The Front Page Article Of “The Social Eye: Power Of The Pen” Newspaper, Thursday June 14th 2012

Mango With Human Features…. The Story As It Is

“Surprise and asking of questions were full in the mouths of listeners of Lorlornyo FM, a private radio station in Hohoe in the Volta Region when news about a mango with two eyes, an ear, a forehead, a nose and a mouth was broke. To be precise, a mango having almost all the characteristics of a human head.

This strange mango was found at Lolobi-Kumasi, a small farming community in the Hohoe Municipality by Belinda Adzkimah, a 16 year old mother of one when she decided to pluck some mangoes from a tree in the house.

In an interview with this reporter, Belinda said that whilst picking the mangoes she had plucked from the ground, she found the one with the human features.

Terrified at her discovery, she threw the mango into a nearby bush and run to inform the mother. The mother then accompanied her to pick it from the bush.

Sensing danger that the ‘human mango’ might be a sign of a bad omen, the mother decided to send it to a fetish priest by name, Hunor Dodzi, who once lived in the house and planted the said mango tree. (Cont. on page 2)

(Cont. from page 1) When the Social Eye contacted Hunor Dodzi, he confirmed living in the house and also planting the tree. When questioned about what the strange mango could mean, he said, he had to consult his gods and whatever directives he is given, he will go back to the house to do just that.

Whilst some people attribute the mystery mango to the world coming to an end, others are of the view that the fetish priest might have buried a human head on the ground before planting the mango tree, hence the strange fruit.

When the acting Paramount Chief of Lolobi Traditional Area and his elders were contacted on the issue, they debunked the assertion that the fetish priest might have buried a human head in the house, an allegation that was causing fear and panic in the vicinity.

The chief and the elders opined that the mango was only a natural phenomenon.

Barely, a week after the Lolobi-Kumasi discovery, another mango with similar human features was picked up at the premises of the Hohoe Municipal Mutual Health Insurance Scheme when some children went there to pluck mangoes. Interestingly, that mango has since been eaten by some staff of the scheme.”