My salary is 400 cedis a month. I used to pay four Ghana cedis to and from work every day, but now I pay ten cedis on a normal day, and fifteen cedis on a busy day when troskis decide to ply through short distances. Yes, they will say from Number 5 to Abeka, then […]
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Mpayinbɛ ɛbɛ, “Obonto nfa ne ho mmɔ nkawa” nti na m’asonsɔn me ho saa de abɔ m’abrabɔ bɛ si nnɛ a, m’ahunu sɛ ɛntumi ntintam yi. Me bɔɔ mmɔden buei akasa anoma sikakura ne tua bea a abrɔfo frɛ no spase to spase yi bi wɔ Mmepɔ so. Ababaawa a meretena me ho ase na […]
You ask me why he is like this? My husband has never been like this. He has always been energetic, responsible and so full of life. When I met him, he was a high school teacher making barely two thousand cedis a month. I watched him rise through poverty to our current state, well former […]
Ɔdɔ, hwɛ me sutɔɔr yi mu, ayɛ brɛhwaa te sɛ akumkum akumkum kwan so. Bisa me sɛ adɛn? Onua, efiri Kolona o sɛ Kovil o sɛ deɛn mmerɛ so no, me ne sika da hɔ mpo na m’akonya bi de atotɔ nnuɔma abɛgu me sutɔɔr yi mu. Enti adomfoɔ a na me di dwa wɔ […]
I was doing well as a fried yam, turkey tail, chicken and sausage seller. I had a beautiful table, a big sieve and some benches and tables for customers to sit and enjoy their meals. I was neat and hardworking so my customers loved me very much, until I fell ill during the Covid era. […]
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GU ABA PA
Maame Afua nyinsɛn ɛmmere a na ne kunu Kofi Afransɔ ɛne ne mpena Ama Duku nso awo ɔba barima ama n’atene. Na wɔn nyinaa te Baawie kuro mu. Na Maame Afua aware mfie nson a na ɔba biara mma. Ɔka kyerɛɛ ne kunu sɛ w’afa afuro no, Kofi Afransɔ de abofunu aniwa hwɛɛ no soro […]
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ER (Stories Never to be Told)
I never really meant to hurt anyone, honestly. I was just a simple man, or maybe I should rather say; even though it was very complicated inside my head, I kept it to myself and lived a quiet life with my disability. A disability! A disability was the easiest way I could think of it. […]
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MAN AND THE JUNGLE OF AHODWO
In the beautiful jungle of Ahodwo, Man killed the Dragon King, leaving the jungle to mourn and prepare for a replacement enstoolment. Since the Dragon King was the last of his kind, the king-makers decided to choose the next king from the cat family. They were considering either Lion or Tiger but decided to let […]
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ƆDƆ PA YƐNA
Ewiase ɛyɛ ya o Sɛ wo mrɛ so na wo hia ɔdɔ Na wohyɛbrɛ aanfa n’anhyia wo a Mfa ho sɛ wo bɛ tu akɔ wiem …akɔ kyere ɔsoro abɔfo Woosi fɔm na ɔdani wo Bonsam …yɛ baako Ɔdɔ pa yɛna b Sɛ wo de mmɔdenbɔ tutu fɔm hwehwɛ no …na wo ti pa kɔnya […]
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THE VALENTINE’S DAY BROUHAHA
“You call this a gift? To think I thought you sensitive and thoughtful!” Afiba gathers her strapless mermaid-like red and white gown from the floor to get it away from her red stiletto heels in readiness to leave Ato’s room and probably his life. Ato holds on to her, locks his door, takes out the […]
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THE LAW’S UNFAIR AXE
“Case number 566/7 The state vrs Akosua Twumasi.” The clerk called out. Many people started hurling abuses at her until the clerk shouted “Order in Court!” as the gavel of the judge pounded loudly on his desk. I just looked at the weak and feeble woman in handcuffs who was being pushed into the witness […]
Episode III The Making Of Orgiastic Cyprian is an episodic fiction by Oppong Clifford Benjamin which focuses on educating its readers on the sacredness of sex and how the pleasurable act can be a divine form of prayer between a creature and his creator. The story centres on a mysterious sect of young women between […]
The Making Of Orgiastic Cyprian is an episodic fiction by Oppong Clifford Benjamin which focuses on educating its readers on the sacredness of sex and how the pleasurable act can be a divine form of prayer between a creature and his creator. The story centres on a mysterious sect of young women between the ages […]
The Making Of Orgiastic Cyprian is an episodic fiction by Oppong Clifford Benjamin which focuses on educating its readers on the sacredness of sex and how the pleasurable act can be a divine form of prayer between a creature and his creator. The story centres on a mysterious sect of young women between the ages […]
The porcupine soldiers had a tough time maintaining peace at the parliament house. Before they reached the parliament, many animals had heard from their homes and had rushed there to defend their own. Over two thousand animals died. Most animal families had casualties except tortoise family. They hid in their protective shells when it got […]
Necky looked at King Gyaas, puzzled. He could not understand how he thought and could not say no to his request. It is particularly because I am a father that giving you my young proves to be difficult. How on earth do I gift you my child just to save yours? There is a […]
Before Poku arrived in front of King Gyaas, Catcher told all the first cat family members present “I think we must find a way of not antagonizing them further to flee. Let’s find a way of making them understand that things will change and get them to settle in comfortably. Then we can appoint […]
Porcupine Poku was the chief of the porcupine soldiers. He was a gallant animal with lots of spears to throw. Skilled in armoury, the entire animal kingdom feared him. Coupled with the fact that he commanded great respect among his own people and could move all the porcupines, no animal dared look him twice in […]
King Gyaas commanded his soldiers to fire at Watcher. The soldiers obeyed with passion, scattering Watcher like dried leaf grinded into dust. Ntat shivered and barely managed to cage her cry of disgust and disappointment. We must live in harmony indeed! She thought. We are all together as one indeed! Her thoughts made her weep […]
From today, February 13, 2016, I start a weekly series titled Jubilation of Onomatopoeiaisms. on amoafowaa,com This story will be continued every Saturday until it ends. Please do follow the thrills. You don’t want to miss this Once upon the time, King Eagle was the king of the Jungle Kingdom. The animals became thirsty as […]
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UNSATISFYING GOATS
Kyei Maame, please stop bragging Stop bragging about the great goat you keep tamed I know what it does And I even know what Osofo Maame’s goat does too No matter the fur of goodness it preaches II As soon as it clears your bowl It goes sniffing Licking any bowl it sees No matter […]
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TALES OF FAILED MORTUARY MEN
Atia looked at Babatunde who seem drunk and can’t believe his ears. “So a corpse you kept sat down when the funeral workers touched her, and because of this you think you have seen it all? Baba, you really must be drunk. That you live […]
Askimo sits on the wall dejected, what in God’s name just happened? Did Selina just sleep with him and sack him out of her house? He of all people? God’s gift to women like him? Considering the many women who will die to have him in their beds forever, he thinks back. All the women […]
Kwansema sits in front of her father’s house, thinking about her life. Her brothers are all in school studying for their future while she sits idly waiting for the sun to go down to prepare the evening meal. It is strange how she feels wronged. She wants to be a president one day. She […]
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BORN OF THE STREET
Abena thinks of a way to escape this mess called home. She looks on her right and on her left and sees her friends sleeping soundly. What is it they love about this place that makes them sleep without thoughts? This is the street. Girls die everyday without any one bothering to find out how. […]
I stubbornly hold onto my MP3 as the ear piece blast noise that I find pleasurable, not because of its smoothness, but because of the fact that it drowns the noise that is coming from my parents. I went to visit my friend in skimpy clothes, yes, came late, yes, that does not give them […]
Mma Adjara stands in the middle of the compound wondering what is going to happen. Is she to support Wadudu or Watara in their bid for kingship? She was the first wife of the late king, their father, and loves them both. Fate had dealt her a nasty blow so much so that […]
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HOME TRAVELS 1
As I limp on one leg into the VIP bus, I bump into a colleague who was travelling to Kumasi. Though I was the last passenger, I was given the number one seat and this colleague had the number two seat. As I sat awkwardly beside him, I took my phone and began to browse. […]
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LOVE OF MY LIFE
My father was the very best friend of the chief of our village and so wielded so much power. Our household was one of the most important in the village and many people would die to marry someone from my home. But no one wanted to marry me. They thought I was either too short […]
Sahada breathes, blinks and thinks for a moment about the act her eyes witnessed here in Kasimui seconds ago, did she just see a child banged to the wall, beheaded and brought back to life by the man? And look, another man is cutting himself with a knife but there is no sign of […]
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DECISION OF THE HEART
Back in august 2015, on a very sunny Sunday stood a family that is reuniting after four years of separation. The Apau family was a happy family. The love the mother and father exhibited was inculcated into their only seed, Angel. Her intelligence had earned her a place in the University of Ghana, Legon […]
As young as I was, I knew everything would change when we reached Accra. I knew not what to expect when the vehicle was speeding through the muddy road from the village called Israel, where I stayed for some months with my mother and the man I knew then as my father. So I stayed […]
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