A Less Than Desirable Painting … But Who’s The Real Artist?

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Akosua 11 years ago

talk from kwesi pratt,ablakwa or mosquito. such an interesting article and see where Ghanaians stand.sad sad sad,

talk from kwesi pratt,ablakwa or mosquito. such an interesting article and see where Ghanaians stand.sad sad sad,
Kuuku 11 years ago

It's all about the value systems which prevail in the world and how the individuals perceive and relate to them,evolving as they slowly but surely are.

It's all about the value systems which prevail in the world and how the individuals perceive and relate to them,evolving as they slowly but surely are.
Dixy 11 years ago

Much as I despise these so-called celebrities, not least One Direction, I hate to say that the pop group were spot on. I wish what they said about Ghana isn't the case, but I'd be lying to my poor self. After seeing massive f ...
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Much as I despise these so-called celebrities, not least One Direction, I hate to say that the pop group were spot on. I wish what they said about Ghana isn't the case, but I'd be lying to my poor self. After seeing massive filth right in front of their eyes, you cannot expect them to say the nation was looking in great shape. Yes, we have luxury hotels and VIP locations, but how many Ghanaians actually live in these places? Majority of our folks live in poverty due to bad governance. We have ministers of environment who do virtually nothing to justify their huge wages, while our surrounndings stink. All well and good labelling some Ghanaians as true patriots. We can take this criticism or so from one direction on the chin and begin to do something serious about our affairs or be defensive by making references to luxury hotels and tourists attraction as a breastshield. We can contest the real truths about our nation but what remains is that Ghana is in pretty bad shape. Years ago, I had this patriotic attitude and defending any negative stuff about Ghana. Did it change my nation? Our political elites are frankly vision-less and useless. No political party has so far showed the political will to transform our society. Far too much money is wasted on public officials, while our institutions especially the health and education systems continue to be in a deplorable state. Citizens feel ok to dump rubbish around because there are no proper refuse dumps around or no fines or sanctions to deter them. Truth is, patriotism doesn't feed the millions of people who have very little or nothing to eat. There are huge numbers of Ghanaians in the diaspora who would like to offer their expertise to build or re-build Ghana, but the truth is you got to affiliate yourself to some political party before you stand any chance. Even that isn't a gurantee to a job that matches your expertise. As for your noise about Ghanaians are willing to toil abroad while their country needs them is a bunch of baloney. What do you expect someone who feels a sense of hopelessness in his own country to do? Stay and rot as some are happy to do? Many of our youngsters, educated or un-educated alike, feel they have no stake in our society. In any case, you could have stayed in Ghana for your higher education to show your patriotic streak. You exercised your free choice. Now you want to lecture us about patriotism. What a hypocritical goat!
mama C 11 years ago

Good point, but please you don't have to add insults

Good point, but please you don't have to add insults
Kofi Asare 11 years ago

This, to me, is a non-issue. If the country feels like an impoverished village to One Direction, let them express it. If it feels like heaven-on-earth to us, fine and good. No need attacking them for their views. Their opinio ...
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This, to me, is a non-issue. If the country feels like an impoverished village to One Direction, let them express it. If it feels like heaven-on-earth to us, fine and good. No need attacking them for their views. Their opinions aren't going to add any more dirt and refuse to our streets than we have already. Same way our opinions aren't going to reduce our poverty levels by any significant margin.
Paul Amuna 11 years ago

Reagan, you make very brilliant points about what is a chronic problem and WE Africans contribute to it. We have a lot of soul-searching to do ourselves.

Reagan, you make very brilliant points about what is a chronic problem and WE Africans contribute to it. We have a lot of soul-searching to do ourselves.
Spiky 11 years ago

Brilliant! This should lead you to understand the complicity of Africans in their own demise, beginning from the slave trade to the 21st Century. Our behaviour has led some observers to question our intellect although it is p ...
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Brilliant! This should lead you to understand the complicity of Africans in their own demise, beginning from the slave trade to the 21st Century. Our behaviour has led some observers to question our intellect although it is preposterous for anyone to think that the African is less intelligent than other races. The critical issue is how intelligence is used; and alongside intelligence are other critical human personality traits such as confidence, responsibility, courage, self-esteem,hard work, creativity,assertiveness, patriotism, self-believe etc. Do we have a critical mass of people with these positive characteristics that are a sine qua non for progress in every society? Much of what you have spoken about are unlikely to happen if we do; and the solution? Education! Education! Education! By education I mean the kind of education that aims at, among other things, fixing such a societal problem; a kind of education that is primarily inward-looking but sufficiently outward-looking for the beneficiary to be knowledgeable and useful to himself/herself and society without compromising his roots. The Japanese, South Koreans, Singaporeans, and now the Chinese and Indians have all followed this route, and what has become of them and their societies is history. Will the African be next? It will require a level of consciousness which at the moment is lacking.
Kofi 11 years ago

Bro we are very poor. just visit the northern sector of Ghana or some villages in the southern sector. though not their fault as to be poor we cannot blame one direction for their comments.even some places in Accra looks like ...
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Bro we are very poor. just visit the northern sector of Ghana or some villages in the southern sector. though not their fault as to be poor we cannot blame one direction for their comments.even some places in Accra looks like a war zone and our road - no comment. unless we stop letting politicians use the race card to rule us and win elections on merit, we will always be poor.

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