My dear discerning readers: I wish to come your way once again with some writing lessons. Writing is a combination of science and art which requires great effort to master. In Writing, it’s common for even seasoned writers and academic luminaries to sometimes make minor slips or commit some word stutters; but for such experts to make bloopers and outright gaffes could be very embarrassing.
It’s getting exceedingly worrying to see some notable academicians and revered institutions make some unpardonable errors. In our previous lessons, I said that it is wrong to say ATM machine because abbreviations should not be followed with a word that is included in the abbreviation, yet you see people who should know better, write or say PIN number. PIN is the abbreviation of Personal Information Number or Provider Identification Number or Product Identification Number.
Hem) ob)di
Kewawani
Iyee iyee iyee
Mama yiee ee
Mmm yeyee mama yee
Mama yee
We kill dem and ever
One day thing will get better
Big-up mi fan inna Ghana, America and Jamaica
I dey count ma paper
Ano make am if you hater
Girl you are mi honey, you know say mi love you honey
Mi love all you whine pan me, you kill me when you call me
My heart desire
You are de only one I require, I require
Forever, forever, forever
No say I no go fi take another, another, another.
Make dem talk I no go boarder, boarder, boarder.
If eno be you then my paper, my paper, my paper.
Ooh yee Mahama paper, paper, paper.
Ooh yee frank paper, paper, paper
Isha Allah oo, [ Isha Allah oo, Isha Allah oo]
Degb3malone ca Dem bi bala oo, la oo, la oo,
Wale say dem bi yaro, yaro, yaro.
Hem) b)di
Mi ni woho na ahee eee…x3
Hem) b)di
Mi ni woho na ahee eee…x3
Hem) b)di
A jah guide, a jah guide
So mi no watch no body
Oh baby oh Maami
Mi sum)o tum) tami
Still by me, lean on me,
Boni oya n3 make you cross this river, this river, this river
My brain bigger my brain bi bola, bola, bola
I go protect you like soldier, soldier, soldier
Gbagagaga mana mada, mana bada
Me nim s3 mia na woy3 dada
Woama me akai Underfire
)d) ben nie sakuaba maK) aba
)mo Nk) da
Bandana Shatta Wale si
Isha Alahu, Isha Alahu, Isha Alahu,
y3gbemaloneka dem bi balahu, lahu, lahu
Wale say dem bi yaro,yaro, yaro.
Hem) b)di
mi ni woho na ahee eee…x3
Hem) b)di
mi ni woho na ahee eee…x3
Hem) b)di
If there is one single blow that will hit the NPP in this year’s elections, it will be the above song by Shatta Wale; albeit some portions of the lyrics may not sound meaningful, the beat is electrifying, and will fire-up emotions on any campaign platform. I bet that the Elephant is going to dance to this song into the bush.
I’m sure the writer of the song was motivated by the missing pages of H.E. John Dramani Mahatma’s speech at an ECOWAS summit. It is a common knowledge that our president is replete with astonishing virtues; but what many people don’t know is that the young man from Bole has a photographic memory. A razor-sharp memory! Eidetic memory!
I have an experience to share. My very first time I met our president was brief; less than 3 mins. I never expected him to recognise me the next time he saw me, considering the number of people he meets in a day. But I was wrong.
Some months afterwards, he waved at me after a programme, and I looked over my shoulders to see if he was waving at someone else. I’m sure he noticed my uncertainty, and wanted to prove to me that he knows me; so, after another programme some weeks later, he walked straight to me and asked, “Anthony, how’re you?” I was shocked!
This virtue was clearly exhibited when portions of his written speech got missing during his address at the ECOWAS summit in Accra last year. Despite the setback, he continued his address extemporaneously with ease. It would have been a national disaster if Opana was the President. He would have embarrassingly said; the costing, the costing, the costing, till the audience had been choked with laughter.
You may loathe President Mahama, but one thing stands out — he is a gift to this nation! In fact, I shed tears when our national chief imam, Sheikh Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharabutu reiterated this during the commissioning of the Tamale International Airport (TIA) a few days ago.
A developing country like Ghana has its quirks and challenges which need much time to resolve. It will, therefore, be unfair for us to expect him to solve all our problems overnight. It is impossible! No leader in the history of our dear nation has achieved what he has done within four years; notwithstanding a hostile, wicked, fiendish, diabolical and rapacious Opposition. Not even Osagyyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. JDM deserves a lot of credit!
Let’s put politics aside and show our president unrequited love by giving him the opportunity to serve us for another term, else posterity will not forgive us if we allow him to slip through our fingers.
Please enjoy Mahama Paper. Kikikikikiki, after all, the lyrics have some meaning, it says in Ga that there is something that we are trying to market which nobody is buying ( mi ni woho na ahee eee), and I’m pretty sure it’s referring to Opana. Hehehehehe, another one is: make dem talk about the pardon of Muntie 3, I no go boarder, boarder, boarder.
