Anomic Season: Kufour Proves He is not a Politician

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A GERSIS 11 years ago

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Fellow Ghanaians

In this art form, this poem looks like the handiwork of a first grader.

It is evident that you are a poetaster. You frequently include errors or lapses in your work's me ...
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GVYB TV

A Gersis reporting

Fellow Ghanaians

In this art form, this poem looks like the handiwork of a first grader.

It is evident that you are a poetaster. You frequently include errors or lapses in your work's meter, and you stack on badly rhyming words which jar rather than flow. You engage in oversentimentality. You display a truckload of the pathetic fallacies and engage intentionally in bathetic choice of words to address the subject matter.

This work is undelivered. Send back to the sender.

Ah! Is this a work of a PhD holder?

Akadu, your grade is 10%. Please redo to get 50%.

Signed:
PROF. ANTONIO GERSIS
PLAZA ONE
DALLAS
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

You are so brilliant and know it all, but you are stupidly glued to my first-grader's work! Is that the best you can do? Say all you can: you can never deter me from writing and expressing my perspectives on developments in G ...
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You are so brilliant and know it all, but you are stupidly glued to my first-grader's work! Is that the best you can do? Say all you can: you can never deter me from writing and expressing my perspectives on developments in Ghana. You don't scare me and if you could see, I have been toying with you!
Nick 11 years ago

Akadu stop harrasing the Gersis: you are making him look more stupid!

Akadu stop harrasing the Gersis: you are making him look more stupid!
nana kakahini amankwaa 11 years ago

Years ago, in a premature move, the Kente Weavers at Adanwomase in Ashanti, named new design after Dr. President Kufuor.
The Kente Cloth was called "Kufuor has lifted up Ghana."
He did not deserve it then. But, now, by elec ...
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Years ago, in a premature move, the Kente Weavers at Adanwomase in Ashanti, named new design after Dr. President Kufuor.
The Kente Cloth was called "Kufuor has lifted up Ghana."
He did not deserve it then. But, now, by electing to be at the Inauguration, President Doctor Kufuor becomes worthy of the naming of the cloth after His Highness.
For that reason, I have bought two yards of the cloth for Miss Akadu to cover her nakedness.
A GERSIS 11 years ago

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Fellow Ghanaians

Akadu, this poem will help you understand the kind of poem that I am looking for:

GERSIS AND AKADU IN A BATTLE

Few were they who returned
After many years a ...
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Fellow Ghanaians

Akadu, this poem will help you understand the kind of poem that I am looking for:

GERSIS AND AKADU IN A BATTLE

Few were they who returned
After many years armed
Their homes having been destroyed
Their children grew and flourished
..........
..........
..........

Akadu, for your next homework, finish the poem above for a grade to replace the one that you wrote like a first grader.

Sincerely,

Professor ANTONIO GERSIS
PLAZA ONE
DALLAS
Kpengson Ray 11 years ago

I said it! A GERSIS and Akadu Mensema are in love! Now it is confirmed, "---if you could see, I have been toying with you". Please the two of you should go make love and stop this teasing of each other!

I said it! A GERSIS and Akadu Mensema are in love! Now it is confirmed, "---if you could see, I have been toying with you". Please the two of you should go make love and stop this teasing of each other!
Ibby Australia 11 years ago

I think Akadu should have used his PhD to talk sense into the NPP guys that K4 is a former president and was invited as such.

I think Akadu should have used his PhD to talk sense into the NPP guys that K4 is a former president and was invited as such.
Yaw Amofa 11 years ago

All that this Akadu guy does is copy-catting Okoampa-Ahoofe as people who all that the NPP do as holy! Pathetic professors who are hiding in U.S. and trying to cause confusion in Ghana. Fucking refugees.

All that this Akadu guy does is copy-catting Okoampa-Ahoofe as people who all that the NPP do as holy! Pathetic professors who are hiding in U.S. and trying to cause confusion in Ghana. Fucking refugees.
Nana Yaw 11 years ago

Are you trying to reignite the old rivalry of Dekyira and Ashanti?

Are you trying to reignite the old rivalry of Dekyira and Ashanti?
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Oh! Sir, read the poem carefully!

Oh! Sir, read the poem carefully!
GYE NYAME 11 years ago

Ghanaian Phds', Professors',degree holders and those who claim to of importance, please!, please!! and please!!!!!!!, come back home and help build GHANA than to be in "your so called ABUROKYIRE degree homes". GOD, desend on ...
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Ghanaian Phds', Professors',degree holders and those who claim to of importance, please!, please!! and please!!!!!!!, come back home and help build GHANA than to be in "your so called ABUROKYIRE degree homes". GOD, desend on YOUR Holy PEOPLE of (Israel)GHANA.
Pip 11 years ago

this poem will not fly...

this poem will not fly...
Yaw Adu 11 years ago

Fool!

Fool!
Akuadu mens semen 11 years ago

bravo

bravo
Nii Duodu Ankrah 11 years ago

You are fooling about on Ghanaweb, calling yourself Akadu Mensema. I have already warned you of the movement that is coming close to your Sheppenship University quarters in Pennsylvania to destroy your career in history teach ...
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You are fooling about on Ghanaweb, calling yourself Akadu Mensema. I have already warned you of the movement that is coming close to your Sheppenship University quarters in Pennsylvania to destroy your career in history teaching. You are gradually pushing the button, and you will soon cry blood.

Akadu Mensema won't hide your true identity. Remember that your IP address is known. Prepare for the onslaught.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

You have people here who are calling Akyems, Asantes, etc. baboons, monkeys, etc. so why don't you reveal their identities?
Assuming that I am Kwabena Akurang-Parry, what have I done or said on Ghanaweb that will destroy in ...
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You have people here who are calling Akyems, Asantes, etc. baboons, monkeys, etc. so why don't you reveal their identities?
Assuming that I am Kwabena Akurang-Parry, what have I done or said on Ghanaweb that will destroy in career! Some of you are full of it. The fact that you disagree with my opinions does not mean I have committed!
Sani 11 years ago

... you should either admit it or stop using it. You can get yourself another identity on ghanaweb. If you're a man parading yourself as a woman, you should admit it. It will give you more credibility. Then we will all know e ...
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... you should either admit it or stop using it. You can get yourself another identity on ghanaweb. If you're a man parading yourself as a woman, you should admit it. It will give you more credibility. Then we will all know exactly who our interlocutor is.

I don't think this has anything to do with your position as a History teacher. No one can take that away from you because you claim you're a woman on ghanaweb. But we forumers on ghanaweb will be more interested in who the real person under the moniker is and will not want to be deceived. Remember the murky reasons lying behind Nana Amma Obenewaa's departure from these pages?

You must either bury the Akadu Mensema identity or admit that it's the cover name for who you really are. I don't think even your most vociferous critics want you to stop writing for ghanaweb and they'll be sorry to see you go. I will certainly be even though I don't like all the things you write here.

Don't go the way of Nana Amma Obenewaa.
Yaw Adu 11 years ago

Some of you people are fools and hate opposition. What has Akadu said here that it has not been said by others!

Some of you people are fools and hate opposition. What has Akadu said here that it has not been said by others!
Nii Duodu Ankrah 11 years ago

Akadu Mensa that you hide behind has been blown off. That cover won't save you from the forces that are poised to take you on.

Akadu Mensa that you hide behind has been blown off. That cover won't save you from the forces that are poised to take you on.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

I will wait for the day and see what you can do! Nothing at all!

I will wait for the day and see what you can do! Nothing at all!
Yaw Adu 11 years ago

Why don't you reveal your real identity before you splash innocent people's names here!

Why don't you reveal your real identity before you splash innocent people's names here!
MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

Despite your poetic license, I take umbrage against your usage of the term anomy. In spite of our many problems nationwide, we are not anywhere near experiencing anomic seasons.

From what I gleaned from Sociology 101, anom ...
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Despite your poetic license, I take umbrage against your usage of the term anomy. In spite of our many problems nationwide, we are not anywhere near experiencing anomic seasons.

From what I gleaned from Sociology 101, anomie, in societies or in individuals, is a condition of abject instability resulting from a breakdown of standards or values, or from a lack of purpose or ideals.

Are you telling your compatriots that they don't have any sense of purpose, values, standards or ideals? That we don't have rules and laws and beliefs? That we are normless?
Go to any of our markets and find out.

When the French sociologist, Emile Durkheim first introduced the term, in the late 19th century, he was studying suicide. He was of the opinion that one type of suicide (anomic) resulted from the breakdown of social standards. According to Durkheim when a social system is in a state of anomie, the common values and common meanings are no longer understood and accepted; resulting in a sense of futility, lack of purpose, emotional emptiness, and hopelessness.

Akadu, the Ghanaian society I know and love dearly, and individual Ghanaians I've met over the years and recently, don't come anywhere near the state of anomie you sought to describe here.
The anomic seasons are figments of your anemic imagination.
GENERAL DeGAULE 11 years ago

I was about to reproduce my son's first year course work in sociology on the topic in response until I read your piece. I will forever hold my peace. Our Denkyira beauty, thinks she can belittle people's intelligence by using ...
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I was about to reproduce my son's first year course work in sociology on the topic in response until I read your piece. I will forever hold my peace. Our Denkyira beauty, thinks she can belittle people's intelligence by using big words out of context.

Kuffour actually phoned in to the radio station to put his point of view across. Even though I do not support him, credit where it is due, he spoke wisely and in Twi. He said being an elder stateman is not at all an easy job and one's head ought not be rules by one's heart especially where the emotions are fueled by fiery temperament.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Some of you are full of yourself!

Some of you are full of yourself!
GENERAL DeGAULE 11 years ago

Poetry must enlighten and edify one's mind not dull it with senseless drivel.

Poetry must enlighten and edify one's mind not dull it with senseless drivel.
Yao Tom 11 years ago

Akadu asked you to tell your son! Did you do that! We may not agree with all Akadu's ideas, but some are enlightening and powerful!

Akadu asked you to tell your son! Did you do that! We may not agree with all Akadu's ideas, but some are enlightening and powerful!
GENERAL DeGAULE 11 years ago

Which of her drivel do you find enlightening and powerful? Give an example.

Which of her drivel do you find enlightening and powerful? Give an example.
Kojo Nsiah 11 years ago

Ghana is a failed nation; all the signs are there to prove it.

Ghana is a failed nation; all the signs are there to prove it.
GENERAL DeGAULE 11 years ago

A failed nation is one that has no functioning government and one governed by several war lords.

Akuffo Addo only governs his Nima residence.

A failed nation is one that has no functioning government and one governed by several war lords.

Akuffo Addo only governs his Nima residence.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

This is a much ado about nothing short of ingratiating yourself with knowledge! What is your understanding of poetic license? If you did, you would not be belaboring this tired Sociology!

I wish that you had used the work ...
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This is a much ado about nothing short of ingratiating yourself with knowledge! What is your understanding of poetic license? If you did, you would not be belaboring this tired Sociology!

I wish that you had used the works of Prof. Busia, Nukunya, or Bame who had critiqued Durkheim and came out with better theories that illuminate the works of Durkheim and are more applicable to the Ghanaian postcolony.

Then again you could have used scholars, such as Radcliffe-Brown, Weber, Collins, Shwartz, etc., whose works have distilled Durkheim's perspectives.

Now let us use some practical examples. So when Soyinka titled his work "The Man Died" does it mean that he - Soyinka - died? When Achebe said Things Fall Apart, what did he mean, that every thing in Igboland fell apart? And when Mongo Beti titled his novel "The Poor Christ of Bomba," did he mean that Jesus Christ lived in Bomba and that the he was poor.

Give up youe anti-intellectualism!

Let us be fair in our criticism. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, but I expect balanced and thoughtful criticism, not some showboating of erstwhile scholarship that fails to use nuance!
Master 11 years ago

You expect balanced and thoughtful criticism but your poems do not lend themselves to intellectual criticism. Which critic dead or alive labelled your peoms “populist hyperbolic, satirical" as you wish us to believe?

You expect balanced and thoughtful criticism but your poems do not lend themselves to intellectual criticism. Which critic dead or alive labelled your peoms “populist hyperbolic, satirical" as you wish us to believe?
Paa Nii 11 years ago

You sound like Marcus Ampadu. I think Akadu has raised brilliant points that should be discussed so don't come up with these lame arguments!

You sound like Marcus Ampadu. I think Akadu has raised brilliant points that should be discussed so don't come up with these lame arguments!
Yao Tom 11 years ago

Running away from wise-cracking wisdom! Marcus has become the Master!

Running away from wise-cracking wisdom! Marcus has become the Master!
Yao Tom 11 years ago

Wow! Brofo and knowledge combined!

Wow! Brofo and knowledge combined!
Paa Nii 11 years ago

Upon reading your response and that of Akadu, I now realize that Akadu has a great mind in analyzing issues. I wish you would respond so that we would learn from it.

Upon reading your response and that of Akadu, I now realize that Akadu has a great mind in analyzing issues. I wish you would respond so that we would learn from it.
MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

Paa Nii, everyone has a great mind in analyzing issues, provided the issues are objectively examined without bias or favour, and with a clear understanding of the key concepts under discussion.

Go back and look up the word ...
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Paa Nii, everyone has a great mind in analyzing issues, provided the issues are objectively examined without bias or favour, and with a clear understanding of the key concepts under discussion.

Go back and look up the word anomie. Akadu, in her poetic exuberance, latched on to the word anomy without carefully considering its meaning and implication.

To me anomie means social breakdown, social instability caused by the breakdown of law and order: no standards, no values, unrest
lawlessness and hopelessness. Where in Ghana do we have this anomic state of affair?

Pay Nii, you have every right to agree with Akadu, but I'm not ready to accept her contention that the seasons of anomy have arrived at the shores of Ghana.
GENERAL DeGAULE 11 years ago

Don't bother engaging in any discourse with this gay or guy who is cooked up with his/her mentor. hH or she is writing under several assumed.

Don't bother engaging in any discourse with this gay or guy who is cooked up with his/her mentor. hH or she is writing under several assumed.
A. Wahab 11 years ago

When at all w'd the 'political writers' stop this partisan understanding of issues.For God's sake Kufour said that, he is invited as a former president not a mere politician.

When at all w'd the 'political writers' stop this partisan understanding of issues.For God's sake Kufour said that, he is invited as a former president not a mere politician.
GENERAL DeGAULE 11 years ago

Just a point of interest which not many people know. Kuffour is from Denkyira. I bet you did not know that!

Who is your great mentor? Are you in a same sex relationship?

Just a point of interest which not many people know. Kuffour is from Denkyira. I bet you did not know that!

Who is your great mentor? Are you in a same sex relationship?
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

duh!

duh!
Sammy 11 years ago

He's asking cos it's known you're a man pretending as a woman on ghanaweb. We all can take different forms and monikers on the Internet but for a man to posture as a woman and take part in serious discussions about our countr ...
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He's asking cos it's known you're a man pretending as a woman on ghanaweb. We all can take different forms and monikers on the Internet but for a man to posture as a woman and take part in serious discussions about our country is a bit disgraceful. Once now and then, okay but this sustained pretense...
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Who are you? Give us your full name, address, phone number, etc.

Who are you? Give us your full name, address, phone number, etc.
Master 11 years ago

Why do you want his contact details?

Why do you want his contact details?
Paa Nii 11 years ago

Stupid question

Stupid question
Jahman 11 years ago

If that is why you want his contact info then forget it.

If that is why you want his contact info then forget it.
Nana Yaw 11 years ago

It's grammatically incorrect to associate umbrage with ''against'' instead of ''at'' ''take umbrage at'' not ''take umbrage against'' madam PhD

It's grammatically incorrect to associate umbrage with ''against'' instead of ''at'' ''take umbrage at'' not ''take umbrage against'' madam PhD
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

Some of you are funny indeed! Where did I use umbrage? Is that the only thing wrong with the long poem? Good, I have done a good job and will do better next time!

Some of you are funny indeed! Where did I use umbrage? Is that the only thing wrong with the long poem? Good, I have done a good job and will do better next time!
mojingles 11 years ago

"The Vulture has claimed the carcass," it appears is the recurring theme of Akadu's poem and implicitly, suggests, however, subtly that the NDC which was once disdainful and contemptuous of Kufuor,"Baboon with red eyes, Asant ...
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"The Vulture has claimed the carcass," it appears is the recurring theme of Akadu's poem and implicitly, suggests, however, subtly that the NDC which was once disdainful and contemptuous of Kufuor,"Baboon with red eyes, Asante monkey," now sees the former President as a "gem" to be paraded for all to see because of his selfless decision to attend Mahama's inauguration.....Akadu makes a poignant point, but where does she stand on Kufour's decision vis a vis that of those knuckleheads who have a stranglehold on the NPP, those who would rather the NPP continues to self-immolate with a strategy that ultimately will shatter the image the party has carefully crafted over the years, painstakingly, I must add.....
Paa Nii 11 years ago

I came away with the same ideas as you have. I think the problem is that some of us can't read or even don't read, but just post comments once we see Akadu's name

I came away with the same ideas as you have. I think the problem is that some of us can't read or even don't read, but just post comments once we see Akadu's name

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