MERCY LORD!!

Hey!
It's been a while I know. What should I blame it on?? Hmmmm.... OK maybe laziness anaa? we'll I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack. wink wink.

As usual something's got my back up and it ain't a massage (if you get my drift). This time am really mad! I mean what's this i hear about foreign businesses set up in GHANA denying workers basic amenities!!  Get this I know a Lebanese owned company that will not hire females. Guess WHY?! Maternity leave! A little birdie also told me that another Lebanese owned company has banned local staff from decreasing office air conditioners  below 22 degrees Celsius; whereas the pink folk are at liberty to reduce the air conditioners to north pole temperatures whenever they please. It gets worse, when the pink folk go on lunch breaks they put the air conditioners off!! Now I'm seething with rage. What the hell are our labour laws for?! Reminds me of the report some time ago about a chinese employer who slapped and spat in the eyes of a ghanaian employee on GHANA soil. aaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh! Oh right, i keep forgetting, no proper enforcement laws in this country. Afterall, they are contributing to the macro and micro ecomini ooops economy of POOR HIPIC Ghana. Anaaaa? hmmmm...

If proper institutions are not set up and proper everythings are not put in place very soon, not only will foreigners (who, mind you dislike and disrespect us anyway) come into the country and abuse us to the point where it'll become a status quo to be abused by an obroni but they'll also start representing us internationally. Come to think of it, if it takes speaking at least 1 local language and living in Ghana for a decade to become a citizen, marrying a Ghanaian and so on and so forth included, does that mean that those Nigerien and Chadian beggars can now vote?! Because I understand a lot have been here longer that a decade and even have 2nd to third generation descendants right here!!  Yooooo... Very soon their young girls will participate in and win our beauty pageants and then we'll start complaining. Its happened to even the most developed countries, so ahiaaaaaa give we! Not to sound racist or anything but, is any melanine-lacking person an OBRONI? Let me know.

By the way, what is it about Ghanaians that we just cannot stand up for our rights when a foreigner is involved? Stomach led huh? Or is it something more innate and sinister such as (dare I say it) LOW SELF ESTEEM! Have the international media succeeded in brainwashing us into buying into the stereotype that the dark skinned princes and princesses are inferior to the melanine-lacking folk? Or are we simply OBRONI-STRUCK!  Ah well... It's a bloody shame. A foreigner friend once asked me why we did not demolish all monuments and traces of our colonial masters post independence. You know what i told him? I was very intellectual and said to preserve history and gave him a run around speech about us choosing to build on the good things they left and blah blah blah. His response was, "if it were my country, we would have torn down every castle and every single evidence of their presence and burned them from our history and then built our own history from scratch".  Got me thinking, believe me.

The Question then is if indeed we are INDEPENDENT, capable of managing our own affairs, and more-than-adept at catering to our own needs, WHY THEN DO WE ALLOW sons and daughters of another soil to mistreat us, abuse us, disrespect us! and simply look on and fold our arms in our 'demerefa mu' and shrug and say, "edwuma eni Ghana enonti ye be fa no  sa ara" (there are no jobs in Ghana so we'll take what we can get however it is given)? Hmmmm.... eye aaaaasem oooo.... PIGAROOOO
Siiiigh, got this one off my chest.
Catch you later darling.
Afi