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EUROPEANIZED KOFI SAM

AKofi Sam is hawking self hate…on a dirty slate but feels he has a better fateEi!Kofi Sam, whose favourite food was aprapransa,And who once played with the akɔwensa,Travelled one day to an abrɔfo-land…and came back boasting of eating only suaasat from GreenlandEi!A rumour follows him from town to townHis newfound stick-like frame, they sayComes from […]

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SAVE ME FROM ME

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 […]