I started reading books on African legendary heroes and Pan Africanism right from secondary school days. Due to the African philosophies I imbibed, I kind of appeared weird to most of my friends and even family members; because, I did not accept or believe in most Western things.
My Pan African proclivity got out of hand – as I started challenging my Economic teacher that I don’t agree with some of the things in our Economic books written by Western theorists and scholars. I did not see the sense in eating with cutleries at dining hall; and others.
Today, I don’t display my Pan Africanisms loudly, but, Pan Africanism, remains in my conscience and it shall remain with me till my dying day – just like a non-dreadlocked man once said “I’m a Rastafarian for life but not dreadlocked, because, Rastafarianism is not about the looks but its values.”
One revered man in Ghana’s media and creative art industry and the owner of TV Africa, Mr. Kwaw Ansah, and also a Pan African advocate, who has over the years called on Ghanaian creative art people, especially, in the field of movies, music and fashion, to use our art forms to tell our story, educate on our cultural, traditional and belief systems, today, stands accused.