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There’s a healthy false equivalence in drawing a parallel between race issues and ethnic issues. The implicit bias dynamic between our various ethnic groups is problematic but it’s not wholly an Akan advantage. https://twitter.com/profkaks/status/1274411502347247616">https://twitter.com/profkaks/...
The history of these biases predate colonial rule and very little work has been done to educate “Ghanaians” that nationality trumps ethnicity. The expectation to speak Twi or understand it has to be evaluated as a consequence of popularity not superiority.
Privilege insinuates that Akans have an unfair advantage in getting ahead in the country bcos of an institutionalized “ethnicism “... There’s no clear statistic that supports this so we should be more cautious of the language we use to describe the biases that plague our society.
Akans may be arrogant and dismissive of other tribes as are other tribes on a lesser scale but they wield no power over any other tribe that forces a disadvantage on that tribe or Ewes in this example.
A good example of a parallel from American society for comparison would be Italian American vs Irish Americans... They have their differences but neither wields power over the other in any real impactful way.
In other words, you’re not being denied a job, denied rent or services simply because of your name/tribe and Akans are getting the opposite. It’s ignorant to expect everyone to speak Twi but only Akans would expect most Ghanaians to speak Twi because they’re the largest ethnicity
Ethnic relations can certainly improve because even amongst Akans there’s tribalism eg. ashantis vs kwahus, fantes being considered the weakest/laziest/abfrofusem etc etc. Let’s not widen the divide with exaggerated accusations of privilege when it’s nonexistent.
We have a ethnic-ignorance problem not an Akan-privilege problem.
