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01c. 1975 AD

Collectively, 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 AD

Stupidity, once it overcomes its initial state of inertia, is sustained by its own momentum.

Nana Awere Damoah / quote

03c. 1975 AD

Social 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 AD

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.

Nana Awere Damoah / quote

05c. 1975 AD

It 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 AD

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.

Nana Awere Damoah / quote

07c. 1975 AD

Come 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 AD

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

Nana Awere Damoah / quote

09c. 1975 AD

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

Nana Awere Damoah / quote

10c. 1975 AD

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.

Nana Awere Damoah / quote

11c. 1975 AD

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.

Nana Awere Damoah / quote

12c. 1975 AD

The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.

Nana Awere Damoah / quote