Ghana at 69: Maturing independence into sovereignty

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• Akora 1 month ago

  Paraphrasing what someone said:
  
  *Are we Independent?*
  It depends on what you call Independence
  Nothing is different 'cause nobody thinks different
  We live in lies and illusion
  Because the truth is hard to swallow like ...
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  Paraphrasing what someone said:
  
  *Are we Independent?*
  It depends on what you call Independence
  Nothing is different 'cause nobody thinks different
  We live in lies and illusion
  Because the truth is hard to swallow like you drink cement
  I wonder if it's a plan thing or coincidence
  
  *I.M.F.* call shots, push button
  World bank pull strings like instruments
  Hence, things so tense,
  Broke is to pocket like zinc to fence
  Some wonder if we would have been better off spending pound, shilling and pence
  
  Corruption through pens and pencils
  Most Youth don't have trade and the few that do can't afford utensils
  Nor the fundamentals, nor the bare essentials
  So they take the wrong road and flair off course and crash just like a rental
  
  I wonder if it's a purpose or accident
  They tax everything from dung to tung
  Leaders tear the Nation down and mash it up like a crashed taxi
  Let's fix the dents or face the consequence
  Protest, social unrest been going on for centuries
  
  *Do we even care what Independence is?*
  We've sold out our coastline, landline, airline, phoneline, online, bloodline, lifeline, deadline, headline, frontline, timeline, lightline, trainline, clothes-line, punchline, lunchline
  
  Our naural resources gone to foreign sources
  Business so exclusive,
  Isolate the tourists, all part of the inclusive
  Don't give us no excuses, we can withstand the bruises
  Tell us what the truth is
  
  *What's the truth?*

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• Lori 3 weeks ago

  This man is mad. Wee smoker from the days he mysteriously found himself teaching at Achimota.

  This man is mad. Wee smoker from the days he mysteriously found himself teaching at Achimota.

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• The Freedom Newspaper 1 month ago

  For Those Of Us That Do The Paternal System Of In/Heritance Having A Big Brother Is Like Have A Supervisor In Our Case Those That Grew Up Citys In How One Represents In Ones Municipality &More Importantly In Exercising Moral ...
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  For Those Of Us That Do The Paternal System Of In/Heritance Having A Big Brother Is Like Have A Supervisor In Our Case Those That Grew Up Citys In How One Represents In Ones Municipality &More Importantly In Exercising Moral Authority

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• The Freedom Newspaper 1 month ago

  So In InCorporating The Uncover Ghana Organisation The Reality/ That Some Form Of Help Had To Be Extended To The Younger Ones Was Made/& Especially In The Field Of Job Opportunities/ So In Designing The Vocational Skill Acqui ...
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  So In InCorporating The Uncover Ghana Organisation The Reality/ That Some Form Of Help Had To Be Extended To The Younger Ones Was Made/& Especially In The Field Of Job Opportunities/ So In Designing The Vocational Skill Acquisition Apprenticeship Program/System It Was Our Organisations Response/Solution To Empowering Them

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• Isaac Kusi, Bronx, NY. 1 month ago

  Ghana was given independence on paper. In reality we are still a perfectly neocolonized state. In order to be free we need to defeat neocolonialism. We must fight it mentally. We are members of the Commonwealth, a group of co ...
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  Ghana was given independence on paper. In reality we are still a perfectly neocolonized state. In order to be free we need to defeat neocolonialism. We must fight it mentally. We are members of the Commonwealth, a group of countries still attached to the umbilical chord of their colonial masters.
  We beat our chests about being the largest producer of gold in Africa, yet we get 10% royalties and a percentage of whatever the gold companies declare. If we need independence, we must own the mines like in the past State Gold Mining Corp.
  Until lately that President John Mahama started wearing Fugu, it wasn't popular. I haven't seen the new generation wearing it, but will be seen in foreign designer clothing. The images portrayed on our TV is foreign. Every major news outlet has a channel on our TV spewing influential garbage to change our culture. So our TV stations are copying same with a few exceptions.
  There is more to talk about, but Bob Marley composed a song, "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery..."
  Let's do that.

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• Richard Akwasi Yeboah 1 month ago

  Ghana has always been socio economically disadvantaged, and systems and structures has been designed to depend heavily on foreign aids, grants, loans and other forms of assistance.
  
  At first, the narratives used to be like, ...
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  Ghana has always been socio economically disadvantaged, and systems and structures has been designed to depend heavily on foreign aids, grants, loans and other forms of assistance.
  
  At first, the narratives used to be like, " the independence of Ghana is meaningless until it's linked to the total liberation of the African continent", but now we talk more of the independence of Ghana is meaningless, unless we unless we administrate this country in full sovereignty and total dependence on our human resource and leverage on our human resources to effect positive changes on our natural resources to the benefit of the country.

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• Bryan Nii Kpakpo Brown 1 month ago

  Who are the real stakeholders of our state—the ones who read pieces like this and feel compelled to act?
  
  Because some of us, with no direct stake or privilege tied to how this nation turns out, still find ourselves stirr ...
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  Who are the real stakeholders of our state—the ones who read pieces like this and feel compelled to act?
  
  Because some of us, with no direct stake or privilege tied to how this nation turns out, still find ourselves stirred, even restless, by reflections like this. At nearly seven decades after independence, the challenge has never just been freedom, but translating it into inclusive progress, strong institutions, and real opportunity for all .
  
  So again, who truly carries the burden—and the urgency—of moving Ghana forward from here?

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