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Oh how I yearn for this; Maame Asabea’s “koobi nkwan” Her skills for this mix, Makes me shamelessly wish I had told her “san” When she decided to with the westerners mix. Left to me alone, Let all the fowls and potential meat makers live and the earth fix, Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia, 2013.

I will pry As to why I cannot fly As I learn to swim with a swift try. I cry Trying my best to get in the head you created by being sly But you leave me dry.  What kind of father gets So angry as to neglect the many bets Placed on His precious kiddy pets To make them fools in sets? Your […]

Let the rivers pave way for death Let the shrubs and the dancing trees Make melody for his exit Let the talking drum play itself to put him to stupor  Let the vultures prepare to accompany him Living for death, is pain for the living   ‘Amanehunu b3sene nnipa’ ‘Amanehunu b3sene Attah’ The corpses are […]

Sleep, sleep, sleep Sleep like a sheep May the Good God keep You away from troubled waters deep May the angels on you heap Many goodies that nurture the mind and open your eyes to peep Through your future in sleep.    Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia.

It is a well known fact that most Africans love sex but hate the thought of other people knowing that they do have sex. Oops, did I step on some toes? A fact is a fact and we must not run away from facts. We do love sex, but we do not want anyone to […]

Call it whatever you want to call it, or let the many dictionaries and encyclopedias give you all the meaning but the word teenager, to me, means one who must have it all;           All the eyes on him or her           All the money in his/her […]

It’s a new day That new air that finds a new way And lives knowing there’ll sometimes be meandering routes and powdery clay No matter the blockages in its way Singing melodious tunes In the faces of many hindrances but it finds ways to commune With the trees and everything it meets at the slightest opportune Even though most of them rightly […]

The time is not right You can cause a fright When all seem actually bright Just take the whole flight And you’ll see the light   The world does not revolve Around your many many resolves. This world will no revolver Take for only your resolves So solve all your unsolvables   You create a […]

‘Kikim, kikim, kikim, kikim’ The strong heart moves faster And stops a beat “I’m done shopping in this heat Of searching and mingling. Oh love of fire!           Oh strong love that I can at any time call sire I’ll kneel at your feet and in everything squarely meet Don’t hold me I’ll fetch you the […]

This marriage of life Where everyone is a wife Male or female alike strife To jealously guard their spot To get a good stand, in case the battle becomes hot So many have different spices in their pots And will never hesitate to fry their rivals in their pots But at the end of it […]

Kwԑԑԑ; I am wearing my long skirt And my long sleeve shirt Coupled with my korle bu powder on my face Magye me mooku, ko ko ko Mashԑ me spԑԑce And I’m looking fly But Braa Kwame says not to come close   Tell me I’m beautiful Tell me I’m fly Adԑn na wo hwԑ […]

Let’s go out and play In the rain with the clay The Lord God may Bless our day   They are at the bay Playing in the hay I love to see the rooster  Lay eggs in the hay   Stand up, bend down Go up and down Powder like a clown And let’s go […]

She pants and frets, Investigates his authenticity and gets Nervous, sees a little bad air hovering and runs like a scared little pet She settles in her cocoon of darkness, ignoring the many bets On her, then tries to forget  But the scorned man calls her a man eater A man eater who is not a good beater A man eater […]

Mannequins dressed to the tee! Mannequins of jokers in experimentation! Laugh not in sarcasm, Walk not in thoughts of others’ derail For you are a mannequin, And a highly dressed mannequin is still a mannequin Like zombies being led to kowtow You’ll bend, laugh, cry, sleep, kneel when need be, Not like a fashionista, But […]

The bridge stood firm and beautiful The bridge was the beautiful eye of your town She beckoned for you to enter her bosom into new heights You refused and said that was the grounds for royals Cowardice? You took to your heels The bridge, stuck to the ground, made to chase But then, realized that […]

It seems long ago; Kings were in charge Kings with authority were in charge It seems long ago when mouths were closed It seems long ago when living was simple Money, gold, diamond and silver had no murderous hands in ruling It seems long ago When apparels were simple and the feet were the best […]

Pleasure of flesh has waned Time has contributed to them being maimed Flesh is always at work, in order to be tamed While bones whine all the time to have them as cover. When trees were the summer huts, And fresh fruits were in their natural abundance The singer birds woke us to promising mornings of tilling the land The fresh leaves […]

Moon! Moon! Moon! Where are you, old moon? Come let me make you swoon I really, really want to make you swoon So that you can die soon  Moon! Moon! distant moon You have to be my baboon Just thrice, no, only twice every month, be my baboon Not just once, because I am not a business tycoon Your death must be my […]

We are the brilliants We are the spiders We are the brilliant spiders who take nothing for granted Our meticulousness brought about the beautiful kente “Ahenfo ntaade, Amamafo anuonyam, Ahuↄfԑfo ahokade, Ye si yԑn bo ka no pein! Aaane, yԑ nyansaa sene Kwaku Ananse” And so we are proud Ɔnyunu akԑntԑn Ɔnyunu anyansafo nkatasoↄ Yԑ […]

Showers of love, Myriads of favour That pushes the storm, Lilies of the garden Smiling and bounded together Comes unaccompanied To greet your smiles. Honour and dignity, Light on shadow sources, Bright covering darkness, Success knocking defeat, Faith knocking shivers, No latters battling formers, Like night battling the days. Grow eagle wings Fly to your […]

It is a well-known fact that Africans are hospitable; though there can be few who fall short of this trait because of unpleasant experiences or by choice. We show our hospitality to people we meet even for the first time by helping them with whatever they need. We are so hospitable that we can even […]

We rise   To the birds happy cries   We pray   That you make us have a happy day   Old man above   You know we appreciate your love.

“Tro” I was told meant “a pesewa” the least currency of Ghana in times past in the Akan parlance when I was very young.  I grew up knowing that the local buses that run short distances are the “trotros” named after the pesewa which was the fare then. With growing need to make silly local […]

I remember the election days like yesterday but it has been a little over a year now. I remember when people in Ghana turned against each other in their quest to defend their preferred candidates and make them have their mandates at all cost.  I remember news of husbands fighting wives over who was suitable leading to multiple […]

Here I lay in the pitch dark night Counting the ceiling Faced squarely with fear, with shivers being a feeling Here I lay Wrapped around the fingers of darkness Worries chasing each other in the thoughts of madness with fierceness Mocked death poking with determination in the heart of blackness Countless sins poking their noses, […]

What will I do conscience free? I am the strange omnivore that is always on a hunting spree No wonder some claim that my very existence sin decrees I seize air, strangle and suck him, only to throw the invalid on the grateful plants I bribe water to let me live by blindfolding her through […]