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The legendary Nana Kwadwo Adinkrah Agyemang of blessed memory, a King of the old Bono Gyaaman (Jaman) Kingdom, and the inventor of the Adinkrah symbols, had one of his treasured symbols as Owuo Atwedeɛ (The ladder of death).
The ladder of death symbolises the inevitability of mankind transiting from amongst the living into the isolated land of the dead.
And following suit in further explanation to what death is, my native Goka people say: owuo da amansan kɔn mu (death is the yoke of mankind).
Then also in the Christian Bible, the New Testament writer, Apostle Paul, wrote in one of his epistles describing how death is a relief to mankind . (Rom 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord s).
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It s still fresh on my mind when as kids we held that yellow - yellow clinic identity cards with our names written on aloft as treasured trophies as we marched to the Goka old clinic for mass vaccinations.
Either we re led to the centre from our schools by our teachers, or we re sent to the vaccination centres from our homes by our parents, no a guardian wanted his or her ward left out of this lifesaving exercises.
In front of the Presby Church, parents fought for places in the long queue for their children. The queue snaked about the precinct of the chapel as far as the eye could see. And it seemed all the natives of Goka had been gathered at one place for a festivity.