Black Attitude: A Mess



After a series of discussions with some friends and concerned Ghanaians on the subject of who is to blame for Ghana's inability to develop and be a great nation like Singapore, Malaysia and the likes, I think I am narrowing down on another important factor (if not the main one).

I have been trying to establish the fact that over ‘westernization’ is the main cause of our very slow paced development. But then, I think about how Africans (in my case Ghanaians) travel to the developed countries and live by their laws so well, but arrive in their beautiful homeland to practice the opposite. When in Europe, we won't litter the cities. Again, when we are in the United States, we adhere to traffic regulations with all strictness. On the flip side, we come to Ghana and drop waste anywhere, drive and park anyhow. The worst, to me is we go to study in their best universities, work with their best companies and return to do very little for mother Ghana and Africa.

Like some have questioned, is the black man cursed? I wonder why we are so slow to do the right things that will make our black world a better place?

Well, it's obvious something must have gone wrong somewhere at some time. Thus a certain generation may not have been brought up according to our good African values, hence the rebellion against the Ghanaian system and the mess we are creating.
To be continued ...

Comments

  1. Unknown5 April 2018 at 16:16

    It's a curse my Brother we just don't want to change and we need to have tough leaders in one word autocrats to rule us.
    Just go Rwanda u will see the difference. We wrongly embraced democracy

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  2. Unknown6 April 2018 at 21:20

    Mr. Mensah, how did this curse come about and why?
    I see you are one of those who also feel some Africans weren't ready for democracy.

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  3. Better must come!12 April 2018 at 04:28

    Thought provoking piece. If you ask me what may have accounted for this attitude, I'll say right after indepedence we went straight to bed instead of work.

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    1. Unknown12 April 2018 at 06:12

      Wow! Bro. you've hit on the nail on the head. If I understand you well, then indeed some generation(s) didn't do their duty.

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