Today, as I sit in the Akwaaba lounge reflecting on my Ghana visit, I asked myself the question - What exactly is it you want with this country Ghana?I reminisced the many questions and comments I got before, during and after my recent book launch - "why would you waste your time researching and writing over months just for Ghana?"....."doesn't your young family need you more?"..... do you really think anyone is interested in reading what you have to say?".... "they already know what you are saying but they just dont care".... "if you think you are going to make any impact just by writing, you are dreaming". But then again, I am grateful for the few who put a hand to my shoulder and hoped against hope with me. You are the real champions.
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But luckily, it is perhaps why I am wired the way I am wired - when many say it is impossible, I am fueled to dare the impossible to become possible. I am glad I wrote this book - "The Marricke Gane Chronicles" and I am grateful for the few good men and women who believed enough to support its writing.
I do it because I believe it challenges those whose hopes are waning, to believe again that solutions exist for Ghana to make a U-turn for prosperity - it’s just a matter of time. I do it because I believe it is a seed sown in the minds of youthful men and women that the revolution we are soon to bring is not one of destruction but of a Ghana created by visionary intent - believe me when I say, it is just a matter of time. I do it because I believe the time has come for - A POSITIVE DISRUPTION in the status quo - the negative disruptions and dissections of issues haven't helped much, have they?
I do it because at the end of the day, I may be everywhere in the world - BUT GHANA is the only country I can call my own. I do it because Ghana is the lot God apportioned me as a blessing. I do it because at the end of the day, I believe Ghana will work again.... I do it because believing in the future of this country is the only belief I can call my own. I do it because who knows - maybe it'll take a single thread of hope for this country to turn around for good. I believe not because the odds do not stare me in the face - but because I too have won by overcome odds and so believe, Ghana's too shall change.
I said this at my book launch and perhaps it’s worth saying here too: Ghana is at the junction of a major turnaround into prosperity or total abyss and at that junction is a battle: a battle between 2 different generations - one who believes things ought to be done the way it has always been done and the other which believes we have a place in a global prosperous future, based on the forceful application of our minds. Which generation wins the battle will determine the demise or prosperity of this nation - I vow, our generation must win.
"They" had their opportunity to make our generation blossom - they failed themselves and failed us. It’s a hard truth, but it is a truth meant only for our generation. The lot now falls to us - let us take Ghana and change it - if we fail, at least we can say "we took the bulls by the horn - the very horn those before us feared touching"
At the end of the day, what will you do to make the revolution work? If we succeed, we would not only have succeeded for us but for posterity and for the dreams of our fathers they never saw.
At the end of the day - what will you say you did, when the lot fell to you? This is NOT my revolution - it is OUR revolution.
