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<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;">Odomankoma, <a class="zem_slink" title="Creator deity" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_deity" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">creator of the universe</a><br>
Your wisdom espoused the Earth and the spirits<br>
Chief ghosts of our ancestors<br>
Why do fishes thirst in travelling rivers?<br>
Why <a class="zem_slink" title="Ankobra River" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=4.89883,-2.27148&;spn=1.0,1.0&;q=4.89883,-2.27148%20(Ankobra%20River)&;t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Ankobra</a> and <a class="zem_slink" title="Bosomtwe (Ghana parliament constituency)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosomtwe_%28Ghana_parliament_constituency%29" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Bosomtwe</a>, do you not quench out thirsts?<br>
We are disgruntled tongues; send down drops to make us an ocean</p>
<p>Your daughter, <a class="zem_slink" title="Asase Ya" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asase_Ya" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Asase Ya</a>, blessed woman of fertility<br>
Now adopts our kids into her belly of sterility<br>
Nyankopon, the groom of eternity<br>
Order thy wife, Asase Yaa to sow in our soils when</p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;">August feed us with rains<br>
Making your Earth pregnant again</p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;">We can rebirth the war victims and reclaim our lost future from the Emotia<br>
Sing in the voice of Osibisa and dance to the rhythm of the Fontomfrom<br>
So we can see the <a class="zem_slink" title="Africa" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Africa</a> that sits in the eyes of Osagyefo<br>
Osagyefo, the weeping ghost cries no longer<br>
When the Earth delivers, we shall borrow your eye balls<br>
And keep dreaming Africa</p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;">Oh Ori!<br>
Why deprive your children of their ‘ayanmo’?<br>
Making this our destiny shy<br>
He who has power over Orunmila<br>
Make this cease…<br>
Lands fighting lands<br>
Hands raised against legs<br>
Streams arguing with rivers<br>
Receivers commanding givers<br>
Bushes measuring height with forests<br>
Wars stealing souls, leaving hunger for the rest<!--more--></p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;">Ola, kid of the Earth<br>
Sits on the seat of death<br>
Clothed in smallpox and measles<br>
Ah!! <a class="zem_slink" title="SS Sapona" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sapona" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Sapona</a>, to you we sing our dirge. Have mercy!<br>
The Earth walks with protruded belly<br>
Fraught with victims of the plague that stole our honour.<br>
Obatala , creator of humans,light and purity<br>
Why slumber? Wake up and speak to the Earth<br>
That she will cease drinking blood and birth our lost brethren</p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;">Mandiba crying for the spirit of Ubudu<br>
Soyinka mourning the soul of Awoonor<br>
Have we failed to satisfy you, gods of Africa?<br>
Or need we pour down our bloods as Libation?<br>
No! By the powers of Ori, I command<br>
<a class="zem_slink" title="Yemaja" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemaja" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Yemaja</a>, plant children in the womb of the Earth<br>
Ogun, retire and make way for Peace<br>
Ayao breathe onto the lands, the Africa of our Ancestors<br>
Unkulunkulu, on your shoulders we rest our burdens<br>
Deliver our pregnant Earth!</p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;"><em>*Based on African Mythology</em></p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;"><em>Ghana Odomankoma-creator of the universe </em><br>
<em>Ankobra- a respectable River </em><br>
<em>Bosomtwe- largest man-made lake in west Africa,</em></p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;"><em><a class="zem_slink" title="Ashanti Empire" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=5.45,-0.966666666667&;spn=0.01,0.01&;q=5.45,-0.966666666667%20(Ashanti%20Empire)&;t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Ashanti kingdom</a> of Ghana </em><br>
<em>Asase Ya- Mother Earth </em><br>
<em>Nyankopon- God, believed to be husband to the Earth </em><br>
<em>Emotia- Dwarfs,spirit humans in the sacred forests </em><br>
<em>Fontomfrom-a big ancestral drum in the Akans clan </em><br>
<em>Osibisa- very popular music band from Ghana, that travelled across the globe in the 1980’s </em><br>
<em>Osagyefo- a title for <a class="zem_slink" title="Kwame Nkrumah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Dr.Kwame Nkrumah</a>, means the Redeemer.</em></p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;"><em>Ori- god of the universe, who destines all humans </em><br>
<em>Kadar- destiny </em><br>
<em>Ayanma- Choices </em><br>
<em>Orunmila-god of the destiny of man </em><br>
<em>Sapona- goddess of small pox </em><br>
<em>Obatala- creator of human bodies, purity and light </em><br>
<em>Yemaja- goddess for fertility and women </em><br>
<em>Ogun- god of iron and war Ayao- god of air</em></p>
<p style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;font-size:15.555556297302px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;line-height:25.989583969116px;text-align:right;"><em>Written by: Oppong Clifford Benjamin</em><br>
<em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em></p>
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