Could Mahama’s Mirror Image Be Donald Trump, The MAGA-Train Driver? - Part 1

I am almost cocksure that he is blatantly lying through his clinically determined“Goro”-stained oversized teeth - and by the way, “Goro” is a local Ghanaian term for kolanuts - when President John “Yagbonwura Kwame Gonja” Dramani Mahama asserts that he absolutely has no personal or intimate knowledge of Mr. Kevin Baidoo Taylor, the infamous Washington, DC-based rabidly Anti-New Patriotic Party (NPP) and Anti-Akufo-Addo journalist - formerly based in Ghana - presently turned Passionately Pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) Propaganda Podcaster of the oxymoronic program named or titled “Loud Silence.”

At least Yours Truly has been aware of Mr. Taylor and his relentlessly vitriolic tirades for the better part of a decade now; and what is more, the lurid contents of Mr. Taylor’s melodramatic propaganda program has been inescapably and inextricably fraught with hyperbolical heaps of encomiums regarding the purported fact of how the Bole-Mamboi native, from the Akufo-Addo-created Savannah Region, was the epitome of the best leadership Ghana has been privileged to have been blessed with in the entire postcolonial history of our sovereign republic. Actually, Mr. Taylor has been widely alleged to have asserted that Yagbonwura Kwame Gonja is Ghana’s best and most ideal leader since the invention of Pizza and Gunpowder in Ancient China, between the Ninth and the Thirteenth Centuries (See “ ‘I Don’t Know Kevin Taylor, I Will Speak to His Father to Stop Him from Insulting People’ - Mahama Tells Clergy” Modernghana.com 9/23/26).

It has often been said that birds of identical plumage do almost invariably flock together, just like a much-maligned cantankerous and small-minded President Donald John Trump-chaperoned Make America Great Again (MAGA) socioeconomic, cultural and political wrecking ball of would-be implaccable destroyers of the Indigenous Continental African-Constructed Contemporary American Civilization cannot be told or separated from one another. Fortunately, Yagbonwura Kwame Gonja has made Yours Truly’s work on the current controversial subject of our national discourse all the more manageable and executable because the son of the late Mr. Emmanuel Adama Mahama happens to also call himself a “Practicing Evangelical Christian.”

In the Big Apple of God’s Own New York City, where Yours Truly has been domiciled, both as a Permanent Resident and then as a Bona Fide voluntarily “Naturalized” American Citizen, an oxymoronic terminology of sorts, when one also reckons the fact that the Historical Presence of the Indigenous Continental African in the erstwhile New World, so-called, is both inescapably and ineluctably or inextricably coeval with the Making of Modern American Civilization, as the entire Global Community of Civilized Nations knows the same. We often say hereabouts that: “Your Work Is/ Has Been Cut Out for You,” meaning that this otherwise remarkably protean argument or debate has been made all the more easier and even more decidedly facile for Osabarima Kwame-Atoapoma Okoampa-Ahoofe who, about a decade voluntarily and morally unreservedly declined an official telephone invitation from the Kingmakers of his Akyem-Nkronso Royal Clansmen and Women to accede or succeed to the Okyeman Baamuhene/Banmuhene Stool.

The latter kingship title and stool refers to the Divisional Commander in Charge of both the Royal Mausoleum of the Great People of Akyem-Abuakwa, that is, Akyem-Proper, traditionally speaking, as well as the Manager-General or the General Overseer of All Stool Lands or landed properties belonging to the Ancient Kingdom of Akyem-Abuakwa. The foregoing otherwise “extraneous” narrative has become necessary to our present conversation for two critical reasons. Firstly, not very long ago during a familiarizing and a patently abortive fact-finding conversation with the unknown kinsman who assumed the kingship title and role after Yours Truly promptly declined the same, upon the sagacious advice of his long-deceased maternal grandfather, The Reverend T H Sintim(-Aboagye) - Circa.1896-1982), snidely and insolently accused Yours Truly of having brought The Okyenhene into abject public disrepute. This is an issue that, Divine Providence warranting, will be decisively dealt with by this author in due course. For now, suffice it to say, with disconsolate regret, that had I known beforehand what I presently know about the moral bankruptcy of the plaintiff, I am almost certain that a much better candidate of a more morally righteous temperament would be occupying the Nkronso Stool. It may humor my Younger Cousin to gravely and soberly appreciate the fact that the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren of Nana Adwoa Owarewaa, of the Royal Agyeman Family of Peki-Blengo are no toadies to Monarchical Imposters!

At any rate, the second reason for drawing into the fray the foregoing otherwise “extraneous” narrative has to do with the fact that we learn from the aforereferenced brief news story above that Mr. Kevin Baidoo Taylor’s father is, in fact, either one of the chiefs or the substantive Chief or Chieftain of Asamankese. Now, we add the latter detail to our present conversation because Yours Truly, as already indicated in the preceding paragraph, also happens to belong to one of the Senior Cohorts of The Amantuomiensa Clans (or The Three Counties) of The Kingmakers of Okyeman. We shall also return, in due course, to this aspect of the present narrative as becomes relevant and deemed germane to the organic unity and the coherence of the same.

Now, coming back to where we veered off the main track of our present conversation about President Mahama’s widely publicized public proclamation of his fervent Christian Faith, at least as circumstantially attested by his widely speculated stagey escape from the August 6, 2025 Chinese-made Harbin Z-9 Helicopter Crash and his most recent conference with some of the nation’s clerics on some matters of concern to the country’s wellbeing and destiny, we are logically tempted to ask the following Christocentric Question: “Can one really know The Father without also knowing The Son?”

Now, this precisely where the long-rehearsed Trumpian Mendacity of Yagbonwura Kwame Gonja ineluctably comes to the fore. Which is also to say that, on the logical and the existential face of matters, the President may be perfectly accurate to claim that since he has personally met nor spoken directly to the obnoxiously officious Mr. Taylor , it stands to reason to conclude that, indeed, the former Atta-Mills’ Arch-Lieutenant has absolutely no practical relationship, whatsoever, with the inveterate Akufo-Addo detractor. But, of course, the foregoing fact, in of itself, does not absolutely in any way mean that Mr. Mahama is also totally and completely bereft of any delegated proxies and assigns who have been studiously and assiduously working the political propaganda circuit on behalf of Kwame Gonja, and to the political and the strategic advantage of both the President and the entire cocaine-merchandising robber-baron constabulary of the National Democratic Congress.

Plus, since Mr. Mahama also publicly and personally claims to be on good-faith terms with the Elder Mr. Taylor, one can absolutely not rule out the high possibility of the Asanankese Chieftain’s having discussed the “Marvelous Propaganda Work” of the Younger Mr. Taylor’s hard-driving political strategist and NDC’s star-tactician son. Which also means that at the very least, Mr. Mahama has some oblique backdoor dealings with the self-elected Akufo-Addo and the NPP’s archnemesis.

Then, we also know that on those several media-signaled occasions that a legally besieged Mr. Taylor has been widely reported to have traveled to and arrived in Ghana, largely for undisclosed reasons, this hardnosed and hardboiled NDC shill has been widely alleged to have been provided with heightened security protective cordon and been afforded safe conduct out of the country, without having had to face any of his most prominent legal nemeses and political opponents in court or in a public forum. Mr. Mahama himself affirms this fact, willfully and/or inadvertently, when the former “Shit-Bombing” Communications Minister also asserts the fact that, indeed, he and “Chief Taylor” of Asamankese share long-standing bona fides.

So, the proverbial “Man in the Mirror” cannot pretend - actually he darn well can mendaciously pretend - to be seeing anybody else other than his pot-belly self and, perhaps, that of his MAGA Role Model and Buddy, anytime that Kwame Gonja primps himself up in front of his More-Than-Life-Size Dressing Mirror and springs out of his Super-King-Size Bed and heads for his Chauffeurs-driven fleet Mercedes Benz and fleet of V-8 Convoy of Taxpayer Gas Guzzlers.

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: [email protected]