What is a gifted Mind - Rejoinder

Rawlings’ “insanity” and “his Ewe Assasins” and “avid clanspeople”:

Regarding Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema’s Libation of Hatred.

By Moses Deyegbe Kuvoame (mosdey@gmail.com)

I read with pity the vituperative effusions of Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema in

her feature article/poem of Saturday, 19 December 2009 on Ghanaweb. As

I read her poem, I discerned between the lines a bright woman who is consumed

by the pestilence of hatred and tribalism and looking for a cathartic outlet. Her poem is a veritable psychological confession, albeit veiled. I hope my

poem below will assist her in coming to terms with her repressed hatred

and tribalism, and enable her to attain the victory of a raised consciousness.

I hope that her mentor will assist her in this therapeutic endeavour, and in

the process discover and help mend the sharp but serrated mind s/he has nurtured.

To the High Priestess of the Cult of Hatred

What is a gifted, erudite and learned mind

When all it can do is rave, rant and malign

Serving us a feast of diatribes and aspersions

Acerbic hatred that borders on psychosis

Her deeper inner conflicts to resolve perhaps?

Pitched on a privileged Maryland pedestal

In the comforts of far away Pennsylvania

Sheltered from coarse realities on the ground

Learned ignorance she can wantonly display

Of the forces that begat the Rawlings Factor

What is a gifted, erudite and learned mind

Whose mark of excellence is virulent tribalism

A sceptre coated with a litany of vicious malice

Pouring a libation of distilled hatred to our gods

Her wounded and troubled soul to heal perhaps?

So rant on hyperbolic Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema

Put on your oral historian and sociologist gowns

Invoke the gods, spirits and ancestors of Ghana

And trumpet aloud your excesses of JJ Rawlings

If that can make you sleep better at night!

Akadu Mensema the hyperbolic professorial populist

Sing your mentored song from your Maryland citadel

Amplify it with the sanity of your tribalist rationality

Tell us about the insanity and irrationality of JJ Rawlings

And the connivance of his Ewe assassins and clanspeople

Ensconced in your jaundiced nationalist Denkyira psyche

Tell the gods JJ has never done anything good for Ghana

To make you walk with your Denkyira shoulders high today

Seizing every opportunity to assert how Ghanaian you are

Tell them JJ and his avid clanspeople are the burden of Ghana

Tell them you and your clanspeople are the paragon of virtue

Let the wise gods of Ghana deliberate on that in council

Over your delirious oral libation of hatred and death

Let their sacred judgement be just, swift and unhindered

And let the winds carry and reverberate it far and near

Engendering in you the victory of a healed consciousness!