Tribalistic Osafo Maafo Schooled On His Anti-Ashanti Hate Speech

Nii Amu Darko, a historian has slammed former Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo for leading the charge of the notorious “Akyem Mafia” to denigrate the Ashanti tribe in Ghana by saying that they were mere insignificant onlookers when Ghana’s independence was fought for by Akyem chiefs.

Nii Amu Darko, in correcting the deliberate diminishing of the role of Ashantis in their fight against colonialism, offered his own historical revisionism, claiming that Britain has offered Ghana its independence because of pressure from the US and the then USSR which had said colonialism was nothing but a cousin to Nazism pushed by Adolf Hitler’s psychopathic inclinations.

“There was no struggle for independence in Ghana the way these propagandists and revisionists want you to believe. Decolonization became the policy of Great Britain after WWII with lots of pressure from the US and the then USSR. According to the 2 superpowers, Nazism and Colonialism were 2 sides of the same coin. If Nazism had gone, colonialism must go,” he said.

“There was no UGCC or CPP. Nkrumah wasn’t even in the country. UGCC was inaugurated in August 1947, and Nkrumah was brought into the Gold Coast in December 1947,” Nii wrote.

As the history books have borne out, the 1948 shooting of demonstrating Ghanaian war veterans at the Castle crossroads was what catalyzed the process for Britain to give Ghana’s independence to it. Nii acknowledges this but says that before that shooting, Osu Mantse, Nii Kwabena Bonne, had organized a boycott of European goods.

“Nii Kwabena Bonne, Osu Alata Mantse used his own money to organize the boycott of European goods from the end of January 1948 to last for a month ending on 28th February 1948. There was no Akyem chief involvement, there was no Danquah involvement, and obviously, there was no new returnee Nkrumah involvement. Let me add that, the boycott was an economic attack and not a political one on the status quo,” he said in a rather blatant revisionist narrative of the actual history of Independence in Ghana.

Nii adds, “Nkrumah never fought Great Britain. He fought and demolished weak Danquah to become the first elected national leader of Ghana. He didn’t struggle with Great Britain for that. He and Gbedemah struggled with Danquah and Busia. Nkrumah and his team applied for the job from Ghanaians. They were able to prove or convince Ghanaians that they were the right people for the job. Ghanaians voted for him. Ghanaians made Nkrumah and not the other way around. This is the simple story.”

Yaw Osafo Maafo, a man who has recently been in the news for dramatic corruption, recently provoked tribal anger when he said Ghana’s independence had been fought for by Akyems without any contribution from Ashanti chiefs.

The Akyem Mafia has since come under fire with some Ashanti chiefs calling him unprintable names.