A long time ago, in 2016 to be precise, I wrote the following essay, "The Elizardeathans and the Warrior Kings of Ghana," from Ntoaboma, deriding our African elite who sit idly by while our Motherland is still the property of the western, European Warlords. Now Prince Harry the Navigator, a child of a major European Warlord Family, has officially...
The Metha: Hiding Books & Generating Complexity.
The Mis-Educated Than His Ancestors, the Metha, and their handlers in the North are very insecure about their own intelligence. And so what they do is generate complexity to make themselves indispensable.
When I was a little school boy, most of my mates in my group enjoyed learning together—sharing books, questioning each other’s knowledge...
The Metha and Healthcare.
The Mis-Educated Than His Ancestors (the Metha) are Neoliberals, and Neoliberals are by nature, and by definition, Ruggedly Individualistic. But, that's not all that they are! Sometimes they can be expected to become communal when the moment, and the benefit to their individualism, is just right.
There's ONE time Neoliberals know about the COMMUNITY. That is when...
Satanism & Gender: One METHA Nonsense After the Next.
You don’t become something merely by declaring it.
I have gathered some intelligence on a few imports into Ghana that are now slowly—and let me assure you—surely creeping into the Accra-English Vocabulary. “Gender Politics and Identity” is one of them. And let me assure you, one more time, even putting reality aside,...
Kaa Foor Looflor: A Crab Does Not Give Birth To a Bird.
NTOABOMA: When I came of age in Ntoaboma, I would often hear the Elders say, and they would often repeat, ad infinitum, that a crab never gives birth to an offspring that looks like a bird. In Ga, or Gé, or Dangbe, the saying went, Kaa Foor Looflor....
The Myth of Colonial Power.
(Britain attempts to launch its phallus into Virgin Space. The phallus goes limp before its breaks the boundary of its flannel trousers)
There's one country that claimed it produced its own oil. Lies! It got it from Russia. That same country claimed it could launch a...
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Double-Potted Leaders. Africa and Her Goveme Children as Leaders.
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In Vodun Tradition, there’s a concept that applies to children who suffer from a Double Consciousness—that is, a wavering between two allegiances. Vodun cultures believe that stability is important for a child’s development and that a...
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