Ron Kenoly: Africa must ditch the poverty mindset

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JOJOO WILSON 10 years ago

Dr Kenoly is absoletely right. We needs to embrace that idea and with that we can move ahead in all aspect of our lives. The mentality of receiving everything freely should be done away with.When you pay for something you ten ...
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Dr Kenoly is absoletely right. We needs to embrace that idea and with that we can move ahead in all aspect of our lives. The mentality of receiving everything freely should be done away with.When you pay for something you tend to value it. Ghana lets move on.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

Good to hear from you, my brother.

Good to hear from you, my brother.
OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, he had the gut to recommend his fellow journalists to be executed by PNDC. Pratt even recommended Baako to be killed by the regime, thank God Baako was instead touchered violently and severely but his life was spared. This is what Kwesi Pratt can do. Now Pratt is a secret agent to NDC and US Embassy in Ghana. May God forgive Pratt and spare him the untold evils that will come upon him and his generations. The souls of those journalist killed through Pratt's recommendations to PNDC will never forgive Pratt. Now Pratt has the guts to take Diplomatic Passport and smuggled his weak-headed children to work at the Ministries under Mills NDC, may God forgive Pratt and his dependance and spare them of the evils ahead of them...
JOJOO WILSON 10 years ago

That line should have read 'we need ' and not needs.Sorry folks.

That line should have read 'we need ' and not needs.Sorry folks.
bonne 10 years ago

They want everything free. Education
Health. Free transport
They complain of every thing. Utility.

They want everything free. Education
Health. Free transport
They complain of every thing. Utility.
mr.osei 10 years ago

say it again and again brother.africa should set our mindset right and stop begging for money every time.everything is not for free these days and we should not expect to have everything free.i do agree with dr kenoly

say it again and again brother.africa should set our mindset right and stop begging for money every time.everything is not for free these days and we should not expect to have everything free.i do agree with dr kenoly
Homesense 10 years ago

While I welcome you, Ron Kenolly, my favorite American gospel singer to Ghana, I want to say that you people of African descent have a lot to do to help Africa. People of Jewish, Chinese etc.etc. ancestry are known to have co ...
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While I welcome you, Ron Kenolly, my favorite American gospel singer to Ghana, I want to say that you people of African descent have a lot to do to help Africa. People of Jewish, Chinese etc.etc. ancestry are known to have contributed immensely towards the development of their ancestral homes. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of your type.

For example, Christians in Ghana and Africa would have loved to have more of your hit songs and had wanted to watch your life performance during your younger days when you were dazzling. (We saw in your videos which arrived here 10years after). Because you did not 'value' the African Christian that much for a lucrative market, you did little to let us have your soul-inspiring songs here. In the process you allowed the Kool and the Gangs, Micheal Jacksons etc. to pollute our souls with their worldly music, much to our disadvantage now.

Please carry this message to your younger gospel singers that Afrcian Christians love them, and prefer their gospel music to the secular American songs.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

You started by saying and I coat “People of Jewish, Chinese etc, ancestry are known to have contributed immensely towards the development of their ancestral homes. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of your type.” An ...
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You started by saying and I coat “People of Jewish, Chinese etc, ancestry are known to have contributed immensely towards the development of their ancestral homes. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of your type.” And I believed, the next pondering question has the label of the word WHY written boldly on it, correct?

Now, the answer to your question is just simple and thus, Africa has been in tatters and have stayed in tatters ever since due to our own doing. Whilst the same cannot be said about the far east although both continents were empiricist under the so-called colonial divide by our masters from the western world. In short, we have to get our act together and they would feel welcomed to join and help out. It's that simple.
okwantuni 10 years ago

In every society, there is the poor and the rich. In most advanced countries their leaders who are the caretakers of the national resources take care of the weaker ones in the society and support them with social benifits.The ...
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In every society, there is the poor and the rich. In most advanced countries their leaders who are the caretakers of the national resources take care of the weaker ones in the society and support them with social benifits.The system is different at this part of the globe, the cake is in a very few people's pocket. This is what you must come to preach against.
Boss 10 years ago

The gospel is indeed free but if one has to hire a big conference hall or a stadium to preach, somebody has to pay for it. Just like water; it is free so you can pick your bucket, fetch and use. But the moment someone has pai ...
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The gospel is indeed free but if one has to hire a big conference hall or a stadium to preach, somebody has to pay for it. Just like water; it is free so you can pick your bucket, fetch and use. But the moment someone has paid to treat and pipe it closer to you, you must pay for the added value.
TUNDE 10 years ago

JUST SAY ETE SEN TO AN GHANA PERSON AND THEY LOOKA AT YOU ...LIKE YOU OWE THEM SOMTHING.
THAT SOMETHING IS ALWAY MONEY...HA HAH HAH HA
AKWAAAAAAABA MEANS U CAN HAVE ALL OUR WOMEN FOR FREE
POOR GHANA PEOPLE

JUST SAY ETE SEN TO AN GHANA PERSON AND THEY LOOKA AT YOU ...LIKE YOU OWE THEM SOMTHING.
THAT SOMETHING IS ALWAY MONEY...HA HAH HAH HA
AKWAAAAAAABA MEANS U CAN HAVE ALL OUR WOMEN FOR FREE
POOR GHANA PEOPLE
Boss 10 years ago

Tell those so called civil society advocates who always drum the poverty beat to raise funds and share on behalf of the so called poor. When shall we rise up and say enough with poverty, let's now die 'small' so we will be ri ...
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Tell those so called civil society advocates who always drum the poverty beat to raise funds and share on behalf of the so called poor. When shall we rise up and say enough with poverty, let's now die 'small' so we will be rich tomorrow?
4wwww 10 years ago

Greed pastors are the problem. Happiness has nothing to do with poverty. Compare struggling to survive to those digging their graves with their teeth - so to speak

Greed pastors are the problem. Happiness has nothing to do with poverty. Compare struggling to survive to those digging their graves with their teeth - so to speak
4wwww 10 years ago

We are poor but happy. Better to be rich and suicidal

We are poor but happy. Better to be rich and suicidal
GOVERNOR 10 years ago

how is this news?

how is this news?
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

Dr. Ron Kenoly, we have failed in Africa to solve the poverty problem because of how people like you continue to define poverty,
Poverty is not caused by the lack of money. For me poverty is the extent to which an individual ...
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Dr. Ron Kenoly, we have failed in Africa to solve the poverty problem because of how people like you continue to define poverty,
Poverty is not caused by the lack of money. For me poverty is the extent to which an individual can do without resources. The resources I am talking about can include the following:
Financial resources - having the resources to be able to buy goods & services
Emotional resources - being able to choose & control your emotion.
Mental resources - having the abilities & skills (through reading, computing, writing, etc.) to handle daily life.
Spiritual resources - believing in divine purpose & guidance.
Physical resources - having physical health and mobility.
Support systems - having family - nuclear and extended -, friends, & other people you can call up to help you in time of need.
Knowledge of hidden rules - familiarity with the achievements of more successful groups.
We have abundant of some of these resources; the one we lack in Africa are mainly financial resources. African intellectuals themselves should redefine the concept of poverty.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago

Abundance of , I meant to write.

Abundance of , I meant to write.
kwaku prince 10 years ago

well done mr. ron kennoly.you teach us
well be bless more.but moreover you must to know what is free or what is not free.because when we travelling we see that our govement.acheved lot and every one is poor.so anytime we are ...
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well done mr. ron kennoly.you teach us
well be bless more.but moreover you must to know what is free or what is not free.because when we travelling we see that our govement.acheved lot and every one is poor.so anytime we are carrying for God.what worry us is briness
Agonaba 10 years ago

Kenoly is a true messenger of God.

Kenoly is a true messenger of God.
BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -"AMEN". "IT IS FINISHED". "OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO "BE S ...
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BLESSED PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DIGNIFIED PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, -"AMEN". "IT IS FINISHED". "OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AND SEE THE CONTINENT AS GOD SEES IT. GOD BLESS YOU AND I TO "BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE" AND SEE OURSELVES AS GOD SEES US. GOD BLESS YOUR NATION AND THE DIGNIFIED PEOPLE TO "OCCUPY" TILL THE LORD COMES. AND GOD, BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
NOTE
MUCH THANKS TO GHANAWEB. AND, TO -'GYE NYAME RADIO'- FOR THE LORD'S SONGS DURING THE POSTING.
tohugu 10 years ago

It is a shame to have self-styled experts on how to overcome poverty spew such pungent rebuke on a whole continent as if to say Africa is the only place where poverty thrives because we love poverty. Ron Kenoly,if he is well ...
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It is a shame to have self-styled experts on how to overcome poverty spew such pungent rebuke on a whole continent as if to say Africa is the only place where poverty thrives because we love poverty. Ron Kenoly,if he is well read and knows the world very well would know that poverty cuts accross the entire world fabric. Asia, Europe,North and South America, Middle and Far East all have majority of their population living in abject poverty.Is it because these people were born with poverty mentality? learned, earned or borrowed poverty mentality? I will the answer to these questions to someone with a true Christlike heart full of compassion to answer. I live in the USA,supposedly the richest place on earth and yet the poor and homeless citizens-black and white- far out number the entire population of Ghana.How much of the kind of poverty that has plagued the citizens of the USA, where Ron Kenola hails from can be attribted to Poverty Mentality, and how much of his time and money has he spent to address that? It is easy for individuals like him, Chris Rock etc. to go to countries like Ghana and feignedly pretend to be practitioners of what they hardly would say or do in their own backyard.
When I arrived in the USA in THE EARLY 80's, I had no money but Christ in my heart and being struck by the plight of the homeless and the poor people in the projects, undertook with my wife to tackle it head-on. We did not castigate them by saying 'Americans give up your poverty mentality' rather with compassion we ministered Christ to them and today it has made a difference in most lives. Unless Ron Kenola was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he has to understand that no right thinking person ever chooses poverty over moderation.No! aFRICANS DON'T HAVE POVERTY MENTALITY, WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO MAKE DO WITH WHAT WE HAVE. All we are asking is for the vultures of the West to leave our wealth for us. They along with Ron Kenoly should stop exploiting the poor in the name of ministry.Freely you received songs from God,Freely you minister to God's flock. God allows freewill offering but to put a price tag on singing God's songs? No wonder so many of them are living in such opulence. It stinks in God's nostril.
tohugu 10 years ago

I meant to say ' I will leave the answer' and the word 'attribted' is supposed to be 'attributed','aFRICANS'
is supposed to be 'AFRICANS'.

I meant to say ' I will leave the answer' and the word 'attribted' is supposed to be 'attributed','aFRICANS'
is supposed to be 'AFRICANS'.
NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

Ron, you are naturally right!.......... But unfortunately, the colonialists systems of education we have in place, in Africa is entrenched in the make belief of POVERTY!!!!!!!!

It is all about how POOR we are and h ...
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Ron, you are naturally right!.......... But unfortunately, the colonialists systems of education we have in place, in Africa is entrenched in the make belief of POVERTY!!!!!!!!

It is all about how POOR we are and how incapable we are and how worthless OUR rich natural resources are......until THEY add value to it?
And about how they made us civilized....even though we brought civilization to the world??????

The POVERTY MINDSET Mr. Ron!.........
Is very fundamental to OUR colonialist education systems we have in place.
It breeds inferiority complexes amongst our people to the extent of being failed in exams for not expressing their AFRICAN BEING in someone else's 'lingo'......

Don't we get it? When are we ever going to get it? We can and will NEVER emancipate ourselves from this poverty mindset, without being ourselves and educating ourselves.....at least in a 'lingo' from OUR OWN BEING!!!!!!!

Is this too hard to understand?????
All successful nations speak their OWN 'lingos' and I have never heard them educate themselves in any of our 'lingos'.........as their national languages! Are we not equally as human?

Ron! When AFRICANS, come to the realization that they were created by God and stop believing that they evolved from an APE.......then I believe we will start realizing the need to ditch the poverty mindset and stop importing toothpicks from China!!!!

GOD BLESS GHANA!
AFRICAN FOREVER!
NAKED 10 years ago

Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English lan ...
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Good one there at least I have seen a sensible person who can reason and think, first and foremost, what is education at all? In a country where I come from, they defined education as anyone who can read and write English language that is how they defined education in Ghana. A country where a lot of people look down upon those who can't speak and write English language do you think such country can develop no wonder Ghana is a country with good resources but the citizens are mentally weak unable to think and reason as well, they are still slaves to the so-called Europeans. They are still colonized mentally and physically but the reason is that they don't know that they are still under colonization. So in s nutshell that is how illiteracy is defined in Ghana. Then one may ask that how about the countries who are using their own language to study are they illiterates? a country like France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Finland, Norway, China etc can we classify their education system as substandard because they are not using English language to teach in their institutions? Africans will always embraced everything from west and east without thinking deep and its side effect in the future and we hate our own things so tell me are we humans? We always lionize the oppressors and disowned ours and we called ourselves educational elites now listen to a proverb from Europeans to Africans “you can take a monkey from bush but you can't take bush from monkey" how are we going to interpret it? it's simple to Europeans, Africa is bush let's see how they describe Africa they use the word Sub-Saharan and the question is do we have sub-Europeans or sub-Asians or sub-Americans, etc look how they have cited Africa in a World map, Africa as a continent is always at the bottom of the World map, the question is why they didn't cite Europe, Asia, America and Australia at the bottom but only Africa think about it brothers and sisters, the proverb means an African a monkey can come to western or eastern country to study or do anything but because he/she is from Africa you can't take Africa mentality from him or her then the stereotype goes, they are less humans, they don't have food to eat, always fighting among themselves etc so why Africans shouldn't cling to their own and abandoned their stupid act but yet still Africans are upholding their language and their barbaric culture, 500 years we are still slaves so when are we going to emancipate ourselves as a people created by YHWH.
The time has come for Africans to come together as one people and put their difference away and unit as people it has been a long time in slavery and colonization. The time has come for Ghanaians to put away their difference and unit to develop their nation it has been a long time in slavery and colonization.
God of our fathers have mercy on us especially banana republic of Ghana. Ghana, Ghana a country with good resources I had wanted to gather my people under one canopy as hen gathered it chicks but my people have abandoned their wisdom through thinking and now following the way of westerners through their devilcracy which is called democracy so now my people cannot be able to manage their own affairs, my people do not appreciate things manufactured in their country, my people preach devilcracy and practice vices, my people preach patriotism but they are not patriotic, my people have lost their sense of judging and now we are in a doom state they can't differentiate good things from bad ones and now engulf with tribalism which has become a canker in the country through bogus so-called educational elites and stomachticians who called themselves as politicians to separate the people in other not to come together to fight against their evil planning. A voice calling from within shouting my people, my people come together to build your nation we were created in the same image not let this stomachticians separate you they are doing it for their own selfish gain so wise up, awake from your slumber, the day is far spent and the night is near so let's ignore all these tribalism stuffs and come together as one people because together we can build a better nation.
The only way Africans can develop is to use their own language to study and do everything and stop patronizing anything from east or west, a small country like Ghana we can’t develop it why? Because we have pseudo intellectuals who always claims that they are the best but in reality they are at the bottom of the pit, our education system is not good, our education system does not allow us to think inside and out outside the box so for Ghana to develop it needs critical thinkers and nature incliners who can put things together other than that it will take millions of years we will still be where we are. Anyone who wants to study Nature University can contact me wellsbrains2000@yahoo.com, whatspp 008613566124757 when you contact me tell me which my article that you are interested so we can discuss it deeply because I have presented numerous articles on this web
The Truth 10 years ago

Just as water is most importantly meaningful to fish, so also air is to human beings; and these two things are absolutely free.

God's word is free; God's word is not for sale because God's word is COSTLIEST, and cannot be ...
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Just as water is most importantly meaningful to fish, so also air is to human beings; and these two things are absolutely free.

God's word is free; God's word is not for sale because God's word is COSTLIEST, and cannot be purchased.

Here they are again, to mislead poor Ghanaians.

Ron Kenoly: Africa must ditch the poverty mindset

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