Dear critical-reader, as wise and aspirational Africans, should we not avert the minds of traditional rulers in Ghana, to the possibility of their being called upon to pay reparations for their key roles in the slave trade - and the need therefore for them to lie low, and remain under the public's metaphorical radar, so to speak, throughout 2024, and beyond?
In case Ghana's traditional rulers aren't aware of it, for many landless base-of-the-pyramid-demographic youth, a revolution that results in the seizure, and nationalisation of all stool lands, and the redistribution of same, would be a dream come true, which will finally end the baleful influence, of an institution they regard as a metaphorical nest of vipers.
With the greatest respect, we are sitting on a social time bomb, oooo. Yooooooo. That is why traditional rulers across our Republic (without exception), need to be very, very careful, oooo, Ghanafuor. The clock is ticking for their enforced disappearance from our national life, oooo. Yoooooooo...
To be secure, in this new year, 2024, and beyond, their most trusted inner-circle advisors must make it clear to traditional rulers that it would be wise to be less visible, and less vocal, on the national stage, and, to a man, begin a new era of humble servant-leadership that empowers all societal demographics, equally, positively, across the entirety of the sovereign landmass of our Republic, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooooo...
What traditional rulers need to always bear in mind, in a bankrupted nation, in the midst of an unprecedented cost of living crisis, a majority of whose citizens struggle daily, just to survive, is that most of the masses regard the Chieftaincy institution, as a corruption-riddled and hidebound institution, which still enslaves people, and engages in secret ritual killings countrywide ( allegedly, according to bush telegraph sources).
Ditto that the Chieftaincy institution harbours arrogant and smug tribal-supremacists - who, in their view, absurdly think that their particular ethnic group, regardless of where in Ghana their palaces are located, is superior to all other tribes in our unitary Republic, in which, per our Constitution, no tribe is inferior or superior to another.
They contrast what currently pertains in Ghana, as regards the beneficiaries of inherited privilege, traditional rulers, with the situation in today's India, for that reason.
They are aware that India's wise nationalist leaders, understood clearly, during their struggle to end Britain's occupation of their country, that if they didn't rid India of the baleful influence of its Maharajahs, India would continue to remain backward, even after gaining its independence from British colonial rule - and could never become a global power, economically, militarily and politically.
To such disenchanted base-of-the-pyramid demographic youth, across Ghana, it is significant that India's wise and farsighted nationalist leaders, clipped the wings of their nation's privileged-elite, their Maharajahs, and thereby made them powerless. It swiftly ended their baleful influence in Indian society - permanently.
Dear critical-reader, perhaps we are where we are today, as a bankrupted and highly indebted nation, precisely because we have failed, thus far, to understand that meritocracy's greatest enemy is inherited privilege, and must therefore rid ourselves of today's beneficiaries of inherited privilege, our traditional rulers?
In light of that, dear critical-reader, if our nation is to ever become a global power, too, perhaps we must, as wise and aspirational Africans, do just as India did, in its post-independence journey, to the status of a global power today - and rid ourselves of Ghana's hidebound Chieftaincy institution, to end the baleful influence of what to many, is a metaphorical nest-of-vipers? No? Yes? Case closed? Full stop? Yoooooooo. A word to the wise...
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