It appears for the Akyems, tribalism is a way of open life. When the volta lake that belongs to the people of the Volta generates hydro power for the people of Kumasi and Akyem Oda to use to power their fridges, watch TV and ... read full comment
It appears for the Akyems, tribalism is a way of open life. When the volta lake that belongs to the people of the Volta generates hydro power for the people of Kumasi and Akyem Oda to use to power their fridges, watch TV and charge their mobile by heart, Why didn't Osafo Marfo and his Akyem people like you reject hydro electric power and use your depleted Gold in Obuasi to generate electricity? Desperate politicians trying to play the tribal card hypocritically way to win votes.
Dodge 9 years ago
EVERY NATURAL RESOURCES BELONGS TO THE GOVERNMENT. IF YOU FARM COCOA OR YAM, YOU CAN CLAIM THAT BUT NOT SOMETHING YOU KNEW NOTHING ABOUT. JUST FOUND THEM LYING ON THE GROUND. THE OWNER IS GOD. IF YOU NEED A PIECE, YOU BETTER ... read full comment
EVERY NATURAL RESOURCES BELONGS TO THE GOVERNMENT. IF YOU FARM COCOA OR YAM, YOU CAN CLAIM THAT BUT NOT SOMETHING YOU KNEW NOTHING ABOUT. JUST FOUND THEM LYING ON THE GROUND. THE OWNER IS GOD. IF YOU NEED A PIECE, YOU BETTER GO TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR A LICENSE AND DIG!
Nii Fili fili truth 9 years ago
Nonsense, did any Akan farm the natural resources to own them or they cooked or manufactured them? Who own the sea? The black and Volta that feeds the Akosombo Dam does not belong to northerners?
Nonsense, did any Akan farm the natural resources to own them or they cooked or manufactured them? Who own the sea? The black and Volta that feeds the Akosombo Dam does not belong to northerners?
BOY 9 years ago
STUPID AKYEM TRIBALISTS. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY TO LIVE PEACEFULLY WITH OTHER GHANAIANS, AND HATE EWES AND NORTHERNERS, GO AND BURN THE SEA. WHAT AT ALL HAVE MINORITY TRIBES DONE TO YOU THESE TRIBALISTIC PEOPLE
STUPID AKYEM TRIBALISTS. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY TO LIVE PEACEFULLY WITH OTHER GHANAIANS, AND HATE EWES AND NORTHERNERS, GO AND BURN THE SEA. WHAT AT ALL HAVE MINORITY TRIBES DONE TO YOU THESE TRIBALISTIC PEOPLE
Only in Ghana 9 years ago
We are sick and tired of being marginalized. Do you expect us to keep quiet for you to exploit us? Minority should not seek to control the majority. If that should happen then Ghana will be set on the path of Rwanda.
We are sick and tired of being marginalized. Do you expect us to keep quiet for you to exploit us? Minority should not seek to control the majority. If that should happen then Ghana will be set on the path of Rwanda.
Kwapps 9 years ago
Volta lake and dam was man-made with borrowed money, it does not belong to the Voltarians; the water there flows from Burkina Faso and tributaries from other regions in Ghana. Gold, diamond, bauxite etc are naturally occurrin ... read full comment
Volta lake and dam was man-made with borrowed money, it does not belong to the Voltarians; the water there flows from Burkina Faso and tributaries from other regions in Ghana. Gold, diamond, bauxite etc are naturally occurring resources that generate foreign exchange for the country. Cocoa is grown by farmers in these regions to help Ghana earn foreign exchange. Where were you when Akan-murdering Rawlings, Sick Atta, know-nothing Mahama made similar comments? Stop crying wolf wolf
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. 9 years ago
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
SHAME UNTO YOU! ETHNOCENTRIC LOSER!
You this particular grandson of mine! What is wrong with you? At least, by running awy from his own words, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo is ... read full comment
OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
SHAME UNTO YOU! ETHNOCENTRIC LOSER!
You this particular grandson of mine! What is wrong with you? At least, by running awy from his own words, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo is showing that he has a sense of shame! And herein lies the difference between an incorrigible fool like you and Mr. Osafo-Marfo!
It is people like you that convinced Nkrumah that the only way he could build Ghana was to make it a one-party state! You are so inward looking that the very idea of nation-building is meaningless to you!
After banning your tribal parties, all he got was a United Party, infested with the most rabid tribalists keen on throwing bombs to drive home their point of how silly they really are!
Your brand of political irredentism and ethnocentric politics died with the Gold Coast! That is why your Danquah rogue never made it even as an Akyem MP!
Perhaps, in your warped mind, only Akans must have a right to vote! Is that what your "Road to Kigali" is all about? Let me tell you that even if the non-Akans are disenfranchised, your Akufo-Addo is still not going to win!
Mark this on the wall! He himself said after winning the flag-bearership of the NPP, that "a house divided cannot stand, and there is no way the NPP is going to win the 2016 elections without a united front"!
Is Alan Kyeremanteng an Ewe? Is Kufuor a Dagomba? Is John Boadu a Sisala? Is Dr. Anane a Kokomba?
SHAME UNTO YOU! ETHNOCENTRIC LOSER!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Pur'gu Saarpe!!! Esq.,
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Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago
You are the biggest fool if you are really an Akan. You have no sense of urgency. What didn't we do right to have these minority tribes, particularly Northerners and Trokosis, wantonly dissipating the peoples money with such ... read full comment
You are the biggest fool if you are really an Akan. You have no sense of urgency. What didn't we do right to have these minority tribes, particularly Northerners and Trokosis, wantonly dissipating the peoples money with such impunity. Idiot, just look at the payroll rot at the National Service Authority, the award of contracts to the Asontaba Cottage, the SADA and GYEEDA scandals, the purchase of the Embraer jets, payments of dubious judgements debts,..... and ask your who the beneficiaries are. Can't you see the connection here; the plot by the minority to feed fat on the resources spread out in areas where we the Akan majority are dwelling ? Why do you keep mute when similar disparaging remark is made by the minorities? Where were you when the Ga Youth denied Kuffour an office in Accra on the mere grounds that Kuffour' is an Asante? What about when the AMA reverted the Ohene Gyan stadium back to Accra Sports Stadium on similar reason that Ohene Gyan was not a Ga, and therefore not deserve to be named after an edifice on Ga land? We cannot sit down for you selfish and greedy few Akans who get your bread buttered by the Atnga-Trokosi cabal to decide for the vast majority Akans out there. This is about common sense. The NPP has to ignore the odds and go all out preaching the message of Osafo Marfo to the Akans, the should let them know why the construction of the eastern corridor road linking the sought to the north has become a priority to the main Accra-Nsawam-Kumasi-Tachiman-Kintampo road all to the North. Akyea Mensah Gyimifuo! Can't you see the sidelining of Akans in the distribution of the national cake? Aboafunu and you are first to insult others. Until those buffoons in government do the right thing I pray all Akans, Western, Eastern, Central and Ashanti, and the Greater Accra regions to join hands to vote the NDC out and stop thief Mahama and criminally minded Trokosis from further damage. We need Akufo Addo to come and fix Ghana for us.
Kwaapia 9 years ago
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro aka Ali Masmani, Tanii, shut up and fuck off with your nonsense.
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro aka Ali Masmani, Tanii, shut up and fuck off with your nonsense.
J. D Mahama 9 years ago
Kwame for this one dea, l agree with you intoto. It's about time our akan leadership stand up to these infidels especially the ewes.
Kwame for this one dea, l agree with you intoto. It's about time our akan leadership stand up to these infidels especially the ewes.
Kojo W 9 years ago
I give up. You will never get it. No matter how much we try to enlighten you, you seemed to be like the proverbial hog. Sorry, you people wish there will be a doomsday in Ghana. Wow!!! I hope you'd bring your family front and ... read full comment
I give up. You will never get it. No matter how much we try to enlighten you, you seemed to be like the proverbial hog. Sorry, you people wish there will be a doomsday in Ghana. Wow!!! I hope you'd bring your family front and center. Enjoy it where it lasts.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Of course, we all know that what Osafo Mafo said is the stock in trade belief of most NPP followers with Akan origins. But just like beliefs. Can they prove with hard statistics what they have been saying for decades and Osa ... read full comment
Of course, we all know that what Osafo Mafo said is the stock in trade belief of most NPP followers with Akan origins. But just like beliefs. Can they prove with hard statistics what they have been saying for decades and Osafo Marfo just repeated behind closed doors?
I posted this comment on Ghanaweb earlier. Can someone use it as a yardstick to evaluate what Osafo Marfo said?
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You blokes are lucky that I don't have enuf time right now to take you on. Of course, the NPP is built on such jaundiced ethnocentric views and claims, however wrong they are. Can a right-wing neo-nazi party reject racism? The NPP was built on the ethnocentrism of the NLM and then the PP.
I wrote this comment earlier in response to the NDC release.
I am not impressed a bit about this response in the name of the NDC party. They must go beyond these simple platitudes and show by providing statistical data WHY Osafo Marfo is wrong and is just a diabolical and bigoted ethnocentric politician, just as many of the members of the NPP.
First, those claims have been aired by the leaders, members and supporters of the NPP in one form or the other over the decades. It'd be dishonest on the part of anybody, unless the person is a victim of sheer ignorance, to claim that he or she is not aware of such claims in the past. I recollect one extended argument we of the Moral Brigade had on SIL with Dr Kofi Ellison and his equally ignorant and bigoted supporters over whether cocoa is produced in the VR too. They insisted that that was not the case, and we from the VR were just parasites and free loaders on them "these Akans".
And I recollect I had quoted, in rebutting these claims, on more than one occasion from the compact 1991 Facts and Figures released by the Min. of Agric titled Agriculture in Ghana, to show how an insignificant contribution cocoa makes to total agric GDP compared to other crops, as against its contribution to export earnings where it is very significant. Agric in total then contributed abt 50% of GDP and 60% of export earnings. So by 1991, roots and tubers, comprising cassava, yam and cocoyam, topped the list with 46% of agric GDP, with yam said to be experiencing the greatest growth in area planted. "Puna" yam is of course the king of yams in the overseas market and no doubt has the potential to be a big foreign exchange earner for Ghana and poverty ending product in the North if the successive govts have any clues how to do it.
Cocoa, the second single contributor contributed a mere 13% compared to the 9% contributed by plantain alone.
Forestry, the 3rd largest, contributed 11%. Cereals (maize, rice, sorghum and millet) contributed 7%. Livestock 5%. Fisheries 4%. Fruits and vegetables 3%. Others 2%.
So there we have it! The question is who are producing those products, not only where they are being produced. Polly Hill has mapped this for cocoa in her seminal classic The Migrant Cocoa Farmers of Southern Ghana and others on the agric sector in Ghana, specifically fishing, and livestock in the southern VR in the Bator area in Tongu. I bet she was surprised to discover that most of the cattle then was owned by Anlos, not the people of Tongu.
We can do this for the mining sector too, just as the other sectors, such as services, contributing the other now over 50% of GDP. That's the kind of analysis we expect "these Akans" to produce to back their claims and the the ruling NDC to produce to debunk them. Anything short of that is trifle and the "dangerous" claims shall continue to be made by "these Akans."
Andy-K
Kwapps 9 years ago
It is ok for hate-anything-Akan murderer Rawlings to tell Voltarians they will burn in hell if they voted NPP! Did you criticise him? You Ewes will never blame NDC no matter what, what does that tell everyone about you? Do y ... read full comment
It is ok for hate-anything-Akan murderer Rawlings to tell Voltarians they will burn in hell if they voted NPP! Did you criticise him? You Ewes will never blame NDC no matter what, what does that tell everyone about you? Do you know of any other crop that is paid more attention than cocoa? Suddenly, you want to tell Ghanaians and the rest of the world that cocoa is insignificant in Ghana as okro, just because Osafo-Marfoh says the obvious? You are pathetic, you and your 1991 statistics!
Yaw 9 years ago
The tribal bigot is at it again. Akufo addo should call this man to order. Mr. okoampah is doing a lot of damage to nana's presidential ambition. Mr. okoampah is staying put in new york and has lost touch with reality and the ... read full comment
The tribal bigot is at it again. Akufo addo should call this man to order. Mr. okoampah is doing a lot of damage to nana's presidential ambition. Mr. okoampah is staying put in new york and has lost touch with reality and therefore spew out anything.
Azumah Nelson 9 years ago
You are a bigot
You are a bigot
me 9 years ago
no bigotry when scholarships are given to only people belonging to certain ethnic groups;MOST heads of institutions come from just three regions like others aren't qualified. Lets have a discussion, for the so called road to ... read full comment
no bigotry when scholarships are given to only people belonging to certain ethnic groups;MOST heads of institutions come from just three regions like others aren't qualified. Lets have a discussion, for the so called road to Kigali begins from nepotism and discrimination.
Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. 9 years ago
And so are Rawlings and Mahama. Or is it that non-Akans have a right to ethnic bigotry but, somehow, Akans ought to be content with a second-class citizenship status?
And so are Rawlings and Mahama. Or is it that non-Akans have a right to ethnic bigotry but, somehow, Akans ought to be content with a second-class citizenship status?
LONTO-BOY 9 years ago
Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should S ... read full comment
Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should Stand By His "Doctored" Statements.' I think you would do well to remember the difference between 'Politics' and 'Street conversations'. Osafo-Marfo is a politician, not a street-fighter.
Arithmetically, since 2008, NPP's votes from its traditional "Akan base" have dramatically reduced. And, of course, NPP has been reaching out and trying to broaden its appeal to all sorts of people, tribes and ethnic groups. I'm sure Osafo-Marfo and the NPP leadership will consider the perception of NPP as the 'Akan Party' and the maximum advantage this could give the NDC party to slur NPP ruthlessly.
Any attempted defiance on the part of Osafo-Marfo could be potentially devastating for Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP. Given the exigencies of Ghana's campaigning politics, we cannot wear our emotions on our sleeves.
LONTO-BOY 9 years ago
Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should S ... read full comment
Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should Stand By His "Doctored" Statements.' I think you would do well to remember the difference between 'Politics' and 'Street conversations'. Osafo-Marfo is a politician, not a street-fighter.
Arithmetically, since 2008, NPP's votes from its traditional "Akan base" have dramatically reduced. And, of course, NPP has been reaching out and trying to broaden its appeal to all sorts of people, tribes and ethnic groups. I'm sure Osafo-Marfo and the NPP leadership will consider the perception of NPP as the 'Akan Party' and the maximum advantage this could give the NDC party to slur NPP ruthlessly.
Any attempted defiance on the part of Osafo-Marfo could be potentially devastating for Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP. Given the exigencies of Ghana's campaigning politics, we cannot wear our emotions on our sleeves.
LONTO-BOY 9 years ago
Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should S ... read full comment
Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should Stand By His "Doctored" Statements.' I think you would do well to remember the difference between 'Politics' and 'Street conversations'. Osafo-Marfo is a politician, not a street-fighter.
Arithmetically, since 2008, NPP's votes from its traditional "Akan base" have dramatically reduced. And, of course, NPP has been reaching out and trying to broaden its appeal to all sorts of people, tribes and ethnic groups. I'm sure Osafo-Marfo and the NPP leadership will consider the perception of NPP as the 'Akan Party' and the maximum advantage this could give the NDC party to slur NPP ruthlessly.
Any attempted defiance on the part of Osafo-Marfo could be potentially devastating for Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP. Given the exigencies of Ghana's campaigning politics, we cannot wear our emotions on our sleeves.
WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 9 years ago
The Akan leaders have become very timid and as a result, the rightful place for Akans in Ghana is dangerously eroding fast while few minority groups championed by Ewes are stealing and looting the teasury and assets of Ghana ... read full comment
The Akan leaders have become very timid and as a result, the rightful place for Akans in Ghana is dangerously eroding fast while few minority groups championed by Ewes are stealing and looting the teasury and assets of Ghana to empower and enrich themselves. The Ewes have since P/NDC days put in place a very diabolic strategic machination to have other Akans hate Asantes and in the process dilute Akan power and place in Ghana.
They have succeeded big time in this mission and they have reaped very big dividends from that. They are very comfortable with their tribal exploits and nepotism to get what they want for themselves but Akans cannot do the same in their sick minds.
What Osafo Maafo made clear here should be a platform message every Akan leader who cares about Akans should articulate to the people.
Wake up Akans. Your sweat and resources gave free education to these parasitic folks who now want to give you the middle finger and stomp on you.
Wake up
Only in Ghana 9 years ago
Wake up Akans! Wake up! Akans are being marginalized big time. Its time to discuss this issue in public and stop playing the ostrich. Rawlings started this onslaught and it has caught on with the rest of the minority folks. ... read full comment
Wake up Akans! Wake up! Akans are being marginalized big time. Its time to discuss this issue in public and stop playing the ostrich. Rawlings started this onslaught and it has caught on with the rest of the minority folks. We are dangerously treading the path of Rwanda if something is not done about it now.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?
I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to br ... read full comment
WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?
I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to brush this issue under the carpet by some linked to the NPP as just a one off aberration. These people pretend or do not seem to know that Agyapong’s threats were not the first admonishing the killing of Ewes, something the readily available facts betray. Facts I have been referring to from 1994 in cyberspace, recounting my own personal experiences with some of those advocates of Ewe killers in Nigeria during the early years of the PNDC. Of course, I have not as yet told the full story. But as Fela said, “I no kpata de finish!”
Hmm! As I found out when I was insulted “basabasa” by a man who turned out to be one of my many uncles, (when I apparently misspoke on the hike in petrol prices in the 1993 budget, on a bus from Anloga to Dzelukope in 1993), for being mistaken for a Quashiga hireling who had joined the “Eblutorwo” (Akans) preparing to come and kill them, my people back home were fully prepared and waiting for the quislings to start the attacks; I was assured. That was long before anyone heard of Justice Kpega as a political pundit! Phew! Me, a die-hard Nkrumaist in league with NPP assassins, to go and kill my fellow Anlo-Ewes? Well, after all, it was in Lome, an Ewe centrepiece city even if many are of Ga-Elmina(Anyi) extraction, that they first congregated and started those lose talks against Ewes, thus forcing most Ewes in exile opposed to the PNDC to abandon the opposition to the PNDC and the anti-Ewe bent it had taken. So, many of us Ewes knew about their evil intents a long time ago, as they were eating our akple and fetri detsi and planning it in our kinsmen homes! Hardly any of them knew that much of the land of Lome is owned by people from Aflao and environs. Ignorant morons come in all shapes, you know. They were lucky no one poisoned them in Lome.:-)
Equally, I have read opponents to Agyapong’s utterances, including some Ewes, made some false and misleading statements, which shows that they are ignorant of the facts of the origins of the ethnic imbroglio in Ghana, despite my persistent efforts and write-ups sketching that sordid history, from the pre-colonial to the post-independence era. I read someone situated in the 1979 elections period Victor Owusu’s scathing attacks on Ewes as “inward-looking” during the exchanges with Dr Agama in Parliament after the Apollo 586 sacking of mostly Ewes by the Busia regime! How come?!
Ignorance and superstition are recognised as key cogs in the vicious cycle of backwardness that is our lot as developing people but the extent most so-called educated Ghanaians wallow in these two inhibiting traits is just stupendous and disheartening!
Many try to claim that Rawlings introduced tribalism into Ghana by employing predominantly Ewes into sensitive public posts, especially the security sector; whereas the same claims of Ewe domination of posts had already been used effectively against Gbedema’s NAL by Busia’s Progress Party during the 1969 General Elections, as I had quoted from Dennis Austen to show but something all grown-ups at the time knew about. It was therefore unfortunate that the late Prof Adu Boahen, as a historian who knew or ought to know better, fed into these fabrications of Ewe dominance, creating his own when he reportedly claimed in a British Council lecture in 1988 that Prof. Akilagpa Sawyerr, a Ga who was given the VC post which he thought he deserved at the time, was an Ewe; and promised in his interview granted to Mahoney and his Africa Watch magazine to redress the presumed ethnic disparity when the NPP was elected into office. To me and many discerning Ewes, especially the Ewe elite, it was all déjà vu. But I was still surprised to find out that some decade long opponents of the PNDC voted for the NDC in 1992! It would not even surprise me if someone who knew Justice Kpegah’s political views very well in the 1980s came out to say that he was an arch-enemy of the PNDC in the Bar Association. I was visiting Ho in 1990 when the people of the VR angrily rejected the no party idea that the PNDC was then lobbying for, effectively halting the campaign for it. Those in BA had already voted yes.
Yes! The NPP had itself to blame for their dismal reception in the VR, as they lost the plot with their tribal agenda reminiscent of the 1969 campaign. In Accra, they lost a lot of Ga support when the same Prof Adu Boahen at a rally, in trying to whip the anti-Ewe venom made that gaffe about Gas being pushed by the PNDC to be sleeping 10 persons to a room, after many of the main speakers had spoken in Twi! In 2000, they (NPP) won simply because of JJ’s unwholesome Swedru Declaration and the disrespectful Obed Asamoah led attempts to impose sitting candidates on their constituents, which nearly got him beaten at Dzelukope/Keta. My own Anlo Constituency elected an independent though linked to the NDC too.
Fact is, I have been aware, just as many other people, since the early 1980s of various threats by some Akans opposed to the PNDC to have Ewes killed and had written about that many, many times on Okyeame and SIL. Perhaps, adding Gas to those to be killed is just the new dimension added by Agyapong, since it appeared, this time, the Gas, in Agyapong's warped mind, had acted in prosecuting the "Ewe agenda" by beating up Ursula on behalf of the Ewes! Well, warped minds think in strange, circular terms!
After all, the threats were so opened and so rampant that one Ewe, the late Dr Kodzi who died here in London in exile, pointed out the "Anlo-Ewes” in his own virulently anti-Rawlings/ PNDC book, "Ghana: Worse than Apartheid S. Africa," as the Ewes to be killed, for being the culprits of the complaints and angst of the Akans! That was long before anyone heard of Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe and his renewed “war” on “Anlo-Ewes,” a war his ancestor joined the Akyem Gen. Dompey to fight in "Krepi" against the Asantes and lost way back in the 1860s and got stranded there, lucky enough not to have been killed like others. That’s another story I had re-told elsewhere and needs a re-visit soon in order to let the populace know what makes bozos like Ahoofe tick. For a man, (I mean Dr Kodzi, not the jerk Ahoofe) who, due to his sterling stewardship when in charge of the Keta Govt Hospital, was much beloved by the so-called Anlo-Ewes, regarded as an hononary Anlo and entrusted with pouring the libation at the Hogbeza celebration of the Noviha group here in London, that was something to write! How could he be sure that the would-be killers would not mistake him for an Anlo man, in spite of the pain he took to identify the other Ewe groups in his book? Well, the failure of the so-called Ewe elite - academic and traditional and the political - to deal rationally with this animus against Ewes is itself an intra-Ewe shambolic intellectual failure I shall deal with by and by. I have right here on my table the rantings of some other Ewes from northern Eweland based in the UK, (Ewedome as we Anlos refer to the area referred to by Europeans as Krepi), against the PNDC and Anlos in particular which I have not even as yet dealt with in my writings.
I must, however, make exception here, as Prof. Kofi Awoonor’s much distorted and maligned prison book (in league with Soyinka’s The Man Died) is probably the first book by a Ghanaian which tried to explain the tribal imbroglio and to point the way forward. His only mistake was that he fell prey to the standard Western simplistic, linear and reductionist methodology of reducing what is without doubt a complex articulation of interests and forces which cut across the ethnic divide with people from all ethnic groups found in both or all contesting camps for political ascendancy, or “hegemony”, as he put it, in Ghana. So, for instance, those who imprisoned him for helping Brig. Kattah to escape to Togo were not only “Akans/Asantes” but included Ewes, Gas, Gonjas, etc., as Kutu’s NRC comprised a cross-section of Ghanaian ethnic groups.
You have to be wilfully blind or totally ignorant of what has been happening in the opposition to the P/NDC camp in order to claim today that you are not aware of talk of and even attempts to foment what would have become an ethnic war in Ghana prior to 1992. I personally had to intervene and quelled a serious fracas on Okyeame between two well known non-Ewes when the “brave Asantes” were queried again by a non-Asante why they could not deal with the apparently Ewe P/NDC which allegedly committed atrocities on they Akans only, I suppose. I bet many can remember J.H Mensah's arrest in America for allegedly attempting to buy weapons to prosecute their “liberation war” to get their country back. It is no wonder the NPP gurus, many of whom shared in those nefarious ideas, talked about it, plotted to carry it, etc., are finding it very hard to distance themselves from this public utterance of it again. How can they desert their fellow journey man, without being double hypocrites? At least, there must be some honour among thieves (and tribal bigots, if we may add).
There are many questions to ask and many issues to take up. Had my PC not kaput and eventually leading to the loss of a huge part of what I had painstakingly written with references while in Norway with additions in London, my intended book taking up those issues would have been out years ago.
Incidentally, my next intended article after writing "How Some "Ewes" Became a Part of Ghana" is titled "Who Are the Ewes". It is just a revisit to my first ever post to a cyber forum in early 1994, Okyeame precisely, which Azar should remember so well, as in spite of my providing a reference, he still challenged me to give that! It was sent as my contribution, incidentally, to another NPP instigated scare against poor but hard working Ewe and Ada fishing cum farming pioneers (won't call them settlers) displaced by the effects of the Akosombo Dam on the neglected downstream people who opened up the mosquito infested and disease-ridden Afram Plains. The claim was that the NDC wanted to carve a district for them there and thereby claim the land for them! Wives and children were hastily sent home in order to keep them out of harm’s way in the event of attacks on the communities. That was when I decided not to sit any longer on the fence, just like the majority of my fellow educated Ewes, who think responding to such attacks on Ewes is beneath them, since madmen, "dzimakplawo" and "gbemelawo" were responsible! That was the common “wisdom” repeated by Rawlings at Tsiame, when he was queried by the worried chiefs and people about the ongoing Ewe demonization in the opposition media and political platforms in the ‘90s.
Gratuitous counter abuse, especially directed at Asantes ad nauseam, is not the way to tackle the issues, as some are presently doing on Ghanaweb. In the ‘90s, the Ghanaian stage was left to a novice like Komla Dumor to deal with on JoyFM with his “Ayigbe Jokes” series., which horrified and mortified me when I first listened to it online in 1997 or so. A programme like that would have found him and JoyFM foul of the Anti-Vilification Laws of any of the Western Europe countries and sanctioned appropriately. I doubt though whether half of our “honourable” MPs have heard of such a law, but that is the way we must go and huge revision of the school curricula. But that calls for another article.
Well, simply, many do not know how to deal with the madmen who repeatedly take their loins cloth while in the bath house! I know how! After all, I know the story of how the Anloga man dealt with the mad man of Tegbi and remained sane; the mad man who used to way lay the “asisiawo” - the market women - from the Keta market with a club and the question: axor a ava lo, alo axor a ekpo?, i.e., do you want penis or do you want club? And one day he raped and killed the heavily pregnant wife of the Anloga man. Of course, it is a taboo to deal with mad men in our society.
Ahoofe and his ilk’s tribalistic insults directed at Anlo-Ewes in particular and Agyapong's call to mayhem can be placed in perspective if you are informed about their origins. They used the tribal card so well in 1969 and think they can continue using it forever. No! Some of us decided long ago that ourselves and children shall not remain objects of demonization and vilification for the political objectives of some people who are still suffering from the mental warpedness that the slave trade had foisted on our ancestors. We shall therefore make sure that these appeal to ethnic differences backfire big time on their stupid faces!
I am therefore re-sending and shall continue re-posting this short piece I had put together especially for the readership of Ghanaweb and shall continue with my series on the Ethnic imbroglio in Ghana. Agyapong's outburst is simply the tip of the canker that permeates our body politic that must be dealt with at its roots. They are not the only Akans who suffer from what I have dubbed “Ewe angst and fears”, which afflict the generality of Akans due to how they are weaned and socialised. What do you expect from people who, as kids, are frightened to drink their Mist Alba, behave themselves or go to bed early with the Ewe bogeyman imagery?
Andy C. Y. Kwawukume
cyandyk@ymail.com
London
THE ETHNIC IMBROGLIO IN GHANA: THE ORIGINS, PART 1
The tribal imbroglio, rather than starting in recent times, has been brewing for a long, long while now. In fact, the roots of the prejudices and the insults we see some raining on others date back to pre-colonial times. So, any attempt to understand the worrying phenomenon must address the canker from that era. That is what I intend to do, with special focus on the apparent cleavage between Ewes and Akans (and any others). But now, I’d begin with the colonial times. When you hear the cry of lamentation:
Dza le le leeeeeee!
Me zu kluvi
The road to Kontsiabu
Strewn with gold dusts.
Only those without
in their eyes gold dusts
felt the pangs of hunger and thirst…
then you’d know that the time to narrate the doleful tales of the pre-colonial era, where it all began, has arrived; but you’d get a glimpse now.
Not to waste time apportioning blame, the Akans (and Gas, if I may add them), started these tribal abuse and attacks on Ewes many decades ago; nay, centuries back, as I said earlier. But as mentioned above, I won't delve as yet into the pre-colonial times when it was free for all, with even some Ewe states joining in marauding and plundering other Ewe states for the slave markets of the Gold Coast. I had indeed provided a write up on that sordid era on Ghanaweb’s SIL in the 1990s, which is available. One German businessman with biz connections to Ghana who used to read the nonsense on SIL wrote a private mail to me saying that he was always wondering why Africans sold each other into slavery to Europeans and Arabs; reading my detailed historical account enlightened him on how and why it happened for the first time. That story must be re-told all over Africa in other to understand the roots of the conflicts that bedevilled the continent after independence.
In Ghana, the colonial times modern version started after the WW1 when Anlo, Tongu and Peki migrants from within the Gold Coast and those from the newly acquired TVT from the Germans started moving to the Akan and Ga areas to either fish, farm or seek paid employment. Ewes from Togo and Benin Republic (Dahomey) escaping from French repressive rule came later. Some Ewes, esp. the educated ones, also got jobs with the commercial houses and the colonial administration. Some, such as Gbedema and Nkulenu, started their own private businesses. Soon, they were becoming prosperous in their chosen fields and/or rising up in the ranks wherever they were employed due to the usual hard working nature of most migrants. After all, the far superior German missionary vocational educational set up, compared to the British, had equipped them much better with skills in the crafts and building, such as carpentry and masonry, which were in much demand by the colonial authority and the other natives of the Gold Coast and Asante. That was when trouble began and the attacks started, as far back as the 1930s.
Below is a brief quote from S. Greene about how the Fantes started perceiving Anlo-Ewe fisher folk; a perception or prejudice which is not much different from what permeates the Akan ethnic group as a whole up to today (not only a few bigots on Ghanaweb). Ewes find out to our chagrin or amusement, often as a kid, that that was how our fellow country men and women perceive us. The encounter is therefore a personal story too.
Not much has changed in the prejudiced minds of too many Akans, as we daily witness on Ghanaweb, even though many too have developed over the years an obsession or desire to marry Ewe girls, failure which often brought in its wake stories of tribalism heaped against Ewes. As I told some Akan teacher colleagues in Nigeria, it was the scary and “irrational” Akan “wofa” (uncle) inheritance system, stupid! Horrible stories of how Ewe widows were in particular dispossessed and treated shabbily were enough to dissuade any idea of marriage to even a most love besotted Akan man! It is no wonder that, with the interstate law of inheritance in place, marriage to Akan men has been on the increase.
I know an Ewe from the Peki area who swore that it’d never be possible to change the jaundiced perception of Akans of Ewes from his own experiences attending Mpraeso Teacher Training College, and then teaching at Mpraeso and in Kumasi. He said one particular woman - a cook in the school - they used to go to church with wouldn’t believe that he did not have any “akpeledzi” under their bed! I said it was possible and gave an example of my own experiences in Nigeria. I managed to convince my fellow Akan teachers that I don’t indulge nor believe in those things - juju or voodoo or even any god (white or black), and wouldn’t drink “ogogoro” with them – when there is original Gordon’s gin and lime cordial to have – and they somehow lost some “respect”, (or was it fear?) for me. They’d say I wasn’t a proper Anloman and fool around with me!
Between 1982-4, when their Anti-Ewe diatribes had reached fever point and they were advocating massacring Ewes as done to the Ibos in Nigeria who they claimed were also allegedly dominating Nigeria in the 1960s, I thought of putting some fear into them by creating some “kporsi” (“see-and-run”) to scare them. Fact is, practically every smart Ewe knows how to scare Akans and Gas even though they don’t have “foko” (anything), as we say in Anlo but I will keep that out of this write up. Good I didn’t do so, otherwise they’d be giving testimonies up to today about what an Anlo teacher did to them in Nigeria – they’d have packed out and run from their rooms on the ground floor of the storey building we were hiring. I “protected” myself practically by chocking the door handle with a chair, as I had seen in movies, before I went to bed, in order to prevent them from making me the first casualty of their let-us-kill-Ewes mania! Funny some of them even became staunch PNDC supporters, only to change their minds again years later when I met some on a visit to Ghana.
Anyway, enough with the digression into the personal narrative and to Sandra Greene.
From p.148 of Sandra Greene I quote:
"Increased Anlo identification with their northern Ewe-speaking neighbours may have also been enhanced by the experience many had while participating in migrant fishing. After World War I, numerous groups of Anlo men and women traveled to other coastal areas, including the Fante area of the Gold Coast, in order to pursue their commercial fishing activities. For many, this was probably the first time they had traveled outside their home area, and/or to a district where they were a distinct linguistic minority. In these locations, they conducted themselves as they had in their own home villages, but those among whom they come to live - often temporarily, just for the fishing season - came to view the Anlos' prosperity with jealousy and suspicion. Stories circulated that associated the Anlo with "blood-curdling" crimes. R.W. Wyllie indicates, for example, that from at least the 1930s "Fanti [children] learned to view the Anlos as thieves, kidnappers, sorcerers, and ritual murderers." The social tensions that accompany these beliefs - and the very fact that these beliefs were held by a non-Ewe speaking people - must have heightened the Anlo's awareness of their linguistic and cultural background and generated some sense of identification with their Ewe-speaking peoples whom they would have encountered in the Gold Coast."
The encounter with the Gold Coasters was enough to turn any Ewe into a paranoid schizophrenic, developed a siege mentality (become “inward-looking”?) and very resentful towards any idea of union with the Gold Coast, not to mention marry an Akan.
As some of you know, the Anlo area through Tongu to the Peki area had been part of the Gold Coast colony proper, effectively from 1874 though the British “bought” and claimed the area from the Danes in 1850; hence the freedom to move to other parts of the Gold Coast and Asante later. Besides, many southern Ewes are descendants Ga-Adangbe, Elmina and Denkyira fugitives dating back respectively to 1687 when the Akwamus first thrashed the Gas for cutting the “bolobolo” (foreskin) of their prince sent to the Ga Mantse Okai Koi’s court to understudy courtship, and 1700, when the Asantes defeated the Denkyiras and took over Elmina from the Denkyiras. Going back to Ge (Accra) and Sima (Shama) with their new kinsmen was just like returning to the ancestors' land. In fact, it was the descendants of those fugitives who were the first migrants, having maintained links with their ancestral lands during their long period in exile. Reindorf had written about that back and forth movement among the Ga fugitives long ago. That’s how Osu-Anecho came to be founded and how all Ewes got the derogatory epithet “Ayigbe” (Ayi refuse), whether they were descendants of fugitives or not. The “dzulor” bit the Gas added originally referred to the Okai Koi stool regalia which the Ga-Ewes in Togo refused to return to Accra and still claim to be its protectors. Remember the trips with pre-colonial undertones their chiefs made to Ghana when the NPP took over power in 2000?
I can make long comments on the above quote but suffice it to say that it was the beginning and end of the love affair which started as unification with the Gold Coast movement ending up as the drive to secede from the Gold Coast. So we read from the December 6, 1919 edition of the West Africa magazine a letter sent to the colonial government of the Gold Coast:
“We PEOPLE of Togoland, descended from two principal countries, Elmina
(Ane) and Accra (Ge), both of the Gold Coast Colony, ask to have British government because it is the government of our fathers, whose customs are our customs, and a British Colony is half-an-hour distant from us.
We ask to have British government because it is the government of our kith and kin, our race and our tribe.
We ask for British government because of our relationship with our people on the west, which must assert itself..” (culled from West Africa 12-16 Dec. 1994)
And so on it went. One may wonder why the petitioners did not even acknowledge the Ewes, Dagombas, Konkombas, Akans and the host of other ethnic and tribal groups in Togo who also have their “kith and kin” within the Gold Coast and the Northern Territories. I guess this piece of history may come as a surprise to the ingrates who make a living of always reminding us that Ewes come from Togo, some of whom carried a video to Lome to trace the roots of Fiifii Kwetey there, instead of doing so in Accra! Well, he said he was from Nogokpo, which rubbed a sore spot for me, but that’s another story.
THE EWE BACKLASH
By the 1940s, Ewes, Anlos in particular, in the Gold Coast had had enough of the vilification and undeserved demonisation their successes were arousing. The returnee Anes and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyi, as Anlos refer to them, through intermarriages, also soon discovered that they were not welcome, or often welcomed with shouts of “Ayigbe dzulor”! Disenchantment set in and secession from Ghana became a far better option. The result was the 1956 plebiscite and the rest is history.
Then come the post Feb 24 1966 coup era, when Busia and his PP turned this traditional vilification of Ewes into a political tool to win the 1969 general elections. It was preceded by an internal struggle within the NLC to share the spoils of office after the coup. An extended quote from Dennis Austin, that great chronicler of Ghana history, captures the gist of it, so here we go:
“A surprising and disagreeable novelty of the election was the extraordinary anti-Ewe sentiment that was express1ed in conversation with many of those who were against Gbedemah and his party. One can explain this strong animus not simply by a dislike of Gbedema’s reappearance in political life but in relations to events after the 1966 coup. Suddenly there were the soldiers and the police, and everyone burst out singing, but when the music died down away it was noticed that the NLC (it seemed) was commanded by minorities: Ewe and Ga. When Ankrah (a Ga), was moved out, and charges were brought over-hastily by Harlley against the Chief of Defence Staff, Michael Otu, the evidence to many was overwhelming. It was all an Ewe plot. Soon Ghana would be run for the benefit of an energetic minority, operating first within the armed forces, and now behind Gbedemah. ‘Appoint an Ewe to a public corporation or to a government department and within a year the entire hierarchy down to the messenger will be an Ewe.’ So the argument ran. And there was always some evidence for it, since the Ewe, deprived of any natural wealth in their own barren region, have been energetic in seizing the opportunities of public employment, including positions in the army and the police, which wealthier communities (like the Akan) did not wish to occupy. In practice, looking through the list of senior officers in government department and the public corporations, the evidence is certainly not clear of any Ewe domination: it could hardly be in view of their number. But a belief does not, of course, have to be true before people hold it fervently.
Now there is an Akan-dominated government of an Akan dominated society. Were I to become, by some improbable chance of fate, leader of the governing party I would be much less apprehensive of my Ewe opponents in front than of the large and expectant following behind. I would be fearful too of the ambitions of those now excluded from power, remembering the Songs of Innocence that:
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caeser’s laurel crown” (D. Austin 1976:125)
Austin was writing with hindsight about what befell Busia’s regime, overthrown in a coup led by an Asante.
In Part 2, I intend to examine the hate campaign against the Ewes and the consequences or reactions from the 1970s which led to Kofi Awoonor’s infamous prison book, The Ghana Revolution, which he claimed he wrote in prison when gaoled for helping Brig. Kattah to escape from Ghana. It’d be necessary to focus on the Ghana Army, from its origins and recruitment trends since it is at the crux of the matter.
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Andy C.Y. Kwawukume, better known as C.Y. Andy-K, is a freethinker, Pan-Africanist and an ardent Nkrumaist.
cyandyk@ymail.com
References:
Dennis Austin (1976): Ghana Observed: Essays on the Politics of a W. African Republic.
Manchester Univ. Press.
Sandra E. Greene (1995): Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave
Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Heinemann and James Currey
Robert W. Wyllie. “Migrant Anlo Fishing Companies and Socio-Political Change: A
Comparative Study.” Africa, XXXIX, 4 (1969), 396-410.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
What a bunch of morons! These ignorant fools! You are really soiling the image of the generality of Akans!
Btw, Akans are not in majority in Ghana but just the largest ethnic group by lumping diverse tribal groups togethe ... read full comment
What a bunch of morons! These ignorant fools! You are really soiling the image of the generality of Akans!
Btw, Akans are not in majority in Ghana but just the largest ethnic group by lumping diverse tribal groups together, including even the Nzemas and the many descendants of slaves who were not even Akan in origins! The latter constitute 33% of the pop. of those identified as Asantes and the Fantes even have two clans for them besides the Fante "Kramos"!
You ignorant losers should get off the back of long-suffering Ewes or you'd be chewing more than you can bite pretty soon.
Andy-K
kutsii. 9 years ago
Political trumuism is tantamount to Okoampah's rotten anus.
Political trumuism is tantamount to Okoampah's rotten anus.
Joe-Tee 9 years ago
You are one of the most stupid doctorate degree holders I have ever come across and an unfortunate human being living on the surface of the planet earth.
You are one of the most stupid doctorate degree holders I have ever come across and an unfortunate human being living on the surface of the planet earth.
SAM 9 years ago
Hahahah.So proud to be a true Ghanaian first, and second, an Ewe. I am proud that idiot can not sleep soundly because of the tribe called Ewes.He is ewephobias. Or he is rather allergic to the Ewe tribe.What a stupid nonsense ... read full comment
Hahahah.So proud to be a true Ghanaian first, and second, an Ewe. I am proud that idiot can not sleep soundly because of the tribe called Ewes.He is ewephobias. Or he is rather allergic to the Ewe tribe.What a stupid nonsense to write? This is the animal who is married to an Ewe from Abutia yet hate Ewes so much that left to him alone, the Ewe tribe should be exterminated from Ghana.Ahoofe, you can say and do whatever you like against the Ewes,but the truth is that, you will die a painful death with your wife,your children and indeed, all of your family members, whiles the Ewes continue to live in peace and harmony in this land.What has the reckless and stupid nonsense by Osafo Mafo got to do with ewes? Is it the Ewes who told Osafo Mafo to talk such trash and rubbish? Hey.foolish Ahoofe, listen.Your foolish and useless and good for nothing passport thief,Akufo Addo will never and never be president of this country. At least not in this generation.A man fooool of questionable character with criminal activities hanging on his trapezium head. Why dont you seek a psychaitrist? Bush dog
P Okuampah Snr 9 years ago
Who told Ghanaians that Akuffo Addo has no law certificate? He has one in his possession but cannot produce it for public scrutiny. The certificate bears the name Nana Addo Dankwa, and whose rightful owner was the late-lawyer ... read full comment
Who told Ghanaians that Akuffo Addo has no law certificate? He has one in his possession but cannot produce it for public scrutiny. The certificate bears the name Nana Addo Dankwa, and whose rightful owner was the late-lawyer from Buem who was murdered and his body has since not been recovered. Akuffo Addo has been the name of this particular entity since childhood through adulthood. Then from nowhere he calls himself Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo without any legal bscking. .I want Okuampah to tell his uncle to produce that certificate, period if he is truly not an imposter, a murderer and a crook. His own friends in the party are aware of this noose around his neck but are keeping mute over it in the interest of the party. I have about three friends who are seasoned legal luminaries who have confirmed what I have just said. How tall the frog is would be determined after its death.( Eda a aponkyerene bewu no na yebehu ne tenten)
kutsii. 9 years ago
Don't mind that twerp called Okoampa. Defense for Dr. Osafo Mafia is very stupid on his part. The reasin most of the commenta say Okoampa is a mad dog, insane and needing psychiatric treatment
Don't mind that twerp called Okoampa. Defense for Dr. Osafo Mafia is very stupid on his part. The reasin most of the commenta say Okoampa is a mad dog, insane and needing psychiatric treatment
FRANKLIN, KUMASI 9 years ago
Your articles hardly convey any meaning to me. They are full of jargons, "big words", etc. Effective written communication is simple, clear, and direct. Your arguments are also mostly flawed. Please give us a list of world le ... read full comment
Your articles hardly convey any meaning to me. They are full of jargons, "big words", etc. Effective written communication is simple, clear, and direct. Your arguments are also mostly flawed. Please give us a list of world leaders, past or present, that were elected to their various offices because they come from counties, provinces, etc.that possess the largest proportion of their nation's resources, whether human, physical, or otherwise.
Tony Shaker 9 years ago
It beats my imagination if this man has any brain in his big skull at all...... It appears like thinks from his anus. I wished I could have just ignored his stupid article but I have been pushed the wall. The world is full of ... read full comment
It beats my imagination if this man has any brain in his big skull at all...... It appears like thinks from his anus. I wished I could have just ignored his stupid article but I have been pushed the wall. The world is full of unnecessary wars because of brainless idiots of this caliber of a fool
NOBODY 9 years ago
Serial liars like Okoampa-Ahoofe and Osafo-Maafo are quick to claim the tape is doctored, when they're caugt with their pants down. Ahoofe and his evil gang will never have the chance to unleash their evil agenda on the natio ... read full comment
Serial liars like Okoampa-Ahoofe and Osafo-Maafo are quick to claim the tape is doctored, when they're caugt with their pants down. Ahoofe and his evil gang will never have the chance to unleash their evil agenda on the nation, for their flagbearer Akufo-Addo will suffer his third defeat, leaving Okoampa-Ahoofe and Osafo-Maafo more frustrated and confused. It never pays to be evil. But the demented Okoampa-Ahoofe does not seem to understand it. You can support Osafo-Maafo's Rotten Egg Rule all you want, and the outcome for Akufo-Addo will be the same as it has been in the past two elections that he was trounced.
Mohammed 9 years ago
who told You all akans are agree with you? dint You kill nkrumah? was he not an akan,are nzema peoplenot akans did ever win an election there? what about sefhwi,ahanta,your party is asante akyim party dont creat an impression ... read full comment
who told You all akans are agree with you? dint You kill nkrumah? was he not an akan,are nzema peoplenot akans did ever win an election there? what about sefhwi,ahanta,your party is asante akyim party dont creat an impression as if all akans are with you, tha's why about 70% of your vote come from 2 regjons go and check ndc vote region by region and you will seen that every region is important to ndc unlike your tribal party
Izdin 9 years ago
This is bullshit!Nobody owns anything so far as they are in Ghana.Ghana first!I wanted to vote for the NPP but I now have doubt...
This is bullshit!Nobody owns anything so far as they are in Ghana.Ghana first!I wanted to vote for the NPP but I now have doubt...
Native Son Bashir 9 years ago
I don't know where this guy gets his logic from, how can Osafo Marfo stand by a "doctored" tape? who in his rightful sense will stand by a tape which he himself said it is doctor.
If you had said Safo Marfo should stand by ... read full comment
I don't know where this guy gets his logic from, how can Osafo Marfo stand by a "doctored" tape? who in his rightful sense will stand by a tape which he himself said it is doctor.
If you had said Safo Marfo should stand by his tape I the son of man would have back you 100% but not a "doctored" tape.
This night school teacher lacks logic
It appears for the Akyems, tribalism is a way of open life. When the volta lake that belongs to the people of the Volta generates hydro power for the people of Kumasi and Akyem Oda to use to power their fridges, watch TV and ...
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EVERY NATURAL RESOURCES BELONGS TO THE GOVERNMENT. IF YOU FARM COCOA OR YAM, YOU CAN CLAIM THAT BUT NOT SOMETHING YOU KNEW NOTHING ABOUT. JUST FOUND THEM LYING ON THE GROUND. THE OWNER IS GOD. IF YOU NEED A PIECE, YOU BETTER ...
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Nonsense, did any Akan farm the natural resources to own them or they cooked or manufactured them? Who own the sea? The black and Volta that feeds the Akosombo Dam does not belong to northerners?
STUPID AKYEM TRIBALISTS. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY TO LIVE PEACEFULLY WITH OTHER GHANAIANS, AND HATE EWES AND NORTHERNERS, GO AND BURN THE SEA. WHAT AT ALL HAVE MINORITY TRIBES DONE TO YOU THESE TRIBALISTIC PEOPLE
We are sick and tired of being marginalized. Do you expect us to keep quiet for you to exploit us? Minority should not seek to control the majority. If that should happen then Ghana will be set on the path of Rwanda.
Volta lake and dam was man-made with borrowed money, it does not belong to the Voltarians; the water there flows from Burkina Faso and tributaries from other regions in Ghana. Gold, diamond, bauxite etc are naturally occurrin ...
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OFFICE OF THE ODIKRO
a companion of the black star!
SHAME UNTO YOU! ETHNOCENTRIC LOSER!
You this particular grandson of mine! What is wrong with you? At least, by running awy from his own words, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo is ...
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You are the biggest fool if you are really an Akan. You have no sense of urgency. What didn't we do right to have these minority tribes, particularly Northerners and Trokosis, wantonly dissipating the peoples money with such ...
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Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro aka Ali Masmani, Tanii, shut up and fuck off with your nonsense.
Kwame for this one dea, l agree with you intoto. It's about time our akan leadership stand up to these infidels especially the ewes.
I give up. You will never get it. No matter how much we try to enlighten you, you seemed to be like the proverbial hog. Sorry, you people wish there will be a doomsday in Ghana. Wow!!! I hope you'd bring your family front and ...
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Of course, we all know that what Osafo Mafo said is the stock in trade belief of most NPP followers with Akan origins. But just like beliefs. Can they prove with hard statistics what they have been saying for decades and Osa ...
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It is ok for hate-anything-Akan murderer Rawlings to tell Voltarians they will burn in hell if they voted NPP! Did you criticise him? You Ewes will never blame NDC no matter what, what does that tell everyone about you? Do y ...
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The tribal bigot is at it again. Akufo addo should call this man to order. Mr. okoampah is doing a lot of damage to nana's presidential ambition. Mr. okoampah is staying put in new york and has lost touch with reality and the ...
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You are a bigot
no bigotry when scholarships are given to only people belonging to certain ethnic groups;MOST heads of institutions come from just three regions like others aren't qualified. Lets have a discussion, for the so called road to ...
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And so are Rawlings and Mahama. Or is it that non-Akans have a right to ethnic bigotry but, somehow, Akans ought to be content with a second-class citizenship status?
Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should S ...
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Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should S ...
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Even though, several Ghanaian politicians of all stripes have made similar divisive and controversial statements in the past. Fair enough. Perhaps, it sounds too simplistic and rather sentimental to say: 'Osafo-Maafo Should S ...
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The Akan leaders have become very timid and as a result, the rightful place for Akans in Ghana is dangerously eroding fast while few minority groups championed by Ewes are stealing and looting the teasury and assets of Ghana ...
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Wake up Akans! Wake up! Akans are being marginalized big time. Its time to discuss this issue in public and stop playing the ostrich. Rawlings started this onslaught and it has caught on with the rest of the minority folks. ...
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WILFULLY BLIND OR JUST PLAIN IGNORANCE?
I have been amused, and somehow puzzled, at the rumpus being raised about what crazed Agyapong said. But what I find surprising is the virtual hypocrisy and mendacious attempts to br ...
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What a bunch of morons! These ignorant fools! You are really soiling the image of the generality of Akans!
Btw, Akans are not in majority in Ghana but just the largest ethnic group by lumping diverse tribal groups togethe ...
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Political trumuism is tantamount to Okoampah's rotten anus.
You are one of the most stupid doctorate degree holders I have ever come across and an unfortunate human being living on the surface of the planet earth.
Hahahah.So proud to be a true Ghanaian first, and second, an Ewe. I am proud that idiot can not sleep soundly because of the tribe called Ewes.He is ewephobias. Or he is rather allergic to the Ewe tribe.What a stupid nonsense ...
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Who told Ghanaians that Akuffo Addo has no law certificate? He has one in his possession but cannot produce it for public scrutiny. The certificate bears the name Nana Addo Dankwa, and whose rightful owner was the late-lawyer ...
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Don't mind that twerp called Okoampa. Defense for Dr. Osafo Mafia is very stupid on his part. The reasin most of the commenta say Okoampa is a mad dog, insane and needing psychiatric treatment
Your articles hardly convey any meaning to me. They are full of jargons, "big words", etc. Effective written communication is simple, clear, and direct. Your arguments are also mostly flawed. Please give us a list of world le ...
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It beats my imagination if this man has any brain in his big skull at all...... It appears like thinks from his anus. I wished I could have just ignored his stupid article but I have been pushed the wall. The world is full of ...
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Serial liars like Okoampa-Ahoofe and Osafo-Maafo are quick to claim the tape is doctored, when they're caugt with their pants down. Ahoofe and his evil gang will never have the chance to unleash their evil agenda on the natio ...
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who told You all akans are agree with you? dint You kill nkrumah? was he not an akan,are nzema peoplenot akans did ever win an election there? what about sefhwi,ahanta,your party is asante akyim party dont creat an impression ...
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This is bullshit!Nobody owns anything so far as they are in Ghana.Ghana first!I wanted to vote for the NPP but I now have doubt...
I don't know where this guy gets his logic from, how can Osafo Marfo stand by a "doctored" tape? who in his rightful sense will stand by a tape which he himself said it is doctor.
If you had said Safo Marfo should stand by ...
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