Hello Chris,
I am an avid reader of this blog-GhanaCelebrities.Com and I just wanted to share something that I feel needs to be addressed. I don’t normally comments on articles that are posted on here. When I do comment, it is on issues that I feel strongly about and my username is She-Meyor.
One of such issues is the celebration of Halloween in Ghana. Since when did Ghana start celebrating Halloween? The copy-cat attitude about Ghanaians should Stop! Do they even know the reasons behind it and why Americans, and other foreign countries celebrate it? I’m so annoyed that our people are Copying Blindly.
When did we start celebrating Goth and Ghoul and everything synonymous to Evil. I just cannot fathom why we are not proud of our culture and heritage, and that we just have to jump on every stupid idea that a foreigner has and think that will also be good for us.
Recently, I read an article on this blog about actress Juliet Ibrahim hosting a Halloween party titled ‘Halloween Weekend with the Stars’ to raise funds for her charity.
Although, I will commend her for the cause she has taken time to embark on, the theme for the party is a stupid one. And I repeat a STUPID one. Why couldn’t she find some other idea or theme for her party that is significant to the Ghanaian culture?
Also, Smirnoff is hosting another Halloween party to urge on this absurd trend that is going rampant in the country. This is a serious issue that needs attention in order to end it.
I live in the U.S. but I do not even celebrate Halloween or entertain the idea of it because it has a negative connotation to it. So I will urge my fellow Ghanaians to appreciate our culture and holidays and be proud of it.
If not, we will become a mockery of the world as a country that has no identity and just takes up on the practices of other nations..Hypothetically speaking, since we have started to celebrate Halloween, what else are we going to start celebrating? Are we going to start celebrating, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day and July 4th (Independence Day) and Thanks Giving Day also?
Well, as a person from Ghana , I do not want to see our country go down such a destructive path all in the name of foreign trends.
It will be sad and disappointing to be seen as such. What do u think other African countries will say about us, as a Nation that condones such practices? Like I said earlier, we would be a Mockery of the world and that is not what we want as a Nation.
From Miss Eddie-Lynn/USA
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Whoever wrote this article God Bless you paaaa. Halloween my foot.
@nanya martinson, Thank you Sir… 🙂
these celebrites are promoting evil in this country ………. they are all from the same the soup.. we should be careful of our celebrities … they deceive us easily because they pretend to be nice people and we fall for them… the money they raised is not even given to the charity…..we should be careful about our celebrities…… the bible says Lack of knowledge my people perish.
these celebrites are promoting evil in this country ………. they are all from the same the soup.. we should be careful of our celebrities … they deceive us easily because they pretend to be nice people and we fall for them… the money they raised is not even given to the charity…..we should be careful about our celebrities…… the bible says Lack of knowledge my people perish…..the end time his near ……. God should have mercy on our poor souls
She-Meyor, I’m proud of you I totally agree with you on this nice one
@Dr. Miyagi, I know right? Its very stupid..The day they start celebrating July 4th and Thanks Giving is when I renounce being a Ghanaian and commit 100% to my American Citizenship…lol
@She-Meyor,lol hahahah
@Dr. Miyagi, Hmmm, your people never seems to stop amazing me.Our forefathers were ignorant and lost so many valuable things to foreigners and here it is, happening again.
@Adjoa Nbaaso),very true
@Adjoa Nbaaso),They all watch films and music videos made in the US, And copy it one by one as for Juliet I’m really disappointed in her for bringing Such a stupid thing to ghana even we blacks in Europe and I’m sure in the western world don’t even celebrate Halloween My question now is what are we doing to stop being influenced by the west or what are we doing to influence them back? We import everything and export nothing this is a big shame
@Dr. Miyagi, hmmm the worst part of it all is that they have even opened an account for it on twitter n go n see how happy they are about the first ever halloween party in ghana. its total madness.
@Dr. Miyagi, hmmn very reasonable point.
Ghanaians and their Ignorance.Juliet Ibrahim, so why would you want to introduce something that doesn’t belong to your culture to innocent people.First of all, Halloween has nothing to do with the Ghanaian culture and its absolutely pointless to the people.There are so many important themes you could have chosen for this so called charity..Next time, try and reason with wise professionals who can give you better advices.
@Adjoa Nbaaso), very well said. she’s sometimes childish tho wat was she thinkin koraa??
Juliet came for a visit in de US on visitors visa and saw or heard abt it. So as stupid as she may seem or not she was like ” eeiii dis nkrasifuo Ghanaians don’t know abt dis so I will run and tell dem so dey will think of me as local champion”
its total crap.
sometimes,some ghanaians are a total pain in the $$$.halloween party?……aaaaaaaargh!!!!
ITS SO EMBARASSING!!!……………. I MEAN WHAT KIND OF COSTUMES WILL PPLE BE WEARING TO THE FUNCTION..!? I CNT WAIT TO SEE THE FOTO’S ANYWAY. I CAN IMAGINE HOW HORRIBLE SOME PEOPLE WILL LOOK IN THIER COSTUMES. TWEAAAAAAA.
@KA NE WU, i looked at some pictures from the Smirnoff halloween party on facebook (talkofgh.com) and hmmmmm, my dear, you should check the pics out yourself.
Ah waka asem, paa, haloween is nonsense, we need to look within ourselves and ask ourselves what makes ghana great, then we should try and sell that to the world
look at india, china, even europeans they are all pround of whatis unique to them,
u think an english man will make any effort to appear american? never
we need to wise up, ghana has a lot to boast of
are we waiting for jayz and beyonce to start patronizing ghanaian culture before we admit that its cool?
wise up ma ppl
Trick or treat lol.do the kids in Ghana also go trick or treating???Like you rightly said most Ghanaians i know in the US don’t even celebrate halloween and people in Ghana have taken it over without knowing the roots.We should be proud of our own heritage and rich culture!!
This is totally sickening to hear that some Ghanians celebrities are introducing Halloween..are you people serious? I have lived in the USA for the past 10 years and I dont let my daughter go out that day because of the conotation behind this evil day…..please!!!!! people should reject this idea.
this is so sad, halloween in Ghana??? who gave her that idea anyway? i ve never allowed my kids to partake in any of their school’s halloween parties even though its the culture of the country we live in. So am just wondering why sm1 in Ghana will think of doing that evil thing by celebrating the devil???? Or maybe she doesn’t understand what ”HALLOWEEN” is all about. I pity her ignorance!!
i HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT GHANAIANS WILL ONLY COPY THE BAD CULTURES AND BEHAVIORS OF OTHER COUNTRIES, BUT NEVER THE GOOD. I HAVE LIVED IN THE USA FOR 26 YEARS, AND I DON’ TCELEBRATE HALOWEEN. I HAVE 3 CHILDREN ALL BORN IN THE USA AND I RAISED THEM EXCLUSIVE OF HALOWEEN. THEY CRIED AND MADE LIFE ALMOST UNBEARABLE, BUT IN THE END I WAS THE PARENT AND I WON. IT IS SUCH AN EVIL PRACTICE, AND FOR A COUNTRY AS GHANA WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE THE MAJORITY, I DON’T THINK THIS IS SUCH A GREAT IDEA AT ALL. I AM APPALLED THAT GHANAIANS WOULD EVEN CONSIDER CELEBRATING THIS OCASSION. THEY CAN GOOGLE HALOWEEN AND MAYBE READ THE HISTORY BEHIND IT. CHURCH LEADERS, PLEASE RISE UP NOW AND CONDEMN THE CELEBRATION OF THIS EVENT BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND JUST AS VALENTINE’S DAY DID.
She-meyor…well done with this article. I live in the US as well….we started teaching my nieces and nephews that were born in the US that we do not believe in halloween…they went to school last year and were asked where who they came as. My then 10 year old niece told her teacher that she came as herself and that her family do not believe in celebrating halloween. how can we be christians yet celebrate demons and witches? Please stars do not forgo of your heritage and culture. My question is how are they going to dress to a halloween party? Ghanaians are copying blindly what legacy and culture are we leaving for the next generation
I wish could give you a big hug for this piece you wrote. Last year Nigerians did the same thing and now Ghanaians. Ghanaians should go back and ready the history of U.S; the country was built on religious grounds. Today, it is messed up because of celebrations like Halloween and have forgotten where God brought them from. I do not thing we Ghanaians want that to ever happen to us because if we look at all the African countries, we can say we are highly favored and blessed. We may not have much but we have the peace lots of countries are longing for. I know we all want this blessing to continue and even overflow. Please, if we have to copy from them we do not have to copy blindly but rather sieve it out. It is my prayer that God do not reject us and give us a reprobate mind.
Today is HALLOWEEN in the USA. The Word of the Lord says: “My people perish for lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6)……well, I am convicted to give you some information so here it is. What you do with it is your choice. I just do as I am convicted to share it with you. Be blessed!
HALLOWEEN is a religious day, but it is not Christian. Tom Sanguinet, a former high priest in Wicca has said: “The modern holiday that we call Halloween has its origins in the full moon closest to November 1, the witches’ new year. It is a
time when the spirits (demons) are supposed to be at their peak power and revisiting planet earth… Halloween is purely and absolutely evil, and there is nothing we ever have, or will do, that would make it acceptable to the Lord Jesus.”
JACK-O-LANTER: has its origin in the candle-lit pumpkin or skull, which served as a signal to mark those farms and homes that supported the druids’ religion, and thus were seeking the “treat” when the terror of Halloween began. The World Book Encyclopedia says: “The apparently harmless lighted pumpkin face of the Jack-O-Lantern is an ancient symbol of a damned soul.”
DAY OF DEATH: Halloween has strong roots in paganism and witchcraft. It began as the Druid festival of Samhain. The Celts considered November 1st the day of death, because, in the Northern hemisphere, this was the beginning of winter, the leaves were falling, it was getting darker earlier, and temperatures were dropping. They believed that their sun god was losing strength and Samhain, the lord of death, was overpowering the sun god. The druids also taught that on 31 October, on the eve of the feast, Samhain assembled the spirits of all who had died during the previous year to return to their former home to visit the living.
HUMAN AND ANIMAL SACRIFICES: On Halloween, for thousands of years, druid priests have conducted diabolical worship ceremonies in which cats, horses, sheep, oxen, human beings and other offerings were rounded up, stuffed into wicca cages and burned to death. These human and animal sacrifices were apparently required to appease Samhain and keep the spirits from harming them.
WE HAVE NO EXCUSE TO SUGAR COATED AND DRESS UP AS ANYTHING IF WE ARE FOLLOWERS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!!!!
“Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the Armour of Light.” Romans 13:12
“You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s Table and of the table of demons.” 1 Corinthians 10:21
BOTTOM LINE: “I don’t celebrate HALLOWEEN an undercurrent of occultism and is absolutely anti-Christian…for me and my house, we sill serve the LORD ~ JESUS CHRIST!
@She-Meyor, hmmmm interesting
@`madam social, Yes. Its something I saw on FB and decided to share…I kinda stole someone’s post…
@She-Meyor, God richly bless u for this. i posted some reasons why halloween shud nt be part of christians lives buh most ppl rejected it. God keep u safe n ur families as well amen. we must stand for christ no matter the situation… dat thin is purely demonic. i dnt kno why ppl cant see it. and the sad thin is dat i’d always tot some of our celebs were very christian like buh nw hmmmnn
@dericka, Thank u. God Bless U too.. 🙂
oh you guys are not aware? They’re already celebrating thanksgiving ooooo… As for this Halloween thing di33r, I can’t even wrap my head around it.. I have a feeling people (ghanaians) will start dressing in American colors on 4th of July lol.. Please let’s stick to our ” Kaakaa motobi & Fansy dress parade wai”
@nene ofuetsu, u r a villager. So u r admitting Ghanaians r copycats. Wat de he’ll did de whites get from us apart from our gold and people? Go read history u idiot. Ghanafuo nkrasifuo. Copy copy stinky copycat Ghanaians. Y’all get on my nerves. From de way I opening ur stinky mouth to talk u live in Ghana right? Do this for ur land; get rid of de Chinese who r taking ghana’s gold. My bad u not brave enough yet u brave to copy. U guys r so dumb dat u let white come to ur country, open a club and put de sign dat days whites only. Instead of dealing with dat u guys r excited about an American tradition. These Chinese r gonna run Ghana. Cos dey be holding guns and all. Dumb a.ss
Miss Eddie-Lynn/USA
, we do appreciate that you feel strongly about this and it is your personal duty and right to express this “strong” feeling about the subject. Mind you; you go a step further when you call the idea “Stupid” . You use words such as evil, goth and ghoul clearly portraying your abhorrence for things evil then I think you should begin attacking most festivals in Ghana because they are mostly based on paganism and their rites (as you call it , everything synonymous with evil) Don’t you think that would be a thriftless venture?? If we are to talk of mockery because of “copying-catting” some foreign cultures then I dare say we begun to Mock ourselves on the day the white missionaries set foot on our soil and we “copied cat Christianity”. I don’t wonder why we would like to play God (of course who won’t) but I do again wonder who has the right to play God and tell everyone which culture of foreign lands are good for us or bad. Is this not hypocritical at least? what is the yardstick? why do we play double standards ? I believe the basic tenets of living and life is to tolerate each other, do unto others as we wish others do unto us. No one has the right to play God. These kind of sentiments bring rise to so many terrible atrocities, causing religious and ethnic violence just because someone feels something or some ritual is evil and feels “strongly” about it. Let us watch how we express our “strong” sentiments publicly. I believe we are all discerning and well meaning people.
@Benjamin, Thanks for your comment. Most of our festivals maybe/are based on paganism and u may be right. Not to justify what I wrote but it is part of us and has been that way for centuries and also halloween is part of the western culture which makes it theirs.Therefore, my point is that, we may all have some sort of paganistic festivities, but why then do we have to copy others and not celebrate our own. The copy-cat trend is an issue, and like I said in the article, even if we have to copy from another culture it shdnt be something such as halloween. Because it celebrates Goth, Ghoul and everything synonymous to evil. That is my concern hence, stating that the theme for the party was that of a stupid one. I just stated my concerns on this issue. And you dont have to agree with me. But I, as well as u are entitled to our opinions and beliefs.
i agree with you, i live in the states and i do not celebrate halloween. Most Africans follow the western culture blindly, we should be proud of our heritage because although i live in the states, am proud to be a Ghanian.
I agree totally with Miss Eddie-Lynn. I become equally extremely angry anytime I read about Ghana adopting ungodly foreign cultures. It so disappointing.
I agree totally with Miss Eddie-Lynn. I get extremely angry whenever I read about Ghanaians adopting ungodly foreign cultures into a world highly respected African country, Ghana. Like she rightly said, those people should first of all ask to know what the celebrations mean and why it is celebrated. If the government closes her eyes on these things, sooner or later people will start opening arms and ammunitions shops just like in America. Litte drops of water, they say, make a mighty ocean. Something has to be done now before things go offhand. Ghana will ever remain Ghana. She can never change to be any other. What is now happening in the country is no modernization of culture, but stealing foreign ones. One should open ones eyes widely to see where one is heading towards. Blindly copying leads one into total darkness and darkness leads or can lead to destructions. Ghana has gone far and must maintain her course, dignity and intergrity. Those money-minded people must be stopped now. It is never too late. One of the ex-presidents tried to instil morallity into the country during his time and it worked. Even imported films were controlled. Bad ones were not allowed to be screened. Whoever acted contrarilly lost his licence. Ghana arise against immorality before some few turn the nation into Babylon.