The unexpected consequences of frustration

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• Osei Kofi 10 years ago

  Perhaps when a voice like Cameron Duodu speaks favourably of the Chinese because of his pro western stance then the Chinese must be doing something good for development projects in Africa.
  
  Most of the time you hear people ...
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  Perhaps when a voice like Cameron Duodu speaks favourably of the Chinese because of his pro western stance then the Chinese must be doing something good for development projects in Africa.
  
  Most of the time you hear people denigrating the Chinese for shoddiness and inferior products and projects,but this is a country on the verge of world dominance because of their fiscal superiority which the west even acknowledges and tap in for their development.
  
  This mentality of the Ghanaian to see anything from China inferior is what is causing our lack of development.If we handle the Chinese presence in Africa tactfully then like you said we will benefit from their no strings attached development projects otherwise we would be forced by the west to recognize gay marriage just to be considered for loans.

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• Mensah Abrampa 10 years ago

  We have only blindness, specifically the short-sightedness and the wish-washy attitude that plague most Ghanaians to blame for our forward NEVER backward EVER attitude toward planning,fiscal discipline and national developm ...
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  We have only blindness, specifically the short-sightedness and the wish-washy attitude that plague most Ghanaians to blame for our forward NEVER backward EVER attitude toward planning,fiscal discipline and national development. Of course in the land of the blind the one eyed man/woman with the blurred vision is Lord of lords.
  Worse than the debilitating blindness is the depression that comes from the knowledge that approximately 99.9% of our politicians see political office as the fastest sprint to money land. If their craving is for wealth they never have to toil for then are we surprised we are experiencing an unprecedented drought in national and human development?
  In Ghana poverty is so widespread that no one cares any more how a person becomes rich overnight. The end justifies the means, they say.
  It's almost a certainty that no one is surprised any more that the word transparency is hardly mentioned and it's almost extinct? Instead opacity is our new reality and get rich quickly by any means possible is the newest Ghanaian pop culture. Things will change only when we wake up from lethargy and general apathy and come to the sudden realization that while our development has stagnated over several decades we've been surpassed in same by even those nations that we considered to be the poorest in Africa with less than 10% of our natural resources. Anybody can be a fool but wisdom belongs to those who not only yearn for but seek after it.

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• deflord 10 years ago

  Is this the original Cameron Duodu the author?

  Is this the original Cameron Duodu the author?

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• Kwamebeba 10 years ago

  By and by Nkrumah will be vindicated. He should because, he is proven right while others are proven wrong.

  By and by Nkrumah will be vindicated. He should because, he is proven right while others are proven wrong.

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• Fleetwood Mac 10 years ago

  Cameron Duodu may be talking of something other than Tom Brown. In the 1980s, Tom Brown was not an essential commodity for anybody to be in line to buy. It was not even a packaged good. That came later.
  
  Moreover, Tom Brown ...
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  Cameron Duodu may be talking of something other than Tom Brown. In the 1980s, Tom Brown was not an essential commodity for anybody to be in line to buy. It was not even a packaged good. That came later.
  
  Moreover, Tom Brown was anything any Ghanaian, who was not too lazy, could make. You bought the maize, roasted it and went to the mill to grind it and you had your Tom Brown. In those essential commodity days, the maize may be hard to get if you were in Accra. But Tom Brown - nobody made lines to buy it. Not the Student's Companion (gari) either...

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• Rugby 10 years ago

  The guy says it was OFFERED to him and he bought it. He did not say he queued up for it. He said he was discussing his frustration at not getting what he'd been queuing for with the fellow, who then said his wife could get hi ...
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  The guy says it was OFFERED to him and he bought it. He did not say he queued up for it. He said he was discussing his frustration at not getting what he'd been queuing for with the fellow, who then said his wife could get him some Tom Brown. He did not know what it was but because he thought his kids might need it, he proffered the money to buy it!Please read what is there carefully and do not misinterpret it. People like this particular writer do not get things wrong.
  RESPECT!

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