Racing Time – An ANSA Poem

This year, we are celebrating the ten year anniversary of ANSA. To celebrate and commemorate this event, Asangba Reginald Taluah has written the poem “Racing Time”, which you can enjoy reading here.

Once upon a decade

A craving call for a union

Was hatched under the cold warmth

Of fertile grounds in Deutschland

Nursed by the DAAD

And the benevolence and mandates

Of unrelenting hands

The determined bird shall soar

On the hands of the winds

Like a floating cloud

And the sky shall be its limits

ANSA

A hub of connections

Of research generation and exchange

A melting pot of thoughts

Of ideas and plans

Ignited to race time

ANSA

A people poised at harvesting dreams

Encapsulated in visions and aspirations

Of budding academic giants

With eyes transfixed on an African course

To stand for a course is one thing

And to follow a course is another

ANSA stands tall in both

Stretches its arms wide

Carves bonds of togetherness

Hail the hands that keep the flames ablaze

The sparkles of success

Shall surely rival the stars

The torches of success

Shall be lit and lifted high

From the pinnacles of the pyramids

To the brows of Kilimanjaro

And the depths of the Nile

Hopes of a brighter tomorrow

Shall be enkindled in every heart

Seasons have come and gone

And others yet to unfold

At times of reckoning

When minds assemble

In scientific tangos

Wearing smiles and hanging laughters

The strings that hold our course

Shall be lifted up to greater heights

And with time to come

What minds have mined and kept

Beyond all encumbrances

Lips shall proclaim

The impacts of ANSA