Amina, …tell Leila to tell Niima …that Rafia has been killed and buried in herself Her body is now a walking coffin …without her being in there How did it happen you ask? II Just last three nights Awudu’s lust drove his monsters …to cast Rafia in his dubious feast of rape That innocent girl […]
It is hard When it dawns on you and your sky turns dark It is bad When you look and see that a difference does mark You can never park Even as the world chases you to the ends of the mad Oh woes of a broken seeded mother! II Even in acceptance struggle Pointed […]
Nana Nyame Totrobonsu …nyansa sene ade nyinaa nti na …obi Akosua kuma nnyɛ obi anum no Enti neɛ ɛmrɛ atukwan abɛduru wɔ nyansa mu yi …a kwajo hoho adwene gu so te wo nyansa so yi …wo nhunu sɛ, sɛbi, nkwaseɛ nwansena ɛɛguro wo nsɛmka ho? II Kyerɛsɛ Kwame Asikuma …bɛtumi asi n’agɛgɛ mu …agu […]
Lisa thought she had gotten a visa to riches By wedding onto a comfortable bedding Her bragging and doggy greeting with fingers acting pianists in the air …could be seen even by the blind Driving all spinsters mad with bad jealousy II Hers was acting boss to clean …and taking off dross to dance for […]
Shea buttered melanic bodies display Scantily clad at the junction of stickdom Some faces needfully smileless Other faces hopefully smileful Some waists twirling Some hard buttocks twerking As I sing II I ring the ding to dong like a gong I am the tongue to bless with a song I need your wriggle to shed […]
Grow gutsies gunning gains …in glad games of great gold …to get the gifts of goddesses pairing gods …and not goddesses pairing gross II Wing winners without wanes of wins …without weapons to wrench wings off wins …with no wickedness working a wreck For wills work well with we III Bought brutality breeds bad bosses […]
Hate her! How hard the hoe hits heads of hes Hurting hearts heated for her! Hurt her! Her hammer hardly has hands Here, heavens help hes So hiss and heap hatred on her! II She said sorry Shocking sheroes sharing shivers Sore somberly soothed, She shunned serpentous shepherds’ serenades, As she still searched a similar […]
Great girls- … Bully boys Regal layered, local- …national, internationally pushed A stampede so brutal- … Egos lost through negligence still seeingly unseen Oh there’ll be Bronya dresses … And overused chalewote to match Catastrophic catastrophe – … Who says? The seers say! II The winds, before, pushed down lasses Down dream hills Making them […]
So you are aggressively flying here and there When most of your heads are hanging Some in the hands of your owners As your anger of blood gushes out like angry tap water fighting through a small hose Masters, fly your last! II Ei! Look at the mould on your sense Disgustingly hairier than abandoned […]
Mr. says she is evil Who allows more than a pestle to pound in her mortar Mr. says she is petty Who uses the many mortars a pestle pounds into to act same His reason, pestles go whole and come not less Mr. says pestles always come to their original mortars After straying no matter […]
Culture is like a cloth Washed for its stains only to develop other taints Time has travelled to see it merged like “nsaasaawa” Making living confusing in acceptables Making flaws contorting in reprimands Time has washed the myths of trousers Now shes freely live therein II Days which picked females like banku And dipped them […]
They claim if a woman buys a gun, it is kept in the room of a man. Nonsensical nonsense! I feel the men who lived in those times and still exist in the now need refurbishment of brains in order to see where their “waatonkyene” vehicle is now parked to gift them a clear vision […]
Why did we not get rods? Why did we not get skies? Why did we not get water To easily slip and hide in the land? II Why did we not get moons? Why did we not get stars? Why did we not get airs To escape when enemies chase? III You gave us lands […]
That I am a feminist Does not make me a porcupine Shooting at anyone or anything When I feel threatened Afterall cuddling moves the heart to work In satisfaction and hope II That I am a feminist Makes me no violent hen Pecking and chasing Just because I can The fact that I am treated […]
Dear man She is not a woe unto man That will make you a woe chaser Neither is she a witch of man For that will make you a witch craver She is not a worker of man That would make you her employer She is not a watcher of man That will make her […]
They fall Fall at the feminine feet Which has more than a masculine mind Shouting blessings Blessings which show pain on their faces Pain they try to mask with humour with no success What is it about ego? Did God create this soul To make men feel inadequate? Like cornered rats, they look Sometimes with […]
Excited, I felt the pangs of passions Anxious, I yearned for thoughts of favour Loving, I waited for the angelic verdict But in he came with a plan to have And hold firm another flower in bloom Oh God! And I felt dirty in gentle thoughts II How odd I could have shrugged it off […]
Ao! She has told me blankly I went to bath my hair But I ended up staining my ears Abena, I have heard it all now II She says I have a hole like her And I need a digger, lest it fills up with dirt She said she has been studying me like a […]
They claim we claim gooses are like ganders And ganders are like gooses Their goodies, the same Their bothers, the same So circumcision is a decision None fights for a cock So none must fight for a hen Abena, I say bullshit! Leave your danglers if you like But leave them clits alone II It […]
Flowers in colours What are you blooming to show? Attraction to your nectar? By droppings of scents? “Dib dib dib, dibi dibi di haa Dib dib dib, dibi dibi di haa” II Flowers with paints What are you painting to show? Erasing of age routes? Concealment of colour? “ka ka ka, Kai Kai Kai […]
I heard a huge noise in the land Like the fall of a huge tree Guess what I saw parting the path; the sand. The sand which apparently had the huge fall seems not to be free It has taken a meal that is uneatable, I know The vultures stand shivering in fear closing their […]
It was a slap No, it was a hit No it was a mock slap No it was a slab hit Her face was the surface And her body was the ground He hit it until she fainted And what was the cause? She did not cook on time A woman is not mud A […]
As we mark Women’s Day what comes to your mind as a human who seeks to empower other women in Africa and beyond? I see us failing in many aspects of this long course to empowerment. Why? Many women in rural areas know nothing about self-worth not to mention self-empowerment that is why. If you […]
“She was a witch from her childhood While the girls played She coveted the boys’ sticks While girls cried for dolls She wept for a machete and a catapult While her fellow girls held their mothers’ skirts She cut her father’s knickers to fit her I tell you, she was a witch from her mother’s […]
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