The Madness of Ghanaian People

Markets in Ghana have been flooded with cheap imported food such as chicken, fish, rice and sugar from the European Union, United States and china. Almost one third of the EU frozen chicken exports to Africa end up in Ghana. Households, restaurants and supermarkets in Ghana are filled with imported food and yet the same food products are produced by hard working Ghanaian farmers. But for some absurd reasons, Ghanaians and their Governments insist on making the foreign imported food their daily food consumption which subsequently destroys the Ghanaian farmers’ way of living and also endangers Ghana's economy. Why Ghanaians prefer these fatty genetic modified chicken parts which come in packages without labels to indicate their nutrition values is beyond human reasoning.

Bluntly refusing to buy our own products is the saddest and the madness thing ever heard of in human history. During the period of Ghana Empire which existed between 790-1076, people came from afar just to trade in Ghana and it was reported that the Empire could feed an army of 200, 000 soldiers. Historically, Ghanaian is predominately farmers and has always rallied on agriculture as source of living: hence agriculture is embedded in Ghana culture. But today Ghana has stoop so low by rejecting its own farm products which subsequently means rejection of the Ghanaian tradition. Ghanaian products are safe and healthy even to the extent that when exported to the west it is classified as organic products which are ridiculously expensive in the rich countries. Yet Ghanaians are comfortable consuming food products which are genetic modified and the production processes can not be verified by individual Ghanaian as fit to eat. Bearing in mind the attitude of the west when it comes to exporting unhealthy stuff to Africa, the last thing on the mind of any reasonable human being in Africa is to trust food stuff exported to Africa from Europe.

Painfully, Ghana governments use globalization as the excuse which obviously indicates their lack of wisdom, intellect and patriotism. The Ghana government either the NPP or the current NDC have failed due to ignorance to understand that the concept of globalization was created to advance the interest and the economy of the richer nation and never in doubt was it for the interest of African nations. Ghanaians should ask themselves this question, will European Union allow Ghana chicken to flood the EU countries without an alarm to stop that immediately?

“Globalization is a double-edge sword: a powerful vehicle that raises economic growth, spreads new technology, and increases living standards in rich and poor countries alike, but also an immensely controversial process that assaults national sovereignty, erodes local culture and tradition, and threatens economic and social stability” - Robert J. Samuels, political economist.