What kind of bull is this?You the writer cannot be a Fante
What kind of bull is this?You the writer cannot be a Fante
DODZI 7 years ago
The writer is a fool. Read
"Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector in Ghana" , a UN report by Richard Asante & E.Gyimah-Boadi.
This report which is available online showed that contrary you pe ... read full comment
The writer is a fool. Read
"Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector in Ghana" , a UN report by Richard Asante & E.Gyimah-Boadi.
This report which is available online showed that contrary you people's propaganda, Rawlings never populated government with Ewes. In it you would see the stark difference with Kufuor
Trump 7 years ago
In fact I'm tired of NDC and truly want a change, I like Nana and at no time has he been my problem, my problem has been with people like this writer. There is too many of such Akan supremacist in the NPP and that makes some ... read full comment
In fact I'm tired of NDC and truly want a change, I like Nana and at no time has he been my problem, my problem has been with people like this writer. There is too many of such Akan supremacist in the NPP and that makes some of us uncomfortable.
Its true that Mahamas govt is skewed towards people of Northern descent but this is not the best way to right the wrongs.
So now the question is do we want a clueless NDC to remain in power and keep the country together or a divisive NPP that might set the nation on a collision cause?
OMANHENE 7 years ago
You are a paid propagandist of the ndc. kwaseaa.
You are a paid propagandist of the ndc. kwaseaa.
Ekow Essamuah 7 years ago
Rawlings beat Mensah Wood, a Fanti Army commander who later died of the injuries he sustained in the PNDC days. Rawlings again used Ackaah to win election in 1992. He would later beat and kicked the oldman Kwaku Ackaah, who c ... read full comment
Rawlings beat Mensah Wood, a Fanti Army commander who later died of the injuries he sustained in the PNDC days. Rawlings again used Ackaah to win election in 1992. He would later beat and kicked the oldman Kwaku Ackaah, who could be his father, in the groins. Ackaah too never survive the hefty beatings he suffered from the murderous founder of the NDC - he also died. Dear reader, do I need to re-echo the humiliation and the emotional stress that these buffoons in government subjected another Fanti man, in the person of Prof Mills, who most sane, sound and discerning Ghanaians share the belief that he was murdered or abandoned to die to pave way for Manama to rig the 2012 elections. Folks I would blame my own Fanta people if they vote NDC to support these Atinga-Trokosi loot and share brigade to continue the mass looting.
Nenyi 7 years ago
Read below also what Ganyobi replied to this article,
thanks Ekow,
this time round Western Region & Central Region won't massively for both partisan parties: NDC & NPP,
period
Read below also what Ganyobi replied to this article,
thanks Ekow,
this time round Western Region & Central Region won't massively for both partisan parties: NDC & NPP,
period
Sammhy 7 years ago
You wrote all these about Northners and Ewes yet your vice is also a Northner and Nana keeps campaigning in the North and Volta for their votes. Are you normal? Do you know how many tribes the Akans had married into? NPP will ... read full comment
You wrote all these about Northners and Ewes yet your vice is also a Northner and Nana keeps campaigning in the North and Volta for their votes. Are you normal? Do you know how many tribes the Akans had married into? NPP will continue to struggle for a while because you don't know about smart politics?
Military Man 7 years ago
What is good for the geese is also good for the gander,you moronic imbecile.
Isn't this the same tribalistic philosophy you guys have been preaching and practicing all these years? As a matter of fact, you and your master JJ ... read full comment
What is good for the geese is also good for the gander,you moronic imbecile.
Isn't this the same tribalistic philosophy you guys have been preaching and practicing all these years? As a matter of fact, you and your master JJ are the torch bearers of such ideas. So shut the fuck up!
While I don't completely agree with the writer, I sympathize with what he's saying because I am a Fante too and I have seen and felt exactly what he's trying to bring forward. I am from the Western Region where most of Ghana's mineral riches emanate from..... but look at our roads, look at our Effia-Nkwanta hospital - like the place has not seen a drop of paint since its inception.
Our schools are a shame to look at. Those are just a few of the things I can mention.
So you tell me if what this writer is talking about doesn't make sense, fool!
So you tell me
Kkd 7 years ago
Ghanaweb stop publishing stupid articles. This guy is a fool n divisive like nana addo n must not be allowed to continue posting stup I'd articles like this
Ghanaweb stop publishing stupid articles. This guy is a fool n divisive like nana addo n must not be allowed to continue posting stup I'd articles like this
IT MEANS DIVIDE & RULE CONTINUES 7 years ago
IT IS A FACT, THAT FANTIS WERE THE BIGGEST SLAVE MERCHANTS WHO SET UP HUGE BUSINESSES AS LOCAL PARTNERS OF THE SLAVE BUYERS. IT'S ALL RECORDED IN HISTORY. THEY ALLOW THEIR FELLOW AKANS TO BE VICTIMIZED FOR THEIR SELFISH INTER ... read full comment
IT IS A FACT, THAT FANTIS WERE THE BIGGEST SLAVE MERCHANTS WHO SET UP HUGE BUSINESSES AS LOCAL PARTNERS OF THE SLAVE BUYERS. IT'S ALL RECORDED IN HISTORY. THEY ALLOW THEIR FELLOW AKANS TO BE VICTIMIZED FOR THEIR SELFISH INTERESTS.
Jd 7 years ago
Read your history books well,the Ashantis were the slave hunters and mass slave sellers
Read your history books well,the Ashantis were the slave hunters and mass slave sellers
abc 7 years ago
Kwasiafuor! without Akans Ghana wouldn't be what it is today yet you have the audacity to call a person who has stands higher than you in terms of social, tribal and economic status an Akrantie-Bini eater? we know most of Gha ... read full comment
Kwasiafuor! without Akans Ghana wouldn't be what it is today yet you have the audacity to call a person who has stands higher than you in terms of social, tribal and economic status an Akrantie-Bini eater? we know most of Ghana's problems comes from you blockheaded ayigbe and pepefuor devils! Ghana would be a much better country with only Akan, Ga's, and Fantis!
AKRANTIE-BINI-EATER 7 years ago
The only FUCK I know is Asante girls getting fucked all over Europe for VISA and ADRO CHOPPING. They were being FUCKED in Nigeria for 2 Naira each One Round until President Shagari chased them out.
The only FUCK I know is Asante girls getting fucked all over Europe for VISA and ADRO CHOPPING. They were being FUCKED in Nigeria for 2 Naira each One Round until President Shagari chased them out.
Yaw B 7 years ago
are you ok
are you ok
Aj 7 years ago
Dude,what's has the article here got to do with
the Ashantis or did the writer says she/he is Ashante.what's the great Ashantes has done for your tribe can you also tell us what's your tribe has done for the Ashanti tribe af ... read full comment
Dude,what's has the article here got to do with
the Ashantis or did the writer says she/he is Ashante.what's the great Ashantes has done for your tribe can you also tell us what's your tribe has done for the Ashanti tribe after all they gave a portion of their land for your tribe to stay among them and name it after your tribes. the more you insult the Ashantis tribe the more God Almighty keep blessing them because the Bible talks about if you love bringing people together or share your property with the poor He (God) would bless
you.for you to comment on the issue on board no chose to pick one of the many Akan tribes eg Fantis,kwahus,bonos,Akyims,Akwapims,Ashantes,Nzimas and many more but due to your lack of knowledge you couldn't think for yourself,an illiterate relative of yours who have put such a primitive ideas in your head did not allow you to think out of the box,all your education shows how stupid you're.... sorry for my French.
Trump 7 years ago
Do not include tolerant Gas in your tribal supremacist agenda for the sake of power. We know you very well and wont be part of that evil agenda.
Do not include tolerant Gas in your tribal supremacist agenda for the sake of power. We know you very well and wont be part of that evil agenda.
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
Twum Boafo has said it as it is without mincing words. I have been saying it as it is for over two decades now. SO WHAT THE HECK WHEN THE SHITE HITS THE CEILING?
Having read a more accurate version of what Mrs Attivor rep ... read full comment
Twum Boafo has said it as it is without mincing words. I have been saying it as it is for over two decades now. SO WHAT THE HECK WHEN THE SHITE HITS THE CEILING?
Having read a more accurate version of what Mrs Attivor reportedly said, I agree 100% that it is simply hypocritical for anyone to come out to denounce her and ask her to apologise WITHOUT at first or ever condemning the ethnocentric utterances and actions of the NPP leaders and elements that gave grounds for her own utterance, which simply sought to benefit from the ethnocentric politics and actions of the NPP tradition when in power. She might have goofed by misspeaking factually but what she said was simply a reaction, albeit a skewed one, thereby giving a golden opportunity to hypocrites to bare their rotten teeth.
I myself had pointed out those things that instigated her many times in articles. An anti-PNDC refugee, an Ewe himself, Dr Kodzi, even wrote a book in the early 1990s in which he pointed out the Anlos as the Ewes to be killed, in response to the rampant loose talk by some Akans that Ewes would be killed by them. That was long before Agyapong's loose talk a few years ago.
I had narrated and posted many times my own personal experiences in Nigeria with some of those would-be assassins. All of you pretending and insulting Attivor should therefore fcuk off! Hypocrites! Attivor’s faus pas is just the tip of the discontent in the VR she tried to mine. For an increasing number of people from there, particularly Ewes, secession from Ghana is the only option and they say worse things.
I welcome Manasseh's plead that we don't sweep the matter under the carpet but discuss it. I have been doing that since the early '90s. I have a 10-series continuation of my Ethnic Imbroglio waiting on ice for years now. I shall post the Part 1 here to refresh the memories of all and inform those who didn't read it before. First, another refresher.
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), - 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 Anlos? 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 loose 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 Ewe 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 Ghana and in 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, besides many of the main speakers speaking in Twi which pissed off the Gas! 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 MP though linked to the NDC too, having rejected the NDC official candidate Rtd. Captain Sowu.
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 "Anlos” in his own virulently anti-Rawlings/PNDC book, "Ghana: Worse than Apartheid S. Africa," as the Ewes to be killed, for being allegedly 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 their allies 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 honorary Anlo and entrusted with pouring the libation at the Hogbeza celebration of the Noviha association 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, 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 to a dichotomy delineated on one side by Ewes and the other Akans/Asantes. 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 journeyman, 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 (Prof. Steven Kwaku Asare) 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 on 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, but he did and nothing untoward ever happened to him afterwards.
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 their ancestors. We shall therefore make sure that these appeal to ethnic differences backfire big time on their stupid, ugly 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?
C. Y. Andy-K
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 “ekpelekpedzi” 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 cordiale 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 of 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 movements 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 (Anyis) and Ges (Gas), now fused as the Genyis through intermarriages, as Anlos refer to them, 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 comes 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 expressed 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.
Mr Bond 7 years ago
The truth hurt,so the semi education fools could not master the courage to consume or digest the truth and the show their ignorant by insulting the school of taught and counselling.Like I said before education don't make fool ... read full comment
The truth hurt,so the semi education fools could not master the courage to consume or digest the truth and the show their ignorant by insulting the school of taught and counselling.Like I said before education don't make fools wise no matter learned and various degrees and Ph.D's they lave they are still fools because it is in their DNA and nothing can't change that status quo.Mr writer,don't let those educated fools insult your intelligence and discourage you from writing what you believe in.Bravo,Well done and keep educating your Fantis folks.that Mahama killed their president for power to continue his greedy to steal and as he is doing up till date.
FANTIS ARE BIGGEST AKAN SELL OUTS 7 years ago
BUT FOR THE AKANS WITHOUT FANTI (WHO WERE ALL LABELLED ASHANTI) AND THEIR COURAGEOUS FIGHTS TO KEEP OUR LAND FREE FROM COLONIAL MASTERS, GOLD COAST WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLD BY COASTAL NATIVES.
BUT FOR THE AKANS WITHOUT FANTI (WHO WERE ALL LABELLED ASHANTI) AND THEIR COURAGEOUS FIGHTS TO KEEP OUR LAND FREE FROM COLONIAL MASTERS, GOLD COAST WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLD BY COASTAL NATIVES.
AKRANTIE-BINI-EATER 7 years ago
Look at this Rat Shit Eater too. After eating RAT SHIT, you come here and talk shit.
Look at this Rat Shit Eater too. After eating RAT SHIT, you come here and talk shit.
lqmv 7 years ago
Abooooaaaaa! the ewe tribe shouldn't have been part of Ghana! no wonder you are the most hated tribe in Ghana! togo will be a better place for you devils!
Abooooaaaaa! the ewe tribe shouldn't have been part of Ghana! no wonder you are the most hated tribe in Ghana! togo will be a better place for you devils!
Kofi Gbagbladza 7 years ago
Stupid fool. Useless Ashanti man
Stupid fool. Useless Ashanti man
Kwaku . 7 years ago
TRIBALISM AT ITS PICK
TRIBALISM AT ITS PICK
@@@ 7 years ago
Fante or ewe, developing the nation should not happen because of someone's tribe. after all we are all Ghanaians. All this tribalism must end
Fante or ewe, developing the nation should not happen because of someone's tribe. after all we are all Ghanaians. All this tribalism must end
Yaw B 7 years ago
LOL I hope you know the true meaning of that word WHEASEAMBO.
Literally: never cracking when subjected to falls and drops. That is the Akan nickname for the male crotch. The balls survive all gruesome falls.
ok now in the ... read full comment
LOL I hope you know the true meaning of that word WHEASEAMBO.
Literally: never cracking when subjected to falls and drops. That is the Akan nickname for the male crotch. The balls survive all gruesome falls.
ok now in the context of the meaning I espouse here, what wheaseamos were supplied to the Fantis he he
Kweku Donsuro 7 years ago
Mahama is very tribal by appointing half educated northeners to stael our money.
Mahama is very tribal by appointing half educated northeners to stael our money.
Cool 7 years ago
Which of the northerners are you better educated than?
Which of the northerners are you better educated than?
Yaw 7 years ago
This writer does not know what time it is. I do not think he has his facts correct. I am not surprised because we are in an election year and such backward articles will keep flooding social media. This is the Trump-mentality ... read full comment
This writer does not know what time it is. I do not think he has his facts correct. I am not surprised because we are in an election year and such backward articles will keep flooding social media. This is the Trump-mentality the world is crying against. Gentleman, do not stop writing such articles, keep writing if your conscience is clear. Remember, the combative, racist and KKK TRUMP is now sounding conciliatory, because he has seen the light after winning the college votes and not the popular votes.
NATIONALISM IS NOT TRIBALISM 7 years ago
MANY OF THOSE CONDEMNING THE WRITER SHOULD LOOK EVERYWHERE. INDIANS, ARABS, EUROPEANS, AMERICANS ARE ALL USING A CONCEPT OF "WE FIRST" NOT OUTSIDERS FIRST. ONLY ON GHANA IS THE OUTSIDER FAVORED OVER NATIVE.
MANY OF THOSE CONDEMNING THE WRITER SHOULD LOOK EVERYWHERE. INDIANS, ARABS, EUROPEANS, AMERICANS ARE ALL USING A CONCEPT OF "WE FIRST" NOT OUTSIDERS FIRST. ONLY ON GHANA IS THE OUTSIDER FAVORED OVER NATIVE.
Cool 7 years ago
MAJORITY OF THE 47% ARE NOT EVEN TWI SPEAKING AKANS. YOU ARE AN AKAN EXTREMIST AND IT IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT WE DONT WANT TO SEE THE NPP IN POWER
YOU ARE DIVISIVE AND FEEL SUPERIOR TO OTHER GHANAIAN.
MANY GHANAI ... read full comment
MAJORITY OF THE 47% ARE NOT EVEN TWI SPEAKING AKANS. YOU ARE AN AKAN EXTREMIST AND IT IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT WE DONT WANT TO SEE THE NPP IN POWER
YOU ARE DIVISIVE AND FEEL SUPERIOR TO OTHER GHANAIAN.
MANY GHANAIANS SPEAK YOUR TWI AS A SECOND LANGUAGE BECAUSE IT IS EASY TO LEARN AND IT IS A COMMERCIAL LANGUAGE . WE DONT SPEAK TWI BECAUSE WE ARE YOU TYPE OF "AKANS"
Richard 7 years ago
Brother, I disagree with you Akans are the majority and they are more than 47% as you are saying. Though non Akan tribes also speak Twi. Check the fact from ghana stastics on population.
Brother, I disagree with you Akans are the majority and they are more than 47% as you are saying. Though non Akan tribes also speak Twi. Check the fact from ghana stastics on population.
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
There is so much crass falsehood,nonsense wrapped in ethnocentric bigotry it is amusing some people are defending the crazed writer.
Now, which stats are you blokes quoting to claim that Akans are the majority in Ghana? I ... read full comment
There is so much crass falsehood,nonsense wrapped in ethnocentric bigotry it is amusing some people are defending the crazed writer.
Now, which stats are you blokes quoting to claim that Akans are the majority in Ghana? I suppose majority means more than 50% in this case. But, for many decades, Akans only formed 44% of the pop. of Ghana. However, due to higher birth rates amongst them, the official stats put them slightly higher now, with the 2000 Census making them 45.3%.
See below for a break down.
1. Akan – 45.3%
The Akans, comprising of the Fantes, Ashantis, Akuapems, Akyems makes up the highest in the country according to statistics.
2. Mole-Dagbon 15.2%
Next to the Akans are the Mole-Dagbon, who comprises of Mamprusi, Mossi, Dagomba, Nanumba, and Gonja, with 15.2% of the population.
3. Ewe – 11.7%
Ewes are next in line with 11.7% of the population
4. Ga-Dangme 7.3%
Ga-Dangmes are made up of the Krobos, Dangmes and Gas and they make up 7.3% of the whole population.
5. Guan – 4%
Guans cover almost all the country and this include Gonjas, Kyerepons, some parts of Brong Ahafo, Nzemas and they make up 4% of the population.
6. Gurma 3.6%
The Gurmas who are found up North make up 3.6% of the population
7. Grusi 2.6%
Grusis make up 2.6% of the population
8. Mande-Busanga 1%
Busangas make up the least in the population with 1%
9. other tribes 1.4%,
There are other tribes in the country who are actually not Ghanaians, they make up 1.4% of the population.
10. other 7.8%
Then we have other languages that are spoken by Ghanaians across the country, they make up 7.8% of the population in total.
2000 census
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There you have it, ignorant fools!
Andy-K
MDS 7 years ago
This wrong, very tribal article. A lot of Akans do not understand why northerners voted for Rawlings though he is not from there. He build UDS, Donated money Fix some of their Roads, and respects them. Stop the divisions
This wrong, very tribal article. A lot of Akans do not understand why northerners voted for Rawlings though he is not from there. He build UDS, Donated money Fix some of their Roads, and respects them. Stop the divisions
kofi 7 years ago
TRIBAL BIGOTRY? Try it and see . you will mot libe to see the destruction
TRIBAL BIGOTRY? Try it and see . you will mot libe to see the destruction
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dangerous cock twist 7 years ago
bastard article. silly n mother fucker being. try ur tribal way n partisan way n sii. block headed being. go tu hell. luuk at dis bush animal n pig vomit. y shd u cam out of dis article. crazy being.
bastard article. silly n mother fucker being. try ur tribal way n partisan way n sii. block headed being. go tu hell. luuk at dis bush animal n pig vomit. y shd u cam out of dis article. crazy being.
Ato. 7 years ago
Thank you so much. You have said it all. The turn-coat Akans with house-nigga mentality must change.
Thank you so much. You have said it all. The turn-coat Akans with house-nigga mentality must change.
Iyke 7 years ago
Nonsense article! Stop preaching tribalism nd rather focus on what's important.Tribal bigots lyk u ar preventing de NPP frm coming into power.Nonsense.....think before u post any article hr again
Nonsense article! Stop preaching tribalism nd rather focus on what's important.Tribal bigots lyk u ar preventing de NPP frm coming into power.Nonsense.....think before u post any article hr again
Observer 7 years ago
ALL YOU HIPPOCRATES DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH JOHN MAHAMA'S AND JULIUS DEBRA'S NUMEROUS CALLS TO NORTHERNERS TO VOTE FOR THEIR OWN, JOHN MAHAMA. SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH AN AKAN ASKING AKANS NOT TO VOTE FOR THE ONE WHO HAS ... read full comment
ALL YOU HIPPOCRATES DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH JOHN MAHAMA'S AND JULIUS DEBRA'S NUMEROUS CALLS TO NORTHERNERS TO VOTE FOR THEIR OWN, JOHN MAHAMA. SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH AN AKAN ASKING AKANS NOT TO VOTE FOR THE ONE WHO HAS MARGINALIZED AKANS?
Akakpo 7 years ago
Well said!
Well said!
Osei Prempeh Agyeman 7 years ago
Obeng Nana, you are right.Most Fantes think about their bellies more than national development. their integrity is always bought with cheap items whenever it's voting year.This is very pathetic.No wonder why Fanteland is stil ... read full comment
Obeng Nana, you are right.Most Fantes think about their bellies more than national development. their integrity is always bought with cheap items whenever it's voting year.This is very pathetic.No wonder why Fanteland is still under development despite being the first nation to embrace westernization. It's still puzzles me that they still follow the ndc which has nothing to offer them.some fantes are generally known for their self-centeredness, selfishness and that cancer of apathy within them
Addae 7 years ago
Let's be relistic,your so called akan wise moguls should have used their eight years to make Ghana a paradise for us know that this are the men,but what did we see?nothing.so you guys should stop bragging.Empty barrels always ... read full comment
Let's be relistic,your so called akan wise moguls should have used their eight years to make Ghana a paradise for us know that this are the men,but what did we see?nothing.so you guys should stop bragging.Empty barrels always make the most noice.You have no evidence to proof your claims bro.Is not about talking,is about results.you guys should grow up a bit.
BeTrue 7 years ago
Owura Addae, You must be holed up overseas, or very young, and so have NOT seen the different socio-economic postures of Ghana. EVERYBODY, including even foreigners admit Ghana, under Prez. Kufuor's govt. was better for a maj ... read full comment
Owura Addae, You must be holed up overseas, or very young, and so have NOT seen the different socio-economic postures of Ghana. EVERYBODY, including even foreigners admit Ghana, under Prez. Kufuor's govt. was better for a majority of Ghanaians - ALL tribes. Kufours's govt. was NOT perfect, but it raised our standard of living. Prez. Mahama's govt. has REVERSED ALL those gains. It has gotten so bad people and institutions are posting adverts for employment when they don't have any jobs to offer, and charging poor job seekers application fees.
Abeeku Mensah 7 years ago
Mr or Ms BeTrue continue to believe the crap that Kufour raised the standard of living for all Ghanaians because some white man said so. In the civilized developed world, the standard of living remains relatively constant, wi ... read full comment
Mr or Ms BeTrue continue to believe the crap that Kufour raised the standard of living for all Ghanaians because some white man said so. In the civilized developed world, the standard of living remains relatively constant, with minimal fluctuations here and there because there are institutions and laws that mandate certain best practices and procedures. What institution, best practices and procedures of government did Kufour institute, implemented and made it law of the land for government institutions? Which laws did Mahama break to undo the Kufour legacy/gains you talk about?
The one and only thing Kufour did best was raising the status of the big 6, including bandits and tribal lords, as heroes in Ghana. Have you forgotten that under the Kufour administration the nation became a guarantor to a loan that was administered by the Asantehene, who spent it mostly on Ashantis? And as if that was not enough did Kufour not allow Ghana@50 to be used to fleece the country even as hospitals and clinics in Ghana lacked hospital beds, life-saving and life-supporting equipment? Can you name one Fanti under the Kufour era who became filthy rich like the rest of Kufour's men including Kufour? Or did you miss the taped speech of a Kufour era NPP guy who felt comfortable speaking ill of Fantis in the Eastern region to Akufo Addo's people?
Fantis have some self-hate, are selfish but the one thing we know and have is that no tribe ever defeated and lorded over us; we allow others to do all the nonsensical bragging. Why do you think leaders (the so-called educated) in some tribes continue trying their darn best to root out the Nkrumah name from our history books? Because he is the only Ghanaian leader who run Ghana and has unmatched record. Can you name just one thing since 1966 from any government still standing today that is the pride, joy and testament to progress in Ghana?
Ekow Essamuah 7 years ago
I belief you are my countryman, per your name sake. When are you gonna be serious for once so that people would forever remove the COMEDIAN tag they associate with us. Use your head for once, for the ndc are taking Fantis for ... read full comment
I belief you are my countryman, per your name sake. When are you gonna be serious for once so that people would forever remove the COMEDIAN tag they associate with us. Use your head for once, for the ndc are taking Fantis for a joke.
Ashes 7 years ago
Big up man. U guys are raining insults on this article just because he is sounding tribal but all ur comments are full of tribalism. IS THE ARTICLE RIGHT OR WRONG based on the issues raised? Fools
Big up man. U guys are raining insults on this article just because he is sounding tribal but all ur comments are full of tribalism. IS THE ARTICLE RIGHT OR WRONG based on the issues raised? Fools
Fair minded 7 years ago
Your are very rude person and of you what 8 years of kuffour time what he for you what he did was that he and apointes bought state lands and shares of Ghana oil. We will vote for ndc if you don't understand go burn sea shame ... read full comment
Your are very rude person and of you what 8 years of kuffour time what he for you what he did was that he and apointes bought state lands and shares of Ghana oil. We will vote for ndc if you don't understand go burn sea shameless person like you and your npp
JOHN 7 years ago
WE HAVE TWO TYPES OF FANTES. THE GOOD FANTES AND THE FOOLS LIKE THE ONE WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE. IF YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR NPP, NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU. WHAT WILL AKUFFO ADDO DO FOR FANTES?. THIS IS A MAN WHO FOR 12 YEARS AS AN M ... read full comment
WE HAVE TWO TYPES OF FANTES. THE GOOD FANTES AND THE FOOLS LIKE THE ONE WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE. IF YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR NPP, NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU. WHAT WILL AKUFFO ADDO DO FOR FANTES?. THIS IS A MAN WHO FOR 12 YEARS AS AN MP FOR KIBI, HAS NOTHING CREDIT TO HIS NAME. EVEN THE JB DANQUAH MEMORIAL LIBRARY HE CUT SOD TO BUILD IN KUFFOUR TIME IS STILL UNCOMPLETED AND COVERED BY WEEDS
joe 7 years ago
I am a fante.i will
I am a fante.i will
joe 7 years ago
I am a fante.i will educate my tribe people against lairs like this writer.you are idiot to insult us
I am a fante.i will educate my tribe people against lairs like this writer.you are idiot to insult us
Pastor Amos, kwadaso 7 years ago
Atimes I wept for been Akan because it might sound tribalistic bt it's true dat if u an akan it is very difficult to get job in government institutions. bt we are more than de other tribes n generate income for the nation so ... read full comment
Atimes I wept for been Akan because it might sound tribalistic bt it's true dat if u an akan it is very difficult to get job in government institutions. bt we are more than de other tribes n generate income for the nation so why don't we decide for the country instead of the other way round?
Does it matter? 7 years ago
Pure balderdash
Pure balderdash
TAPPS 7 years ago
The analysis made by this writer is spot on. All tribes are allowed to be ethnocentric but when Akans do it all hell break loose fuck em all. Akans should not apologise for being smart, they should take the gloves off this ti ... read full comment
The analysis made by this writer is spot on. All tribes are allowed to be ethnocentric but when Akans do it all hell break loose fuck em all. Akans should not apologise for being smart, they should take the gloves off this time and bunch together in order get rid of these bigoted nation wreckers. Spread the word down to every twig on the tree!
kaketonti 7 years ago
BIG FOOL.STUPIDITY AT IT'S BEST.
AKAN IS LIMITED ONLY TO (2) TWO TWI-SPEAKING AREAS wae.AND ONLY TWI IS AKAN
REASON,THE MARJORITY WINS THE(8) EIGHT-REGIONS.
BIG FOOL.STUPIDITY AT IT'S BEST.
AKAN IS LIMITED ONLY TO (2) TWO TWI-SPEAKING AREAS wae.AND ONLY TWI IS AKAN
REASON,THE MARJORITY WINS THE(8) EIGHT-REGIONS.
PLAIN TRUTH 7 years ago
When did the MFANTSE FO become Akans? When you the Akyems and the Asantes, the twi speaking, need a helping hand, then you remember that Mfantse fo, who you call "gyimfo" "concert fo" are around.
Do you now recognize the Mfa ... read full comment
When did the MFANTSE FO become Akans? When you the Akyems and the Asantes, the twi speaking, need a helping hand, then you remember that Mfantse fo, who you call "gyimfo" "concert fo" are around.
Do you now recognize the Mfantse fo as Akans? Do you recognize the EFUTU FO as Akans?
Are you not propagating the TWI language as the only Akan language, through your numerous television and radio stations?
When was the Fantse language used on any of your radio or television stations?
Yes, adze wo fie a oye! Else we wouldn't be proud as Ghanaians, else you and others wouldn't try to drown my beloved mfantse language.
We are tired of you and likes.
EBBY 7 years ago
You need to read your history well. Yes Asantes make mockery of the Fantis and call them names. They do the same to the Brongs. They are all the same people called the Bonos who migrated from the ancient kingdoms in the area ... read full comment
You need to read your history well. Yes Asantes make mockery of the Fantis and call them names. They do the same to the Brongs. They are all the same people called the Bonos who migrated from the ancient kingdoms in the area around present day Mali. The Bonos eventually dispersed southward to form different colonies giving rise to the different groups of Akans we find in Ghana and major part of Ivory Coast today. These different groups isolating themselves for so long gave rise to the various variations of their common Akan language. So yes, Fantis are pure Akans.
DEAR 7 years ago
FANTES ARE NOT LOOTERS OR THIEVES. FANTES ARE BROUGHT UP TO BE HONEST. WE ALL SAW THE HONESTY OF ATTA MILLS.
WE ALL KNOW THOSE TRIBES WHO ARE BROUGHT UP TO STEAL OR LOOT.
FANTES ARE NOT LOOTERS OR THIEVES. FANTES ARE BROUGHT UP TO BE HONEST. WE ALL SAW THE HONESTY OF ATTA MILLS.
WE ALL KNOW THOSE TRIBES WHO ARE BROUGHT UP TO STEAL OR LOOT.
Ganyobi 7 years ago
One election secret you don't know since is that:
The Fantes that you're criticizing in your tribalistic pro Npp article voted just purely for Late Atta Mills symbolically as he being the very first Fanti to become a preside ... read full comment
One election secret you don't know since is that:
The Fantes that you're criticizing in your tribalistic pro Npp article voted just purely for Late Atta Mills symbolically as he being the very first Fanti to become a president of Ghana since after our Independence, but not for the partisan love for blood-tainted (P)NDC party itself!!!!
This above secret was disclosed to me by an elderly Fanti man, the background reason the Central Region & Western Region voted massively for NDC at that time.
But now, I can assure you that the wind has completely changed it's course ever since.
On the issue of slavery era, you are damn wrong to put up such branding accusation on the Fantes, since & once we all know in our damn past history also that even the Asante kings & chiefs at that slavry time sold their own blood kids as slaves from the well known menhyia palace to slave traders just for salt, sugar & mirrors (what about that?) you purposely skipped that piece, moreover there's nowhere written that a Fante king or chief ever sold his any child into slavery!!!
Shame unto you for that, & if you bet me I can dig up all archived historical books & the names of the authors as well for you to support my point, okay.
MAY LIGHTENING STRIKE YOU ONE CLEAR DAYLIGHT TO END YOUR DEAD-BRAIN!!!
Aj 7 years ago
Ganyobi,wow hmmm pls come again your comment is cheap. why did the writer tells you she/he is an Ashanti. well what's we know about history which is not more than 250years
shows how passionate the Ashantis are to save the Ga ... read full comment
Ganyobi,wow hmmm pls come again your comment is cheap. why did the writer tells you she/he is an Ashanti. well what's we know about history which is not more than 250years
shows how passionate the Ashantis are to save the Ga's from Fantis wars in 1811.?Google it and learn.leave Ashantis from your cheap talk....first question the writer his/her which type of Akan tribes he/she belong then reducing your IQ to na'thing...
KKO 7 years ago
Well said, Nana,
Let us use the social media to educate our clueless chiefs, brothers and sisters in the Central Region, who depend on our remittances anyway, to get them to vote against Mahama.
We need to let them reali ... read full comment
Well said, Nana,
Let us use the social media to educate our clueless chiefs, brothers and sisters in the Central Region, who depend on our remittances anyway, to get them to vote against Mahama.
We need to let them realise that if they bring untold hardships upon themselves in 2017, they should expect little sympathy from us.
They cannot continue to take us for granted!
History 7 years ago
Nice article. But, many southerners think the north is made up of ONE tribe or ethnic group. There are scores of tribes in northern Ghana, for example the dominant group is in the kingdom of Dagbon with its capital in Yendi f ... read full comment
Nice article. But, many southerners think the north is made up of ONE tribe or ethnic group. There are scores of tribes in northern Ghana, for example the dominant group is in the kingdom of Dagbon with its capital in Yendi founder in the 15th century. The great Kokombas are in northern, BA and Volta regions with 7 MPs. Mahama's group is the Gonja, who are Guans. And they are ruling Ghana, not Northerners. Check Gonjas in sensitive positions and see.
Mahama hates the Gbewaa tribes, who are made up of Nanum, Maprumgu, Dagbon, Kusasi, Afoko's tribe, hence nothing, no development in these areas. Tamale airport is the CPP's job, see Dark Days in Ghana , 1967 by Nkrumah.
When writing try and separate the tribes in the north to make sense. There is only ONE minister from Dagbon, the majority tribe in the north. Inusah and Murtala are Gonjas!
lrn 7 years ago
why would any right thinking Akan vote for an ayigbe/northerner terror party like ndc? Akans must wake up because an agenda is being carried out against them!
why would any right thinking Akan vote for an ayigbe/northerner terror party like ndc? Akans must wake up because an agenda is being carried out against them!
Liar 7 years ago
Liar. who told u Mills served two years. Sia man.
Liar. who told u Mills served two years. Sia man.
joe 7 years ago
"Asem yi dika na whwna beka". Thank you for saying all. A word to a wise is enough.
"Asem yi dika na whwna beka". Thank you for saying all. A word to a wise is enough.
Joddey 7 years ago
You seem not to even know the number of years prof. mill ruled. He died in July 2012 and Mahama completed is(Mills) term in December, 2012 which also saw him win the 2012 general elections. Were you not in Ghana or you can't ... read full comment
You seem not to even know the number of years prof. mill ruled. He died in July 2012 and Mahama completed is(Mills) term in December, 2012 which also saw him win the 2012 general elections. Were you not in Ghana or you can't just count?
Tsifokor Joshua 7 years ago
ooo U instead of pleading with Voltarians fantis n northerns U bringing tribal war? eiii foolish n stupid write up. JM toaso. nana will be president in his grave come next yr.
ooo U instead of pleading with Voltarians fantis n northerns U bringing tribal war? eiii foolish n stupid write up. JM toaso. nana will be president in his grave come next yr.
Prince King 7 years ago
When I read articles such as this, I get baffled and only turn to point at our educational system which only teach how to listen, speak, read and write English Language. This guy is really a product with such system coupled w ... read full comment
When I read articles such as this, I get baffled and only turn to point at our educational system which only teach how to listen, speak, read and write English Language. This guy is really a product with such system coupled with mediocrity and immaturity. Who do the Akans and the Gas think they are ? Do they breath oxygen as other tribes use argon ? They are really pendigunuolous beings
kb 7 years ago
Any who insults or call donald trumb rascist is a big fool. You crying about your tribe then you wonder how white people feel. How can we fight rascism when we not even done fighting tribalism-a person of your own colour and ... read full comment
Any who insults or call donald trumb rascist is a big fool. You crying about your tribe then you wonder how white people feel. How can we fight rascism when we not even done fighting tribalism-a person of your own colour and kind.Rascism aint going no where is part of humanity.after reading these tribal comments here i feel disgusted to be ghanaian.what a jungle human beings
lqmv 7 years ago
Well written article with a lot of facts! Akans have been very foolish to allow these useless and above all incompetent and unpatriotic northerners/ewes to be in governance when over 85% of the country's resources and product ... read full comment
Well written article with a lot of facts! Akans have been very foolish to allow these useless and above all incompetent and unpatriotic northerners/ewes to be in governance when over 85% of the country's resources and production are generated by Akans. What went wrong for us to be in this horrible state of being ruled by minorities? What's worse is that these minorities especially ewes and northerners are trying to deny Akans who are the majority tribe and holders of most of the resources in the nation job opportunities, business contracts, admission to universities, etc, etc, etc, etc.. when most of the institutions in the country were established by our Akan forefathers who fought hard to emancipate us from colonial rulership. Doesn't make sense a bit! these minions (ewes and northerners) are a thorn in our flesh and stand in our way towards progress. the evidence is quite clear in today's Ghana where these ewe and northerner minions have totally messed up Ghana beyond repair but still have the audacity to deny Akans certain opportunities granted us by right and call us derogatory names! It's high time we Akans woke up from our slumber and stupor, organize ourselves and realize the kind of evil we are dealing with. Until then there shall never be progress for Akans! Akans must wake up, unite and takeover what belongs to us from the hands of these evil northerner and ewe minions! Akans! Akans! Wake up!
HONEST MAN 7 years ago
AN ETHIC BIGOT, YOU WANT TO PRACTICE ETHNOCRACY IN THIS MODERN GHANA, WE WAIT AND SEE WHERE THAT WILL END YOU. ALREADY NPP IS NOT LIKED BY MINORITIES BCOS OF THIS, LOOK AT THE PROTEST IN USA NOW, LIBERIA, RWANDA AND MANY MOR ... read full comment
AN ETHIC BIGOT, YOU WANT TO PRACTICE ETHNOCRACY IN THIS MODERN GHANA, WE WAIT AND SEE WHERE THAT WILL END YOU. ALREADY NPP IS NOT LIKED BY MINORITIES BCOS OF THIS, LOOK AT THE PROTEST IN USA NOW, LIBERIA, RWANDA AND MANY MORE, BRING IT ON .......THE MINORITIES TRIBES IN GHANA ARE WAITING FOR YOU.
K Mensah 7 years ago
Akans are their own enemies. They will never wise up.
Akans are their own enemies. They will never wise up.
koo fanti 7 years ago
the writer is vry stupid, u cant read not fanti's go n check ur record when cape coast was described as d largest village in the world, Sia, under npp we were d 4th poor region in ghana
the writer is vry stupid, u cant read not fanti's go n check ur record when cape coast was described as d largest village in the world, Sia, under npp we were d 4th poor region in ghana
K Mensah 7 years ago
Kkd, can you honestly dispute what the writer has written? If not then keep your stinking mouth shut.
Kkd, can you honestly dispute what the writer has written? If not then keep your stinking mouth shut.
NORTHERNERS SUPPORT NORTHERNERS 7 years ago
SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH AKANS SUPPORTING AKANS? THE ONLY WAY A NORTHERNER OR EWE CAN RULE OVER GHANA IS TO FOOL SOME AKANS INTO FOLLOWING THEM. IT'S SIMPLE DIVIDE & RULE
SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH AKANS SUPPORTING AKANS? THE ONLY WAY A NORTHERNER OR EWE CAN RULE OVER GHANA IS TO FOOL SOME AKANS INTO FOLLOWING THEM. IT'S SIMPLE DIVIDE & RULE
Willichy 7 years ago
Useless statement from useless background
Useless statement from useless background
DMX 7 years ago
You insult so widely, but do you know why the more you hate the more they advance, and when these insults keep happening it will get to a time that you will wish ghana to be like the way it is today cuz it can lead to war. L ... read full comment
You insult so widely, but do you know why the more you hate the more they advance, and when these insults keep happening it will get to a time that you will wish ghana to be like the way it is today cuz it can lead to war. Let's deal with the problem and stop blaming each other.
Frank 7 years ago
the number two man in Ghana is a fanti and has the potential of being the number one man. your reasoning is very narrow and you need some education
the number two man in Ghana is a fanti and has the potential of being the number one man. your reasoning is very narrow and you need some education
AMA TX USA 7 years ago
A word to a wise is enough they don't care about someone only their selfish interest they can get the goodies nd vote for them to enjoy nd leave them in poverty for the next 4yrs
A word to a wise is enough they don't care about someone only their selfish interest they can get the goodies nd vote for them to enjoy nd leave them in poverty for the next 4yrs
kash 7 years ago
yes, it's backward thinking, but is the painful truth. go to any district or municipal assembly in Volta region and see how many non voltarians and come down to akan's, it has been invaded by ewes.
yes, it's backward thinking, but is the painful truth. go to any district or municipal assembly in Volta region and see how many non voltarians and come down to akan's, it has been invaded by ewes.
Ama 7 years ago
Its high time Ghanaians sit down and critically think about broad issues before casting their votes and not to be lured with peanuts.
Its high time Ghanaians sit down and critically think about broad issues before casting their votes and not to be lured with peanuts.
Yaw B 7 years ago
ha ha. I hope you know the true meaning of that word WHEASEAMBO.
Literally: never cracking when subjected to falls and drops. That is the Akan nickname for the male crotch. The balls survive all gruesome falls.
ok now in ... read full comment
ha ha. I hope you know the true meaning of that word WHEASEAMBO.
Literally: never cracking when subjected to falls and drops. That is the Akan nickname for the male crotch. The balls survive all gruesome falls.
ok now in the context of the meaning I espouse here, what wheaseamos were supplied to the Fantis..lol
Al-Qathafi Silver 7 years ago
Upper East is the second poorest region
Upper East is the second poorest region
King 7 years ago
Well said
Well said
Kobby 7 years ago
You are a fool and even more tribal that the president you have written about.Even my kg 1 child also knows that the president is not in office for 6years.Your write up that schools in fantiland been headed by Ewes and Nother ... read full comment
You are a fool and even more tribal that the president you have written about.Even my kg 1 child also knows that the president is not in office for 6years.Your write up that schools in fantiland been headed by Ewes and Notherners shows that you people don't like travelling.You only stay at where you were born till you die.By the way those heading the institutions you are referring to,have they qualified to head or not.Once again you are a fool and dzimakpla
yyr 7 years ago
Good one there ,God bless you for your article. The Truth hurts.Akans wake up ,This Jon mahama has no regard for d akan people.
Good one there ,God bless you for your article. The Truth hurts.Akans wake up ,This Jon mahama has no regard for d akan people.
Elton 7 years ago
Pls is true ,the akan people in Ghana are too humane ,dat is why they have been taken for granted.
Listen to wat Julius Debra said at suhum zongo
Pls is true ,the akan people in Ghana are too humane ,dat is why they have been taken for granted.
Listen to wat Julius Debra said at suhum zongo
Forson 7 years ago
the writer is inconsiderate.
the truth is that the Fantis usually determine the direction of Ghana general elections. but for the writer to come up with this is totally useless. I want to believe that the writer is an asante ... read full comment
the writer is inconsiderate.
the truth is that the Fantis usually determine the direction of Ghana general elections. but for the writer to come up with this is totally useless. I want to believe that the writer is an asante. the asantes usually think they are superior to the other tribes of ghana thereby looking down upon the other tribes but the truth is, when it comes to voting the fantis are superior to the asantes. the title of this write up alone implies that the writer was ready to condemned the fantis. that is not right. Mr. oben, pls be civic in your next write up about other tribes wait. thanks
Aj 7 years ago
Forson, I can see how you've demonstrated cheap talk.for heaven sake did the writer mention he/she is an Ashante.pls can you give us tangible evidence to support your claimed or you're basing your argument on what's some of y ... read full comment
Forson, I can see how you've demonstrated cheap talk.for heaven sake did the writer mention he/she is an Ashante.pls can you give us tangible evidence to support your claimed or you're basing your argument on what's some of your primitive relatives told you and upon your educational level you still live in fantasy world. pls imagine the writer is an fanti and decided to speak his mind,do you now turn to blame it on the Ashantes for your useless reasons best known to yourself why we black sahara Africans always blame our incompetent behavior on other tribes.
Ayeboafo Nkwantabisa 7 years ago
This is a food for thought article....Rawlings hates Fantis and he and his NDC has taken and still taken Fantis as fools.
Fantis has contributed a lot to Ghana's development....unfortunately Kuffour and the NPP couldn't do a ... read full comment
This is a food for thought article....Rawlings hates Fantis and he and his NDC has taken and still taken Fantis as fools.
Fantis has contributed a lot to Ghana's development....unfortunately Kuffour and the NPP couldn't do anything to the betterment of the central region of Ghana.
It was Fante missionaries and Teachers that risked their lives to travel in-land to teach these people how to read and write.
Today Fanti lands and areas are suffering and those Fantes helped to be on their feets are now being ungreateful.
Inshort it was Rawlings who started this war against Fante people.
Rawlings hates Fantis and why he ( Rawlings) hates the Fantes no one has the answer.
The question is, why is it that the Fantes untill now don't get it that there's a war against them....why?
Rawlings killed Gen. Mensah Wood, it was Rawlings who killed Arkaah...and it was Rawlings who started the war against Atta Mills.
Fantis should wake-up, against Rawlings...Fantes wake up !!!!
Kwame Darkwah 7 years ago
What is displayed here clearly shows that Ghanaians lack patriotism. Fantis don't like Ashantis, who don't like Ewes, who have problems with Akans, who don't respect the so-called Mmpepefuo, who can't get along with Nkranfuo, ... read full comment
What is displayed here clearly shows that Ghanaians lack patriotism. Fantis don't like Ashantis, who don't like Ewes, who have problems with Akans, who don't respect the so-called Mmpepefuo, who can't get along with Nkranfuo, who think Asantefuo & Akyemfuo are bushmen & women. The success of Kwahufuo is attributed to "kwahu bayie", and not hardworking attitude.
The whole country is waiting to explode, because of these unfortunate ethnic differences.
Prince King 7 years ago
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL; GHANA BELONGS TO ALL
I read, listen, and watch the news, and most often find and hear people; Ghanaians making tribalistic and ethnocentric comments and attacks on each other. Wit ... read full comment
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL; GHANA BELONGS TO ALL
I read, listen, and watch the news, and most often find and hear people; Ghanaians making tribalistic and ethnocentric comments and attacks on each other. With some tribes, considering others as minority, some as the “resources producers” and others “parasites”. Some as “custodians” of Ghana and others “strangers”. Some even talk as if they have been given the “ultimate-God – bestowed right” to govern this country and apart from them no one should.
I then ask myself, what and which system of human existence and reasoning could have produced such “beings”? What could have resort to the raising of such “divisive” persons as citizens of Ghana? Are Ghanaians not aware that NO country in the world is made up of one ethnic group? Even NO one village is made up of one blood-family, and even in a nuclear family, blood group differs. Then why should certain people think that Ghana is theirs only?
I further ask myself, do some Ghanaians breathe oxygen whiles others breathe argon? To be open, specific and candid now, I find it very confusing and intriguing when I hear the Akans and the Gas usually talking as if they own Ghana; and project the others like the EWES and NORTHERNERS as NOTHING, but strangers, inferiors and parasites. The well fact known is that when you take away these EWES and Northerners out of Ghana, this country will be the poorest, most unattractive and retrogressive country in the whole wide world. NO SINGLE PERSON OR ETHNIC GROUP OWNS GHANA, AND NO SINGLE OR ETHNIC GROUP CAN.
Now back to my question, what human system could have produced such divisive-talk people? I am compelled sharply to turn and point finger to our liberal educational system which only devotes its resources to teaching people how to “LISTEN, SPEAK, READ, AND WRITE” English language as the mother of such divisive-talk people. An educational system, which does not provide any direct job to those who go through it. This is because; if people have something meaningful to do with their time, skill and energy, they won’t do such separative talks. An educational system even as bad as it is that to some extent seeks to promote favouritism and nepotism must be re-looked at without delay. We as a nation must restructure our educational system to produce “Thinkers” and “Doers” not talkers of “divisiveness or separation”. As Nkrumah once said, “As never before we need thinkers, thinkers of great thoughts and doers of great deeds. Of what use is your education if you cannot help your country in her hour of need?
Even before I pause here and continue next time, we must all rise to condemn and stop the “talkers of divisiveness” and tell in the face to some of our Akan and Ga brothers and sisters that they are in no way better than the other tribes in Ghana.
Going to think and do something worthy for mother Ghana. See you next time.
Part Two Coming……….
By: Prince W. K. Dzokpo (Prince King Brain)
Damm 7 years ago
Another Fanti is angry.
Another Fanti is angry.
SIR JOHN 7 years ago
What a stupid and nasty analysis about Fantis. My mind your own busines
What a stupid and nasty analysis about Fantis. My mind your own busines
Kojo Brain 7 years ago
Educated illiterate
Stop Stoking ethnicity fire
Educated illiterate
Stop Stoking ethnicity fire
CITIZEN 7 years ago
Most Ghanaians don't know who are Akans. In Ghana,we have the 12 tribes forming the Akan race.They are Adansi,Denkyira, Wassa, Sefwi,Akwamu, Nsema, Ahanta,Akwapim,Fanti.,Assin,Bono and Aowin. For instance, Asantis, Akyems and ... read full comment
Most Ghanaians don't know who are Akans. In Ghana,we have the 12 tribes forming the Akan race.They are Adansi,Denkyira, Wassa, Sefwi,Akwamu, Nsema, Ahanta,Akwapim,Fanti.,Assin,Bono and Aowin. For instance, Asantis, Akyems and Kwawus are not tribes .The Akyem Abuakwa and nearly 90% of Asantis migrated from the Adansi tribe after the Portuguese local militia force invaded,looted and destroyed Adansimanso, the capital of the Akan nation arround the 15th century .Every Ghanaian must be proud of his lot her tribe.You cannot be a Ghanaian without belonging to a tribe in Ghana.It is the tribes which come together to form the nation Ghana. God in His Wisdom, created us into various tribes but only the 12 tribes of the Akan race in Ghana have common heritage. ie language, costumes ,tradition etc.
Winfred Odame 7 years ago
The truth hurts but it would always set you us free.
The author is 100 percent right with he said.
The truth hurts but it would always set you us free.
The author is 100 percent right with he said.
NDC,NPP all for gh! 7 years ago
please you are not convincing us woooo,Say somtin better and leave this one!
please you are not convincing us woooo,Say somtin better and leave this one!
Akorfa 7 years ago
It serves them(Fantis) right, as the saying in fanti "3bo wo tun aboaa 3ta wo yem" literally meaning if you deprived your "fart " from coming out of your anus , you "fart in your stomach.
It serves them(Fantis) right, as the saying in fanti "3bo wo tun aboaa 3ta wo yem" literally meaning if you deprived your "fart " from coming out of your anus , you "fart in your stomach.
Michael 7 years ago
Can any Aka man go to north talk like the way mr Collins Dauda brother talk ?
Can any Aka man go to north talk like the way mr Collins Dauda brother talk ?
Sam K. Mensah 7 years ago
Nana Oben, you're a sensational liar. What's your source that tells you that the Akans constitute 68% of Ghana's total population? If you're really interested in learning the accurate statistics of Ghana's ethnic groups, all ... read full comment
Nana Oben, you're a sensational liar. What's your source that tells you that the Akans constitute 68% of Ghana's total population? If you're really interested in learning the accurate statistics of Ghana's ethnic groups, all you have to do is to look at the latest Ghana's population census statistics.
According to Ghana's 2010 Population and Housing Census figures, the Akans form less than 50% of the population of Ghana. Although the Akan population is the largest ethnic group in Ghana, they constitute only 44% of the population. However, in recent years, there are those who, for political convenience, are trying to force the Nzemas into the Akan population, as it is done in the 2010 census figures. But the Nzemas are not Akans. This is a historical fact. When one adds the Nzema population to that of the Akan, then the Akan population rises to 47.5%. This means that even when the Nzemas are combined with the Akans, the Akan population is still less than 50% of the total population of Ghana.
The 2010 Population & Housing Census stats inform us that the Akans are the largest 'ethnic group in Ghana, followed by the Mole Dagbani (16.6%), the Ewe (13.9%) and Ga-Dangme (7.4%)'. If these statistics of the non-Akan speaking people are accurate, how can the Akans be said to constitute as much as 68% of the total population of Ghana?
Nana Oben, your problem is that you're ethnocentric and that's what's driving you to make the wild claim you've made. Indeed, your whole article is motivated by your ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism, like racism, is a disease and therefore you urgently need deliverance from it. Please seek help as soon as you can.
joe boy 7 years ago
And what did NPP did in Central that they can bost on?Idiot
And what did NPP did in Central that they can bost on?Idiot
Dan 7 years ago
A totally ethnocentric article that does not auger well for Ghana's unity and development. Come again!
A totally ethnocentric article that does not auger well for Ghana's unity and development. Come again!
KK 7 years ago
An unfortunate extremely divisive commentary. It will not bring peace
An unfortunate extremely divisive commentary. It will not bring peace
Andrew 7 years ago
I can't be believe this site has published this tribalistic and hateful article that has no point.
It should be taken down immediately.
I can't be believe this site has published this tribalistic and hateful article that has no point.
It should be taken down immediately.
@anita 7 years ago
Few Notheners n Ewes r ten thousand times better than all akans.stupid idiot. Ve u ever passed any exam before. All u know is copi copi danderheads. Foooooooool
Few Notheners n Ewes r ten thousand times better than all akans.stupid idiot. Ve u ever passed any exam before. All u know is copi copi danderheads. Foooooooool
ato KWAMENA 7 years ago
Yes the writer have said it all this time round we the fantes will show NDC the red card ,we are not fools even what kill ATTA Mills is not known to we the fantes ,from the way thing's are going we suspects that uncle ATTA wa ... read full comment
Yes the writer have said it all this time round we the fantes will show NDC the red card ,we are not fools even what kill ATTA Mills is not known to we the fantes ,from the way thing's are going we suspects that uncle ATTA was killed by the ....,...........,time will tell
ERC 7 years ago
This is a bad article in fact it make nosens, pls this will not help our great country we are all one I am shocked for ghanaweb.
This is a bad article in fact it make nosens, pls this will not help our great country we are all one I am shocked for ghanaweb.
kantata 7 years ago
Ohhh my oh my. What an intellectually bankrupt piece of literature. Who is a Northerner, voltarian or fanti.? The volta region counts over 40 different dialects (languages!!!). How many in Northern region? please leave some g ... read full comment
Ohhh my oh my. What an intellectually bankrupt piece of literature. Who is a Northerner, voltarian or fanti.? The volta region counts over 40 different dialects (languages!!!). How many in Northern region? please leave some good literature for generations to be educated on.
kantata 7 years ago
Ohhh my oh my. What an intellectually bankrupt piece of literature. Who is a Northerner, voltarian or fanti.? The volta region counts over 40 different dialects (languages!!!). How many in Northern region? please leave some g ... read full comment
Ohhh my oh my. What an intellectually bankrupt piece of literature. Who is a Northerner, voltarian or fanti.? The volta region counts over 40 different dialects (languages!!!). How many in Northern region? please leave some good literature for generations to be educated on.
PAUL 7 years ago
What is this tribalism all about?
If it is true that Fantis don't vote for the NPP then there should be a reason they do that. Have we check to find out why they don't support the NPP? Have we done our homework?
If so ... read full comment
What is this tribalism all about?
If it is true that Fantis don't vote for the NPP then there should be a reason they do that. Have we check to find out why they don't support the NPP? Have we done our homework?
If someone isn't following you, there must be a reason why they don't follow you and you need to find out why.
If you go about insulting others, calling them names, and all kinds of things, and disrespecting and looking down on them, you should not expect those people to vote for you or support your party.This is commonsense and if you don't get it then I don't know what else can help you.
Kofi Gbagbladza 7 years ago
Nana Oben, you are a fool. Moron. Nonsensical write up
Nana Oben, you are a fool. Moron. Nonsensical write up
Fanti NANA 7 years ago
Another #NPPIG KWASIA This will not add any vote to ur party. U have to post something about ur MANIFESTO nd stop this STUPID things. let preach PEACE not PAINS any way #JM TOASO
Another #NPPIG KWASIA This will not add any vote to ur party. U have to post something about ur MANIFESTO nd stop this STUPID things. let preach PEACE not PAINS any way #JM TOASO
Royman 7 years ago
Such an idiot. How could you berate my tribe in such a manner
Such an idiot. How could you berate my tribe in such a manner
Raymond Agbeli 7 years ago
A complete ignoramus,this is 21st century and u still have this archaic mentality,I pity u and your miserable Npp party.If this is the tangent u've gotten to then Ghana is in big should we make the mistake of voting for these ... read full comment
A complete ignoramus,this is 21st century and u still have this archaic mentality,I pity u and your miserable Npp party.If this is the tangent u've gotten to then Ghana is in big should we make the mistake of voting for these ethnocentric idiots called the Npp.the hunger for power seems to be turning them into a venomous serpent.we must be watchful,for these idiots are nothing but a liability to this country."When they go low,let's remain high".
Bawa 7 years ago
From your proverbs to the examples to the construction of words are all up to the task and exposed Mahama of his ethnocentric mind.
In fact,if fantis cast their votes for this Mahama they'll forever remain same.
As you ... read full comment
From your proverbs to the examples to the construction of words are all up to the task and exposed Mahama of his ethnocentric mind.
In fact,if fantis cast their votes for this Mahama they'll forever remain same.
As you mentioned, after Mills sudden demise, this corrupt Mahama, sacked all Fantis and pack all govt positions with his cronies and kins.
We are not saying he should do that but at least the Fanti's shouldn't deprived of positions in their own backyard.
You can't do that. Every region has its people and they should man the affairs there because, they understand their own people.
If you bring in an oitsuder from another region, he or she will employ his tribe mates in every position in the region, making the natives unemployed? as we know Ghanaians of bias.
Martin 7 years ago
This is tribslistic, egocentric posturing as well. If Ghana should make anyone the chief of arrogance, the Kennedy Agyapong will have no challenger but because of your ethnocentric attitude, you forgot to mention him.
This is tribslistic, egocentric posturing as well. If Ghana should make anyone the chief of arrogance, the Kennedy Agyapong will have no challenger but because of your ethnocentric attitude, you forgot to mention him.
Stop talking shit, you shit head.
What kind of bull is this?You the writer cannot be a Fante
The writer is a fool. Read
"Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector in Ghana" , a UN report by Richard Asante & E.Gyimah-Boadi.
This report which is available online showed that contrary you pe ...
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In fact I'm tired of NDC and truly want a change, I like Nana and at no time has he been my problem, my problem has been with people like this writer. There is too many of such Akan supremacist in the NPP and that makes some ...
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You are a paid propagandist of the ndc. kwaseaa.
Rawlings beat Mensah Wood, a Fanti Army commander who later died of the injuries he sustained in the PNDC days. Rawlings again used Ackaah to win election in 1992. He would later beat and kicked the oldman Kwaku Ackaah, who c ...
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Read below also what Ganyobi replied to this article,
thanks Ekow,
this time round Western Region & Central Region won't massively for both partisan parties: NDC & NPP,
period
You wrote all these about Northners and Ewes yet your vice is also a Northner and Nana keeps campaigning in the North and Volta for their votes. Are you normal? Do you know how many tribes the Akans had married into? NPP will ...
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What is good for the geese is also good for the gander,you moronic imbecile.
Isn't this the same tribalistic philosophy you guys have been preaching and practicing all these years? As a matter of fact, you and your master JJ ...
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Ghanaweb stop publishing stupid articles. This guy is a fool n divisive like nana addo n must not be allowed to continue posting stup I'd articles like this
IT IS A FACT, THAT FANTIS WERE THE BIGGEST SLAVE MERCHANTS WHO SET UP HUGE BUSINESSES AS LOCAL PARTNERS OF THE SLAVE BUYERS. IT'S ALL RECORDED IN HISTORY. THEY ALLOW THEIR FELLOW AKANS TO BE VICTIMIZED FOR THEIR SELFISH INTER ...
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Read your history books well,the Ashantis were the slave hunters and mass slave sellers
Kwasiafuor! without Akans Ghana wouldn't be what it is today yet you have the audacity to call a person who has stands higher than you in terms of social, tribal and economic status an Akrantie-Bini eater? we know most of Gha ...
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The only FUCK I know is Asante girls getting fucked all over Europe for VISA and ADRO CHOPPING. They were being FUCKED in Nigeria for 2 Naira each One Round until President Shagari chased them out.
are you ok
Dude,what's has the article here got to do with
the Ashantis or did the writer says she/he is Ashante.what's the great Ashantes has done for your tribe can you also tell us what's your tribe has done for the Ashanti tribe af ...
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Do not include tolerant Gas in your tribal supremacist agenda for the sake of power. We know you very well and wont be part of that evil agenda.
Twum Boafo has said it as it is without mincing words. I have been saying it as it is for over two decades now. SO WHAT THE HECK WHEN THE SHITE HITS THE CEILING?
Having read a more accurate version of what Mrs Attivor rep ...
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The truth hurt,so the semi education fools could not master the courage to consume or digest the truth and the show their ignorant by insulting the school of taught and counselling.Like I said before education don't make fool ...
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BUT FOR THE AKANS WITHOUT FANTI (WHO WERE ALL LABELLED ASHANTI) AND THEIR COURAGEOUS FIGHTS TO KEEP OUR LAND FREE FROM COLONIAL MASTERS, GOLD COAST WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLD BY COASTAL NATIVES.
Look at this Rat Shit Eater too. After eating RAT SHIT, you come here and talk shit.
Abooooaaaaa! the ewe tribe shouldn't have been part of Ghana! no wonder you are the most hated tribe in Ghana! togo will be a better place for you devils!
Stupid fool. Useless Ashanti man
TRIBALISM AT ITS PICK
Fante or ewe, developing the nation should not happen because of someone's tribe. after all we are all Ghanaians. All this tribalism must end
LOL I hope you know the true meaning of that word WHEASEAMBO.
Literally: never cracking when subjected to falls and drops. That is the Akan nickname for the male crotch. The balls survive all gruesome falls.
ok now in the ...
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Mahama is very tribal by appointing half educated northeners to stael our money.
Which of the northerners are you better educated than?
This writer does not know what time it is. I do not think he has his facts correct. I am not surprised because we are in an election year and such backward articles will keep flooding social media. This is the Trump-mentality ...
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MANY OF THOSE CONDEMNING THE WRITER SHOULD LOOK EVERYWHERE. INDIANS, ARABS, EUROPEANS, AMERICANS ARE ALL USING A CONCEPT OF "WE FIRST" NOT OUTSIDERS FIRST. ONLY ON GHANA IS THE OUTSIDER FAVORED OVER NATIVE.
MAJORITY OF THE 47% ARE NOT EVEN TWI SPEAKING AKANS. YOU ARE AN AKAN EXTREMIST AND IT IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT WE DONT WANT TO SEE THE NPP IN POWER
YOU ARE DIVISIVE AND FEEL SUPERIOR TO OTHER GHANAIAN.
MANY GHANAI ...
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Brother, I disagree with you Akans are the majority and they are more than 47% as you are saying. Though non Akan tribes also speak Twi. Check the fact from ghana stastics on population.
There is so much crass falsehood,nonsense wrapped in ethnocentric bigotry it is amusing some people are defending the crazed writer.
Now, which stats are you blokes quoting to claim that Akans are the majority in Ghana? I ...
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This wrong, very tribal article. A lot of Akans do not understand why northerners voted for Rawlings though he is not from there. He build UDS, Donated money Fix some of their Roads, and respects them. Stop the divisions
TRIBAL BIGOTRY? Try it and see . you will mot libe to see the destruction
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bastard article. silly n mother fucker being. try ur tribal way n partisan way n sii. block headed being. go tu hell. luuk at dis bush animal n pig vomit. y shd u cam out of dis article. crazy being.
Thank you so much. You have said it all. The turn-coat Akans with house-nigga mentality must change.
Nonsense article! Stop preaching tribalism nd rather focus on what's important.Tribal bigots lyk u ar preventing de NPP frm coming into power.Nonsense.....think before u post any article hr again
ALL YOU HIPPOCRATES DIDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH JOHN MAHAMA'S AND JULIUS DEBRA'S NUMEROUS CALLS TO NORTHERNERS TO VOTE FOR THEIR OWN, JOHN MAHAMA. SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH AN AKAN ASKING AKANS NOT TO VOTE FOR THE ONE WHO HAS ...
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Well said!
Obeng Nana, you are right.Most Fantes think about their bellies more than national development. their integrity is always bought with cheap items whenever it's voting year.This is very pathetic.No wonder why Fanteland is stil ...
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Let's be relistic,your so called akan wise moguls should have used their eight years to make Ghana a paradise for us know that this are the men,but what did we see?nothing.so you guys should stop bragging.Empty barrels always ...
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Owura Addae, You must be holed up overseas, or very young, and so have NOT seen the different socio-economic postures of Ghana. EVERYBODY, including even foreigners admit Ghana, under Prez. Kufuor's govt. was better for a maj ...
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Mr or Ms BeTrue continue to believe the crap that Kufour raised the standard of living for all Ghanaians because some white man said so. In the civilized developed world, the standard of living remains relatively constant, wi ...
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I belief you are my countryman, per your name sake. When are you gonna be serious for once so that people would forever remove the COMEDIAN tag they associate with us. Use your head for once, for the ndc are taking Fantis for ...
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Big up man. U guys are raining insults on this article just because he is sounding tribal but all ur comments are full of tribalism. IS THE ARTICLE RIGHT OR WRONG based on the issues raised? Fools
Your are very rude person and of you what 8 years of kuffour time what he for you what he did was that he and apointes bought state lands and shares of Ghana oil. We will vote for ndc if you don't understand go burn sea shame ...
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WE HAVE TWO TYPES OF FANTES. THE GOOD FANTES AND THE FOOLS LIKE THE ONE WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE. IF YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR NPP, NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU. WHAT WILL AKUFFO ADDO DO FOR FANTES?. THIS IS A MAN WHO FOR 12 YEARS AS AN M ...
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I am a fante.i will
I am a fante.i will educate my tribe people against lairs like this writer.you are idiot to insult us
Atimes I wept for been Akan because it might sound tribalistic bt it's true dat if u an akan it is very difficult to get job in government institutions. bt we are more than de other tribes n generate income for the nation so ...
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Pure balderdash
The analysis made by this writer is spot on. All tribes are allowed to be ethnocentric but when Akans do it all hell break loose fuck em all. Akans should not apologise for being smart, they should take the gloves off this ti ...
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BIG FOOL.STUPIDITY AT IT'S BEST.
AKAN IS LIMITED ONLY TO (2) TWO TWI-SPEAKING AREAS wae.AND ONLY TWI IS AKAN
REASON,THE MARJORITY WINS THE(8) EIGHT-REGIONS.
When did the MFANTSE FO become Akans? When you the Akyems and the Asantes, the twi speaking, need a helping hand, then you remember that Mfantse fo, who you call "gyimfo" "concert fo" are around.
Do you now recognize the Mfa ...
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You need to read your history well. Yes Asantes make mockery of the Fantis and call them names. They do the same to the Brongs. They are all the same people called the Bonos who migrated from the ancient kingdoms in the area ...
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FANTES ARE NOT LOOTERS OR THIEVES. FANTES ARE BROUGHT UP TO BE HONEST. WE ALL SAW THE HONESTY OF ATTA MILLS.
WE ALL KNOW THOSE TRIBES WHO ARE BROUGHT UP TO STEAL OR LOOT.
One election secret you don't know since is that:
The Fantes that you're criticizing in your tribalistic pro Npp article voted just purely for Late Atta Mills symbolically as he being the very first Fanti to become a preside ...
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Ganyobi,wow hmmm pls come again your comment is cheap. why did the writer tells you she/he is an Ashanti. well what's we know about history which is not more than 250years
shows how passionate the Ashantis are to save the Ga ...
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Well said, Nana,
Let us use the social media to educate our clueless chiefs, brothers and sisters in the Central Region, who depend on our remittances anyway, to get them to vote against Mahama.
We need to let them reali ...
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Nice article. But, many southerners think the north is made up of ONE tribe or ethnic group. There are scores of tribes in northern Ghana, for example the dominant group is in the kingdom of Dagbon with its capital in Yendi f ...
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why would any right thinking Akan vote for an ayigbe/northerner terror party like ndc? Akans must wake up because an agenda is being carried out against them!
Liar. who told u Mills served two years. Sia man.
"Asem yi dika na whwna beka". Thank you for saying all. A word to a wise is enough.
You seem not to even know the number of years prof. mill ruled. He died in July 2012 and Mahama completed is(Mills) term in December, 2012 which also saw him win the 2012 general elections. Were you not in Ghana or you can't ...
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ooo U instead of pleading with Voltarians fantis n northerns U bringing tribal war? eiii foolish n stupid write up. JM toaso. nana will be president in his grave come next yr.
When I read articles such as this, I get baffled and only turn to point at our educational system which only teach how to listen, speak, read and write English Language. This guy is really a product with such system coupled w ...
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Any who insults or call donald trumb rascist is a big fool. You crying about your tribe then you wonder how white people feel. How can we fight rascism when we not even done fighting tribalism-a person of your own colour and ...
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Well written article with a lot of facts! Akans have been very foolish to allow these useless and above all incompetent and unpatriotic northerners/ewes to be in governance when over 85% of the country's resources and product ...
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AN ETHIC BIGOT, YOU WANT TO PRACTICE ETHNOCRACY IN THIS MODERN GHANA, WE WAIT AND SEE WHERE THAT WILL END YOU. ALREADY NPP IS NOT LIKED BY MINORITIES BCOS OF THIS, LOOK AT THE PROTEST IN USA NOW, LIBERIA, RWANDA AND MANY MOR ...
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Akans are their own enemies. They will never wise up.
the writer is vry stupid, u cant read not fanti's go n check ur record when cape coast was described as d largest village in the world, Sia, under npp we were d 4th poor region in ghana
Kkd, can you honestly dispute what the writer has written? If not then keep your stinking mouth shut.
SO WHAT IS WRONG WITH AKANS SUPPORTING AKANS? THE ONLY WAY A NORTHERNER OR EWE CAN RULE OVER GHANA IS TO FOOL SOME AKANS INTO FOLLOWING THEM. IT'S SIMPLE DIVIDE & RULE
Useless statement from useless background
You insult so widely, but do you know why the more you hate the more they advance, and when these insults keep happening it will get to a time that you will wish ghana to be like the way it is today cuz it can lead to war. L ...
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the number two man in Ghana is a fanti and has the potential of being the number one man. your reasoning is very narrow and you need some education
A word to a wise is enough they don't care about someone only their selfish interest they can get the goodies nd vote for them to enjoy nd leave them in poverty for the next 4yrs
yes, it's backward thinking, but is the painful truth. go to any district or municipal assembly in Volta region and see how many non voltarians and come down to akan's, it has been invaded by ewes.
Its high time Ghanaians sit down and critically think about broad issues before casting their votes and not to be lured with peanuts.
ha ha. I hope you know the true meaning of that word WHEASEAMBO.
Literally: never cracking when subjected to falls and drops. That is the Akan nickname for the male crotch. The balls survive all gruesome falls.
ok now in ...
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Upper East is the second poorest region
Well said
You are a fool and even more tribal that the president you have written about.Even my kg 1 child also knows that the president is not in office for 6years.Your write up that schools in fantiland been headed by Ewes and Nother ...
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Good one there ,God bless you for your article. The Truth hurts.Akans wake up ,This Jon mahama has no regard for d akan people.
Pls is true ,the akan people in Ghana are too humane ,dat is why they have been taken for granted.
Listen to wat Julius Debra said at suhum zongo
the writer is inconsiderate.
the truth is that the Fantis usually determine the direction of Ghana general elections. but for the writer to come up with this is totally useless. I want to believe that the writer is an asante ...
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Forson, I can see how you've demonstrated cheap talk.for heaven sake did the writer mention he/she is an Ashante.pls can you give us tangible evidence to support your claimed or you're basing your argument on what's some of y ...
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This is a food for thought article....Rawlings hates Fantis and he and his NDC has taken and still taken Fantis as fools.
Fantis has contributed a lot to Ghana's development....unfortunately Kuffour and the NPP couldn't do a ...
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What is displayed here clearly shows that Ghanaians lack patriotism. Fantis don't like Ashantis, who don't like Ewes, who have problems with Akans, who don't respect the so-called Mmpepefuo, who can't get along with Nkranfuo, ...
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ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL; GHANA BELONGS TO ALL
I read, listen, and watch the news, and most often find and hear people; Ghanaians making tribalistic and ethnocentric comments and attacks on each other. Wit ...
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Another Fanti is angry.
What a stupid and nasty analysis about Fantis. My mind your own busines
Educated illiterate
Stop Stoking ethnicity fire
Most Ghanaians don't know who are Akans. In Ghana,we have the 12 tribes forming the Akan race.They are Adansi,Denkyira, Wassa, Sefwi,Akwamu, Nsema, Ahanta,Akwapim,Fanti.,Assin,Bono and Aowin. For instance, Asantis, Akyems and ...
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The truth hurts but it would always set you us free.
The author is 100 percent right with he said.
please you are not convincing us woooo,Say somtin better and leave this one!
It serves them(Fantis) right, as the saying in fanti "3bo wo tun aboaa 3ta wo yem" literally meaning if you deprived your "fart " from coming out of your anus , you "fart in your stomach.
Can any Aka man go to north talk like the way mr Collins Dauda brother talk ?
Nana Oben, you're a sensational liar. What's your source that tells you that the Akans constitute 68% of Ghana's total population? If you're really interested in learning the accurate statistics of Ghana's ethnic groups, all ...
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And what did NPP did in Central that they can bost on?Idiot
A totally ethnocentric article that does not auger well for Ghana's unity and development. Come again!
An unfortunate extremely divisive commentary. It will not bring peace
I can't be believe this site has published this tribalistic and hateful article that has no point.
It should be taken down immediately.
Few Notheners n Ewes r ten thousand times better than all akans.stupid idiot. Ve u ever passed any exam before. All u know is copi copi danderheads. Foooooooool
Yes the writer have said it all this time round we the fantes will show NDC the red card ,we are not fools even what kill ATTA Mills is not known to we the fantes ,from the way thing's are going we suspects that uncle ATTA wa ...
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This is a bad article in fact it make nosens, pls this will not help our great country we are all one I am shocked for ghanaweb.
Ohhh my oh my. What an intellectually bankrupt piece of literature. Who is a Northerner, voltarian or fanti.? The volta region counts over 40 different dialects (languages!!!). How many in Northern region? please leave some g ...
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Ohhh my oh my. What an intellectually bankrupt piece of literature. Who is a Northerner, voltarian or fanti.? The volta region counts over 40 different dialects (languages!!!). How many in Northern region? please leave some g ...
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What is this tribalism all about?
If it is true that Fantis don't vote for the NPP then there should be a reason they do that. Have we check to find out why they don't support the NPP? Have we done our homework?
If so ...
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Nana Oben, you are a fool. Moron. Nonsensical write up
Another #NPPIG KWASIA This will not add any vote to ur party. U have to post something about ur MANIFESTO nd stop this STUPID things. let preach PEACE not PAINS any way #JM TOASO
Such an idiot. How could you berate my tribe in such a manner
A complete ignoramus,this is 21st century and u still have this archaic mentality,I pity u and your miserable Npp party.If this is the tangent u've gotten to then Ghana is in big should we make the mistake of voting for these ...
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From your proverbs to the examples to the construction of words are all up to the task and exposed Mahama of his ethnocentric mind.
In fact,if fantis cast their votes for this Mahama they'll forever remain same.
As you ...
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This is tribslistic, egocentric posturing as well. If Ghana should make anyone the chief of arrogance, the Kennedy Agyapong will have no challenger but because of your ethnocentric attitude, you forgot to mention him.
Foolish man who are you to insult fantisA