America's Ohio University now teaches Akan, Asante Twi at undergraduate, postgraduate levels

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  • Yakubu Zakari 1 week ago

    Why name it Asante Twi?.Akuapim Twi is all what we know in Ghana as the first and superior of all the Twi in Ghana.These Ashanti's are nothing but a laughing stock who always want to take things not by merit but by force

  • Dr. Allen Smith Jackson, UK 1 week ago

    Haha yaanom are bleeding, since when did Akuapim twi become superior than Asante twi? What is the population of Akuapims? Even in Eastern region there are more Ashantis (Koforidua, Kwahu etc) than Akaupims

  • Nothing new 1 week ago

    It is nothing new. The University of Cologne in Germany teaches the Ewe language, the same way the University of Indiana in Bloomington, USA does. Just Google it and you will know.

  • Dr. Allen Smith Jackson, UK 1 week ago

    No one cares about ewe even here in Ghana the ewes speak Asante twi more than their native language

  • Mensah 1 week ago

    Maybe you do not care. Others do.

  • ASHANTI BOY, KUMASI 1 week ago

    DO WE EAT LANGUAGE,? KWASIA ANALYSIS,

  • sound ghanaian 1 week ago

    Be intellectually honest. You know UI also teaches Akan, just as Yale and UF do. Instead of reminding ourselves that we have to take pride in our languages, some of you are indulging in ethnicity.

  • Kofi Ewuku 1 week ago

    oh boy ? all that you said is true but be respectful. Remember it was Akwapim man of knowledge who created the Asante Kingdom and brought down the Golding stool from heaving a feat no Asante king can deny.

  • Jimbo 1 week ago

    Yakubu you can go to hell to develop your hypertension there. Go to hell with your filthy hatred for Akan people.

  • Yoo 1 week ago

    It will be called Yakubu Zakari Twi, instead of Asahanti Twi. I hope that that will help you sleep well. Needless enviness and tribalism

  • Fools with short memory will vote the ndc. 6 days ago

    You are so dumb and very primitive with your useless bitterness.The Asante will remain superior over your unknown tribe.

  • COD 6 days ago

    Yakubu Zakari, is a true member of The Bleeding & Hateful Yaanom. He is among those fools among us who prefer us, Africans, speak the colonial master`s tongue than our own simply because The Asantes are too loud.
    Yuroba and ...
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  • TW3DE3 1 week ago

    @ YAKUBU ZAKARI: WHY ARE SWEATING OVER THE FACT THAT THEY USED ASANTE TWI INSTEAD OF AKUAPIM TWI? HOW MANY PEOPLE SPEAK THE AKUAPIM TWI IN GHANA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD? EVEN EWE RADIO STATIONS, DAGOMBA, ANDALMOST ALL PEPEFUO ...
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  • Kofi 1 week ago

    Piaw . Asante y3 oman

  • Alidu 1 week ago

    ASHANTIS ARE LIKE ISRAELIS OR AMERICANS. THE HANDS OF GOD ARE OVER THEM, NO WEAPON LUNCH AGAINST WILL SUCCEED. GHANA BLESS ISRAEL, AMERICAN, ASHANTI AS A TRIBE AND GHANA AS A WHOLE

  • Goodman 1 week ago

    God bless you sir.

  • Kande 6 days ago

    You’re right.

  • Nii Amateh blofunyo 1 week ago

    Always confusing please correct me if I am wrong: Akan is a group of tribes, not a language. Twi is a language and Asante, aquapim and fante are dialects if Twi.

  • Coby 1 week ago

    You’ve put it perfectly. The people are Akan and they speak various twi dialects- Akuapem Twi, Fanti Twi, Asante Twi. Bono, etc.

  • Kande 6 days ago

    Bono Twi???? Hahaha. I understand your pain but you just have to accept that Asante is the biggest and most recognized tribe in Ghana and we are not even arguing about that.

  • Northern Boy 1 week ago

    That's good

  • ASHANTI BOY, KUMASI 1 week ago

    HOW WILL THAT BRING FOOD TO THE TABLE, MY PEOPLE ARE ALL SENSELESS, KWASIAFOUR, DO WE EAT TWI? LETS THINK

  • Esi 1 week ago

    Must you always display your ignorance?

  • Kwaku. 1 week ago

    Here we misled others again. Teaching Akan and Asante Twi.? Ghana needs to choose the equivalent of High German to speed up the development of Akan. We cannot development all the various Akan dialects. Let's choose Akwapim Tw ...
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  • Kwaku. 1 week ago

    Here we misled others again. Teaching Akan and Asante Twi.? Ghana needs to choose the equivalent of High German to speed up the development of Akan. We cannot development all the various Akan dialects. Let's choose Akwapim Tw ...
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  • Esi 1 week ago

    You and who should choose Akuapim Twi?? Dey play

  • Misnomer and Tautology 1 week ago

    Here they go again when Akwasi Donkor and Ghana Broadcasting Corporation started broadcasting Akan kasa in the olden days we had Twi, Fanti, Nzema and other indigenous languages Dagbani etc we had nothing like Asante Twi whic ...
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  • Be Informed 1 week ago

    If you’ve studied the Twi language, you’d be aware of Asante Twi and Akuapem Twi.
    Books, bibles, etc, are written or translated into Asante or Akuapem Twi.

  • Bastie the emperor of Kumasi 1 week ago

    There’s no language called Asante Twi.

    It’s AKAN TWI with various dialects or accent.

    Asantefour mmoa

  • the Villager 1 week ago

    Did you know that EWE has been taught in Germany since the 1950s?

  • Kofi Jesus 1 week ago

    Why anything concerning Ashantis become problem for non Akans but when it's come to investmen they will choose Ashanti region instead of their hometown because they fear their own people. It's a fact most of the radio statio ...
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  • Fitaa ne tuntum mo abura 1 week ago

    Great and when they finish learning it, then they should migrate to Ghana and live here.

  • Akotolantey-FineBoy 1 week ago

    Ghana should adopt this language as official, hatred will never move us forward

  • Kwaku: 1 week ago

    Ghanaians:
    Is it not long overdue for us to get a Ghanaian language as a lingua franca in addition to English?
    There is no gainsaying the fact that over 60% of Ghanaians speak and understand some Asante Twi. Let us put all ...
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  • GD 1 week ago

    Fante language is also widely spoken in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Angola, Liberia and so on. When the British and other Europeans came to Ghana, they first familiarise themselves with Fante culture before socializing better with ...
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  • Akwasince 1 week ago

    People are still fighting with the great kingdom, meanwhile poverty is still destroying them, the fact is Asante Twi is leading all the way until the next coming of God. Koose

  • Lart 1 week ago

    It's funny how people find so much pride in some of these things while they seat quietly and watch politicians play aviator with their future.

  • Fools with short memory will vote the ndc. 6 days ago

    Kudos to them,God bless my mother tongue.

    Ɛyɛ kama paa,yɛhowa nhyira wɔn.