Could the title be a metaphor or an exaggeration for emphasis! To say that you did not read some of Okoampa's epic historicizing makes your approach unscholarly and anti-intellectualism. We call it bad history! If you had put ... read full comment
Could the title be a metaphor or an exaggeration for emphasis! To say that you did not read some of Okoampa's epic historicizing makes your approach unscholarly and anti-intellectualism. We call it bad history! If you had put your article through the mill of peer-reviewing, it would have been dismised as a cavalier project based on that ridiculous, if not arrogance-laden statement alone.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Akadu, give me a break! I don't have time to read all that thrash Ahoofe was spinning out on a daily basis. There are other more sensible things to spend my very limited time reading. I read enough to reach conclusions as to ... read full comment
Akadu, give me a break! I don't have time to read all that thrash Ahoofe was spinning out on a daily basis. There are other more sensible things to spend my very limited time reading. I read enough to reach conclusions as to what he was up to: just like the rest before him!
Besides, I made it clear that my response is not to do a content critique of what he wrote but to address the whole gamut of Let-us-eliminate-the-Ewes mania which has gripped some of you Akans. Ahoofe is just a puny, irritating psycho among that group who must be brushed aside.
Andy-K
LARYEAH 11 years ago
KWAWUKUME OR KUMEKUME, YOUR ARTICLE IS FULL OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. DUE TO YOUR EXCESSIVE HATRED AND JEALOUSY FOR THE GENTLEMAN AHOOFE AND THE AKANS; YOU WERE SALIVATING AND DROOLING ALL OVER WITH COMMA SPLASHES AND DANGLING M ... read full comment
KWAWUKUME OR KUMEKUME, YOUR ARTICLE IS FULL OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. DUE TO YOUR EXCESSIVE HATRED AND JEALOUSY FOR THE GENTLEMAN AHOOFE AND THE AKANS; YOU WERE SALIVATING AND DROOLING ALL OVER WITH COMMA SPLASHES AND DANGLING MODIFIERS. FOR A MOMENT I THOUGHT I WAS READING TROKOSI-ENGLISH.
KWaku Bakuo - Domaa Ahenkro 11 years ago
all that money paid to the Mps has to be collected back by the Government, or provide Jail sentence for those who refust to.
what a shame! ghana is small a country to go this way.politics is not by force to do!
If you cant ... read full comment
all that money paid to the Mps has to be collected back by the Government, or provide Jail sentence for those who refust to.
what a shame! ghana is small a country to go this way.politics is not by force to do!
If you cant swame, dont jump into to river.This MP does not seem to understand something well. He seems to be living in his dreams. Who cares what happens days after MPs are voted off power. Where in the constitutions are the time period of the services that MPs. Provides spelt? They have no time limit so what is he talking about? If you are an MPs and you provide a good job, what shows that you constituency would vote you out? This is the reason why you are supposed to be for the people. Therefore why do MPs have to be giving money, from the counties budget, thinking that one day they would be voted out? This is the most typical NONSENCE ever heard from someone who says he intelligent. That money should be called or hauled back it is illegal for these MPs to keep that money. It is a form of stealing, it is rubbery. Rubbery with the mind and stealing from the Government coffers by cohesion. No one has force them the get into politics. There are so many Job openings out there, if you are scared that one day you would not have a Job to do, why do you go there in the first place. Mr. MP. You are a big fool. Your dreams are full of shite that nonsense has shown you have nothing to offer to the people you represent, and to Ghana.This Domaa MP, should be the first to go, put before accountability when the Bomb explodes.
A FOREIGN OBSERVER 11 years ago
So where do you stand Mr Kwawukume? Do you support the margininalisation, descrimination, brutality and suppression of Akans especially Ashantis by minority Ewes? Can you see that Akan regions have been neglected in terms of ... read full comment
So where do you stand Mr Kwawukume? Do you support the margininalisation, descrimination, brutality and suppression of Akans especially Ashantis by minority Ewes? Can you see that Akan regions have been neglected in terms of development? If Ashantis in particular and Akans in general are denied some public service jobs or positions do you see how comparable this is to the Rwandan issue? Can you see the possible future repercussions or consequences? Will you blame Europeans for that? I believe that the status quo will not remain forever. Today Akans are cowards like the Hutus but tomorrow they will be brave like the Hutus. Let's leave this to posterity.
Luck 11 years ago
Since this is just part one of Andy C.Y's observation on the great lake conflicts,it will be too early to draw any conclusions.From your observation,it may sound like the failure of equity when the majority fails to properly ... read full comment
Since this is just part one of Andy C.Y's observation on the great lake conflicts,it will be too early to draw any conclusions.From your observation,it may sound like the failure of equity when the majority fails to properly put its case across.I don't think we should read much into that but concentrate on the historical and political perspective of his argument.It may sound like a defense for fairness but if not properly addressed,it will be hijacked by trouble makers for an argument for the rule of the majority tribe, or the dictatorship of the majority.Personally I find the article very informing but as to whether is is right for the present climate is debatable.
Kwame 11 years ago
Andy A.C. Kwawukume I agree with you that most of the conflicts in Africa is as a result of Europeans judging them through their eye of myths and ignorance, which has been turned into some sort of religion. It thus become eve ... read full comment
Andy A.C. Kwawukume I agree with you that most of the conflicts in Africa is as a result of Europeans judging them through their eye of myths and ignorance, which has been turned into some sort of religion. It thus become events with a human upper body and a horse lower body, meaning confused, meant to intentionally and deliberately confuse issues or trying to result the issue with ignorance, while at the same time playing the role of a sage.
How can NATO arm Islamic terrorist some of whom have been in their prison to overthrow Ghaddafi then just after a few weeks start fighting the same people they armed to overthrow a constitutional government.
The same myth and the first to make the complaint attitude was put up by the U.S. in connection with the Etroxovi issue, that this writer has to write various articles to expose the myth and lay bare the facts.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Yeah! And when the fight ended, the Hutus found themselves as refugees in the Congo in their millions, after having been defeated by the minority Tutsis, followed there and decimated and killed in even larger numbers than the ... read full comment
Yeah! And when the fight ended, the Hutus found themselves as refugees in the Congo in their millions, after having been defeated by the minority Tutsis, followed there and decimated and killed in even larger numbers than the number of Tutsis they killed! Is that what you want to happen to the "majority" Asante, or Akans in general?
I thought the claim was that the Ewes are the no nothings who are envious of the Asantes, their riches and the VR is No. 9 in the bottom of most backward regions in Ghana. Or, are Ewes no longer working on your cocoa farms as serfs? By day labourers, competing with the kayayei who has intruded into their human porterage biz, etc.? Have you heard of this in Ga before: Ayigbe adeka gbo, ma te le! Ha! ha! ha! It seems whatever Ewes do to eke out a living, they are in trouble with some fellow Ghanaians. It is like, as our ancestors said, the Corn's case is never just before the Hen's court.
An Asante met my Ibo partner in a salon in Woolwich and she came back with stories of how the VR is backward and the Ash/R is so advanced with flower gardens just like in Europe and they all have their houses (the usual boasting as if other live on trees). I shall ask her to read what you just wrote. I was truthful to her, informing her that Kumasi used to be called the Garden City of W. Africa but the trees have been cut down, blah, blah but travel outside Kumasi the houses and amenities in the towns and villages are just as wretched as in most of rural Ghana. She went on the web on her I-Phone and took a tour of Kumasi and was disappointed at what she was. Even fact, I was embarrassed too, as I told her Kumasi was our second biggest city and there it was looking scruffy like some minor town in Nigeria! I was very embarrassed when she made a tour of Anloga market too on the web. Wretched looking! Phew! Man! We are all sufferheads, with a few elite chopping at our expense, so leave Ewes alone!
Andy-K
Luck 11 years ago
Andy-K, you might be getting the Gas historical relationship with the Ewes wrong.Your reference to the Gas Adeka agbo manye mate le tease is misplaced because it is a friendly fire.When King Ayi took the Ga stool to Anecho,Em ... read full comment
Andy-K, you might be getting the Gas historical relationship with the Ewes wrong.Your reference to the Gas Adeka agbo manye mate le tease is misplaced because it is a friendly fire.When King Ayi took the Ga stool to Anecho,Emmisaries were sent to bring back the stool after the wars but Ayi refused hence the name Ayi gbe.That reference is a Ga to Ga confrontation because subsequently, the Gas who stayed behind accused King Ayi of stealing their stool paraphernalia so if any thing at all it was a misunderstanding between brother and sisters.No harm meant and we still acknowledge each other by attending our various Homowo festivals in Ghana and Togo.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Ah! Luck, you are one Ga who knows the story well but I think I am right on the "adeka gbo" tease origin. Yes, I know it is more like teasing, that's why no Ewe gets offended by such things, even though same words are used pe ... read full comment
Ah! Luck, you are one Ga who knows the story well but I think I am right on the "adeka gbo" tease origin. Yes, I know it is more like teasing, that's why no Ewe gets offended by such things, even though same words are used perjoratively too, esp. when it comes to the stool regalia palaver which gave rise to "Ayigbe dzorlor" bit. Yes, the original Ayi-gbes are people of Ga descent but all Ewes, including those without any Ga-Adangme blood in them (a very tough call to make, considering the extensive intermarrying which has occurred) are referred to as Ayigbes now.
BTW, your kinsmen in Togo claimed they are Protectors of the Okai Kai Stool regalia, not "stealers".:-)
Anyway, this is like jumping the gun, as I have addressed these issues in the section on Ghana.
Andy-K
KK 11 years ago
How does a foreign observer know that Ashantis in particular and Akans in general are denied some public service jobs?
Perhaps you should change your moniker to AN ASHANTI OBSERVER!!!
How does a foreign observer know that Ashantis in particular and Akans in general are denied some public service jobs?
Perhaps you should change your moniker to AN ASHANTI OBSERVER!!!
Kwame 11 years ago
I wrote on several occasions that Akans and Ewhes are all Ewhes, that people who live in the valley. We have a country and continent to defend and protect from foreign invaders.
I wrote on several occasions that Akans and Ewhes are all Ewhes, that people who live in the valley. We have a country and continent to defend and protect from foreign invaders.
Sani 11 years ago
I think you should have completely left Okoampa out of this. You give him too much attention by referring to his article series. People ignore that guy - don't remind them of him. Moreover, you said you didn't read all the ar ... read full comment
I think you should have completely left Okoampa out of this. You give him too much attention by referring to his article series. People ignore that guy - don't remind them of him. Moreover, you said you didn't read all the articles in the series. I don't think many people did either. The facts you are trying to convey are relevant even without Okoampa!
You could have revamped the article and made it more useful to the contemporary Ghanaian context by your comparison and also removed the Norwegian context in which it was originally written (I understand you were studying there by then). The article, as it appears now is a bit dated in many parts.
Now I move on to read the next one...
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago
Hmmm! I think your aversion for Ahoofe is absolute, and thus making you think as you do. You see, I don't really believe in the adage that advises that one shouldn't come out of the bathroom to chase the mad man who takes one ... read full comment
Hmmm! I think your aversion for Ahoofe is absolute, and thus making you think as you do. You see, I don't really believe in the adage that advises that one shouldn't come out of the bathroom to chase the mad man who takes ones cloths, as I think one could handle such a nagging nuisance sanely, for instance, wrapping your towel around your waist in order to go get new clothing to put on or shouting for new clothes to be brought to you before giving a chase to the madman. The adage didn't say anything about how one should come out of the bathroom, once the cloths are gone! Stay in the bathroom forever?? What about of the mad man has a regular habit of picking your clothes, just as Ahoofe has regular habit of demonising his so-called Anlo Ewes even if not culpable of any offence, like in the Justice Kpegah suit?
There was no need to revamped the article, as I was only interested in giving background information to events leading to the genocide of 1994 and the immediate happenings afterwards; so up to 1996 was more than enough. What happened afterwards is contemporary and most readers are aware of them through the TV news, etc., I have covered the Ghanaian scene too and more analytically and that's coming later.
Could the title be a metaphor or an exaggeration for emphasis! To say that you did not read some of Okoampa's epic historicizing makes your approach unscholarly and anti-intellectualism. We call it bad history! If you had put ...
read full comment
Akadu, give me a break! I don't have time to read all that thrash Ahoofe was spinning out on a daily basis. There are other more sensible things to spend my very limited time reading. I read enough to reach conclusions as to ...
read full comment
KWAWUKUME OR KUMEKUME, YOUR ARTICLE IS FULL OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. DUE TO YOUR EXCESSIVE HATRED AND JEALOUSY FOR THE GENTLEMAN AHOOFE AND THE AKANS; YOU WERE SALIVATING AND DROOLING ALL OVER WITH COMMA SPLASHES AND DANGLING M ...
read full comment
all that money paid to the Mps has to be collected back by the Government, or provide Jail sentence for those who refust to.
what a shame! ghana is small a country to go this way.politics is not by force to do!
If you cant ...
read full comment
So where do you stand Mr Kwawukume? Do you support the margininalisation, descrimination, brutality and suppression of Akans especially Ashantis by minority Ewes? Can you see that Akan regions have been neglected in terms of ...
read full comment
Since this is just part one of Andy C.Y's observation on the great lake conflicts,it will be too early to draw any conclusions.From your observation,it may sound like the failure of equity when the majority fails to properly ...
read full comment
Andy A.C. Kwawukume I agree with you that most of the conflicts in Africa is as a result of Europeans judging them through their eye of myths and ignorance, which has been turned into some sort of religion. It thus become eve ...
read full comment
Yeah! And when the fight ended, the Hutus found themselves as refugees in the Congo in their millions, after having been defeated by the minority Tutsis, followed there and decimated and killed in even larger numbers than the ...
read full comment
Andy-K, you might be getting the Gas historical relationship with the Ewes wrong.Your reference to the Gas Adeka agbo manye mate le tease is misplaced because it is a friendly fire.When King Ayi took the Ga stool to Anecho,Em ...
read full comment
Ah! Luck, you are one Ga who knows the story well but I think I am right on the "adeka gbo" tease origin. Yes, I know it is more like teasing, that's why no Ewe gets offended by such things, even though same words are used pe ...
read full comment
How does a foreign observer know that Ashantis in particular and Akans in general are denied some public service jobs?
Perhaps you should change your moniker to AN ASHANTI OBSERVER!!!
I wrote on several occasions that Akans and Ewhes are all Ewhes, that people who live in the valley. We have a country and continent to defend and protect from foreign invaders.
I think you should have completely left Okoampa out of this. You give him too much attention by referring to his article series. People ignore that guy - don't remind them of him. Moreover, you said you didn't read all the ar ...
read full comment
Hmmm! I think your aversion for Ahoofe is absolute, and thus making you think as you do. You see, I don't really believe in the adage that advises that one shouldn't come out of the bathroom to chase the mad man who takes one ...
read full comment