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The Politics of Ethnicity

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  • MUGU YARO 10 years ago

    You stated that "Under the Mills administration the five regions cheated were Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Central, Eastern, and Western. Ashanti received 6.9% of appointments despite having 19.5% of the population. Brong Ahafo, wit ...
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  • Che 10 years ago

    Whoever did this work needs to go back to school. If it was done by a research center, that center should be closed down immediately. You work is woefully inadequate and I will give a grade of F. Your motive is not genuine. Y ...
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  • Theo 10 years ago

    Infact Ghanaweb is a refuse dump meant for shit like this. A research indeed!

  • Plumber 10 years ago

    The premises on which this study was done is wrong. I don't know who approved or supervised this kind of skewed study. First of all Ghana is not running a unity Govt, so if a region like Volta Region with 10% of the populatio ...
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  • Mensah 10 years ago

    If these people reported the reverse with Volta Region getting fewer appointments than their percentage population you will be posting trash here in response.

  • AMINA 10 years ago

    What do you mean by competence over mediocrity? Atta Mills government was the most incompetent we've ever had in history, is it because the region he chose most were not competent?there is a saying that kwatrikwa s3 obema wo ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    Extremely deceptive write-up! Lacking in data and analysis!

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Akans vs non Akans,Gas vs Ewes,Mamprusis vs Dagombas,Chinese immigrants vs natives,northern Ghana vs southern Ghana....eish,Ghana i tell you is a very divided country.Yet here i was believing the int'l media that Kenya was t ...
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  • CHARITY 10 years ago

    GHANA IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE INFERIORITY COMPLEX OF SOME OF THE ETHNIC GROUPS IN GHANA. THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM INFERIORITY COMPLEX ALWAYS ACCUSE OTHERS OF SUPERIORITY COMPLEX. ALL THE ETHNIC GROUPS IN GHANA MUST BE PROUD ...
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  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

    CHARITY YOU RIGHT EVEN EX PRESIDENT KUFOUR, THE SAHWI MAN MUST BE PROUD OF HIS ETHNIC IDENTITY FOR THE HISTORY SAKE.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    It's not just NPP-NDC. I remember a students' group from the North, appealing to Mills to appoint a VC from the North for University of Devt Studies. They forgot that people from the North are given positions in schools in th ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    I think this study reflects a politics of regionalism more than ethnicity. There are so many ethnic groups comprising each region of Ghana. It would have been better for you to use the ethnic origins of the appointees in orde ...
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  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    I bet 90 percent of Mills appointees from the Volta Region were EWes. Trying hard to defend the indefensible. Your propaganda machine keeps telling Ghanaians that Kufuor Asantesized Ghana to the exclusion of other tribes. No ...
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  • MR ODI ASEMPA 10 years ago

    WHAT A BOGUS RESEARCH,EVEN YOUR TITLE IS WRONG.IF IT IS A CASE OF ETHNICITY THEN KUFFOUR WOULD HAVE APPOINTED MORE ASHANTIS...LIKEWISE MILLS,MORE FANTIS.CHECK TONY BLAIRS GOV MINISTERS AND SEE HOW MANY WERE SCOTS.SCOTLAND HAS ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    It is a good thing that bets are not scientific despite the calculation of odds. So your bet on Ewes being 90% of appointees from the VR is just that, a gamble! If these people had done their research properly, there would ha ...
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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 10 years ago

    Thanks for your insights. can you point me to the 1930 article you mentioned?

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    I wish I could. It was a small pamphlet, not an article. I think the British Library at St Pancras or so here in the UK would have it. I found it in our school library way back in the 1970s, one of the best in the whole of Gh ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Upon second thought, here is one book you can easily get from a good library in these parts since you are interested in finding out yourself about these things. It is a scholarly comparative study of poverty in the Third Worl ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 10 years ago

    Andy, I agree with you that the research is more of regionalism than politics of ethnicity. In addition to the ethnic compositions of each region not being homogeneous, I do hope the research did not rely on the names of mini ...
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  • Apatupr3 10 years ago

    Do you know the actual ethnic make-up of populous regions like Ashanti and G/A regions? I see this is only a cover to generate an unnecessary debate about tribal politics in this country at this time,nothing more!
    Look, anyb ...
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  • Mahomet 10 years ago

    This is a study as the author claims. If you doubt the authenticity of the data say so; else it really illuminates.
    It is technical and academic studies that can determine which of the 2 big parties is more ethnocentric, not ...
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  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    Use your head .Are you saying it is possible that Asantes are minority in Ashanti region , and you call a ministerial appointment nominal ?

  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    Ethnic statistics of the current NDC will even be more skewed in favor of one Region than that of Uncle Atta. Check the list of 250 students sent to Cuba to study medicine .

  • Create, loot and share 10 years ago

    Sure it will be skewed towards the Volta Region and they will justify it by saying that they were selected based on merit. These are crooks, having formed a cartel to ditch Ghanaians.

  • Kontopiaat 10 years ago

    Hogwash of a study, too simplistic and an exercise in futility which proves nothing. Which premise did you posit for this study, and what postulates, assumptions or hypothesis did you attempt to prove oer disprove? What instr ...
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  • JENGBERA JENGBE 10 years ago

    What is the real purpose of your effort?

  • Real Jones 10 years ago

    The writer's analysis are flawed from the start. The writer starts off by stating that they want to investigate ethnicity and immediately launch into comparing ministerial representation against population per region: these a ...
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  • Honestman 10 years ago

    Irrational study. Very useless

  • OSEI 10 years ago

    I am not sure of the COMPOSITION of your organisation but whatever it is, I believe you are far off the mark from your analysis!!!

    When you talk about POLITICS OF ETHNICITY but dwell on GOVERNMENT appointees, I find that N ...
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  • Germano 10 years ago

    I am hoping that the Government is aware of this research , and also 250 scholarships with only 6 Akans.

  • Create, loot and share 10 years ago

    Akans following evil NCc are digging graves for their own children. What a shame!

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Long live Akans.

  • TONY BENNEH 10 years ago

    ON NO OCCASION SHOULD WE ALLOWED TWO REGIONS TO RULE US. TO BE PRESIDENT OF GHANA ONE SHOULD WIN AT LEAST 6 - 7 OF THE TEN REGIONS OF GHANA