Coach Appiah: A Signifier of What We Can Do

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Skains 10 years ago

I'm not impressed by this writing style, which you claim - or may claim - to be poetic.

I'm not impressed by this writing style, which you claim - or may claim - to be poetic.
DR. AMPONSAH 10 years ago

YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED YOU IN DEED HAVE A Ph.D.
THOSE CRITICIZING THIS PIECE ARE JEALOUS OF YOU JUST AS THEY ARE JEALOUS OF KWASI APPIAH. THOSE PEOPLE ARE MOSTLY EITHER ALIGNED TO A POLITICAL PARTY OR THEY FEEL TRIBALLY INFER ...
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YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED YOU IN DEED HAVE A Ph.D.
THOSE CRITICIZING THIS PIECE ARE JEALOUS OF YOU JUST AS THEY ARE JEALOUS OF KWASI APPIAH. THOSE PEOPLE ARE MOSTLY EITHER ALIGNED TO A POLITICAL PARTY OR THEY FEEL TRIBALLY INFERIOR.
NEVER MIND, I DO NOT SEE POLITICS IN YOUR PIECE NEITHER DO I SEE TRIBALISM. IT IS IN DEED A SIGNIFIER OF WHAT WE CAN DO. BRAVO.
DR. AMPONSAH 10 years ago

SEND THIS TO THE DAILY GRAPHIC.

SEND THIS TO THE DAILY GRAPHIC.
Cool J 10 years ago

Please madam, take your smelly ashawo pussy out of our football. Go do your stupid politics elsewhere and allow us soccer fans to enjoy our game in oneness. Nonsense!

Please madam, take your smelly ashawo pussy out of our football. Go do your stupid politics elsewhere and allow us soccer fans to enjoy our game in oneness. Nonsense!
King Marc 10 years ago

Man,you comment is highly repulsive.I guess you could have expressed your self in a more decent way than this.You are however entitled to your opinion.

Man,you comment is highly repulsive.I guess you could have expressed your self in a more decent way than this.You are however entitled to your opinion.
Cool J 10 years ago

Noted; I was only pissed off by this blatant attempt to introduce politics into our game. Sorry to other readers.

Noted; I was only pissed off by this blatant attempt to introduce politics into our game. Sorry to other readers.
Sarskoberta 10 years ago

I should think you are new here in the soccer forum.
Mensema has been with us since memory can memorialized.
The GBS I believe, is her first love, one of the rare 'Ghanawoman' who inspite of her busy 'booklong' issues plus ...
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I should think you are new here in the soccer forum.
Mensema has been with us since memory can memorialized.
The GBS I believe, is her first love, one of the rare 'Ghanawoman' who inspite of her busy 'booklong' issues plus wifery duties finds time to appear here with her solidarity.

If you don't see, or recognize any sense in her output as an ideal woman, as a writer, entertainer and educator, then am afraid, you are rather senseless.
Beats Me.
Sarskoberta 10 years ago

Mensema!
Your handiwork on the man I call MR.AA
aka. MRAA LAW, has given credence to the "Walatulization" programme borne out of the Governor's better Ghana agenda deal that swept the Serbian mafia off the shores of Africa ...
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Mensema!
Your handiwork on the man I call MR.AA
aka. MRAA LAW, has given credence to the "Walatulization" programme borne out of the Governor's better Ghana agenda deal that swept the Serbian mafia off the shores of Africa.
W'ayaade3!!!
Lets have more of the dose.

Just for the crack of it, I have known you to be Akadu Mensema. Wherefore cometh the suffix 'Ntiriwa'?
Beats Me.
Ikeman 10 years ago

Great job girl. Iam very proud of you for this excellent piece of writing. Keep your head up and continue the good work.

Great job girl. Iam very proud of you for this excellent piece of writing. Keep your head up and continue the good work.
viv 10 years ago

Brilliant piece of work that celebrates blackness.

Brilliant piece of work that celebrates blackness.
DI ASEM PA 10 years ago

I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A KID,WHEN A WHITE MAN COMES IN TOWN, WE USE TO FELLOW THEM ON STREET AS IF THEY ARE A DIFERENT CREATURE, THEY ARE NOT HUMAN BIENG, THEY ARE GOD. AT THIS AGE MANY OF WE AFRICANS STILL SEE THEM AS GOD. WE ...
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I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A KID,WHEN A WHITE MAN COMES IN TOWN, WE USE TO FELLOW THEM ON STREET AS IF THEY ARE A DIFERENT CREATURE, THEY ARE NOT HUMAN BIENG, THEY ARE GOD. AT THIS AGE MANY OF WE AFRICANS STILL SEE THEM AS GOD. WE WORSHIP THEM BECAUSE WE CAN NOT PROVIDE FOR OURSELVES. WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG, SOMEONE WILL COME AND TELLS YOU. WHY DO YOU DO THAT,A WHITE MAN WILL NEVER DO WHAT YOU JUST DID. BUT COME TO UNITED STATE YOU WILL THE WORST OF IT. WE DON'T VALUE WHAT WE HAVE. WE DON'T RESPECT OUR OWN. WE SEE BLACK AS A SIGN OF THE DEVIL. BUT THE SECRET IS, EVEN JESUS CHRIST WAS A BLACK IF WE DON'T KNOW.
Appletus 10 years ago

This getting boring. Can you construct longer sentences? What about making use of figures of speech. Let readers feel the aa, bb,ab.etb
These make the poem worthy of interpretation.
A poem must not be straight forward s ...
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This getting boring. Can you construct longer sentences? What about making use of figures of speech. Let readers feel the aa, bb,ab.etb
These make the poem worthy of interpretation.
A poem must not be straight forward such as yours,,,,,,please let your poems agitate our minds .
Let the reader figure out what you want to communicate and that makes for a perfect poem.
Yours are too straight forward , too simplistic and tribally skewed.
ZEE 10 years ago

What is this guy rambling on about? the team still has a lot to work on. yes we did very well going forward and scored goals, good job on that. but do you think going into the worldcup and playing against the likes of spain, ...
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What is this guy rambling on about? the team still has a lot to work on. yes we did very well going forward and scored goals, good job on that. but do you think going into the worldcup and playing against the likes of spain, germany, brazil, etc we will get the opportunities we got? or won't get screwed for the midfield and defensive errors we showcased? We won and that is awesome, but there are still issues we need to fix with the team. Let us not get ahead of ourselves if we want to be great at the worldcup.
fantastic boy 10 years ago

Yes our defence is still a bit weak. We
need Boye, Vossa ,The two MENSAHS going forward.I think BaBA RhAMAN with his skills and speed should play at the left back. We need more friendlies with quality opponents as well.Suma ...
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Yes our defence is still a bit weak. We
need Boye, Vossa ,The two MENSAHS going forward.I think BaBA RhAMAN with his skills and speed should play at the left back. We need more friendlies with quality opponents as well.Sumaila is strong and coaches should work with him one on one. EXPOSE him to a few top games and he will be experienced. He didnt need to bring Sallah down.He SALLAH was inviting the contact .Sumaila should be encouraged and made to watch top games and continue to play him.He has a bright futurein my opinion.
On the whole the team did a great job.
We in USA WERE very grateful that BEIN sports showed all the AFRICAN QUALIFIERS.Am a physician and postponed my tuesday afternoon clinic to watch the game and was grateful I did.Coach Appiah don't rest till we have completely qualified.The Egyptians will use all sorts of tactics to beat us but skill wise they don't match us.Field the most potent team you have to get the job done in Cairo.Please call KPB if he is fit for the Boy is simply fantastic and I dont care what any one says about him.Even Suarez is accepted in LIVERPOOL.
Kofi of Africa 10 years ago

Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema writes eloquently here.

Her instantaneous poem captures most of the critical issues, pertaining the replacement of Ghana's disturbing trend of hiring Serbian Mafia coaches with Ghana's own, Coach Kwe ...
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Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema writes eloquently here.

Her instantaneous poem captures most of the critical issues, pertaining the replacement of Ghana's disturbing trend of hiring Serbian Mafia coaches with Ghana's own, Coach Kwesi Appiah.

Unfortunately, I have read some disturbing, ethnically chauvinist writings by this author in the past - a malevolent past which she tersely self-characterises as, 'Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D., is a nationalist Denkyira beauty.'

I hope she has finally shed her self-centred 'nationalist' cloak, and finally embraced the reality of being, first and foremost, a Ghanaian and, secondly, an African beauty rather than a merely introversive 'Denkyira nationalist.'

Welcome home beautiful sister.

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