Today’s Ghanaian youth confused – Gifty Anti

Most of the youth of today are confused, ace Ghanaian broadcaster Gifty Anti has said.

According to her, the youth are being driven in different directions and do not have a focus in life.

“I get frustrated when I see the youth of today. I am frustrated because they have so much at their disposal now but they are not making good use of it. I think most of the youth of today are confused. They are being driven in different directions and they don’t know how to find their focus”, Gifty Anti who goes by the stool name Awo Dansoa told DJ Premier on Entertainment Capital on Saturday June 4 on Accra 100.5FM.

“Today, if they hear of you on the radio, they want to be like you. Tomorrow they hear [a musician] on radio and they want to become musicians, the next day they see Becca and they want to be like Becca, they see Lydia Forson and say ‘I want to be like Lydia Forson’ , they hear of a doctor and want to be like the doctor,” she said.

“Recently, a pastor approached me to counsel a lady in his church because she was about to get married and wants her wedding to be like mine, but he told her, ‘you are not Gifty Anti and your husband is not a chief, so, why do you want a royal wedding like Gifty’s?’ So, youth of today want to be like every person they see and I think it is because our elders didn’t tell their stories, so, they see Gifty Anti and want to be like Gifty Anti, but when I sit on my programme, my hairdo is sponsored, my beads are sponsored, my dress is sponsored,” she noted.

The gender advocate said the solution to getting the youth focused in life is parenting.

According to her, “Parents must make time and talk to their children and let them understand why they are not supposed to go in a certain direction because it is not our time when we obeyed parents and did not do certain things because we were told not to. This generation will ask ‘why I should not do it and what the consequences will be if I do it’”.