Ekomini-Komfo Mills Fulfils JJ’s ADZE WO FIE OYE Prophecy (2)

*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is fuming with rage over tribal politics… warning the ill-fate trend could jeopardize Ghana's peace… Calling for the immediate end to tribal politics, he disclosed that some public workers, notably Asantes, are being laid off from their work places without genuine reasons in the national capital of Accra” (Ghanaweb, February 1, 2010).

VI. ADZE WO FIE PROPHECY

At Cape Coast, Saltpond

JJ laughed and cajoled Fantes

The prophesy of “tribalism” came to pass

ADZE PA WO FIE OYE was hatched

No more NPP Asante hegemony

And the Fantes cheered on

Their new white man in disguise

JJ’s

Affected accent, aquiline nose

Fair complexion

Fante broni not of Kotokoraba stock

Of Abom Wells Road stock

Fantes misunderstood JJ

So they did with the British imperialists

The British who fought Asantes

With the help of Fantes

The British left Asantes alone

But planted colonial rule in Fante

The Fante elite drank their tea and smiled

And called colonialism partnership

Of paternalism

ADZE was for the Volta to over-flood

And so JJ the bearer of new partnership

Swayed Fantes before the flood

Of ADZE WO FIE OYE

Atta Mills the son of Oson is ADZE

Fantes returned to their ancestral home

At Nanompow

The Sacred Grove at Mankessim

Of Oburumankoma,Odapagyan, Oson

There Fantes waxed lyrical

Flaunting Mills the ADZE bouquet

Flowering of JJ’s prophecy

To eclipse the new Asante hegemony

VII. OKOMFO MILLS FULFILLS JJ’S PROPHECY

Ekomini-Okomfo Mills

Took over JJ’s shrine

Came stumbling

Mumbled the diviner’s narratives

Mouth-twitching

Okomfo Mills was re-possessed

Afraid of JJ’s prophecy

Then the prophecy came to pass

ADZE WO FIE OYE

The dazzling ADZE

Has gone the way of the Volta

Yes, it was JJ’s prophecy

He spoke for the Volta

ADZE is Mills the son of Oson

And WO FIE OYE is the Volta

VIII. JJ’S PAST ADZE WO FIE OYE

JJ’s ADZE

Had manifested in other ways

Planted long ago

And harvested with blood

Along the tunnels of sociopath-ing

Slaughter of judges of Akan stock

Demise of Akan firms/company

Of Appiah Menka’s soap industry

Dr. Safo Adu’s pharmaceuticals

Kwabena Darko’s poultry farm

Siaw’s Tata Brewery

Kowus Motors

Kufour Transport

Bonsu Store near Opera Cinema

Kwahu-traders section of Makola

And so it came to pass

ADZE WO FIE OYE

Is just the final tunnel of deceit

In Awonoor’s Ewe revolution

Flooding the Volta all over Ghana

Atta son of Fante Oson is drowning

IX. ADZE BY-PASSED FANTES

ADZE has come to pass

The prophecy is being fulfilled

Misery has besieged Mankessim

Where Oburumankoma

Oson, Odapagyan

Worry about Atta Oson’s descendant

Atta pivoting seismic “tribal” imbalance

Of Volta’s encompassing floods

The holding shrine of the prophecy

Is not the Slave Castle

It is at Colonial Ridge

The center of our traumatic history

Mills is drowning in the Volta

Atta needs a bridge to cross the Volta

To cross to Mankessim

Where the children of Oburumankoma

Of Oson

Of Odapagyan

Are mummified in despair

But Atta son of Oson is not despaired

Atta is punching the Fante air in delight

Grinning at JJ’s absolutist prophecy

Of the ADZE and OFIE host-kinship

Of our parasitic kinship dependency

Of our reckless politics we call hope

*Akadu N. Mensema, Ph. D., is a nationalist Denkyira beauty. She is a trained oral historian cum sociologist and Professor in the USA. She lives in Pennsylvania with her great mentor and teaches Africa-area studies at a college in Maryland. In her pastime, she writes what critics have called “populist hyperbolic, satirical” poetry. She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com