The biggest challenge of our dispensation are the crippled minds in wheeling governments. When we are set to move they are dumb standing and when we are energized to speed up they are lazily crawling. but the wheel belongs to us and we, decide who to steer it. our chance to choose is therefore the greatest opportunity life can offer us.I may be passionate about my successes and my health because they are the two most important aspects of life to me but I am extra more passionate about the things that matters most to my country and the future of what we have began today.
So many years have gone by and Ghana, my beloved country seem to lack focus and direction due to some unfortunate attitude of the youth of today and a misplaced culture of true Africanism. Ghana today is a country with an uncontrollable rate of corruption, nepotism, tribal segregation, ethnocentrism, and a politically influenced economy in both the civil and the private sectors. The priority of political parties and individual interests have taken over the national pride and is doom worse in years ahead since the culture is being taught at every level of the child's maturity stages.
Not long ago, I could not bypass any elderly person without greeting or sit whiles he or she stands. I would not dare greet with my left or drink wine with the elderly. Clubs were for grown ups and life was worth while living in then communities of social hierarchy where respect was duly shared.
The culture i met is gradually fading out of my country due to numerous number of reasons, geared by the exigency for wealth and power and as result has been incorporated into our socialization processes and so every child in Ghana today, stands a victim to this mind deteriorating factors. \
I do not believe that societal changes have to affect our social etiquette. It must rather add value to the moral standards of our communities.
If we are to list the causes of immoral behaviors among the youth of today, the obvious ones to everybody are the Internet, movies , and so forth. We are all to blame technology and indeed it has been a factor because it has had a lot of influences on the African culture but the problem is not technology but what we do with it, because we have all had the free will to choose with respect to the use of technology.
On the contrary i blame my parents for my attitude because they could have trained me better, i blame my teachers for my limited knowledge because they could taught me well and i blame the government for my social well being because there could have been better social facilities to impact a better life.
Critically accessing the performance of governments and the kind of training given to children in schools, i can with much confidence declare a state of emergency since it is taking us nowhere on this planet. I can smell danger! The danger of the consequences of today. Tomorrow's insecurity is much felt now than ever. the wind blowing today is an indication of a bad weather to come and i can't sit than to send a caution to those concerned.
what is on the news today? Gbabo is still proving stubborn to concede defeat knowing clearly that he has lost and opposition is threatening war. war! war! war! Fathers, mothers grandparents and the children including those in the big universities and colleges are on the sttreet crying war. Is Ivory Coast going to war again when it is only just a decade after the civil war. This is what I am trying to let you understand, the future is threatening because those behind are likely to carry on with what is ensuing today.
Well i don't want to go very far. right here in ghana the situation isn't pleasant. Abuse of power and corruption has been the order of the day. whereever there is leadeership there is corruption. In the university of ghana the student representative council has suffered a lot form corrupt leadership resulting in a very serious apathy on it's campus when it has to do with student elections. Many are not interested anymore because the story keep repeating every year. The few decerning ones cannot get their voices heard. The situation is still not different from the national Union of Ghana Students.
consequently, the situation in our educational institutions has bred succesers for the bad nuts in our national insituions. It is shocking to realize that as at now in present day Ghana there is nothing like a national agenda set out to propel the country for at least a twenty years achievement. Instead of setting up a proper educational structure and other public benefiting policies we are rather engaged in politics of deceit, insults and blame games.
The truth is clear, our leaders have nothing to offer us, they are lacking ideas and have given us no hope for the future. I am not being pessimistic, I am a realist. Optimism in itself does not take away the fact that we are weak in the brain, It only console us of our failures.
Rising from a community where you are made to believe that you can be no better than what you met and rise higher than the limit you met is a very serious issue to consider as a determined individual. In a community of all blacks black is inferior. The usual question many stereotype Ghanaians ask is, " who are you to change that?" and seem to have become a culture that every one feel some problems are unsolvable and some situations can never change. This is not promising at all. We are far better than this.
"You can never be better than a white man" is a usual statement I often here even in an intellectual community like the university of Ghana. This is very disgusting. Comparing our level of development and the kind of human resourcees we are bringing into the coorperate world, i feel very ashamed. many of our graduates are liabilities to the nation. they add nothing to the society. What are we trained for if we cannot solve the problems around us? That is the mindset of the African child. In Ghana and in many African countries, almost all graduates from the universities carry files from one company to the other begging to be employed. Must that be the case? I understand because i feel it.
We need need to change, and the time is now because if do not act, we are more likely to breed a worse generation of corrupt leadership and a stigmatic society where nothing happens to benefit everyone except those in the act. The mindset of the future generation of Africa must change now! The youth must arise for the better and not to emulate those currently in leadership. We chose to be whatever we are today so we shouldn't make another mistake by choosing wrongly. we are better than this.
to be continued...........
