Thank you so much for your message. For Africa to develop, we need to stop depending on these useless churches and mosques. Even the Europeans who brought the Christianity to us are now baulking at that faith. Africans unwise ... read full comment
Thank you so much for your message. For Africa to develop, we need to stop depending on these useless churches and mosques. Even the Europeans who brought the Christianity to us are now baulking at that faith. Africans unwisely think that God will do everything for them, and sadly that is purely untrue. They hide behind the banner of religion to be lazy and inept. All young men and women are pastors and evangelists hunting for "l'argent facile". Simply, Arica still has a long way to go.
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
For the Ghanaian/African "...backwardness...inferiority complex...", you've touched precisely on the core of the answer/problem:
"... stop depending on these useless churches and mosques...." And we will add, "all their a ... read full comment
For the Ghanaian/African "...backwardness...inferiority complex...", you've touched precisely on the core of the answer/problem:
"... stop depending on these useless churches and mosques...." And we will add, "all their artifacts".
However, we are not sure Ms. Angelina Morrison, in all her anguish about the current Ghanaian/African condition- "inferiority complex", will want to go there with you.
We are thinking with this new piece and message, her last work "No Ko Fio" Band: Marking Time To Paradise" was probably not deeply reflective or critical enough (as were many of the readers/commentators of the Ghanaweb essay who mainly focused on her gender and ("writing style for a 'girl'," so to speak)).
READ: "...full bore all the way to our long overdue paradise. Finally, I shall invoke the sagacity of an Old Testament sage, and previse that, "Things shall not remain as they are" (Ezekiel 21:26 ESV). Without a shadow of a doubt, "Nothing will be restrained from [us], which [we] have imagined to do" (Genesis 11:6 KJV)."
OUR COMMENT: That statement is directly reproduced from "No Ko Fio" Band: Marking Time To Paradise", being the last texts/paragraph. Our sense is, we prove we ourselves are a bit unaware when we are unable to fathom that given the multitude of today's conditions, serious discursive matters of the public should not be "Trojan-Horsed" to one’s personal religious proclivities, even for "inspiration". There is little "factual" in all of that.
Now, one can believe in whatever they want. But one should understand that worshiping, preaching, and religious-versing should be clutched to, rarely, and only to analyze/demonstrate expectations of one who professes a "religion".
So we must agree, sadly, "Simply, "Ghana"/ A(f)rica still has/ve a long way to go!
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
Indeed, it is well written, (and I had even improved my word power by two words), but as the only two commentators pointed out before me, my beef with it is the "belief" that was used to rationalise and underpin our inferiori ... read full comment
Indeed, it is well written, (and I had even improved my word power by two words), but as the only two commentators pointed out before me, my beef with it is the "belief" that was used to rationalise and underpin our inferiority complex and stunted way of thinking. Ms Morrison seems to be encamped in that territory herself. There is no salvation nor Nirvana that way.
Simply put, I, as an African, wasn't made in any image of a freaking Semitic desert god from Asia Minor! All the sciences are now agreed that humans have their origins in Africa. The evolution of languages from Africa had just been confirmed by linguists as from Africa, with one of the words which formed the root similar to and having same meaning as in Ewe! Made me screamed in excitement! All of it is on the Internet, of course. It is our deep-rooted ignorance and abiding superstition that under-gird our inferiority complex.
As I quoted Prof. Johann Galtung in an earlier piece as saying at a conference themed on Knowledge and Devt, in Tromso in the Artic Circle, the white man was smart; once he has convinced you to accept that the whale swallowed Jonah and spat him out, you'd believe every other yarn they spin for you. Therein lies the nexus of our inferiority complex! That's what convinced the enslaved on the plantations to accept his enslavement, as their god had put a mark - a black mark they claimed - on their skin, and cursed them to be hewers of rocks and drawers of water for the white race! And then they came with their Three Cs to finish us off!
Until the Black man learns his history and knows where he is coming from, he'd remain subservient to the beliefs and images of others about him.
If you heard the arguments of our elite and so-called leaders for handing over our oil resource to the white men, then you'd appreciate how deeply damaging inferiority complex is to our devt. The Obuasi Gold Mine was at least taken away from the Gold Coasters who bought the machinery to start it by a colonial Ordinance. Now, we ourselves promulgate laws to hand over our gas and oil resources to foreigners! Just think about it!
Andy-K
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 9 years ago
Keep it coming, I am on your side. Could you imagine how our own Africans supported the gruesome murder of Muamma Gaddafi by the war mongers?
I think this all part of the inferiority complex on the part of some Africans. ... read full comment
Keep it coming, I am on your side. Could you imagine how our own Africans supported the gruesome murder of Muamma Gaddafi by the war mongers?
I think this all part of the inferiority complex on the part of some Africans. Unless we support our own, we shall continue to used and abused of our resources which includes human resource.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
The African, to be precise, the black man has the propensity to blame the church, the white folks, and everybody else but himself for his desultory state of affairs. After years of post colonial emancipation and self-actualiz ... read full comment
The African, to be precise, the black man has the propensity to blame the church, the white folks, and everybody else but himself for his desultory state of affairs. After years of post colonial emancipation and self-actualization so to speak, we still point fingers and blame the west for our troubles.
There has never been a race in history that is so self-destruct and disingenuous as the African race. Instead of admitting we are selfish by nature, narcissistic and perfidious in our makeup, we look to north summarily for scapegoats.
We Africans are like pigs, entrusted with pearls in our pigs pen. We do not know what to do with them so we trample on them. Singapore and the Asian tigers adopted the blueprint handed to them by the west,(system of government, monetary policies and financial structures, the police, and legal systems) including Christian values, and they adopted this blueprint to transformed their societies in 25 years to a First World. Today Singapore sports $32,000 income per capita and have acquired the enviable reputation as the cleanest country in the world. All the Asian Tigers were colonized and suffered the strains of colonization, yet it is hardly you hear a Singaporean bemoaning the efficacy of the Christian God and religion.
I am not surprised in the least of the response in this forum, as the African is known to be prone to rabid cognitive milieu of gigantic proportion.
gideon 9 years ago
I am now reliefed that we have realised that we have a problem as a black people.How do we overcome the problem? I suggest we start a movement to preach the potentials of a blackman to the blackman.
I am now reliefed that we have realised that we have a problem as a black people.How do we overcome the problem? I suggest we start a movement to preach the potentials of a blackman to the blackman.
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
To attribute Africa's problems to churches and mosques is simplistic and fatuous to say the least. It is a complete betrayal of the masterful and insightful reprobation of the African problem as portrayed by this writer. To t ... read full comment
To attribute Africa's problems to churches and mosques is simplistic and fatuous to say the least. It is a complete betrayal of the masterful and insightful reprobation of the African problem as portrayed by this writer. To the untrained and uninformed mind, the writer provides an anecdotal narrative of the blackman's backwardness with its by-product of inferiority complex and concludes her essay by saying she hopes Africa will one day overcome its backwardness and then our inferiority complex, but she is also doubtful and can only hold her breath until that day comes.
Now to your point, it is not the churches and mosques that are the root of our backwardness and inferiority complex. In fact, the churches have helped along the way to improve Africa's backwardness and animistic predisposition. The churches built schools and colleges (Catholic schools and colleges, Presbyterian and Methodist schools) which I believe you were once a product.
Now you are initiated and embracing your comfortable sophistication in a lifestyle never known to to your ancestry of pagan origin. Now you blame the church for your backwardness and inferiority complex? Tweaaaaaa!!!
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
No, Kwabena, it is your position that is simplistic and fatuous. Refer to my comment above for an introduction to the complex articulation at work in the Three Cs that underpin our inferiority complex and backwardness.
And ... read full comment
No, Kwabena, it is your position that is simplistic and fatuous. Refer to my comment above for an introduction to the complex articulation at work in the Three Cs that underpin our inferiority complex and backwardness.
Andy-K
Prof Lungu 9 years ago
ITEM: For the masses in Ghana, including students and those in the academy and politics, etc., Churchism/Mosquesism are at the base of lack of critical thinking skills and the social-physical development deficits we see in t ... read full comment
ITEM: For the masses in Ghana, including students and those in the academy and politics, etc., Churchism/Mosquesism are at the base of lack of critical thinking skills and the social-physical development deficits we see in this age of Information, Knowledge, and Enterprise.
They are like occupying forces!
Demonstrably, as a result, agency and criticla reflections are blunted in all their perspectives!
So, here is another one for, Kwabena, our always scornful and air-jabbing friend:
“…Every great scientific truth and objective social fact go through at least four phases.
First, people deny it.
Second, they say it conflicts with the “Texts of Religion”.
Third, they say they’ve known it all along.”
Fourth, they assign all their residual insecurities to their “pagan ancestry””
(—Neil Degrasse Tyson, Adapted by Prof Lungu).
Kwabena Yeboah 9 years ago
The African consciousness and primitive predisposition predates Churchism/Mosquesism. The slave trade and how we sold our own people for useless things like mirrors, gunpowder, rum and other stuff should form the basis of ... read full comment
The African consciousness and primitive predisposition predates Churchism/Mosquesism. The slave trade and how we sold our own people for useless things like mirrors, gunpowder, rum and other stuff should form the basis of our discussion. There was no influence of religion at that time - it was the carnal African in its original form that was at work. Let's talk about that and stop apportioning blame.
Kosi 9 years ago
Africa indeed has been emfeebled by her numerous destractors, at the root of it is our continous depended on the West and now China, to the extent that the Ghanaian Parliament now deeply soaked in Chinese colours quite unimma ... read full comment
Africa indeed has been emfeebled by her numerous destractors, at the root of it is our continous depended on the West and now China, to the extent that the Ghanaian Parliament now deeply soaked in Chinese colours quite unimmaginably even during the so called dark era of our development.
As for the Christian God of Israel, I do have challenges as the Christian faith particularly its cardinal pillars appears to be constructed on concepts which pre-existed centuries before Ist Century when Christianity evolved. Developments in C13th and post Christ Death documentation and writings is extremely problematic. I believe in God and my faith in God is undeemed but now conscious of the damage unblinking belief
has done to the black man. The Ghanaian believer is no exception.
We shall overcome
Kwadson. 9 years ago
A nice piece that.But what caused this inferiority complex in blacks? The acceptance of a white man as our lord and saviour of the world.
A nice piece that.But what caused this inferiority complex in blacks? The acceptance of a white man as our lord and saviour of the world.
Captein 9 years ago
I thought everyone I know of in the last century identified the problem.
The caution though is a wrong diagnosis is as worst as repetition of already known problem.
The reality in the universe is that certain planets are m ... read full comment
I thought everyone I know of in the last century identified the problem.
The caution though is a wrong diagnosis is as worst as repetition of already known problem.
The reality in the universe is that certain planets are more advanced than others but each have a purpose. That does not necessarily make on inferior than the other.
Coming to the white wash of the black race. It is not true that if there was no slavery then blacks would have been better off, even though slavery was a heinious crime.
Secondly, it is not true that the Black man is inferior because he thinks he is Black.
And thirdly, it is not resources that should have made us superior, because the resources are still there and almost untapped till today.
Lets talk about a major resource like rsre earth minerals. Africa does not even know what it is. Then we have solar but we do not generate energy like Germany using Sahara that we thought was waist land.
Wherever complex we have is because we do not respect each other, live in peace and develop new ideas for our superiority.
Thank you so much for your message. For Africa to develop, we need to stop depending on these useless churches and mosques. Even the Europeans who brought the Christianity to us are now baulking at that faith. Africans unwise ...
read full comment
For the Ghanaian/African "...backwardness...inferiority complex...", you've touched precisely on the core of the answer/problem:
"... stop depending on these useless churches and mosques...." And we will add, "all their a ...
read full comment
Indeed, it is well written, (and I had even improved my word power by two words), but as the only two commentators pointed out before me, my beef with it is the "belief" that was used to rationalise and underpin our inferiori ...
read full comment
Keep it coming, I am on your side. Could you imagine how our own Africans supported the gruesome murder of Muamma Gaddafi by the war mongers?
I think this all part of the inferiority complex on the part of some Africans. ...
read full comment
The African, to be precise, the black man has the propensity to blame the church, the white folks, and everybody else but himself for his desultory state of affairs. After years of post colonial emancipation and self-actualiz ...
read full comment
I am now reliefed that we have realised that we have a problem as a black people.How do we overcome the problem? I suggest we start a movement to preach the potentials of a blackman to the blackman.
To attribute Africa's problems to churches and mosques is simplistic and fatuous to say the least. It is a complete betrayal of the masterful and insightful reprobation of the African problem as portrayed by this writer. To t ...
read full comment
No, Kwabena, it is your position that is simplistic and fatuous. Refer to my comment above for an introduction to the complex articulation at work in the Three Cs that underpin our inferiority complex and backwardness.
And ...
read full comment
ITEM: For the masses in Ghana, including students and those in the academy and politics, etc., Churchism/Mosquesism are at the base of lack of critical thinking skills and the social-physical development deficits we see in t ...
read full comment
The African consciousness and primitive predisposition predates Churchism/Mosquesism. The slave trade and how we sold our own people for useless things like mirrors, gunpowder, rum and other stuff should form the basis of ...
read full comment
Africa indeed has been emfeebled by her numerous destractors, at the root of it is our continous depended on the West and now China, to the extent that the Ghanaian Parliament now deeply soaked in Chinese colours quite unimma ...
read full comment
A nice piece that.But what caused this inferiority complex in blacks? The acceptance of a white man as our lord and saviour of the world.
I thought everyone I know of in the last century identified the problem.
The caution though is a wrong diagnosis is as worst as repetition of already known problem.
The reality in the universe is that certain planets are m ...
read full comment
A good piece of stuff. Keep it up!