The origin of the Asantehene's name 'Tutu' - Anokye Frimpong explains

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  • GHANAboyz 1 year ago

    "Oto tuo" doesn't mean he who speaks through the gun!

    It means "He who fires the gun"

  • Labib Issaka 1 year ago

    Anokye wo kasa dodow aaba. You are ten known and full of crap. You started your own party and it failed, joined CPP and contested flag bearer and your woefully defeated. Sad thing is that the one who defeated is some low clas ...
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  • Dr. Allen Smith Jackson, UK 1 year ago

    This self acclaimed historian madness has started

  • Ask the Ga for the meaning of Ghana 1 year ago

    They say it’s from Ga, anaapo!
    Ayigbe people will have their version and say it’s from their history of supplying Gari to a certain Nana in Ashanti.

  • Former Dining Hall Prefect 1 year ago

    This man should keep quiet. There are experts at Manhyia Palace who know the History of Ashantes.

  • Fatcobra 1 year ago

    Bravo. I thought I was the only person with such opinion of this misleading braggart. It's not his fault but the misguided journalists and media houses that give him platform to spew garbage

  • Alex 1 year ago

    aabai

  • Pantampram 1 year ago

    Professor Nkoto,we need your take on this one !!

  • Aisha 1 year ago

    God bless asanteman God bless the King

  • Ekow 1 year ago

    Long live the great King, PIIIIAAAAAAWWWW

  • Hope 1 year ago

    Please what of the Town Tutu in Akwapim

  • Chief 1 year ago

    Prof. Need to go back to check out the the name well. I know the place of the deity that was visited by the mother of osei Tutu .

  • CJ 1 year ago

    If you think he is lying, why not give your side of the story. Is it true that the king was born Osei Kofi? If it is true, tell us why his name changed to Osei Tutu. Doesn't the story sound credible to you? Is it bad to be to ...
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  • Labib Issaka 1 year ago

    CJ Woy3 ABOABI BA. Is it about story telling? Why are some Ghanaians so stupid? What’s the point in his rabid rhetoric and his backward and volatile foolishness? Why is he pitching tribes, chiefs and individuals against eac ...
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  • AKONFEM FOOL 1 year ago

    @ LABIB ISSAKA YOU FOOLS SHOULD SHUT THE UP WHEN HUMANS ARE SPEAKING AND KILL EACH OTHER OVER GUINEA FOWL...TANI ABOA

  • Akos 1 year ago

    This is very interesting but some of our history need to be kept in secret.

  • Kwame Asare 1 year ago

    This fool is writing lies to appear relevant. We have proper historians at Manhyia to give us an update on anything if we want. Focus on the history of your inferior people and leave Ashantis. Be careful with any rubbish you ...
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  • Milton 1 year ago

    Well, that's the beauty of history. It all (history) happened when those telling the story now were not there. Even if it is written, there could still be shortcomings because people see things from different perspectives. So ...
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  • Fatcobra 1 year ago

    This so called historian does nothing but to regurgitate historical facts. Mr chatterbox ma y3 dwen

  • Ike 1 year ago

    Ashantis' were not under the great Denkyira rule. Mnay people have corrupted Ashantis to mean the people of Ashanti region today, no.
    Before Denkyira captured part of today Asante, there was no Ashanti kingdom in existence. ...
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  • Awuradebasa 1 year ago

    You don't know your history....
    Even the Akims captured Osei Tutu while crossing the Prah river and beheaded him

  • Free yourself dont live under the forgotten past. 12 months ago

    Another fear of and suppression of the past. The Asante war of independence who were the combatants. Osei Tutu and Anokye for the Asantes. Ntim Gyakari for the Denkyira. Location - Feyiase close to present day Kumasi. Dont be ...
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  • Go back to history 12 months ago

    Was the Asante kingdom not formed under Osei Tutu and Anokye to bring the city states together to fight for their independence. Why are you saying there was no Asante. Consult your uisyory books.

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  • Abrewapunyagna 1 year ago

    Were you there? Are you God? Stop this.

  • Awuradebasa 1 year ago

    Only a fool and an illiterate bypasses true history.
    The name OTUTU was given to the young KOFI OSEI in Brekuso in the then Akwamu Fetish village now a town in Akwapim.
    His mother Manu,a sister of Obiri Yeboah seeked for a ...
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  • Asida 1 year ago

    Perfect. You know your stuff

  • K LAMPS 1 year ago

    You have nailed it all. It's the same narration i also learnt. Thanks for the apt delivery.

  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    Anokye please stop disturbing our ears with this your bogus and twisted history.

  • Awuradebasa 1 year ago

    Ayekoooo

  • Clynns 1 year ago

    Manhyia denkyembour ene sika kooko mpempem na awu nanso yeti ase.

  • KK 1 year ago

    So they couldn't manufacture their own weapons but had to travel to the coast to purchase them from the white man. And after learning how to use them, they heaped accolades onthemselves as if they used their ingenuity to manu ...
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  • Agbeli Kumordzi 1 year ago

    Un relevant history and tradition
    Their kand is fulk if gold but remains under developed

  • TROKOSI MAD DOG 1 year ago

    THESE AYIGBE DOGS ALWAYS GET BP WHENEVER ALMIGHTY ASHANTE NAME IS MENTIONED....KUSHIATO DOES YOUR SHITTY VOLTA REGION COMPARE TO KUMASI? WHERE YOU FOOLS PEOPLE CLEAN ASHANTES ASS TO EARN A LIVING...ODWAN

  • Abusuapayin K.Yeboah 1 year ago

    Bravo Awuradebasa, you're the one telling the truth and that cannot be contested.I have been telling this truth and many Asantes are happy to know how and where Nana Osei Tutu I was born. Most people doesn't know he's was bor ...
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  • Mj 1 year ago

    Ashanti this ashanti that ahhh

  • Bastie Asantefourhene 1 year ago

    Kwasia Tutu

  • Kwame 1 year ago

    It came to pass that one Arab man defeated the Ashanti warriors in Koforidua and Ashantehene requested the help of one Anlo man to capture this Arab man,or young man.
    But, wait, I am not a specialist with guns, but the guns ...
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  • No sense 1 year ago

    This man doesn’t make sense sometimes. This name Tutu was among us long ago before Osei Tutu. Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Tutu Ankoma of Egypt (a Pharo)

  • Alidu 1 year ago

    Mr. No sense, you're lost completely . This is about Asante history and nothing with South Africa pls.

  • Alidu 1 year ago

    Mr. No sense, you're lost completely . This is about Asante history and nothing with South Africa pls.

  • Alidu 1 year ago

    Mr. No sense, you're lost completely . This is about Asante history and nothing with South Africa pls.

  • Kwakuo Addo 12 months ago

    This Anokye guy has no meaningful things to do in Ghana.