Saraswati Arthur is a teacher, student, lover of creative arts and a social entrepreneur. She is a teaching fellow at Teach for Ghana and an MPHIL student at University of Cape Coast. She is a Ghanaian whose interest in building change through literacy made her to establish a non profit organization called The Reading Factory, […]
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Abena Korwaa Agyekum, a Ghanaian, is a 5th year medical student at Tambov State University in Russia. She is passionate about all things that concern women and the girl child. She advocates for them using social media. She is looking forward to starting a charity organization for needy girls with a friend this year. She […]
Samiha is known for her positive spirit of volunteerism. She started volunteering at age 10. At age 14, she became an active member of Curious Minds Ghana, using radio as a potent tool for positive social and behavior change campaigns in rural communities. Today, at 23, while her peers are worried about jobs and getting […]
Abigail Owusuwaa Gyamfi is a Ghanaian entrepreneur & humanitarian committed to education, research, and mentorship. She is the founder and business development lead for OGA Golden Solutions, a social enterprise that provides sustainable livelihood for women and youth by empowering them to make customized and potective apparels and other safety gears. She holds a Bachelor’s […]
Emmanuella Ikomon is a Nigerian who is a final year student of National Open University of Nigeria where she is studying B.Sc Criminology and Security Studies. She is also an awardee of young world leaders for humanity 2018 and A Global Goodwill Ambassador, 2018 as a result of her humanitarian works. She is currently a […]
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Female Role Models: Yaa Yeboah Adu
Yaa Yeboaa Adu has a 3years experience in public health. She is currently the public health coordinator at Cheerful Hearts foundation,where she leads and coordinates research, with the implementation of health intervention programs in rural communities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science. She is passionate about sexual and reproductive health and committed to […]
Yakubu Fatimata is professional Nurse at the Savelugu Municipal Hospital in the Northern part of Ghana. She is hardworking, self motivated and a passionate leader who strives to empower young women and also to resolve health related problems in rural communities. She is a young lady who aims to eradicate maternal and child mortality in […]
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THIS IS ACCRA (Crazy Stanzas)
I love Accra Which exist like heaven to a village dreamer But in reality, is a cane soaked in kerosene And smeared with pepper On the skin of a greener pasture traveler II I love the name of Accra Whose birthed names can fill the Korle Lagoon And litter its centre While its pregnant ones […]
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IN THE END
All are folding Folding into touches of feelings Eyes will see but won’t know Ears will hear but can’t translate Minds will sit, only calling on feelings To search To seek and tell In the end II A crow may turn vulture in spirit An eagle may look the part of a hen A bark […]
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GULPING SQUEEZEOHOLICS
Meet me there There At the blue kiosk right by the street of Nyansakrom For sips of sympathies which sink unfairness in oceans of insanities II Meet me there There To fathom with the power of kabi kyerɛ w’ase Why thoughts of society seem more complex than man Man who is their sole author III […]
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PUT ME TOGETHER
Your talented fingers Can make wholesome my figure From arms to thighs Neck to knees Vein to vein Help, help put me together II All the feelings of yesteryears Bottled and dusty All the failings of months past Suffocating and harming All the brighter routes Missed in blindness All the calling stars in the clouds […]
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HE IS ANAS
Hidden eyes in open space Ghostful body in hardened bones Crafts to mirror Hunts like a warrior In this forest where lions chew it all Including their protectings He is Anas! II When his plants are in ready harvest Constipated bowels are pushed by pills of fear into running Thick skins give way to shivering […]
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LISTEN TO THE VOICES FROM AFAR
Walking back into the deserted forest of the past I see sands of regrets Watered by sweats of ghostly marathons in vain cheer With tears acting as pickaxes Digging gullies on once promising lands Gullies draining dreams conceived from enthusiastic sacrifices How I wish mouths stayed behind on journeys of death! II Look at fingers […]
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WHEN THE LAW CHASES
The boldness of darkness in deceptive acquisition Is a mystic and hypocritical existence Which abhors the steps of light Even in far distances It’s a little wonder legs turn three Moving without support for the third Chests grow mounds Hoping with no straps for decorum When the law chases II Wigs are rigs in these […]
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HIDDEN SCARS (Crazy Stanzas)
As existence of breezes Is seen in the dance of a tree I wish you dance in my hair or body For all to see You hidden monsters in my arteries! You surely make me a walking corpse In a walking stalk Not that you care II Haven’t I looked for plasters to you seal? […]
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THROUGH THIS WINDOW
Pain is looking at a difference, in molestation, afar Devastation is seeing your reflection in the bins of others Sadness is seeing minds trapped by slavery And tracing their roots to yours Bitterness is knowing it all with a helplessness That imprisons your confidence Brewing unshed tears in the sky of your heart II When […]
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ELECTRIFYING TOUCHES
If structures could turn see-throughs In these cold powered days Many would find what stands true In this raining May II Would be fun to watch As lightening hugs get sticky With eyes magnetizing eyes Lips calling in other lips Veins in arms sending hands on exploratory hunt For pleasures abominable In leisures of weathers […]
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DAY WAKES
Now the day is awake The sky is serving light All that hands will take Will base on a heart so bright II I hope that for life’s sake We work with all our might Like bread in an oven bake Our ends will shine so bright III We have to burdens shake And face […]
After three years of entertaining, thrilling and educating patrons in Accra, Ghana’s biggest most spectacular theatre production, Wogbɛ Jɛkɛ: Our Journey, comes to Tamale. With an amazing team of 100 cast and crew, this is a once in a lifetime experience you and your family and friends shouldn’t miss. Come and witness the history of […]
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AYEKOOO (Honouring Workers)
In the heat and cold To the tired and bold Who worked and sold And love to hold All seams of works to mould Our precious mother earth to fold Closure, just in aim for gold When cock’s call at dawn I give you a standing ovation to say “ayekooo!” II From holders to tenders […]
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THE WEED THEN KILLER
It slowly rose like smoke Making eyes teary and red Baking minds like loaves for their feed Then became the weed of love Making many kowtow with their all Presenting their successes and their falls It has now graduated to opium and cocaine combined Building addicts out of thinkers II High on this drug-like serve […]
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DRESS NOT THE EARTH IN YOUR MESS
Imagine your feet on no solid ground Your ears, no tree in sound Imagine your shelter in a hanging And life without farming Now follow the reasoning II Dress not the earth in your mess Even if you are a pig thinking it a sty For you live in the borrowed And should leave it […]
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UNDER THESE SHEETS
Just as socks are made for feet Hats are made for heads This night, my apparel is beadly My walk, a gracious call in passion’s voice For our touches will be sparkly Under these sheets II Clear your eyes For every step will be a language Every shake pointing to treasures hidden beneath pores Clear […]
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SHEs IN TROUSERS
Culture is like a cloth Washed for its stains only to develop other taints Time has travelled to see it merged like “nsaasaawa” Making living confusing in acceptables Making flaws contorting in reprimands Time has washed the myths of trousers Now shes freely live therein II Days which picked females like banku And dipped them […]
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WHEN THE OKRO ACTS CUCUMBER
A pen never acts manly on an oily sheet And true, both okro and cucumber may share a knife But should never see themselves as equals For the slime in the former makes it a cook and eat And the plainness of the latter makes it an instant chop Well, an “anyhow you want it” […]
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DEAR GOSSIP OF MY LIFE
I write this letter in mock reverence of your time You whose mountains of problems hang thorns and stumps On the trees of your dreams Making the closure of your eyes nightmarish And the mattress of your bed hellish Yet find time to look keenly at my strides With eagle eyes when your hawk eyes […]
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FOR AUTISM AWARENESS
Blessed are the pure in spirit They are like the cleanest water in a tormenting desert They surely will be there for all Discriminate against none And hate not on any It is a day to wire bells of empathy for a lifetime II He who said broken seeds feed not Has never known hunger […]
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THE TURNING CROSS
Days have travelled to a weary feet And now pulls its shocking seat Of time with all its surprises Of change so strange in range II The cross’ significance sit in revered history Of the old and few committed But serve as archaic artifact for many Whose pleasures outweigh biblical interest III Drunkenness in coital […]
There are many fruits which fail to mature On their mother trees Mama, I don’t want to be one of such fruit I need to be sheltered when storms break Need to be covered when the rains come in Need to be pampered when good air visits And to feel the matured company When the […]
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JERKS OF HEARTBREAK
There are clawed fingers Which scratches the core of the heart of loving souls Plucking out happiness and planting sadness Leaving the future bleak and eyes red II They come in their horrid varieties Slow or aggressive And take over the senses in helpless lenses Take over muscles in fearful pulls Take over shame with […]
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EBONY GOES HOME
Daring was her nature Beautiful was her stature Much talent was hosted in her bubbly frame The head of youth popping out of her character at every juncture Defying norms and soothing ears Representing her in the past tense makes me tense Yet a greater hand has beckoned Who is this mouth to ask why? […]
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THIS FACE WE BOOK
This Face we book Has many pages to flip Beautiful pictures to look Opened relationships to zip Different recipes to cook Vulnerable seams of souls to rip Many addictions to hook Many tears to in sympathy drip II In its town, many a secret sit naked Many a bomb lie unclothed Many a lonely heart […]
I came to you straight from life’s hellish oven With a soul brutalised and so very grief shaken I came to you like a tired lamb With my neck in offering On feet so rebellious because of needs and pain’s whips You held me, soothed me, and magically mended my callouses Like a gentle ice […]
There is a reason beauty was given to most flowers Along with their fragile nature and protective thorns There is a reason they are nectared to feed many beaks and winged livers Amidst the storms, rains and suns And through their bruises, beheading and rots I wish the creator spells it out II There sure […]
There has been a crawling baton Since Nkrumah’s power run In leading change Still, we live through the smiles of moderation In the ills of corrupt adorations Gunning for greed in place of fertile seeds Hating on whistleblowers in place of their hailing Accepting crumbs for much sums Never calculating the future’s profits in kind […]
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The Peppering Reality
They claim if a woman buys a gun, it is kept in the room of a man. Nonsensical nonsense! I feel the men who lived in those times and still exist in the now need refurbishment of brains in order to see where their “waatonkyene” vehicle is now parked to gift them a clear vision […]
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Happy New Year People
Happy New Year to all followers of amoafowaa.com. thank you for being here, thank you for your encouragement and all that you do. May this year see us better, bigger, with apt entertainment, great moral lessons, and sizzling interviews. Blessings unending.
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ROYAL SALY
The ocean blankets your very warmth The trees serves the gentle air on plates of satisfaction The flowers wave in beautification Giving smiles like that of a gentle sun Even the thatch whistles your modesty in luxurious melodies In a realm where breathing in and out is a Messiah’s gift Who dares to breastfeed sadness […]
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FOR LOVE AND COUNTRY
No grass-cutter will ever use Its own hands to light a fire In a grass hole which houses its muse Or its own loving empire So why abuse your living space? II We are all sailing to leave to here gift Like leaves on a running river To those who we sift Into this world […]
None knows how seeds form None knows how they’ll turn up Only Onyankopong Otwereduampong knows So let your tongue be with no meanness Let your eyes marry your mind in learning That disability is a different form of ability II Every womb loves its proceeds None is special than the other It transcends boundaries Class […]
I know you are a perfect piece Parts carefully fitted into a whole Just as the sun completes daylight, You, in this time complete me Love is a vehicle, ridden through the test of time With prompts and bumps and tips and dips Bringing me to my favourite parts of you II Your hands which […]
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MAYWEATHER
I see the money weather Even after the taunting shower That led to the punching rains Which bloated your opponent’s treasured eye land I must confess you tower More like the Everest of fists In this generation II Left fist like a power volcano Right fist like a bomb slap Speed in punches like a […]
UGCC born August 4, 1947 – died February 8, 1951 – the day that music died. The so-called Danquah-Busia-Dombo (NLM/UP/PP/NPP) – DBD Tradition and its spokespeople like Paul Adom Otchere fail to take into account the mass factor in the nationalist movement in the history of Modern Ghana. The adherents of this DBD Tradition tend […]
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LIFE IN ISEYIN WITH ROYALTY
Arriving at Iseyin in Oyo State for the Ebedi International Writers Residency was pure bliss. The house was located in a very convenient place. It had a quiet ambience with trees blooming with abundant fruits. Although power supply was nothing that could be compared to my home country, the administration provided a good standby generator […]
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IN HONOUR OF MAJOR MAHAMA
We cry your liquidated soul Which has been forcefully fried From your solidly mobile form We hail your gallant nurture Which prevented your strong nature To harm a hair of your enemies, oh you with good stature! We pray for your hovering soul Which stands on the invisible soles Of all that you hold dear […]
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PITY OUR LAND
Pity our land A land arrested and tamed Into a free wild horse on its very habitat Sat on and dragged with so many heavy things Fed crumbs from our own pots Oh cry! Cry for our land! II Pity our land A land with so much yet thinks so little And was confined by […]
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IN HIS MAJESTY’S QUARTERS
In His Majesty’s quarters Women are flowers to be gathered Into an unharmonious bouquet From colours black to white II In His Majesty’s quarters A step calls for stooges in circled clichés Ones who see God when his shadow Draws in closer drawings III In His Majesty’s quarters The devil’s shed stands for evil check […]
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A FLYING BIRD
A flying bird in troubled nest Can never have a needed rest A flying bird in a troubled nest Clearly may have no request II I flew from heaven to here Thinking I could find beauty in the road to steer But found a rope around my leg as the ground did cheer […]
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MY MAMA MY LOVE
Maame Mama Maa Ima The first pillar of contact The first room with the warmest of bedding The first breath shared like a sweet meal The first wall in a kick Maame Mama Maa Ima One who accepts madness for what she terms the blessing of motherhood And feels the pangs of her child’s suffering […]
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