Haha,fantasies aplenty in this piece about a utopian Ghanaland but realities are in stark contrast.Funny that this utopia is built by Chinese,Indians,Koreans,Exxonmobil,Oxford & Cambrigde Universities-all foreign entities and ... read full comment
Haha,fantasies aplenty in this piece about a utopian Ghanaland but realities are in stark contrast.Funny that this utopia is built by Chinese,Indians,Koreans,Exxonmobil,Oxford & Cambrigde Universities-all foreign entities and no real homegrown Ghanamen.So far fetched that I bet you no Ghanaian even knows what "nshima" is.Lets get real,bcoz the poor Ghanaman in Old Fadama will never see this ever in Ghana.
Kwesi Sakyi 11 years ago
Literature is the mirror reflection of our real selves. We fantasise with Kweku Ananse stories to learn wisdom and philosophies of life. Sometimes, it pays to loosen up a bit, have some good laughs and let down our hair a bit ... read full comment
Literature is the mirror reflection of our real selves. We fantasise with Kweku Ananse stories to learn wisdom and philosophies of life. Sometimes, it pays to loosen up a bit, have some good laughs and let down our hair a bit. Mr Agyeman, get real. Be sporty and come out of your esconced cocoon! Dreams are what galvanise people into action.
Agyeman. 11 years ago
Maybe you're right,just maybe.I say this only on realization it is dated April 1st (April fool's day)but for a realist like me it throws us a curveball because its now April 20th.Late for proper impact maybe?
Maybe you're right,just maybe.I say this only on realization it is dated April 1st (April fool's day)but for a realist like me it throws us a curveball because its now April 20th.Late for proper impact maybe?
Kwesi Sakyi 11 years ago
Good for your realisation of April fool's day phantasmagoric effusions and hallucinations. Good luck Mr Agyeman of Canada!
Good for your realisation of April fool's day phantasmagoric effusions and hallucinations. Good luck Mr Agyeman of Canada!
' and Jesus wept ' 11 years ago
And I also dreamt that Nana Akufo-Addo is the president of Ghana.
And I also dreamt that Nana Akufo-Addo is the president of Ghana.
Kwesi Sakyi 11 years ago
And Jesus wept, stop wild wishful dreaming. The Supreme Court might charge you for contempt of oversleeping whilst election petition case is sub- judice.
And Jesus wept, stop wild wishful dreaming. The Supreme Court might charge you for contempt of oversleeping whilst election petition case is sub- judice.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago
Two Lice from South Africa had an agreement to meet every winter in Ghana for a vacation.
Last year when one Lies gets to Ghana, he's all blue, shivering and shaking, damn near frozen to death!
The other Lice asks him, ... read full comment
Two Lice from South Africa had an agreement to meet every winter in Ghana for a vacation.
Last year when one Lies gets to Ghana, he's all blue, shivering and shaking, damn near frozen to death!
The other Lice asks him, "What the hell happened to you?"
The first Lice says, "I rode down here from South Africa through Zambia and then through Nigeria in the moustache of a guy on a Harley Davidson Motorbike."
The other Lice tells him, "That's the worst way to travel. Try what I do: Go to the Johannesburg Airport Bar . Have a few drinks. While you are there, look for a nice stewardess. Crawl up her leg and nestle in where it's warm and cozy. It's the best way to travel that I can think of."
The first Lice thanks the second Lice and says he will give it a try next winter.
A year goes by, and when the first lice shows up in Ghana he is all blue, and shivering and shaking again. Damn near frozen to death!
The second Lice says, "Didn't you try what I told you?"
Yes," says the first Lice, "I did exactly as you said: I went to the Johannesburg Airport Bar . I had a few drinks. Finally, this nice young stewardess came in. I crawled right up to a warm cozy spot. It was so nice and warm that I fell asleep immediately."
"Well then, what happened?" the first Lice asked.
"When I woke up, I was back in the moustache of the guy on the Harley Davidson Motor Bike in Ghana!
Paa Kwesi Mintah 11 years ago
Cousin,
Why is it too hard for me to buy your plot? I wanted to make it into a movie but the plot is so convoluted I'll lose money.
Here's why.
You were raised on Winneba banku and never once did you ever dream of yo ... read full comment
Cousin,
Why is it too hard for me to buy your plot? I wanted to make it into a movie but the plot is so convoluted I'll lose money.
Here's why.
You were raised on Winneba banku and never once did you ever dream of your Dentsefo Asafo bringing in a 10 point antler deer to win Aboakyir festival.
Yet you consume this Zambian nshima and all hell breaks loose and you pour hallucinations resembling a bad movie script. I can tell you what you ate was boiled in whisky and akpeteshie. That was no nshima, I swear.
A coastal highway along the beach in Winneba with exits and interchanges going through Abasraba, Junction and Poko Ekyir? Huh? The audience will request a refund for watching a movie that has the sun rising from the West and setting in the East.
You've become a master of Listology a nd I expect you to get your place names right. You wrote:
" The Korle Lagoon Waterway was looking like the Riviera in Paris or the Thames through London."
The river going through Paris is the Seine and not Riviera, which is a resort in southern France. Now you see why I can't make any movie out of this dreamy script you've written?
Cousin, you need to undergo purification rites at Koo Boi's shrine for dissing you own native Winneba fishermen. How can you write stuff like this:
The Chinese had taken over fishing and mining in Ghana, and they had huge trawlers which were hauling in lots of fish to land, apart from successfully engaging in fish farming up country, in the hinterland. Coastal towns such as Sekondi, Elmina, Apam, Keta, Shama and Moree had been swamped by the Chinese fishermen."
I tell you again people will leave the theater if I make this into a movie.
Wow, after six paragraphs of wonderful world class infrastructure for coastal Ghana, you have no visions for northern Ghana. Not even guinea fowls that lay golden eggs. Yet you favor your cousin, with Vice Chancellor position. I didn't know you're such an awful tribalist.
Your hallucinations are full of oxymorons. Next time eat a wild mushroom instead for good visions. Here you are; seeing Ghana transformed into a shiny developed nation, yet you write the following:
"I dreamt that through the support from our foreign benefactors, Ghana had become a net exporter of food items"
Our benefactors? So we built all those bullet trains, tunnels and Winneba coastal highway that has an on-ramp from your grandma Ekua Preba's house with loans from benefactors? Cousin, you're not making sense here and people will leave theater and request refund if I make this into a movie.
Now you're drifting into the science fiction arena and I'm not buying it either. Too many contradictions. For example:
"Gays and homosexuals were castrated and their organs were harvested and exported to countries where they would make proper use of them. Such exports earned valuable foreign exchange for Ghana."
and then you write:
"Heterosexuals and gays all joined together in arms, protesting against the abuse of animal rights and also against abuse of their conjugal rights, as most of their spouses had deserted them and were living in hen coops, piggeries, mangers, dog kennels and horse stables with their live-in animal lovers"
Which one do want us to believe or imagine?
I see lots of whisky being mentioned, alien in armor, missiles, pastors eating caca etc.
What do I make of this dream of yours? Since I feature prominently in this weird hallucination of yours, I'll make it into a movie and star as the protagonist.
The movie's ending is as follows:
I pour cold water on you to enable you snap out of that reverie. And voila, there you're teleported to Ponko Ekyir, answering to your Winneba elders why you allowed the Chinese to do fishing, while relegating them to the apketeshie bar.
Saalute, from forehead to waist, whaaaam.
Kwesi Sakyi 11 years ago
Cousin Mintah, by now between you and me, you know the clear difference between a movie and a panorama and pantheon of dreams which succeed each other with no connections. If you need a drama skit or movie plot, show me the m ... read full comment
Cousin Mintah, by now between you and me, you know the clear difference between a movie and a panorama and pantheon of dreams which succeed each other with no connections. If you need a drama skit or movie plot, show me the money and I will be all for you, Titi I 'm for you! In a rabid and rapid succession of disjointed dreams, we have no theme or golden thread running through it. That is the point of departure between a dream and a movie plot. Ecute? Ca va bien? Mon ami, boucoup son grosse etude grande homme! That is my pidgin latin French for you. I salute you plenty Cousin. I have reserved you some Rip van Winkle ZAMBIAN GIN TO GIVE YOU THE KICKS AND SPARKS AND MAKE YOU DREAM DREAMS, THE AMERICAN KINDA OF.
Agyeman. 11 years ago
Hahaha,you write "the river going thru Paris is the Seine" Oh my,don't you realize dreams are always in seine? (thats insane for you)
Hahaha,you write "the river going thru Paris is the Seine" Oh my,don't you realize dreams are always in seine? (thats insane for you)
Kwame 11 years ago
Paa Kwesi, I always enjoy your funny but trenchant comments on your cousin's work. But this time, you seem to go a bit over... Of course, even if someone says his piece is a dream, he still cannot write whatever. But Sakyi is ... read full comment
Paa Kwesi, I always enjoy your funny but trenchant comments on your cousin's work. But this time, you seem to go a bit over... Of course, even if someone says his piece is a dream, he still cannot write whatever. But Sakyi is right to put the Riviera in the middle of Paris. The makes it look most probable as a dream. In dreams, spatio-temporal positioning is often changed. How many times have you not dreamed of being in Winneba and seieng a structure that does not belong there?
I will grant that Sakyi placed the Riviera in Paris out of ignorance, but his dream sequence absolves him...
Ebenezer Boamah 11 years ago
benefactors are bringing back what they have stolen, not loans, bro, and the chinese are servants of the nation, in fact, the rest of the world would, safe people who fear God, so if you don,t then now is the time. wisdom bec ... read full comment
benefactors are bringing back what they have stolen, not loans, bro, and the chinese are servants of the nation, in fact, the rest of the world would, safe people who fear God, so if you don,t then now is the time. wisdom beckons, let him hear who have ears.
Kojo T 11 years ago
Ya I came to the same conclusionon some of the issues. I have told your cousin to stick to Congolese beer but he will not listen . Mr Sekyi please do not use " house maid" but my helper Then your dream was too long. Perhaps y ... read full comment
Ya I came to the same conclusionon some of the issues. I have told your cousin to stick to Congolese beer but he will not listen . Mr Sekyi please do not use " house maid" but my helper Then your dream was too long. Perhaps you drank twice what Rip V Winkle drank. Then do not put us fishermen at the back of the Chinese any more. ogogoro also tastes good after a hard day of fishing
Kwesi Sakyi 11 years ago
Satire galore. Whatever I wrote here as part of my dream is based on real happenings in Ghana so take my dreams seriously.
Satire galore. Whatever I wrote here as part of my dream is based on real happenings in Ghana so take my dreams seriously.
Kofi Amenyaglo 11 years ago
More of this keep it coming!!very interesting piece i love it.
More of this keep it coming!!very interesting piece i love it.
Kwame 11 years ago
Kwasi Sakyi today turns John of the Book of Revelations. This is interesting if too longish for ghanaweb.
After reading this, go back and read the Biblical book of Revelations - the last book in the New Testament. It is a ... read full comment
Kwasi Sakyi today turns John of the Book of Revelations. This is interesting if too longish for ghanaweb.
After reading this, go back and read the Biblical book of Revelations - the last book in the New Testament. It is also the book that nearly didn't make it into the Bible because of all the gibberish it contains. But spiritual people have given it interpretations over all these millennia.
Perhaps Sakyi's dream of a new Ghana will also be subjected to such exegesis by Ghanaian literary theorists who will come up with all kinds of interpretations.
But I don't see why this should be dedicated to Chinua Achebe. It doesn't look like something he would write about even if one of his novels predicated a coup in Nigeria and was apocalyptic to that extent. But Achebe said he was not predicting anything. Ben Okri is more likely to toe this kind of line with his dreamy visions expressed in The Famished Road that won him a Booker Prize - something even Achebe couldn't win. The only novel Achebe wrote after the institution of the Booker Prize in 1969 was Anthills of the Savannah which was short-listed for the prize - i.e. it did not win it!
An interesting read, though, Sakyi. Perhaps your best.
Ebenezer Boamah 11 years ago
Folks, forget about the whisky and the bountiful food, this is real oh! Ghana. You have just read a truth prophecy about the coming soon future of Ghana, the center of the universe, and the rest of the world. It is a two juxt ... read full comment
Folks, forget about the whisky and the bountiful food, this is real oh! Ghana. You have just read a truth prophecy about the coming soon future of Ghana, the center of the universe, and the rest of the world. It is a two juxtaposed possible future of Ghana. It is a contest between God and Satan-man empire. The first part is of God, and the second the Devil. The first part will come to pass soon, many of you will see with your eyes. The second is a wish of the Devil, which the NDC/Rawlings symbolises, NPP is a small devil in the spiritual rheam. Not all NDCs are evil, and many NPPs are deed with the devil. I hope you what I mean, I wish I have time to write a whole article about this Truth Prophecy. Praise be to God, blessings to those believe and Ghana of God.
Sorry, it appears you had a nightmare. Please stay away from the big bowl of fufu and palm soup at least 2 hours before you go to bed.
Sorry, it appears you had a nightmare. Please stay away from the big bowl of fufu and palm soup at least 2 hours before you go to bed.
Kid ur 11 years ago
Sack ur maid,she put wee in ur food,u were high,nonsense.
Sack ur maid,she put wee in ur food,u were high,nonsense.
Another African Patriot 11 years ago
Agyeman, I read your article with mixed feelings. Though highly exaggerated, I think most of the readers missed your real point by way of their comments and took your article only for a joke. No wonder because these days mos ... read full comment
Agyeman, I read your article with mixed feelings. Though highly exaggerated, I think most of the readers missed your real point by way of their comments and took your article only for a joke. No wonder because these days most Ghanaians see only the funny side of things and fail to appreciate the seriousness of our predicament. In your "satire" you compare our situation to what you really loved to see happening in Ghana as have happened in other places. All the places you saw in your dream are not on Mars but are reality on earth. It took visionary dreamers to bring them to live. The bullet trains in Japan for example do 400 km per hour, so a journey from Accra to Kumasi would take 30 mins at most. To the average Ghanaian and I daresay most Ghanaians this would seem an illusion because their minds cannot phantom or comprehend that it is possible. The Japanese do not have anything close to the natural resources that our dear country is blessed with, but they had a dream which they turned into a vision and used their brain and thinking power to actualize those dreams. Once upon a time, we had a great leader who had such dreams but did not only laugh them off. His dreams became his vision and he worked hard at it them and achieved a lot for this country. As a people our minds are so full of self doubt and extreme impotence that we have become laughing jackals, ridiculing ourselves and taking everything for a joke even to our detriment and to the extent that when our leaders are failing us and taking us for a ride we joke about it and laugh away. Most of us are even fail to dream like Agyeman. And after we have taken our heavy fufu, kenkey, banku and the others,we shut down our brains and refuse to dream about the good things that we wish to happen to us in order change our lives. So Agyeman please dream on. To me everything in your dream is plausible, even possible or achievable. Most of the things in your dream is not rocket science (even that is reality). They have been achieve elsewhere by people who know life is not only a joke.
Haha,fantasies aplenty in this piece about a utopian Ghanaland but realities are in stark contrast.Funny that this utopia is built by Chinese,Indians,Koreans,Exxonmobil,Oxford & Cambrigde Universities-all foreign entities and ...
read full comment
Literature is the mirror reflection of our real selves. We fantasise with Kweku Ananse stories to learn wisdom and philosophies of life. Sometimes, it pays to loosen up a bit, have some good laughs and let down our hair a bit ...
read full comment
Maybe you're right,just maybe.I say this only on realization it is dated April 1st (April fool's day)but for a realist like me it throws us a curveball because its now April 20th.Late for proper impact maybe?
Good for your realisation of April fool's day phantasmagoric effusions and hallucinations. Good luck Mr Agyeman of Canada!
And I also dreamt that Nana Akufo-Addo is the president of Ghana.
And Jesus wept, stop wild wishful dreaming. The Supreme Court might charge you for contempt of oversleeping whilst election petition case is sub- judice.
Two Lice from South Africa had an agreement to meet every winter in Ghana for a vacation.
Last year when one Lies gets to Ghana, he's all blue, shivering and shaking, damn near frozen to death!
The other Lice asks him, ...
read full comment
Cousin,
Why is it too hard for me to buy your plot? I wanted to make it into a movie but the plot is so convoluted I'll lose money.
Here's why.
You were raised on Winneba banku and never once did you ever dream of yo ...
read full comment
Cousin Mintah, by now between you and me, you know the clear difference between a movie and a panorama and pantheon of dreams which succeed each other with no connections. If you need a drama skit or movie plot, show me the m ...
read full comment
Hahaha,you write "the river going thru Paris is the Seine" Oh my,don't you realize dreams are always in seine? (thats insane for you)
Paa Kwesi, I always enjoy your funny but trenchant comments on your cousin's work. But this time, you seem to go a bit over... Of course, even if someone says his piece is a dream, he still cannot write whatever. But Sakyi is ...
read full comment
benefactors are bringing back what they have stolen, not loans, bro, and the chinese are servants of the nation, in fact, the rest of the world would, safe people who fear God, so if you don,t then now is the time. wisdom bec ...
read full comment
Ya I came to the same conclusionon some of the issues. I have told your cousin to stick to Congolese beer but he will not listen . Mr Sekyi please do not use " house maid" but my helper Then your dream was too long. Perhaps y ...
read full comment
Satire galore. Whatever I wrote here as part of my dream is based on real happenings in Ghana so take my dreams seriously.
More of this keep it coming!!very interesting piece i love it.
Kwasi Sakyi today turns John of the Book of Revelations. This is interesting if too longish for ghanaweb.
After reading this, go back and read the Biblical book of Revelations - the last book in the New Testament. It is a ...
read full comment
Folks, forget about the whisky and the bountiful food, this is real oh! Ghana. You have just read a truth prophecy about the coming soon future of Ghana, the center of the universe, and the rest of the world. It is a two juxt ...
read full comment
....a malaria-free Ghana?
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130419132607.htm
Sorry, it appears you had a nightmare. Please stay away from the big bowl of fufu and palm soup at least 2 hours before you go to bed.
Sack ur maid,she put wee in ur food,u were high,nonsense.
Agyeman, I read your article with mixed feelings. Though highly exaggerated, I think most of the readers missed your real point by way of their comments and took your article only for a joke. No wonder because these days mos ...
read full comment