Can Dagombas Not Build A Palace Fit For Their King Themselves?

Should those who wrote the inaugural speech delivered on behalf of the newly-installed Yaa Naa, on the day of his enskinment, have paused for a moment,  before penning the appeal to President Akufo-Addo's regime to build a new palace for Dagbon's ruler?

The  question is: Does Dagbon not count many enterprising and highly-intelligent men and women among  its teeming youth - who could marshal the resources needed to build  a befitting palace for their king through creative thinking? Haaba. And would the brilliant Ghanaian architect, Kojo  Derban, not be happy to design a magnificent edifice for Dagbon's new ruler, if asked to do so by the Yaa Naa himself? Indeed, it would be an honour for any architect, would it not?

Be that as it may, as this blog's widow's mite contribution to the pooling of ideas for raising  funds for such a project,  we humbly recommend that the traditional outfitters  of the kings of Dagbon, should be asked to produce the handmade leather boots, hat, and fugu top/trouser  ensemble,  such as that worn by President Akufo-Addo on that historic occasion,  for sale to the world, on a Gbewaah Palace ecommerce website.

Since  the sundry handmade products on the aforementioned ecommerce website will be produced by master  craftsmen and women, they will definitely  be of superb  quality and classified  as luxury fashion items that will last a lifetime for those lucky  enough  to purchase them  - and priced  accordingly. A thousand dollars per set of leather boots, hat, trousers and fugu  top with the seal of the king of Dagbon embossed on them, would be quite a bargain.

And, no one who listened to the royal praise-singer, who strutted  his stuff so brilliantly on that joyous occassion, would doubt that the blues genre of music  actually originated from the palace of Dagbon's rulers. The possibility of Yendi becoming a mecca for blues singers from around the world,  seeking collaborations  with Gbewaah Palace praise-singers to produce truly authentic blues songs, is not beyond the realms of possibility. Cool.

That never-ending specialist  tourist  traffic, could also become a  nice little earner for Dagbon, could it not? Combined with contributions from wealthy Ghanaians  from across the nation -  happy that Dagbon at long last now has a new beginning -  surely, Dagombas could put together all the funding needed to build the new Yaa Naa a befitting  palace? Indeed, they can - and ought to be encouraged to do so: because  they are such an enterprising  and dynamic people.