So Great an Announcement by Kobina Amissah-Fynn

Author:Kobina Amissah-Fynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Baha'u'llah Baha'i, Maitreya Fifth Buddha, Kalki Avatar, Shah Bahram, The Mahdi, Prophet Isa, Return of Christ, Messiah of Judaism, Africa, The Second Advent, Biblical
Publisher: Hope Books
Published: 2021-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

16. Some Encounters

It was exactly a year after Sue’s death. The sun was just appearing on the horizon, and its rays were steadily brightening up the leafy environment all around. Amid the joyful twittering of birds on tree branches, Nana Egyir had made his way to the main gate of the Gatekeepers Foundation. He wished to inspect the final preparations for the programme that morning to honour three very special people. Artisans had toiled at the site the evening before and were back to work at first light to complete the preparations. And now a new gate, and the monumental arch which had recently been constructed over it, had both been draped in colourful fabric to conceal the final work from the eyes of onlookers. Workmen could still be seen dashing around here and there putting final touches to the preparations. It was while Nana Egyir was quietly surveying the activities around him that a young couple jogged by where he stood and stopped.

“Sir, you need to be honoured as well. You’ve been so influential to this project,” panted the woman.

Nana Egyir smiled and wiped dust from his hand with a handkerchief.

“I’m Khursheda from Uzbekistan and my fiancé, Thomas, is from Cameroon,” she continued.

“Cameroon!” Nana Egyir beamed. “I know Cameroon very well,” he said proudly. “I was there some two years ago, visiting old friends from my days in America—a Bahamian-German couple stationed there... Interesting country... Which part of Cameroon do you come from?”

“From a small village not far from Mount Cameroon, sir.”

“Uh, Mount Cameroon: tallest mountain in West and Central Africa!”

“But Nana, have you heard the news?” Khursheda sought to change the topic. “Last month, I heard on television that Bibiriba has been listed amongst the fastest growing cities on the planet; and now, on the news this very morning, Bibiriba has been voted one of the most diverse of all cities on earth. Bibiriba is always on the news these days. It’s as if it has suddenly become the centre of the world!”

“Well, it’s literally near the centre of the earth,” Nana Egyir preached.

“Really?”

“Yes; see the Atlantic Ocean over there? Of course, you can’t see it from here, but we know it’s a few hundred metres from here. The equator, which is latitude zero, is some distance from here in that ocean. The Greenwich meridian, which is longitude zero, passes near Accra, less than seventy kilometres east of here. So here we are, very close to coordinates zero-zero, which is the centre of the earth.” He stood akimbo and looked at them smiling. “Being near the centre of the earth,” he quipped, “is it not fitting that world-shaking initiatives should have originated from here?”

“Oh, Nana, it’s so exciting! I didn’t really know we are so close to the centre of the earth!” exclaimed Khursheda. “That makes Accra the capital of the world.”

“Well said; hope the UN is listening!” Nana Egyir joked.

“But Nana, geographically, it’s rather Israel which is at the centre of the earth, isn’t it?” Thomas pointed out with an intellectual look on his face.

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