*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.

“President Mills swore-in members of the Ghana Boundary Commission. They are
Alhaji Collins Dauda, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Mr Peter
Azumah, Ali Kamaldeen, Mr E. G. Kosivi-Degbor, Alhaji Mamadu Abudulai-Saiku, Mr
Lawrence Apaalse, Mr Emmanuel Adjei Mohenu, Alhaji Ahmed Bin-Salih of the
Ministry” (Abridged from Ghanaweb April 9,2010)

Ghana Boundary Commission
One of our mirrors of “TRIBALISM”
One of our mirrors of gender bias

Hm! JJ be wisest Ghanaman very wise
Eh! JJ dey set fire again for Castled Mills
Hm! JJ no dey attack Mills for “TRIBALISM”
Na true oh JJ say Mills be all negative bad
But JJ never say Mills bad for “TRIBALISM”
Hm! Why JJ no dey query “TRIBALISM”
JJ be wise man wise con man con man
Na true JJ dey love Mills’ “TRIBALISM”
Yes, na so JJ keep quiet for “TRIBALISM”

P-NDC tribalism is in the air
Let us punch the air in delight
Let us deflate their mediocrity
Cusping on “TRIBALISM”
The P-NDC trajectory
Eternal ruinous trajectory
Pioneered by JJ Rawlings
Championed by Kofi Awonoor
Shackled to Fante Simpa Mills

P-NDC “TRIBALISM” is in the air
Punch the air in delight
Father of all, father for all
Mills has rejected Akans
Mills has sidelined the Akan majority
Ewes and Northerners are everywhere
Parading with aggressive divisiveness
Ministers, advisers, ambassadors
Army, police, security personnel
Fashioning boards, corporations

Atta Mills is our bane
A political pawn
Rawlings’ collateral
For P-NDC no. 3
Simpa Panyin Mills
Hunted by Rawlings
Haunted by Rawlings
Taunted by Rawlings
That Mills is slow
Mills has thievery officials
Official bastards like JJ
Mills is ineffective

JJ is coning Ghanaians again
JJ is not attacking Mills’ “TRIBALISM”
JJ loves Mills’ pro-EWE “TRIBALISM”
JJ has not queried Mills’ “TRIBALISM”
JJ the chirping vulture of our politics
JJ is not chirping about “TRIBALISM”

Let us say it without fear
Say it vigorously
Speak to reckless power
The sterile seasoning of democracy
That is stunting our democracy
Tearing apart our democracy
“TRIBALISM”
Birthing divisiveness
Cusping political dissonance
Rupturing our arteries of cohesion
The virus in a “TRIBAL” Petri-dish
Corroding our architecture of hope
Of unity, of unison, of union
Of unanimity of set goals

Punch the air in delight
Let us punch the air in delight
Let us deflate the P-NDC
Let us speak up
ALL of us
Akans, Guans, Ga-Adangbes
Dagombas, Ewes, ALL
Let us say no to “TRIBAL” politics
NPP people, P-NDC people, CPP people
Our eternal politicians of DDT Party
That poisons the polity
That democratizes divisiveness
All should speak to anti-“TRIBALISM”

Punch the air in delight
Let us punch the air in delight
Let us deflate the P-NDC
Mills is well asleep
Captive to P-NDC’s deceit
Put to sleep by who born dog
Blatant display of “TRIBALISM”
Clothed in national politics
Ethnocentric ego trip
But time has not come to a stop
Politics is timeless, timelessness
Of divisiveness, conflict, violence
Seismic shift in our polity
Depreciation of national cohesion

Let us punch the air in delight
Let us deflate the P-NDC
The ruinous trajectory
Of “TRIBALISM”
Pioneered by JJ Rawlings
Championed by Kofi Awonoor
Shackled to Mills’ ineptitude

*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