Kofi Thompson Is Not An Anti-Asante Tribal-supremacist - And It Is Too Ridiculous For Words To Say So!

 Why do some highly-intelligent Ghanaians read articles on www.ghanaweb.com,  and then write unjustifiable comments that have no bearing whatsoever,  on  what they have just  read?


A simple patriotic article,  entitled ''Tribal-supremacist Politicians:  Ghana Will Remain United & Always Will!",   condemning tribal-supremacist politicians (from across the spectrum, incidentally),  seeking to divide ordinary Ghanaians - of Dagomba; Ga Dangbe, Asante; Guan; Ewe; Fanti; Akyem; etc, etc;  descent,   was  suddenly transformed,  in the minds of  apparently well-educated individuals,  into  an anti-New Patriotic Party (NPP)  and anti-Asante diatribe. How extraordinary - and how very absurd.


It is an egregious example, dear reader,  of the  cognitive equivalent,   of the globe's elite master-contortionists' limb-twisting  wizardry  -   and  just so typical of the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-

wrong" myrmidon-types,   whose blinkered support for political parties and politicians, is slowly destroying Ghanaian democracy.


I,   Kofi Thompson, an anti-Asante tribalist? Amazing.  I, who is on record for listing Otumfuo Opoku Ware 11,  at the very top of a  list of my all-time favourite senior statesmen amongst Ghana's traditional rulers, anti-Asante? Wonders.


I,   who was born, bred and educated in Kumasi;  and whose favourite cousins are Asantes (blood-relations incidentally, not cousins by marriage -  let it be known); and who is also on record for    stating that ordinary Asantes (like ordinary Ghanaians of other ethnic descent, incidentally) are amongst the most welcoming of peoples anywhere on the surface of the planet Earth,  an anti-Asante tribalist? What utter rubbish.


I am not anti any ethnic group  in Ghana. I do not live in the Dark Ages mentally - unlike those who dislike their fellow human beings,  merely because an accident of birth made them members of a particular ethnic grouping.


Surely,  supposedly educated people should not jump to such off-point conclusions, simply because they feel a need  to condemn those who  make factual statements  that might be unpalatable to their jaundiced minds?


Yes, I might loathe the NPP's "real owners" for their perfidy, but I am neither anti-NPP nor anti-Asante. Nothing could be further from the truth.


I am a simple Ghanaian nationalist and patriot who believes passionately in Ghanaian democracy -  and who also happens to be a broad-minded individual  with a cosmopolitan outlook.


The fact of the matter,  is that I grew up in surroundings - as a precocious teenager  - in which I often overhead dinner-table conversations and telephone conversations,  involving some of the  major historical figures of the immediate post-Nkrumah era.


So,  unlike many of the geniuses alleging    on www.ghanaweb.com,    that I am anti-Asante, actually, I do know for a fact  that in times  past,  some Ghanaian politicians dreamt  of perpetually dominating  Ghanaian society.


It is also a fact  that that   dream, which  was  shared by some of those historical  figures of our immediate post-Nkrumah era, is  the selfsame dream that is firmly ensconced in the sub-conscious,  of some important and influential people in Ghanaian society today.


Incidentally, and for the record, let me state emphatically that  it is not a dream shared by the vast majority of ordinary people in the Ghana of today  - whatever their ethnic background -  who readily reject its arrogant and preposterous  assumptions.


It is little wonder too, that  the ordinary people of the Gold Coast also  rejected it -  thrice in the general  elections of 1951, 1954 and 1956.


With respect, I totally reject the pure-nonsense-on-bamboo-stilts notion that somehow I am an anti-Asante   tribal-supremacist, which is  being bandied about online,  in  parts of the comments section of the features web-page of  www.ghanaweb.com -   by  hypocritical individuals who, if truth be told,  secretly want the enterprise Ghana to unravel.


To all those cowards -  who seek shelter in the anonymity of   monikers,  and hide behind their computer screens to say things online at www.ghanaweb.com, which  they would never dare say to one's face -  let me simply say:  "Munti asie se, embaso ene, anaase okyina." Period.


Kofi Thompson is not, has never been, and will never be   an anti-Asante (or anti any other tribe in Ghana,  for that matter) tribal-supremacist - and it is too ridiculous for words for any educated mind to say so.


Having now had my say, dear reader, I shall rest my case  - and will end with this parting shot aimed squarely at those cowardly online sods:  Get your quadruple-plated armoured-tanks-of-prejudice off my lawn,  asap.  A word to the wise...


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