{"id":1125962,"date":"2022-06-17T19:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/17\/we-gained-our-independence-too-early\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T19:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:19:47","slug":"we-gained-our-independence-too-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/17\/we-gained-our-independence-too-early\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Gained Our Independence Too Early&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to her, if a Black man gains power, he misuses it suggesting that if Ghana had been under the colonial rule a bit longer, things would have been better now.<\/p>\n<p>She made this known in a recent post she made on her verified social media handle on the popular social media platform, Twitter.<\/p>\n<p> she made reads;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gained our independence too early! Never give a black man power, he\u2019ll just misuse it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-17-at-7.13.26-PM-1024x242.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-813120\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some reactions the post got are;<\/p>\n<p><strong>@EnochEcho2<\/strong> \u2013 Same thing I keep saying, if the British were to colonize us more like how they did to SA, like by now we are 80% developed, sorry to say but gaining the independence was not worth it<\/p>\n<p><strong>@shaibu_Labari <\/strong>\u2013 To me Ghana under colonial rule was better and safer than this HELL.. There\u2019s freedom of speech but not freedom after speech, this is slavery in disguise!<\/p>\n<p><strong>@ealehn<\/strong> \u2013 There is always a bad side to every event. We have come so far as a country. We are doing better than most of the African countries. One day, another Nkrumah (I am sure it will be a lady) will rise again and transform the country. Our motherland will wear it rightful clothe soon<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"e741ff03b77ea2d166a725ea-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to her, if a Black man gains power, he misuses it suggesting that if Ghana had been under the colonial rule a bit longer, things would have been better now. She made this known in a recent post she made on her verified social media handle on the popular social media platform, Twitter. she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1009,8879,4077],"class_list":["post-1125962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-early","tag-gained","tag-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}