SHARDS & Other Poems

SHARDS and other poems (2021)| Spoken Word Artiste| Novelist| Poet| Teacher| Nature Lover| #TeamInkJustice| Gemini| @chelseafc | Congregant @ChurchofPoetry

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

Hello guys,
So this is the result of what I've been up to for nearly a year and a half. My first book ever.

Please help me spread the word that SHARDS is out now. And kindly support this by ordering a copy today. Thanks.

@kwaku_kyereh @SarpongOAsamoah @AfiaAmoaa

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

It’s so dangerous on our streets these days. You’ve got young boys from God knows where on the streets in Kumasi wielding hoes and cutlasses under the premise of being available for home landscaping jobs. The prospects are scary.

[Junior💎 @kpee_1]

as you people dey do this then you also dey send those begging on the street back to their country.

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

It’s sad people aren’t aware that this call against disciplining students came from GES and the government as far back as 2018. Upholders of discipline are now considered as saboteurs of students’ welfare.

[Jakky Bankong-Obi @jakkybeefive]

Someone wrote a paper on my chapbook and it’s made it to a really big academic conference. And the moral of this is that you should read, cite and critically engage African women poets. Contemporary African women poets!!!

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

@koboateng @DidiJollof You then Professor Liarnel, no difference.

[Nana Kofi Quakyi, MPH @nkquakyi]

One of the excellent, selfless lawyers who worked pro bono to get #StopGalamseyNow and #FreeTheCitizens protestors released from unlawful detention needs support from the community. Please donate what you can to support medical bills for her mother's rare condition.

[Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor @barkervogues]

Kenya is an interesting AFRICAN country.

Their Salaries and Remunerations Commission has sued their judges to declare a 10 million shillings car grant the Judges receive as unconstitutional.

The Judges ruled against them on Appeal; and they intend to appeal further.

This is part of efforts by the Commission to rein in the public wage bill.

Then there is Ghana and our Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.

A land where everyday you wake up, every institution has created a mechanism where they and they alone get to “retire on their salaries”.

But teachers, nurses and the lot must stick with meagre SSNIT pensions.

What is fair about this wages and salaries? But Fair wages Dey do unlooking.

No bi juju be that?

Shalom

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

@ok6ixx 😂

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

Always dishing a side of PTSD

[Alex Goldberg @GoldbergCFC]

Chelsea Football Club are the most bipolar institution in the world.

[Yaw Nyame, MD | Mind & Body @Yaw_nyame35]

60% of Ghana's fresh water is now "dead."
Turbidity levels in the Pra and Birim have hit 14,000 NTU. For context, treatment plants struggle at just 2,000.
We aren't just losing gold; we are losing the basic right to drink. 🚱 #StopGalamseyNow

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

@thebellower @edemagbana My sentiments exactly. That would be such a great move.

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

@thebellower @edemagbana Yeah, that too is true. Either ways, I’m always wondering how Ghana’s rent control offices positively impact the rent overpricing situation. I just hope one day, firm regulatory policies will come into play to stabilize prices.

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

@thebellower @edemagbana Well, I mention cutting out the agents because where I live, it’s become common knowledge that they convince these landlords to renege on their original pricing to something very overpriced in order to make a bigger cut in commission.

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

@klintoncod @MaxiFreque63146 Not one Bro.

[JUULEJU TWEETS 🇬🇭 @JUULEJU95]

I have remained silent about our struggle for long enough, but the situation has become unbearable. Between 2023 and 2025, my family invested approximately GH₵60,000 to drill two separate boreholes at our home in Tarkwa. Both were destroyed by illegal underground mining activities.

Despite my father’s background as an ex-military officer and his efforts to involve the Ghana Police and Mincom, the resolution was bittersweet. While we received compensation for the second borehole, we were told no further assistance would be provided because our land was allegedly a former mining site.

For three years, we have lived without running water. Even when the GWCL attempted to intervene, small scale miners repeatedly destroyed the pipelines. We are now forced to spend GH₵550 every two weeks just to buy water. This is the reality of galamsey. It isn't just about the environment; it’s about the destruction of livelihoods and basic human rights.
#StopGalamsey #ProtectOurWater

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

@SaddickAdams Boss, one practice accounting for this in my opinion is the issue of market queens and middlemen being the determinants of pricing for traders in our markets even at a time when most produce are in abundance. Foodstuffs are generally still expensive yet there’s excess left to rot

[Pazienza✨#StopGalamseyNow @Bobthebuil19383]

Ghana is facing an environmental crisis! Illegal mining commonly referred to as ‘Galamsey’ is destroying our forests, river bodies, and causing birth defects, kidney problems, and other organ failures. We can not continue to trade our health for gold. We must unite to fight against Galamsey. #StopGalamseyNow

[Pazienza✨#StopGalamseyNow @Bobthebuil19383]

Every polluted river, every abandoned mine, every destroyed farm is a reminder that accountability still lags behind enforcement.
How did we get here and what will it take to turn the tide?

Join CDD-Ghana on Thursday, November 20 at 7 PM GMT for an X Space Discussion ahead of the 20th Kronti ne Akwamu Lecture.

Hosted by journalist Eric Mawuena Egbeta (TV3) with insights from Patience Tei, Angela Hammond Esq., and Awura Abena Agyeman, this conversation will unpack the deeper questions of accountability, enforcement, and leadership.

💬 Share your thoughts in the comments section: What solutions do you believe are in plain sight to curb this menace?

#Kronti2025 #CDDghana #StopGalamseyNow #Accountability #Galamsey

[joy boy @FCTamakloe]

Sometimes I’m okay then I randomly remember that in the midst of a global pandemic, as people were dying, Ghanaian pharmacies were selling one box of nose masks for 400 cedis.

[SHARDS & Other Poems @coby_daniels]

I’m going to @Bobthebuil19383’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? https://t.co/RTNaYbklNo