Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Wicked Wednesday – The Irrelevant List Coming
A catalogue of Ghana’s gay MPs will ‘out’ on Wednesday. Why? There was politics in the town of Cape Coast; a jostle for renown between the president and the leader of the opposition. Now, the shit has hit the fan; scurrilous broadsides. One man has been called gay by the other side. He says it’s not true. However, he has information on who’s gay in Ghana’s Parliament. He will expose them on Wednesday. 2010 in Ghana! Our leaders are dabbling ... Do we really want development in the next 300 years?
Saturday, September 11, 2010
I Wish I Could Ask Napoleon for Advice
If I could ask any historical person for advice, hmmm, it could be any among hundreds. But, now, I'm thinking of Napoleon Bonaparte. And here's what I'd ask him:
You're small; you have riveting eyes; you are aggressive; you're a soldier; is there anything else in your skill bag for spectacular success (we'll talk about the equally spectacular failure later)?
A close second could be Marilyn Monroe, who I'd probably ask, "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?"
Who would you pick, and what would you ask them?
Non-Lyrical Mouths, Excuses or Self-Respect?
You know that it's either your game is dead from non-practice, or you settled down a long while ago, when your little nephew (who idolises you in every way) dares you to chat up a pretty girl on a train, and all you think about is your pride and reputation (in a strange country) instead of focusing on the little job at hand.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Menages a Trois - Age is Just a Number
I caught two old black dames on a red bus shamelessly checking out me in a grey 'skin' suit, light blue shirt and a super-sexy tie. They both smiled at me, and one gave the thumbs up they couldn't honestly deny me (tongue in cheek). For 30 minutes, I def walked taller.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Skunks on the Loose
You’re in a crowded place, like on a bus, and the hygiene’s dysfunctional for some of the people around you. Did they not realise at home? Skunks are not repulsed by their own scandalous scent. Maybe humans are the same. They should leave the skunk at home.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Claiming Accra
So, what's in all these names?
The national arena of games
Was first named after Accra
Then renamed for a sports Czar
It was claimed he was not from Accra
So the name-change was a scar
The mayor penned a daring decree
Reverse the name did he!
It happened in the capital
A city no longer ‘local’
Can the group which came here first
Make us bend to its will, coerced?
The national arena of games
Was first named after Accra
Then renamed for a sports Czar
It was claimed he was not from Accra
So the name-change was a scar
The mayor penned a daring decree
Reverse the name did he!
It happened in the capital
A city no longer ‘local’
Can the group which came here first
Make us bend to its will, coerced?
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Vendors with Bells in the City of Accra
Today, I drove past a frowning fat man in a yellow MTN vendor’s vest. He was pitching strips of rubber-sealed phone top-up cards in front of the Palace Hypermarket (what’s that?) on the Spintex Road. Nobody was buying his cards (which must explain his fat fart face). But what really stood him out in the pedlars’ queue was the little black metal bell in his right hand – a now-not-so-common selling aid. With tiny twitches of his wrist, his three-clang cadence compelled attention to his common cards.
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