All progress starts from the mind. The better the mind, the better the progress. How better the mind is driven by how serious, sophisticated, and deep the thinking is. If the society thinks poorly, its development becomes poor. This is glimpsed from the society\u2019s intellectuals, their Big Men.<\/p>\n
Why? Because the intellectuals, the Big Men are supposed to be the directors of progress. From USA to Europe to Southeast Asia, this has been the experience \u2013 the intellectuals, the Big Men enlightening the development process without any heavy counter-productive superstitious propaganda.<\/p>\n
It is in such climate that the Municipal Chief Executive of Bekwai, in Ghana\u2019s Asante Region, Noah Asante Manu is seen. Asante Manu\u2019s assertion that the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is using either negative \u201cspiritualists\u201d or the juju-marabou occult to cause the inner conflicts and the eventual destruction of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) once again reflects the brand of elites directing Ghana\u2019s and Africa\u2019s development.<\/p>\n
Of particular note is Asante Manu\u2019s claims that ex-President Jerry Rawlings, the so-called founder of NDC, who has been tormenting President Atta Mills since he came to power two years ago, though they are supposed to be from the same NDC, has spells cast on Rawlings and that \u201cthere is a\u201d gloomy \u201cspiritual being behind\u201d Rawlings\u2019 embarrassing behaviour.<\/p>\n
How imprudent can Asante Manu be in stating this in 2011, where there are advanced researches, mounting reasoning and cresting rationalization for better living globally. Asante Manu is expected to be looked up to by his municipality \u2013 as a light, as urbane development driver, as a rationalist and as a leader in reasoning from within Bekwai\u2019s, Ghana\u2019s and Africa\u2019s culture and history.<\/p>\n
Asante Manu hasn\u2019t only disappointed his Bekwai municipality but also Ghanaians and Africans.<\/p>\n
Asante Manu and other Ghanaian\/African Big Men think like that simply because they were born into a culture part of which socializes its people, no matter their level of education and age, into believing in witchcraft, demons, devils, evil spirits, juju-marabou occult and other counter-productive superstitions.<\/p>\n
The trouble is in Asante Manu\u2019s brain and the culture that formed it. At the centre of Asante Manu\u2019s brain is the skirmish between irrationality and rationality. In Asante Manu\u2019s head, the irrational piece is ancient and thinks more with the superstitious component. The rational part of his brain is supposed to think more with the objective element of his brain.<\/p>\n
However, because of the culture Asante Manu was born into, the irrational part of his brain has outweighed his rational part, hence his strong believe, despite his supposedly university education and maturity and travels, that Rawlings and the NDC\u2019s internal discords are the work of evil spells cast on them by the NPP.<\/p>\n
How low can a supposedly a Chief executive go? And how familiar is Asante Manu in the Ghanaian and African cultural and historical context. Asante Manu isn\u2019t different from Samuel Doe (Liberia), Laurent Gbagbo (Cote d\u2019Ivoire), Idi Amin (Uganda), Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the Central African Republic), Jerry Rawlings (Ghana) and Sani Abacha (Nigeria) who projected such wacky believes, superstitions, emotions, ideas and ways of thinking into the national and continental stage, and either blew their countries into pieces or paralysised them.<\/p>\n
The on-going Ghana enlightenment movement will take exception to Asante Manu\u2019s absurd thinking. Rawlings\u2019 abysmal attitude isn\u2019t the cause of any devil or juju-marabou spell but his appalling behaviour, parts of which come from the dysfunctional family he comes from, his perceived long years of heavy marijuana smoking, his emotional mess and his dabbling in juju-marabou occult.<\/p>\n
No doubt, for resisting Rawlings\u2019 attempts to command-and-control him and his presidency, President Atta Mills\u2019 government is being disturbed constantly by Rawlings, his wife Nana Konadu and his cult of brainless tribalist, who find it difficult to rationalize Rawlings\u2019 behaviour in relation to Ghana\u2019s and Africa\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n
As much as everybody knows, elsewhere in the world, Rawlings\u2019 behaviour, sometimes bordering on insults, instability, threats and sedition, he would have been in jail or dead.<\/p>\n
A moral and intellectual weakling, Rawlings superstitiously believe that he is God sent and that he is the best leader Ghana has had, as his wrong-headed spiritualists and tribalistic sycophants have told him. Ghanaians know this is garbage. Kofi Busia, Hilla Limann, John Kufuor and Atta Mills are far, far better, both morally and intellectually, than Rawlings.<\/p>\n
Rawlings\u2019s action is as result of his being prop-up by unreasoning elites like Asante Manu, who have went to the extent of campaigning that Rawlings is \u201cJunior Jesus.\u201d Why and for what nobody knows!!! How unintelligent and strange!!!<\/p>\n
It is for such ridiculous mentality that has snowballed into some sort of a culture, that Rawlings has now become a threatening albatross not only to himself, but also to President Atta Mills, the NDC and Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
As Municipal Chief Executive of a town in Ghana, that is supposed to be the center of Africa\u2019s emerging enlightenment movement for greater progress, Asante Manu should be ashamed of himself, drink deep from the African culture and history, read particularly what caused the European Enlightenment movement and the Asian Renaissance, relate them to Ghana and Africa, and, as the small town of Bongo, in Ghana\u2019s Upper East Region has demonstrated, used the Bekwai Municipality as platform to enrich Ghana\u2019s and Africa\u2019s renaissance.<\/p>\n
Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
Email: kakos064@uottawa.ca<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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