The sex was unlawful - sixteen year olds can't have legal sex in Ghana - and poorly executed (unprotected). I guess she didn't feel like a child then. The twins are lovely bundles of joy as children should be, except they're just one bundle! Suddenly their mother is a child; not mature enough to accept other children (her children) as they are. Then, again, I wonder if I'd be different.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Early Early Birds in the City of Accra
Is there still such a thing as stirring early at 7 am in Accra? The traffic has wrought wise owls of us all. We've had to push forward leave-nest time by 15 minutes every 6 months for the past 10 years. Now I wake up at silly-goose hour. The city flies the coop when a subway is suggested, and we're all chicken-livered at the idea of bicycles. But why should we ride and be a sitting duck for the trotro-bus to peck our limbs off? They swoop around the city as the crow flies. By the time the city authorities get their ducks in one row, the early-bird worm will wriggle out at 2 am.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
How the Military Assaulted, Non-Assaulted, then Un-Assaulted a Journo
When you blow a cloud of dust on my face, or spill a cup of water down
my back, tickle my pits, dribble your forefinger down my cheek, or trickle
melted chocolate on my chest while I’m asleep, without my consent, you have
assaulted me in law. So when videos went viral of Ghanaian G.I.s (hyperbole
alert!) choke-holding, hammer-locking, strong-shoving and face-tossing a
pussycat journo on Independence Day, I joined to shout the ‘shame’ refrain. And when the military opened Ostrich investigations, called as many as zero witnesses
and played possum with the raw, stripped, naked truth, I dog-pissed on their decency.
What did they go and do? They went to say sorry. I accept; I hope the victim
does too.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Kantamanto - A Reason for a Fire
I recently favourited a tweet by @Be_Wisdom: “Surburbia
is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after
them ~ Bill Vaughan”. Some developer or interloper whooshed a flame through a tin-and-wood
Central-Accra market that's crowded thick as fleas. The police won’t find the
arsonist. I suspect strongly that the cinders are intended to make way for the
construction of a capitalist, concrete-architectural crime-scene (how else to
describe the explosive sprout of sterile office and apartment blocks in the
least-green city that I know?). These traders are squatters in most of these
settlements – we all know that; but usually squatters on governmental no-man’s
land; permitted to settle for a decade or two or three. After the cinders, the
riots, the cracked skulls, the lies, the justifications and the public loss of
interest, a hideous and humongous habitat will hulk over the land that was
known as Kantamanto.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
German Football Highs & Other Random Questions
Will all German teams now score 4 goals in their sleep?
Does live tv make court proceedings better?
Will Luiz Suarez grow up at last?
Will Apple's fortunes go down forever?
Does live tv make court proceedings better?
Will Luiz Suarez grow up at last?
Will Apple's fortunes go down forever?
Friday, April 5, 2013
MPs' Pay & Other Random Questions
Do our MPs really identify with us?
Will Hillary Clinton 2016 happen after all?
Will the government buckle to the doctors or lecturers first?
Who does the thinking for the National Service Secretariat?
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