Major Quashigah calls for cultural awakening

Adaklu Ahunda Boso (V/R), Sept 12, GNA - Major Courage Quashigah, the Minister of Health, has called for a cultural renaissance in Ghana to rekindle moral and patriotic values in the people. He said this process would reinforce Ghana's unique identity, a phenomenon that was the tonic for national growth.

Major Quashigah was addressing a durbar to round off the maiden "Midezor Festival" of the people of Ahunda Boso in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District.

It was under the theme: "harnessing all available resources for accelerated development".

Major Quashigah said rather than support the national effort of creating wealth through insightful privately initiated projects, most Ghanaians were busy appreciating and purchasing items such as mobile phones that western commercial interests aggressively imprinted on the minds of Africans as gadgets they had to buy at all cost. He said western influence was so strong that when Ghanaians and other Africans saw whites wearing beads, they followed suit, forgetting that the whites learnt wearing beads from Africans.

Major Quashigah said development would elude Ghanaians and Africans if they continued to be overwhelmed by material things "foisted us by other cultures and failing to develop our products." He expressed regret that the indigenous cuisine culture had almost been supplanted by a foreign one and said it was not forts, castles and nature alone that attracted tourists but also the uniqueness of the way of life of the people.

A hunter from Boso in the Eastern Region instituted the Festival to commemorate the founding of the Ahunda Boso community that is now in the Adaklu Traditional Area.

Togbe Asamoah IV, chief of the area, said the target for the festival was to mobilize citizens and also lobby development agencies to upgrade the health post into a health center. He called for the revival of the stone quarry factory in the area to give jobs to the youth.