Brother Bellyfool

This is 2011 and
certainly you must have more than enough to eat.
You did not have to go into the bush with comrades
to launch a guerilla war(fare)
to pour much blood in sacrifice for freedom.

Independence in 1957 was a struggle
but you did not have to suffer the long drawn tortures
as apartheid happened in the South.

You’ve had your own share of shocks in self-government;
a coup or two here
but nothing as the consuming fire of Biafra
nor the long years of war across the sharia divide in the Sudan.

Nothing as compared to the slaughter in Liberia
nor the limbs hacked off in Sierra Leone
in raw sadists’ fashions of short and long sleeves;
certainly nothing that measures up to the genocide in Rwanda

you have even experienced some days of hunger
but nothing compared to the years of famine
and gun battle in Mogadishu.

Indeed, Brother Bellyfool,
you have been okay; getting on by just fine;
drinking akpeteshie and eating fufu and tickling yourself;
playing highlife and singing in narrow proverbs and
dancing your worries into the Atlantic.

So I can understand you, my Brother Bellyfool!
I can understand you when you escape the gravity
of the manholes in your next to non-existent roads,
when pregnant women have to trek miles after miles in labour,
when harvested food goes rotten on farms for lack of transportation,
when 50% of your children cannot pass simple junior school exams,
when common malaria is still a major killer of your people.

And yet you decide instead to spend your time and energy
talking about gays and supi-supi;
men who do men and
women who do women and
men who do women in the behind

Brother Bellyfool,
you are not a worried man at all!
--

*dedicated to Ghanaians from me a non-national*

Su, let us divide

I remember Grandma had a pen full of Goats
and a day never passed without some locking horns
over food and over mates;
and they fought till they bled and bled.

So Grandma decided to partition the pen;
the short legged to one side,
the long horned to the other
and the stubborn ones apart!
Grandma did all that and yet
the fighting did not stop
So Grandma continued to divide till the day she breathed her last.

So now that we are behaving like the animals
the humans would soon come to segregate us.

The fools would be in the middle.
The screamers of Allah and Jehovah the father
would want to be on his right-hand side
but we’d put them face to face with the devil
so we can compare and contrast.
Those who claim to be lovers of the anus by nature or choose to so do
would be in the NW
And they’d be both Homo-anal and Hetero-anal
men who climb the buttocks of other men and men who climb the buttocks of women
and all those who hate them for loving the anus can go to hell.

Then we’d pause and look at everyone again.

We’d see the racists and pack them in the S.
The rapists would go way up to the East of the North.
The lovers of sharia and the Mosaic eye-for-eye would be in the ENE
And next to them would be the suicide bombers
so they can blow up themselves.

And we would not stop there!
We can’t stop there!
--

*dedicated to the people of Sudan, both North and South of the divide*

PONTIFICATION: a foolish apology to the CJ

Pal,
It's with every thread of fun in me that i write you this missive. no! sorry, rather, i mean that that i'm about to pontificate to you.

some group of so called Network of Social Democrats (NESOD) have just issued a foolish apology to the Chief Justice of Ghana and she has not come out to say whether she accepts it or not. But I want to 'pontificate' to her to reject that apology pronto because it's a foolish apology.

wait! I'm not saying it's a foolish apology because I believe the Chief Justice deserves any supplication from these 'cantata network'. far from it. Rather I'd rather the NESOD' guys repeat their threat than issue that bogus apology that says they did not mean bad but are apologizing. If you did not mean bad then what are you apologizing for? you are apologizing for good?

Okay, hold it there pal. This first woman Chief Justice in the history of Ghana is one who has been another point of division between the two largest political groupings, NPP and NDC. generally, if you are against her then you are deemed to be NDC and if you are for her then you are deemed to be NPP. that is what we have now really. Ghana's politics is that childish as if America's is any better!!! forget America! It's as if you don't have human beings but cats and dogs who need my guidance!!! yes i'm the pontificator!

okay so it happened that these 'NESOD' guys called for the CJ to resign with all her will or else be 'forced through the narrow window'. Then hey-ba! matter don com! why should these guys make such a statement under the sun? Sacrilege! So the CJ herself led a charge calling on the police to deal with them because that was a threat on her life, she claimed. but Christo me! I've heard worse in this very cantata country I find myself. Anyway!

So what's new? 'force through narrow window' now means 'life is under threat'? Pal, per chance, has the English Language changed that much without my noticing? well, some have argued that the group have no locus to remove the CJ under the law. But since when did it necessarily mean when a judge says he/she would jail someone then the judge him/herself would handcuff the 'jailee' and match the 'jailee' to the jail and then lock up the 'jailee' personally? Do the citizens of Ghana not have powers entrusted into the hands of officers to execute wishes or dreams on their behalf?

Pal, I'm saying, no, i'm pontificating, that 'force through narrow window' can mean I'd shoot you down through a narrow window or that i'd take the most narrow of legitimate or legal steps to get you out of the way. So the CJ can claim to be threatened alright and run to the police like some frightened chicken but that is all she can claim. It's up to her and the police to prove that these guys actually mean evil but not paradiso!

So I just posted on a friends' blog (Homophobia:): "i'm feeling all gay and proud". Does that necessarily mean i'm saying i'm feeling all homosexual and proud? or we are too quick to let our sentiments overrun our brains?

Pal, whatever be the answer, I have pontificated.