Blog of the UG-LSU
On the first day of 2018, in the atmosphere of celebration and the entire cliché of a brand new year, I attempted to take a nap. Tom Cruise would have quickly called that ‘Mission Impossible’; the shop opposite my house was blaring music that could have pierced a hole in my eardrum! My curiosity […]
The worst of them come with cages to contain The best of them come with skies to soar Between these are the average Avoid the first like a plague Make no plans with the latter And fall – fall madly in love with the second Dear Mama, give us men with skies Keep our […]
The entire Ghanaian community, from its inception has re-echoed it’s underdevelopment to all and sundry, even to the unborn generations. Not to rub it in, but, we are all aware that we are far behind satisfactory standards when it comes to infrastructure, education, healthcare, the economy – safe to say, every aspect of Ghanaian life. […]
I froze in my tracks and stared in utter disbelief. And the young infant boy hitched at your side gave out a piercing cry that caused my heart to shrink. The black cotton hair I last remembered you with now looked like black patches on a diseased fruit and your happy eyes now shone dull […]
When the days ran out on the calendar It often serves as a reminder Of the beginning of an unending cycle of life Everywhere around us, expectations and resolutions are rife Kids make too much merry and very little sense of the essence of the season Adults overthink the implications and mostly end up making […]
I thought after the confusion that lingered on my mind when I read “The Ghost Story”, the unforgettable sweating experience from not getting something as small as Marbury v Madison, and the KKK kind of assignment, the tough days in the law school were over. But I just met a sociology student who just added […]
Ezekiel 28:14 says that Satan was an anointed and ordained guardian cherub who was on the holy mount of God and walked among the fiery stones. Isaiah 14:11 even confirms the stories I used to hear as a child which I was once told were myths, that Satan was the Minister of Melodious Songs in […]
I cannot recollect the number of times I have found warmth in you… You understand my battles and you hear the echoes too The echoes in these walls where nothing ever happens Where hopes evaporate and happiness has fled And every day is a nasty war, bloodier than before. You have heard my chanting through […]
Last night, I ensconced my soma in my divan My whyfor? To anastomose as many lexemes as I could in a bid to beget a magna cum laude write-up for the University of Ghana Law Journal. As I bestirred myself towards the germination of my write-up, my episteme wallowed in muddiness. I scrupled; do I […]
It is sad indeed when after I have failed to die, the law incarcerates me; as if the suicide attempt, by some magic, freed me off the demons that had propelled me to the cliff ∼ Anonymous. Nobody wants to die. At least I don’t. Do you? In fact, so innate is our […]
