We were meant to believe God wakes…and takesWe sat and wished you will be found…not boundOnto a plane like cargo and shipped downNow you’re the sad talk of the town IIMany said you deserved to liveBecause of the way you giveMany said your life will be a miracle…for nothing can hold your shine, not even […]
I have sufferedI have suffered from exploits and horrid huntingHuman hunters have haunted and hunted my humansTo a point where it was dauntingFunny how their ends have turned my beings to love their earnsRunning into their slave ships with their own legs III have sufferedI have suffered from heads heading as tailsParading many failsAnd splashing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
A snake might love the taste of its tailUntil it gets to its headIt might love the flutter of its hailUntil it feels the bite closer to its head IISo you snakes, go on and chewThinking this nation belongs to you fewWhen our sky droughts of its dewAnd the land loses its resourceful hewDo not […]
We wince while wailing And wake to the pain of more painWe sit in a pit of snakes which bite usWith promises of remoulding usEven as we work like bullsAnd are fed like antsWe are who we arePeople in financial pandemic IIHow can our wages walk behind our yearsAs our toils rush past our fears […]
It is painful enoughWhen one who has been in the chambers of sickness…descends death’s dungeons IIIt is painful enoughWhen those who go in search of their daily mealsAre forced to drown down death’s waters IIIIt is somehow unpardonable,Horrible,Sympathetic,And unforgivableIf people in the comfort of their homes…with those with curious eyes and ignorant mindsAre forced into […]
I’ve lived three scores and moreMany who saw my birth did me, like all infants, adoreGreat expectations were their wishing choreTill youth showed me a drunken flirt and a colonial sore IISome kept hoping I’ll myself reformOthers thought they’d seen how hopelessly relaxed I was as I conformSome thought there will be nothing more to […]
Listen and learnLack locks lives like losers under labourLeaving them as luggages of lifeAs you act as lost landlords…and lie under long ludicrous lawsWith luxury of lip-service IIStop the stories in order to seeThat some Sikaman souls are scared,…scarred, soiled by sorrowsAnd are suffering under stressful situations Due to your shortcomings and sick systems IIIFlip […]
Some SIKAMAN local celebrities are like fowlsWho transform into peacocksOnly to insult and shame themselves with their processesSoiling screens with their self-degrading aura IISome Sikaman local celebrities are like dogsWho bark and bark and bark at eachother …just for attentionSpitting and vomiting secrets…to court the horrors of the populaceWhen they bite, …bad blood rain like […]
The Impala Lily…is now like the goat called billyWith antics reckless and sillyAnd flaws horrible and chillyThreading paths of mistakes so hilly IINow we live in the lie of lightThe flawed perfection of small salaries made big and brightNow we live in the wealth of gargantuan debtsAnd the gay sadness of abject povertyNow we live […]
FÉ”ntÉ”nfrÉ”m!Mpintin!Atentenben!Dondo!FuntÉ”n pintini tenten don don don don kon gon gon gon gon gon!FuntÉ”n pintini tenten don don don don kon gon gon gon gon gon!FuntÉ”n pintini tenten don don don don kon! IbPositive and negative may act day and nightAnd can be stronger together to power lightPositive thinking can act engine to drive our nationSo […]
Oh how I love my Ghana!I will sing her name and hold her banner…to many a fan of hers garnerFor she is like the sweet honey in its natural combEven as a hot womb…she will always be awesomeBecause none in here will ever feel lonesomeI love my Ghana! IIOh how I love my GhanaAnd will […]
IaEi zaminamina watiwa! Ei zaminamina watiwa! Zaminamina ei eiiiii, alele oEi zaminamina watiwa! Ei zaminamina watiwa! Zaminamina ei eiiiii, alele o IbDear Jerry John RawlingsYou’ve left many a feelingsBranding lucky the number fourTo represent freedom and democracy to the coreSo many wanted you to live moreDeath’s claws have left us sore IIYou were like the […]
GetHarmonyAmbushedNearAnarchy IbIn an open explorationWhere leads frantically search for gloryThrough the compass of braveryAlmost all must be raked inTo push our story to wholesomeness IIFor we are in GhanaA peaceful midst and a loving mustWe need to wholesomely beThat land in a…story which goes not back and acts haven…seen by stars Of…black as they seek […]
I wish our generation have many like youWe’d have been saved from many a blueAnd would’ve reached many development dawnsAs compared to acting like hunger prawns IIYour mission through your visionsRight to many of your decisionsBrought us lifeLife which is being suffocated and giving us strifeThrough inabilities parcelled as abilitiesAnd calamities from our iniquities IIIIt […]
You court China like blind cockerels Crowing in thanksgiving to quick loans Which leave debts and aid fraud As our seas suffer invasion And our scrupulous watchers lose their lives Amid fraudsters taking bribes From some Chinese crooks! II You court China like naive maidens Croacking to their ingenious industries As most see you as […]
Horses who neigh Problems which weigh …down our growth …destroying our oath …of freedom and justice These are the main chains we need to break …to be able to wake and take our place …in the race of race II So let the horses cart their chariots Let the dogs bark their shadows Let the […]
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I know not many oldies …happy to be looked down upon as hustling …and glad to be called paupers For age calls for more care …after energies wane We all know the needs of a woman …traveling through her sixties II When her age travels through the sixties …she needs more care in thoughts fair […]
A twisted tale stales history Fuelling the dreadful victory …of a storyless country II A passionate need for relevance …fruits no reverence …even eloquence can smoothen not that arrogance III For hard earned glories …bubble into no sorries …no matter the lorries …of lies driven on the stories IV In competitions …the first is named […]
None gives gold to a poor handler of silver …just as none gifts a house …to a poor handler of a hut so treasured Are we over-blooded …to have our little red rivers …sucked from our pride and hope? Definitely not! This chamber will pose a danger …which will call for a rememberance …only worth […]
There has been a huge rain of evidence Spelling FACT in bold Of the rot that pilolo as myth in this nation What does it take to buy the land? Stamps of high stools bought by currencies without solid roots! Pictures of first personalities whose camera is set By fundings whose stem dazzle to blind […]
When the same breast nurses many mouths From stomachs of greed and or promises Milk evaporates and calls for the blood of the mother Showcasing paleness of her body Awo Yaa! May this portion of yours change for the better! II This building which has seen the palms of many masons And still suffers from […]
​Everything atop seems supreme Many pant to climb to mountain tops And jubilate as winners in the end Many eyes look up to the sky in reverence or solicitation Even though legs mate the earth So why do you sleep naked on this Ghanaian floor Regarded as the pauper of the nation? II From Yaa […]
I know the throat can nag And force a king to lie on a rag When its demands for water through its pipe is not met II I know the stomach can thunder When its bond with food is put asunder Giving in to any bet III I know eyes close not When their vessels […]
The clock of change ticks Transforming in shockaholics Yet many feed after thorny pricks In places whose geography elude mapachronics Living healthily by the green waters of kontomire As others blinkardly gobble dead fishes in oily rivers II Gone are the days when elderly buttocks Filled seats before their young Gone are the days when […]
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 […]
We live in the sought after gold Clothed by a land fertile enough to banish the barren We live on a land so expensive Blood so precious protect Only to make us free We live on a land so wondrous Black star lights to guide us through When did a blessed turn cursed? We are […]
Dawn is clearing the path of the new sun After filling the hole of the old Its tears are of hope and despair Could the new be a replica of the old? II The old sun died with time The earth pulling on it the cover of darkness Pushing it to set prematurely Aided by […]
There are walls around a nation A nation fought for with priceless blood A nation whose beauty, like mud fish in muddy water, Hides in walls too high in ugliness Walls of corruption Walls of deception Walls of greed Walls of power-drunkenness Walls of ridiculous stunts Walls of begging Walls of tribalism Walls of labeling […]
After angst and jubilation have gone to roost In an opposing clash which selections boost What is there but a sea with no boat Calling all eyes; with hurt and gloat To look past emotions and rise to a challenge II All in laughter show their teeth All in outcries show their teeth What is the […]
Same winds can blow north, south, east and west As the food Coveted by many embark on a journey to build us all Through your able self Build with the protein of togetherness Fill with the carbohydrate of wisdom Heal with the vitamin C of hard work Through the watchful eyes of vitamin A Never forgetting […]
For a country whose hallmark is peace, it is sickening to see the manner in which the two major political parties are conducting themselves barely a day after elections. The impatience, the “taunts in call” which receives immediate response, the declaration of “leads” and “winnings”, the pain of watching as supporters’ temperament rise in tension puts […]
As many leaves fall to pave way for new So do humans fall for space for new Many leaves have fallen in this harmattan Which winds uprooted the strong root Of a great palm Shaking the grounds of the unshakeable Ashanti Kingdom? II Hunger has no bluetooth But the elders say Only a mother feels […]
I pour this libation From my free but poor calabash Which knows hunger as a happy sport And not an opposing wrestler To let dreams fall into sleep of all To see fierce and hunting war In chase of ones whose preferences Became their bait of horrid fate II I pour this libation from my […]
I have a voice But no matter the loudness of the noise I vote Ghana! II I have a choice But no matter the decision I will rejoice And vote Ghana! III Never will my blood boil To break the pot That hosts my waters of life I vote I vote Ghana IV Never will […]
There is a cloud forming on clouds The sky of red, gold, black star and green Has arms wide opened to mean It can take all the dance on court floor, even the mean And awaits personalities who will fall into shrouds II Amidu holds the reins And just got Woyome as the horse Hoping to […]
The beginning of love Is like the beginning of creation I am sure God’s heart raced As he created it all His joy sat in a celebratory palanquin Developed wings and danced like an all powerful ruler Hailed by satisfaction as a look upon jubilant When all was done Chorus: My ears can imagine his […]
Serious basket sent to the stream of ambitions To fetch heads which sync with hands In hardwork to weave the nation Suddenly developed comedic holes Posing pictures of ridicule In a nation whose teeth can’t afford a smile Talk less of laughter II Fishes flawed and thrown out Have majestically managed to catwalk Into the […]
We are our illnesses We, golden children Conceived painfully and graciously By Asaase Yaa, the goddess of nature How can we heal? II Our legs flirt with fine dust of deceit Enthroning it to build mansions In our priced noses Distributing coughs of fear Digging pain of panic Blinding us and Developing weaknesses which deepen […]
 It was at the gate of fate That one Osei Tutu’s grand daughter Who is chief security Barred some legs from stepping onto The stage of prestige To look for thumbs whose power Could push their buttocks Onto the highest seat Of the coveted once upon a time Gold Coast II Political Methuselah Aka […]
For a few years now, Nana Awere Damoah and some of his friends have been putting together awards for traits worthy and satirical for the Ghanaian populace. This is by far the winners for 2016. (Updated 23 October 2016 (still in progress, some key categories – such as the voted for ones – still in […]
Possibility is an accomodation in impossibility So I will not take an absolute ruler To evict it from its rightful place But none accommodated Is given more than a room No matter how many there are Unless blood binds or money massages palms of ownership War is no friend to us War has no money […]
Fight o fight Fight like soldier ants at war With bullets of minds Firing ignorance of thumbs Thumbs which vote for ethnic clothes Devoid of bodies therein II Fight o fight Fight Ghanaman fight Fight like bombs to burn to extinction The exchange of thumbs for gifts To see the dawn of change III Fight […]
I call on Onyankopon Twereduampong The craftsman with no challenger One who seived darkness from light And gave them realms to rule One who moulded common clay like a masterpiece And gave it thoughts of superiority One who created a universe that even great minds can’t its steps of creation fathom To come for his […]
There was a time When stories, like scary whips Ruled the consciences of growing heads Declawing the roaring Un-canining monsters Lighting dark hearts Strengthening the weak Shaping faults into saintly vaults Spirits in story clothes! Did we leave them for myths undecipherable? II Our ancestors were wise So wise in most That we could actually […]
My tongue is pampered Like a mushroom on an anthill Crowned by the fertile farms of mother nature Ghana, my motherland! II So much do they give Plants and trees Leaves and all Yam boils to accommodate many My favourite; “potogum hwiegum” Led by the great garden eggs With koobi as angels at post Add […]
Skies of the throne of Freejustice Rain to ruins Like ships draining their seas while at sea At high fees The waves that keep them afloat Are divided into three II The blind waves Which push like donkeys even in drought The on-fence waves Which would give their lives Than lift fingers to right any […]
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