Comments on One Ghana, One Voice: A Text Message To My Friend, Jake, Who Died For Th...

Short, dense and potent piece by all standards.Had...

2012-02-18T10:41:33.393Z

Short, dense and potent piece by all standards.Had to read it over and over again.Man is truly a forward-backward creature.Its so sad to see Africa back pedaling while others are making giant strides.

Straight to the point: no curve,no bend. Kudos aga...

2011-12-29T11:57:32.216Z

Straight to the point: no curve,no bend. Kudos again,Philip

this is a good poem by all standard with a powerfu...

2011-12-23T21:46:58.733Z

this is a good poem by all standard with a powerful message. thanks philip for reawakening us as Africans.

I have some views to share concerning Philip Addo&...

2011-12-19T05:54:02.323Z

I have some views to share concerning Philip Addo's 'A Text Message To My Friend', Jake Who Died For Their Sake', but I just don't know how to put them in words.

About a year ago, I wanted to say something critical about Juanita Tsikata's 'Wake Up I'm Home', but I couldn't put thoughts together. But I'm glad that I've got a poem that shapes itself between theirs. I wrote it in January 2011. Titled: Thinking aloud, while sipping palmwine in England.

Friends, I wish to submit it. Hoping it gets space.

2011-12-19T05:50:06.694Z

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Where two or three junkies are gathered in the nam...

2011-12-19T05:10:16.568Z

Where two or three junkies are gathered in the name of literature, [like Kweku Baako] I prefer ugly noises to a culture of silence. A poet once wrote: silence is golden. But I think our kind of silence is a rusty metal on a scrap-truck, pulled across Kaneshie via Dansoman, towards a recycling yard! Oh my caustic tongue, I have not learned taming it.

For various private reasons, most readers (including me) have not been commenting as usual. That is not to say; they have not been reading the weekly titles - per the publishers' main objective. Perhaps we feel it's no more necessary to post a comment, as it is not obligatory. However apparent or explicable our reasons are, it remains true that the OGOV commentary tradition is left abandoned, save some occasional remarks.

Oh yeah, there are a lot more literary activities going on, both outside and online. I understand. But, I have realized that they do not compensate the warmth and the sense of comradeship we've left blank on the commentary / appreciation page of our dear magazine.

May I pause here and say 'welldone' to Philip Addo for his amazing poem.

Merry Christmas!