Professor this,Dr that and so what?

In Ghana we bag in academic laurels to show off rather than applying them. You see so many young people doing Masters Degrees right after school when they haven’t even applied practically what they learnt for their first degree but it is not entirely the fault of the students because it looks like the ideal thing just so some employer would recognize it and pay you well. Elsewhere,people are learn…ing to apply that is why we see progress there but looks like we do it to be addressed,Dr this,Prof that,Lawyer that.Finiito

Come to the field and i have seen so many MBA holders who clearly have no grip of the basics so i keep asking what exactly is the MBA for? It starts right from our Universities anyway. The professors themselves who are suppose to be coming out with practical solutions to our problems are theory oriented than being practical so they are all lecturing while their compatriots in Cambridge and others are busy lecturing and researching into practical solutions.At best these days they are called on radio stations to proffer ‘theoretical’ solutions which is at least better than allowing some politically oriented airhead of a panelist to disturb our ears with rubbish.

Seriously are we getting enough from our educated lot rather than theories and oh i realized that if you don’t get to apply what you have learnt in a while too you forget them so why the MBA craze? It is good to seek knowledge but i personally feel if you don’t get to apply it in your day to day work then it is a just a waste of years and money. The gye kc didi mentality i guess but you only live once though.

Somebody should educate me so i pick up the next available law/Journalism school forms to do some just in case i am missing a point.

Generational leaders

Ghana’s biggest problem is that leaders have failed to provide alternatives to almost everything after Dr Kwame Nkrumah. That is the difference in leadership.
They met a dam and for over 40 years never thought of an alternative source of energy,the Adomi Bridge was built some 56years ago and all this while nobody has thought of a better accessible alternative. The leaders we have are not generatio…nal thinkers,they only think of now and the next election. We are too comfortable in our skin so we wait until a problem crops up before we solve it.

They win an election and the 1st year is to position his people at strategic places,drum into our heads what their predecessors did wrongly,something they have done way back in opposition and for that matter won an election.2nd year they try working,3rd year they restructure things to win another election in 2years.Around this time the promises start forgetting the evidence of their good work is in itself louder than any campaign message. Clearly we have been queuing every 4 years electing people to improve their family fortunes not us.

But alas they know the gullible lot, so someone can parade a few petrol gallons and make noise with it to win an election as if he will refine crude at ashaiman market,alas someone goes round a country shouting “edey bee keke’ and dashing some pittance and vehicles in 4months and win an election.Yeah we are that gullible to even believe that some dwarf and evil people are in charge of our currency’s poor performance.

So you honestly think Singapore,Dubai et al would be so rich with natural resources like ours and still look like Ghana?

Something is and has been critically wrong with leadership in this country of ours.

Enough of it.

For those of you busily doing the bidding of politicians on facebook and other media outlets;If you haven’t seen any of them hurl insults at each other when they meet then sit back and ask yourself what they are turning you into.

If you have to insult, lie and denigrate people to build up your own political career then the joke is on you. Your integrity is at stake that is if you have one.

Don’t do people’s dirty work for them just for pittance and some position later. Yes some have risen through that but watch them closely they command no respect neither will they climb to a certain pedestal.

You don’t insult and lie your way up in life. These are basic common sense principle but as usual I will be told this is politics but show me one most respected politician in Ghana who has insulted, lied and denigrated people to get up there. Emphasis on respected politician.

Now cut the crap and build yourself a good career if it is politics for you