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NLM was “bedrock of tribal politics” in Ghana – Akosa

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  • Awo 10 years ago

    Author: Awo (86.145.249.107)
    Date: 02-25-2014 09:10

    As the saying goes that a tribe is a country. Different tribes have joined together to form a big country called Ghana. The constitution need to change so that all the ...
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  • Koku Niamey 10 years ago

    What does Akosah gain by this nonsensical article? Isn't it a recipe to fan mor ethnocentric vetuperations? i wish a politician of his standing ould ghave known better by advicing the naton to eschew this evil canker called t ...
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  • OYOKOBA 10 years ago

    In what century are we in, 2014, in the 21st century, and this senile old fool of a doctor has nothing better to say than dredge into the present issues that solely bothered on independence struggle, 56years ago. What a cow.

  • Baawuah 10 years ago

    OYOKOBA TRIBALISTIC WRITEWR, MAHAMAH YE PEPENI BAWUMIA DE OYE ASANTEHENE BA MOA, MO BESU IN OPPOSITION

  • Kwabena Atta 10 years ago

    I agree with you.Oyokoba and the Dankwa group are all tribalist.The only non-tribalist party Ghana has ever had is CPP.All the rest--NDC,NPP,PPP etc are all not GOOD.

  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    His father was D.C AKosa,of Asante Mampong . He was the architect of the incarceration of hundreds of Asantes at the Nsawam Prisons. With the support of local terrorists group ,the Action Troopers, no one dared cross his p ...
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  • John KAY 10 years ago

    Which Prof.of PATHOLOGY slept with his maid.
    Correct for 3 points

  • Kwame Joe 10 years ago

    That's all you are good for: insults and lies.

  • Son of man 10 years ago

    “Of all these groups, the NLM was the most tribal and vicious”, he argued, adding that the Movement was the “bedrock of tribal politics” in Ghana


    The above statement brings some names quickly to mind...Kwame Okoa ...
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  • EASY WAYS 10 years ago

    DRIVERS, CHEFS, EXECUTIVE CHEFS, COOKS, WAITERS, WAITRESS, HOUSEHELPS, SECURITYMEN / WOMEN, HOUSEKEEPERS, SALESMEN, OFFICE CLERKS, MARKERTING OFFICERS, CASHIERS, ACCOUNTANTS, SECRETRIES, KITCHEN ASSISTANTS ,ETC. GET EMP ...
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  • BORUM 10 years ago

    That is not strange the father also had kids with his maid Maame Serwaa.Prof is this not true?

  • Daniel 10 years ago

    Shame onto u k

  • Kwame Joe 10 years ago

    That's all you do: lies and insults.
    Your party will never come to power because of your lies and insults and bigotry.
    Kiss winning goodbye.

  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    What are the lies , that Prof. AKosa is the son of D.C AKosa , that his father caused innocent people to be incarcerated ?

  • Kwabena Atta 10 years ago

    NPP did the same and NDC is also doing the same.The poor people now have money so they are chasing married women plus the Vic Hammah case.

  • kofi mensah 10 years ago

    please you academic dwarf shut up.Do nottoy with this great of Ghana

  • Busan 10 years ago

    He strongly supports anything that is related to his tribe and oppsoses everything non Asante/NPP. Divisive personalities like this are the reason for NPP's woes. Arkosa said nothing but the truth. Where is the epicenter of e ...
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  • MAAME 10 years ago

    Todays intolerance in politics was brought about by your tribalist Rawlings who came to kill akans to please you.Ashantis were right to fight for federalism because they were capable to manage their own resources, what do we ...
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  • GBAGBLADZA 10 years ago

    I HOPE YOU WROTE THIS ARTICLE WITHOUT TAKING THE SIZE OF GHANA INTO CONSIDERATION. IN ACTUAL FACT OUR COUNTRY GHANA IS TOO SMALL TO PRACTICE THE FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNANACE. THE UNITARY GOVERNANCE SYSTEM WAS/IS THE BEST FOR ...
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  • Daniel 10 years ago

    Wrong

  • Kwame Joe 10 years ago

    NPP the descendants of NLC will not, I repeat, will never come to power again, you mark my word. You have proven that you don't have a shred of patriotism in you.

  • MAAME 10 years ago

    What kind of patriotism did you need from them? After all , after you benefiting from their resources what do they see now? Ungratefulness, jealousy, enviness and hatred it is even better for them to secede from this hopeless ...
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  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    The truth pains some of the misguided diaspora self righteous, some of such surrogates include you OYOKOBA!!

    Let the people speak the truth!!
    Has the truth any way of changing over the time to a lie before and during the ...
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  • Kwesi Mensah 10 years ago

    The title "Professor" originated from the latin as a designation for those who profess the truth (teachers or specialists in a field). A professor therefore has no choice but to speak solely the truth, as Professor Akosa did. ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Oyokoba, you are going astray. You need not insult Prof Akosa at all. He has brought out the truth - i.e. NLM comprised the following and therefore should not be viewed as an Akan movement:

    "Northern People's Party led by ...
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  • Hey u 10 years ago

    Know the truth
    The NLM initially had massive support from the Northern and Volta Regions because the Northners and Ewes at that time did not know the intensions of the NLM. Now that the Intentions of the NLM now NPP are know ...
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  • SAY IT AS IT IS 10 years ago

    OYOKOBA, every smart person learn all the time in life it is only the fool as you who thinks he knows all. I am sure we have not read as this man and i know from your thinking that even you can't really read and make sense of ...
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  • Ken Mensah 10 years ago

    Shame on you OYOKOBA,I say shame on you.

  • GOLD COAST 10 years ago

    It was George Santayana who said : "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

    Mate Meho tribalists want their inglorious and violent past buried and not exhumed - for the young generation to know the ...
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  • Daniel 10 years ago

    Hey! be respectful and don't be an illiterate

  • Baawuah 10 years ago

    ETUA WO YOUKO A ETUA DUA PROFFESOR GAIN WOMAAME TWE KOKU YOU DON,T WANT HEAR THE TRUTH. ABOABA NLM NOW NPP TRIBAL PARTY.

  • Boagyaa Appiah-Kubi,Connecticut. 10 years ago

    NKRUMAH IS A TRUE REFLECTION OF THE MODERN DAY CPP,PNC,GCPP AND PPP COMBINED,IRRELEVANT AND GOD IS PUNISHING THEM FOR THE EVIL DEEDS OF THE PAST,NANIAMA.THE PARTY THAT WON INDEPENDENCE CANNOT BOAST OF A SAFE SINGLE SEAT IN AN ...
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  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    I thank the Prof Akosa for making this facts known to all the people in Ghana from all quaters of our tribes. It is naturally the truth, and I personally believe that the truth should be known by all so that in this 21 first ...
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  • charles obiri 10 years ago

    The truth always hurts and therefore evil people will always hate it.PEOPLE should know that truth can never be hidden forever.At the right time it will come OUT.Chk it up.

  • MAAME 10 years ago

    And never forget also the barbaric rule that Rawlings imposed on ghanaians, the killings of innocent ghanaians will never be swept under the carpet.GOD IS STILL ALIVE.Kata wo de3 so na bue me de3 so na wo3 wonso sa ara, wo re ...
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  • oldtimo 10 years ago

    History of events leads to a better path to the future. Hope this piece of history tells where the NPP originated from and the inborn behavior we see in their leaders today better. If you are not an Ashanti, you cannot lead ...
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  • Ghanata 10 years ago

    Get over it loser. All those people Akosa is referring to are dead. Akosa when your father was DC of Mampong, what did he do to build a mighty house in Ash Town close to Baffour Akoto's residence? Your dad was corrupt and wom ...
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  • Cut the Crap ! 10 years ago

    Since no single tribe constitutes an overwhelming majority, there is no majority tribe and every single tribe is in fact minority .

    It is high time people put a stop to this majority- minority nonsense in Ghana

    For your ...
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  • Awo 10 years ago

    Five and half regions-central, western, eastern, ashanti, bron ahafo and north of volta region are Akans areas.

  • delia 10 years ago

    Who told you that awo? U are too stupid. Pick up your history books right now Idiot.

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Idiot, just don't forget that north of Volta Region was part of German Togoland proper!!!!

  • Nii Okai 10 years ago

    Next time do not hide your personality. Be strong to reveal your name, and be bold to speak your intelligence and awareness even if the whole world could disagree with you.

    In reality Ghana has no tribe of majority that ca ...
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  • GBAGBLADZA 10 years ago

    MY LITTLE ADVICE TO GHANAIANS IS TO DO AWAY WITH THIS TRIBALIM AND LOVE EACH OTHER FOR THESE VERY GHANAIANS CLAIM TO BE CHRISTIANS BUT THEY ARE HYPOCRATES TO THE DEPTH OF THIER HEARTS.
    AFTER ALL THE WESTERN EUROPEANS NATIONS ...
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  • Close Observer 10 years ago

    The unity of our dear country must not be compromised for any political gain. We must respect every tribe in the country and avoid playing on the minds of those who have not been lucky to have any formal education for our sel ...
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  • KWAA 10 years ago

    Ghanaian politicians are the worst culprits when it comes to tribalism.Because in Ghana apart from politics,no one really cares about one`s tribe,hence so many inter tribal marriages in Ghana.
    But if you listen to our politi ...
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  • ICONIC-07 10 years ago

    PROF. AKOSA IS AN EPITOME OF THE BEST OF THE BEST, FORWARD-LOOKING,AND
    ENLIGHTENED PROFESSORS GHANA CAN BE PROUD OF AND CHERISH.

    UNLIKE THE TRIBAL-INWARD-LOOKING AKYEM-ASHANTI PRO-UP-NPP NARROW-MINDED, LAME-DUCK, UNPROD ...
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  • Sumanguru 10 years ago

    If this claim is anything to go by, then NLM's action or inaction has been preserve from extinction by Mr. Rawlings' PNDC/NDC.

  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Prof, you are spot on, NLM introduced tribal politics in ghana, they cannot run away from it

  • Mends, The lone Ranger. 10 years ago

    What a professor. Tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    This Akosa man needs to stop making himself more amd more irrelevant!

  • Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

    If NLM was a tribal party as you would want us to believe, why was it called the National Liberation Movement and NOT the Ashanti Liberation Movement. Others formed Northern Peoples Party, Togoland Congress and Anlo Youth Or ...
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  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    The CPP as a party is dead because of it's sordid past. It laid a very corrupt foundation for Ghana and because we still have some remnants in positions of importance , the country continues to decline. Until we get rid of th ...
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  • Kwame Joe 10 years ago

    Your whining won't bring you to power. Just as you guys never came to power during Nkrumah's time. This time coup won't help you.

  • Kwaku 10 years ago

    How does the Prof. reconcile the fact that the NLM was the most tribal and vicious, but it was willing to join other tribal parties to form the UNITED Party. The foregoing, coupled with the fact that Kumasi(the home base of t ...
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  • Kwabena Atta 10 years ago

    Ken,if you don,t know the History of Gold Coast/Ghana,you better go back and learn.Dr.Nkrumah was invited to come to Gold Coast.So don,t ever say he did not have money for his passage to come home.

  • Abransamadu 10 years ago

    Those who invited him (Nkrumah) paid for his fare and fed / supported him on his arrival here.

  • Abransamadu 10 years ago

    Nkrumah got his fare paid for by those who invited him. He was looked after by this same group on his arrival here.He betrayed the group, imprisoned / killed the members after independence as a reward!That's the Nkrumah you ...
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  • ANANE 10 years ago

    Dear Professor I am thankful that some of are still alive to tell the truth. I also saw and lived with the viciousness NLM. And today they will not even appologize to the nation of their crimes to humanity but blame Kwame Nkr ...
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  • agya koo 10 years ago

    Prof, I failed to see the logic in your analysis. If NLM was a tribal political party for as you want us to believed, for the "Ashanti", please provide justification of why other parties joining it to form U.P? It seems then ...
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  • KF 10 years ago

    "The NLM, at the time, led by Prof Kofi Abrefa Busia, later joined forces with other politico-tribal groups including the Northern People's Party led by Chief S.D. Dombo, the Togoland Congress, the Muslim Association Party, t ...
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  • Ghana-ba 10 years ago

    I can not understand why some of our learned people can behave this way. PROF IF FROM YOUR OWN ANALYSIS ALL THOSE GROUPS MENTIONED IN YOUR LECTURES FORMED THE "UP". UNLESS YOU ARE NOT VERY SURE OF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, BUT GIV ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    A law had been passed in parliament that banned tribal or sectional parties. That is why they had to form a united party

  • Brother 10 years ago

    My brother KF, can you read the names that came together to form the UP; Northern peoples party, Togolese people, Anlo youth, Muslim association? If these names do not tell a tale am afraid you could never understand Anybody ...
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  • Brother 10 years ago

    My brother KF, can you read the names that came together to form the UP; Northern peoples party, Togolese people, Anlo youth, Muslim association? If these names do not tell a tale am afraid you could never understand Anybody ...
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  • Brother 10 years ago

    My brother KF, can you read the names that came together to form the UP; Northern peoples party, Togolese people, Anlo youth, Muslim association? If these names do not tell a tale am afraid you could never understand Anybody ...
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  • Hawaii 10 years ago

    This man is gradually loosing his credibility

  • P Otu 10 years ago

    The Dr is telling us the truth about what happened sometime back which others on this forum has confirmed and you say he is losing credibility. Truth Stands

  • Obeng Sasu 10 years ago

    Many thnks, Prof. Akosah. I have learnt a valuable political history form you today. So the Anlo Youth Organisation, Togoland Congress, The Muslim Assoc. Party, Northern People's Party(NPP- MARK 1) all came together to form t ...
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  • Edjah 1 10 years ago

    Why does this man keep raking in problems of the past? For what purpose? To serve his NDC masters? Definitely not to promote the CPP

  • kaketonti 10 years ago

    Know the historical truth/BIBLICAL TRUTH and help yourself

  • NGOZI DEDE 10 years ago

    THE DEMONIC GROUP LED BY ABREFA BUSIA,JB DANQUAH AND THE BOMB THROWER, JAKE OBETSEBI LAMPTEY KILLED THE SPIRIT OF THE NATION ON 24TH FEBRUARY 1966. THEIR DESCENDANTS-THE NPP CONTINUE THAT EVIL AND DEVLISH AGENDA EVERSINCE AGA ...
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  • Kofi Nti 10 years ago

    Very good piece of history. Many ignorant fools just supporting political parties now without any knowledge of history of their parties of even Ghana.
    Most Ghanains are so ignorant even of their history. Yet they bleat lik ...
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  • KWESI 10 years ago

    Someone who cannot hold his ZIP closed also talking

  • Atonsu Lip 10 years ago

    Mr. Akosah is full of hot air. He claims that the NLM was a tribal party however they joined forces with other groups. The Northern People's Party, The Togoland Congress, The Muslim Association, The Aborigines Right Protectio ...
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  • Koo Nimo 10 years ago

    Akosa is a cheap. At one point he wanted to be Asanti Mampong Hene, the he wanted to force his way to become Dean of the Medical School. He the wanted to be President of Ghana. Let us ignore this over ambitious man

  • Dumegah Prosper JNR 10 years ago

    When one of their own tells them, they will bow in shame and know that they brought unhealthy tribal bigotry into the political game of mother Ghana!! If they have ears, they must know!! Disgraceful NLM and their diabolical a ...
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  • Opanin Damoah 10 years ago

    No surprise John Kay is displaying the typical attitude and behaviour of an NPPian- that is always fabricate and tell lies and insult. Instead of responding intelligently and responsibly to other people's views or comments. J ...
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  • Say the TRUTH 10 years ago

    THIS MAN REALLY OUTDATED AND STILL LIVING IN THE PAST!!!

    NO WONDER CPP IS SO DISORGANIZED WITH SUCH MEN IN CHARGE ADVISING!!!

    NDUOM WAS RIGHT LEAVING THEM!!!!

  • Daniel 10 years ago

    You think he is living in the past. The fact is u people just hate the truth, being it hearing or speaking, u just hate it.

  • KWAME, 10 years ago

    Does ones desire to maintain his cultural heritage and Federal autonomy makes him a triberlist?

  • Akoraba 10 years ago

    Akosa, don't forget that the NLM had strong support from the Volta and Northern regions. Akosa, remember the money your father stole from the poor cocoa farmers to support his lavish life style. If your literate father or unc ...
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  • Hey u 10 years ago

    The NLM initially had massive support from the Northern and Volta Regions because the Northners and Ewes at that time did not know the intensions of the NLM. Now that the Intentions of the NLM now NPP are known where are the ...
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  • John KAY 10 years ago

    Stop your inciting comments so that your late father can rest in peace. I knew him to be a first class philanthropists who helped hundreds of people even though as a human being he had his faults like some of us.

    Even Seko ...
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  • Asempa Beba Dabi 10 years ago

    I now see why Indoom left the CPP to form the PPP. Obviously, he couldn't stand the backwardness of this guy, Akosa!

  • wofa Koo 10 years ago

    Akosa, you see how much you proved yourself stupid, first of all Kofi Abrefa Busia wasn't an Adante but they accepted him perfectly just as they accepted anybody who has wisdom like Baba Yala, Okomfo Anokye etc. but not idiot ...
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  • AWUDU 10 years ago

    Thanks for this rich truth about this NLM party.It was purely a tribal party.Amen

  • jijk 10 years ago

    AND SO WHAT? HOW DOES THIS SOLVE THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS IN GHANA?

  • Kwesi Mensah 10 years ago

    Have you heard of the terrorist atrocities being committed in Northern Nigeria by Boko Haram?

    It's important we remember this history so it's not repeated!

  • MAAME 10 years ago

    I would prefer the terrorist to killers in darkness, murderers, armed robbers that is what ndc is about, after all every terrorist has a reason, its either religious or opposing a government and that can be settled, but opera ...
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  • Abebu 10 years ago

    Hei so is the knowledgeable minus wisdom professor correct? so if NLM joined hands with Northerners, Ewes,Togolese, Muslims and others, is it sensible for that professor to refer NLM as tribalistic? This man should stop pollu ...
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  • Nana Boateng - London 10 years ago

    This facts is not necessary, how ever Nkrumah was dictator any way and every dictator must be challenge at all cost. Ghana have moved on so should you. The time has come to put our resources into good use. People should learn ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    If Chief S.D. Dombo and Dr. Busia were accepted by the Ashantes then what the hell is this confused old man talking about.

  • peace 10 years ago

    son of terrorist NLM ancestor

  • MAAME 10 years ago

    Son of murderers ndc.

  • John KAY 10 years ago

    This Prof AKOSAH defended PDA claiming that it was enacted by President Nkrumah to contain terrorists then.

    when Dr J B Danquah died in Nsawam Prison under PDA in Feb 1965. Mr OTU CANTEY in the DININING HALL of COMMONWEAT ...
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  • AGOVE TSATSU 10 years ago

    HOW CAN THIS MAN CLASSIFY A PARTY THAT CONSISTS OF A DIFFERENT TRIBES AS A TRIBAL POLITICS IN GHANA.WHAT PEOPLE WERE BY THEN IN CPP.THE CPP WAS MADE UP OF THE SAME SORTS OF PEOPLE.MR PROF WHERE IS YOUR SENSE,YOUR CPP IS ALREA ...
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  • peace 10 years ago

    god be with you prof

  • Nankwansere 10 years ago

    But Nkrumah should have been the calming influence and brought the disparate tribes together. Unlike Mandela HE FAILED miserably else we would have come together.

    That is why the CPP is YAMUTU. It is dead because it has as ...
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  • Show boy 10 years ago

    I agree

  • NIMO 10 years ago

    This Akosa man is anti-Asante.

  • Asanteman Confederation. 10 years ago

    Prof people like you have made this country a laughing stock.A prof, learned colleague talking like this.No wonder we are in a situation of no water, electricity,joblessness,high infant mortality rate,declining life expectanc ...
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  • AGYA JOE 10 years ago

    Prof Akosa may as well explain to us how he landed a CMB scholarship meant for children of cocoa farmers. His father DC Akosa was a law onto himself. He set up his own small kingdom in Ashanti Mampong area where he was the ju ...
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  • Kwabena Gyamfi 10 years ago

    Listen to Akosa:

    The Movement’s aim, according to Prof Akosa, was to champion federalism as well as maintain the cultural heritage of the Asante Nation.

    "Its opposition to the Nkrumah government was sparked by the CPP ...
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  • MAAME 10 years ago

    He is a confused person, because there is nothing in this article that shows tribalism.The guy is sick in the head because his wife has divorced him and instead of cooling off at home he is talking shit and disgracing himself ...
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  • Daniel 10 years ago

    R u sure? but he did not insult, did he? u just did, so who is senseless

  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    THAT IS WHY THEY REMAIN TRIBAL PARTY EVILS DISTURBING THE NATION.SAME EVIL TRIBAL BLOOD IN THEM.THEY WILL REMAIN IN OPPOSITION TILL JESUS IS BACK ON EARTH.

  • KKO 10 years ago

    Who gave this idiot the platform to spew his usual garbage? How else could your half-lterate polygamist father have been a DC?

  • KKO 10 years ago

    Was it not because of "tribalism" that he was made DG of Medical Services where he achieved absolute damn all?

  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    kko sock my aas pussy socker no brain

  • Mensah 10 years ago

    If somebody wants to maintain his cultural heritage and prefers federalism what does that got to do with tribal politics? Kwasea kwa

  • CHARITY 10 years ago

    THE ASANTE KINGDOM WAS FOUNDED ON THE IDEA OF FREEDOM. THE ASANTES HAD TO FIGHT THE DENKYIRAS FOR THEIR FREEDOM. ASANTES CHERISH FREEDOM AS A GOD-GIVEN GIFT. FREEDOM IS PART OF THE ASANTE CULTURAL HERITAGE. BECAUSE OF THEIR A ...
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  • nkruma 10 years ago

    Lol... n how many slaves did u ship out...how many heads did u cut off to escort de carcasses of ur chiefs

  • KWAKU BEE 10 years ago

    Why does Akorsah talk as if he is s British man born in 1970? Ashanti was a powerful kingdom which did not easilyy give-in to the British as some other groups did. Ahanti was well organized, to the surprise of the British. Di ...
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  • Setsoafia Livingstone Yao 10 years ago

    If I should say the truth I don't think Anlo people are happy with the idea their forefathers who supported the tribalism. If they really did so, now they hate tribalism in their blood streams more than anything. This is the ...
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  • Daniel 10 years ago

    Yet this same people(npp) will not stop at it. They will continue to play tribal politics just as Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe said.

  • NANA KWAME OTUAPEMG 10 years ago

    YOU THIS LITTLE MINDED PEOPLE ARE MAKING YOURSELVES LIKE STUPID ADAMANT. YOU WERE LIED THAT NLM WAS FOR YOU SAFETY AND LIBERATION FROM THE GOOD PRACTICES OF NATIONAL PATRIOTISM OF THE OSAGYEFO BUILD POLICY. YOU PARTICIPATED F ...
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