During the month of March, I was watching once more with excitement, the unofficial labelling of the month as the “Ghana month”, by the media and all sundry. I watched and listened to many programs developed to talk about and celebrate the ‘culture’ of Ghana.  To mention just a few, I saw the wearing of traditional clothing, the use of local accessories, the showing of historic footages, and many other symbolic showings that attest to the fact, that the Ghana month agenda was manifestly being projected. However, I was struck with wonder and disappointment that, in the considerations of the many things that reveal our ‘Ghanaianess’, there was hardly any mention of values and principles that Ghanaians have or must-have.

 The discussions of who we are, what we believe in, and where we are going were conspicuously missing in the celebration of Ghana. Undoubtedly, I felt this was a peculiar problem in our country. We have for a long while, blind spotted the importance of values and principles in our nation and national conversations. Curiously, however, we complain about several things bordering from neo-colonization, financial dependence, and the so-called ‘Ghanaian attitude’. We worry about why we are not progressing like other peer nations, why there is corruption, and why there is a lack of concerted effort to develop Ghana. To be contd.