Like packaged sardines they sit face to face With ears screaming its disgust The “Tabora, Alhaji, Lomnava” hallelujahs of the conductor cum driver The airless arena breeds grumbling mouths and frowned faces He sits quietly like a fish out of water Dreading the very thought of other’s skinny seas touching his standing hairs A sharp […]
Yἐde nam ἐna eyi nam Nanso yἐ nsuomu nam nyinaa na akwabenane ayi ἐἐwe yi Yἐ bἐ yἐ dἐn na yatumi akↄ yi nam? Sika kↄkↄↄ yi nyinaa hyἐ ἐnam yi anum ἐna akwabenane a wↄn abἐ agasigasii ἐwe nam a yἐdirekoyi nam no Yἐ bἐ yἐ dἐn na yakↄso? ↄman yi awerἐwerἐ sika de […]
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. […]
I am the lion who sits on the throne I am the lion who can have or lose it all and end up without even a bone That is why I have the monkeys Who must do all the dirty works that will give me riches’ key I am the lion who sits on […]
Once there was a farmer Who saw no danger in karma He dug and hit with hammer The gold for all to murmur Owners started to murmur Oh, there were some members in Burma They came, caught and took the hammer And he begun to stammer “Errrm, errm, errm, mama! Please spare my […]
So the big hotels suddenly have owners of power And the huge monies suddenly walk into the pockets of beings without reasons And men with little powers suddenly develop wings flapping them in the eyes of their host And others decide on catchy and a insulting phrases to tag their masters in reality And people […]
Let me be the first to call My nature has made it thus. Yes, I am the atumpan! Let me, allow me to call, Then you, agyegyedo will respond, Then mpintin will follow Then ansaba will add her intense voice By the abled help of “nsa a emu ἐ’dene” There is an urgent need to […]
It’s been 57 strong years 57 years of downs and downs Ha, Ghana must be a hell of a woman Still standing after being wobbled, Troubled, Searched and robbed, Slapped and teased, Nursed dry, Stripped naked, With sand thrown on her cushioned hair and into her bright eyes Ridden like a horse under bad to […]
If you woke up today thinking “what a mess my life is in” please take a deep breath and relax. At least you are alive, you can read this, you can understand. I tell you that there are many people who can’t read this and will give anything to be in your shoes today, even […]
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