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Elegy to Kofi Awoonor

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  • Tiffiny Ablorh 10 years ago

    Kofi the tribalist murderer is gone and all Ghanaians must rejoice. For me I'm not only happy that he 's gone but extremely happy the way departed. Kofi got paid in his own coin! Alleluia!! PRAISE GOD!!!!

  • AKOS 10 years ago

    UR OWN HATEFUL BILE WILL DESTROY YOU.

  • Awura Ama 10 years ago

    Why can't you people tolerate others a little bit? These led to the senseless killings of hard working Ghanaians by your so called senseless revolution.You were happy by then and somebody else is happy now and you can't take ...
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  • MINOR CASE 10 years ago

    Those who keep eulogising this bigot are truely his enemies . I think they love the bashing of this dead tribalist ,because the more they pay him a tribute ,the more he is exposed as a very evil person. His bashers are more t ...
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  • Nii Lantey 10 years ago

    SO ALL WHO SUPPORTED THE JJ COUP ARE BIGOTS? WHAT ABOUT ALL THE COUP MAKERS? AFRIFA, KOTOKA, ACHEAMPONG, AGYEI BOADI ETC ?

    OR WHEN THE COUP SUITS YOU THEN THE COUP MAKERS ARE NOT BIGOTS? WHEN THE ILLEGAL COUP IS BY YOUR O ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

    THAT, KOFI AWOONOR PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN THAT 31 DEC. TERROR ACT WHICH SAW THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF THE CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF DR. LIMANN AND USHERED IN THE CONTINUITY OF THE STUPID NDC REVOLUTION WHICH IS IN ...
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  • Joy 10 years ago

    Mr Sakyi, at long last you have written some piece which is timely and consistent with the situation in our nation. Thanks.

    When I was a graduate student at Princeton, in my first year, I visited Bronx where my sister was ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Swine, was he the one who killed your bastard grandfather? Your own end will be more horrendous than Kofi's. Dirty pig.

  • Oscar 10 years ago

    PRAY YOU DO NOT GO THE SAME WAY OR A WORSE ONE SOME TIME. 'DEATH IS A WAR OF NO DISCHARGE' YOU WILL,I SAY YOU,WILL SEE YOURS. DIRTY TRIBALIST.

  • Agyeman 10 years ago

    A Ghanaian icon is gone,a national treasure was taken from us,a literary giant is now without his prose,our nation is without its illustrious son.Fare thee well Awoonor,one day we shall meet beyond the clouds.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    Awoonor bumps into an Ashanti woman in a hotel lobby in Kumasi and as he does,

    his elbow goes into her breast.


    They are both quite startled.

    Awonor turns to her and says, 'Ma'am, if your heart is as soft as your
    b ...
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  • Ayanya 10 years ago

    But did she marry your trokosi father? That would had been a taboo which would had destooled her.How many fights did you have yourselves? Any Ashanti/akan woman married to a trokosi is cast out, a Ga is welcome, a northerner ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    HUNTING DOGS DON'T BARK.YOU NORTHERNERS WERE SLAVES TO THE ASHANTI,S THAT'S WHY THEY DONT RESPECT YOU.
    IF AN EWE MAN WAS THE PRESIDENT,THE NPP WOULD NOT GO TO THE SUPREME COURT TO TRY TO GET THE ELECTIONS ANNULLED.
    THEY THI ...
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  • YORNEY 10 years ago

    a good answer to that hunting.

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    I wonder whether the that swine ever heard of late Major Seth Anthony - the only African to earn the King's Commission in 1941 during the 2nd World War (died 2008). Or late Brigadier Joe Michel (died 1963) Army Commander and ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    MY LATE FATHER ANTHONY AGBELETEY 74076.
    KNEW THE LATE MAJOR SETH ANTHONY AND BRIGADIER MICHEL.
    I WAS LUCKY TO MEET BRIGADIER MICHEL AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY IN THE RANCHI BARRACKS FOR THE BARRACKS BOYS.
    THE PARTY WAS ORGANISED ...
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  • Great 10 years ago

    Thanks. Have they heard of Corporal ATTIPOE? Does 28th February ring a bell? He was one of the valiant men killed on 28th February. He shed his blood for the country.

  • CAT 10 years ago

    Just a clarification, were the British army fighting the Ashanti warroirs or the Ghana Armed forces? Was there a war between the Bristish and Ghanaians after independance? i mean after adapting the name Ghana? can someone edu ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Bastard you. Better ask your stupid father that stupid question. You'd have thanked your stars if you've had a trokosi as a father or mother.

  • SOFAHU 10 years ago

    listen to this rat hunting dog too'what a world,..go and tell your useless MOTHER who is saving as everybody's wife to stick her stinking body to one man...YOU SON OF FLIRTING DOG..."AVU HASHITOR"

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    ADJEPONG IS THROWING BAWUMIA'S THINGS AWAY BECAUSE HE THINK YOU GUYS ARE SECOND CLASS.

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 10 years ago

    The common bond between Kofi Awoonor and the terrorists is hatred.

    His comrades in hate mongering served him a death warrant.

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Beast. What do you expect someone else to also make from your anti-Ewe write-ups? Do I call your posture hate or love?

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    This must be said aloud!

  • abenayankey@gmail.com 10 years ago

    OH DENKYIRA BEAUTY,WHEN I LICKED YOU,
    YOU SCREAMED AND SAID"THIS EARTH MY SISTER"
    THE CENTER OF YOUR PUSSY CANNOT HOLD MY POUNDING SO TRY AND REPLACE MY EARRINGS BECAUSE IT CAME FROM THE EWE LAND. "CHOOBOI,CHOOBOI"

  • Nii Lantey 10 years ago

    can you please educate me? What makes Awoonor a bigot?

  • KK 10 years ago

    Akadu, can you really give concrete and convincing proof of this man's bigotry? Then do us the service of providing that evidence. Say it in clear terms giving the evidence as you are an academic.

    Some people say he was n ...
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  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Thanks for replying that she-male. And what about the she-male itself? Ain't she-he also an Akan bigot consumed by their flock mentality!!!

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Akadu and blokes like him have no proof at all. All that Awoonor did was to analyse the ethnic turmoil that Busia and the PP brought in the wake of the Feb 1966 coup and pointed accusing fingers at some Akans, particularly so ...
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  • AHOOFE,the hopeless man 10 years ago

    use your head for once,OOH KWABENA OFUI"

  • Esi Kitson 10 years ago

    People, we call it opinion and that should do it for all!

  • Mozato 10 years ago

    "In Nkrumah’s land of Freedom and Justice
    Kofi spat out the word, and freed his soul" wo ne wo se Ghana not Nkrumah Ghana. W'abodam

  • Kakaminamor 10 years ago

    You are the true bigots. Not even a lizard will remember you when you die. Here is a man who has lived not only his resume but his eulogy. He has imparted lives. Who will ever recall that you these Akan bigots and illiterates ...
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  • Godwin Ray Dolley 10 years ago

    Leave them alone. I am glad that the beauty of Kofi Awoonor's demise is the gallery of dignitaries from without who will grace his burial - an event that will make his traducers green and livid with envy and rage.

    To his c ...
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  • Anyigbanya 10 years ago

    A gallant son of Eweland is gone. De afe dedie

  • kate 10 years ago

    Tribal man dies in Religious war. Eschew tribalism and you will be a true hero.
    God saves his soul

  • kate 10 years ago

    Tribal man dies in Religious war. Eschew tribalism and you will be a true hero.
    God saves his soul

  • kate 10 years ago

    Tribal man dies in Religious war. Eschew tribalism and you will be a true hero.
    God saves his soul

  • kate 10 years ago

    Tribal man dies in Religious war. Eschew tribalism and you will be a true hero.
    God saves his soul

  • Tony h 10 years ago

    I am pretty sure you are one those blakies descendants from the Gorillas of Ashanti deep forests. This is the reason we, proud Ewe (hanson & beautiful with fair skin)hate you akans & ashantis: we have decided not to you Ashan ...
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  • FOUNDING MEMBER 10 years ago

    SUPERMAN and ROBIN HOOD are still alive in HOLLYWOOD,so too is great KOFI AWOONOR alive on paper/poems/drama and academia...GREAT MEN DON'T DIE!!!

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Kofi is gone and never to return but will be remembered (either for good or evil) by people who have had cause to interact with him. All swines heaping insults on him will surely be struck by Xebieso.

  • Franklin 10 years ago

    He was a TROKOSI high priest. Bury TROKOSI with him

  • Vodoo Xebieso 10 years ago

    Which is better: Trokosism and Head-Hunting for Burial Rites of a Dead Village Head?

  • SOFAHU 10 years ago

    good question to that bloody fool son of an"OBRAFUO"a head-hunter.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    It is a fact that a person who hates another tribe will have nothing to do with that tribe, moreover its language. It is a fact that Kofi Awoonor speaks and write Akan better than most Akans and the same applies to Kojo Tsika ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    its very sad that many of the bigots lied that when he was the University of Ghana,he deprived many Akans in gaining admission there.
    His own brother Dr John Awoonor could not get admission in Ghana medical school so he stud ...
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