Ghana @60; Not Just in Temporal Terms (a spoken word poetry)

An upcoming writer, a poet and a spoken word artist known as Dzidefo being so much in love of Ghana have composed a spoken piece titled; Ghana @60, Not Just in Temporal Terms as a contribution towards this 60^th Anniversary. The poetry captured in brief how Ghana struggled and survived her post independent political turmoil and still stands as a proud state in the West African sub-region.   

While praying for the enlightenment of the people of Ghana as far as political independence is concerned, he also paid respect to The Big Six, the group credited with Ghana’s Independent struggle from colonial rule. The piece also urged the people of Ghana to take due advantage of their experiences as accumulated over the past 60 years and channel into something more productive.
Before the poem came to an end, the poet made the concept open where the following lines could be read…..
“We are not @60 just in temporal terms
We are @60 as peace loving people
We are @60 as economically productive people
We are @60 as well cultured people
And we are @60 as a Beacon of Hope for Africa”

Below is the complete lyric of the about 35 lines piece.
And this links to a video version on the web.

Ghana @60, Not Just in Temporal Terms

May the toil and death of our founding fathers
Become our illumination of how far we have come
And may what we see and hear across the waters
Show us the way and how far we must go 

God bless Ghana, since sixth March 1957
When Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of blessed memory
Faithfully declared this in his august right
"...Ghana is free forever... "
Hail the Big Six
And politically free we have since been.

There's no substitute for freedom
Not what my people in the Volta Region call 'Ablorde'
What the Ashanti man will call Fahudi3
Or that which my Ga brother calls Heyeli
Many will fight on for theirs until ekugbe
Just like heroes like the Ex-service men
In 1948
... ... ...
Gold Coast used to be the name, until freedom time
When Ghana became the name with ultimate prime
I say it was the opening of a grand chapter
The start of a journey worthwhile...

Like a vessel on unchartered waters of ages,
Ghana as a state survived political storms
And since our resilience is worth the accolade,
On stages, let's dance ourselves to the norms

Sixty years as an independent state
Surely mean a lot to the people upstate?
Yes for real, it should trickle downstate
So we can all feel the breeze of our attained fate

Let our past and present guide our course
As we strive to be one people with a common destiny
There is nothing worth learning from than experience
And three fifth of a century of such is well enough

We are not @60 just in temporal terms
We are @60 as peace loving people
We are @60 as economically productive people
We are @60 as well cultured people
And we are @60 as a Beacon of Hope for Africa

Amu K. Simon
©2017 Dzidefo

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