Growing up, I had always heard the voices of my parents state that they would one day love to return to motherland Ghana. The quest of greener pastures to the shores of North America or Europe by my parents and other family members provided a sense of hope and prosperity for for many… To some, providing more than what mother Ghana at the time could have provided. Was it wrong for some of our forefathers to think this way? leaving family, friends and or loved ones back home to make due with whatever they had?
Living in ABROKYERE, is not necessarily the easy life. Thanks to the use of social media, internet and international news reports, the rest of the world also plays the role of a witness to the pressures and vices presented within these environments.
Many a times, I question.. is it all worth it?
Being a Black individual, I have always wondered if my color played a factor in the numerous refusal of work, whether my car is being followed based on a sincere suspicion or if my identity plays a role. Sometimes, I wonder why I am being followed in a store, when I probably have more money in my account than the person actually following me.
On the positive flip side, one must be truthful and say that the systems in some of the countries we face the above challenges do work. The implementation of taxes, constant maintenance of roads, cleanliness of the environment, effective healthcare system and make back home a hell of a joke. What does the White man do right that we as Africans can’t seem to get?
My ancestral home being mother-land Ghana, visiting often, I would sometimes say to myself; Why don’t more of us move back home to help in moving ahead? The main objective should be, to aid in the fixing of the never ending day to day issues which live with government to government and term to term. But then reality sets in and I ask..how do we go home?
Here is a list of the many issues that I think are of great concern;