Here is the full video of my chat with Historian Lawyer Frimpong Anokye on the founders of Ghana. Enjoy the full video #Ghana #GhanaEmpire #KwameNkrumah
This man will know my father, Kwesi Afoakwah, whom Nkrumah sent to liberate the rest of Africa from colonialism. I was born within that era, on the laps of Julius Nyerere at Agakhan Hospital, Dar-es-salaam. I crawled on the feet of all the new presidents of Africa in our residence in Nairobi, including those, then on the run - Oliver Tambo, Mandela, Mogabi etc I was named after all of them. My father was dubbed, “the son of Africa” among the tributes read by the dignitaries present at his funeral in 1991. I’d like to share what he wrote on Ghana and African history
This is simply AWESOME. LONG LIVE LAWYER FRIMPONG. You are a treasure for our beloved Ghana. This is the type of history that needs to be taught across Africa.
Most grateful to the learned Lawyer Anokye Frimpong. I have really enjoyed the narrative and humbly wants to add some few facts. * Much of the information we know of the Western Sudanese empires, especially Ghana, comes from travellers and traders from the Ahmoravid empire. The Ahmoravids were Tuaregs and Berbers who converted to Islam and subsequently formed the Ahmoravid empire. The Ahmoravid empire had a common border with Ghana and continued to the Western Sahara, Morocco and later Spain ( Iberian peninsula, which they called Andalus). Infact, the Akan word for money, Sika, was the Ahmoravid word for minted gold. According to the Ahmoravid travellers, the official title of the King of Ghana was GANA. I believe it was NANA that they heard as as GANA, since most languages around the world, minus Akan, stress on the first syllable of a word with the stress being on the second syllable in Akan.Today, NANA, NAA, NENE are still the titles of all traditional leaders, priests and elders throughout the country. * The empire resisted converting to Islam until Mali did and eventually defeated the Ghana empire, thus setting the stage for mass migration southwards into the forest belt.
General Kafui. I am much grateful for this interview. As for Lawyer Anokye Frimpong. I pray that Almighty Allaah grant you the best of guidance and preserve you ... I wish our arrogant politicians will humble themselves before you for a patriotic wisdom.
My question is why didn't black people from the very beginning of invasion recognize the effects of colonization and allowed it. Is it because the europeans were more united as a group than we were. Great video. To move forward as a people we need to know more about ourselves. For too long we've been taught about other people's history.
One of many important facts from this interview, which I absolutely love, is the delineation between where/what was referred to as Gold Coast and where/what became known as Ghana. I would encourage people to read the clergyman Reindorf's piece on the history of the Gold Coast and the Ashanti kingdom.
37:00 George Ekem Ferguson was a National hero. He deserves an honour. NPP only care about honouring party men not national heroes. Point of correction: the university in Wa was named after Dombo - Simon Diedong Dombo University for Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), Wa, Upper West Region. It is rather the university in Navrongo which was named after Tadem - CK Tadem University for Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS), Navrongo, Upper East Region.
Hello Kafui I am so taken in by this educative history by Lawyer Frimpong Anokye and I would like to make contact with him. I feel there is more to learn and do on that aspect of founders and role models. Thanks.
Quite a shame the country Ghana rather honors the people who didn't do much to fight for the independence. There many edifices, monuments and streets notable sons(& daughters)mentioned in this interview should be named after, just like in many other countries. Can there be an interview on the language & lifestyle Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah used to convince his fellow Gold Coasters?
Yes, this man is a true historian. I only disagree with him on the Nortse concept. The meaning of Nortse is meant the eight days he mentioned in Akan language. The leader of Ewes then was called adela Noe. He left his people in the forest in groups and it leader to go and look for water,or where there there will be river for good farming land for the ewes. When adala Noe was not coming back for long period of moths, his people decide look for him. He was found in a bank of river exhausted. He told the delegate that ,this land is fertile so we shall remain here.ln ewe,Tsi, means remain So Adela Noe said me tsi. So later be known as Nortsi.meaning adela Noe be y tsi afisia.
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@@numofrancis5176Soninke are from the Ghana empire ! Has nothing to do with this Ghana. They are in Gambia, Senegal, Mali currently. My friend is a Soninke. The Akans of Ghana currently have stole their history as theirs.
The people of present Ghana are not likely originated from Ancient Ghana. I have traveled and lived in that part of West Africa. The closest Soninke language of Old Ghana is Sarahoule today. Most tribes in that part of the world practiced martrilineal before Islam became the main religion. Gold is still mined in Upper Guinea and Mali. By the year 1240, Bono Manso already existed in the current Ghana. This is just an academic exercise. There is no more space for me to debunk this idea. Yes, Ghana was the first to come out of colonialism in West Africa. Ghana was the first Western Sudan to be founded, hence our founding fathers, chose. "Ghana" as a name.
That statement is untrue that 300 years of slavery no moses It was the whole world that was in that type of trade.. slavery still exist among human. The rich or the powerful get saved everyday..
The Europeans also faught wars with the local community and rulers taking over their trade and government and taking captors in the war into Slavery, this was the case or narrative more in the case of resistant Nigerian west African tribes such as Igbo, Ibibios and Efiks especially in igboland which supplied 60 percent of West Africa slaves to Caribbean and North America
Who founded Ghana is a very easy answer that will shock the entire world. The original name Wagadou meaning Soedan. Therefore it's the original Sudan Egypt but where did the people come from? They used Gongs for war signals. Where were Gongs "Drums" originate? They originated in Java🧐. Ghana means Gong therefore they were the Australs who settled there.👍
Where is the source of Lawyer Anokye Frimpong 's info regarding all that he said on Ghana history? I think it's about time the continent write the African history with complete fact check, on the begining of the nations, colonization, slave trade, etc. in order to preventing people telling various story, not being fact checked.
No , He is good but he started the story from half-way because the Ewes and the Guans came in far behind time of Ghana.. in fact he's confusing the who time line...the name Ghana didn't just start from the Ghana Empire but the name was there already by the Akans (earlier people ) who came in from the Kushites...... ( Kusi- people ) who with King Menes from Queen Mekeda Sheba came to build earliest Khemet.. therefore the name Ghana has been in assistance far beyond the then Ghana Empire...
Gas, Fantes and Nzemas should be the rulers of modern Ghana. They are very wisest tribes who really have blacks at heart wholeheartedly and out of love came together to protect and fight for the Blacks in entirety. However, Ghana has not paid them well, with honor and gratitude. They have not been treated well and fairly at all especially by their own people and other tribal groups after forming Ghana as a nation. This is because of the evil tribal bigots of Danquah-Dombo Busia people who were not educated, lacked wisdom and understanding and full of lies and evil mindset. But I know for sure that Gas, Fantes and Nzemas will rise again. God richly bless them and their generations.
Next time, kindly hand over your computer or phone to you Child to assist you in writing your thoughts out. He or she will prompt you not to put it out here if it's senseless. You should be ashamed of your self
This is just sheer nonsense! Invented history. The people of Ghana today have no relation with the Ghana empire. Kwame Nkrumah just named the Ghana today it because he simply liked the name. There is absolutely no relation. Zero! This is just nonsense.
@@patrickmayisi2678 go and read for yourself. Listening is all u do. Read. He has some good history, but parts of what he saids sometimes are just way off. These are his views not history. Ghana doesn’t have a documented history. It’s all oral. Yesi yesi. About this. He is completely wrong. Ghana today has relation with the Ghana empire of Mali. Do a simple google search. Or even ask ChatGPT since u lazy to read.
It's just funny how wild invented lies have come. The ratio between what seems true and the obvious lie, par greatly on a grand scale. Jeez!!! The story about the old Ghana empire😂 How about looking at the side of the story as told by the people group on whose land the old Ghana empire once existed and I bet you would be appalled by the sheer dichotomy🤮 This in turn invalidates those spewing these information🥱
This man will know my father, Kwesi Afoakwah, whom Nkrumah sent to liberate the rest of Africa from colonialism. I was born within that era, on the laps of Julius Nyerere at Agakhan Hospital, Dar-es-salaam. I crawled on the feet of all the new presidents of Africa in our residence in Nairobi, including those, then on the run - Oliver Tambo, Mandela, Mogabi etc I was named after all of them. My father was dubbed, “the son of Africa” among the tributes read by the dignitaries present at his funeral in 1991.
I’d like to share what he wrote on Ghana and African history
Lawyer Anokye Frimpong is a knowledgeable colossus of our history and largely very objective.
God bless him and thank you Kafui for sharing this.
God bless you mr lawyer and kafui as He is blessing me here for such a wonderful education. Im speechless infact
The great Ewe man wrote most of the ewe and akan songs,unity is the way to prosper in ghana
Will save this for the future. History doesn't lie. Thank you Kafui for this great guest
I just love this man. I can listen to him forever
This is simply AWESOME. LONG LIVE LAWYER FRIMPONG. You are a treasure for our beloved Ghana. This is the type of history that needs to be taught across Africa.
I love this man Papaa long life
This man is a very good historian . Long line Mr. Frimpong
Most grateful to the learned Lawyer Anokye Frimpong. I have really enjoyed the narrative and humbly wants to add some few facts.
* Much of the information we know of the Western Sudanese empires, especially Ghana, comes from travellers and traders from the Ahmoravid empire. The Ahmoravids were Tuaregs and Berbers who converted to Islam and subsequently formed the Ahmoravid empire. The Ahmoravid empire had a common border with Ghana and continued to the Western Sahara, Morocco and later Spain ( Iberian peninsula, which they called Andalus).
Infact, the Akan word for money, Sika, was the Ahmoravid word for minted gold.
According to the Ahmoravid travellers, the official title of the King of Ghana was GANA. I believe it was NANA that they heard as as GANA, since most languages around the world, minus Akan, stress on the first syllable of a word with the stress being on the second syllable in Akan.Today, NANA, NAA, NENE are still the titles of all traditional leaders, priests and elders throughout the country.
* The empire resisted converting to Islam until Mali did and eventually defeated the Ghana empire, thus setting the stage for mass migration southwards into the forest belt.
Bruh😅
General Kafui. I am much grateful for this interview. As for Lawyer Anokye Frimpong. I pray that Almighty Allaah grant you the best of guidance and preserve you ... I wish our arrogant politicians will humble themselves before you for a patriotic wisdom.
I'm very impressed about the history of " who founded Ghana "
Thanks a lot
My question is why didn't black people from the very beginning of invasion recognize the effects of colonization and allowed it. Is it because the europeans were more united as a group than we were. Great video. To move forward as a people we need to know more about ourselves. For too long we've been taught about other people's history.
Black people always think backwards, never think of how the future will be and work towards it.
Our story is more deeper than what we are been told in this discourse.
It's like saying why didn't he know his wife would divorce him before they got married. It's much more complicated than that.
Tgey trick the locals sake of trade and took advantage
The coastal areas were threatened by the Ashantis. That made the process very easy. Is better than what the French speaking African countries got.
Very very educated real history
One of many important facts from this interview, which I absolutely love, is the delineation between where/what was referred to as Gold Coast and where/what became known as Ghana. I would encourage people to read the clergyman Reindorf's piece on the history of the Gold Coast and the Ashanti kingdom.
Very informative!! We need to learn our history. Thanks for this video!!
my pleasure
37:00 George Ekem Ferguson was a National hero. He deserves an honour.
NPP only care about honouring party men not national heroes.
Point of correction: the university in Wa was named after Dombo - Simon Diedong Dombo University for Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), Wa, Upper West Region.
It is rather the university in Navrongo which was named after Tadem - CK Tadem University for Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS), Navrongo, Upper East Region.
These videos are well appreciated
Thank you very much for such a fascinating history of Ghana, I hope he could summarize it in a book for future generations.
Brilliant
Educative and well done 👏🏽
Insightful
Ghana means warrior king, we’re the rulers of the ancient Ghana empire the Ceesay’s.
This is very insightful I have learned a lot, thank you !
Yoo mate Nana! Great work 🇬🇭
This man is so knowledgeable. I’m beginning to understand my history.
Am overwhelmed. Kafui good job. I’ve learnt a lot
We’re Soninkes we found the herb-an centre first the agricultural communities in the fourth fifth century before we found the Ghana empire.
Well done sir for such a wonderful Revelation.Powerful.
This man is a real man of God.
Hello Kafui I am so taken in by this educative history by Lawyer Frimpong Anokye and I would like to make contact with him. I feel there is more to learn and do on that aspect of founders and role models. Thanks.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This was very informative! Thank you for sharing.
Quite a shame the country Ghana rather honors the people who didn't do much to fight for the independence. There many edifices, monuments and streets notable sons(& daughters)mentioned in this interview should be named after, just like in many other countries.
Can there be an interview on the language & lifestyle Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah used to convince his fellow Gold Coasters?
Point of correction, George Ekyem/Ekem Ferguson is from Anomabo and not Saltpond. In related to him so 8 know and understand this part of the history
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Yes, this man is a true historian. I only disagree with him on the Nortse concept. The meaning of Nortse is meant the eight days he mentioned in Akan language. The leader of Ewes then was called adela Noe. He left his people in the forest in groups and it leader to go and look for water,or where there there will be river for good farming land for the ewes. When adala Noe was not coming back for long period of moths, his people decide look for him. He was found in a bank of river exhausted. He told the delegate that ,this land is fertile so we shall remain here.ln ewe,Tsi, means remain So Adela Noe said me tsi. So later be known as Nortsi.meaning adela Noe be y tsi afisia.
Now it's Soninke being called the "bigger tribe"(just to list one)
A whole lot doesn't seem to add up here😂
The misinformation is wild af😢
kafui, , no pun inteded I thought we learned this at Motown
Tell churches to close because we learned religion in school.
Question: is this history thought in schools in Ghana and in facts in the continent as a whole(Africa). Just asking. Thanks
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I am a soninke, in my language Ghana, means worior
Where are you from?
@@numofrancis5176 Senegal 🇸🇳
@@numofrancis5176Soninke are from the Ghana empire ! Has nothing to do with this Ghana. They are in Gambia, Senegal, Mali currently. My friend is a Soninke. The Akans of Ghana currently have stole their history as theirs.
The people of present Ghana are not likely originated from Ancient Ghana. I have traveled and lived in that part of West Africa. The closest Soninke language of Old Ghana is Sarahoule today. Most tribes in that part of the world practiced martrilineal before Islam became the main religion. Gold is still mined in Upper Guinea and Mali. By the year 1240, Bono Manso already existed in the current Ghana. This is just an academic exercise. There is no more space for me to debunk this idea. Yes, Ghana was the first to come out of colonialism in West Africa. Ghana was the first Western Sudan to be founded, hence our founding fathers, chose. "Ghana" as a name.
You’re all Soninkes
There is only one founder of Ghana, he name is Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, period.
That statement is untrue that 300 years of slavery no moses
It was the whole world that was in that type of trade.. slavery still exist among human. The rich or the powerful get saved everyday..
Ghana is Ghana
Ghana belongs to people of Gold Cost
I sense deliberate distortion here
The Europeans also faught wars with the local community and rulers taking over their trade and government and taking captors in the war into Slavery, this was the case or narrative more in the case of resistant Nigerian west African tribes such as Igbo, Ibibios and Efiks especially in igboland which supplied 60 percent of West Africa slaves to Caribbean and North America
Who founded Ghana is a very easy answer that will shock the entire world.
The original name Wagadou meaning Soedan.
Therefore it's the original Sudan Egypt but where did the people come from?
They used Gongs for war signals.
Where were Gongs "Drums" originate?
They originated in Java🧐.
Ghana means Gong therefore they were the Australs who settled there.👍
No Ghana means "Indestructible shield " and Ethiopian Kushite tongue
Nkrumah founded Ghana. You are discussing tribes in Ghana. There is a standard definition or description of who a founder of a country is.
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But Kafui, we the living are destroying the land and selling them on alarming rate. There will be no land for the unborn.
It's a shame!
Where is the source of Lawyer Anokye Frimpong 's info regarding all that he said on Ghana history? I think it's about time the continent write the African history with complete fact check, on the begining of the nations, colonization, slave trade, etc. in order to preventing people telling various story, not being fact checked.
He hasn't got any back up facts...it's a self make up time line
No , He is good but he started the story from half-way because the Ewes and the Guans came in far behind time of Ghana.. in fact he's confusing the who time line...the name Ghana didn't just start from the Ghana Empire but the name was there already by the Akans (earlier people ) who came in from the Kushites......
( Kusi- people ) who with King Menes from Queen Mekeda Sheba came to build earliest Khemet.. therefore the name Ghana has been in assistance far beyond the then Ghana Empire...
Bullshit 😂
Gas, Fantes and Nzemas should be the rulers of modern Ghana. They are very wisest tribes who really have blacks at heart wholeheartedly and out of love came together to protect and fight for the Blacks in entirety. However, Ghana has not paid them well, with honor and gratitude. They have not been treated well and fairly at all especially by their own people and other tribal groups after forming Ghana as a nation. This is because of the evil tribal bigots of Danquah-Dombo Busia people who were not educated, lacked wisdom and understanding and full of lies and evil mindset. But I know for sure that Gas, Fantes and Nzemas will rise again. God richly bless them and their generations.
Ghana doesn't need that kind of division u are creating.....
Just look at what you have written
Next time, kindly hand over your computer or phone to you Child to assist you in writing your thoughts out. He or she will prompt you not to put it out here if it's senseless. You should be ashamed of your self
This is just sheer nonsense! Invented history. The people of Ghana today have no relation with the Ghana empire.
Kwame Nkrumah just named the Ghana today it because he simply liked the name. There is absolutely no relation. Zero! This is just nonsense.
What do you know "Mr.all wise "
Oh!😮
@@patrickmayisi2678 go and read for yourself. Listening is all u do. Read.
He has some good history, but parts of what he saids sometimes are just way off. These are his views not history.
Ghana doesn’t have a documented history. It’s all oral. Yesi yesi.
About this. He is completely wrong. Ghana today has relation with the Ghana empire of Mali.
Do a simple google search. Or even ask ChatGPT since u lazy to read.
This is why you won't know anything. These akans were gold chasers. They were the same Gana people from Senegal areas where the empire was.
It's just funny how wild invented lies have come. The ratio between what seems true and the obvious lie, par greatly on a grand scale.
Jeez!!! The story about the old Ghana empire😂 How about looking at the side of the story as told by the people group on whose land the old Ghana empire once existed and I bet you would be appalled by the sheer dichotomy🤮 This in turn invalidates those spewing these information🥱