March 2012
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Greater LOVE
Have you sinned before? Were you responsible for thinking about it, planning it, executing it and covering it up?
It makes you realise how sinful we are as humans. Sin is our nature. But fortunately for us, Love is God’s nature, and He loves us regardless of what we do.
#Redemption
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to...
“The faster I get back to Ghana, the better. And people are here talking about...”
– Andrea Hayford [There should be more people like her]
“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.”
– Psalm 118
Lesson #4: Express Yourself
I had a presentation today at hostel meeting. It was a freestyled-impromtu something. I thought it would have been a fooling spree standing in front of the hostel boys. But it ended up being much more serious than I thought. Standing up there, I found myself actually saying things I had on my heart and with a few personal attacks, I think I got my message accross. It was on Responsibility and...
It's Our Turn To Eat
Me di bi [Twi]
Ma ye eko [Ga]
Both are phrases in local Ghanaian languages Twi and Ga meaning “I’ll eat some”. And it seems like a mentality most African leaders have [the saviour turned demon kind of leaders].
We see them running against a longstanding presidents of their countries, gathering the support of the masses, finding and highlighting faults with the current...
“It’s all GOD. He is too good. Too too good!”
– Audrey Eshun
“I’m really passionate about leadership. But the reason I turn down offers...”
– Michael Djan [Hostel Tutor]
Lesson #3: Ask Questions
My worst classes [in terms of interest and performance] are those with teachers who are uncomfortable with questions. And it’s not just with teachers. It’s a usual thing. A lot of grownups from my childhood had this [soldier] mentality, where you [the child] are asked to do this and that. And your opinions or suggestions were not welcome. In fact, as clearly as I remember, it was [and...
"I don't think I want to be boarding that slave...
We just had the liveliest Geography class I’ve had in a while. It was on disparities in wealth. And we diverged to discussing the brain drain, in ALL it’s forms. It’s prompted me to write a certain post I’ve been fighting myself against. I will though soon enough. It’s a plan, for now, TOP SECRET.
Googolplex
They say count your blessings and name them one by one. I just tried that in prayer and re-realized how awesome God is. Think about it, every grain of rice, you’ve eaten since you were born. The cultivation process. All for you. Masterfully planned. And there’s a lot more. The air you’ve breathed. The mornings you’ve woken up. The roads you’ve crossed. The cars [and...
“Back then African print textiles, now textiles are all made in exile. So many...”
– M.anifest [Makaa Maka]
#Desire
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
“A word will stay around as long as there is work for it to do”
– Chinua Achebe [The Trouble with Nigeria, 1983]
“If you’re walking in the savannah and a lion attacks, climb a thorn tree...”
– Kamba Proverb
Lesson #2: Respect ALL people
I was in a banking hall sometime at the beginning of the year when a man; well-dressed, looked affluent, was probably an auditor or supervisor going on rounds to inspect documents, conduct and whatnots. He may have looked “respectable” but I thought he was rude. True, his job entails inspection, supervision, ratification, etc. but that’s not a ticket to treat the banking clerks...
“How many people have got an enemy to deal with? Something or somebody that...”
– T. D. Jakes [Woman Thou Art Loosed, 2004]
Lesson #1: Love Selflessly
Love God. Love People
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and, Love your neighbour as yourself.
It’s not an easy task. In fact, rather, let me plainly state; it’s quite difficult. But undeniably worthwhile. Love is a beautiful thing [don’t get it twisted] and so is the joy, happiness, satisfaction...
Life Lessons
I’m turning 19 in less than a month, and I’ve found myself doing some reflection. Strangely, not about the future, but about my 19 years living. Some years spent merely existing, others spent living. But on a whole, I’ll say I’ve been living. I’ve made a list of 19 lessons I’ve learnt in life so far [I got the idea from a Kenyan photographer I follow]. And rather than leave it as a list, I’m...
#Ghana
God bless our homeland Ghana,
And make our nation great and strong,
Bold to defend forever
The cause of Freedom and of Right.
Fill our hearts with true humility
Make us cherish fearless honesty,
And help us to resist oppressors’ rule
With all our will and might forevermore.
"...and make us cherish fearless honesty"
I was just randomly holding a pair of drumsticks, remembered my primary school days and started singing the national anthem. This time around, not just rumbling [or mumbling] through it to the part where we start to sing “We are marching to our classes…”. This time around, the words resonated with my soul; they made sense.
I’ve sang it over and over in the past ten...
“Chale God has a plan for you and in the end you shall experience His plan....”
– Audrey Eshun
I will cut my hair after April 1st
I’ve been growing my hair since September or October last year but based on a certain agreement, I’m letting go of this dream of having dreads anytime soon. Faith!
I’ll see a barber. #PunIntended
Math Club
I’ve had this post in draft since last night, but have been too preoccupied to finish [more like start it]. Yesterday, I had a post talking of how I was anticipating excitement from the math club in my school, and something else [Rachel’s barbing]. But then she decided not to check till the weekend, so I had let go of that bit of the excitement till Saturday, and was madly impressed by...
“God’s grace is “unmerited/undeserved favour”. To experience it, you must be...”
– Paapa HMensa
Barbed...Like a BOSS
In response to my post from yesterday [pi day], that significant something happened. Like I said, God does not disappoint. Never. Miss Rachel Ama Korantema Agyemang [a whole post on her later] got in.
Indeed, great is His faithfulness!
M.I. what?
Dear Rachel,
On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2016! You stood out as one of the most talented and promising students in the most competitive applicant pool in the history of the Institute. Your commitment to personal excellence and principled goals has convinced us that you will both contribute to our diverse community and thrive...
Rachel Ama Korantema Agyemang
“If we want better country we for better wanna selves”
– Wanlov the Kubolor (Happy Birthday Ghana ft. Ebo Taylor, Efya, E.L, X.O Senavoe)
“It should not be about proving to the western media that we have houses too. In...”
– Deborah Frempong (via artandtheheart)
Mentalities of Hope →
franticcurls:
Meet Ama. Her parents are hard-working; Ama and her siblingfs have everything they need, and a little extra. She goes to private school and most of her friends are like her: middle class Ghanaians. One day she decides to water the little garden in front of her house. She extends the garden hose and leaves it running. Thirty minutes later she returns to find that her next-door...
3.14159265
Tommorow’s Pi day. March 14th. We have a new growing, Math club in school, and I’m sure they have something in store for the school. They’re full of ideas. But there’s something much more significant happening tomorrow, pi day. And I’m trusting God to let it be. He’s ever faithful; I can testify. He’s never let me down, all 18 years of my life and...
“The future started yesterday and we’re already late”
– John Legend
“First of all Africans, we need to get better at telling our own stories....”
– Ory Okolloh (June 2007)
Said this in response to there being only 5 contributors for Wikipedia in Swahili [a language spoken by about 50 miilion people] of which only one was a black native speaker
“You need Africa, not Africa needs you (OWTTE)”
– John Kamau (9th March 2012)
“The world your grandparents were born to is not the same world your parents were...”
– NOYAM African Dance Institute (10th March, 2012)
Negritude
I’m sure most people have read the “Why I Love the Idea but Hate the Campaign” post, if you haven’t please do. One of the comments to the post was by far the most unreasonable thing I had read in a long while. It’s a fantastic post encouraging Africans to be proactive, to get to know what’s happening, to take action. Here’s what the idiot individual had to...
I'm confused. But I think I have an idea. There's...
Nothing Even Matters: I Will Go Home To My Oldd... →
anextrapeace:
In like two hours (if I’m not wrong) the boys will be waking up the girls in the hostels :(
Then they’ll do gyama :(
Lol just last night I was listening to Sidney and Tinny and Ahomka Wo Mu and things. Hahaha.
Reasons why I wish I was in Ghana at such times. lol Even just to be at home and…
You’re right about Ahomka Wo Mu. But things were different this year...
Blissful Confusion: Independence Day - Treasure... →
audreyveronne:
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY GHANA!!!! :D
So for part of our celebrations this year, we (the SRC with the Pan-African club at my school) organized a treasure hunt this morning. It was really fun, come and see people running from the dining hall when I said “GO!”, only to find the 2nd clue and get…
My group was clueless throughout the hunt. Feeling like IB students, we kept...
“Burundi has a fully military government. Guys who are not worried by blood....”
– Jules Nazaire Karorero
Jules is from Burundi, and is currently senior in my high-school. We don’t usually get to see the views of people from Burundi concerning their own situation. Wise words.
(via franticcurls)
Jules is my classmate, may seem quiet but is one of the most inspiring people...
We are indeed People Of Equal Thoughts & Spirit
This is an article, I wrote for my school magazine. We had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious event last night [Independence eve] courtesy the SRC [Audrey] and Pan-African Club in my school following my weekend of chilling with good friends. I’m not sure if I can put it up here before it’s published [I’m posting anyway, if anything, I’ll write another post]. By the way I...
Blissful Confusion: "Jean Gray died at the end of... →
audreyveronne:
“No! She died at the end of the first one!” A few of my friends and I had this argument about 3 or 4 weeks ago in the dining hall after church on a Sunday morning. The conversation turned into us trying to remember what exactly happened in each of the X-Men movies including First Class which a…
I’ve finally watched X-MEN 1, 2, 3 and counting. Chilling is an...
