Marco Boahen Frimpong

Written by Marco Boahen Frimpong 18th August, 2018              10:44 am You are a young woman of age 18 Your breasts are as straight  as a child stretching for food Your buttocks are as big  as an articulator truck’s tyre Your beauty is unimaginable No man can pass by you  without turning back to look at you again Many men have fallen into gutters Many have found themselves  in the middle of roads With cars honking on them  but they cannot hear Due to your beauty men chase you around And you openly deliver yourself to them  like an EMS delivery agent You get pregnant and Kofi rejects it Kwame denies it Kwasi threatens to sue you  for imposing someone’s pregnancy on him You give birth without a husband And your national anthem becomes Men are wicked but my question  remains the same "Who caused it?" You finally marry a rich man That is after You turned over a new leaf Your husband gives you all your needs But you...

Should this teacher be blamed for poor academic work of his pupils? Written by Marco Boahen Frimpong Wed, 15th August, 2018         9:40pm When I sit down to analyse the path our basic education system is trailing, I begin to cry. Gone are the days where pupils in public schools burned the midnight candles just to maintain a position or overtake someone on the terminal report rating scale. We live in a day where parents prefer to buy clothes for all occasions to buying books for their wards in the public schools. We live in a day where parents know that their upper primary or J.H.S daughter has a boyfriend and they are ok with it. We live in a day where parents do not even know the class their children are in. We live in a day where caning a child is like insulting the chiefs in our villages. Gone are the days where pupils went to school early for fear of being caned or punished. Gone are the days where pupils feared to attend jams and wake-keepings for the fear...