LETTER TO AFRANIE

The writer of Abhynha Yankey stories wishes to extend her condolences to the family of Coach Afranie.

Letter To Afranie

When a great man dies, the first question people ask is, "after him who?"
Yes! After Coach Afranie, who?

I've heard of death.
I've seen death.
They say it's inevitable and as humans, we must embrace it.
But unfortunately, death has exceeded it's limits this time around. It has caused such great damage to people, yet we can not run away from it.

Hmm...Who thought November 9, 2016 would go down the history books of Ghanaians?
I didn't get the chance to meet you, but the few times I heard of Coach Emmanuel Kwesi Afranie, I grew to love and cherish football.

For you to have taken the Ghana Black Starlets to the 2001 World Cup meant a lot.
Your key components of 2001 Silver Winning Squad at the U-20 World Cup moved on to help Ghana qualify for it's first world cup in 2006.

Eeeiii, d33fo) wuo!
We can't stop folding our arms as tears drop down our faces.
The best we can do is to wrap our cloth around our shoulders and spit out impatient words of pain and agony

Coach Afranie, your death has plunged in a personal mourning all men who have not ceased to believe in the passion and love for football.

Coach Afranie, Nante Yie
Coachie, Da dinn
Coach, Due ne amanehunu.


ABHYNHA YANKEY...