IT IS NOT TIME

It is not time to look up,

It is not time to lift up our hands,

It is not time to clap them together,

It is not time to smile,

The sun is too hot on our backs.

This is time to take a knee,

This is time to look down,

To look around us,

To take stock,

To set our goals,

Firm up our resolutions,

This is time to feel the heat.

It may take us years to reach,

And the road may be treacherous and hard.

Neighbours may laugh at us,

But we must keep a straight neck,

And keep our eyes unblinking,

Our mind, our eyes, our feet must meet…….

in our hearts.

Never again will we take a knee………

This is our lowest point,

And then…..we launch

WHO WILL HELP ME CARRY HIM?

Is Ghana worth one good man's life? We believed it once, make us believe it again.

 He was a soldier of Ghana, Honor him!

Who, my Dear Ghanaians, will help me carry him?

 

Look what he did for us!

 

1. The Tema Harbour

2. Construction And Building Of Tema Housing Complex

3. The Tema And Accra Motorway

4. Akosombo Dam (Providing Electricity & Waterways)

5. Accra International Airport Refurbishment

6. Ghana Airways Corporation

7. Cape Coast University

8. Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology (KNUST)

9. Repairs at University of Ghana

10. Compulsory Free Education For All Citizens

11. Ghana Mass Education

12. Free Medical Care For Everyone

13. Polytechnics And Techinical Schools For All Regions

14. Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH)

15. Ghana Medical School

16. National Cultural Center

17. Largest Man Made Dam, Volta River

18. Hundreds Of Scholarships For Ghanaians To Study Abroad

19. Silos For Food Preservation

20. Tema Food Complex

21. Ghana Film Industries

22. Bank Of Ghana

23. Investment Banks

24. Ghana Commercial Bank

25. New Army Headquarters In Volta Region, Sunyani, Bolgatanga, Tema And Takoradi

26. Ghana Atomic Energy Commission

27. Ghana Distilleries

28. Ghana Shoe Factory

29. Ghana Jute Factory

30. Tomato Processing Factory, Wenchi

31. Diary Farms At Amrahia And Avatime

32. Match Factory, Kade, Pwalugu

33. Ghana Glass Factory, Abuoso And Tarkwa

34. Gold Processing Factory, Prestia

35. Meat Processing Factory, Bolgatanga

36. Organisation Of African Unity And Progressive Foreign Affairs Around The World

37. Hard Cash Purchase Of Houses For Ghana High Commission in New York And London

38. Ghana Black Star Starline With Almost Fifteen Ships

39. Akasanoma Radio Factory

40. Paper Processing Factory

41. GIHOC

42. Ghana Cement Factory, Takoradi

43. Ghanum, (Ghana Household Utilities Manufacture, Sekondi-Efiekum)

44. Valco Tema Steel Factory

45. Ghana National Trading Corporation

46. State Hotels (Star, Meridian, Ambassador, Continental, Atlantic, City Hotel)

47. Cocoa Marketing Board

48. Catering Rest House

49. Trade Union Congress (TUC)

50. Farmers Council

51. Workers Brigade

52. Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute 

And yet, he died in another country not his own.

THE THORN BIRDS

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, 

more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. 

From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, 

and does not rest until it has found one. 

Then, singing among the savage branches,

 it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. 

And, dying, it rises above its own agony 

to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. 

One superlative song, existence the price. 

But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles.

 For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain….......

Or so says the legend.” 

The Thorn Birds

Colleen_McCullough

April 1977

We are all President.

We have so long believed

in there being only one President,

That we have translated that believe,

into having only one person responsible.

But WE voted for a president,

OUR money pays and keeps him.

OUR silence lends him our consent.

His decisions are all OUR decisions,

We are all president,

We are all responsible,

for what is happening to our country.

We are all president.

Who are we Ghanaians?

Who are we?

Who are we? you ask.

We are one of the many people of Africa,

Our blackness is like charcoal, yet not quite,

Depicting the depth and richness of our character,

For we are also as brown as the sand on which we walk.

And from these two elements we claim part kinship.

We have been burnt in the fires of this world for the food of other people,

We have shed skin as ash,

Many of us have died in being thus

And many more, though lesser now, continue to do so.

We are trampled upon at every turn,

We are the necessity that is unwanted,

Yet we are found everywhere and in every home.

Scarred by the footsteps of the world,

We have developed backs as tough as the tortoise's.

And though it makes us slow in our walk through this life,

We are steady and unperturbed.

Our resilience is like the cockroach,

We are damaged and broken and left for dead,

Yet every day, we rise from the ashes,

Of our past and sufferings,

We rise to take the reins of the sunrise,

Upon the tips of the mighty mountains,

And steer the day to our desire.

We rise to scream out our name again to the universe,

And listen to it echo, on a thousand hills,

in far off places.

Striking fear into the heart of our enemies.

You ask who we are;

We are the people of this country.

The home of the proud,

Ghana.

For God. For Country. For Us.