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AFRICAN WOMEN,CRY FOR INVOLUTION

                 THE LESS PRIVILEGED WOMEN
               (THEY CRY FOR PARTICIPATION)

Just some minutes ago I was glued to my seat and gazing with much attention to Gifty Anti's 'The Standpoint' show on GTV as she celebrated fathers. Indeed I must congratulate her and The Standpoint crew for a wonderful job done and doing.
But the sight of such programs on our media always send me into a lachrymose state as a Pan African, are you wondering why? Maybe you can answer me this question: Why should they claim they are the voices of the voiceless,defenseless and poverty stricken African women when all the time their studios are filled and decorated with some privileged Women who all or most of their lives never saw any hardship of the average African woman.

These programs are even conducted in a foreign language which most of our mothers in the burning sun of Africa don't understand. When God graces them with successful years of showcasing their feminine growth, they celebrate the occasion with the female elites, then in papers and documents state that they are helping the struggle process of ameliorating the rather worse condition of the African woman.
I have been a true fun of these women activists across Africa and of course a fun of The Standpoint but I can no longer hide my notions about how this program is so centered on the minority of African women(Educated,comfortable living), if Daughter of God(Dr. Gifty Dansoa Anti) is attached to her goals of addressing the disturbing issues of Ghanaian women then she should decentralize her panel down to the rural women and the market women who really are the victims of the problems she covers, not some people who once had a little taste of the problems and got out of it by their wealth or privileged education.

 Moreover our suffering African mothers make up the majority of African women population and so if anything on this continent is dedicated to Women or Feminine side as she puts it, then it must be of greater benefit to the woman in that village seeking for a better life, if not so then the goals and descriptions should be well stated so that we know what we are watching. stop dancing with the elites my dear Gifty Anti. Albeit God richly bless you for the initiative.

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THE BITTER TRUTH, hate or love it.

HIGH SCH GRADE:DETERMINANT OF YOUR UNIVERSITY PROGRAM,A MISHAP

Are you a dupe of the the title? Very bad, you are not to be blamed, routine life was your only problem which you couldn't say no to, perhaps because you dreaded what will be said of you if you had mastered courage to refuse acceptance of that program offered, because your results couldn't fetch the program of your choice.

My dear Primary Six Engineer,my sweet JHS Doctor, my best SHS pilot why are you now drinking some concoction of languages which I fear you might never travel to their spoken countries? Oh you the ten year old Politician, why are you now reading medicine,hearsaies has it that, it is the best program, oh nice but why are you not the best in class, stop agitating? Your Father was a teacher, you grew with the chalk and loved the board,steadily teaching found it way into your heart and you promised Dad, one day I would be like you, so why did you frown at the mention of training college? well don't tell me,I know it, it was because your results could carry you to KNUST and earn the title "tech girl or boy". A title which lasts for four years, or you would be repeating too in the university to hold the title for a decade, NA LIE. So with the help of your high school results you slapped your dream in the face and said NO to your most passionate name prefix (Dr., Hon., Eng., lawyer,..)

Your results had the veto power to change your nationality, I thought you were proud as a Ghanaian, why are you now learning and speaking Chinese, Korean and Swahili in University of Ghana,Legon. Now you are a stammerer and speak with uncertainty, pausing to check whether you are right, sorry you are all wrong and will forever be.
Now school is on long vacation, they are all going for their internships, you are in dispute with Mum for questioning your stay in the house whiles she queues for car every morning with your mates to work, please mum stop it, she weeps inside or she is confused,can't think of any company to fit in with all her gys (anthropology, psychology, doxology, legonology..just saying).

At the workplace, the Polytechnic Engineering student has no special tag to denigrate him from the university guys. Rather he distinguished himself with his practically inclined knowledge of the field. Now, tell me, were you wiser than him to have abandoned non-university education for the luxurious uni life, hell NO, it matters not in life after four years.
So beautiful she walks in uniform of honour and respect, I guess she is now the most happy lady as a teacher or a nurse after following her long wished dream, after she stood against societal requirements and routine life, after she came to realization that peace and happiness are the direct results of feeding the heart desires.

In same view, the university student who also followed his dream and got admitted by his heart felt program rejoices. In fact he walks with the guys, learns with the ladies but his joy and inner peace are a step ahead theirs or frankly is in no comparison to theirs. Yes he is the true definition of a goal getter, studied hard in SHS, chased his dream to the university, he could do the medicines but he said I want to do this. Unlike the coins, he makes no noise when put among the rest, he is the note,more valuable. Very noble in his character, when he meets non-university students, he humbles himself and learns from them whiles he shares with a friendly tone. We can leave the results determinant students to boss themselves around, whom are they deceiving, keep your pains in your chest room, with time we shall see it in your nose windows.

Exams week approaches and students kiss their beds good night for classrooms, what was designed by nature for rest is now the best of time for studies, try as much as they do,success keeps running away from them, why? because the trailing students had no word in their choice of program in the university, their enrollment was solely the works of their results. Tell me how you can define success without your goal.

Please my dear high school leavers, the six killer diseases are not any harmful than routine life. Do not let society dictate to you, just have a very pleasant time doing what you really want to become. After all the roads to a successful life are many for the wannabe. You can indeed be the nurse, doctor, pilot, teacher without your results, is just a matter of showing the red card to routine life and peer pressure. If it comes out that you had grade twenty and so you can't be admitted into the medical school in a university,don't worry much, it is not a whistle to the end line but a prompt to say, take other routes to becoming a doctor.
Thank you.

Written By: Oppong Clifford Benjamin

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Hello Mirror

People say we look alike

Yesterday I fell,today I spike

But you mirror, why do you weep?

when you know tomorrow I reap

Why is your heart hollering in red pains?

Smile,the future holds our gains

I can see your bleeding eyes

Afflictive cries in sleepless nights

With determination,away your worry flies.

Haunted by the past

In your dreams,memories blast
Fear cooks clouds in your head
Rain drops of terror your nose shed
But Mirror,am here to you shine.

Brighten up,
I see Prof beneath your shame
I see a politician on top of the game
I see an engineer behind your chest
I see a writer and poet below your breast

Am happy, mirror you smiling
Are you me? or Am you?
soliloquy.

Wrtten By: Oppong Clifford Benjamin.

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