I DOUBT YOU ARE A GHANAIAN

Everyone wants to develop, everyone dreams of a future with beautiful cities and a high standard of living of the people. If you understand the modernization theory, it tells you that, the strive for development will at the end get both developed and developing countries to look like each other, no matter your policies.
The is vision is better achieved when the people are of one mind. The people thus have to know their historical background.

This leaves me with a few questions as a Ghanaian.
How well do you know your culture and how much of it do you remember? which clan do you belong to? What is its history? Which tribe do you belong to and what are its cultural norms, values and practices? What was the culture of Ghanaians before independence? How come we have Akans, Dagomba’s, Mamprusi’s, Ga-Adangbe’s, Gonja’s and Ewe’s? Where did they come from? How many of these questions were you able to answer and how true were these answers?

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah with other intellectuals together with the people were able to fight for their freedom because they knew who they were and what they wanted. At that time, mothers and fathers were teaching their children their cultural roots through folklores, parables and fireside stories. It sad that Ghana has no documented history and unfortunately the aged are dying out with all the historical information we might need.

The advent of social media and technology has even accelerated the issue. The history of Africa is normally told by foreign researchers that seek to prove that, western culture is superior and the African culture is inferior.

If we can’t remember who we are and where we come from then, it wont be long for Africans to be washed away from the surface of the earth because people is culture and culture is people. This leaves me to the question, when we were agitating for independence, was it to return to our indigenous knowledge or forever follow a complex and seducing culture.

when you are climbing the ladder to the actualization of a vision, who you are also determines how you get there.

A time has come for us to wake up to the realities of where we are getting to. It is time for us to enforce citizenship education in our schools.

A Ghanaian who doesn’t know is roots is no Ghanaian.

In our passion to develop, we are actually undressing our black skin and putting on a white skin. It almost seem like we can’t do without the whites since our taste for foreign goods unconsciously led us to adopt the western culture.

The black man is capable of managing his own affairs when he reminds himself and his people about who they are and where they want to get to.

#Change is Now

#K.A.D