WHERE DO WE STAND?
"Do your best" is a silent motto some friends shared in the early 90s. They strived to be the very best even in the very bad things they planned doing and got the needed attention they didn't bargain for.
Over the years we hear how people with names in business, politics, media, religion and other spheres of endeavour, try their very best in life to maintain their influence and keep their position.
Yet we have seen and heard serious and disturbing rhetorics of what we ought to do to be the best and how we have to do it well, only for us to arrive on the scene and perpetuate the same old order.
And for the past 59 years of our nationhood most of us have been talking and following the same old pattern of import led economy.
We have been talking about the beautiful misfit in our lives, while a huge deficit of our needs still hangs in the air.
We have been clapping and celebrating all the time, when we are least regarded in the world.
We have been talking and talking about the progress of other nations, and making the disastrous comparison all the time, when we are not necessarily doing what we promised to do.
We have thought and accepted the status quo ante that we are truly a Third World Country, who don't know our true worth in the world economy.
We have developed an undying appetite for always receiving freebies and handouts from our colonial masters who continue to praise us for maintaining what they've taught us.
And over the years, we have come to accept the unorthodox formula of our former Lords, while preaching this cosmetic changes for our selfish politician leading our country.
Yet we have seen and heard serious and disturbing rhetorics of what we ought to do to be the best and how we have to do it well, only for us to arrive on the scene and perpetuate the same old order.
And for the past 59 years of our nationhood most of us have been talking and following the same old pattern of import led economy.
We have been talking about the beautiful misfit in our lives, while a huge deficit of our needs still hangs in the air.
We have been clapping and celebrating all the time, when we are least regarded in the world.
We have been talking and talking about the progress of other nations, and making the disastrous comparison all the time, when we are not necessarily doing what we promised to do.
We have thought and accepted the status quo ante that we are truly a Third World Country, who don't know our true worth in the world economy.
We have developed an undying appetite for always receiving freebies and handouts from our colonial masters who continue to praise us for maintaining what they've taught us.
And over the years, we have come to accept the unorthodox formula of our former Lords, while preaching this cosmetic changes for our selfish politician leading our country.
Over the years our leaders who have had the taste of higher education elsewhere have still not found the need to make Ghana a great learning centre in Afrika to train the next set of revolutionary thinkers to further liberate us.
Although RELEVANCE is still the name of the game, I wonder how relevant we are now in global economy aside being always celebrated for promoting the economy of others.
We may be relevant in our own right as a people but unless we see our inner worth as a people and developed a unique responsive system of governance, a vibrant educational system, a sustainable health care system, and a resilient patriotic attitude for our common good.
May be we have all let Ghana and Afrika down by not doing much in our respective areas of endeavour to uphold excellence, explore creative means of sustaining our development in every sphere.
It's my hope to see a greater Ghana and Afrika not just being producers of the world's raw materials but an influential Giant dictating the pace of world affairs.
Simply put we must do more for our progress and not just be serving the old order of doing things. Let's think more, work more, explore our potentials to be the best people we ought to be.
#KYB ✍#
We may be relevant in our own right as a people but unless we see our inner worth as a people and developed a unique responsive system of governance, a vibrant educational system, a sustainable health care system, and a resilient patriotic attitude for our common good.
May be we have all let Ghana and Afrika down by not doing much in our respective areas of endeavour to uphold excellence, explore creative means of sustaining our development in every sphere.
It's my hope to see a greater Ghana and Afrika not just being producers of the world's raw materials but an influential Giant dictating the pace of world affairs.
Simply put we must do more for our progress and not just be serving the old order of doing things. Let's think more, work more, explore our potentials to be the best people we ought to be.
#KYB ✍#
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