Have you ever been told that “Education” is the key to success? And when did you actually delved deep to the bottom of said fact to know the truth? Well, Education might be “a key to success” and not “the key” because whoever uses the article ” the ” in this context actually wants to suppress the truth. Not only that, but commiting the beautiful crime of disregarding talents and innate potentialities of persons as another way of becoming successful. Mind you! Don’t ever say Education is synonymous to schooling because as it stands, education has its various forms.
Is education actually the key to success?
Maybe you are actually thinking Education is that you sit in class for many a long hours to imbibe voluminous printouts in mind, graduate with First Class Honours and secure a whitecolar job? Well, that is one way of attaining success because undoubtedly, success is a height of diverse ways to reach. Merriam Webster dictionary defines Success as ” a favorable or desired outcome“. That implies when I think I am living a better life for only spending 2 cedis a day, that is success for me once I consider it a thing favourable and pleasing. If Education as in sitting in class is the only key to success, how then would you explain to your kids when they someday ask you ” Mum, I learnt Albert Einstein was a great Physician so does that mean he attended a better school?” Good! Keep it to yourself.
The world today is such that, people focus on books than getting time to develop their talents and innate potentialities. Why? It has been planted in the very deep and core of their minds that once you go to school, you are on the verge becoming the second Bill Gates. This virus has made some leaders and Politicians myopic to see the need to invest in Technical and Vocational institutes. Why? They think Art works and painting are for students who are academically poor but once someone reads Economics, Engineering, Literature or Mathematics, the person’s IQ is unparalleled.
Mental Slavery 🧏🧏
So I ask, is education a key to success or the key? It turns a key when you side with the mass that says to attain succes is either you make it in school or outside school. People like Albert Einstein, the Noble Prize winner, Bill Gates, the man who made his own doors to success through creativity when he had his innate potentialities unleashed, Colonel Harland David Sanders, the CEO of your favorite restaurant, KFC who decided to enter the world of business than bagging names like Professor, Doctor etc succeeded without passing through formal education as in sitting in class.
Now the endpoint is, get time to develop your talent and never disregard your potentialities. No matter how it is, add value to yourself by branding it. Our local ” Koobi ” was even branded into ” Tilapia “. Have it that Education as defined by Plato is ” the turning of the eye of the soul from darkness unto light“ and not only that you sit in class. There are diverse ways in becoming successful and one of which is Education. Education then is never ” the key to success” but then, it is “a key…”
On Friday, September 3, 2021, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Vice President of Ghana unveiled a project to offer laptops to teachers from Kindergarten to Senior High School. The motive behind the project is to assist teachers in terms of research and everything regarding the use of internet. Launching the initiative dubbed, ‘One Teacher One Laptop’, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia stated that the project is to help improve quality of education.
However, there are terms and conditions attached to the project. “Government will take 70 percent of the cost while the teachers take 30 percent”, he added. Thus, the actual cost of one laptop is GH₵1550. Stressing that the initiative is very dear to the Akufo-Addo government, the Vice President noted that effective teaching and learning is critical to developing the human capacity for work, innovation, and creativity.
He added that, “Globally, we know that the world is entering the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is highly dependent on information technology. Today, we know that the amount of knowledge and resources for the purposes of teaching that are available on the internet is just phenomenal and therefore, one of the best ways to equip our teachers, is to make those resources and knowledge available to them as well.
“Ghana cannot be left out and today’s event further attests to the government’s commitment to the cause of education. Under the ‘One Teacher One Laptop’ programme, each teacher at every level of education from kindergarten to Senior High School, will receive a laptop,” he said.
Below are the specifications of the ready to be distributed laptops.
° Celeron 4020 processor (equivalent to Core i3 Intel processor; Core i3 are known to be lower-tiered processors but highly energy efficient).
°Internal memory: 500GB
°RAM: 4GB (Very ok by today’s standards)
°Graphics: UHD 600
°Battery: 10000mAH (Quite long-lasting in places with limited electricity backup)
The stipulated dates for the release of the lists of successful applicants for the 2021/2022 academic year are as follows;
1. Close of Application Process: 31st August, 2021 2. Display of 1st Choice Applicants: *3rd September, 2021* 3. Deadline for payment of fees by 1st Choice Applicants: 15th September, 2021 4. Display of 2nd Choice Applicants: 17th September, 2021 5. Deadline for payment of fees by 2nd Choice Applicants: 30th September, 2021 6. Other Supplementary lists can be displayed anytime after 30th September, 2021 if the need be. 7. Re-opening date for the start of the 2021/2022 Academic Year is October 3, 2021.
HOW TO CHECK YOUR ADMISSION STATUS AND PRINT YOUR ADMISSION LETTER.
Successful applicants are required to follow the steps below to print their admission letters.
1. First of all, Visit admissionsghana.com
2. Select the name of your College as your category. Eg. FOSU COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, KOMENDA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION.
3. On the next window, select the academic year of your application. Thus, 2021/2022
4. You will be required to enter your application reference number. Check it out from the application form you printed.
5. Your application information will be shown, click on send code.
6. After that, a code will be sent to you. You will use the code to print out your admission letter if you are given admission.
NOTE: You can check for status only when admissions are closed and the list is released.
A story was told of a farmer who planted maize and bamboo on the same day and watered them equally. Months later, he realized the maize had germinated while the bamboo tree remained as it was. It dawned on him to uproot the bamboo since it wasn’t showing any sign of growth. He was in absolute quandary so he only had to leave it and see the way forward. Little did he know the mystery behind this. Imagine!
It is an undeniable fact that people look down on others for many a millions of reasons. One of which is when they find them unproductive in their lives. As a matter of fact, the present conditions of people liscense others to take them for nothing. The mystery behind the said static growth of the Bamboo tree is that, bamboos know the height at which they stand. Research has proven that bamboos usually grow 3-5 feet in height per year. If it doesn’t gain a firm stand, it will probably fall when blown by wind. The bamboo tree was actually gaining ground and making sure it’s roots get to the depth of the soil before it shoots up as the farmer yearned to see.
Why then do you make comparisons that this is making it and the other is not progressing? The bamboo tree dispised of it’s static growth overtook the maize plant in height. Great things really began with humble and most times, humourous starts. Mobile phone started with something bulky but it has evolved in a way that makes it portable to be put in the pocket. Steve Jobs revolutionized the entire world with an iPhone and of course, how he began seemed impossible of him attaining this height.
Look at Albert Einstein who was despised and tagged an unsuccessful man because he failed almost all his exams and passed only Physics and yet, won the Noble Prize Award. Whatever that seem impossible is actually possible just that it is inflicted with the morpheme “Im” which in disgue is saying “I’m”. You are possible of becoming the next Bill Gates once you create doors for yourself.
Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook least expected seeing his application trending globally because he actually created to connect only a few students in Havard University. Such a simple start!. If you wish moving Mountains tomorrow, you start by lifting stones today. Nothing great begins being that great we see. If it’s a penny, start the business with and you’ll shortly reap zillions. “The height by which great men reached and kept was not attained by a certain flight but rather when their companions slept were tailling upwards” so wise up and stop tagging things impossible.
Don’t ever think you aren’t capable of doing something. Irrespective of how small it is, you can grow it. The biggest building in the world even began with a foundation. The only difference between the poor and the rich is time. Work is of course measured in joules so once you sit idle, you’re instead cracking jokes or loosing joules which figuratively is your weatlh. Never disregard this your humble start. Think about something innovative and work towards the achievement of such a dream. Who knows if you are the next in line to bring on board something great?
It has been a popular axiom today that “ Failing in school means you are a potential candidate to live a miserable life”. Such a saying is simply a trivial lie although in this century, we have a millions of deep-seated education minded parents as well as children supporting it. Scientifically, it has been confirmed that no two brains are the same. It was later authenticated by one Teacher who made his students look through a window and made them write an essay on what they can see. Moments later, he made them read what they have written so far and the results only proved that no two brains are the same and we have Individual perspectives.
Education is as important as any other thing we value. You might join the mass that says ” Education is the key”. The simple question is, “if education ramains the key, what then is the road to success?”. You might have failed many a hundred times but mind you! It doesn’t warrant you to wander around chasing every breeze that blows your way. Neither does it mean you cannot be successful in life.
Albert Einstein, the noble prize winning Physician failed in all his subjects and passed only Mathematics and Physics. How has education been the key? A mere prattle without practise that only aims at testing our memory? Memory has no connection with capabilities. Once I identify myself as a farmer but cannot imbibe bookish theories has no connection with how successful I will be. Education might be said to be the key but going the long way to call it the key to success, it is likewise saying the inability of a fish to walk on land simply mean it is useless. Education has been the key over the years to unlock potentials. Of course, Plato says “ Education is the turning of the eyes from darkness unto light”. Scholars like Emile Durkhem, John Cage and others have coined zillions of definitions for it. Contemporarily, a civilized society is backboned by improved standard of Education. How would you refer to people like Einstein who fails all the time but scores greatly in some subjects? Misfits ? Then such is a dysfunctional society.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Colonel Harland Sanders overcame his lack of education to become the biggest drumstick in the fried chicken business. After dropping out of elementary school, Sanders worked many jobs, including firefighter, steamboat driver, and insurance salesman. Sanders’ cooking and business experience helped him make millions as the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, now KFC where you spend your night with your loved ones or hangout with the boys to kill stress after a hectic semester. Education has no warrant to judge our future.
Moreover, the other side of the coin is so pathetic a story to tell, let alone documenting it to be read by generations. Education is the key. Yes, laudable uttering these but why would you depend solely on education as your only key while your own eyesight sometimes deceives you? There are people who invested their time in getting educated so that they grab tickets for one of those white-collar jobs. Why is it that Education is said to be the key that we followed to receive it? After receiving it, finds no door afore us to open. They then resort to riots of being unemployed. The proberb reads “ Don’t put all your eggs in one basket ”. Education is the key to unlock potentials but not up to standard to the word “ Success ”.
KNUST First-class student sells roasted plantain due to unemployment.
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba and of course, one of the billionaires in the history of human race told his son “ You don’t need to be in top three in your class, being in the middle is fine so far as your grades aren’t bad. Only this type of person has time to learn other skills” Such an interesting stuff. Stop imagining how great you will someday be by looking at your grades. Success is what you do with the said key you are searching for, how you use it to improve upon your standard of living, as well as how others benefit from it. Remember always, what you have is for the benefit of others. Stay tuned… ✍️✍️✍️
Fix The Country has been a trending hashtag making waves everywhere. It aims at parading the grievances of the citizens before the president. As always, “….we are not in normal times”
Fix the country! It is falling apart While we have everything to let it stand Roads turn boggy and squashy like traps Galamsey turns our portable water Into poison hemlock; We can’t be Socrates Graduates barging in to the lackluster tunes With the dropouts on the speeding Okada Fishes washed ashore because of stress And you think humanity is living satisfactorily.
Mr.President, please fix it.
Fix it, Mr President elected by the people To better their situations they call “Worsend” We can’t breathe! Like Floyd our neck hurts Captains of the nation please look smart Agyapas of Ghana please don’t be miser Look! Prophet Ayitey going for powers Believe me! We live in a nation of magicians Ghana’s strongest we need you to fix The nation back on its spinning axes
We tire!!!!😫😫😫😫
Fix the country, Mr. First Gentleman of the land We have no idea if the chronic “Dumsor” is back Each for himself; Look at Chinua parting with Achebe Children sleep on empty stomach, Mr President Nana, we know better days are actually dead But the iota of hope is “Better days ahead” Our Christ, Show your tigridute amidst crises Our Messiah! Jesus us not to death by hunger Mr. Addo, please help Nana fix this country
#Fix the nation Ghana
Fix it! Mr Honourable President of the nation Look! we promised on our honour to Ghana To be faithful and loyal that she plays her role In protecting us under the giant hands of hers But like Carl Johnson, she can’t take it anymore The nation looks no sweet, says thirsty Tom Ho! Archbishop our Father turns into a Porter Think about the allowance for once, Mr. Prez We can’t breathe! No we can’t! Just fix it.
Hypocrisy has been a terrific word to be uttered by some Pastors in straightening the path of their followers relating to a zillions of reasons. Others badge the name “Christians” on their chests and walk by the gospel according to their will.
The word hypocrisy comes from the Greek ὑπόκρισις (hypokrisis), which means “jealous“, “play-acting“, “acting out”, “coward” or “dissembling“. Today, Christians are held bound by the forces of “Fear of…” hence, “cowards” might be the befitting and up to standard word for them.
Of course, the sermon might be centered on alcoholism while one of the church leaders is champion at quaffing dozens of bottles in a jiffy. Who then can “broadchestedly” approach him and rail him on track that he is going contrary to the word? The reason being that he recently gifted the Head Pastor a brand new Ferrari. Not only that, but went extra mile giving the church a billions of Euros. Now, such an opulent man, who can boldly approach him? The pastor might brood over the thought that “What if he stops the church?”, “What is he stops raising those heavy funds to the church?”. The Church dysfunctions for such act cannot be termed a Christian Life.
Look! Prayer warriors can pray for heaven to descend. Their demure faces paint them holier than the then Lucifer but there are a few among them still battling with masturbation and fornication. Truth is, these same people condemns the act before men. This authenticates the school of thought that says “Christianity is what you do behind closed doors”. When alone in your apartment, when alone in the dark is a reflection of your Christian Life. Christians of today seem to be doing a mere prattle without practice forgetting they are signboards to those already in the world. As a matter of fact, the prospective believers. They fashion on their foreheads the doctrines of Christianity while they fall short themselves.
Moreover, surveillances and close scrutinization on modern day Christian Life only showed that about 70% of people who flamboyantly dress to church every Sunday have various reasons other than the core reason of going to listen to the word. Majority of them are going to showcase a new dress they sewed while others joined the mass of just going to church because it is Sunday. Ladies can dress half naked that it will take many human hours in distinguishing them from Adam and Eve in the primal days. Truth is, they are all naked. But then, seated right beside Junior Pastor. Fear grips his veins in speaking out. “What if she tells her mother?” who is one of the oil- handed women in the church. This is today’s church.
“Go and make disciples of all nation” is captioned on the banner as legible as our account numbers on cheques. They go out spreading the word to even towns of inaccessible roads, boggy and squashy pathways. Ironically, repented brethrens entered the church and Christians are fighting against each other over positions in the church. A picturesque form indeed of modern churches where New converts turn back to the world because Christians pointed hands at them and as they tapped each other during service, made references to the previous lives of New Converts. Pathetically, adding in-text citations by saying “According to…” Christians are bluntly speaking ill of a new convert while they the old converts are perishing and need to be rescued by the converts. It’s ironic!.
The sermon used to hit us hard that we could sit on tenterhooks when the Pastor preaches. It only looks as if someone had gossiped about us to the pastor and he is using it in his sermon. Today, Christian opt for either Prophesying over preaching on every Sunday that the pastor counts on the members to decide whether he should prophesy or preach the word from his turned – upside – down – Bible. A wake up call on Christians that this is the moment of disillusionment. Enough of the hypocritical acts. Enough!!!
Poetry, said to be the spontaneous overflow of powerful words comes in different forms. One of which is Spoken word aside the written and oral porpulaly know. Today, I chose to focus on Spoken word. This happens to be my first ever Spoken word video. I wrote on Love matters and I promise you it is pretty irresistible a verse. There you have it.
DEMOCRACY IS EVIL IN AFRICAN SETTING. HOW FAR DO YOU AGREE TO THIS ASSERTION.
ABSTRACT.
In this article, we are going to talk and investigate with accuracy and precision the harm democracy has caused to our African setting of which we say it is evil. Many African Countries are practising democracy today. The question that echoes in our minds now is, “How good are they practising Democracy?”. Democracy has become the order of the day where each and every one is allowed to air their views on government policies or negotiate for their personalinterest. Recent observation has shown that the shift from autocratic rule to democratic rule has had its merits and demerits in Ghana and Africa at large. The word “Democracy’’ has its origin in the Greek language. It combines two shorter words: “demos’’ meaning the whole citizen living within a particular city- state and “kratos” meaning poweror rule. In other words it is a belief in shared power; based on a suspicion of concentrated power (whether by individuals, a group of governments). According to Abraham Lincoln (1858), democracy is defined as government ofthe people, by the people and for the people. The study uses questionnaires and observations together withindividual perspectives on democracy deciphered from the web. The findings of the study has clarified how theintroduction of democracy has negatively affected the governance and the administration of justice in the Africancontinent.
SOME RENOWNED POLITICAL SCIENTIST’S THEORY ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF DEMOCRACY.”
The real differences between ancient democracies and modern democracies according to Madison, is “the total exclusion of the people in their collective capacity from any share in the latter, and not in the total exclusion of the representatives of the people from the administration of the former.— Bernard Manin, p. 2 (See: Madison, “Federalist 63,” in The Federalist Papers, p. 387; Madison’s emphasis.)Bernard Manin is interested in distinguishing modern representative republics, such as the United States, fromancient direct democracies, such as Athens.Manin believes that both aspire to “rule of the people,” but that thenature of modern representative republics leads them to “rule of the aristocratic.” Manin explains that in ancient democracies, virtually every citizen had the chance to be selected to populate the government but in modern republics, only elites have the chance of being elected. He does not defend this phenomenon but rather seeks todescribe it.Manin draws from James Harrington, Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to suggest that the dominant formof government, representative as opposed to direct, is effectively aristocratic. He proposes that modern representative governments exercise political power through aristocratic elections which, in turn, brings intoquestion democracy’s “rule of the people” principle. As far as Montesquieu is concerned, elections favor the “best”citizens who Manin notes tend to be wealthy and upper-class. As far as Rousseau is concerned, elections favor theincumbent government officials or the citizens with the strongest personalities, which results in hereditary aristocracy. Manin further evinces the aristocratic nature of representative governments by contrasting them withthe ancient style of selection by lot. Manin notes that Montesquieu believed that lotteries prevent jealousy anddistribute offices equally (among citizens from different ranks), while Rousseau believed that lotteries choose differently, preventing self-interest and partiality from polluting the citizen’s choice (and thus prevent hereditaryaristocracy).
INTRODUCTION.
In Africa, democracy is widely practiced and looking at this critically it can be said that the practice of democracyhas taken a different phase as it was formerly practiced in the ancient Greek. Today the practice of democracymakes room for diverse notions and perspectives on issues of national interest. This ranges from insults and offensive words on political leaders and even physical attacks and sometimes leading to the death of some politicalleaders .Daily graphic on October 9, 2020 reported the assination of EKOW KWANSAH HAYFORD, the member ofparliament for the Mfantseman constituency. Politics of Ghana takes place in the framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president of Ghana is both head of state and the head of government, and of a two party system. The President therefore is the head of the central government and thesignatory to all legislative enactments as well as the aggregate of all public opinions. Politically, it is termed “accent.In this essay we will discuss just four practices of democracy which makes it evil as practiced in the African society, precisely in Ghana.. These evil practices are moral degeneration, it is expensive to operate, people attribute thingsthat are not of political concern to democracy and lastly delay in decision making.
MORAL DEGENERATION.
To begin with, the advent of democracy in Africa to be precise Ghana has caused moral degeneration among thepresent day youth. Today, people abuse their rights through the way they present their grievances to thegovernment. This is attributed to the fact that there is freedom of speech as the law states and no one is obliged to infringe upon the right of the other. When the youth or the citizens of Ghana do not agree to the policies of thegovernment, they take the law into their hands and embark on unlawful demonstrations and riots. According to GhanaWeb on Friday August 7, 2020 a student of SEKONDI COLLEGE rained insults on the President relating to thefact that the books provided in which they were told the exam questions will be set from turned out to them beinglies and therefore the president will be held responsible if the fail. This kind of attitude displayed by the students,turned up to be a clear evidence of moral degeneration which comes as a result of the freedom vested in the handsof individuals to air their views on policies of national interest. Another instance concerning moral degeneration isthe issue that happened in KNUST which was reported by GhanaWeb on September 9,2019. Students resorted to riot instead of dialogue in resolving their halling issues. The image democracy was then tarnished.This is wheredemocracy as practiced in Africa has landed us. Modern democracy has allowed for diverse notions whereby anyone can insult and utter any word that is offensive and obscene to the chiefs and even the president of a wholeRepublic. This paints it vivid enough that democracy is and has been evil down here in Africa Others go the long wayembarking on riots which ends up destroying properties .Comparing and contrasting the ancient practice of democracy especially in the western world and down to the land it originates as against what is being practised here, people although had their say on governmental policies but was to a limit that one cannot go the long wayraining insults on a whole leader of a nation.
DEMOCRACY IS EXPENSIVE TO OPERATE.
Secondly, democracy is expensive to operate which makes Ghanaians ascertain that it is an evil practice. What makes democracy expensive is the amount of money government officials need to spend on officials of state. In this case, the legislature which has the members of parliament serves as the mouthpiece of their constituents. They are elected to serve the interest of those who entrusted them with the power to represent them. In the course ofdoing this, the electoral commission which is the independent body responsible for conducting elections asdemocracy demands needs to conduct elections every four years to select new members as their representatives. During elections, a lot of money is spent on printing ballot papers, buying of electoral materials which will enable the election process go on smoothly without any hindrances. The amount of money used in doing this could be diverted to embark on developmental projects and create more jobs for the growing population. Thishas made democracy to be seen as evil as it wastes economic resources. According to citifmonline on a report by Mariam Ansah dated on December 18, 2015,The Electoral Commission (EC) has revealed that Ghana might spendabout GHC 1.2 billion on the general elections.Chairman of the EC, Madam Charlotte Osei, who presented the Commission’s budget estimates to Parliament on Thursday, said the budget was premised on 30,000 polling stations.”… We also premised the budget on an exchange rate of 3.89 cedis to the dollar. The total budget for the elections is GHC 1,470,000,000. If we include the administration and other costs which are not directly election related, it givesus a budget of 1.2 billion. In the budget ceilings we have announced by the Finance Ministry, we have a budget of800 million for elections, the first round so this gives us a funding gap of 400 million Ghana cedis.”She further revealed that the Finance Ministry had made provisions for a run off.“This budget does not include the cost of auditing a new register. There is some provision for a run off, the Ministry of Finance made a provision of 200 million. I think we have a budget of about 350 million, so there is another shortfall there. However the budget makes provision for all the reforms which we have agreed with the political parties.”The Minority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on the same floor of Parliament expressed concerns over the EC’s budget, saying the cost of conducting elections in Ghana is consistently increasing.“The Commissioner tells us that in 2008, the total expenditure on the elections was $ 138 million. At the time thevoting populace was about 11 million so that indeed translated into about 12 dollars, 30 cents per head. That figure was good because the average for Africa is 13 dollars per capita per head.“Now entering 2012 it shot up to 267 million with a population of about 14 . 2 million, it came up to about 18 dollars,80 cents per capita. That was far above the average for Africa, which is 13 dollars. We are coming to 2016 and thefigure that is being given to us is 269. I am only saying to the EC , that we want the elections to have integrity but itis getting astronomical and it’s getting too high.” Also, In February 2016, a private newspaper, The Chronicle reported that a minister’s basic pay was pegged at 10,000 cedis but some other allowances ranging from duty, entertainment to wardrobe allowances saw them earning up to 22,000 cedis per month.The paper also accused state officials of receiving 45 gallons of fuel a week, fully furnished accommodation, a 4×4cross country Land Cruiser, a luxury saloon car, a cook, a gardener, a security guard and police escort.This is insharp contrast with many university graduates working in government agencies or departments, who are said to beearning less than 1200 cedi as basic pay a month, and without any allowances.Ministers are also said to bereceiving 400,000 cedi as “end-of-service benefit or ex-gratia” members, claims the government denied, saying “theonly benefit which we ministers enjoy as MPs, besides our monthly salary of 7,200 cedi, is fuel.This is a clearindication on how expensive democracy is, notwithstanding huge sums of money used to pay government officials.
PEOPLE ATTRIBUTE THINGS THAT DOESN’T CONCERN POLITICS.
Furthermore, people attribute things that are not of political concern to politics all in the name of democracy. Generally, democracy is said to be the government of the people and thus, people are licensed to air their views onany issue of national interest. Due to the freedom granted, people raise issues that are reprehensible in the sensethat they do not relate to anything political. Rather, issues of personal attacks and a whole that are questionable inthe sense that they rather tend to promote redundant and unsolicited issues in the country.On December 24, 2020, areportage by Pulse.com.gh was captioned “Kennedy Agyapong threatens to burn Mahama and Aseidu Nketsiah’shouse if burning of market continues”. An issue of this sort makes room for diverse notions and prompts anavalanche of allegations on an individual who might be innocent of what is being levelled against him.Also,onAugust 6,2020 gh.gossip.com made a reportage with the headline, “Mahama,s name pops up in MzBel and TracyBoakye’s bedroom fight. In Ghanaian politics, this was termed as PAPA NO. With this, the reputation of such peopleis ruined before the general public and these allegations levelled might not be true.
DEMOCRACY SLOWS DOWN DECISION MAKING.
Finally, Democracy is termed as evil in the African continent precisely Ghana because it delays decision making inthe administration and management of the country. Democracy is a process of arriving at an agreed-upon judgement or a consensus. Such an agreement is an outcome of deliberation, thus a process where people try topersuade each other through the give-and-take of rational arguments. In a democratic system, decision making isdelayed because of these deliberations and negotiations ( http://www.toppr.com). Thus, in Ghana, before decisions can betaken in the country, it has to go through several procedures and parliament proceedings for scrutinization andclose analysis before it takes effect. One could imagine the number of days and months it takes before it is granted approval. It can be well observed from many practices that decision making is given much importance in democracy like conducting of free and fair elections, open debate of government policies, citizens right to information about the function of the government. The policy which has to be deliberated on might have been onethat when it is earlier implemented, will be of benefit to the people. Under democracy, it is being delayed and in this situation, decision making is slowed down other than it being given the needed and immediate attention. This inactual sense is said to be the reason why democracy is evil in Africa.
CONCLUSION.
In Conclusion, the points used to buttres the assertion that democracy is an evil practice which had had adetrimental effect on the African continent are discussed above and these are;Moral degeneration, Democracy being expensive to operate, attributing to things that doesn’t concern politics and lastly, the slowing down of decision making process. The above explained reasons all attests to the fact that indeed, democracy is evil in Africa.
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Foso College of Education is one of the 46 public Teacher Training Colleages in Ghana. The College is know by its academic excellence as well as the exceptional training she gives to trainee teachers who looks no further, rather, finds themselves in such a reputable institution.
Poetically, a trainee teacher describes the College and her academic excellence with hard core lines that his specificity nature makes his go the long way referring to the other colleages as “NGOs, Cottages and Clubs”.
I have come to realize the rare truth But hard in believeing like pulling your tooth Let them pride in possessing vanities But we’ll preserve our greenish entities And what it takes a College to have See those schools flying like a dove Perching to ears that are all deaf GREAT FOSCO sings to legends on earth Born to impart and impact the wrongs. Where lengends are made is where I belong!
At the mention of GREAT FOSCO, they bow And quiver like Desert leaves making a vow That never shall they promulgate this again That FOSCO, our efforts are swinged in vain. Look! I stood behind closed doors a mile away Seeing those colleages kneeling at the Airport alley Faces all petered like they’re jesued to death FOSCO ladies spoke and just imagine the mirth Voice so charming like an edible lips sweet to taste But listen! “these don’t suit our taste”, says, our Queens
The greens for the flag of excellence we hoist The Titanic that catapults us to pounce and conquer Millennium Falcons that attack with their talons And the hospitals that revolutionize psyches for A’s The statehouse where elites rule over plebs Look at the ever joyful Zongos doing it once more! Your college wish they could join Aboabo but NO WAY! To those colleges, let me hear you shout GREAT FOSCO! For this is where legends are made, grown and reaped!
FOSCO, the conetstone upon which towers are built Our field that tastes sweats from Heroes from Zeros You may grumble, mumble, but FOSCO, you cannot resemble You’re welcome to the abode where water tastes Freshest Here, where everyone is a keeper of his brother’s fowl Here where love drizzles on us at Principal Service Greens that fades not while the maroons fade out See them wishing like beggars that they could join us FOSCO, the one true school standing out among zillions Talk to me of success and your conscience shall out – tongue Records in the archives we have kept for unseen posterities.
I used to tickle myself and laugh about words untrue That there are two colleges in Ghana as said by them Listen up! Stop tossing your hearts hither and thither Wash your hands from tarradidles, as FOSCO preaches Ghana, our nation we have held in high esteem from birth Of which we always to her promise on our honour Has just one, mono, single and a one true college Situated and predestined that excellence we shall hoist But that which is called love is love and not a dove So, FOSCO, the one true College the rest had wished to rep. Listen! You better abandon that your NGO and join a School Said you better exit from that Club and join a College Better leave that your cottage to join an autonomous society FOSCO, said to be the pride of Assin that we hold our waist and say Guys! This is FOSCO, this is where I call Heaven on earth
I made a turn to the west, to the east, South and North And saw buildings – bizzare and as old as Babel’s tower Come to my FOSCO, where greens make up the landscape That here, where life assumes one spent in heaven FOSCO, the name we stand akimbo and proudly mention That school trembles when we call out our motto But Character, Wisdom and Knowledge our Hallmark be Like the morning sun from the East, we brightly rise And proudly cry out loud our name that fade not GREAT FOSCO! CHARACTER, WISDOM and, KNOWLEDGE.
Sometimes I just imagine myself being with them Wouldn’t I have turned into an Ox like Nebuchadnezzar? A dead dog might have worth than I do, I know for sure Guys, once in your lifetime if you visit FOSCO not, Then you are yet to know what beauty is in naturality Huuu haaa! We shout out loud and giggle all day long Believing, like Vodafone, the future is exciting I’ve got nothing to worry of, my dear competitor Our deligent staff making it possible this year too Aren’t you aware? We did it again as always we do
Now look at you! Faces as wry as the airport pavements You wish you had been in a school but just see, God proposed but your disobedience disposed Enjoy your stay in hell – the eternal damnation As I briskly walk on the greens that gladens me Enjoy your moments of midnight- torch- weeding And I shall boast of a work- free stay on campus With character, Wisdom, and knowledge our motto, Ahead we always look, serving our great FOSCO, ARISE and provide to them light, my FOSCOS For the pacesetters in our midst do dwell.
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