Father Joop Visser: Wu y3 bue a aankasa, wai!

Father Joop Visser, what I particularly like about Professor Kojo Yankah's virtual Pan African museum project's push into South America,  is that although  Blacks there are marginalised like most Blacks outside of Africa, often are,  through the museum project, and personal  visits to Nkrumah's Ghana, many will gradually gain self-confidence, and be imbued with abundant  self-belief, which will enable them to shine in the societies of their oft-racist countries.

Sage, Amen to all that, wai. One's hope, is that in the not too distant future,  perhaps a Pope much like you, in spirit,  might be selected to lead the Roman Catholic Church, from its Vatican City HQ. Amen.

As for the here and now, yes,  let us by all means enjoy our alloted time-span on this plane, in harmonious fashion, with all our fellow humans (regardless of skin-hue and professed religious faith), and all the other life-forms we share our common home (our existentially-threatened biosphere), with.

So therefore, Hallelujah, to all that, sayeth Kofi  Thompson  -  an irascible,  uneducated and ignorant old fool: who is not a fool for nothing, koraaaa, wai,  Sage, lol. Father Joop Visser, wu y3 bue ankaa!

Will rigging 2024 elections set off 1979-type house-cleaning-coup to end state-capture rent-seeking?

Sage, you posed the question: "Why should the IMF tell us our fate but not the loanseekers themselves and let the public know the consequences prior to adoption of those loans? If Parliament did not know, what is their reaction today?" Great question. Bravo. 

Sadly, Father Joop Visser, ours is a system that is a metaphorical revolving-door-of-greed, through which those who win power, swiftly replace themselves with yesteryear's powerbrokers: and continue the process of milking Mother Ghana dry.  

Our curse, as a wise and aspirational Africans, is that both the ruling NPP, and the largest of the opposition parties, the J. J. Rawlings-inspired National Democratic Congress (NDC), are two sides of the same coin-of-greed. 

They are the two entities that make up the duopoly that has monopolised power throughout the life of the 4th Republic, thus far - and when it comes to the art and science of state-capture rent-seeking family-and-friends governance, alas, they are all in it together, oooo, Sage.   

Their objective is sending their personal net worth to stratospheric heights within the shortest period possible - by any means necessary.    

That is why  one now understands those who think that nothing short of a Rawlings-type house-cleaning  revolution, will end the mammoth-purloining of our nation's assets, by the big-thieves-in-high-places who dominate our byzantine system. Hmmm, 3y3nsem  piiii, oooo,  Sage.   

Long story short: Nothing short of a Rawlings-type house-cleaning-revolution will end state-capture rent-seeking in Ghanaian politics, Ghanafuor  -  and it will be triggered by attempts to rig the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, as sure as day follows night,  oooo, Ghanafuor Yoooooooo...

Ghana not an exception to rule that no army can stop a fed-populace seeking regime change

It is interesting that the most arrogant and gung-ho top-level members of  Ghana's current ruling party, the New Patriotic Party's (NPP), have started intimating that they will never hand over power, after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, to the largest of the opposition parties,  the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Hmmm, ey3asem, oooo, Ghanafour.

The question is:  What do the NPP's Hon.  Bryan Acheampongs know that the vast majority of Ghanaians, don't, about Ghana's future - in the immediate aftermath of the declaration of results for  December 2024 presidential and parliamentary  elections? Hmmm, ey3nsem piiiiii, oooo, Ghanafuor...

Be that as it may, given the significant numbers  of fair-minded and open-minded apolitical  Ghanaians, who have become  disappointed in the performance of the managers of our national economy, under the current government, it is rather odd that the Bryan Acheampongs  still think that somehow Ghanaians will return their party to power again, in free and fair elections.

Let the Bryan Acheampongs dream on. Time changes everything in the topsy-turvy world of politics. If they want a repetition of the events of June 4th, 1979, then, by all means, let them attempt to rig the results of the 2024 elections. Yoooooooo...


Whatever the Bryan Acheampongs have up their  super-expensive designer-labelled-sleeves (speaking metaphorically), they will get a rude shock, and experience a bewildering-awakening, after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary  elections  -  when it suddenly dawns on them that, really, the  game is up, and that no army anywhere in the world, can stop a thoroughly fed-up, peace-loving  population who want new leaders to govern their country: and that Ghana is no exception to that rule. Yoooooooo...

Tolling roads is the best option - if we want world-class roads nationwide

Tolling roads is by far the best option for Ghanaians - if we want world-class roads nationwide. As a wise and aspirational African people, surely we must no longer tolerate bad roads in our communities - constructed at great cost to hapless taxpayers but shoddily constructed despite that? Haaba.

In other words, we are a society in which the state builds expensive roads that invariably deteriorate rapidly, after a year or two. Scandalous. Unpardonable. Shameful. Intolerable. Full stop.


That said, the question to ponder over is: Will communities (both rural and urban) across our homeland Ghana, not willingly, and happily, pay tolls to use roads, which are world-class and always well maintained?

In that light, if governments-of-the-day are perpetually broke, why does the road sector industry association not talk instead to pension funds and insurance companies - to provide their members with longterm funding for constructing world-class roads: and split profits from toll revenues with those local road contractors? Simple commonsense, is it not, Ghanafuor? Tolling roads is by far the best option for our nation - if we want world-class roads nationwide, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...

Ghanafuor: 3kafuor 3nsu 3ndidi anaaaa?

Ghanafuor: Enti 3kafuor 3nsu 3ndidi anaaaa? Haaba. Even an uneducated old fool like me knows that by definition, secret clauses in international  loan agreements that Parliament isn't aware of, and hasn't approved,  are illegal and unconstitutional.

Ghanafuor, shouldn't we demand that Parliament declares all those Chinese loans with secret clauses as unconstitutional  illegalities, anaaa  -  or perchance play Russian roulette and wait for another General Kutu Acheampong-type   y3ntua, afris3 3kafuo ensu edidi, military  coup?

Ditto look on helplessly, as we are  mercilessly swamped with yet more and more taxes, by the geniuses into whose grasping hands Mother Ghana has tragically fallen, anaaaa  -  the super-arrogant dissembling, hard-of-hearing rent-seeking state-capture grifters, who are determined to send their net worth to stratospheric heights at the expense of ordinary folk?  3kafuo 3nsu 3didi, oooo, wai, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...

What reparations will ordinary Ghanaians eventually force their Chiefs to pay to atone for yesteryear's slave trade?

In the fullness of time, Ghana's thoroughly-fed-up populace, will force their nation's Chiefs, to pay reparations, for the role played by their forebears, in facilitating the slave trade, for European slave traders to profit so mightly,  from, during its apogee.

Chiefs across Ghana, will make those reparations, to atone for the egregious betrayal of the Black race, by their forbears  -  by making restitution to ordinary people across the territorial landmass of the Republic of Ghana: for facilitating the crime against humanity, which the abominable slave trade of the past, represents.

The question, dear critical-reader, is: How will that happen? Well,  as wise and aspirational Africans, ordinary Ghanaians will simply demand that their government nationalises, and takes over, Stool Lands, nationwide - and redistribute them to landless Ghanaians, who wish to farm, but don't have access to land: on 100-year leases. Simple. Case closed. Sarjewah. Full stop.

India rid herself of its Maharajahs to prosper - should Ghana rid itself of its Chiefs, too, to prosper?

India rid herself of its Maharajahs to prosper. The question is: Must Ghana rid itself, of its Chiefs, too, in order to prosper? There are some Ghanaians who posit that one of the key reasons why Ghana has failed to realise her full potential, is because the meritocracy Nkrumah believed in, was jettisoned after his overthrow.

Those who took over the country after Nkrumah's overthrow in 1966, opted instead for inherited privilege's handmaiden, nepotism - the last bastions of which are the palaces of Chiefs: still packed with slaves, nationwide, as it happens, as we speak, Ghanafuor.

In that light, the question a wise and aspirational African people must ponder over is: Has the time not now come to demand reparations from the major betrayers of the Black race, African Chiefs, whose slave-raiding pillaging-wars, enabled them to capture their fellow humans, whom they callously sold to European slave traders, who sent them to the Americas and the Caribbean, in hellish conditions, on ships designed for that purpose?

India, which had Maharajahs who were a zillion times more powerful, and magnificent, than all our Chiefs, bar none, swiftly rid herself of them, because its nationalist leaders understood clearly that they had to rid India of inherited privilege, if its greatest enemy, meritocracy, was to power post-independence India's transformation, into a prosperous nation.

They were prescient: Today, India is a global economic powerhouse, while Ghana (which perversely thinks that, somehow, Chiefs, corrupt super-arrogant tribal-supremacists, who still enslave people, and commit  ritual murder, routinely, with impunity, are the embodiment of its culture), has become a bankrupted nation, dominated by the greed-filled rent-seeking progeny, of our pre-colonial ruling elites, whose citizens daily struggle to survive an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis, amidst galloping inflation nationwide.

Ghanafuor, the question we can no longer ignore pondering over is: If we are to prosper, like India has, must we also rid ourselves of the Chieftaincy institution, anaaa? Yooooooooo...

Creative leadership is what Zimbabwe needs but lacks

Seldom has any Global South nation needed creative leadership, as does Zimbabwe, today.To avoid losing a massive green economy levelling-up opportunity, the government of Zimbabwe must swiftly rescind its unfortunate decision to grab private sector carbon offset funds.

That abomination is a grave error of judgement, for a country with a worthless national currency.

If Zimbabwe is desperate for hard currency, surely, it could use some of the funds from gold sales it is allowing regime-insiders to hold on to illegally - in collusion with foreign crooks smuggling gold out of Zimbabwe to GCC jurisdictions? Haaba.

Above all, why does the leadership of Zimbabwe not collaborate with the young local inventor, whose game-changing inventions in the EV, aviation and power sectors, apparently defy the laws of physics?

Those astonishing inventions, could transform Zimbabwe into the most prosperous society on the surface of the planet Earth - producing battery-free EVs with limitless range, helicopters that fly with no fuel and limitless truly affordable emission-free clean power, sans storage batteries. Creative leadership is what Zimbabwe needs. Pity there is such a dearth of it there currently.

Paying for an award of any kind makes no sense

At a time when we are experiencing an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis, surely, we need to rid Ghana of the unconscionable tweaaaa-outrage, which being asked to pay for high-falutin-sounding awards, by entities created spefically for that dubious purpose (to enrich its shady promoters, no doubt), represents? Haaba.

A paid-for-award, of any kind, and category, is a phoney-award that's best avoided, when genuinely-earned-money, is so hard to come by, in today's Ghana. It's strictly for egoistical-folk, who have more money than sense, oooo, Ghanafuor. Remember the infamous 'UN Awards' dreamt up by some chancer in Ghana years ago? Yooooooo...

No serious and truly world-class individual, or entity, would agree to be part of such grifter-fare, oooo, Ghanafuor. Genuine award-bestowing-entities the world over (such as the Nobel Prizes, for example) give out cash awards to selected winners - not the other way round, wai. With the greatest respect, paying for an award of any kind, makes no sense - and is nonsensical. Yabre. Haaba.

Would a citizen-science BioBlitz initiative help turn the Atewa Forest Reserve into a national park?

Perhaps a citizen-science BioBlitz, involving the youth of Akyem Osino, Akyem Saamang and Akyem Juaso, under the aegis of SYTO Ghana, A Rocha Ghana and Eco-Conscious Citizens Group, might finally help prod Jubilee House to get Ghana's President Akufo-Addo,  to declare the Atewa Forest Reserve (and the aboreal slopes off it), a national park, and ban all mining from it, at long last?

Surely that will make it possible for private sector entities from around the world, such as the airlines that fly in and out of Ghana, to buy carbon credits from there to neutralise their massive carbon footprints  - and help create a booming new green economic pillar there, for Akyem Abuakwa, and the rest of Ghana's Eastern Region?

As the biggest private freehold landowners in Akyem Juaso, my family would be happy to include the P. E. Thompson estate's Akyem Juaso 14-square mile freehold upland evergreen rainforest property, in any such citizen-science  BioBlitz initiative. Cool.

Authentic Ivory Towers actually have a purpose

Amazing that it's lost on so many in the Republican Party that world leadership requires a meritocracy that is truly world-class and cosmopolitan in its worldview.

That is what assured America's power and wealth in the past.

One shudders at the thought of the tens of millions of half-baked hidebound-ignoramuses America's besieged educational system will produce decades from now  -  as the narrow-minded and shortsighted policies advocated by extremist right-wing politicians, such as Ron DeSantis, the current Governor of Florida, begin to affect America's place in the world.

Authentic Ivory Towers across America actually have a purpose - suprising though it might be to some: continously producing world-class leaders able to compete globally, successfully, to ensure America's leadership in all spheres of human endeavour. Cool.

Let's say no to tribalism in Ghana

We pray for the ordinary people of Sudan, who are victims of the senseless and tragic civil war now raging across that vast sister nation of ours. Nothing can justify such abominable and unspeakable acts of violence - merely to enable selfish individuals to lead any nation in today's Africa.


We must never allow our homeland Ghana to descend into violence and chaos, because of the personal ambitions of politicians. Ever. No. No. No.

It is said that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. As a wise and aspirational African people, we must shun all tribal-supremacist politicians, regardless of wherever in our homeland Ghana, they hail from - for their foolish arrogance and narrow-minded chauvinism, will sow the seeds of future conflict that will ruin us all, ooooo, Ghanafuor. No tribe is superior or inferior to another in today's Africa. Let's say no to tribalism in Ghana. Yoooooooo...

Is high-level corruption the reason why Mother Ghana now faces ruination?

Why is Mother Ghana now facing ruination,  dear critical-reader? Is it because of the number of Ghanaian media practitioners, who are in the same situation that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds himself today  -  bankrolled for decades by their own Ghanaian fatcat-equivalents of Justice Clarence Thomas' benevolent/malevolent Harlan Crow, anaaaaa? Hmmm, ey3nsem piiii, ooooo, Ghanafuor.

Furthermore, is Mother Ghana facing ruination, today, because so many of our major political figures are also beholden to super-wealthy state-capture rent-seeking criminal-types, and the big-thieves-in-high-places, who dominate our byzantine system, anaaaa, Ghanfuor? Hmmm, ey3asem, oooo - asem kesiy3 bi ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo, Ghanafuor.

Well, for sure, it is what it is, dear critical-reader -  but whatever be the case, Mother Ghana definitely faces ruination: if as wise and  aspirational Africans, we don't sit up, and finally take immediate steps to end high-level corruption in our Motherland, swiftly, ooooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooo...

Bravo to the unsung heroes who keep state-owned Ghanaian entities such as the ECG afloat

Today (9/5/2023), I am saying Ayeekoo to the Electricity Company of Ghana's  (ECG) entire workforce. Why, you might wonder, dear critical-reader? A storm, which was accompanied by gale force winds, struck  Gomoa Buduburam, two days ago - leaving  parts of the area without power.

As it happens, when virtually all the houses in the part of the Gomoa Buduburam SHC estate where we live had their power supply restored, ours was not restored, unfortunately.

As power is essential to life in today's world,  we called the Electricity Company of Ghana  (ECG), which assured us that a team had been dispatched to our area, and would contact me, to direct them to our place, to restore our power supply.  They did not disappoint us. We now have power,  thanks to them.

Such hardworking state-owned entity  employees are often criticised for failing the enterprises that employ them.  That is what makes the ECG crew that came to restore our power unsung heroes, in my humble view - such dedicated workers are the nation builders of our time, whose hardwork we seldom acknowledge:  but frequently criticise. I am most grateful to them. ECG workforce, mu  y3 bue, ankasa. Mi  ma munyinaa ayeekoo.

Let's be real about reparation

There is a need for humankind  to be real about reparations: Truth be told, woke-reparations don't make sense one bit. Where is the money going to be sourced from to pay for them, one wonders?

Smart-reparations: Surely, 100-year tax holidays for businesses owned by descendants of slaves, and free trade agreements for nations with large populations of descendants of slaves, could make a difference - and help  to create self-bootstrapped generational wealth for slave descendant communities across such nations?
 
Above all, why have the descendants of the arrogant, greed-filled and super-ruthless African tribal ruling-elites that launched endless wars, to pillage and capture prisoners, to sell as slaves to foreign slave traders, escaped scrutiny - especially as their palaces are jam-packed with slaves, today, even as we speak: and some of them allegedly  engage in ritual murder, routinely, with total impunity? Let's be real about reparations, wai. Yoooooooo...

The Russian Military Must Depose Putin to restore its honour

 "Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."

-- Aristotle (384 - 322 BC).

Russia's President Putin needs to revise his notes quickly. If tyrants tracing their people's historical roots to ancient empires went to war to revive them, regularly, what would humanity's fate be, today?

Nothing can justify Putin invading the territory of a sovereign neighbour and massacring civilians, destroying critical infrastructure, as well as prostituting the  honour of Russia's military, on top, too, in the process.

Ukraine must be armed sufficiently enough to enable her defeat Russia, and expel Russian forces occupying Ukrainian sovereign territory, to make that possible - and finally help free Russians from a murderous delusional-kleptocrat ruining their great nation so egregiously.

For ordering the invasion of Ukraine, Putin must be deposed by Russia's military, and swiftly tried for crimes against humanity, by the International Criminal Court  (ICC). That will help restore the honour of Russia's military.