Harruna Attah Remembers Kofi Awoonor

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CS 12 years ago

Kofi was a master of "how to win friends
and influence people".

Kofi was a master of "how to win friends
and influence people".
Kwasi 12 years ago

Ibelieve he would have given more to the world in his old years

Ibelieve he would have given more to the world in his old years
Nii Lantey 12 years ago

This is a lierary delicacy. Thanks for sharing.

This is a lierary delicacy. Thanks for sharing.
ASEMPA NEYE 12 years ago

To those of your generation who don't know, this man lived by the sword and therefore died by the sword! he was full of hatred in his heart for Ashantis and Akans in general and together with the rest of the Dzulakofe mafia ( ...
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To those of your generation who don't know, this man lived by the sword and therefore died by the sword! he was full of hatred in his heart for Ashantis and Akans in general and together with the rest of the Dzulakofe mafia (Kojo Tsikata, Tatsu Tsikata and the rest) masterminded the killing of prominent Ashantis like Gen. Afrifa etc. It's the long arm of God's justice that has taken him away. Look at where he fell; far away from home. We shed no tears for a quintinessential tribalist like Kofi Awoonor!
AWOONOR STOOD BESIDE RAWLINGS AND SAID THAT THE AIM OF THE REVOLUTION WAS TO TAKE AWAY AKANS INFLUENSE IN GHANA ESPECIALLY THE ASHANTIS HE GREATELY REJOYCED WHEN RAWLINGS SLAUGHTERED TWO HEADS OF STATES AND SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIALS 90% OF WHOM WERE NON EWES
IN ONE OF HIS WRITINGS HE SAID THAT HE WAS AN EWE FIRST BEFORE GHANA.
LET THE LORD JUDGE HIM!
Togbevi Ame 12 years ago

If they insult an Ashanti or Akan, then the person is a devil, but when you insult Ewes and other tribes, you want to be worshipped. Little minds and believers in group thinking. Leave Awoonor alone. He just expressed his lam ...
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If they insult an Ashanti or Akan, then the person is a devil, but when you insult Ewes and other tribes, you want to be worshipped. Little minds and believers in group thinking. Leave Awoonor alone. He just expressed his lamentaions and frustrations at your one-sided natural sense of justice. When your anscestors organised to kill Okomfo Anokye and Kotoka, Avevor and Borkloe, you think they did not have relatives?When your arch tribalist, arrogant and pompous Victor Owusu insulted Ewes, you treat it as religion. All your life is focused on material and property grabbing but laziness of mind and nothing else. A never happy and satisfied group of monkeys. If you loose a match, it is the referee or the player/keeper that sold the match. If you loose an election, it is stolen. If you loose a court case, the judges took bribe. What kind of humans are these? Self righteousness at satanic level.
Yaw Poku,USA 12 years ago

Material and property grabbing? You guys dont live in houses, wear clothes but in the forest if l may say that. What is Tsatsu Tsikata doing with the $5million dashed him by Atta the Mess, the last king of the ewes.

Material and property grabbing? You guys dont live in houses, wear clothes but in the forest if l may say that. What is Tsatsu Tsikata doing with the $5million dashed him by Atta the Mess, the last king of the ewes.
Good Citizen 12 years ago

GHANA WOULD BEEN BETTER WITHOUT THESE DEVILS

GHANA WOULD BEEN BETTER WITHOUT THESE DEVILS
Kay 12 years ago

Your ignorance, amazes me and so is your selective caregorisation of things gone bye. Just go the last year and recall ' yen akanfuo' , Kennedy agyenpongs call to arm to kill 'GAS AND EWES' and compare those sentences to what ...
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Your ignorance, amazes me and so is your selective caregorisation of things gone bye. Just go the last year and recall ' yen akanfuo' , Kennedy agyenpongs call to arm to kill 'GAS AND EWES' and compare those sentences to what you selectively call TRIBALISTIC . Carry out your own assessment and rewrite if not you are justmrepeatingthe chorus and following the empty headed noise markers.
Obeng Rago 12 years ago

I DO NOT SEEK TO DENIGRATE THE OLD PROFESSOR OF MY OLD UNIVERSITY BUT TO COMMENT ON THIS PARTICULAR STATEMENT OF THE TALKATIVE RAWLINGS,NDC FOUNDER:

JOHN JERRY RAWLINGS candidly makes a most poignant revelation here below ...
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I DO NOT SEEK TO DENIGRATE THE OLD PROFESSOR OF MY OLD UNIVERSITY BUT TO COMMENT ON THIS PARTICULAR STATEMENT OF THE TALKATIVE RAWLINGS,NDC FOUNDER:

JOHN JERRY RAWLINGS candidly makes a most poignant revelation here below thus:

"He said it was those qualities that struck him when he first met the Professor during a visit to the University of Cape Coast in 1982 to address students on the principles behind the December 31 Revolution." ----

By 1982 when he came to the UCC NUGS CONGRESS, Rawlings did not therefore know Kofi Awoonor prior to his second coming to power). I remember Rawlings was not so tribalistic and rather moved with radicals from other tribal groupings; but then all changed when he met the Professor who had identified the impoverishment of his people as caused by non-existent Asante hegemony and even written about it to popular condemnation of most scholars.

I was an undergraduate when J J Rawlings visited Cape Coast University in May 1982, where he met Professor Awoonor (pronounced Anlo or “Awona”). I even recalled with fond memories my question to JJ Rawlings on this occasion thus: “For how long will PNDC be provisional”?:

That time the Revolution had just begun with a cosmopolitan mix of young pretenders from different tribal backgrounds such as King Bosu of Winneba, Ato Austin, Chris Atim, James Quarshie, Akata Pore, Totobi Quakyi, and some few Anlos and Ewes. The Ewe hegemony was not pronounced until the chief secessionist socialist politician, Kofi Awoonor, hankering for political power joined up.

Kofi Awoonor was a former Secretary General of Cape Coast based Action Congress Party led by Colonel Bernasko…BUT there was something he was doing in Cape Coast University that caught my eye: As an English Lecturer in the Teacher’s University, and so desperate for political power, he became the mastermind of radical student political agitation against the ‘status quo ante bellum’ until they won and retained political power in Ghana between 1982 and 2000, and still ruling the country as NDC Government from 2008 to 2013.

Rawlings indeed did not know his nyebro until he was introduced by the socialist league students like Totobi Quakyi and Gardiner who used to rendezvous with him in UCC….and the rest is history that ended in such inexplicable tragic circumstance by radical Al Shabab, a group moulded like the pseudo-Nkrumaist revolutionary ideologues.

In his bungalow at Old Site of Cape Vars, student of the left-wing persuasion such as Totobi Quakyi, Avakame, Joe B, Turkson, Philip Gardiner, EKT Aidoo, Kweku Arhin and many others still in present NDC Government flooded there: They were always in Kofi Awoonor’s bungalow: They looked desperate and anxious for power, and rather than go into the world to work will rather than stay on after graduation in the University campus to agitate for more political power until they got it…. The student movement had leaders who will rather read Communist Books than their own Curriculum Readings…Acdemic bibliographies were jettisoned for hard copy socialist ideological Books and that is why in power they are so bereft of ideas to administer a country…

With radicals as Kofi Awoonor preaching their bile, it added to the spirit of instability in Ghana. Having being caught in coup de tat with his ewe chums of Brigadier Kattah and some evil Anloga power hungry men, they turned their attention to organising caucuses of Student Militant Groups to wage insurrection against the “bourgeoisie”. I used to hear them crying out aloud: "Workers of the World; Unite: You have nothing to lose but your chains". They were all united by one word – POVERTY and therefore HATED the Rich in society. But these people were very poor because of their laziness. They were all stuck in the Ivory Towers not willing to soil their hands by going out to work in the real world after their graduation as they looked at successful men with much envy and jealousy. Kofi Awoonor and Ama Atta Aidoo were doing in University of Cape Coast, what Fui Tsikata, Kwamena Ahwoi, Tsatsu and other left wing political pursuers were doing in University of Ghana in Legon: they gave accommodation to radical students cast in the Nkrumaist/Castro mould to forment trouble in Ghana …It was all glib talking of poisonous nature…preaching for a revolution with no objective of development but equalisation: They were the people who did not want Rawlings and Boakye Djan to hand over power to a Constitutional Civilian Rule with their bellicose and infantile cries of Let the Blood Flow: I had been watching the Student Radicals who had confronted the corrupt Military Regime of Kutu Acheampong and even lost their Secretary Yorke in the famous Car Accident that caused Kofi Totobi Quakyi to limp on.

When I was in Sixth Form in Adisco I used to see these so-called Nkrumaists and student leaderss trooping to Kofi Awoonor’s house in their Che Guevara T Shirts, black berets, faded jeans, Car Tyre sandals of Afro Moses, unkempt and wearing long beards as the present day Taliban. Infact they were the Taliban of the time.

Kofi Awoonor spent all his leisure time with these talkative socialist intelligentsia, feeding them both food and ideology all for his political kingdom…They were the people who joined the Student Task Force right from the onset of the revolution and then introduced their guru to the empty headed J J Rawlings: With his recent experience in 1979 Political Campaign as ACP Secretary, and having written a Book that advocated for secession of the Anlos and Ewes, Professor Kofi Awoonor was sold the perfect person. As Rawlings needed to pursue a bitter envious war against successful men and women of Ghana the meeting with the chief propagator of ethnocentrism was a match made in heaven to redeem their people and take over the top echelons of power and administration.

I saw all these things and sooner than later I will write properly about these things.

Ghana has suffered at the hands of bad people, indeed!...These radicals were the ones who sold Kofi Awoonor to Rawlings in May 1982, when Rawlings came to the August NUGS CONGRESS to inaugurate the new leadership of Amoah Larbi, Hans Djaba, and Dan Botwe etc. who had defeated the socialist brigade of Nazir Brown in UST for the first time. It was in this August Congress and personally saw all the socialist agitators who joined the Revolution to rule the country from 1982 to 2000, including Kofi Adu, Kyeretwie Poku, Obre, Adu Gyamfi (Cotopaxi), Amissah Arthur, Goosie Tanoh, Karl Marx Hamilton (now writing as Margaret Jackson), Atampugre, B B Bayor, Philip Gardiner, Samora Machel Turkson, Oteng Agyei etc.

When Ghanaians were being murdered by the revolution, you never heard a word from these leeches and parasites who have ruled us for most of their personal lives. They all received free education from cradle to manhood but destroyed it for others. They cried out aloud: Let the Blood Flow…Let the Blood Flow…Let the Blood Flow indeed.

The Talibanisation of Ghana under the above named radicals have come to bite the roost…As my Father’s at the coast say in their local parlance “Itur edur bon a; ibi ka woano”! We used to interprete as “If you throw a ball against the wall…it comes back to hit you”. May God touch the hearts of wicked men to repent of their sins before it revisits their next generation!
Jingo Bell 12 years ago

Everyone needs to read this posting. It is great. It throws more light to the life of a great hater of Akans, Kofi Awoonor. That is why Awoonor want his disfigured body to be cremated. He did not want to be remembered at all. ...
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Everyone needs to read this posting. It is great. It throws more light to the life of a great hater of Akans, Kofi Awoonor. That is why Awoonor want his disfigured body to be cremated. He did not want to be remembered at all.
Why did Kofi Awoonor hate Akans so much. He did not look like a hater.

Another reason Awoonor want cremation is that he does not want these Ewes to use his bones for their 'voodoo powers'. He knew his own people very well. All Ghanaians, hear me, hate does not pay. Let's all refrain from hating. A professor who has soiled his reputation by hating his own brothers and sisters from Akan.

Sammy Dei Wiafe, USA 12 years ago

The student socialist movementwas not a tribal thing. It was a phenomenon that was present in university campuses all over the world. The fight against apartheid was cheerleaded by idealistic young people who fellt disgust at ...
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The student socialist movementwas not a tribal thing. It was a phenomenon that was present in university campuses all over the world. The fight against apartheid was cheerleaded by idealistic young people who fellt disgust at the capitalist system and agitated for something new.

All over the USA and Europe these young socialists were present. Some of these young people came from very wealthy homes. Their idealism and disenchantment with the old order drove them on.

Your presentation was informative but analyticaly simplistic.
Kojo T 12 years ago

You trubalists who hate anything outside your tribe are always shoutinf about people hating Akans. Are fantes Akans? If you r mother is Akan how can you hate the tribe? Just accept you are envious and jealous

You trubalists who hate anything outside your tribe are always shoutinf about people hating Akans. Are fantes Akans? If you r mother is Akan how can you hate the tribe? Just accept you are envious and jealous
Jingo Bell 12 years ago

I speak the truth. We did not have this tribal animosity before the terror reign of PNDC. A good Ewe man married one of my mother's sisters. So, I have cousins whose father is an Ewe.
Until you Ewes realize that you are trib ...
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I speak the truth. We did not have this tribal animosity before the terror reign of PNDC. A good Ewe man married one of my mother's sisters. So, I have cousins whose father is an Ewe.
Until you Ewes realize that you are tribalistic, Ghana can not move forward. Do you know how many Ewes live my home town, who have farms and live there permanently? We don't have problems with them. We see them as part of our society.

Now, there are inter-marriages between Ewes who have born in my home town and the natives of my town. I went to school with those Ewes. The good thing about those Ewes born and raised in Akan areas are not tribalistic. My friend, Kojo T, I am not like you. Try to swallow hard truth and it will benefit us all.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Tofiakwa . Me be like you ? A tribalist and a hater like you? God forbid. You do not know me as if you did and ask my friends they will tell you

Tofiakwa . Me be like you ? A tribalist and a hater like you? God forbid. You do not know me as if you did and ask my friends they will tell you
Jingo Bell 12 years ago

You have just shown who you are here. Did Kofi Awoonor say and write what is being accused of? Kofi Awoonor influenced Rawlings to destroy Asantis economic power. Was this advise good for Ghana? Why hasn't a single Ewe condem ...
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You have just shown who you are here. Did Kofi Awoonor say and write what is being accused of? Kofi Awoonor influenced Rawlings to destroy Asantis economic power. Was this advise good for Ghana? Why hasn't a single Ewe condemned it. Instead, all Ewes have theown their support for Kofi Awoonor. If you are a fair Ewe, you may be the exception, why haven't you say to your Ewes that, brothers and sisters, this not the way to go. Akans are looking for a bold and honest Ewe who will say it as it is. Please, show your fairness if you have that etiquette.
Good Citizen 12 years ago

ARE ASANTES NOT ALSO LIVING IN OTHER AREAS AND ARE COMFORTABLE?ASANTES ALSO INSULT OTHER TRIBES IN ASHANTI REGION,GET THAT.

ARE ASANTES NOT ALSO LIVING IN OTHER AREAS AND ARE COMFORTABLE?ASANTES ALSO INSULT OTHER TRIBES IN ASHANTI REGION,GET THAT.
Sense 12 years ago

There are many Asantes in other parts of Ghana and have made those places their home. I've lived at many places such as Ho and Wa. I can attest that I've met many Asantes who speak and live in those societies and are regarded ...
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There are many Asantes in other parts of Ghana and have made those places their home. I've lived at many places such as Ho and Wa. I can attest that I've met many Asantes who speak and live in those societies and are regarded as part of those societies without prejudice.

Try and open your mind a bit. Narrow mindedness is a problem.
Kojo T 12 years ago

They were the people who did not want Rawlings and Boakye Djan to hand over power to a Constitutional Civilian Rule with their bellicose and infantile cries of Let the Blood Flow: I had been watching the Student Radicals who ...
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They were the people who did not want Rawlings and Boakye Djan to hand over power to a Constitutional Civilian Rule with their bellicose and infantile cries of Let the Blood Flow: I had been watching the Student Radicals who had confronted the corrupt Military Regime of Kutu Acheampong and even lost their Secretary Yorke in the famous Car Accident that caused Kofi Totobi Quakyi to limp on. SEE HOW YOU SPIN TALES. iS 1979 THE SAME AS 1982?
Jingo Bell 12 years ago

It is very sad indeed to see the end of a human being like this. Rawlings and his revolutionaries including Awoonor himself are part of the blame. Rawlings and his Ewe revolutionaries have got a bitter taste of their own bad ...
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It is very sad indeed to see the end of a human being like this. Rawlings and his revolutionaries including Awoonor himself are part of the blame. Rawlings and his Ewe revolutionaries have got a bitter taste of their own bad medicine of solving African problems. Hating a whole ethnic group and stripping of their earned economic prosperity is not the right way of solving a country's problems.Exactly, this was what Rawlings and some Ewe leaders including Kofi Awoonor, an architect of "Poorization Program For Akans" did to Akans, the largest ethnic group in Ghana. Rawlings proclaimed; "Our revolution will spread throughout Africa." Rawlings and his socialist revolutionaries including Kofi Awoonor urged all socialists in Africa to take arms to remove all reactionary governments in Africa. That was the message Rawlings and his socialist-pretense thieves in Ghana sent out .

Some thugs and punks heard and Rawlings was then a role model for these tugs. Africa saw some thugs who also took guns to overthrow their governments .Examples are Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Burkina Fasso, Mali, Gambia and many others. It was Rawlings and his Ewe mercenaries who helped Thomas Sankara to overthrow Burkina Fasso government. Rawlings and his revolutionary gangsters tried to overthrow the Togolese government. France had to sent forces to support and protect the then Togolese government.
Al Shaba, Islamic forces rule by punks and tugs like Rawlings prevailed in Somalia unrest until African forces evicted them from Somalia's capital. The ironic thing is that this 'kaboka Rawlings, for cheap popularity is an envoy with regard to Somalia peace. African leaders don't know that Rawlings is part of this disstabilzation in Africa.

Rawlings, about twenty seven years ago, the message you sent to Africa fell into the ears of some tugs , and they are doing what you told them to do. Al Shaba sees African forces as reactionary forces that is trying to impose its will on Somalia people.The very thing Rawlings and Kofi Awoonor hate. They call it imperialism and neo-colonialism. Now, Rawlings, what is your definition for reactionary government?.

Rawlings and his Ewes including Kofi Awoonor preached hate and now they have got the real taste of hate. Be careful what you preach, Mr Rawlings. Kofi Awoonor, a whole academic professor, agitated for destruction of Akans economic power. What did he gain from that?

About three weeks ago, Rawlings was praing a fellow Ewe who has purchased a ship for his business. Comments made by Rawlings ' There is nothing that Ghanaians cann't do" Very funny statement from Rawlings, the hater of Akans. When Akan businessmen like Appia Minka were prospering, it was Rawlings as head of state who advertised against the purchase of Appiah Minka products.

Kofi Awoonor death and the eulogy he is getting from the section of Ghanaians is unfortunate.But Ewes 'cream of society' have brought this upon themselves. Common Ewes, who are not different from other common Ghanaians do not understand all these, but much as Ewes see all Akans as Asantis so do Akans put the blames of Kofi Awoonor's failure on all Ewes. Let us learn and put our nation's interest first. Let us see each other as brothers and sisters and remove this tribal animosity from Ghanaian society. It does not pay to hate any group of people in Ghana.May God bless Ghana.
Yaw Poku,USA 12 years ago

Kofi Awonoor's body was shattered into pieces like balooney hence hence the family wants it cremated. He was beyong recognition. That is the price of being evil, tribalist and a bigot.

Kofi Awonoor's body was shattered into pieces like balooney hence hence the family wants it cremated. He was beyong recognition. That is the price of being evil, tribalist and a bigot.

Maame Serwaa 12 years ago

So you were there and recognised the scattered pieces to be collected. You did well ,the family would reward you.

So you were there and recognised the scattered pieces to be collected. You did well ,the family would reward you.
Nii Lantey 12 years ago

MALCOLM X WAS REIDDLED WITH BULLETS. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR WAS SHOT AND KILLED, MAHATMA GANDHI WAS KILLED TOO.
STEVE BIKO WAS BEATEN TO A PULP AND KILLED. DID THEY PAY A PRICE FOR SOMETHING BAD THEY DID?

INNOCENT ...
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MALCOLM X WAS REIDDLED WITH BULLETS. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR WAS SHOT AND KILLED, MAHATMA GANDHI WAS KILLED TOO.
STEVE BIKO WAS BEATEN TO A PULP AND KILLED. DID THEY PAY A PRICE FOR SOMETHING BAD THEY DID?

INNOCENT BABIES ARE BOMBED BY TERRORISTS. DID THE BABIES PAY A PRICE FOR SOMETHING EVIL THEY DID?

EVEN JESUS CHRIST WAS KILLED LIKE A COMMON CRIMINAL. WE SHALL ALL DIE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. STOP DESECRATING THE MEMORY OF THE DAE WITH YOUR HATRED.
Kojo T 12 years ago

You killed Ya Na & 40 of his elders We wat for K4 end too

You killed Ya Na & 40 of his elders We wat for K4 end too
S-Zulu 12 years ago

Interesting, honest and eye-opening.

Interesting, honest and eye-opening.
Issaka Abu 12 years ago

Good piece and a way to remember a a great Patriot, but my piece with Moslems in Ghana is that, they have been very silent leaving people like His Excellency JJ and Kwesi Pratt to speak against the evil of this evil demonic s ...
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Good piece and a way to remember a a great Patriot, but my piece with Moslems in Ghana is that, they have been very silent leaving people like His Excellency JJ and Kwesi Pratt to speak against the evil of this evil demonic sect that claims to be fighting for the cause of Islam indeed. I am still waiting for the Voice of Islamic clerics to speak Publicly against this evil to encourage the young adherents of Isalmic faith not to tow this line.
Orpheus, USA 12 years ago

Apparently, most Muslims hardly defy their jihadist brethren! Rarely do you find their leaders [Chief Imman et al] eager to verbally confront their imbecile-reactionaries. You right on Abu! To the haters of Prof Awoonor, o ...
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Apparently, most Muslims hardly defy their jihadist brethren! Rarely do you find their leaders [Chief Imman et al] eager to verbally confront their imbecile-reactionaries. You right on Abu! To the haters of Prof Awoonor, one would think the losers had the gall to put him to the grinder only weeks before.
Good Citizen 12 years ago

I HOPE YOU ARE ALSO A MOSLEM, SO ALSO TALK ABOUT IT,IT SHOULD NOT TAKE ONLY THE CLERICS TO SEE AND CONDEMN EVIL.

I HOPE YOU ARE ALSO A MOSLEM, SO ALSO TALK ABOUT IT,IT SHOULD NOT TAKE ONLY THE CLERICS TO SEE AND CONDEMN EVIL.
Great 12 years ago

This really opens one's eyes on the real Prof. Awwonor: a master orator. They should publish his autobiography and some of those speeches.

This really opens one's eyes on the real Prof. Awwonor: a master orator. They should publish his autobiography and some of those speeches.
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

This Earth, My Brother

The dawn crack of sounds known
rending our air
shattering our temples toppling
raising earthwards our cathedrals of hope,
in demand of lives offered on those altars
for ...
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This Earth, My Brother

The dawn crack of sounds known
rending our air
shattering our temples toppling
raising earthwards our cathedrals of hope,
in demand of lives offered on those altars
for the cleansing that was done long ago.
Within the airwaves we carry
our hutted entrails; and we pray;
shrieks abandoned by lonely road-sides
as the gunmens boots tramp.
I lift up the chalice of hyssop and tears
to touch the lips of the thirsty
sky-wailing in a million spires
of hate and death; we pray
bearing the single hope to shine
burnishing in the destiny of my race
that glinting sword of salvation.
In time my orchestra plays my music
from potted herbs of anemone and nim
pour upon the festering wounds of my race,
to wash forever my absorbent radiance
as we search our granary for new corn.
There was that miracle we hoped for
that salvation we longed for
for which we said many prayers
offered many offerings.

In the seasons of burning feet
of bad harvest and disastrous marriages
there burns upon the glint edge of that sword
the replica of the paschal knife.
The sounds rounded our lonely skies
among the nims the dancers gather their cloths
stretching their new-shorn hides off offered cows
to build themselves new drums.
Sky-wailing from afar the distant tramp
of those feet in rhythm
miming underneath them violence.
Along the roads lined with mimosas
the mangled and manacled are dragged
to the cheers of us all.
We strew flowers at the feet of the conquerors
beg for remission of our sins…

…He will come out of the grave
His clothes thrown around him;
worms shall not have done their work.
His face shall beam the radiance of many suns.
His gait the bearing of a victor,
On his forehead shall shine a thousand stars
he will kneel after the revelation
and die on this same earth.

And I pray
That my hills shall be exalted
And he who washes me,
breathes me
shall die.
They led them across the vastness
As they walked they tottered
and rose again. They walked
across the grassland to the edge of the mound
and knelt down in silent prayer;
they rose again led to the mound,
they crouched
like worshipers of Muhammad.
Suddenly they rose again
stretching their hands to the crowd
in wasteful gestures of identity
Boos and shrieks greeted them
as they smiled and waved
as those on a big boat journey.
A sudden silence fell
as the crowd pushed and yelled
into the bright sharp morning of a shooting.

They led them unto the mound
In a game of blindman’s bluff
they tottered to lean on the sandbags
Their backs to the ocean
that will bear them away.
The crackling report of brens
and the falling down;
a shout greeted them
tossing them into the darkness.

and my mountains reel and roll
to the world’s end.

Source:Prof.Kofi Awoonor
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He was a Great man.Rest in peace,Efo.
Owusu Ansah 12 years ago

WHAT A LOSS. DAMIRIFA DUE, GRIOT AWOONOR.

WHAT A LOSS. DAMIRIFA DUE, GRIOT AWOONOR.

K Amelemah 12 years ago

Can't believe the guy died and he's still denigrated.

Can't believe the guy died and he's still denigrated.

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