Proverbs for students launched in Ho

A 99- page book titled “Proverbs for Students” was launched in Ho at the weekend.

Written by Mr Michael Dabi, 32-year old lecturer at the Evangelical Presbyterian University College (EPUC) in Ho, the book is to be “a student’s guide to astuteness in school” he wrote.

On its front cover is an ant busily at work on a moonlit night with an African Proverb on the back cover summarizing the lessons the author sought to impart.

It reads “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up you better start running.”

The Proverbs in the book gave exhortations on vision, instruction, the God factor, excellence, sluggishness, laziness, hard-work, diligence, excuses, solitude, sleep, companion, time, preparation, discipline, posterity, faithfulness, complacency, resilience, and love.

Mr Dabi wrote that “every student charts his or her own academic destiny. It is therefore time, to look for the enemy within, not the enemy outside. For according to Pogo, we have met the enemy, and it is us.”

In a brief speech Mr Dabi said many people have found themselves doing things unrelated to their talents.

Using an anecdote of a bird being thrown into a river and a fish into the air, he said opinions are also formed about people without being given the chance to prove themselves.

Reverend Dr Cyril G.K. Fayose, President of the EPUC, observed that “young people are making a difference and you can make a difference.”

In a commentary, Mr Edem Deikumah, Assistant Registrar of EPUC, recommended the book to everybody including the Presidency and Ministers.

“Everybody should grab a copy because we are all students of life,” he said.

Printed in Ho by “Talent Power” the Book has a glossy brownish cover.

The first copy was auctioned for 800.00 Ghana Cedis.