Opinions of Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Columnist: Kwarteng, Francis

Expensive Shit-Bombing Politics 5

No more shit-bombing politics…say yes!

Deforestation…arsonous bushfires….desertification…toxic wastes…say no!

Scott D. Sampson’s “How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love With Nature”…

Afforestation…ecosophy…reforestation…environmental consciousness…ecological wisdom…ecological philosophy...green technology…naturalistic intelligence…deep ecology…ecological footprint…Wangari Muta Maathai’s “canopy of hope” …say yes!

The tragedy of the commons…say no!

Ye Great People of Ghana:

Over-spiritualization of existential conundrums…open defecation…trokosi…religionism…armed robbery…illegal judgment debts…youth unemployment…say no!

Separation of religion and state…anti-clericalism in secular politics…mass education under the aegis of critical, analytic thinking, pedagogy and andragogy…No Fela Kuti’s “Mr. Follow Follow”…say yes!

Come make we chant down on bad leadership…public corruption…adversarial, attack….mudslinging…journalism…journalistic mudslinging…sites of verbal diarrhea and open defecation:

Shake off the yoke of Senghorian Negritude…

Shake off the yoke of neocolonialism…

Shake off the yoke of colonial education…

Shake off the yoke of bad cultural practices…

Shake off the yoke of religious and political terrorism…

Shake off the yoke of the Indemnity Clause…

Shake off the yoke of child marriage…

Shake off the yoke of Soyinkan Neo-Tarzanism…

Shake off the yoke of political field slaves…

Shake off the yoke of bad music and movies…

Shake off the yoke of ethnic jingoism…

Shake off the yoke of neocolonial export-oriented Guggisberg economics…

Shake off the yoke of internal colonialism…

Shake off the yoke of the Ghana Hybrid System (and bring in the Production Sharing Agreement)…

Shake off the yoke of the Ghanaian equivalent of Jonathan Kozol’s “savage inequalities”…

Sack all the Ali Baba murderous political thieves and criminals and kleptomaniacal rapists and national dream killers…caudillos…from the country…

Dark horse presidential candidates…Not Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse”…say yes!

Duopolistic fascist-crapitalism…say no!

No more political bodderation of the masses…:

Where are our diamonds, gold, bauxite, uranium…?

What do we have to show for all these…?

What did our politicians do with these precious metals…?

Ghanaian politicians…Some Ghanaian politicians…All Ghanaian politicians…Neocolonial bats…Kleptomaniacal Taliban vampires…Wicked mountain-goat mother fuckers…

Ghanaian politicians…Some Ghanaian politicians….All Ghanaian politicians….Wicked Sewage rats…Murderous inglorious thieves…Murderous inglorious bastards…Dog-shit vulturine vampires…All of them…

Ghanaian politicians…Some Ghanaian Politicians…All Ghanaian politicians…Kleptomaniacal shit-bombing eaters…Grossly irresponsible mother fuckers…Dead-brained androids, robots, mannequins…Vegetative vegetables…Murderous sankwas…Kleptomaniacal sakawa-dreamers…

Kpa Kpa Kpa mother fuckers…Dead-brained syphilitic, gonorrheal, chlamydial dead-walking ghosts…Dead-brained HIV-AIDS-infected carcass-eating Nebuchadnezzar vultures, Ebola-infected baboons…

Later rapper…Tupac Shakur…“Hit ‘Em Up”…seh:

“My .44 make sure all y'all kids don't grow, motherfucker

“But we ain’t singing…

“We bringing drama…

“We’re gonna kill all you mother fuckers…

“Fuck you, die slow mother fuckers…

Here: “die slow” is a bold phrasal statement of metaphoricity…

Here: “die slow” means this Fourth Republic generation of wicked ruling class must give way to a new generation of thoughtful patriotic ruling class…

Here: “die slow” means rejecting means…chase those crazy baldheads out of town…Bob Marley…

Here: their “kids don’t grow”…politicians’ serial callers…their useful idiots…their village idiots…their Kwashiorkor following…will not and should not “live” to succeed their political patrons in the Flagstaff House…in parliament…in the judiciary…in the ministries…the bureaucracy…District Chief Executives…Council of Elders…as presidential advisors…as presidential candidates…more like a generational curse…the fire of public anger…frustration…angst…“burn” them all…fire “burn” them…their “kids don’t grow”…like Bob Marley’s “Burning and Looting”…

Here: their “kids don’t grow” means making sure the ideology of kleptomaniacal murdering…plundering…ransacking…of the national coffers…of the political philosophy of continued underdevelopment of the nation due to divisive political rhetoric…extreme partisan politics…do not develop deep tap roots in the soil of the new generation of leaders…

Here: that, like Shem and Japheth, they…members of this new generation of leaders…cover the hypocritical nakedness of their political elders’ legacy of painful policy failures…with a patriotic blanket of pragmatic ideas and policy vision capable of rejuvenating society and reversing moral decay…

Here: that the cancerous gene of bad and clueless leadership is not transmittable to succeeding generation of leaders…

To the African youth…to the Ghanaian youth…Arise! Arise! Arise!...Amandla! Amandla! Amandla!...Aluta Continua!...Strike the hammer of justice…sing your own song about rejecting the Politics of the Belly, of your corrupt…cancerous political elders…inglorious political mother fuckers…

To the African youth…to the Ghanaian youth…reject the politics of immediate gratification… of the kleptomaniacal greed and excessive materialism of your elderly political mother fuckers…who rather prefer the exploitative Ghana Hybrid System (GHS) to the more progressively beneficial Production Sharing Agreement (PSA)…reject these neocolonial mother fuckers…

To the African youth…to the Ghanaian youth…reject these elderly Eurocentric political mother fuckers with their cancerous gene of universal kleptomania…reject the expensive shit-bombing politics of the old and dying generation of thieving, murderous mother fuckers…

To the African youth…to the Ghanaian youth…sing your own song of patriotic Nkrumahism, of selfless sacrifice to your nation, your Mother Land…embrace the politics of inclusiveness, of the progressive politics of Africa Unite…War…Zimbabwe…One Love…Wake Up and Live…Bob Marley…

GHANAIAN YOUTH NATIONAL ANTHEM

“Arise Ghana youth for your country,…

“The nation demands your devotion,…

“Let all unite to uphold her,…

“And make here great and strong,…

“We are all involved…

“In building our motherland!...

GHANAIAN ELDERS NATIONAL ANTHEM

“Arise not Ghanaian elders, for Ghana is not your country…

“The nation rejects your evil ways…

“Die off…And be buried in the graveyards of your devious, wicked ways…

“Your divisive politics is tearing the nation apart…

“And make here un-great and weak…

“You are not involved in nation-building…You are nation-wreakers…

“In destroying our motherland…

CONCLUSION

Bob Marley “Real Situation” seh:

“Well, it seems like total destruction the only solution, and there ain't no use…no one can stop them now…Where did it all begin? Where will it end?”

End of five-part series!