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04/08/2023

Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah remains the founder of the independence of Ghana, undebatable. Any attempts to replace this fact is already dead on arrival. 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭

23/03/2023

Agona Nkwanta Are you Ready?

11/11/2022

This Is Peter Mensah, a Ghanaian-British actor, From the Brong Ahafo Region.

His most prominent roles was as Oenomaus in Spartacus. He was a gladiator trainer in Batiatus' Ludus, traditionally referred to only by the title of " Doctore".

Many didn’t know he was Ghanaian.

He has had roles in Avatar, Kevin Hart what Now, Tears of the Sun, Hidalgo, 300, and Dead Space, and more recently on the Starz original series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, and Spartacus: Vengeance.

Credit: KROBO LAND

09/11/2022

It's not funny anymore ⛔🇬🇭

09/11/2022

09/11/2022

Hmmm

09/11/2022

Luka Modri¢ leads

08/11/2022

Senegal goes first for Africa and it’s a 26-man list for Aliou Cisse’s men.

• Mane and Mendy lead the charge

07/11/2022

Brazil head coach, Tite, names final World Cup squad

Gabriel Martinelli makes the list alongside Gabriel Jesus. No Roberto Firmino😬

04/11/2022

Official: Provisional list for Ghana going to World Cup out.

• No Hudson Odoi, as expected. He was not ready to make the switch.

• Ernest Nuamah makes it.

• No Kwabena Owusu.

• Afriyie Barnieh in✊🏿

• Yaw Yeboah in.✊🏿

• Salis Samed in. ✊🏿

• Mudasiru in.✊🏿

04/11/2022

Ghana technical team and backroom staff for the 2022 World Cup.

03/11/2022

President John Dramani Mahama

The Nation Builder
The Visionary Leader
The Honest & Humble Leader

03/11/2022

"I think Senegal will make a very good World Cup. They have a very good team with a lot of very strong players."
"I think Senegal will be the best African team in the World Cup" 🇸🇳 - Haaland

03/11/2022

A Brother & Role Model, A teacher & Influential Character. The Delegates of the Western Region National Democratic Congress (NDC) said they are choosing you as the next Deputy Secretary, Anthony Duncan Quaicoe 🙌🏿✊🏿👍🏿🔥🔥🔥

08/10/2022

Officially Launched, Ahanta's Finest.

Ads No:S 40167

15/05/2021

13/05/2021

Three World Cups played 🏆
More than thirty titles with Bayern, Real Madrid and Chelsea🎖
Millions of dollars in his bank account 💸

He retired but couldn't handle being deprived of football. After several months, he returned to the game.
Now, he cycles to training, Robben is a legend for all this and more 🙏🏼❤️

09/04/2021

27/03/2021

Otumfour Nana Badu Bonsu XV. Reigning KING of the Great AHANTA kingdom, which was and will never be conquered by any local tribe. The AHANTA kingdom was never conquered by the Asantes or any Ghanaian tribe. We only fell to the European due to Machinations.
Long live his Royal Majesty Nana Badu Bonsu XV... The Great Whale!!🙌❣️❣️❣️👑👑👑

27/03/2021

*ASANTE NEVER OVERRUN AHANTA IN 1724*

I have seen this map that creates the impression that Asante overan Ahanta in 1724 and I am saying on authority that is factually incorrect. It never happened and could not have happened. I believe it is one of the Badu Nkansah publications which has created a lot of tribal brouhaha in the country in recent days. If it is one of them, then there is the need to take urgent steps to correct some of these wrongful impressions before people perpetuate them to become the truth when in actual facts they are not.

Ahanta has never been defeated or conquered by any trinbe in the then Gold Coast and now Ghana. Probably we are the only tribe that can pride ourselves with that so the impression that this map seek to create is nothing but falsehood. Palpable falsehood and the age old propaganda that made some tribes to appear superior to others and so it should be discarded.

Not so much is known about Ahanta by the current generation of Ghanaians because our history has never been part of school curriculum and so if you mention that you are an Ahanta, many wonder who you are and where you come from but the fact is Ahanta is as ancient as Methusela. To have resisted the Europeans and their attempts to take over our lands for more than 400 years tell the reason why Ahanta appears to be more dormant in recent years. We have probably spent our energies fighting foreign invation and no tribe has endured what we endured with constant baffles with the Europeans particularly the Dutch.

It is for military purposes and reasons that our ancestors crossed the Pra and settled between it, Ankobra and the Atlantic Ocean. From 1200s till today any trinbe that made attempts on Ahanta with military action failed miserably and Ahanta prevailed on countless times. The warring states of Akwamu and Denkyira made several attempts but could succeed in subduing Ahanta. As for Asante, they didn't try at all. Ahantas defended their territory with high levels of military expertise and skill and that is the reason why Wellman Bosman, the Dutch explorer who toured Gold Coast in the 1700s described Ahanta as MARTIAL. I urge my readers to find the meaning of MARTIAL in this context and they will appreciate what I am saying better.

In fact, you can't cross the Pra and Ankobra and survive it if you are in for war with Ahanta. As for the sea it was a "no go area" for the local tribes until the arrival of the Europeans. Even during the warring days of Osei Tutu I, he never fired a warning shot at Ahanta because the Akwamus and the Denkyiras have tried severally and failed. Osei Tutu I knew those to fight and those not to fight so he never made an attempt to fight Ahanta. During his warring years, he rather made an appeals to Badu Bonso (king of Ahanta) to allow his soldiers to pass through his lands and they did without making attempts to fire a shot. It is for that reason our forefathers said " Kyɛbɛbalɛ ɩ́dɩ tanɩ mɛyɩ ti mɔ Tutu dwulɩ Aɣɩnda yɩ, ɩbalɩ kyɛbɛ yɩ a" to wit is not a crime to plead and that is why when Tutu got Ahanta, he pleaded".

When Osei Bonsu made an attempt to seize Fort Nassau at Anomabu, it was Ahanta who went to the rescue of our Fante relatives. When Osei Bonsu heard that Badu Bonso was coming, he retreated very fast. When it comes to military expedition, there has not been any like Ahanta and so the impression that Asante overrun Ahanta is false and should be treated as such. It never happened and could not have happened actually.

By 1830, Ahanta remained a dominant military force along the coast and that was the reason why when the Dutch were marching on Ahanta in 1838, Asantehene at the time offered 30 000 soldiers but general Veerver who was leading the Dutch forces turned him down. He suspected that he wanted to use it as a ploy to have direct access to the coast. General Veerver instead mobilised the Wassas, the Fantes and other local tribes together with the forces he brought from Hague to march on Ahanta which resulted in the death of Badu Bonso II. That was probably the first time Ahanta tasted military defeat and that was due to foreign machinations.

There is a reason why Asante kings mention the name of Ahanta with reverence and that is because before calling themselves as Otumfour, Badu Bonso, the mighty whale was the first ever "Tumivlɔ" (Otumfour) as far as chieftaincy titles are concerned. The records are there and this time Ahanta is ready to straighten them if there is an attempt to twist them. We allowed them in the past and it went against us. It made others to look down on us because our history was not studied in schools but this time we will not allow these falsehoods to thrive and feed into the minds of our future generations. We will correct them all.

Asante could not have crossed the Pra and Ankobra to fight the mighty whale in the sea. They would have completely be consumed by the rising tides of the sea and the very reasons why Osei Tutu himself sought to make peace with Ahanta than to go to war with Ahanta.

Ahanta Apemenyimheneba Kwofie III — with Abena Yalley.

19/03/2021

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄

The Ahanta people are part of several Akan tribes who migrated from Sudan and came to the old Ghana empire. After the collapse of the old Ghana empire, they migrated through Senegal and Cote D'Viore and settled in the Bono kingdom. They together with the Fantes migrated further down south and crossed the Pra River around 1229. They have since settled between river Ankobra, the Pra river and the Atlantic Ocean.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄

Ahanta language belongs to several Congo -Niger languages such as Igbo in Nigeria, Edo in Benin and all the Akan languages stretching across the South of the Sahara Desert from Togo to Cote D'Voire. It is one of the sub unit of several kwa languages across the forest belt of Sub-Sahara Africa.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐃𝐎𝐌

Between 1300 and 1400, Ahantas formed their kingdom. The name of their king was Nana Badu Bonso. The king of Ahantas was believed to possess whimsical powers that made him to carry his people to cross the Pra river before settling at their present locations. The capital of Ahanta kingdom is Busua where their king and queen resided

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒

The people of Ahanta celebrate Kundum festival and the name of Kundum dance is Abisa. It is said that famine had hit Ahanta and one day, a hunter by name Akpoley saw Dwarfs dancing. He hid in the bush and watched them but the Dwarfs saw him. He pleaded for forgiveness. The Dwarfs forgave him and asked him what he wanted. He told them that famine was killing his people so he looking for food for them. The Dwarfs gave him some red grains known in Ahanta language as "Abele Azani" . They asked him to go and plant it and feed his people with it. They also taught him how to dance the Abisa. He thanked them and went home to inform the king about his experience with the Dwarfs and that was how the Kundum festival started. Every year, the people Ahanta celebrate Kundum festival to commemorate how Akpoley brought them food when there was famine in Ahanta.
In Ahanta, Kundum simply means 𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮 𝐰ʋ 𝐦𝐢 meaning 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡 because there was enough 𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐳𝐚𝐧ɩ (𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧/𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐳𝐞) to prepare 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐦.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒

𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑶𝑹𝑻𝑼𝑮𝑼𝑬𝑺𝑬

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in Gold Coast in 1471. They built their permanent trading post at Elmina in 1482. In 1515, they built Fort St. Anthony at Axim and in 1626, they built Fort Sebastian at Shama. The Portuguese quickly expanded their trading activities across Ahanta from Shama to Axim covering almost the total land area of the Ahanta kingdom.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇

The Dutch led by Barent Eriksz arrived in 1591 and by 1598, other Dutch traders had also arrived in Gold Coast. They started to pose stiff opposition to the Portuguese. Through the efforts of General Jacob Clantius, the Dutch secured a permission to build Fort Nassau near Moree through the Asebu treaty. The Dutch constantly fought the Portuguese. In 1637, the Dutch captured Elmina Castle, Fort Sebastian at Shama in 1640 and in 1642, they had captured Fort Antonio in Axim. Aside seizing Forts and Castles of the Portuguese, the Dutch built Fort Orange in Sekondi in 1642 and Fort Batenstein in Butre in 1656. By 1717 they have succeeded in driving the Portuguese away and gained control over the trade particularly in Ahanta areas.

𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐘

Ahanta became the main trading grounds for the Dutch in Gold Coast. On 27th August 1656, the Butre treaty was sign between the Ahanta chiefs and the Dutch which made Ahanta a protectorate of the Dutch from the attacks of other European nations who had interest in the ongoing slave trade. A pact which lasted for 213 years until 1871 when the Dutch left the Gold Coast and the British took over. It was longest pact between an European nation and an African state.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 𝐖𝐀𝐑

In 1838, war broke out between Ahantas and the Dutch. Badu Bonso II ordered that no one should sell gun powder in his kingdom. He did not want the Dutch to sell gun powder to his people so that they would use it to capture other tribes and sell them to the Dutch as slaves. This led to a dispute between him and the Dutch. The Dutch governor called Tonneboeijer wanted to arrest Badu Bonso II but he resisted and killed Tonneboeijer and his soldiers at Takoradi. Later the Dutch brought mercenaries from Hague to capture Badu Bonso II. He and some of his royals were killed. His head was taken to Haque and kept in Fomahlyde jar at Leiden University. His head was discovered and brought back to Ghana in 2009.

𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄

In 1876 , the Dutch sold all their trade possessions to the British and left Gold Coast. Ahanta came under British rule until Ghana gained independence on 6th March 1957.

𝐏𝐎𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐒

Sekondi, Takoradi, Kwesimintsim, Essikado, Apowa, Apremdo, Agona Nkwanta, Busua, Dixcove, Akwidaa, Cape Three Point. Princess Town, Butre, Aboadi and many more.

𝐏𝐎𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐄

Nana Badu Bonso IV, Nana Kobina Nketsiah IV, Obrenpong Hima Dekyi IV, Nana Kwesi Agyemang IX, Kofi Kinaata, Hon. Joe Ghartey, Paapa Owusu Ankomah, Hon. Ebenezer Kojo K*m, Dr. Okumi Andoh, Castro, Justice Baidoo, Samuel Kojo Brace, Mrs. Hannah Esi Badu Cudjoe, Archbishop Bonieventure Kwofie, Mr. George Aboagye, Mr. E. K Dadson and many others.

17/03/2021

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Ananse cannot find a job so he opens a clinic and puts a sign outside which read "GET TREATMENT FOR GHC20 AND GET BACK GHC100 IF YOU DONT GET CURED"

A lawyer sees this and thinks this is a great opportunity to earn GHC100. So he enters the clinic to engage Dr. Ananse.

Lawyer: "I have lost my sense of taste"

Ananse: "Nurse, bring medicine from box no. 22 and put 3 drops in patient's mouth"

Lawyer (after tasting): "Ugh...this is kerosene"

Ananse: "Congrats, your sense of taste is restored. Give me GHC20"

The annoyed lawyer pays up, then goes back after a few days to recover his money.

Lawyer: "I have lost my memory. I cannot remember anything"

Ananse: "Nurse, bring medicine from box no. 22 and put 3 drops in his mouth"

Lawyer (annoyed): "This is kerosene. You gave this to me last time for restoring my taste"

Ananse: "Congrats. You got your memory back. Give me GHC20"

The fuming lawyer pays him, and then comes back a week later determined to get
back GHC100.

Lawyer: "My eyesight has become very weak"

Ananse: "Well, I don't have any medicine for that, so take this GHC100"

Lawyer (staring at the note): "But this is GHC20, not GHC100"

Ananse: "Congrats, your eyesight is restored. Give me GHC20"

What can the lawyer do to beat Ananse at his own game?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

14/03/2021

In december of 2003, Joyce Vincent died of an apparent asthma attack in her north London flat. The television was left on. The mail continued to be delivered. Her rent was set up to be automatically deducted from her bank account. The days rolled by and no one noticed she was gone.

Those days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. There were large trash dumpsters on the side of the building next to her unit, so the neighbors never thought much of the smell emanating from her flat. The floor was full of noisy kids and teenagers and no one questioned the constant thrum of television noise in the background.

Eventually, Joyce’s bank account dried up. Her landlord sent her letters of collection. These letters, like the others, simply fell into the stacks scattered about her floor. They went unanswered. Finally, with more than six months of overdue rent, the landlord got a court order to forcibly remove her from the premises. The bailiffs broke down the door, and it was only then her body was discovered. By then, it was January, 2006, more than two years after she passed away.

In that time, nobody ever came looking for Joyce Vincent. No family. No friends. No co-workers. No neighbor knocked on the door to see if things were all right. Nobody called. Nobody checked in. She was 38-years-old when she died.

This story is jaw-dropping in its social implications. It feels unfathomable that entire years could go by with no one noticing a person has died. Yet, these sorts of stories happen frequently. Chances are you’ve seen a news story similar to the one about Joyce Vincent. And they are all the same.

Person lives alone. They lose touch with family and friends. They never meet their neighbors. They stay shut in with their television or computer for years at a time. The world moves on as if they are no longer there until one day, they are no longer there.

13/03/2021

Total Debt from Dr Kwame Nkrumah to President Mahama
= GH¢122 billion

From 2017 to 2020 under Akufo- Addo
= GH¢291.6 billion

An addition of = GH¢169.6 billion within 4yrs.

13/03/2021

Newly introduced taxes.

A. Covid-19 Health Levy
B. Road Toll increases
C. Gaming Tax
D. Sanitation and pollution Levy(Bola Tax)
F. 1% Increase in NHIL
G. 1% increase in Vat flat rate
H. ESLA increase-Additional burden on motorists and food prices.
I. Financial sector clean up Levy 5%

Discuss

09/12/2020

The battle has ended. It was a peaceful election.

05/12/2020

I am Nana Banyin and I stand for a just election, without justice there is no peace.

What is happening in Volta region doesn't reflect on peace & justice.

05/12/2020

Hatred & loose talk doesn't win elections. Vote for competence against tyranny✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿✌🏿

25/11/2020

Another Legend in world football has fallen💔💔💔
May his soul rest in peace 🙏🏻

19/11/2020

Rawlings was a statesman. Walk for Rawlings in Takoradi

17/11/2020

Amidu rejected all board sitting allowances paid to him as Special Prosecutor

It has been revealed that Mr Martin Amidu whilst he was serving as the Special Prosecutor rejected all allowances that were paid to him for attending board meetings.
He reportedly returned all those board sitting allowances paid to him to chest.

In returning the money, Mr Amidu argued that the time he spent attending the board meetings was same as his working hours so he did not understand why he should be paid allowances.

He reportedly asked his accountant to pay all those monies back to chest.

16/11/2020

Good job.

The Member of Parliament for Ellembelle, Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah has connected seven communities in the northern part of the constituency to the national

16/11/2020

This is the man we have lost if you were born recently. 😥😥

J. J. Rawlings in the 1980s went to a certain hospital and on his rounds to the wards he encountered a situation where a woman needed blood for a family member admitted to the hospital. Rawlings offered himself to donate blood to the hospital so blood can be given to the woman's family member.
😥

12/11/2020

Confirmed: Papa J died of COVID-19

May he rest in peace 😢❤️🙏