African Spectrum Newspaper - Since 1999

02/05/2025

President or Prefect

What a world?!

Titles make us stupid!

Power puts our minds putrid!

We grow up together!

We frolick vicariously forever!

All of a sudden, you are thrown unto the spotlight

Prefect!

A profession that starts in kindergarten.

Children thrown into the spotlight!

You begin to mutate and metamorphise into a cocooned personality!

You believe that the power given to you by your classmates or people makes you untouchable.

The Prefect mind absorbs you so much that you think your power will relay into the real world and reality!

Prefect will ultimately transform to president, but only in a schooling setting.

President!

A nation's father!

A custodian on a short journey!

Once the title is bestowed upon you by your own people, in an instant, the denizens you grew up with become aliens or inferior.

Your past collaborations with your former family become a burden and disaster.

You are thrust into the world of rubbing shoulders with the who is who who aren't nobody but some privileged entities.

Once President, families will suddenly turn against each other!

Brother against Brother!

Sister against Sister!

Life is but a journey!

You can only think when alive!

When dead, someone steals your idea and prosper.

Your ideas are yours to strive, especially when alive!

Do your part and be influential!

Speak and tell your mind!

Be natural!

Foolish thinking, foolish ideas!

Nothing is permanent!

Read into history!

Many leaders have faltered, for they never feared the Grim Reaper.

Even custodians of monarchies who have no challenges and die on the throne move on much less voted for individuals who eventually become dictators.

While you are punishing others and enjoying, your time is tick tocking for your demise.

Life is but a stage!

Every breath is but a relief!

The greatest gifts of life are free!

Thinkless people ride on Earth for free while riding on the sweat of others.

Great minds know smart people don't capitalize on the moment.

They consider the future!

Futuristic people consider future people!

The Journalist is not here to conform or compare anyone to anyone but to let all know that when you are in a position of power, especially when voted for, be a river and move forward and tributary your path of solidarity.

Philosophers speak for all people because their enlightenment connote that no one lives twice.

Therefore, if you have power, share!

Stupidity dictates unwarranted powers!

No sane person will persecute the other. Nevertheless, power is a tool for the meek.

Whether you create a business or are voted into power, without people, you are nothing!

The most powerful dictatorial leaders on Earth were all humans who couldn't conquer death!

Most of them died sorrowfully!

With or without your powers as a leader, you are going to die so leave a legacy that will ultimately make you an achiever.

The fact that you are the winner today doesn't preclude you from human torments.

You are going to face the same consequences as in sickness, sadness, uncertainties, and many gross injustices and agonizing traumas that humans face.

Be Wise!
Be Kind!
Be Embracing!
Be Bold!
Be brave to speak your mind!

If you are going to live your life by trying to satisfy everybody, misery will be your companion.

If you can't satisfy yourself first, don't satisfy anybody!

No matter where you belong, you can only be subdued when you are a beggar!

Pride belongs to all!

I will rather die miserably than kowtow to an idiot because he has power be he president or prefect.

02/02/2025

Very Worrisome!

African Spectrum Editorial!

The Pastors and the Agonies!

If we are invited to a function regardless of what it is be it funeral, outdooring, wedding, birthday etc., the hosts must consider that especially in the Diaspora where most events occur at night, people's time are of the essence and most patrons are there to socialize with them and not their Pastors.

We love God and functions have to be initiated to Him before any program starts.

Knowing that night programs are hard-pressed for time, some Pastors must be considerate in cutting short their prayers instead of seizing every opportunity as the moment of glory.

Once given the microphone to pray for the commencement of a program, some Pastors all of a sudden turn the night into the Sermon on the Mount.

If it is a church-oriented function, hallelujah and good luck because you will be there forever!

You will actually be in a church on Vi**ra even though the event is not!

Consideration must be given to patrons that attend these functions.

We are not there to attend church services but to mingle and network!

We are there to celebrate with the celebrant(s) on whatever the occasion may be and not to be celibate.

There are instances when some of these Pastors pray or preach for an hour or more.

If they bring their choir along, go take a shower!

Why?

With all their foresights, can't the Pastors envision that some of the patrons in attendance are irritated by these long sermons especially if most of us don't belong to their churches or have nothing to do with what they are talking about?

Our culture -who ever created this inconsiderate and mean tenet - dictates that while a Pastor is preaching, no one can enter the hall to officially greet the celebrant(s).

So if you a patron and you are standing outside, you will remain there till Kingdom come.

Pastor not finished!
Patron not recognized!

What makes it worse is after wasting most of the time, they bolt out right away along with some of their members -leaving us sinners to sin- only to continue the following day in their own Churches to further continue the onslaught of piousness when most of them are charlatans and quacks.

Maybe it's time us patrons who attend these gatherings let the hosts know that if the Pastors waste our time and then decide to leave, we the patrons will also leave and then they will find out if the patrons are there for church services.

No one patronises to be frustrated.

Pastors, preach in your own church not at functions!

Adɛn?(Why)?

God is indeed good to allow all these irritatants to waste our times. Pauline Berko Akoto Berko Akoto.

12/08/2024

Money can't always make them dance! Congratulations to Ghana and the people! They voted with their conscience!

10/07/2024

If Common Sense will rule, every skill on earth can be learnt on the job.

Before education and nonsensical degrees created and obtained from fake establishments that sought to distinguish classes of who is smarter than the other, our ancestors lived well in peace and harmony without concocted degrees that has always separated humanism.

If you are a human being who thinks one is greater than you, you must be mad or on the brink of insanity!

One on one, no one is bigger than you.

You can only be subdued if one feeds you!

Even at that, even if you are servant and your master steps on your foot, fight back after all without you, he is nothing!

All life ends in death!
A master and servant will die!

For the Christians who believe there is life after death, if you meet one who persecuted you in life, beat them to death if you happen to meet them after death.

If it is true that there is an afterlife, woe to my enemies!

Life is about the mind!
If you are privileged to be born into an affluent family, don’t ridicule the poor.

Treat all as equal because whatever you dish out is what you will receive.

All minds can be cultured.

Even some animals are trained to be smarter than humans.

Take a child a and teach or groom them into any profession, they will oblige, however life has been tilted in a way that the elites have structured a culture that that is painstaking and drains the brain while demeaning and self fulfilled whether schooled or not!

Why do you have to school for so many years and saddled with huge bills when we can learn on the job?

Some people work forever to pay for their school loans. What kind of nonsense is that?

Then again, some people are just born great thus being prodigies.

Some children can perform great feats in all aspects of life without being trained because the brain of a human is preprogrammed and needs but a few direction.

In civilized countries, gifted children are adored.

In backward countries, these children are vilified!

In our part of our ignorant World where we believe obtaining all the Colonial degrees without Common Sense is the norm, to suppress your own people with your nonsense education that seeks to hurt your own people and favor infiltrators, only the invisible Almighty will judge your consciousness.

In the course of our lifetimes, we've seen gifted people, degreed, pedigreed or not perform incredible feats.

We have heard of doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, ITs that are naturally gifted from birth yet are refused enlightenment due to poverty and other constraints.

The marginalization in life is how a section of the people have used education and especially a useless certificate or diploma to intimidate others.

Our ancestors never possessed any degrees yet we thrived.

Then the Colonials arrived and told us that without a degree, you can't tell the difference between smart and wise!

The Colonials were evil before they met us!
When they met us, they became more evil!

Why would one happy in their homeland want to leave?

Because Colonialism is still in place so without a degree, you can’t survive!

When we are reading History, don't think those before you were inhuman.

They were humans whose characters still exist today.

Humans will never change but life will change!

Live your life to the fullest education or not!

Contrary to Conventional Wisdom, Common sense will always rule!

Life has always been about the powerful!
Those with money control.

Someone steals, adulterate, kill, and basically go contrary to the Ten Commandments.

Do you need a degree to decipher these basic human principles?

Life is about thinking!
One doesn't need a formal degree to practice anything.

Just like Jesus never needed a degree when he preached at an adolescent age, no one needs a degree to perform anything.

Everything can be learnt when physically taught.
The degree or school is a business just like church.

You attain a certain status just for intimidation.

Those who are brave to go to school earn useless certificates to breeze through life.

But the facts of life say, those who make the most monies don't need to go to school, they are naturally gifted.

Go after a degree only if you feel you are in competition with the world!

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