Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- No Wings
- Preface to Second Edition
- Foreword to Second Edition
- Introduction to Second Edition
- A Note of History
- Should I Ever…
- THE COUNTRYSIDE
- AKAN
- EWE
- GA-ADANGME
- DAGOMBA
- HAUSA
- The Hausa Trader
- Wakan Sule (A Song for a Shilling)
- The Tragedy of Nana Kwame Dziratuo II, Ͻmanhene of Kokoroko State
- THE TOWN
- The Contributors
- Index
Wakan Sule (A Song for a Shilling)
from HAUSA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 August 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- No Wings
- Preface to Second Edition
- Foreword to Second Edition
- Introduction to Second Edition
- A Note of History
- Should I Ever…
- THE COUNTRYSIDE
- AKAN
- EWE
- GA-ADANGME
- DAGOMBA
- HAUSA
- The Hausa Trader
- Wakan Sule (A Song for a Shilling)
- The Tragedy of Nana Kwame Dziratuo II, Ͻmanhene of Kokoroko State
- THE TOWN
- The Contributors
- Index
Summary
Let us get up, men and women to chase a shilling
Let us get up, men and women to work for a shilling
Let us get up, men and women to work hard,
Let us get up, men and women to work hard for our daily bread.
How are we going to get our daily bread?
We get our bread with a shilling.
Let us look into the field today, and see what a shilling has done.
A shilling has placed others to be Heads of States,
Others to be big above their friends, others to possess big houses,
Others, fine clothes, others sweet foods, and others degrees in Education.
Others become engineers, others doctors and others economists.
So brothers and sisters, let us get up and work hard for a shilling.
See! today, a shilling has sent others to prison,
Women to run away from their husbands,
Women to run away from their parents,
Fathers to run away from their children,
Just in need of a shilling.
The poem continues for many more verses.
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- Information
- Voices of GhanaLiterary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955–57, pp. 148Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018