Why is the world laughing at Ghana?

If you want to see how hard a Ghana-man could work

Send him to Europe, Australia, Asia or America

There he would break his back for you

There he would die working for you

He would even work double shifts for you

There is nothing that he wouldn't do for you

That's why the Whiteman smiles when he sees a Ghana-man

Not because he loves the Ghana-man so

It's because the Whiteman could afford to be lazy

When the Ghana-man comes to work

If you want to see a Ghana-man happy build him a church

There he would sing and dance for you

There he would empty his pockets for you

He would even dress up nicely for you

There is nothing that he wouldn't do for you

He would love his enemies in there for you

He would wash your feet as Jesus did to his disciples

But when the church is over

He would be back to his usual self

Selling his birthright for the Whiteman's mess of pottage

If you want to see how poor a Ghana-man could be

Give him gold

Give him silver

Give him oil

Give him bauxite

Give him Aluminum

Give him timber

Give him education

Give him independence

And he would still follow you with a beggar's cup in hand

If you want to see a Ghana-man create something for himself

Build him factories

Build him a hydroelectric dam in Akosombo

Set up state of the art laboratories in his country

Teach him how to do this

Teach him how to do that

Yet still he would get nothing made

He would import everything from the other man

Indeed-so sad

But oh so true