By: Mawuli ZOGBENU
There is an African saying that states that ‘if you really mean to do something, demonstrate it’. No long talk.
For example, if you want to tell a visually impaired person that you would whip him with a stick, don’t just say it otherwise he won’t believe you; touch him with the stick. Matter close! That reminds me o. Glaucoma is becoming a big deal o.
Me sef, doctor says I am approaching the borderline and that I have gone past the central line. Abeg, go and test your eyes and reduce time spent on the phone and computers.
My late father once told me that the greatest fear of the dog is when a mud man is assigned to feed it.
The dog is as uncertain about the next moves of the mud man the same way the mud man is also uncertain and afraid of the next moves of the dog.
It is difficult to tell what the next person sitting next to you and eating with you is planning to do to you.
Believe in your instincts and be smart and don’t feel you are offending anybody. Just like the antelope, it doesn’t need to have offended the lion before the lion jumps on it to finish it; all the lion wants is to eat!
The map of Ghana koraa, how was it designed? Recently, I bought a copy of the map of Ghana and pasted it in my study room where the kids also use to study.
4 days later, the youngest among them, 7 years old came to ask me some questions which I am still thinking about. It was about why Central Region should be down south.
Western Region should be cool but Central? Ah!
She didn’t think Central Region which is down south to the sea should be as such. For her, Central Region should be in the centre of the country like where Ashanti or Bono Regions should be called because strictly speaking, those are Regions in the middle of the centre of the middle of Ghana.
She later argued that Volta and Eastern Regions should be changed either Asesewa Region or Akple Region.
The argument continued and we were still looking on the map of Ghana; she agreed with me that Upper East and Upper West and the other Regions have been correctly described based on their cardinal locations.
She is still fighting me over why Ashanti or Bono Regions are not Central Region.
In all sincerity, I seem to agree with my daughter. Look at where Cape Coast is and where Kintampo is. Please let’s look at this naming of region’s again.
We probably have to rename some of the regions based on a unique town or City or culture. Ashanti is Ashanti Region. Finish!
We can then maintain Upper West, Upper East, North East, Savannah, North East as they are now because their names were named exactly according to their cardinal and geographical locations.
The white man who did the demarcation may have just thrown names at us anyhow and we too accepted it like that without asking questions. Maybe the scholars who have done Geography up to the PhD level may provide some general education. If it is a mistake by the white-man too, let’s admit it and correct it. After all, Swaziland is now Eswatini.
If Ashanti and Bono Regions cannot, on the face value be seen as Central, my child may not be wrong in asking questions we never really thought of meanwhile we are told Kintampo is in the middle of the country – Central yet Central Region is sharing walls with the Atlantic ocean down south. Ah!
I thought it was a Genz thing until I remembered that when I was a child growing up I didn’t understand why we used ‘blue’ powder to wash white shirts and singlets after rinsing them in clean water.
Don’t think about it; just wash anything! When Englishman was developing the English autography, what at all made him to describe a particular soap as ‘toilet soap’? As a teenager, I was not sure whether that was what the soap is made from or it is used to ‘wipe things’ after using the washroom.
I continued using that particular toilet soap for so long since. Now it is finished. You remember ASSEPSO? After using the washroom, I use it for the exact purpose for the ‘place’ to smell fine fine. Instead of just calling the thing ‘bathing soap’, you say ‘toilet soap’ just to confuse a typical village boy like me! Ah!
Sophia, if this is your first time reading this abstract, this is how the column is o. No particular order of writing. As and when the wires in the brain torch small norrr, the subject matter changes. Endure it. Hahaaa!
So at your maiden management meeting of your new job, the agenda is to see to how best to pay 4 months’ salary arrears to staff.
The decision is that these would be paid in instalments till Jesus is done with his national service. My brother, relax and don’t jump into any door of employment when not sure. You are attending a job interview just to change jobs because of poor conditions of service. You asked to use their washroom. You entered.
The WC handle is not working. In the washroom are buckets full of water and gallons containing water with inscription on the wall: ‘Beware of wet floor’. As you get back to enter the interview room, the existing staff start laughing at you, my brother or sister, chances are that you would get that job.
But the very day you report for work is the very moment you start looking through the newspapers to see if there is any ‘VACANCY’ being advertised.
Be content with where you are and give of your best and greater opportunities would locate you so long as you keep aspiring for more profitably challenging jobs.
Amen! Not every open door is worth entering especially if you have a job that is just okay. Many of our ladies do well in this area. They don’t change jobs ‘by hat’.
They are faithful and loyal to their employers. As for men di333, it is not different from the way we want ‘variety’ in the bedrooms or different guest houses. Me koraaa, I think I have a deficit according what is in the Bible – I am supposed to have married 7. Now I am in deficit of 6 according to Isaiah 4:1. Now I am scared God is going to ask me why I married only one woman p3!
On a more serious, do you think Central Region down close to the sea should be called as such? For me, I want to go with my daughter’s argument that Oguaa Region should send a straight forward message. Central s3s3n?
Happy weekend!
