A ship on troubled waters ...but it is all we have

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• ghanaman 11 years ago

  How many captains does the ship M/S "Republic of Ghana" make room for?
  Next, you write: "Our greatest bane however is democracy or partisan politics." Democracy or partisan politics may not be the panacea, but have you tried ...
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  How many captains does the ship M/S "Republic of Ghana" make room for?
  Next, you write: "Our greatest bane however is democracy or partisan politics." Democracy or partisan politics may not be the panacea, but have you tried alternatives? As you very well say, might even "have no other alternative to this."

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• insight to the bone 11 years ago

  mahama is just a poser with nothing good in his head ,even our archenemy jj is telling him to reshuffle his useless ministers out but forgets the essence of leadership . if the president already doesn't have a plan of develo ...
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  mahama is just a poser with nothing good in his head ,even our archenemy jj is telling him to reshuffle his useless ministers out but forgets the essence of leadership . if the president already doesn't have a plan of development then he cant expect not to be overwhelmed by events . mahama has been plagued by one pestilence of woe after another because of the evil deeds he has committed such as the murder of mills and his proactive tribalism of the northerners. you can not fit 3 pints of water in a pot that only holds a pint , we can not fit the nation of Akan in this confinement called Ghana as the potential is far greater . Ghana limits our diaspora to those who left after 1957 , the nation of Akan recognizes those in Brazil , Caribbean ,USA etc centuries ago as all children of Akan and most welcome home just as the Israelis also are not limited by time . yes even Michelle Obama is a child of the Akan nation like it or not . We can not talk of the unification of the African continent if the true identities and real stakeholders remain imprisoned in their own countries. we have govts who only wish to retain power but ask the Berbers Yoruba , igbo or whoever individually if they want African unity today like the European union and they will confirm. its their govts who pay lip service but in reality are all against . everywhere we have vultures of corruption perched at the highest offices of the land bleeding the people of their lifeblood dry like the evil vampires they are . yes the uprising of the Akan we have global ramifications and a new breeze of justice will flow throughout the world . long live the republic of Akan

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• The Sentinel 11 years ago

  Great piece, Abbey. Succinct, cohesive and coherently presented. Alas! look at the response!
  
  There would have been hundreds of responses if the subject was about insidious political bickering.
  What a shame!
  
  Beats me
  
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  Great piece, Abbey. Succinct, cohesive and coherently presented. Alas! look at the response!
  
  There would have been hundreds of responses if the subject was about insidious political bickering.
  What a shame!
  
  Beats me
  
  The Sentinel

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• Lolulou 11 years ago

  I must say as a Ghanaian living outside regularly visiting Ghana I am horrified at where the corruption has reached - all parts of society. And they do it with absolutely no shame. We have really got to get a grip and give ou ...
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  I must say as a Ghanaian living outside regularly visiting Ghana I am horrified at where the corruption has reached - all parts of society. And they do it with absolutely no shame. We have really got to get a grip and give our young people opportunities as this will determine which direction the country takes. Our leaders (most of them) have been so selfish and tunnel visioned. So called educated people - they are the worst as they should know better!

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• Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

  How many of the university lecturers in Ghana put into practice what they teach? At GIMPA you'll find a number of "professors" with PhD's from God-knows where teaching students in the accounting, marketing, finance and other ...
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  How many of the university lecturers in Ghana put into practice what they teach? At GIMPA you'll find a number of "professors" with PhD's from God-knows where teaching students in the accounting, marketing, finance and other business management disciplines that could not start and manage successful businesses in Ghana if the government gave them free money and the lives of Ghana depended on their success. For as long as we have come to accept the notion in Ghana that wisdom reside solely with our classroom educated elite they will continue to feed us junk, get paid and live comfortably at our expense.
  Majority of the professors at our universities, both tenured and hired guns, work for government as regular everyday civil servants; they cannot on their volition start their own private businesses because they just cannot transfer their book knowledge into reality but teach or in position where they tell someone to perform a task according to their way of thinking and or processes. Why do most in our educated elite class fight to serve in parliament? Because it is only government where incompetence and unproductive citizens are rewarded for life for jobs not done and or services not rendered. In the end, the quality of students universities graduate will be reflective of the quality of the professors. Some of these professors are also tend to be vindictive. They hate to give credit to their students who show promises of brilliance and or bring perspectives contrary to accepted norm by those lecturers. As such students may be discouraged for their individualism needed for Ghana's youth to break out of the mold where every graduate aspire to become civil servant. These are the very educated elite that serve in various capacities of government; they do not intend on making things better or easier on the youth. Oh no not when they struggled to get their degrees or the life they now enjoy. You and everyone else have to suffer and or wait your turn. This is the crab-like existence of the Ghana kind
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