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By Isaac Ato MENSAH
\nAccra- 20 October, 2018.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I\u2019m trapped in a Salvadore Dali painting”, thought Robert Langdon in the Da Vinci Code.<\/p>\n

Dan Brown\u2019s character felt both a symbolic and surreal moment.<\/p>\n

That is how I feel right now about the final funeral rites of the late Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, the king of James Town British Accra (Ngleshi Alata).<\/p>\n

Some in the media and elsewhere say they do not have a recent feel of him so they will not arrange any formal tributes nor programmes in his memory.<\/p>\n

Others such as the minister for chieftaincy affairs were informed of who he was, yet threatened to cancel the final funeral rites, which are ending today Saturday and tomorrow Sunday, the 20th and 21st October, at the Cathedral Church of the Most Holy Trinity (Accra Anglican Cathedral).<\/p>\n

So here goes my symbolic and surreal painting and restoration of the illustrious nonagenarian character, whom I have known only from a distance.<\/p>\n

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A loss so important as that of the first African dentist of the Gold Coast now Ghana, who urged his compatriots to brush their teeth twice a day cannot fail of being severely felt among the elite and intelligentsia within the society.<\/p>\n

But hey, this is Ghana.<\/p>\n

We are talking about none other than the ever popular, urbane and debonair Dentist Cofie.<\/p>\n

Ezekiel Quarmina Allotey Cofie was born on 12 June, 1920 and died 22 December last year, aged almost 98.<\/p>\n

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Even though he was a monarch, he did not deem it derogatory to his dignity to exchange his scepter for the dentist\u2019s spatula; like the trowel, he used the spatula to mix dental fillings to patch the gaping holes and cavities within our teeth, some of which gave offensive odour and touched on raw nerves, both literally and figuratively speaking.<\/p>\n

As peaceable subjects within his territory, is it not our civil and moral duty to honour his everlasting memory?<\/p>\n

A royal funeral was announced in February.<\/p>\n

This was a press agentry moment, an advertising opportunity, a public relations situation, when TV and radio stations could have discussed dental health.<\/p>\n

But, the Ghana Dental Association, Ghana Medical and Dental Council, the various teaching hospitals and other hospitals where he helped establish dental units, like the media, and ad agencies have not utilised their air time to reflect on what Nii Ngleshie Alata represented.<\/p>\n

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In 1938, Ezekiel Quarmina Allotey Cofie passed the Senior Cambridge Examination in the Sciences (aged 18) and a year later he passed the London University Matriculation Examination, thanks to an excellent education at Achimota School.<\/p>\n

In 1943, he was offered admission to University of Edinburgh and at the height of the Second World War, he travelled by ship to the land of his Colonial Master to study dentistry.<\/p>\n

With his death, some of the genuine secrets of what it takes to get an admission into a British university as a Gold Coaster\/Ghanaian are lost.<\/p>\n

Today, Cambridge University no longer accepts our West African Senior School Certificate Exam for admissions; they require the two year International Baccalaureate certificate.<\/p>\n

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Even with that, they are saying do not come here.<\/p>\n

Stay in your country; we have accredited some tutorial colleges to offer you tuition only.<\/p>\n

We shall offer your tutorials in your own country and \u00a0afterwards collect back our pounds sterling for specially appointed exams which we can rely on.<\/p>\n

How much foreign exchange is being lost through this malodorous situation, yet our TV and radio stations did not find the passing away of the James Town Mantse as a golden opportunity, for a change in programming for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

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The name James Town British Accra means nothing to them.<\/p>\n

James Town\u2019s Akan appellation Koti Akuabeng also does not ring a bell to media owners and managers!<\/p>\n

Ngleshi Alata which loosely translates \u2018Of English and Nigerian descent, also means nothing to the media.<\/p>\n

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The Akan, English and other European names among the Ga people of James Town did not even excite the marketing communication departments of the celebrated Ghana Club 100 firms and production teams of TV and radio stations to create veritable moments of national unity, the most important reason for which the media were issued licenses to operate.<\/p>\n

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Hyde, Owoo, Ababio, Osiahene, Vanderpuye, Vanderpuije, van Dyke, Thompson, Otoo, Otu, Dua, Odoom, Brown, Sawyerr, Mills, Kitson-Mills, Bruce, Nanka-Bruce and Lawson, among others, all come up in tributes and are etched in our national history.<\/p>\n

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The etymological roots of such names have so far not excited the interest of radio and TV production managers. Do we not remember from basic school textbooks that James Town was a natural harbour….that dug out canoes were made from wood from the forest areas?<\/p>\n

We admit, we may not monitor every media house, but if such topics become trending, we shall get to know.<\/p>\n

\u2018O draconian devil! Oh, lame saint!\u2019, Dan Brown\u2019s Robert Langdon comes to mind.<\/p>\n

The Ghanaian media and the establishment sometimes could be as harsh as the ancient Greek politician Draco.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Please I must tell you the truth about your family\u2019, Dan Brown\u2019s Sophie recalls the last words from his grandfather Jacques Sauniere.<\/p>\n

Modern revisionists of Ghanaian history must be told clearly that we have always integrated well.<\/p>\n

There is a Nigerian student of mine (let\u2019s call her Taiwo) who mentioned in class during self introduction that she came from Osun State.<\/p>\n

‘That must be in the South’, I said.<\/p>\n

‘South West’, she corrected.<\/p>\n

When I asked if she knew Ile-Ife, she shot back with a smile and pride, \u00a0\u2018Ile Ife, that\u2019s my hometown, that’s where I live! How did you guess?’<\/p>\n

‘The Ga people of Accra come from Ile-Ife’, I informed her.<\/p>\n

She had no idea; she\u2019s been in Ghana for two years schooling! I repeat, “schooling”!<\/p>\n

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So now with this information will you still threaten to deport all the Nigerian traders selling smartphones on tables at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, and the Naira and CFA forex operators at the Tudu lorry station in Accra despite the ECOWAS Protocol?<\/p>\n

I know a Nigerian grandma who stays in Nima and trades in Tudu, both suburbs of Accra.<\/p>\n

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She has been here for so long; all her children and grandchildren were born in Accra; they speak impeccable Ghanaian languages including Ga; one daughter of hers speaks no Nigerian language at all.<\/p>\n

The Fulani people have been roaming our farmlands for more than 100 years, yet every year we plan military and police operations to clamp down on their cattle.<\/p>\n

\u2018Oh Draconian devil! Oh, lame saint!\u2019, Robert Langdon should be gasping at our inability to break the integration code.<\/p>\n

Now that Samira Bawumia, our Second Lady is Fulani, shall we pause and have some moments of reflection on nation building?<\/p>\n

\u2018Princess, life is filled with secrets. You can\u2019t learn them all at once\u2019, Sauniere, Sophie\u2019s grandfather beckons.<\/p>\n

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So when we fail to honour the memory of numerous stalwarts including Dentist Cofie, who went round Ghana treating dental problems, establishing dental clinics and training young doctors, then there must be something decadent with our dental formation.<\/p>\n

Could we be swallowing without chewing? No offence intended to those whose teeth may be hurting at this moment.<\/p>\n

I once read an article in The Ghanaian Spectator newspaper written by the columnist Merari Alomle in which he argued that mothers who had also experienced toothaches confirmed to him that toothache was worse than labour pains.<\/p>\n

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Do we remember our dental pains?<\/p>\n

Do we remember Dentist Cofie?<\/p>\n

Do we remember James Town Mantse Agbonaa, our preferred place for “mamoth” political rallies?<\/p>\n

Maybe it is because dentists do not talk much- they just wear their masks and gloves, and get the job done; so much workload for so few dentists and dental students.<\/p>\n

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Will the Ghana Dental Students Association think of something similar worth celebrating in Dentist Cofie?<\/p>\n

What is the unique role of the people of James Town (JT) in interacting with the European traders of more than 300 years ago?<\/p>\n

And how did that interaction foster the acceptance and growth of Christianity in the Gold Coast now Ghana?<\/p>\n

In Theology and Identity, Kwame Bediako asserts, \u2018\u2026the Gospel message is offered to all, and God rules over all creation, thus his actions are universal and he provides coherent integration of past, present and future\u2026the Gospel transcends old divisions and barriers, rooting identity in Christ\u2019.<\/p>\n

JT is an important town of the Ga people.<\/p>\n

They, the Ga, readily accept strangers and integrate them well.<\/p>\n

Could it be argued that European Christianity got a foothold in Accra because of that culture?<\/p>\n

Ablekuma abakuma w\u0254 is a Ga saying which loosely translates \u2018May strangers come and seek abode among us and serve us\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Now hear this, the people of James Town, despite their multi-ethnic and multi-racial background, their chieftaincy status among the Ga Mashie people has got a paramountcy recognition, that is, equal status among the Ga Mashie divisions.<\/p>\n

James Town Division was gazetted \u00a0as such by the National House of Chiefs during the reign of Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, who became a member of that august body.<\/p>\n

Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, you were a ‘workman unashamed’ working tirelessly to promote integration and the nation\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

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When you were made king in 1978, you chose the name Ababio V (meaning five-fold rebirth), which suggests to us that be the problem incisors, canine, premolars or molars, fixed deeply within the twin pillars of the upper and lower jaws, even if all types of teeth lose their luster and become dim with age, your dental lights once fixed upon them, shall locate the cavities and rotten teeth and there shall be a fifth option to hold them together, for five is established.<\/p>\n

You travelled by ship to Britain and were trained at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, where expert craftsmanship in dentistry is practised.<\/p>\n

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May the boatmen paddle you safely home back to your Maker who lives in greater lights that are ever more blinding than you ever saw in any dental school or clinic.<\/p>\n

Nii James Town, Sun<\/em> re<\/em> (Yoruba…meaning sleep well…rest in peace)<\/p>\n

Oblempong, Da<\/em> Yie<\/em> (Akan, Rest In Peace).<\/p>\n

Nii Ngleshi Alata, Yaa<\/em> W\u0254<\/em> Jogba\u014b\u014b<\/em> (Ga, Rest In Peace).<\/p>\n

Dentist Cofie, yaaw\u0254<\/em> y\u025b<\/em> Nunts\u0254<\/em> l\u025b<\/em> kp\u0254k\u0254a\u014b\u014b<\/em> (Ga, Rest in the lair of the Lord).<\/p>\n

Nii Ezekiel, rest in perfect peace, for we know that as the Great Dentist said to your name sake (Ezekiel 37:7), we shall all join back together- bone to bone.<\/p>\n

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