Sir you are in my opinion confused and articulate your position from a fundamentally fault position.Ples read Uurugu by Ani Marimba, and come back. The world as we have known till know or at least since European ascendency ... read full comment
Sir you are in my opinion confused and articulate your position from a fundamentally fault position.Ples read Uurugu by Ani Marimba, and come back. The world as we have known till know or at least since European ascendency is that you must defend your tuff no matter how bad it is. The simple truth is that we as Africans have failed to do so in many fronts and by many reason hence and attempt or epistemology to reclaim that not even to encroach on other peoples tuff is noble. All said and done this is the whole argument of Afrocentricity, It does not suppose that all is perfect with us ect
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago
I won't waste my time on a Johnny-come-lately who is also the descendant of refugees perching on my ancestral lands in Ghana. Maybe you can go to Harlem and The New York Amsterdam News and ask about me.
You, "a leader of a ... read full comment
I won't waste my time on a Johnny-come-lately who is also the descendant of refugees perching on my ancestral lands in Ghana. Maybe you can go to Harlem and The New York Amsterdam News and ask about me.
You, "a leader of all Ghanaians in Texas"? What is so new and great about that? I have gone far beyond such parochial self-adulation.
You are not in my class, not by any stretch of the imagination, so draw me into a situation you may not be able to handle. Deal with people of your own intellectual novice's level.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 10 years ago
Penultimate line should read: You are not in my class, not by any stretch of the imagination, so DON'T draw me into a situation that you may not be able to handle.
Penultimate line should read: You are not in my class, not by any stretch of the imagination, so DON'T draw me into a situation that you may not be able to handle.
Tommy 10 years ago
This is childish behaviour from two people in their 50s! Two mature man telling each other how better they are! I am this, I am that! I am better than you! I have done this, I've done that, you're not ma coequal!!! Mature peo ... read full comment
This is childish behaviour from two people in their 50s! Two mature man telling each other how better they are! I am this, I am that! I am better than you! I have done this, I've done that, you're not ma coequal!!! Mature people who really know who they never go about saying such things about themselves. This is shameful, if you ask me!
SAS shouldn't have mentioned any names in his attack. Okoampa shouldn't have responded in such a manner. Both childish behaviour!
Kojo T 10 years ago
Here comes egoistic Okoampa Tweaa " we are not in the same class" Sure you are . Both confused and egoistic
Here comes egoistic Okoampa Tweaa " we are not in the same class" Sure you are . Both confused and egoistic
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
Kwame,
You calling someone refugee descendant? How come your father saw Peki as his ancestral home, after your grandfather who was also born there?
You who can boast of descending from a daughter of a Kwadwo Dei. Ha! ha ... read full comment
Kwame,
You calling someone refugee descendant? How come your father saw Peki as his ancestral home, after your grandfather who was also born there?
You who can boast of descending from a daughter of a Kwadwo Dei. Ha! ha! ha! The wars were over so you went home, back to Kyebi, eh? What about those left behind to as far as in Togo?
Andy-K
steve 10 years ago
Most "Afrocentrists" are failed scholars. Their only survival in this world is to "use" their own people; this is reason why they try to create Afrocentric schools where they find themselves. Without that, they will amount to ... read full comment
Most "Afrocentrists" are failed scholars. Their only survival in this world is to "use" their own people; this is reason why they try to create Afrocentric schools where they find themselves. Without that, they will amount to nothing in life.
I thought okoampa has degree in literature and not Africans studies. He actually does not like those Afrocentrists.
Kosoko 10 years ago
Steve, can you mention one Afrocentrist who is a failed scholar? And tell us what and what he/she has failed in?
And let me remind you that the definitional articulation of 'culture' as spelled out in SAS's articles are n ... read full comment
Steve, can you mention one Afrocentrist who is a failed scholar? And tell us what and what he/she has failed in?
And let me remind you that the definitional articulation of 'culture' as spelled out in SAS's articles are no where near Afrocentric concepts. Also, no one knows Dr. Ahoofe and Dr. Mensema to be Afrocentric Scholars. As far as I know none of the two has published any work on Afrocentricity and none of them claims to be Afrocentrist. If he has personal issues with these two scholars let him find another channel. Please don't be like SAS by making claims you have no knowledge of. It wouldn't help anyone.
Brother 10 years ago
It will serve Ghanians better if you refuse to water these your egos. I have wasted my time. Thought something thoughtful and stimulating will come out of the seemingly good start.
It will serve Ghanians better if you refuse to water these your egos. I have wasted my time. Thought something thoughtful and stimulating will come out of the seemingly good start.
Ako 10 years ago
The tone of SAS write up today apart from the word animal in the opening paragraph makes for a refreshing reading. The competing claims by Afrocentric epidemiology and the school of thought that SAS represents can make their ... read full comment
The tone of SAS write up today apart from the word animal in the opening paragraph makes for a refreshing reading. The competing claims by Afrocentric epidemiology and the school of thought that SAS represents can make their claims dispassionately without resorting to the bellicose and aggressive stance initially adopted by SAS in his previous write ups.
Before accepting a culture acceptable to all,the various values of the world must be brought into the pot,regional identities must be respected and collated into the culture that SAS is talking about.
African culture can only have an input into world culture only when we come to the table with equal strength, mindful of our identity with something to contribute after making our argument and presentations. This is what Afrocentrism represent. Blacks and African should be given the opportunity to establish that African value and culture had already been making an input into the sum total of world civilization. Otherwise those who claim that Africa had not made any significant contribution to world history and civilization will prevail and marginalize us.
In international law, for a norm to be accepted as universally binding there must be evidence of a general practice accepted as law to all countries. This is generally determined through two factors: the general practice of states and what states have accepted as law. Generally most of these peremptory norms have been imposed on Africa through several subtleties like might and financial influence. The argument is that we also have rich values which can contribute to world culture.
Most of these International norms have also been criticized as fundamentally Western. Certainly, most international law is based on Western notions. If you look at the international child law for example even America is not a signatory because some of it is ridiculous. No wonder the Asian countries have not signed up to it. How can your child call you stupid because it is acceptable to western culture and that he should say no to you as an acceptable culture if you ask him or her not to go out at a certain time. No boundaries.
The breakdown of the family is because of our stupid adherence to foreign cultures which we term civilized as initially portrayed in SAS write ups. This is what African culture stands against and we must be given the chance to make our contribution to whatever is in that pot called by SAS as a world culture and civilization.
Ako 10 years ago
Substitute epidemiology for epistemology.
Substitute epidemiology for epistemology.
Kojo T 10 years ago
But what is western culture and are the cultures the same? They came to Africa and condemned us as being naked but now they have nudist colonies and claim that is civilization They have imposed their religions on us and say o ... read full comment
But what is western culture and are the cultures the same? They came to Africa and condemned us as being naked but now they have nudist colonies and claim that is civilization They have imposed their religions on us and say ours are primitive. Now we even despise our own foods resulting in us having to import what we eat . Talking about going back to our roots means accepting who and what we are and so developing them
Kwesi 10 years ago
Kojo Tamakloe, are you saying nudist colony cannot be civilization? On what grounds can you say that? What disqualifies it from being part of civilization? Are you not making the same mistake of using your standard/values to ... read full comment
Kojo Tamakloe, are you saying nudist colony cannot be civilization? On what grounds can you say that? What disqualifies it from being part of civilization? Are you not making the same mistake of using your standard/values to judge them as they also did in using theirs to judge us?
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Hello,
How are you? I just finished reading your article.
Unfortunately, the more I read your essays on Afrocentricity, the more convinced I get that you have no grasp of the subject. I am serious. In fact, so far, not ... read full comment
Hello,
How are you? I just finished reading your article.
Unfortunately, the more I read your essays on Afrocentricity, the more convinced I get that you have no grasp of the subject. I am serious. In fact, so far, nothing you have written about Afrocentricity technically has to do with the subject of Afrocentricity. It has to do with something else I can't simply place my finger on.
First, Afrocentrists spend part of their social, political, and intellectual lives fighting racism and ethnocentrism. I promise you that you will never find a single Afrocentrist in the entire world promoting one ethnic group over another, as in Africa, say, or one race over another, as in America. Second, Afrocentric scholars are heavyweights in the American academy.
Afrocentrists argue for ethnic/racial equality wherever you find. Therefore, I am at a complete lost reading your serial articles. My Ghanaweb articles should tell you how much intellectual effort I have spent on promoting ethnic harmony in Africa in general and Ghana in particular. Why? Because I am an Afrocentrist. Afrocentric theory does not teach people to hate.
Afrocentricity simply says "charity begins at home." It's why some White-American scholars love the theory. That is, building our African communities, improving African lives, etc., is our primary responsibility, not the Asian or the Westerner. Why can't we exploit our mineral wealth and oil/natural gas for our benefit?
Why should we allow our leaders and foreingers to steal our wealth for others' benefit? Are these someone else's resposnibility or Africans' responsibility? In other words, taking care of your business, including fighting ethnocentrism, poverty, corruption, etc., is our responsiblity, not the West's or Asians'. Period!
Please, Dr. SAS, I have referred to you tons of valuable, authoritative references for you to read which, I believe, would have informed your essays. But you don't read them. You are seriously misinforming your readers. I have given you extensive references to show you that even in your own field, that is, law, there is nothing like "universal culture."
Please go back to Chapter Two of your series on Afrocentricity to see (I referred you to books and essays on law and cuture) what international legal experts are saying about international law and cultural relativism. I gave you an extensive reference on international law and cultural relativism (and other related subjects).
For example, there are so many international laws many Asian and Arab countries are not signatory to because they say they do not represent their culture and values. There are international laws Western countries, esp. America, do not subscribe to because Americans also say they do reflect their culture and values.
Finally, not every individual who specializes in African-area research is an Afrocentrist. Please don't confuse yourself and your readers. An Afrocentrist is not an Africanist. The two are radically different.
For instance, Basil Davidson, a whiteman, wrote extensively on Africa history and culture. Yet he was not an Afrocentrist. He was an Africanist. Interestingly, Davidson spent his entire academic career on African-area research and writings.
On the other hand, Dr. Martin Bernal, a Jew-Bristish-American scholar, wrote his three voluminous set "Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (The Fabrication of Ancient Greece), an American Book Award-winning tome, using the Afrocentric methodology though Dr. Bernal was a Sinologist.
Dr. Bernal did not even see himself as an Africanist. You may also be surprised to know that he, too, like the British Davidson, spent the latter part of his life defending African culture and history (via the Afrocentric approach) yet he publicly said he was not an Afrocentrist.
Dr. Martin defended the Afrocentric methodology to his death. In other words, taking a degree in African-area scholarship does not make you an Afrocentrist. I will feature some of these White Afrocentric sholars in my subsequent essays.
Another example: Dr. Rober Bauval (white Egyptologist) and Dr. Thomas Brophy (a White-American NASA astophycist, authors of "Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt," use the Afrocentric methodology in writing about African history and culture though the two are not Afrocentrists.
Besides, both are very good friends of Dr. Molefi Kete Asante. In fact, Dr. Robert Bauval, an Egytian-born Maltese and one of the world's leading Egyptologist, for instance, has written extensively on the collaborative efforts of Western institutions, individuals, and corporations to erase the BLACKNESS of ancient Egypt and hide the true history of black Egpyt from the world.
Dr. Bauval's book "Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient" and "Breaking the Mirror of Heaven: The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt" are just two examples. His latest book "The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple of the Sun" also reveals more about the impact of ancient African (black) cultural and religious ideas on Western Christianity (though the Vatican has tried to conceal these facts from the larger public for centuries). Please go to Dr. Bauval's website "robertbauval.co.uk/books.html" and read more.
Dr. Theophile Obega is another example. His entire academic life has been spent on comparative African linguistics, African culture and African history. He founded and headed one of the largest and well-resourced research centers in Africa. Dr. Molefi Kete Asante even brought him from Africa to come teach at Temple. Every singlebook Dr. Obenga has written had been on African language, culture, philosophy, etc., yet he's not an Afrocentrist.
We can say the same thing about WEB Du Bois who also wrote extesnively about Africa. Yet Du Bois approach to studying Africa's culture and history was the Africanist, not Afrocentric, approach. Kwame Nkrumah's appraoch was Afrocentric.
Read both the works of Nkrumah and Du Bois and you will know why (See Dr. Kwame Botwe-Asamoah's book "Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Politics" to see Nkrumah's Afrocentric approach to the study of African).
Last but not the least, you don't have to be black to be an Afrocentrist. There are White (European, American)Afrocentrists. And there are Asian Afrocentrists. The fact that you went to a school and took a degree from an Afrocentric department does not make you an Afrocencentrist.
There are all sorts of scholars and specialties in Black Studies Departments. Afrocentric scolarship is just one of many discplines stidied in Black Studies departments. These days Afrocentric courses are even taught in "white" departments in the social sciences, humanities, and classical scholarship.
Then, Dr. SAS, writing about African culture and history does not make you an Afrocetrist either. If that were the case, your articles on Ewe culture would have made you an Afrocentrist. Otherwise many White racists, ancient and modern, will be Afrocentrists as well. Afrocentricity is not what you have been discussing. And most of the people you have classified as Afrocentrists may not be Afrocentrists (I am not referring to any names you mentioned in his particular article).
Please go to Dr. Molefi Kete Asante's website (www.asante.net) and click on the "ARTICLES" button. Read everything you find there. They should tell you what Afrocentricity is and who an Afrocentrist is. Then read the following books:
1). Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change
2) An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance
3) As I Run Toward Africa
4) Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge
5)Contemporary Black Thought: Alternative Analysis in Social and Behavioral
6) The Afrocentric Idea
7) The Painfl Demise of Afrocentricity: An Afrocentric Response to Critics
Read also:
Ani Marimba's "Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Culture and Behavior."
Read these few resources before writing further on Afrocentricity. Your pieces ate not well-informed on the subject at all. And what I see is a gross misrepresentation of the subject of Afrocentricity if, in fact, that is what you are writing about.
Emphatically, what you have written so far in your three articles on Arocentricity has nothing to do with Afrocentricity. From my deep knowledge of the subject, you are writing about something else. I can send you more references (from your field) but let these suffice.
Even human genomics clearly underscores racial differences (though science says "race" does not exists! But we do know there are many diseases that are peculiarly associated with "race." Sickle cell anemia is known to afflict black folks. Yet there is an evolutionary explanation for this. You can find statistically meaningful occurrences of sickle cell cell anemia in some white communities in Southern Europeans, say.
But scholars will tell you it is because of transfer of black genes to these communities. Recall Black Africans and Arabs ruled Southern Europe for nearly 800 years. Read the scholarship of Cheikh Anta Diop, Ivan Van Sertima, Louis Leakey, etc.
Speak with any medical scientist or read more on phamacogenomics to tell you there are "serious" differences among the races at the genetic level! Morever, Afrocentrists are generally polymaths (multi-talented scholars). Dr. Molefi Kete Asante or Dr. Ama Asante are not historians, Dr. Asante is a mass communications experts. Dr. Mazama is a linguist. Dr. Na'im Akbar is a scientist (psychlogist), and the list goes on and on.
It's why Afrocentrists are not so easy to vanquish intellectually. In fact, most of White America's leading scholars who have publicly debated Afrocentrists, the likes of Asante, etc., have lost the debates. There are so many of these debates on Youtube. Why? Because Afrocentrists are competently all over the place! And I am a mathematician and engineer (I have other backgrounds as well--all mathematics related). Please read more to get acquainted with the complicated subject called Afrocentricity.
Thanks.
mky 10 years ago
Kwarteng, I have no doubt that SAS means well; his purpose ostensibly, is to generate some sort of intellectual gabfest among his readers....to some extent, he has succeeded as reflected in your long rebuttal of some of the p ... read full comment
Kwarteng, I have no doubt that SAS means well; his purpose ostensibly, is to generate some sort of intellectual gabfest among his readers....to some extent, he has succeeded as reflected in your long rebuttal of some of the points SAS raised.....that said, I am kind of miffed that SAS would inexplicably continue to pour water on African culture, subjecting it to all kinds of ridicule and contempt......as you rightly and trenchantly mentioned, Afrocentrism is shoulders above racism.....Afrocentrics are great and wonderful intellectuals whose main priority is to shield our culture from further corrosion while simultaneously exposing the myths and untruths that have been told and repeated for centuries and which have been used to subjugate Africans, dehumanizing and reducing them to neurotic jerks......SAS is obviously enthralled with other cultures, and that is his prerogative, but he should put a screeching halt to the daily denunciation of anything African.....
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
To my friend mky,
Thanks, Well said.
I hope our good brother Dr. SAS pays attention to what we are also saying.
Thanks.
To my friend mky,
Thanks, Well said.
I hope our good brother Dr. SAS pays attention to what we are also saying.
Thanks.
Brother 10 years ago
My Brother, I have asked this Intellectual DR SAS to read your articles properly before responding but it seems to me that being an intellectual is his only concern. He does not understand the issues and yet he is debating th ... read full comment
My Brother, I have asked this Intellectual DR SAS to read your articles properly before responding but it seems to me that being an intellectual is his only concern. He does not understand the issues and yet he is debating them. He says failed scholars when he can't name one. It is not mandatory to write on a topic. If you have nothing to write, don't waste our time or name it something else.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
To My Brother,
I appreciate your concern. That's what mky, Ako, Kosovo, Kojo T, and the rest are saying.
I hope Dr. SAS pays attention to your concern. I believe we need to have a firm grasp of complicated subjects we d ... read full comment
To My Brother,
I appreciate your concern. That's what mky, Ako, Kosovo, Kojo T, and the rest are saying.
I hope Dr. SAS pays attention to your concern. I believe we need to have a firm grasp of complicated subjects we discuss on public forums (fora, whatever).
The point is to make sure we don't misinform the public. Afrocentricity is such a broad and complicated discipline.
This is why I go to any extent to read every authoritative material I can find on a given subject, talk to or contact experts in the cosen field I choose to write about, etc.
I have taken my time to read extensively about international law and culture and have had the time to discuss them in detail with some of my lawyer friends. I may write on law and culture in the future.
Let's wait and see: Thanks.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
My brother,
I know I owe you a lot of support. Well, when I was going like you in the 90s, there was hardly a single person to support me on Okyeame. There were sympathisers though.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to ... read full comment
My brother,
I know I owe you a lot of support. Well, when I was going like you in the 90s, there was hardly a single person to support me on Okyeame. There were sympathisers though.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to complete my rejoinder to to your earlier postings, as I realised that you're well acquainted with the objections I had wanted to raise, points to make, and so must take it to a higher level: those of us who have a problem adopting the MAAT because we fault it too as being a part of fall.
I think I understand Dr SAS quite well, having heard it all [his angle] before. You see, if we Africans now claimed for ourselves, thanks to Diop and Martin Bernal, etc., etc, the origins of Greek civilisation, the bastion of Western civilisation, then don't we have a right to claim that Western civilisation as our Stolen Legacy, as one other pundit put it?
I was privileged to have participated in the HarperColliins arranged Internet debate b/n Bernal and Mary Lefkowitz, author of Not Out of Africa in May 1996. Below is my brief responses (edited for typos) on the subject of Afrocentricity which was raised by some white participants. I lifted it from the site where one Prof. put it, typos and all. I made comments on other issues too.
asiapacificuniverse.com/pkm/black.htm
> Much of the effort Afrocentrists invest in their research is directed
> at proving things quite tangential to the issue of influence. Race
> pride is the real motive here, and that brings up identity politics
> once again.
My response:
Whites never tire of priding themselves [about things] they claim patent rights to! In fact, they made a lot of dole out of them, even if a stolen copyright!
Asians have learned that trick. Time for people of African origin to
do so too, be proud in their contribution to civilisation and the
wealth of the world, and demand their just share!
>I don't think we're ever going to get away from that
> politics unless Classicists and educators generally make clear what we
> have and have not gotten from Greece, and make equally clear how very much different they were from us.
My response:
It's all pointed out but you refuse to see it!
>They also need to stress the
> historical contributions of all cultures without the fabrication of
> nonsense like a black Socrates or a black Cleopatra.
My Response:
As an African, who also took an elective in Society and Politics in the Black Diaspora (in the '70s), I must admit we find some expressions of
some African-Americans rather quaint! We used to laugh until tears
came into our eyes at some of the ideas of some of the civil rights
movements that emerged. Being Black Jews, for instance, and migrating to Israel, for instance. Then some about how God ran short of clay after making blacks and so used the shit of blacks to make whites, hence their skin colour! Of course, the Nation of Islam people are also yet to come to grips that Arab and Muslim slavers sold more slaves in
Africa than all African chiefs combined! In any case, they were
compelled to do so by external forces, and once the process
started it gathered its own momentum.
Orlando Patterson's (1983) book (Slavery and Social Death) is quite a
comprehensive account to guide any doubter. I've read it so please, you out there, please don't come at me with that one about slavery already
existing in Africa before the coming of the Arabs and Europeans. I know
that. But I also know that it was not a generalised thing in all societies and certainly not on a rampant scale as occurred within the 400 years plus it became a way of economic life in Africa. And I have a rich oral history to back me.
I've read of slavery in Africa with much amusement! BTW, I also come
from the Upper Slave Coast, where the last slave ship was reputed to haveleft to leave for the New World just in 1888. The relations of the
victims were still in mourning in the '60s, when I was growing up as a
child. People visiting them had to carry some food to them! We're yet
to tell our story to the world. Meanwhile, only myths are bandied about!
I believe those excesses and any by some Afrocentrists obsfuscate rather than illuminate, and undermine the real truth. No wonder this claim of Cleopatra [a Ptolemy, and hence of Greek origin] being black has been used frequently to disparage the
evidence of an Afro-Asiastic origin of Greek civilisation. If
Afrocentrics need blacks painted white later, I guess there are many in
American history to use to stimulate the self-esteem of African-American
kids. I watched a documentary with Danny Glover as the commentator and
it was a revelation.
Now, I must say that Afrocentrism has a lot of implications to us
Africans, particularly "Black" Africa, and this must not be overlooked in focusing attention one-sidedly on only Africans in the Black Diaspora. That we were also part of the civilising process (even as slaves) must not be ignored. Empires and pyramids were built on our
backs. Africans also need to regain their self-confidence and creativity. Mindless copying is destroying everything there.
Not only some Jews did time in Egypt, for which they still celebrate
the Passover! And for which they continue to villify Egypt and by
extension we Africans for millennia. Africans did not become hewers of rock and drawers of water by chance. The Jews saw or read about us (biblical fundamentalism?) doing so in Egypt. White racism and
Apartheid benefitted very richly from that "misinterpretation" - some
Christians claim now - of the bible. So after deconstructing the
historical myths about Africa, attention needed to be turn to the other myths enslaving the poor "souls" and minds of Africans. Myths of Judeo-Christianity and Islam fall among the spiritual myths of the
supernatural!
I guess I've ranted enough, for a first post! Well, just making up for
lost time! Please in case of rejoinder cc to me for prompt response.
ANDY C.Y. KWAWUKUME
NORWAY
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Brother Yao Andy,
Long time, no see.
Thanks for your contribution---always pointed and with depth. You are not known for beating about the bush.
Anyway, your brother, Efo Yaw, is doing great. How about you?
... read full comment
Dear Brother Yao Andy,
Long time, no see.
Thanks for your contribution---always pointed and with depth. You are not known for beating about the bush.
Anyway, your brother, Efo Yaw, is doing great. How about you?
Talk to you soon.
Bye Efo Yao.
C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago
My brother, I am around and still kicking. Only the travail so daily existence have been taking their toll on me in all its ramifications!
Good to learn that you're doing great! Lucky you don't have the 'flu and sore thro ... read full comment
My brother, I am around and still kicking. Only the travail so daily existence have been taking their toll on me in all its ramifications!
Good to learn that you're doing great! Lucky you don't have the 'flu and sore throat I am presently nursing.:-)
Andy-K
True African 10 years ago
I hear your name was recently recorded in the GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the only lawyer in the world who does not believe in EVIDENCE.Is this a joke? I have not been on the web for some time.
I hear your name was recently recorded in the GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the only lawyer in the world who does not believe in EVIDENCE.Is this a joke? I have not been on the web for some time.
Kosoko 10 years ago
Dear brother Brother,
I guess you are reiterating the same concerns I was sharing when commenting on Steve's posting on which you subjected me to condemnation and abuse or you've changed your mind to side with me?
Dear brother Brother,
I guess you are reiterating the same concerns I was sharing when commenting on Steve's posting on which you subjected me to condemnation and abuse or you've changed your mind to side with me?
Brother 10 years ago
My Brother Kosoko, my comment piggybacked on yours but it was meant for the article. Maybe I should have made it clearer. I read his attacks, his law practice bit and all and all and that of Ahoofes and that was why I commen ... read full comment
My Brother Kosoko, my comment piggybacked on yours but it was meant for the article. Maybe I should have made it clearer. I read his attacks, his law practice bit and all and all and that of Ahoofes and that was why I commented on egos as well as 'a seemingly good start'. My Brother, you were spot on and if I misled readers, then I apologise.
Kosoko 10 years ago
No apologies brother. It was just an error. As you've explained you haven't done anything wrong to express an apology
No apologies brother. It was just an error. As you've explained you haven't done anything wrong to express an apology
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago
Prof. Francis Kwarteng,
I am paying attention to the issues you raised and will respond to them soon. Please don't think I am ignoring any of you. I have been distracted somewhat today.
Thanks for finding the time to appris ... read full comment
Prof. Francis Kwarteng,
I am paying attention to the issues you raised and will respond to them soon. Please don't think I am ignoring any of you. I have been distracted somewhat today.
Thanks for finding the time to apprise yourself of my other articles.
francis kwarteng 10 years ago
Dear Brother Dr. SAS,
Please don't worry.
I have been following the debate with rapt attention.
Readers are raising important issues we simply cannot gloss over.
I am happy you have decided to respond to them a ... read full comment
Dear Brother Dr. SAS,
Please don't worry.
I have been following the debate with rapt attention.
Readers are raising important issues we simply cannot gloss over.
I am happy you have decided to respond to them at your convenience. This should be good for us all.
Thanks for responding to my concerns. Have a great weekend. Let's all work together to make Africa and the world a better place for all.
Thanks
Jonas Ababio 10 years ago
Please be objective and open-minded in all your discussions.You must also refrain from attacking and insulting those with opposite views.Your subjective nature tends to misrepresent your facts.A word to the wise is enough.
Please be objective and open-minded in all your discussions.You must also refrain from attacking and insulting those with opposite views.Your subjective nature tends to misrepresent your facts.A word to the wise is enough.
crorkz 9 years ago
WBBfZW I cannot thank you enough for the article post.Much thanks again.
WBBfZW I cannot thank you enough for the article post.Much thanks again.
matzcrorkz 9 years ago
EIKCyT Thank you ever so for you post.Really thank you! Much obliged.
EIKCyT Thank you ever so for you post.Really thank you! Much obliged.
Sir you are in my opinion confused and articulate your position from a fundamentally fault position.Ples read Uurugu by Ani Marimba, and come back. The world as we have known till know or at least since European ascendency ...
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I won't waste my time on a Johnny-come-lately who is also the descendant of refugees perching on my ancestral lands in Ghana. Maybe you can go to Harlem and The New York Amsterdam News and ask about me.
You, "a leader of a ...
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Penultimate line should read: You are not in my class, not by any stretch of the imagination, so DON'T draw me into a situation that you may not be able to handle.
This is childish behaviour from two people in their 50s! Two mature man telling each other how better they are! I am this, I am that! I am better than you! I have done this, I've done that, you're not ma coequal!!! Mature peo ...
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Here comes egoistic Okoampa Tweaa " we are not in the same class" Sure you are . Both confused and egoistic
Kwame,
You calling someone refugee descendant? How come your father saw Peki as his ancestral home, after your grandfather who was also born there?
You who can boast of descending from a daughter of a Kwadwo Dei. Ha! ha ...
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Most "Afrocentrists" are failed scholars. Their only survival in this world is to "use" their own people; this is reason why they try to create Afrocentric schools where they find themselves. Without that, they will amount to ...
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Steve, can you mention one Afrocentrist who is a failed scholar? And tell us what and what he/she has failed in?
And let me remind you that the definitional articulation of 'culture' as spelled out in SAS's articles are n ...
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It will serve Ghanians better if you refuse to water these your egos. I have wasted my time. Thought something thoughtful and stimulating will come out of the seemingly good start.
The tone of SAS write up today apart from the word animal in the opening paragraph makes for a refreshing reading. The competing claims by Afrocentric epidemiology and the school of thought that SAS represents can make their ...
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Substitute epidemiology for epistemology.
But what is western culture and are the cultures the same? They came to Africa and condemned us as being naked but now they have nudist colonies and claim that is civilization They have imposed their religions on us and say o ...
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Kojo Tamakloe, are you saying nudist colony cannot be civilization? On what grounds can you say that? What disqualifies it from being part of civilization? Are you not making the same mistake of using your standard/values to ...
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Hello,
How are you? I just finished reading your article.
Unfortunately, the more I read your essays on Afrocentricity, the more convinced I get that you have no grasp of the subject. I am serious. In fact, so far, not ...
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Kwarteng, I have no doubt that SAS means well; his purpose ostensibly, is to generate some sort of intellectual gabfest among his readers....to some extent, he has succeeded as reflected in your long rebuttal of some of the p ...
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To my friend mky,
Thanks, Well said.
I hope our good brother Dr. SAS pays attention to what we are also saying.
Thanks.
My Brother, I have asked this Intellectual DR SAS to read your articles properly before responding but it seems to me that being an intellectual is his only concern. He does not understand the issues and yet he is debating th ...
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To My Brother,
I appreciate your concern. That's what mky, Ako, Kosovo, Kojo T, and the rest are saying.
I hope Dr. SAS pays attention to your concern. I believe we need to have a firm grasp of complicated subjects we d ...
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My brother,
I know I owe you a lot of support. Well, when I was going like you in the 90s, there was hardly a single person to support me on Okyeame. There were sympathisers though.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to ...
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Dear Brother Yao Andy,
Long time, no see.
Thanks for your contribution---always pointed and with depth. You are not known for beating about the bush.
Anyway, your brother, Efo Yaw, is doing great. How about you?
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My brother, I am around and still kicking. Only the travail so daily existence have been taking their toll on me in all its ramifications!
Good to learn that you're doing great! Lucky you don't have the 'flu and sore thro ...
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I hear your name was recently recorded in the GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS as the only lawyer in the world who does not believe in EVIDENCE.Is this a joke? I have not been on the web for some time.
Dear brother Brother,
I guess you are reiterating the same concerns I was sharing when commenting on Steve's posting on which you subjected me to condemnation and abuse or you've changed your mind to side with me?
My Brother Kosoko, my comment piggybacked on yours but it was meant for the article. Maybe I should have made it clearer. I read his attacks, his law practice bit and all and all and that of Ahoofes and that was why I commen ...
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No apologies brother. It was just an error. As you've explained you haven't done anything wrong to express an apology
Prof. Francis Kwarteng,
I am paying attention to the issues you raised and will respond to them soon. Please don't think I am ignoring any of you. I have been distracted somewhat today.
Thanks for finding the time to appris ...
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Dear Brother Dr. SAS,
Please don't worry.
I have been following the debate with rapt attention.
Readers are raising important issues we simply cannot gloss over.
I am happy you have decided to respond to them a ...
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Please be objective and open-minded in all your discussions.You must also refrain from attacking and insulting those with opposite views.Your subjective nature tends to misrepresent your facts.A word to the wise is enough.
WBBfZW I cannot thank you enough for the article post.Much thanks again.
EIKCyT Thank you ever so for you post.Really thank you! Much obliged.