“Nye in tashi ni indwe ohe
Indwebo
Injole, kaa ba fee noko
Ba.”
Yesterday, I sat and thought of you
Of you
my dear, do not come to do anything
Just come.BA
Kaa ba keemi
Ba tsoomi
Shi ole noko,
kaa ba tsoomi
Nye in tashi ni indwe ohe
Indwebo
Injole, kaa ba fee noko
Ba.
COME
Don’t come to tell me
Come to show me.
But you know what,
Don’t come to show me.
Yesterday, I sat and thought of you
Of you
my dear, do not come to do anything
Just come.
*Ba is a poem written in Ga, a language spoken by the Ga people of the Greater Accra region in Ghana.
Written and Translated By: Kristin Wilson
