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"Awoonor Was a Nation-Wrecker," Says Rawlings

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  • Jack 10 years ago

    Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe is sick and useless.

  • Mozato 10 years ago

    Mills Ghost will hunt all the evil dwarfs who sacrifice him to pave way for Mahama to rig the 2012! Election.

  • Franky 10 years ago

    This man Okoampa is equivalent to Fox news reporter bill Oreilly and Sean Hanity. The entire Fox news machinery is anti Obama, anti minority and stands for far right KKK supremacist views. Okomapa like Sean Hanity and Bill Or ...
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  • oyinasky 10 years ago

    You are so right Frank.

  • Symbiosis 10 years ago

    Poor old Okoampa. Isnt there anybody on his side out there who can counsel him? Ive said it before that the man has some sado-masochistic tendencies which must be closely diagnosed for his own safety and sake.

    He has lost ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Okoampa is sick and has nothing to do with the Akyem culture . This man is crude, envious and bitter

  • Mike Olongo, USA 10 years ago

    Franky, you don't have to be this mad. Either Okoampah is too young or too stupid to know the difference between the good and the bad. In his warped mind he epitomizes the real nation-wrecker, traitor and murderer J B Danquah ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    Is it necessary to keep on insulting the dead? Why did you not take him on while he was here with us? What a coward.

    Arthur-K is looking for your sorry ass. I like that fight, but as coward as you are, you can't even menti ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    MR AHO-OTAN, AS AN ENGLISH LECTURER YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE DEFENCE IN "PNDC"IS SPELT WITH "C" AS IN BRITISH ENGLISH AND NOT "S" AS IN AMERICAN DODGY SPELLINGS.THE BRITS TAUGHT YOU ENGLISH FIRST PRIOR TO YOU SETTING FOOT IN ...
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  • Joy 10 years ago

    I dont agree with what Okoampa-Ahoofe is saying (or has been saying) about Prof Awoonor. But then I have never agreed with this guy in the past concerning Nkrumah's and Danquah's legacies in our nation. Needless to say, I kne ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    College SUNY, is this one of yours? Good Gracious!!!

  • Oh-Andy -K 10 years ago

    Well, Awoonor himself is also a product of SUNY, not any Ivy League, ok?

  • Future Judge 10 years ago

    This man is mad. If a person is mad and never gets treated, he becomes crazy if the craziness is not treated,it turns into psychosis.....lol. I don't want to waste my time to write anything....grow and die in your foolishness ...
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  • NPP Disillusioned Desperadoes 10 years ago

    This is madman's inordinate hatred for another that has transported him to the lowest levels of depravity.

    Someone help near him help him seek admission into a mental hospital for treatment.

  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    He is a big fool and who can only win deprived brains to follow him to walk the empty Walk to Kigali because his uncle, Mr. certicateless and Affidavit third class from the Univ of Ghana Legon also wanna rule Ghana???? Its an ...
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  • Torgbui Vokuabi Adrokpanya III 10 years ago

    You are not only a Sick and useless APE,you are as UGLY as your name is.
    UNEDUCATED ZEALOT and a FOOL

  • AA 10 years ago

    THE TRUTH HURTS HA!

  • ERICA TR 10 years ago

    I thought you would read the article and and challenge on facts and ideas. Hollow minds prefer to use insults the way you have done. Nothing but insults? Why countryman? 1. Sick? 2 "sicker"? (own creation)3. "sickest"? (own c ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Now, this is becoming boring. Some of us have teased out Awonoor's greatness and weakness as a Ghanaian. It is time to let go this efforts at killing an ant with a hammer!

  • Adzo 10 years ago

    Touché Akadu Mensema!!!

  • Nana Hakim 10 years ago

    Hi Akadu,

    Where have you been hibernating? Still doing it under the cover of darkness to augment your income? What happened to YOU AND NPP CASE THAT WENT BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT? Yes, don't you and NPP FOOLS expect to win ...
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  • Awura Ama 10 years ago

    Who cares about this your accolade, ooh give me a break to breath.Our going to court has educated you and people of your sort.Every day for thief man one day for master.Have a good night sleep.

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Hey, we all come here to express opinions that are free and unconstrained! I wrote something you did not like and it does mean that you should hate me by tagging negative views about whatever I write. That is vsceral hatred!

  • Sammy 10 years ago

    Akadu, you should have been aware of the culture Okoampa, your pas is coming from. They dwell, breath, and survives on the life of been litigants and gangsterism

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    I don't have any iron-clad perspectives on Okoampa! If I find what is good about his ideas, I praise him, if not I critique his works. Most of you don't even read, the mere name Okoampa sends shudders through your body and pu ...
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  • Joni 10 years ago

    Even Akadu who has no love for Awoonor and Ewes says it's enough! After all the man is dead and at a ripe age too. 78 is an okay age to go. Many don't live to that age... He's gone, why contnue hitting him?

  • joe BOYE 10 years ago

    you are all lost in bitterness,dizzy and confused in stupidity,why didn't you guys attack or question him'(AWOONOR the great)'of tribalism?COWARDS DIES MANY TIMES...what happens to a dog which chases its tail?('will surly fee ...
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  • joe BOYE 10 years ago

    l like this sent by a guy to this site, that'GREAT MEN DON'T DIE'!..."SUPERMAN and ROBIN HOOD are still alive in hollywood so shall AWOONOR also be alive in academia...million true.

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    I have said what I wanted to say about Awonoor: he was a bigot and a fine poet! That was my opinion. I just rey to be objective and write about things we know but are uncomfortable addressing!

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Yours is as much an opinion as Ahoofe!

  • fordjour KORKOR Romantic 10 years ago

    you are just useless like shit,a wasted product of Ghana...sub-human

  • Ayanya 10 years ago

    Why didn't you bring your trokosi name? Is it because no one can pronounce it? Inferiority complex to the highest degreee.

  • fordjour KORKOR Romantic 10 years ago

    listen to a sick cow,calling everybody inferior.FOOL,l am not an ewe to use an ewe."ABRUTIR"

  • Roger Crawford 10 years ago

    Oh Kwame, i like your colorful language but I think you are off base.Lets get together at Adelphi Canteen and talk. See you soon.

  • srome 10 years ago

    Pls Mr. Roger when you get together with kwame can you please ask him what exactly does he intends to contribute to society when he writes articles full of such intense hate? and report back the result, thanks.

  • PKA 10 years ago

    Advise your "friend" to watch his language. He recently used the "N" word in referring to a Ghanaian doctor based in South Carolina. People who visit this website can't fathom why a college professor uses such vulgar languag ...
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  • LAWFELLAS 10 years ago

    I DON'T KNOW WHICH LUNATIC ASYLUM THEY RELEASED THIS OKOAMPA FROM. HE IS MENTALLY SICK.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    The jerk is indeed ravingly mad!

    Everything you threw at Awoonor will backfire at you! On a daily, you blokes provide more evidence to back what he wrote against! Just continue what Busia and the PP, and others after them ...
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  • Dungeon Master 10 years ago

    I am not sure if calling you stupid is an understatement. Obviously you read this essay authored by a "lunatic," and it made enough sense to rile your fragile emotional sensibility. Keep foaming at the mouth!

  • painkiller 10 years ago

    And is your own sensibility so deadened that you can't recognize evil lunacy when you see one? Keep standing there, staring at the headlights.

  • KOLA,LONDON MAIN 10 years ago

    'Piankiller you go killi meooooo!'.. You know that idiotic illiterate,Dungeon Master, also Sarpong Justice can no longer use his illiteracy name.

    But you responded to him well though couldn't control myself in laughter whe ...
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  • Dungeon Master 10 years ago

    I just notified your owners to never remove your leash again.

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Hahahaha, that is funny. Did that illiterate get the message you just called him a dog?

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Dummy, the guy said headlights and not street lights. You call somebody illiterate but you did not get the implication of what Painkiller meant when he urged the guy to keep staring at the headlights. Headlights are the light ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    Most of the time Kola doesn't understand what he reads.

  • Dungeon Master 10 years ago

    Seriously, l don't think l possess the requisite linguistic skills to describe what ails you. How on earth could l subject myself to calibrate the mental health of someone who raves mad at the words of a "lunatic"? As a prod ...
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  • painkiller 10 years ago

    Oh! So now i am the lunatic, hey? Too insignificant to register on your exalted trokosi-detecting intellectual radar? My dear Dungeongbese Lisa, why are you treating me thus? It can only be because your sensibilities have die ...
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  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    Kofi Awoonor was obviously a great son of Ghana with great accomplishments but our thick tribal lenses would not let many of us see anything but evil of this illustrious son of our republic.Let this great Ghanaian be a uniter ...
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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    Okoampa is a dirty tribalist!! His anti-Ewe sentiments are carefully watched!! His evil plan against the Ewes would not wash!! Does he know how his end will be as an Akan high Priest!! As a "Professor" in a community High Sch ...
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  • YAW MENSAH 10 years ago

    ...to eat a mad dog,you will end up hopeless like this sub human!

  • PAUL 10 years ago

    I do agree with you - this guy is a piece of shit

  • KBL 10 years ago

    ANOTHER FOOL LIKE ADOFO ROCKSON. IF USA SHOULD TRAIN AND MAINTAIN SUCH SO CALLED PROFESORS THEN I WILL NOT ALLOW MY CHILD TO SCHOOL THERE. AH MAY BE HE IS MAD

  • AKASI MARTHA NZEMA 10 years ago

    TRULY, TRULY, TRULY AND TRULY, RAWLINGS HAS SAVED THE NZEMAS FROM KWAME OKOAMPA -AHOOFE AND ASANTE/AKYIM, WE DON'T HEAR KANKA NYAME AND NZEMA EBAYIE. NOW THE ANGER IS ON EWES. KWAME NKRUMAH AS IF YOU NEW EWES APPRECIATE YOUR ...
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  • SENIOR CITIZEN 10 years ago

    YOUR WRITINGS DO NOT REFLECT A TRUE HOLDER OF A PH.D DEGREE. PLEASE, BE PROACTIVE IN YOUR ASSESSMENTS.

  • RastafaraI 10 years ago

    you know you cannot do that in new york...where are values America taught you

  • APEETOOO 10 years ago

    EVERY ONE WILL KNOW THAT THE THINKING OKUAMPA, A PHD HOLDER DOES NOT COME CLOSE TO THAT OF AWOONOO, ALSO A PHD HOLDER.

  • sosa 10 years ago

    LETS CALL SPADE A SPADE. KWAME IS 100 PERCENT RIGHT. KOFI AWOONOR WAS A COLD KILLER. HE ASSISTED RAWLINGS TO KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE FOR OWNING 2 TOILETS IN THEIR HOMES ALL BECAUSE OF JEALOUSY. LET'S FACE IT THAT EWES ARE VERY J ...
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  • KWADZO 10 years ago

    I THINK THE MADNESS HAS GONE BEYOND OKUAMPA

  • Joni 10 years ago

    Some of Okoampa's distaste for Awoonor may be pure literary jealousy. Awoonor is far more acclaimed as a poet that Okoampa and it hurts the New York teacher. Okoampa cannot say that he is a better creative writer that Awoonor ...
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  • mokobi teacher 10 years ago

    don;t even compare ahoofe to to those holding a masters in english from ghana. some years back, he was writing the most horrible english you could ever think of on ghanaweb. thanks to corrections made by readers- he has impro ...
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  • Ekuma 10 years ago

    Jealousy, bitterness , envy and trumulogy will send Okoampa 'Ahooyaa' to an early grave.

    Prof Awoonor is better than Okoampa in all aspects. Nonsense

  • APEETOOO 10 years ago

    COMPARE OKUAMPA(PHD HOLDER) TO LATE AWOONOO(PHD HOLDER.

  • tundele 10 years ago

    articles like these by this renegade akyem plebian led to Akuffo Addo's defeat.

  • Symbiosis 10 years ago

    Indeed for some of us we just need to encurage Okoampa to continue writing his articles and even putting it in the Daily Graphic so as to solicit the disenchantment of Ghanaians against the NPP.

    We also need a similar char ...
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  • ame 10 years ago

    you need to be shot in the head

  • jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 10 years ago

    Professor in a community college, stop poluting the young minds. What is the meaning of Trokosi?

  • Ghanabi. 10 years ago

    Okoampa is a disgrace to Ghana, to his tribe, to his Alma Mater, to his profession, and to the so called college where he claims to be a professor. He is an idiot, a buffoon and a crook. Shame on him. He is poisoning the mind ...
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  • KWADZO 10 years ago

    YOU ARE TOTALLY A DISGRACE TO YOUR NATION AND YOUR FAMILY

  • sammy 10 years ago

    This is becoming unbecoming!

  • Pancho 10 years ago

    He was mean and wicked to his wives. Go and do your research. This man is evil. He can write all the book in the world. Yes he's an academician but when it comes to real life he was mean and wicked.

  • Pee 10 years ago

    YES I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.THE GHOSTS OF YEARS PAST ARE ON A REVENGE MISSION.THE TSIKATAS AND RAWLINGS SHOULD BE WONDERING WHERE AND WHEN THEIRS WILL COME.NATURE CANNOT BE CHEATED. THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE GUN DIE BY THE GUN . ...
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  • PAUL 10 years ago

    very stupid

  • Kwaa Atta.(USA). 10 years ago

    Okoampa Kwasia Gyimi Gyimi.

  • Harrison 10 years ago

    Awoonor is somebody revered all over the world; this is not the time for you to try to smear him. I can recall I ever wrote to ask that: what kind of example are you showing to the students you teach in New York? You are ...
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  • Neutralman 10 years ago

    Is this Ahoofeman educated at all?.
    He is alwways writing nonsense. He is a tribalist. Ghana does not need his type.

  • no 10 years ago

    jealous of your ugly black monkey faces. God forbid

  • BADU 10 years ago

    nobody knows you as someone who can write books like every school child know Awoonor your aticles cannot change that and we Ghanaians are proud of Awoonor.Mr. PHD try to make a name in the history of literature !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...
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  • mohammed 10 years ago

    You are a liar. grow up.

  • Abudu 10 years ago

    I suspect you're one of those guys who went to US through 'comsor'. Your articles don't make sense and your English very difficult to understand. I believe you teach the English in a school full of immigrants.

  • JustWantToBE 10 years ago

    This writer writes a lot, a prolific writer who uses words in a grandiose style... never mind the accuracy of his English, his narcissistic ethnocentric inclinations!!He places sensationalism above decency and reason. Each ti ...
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  • Samuel Osei-Tutu 10 years ago

    Dear Readers of Dr Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe's articles, please it be known that this man does not speak for Akans. First as a Ghanaia and second as an Akan, I distant myself from his utterances.

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    The Lunatic simply cannot represent the views of right thinking Akans

  • Sylvanus Agbemenyah 10 years ago

    I shared your fear. Mostly,

  • NICHOLAS 10 years ago

    It is very disgusting that people like Okoampa Ahoofe and his likes seemed to be celebrating over the death of Prof Kofi-Awoonor.For all intents and purposes,such a bad behaviour should not have come from a person who is supp ...
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  • BLACKMAN 10 years ago

    When Kofi Awonoor and his Mafia Ewes celebrated the dead of Afrifa, Acheampong and CO plus the 3 high court judges Where were you? NICHOLAS???.Okoampa is exposing the truth, the diabolical intentions of the architects of the ...
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  • Actionman 10 years ago

    Foolish boy!

  • Akwasi 10 years ago

    Mental health problems are real. Please, if you live near Okoampa-Ahoofe and you are his friend or relative you need to take him to the nearest psychiatric hospital. He is shooting with words now, what will happen when he get ...
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  • Sam 10 years ago

    Hi Fella,
    If you do not know, I want to tell you that Rawlings is the mentally derranged man in Ghana in presently. Go and take him to a mental hospital. All that Okoampa is saying is true. You seems to be an Ewe, wait until ...
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  • Apok 10 years ago

    okoampa, you are a hate journalist and i dissent you.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Akadu a Construction worker on the 5th floor of a building needed a handsaw. So he spots Ahoofe another worker on the ground floor and yells down to him, but he can't hear him. So Akadu the worker on the 5th floor tries sign ...
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  • painkiller 10 years ago

    Hahahaha. This is rich! i hope you're building a collection of your jokes for publication one day, each joke preceded by a brief description of the context!

  • Ekuma 10 years ago

    Okoampa 'Ahooyaa' , would u be surprised if a Ghanaian one day head the White House , just like Obama from Kenya is President of the US ?

    Ur tribal Nonsense will send u to an early grave . Fool . Why are u so bitter ? I ...
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  • SANKOFA 10 years ago

    THIS FUCKING TRIBAL BIGOT "EDUCATED" FOOL OKOAMPA-AHOOFE HAS NEVER, NEVER WRTTTEN ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT OTHER TRIBES PEOPLE IN GHANA.

    AHOOFE IS SO DUMB AND TRIBALISTIC THAT HE DOES'T SEEM TO SEE ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT OTHER TRI ...
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  • SANKOFA 10 years ago

    THIS FUCKING TRIBAL BIGOT "EDUCATED" FOOL OKOAMPA-AHOOFE HAS NEVER, NEVER WRTTTEN ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT OTHER TRIBES PEOPLE IN GHANA.

    AHOOFE IS SO DUMB AND TRIBALISTIC THAT HE DOESN'T SEEM TO SEE ANYTHING GOOD ABOUT OTHER T ...
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  • RC-Truth 10 years ago

    Sankofa,I just finished reading both your contributions,and am just as appalled. Is that all you can contribute to the discourse?
    Look around you and tell me if EWES are not overly holding key positions than any other trib ...
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  • painkiller 10 years ago

    You jump from critizing that lunatic composer of doomsday articles, to the conclusion that "most Akans are primitive fools"!! i'm sure you know what that makes you, right?! First, remove the log from your own eye.

  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    For almost a century, a figure bof speech, people have commented on this lunatic and hater of the Ewes!! Remove the timber log from your dirty eyes before you talk of others!! Why wouldn't you wait till people associate anyth ...
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  • painkiller 10 years ago

    The great Dumegah Birempong Prosper has spoken! Normally i should fall silent in the presence of one on whom such ignorant greatness has been thrust! But alas i can't suffer those who call others tribalistic while displaying ...
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  • painkiller 10 years ago

    "...and other artificial constructions..."

  • Nabeenu 10 years ago

    Awoonor,there is a God and we will all face him oneday.You will have no where to hide then

  • mimi 10 years ago

    Is this man really correct?

  • AUDI Q5 10 years ago

    Your vile, putrid and sickening attack on a dead man is not only cowardly but quite normal for a mad dog. What a pathetic, odious and vile specimen you're!

  • Kodjo 10 years ago

    Who is this FOOL???

  • Koku 10 years ago

    With your PHD you have demonstrated how worthless your qualification is to the people of Ghana. What a shame Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe.

  • Kontoa 10 years ago

    Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe's presentation and description of life and death of Kofi Awoonor's death need to be digested with care. Much is invested in the article that needs harvesting. At my very late age and haven experienced man ...
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  • A Coleman 10 years ago

    Will u ever shutttttt up for a minute. Just sick of u and those biased and useless articles. Had enough of.

  • Dickson Andrews Danquah USA 10 years ago

    The Evil Ahoofe is a sick man who thinks he knows everything about people would one day pay dearly. I don't know why you are always hiding here in Newyork and refused to go to Ghana and talk like the way you always open your ...
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  • john ansah 10 years ago

    THIS IS EVIL, WHY SPECULATE ON STATEMENT THAT PEOPLE MAKE?

  • Big Jay 10 years ago

    Weldone,Al-Shabab.Please target the so called revolutionalists who killed innocent Ghanaians in the name of a bogus revolution from 1979 to 2001 in Ghana.
    Let all of them die in a similar manner as their mentor Kofi Awoonor. ...
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  • focus 10 years ago

    All that I'm saying is "what ever goes around, comes around."

  • ERICA TR 10 years ago

    Okoampah's article has disturbed those with little minds. These critics are not reading the article but the mere criticism of the late poet has made them restless. Who does not know the involvement of the late poet in the po ...
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  • Kofi Asante 10 years ago

    i did not need to read article.sorry, i don't have lazy brain like okoampa

  • Show boy 10 years ago

    You fool pass awoonor

  • christian brotherhood 10 years ago

    Rawlings must not let this fool go unpunished

  • Alfred 10 years ago

    Why do u remain faceless n continue to exhibit your ignoramus trait?Have u studied the works of tribalistic bigot adu buahene when he stupidly portrayed Ghana as an akan nation?Come out with your real identity n stop poluting ...
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  • Joseph 10 years ago

    Villager in the USA with PH D
    He mental case and a problem to the AKans
    He lives Lives in stone age with his quack PhD
    A disgrace to we the Akyems

  • Atsu 10 years ago

    Dr ahoofe...you don't know Prof Awoonor very well..after reading your tribalistic and demeaning rant..one come to conclusion that you have so much hate in you and you have choosen this sad moment to express your negative view ...
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  • Atsu 10 years ago

    Prof Ahoofe..you have chosen a wrong time to condemn Prof Awoonor...and I think you have misquoted President Rawlings..this is a time to mourn not to condemn..why not say all these when the man was alive..it seemed you had so ...
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  • VAQ 10 years ago

    KOFI AWOONOR WAS A SUNY AT STONY BROOK ENGLISH TEACHER WAY BACK IN 1968. AHOOFE TEACHES ENGLISH AT A NASSAU COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE? A SENIOR STATE UNIVERSITY VERSUS A COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHERE AHOO ...
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  • Prof Botswana 10 years ago

    Okoampa ! I feel sad when I read your articles. I can just imagine the frustration and how nasty you might have been looking by now.

  • TROUBLE-MAKER 10 years ago

    Why you did not die at birth baffles me.Your WHORE mother should have drowned you right there to end your miserable life.
    You are nothing but a disgrace to the human race.
    Animal has sense than you.

  • Chief 10 years ago

    Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe don't be silly, stop that stup*d and idiot*c statements instead of you to concentrate on how to feed your useless family, you choose to pour such statemnt about Rawlings hey wherever you find yourself on ...
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