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Corporate Ghana neglects the 3 regions of Northern Ghana

A few months ago, a man from Bole became president of Ghana; I was busy hunting rabbits around the Ada-kuruk hills located in Sandema a town in the Upper East region. The circumstances that led to this Bole-boy becoming president though very sad was hailed as a gift from God by many across northern Ghana comprising the northern region, upper east region and the upper west region. Yes, it may have been a gift, but my question was/is, why must a Bole boy come to power before attention goes to the “ntafuo”? Is it that they are insignificant in the eyes of policy makers or their contribution to the national GDP is so little they have to be served the crumbs? BAM I shouldn’t go there right? Ok…I wont. On a daily basis I see competitions on TV, I see various forms of entertainment shows, I see cultural displays based on festivals, I have seen several documentaries on culture (southern culture), I see initiatives by celebrities, I hear a lot about people wanting to change/affect society positively, and I keep asking to myself; how do they achieve these things? Who pays for all these adverts, TV shows, festival coverage and the various initiatives by our Ghanaian celebrities? Someone may see me as assuming an ethnocentric posture, to some extent I will say yes but its not to suggest that I abhor any cultures. I just seek to understand why people of the 3 regions of the northern part of Ghana are left behind when it comes to sponsoring events and most other things that can effect the social change we all seem to crave. Most of the big co-operations that actively participate in the celebrations and social interventions initiated to the benefit of southern Ghana operate in the 3 northern regions, so why don’t they take our activities seriously? From the telecommunication companies to the beverage/beer companies; all have clients and patrons over there, so why the reluctance to sponsor events there; could it be because they do not value the amount of revenue generated in these areas and thus do not recognize a need to intervene through their co-operate responsibility initiatives to make the people in these areas beneficiaries of their charitable works? Could it be because there are no indigenous companies to battle for the market with them in these areas? There are about 26 traditional festivals in these 3 regions; Are they not worth publicizing or are they not worthy of being associated with any co-operation/s? My interactions with various people who have tried to get a form of sponsorship for activities they initiate around these festivals suggest a seemingly no-interest from co-operate Ghana. As a people with will all agree to the importance of retaining our culture whilst using it to effect that social change we so desire and also the importance of cultural activities intertwined with various activities/initiatives to bridge that developmental lapse between the south and the north of Ghana. We claim a diversity regarding the culture of the various people of Ghana, so why the constant neglect of certain cultural exhibitions? Is our media so unlearned to the effect that everything Ghana is limited to the south? Is the only news from Northern Ghana conflict or natural disasters? I can ask more and more questions but reality is that, anytime a person from those regions tries to make an issue of the neglect they are referred to as being tribalistic. My personal experience may have informed this article but that can’t take away the truth in my case. Asking for sponsorship from co-operate Ghana in these areas is like trying to find a grain of guinea corn in the desert sands. You are either met with incomprehensible excuses or thrown out with utter disdain. The worse offenders are the various marketing personnel of these companies that hail from the 3 regions. I do acknowledge the roles of individuals of southern descend who push for the recognizing of their cultures through the various media platforms and activities surrounding their cultural celebrations. But can that be said about the rich from the 3 regions in the north of Ghana? An emphatic NO is the answer response to my own question. The rich only flaunt wealth when their political ambitions mature. It’s a pity that we call Ghana a country with so many diverse cultures yet prominence is given to only the cultures of southern Ghana. We even see pageants and many events categorizing the 3 regions into one zone. A critical look at the TV and media in general is proof that the 3 regions are not significant when talking events/culture. What could we be doing wrong? Could we be second-class citizens of our beloved Ghana? Maybe that time has come for a sectarian attitude to be endorsed (a thing I forbid), maybe its time for a TV station to pop up only for these regions, maybe its time for a communication company to pop up for these regions, maybe its time for northern Ghana to start its own breweries and textile companies. Maybe its time for people in these regions to abandon the patronage of these co-operations that disregard our loyalty. My challenge (as insignificant as it may seem) to co-operate Ghana, the media and celebrities is to prove me wrong. It’s October and many events are being planned, many festivals are going to take place, if I am wrong about their neglect, then they should involve themselves in these activities. I will even help by telling them the various festivals that will take place between now and the end of December. Boaram will be celebrated in Bongo and Teng-zug, Daa in Boari, Kobine & Sabre in Lawra, Samanpiid in Bawku, Fao in the Kasena Nankani area, Kakube in Nandom and Feok in the Builsa traditional area. It is not my intention to whip up ethnic sentiments regarding the operations of co-operate Ghana and the media, but to draw the attention of co-operate Ghana to the fact that their operational area is beyond the south of Ghana.

Badek Thinks....: THE MAN I HATE CAN BE REDEEMED

Badek Thinks....: THE MAN I HATE CAN BE REDEEMED

THE MAN I HATE CAN BE REDEEMED

Typical of a Ghost story, we’re caught in an insatiable quest to link the ghostly experience and reality. You believe there must be a thin line, yet all efforts are extremely un-advancing. Meaning your relating the experience of a ghost to reality may just be ambiguous. But you rise each day to an atmosphere which is typical of a December 23rd in northern Ghana. Casting your sight about 200metres ahead, you can see only the harmattan and not the man in Black.
You wish you could see past it, but your genes are that of a nomadic nympho and won’t let you be that man you see on the front page of Time Magazine or that girl who can be seen as a decoration on Ebony rather your genetic composition apparently gives you the attitude you so despise and yet adore. Yes, for the world, it’s a web, but for you it’s a mixture of ghastly but ghostly reality (elusive dreams).
Your wish is to say a word and everything goes away but you also want to maintain a grip on what you call your life. How can you erase the past and still live today and expect tomorrow? Maybe as an individual, your beliefs, faith are not independent but based on fate which means you live by accident.
For you, it’s imperative that the world opens every door for you because you make all the right choices but the man next door sees you and can only keep his descriptions to himself because an attempt to define you will lead to manslaughter.
You stand as the best man ever, but inwardly you don’t believe you have any organs supporting you and that you are on life support which is induced by sight. Yes, your reason for trying to live is because you can see. Yes, you can see the beauty that abound on this earth. You have tried God, but you didn’t absolutely trust in him because you have been told there is something called tangible and something called a concept. Out of self pity and misery you adopted God though you perceive him as a concept.
The world has wronged you and you own a right to kill it. You wish you could sue nature because it has conspired with your employers, lecturers, lovers, family and everyone who could spare a crumb of bread to turn against you.
You have very little knowledge of consequences resulting from your actions. Yes the past has seemingly been allowed to author a future you yearn to embrace but have no idea what it has in store. Each time you make an effort to use the past as a transformational tool, you hear voices that all claim to be the answer. The voices mutter nothing into your head which doesn’t just hear but see. Your vision is blurred by the heavy smoke that rises from your bedroom leaving your mind clouded and about to thunder strike. Everybody is supposed to make you happy except “you”. Self pity has become your favorite expression of “whats up”. Your anger levels just shot up and that one person who used to stick around just bolted to the land of the living.
Yes, you are so dead, no one wants to stay around you for fear of contracting a disease since the stench is so bad. You are a walking carrier of foolishness, Stupidity, evil, self pity, heartbrokenness and worse of all; you have never tried to get a cure. You could make a grand master if your state was a cult.
You doubt God but believe the devil is behind your problems. You work hard enough on the wrong things, you desires are mainly the nothingness of this life, your aspirations are drawn from the world’s famous but devilish people. The words “yes you can” are like “sleep and rise” so you repeatedly scream them daily. Half your life is spent creating an ideal dream whilst you are awake, so how can you get anything done.
Every day is another opportunity to procrastinate and you have become a master of concepts. Your ideas are mind blowing but not implementable. You are the solution to a whole generations problem. Yes the generation that you only come into contact with when you lay your head on a bed and close your eyes.
My advice is, do not be another me, do not hate yourself, do not be the reason why you failed, do not let the ways of this world be the ultimate decider in your endeavors, do not let the philosophies of the “big minds” become more pronounced than the opportunities that lie in FAITH IN GOD.
LET JESUS TAKE THAT WHEEL.

A NATION ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION

It’s disheartening whenever I hear people talk about how difficult it is to survive in Ghana when the very same people have perfected an idea of “by all means”.
How can we all be successful at the same time? I am not sure that is possible but the hardships we face is mostly induced on us by us.
Most Ghanaians would point fingers at politicians and not their thumbs which brought the “thiefing” breed known as politicians to power. The fact is; as much as a politician may have the over-all good of the nation at heart, it does not mean he would overlook the needs of his immediate cronies. Besides, a politician would push for policies perceived to be of significant benefit to the nation as a whole and also a bringer of 10% kickbacks into their designer suits.
Since me and you can’t get kickbacks we have found our own way of extorting money from people and linking it to “ enimia/eye-throng/hi3 wa/nin pagre ”(hook or crook).
This starts from the market, to the barbershop, the trotro station and even to the church.
Why must we suffer so much?
I walked through dome market the other day to buy food stuff and surprisingly the differences in price tags where so huge and all they said was “things are hard”, if things are hard am I the one to make it soft. Every1 charges how much they want for anything and tells u “if you can’t buy go”. Is it not insulting to be told “woni sika aa wo se eduro enye”. I wonder who is responsible for pricing items and services in Ghana. I understand this may not involve government but all those who jump on streets every time there is a new government must be living elsewhere. The very difficulties you are complaining about is being perpetuated by your neighbor and instead of reporting to the appropriate authority you lash at “government”(the president). The poor service of electricity can partly be attributed to illegal connections and even them that don’t pay bills. Yet we complain. Are we a serious people?
We say prostitution is illegal, why do we have them lined up on the streets each night? Throw the whores in jail.
Trotro patrons like me have not been spared , trotro charges 1ghc instead of 60gp from circle to dome but yet no one cares about it.No one complains and when as a passenger you complain other passengers ask you to get off if you can’t afford to pay. It’s absolutely pathetic. Its well-known that Tip-Toe lane and the bus stop at circle towards Achimota has been overtaken by hawkers selling mostly stolen items and interesting I see members of the security services buying from them. If we aren’t a pathetic folk what else can we be?
It saddens my heart. The moral fiber of my generation has totally been thrown to the dogs but yet we expect good to come to us.
A generation that does not live within its means would always find a way to make extra cash, how they do that doesn’t matter.
I was surprised when tertiary students writing end of semester exams had t-shirts with the inscriptions “teachers call it cheating, we call it team work” eiii is this future leaders of Ghana. God save us.
Companies’ owned by foreigners have rekindled slavery. They employ one very educated Ghana-man and make him slave master and together they exploit and abuse workers who are paid peanuts. And woe unto you if you dare complain.
Where is the spirit of “ndorboa” (the practice where people helped till each other’s lands for food production in the villages). Where is the spirit of “if Ghana makes it we all enjoy”? Where is that spirit that made us think about each other’s problems and help solve.
Now it’s more of “each man for himself, God for us all”
I know for sure if these attitudes are not kicked out then we would suffer and suffer and suffer even more. If each one of us make a resolve not to cheat or help cheat I am sure we would be on the way to making life easier for us.(only in Ghana can a retail store make 250% profit on items)
Ghana will fail; it would be reduced to a large pond of criminals if we don’t change our perception about acquiring wealth and attaining success. “Hook or crook” won’t help us.

NB:
I am just making an observation and whoever cares to read and make sense of it can. But if you think am writing garbage, then I hope you never board trotro or walk around circle.

MY GIFT FOR YOU ON VALS DAY

It is a mystery why we fall in love. It is a mystery how it
happens. It is a mystery when it comes. It is a mystery why
some love grows and it is a mystery why some love fails.

There are a number of reasons why people fall in love. Some people fall in love for the right reasons. Others do it out of lack of confidence. They do not want to be alone. A lot of people love the idea of being in love but not the actual fact of being in love. Love is a bigger emotion than we perceive. Love is not just about the sex, the gifts, and the companionship; it is an emotion many have tried to understand so don’t be surprised When that person you so very much thought is in love with you ask's for a break up.

 Usually, we fall in love not just with a person that we find attractive and appropriate for us, but also someone who demonstrates that they are attracted to us. The fact that they are attracted to us offers a significant opportunity — when we perceive this, we feel a surge of exhilaration!

But is that attraction really “LOVE”?

Most of us would agree to the fact that something attracted you to that special someone you so very much love “today”. I am saying today because a lot of us has experienced that “today” before but now curse the day we met that “special” someone.

As much as we would find all the reasons to say why that person should have never walked out of our lives, we should also look at the sincerity “they” attached to the “goodbye”.

The bunch of us confuse good friends as good lovers. I do not dispute the fact that your lover can be your best friend, but my question is; why did we have to wait till our best friend broke up with their lover before we moved in?

Whilst others say love grows, others believe love is felt from day 1. In trying to understand this, I have come to realize a mistake we mostly make and blame the other for a failed relationship. Let’s take the situation where you have known a girl for some time and you both have grown very fond of each other. Unfortunately the other is seriously attached to another person. So you can’t talk about dating them. Now when a break up happens, the first point of call is you, because you are their number 1 confidante. What usually happens is, you try consoling them, and eventually you both start thinking how the two of you could be a perfect couple.(a big mistake) you are most likely going to start dating until your partner realizes they don’t love you. Then the problem starts, you will moan and groan over how much they deceived you into believing they loved you. But ask yourself, did you consider love as a part of what you were pursuing as friends? If no, then I think you should just keep mute over such a break up because you only came in as a savior when your friend was heartbroken. When you are heartbroken, you turn to believe your best friend is the perfect lover you should be with, but reality says otherwise. Our best friend won’t necessarily make a perfect lover for us. Love is stronger than the mere friendship that bonds you together.

You made a good friend don’t mean you would be a life partner.  

So don’t moan when that best friend turn lover asks for a break up. You should realize from day1 that you are a “friend” and like a good friend, you are expected to move in to help heal the wounds resulting from the break up, if you are not strong enough to accept the role as a savior you will go the road me and many have walked. You will be heartbroken and worse of all, make an enemy of your once best friend.

As people all over the world celebrate today as a world lover’s day, I just want to share this with you.

You are a savior of your friends when they are heartbroken; do not rush to quickly try to make that role become a “lover” role. For the end will not be good for you. If you both really want to be together it must happen when all the wounds of the break up are healed. Rationality is thrown to the wind when you mistake your role in your friend’s life and they vice versa. Some people would always be there to offer a shoulder to cry on, and that is exactly what your role is. If you find that your friend is moving too fast just after their break up, it would be best to tell your friend to slow down. Don’t let how you feel lead you into thinking they a grasp on their emotions. Remember a break up don’t take a day to get over. It takes weeks, months and sometimes years.

Therefore let this day be the day you start playing your role properly. Let this day be the day you start being a friend than trying to fit in the shoes of your friends “ex”. The shoes may just be too tight or too loose. You are a savior in times of a break up and the sooner you accept this, the better, for then you can enjoy a good friendship.

Happy Valentine’s day to you all.

I LOVE YOU

The words "i love you" are said to be priceless,what if i say the words "Jesus loves u", what would that mean? Well,for me, the love of God and Jesus sustains me. People would hurt me bt my God would neva hurt me. So next time u think u love that man or woman,love em like Christ loves you.