In a ‘tradition of fortune telling by days of birth,’ I pick to beef the line: ‘And the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonnie and blithe, and good and gay;’ from the rhyme ‘Monday’s child is fair of face.’
The seven days of the week are all mentioned in the rhyme except the special day Sunday. So we the Sunday-born are special people.
A woman born on the Sabbath October 26, 1947 in the United States of America, in Akan an Akosua (Ewe Akoshiwor, Mtantse Esi and Bono Kosua) just missed the presidency of that motherland by a whisker.
No matter form in which it is written or spoken, Sunday is Sunday and Sunday birth is Sunday birth, and therefore carries along with it those attributes of the Sunday-born.
Courage, boldness, resilience, idealism, empathy, compassion, foresight, activism are all attributes of the Sunday-born. One of her or his major drawbacks, though, is that the Sunday-born suffers not the short-sighted and the mean. There’s also no doubt Sunday-born are often controversial.
Woman missed out to become UN Secretary-General. In Latin America, the machismos have forced the Brazil one out and they are harassing the Argentinian ex. Meanwhile a Sandinista wife vice-president to husband president has been created. It seems first in the world from my Google search.
Woman is yet to rule the most powerful nation in the world. For God’s own country, the icon of modern democracy, woman rule continues to be elusive, over 200 years.
Coming close remains woman is yet to rule the world. Maybe it would happen sooner than later. In this our motherland, however, it better not happen with the congress mean and incompetent types who have caused judgment debt losses to the state and care less about social protection of children with disabilities and mental patients but more about branding thieving.
I had put a lot faith in the CBC ‘presidential poll tracker by Eric Grenier. I had been so impressed with his accuracy during the Canadian election of last year October that I totally dismissed the Rasmussen and other very few US same tracker kind.
Akosua Clinton’s run, albeit unsuccessfully, has reverberated globally. Interacting with friends all over, they have been expressing regrets shared by others they have interacted with, in what may be summed up as consternation. Friend L has been writing: ‘Just reaching across continents to commiserate. The whole world is in for a rough ride. No. Not the best. We’ll see where it goes, but I fear it gives power to the rising racist and mysogynistic sentiments we are seeing here. Well, such sentiments of shock, concern, resilience, etc on social media, in conversations, with colleagues around the globe. It will be interesting to see what this brings.’ Friend S: ‘I felt ill all evening as the results came in. I didn’t think he would be elected. I’m slowly recovering. Everyone at work today was dressed in dark colours and feeling very down.
I don’t get how opportunity is afforded all to realise a dream when there is so little equal opportunity.
The stricture of a glass ceiling in access is so out of tune with the often-cited belief that that ‘democratic’ system is the greatest feat of humankind governance creation.
My hunch had been that email would destroy the November 9 party. The Ga kenkey man made it happen. I am sure if the emails of all men, including the victor were subjected to the Clinton scrutiny, none will survive even to the point she did. They say hers risked public safety because she was a public officer.
But compromising public safety seems equally dangerous with the private businessperson who engages a public enemy and doesn’t get his transactions scrutinized.
Like others not born on Sunday, the Sunday-born does not win all the time. But even without victory Akwasi or Akosua has an impact of an impression, such as winning the popular vote that lasts for the good. It hadn’t occurred to me; but now when someone says another is a loser, I would want to know of what, for what, against what and at what expense.
Even in her loss, Akosua Clinton still inspires heartbroken little girls all over the world. ‘I am a female. I am mixed race. I am a child! And I cannot vote. But that will not stop me. From getting heard. Love is love. And love Trumps hate’ (edition.cnn.com). Ways are sunny in the north. A little girl needs sparing from dark clouds gathering in the south. Dark clouds have hung over this motherland for the last eight years. In this motherland, though, little girls, little boys, big women and big men are desperately hoping for change that opens up opportunity by curing thievery and incompetence in public administration.
By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh
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