{"id":193410,"date":"2016-02-25T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=193410"},"modified":"2016-02-25T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:39:38","slug":"sotnghana-an-open-letter-to-mahama-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/sotnghana-an-open-letter-to-mahama-article\/","title":{"rendered":"#SOTNGhana: An open letter to Mahama [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to begin by saying that I do respect and admire you, immensely. Unlike many Ghanaians, I believe that our pr<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">esident; regardless of our individual political affiliations and sentiments; deserves our respect. After all, being the Head of State could not possibly be a walk in the park.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Having said this, though, you must not take it to necessarily mean that I identify with and glorify the political ideologies and practices that characterize and depict the political colors of your divide.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, quite frankly, none of your known political contenders has proven to me that his or her camp would make a SIGNIFICANTLY better alternative for the Ghana that I love so deeply.<\/p>\n<p>However, lately, Ghana has become a HUSTLER&#8217;S PARADISE.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble with this is that, albeit I am an ambitious Ghanaian woman of creative dissidence, the fact remains that I was not born to HUSTLE.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I am an unhappy Ghanaian, at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>My ambition is bathed in filthy, gooey, smelly, revolting, mucous-y spittle.<\/p>\n<p>My creativity is stunted, because I am forced to give so much of the bare minimum, just so that I can attain the bare minimum.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation of my dissidence is shaken. I have lost my way. I am losing myself. My days are full of a blazing sun that feeds off of the migraine that has become the plague of my brain.<\/p>\n<p>My spirit is broken and I kneel, I pray, I hope, I speak prosperity into my life, and into the seemingly infertile womb of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to channel my ambition, creativity and dissidence into a single, massive ball of an adrenaline-charged HUSTLE!<\/p>\n<p>But, Your Excellency, I was not born to HUSTLE.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as I believe in giving people the chance to prove themselves to be different from what the public and mass perceptions and conceptions might convey,\u00a0I would be most grateful, Your Excellency, if you would let me know how you can help to (in the least) mitigate the effects of this predicament, within which I find myself.<\/p>\n<p>Because Ghana, this HUSTLER&#8217;S PARADISE, is by no means any kind of a paradise for an ambitious GHANAIAN woman of creative dissidence, like me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yours sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>APIORKOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(An Ambitious Ghanaian Woman of Creative Dissidence)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to begin by saying that I do respect and admire you, immensely. 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