{"id":289202,"date":"2017-01-29T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T13:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=289202"},"modified":"2017-01-29T13:52:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T13:52:15","slug":"sebiticals-chapter-35-ghana-vu-the-road-just-travelled-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/sebiticals-chapter-35-ghana-vu-the-road-just-travelled-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebiticals Chapter 35: Ghana Vu – The road just travelled [Article]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the days of yore when we were we and we roamed the highlands and lowfields of the university of spiritual training, which later was given a coating of the name from Nkroful, there lived an obroni-trained herbalist in the big herbal centre near the road that ran from the abode of Odekuro right into the bosom of Otumfuo.<\/p>\n

Teacher Croffectus told us many market days ago on the hills of Menya Mewu, which existed side-by-side with the valley of the swinging monkeys, that everyone needed to be aware of two aspects of self for life’s journeys and to also made decisions on careers: aptitude and attitude; what one’s gumption quotient was and what his behaviours and idiosyncrasies inclined him towards.<\/p>\n

What Teacher Croffectus failed to add was one’s debiatitude: how one looks like.<\/p>\n

This herbalist in the herbal centre near the road looks like a fitter mechanic. Our view in the land of spiritual training was that an obroni-herbalist is supposed to look dadabee kakra, and not to have features that made you look up at the ceiling instead of admiring the handiwork of Odumakoma Nana Nyankonpon.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons why perhaps Kapokyikyiwofaase didn’t even consider the suggestion of Premang Ntow\u2019s son, that Premang Ntow\u2019s grandson became a herbalist.<\/p>\n

The debiatitide.<\/p>\n

The legend was that during the period when even Nii Saddam reduced the length of his drumming sessions and gave time to the lesser business of reading his books, when men and women alike chewed the midnight kola and burnt the evening os\u0254n\u0254, when Sir RED roamed the rooms muttering \u201cminfit\u025b gb\u025bmen average\u201d (I am destroying the cumulative average of students) and admonishing students to draw any line even if they couldn’t make head or duna of the isometric drawing questions….during that period of exams, many are those who thronged the herbal centre for some relief from pain and stress, from the toils of preparation for exams and from the stress of not making enough time for one inte or the other, and the repercussions thereof.<\/p>\n

The story continues that this fitter-herbalist used to prescribe herbs just as you stated your ailments and many who exited his consulting room found out, when they compared tales from not different tails, that they were given the same herbs, even for different complaints.<\/p>\n

They soon concluded that the herbalist listened only with his hands.<\/p>\n

So, one day, Nii Saddam, also called Kule, decided to get to the root of the matter. When he was ushered into the consulting room, he just sat and didn’t utter a word. But Fitter-Herbie had started scribbling away and prescribing herbs!<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you don’t even know what is wrong with me!\u201d Kule indicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, but don’t you all have the same illnesses and symptoms during this time?\u201d Fitter-Herbie retorted.<\/p>\n

I bring you warm greetings from my Wofa Kapokyikyi who told me that whilst it is true what our elders say, that even though heads may look alike, the thoughts in them differ, sometimes when you see how one particularly-shape head is modeled upon a neck, one can sense that the thoughts in that head have been experienced before in the past, and soon enough, the pouring out of those thoughts confirms the suspicion.<\/p>\n

Like the stance of the Fitter-Herbie, many times when one considers the happenings in Sikaman, one gets the feeling of Ghana vu. Many times, the trajectory that issues take, like the path of a quadratic graph that rises and falls, that \u2018pours water\u2019, a line that accelerates to a crescendo and falls, like the crest and trough of a wave, seems too familiar.<\/p>\n

In Sikaman, many times when the matters hit, one just gets the sense that we have been here just the day, the week, the month or the year before, and one could almost predict the path ahead of the issue.<\/p>\n

The steadfast problems of our land never ceases, their recycling never come to an end. They are renewed every morning, great is our faithfulness in traversing roads just travelled.<\/p>\n

How are our new politicians different from the old? How different do we address our issues? Are our national scripts rehashed just for new actors?<\/p>\n

Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo wrote a novel entitled \u2018We Need New Names\u2019. Yes, in Sikaman, we need new scripts. We need new ways of doing things. We need new stories.<\/p>\n

We need new politics. We need to change the narrative. We need new mentalities of citizens. We need different heads and fresh thoughts from these heads, mixing in a national cauldron where each thought acts as an ingredient to produce a national meal of positive progress that delivers tangible development.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t continue to be that predictable. We can\u2019t continue to peregrinate as if we have no destination as a nation.<\/p>\n

We must get off the road just travelled and find new paths.<\/p>\n

We need new names. No more Ghana vu.<\/p>\n

Till I come your way next time with another sebitical, I remain:<\/p>\n

Sebitically yours,
\nKapokyikyiwofaase<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Nana Awere Damoah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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