*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

In Sunyani
The dust will settle
The dust will swirl
Seismic shift
The last King of the Volta
Dethroned by his Fante baby
The bastard born in Swedru
Has turned the Volta into a pond

We shall see the full circle
JJ’s apocalyptic anxieties
His unraveling of illusion
Hardened in kilns of bigotry
The sun’s rays on his past
Capturing revelatory clarity
Crafting narratives of demise
Their late sunsets
The Rawlingses
Of JJ’s fireside habits
Of burning it all
Like a harmattan fire
Reckless posturing
Demagogic theatrics
Of demeaning all
Of demonizing all
Of deceiving all
Mills enjoyed it all
Mills walked blind
Mills lost his tongue
Mills lost his sight
As JJ demonized all
Demonized Liman
Demonized Arkaah
Demonized Kufour

Sunyani says it all
The moment of clarity
At the center
A bolt of thunder
A jolt of lightning
Storms of greedy bastards
Holding their stomachs
Bulging stomachs
In SUVS
In tractors
In buses
Swimming in potholes
Well-built potholes
Tractors, SUVs
Battered by potholes
Lake-like potholes
Swimming to Sunyani
For power
For wealth
Rags-to-riches biographies
JJ’s yesterday hangers-on
Of NDC thievery politicians
Of the PV Obengs
Of the ET Mensahs
Of the Albin Bagbins
Of the Asiedu Nketiahs
Of the Ahwois
Of the Tsikatas
Of the Kofi Awonoors

From all corners
SUVs
Tractors
Ships
Bought with stolen wealth
JJ Rawlings will foam
His unraveling psyche
Of a bastardized man-child
Of a power-drunk man
Poised for a morning sunset
Elitist NDC opportunists
JJ-rags-to-riches thieves
Wielding Agya Atta
The Fante Adze bone
Wielding Simpa Mills
Wielding Snail Mills
Will restore sanity to JJ

NDC opportunists
Mills is their new bread
Mills is the new pathway
Of rags-to-riches
Of tribalism
Of corruption
Of opportunism

JJ needs sanity
Sanity to know it all
That Mills is his child
The bastard-child of Swedru
The child of a megalomaniac
Will bring sanity to NDC circus

In Sunyani
The dust will settle
The dust will swirl
Seismic shift
The last King of the Volta
Dethroned by his Fante baby
The bastard born in Swedru
Has turned the Volta into a pond

Akadu N. Mensema, Ph. D., is a nationalist Denkyira beauty. She is a trained
oral historian cum sociologist and Professor in the USA. She lives in
Pennsylvania with her great mentor and teaches Africa-area studies at a college
in Maryland. In her pastime, she writes what critics have called “populist
hyperbolic, satirical” poetry. She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com