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Deutschland uber alles - what if Germany had not lost its colonies in Africa?

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  • KWASI IN EUROPE 7 years ago

    Good job. I loved reading it. What we should also think about today is peace in Africa. Frieden über alles.

  • Kojo T 7 years ago

    Unfortunately that puts paid to the theory of some haters that I Kojo T is Togolese But I do not mind as I am an African .As Thabo Mbeki says its rivers and mountains , seas and valleys run thro ...
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  • Kofi Amenyo 7 years ago

    Ooops!!!

    I've only now seen it. Oh no, the Berlin conference did not go on for 40 years!!! That would be too long...

    It was a typo. The type of thing you see after you've sent the article to the webmaster.

    The confer ...
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  • GHANAMAN THE REAL 7 years ago

    Interesting historical narrative but the FACT IS THAT THE GERMANS LOST, PERIOD! So, nothing changes as far as Ghana goes. The Northern bit of the TVT will never want to be part of Togo so what is this irrelevant history in ai ...
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  • Sam 7 years ago

    Very long but nice to read

  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    Sam, we must develop liking for long but very informative and useful articles. Sometimes, such is how we learn about new things that a whole book might otherwise be needed for.

    The one-liners, often laced with insults, a ...
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  • james 7 years ago

    fellow Ewes lets us unite and seperate from Ghana, and it should be now. No fears

  • yanks 7 years ago

    good riddance

  • kk 7 years ago

    Well done Kofi. I enjoyed reading this.
    A proper understanding of history will help us do away with some of the myopic and ignorant viewpoints peddled around.

    Thank You.

  • DIAMOND 7 years ago

    Simple answer:

    We would today have Ghana (English) to the west, Togo, including TVT, (German) in the middle, and Dahomey (French) to the east. That's it!

    And by mutual influence, we would probably have super-quality roa ...
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  • DIAMOND 7 years ago

    1. "what would we call the African countries that use German as their official language?"

    TEUTOPHONES.

    2. "In nearby Ghana, German would have been one of the languages studied at O Levels or WASSCE and a popular one at ...
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  • DIAMOND 7 years ago

    Correction: AMENYO

  • Kofi Amenyo 7 years ago

    Teutophones - that's interesting.

    I admit I never thought of that. Perhaps because when the British say Teutonic, they are thinking of all the negative aspects - the bellicosity, the brutality...

    But, yes, we would be ...
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  • fact facter on march 6'2017:05'44 7 years ago

    so is high time we stop tribalism and stand together truthly.because their doing everything to come back and recolonize again. Alshabab alkaida Boko haram isils in fact all the conflicts around mid least and Africa is disign ...
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  • Anfoega 7 years ago

    I also had a German friend . When I told him about the name of a cousin of mine called Hector from Jasikan, he exclaimed 'that is a very old German name that nobody uses anymore in Germany'!

  • francis kwarteng 7 years ago

    Thanks for another beautiful, wonderful piece.

    Very educative. Gives (and leaves) much for nostalgic and serious intellectual reflection.

    Excellent piece of work though, My Good Brother.

    Enjoyed it greatly.

    Keep ...
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  • Akwasi (London) 7 years ago

    lets be honest.German colonization was not humane. examples:
    a) In the 1920s a group of Africans from now Namibia were kept caged at Berlin Zoo as exhibits
    b) Again in Namibia when the local people rebelled again ...
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  • Kofi Amenyo 7 years ago

    The article is very long. You probably didn't read it all.

    Note in particular the paragraph that starts "What was life like for the Africans under the Germans?".

    It details the German brutalities and mentions the thing ...
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  • Kofi Madrid 7 years ago

    Very deep, I love this priceless piece.

  • VETERAN JOURNALIST 7 years ago

    How can I thank you for this wonderful piece? I have drank sufficient knowledge from your fountain. Keep replenishing the pool.

  • him 7 years ago

    nice

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  • pkmj 7 years ago

    Wow! I have learnt much from this piece. Very informative! Congrat

  • ADRO-CHOPPERS 7 years ago

    My Bro Kofi, you are RIGHT. Most Most Ghanaians you will meet in Germany are AKANS. Lots of them entered there using TOGO Passports and then CHOPPING ADRO. They are the same types you see here insulting Ewes at the least oppo ...
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  • Dziko Kwame 7 years ago

    Fo Kofi

    Since you were three months old in Trans-Volta, you surely are sixty one now and my big brother you are.

    I wish to share some thought on what you say. I will put my points in BLOCK LETTERS.

    PARA 7
    “The ...
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  • Kofi Amenyo 7 years ago

    Thanks a lot, Etsenye Kwame, for taking the time to read this long piece carefully and pointing out some details for discussion. I know this is a topic dear to your heart too…

    Well, it was not that I was three months old ...
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  • Dziko Kwame 7 years ago

    Fo Kofi

    Duty was a bit tight today to enable me get along enjoyably.

    Infact I did say that in 2006, I travelled to Ghana and was introduced to this subject by my cousin who was an Ewe Tutor at Mawuli, and was on Pension ...
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  • Kofi Amenyo 7 years ago

    This visit to the UN thing is made up of different stories not all of which are documented. Some people said before the TC people could contribute enough money to send the delegates to the UN, time had passed and the issue wa ...
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  • Dziko Kwame 7 years ago

    Tsitsia, Fo Kofi

    Indeed I also love the whole purpose solely for my interest in current affairs. Not support or interest in the "Homeland Study Group" or their motives, not at all!

    Oopppss, I did not only see DAILY GRA ...
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  • Amegaxoxo 7 years ago

    Dziko seems to have cravings for the status-quo-ante but alas the dream is dead and buried.First,the Akan speaking people of the Volta Region as well as the brethren in the Northern Regions who belonged to the TVT would not s ...
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  • Sikaman 7 years ago

    Successionist crap.

    Use your energy to develop your villages as others are doing.

  • Campus Ministry Report 7 years ago

    This is very nice an article. I have not finished reading it yet.

    God bless you.

  • kkk 7 years ago

    Hope to have corresponding with you both. Will certainly look for your contacts. Continue with the hard work. Kudoos.

  • Obed Adore 7 years ago

    A Great article! Thank you..

  • LONTO-BOY 7 years ago

    Efo Amenyo, this is a well written, educative and informative piece. Very interesting indeed.

  • lipualipua 7 years ago

    A big "Thank you" for an enlightening write-up. Cheers.

  • MIGHTY MAN 7 years ago

    Imagine Ghana and Togo were colonized by German now. Auf wiedersehn! Ich gehen nach Munchen.

  • Ola Nordmann 7 years ago

    Hei Kofi,
    A very educating article and a nice ride down memory lane. I had always thought the German occupation of TVT ended with the WWII since when growing up between Ho and Jasikan l met old people who still had German na ...
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  • Samuel A.Blay 7 years ago

    I like your style of writing. Very educative. Perhaps one of the best Ghanaian-authored articles I've read.

  • GT 7 years ago

    Well, the writer waxes with nostalgia for what? A brutal German legacy in Africa? Imagine if Hitler had won. Your forebears would be slaves at best.

  • Sikaman 7 years ago

    Thank you Yaa Asantewaa for standing up to colonialists

  • KB 7 years ago

    The writer was not born during the German times, how can he have nostalgia for what he has never seen? Imagining what could have been is not the same as wanting that thing to be.

  • Joe Pasasa 7 years ago

    One of the best historical and educative article. I have enjoyed reading this and have also enjoyed the academic debate that ensured between Fo Kofi and fo Kwame. This shows the level of maturity and understanding some of us ...
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  • abdallah mex 7 years ago

    What was life like for the Africans under the Germans?

    The germans thought them handy works such as carpentary,masonery,steel bending to mention just a few...though i hate germans for their racism,they thought their coloni ...
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  • Kofi Amenga Etego 7 years ago

    What a wonderful masterpiece. Let those tribalism so and bigots agitating for that bogus succession read this

  • Atsu Mansa 7 years ago

    Thanks Prof for the enlightenment. I now know the agitators can never prove their claim in any court of law. But the debate is good so far as it gives opportunity to make things even clearer that there is no claim at all, jus ...
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  • Joseph 7 years ago

    will be good if we have more of this articles on Ghanaweb rather than the mediocre politics we have in this country.
    thanks a lot.

  • KOFI. 7 years ago

    Thanks Kofi Amenyo for great work done....keep it up, we will like to read more.

  • G. K. Berko 7 years ago

    I commend Kofi Amenyo for this well-written, easy-to-read historical narrative that also poignantly questions the real motives of the so-called secessionists in the Volta Region. Sometimes sentiments erupt from false or scant ...
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  • kk 7 years ago

    Thank you G.K.

  • Ghanaboy 7 years ago

    This is a master piece. A well researched article.

  • Honesty-the best policy! 7 years ago

    A great piece worth reading by all Ewes! hank you very much for the effort

  • KUKRUDU-USA 7 years ago

    MASTERPIECE,VERY INFORMATIVE,THANKS FOR THE ARTICLE !

  • mojasika 7 years ago

    beautiful! that's all i have to say and thank you for making history so sweet and beautiful again.

  • Xewokui 7 years ago

    Very brilliant, man. Well done. I pray that you live long to educate the young and maybe some old. Thank you for your article.

  • Tom Thumb 7 years ago

    I enjoyed reading it so much especially since I hail from Worawora. Very educative, congratulations.

  • Dr. K. Mantey 7 years ago

    Gut geschrieben.You're a goodwriter. Danke Herr Amenyo

  • pin 7 years ago

    WELL DONE

  • Theodora Wielmann 7 years ago

    Great inspirational article! I also need clarification on the Volta Triangle, which did not come by the latitude-longitude rule. How and when did this area become part of the Gold Coast Colony? I cherish your contributions T ...
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  • Theodora Wielmann 7 years ago

    The secessionists and their persecutors must stop causing hysteria with heresies. Exaggeration of events can lead to conflagration.

  • KSP 6 years ago

    Looks like this story won't go away. There is more to it than meets the eys.