoma, Osun, and Odapagyan. No amount of Western education will ever lead me to disbelieve the history of MY people passed on from generation to generation. Thank you, very, very much. No German sausages for me!
"A trip down history lane would disclose that the name Ghana was given to present day Ghana by Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah at independence in 1957"---Mensah Dekportor
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That is not true
Ken
So,what is true?
"Wo Maame Twe Kankan" is true.
Oh,your prostitute mother with her rotten pussy is true. Kwasea Aboafonu.
Please exercise some decorum. What example are you setting for our future leaders if our arguments are based on foul language and lack of facts. Note if you answer to no one at all you answer to God.
please it time for us to think about issues before we open our dirty mouth to insult the writer who intended to bring important issue on the table to be debate on. frankly speaking it is time for us to think. please have you ...
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if it is not true why do you not state the 'truth'? Or is it because you know it is true and you do not want to go into details and r just mis leading the public? A person who knows the truth, after making such a comment wi ...
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we need more education abt d real history if d nation
SO FAR AS GHANA HISTORY IS CONCERNED SOMEBODY LIKE YOU LAZY EWE MENSAH DEKPOTOR IS A TOGOLESE.
DO YOU BLOODY TOGOLESE WANT TO TELL GHANAIANS OUR HISTORY? "KWASEA" GO AND TELL YOUR LAZY TROKOSI PEOPLE TO FIND WORK TO DO.
Oh my friend. This is really uncalled for. All our ancestors came from one place or the other. Imagine what many of you would say if some white Americans embark on a crusade against Barack Obama because of his African root. H ...
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YB! GO AN PREACH ON THE STREETS ABOUT THE GOODNESS OF THE NDC AND STOP YOUR NONSENSE HERE ON THE PLATFORM, KWASEA!
This is not about politics, contrary to your stupid mind. And for your information, I don't support the NDC. In fact I think the NDC is cursed and any person that supports it commits evil against himself and Ghanaians. And yo ...
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NO MATTER WHICH PARTY YOU BELONGS, YOU SOUNDS LIKE A FOOL AND I AM COCK SURE YOU ARE.
You don`t have to be a Ghanaian to know Ghana`s history.If have a bigger brain like Mensah Dekportor you can study any country`s history.
You see,the Togolese man is telling you your history.
ABOAFONU.
"You don't have to be a Ghanaian to know Ghana's history" "OFFUI" compare the development of Trokosi Volta with Akanland to see who has a bigger brain.
Kwaseakwa.hahahahaha.Development my clean ass.Take a look at your regional capital and stop telling us about development.The so-called garden city is now A SHITY CITY.
KWASEA.
I must say Sir you are displaying your ignorance. If it happened that the Volta Region was maintain as Togoland I would have seconded but it happens that we have akans and others there too. People make sacrifices that many wo ...
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Ghana has become so cheap a nation that a foreigners, Togolese Trokosi squatters are writing our history for us. I don't blame this trokosi writer but Asiedu Nketia,s NDC
The writer does not know the history of Ghana. The historically constituted conditions of his own appendaged inclusion in the experiment Ghana has been a 'putative' miasma of no small proportions, such as the presences of JJR ...
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You see,anyone with a super brain can write any country`s history like Mensah Dekportor.
Your brain is so small to even know that people go to school to study history.
KWASEAKWA.
Ignorance and illiteracy they say are forms of disease and sheer jealousy can never help change a fact no matter how it is distorted.
You and this ignorant semi-literate writer obviously know nothing at all about the hist ...
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Hear! Hear!!
It wasn't too long ago when the great mind, Oyokoba, gave a discourse similar to what you've given. This Dekpotor guy is surely mis-educating the uneducated. I hope he finds time to read ur response, Kwasi.
A foreigner with super brain is only good to do my carpentry work and not lecture me on who my family were
A carpentry work is for people with brain and a DOG CHAIN seller like you can`t do it.
That`s a fact.
KWASEAKWA.
When you forfeit your Language you looses your Culture as well. What did you expect by Imposing someone else's Language upon yourself as official Language?
Teaching and Training the Population with their own given Tongue ...
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Mensah are you sure there is no historical link between present day Ghana and Old Ghana. Do more research on this and come back.
arrant nonsense. this guy spend his time to write this?
Why don't you counter his assertions with your version so that we know you use your time usefully? Can we not argue or comment at all without being insulting?
Yes, so sad the history of Ghana is no longer taught in our schools. The powers that be in their myopic visions think it is irrelevant. You cannot instil any meaningful sense of patriotism in the youth if they do not know the ...
read full comment
I thought I would share with you a little-known, never-taught bit of ironic historical fact, regarding the defeat of the Asante Empire. The defeat of the Asante Empire in the 4th (and last) Anglo-Asante War appears to have be ...
read full comment
You just mixed two historical events: the Akatamansu War of 1826 (Gatling guns/rockets) and the Sagrenti War of 1874 (West Indian and Hausan troops from Nigeria).
These are no secrets but most important parts of the histor ...
read full comment
Ancient Ghana is similar to present Ghana in the following ways: abundance of gold deposits, majority of ethnic groups practising the matrilineal system of inheritance, ancient Ghana was the first of the western Sudanese stat ...
read full comment
An islamic empire that was properous in present Sudan in the middle ages was called Ghana
I hope Mr. Dekportor will be humble enough to read the factual responses to his piece and come back with an apology - for his mis-education of the ignorami.
Wow! Now this is what I call argument with facts. Everyone reads it, and appreciates it and learns something new. Thanks Sawyerr and Peter.
Mensah,
Most Ghanaians certainly don't know their history. It appears you don't know much too, as what you left out of your piece indicates. Your veering into the occult, with the name Ghana having a possible effect on ou ...
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INFORMATIVE
"the publication which must be compulsory reading for every Ghanaian student and the Brotherhood of Nitwits on Ghanaweb, "
hahahahaha.Andy,the nitwits made up their minds on Ghana`s history.
Many thanks, by the way, for the historical background you provided, referenced with sources.
Could you enlighten me a bit about the Ghanaians who hail from the Volta Region and bearing Akan names? (Famous among them is Dr ...
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The Archivist,
I am surprised you didn't know about how some Akans got into the VR not more than 400-450 yrs ago but is so damn sure about their origins from ancient Wagadu 1500 yrs ago! Historiography has advanced to sci ...
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Great. I wish you could have given more details.
Andy,
Why do u say the name GHANA was "foisted" on us by JBD? At the time of our independence, what power did JBD have that he could (unilaterally) foist a new name on us? You appear knowledgeable, from ur writings, but u ...
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i suggest you do more research on the subject for i was made to understand the mole group of tribes are descendants of the ancient Ghana
First of all, the location of the ancient Ghana Empire was in an area roughly between modern, southeastern Mauritania and western Mali.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Empire)
Osagyefo is credited with enacting the n ...
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