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Mama

Whoever I am and wherever I go, I know there is still a place for me inside you.

Looking back at the time I spent in my mother’s womb I realize that thought should be an impossible feat. But I have an imagination, an imagination that my mother always encouraged.

Why mother first you may wonder. Because my mom, she was my everything; until my memory came into play and I recall father and other siblings.

In her womb, my nostrils were not moving nor did I breath, yet I did not suffocate. I don’t recall running or my legs stretching, yet I climbed the walls of the womb I was enclosed in. I don’t recall conducting an orchestra, yet I was free, my arms pointing and gesturing and moving. I often swam in hers waters. The waters of the whole world, my world.

Now that I am born into this world of larger, much larger proportion; I remember the preparation my mother gave me and behold a new day every day. Rejoice in living.

Now my nostrils move and I breath by myself yet at times events would want to suffocate me if I let them. I feel lost at times looking for the place of safety that I was accustomed to.

Sometimes we allow life’s reality to be the limits of our world.

Remember we can be anything we want to be. Our mothers have prepared us already.

So I look back at the phrase: Whoever I am and wherever I go, I know there is still a place for me inside you.

Happy mothers day, Mama.

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Nepotism

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Relationship guru Mauvie Hayford.

Nepotism is becoming a norm in Ghana and I believe it’s hurting our country terribly. I’m not saying it’s totally bad but when someone only gets a job because of their last name, what message are we sending across to Ghanaians?

Graduates and competent individuals are finding it so hard to get jobs because of this. Young people are gradually getting fed up with it and are giving up because they believe the only way to get to the top is to know or be related to the boss. It’s no more on merit.

We are raising a lazy generation. It’s healthy when these relatives have the qualifications or talent or knowhow to fill the position. It’s great to keep the family tradition going by getting your relatives involved in the family business but we also need to welcome others in order to promote national development.

We our contributing to unemployment when we allow nepotism to rule.

Ghanaians, we must change our ways!

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Affecting change

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Georgette Barnes

 

WOMAN IS KEY and Education is Key for women, especially if they’re born in Africa.

In Africa, education, a profession, or training in a skill or vocation, is empowering.

For me it’s important that we share what we learn. We must share our skills and we must pass them on.