01c. 1975 ADCollectively, as a people, we have to upgrade our standards and expectations of our political leaders and ourselves, hold them and our own selves accountable for the promises we make, and insist on specifics – projects, deadlines, processes, funds to be committed, and follow-up! Otherwise, we will continue to be dribbled and deceived, and nothing would get done.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
02c. 1975 ADStupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
03c. 1975 ADSocial media has helped make the world flatter and reduced the degrees of separation, leading to the situation where many can interact with people who, but for this platform, they may never have had the privilege to meet or speak with. That is the opportunity social media brings.But it does come with responsibilities. Not to take this opportunity for granted and not to throw decorum to the dogs. The line between virtual and real life is getting thinner and is lately made of morning dew.Manners matter on social media.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
04c. 1975 ADMy 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.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
05c. 1975 ADIt is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
06c. 1975 ADOral 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.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
07c. 1975 ADCome to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
08c. 1975 ADThis stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
09c. 1975 ADI learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
10c. 1975 ADNkrumah 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.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
12c. 1975 ADThe politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.Nana Awere Damoah / quote ↗
