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POETRY

WHY GHANA WILL NOT GO TO WAR

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 […]

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POETRY

A TRAP TO KILL

We have lived to finally see What youthful limbs have fixed as bill And presented to cheering hands as fee Sums which aim for nothing but to kill II Now the lions’ masks have finally fallen Showing clearly their frame of donkeys As the sheeps’ paint erase appalling To show lions and hyenas’ breed with […]

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POLITICS

PUSHERS TURNED PULLERS

“Y’ani abre, y’ani abre kↄↄ Y’ani abre, y’ani abre kↄↄ”   Chant demonstrators who in years past sang   “Onoaa n’ἐko oo, Ↄnoaa n’ἐko oo Onoaa n’ἐko oo, Ↄnoaa n’ἐko oo Obiara nim sἐ ἐyἐ ↄnoaa n’ἐko oo Obiara nim sἐ ἐyἐ ↄnoaa n’ἐko oo” Qwaqwaqwaqwaqwaqwaqwa I laugh in all types of languages As I […]