You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.” Bill Cosby.

Loss taught me the strength of faith. Faith in a God who understands. Faith in a Saviour who gave His all. Faith in a Comforter who walked by my side.

If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice.” Chinese proverb.

Ghana will not be built in a day. But it should be built every day and the body that houses the eyes reading this owns the hands that will ensure this.

A big nose does not necessarily mean a sharper sense of smell.

Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society!

Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.