Harry's Bag

IS THE WORLD ANY SAFER? Exactly a decade ago, an infamous act happened. I was on our verandah or porch (depending) playing what is locally named “counters ball” with crown corks from drinks when an announcement was made on the radio that there had been an airplane accident in the US. I stopped what I was doing and rushed to switch on my dad’s TV since I was very pro-America at the time. What I saw…… to put in the words of Rasputin, I saw a huge bird of titanium bank slowly and smash into the tallest building in the world. It was the second plane,   and after reports of the third plane hitting the ground in Pennsylvania, the US knew obviously it had come under attack. The incident, as well as the 1999 embassy bombings in Nairobi, was blamed on Osama Bin Laden and his merry (what??) band of former mujahideens named Al Qaeda. From 2001, America invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and hunted the seemingly perpetually evasive Osama Bin Laden until May in the year 2011, a near decade after 9...

REALITY If I dream I’ll be If I sleep I’ll dream Yet if I sleep I won’t be Life isn’t such a shallow stream I must possess an imagination The mind’s eye it is called To help me dream even when awake Enabling me see into the unknown future What I want to be I must confess Speak positive to spur me on For words have a power Life and death lie on the tongue I’ll be if I work Diligently though slowly I achieve For hard work breaks no bone And faith without works is dead I’ll be come what may I’ll dream as though lost in sleep I’ll speak positive as a gossip in trade And I’ll work hard to make it happen

I call it Ghana’s burning issue. Recently Homosexuality – more fashionably called Same-Sex Relationships – has become a tough issue in this country with most people talking against this same-sex thing. I’ll take the liberty to say that I’m violently anti-gay or anti-lesbian not because I’m ready to harass the practitioners but violent because I detest the practice. I read a report of Ms Anna Bossman’s interview on MultiTV on myjoyonline.com in which she asked pastors to avoid double standards when talking about same-sex relationships. Her main argument was that there were issues such as child sexual abuse and violence against women, and these are the issues the pastors should concentrate on not bashing homosexuals. I begin to wonder why the loud and outspoken minority of persons such as Nana Oye Lithur, Ms Anna Bossman, and recently Professor Fred Sai are trying to cow the rest of the state into accepting same-sex relationships on the flimsy basis of Human Rights. Are not these peopl...

REFLECTIONS You said I was your heart You proclaimed me your world Without me, you said, no light Why now the tension like spring coiled? I have seen no goddess Else I would describe you as such Your laughter like pianos in fullness Makes my heart lift much. Your skin is tender yet firm Your eyes like fully bright torches Your face is as from well moulded clay Your lips, full and inviting like grapes. Why then my love Why the loss of intimacy Don’t question my love for you As one whose faith in God is lost. Trust me when I proclaim love Trust me when I proclaim I’m not in for your virgin pride Trust me when I say “you are my love”.