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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Ghana's Sporting Year

See what it takes to get me out of blog exile? I s'pose the next time i blog Essien, Appiah and Co will be holding the Jules Verne trophy aloft. That's the Fifa World cup, for the uneducated.

So this year we've had Ignasius Gaisah, our turtle lipped, silver medal-winning, long jumping ... err Long Jumper.

We've had Margaret Simpson (no relation to Bart and Homer Simpson) ... our tight-arsed, enduring, bronze-winning, heptathlon athlete.

Then Aziz Zakari, actually run a few 100m races without pulling a hamstring. Dude can run! If he runs. When he runs. I dunno what exactly he won but there must've been at least one gold.

Then our hockey teams jetted off to somewhere or the other in the world (South Africa?) and totally kicked ass! Mens's team took the bronze and the women's team took silver

And just when you start thinking it couldnt get any better... Ghana's black stars walk all over South Africa, smack Uganda in the mouth and knock out Cape Verde's teth to make it to the Fifa World cup finals for the first time ever.

Dude we rock! Lets keep counting.

PS: Meanwhile in other news our Nigerian non-neighbors are .... i dont even care what they're doing. All i know is we had to kick their butt to get the men's bronze in hockey and that they didnt make it to the World Cup tis time around. See ya in 4.5 naija people. More fun for us if we arent playing youse.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Saman 'Nkiti 'Nkiti

Just had a sudden urge to document some of the Ghanaian poems and dance songs from growing up.

Not exactly the kind of things you'd expect to be taught to 3-5 year olds but see how we came out.


Da bi me kóó 'nwuram (Kayinka)
Me ko hu saman (Kayinka)

Saman 'nkiti 'nkiti (Kayinka)

Na me suro ooo
Na me suro paa

Saman pomaa ni tuo (Kayinka)
Me nso me pomaa me tuo (Kayinka)

Odi shwéé me so
Me nso me di shwéé ne so (Kayinka)

Ati ka ati ka
Ati po!

Ati ka ati ka
Ati po!

Come to think about it, i suppose it's very appropriate for the haloween season since it talks about a ghost with guns pointed at oneself... and the ghost in return having one pointed at them.

The setting is in some forest. How come people never learn! If you go to the forest.. you'll meet a ghost with a gun, he'll point it at you... you'll mysteriously sprout a gun and point it at the ghost (which probably can dodge bullets ala Matrix-style) ... then you'd both fire at the same time.

The fact that the poem ends there probably means you'll not be leaving to tell the tale.

And i'm guessing your ghost is gonna be lying wait for the next unsespecting jungle-stroller.

Have a scary Ghanaian haloween people.

Kakai bé kyi wo!
Kakai baa mó bo!

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