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On Thursday, I observed that social media were awash with jokes about the Kumasi Mall. It started as a Kumasi-Accra rivalry, and developed into a joke that, in Kumasi, the mall would be called “more” because the people there find it difficult to pronounce the letters “r” and “l”.

Some said it would be called “Kumasi Accra Mall” because the only mall the people of Kumasi are used to is the Accra Mall. Funny and fake quotes like those often attributed to Mugabe emerged about the mall, and were attributed “Chairman Wontumi” of the NPP. There were also funny pictures, which some people posted, purporting to be some of the first patrons of the mall. Many of those pictures emerged when there were jokes about the West Hills Mall after two young men  recorded a video and stated that they were making it “real big” in a “coded location.”

The last time Kumasi came under such teasing was when the Ratray Park was commissioned. It was said that the people there would find it difficult to pronounce the name so they would call it “Ratlay” Park.