The Generation that Missed it (Part 2)

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• Kwadwo 12 years ago

  Thanks for breaking things down. We all have to give back to the institutions that helped us to become who we are. God bless you.

  Thanks for breaking things down. We all have to give back to the institutions that helped us to become who we are. God bless you.

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  Still wiping the tears.
  
  Thanks.

  Still wiping the tears.
  
  Thanks.

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• Kawaanopaado 12 years ago

  Oh Doc Ofori, why do you move PKM to mournful tears? He may cry out his eyes and create torrents of tears too turbulent to tame. You may have to create a dam to bridge his past with the present, or he falls apart. Only the go ...
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  Oh Doc Ofori, why do you move PKM to mournful tears? He may cry out his eyes and create torrents of tears too turbulent to tame. You may have to create a dam to bridge his past with the present, or he falls apart. Only the god of Janus to the rescue, or the Indian national symbol of four lions looking in four cardinal directions, idea of King Ashok the Great.

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• Yaw Ohemeng 12 years ago

  I am not of the independent generation but was born immediately after. We saw a lot of what you are describing to appreciate how far we have fallen. We saw communities valuing teachers and teachers working hard to unearth tal ...
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  I am not of the independent generation but was born immediately after. We saw a lot of what you are describing to appreciate how far we have fallen. We saw communities valuing teachers and teachers working hard to unearth talents being it in academia, the professions (law, medicine and engineering), music or sports. We saw enough of a society that valued age, experience, achievements and merit. We did see enough to make us lament where we found ourselves today.
  
  We cannot leave the politicians out of the blame. They have lacked vision and tolerance for dissenting views. They have failed to harness all the human resources that abound for the betterment of all. They have never stopped being vindictive and have misused the power that society freely surrendered to them.
  
  I remember as a young village boy being called to the head teacher’s office to be told that you are going to sit the common entrance examination this year. I remember like only yesterday, my head teacher announcing my pass to the whole school at assembly and him volunteering to pay my admission fees so that I would not miss the deadline.
  
  Some where along the line the questioning attitude of the Ghanaian professional that unsettled the Afrifa, Acheampong and Rawlings regimes has gone missing. Now the Ghanaian professional prefers to quietly educate his children outside the state system leaving the state system to crumble. Suddenly the Ghanaian professional acquiesces to the raping of the resources of the nation that should be used to create opportunities for all. They have ceded the space to sycophantic journalists, media and party operatives.
  
  If the independent generation and those who come immediately after want to leave a mark, we should start pushing back the present order that says politics should be the end all and be all. We should start to reclaim the space that has been ceded to clueless party operatives and young party attack dogs who have never contributed anything meaningful to their own lives, let alone that of the nation.
  
  Dr Ofori Quaah, let us hope your nice piece marks the beginning of the puncturing of the big lie that calls itself governance in our country.
  
  Have a good day!

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• Efua 12 years ago

  I think you should publish these articles as a book. We have too little of our history documented and this makes a good literary piece.

  I think you should publish these articles as a book. We have too little of our history documented and this makes a good literary piece.

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• Ofori Quaah 12 years ago

  Thanks, Efua,
  I guess I have to start looking for a publisher?
  Kind regards

  Thanks, Efua,
  I guess I have to start looking for a publisher?
  Kind regards

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• Ofori Quaah 12 years ago

  Hi Yaw,
  Thanks so much for your comment. You are right, the politicians and their "foot soldiers" who go from station to station insulting others and defending indefensible positions are very much part of our problems. Many ...
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  Hi Yaw,
  Thanks so much for your comment. You are right, the politicians and their "foot soldiers" who go from station to station insulting others and defending indefensible positions are very much part of our problems. Many of the politicians actually fall into our group of "the children of independence "
  
  Yes, we have to start pushing back the present order. We need to let our elected and appointed officials realise that public is meant for service to the whole society and not just for self enrichment and the enrichment of family members and cronies.
  Regards

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• Ofei Nimpong 12 years ago

  The damage tribalism has done to Ghana should be discussed--in this contextof the GENERATION THAT MISSED IT

  The damage tribalism has done to Ghana should be discussed--in this contextof the GENERATION THAT MISSED IT

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