Saturday 11 July 2009

Obama rewards Ghana…

Before President Obama and his entourage arrived at the coast of Ghana, the media constantly referred to his visit as a symbolic gesture or a reward for Ghana’s so called “Democracy”. This brings up the question, is Ghana a sovereign country or the 52nd State of United State of America. How Ghana and its leaders have stoop too low as feeling the need to be rewarded by United State for carrying out their constitutional obligations is beyond understanding and quietly frankly extremely shameful. I watched the speech by President John Atta Mills with sadness and disbelieve. The message of his speech was too disgraceful and he spoke as if he was begging the President of United State Barack Obama’s permission to do the things Ghanaians expects their Head of State to do. He spoke as if he is the son asking Mr. Obama the father permission to take care of his children, the Ghanaian people. Our African ancestors who suffered slavery and colonisation must be weeping in their graves. I can not comprehend the thought behind his speech but what ever that may be, it signified how imbalance the talk between him and President Obama would be.

For a fact, the conversation will not be based on mutual respect but sadly, it will rather be a conversation where Obama instructs President Mills to sign on to the construction of Africom and also tell him which company to give the oil contract to. President Mills has further revealed himself that he lacks vision for Ghana and worst of all he is an elite vampire who preys and feeds on his own people for the benefit of the West. However, Obama spoke with arrogance and lacked knowledge of Africa and its people even though he keeps convincing himself that he is being tough on the continent but many people will differ on such notion. Also, Obama failed to acknowledge the CIA’s influence in overthrowing the most prominent leader and indeed one of the founding fathers of the Africa as we see today Osagyefor Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Worst of all, he showed no emotional connection with the African continent though he repeated and emphasised his paternal heritage to Africa. On the hand, President Clinton was decorated with Kenta and shown his appreciation yet Obama wore no Kenta and showed no admiration toward the Ghanaian culture

He deliberately and disrespectfully referred to Zimbabwe yet made no reference either to colonisation, land grabbing, brutality, the cause of wars and poverty by the West in Africa. However, Obama’s speech sounded like he was the leader of Ghana putting Ghana first but than again that was just a speech without substance and his speech is exactly what I would expect from President G W Bush or any other President of United State. Nonetheless, he can be forgiven because he is after all the President of United State and he like all other President before him, his interest is not and will not be with the African people. In brief, he came as a wolf covered in sheep’s skin. Therefore, the focus was on President Mills to show his leadership skills and vision for his country Ghana and he failed them miserably. If my assessment is correct than the implication for his failure will be too detrimental to Ghanaians including the unborn generations. Sincerely, I hope that the speech by Mills was just a mistake by his speech writer and actually not his thought therefore he would in reality, conduct business with United State as partners with mutual respect.

3 comments:

  1. Greetings. Your observations are spot on. Meda wo ase for posting this. It really is a shame that Mills can do no better than behave as if Ghanaians are second class global citizens. Prez Mills stand up and have some dignity! IB

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  2. This is great! Thanks so much for an analysis that is not caught up in the fawning over a man that is believed to be the "messiah." i'm so glad it's coming from a Ghanaian! By the way the international press reports this, we would think there were no critiques of this obama and the west.

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  3. hey appreciate you observations,it is absolutely critical that our leaders understand that the west do not do anything for nothing.We must draw our programs and policies based on our needs instead of behaving as if our leaders have no sense.Well, it sad how many people even read such an insightful articles and observations.i hope more and Ghanains get to read your article and may be it might just help.Thank you again

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