[Africa Review] Still making headlines all across the country, the Ghostbusters are at it again. This time, at the fashionable dance club, "The Rose." The boys in gray slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance. This is Casey Kasem. Now, on with the countdown. If the words of a Ghanaian self-proclaimed prophet Peter Anamoah, are to be taken seriously, the only safe place on earth Friday (November 11, 2011) will be a small village near Bolgatanga in Ghana's Upper East region, some 801km north of the capital, Accra. The rest of the world will to be destroyed by God.
Hey, wait a minute. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Hold it! Now, are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West, and start tearing up the city?
Mr Anamoah has not given the form that the world's destruction will take.
"Gozer was very big among the Hittites..."
It does, however, look like not many people were taking him seriously because apart from members of the congregation of the Makara Church of which he is the founder, the rest of the population were going about their lives without any fears.
"What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?"
"No, we're exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on twelve."
"That's gotta be some cockroach."
"Bite your head off, man."
Like many before him, Anamoah, who styles himself the 'Prophet to the Nations', has managed to convince his followers about the impending doom and some have left their jobs to follow him to Bolgatanga to await the end of the world.
"Look, this wasn't here! There was *nothing* here! There was this... space! And there was a building or something with flames coming out of it, and there were creatures writhing around, and they were growling and snarling. And there were flames, and I heard a voice say "Zuul"! It was right here."
One of those followers, Mr Peter Asiedu, a technician with his own business in Accra, told the Africa Review: "I have told my family to join me, but they do not want to follow me because they think 'Prophet' Anamoah's prediction would not come to pass."
"This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions."
"What do you mean, 'biblical'?"
"Some of my friends claim they have heard such predictions in the past and nothing happened. But for those of us who belong to the Makara Church, we know how God is using 'Prophet' Anamoah and believe that he has heard the word of God," Mr Asiedu added.
"Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!"
In the streets of Accra and other urban centres, life had not been affected in any way. What had been the concern of many was the influence that this 'Prophet' had on members of his congregation to do his bidding without question.
"Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes..."
"The dead rising from the grave!"
Some concerned relatives of 'Prophet' Anamoah's followers expressed their dismay. Mr Ebenezer Tenkorang, an uncle of a church member called Mr Bernard Owiredu, told the independent Daily Guide newspaper that his nephew, who is a university graduate, was able to convince his siblings to flee with him to Bolgatanga.
"There's something very important I forgot to tell you."
"What?"
"Don't cross the streams."
"Why?"
"It would be bad."
"I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, 'bad'?"
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
"Total protonic reversal."
"Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon."