tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51628147773225979892024-03-05T06:16:33.928-08:00 The Black ArtsArts, literature, music, philosophy...Patchwork pieces of human lives and thoughts...Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-84127693364275567092018-07-22T16:27:00.001-07:002018-07-22T16:27:07.406-07:00One of Those Days Love Found Me
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<span lang="EN-US">A story that Mother Culture hums in our
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<span lang="EN-US">The story a people tell themselves is the
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brilliant minds, a powerful people who had learnt to understand their world,
the earth, the universe so remarkably that leaders of the subsequent Greek and
Roman empires came to learn at our feet. The first doctor was an African called
Imhotep.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">He is considered by some to
be the earliest known </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect" title="Architect"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span lang="EN-US">architect, </span></span></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer" title="Engineer"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span lang="EN-US">engineer</span></span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> <span style="background: white;">and </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician" title="Physician"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span lang="EN-US">physician</span></span></a></span><span style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> in early history.
Greek philosophers came across the deserts and the seas to come and study in
Africa.</span><span style="background: #F8F8F8; color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span lang="EN-US">In tracing the course of Greek philosophy, historians have found
that many obtained their education from Egyptian priests. </span></span><span style="background: #F8F8F8; color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Ancient Egypt is prior to Greece as Greece is prior to Rome, and Greece
is credited with spreading civilisation in Europe. You can draw the linkage to
Africa here. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Anthropological
studies show that the people of Egypt at the time were not who inhabit the
country now but people who looked like West Africans today, before the end of
empires and migration thus movement. But no one tells this story of Africans as
the first scientists, first discoverers, first thinkers, depicting complex
thoughts and belief and knowledge systems in the sciences and philosophy and
much else. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Instead, the pied piper played us a
stealthy tune and that story was erased. A new story emerged, and according to
that story, Africa was born with colonialism. And we know where the story goes
from there: a ‘primitive’ people who were shown the light, and ever since have
had to hold on to their colonial masters shirt-ends to survive; because without
our colonial masters, we are nothing but a jumble of fumbling economies, resident
presidents, poverty, war and disease. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">This is the pervasive narrative that a very
malevolent storyteller pumps into our brains from birth to death. Everywhere we
look, it is the subtle story being infused into our brains, our very beings,
deceiving us into enacting a story that ultimately benefits the malevolent
storyteller. This storyteller, malicious or good, is the artist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Thus the ultimate power lies not with the
story but the storyteller, the artist. A malicious storyteller can lead to
destruction. A good storyteller can uplift with the truth and inspire a people
to move mountains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">In the past, amongst many ethnic groups in
Africa, when there was war, the warriors never left without their drummer. It
wasn’t for entertainment. The drums, brought to roaring life by the skill of
the drummer filled them with power, the music of the drums told them they were
invincible and they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">became </b>invincible
on the war field. This is the power of the artist; the power to inspire, to
paint a dream and make you turn that dream into reality, and even the power to
break spirits to desolation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It is for no flimsy reason every time you
watch a Hollywood movie about the end of the world, or impending destruction of
the earth, it is not an African you see in saving the world from destruction.
This includes science fiction, a medium by which the world dreams of its
future. Most times, their depiction of the world in the future has no Africans
in it at all. That is the power of art, it can erase a whole continent. The
more movies you watch of a white savior (Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Star
wars, etc.), the more your subconscious registers that as fact. The more movies
you watch, more news headlines, more skewed photography you see of how poor,
corrupt, and war ridden your people are, the more you subconsciously come to
believe that this is your truth. Art is the most subtle yet incredibly powerful
medium by which a people’s story can be told, it could be a false story, it
could be a true story, but art makes sure it hits home, consciously or
subconsciously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">When there is a single-sided reportage of
Africa’s calamities, that is a false story of Africa being hummed into our
ears. When Ebola hit only three West African countries and there were calls for
ALL Africans travelling to the west to be curtailed, 9 west African medical
students were barred from starting medical school in the Caribbean and sent
back after a 22hour flight; two African boys were beaten up in a high school in
NYC and subsequently hospitalized, all the while their attackers called them
‘Ebola’ - That is the kind of destruction a single warped story of a people can
cause. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">When we still buy white Barbie dolls with
blue eyes and blonde hair for our very black, dark-eyed daughters, it is a
subtle, very subtle way of teaching our daughters to aspire to another kind of
beauty, humming a false story into their young impressionable ears, when our
music artistes who win BET awards are given their awards long before the main
show starts with no crowd, and no celebration, it is yet another pervasive
story of Africa, telling Africans we are not the mainstream. [It started with
being backstage, so we’ve made some progress.] Even in colour; when black is
associated with evil, white with good, yet people’s phenotypes are also labeled
as black and white,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that is another
pervasive story being quietly hummed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">When African literature is not considered
‘African enough’ by international judging bodies because they do not tell a
tale of war, poverty or disease, that is the pervasive story being hummed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">It is time for a new storyteller, our own
storytellers who will tell our stories and sing the songs of our greatness and
sorrows, successes and failures. And these storytellers are our artists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">POINT IS, if you want to change the self,
you have got to change the story. And how do you change the story? Change the
storyteller. And that is what makes the African artist of today important; that
they battle the hegemonic, degrading narrative of Africa, and they are
re-telling our stories with our various truths. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">And in this lies our hope for the future.
If we want to dream a splendid Africa in 2050, look to the African artist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Somewhere in August,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">we create as we go along<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">because
we do as comes to us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">and
in that lies the truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">that
there is no truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">the
Truth that THERE IS NO TRUTH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">since
the universalization of truth tastes all soils<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">But
one truth transcends all variations and differences and that truth is LOVE,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Love
which sits on your shoulders <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">a
content Eagle at her mistress's bidding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">Love
that suckled your nipples to a world of reciprocal ecstasy that imitates
universe imitates life imitates creation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">and
that is the one truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">my
slippery soul will leave this earth knowing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt;">that
Truth is Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Night rises</div>
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I watch</div>
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Fingers sing a lovers note</div>
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Kiss on a collarbone</div>
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I lead with instinct</div>
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The love bird sings to me and only me</div>
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He smiles, but turns away</div>
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My tongue knows what his lips will taste like</div>
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salty</div>
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sweet</div>
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thirsty</div>
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I circle </div>
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His space my universe</div>
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my space his place</div>
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for the time being.</div>
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Need is a desperate log in the wide blue sea</div>
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the tears</div>
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his words</div>
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his fingers</div>
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I tremble</div>
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I watch time...I watch time</div>
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Full moon tides</div>
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Deja vu sparkles on the horizon</div>
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palms graze</div>
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lips taste</div>
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cheeks remember</div>
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one heart flutters</div>
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One night is a lifetime</div>
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Drawing circles of memories that never lived but lived</div>
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whispered conversations</div>
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ancient kingdoms, art, fire</div>
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The Moment When</div>
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Guilt dies a fast death in his electric space</div>
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Love is an oak tree</div>
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In just one night</div>
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'How far are we going to let this go?'</div>
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Breathing his question against my neck</div>
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How do I tell him the truth?</div>
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That I've lived centuries by his side as wife, as life, as mate, as soul</div>
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will he remember our ancient love in one night?</div>
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How do I tell him that I already have a favourite place on his body</div>
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Already have him deep inside of me</div>
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enjoying his breath on my tongue</div>
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How many times I held him against my breasts as he shuddered his ectsasy...his love on me</div>
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charged bubbles of a space we used to understand in an ancient place in an ancient century</div>
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Time speeds then stops. </div>
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I live millenniums in a moment</div>
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He lives this one electric moment</div>
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same space, same traces in the same places</div>
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words burst into tiny sparkles in the vast universe</div>
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He fits just right inside of me</div>
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missing puzzle found</div>
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violent waters rising</div>
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direction is a servant to intuition</div>
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Full moon in all her glory</div>
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I give to him to give to me. He gives I take. Life is a continuum of charged bliss</div>
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Time stops.</div>
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He doesn't remember</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hi everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I haven’t blogged in forever, due to a creative
bloc, plus a whole lot of school work, sitting down to write something for
myself and just myself and not for a lecturer’s yay or nay! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Amazingly, I was selected this year as a
Mandela Washington Fellow in President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative
and I’m currently serving my tenure on the civic leadership track at the
University of Illinois. Thus, the other fellows and I are deeply immersed in
topics such as civic engagement, democracy and what it looks like, and of
course, development and its measurement. In these discussions, one finds that
inevitably, there are constant comparisons made of Africa, and its various
countries, to America. A persistent question that has surfaced throughout our 1<sup>st</sup>
week has been the question posed above: Which should come first: Democracy or
development? Bracketed in this question has been a lot of despair raised against
developmental and ‘democratic’ spaces in Africa; my colleagues bemoaning the
state of fiasco in Zimbabwe, the violent instability of South Sudan, the
corruption across all democracies in Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To begin to even answer this question, we
need to start with a context, with the context of Africa’s history and all the
elements that have shaped Africa into what it has become now. Starting from the
surface premise of comparing Africa and America would lead to a long diatribe
of complaints against Africa and ‘why can’t Africa be as ‘developed’ as America
is?’ and frankly, that is a very problematic premise to start with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So let’s start with the context: who
defines development? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s like a game of catch between a
mistress and her dog. The dog will solely be focused on the competition that
has been laid out for it: to get the bone that its mistress is about to throw.
The dog’s mistress, on the other hand, who is the ‘bone-thrower’ however is not
concerned about the competition, because she operates in a totally different
sphere, a sphere of power where the dog’s competition is not relevant to her
reality. Because she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">throws</i> the bone,
she is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> a part of the competition.
She has a higher realm of operation and preoccupation. I use ‘higher’ because
whereas the dog whose only focus is to meet the standard its mistress has set
for it by catching the bone, the mistress, on the other hand, is the one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">setting the standards</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is in this context that I place the discussion of development and democracy. The concert of ‘development’ is a
neo-colonial tool. The concept of development as it has been universalized now
is one deeply rooted in a Eurocentric worldview. Rooted in 19<sup>th</sup>
century evolutionism and 19<sup>th</sup> century social technology (processes
of western change not African change), development theory and its standards as
defined today for Africa is one that does not originate from Africa.
Evolutionism is a western concept that implicitly implies a certain process and
succession of events that a society must go through to reach a certain stage of
wellbeing; this stage of wellbeing is inherently decided by the lens of who
defines it. Thus, in Eurocentric development lingo, we have ‘developed’ and
‘developing’ (essentially ‘Third World’, but someone thought to change it not
to flare up African sensibilities). Implicit in the designation of ‘developed’
and ‘developing’ is the notion that to reach the higher stage of ‘developed’,
an African country must look, feel and act like a western state. It assumes a
singular Eurocentric discourse in the language of development, totally
disregarding the reality that European processes of social change will not be
the same as the processes of social change which have defined what Africa looks
like and feels like today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In short, if the concept of development is
defined from this Eurocentric view of the world, lensed in a European history
and European evolution, Africa would never match up. This is because there is a
crucial missing perspective: Africa’s. Africa’s processes of social change have
not been factored, recognized or respected in this universalized Eurocentric
concept of development. It is why in these criteria, we would be and would
remain for a long time ‘developing’ countries. Proof of this is evident in the
young and fledgling democracies in Africa: Zimbabwe and its current cash crisis
(amongst others), Nigeria and Ghana and the almost systemic state of
corruption, South Sudan and its prism of violence. The list goes on. Why are
these countries defined as ‘young’ though? Because we start counting from a
Western development calendar where Ghana was only born 59 years ago, South
Sudan a mere 6 years old. What if we looked further than that? In fact, why do
we consistently ignore a past further than that in a continent which housed the
oldest civilizations if the world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Worse in this conceptualization of
development is the tendency to set western development and democracy as the
‘ideal’. This ‘ideal’ stage of development for instance in American democracy
is one that carries with the heavy baggage of racism, where police brutality,
racial stratification, and its accompanying counterparts socially,
economically, politically, and in Britain with the current surge of ill-feeling
against immigrants, are part and parcel of the Eurocentric ideal of ‘developed’.
I cannot fathom where Africa would have a place in this ‘ideal’ of democracy
and development. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What are the African processes of social
change that have been imperially ignored in this Eurocentric definition of
development? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">1. </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The destruction of many African
civilizations by Arab and European invasions - empires such as the ancient
Egyptian civilization of the pyramids(Kemet), the Mali empire, the Songai
empire and the many highbrow cultures in Africa that operated on complex
philosophies and social systems (Yoruba, Ibo, Ashanti, Masai) that were
evidence of</span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">what will be by today’s
standards highly ‘developed.’ Many of these systems were at a point in time
slapped with the tag ‘primitive’ in this Eurocentric concept of development.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">2. </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The systemic institutions of
Arab and European occupation, colonialism and slavery and the disruption of
African processes of social change thereafter</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">3. </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The schizophrenic state of
Africa as a consequence and what I will call a ‘reeling’ from a past
characterized in the last 1000 years (if I may hastily measure) by systemic
interference and disruption of African processes of social change</span></div>
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If these factors
were considered in a definition and criteria of development, Development as
defined today would look and sound very different.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ashanti Empire</td></tr>
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I would not
argue for an inclusion of Africa’s historical processes of change in the
current criteria for development. To do so would be a futile attempt at fitting
square pegs in round holes.We must
re-construct the language of development. We need to re-define development solely
from an African perspective, with an examination of the various African
processes of social change, a study of African social systems, carefully taking
into consideration the stages of disruption, studying its repetitive
consequences across the continent, and not through, as Ziai put it, the lens of
the ‘colonizer’s model of the world’. Only from this
lens of development would Africa set its own standards and from there, begin to
forge the much needed social change we all crave to see in our societies.</div>
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Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-6316130122279341802015-07-07T07:01:00.000-07:002015-07-07T09:53:11.084-07:00WHY EBO WHYTE’S FORBIDDEN IS NOT WHAT GHANAIAN THEATRE NEEDS RIGHT NOW<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ebo Whyte’s latest production, </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Forbidden</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, is a masterpiece of a Trojan Horse. Before it gets very
far, the production shoots itself in the foot with the same tropes that allude
to Ebo Whyte being referred to as the ‘Tyler Perry of Ghana’, ie, you’re sure
to be preached at, you get an annoying break out into song at every damn corner
(Hey, look! This table is red! Let’s sing about it!), a plot that often seems
absentminded, but you also get great actors, a riveting beginning, a creative
use of interludes (gotta love the use of the human furniture) and that is where
it ends.</span></div>
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synopsis: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Bad boy;’ Kwaku Kodua aka Junior wants to marry
Church Girl to please his parents. What makes Junior ‘bad’? Don’t worry, he
hasn’t murdered anyone, neither does he have psychotic fantasies to do so. He
just loves to enjoy his alcohol, smoke the occasional joint, and basically have
every day conversation and soak in life while he lives it. His love interest,
on the other hand, Hilda, speaks in naïve parables, is so ‘good’ she doesn’t
have human emotions and is exactly the reason why overzealous Christians might
resemble hypnotized zombies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But despite the preachy tone Ebo Whyte can’t seem to
dissociate from his theatre, the conflict presented is intriguing! How will
little Miss Goody Two Shoes and sexy, Knight in devil’s armour court? How will
their relationship develop? With two such ‘opposing forces’, which force will
win over the other? The classic case of Good versus Evil, a trope that never
tires because humanity is OBSSESSED with all the mysteries that lie in that
very charged space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So obviously being a human caught under that spell,
the conflict thoroughly intrigued me. I had picked sides and bet on the good
girl to go not just bad but dangerously baad (say it with a twang). In this, I
say a huge Kudos to the scriptwriter. Previous conflicts in Ebo Whyte
productions are mostly as riveting. They may not make me sit on the edge of my
seat, but I’m definitely eager to watch how it pans out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And that’s where the Trojan horse opens its secret
latch and our senses are ambushed, never to come back, panting hard on the
beach after an incredulous slap and you no longer know what your name is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[<b>Spoiler
alert in case you didn’t catch it and are hoping Ebo Whyte will bring it back
again before his December Festival of plays] </b>: The perfectly good tale
moves to higher levels of intrigue with little Miss Churchy surprising him on
their wedding night. She teaches her worldly husband not a few, but <i>a lot</i> of things about lovemaking he
didn’t know, so much that it scares him out of their honeymoon bed. He shivers
with a joint on the balcony, not sure whether he had just been violated or not,
when his ‘crife’ wife comes to join him. Turns out she smokes Mary Jane like
she IS Mary Jane. And not only that, she knows where to get the good stuff
(Jamaican accent thrown into the bargain).
Thus the plot thickens. How does little Miss Churchy turn in to badgal
Riri in one night? My excitement level here was at its peak. Having won over
90% of my skepticism, I believed the play was going to take me to a fantastic
crescendo where I would be left screaming my applause like a mad woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But then it dropped. It dropped so hard my bottom
still aches from the pain. Hilda launched into a long unbelievable tale about
falling on hard times, being a prostitute in Ghana, then dealing in cocaine,
she ends up in prison in the USA for drug trafficking, is giving a second chance
in the States, and somehow she comes back to Ghana and has to ‘hustle on the
streets’ and blah blah blah. A convoluted back story so stuffed to death the
turkey rotted before it was cooked. The scriptwriter, in an attempt to explain
the groundbreaking crescendo he brought his audience to, couldn’t live up to
the peak he had created and sold us some mishmash as though we were 7 yr olds
listening to an Ananse story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why
<i>Forbidden</i> is not what Ghanaian theatre
needs right now<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is Preachy. And not in the most
innovative ways. Theatre is escapism. It is about delving into human nature as
expressed in the newest, oddest, interesting ways the artist can interpret
human life for his\her audience. I do not want to be reminded at every turn of
a word, or story plot, or actor’s gesture that I have to be ‘a good Christian sister’.
Even if that is your aim, sneak it up on me with some pizzazz. Don’t preach it
at me. I can go to church for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Am I the only one who feels like my
intelligence was underrated when I watched this play? See the Ananse story
above. C’mon! I’m at least a <i>little</i>
bit smarter than that! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ebo Whyte productions are
unarguably the biggest theatre productions in the country. Yet for such a massive
command of the Ghanaian Theatre scene, Ebo Whyte productions do not rouse a
healthy competition to encourage others to break artistic boundaries, to move
from the box of being locally relevant, yet globally irrelevant. That is what art
should be about, no? To break rules, to discover new ways of talking about old
things, and to elevate human thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But a disclaimer must be added here. Ebo Whyte is
simply a product of his society, something each and every one of us is without
it ever being our fault. It happens simply because we are born <i>into </i>society and come to meet its
strictures. Ghanaian society is a conservative religious society and this, most
times, can serve as chains which stifle creativity. Faced with this inevitable challenge, a
Ghanaian artist must teach himself or herself to acknowledge this societal
obstacle, and try to break free from it. Only then will our artistic wings soar
so high even the sun cannot stop us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Other
news on the theatre scene:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Accra Theatre Workshop run by Elisabeth Sutherland, granddaughter of renowned
playwright and Ghanaian icon Efua Sutherland, is a space you should watch out
for. I have seen the push in artistic boundaries with this young lady’s
productions and learnt a few things about experimental theatre in the process!
Follow them on twitter @accratheatre for updates on the upcoming productions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Heritage Theatre Series production, <i>Wogbej3ke:
The Birth of a Nation, </i>showed last weekend at the national theatre. Twitter
was agog with praise at this production which did an excellent job of merging
dance, theatre, poetry and music to tell the relevant story of Ghana’s history.
A much more lively option than the boring history books if you ask me.
Hopefully, by popular request, it will show again soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m tired of the
tropes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m tired of the
stereotypes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m tired of
being put in a box I can never escape.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope we will learn
to identify the stereotypes created for us to puppet to: At one point women
were ‘too delicate’ and ‘precious’ [<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Insert
the allegory of the Virgin Mary here]</b> to go out and discover the world. In
fact, woman was elevated so high she was useless. She remained locked away at
home, a bedwarmer to the ‘conqueror’ man. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then another stereotype
developed, the sexy vixen, who isn’t afraid to bare all her juicy goodies and
indulge in her deeply sexual self. But the sexy vixen should not hope to be
married. She’s too cheap for that holy institution <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[Insert: double standards]. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then there’s the
‘good girl’ who is definitely a virgin till marriage. Doesn’t go out, doesn’t
drink, or dance or have opinions or have a life. She will definitely be the
pick for the ‘highest honour’ of marriage. She is man’s ideal of the ‘perfect
woman for marriage’. But, of course, she is the last choice for business
conducted <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">outside </i>of marriage. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And we have the ‘cool
girl’ who is every man’s dream. Who is the cool girl? The cool girl is just the
right amounts of sexy vixen and good girl. She’s a vixen under the sheets, but
‘good’ on the outside. She’s tailored to meet her man’s every need. She never
complains when her humanity is being trampled upon or when she’s being
disrespected, ’cuz she’s the cool girl!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope a day
will come when women are released from the prison of the patriarchal system; when
we ourselves no longer propagate woman stereotypes handed to us by a
patriarchal system. I hope we just be ourselves, even if it’s a little mix of
good, wild, crazy, sexy, moody, frustrated or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>staying-in-my-peejays-all-day-today.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope today
women learn to understand more about themselves and their history and their CENTRE
in that history. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope armed
with that knowledge we will begin to understand that certain conditions we live
in today are not to be taken as your inevitable burden: being touched sexually
at work, being reduced to just your sexual organ, being generally viewed as of
much less worth than men and being paid less because of that, your menstrual
cycle being used as an excuse to reduce your worth and capability, that your
being married is a rite of passage into domestic slavery, despite your various
laurels and career advancements. You don’t need that shit. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope parents
today would unlearn their inherited faulty notions of gender roles. I hope when
you tell your daughter to sweep, you tell your son to sweep as well. When you
keep Ama in to learn how to cook, it is not to learn to cook for a husband in
some distant future; it is to teach her for her own good, to learn cook for
herself when she becomes independent. I also hope you keep Kofi in to teach him
to cook too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, it is essential
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i> survival to know how to feed
himself, basic law of nature. Even the beasts of the wild know that. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's as important for a boy to learn to cook as it is for a girl</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope marriage becomes
no longer about an escape from the policing of your parents to the policing of
your husband. Same prison. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mother and wife
may not be my ultimate calling as a woman. And that’s not a big deal. I’m not a
freak of nature. I’m actually a human being just like you who has a mind that
thinks of not just my womb, but the world and my contribution to it, about the
universe and where humanity begins and ends, about political and economical
systems and which might work for my country. I think, and I’m capable of so
much more than just my womb.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But sometimes,
my calling may be to being a mother and wife. And it’s as simple as that. We’re
all different yet equally important fingers of the same hand. But it doesn’t
mean because it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">my </i>calling, it’s
the calling for every woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
because my brother likes skip on one foot doesn’t mean I conclude that every
man likes to skip on one foot. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When I marry
you, I come to you as your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WIFE</i>, not
your domestic slave to take up where was left off, to clean up and cook after
you and mind <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our </i>kids. Even if I love
to clean, rub and dust, we’re sharing our lives and home together. It is a
partnership, and all our now shared human needs and tiny ittie bitties become a
shared responsibility. Especially when I have a 9-to-5 just like you do. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope to God we
stop the slut-shaming and finger-pointing. I’m tired of the double standards.
I’m tired of men being allowed to cheat blatantly on their women, because ‘it’s
how men are’ yet women are punished severely for daring to breach their ‘designated
boundary’. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope fervently
that we come to learn that if I’m in a short skirt, it is not an excuse for you
to help me strip my body bare and expose my parts. There’s a reason I left some
of it covered. Hell, if I wanted to walk out totally naked, I wouldn’t need
your help. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erase that barbaric, savage
mentality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a reason why you’re
not in some forest, scratching your armpits and flitting from tree to
tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t reduce your humanity and in
the process insult mine.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When a woman is
raped, questions like “Why was she dressed like that in the first place?” “Why
did she go over to his house in the first place?” “Why was she there at that
time?” are expressions of shameful ignorance. What you imply by making such
illegitimate enquiries is to suggest that men who rape are animals and not
human beings, incapable of control, lacking of a brain, so deserve to be put on
a dog leash, kept in a cage and fed twice a day on a metal plate. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m tired of
women fighting against themselves, backbiting, obstructing and affecting the
progress of any other woman (or man for that matter). The idea that ‘women are
their own enemies’ is a clever way of turning us against ourselves, because you
know what happens when there is infighting amongst women? The dream we’re
fighting for remains an illusion. What is the dream? To be put back in our
place as human beings of equal worth. That destructive idea is another of those
patriarchal lies sown deep into our membranes to hinder our progress.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m tired of the
“Oh dear Mr. Man, please decide for me what path my life is to take!” You’re a
being of incredible power. You can literally move mountains if you wanted to,
place a goddamn hill in your living room if you chose. You can transcend time
and space. Don’t squeeze your five dimensional self into a one dimensional
shadow of yourself. Now <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that’s</i> a
freak of nature.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m tired of you
thinking you can bully me on the road because I’m a female driver. I’m no
different. Put my life in danger, and I will scream every profanity I know on
you. And you will shut up, take it all in and apologize. I’m tired that there’s
a stereotype of “Women drivers” [said with a frustrated or irritated shake of
your head].</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m tired of the
TV tropes. I’m tired of being the one that stays at home and worries about the
safety of my man as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he </i>goes out to
discover the universe or conquer the bad guys or aliens or whatever. Can’t I
help in the discovery and conquering too? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope with all
my heart that the hypocrisy institutionalized religion uses to suppress one
side of humanity (womanhood) for the selfish self-aggrandizement of the other
is recognized for what it is: a hypocrisy, a dangerous evil, a sheep in wolf’s
clothing, a violation and opportunistic attempt to control the mind using the
divinity of religion. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope everyone
all over the world comes to understand the reality that MISOGYNY IS A VIRUS.
This virus will destroy humanity if we allow it to continue to fester in our
thoughts and beliefs and in our actions. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope these
words will not be stereotyped, and thrown on infertile ground, wasted. I hope
you read this with all senses of your humanity about you. I hope you understand
that by living with the faulty notions of patriarchy and misogyny you hinder
political, economic, social, spiritual growth of humanity. We are god-like
beings. To hinder another from their total potential is an unforgivable crime
to ourselves.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope we learn
to unlearn the lies we have been taught. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I hope you
understand that woman is man and man is woman and together we make a powerful
creation: Humanity.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A wise person
once said, “Love your neighbor as yourself”. I think that sums up everything
nicely!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Happy
International Women’s Day! Make it Happen!</span></div>
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Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-1156983314535090582015-02-04T13:56:00.001-08:002015-02-04T13:56:03.111-08:002015 AFRICA READING CHALLENGE: MY BOOKS!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is going to be my first time participating!<br />
<br />
The challenge is to read 5 books between 1st January 2015 and December 31st 2015. Eligible books
include those which are written by African writers, or take place in
Africa, or are concerned with Africans and with historical and
contemporary African issues. <br />
<br />
<br />
Here's my list:<br />
<br />
God's Bits of Wood - Sembene Ousmane<br />The Wretched of the Earth - Cheik Anta Diop (or any other Cheik Anta Diop book)<br />A Question of power - Bessie Head<br />One Day I will Write About this Place - Binyavanga Wainana<br />The Gonjon Pin and other stories<br />Tail of the Blue Bird - Nii Ayikwei Parkes<br />
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I would also want to re-read Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, and A Man of the People.<br />
<br />
I've started on The Gonjon Pin and other stories! Will post my experiences with each book on the way! <br />
<br />
For more information, check out Kinna's blog here: <a href="http://kinnareads.com/2015/01/25/2015-africa-reading-challenge/#more-8745">2015 Africa Reading Challenge</a><br />
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And pshare with me what books you're reading in the comments section below.<br />
<br />Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-30748901863798247922014-12-18T04:20:00.001-08:002014-12-18T04:30:39.452-08:00Edem - Meeting one of Ghana's Conscious Rappers<br />
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I absolutely love Edem!<br />
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Edem's music is one that's proud of being African. He started out as 'the Ewe rapper' or 'Ayigbe Edem' when he hit it big in between 2006 and 2008. The amazing thing about his prolificity is if you were not Ewe, or you did not understand his Ewe rap, his charisma and power is diffused through the music. He spoke the powerful language of music and we heard and understood. In 2014, Edem's latest Abulm, Books N' Rhymes is a testament to the versatility of his talent. Edem explores with his art and his rap is not simply how we have known it to be previously. He pushes the boundaries to establish a new sound in every song on the album. It's a mix of hiphop, reggae, House, dancehall, etc.<br />
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Despite being in an industry that glorifies the commercial, shallow and fleeting, Edem does not bend to the pressure. He remains a conscious rapper passionate about Africa, passionate about sharing with the rest of Africa and changing the narrative through his art. While other musicians may make music for just Ghana and for just a moment in time, He makes music for Africa and beyond, and strives to make it timeless.<br />
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His latest album, 'Books N' Rhymes', is out! It's a definite must-have!<br />
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<b>ABOUT BOOKS N' RHYMES</b> <br />
"We created an album that will change the industry that will make people want to rethink their creative process"~ Edem on 30Minitz<br />
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"Books and Rhymes are the basis of human's life. Books are what takes us
through life, takes us to the greatest of places, gives us power and
knowledge; and rhymes are the basis of our childhood where you are
taught to learn 'twinkle, twinkle little star', etc to be able to speak
properly. So I thought it would be creative for me to use this album to
gravitate the African continent towards schooling themselves. I rap more in
Ewé because I need to sell the sub-region where I am coming from even
though it is very difficult to do it because you have to kick away the
stigma of people saying it cannot stand the test of time and you have to
do it so well from a marketing perspective." ~ Edem on BBC.<br />
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Check out my interview with Edem on 30Minitz! In this, Edem speaks about his hit tracks, 'Only in Ghana,' his humorous documentation of Ghanian quirkies, and 'The One' which dares to reference Ghana's slave history. <br />
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writing, their work and a few writing deadlines under their belts.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It began with
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Dr. Mawuli Adzei took over, commencing with the art of Fiction, tackling the topics such as: How to get started, Developing Creative
Ideas, writing style, language and the use of Ghanaianisms. The discussion was
later driven towards the contentious issue of writing for the Writer or writing
for the Reader, and in Dr. Mawuli Adzei’s apt words, it was agreed that, ‘Writers, just write. Do not inhibit your self thinking of the
reader. Your role is as the story teller”.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Prof. Ama Ata
Aidoo took over the next session, and she began wonderfully by reading her latest
piece, ‘GraviSearch’- a rumination of the origin of the names of certain
Ghanaian foods, which became a philosophical contemplation of Africa and its
diaspora, Africa and its passive yet turbulent relationship with the West. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An extensive Q
& A session followed where the participants traversed topics such as the
challenges of publishing, Ama Ata Aidoo’s writing style, her influences, her
choice of topics and so much more.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The camp's final session was on non-fiction, moderated by Dr. Mawuli Adzei.The styles and choices of autobiographies were examined, as well as the style, tone, mood of essays were
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Up next in the Gird Writing Camp is the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Academic Writing Module of the Gird Writing Camp which is set to take place
this Saturday, October 25 at the Goethe Institute, in Accra. </span></div>
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start of the Academic Writing Module of the camp which supports students and
researchers, with their academic projects and research work, the camp promises
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Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-27333046493951092182014-10-14T14:37:00.001-07:002014-10-14T14:37:13.657-07:00The DesiderataI thought I'd post the Desiderata today. Something in the universe is 'vibing' me with these words right now, and as always, I am humbled with their wisdom. Hope it speaks to you too! <br />
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With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is the age for nudes and no matter
how sensibilities will be scandalized, how men will salivate yet condemn with
the same lips, how even women will point fingers and scream, ‘scandal’, I
believe certain magical winds from the East have blown in, and the excitement
of a liberation is in the air. And this liberation is here to stay.</span></div>
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individual reasons, it is much, much more than just a celebrity stunt, and it’s
definitely not a misguided fan attempt, or a claim to fame. It is much more
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what’s hers, claiming and redefining what’s hers; a body that for a millennium has been
claimed, owned, abused, covered up, stripped, scarred, told what to do, told
what not to do, punished for disobeying orders, rewarded for obeying orders, by
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so much power that man has, since the beginning of time, fumbled over himself
to find a way to control and suppress this power. Over the centuries, the
mediums by which this fearsome thing called Woman was ‘controlled’ has
metarmorphosed in many ways, with men falling over themselves to find
justifications in religion, in nature, in ‘the established order of things’.
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are conveniently armed with many bible references as evidence of the need for
the subjugation (let’s call it what it is) of Woman. From the beginning of time,
woman was given no chance, the way the Church tells it. The driving narrative
that would define all things and subsequently define all attitudes was the
patriarchal tone of the Creation story: Adam was created first and woman was
created from his body to serve and obey him. This narrative consequently
insists and establishes women’s ‘natural’ inferiority to men. It ensures strict
obedience and servitude to fathers, brothers, and later, husbands. Anything
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The indoctrination continues today in
even more destructive ways. Girls are indoctrinated from birth to understand
that they are instruments of the devil who lure men away from God and into sin.
I went to a church last three weeks and the preacher unashamedly and not-so-subtly
kept drumming ‘woman is the devil’s tool’ intermittently throughout his
three-hour postulations. He was given to telling ghost stories as a a way of
keeping his congregation excited and awake. And every ghost story had a demon
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The only reason such nonsense would be
bandied about stems only from the sexualizing of women, and women being reduced
only to their sexual nature. This preacher man obviously had problems controlling
his sexual desires and had found a very convenient outlet with which to blame
his ‘sexual sins’ on: the temptress, the seducer, the Woman. The fearful thing
about this very convenient cause for blame is that being tagged as a ‘man of
God’ gives him an automatic license for validation in the eyes of Ghanaians. I
saw the worst of this man-of-God-so-I’m-above-everything mindset, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when a ‘man of ‘God’ almost raped a friend of
mine, who was saved by her boyfriend. And guess what? Her parents advised her
not to take action because he was a ‘Man of God’!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Spiritual leadership of
women in the Church is not readily acceptable. I am honestly still waiting on
the day when a woman can submit herself for the position of Pope. I tell you
that that day the white smoke will blow and blow and blow!</span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Islam</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-- In Islam, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Imams </i>are always male. </span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-- Sharia Law is known to
be extremely discriminatory toward women, dictating their manner of dress, their
love and sexual lives, their submission to men, and many more of what I will
call, crimes to humanity. Many scholars claim that domestic violence, for
instance, is encouraged under Sharia law, from a verse in the Qu’ran (Surah 4:
34) which related the permissibility of domestic violence. I quote below
exactly what this verse says:</span></div>
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are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other
and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are
devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have
them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance - [first] advise
them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them.
But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is
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notorious for endorsing the abhorrent practice </span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Child marriage in Malawi, the girl was only 15</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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which is widely believed to be supported by Shariah law. Prophet Muhammed’s
lifestyle decisions are viewed as the validation of the lifestyles and way of
life of Muslims. And Prophet Muhammed is reported to have married Aisha when
she was six or seven years of age, but the marriage was consummated when she
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it comes down to: If Prophet Muhammed can do it, why can’t I?</span></div>
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was that Aisha grew up to become a great woman in Islamic history. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Katherine is 'tamed'</span></td></tr>
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time classic encapsulation of the fears of women and female liberation. This,
in a time that was supposedly to represent a ‘rennaisance’. To quote the
infamous words of Katherine, after she had been ‘subdued’ and ‘overcome’ by
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjdldihyphenhyphensn0bRekfVBZ3ClOPPbdIwCY8Eqtkhhn0EP2f4YRJB_HnYlkt2l-0He63saUVN3jaSoaOzqdc32OIKzAuKpl8Pb93dwn_81HiHSH0R7wHoTv_WWSvdfDnAgBk75X_xTwrALHei/s1600/The+Taming+of+the+Shrew+by+William+Shakespeare+-+play+poster+okeeeh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjdldihyphenhyphensn0bRekfVBZ3ClOPPbdIwCY8Eqtkhhn0EP2f4YRJB_HnYlkt2l-0He63saUVN3jaSoaOzqdc32OIKzAuKpl8Pb93dwn_81HiHSH0R7wHoTv_WWSvdfDnAgBk75X_xTwrALHei/s1600/The+Taming+of+the+Shrew+by+William+Shakespeare+-+play+poster+okeeeh.JPG" height="320" width="222" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I found this poster appropriate, 'Silence Woman' it says.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This monologue promotes enshrines the
tenets of the Man-Ruler and Woman-Ruled:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Woman
as the weaker, lazier, less intelligent sex who remains in the warmth of home, troubled only by
trivialities, while it is the man’s place to conquer the world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Woman
has an unending debt to man. She should be ‘eternally’ grateful to man as a
worshipper is to her god for many vague reasons. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
she chooses to rebel, she is instigates chaos to what is the ‘natural’ order.
Shakespeare says it more beautifully here. She is a ‘Traitor’.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once
again, Women are defined (sexualized) by their ‘soft, weak and smooth bodies’
which are ‘unapt to toil and trouble the world’. Simply put, just leave the
conquering, scientific discovery, religious discovery and leadership, and all
great human endeavours to men because you are the ‘weaker’ sex. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">-- The European witch
hunts of the 14<sup>th</sup> century that burnt at stake women accused of being
witches, but they were mostly women who broke the social norm and became more
‘mannish’ in seeking to better herself in education, owed no allegiance to any
man, or was just ‘too clever for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
woman’. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> -- Nigeria has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world. In the Northwest region, 48% of girls were married <i>by </i>the age of 15, according to the UNFPA Nigeria. These girls receive little or no schooling and become entrapped in a marriage that limits the autonomy and decision-making abilities. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> --
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In Ghana, the conversation
that surrounds the dress, manner and behavior of women is restrictive and based
largely on hypocritical notions of ‘respectability’. It is not uncommon to find
a woman who is dressed skimpily accused of causing men to ‘sin’ by encouraging
them to have sinful thoughts of her body. This kind of thinking, on many levels,
makes people more sympathetic to a rapist if the victim was discovered to have
been dressed skimpily. ‘She brought it on herself’, as the general lingo goes.
But more on Ghana later.</span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Back
to nudes and liberation and the consequent fear of woman</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the very short journey through our
past above, it is evident that the narrative for Woman has always been
manipulated and controlled: She has been made so low she was useless, and
raised so high (The Virgin Mary) that she was too ‘precious’ to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do </i>anything substantial. And this, I
believe stems from an irrational fear of Woman. Is this fear from the need to
dominate, to subdue? That’s a whole other discussion we shall have another
time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the light of all the above, the nudes
and the sex tapes of our time, done voluntarily by women whose bodies have
always been controlled by men with the flimsiest of justifications, symbolizes
a rebellion against the rules, the rules set for us by our patriarchal history.
And this rebellion has spurred a raging fear which has elicited a very many
interesting reactions. What is this fear? The fear of the Woman’s liberation, a
fear of Woman understanding her power and owning it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Ghanaian reactions to the latest splurge
of sex tapes and nudes have been an interesting phenomenon to watch. There is
the outrage and there is the lecherous excitement. The same lips that are
publicly condemning the sex tapes and nudes, are the lips that pass bawdy jokes
about the woman’s body, passing judgement about how attractive or not it was,
excitingly examining every crevice of her body over and over again, and
imagining all manners of sexual acts they could do to that body. What makes
this even more disgusting is that this reaction does not have barriers when the
girl is underaged. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The infamous Tamale sex tape inspired
national outrage, such outrage that the chief of Tamale ‘banished’ all the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">women</i> taped by a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">man </i>who took those videos for<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
his </i>own purposes, of which releasing them to the world was one. The
infuriating irony of this situation is that this chief condemning these women
and judging them as immoral is most probably in a polygamous marriage to
several women, as is the tradition of the culture.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The hypocrisy of the Ghanaian situation
is that from birth the culture whispers to you, particularly women, that ‘sex
is a dirty thing’, a thing to be abhorred, kept in the dark, not made public.
Yet Ghanaians are having sex. In fact, Ghanaians are having so much sex, (we
love having so much sex) we make news headlines about it. A rape story reported
in the Daily Graphic would contain a lot of lecherous language as though the
writer were fantasizing about being the rapist. We’re having so much sex that a
Preacherman’s infidelities are splashed all over the news. We’re having so much
sex that discussing a political candidate’s sexual life is lumped together with
discussing his competence as the MP for so-and-so. We’re having so much sex that
a scandalous sexual story gets more clicks than a story about human rights. We’re
having so much sex that it isn’t an abhorrent idea for a man to film himself
having sex and then victimize the woman by sharing it with the world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And in all these, whereas the man may
get a pat on the back for his sexual prowess, it is the woman who is
condemned, ridiculed, shamed and ‘banished’. It is almost as though, at least where
sex tapes are concerned, the woman had sex alone in the sex tape!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I find that this choice of shaming
and condemning the woman and not the man, the double standards, stems from the long-seated
masculine fear of women, and in this case women who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dared </i>to break the rules, daring to make the statement that “I am
not inferior. I am not a dirty, sinful being to be hidden and put in the
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chaos, a threat to the ‘moral order’ and threat to the patriarchal narrative.
It is a fear of the unknown if this long-standing narrative is overthrown. What
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of women understanding and preparing to assume her role as owner of what
belonged to her in the first place: her body. </span><br />
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charge and control of her narrative that she would be bold enough to push open
the doors of total liberation in the most poignant and defiant way possible:
nudes and sex tapes, not necessarily shared publicly (that’s totally her
choice), but taken for her and herself, in private; taken for her daring to
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writing and editorial firm based in Accra, is organizing a Writing Camp that
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Gird Writing Camp is a two-tiered interactive
writing program that seeks to help young writers, scholars, and entrepreneurs
develop and enhance their writing skills. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Camp which takes place on October 18, October
25 and November 1, 2014, is bringing together distinguished Experts in the</span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Academic, Business, &
Creative Fields including Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo, Renowned Writer, Mr. Ramie
Baitie Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Affairs, UT Holdings, Dr. Mawuli
Adjei,</span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Writer,
Snr. Lecturer, University of Ghana, Mr. Paul Ababio, Business Consultant, Paul
& Associates and Dr. Kweku Ainuson, Business Lawyer, Snr. Partner<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AB Lexmall & Associates to offer advice
on diverse areas of creative, academic and business writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Camp comprises a one-day intensive seminar per
area, as well as a special month-long writing consultancy package. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This year’s writing camp will focus on three major
areas: Business Writing, Academic Writing and Creative Writing. </span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Participants can choose the areas of writing they
are interested in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Topics to be covered in the Business Writing module
includes how to write a Business plan, project proposals, letters, and investment
memos.</span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The Academic Writing module will cover the
components of writing a thesis or dissertations, drawing up questionnaires,
interviews, research, and much more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Creative writing module will discuss poetry,
short stories, drama, fiction and non-fiction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A special consultancy package after the one-day
seminar enables participants to have sustained support in their writing over a
one-month period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You can register online by </span><a href="http://www.girdcenter.org/writing-camp/register-now/"><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">clicking here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Gird Writing Camp is
supported by Gold Coast Agri Ventures, Paul & Associates and Mesh Ghana. </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Candara","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To sponsor or to learn more about the Gird Writing
Camp, call: 020-715-2656 or email: info@girdcenter.org</span></div>
<br />Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-38922405117936637162014-09-18T09:08:00.002-07:002014-09-19T09:14:42.813-07:00THE ART OF AMA ATA AIDOO - A Journey into the Mindscape of a Great Woman<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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premiere of a Yaba Badoe and Amina Mama documentary about a national literary
figure, an African feminist, activist and honestly, the brightest Ghanaian
beacon for young writers like myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The art of Ama Ata Aidoo was a very thrilling
exploration of the vast universe that is Ama Ata Aidoo’s mind and it’s
phenomenal expression in her literary works which have so shaken up the very
foundations of literature in Ghana and Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Traversing her life from the inception of her art to
its explosion, the documentary gives quite a vivid insight into the cultural,
societal, and familial influences that, in many ways, were the inception of the
great literary mind that was Ama Ata Aidoo’s. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the documentary, Ama Ata Aidoo remembers
stories her mother used to tell her in the early mornings in the village (not
the usual nighttime storytelling style), of a preacherman/ evangelist who came
by the village when she was young, of her royal birth and subsequent disregard
for the institution of royalty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the nostalgia of black-and-white, sepia-tinted
pictures, she also shares the fairly pivotal influence of a teacher in Wesley
Girls High school who gave a young Ama Ata Aidoo her first typewriter after she
expressed the ‘crazy’ desire to be a writer. Her time in Takoradi was another
pivotal moment in Ama’s life where she participated in a Christmas story
competition running in the Daily Graphic at the time. Her story was published,
which turned out to be a milestone for her, being the very first of her work
that got published. And she got paid!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With interviews of Prof. Carole Boyce Davies and
Prof. Anne V. Adams from Cornell University, Prof Irwin Appel of the University
of California, Santa Barbara, and Prof. Nana Wilson-Tagoe (University of
Missouri), the documentary encouraged intense contemplation, as well as
self-introspection, into the very controversial issues Ama Ata Aidoo was
fearless to raise in her works. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She says quite bluntly of controversy, “How can
you call yourself a writer, if you’re running away from controversial issues?”
And so controversial issues there were:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1.</span> </span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
contemporary Ghanaian woman battling the stereotype. Talking about the
character Esi in her novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Changes </i>in
the documentary, Ama Ata Aidoo shared the numerous accusations readers made of
her, “She’s cold”, “She’s selfish”, “She’s not a good mother”, etc. and in her
blunt and matter-of-fact way, Ama Ata Aidoo reminds all outraged sensibilities
that this earth is not only for the warm, the unselfish, and good mothers. </span></div>
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dark business of slavery and the guilt-driven Ghanaian treatment of a past they
would rather not deal with. Yaba and Amina’s documentary explored Theatre in
telling the story of Ama Ata Aidoo’s words and their universal truth. In
deliberate juxtaposition, Yaba Badoe and Amina Mama show scenes from the
performance of ‘Anowa at the University of California , Santa Babara, in
conjunction with Ama Ata Aidoo reading the words of the play. I find what this
did for me as a viewer was a play on the very different ways in which her Ama’s
words could be interpreted in the different voices that were employed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading (and acting) a section of Anowa which
recounted what her grandmother said to her about places she’d been to, Ama Ata
Aidoo’s voice was motherly, and softly censorial, as is usual of a Ghanaian
grandmother to her eager and curious grandchild. The African American actress,
Erin Pettigrew, said those very same words with all the weight of a painful
history of which she was a consequence of. Where ‘places’ was a thing of sad
and painful wonder in an older Ama Ata Aidoo’s voice, ‘places’ in young Erin’s
voice had a ring of desperation and an exuberant, tearful anger and indignation.
Where Anowa would have been interpreted as a sad love story, excerpts from this
play hinted a more heavy-handed focus on the issues of slavery which Ama Ata
Aidoo raised in that timeless play. “Ghanaians have always been nervous of the
presence of the Diaspora here,” Ama Ata Aidoo says. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In interviews about the play
included in the documentary, the many factors which might have influenced the
mindscape of Ama Ata Aidoo as she wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anowa
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are examined: She being a Ghanaian
writer in the United States of America in the ‘sixties, a time of the Black
Civil Rights movements, a time of burgeoning feminism, the hippie revolution
and so much more. All of this played a huge part in the themes and allegory
probed into in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anowa. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3. Language.
Speaking about the medium she writes in: English, Ama Ata Aidoo shared that
since it was English she had chosen to write in, she would make sure all her
characters were as authentically Ghanaian as possible which informs her very
unique style of speech, using simple words in symbolic ways, very much like the
proverbial speech of Ghanaian local languages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> 4. Her
phenomenal work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Our sister Killjoy</i> and
her hints on the topic of lesbianism in the piece. Ama Ata Aidoo shared how she
was attacked from both sides; by Ghanaians who accused her of introducing
something ‘foreign’ to Ghana and lesbians who accused her of not thoroughly
dealing with it because she <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>disapproved.
I still have not had a chance to read this (can you believe it?!!). But it’s
definitely on my to-do list tonight! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> 5. Her
work as the Minister of Education, the unapologetic chauvinism of parliament
and how it interfered with her writing. She spoke very candidly, as is her
style, of how in Cabinet, when the men spoke, everyone treated it as important,
but when she began to speak, “suddenly, those who were smokers would light a
cigarette, others would suddenly want to pass notes” and such in the typical,
chauvinistic manner with which most Ghanaian men treat women, leaders or not. Even
worse, was how her work as a writer was interfered with due to her ministerial
duties, to which the very wise Ama reflected, “Writers, just write. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Everything else</i> is secondary.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6. The
Woman’s story that is never told. “Women’s biographies and stories are not told,
women do not take the attribution that they ought to take and this is why we
ought to be proud of this documentary, in this most provocative medium,” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Prof. Esi Sutherland said in her speech at the
premiere of the documentary. And that was what we did last night, celebrate a
phenomenal woman whose fearlessness and incredible gift has left a legacy that
spans continents and cultures to become something universal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My only qualm was that there
was very little shown of the great impact of Ama Ata Aidoo on Ghanaian pupils
and students. I felt a holistic story of such a universal, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">national,</i> figure was not complete without
this, that is, her impact on the minds of her country's youth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Though the scenes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anowa, Dilemma
of a Ghost</i> being treated in an American university was a powerful way of showing
that the relevance of Ama Ata Aidoo’s work had gone beyond the Ghanaian shores,
Ghanaian school children who read her work as prescribed literary reads,
teachers at all levels who teach her work, were also scenes I felt needed
to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be included. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This would have been a
great perspective in telling about the national legend Ama Ata Aidoo is for us
as Ghanaians. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the whole, however, the documentary is outstanding
in portraying how Ama Ata Aidoo has become not just a Ghanaian song of
celebration but a timeless tune that is sung across continents and cultures,
across races and differences to become a cosmic figure, not just in Ghanaian, African
or African American literature, but in Literature as a whole. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A big thank you to all, particularly Yaba Badoe,
Amina Mama and AWDF, for giving us this. My favourite Ama Ata Aidoo quotes of
the night (You cannot leave Ama Ata Aidoo’s presence without at least a few
wise words!):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">About women and writing: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“As a woman writer, you and your work are an afterthought.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">About Ghanaian attitudes about ‘going abroad’: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Regarding going to Europe as a rehearsal
for going to heaven.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">About writing and controversy: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“How can
you call yourself a writer if you’re running away from controversial issues?”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;">So, writers, I leave you with this, "Writer, just write. Everything else is secondary,"</span><span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Ama Ata Aidoo</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZatfSKTKJY">The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo - A teaser</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We bathed in the sun, near the glistening
pool. It was a sunny, dusty afternoon in Mole National Park spent with the
baboons, hogs and the over-promised elephants which were the main attraction. </span></div>
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bottle of chilled Star beer was at my elbow, winking at the sun from time to
time and shedding tears unto the red and white chequered tablecloth. The Love
of my Life lay with his head on my laps, lazily daydreaming, his eyes half
closed in a dream behind his sunglasses. We were the only Ghanaians, and black
people for that matter. There was a medley of British, Swiss, Dutch, and French
skins, the harmonious cacophony of their different tongues hinted a Tower of
Babel. As I watched three French girls and a guy jump into the pool, chattering
away in accents my Togolese French teacher in high school could only dream to
have, I felt like I was in a page of a very old French storybook about the
wealthy French aristocracy and their summer revels.</span></div>
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took a sip of my refreshingly chilled beer, rolling it around on my tongue for
a bit to squeeze all its sweet juices out before swallowing, and wondered at my
boredom.</span></div>
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had paid an arm and a leg, and then some to experience ‘a historical animal
reserve like never before’ just to find that it was only a club for the holiday-ing
expats who wished to discover ‘Africa’. I wondered at my place, I wondered at
my role in this discovery of ‘Africa’. Was I also an interesting, ‘exotic’
specie to be observed and scrutinized? Was my holidaying African self which was
currently covered in dust and the kisses of recent lovemaking another
interesting sideshow? From the poor naked African children, to the holidaying,
dusty African. I heard somewhere that tours were running in a nearby village,
‘to give you a taste of how the locals live’. What role would I be
playing, my Ghanaian self walking through a Ghanaian village square with a
camera, taking a tour into people’s lives for an exorbitant price of $80? Am I
the monkey in the cage observing being observed? Or am I the pet monkey out of
the cage observing my observed caged brothers and sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘To
give you a taste of how the locals live’.</span></div>
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group of beautiful half-naked girls danced into the village square, as is
routine with the visitation of so many white faces and strange tongues that spoke
big pockets, and treated us with a vigorous shaking of arms and feet and waists
and quite a lot of yodeling. For $80 dollars per person it had to be the
perfect pitch and nothing less. The money was given to the development of the
village that saw no development because in truth, it had to remain a village to
make more money out of these tourists. One of those dusty crooks, an inhabitant
too, with crooked teeth, eager to sell his sister for the quick buck, grinned
at me and said, ‘We can show you more things, madam, so many, many more things.
The villagers life happy.’ </span></div>
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was my role in this stream of conciousness a mystery writer writes lazily in
the sky? What was the spectacle? Was<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> I</i>
the spectacle? Were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> the
spectacle? Two dark Ghanaians mottled the cream white background of ‘Africa
discoverers’. Was I the dusty tourist looking to find a much more intriguing
story than myself? Or was I the monkey who mistook herself for a tourist
and then toured with tourists too benevolent to tell me my truth to my face? Or
was I the monkey who was the sideshow and knew she was the sideshow?</span></div>
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gulped down the contents of my glass and poured a refill. Droplets of water
dripped onto my Love’s eyebrows but he made no move. He was asleep now. Lucky
him.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A big baboon skulked by, his shiny red
buttocks hanging in the air with a foolhardy pride. Did baboons feel the
silliest of all the primates having their innards hung out for all to see? I
think not. They had this conviction with their buttocks, as though telling you
‘that’s the way it should be. Hang that ass for all to see. How silly you are
to hide it in clothes’. And silly I did feel sometimes. Maybe I should title my
next blog piece <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Baboon Blues'</i> and I
would question what gave me the conviction that I was a higher class of animal than the
baboon.</span></div>
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towards a group of baboons on the outskirts of the pool area who in turn
watched us intently - the human baboons with their buttocks in swimming trunks.
And I wondered again, what the true spectacle was, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who</i> the true spectacle was. The humans or the baboon? The Ghanaians
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Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-326333224018789872014-08-15T09:45:00.001-07:002014-08-15T09:45:34.577-07:00Whose vagina is it anyway? - By Nana Ama Agyemang Asante<b> This piece has been reblogged from nnyamewaa.com. It was written by a very good friend of mine, Nana Ama Agyemang Asante, who was equally angered by the lascivious and hypocritical reactions of Ghanaians about the succession of sex tapes that were released recently. Whose vagina is it anyway? I couldn't have said it better! </b><i><br /></i><br />
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<i>Here is the thing! This is August 2014, no woman should get judged
for having consensual sex. It could be casual, a one-night stand or
within a long-term relationship. Whatever it is, however a woman chooses
to explore her sexuality is up to her. No woman should be judged for
what she does with her body. My point is, if we can establish that a
woman is having sex because she wants to and not under duress, everyone,
including preachers and chiefs must respect her right to her sexuality.</i><br />
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</i><i>Last week, a Tamale chief issued a ‘fatwa’ [death sentence ] against
the girls on that leaked sex tape. Naa-Dakpema Dawuni Alhassan wants the
women hanged-drawn-and-quartered for having sex. He wants them fired
from their jobs and banished from Tamale.</i><br />
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</i><i>“I say they should be driven away from Tamale because if we allow
them to stay, they are going to bring something new to the youth of
Tamale,” Naa-Dakpema Alhassan said.</i><br />
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</i><i>Never mind that these women were on the tape with a man. Sex tapes
don’t make any sense. If the sex is that mind-blowingly amazing, why
don’t you just redo it? Sex tapes fall under the category of things not
done under the influence of sex. There are too many examples of how that
adventure leads to world-wide shaming and stigma. But many people only
learn by repeating the mistakes of others. So if an adult couple decides
against all evidence and makes one, we should remember it was done
behind closed doors.</i><br />
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</i><i>In the Tamale case, a grown man filmed himself performing various
sexual acts with over fifty women. Yet Naa-Dakpema Alhassan didn’t have
any sanctions for this man or whoever decided the tape was good for
national consumption. Someone in this equation ought to be sanctioned,
but it’s not the women.</i><br />
<i><br />
Naa-Dakpema Alhassan’s rage comes from the same place Ghanaian men get
their scorn for women who dare to have sex because they want to. It is
alright for a man to have many sexual partners, but abominable for women
to do same. A man’s virility is even measured in some circles by the
number of women he has had sex with. But a woman who does same is
labelled ‘loose’ by these same men.</i><br />
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</i><i>Thus, men here talk about consensual sex using phrases like; “A is
giving it to X, Y has chopped B, Z has been using that C’s machine.” The
‘machine’ refers to the vagina and ‘chopping’ means having sex. They
speak like the male member extends by a few inches while the vaginal
walls lose a few muscles during sex.</i><br />
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</i><i>Last Friday, a leading Pastor in Ghana reportedly told the women in
his congregation that “when you are a young unmarried lady who sleeps
with a lot of people, you are like an apple that has been bitten by many
men. In the end, the person who marries you ends up with a
terrible-looking, well used product.”</i><br />
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</i><i>I hope this preacher who is also a medical doctor knows that you
cannot judge a book by its cover. There is nothing on the body that
records the number of sexual partners as women go along. How come only
women end up looking terrible and used after sex with many partners?
What happens to the men?</i><br />
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</i><i>I get where the preacher’s comment comes from. The two major
religions in Ghana, Christianity and Islam forbid sex before marriage –
sex is reserved for procreation – and righteous folks only procreate
within marriage.</i><br />
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</i><i>But Ghanaians are not that holy; many are having sex outside
marriage. Not everyone is filming it, but everyone is having some kind
of sex. Teenagers are experimenting with adults and peers. Male pastors
are sleeping with members of their congregations, students are doing it
with lecturers and married men and women are having sex with people
outside the union. Traditional priests are doing it on behalf of the
gods. Ghanaians are like bunnies behind closed doors.</i><br />
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</i><i>This is why I am deeply troubled by the pastor’s comments quoted
above. During sex, partners yield to one another, there is no superior
person in the room. Women are not used like soap during sex either.
Righteous folks must recognize that women are as sexual as men.</i><br />
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</i><i>Many will have many sexual partners before marriage because it is
just the way of the world. If it doesn’t degrade a man to have many
sexual partners, it shouldn’t degrade a woman either. So with all due
respect, i would like to ask all men to get out of the sex lives of
women. It is her vagina, her decision.</i><br />
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<b>It is MY vagina! Not yours! Get that? Got that? Good.</b><br />
<b>Check out her blog, Nana Ama's views, on nnyamewaa.com</b><i> </i>Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-9057576057010190662014-08-15T09:29:00.001-07:002014-08-15T09:29:38.684-07:00Dead Poets Society: Life lessons from Robin Williams<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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“That you are here; that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play
goes on and you may contribute a verse; that the powerful play <i>goes on</i>
and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?<br />
<br />
People generally have an affinity for sticking to tradition, and ‘how things
are done’, that go back generations. This is so entrenched that every era
requires some form of revolution and a freethinker to ‘make war’ to release us
from our self-imposed chains of ‘how-things-are-supposed-to-be because our
grandmothers did it this way.”<br />
<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dead
Poets Society</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>in my opinion
is a revolution that needs to keep happening, it is a revolution that spoke in
the 90s and still speaks now and would speak long after I am gone.<br />
<br />
Released in 1989, but set in 1959, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dead Poets Society</i></b> was a movie that
became a movement and an anthem for everyone around the world, preaching the
message of Carpe Diem, meaning Seize the Day, live the moment, make hay while
the sun shines and enjoy the sunshine too!<br />
<br />
When the movie commences, it dips you, almost heartlessly, in a world
steeped with the ancient traditions and prides of quintessential White America,
symbolized by a prep school, described as the ‘best prep school in America’:
White boys running around in uniforms, rich parents, a stern headmaster, and
the heavy atmosphere of breeding America’s power players, young white boys
who would become the old white men pulling the world strings for world benefit,
America’s benefit or their own benefit. I saw no place for the black child in
this picture. It just would not fit. But that is by the way.<br />
<br />
I would like to draw a parallel to our own world, where a majority of schools indoctrinate their pupils in a very myopic view of the world. It's a chew-and-pour-philosophy, with the hopes of getting a respectacle <i>job</i> in future, and that's the straitjacket most of our children are put in in school. These are our own traditions and 'way things are done'. There is no space for glamorous dreams. There is
no space for grand dreams. No space for dreaming dreams of changing the world.
The few people who break through these myopic chains, and allow themselves to
dream of the stars and make those stars real are viewed at as gods and goddesses,
people who are different from the ordinary. When in fact, they are ordinary.
All they did was dream where others chose not to.<br />
<br />
Back to the topic: However, in this miniature version of American power politics, all was not well.
Why? Because people that were human beings were being fitted, pushed, squashed and
bent to fit into age old traditions that were trusted. So free spirits and dreamers who had otherwise beautiful souls that
could create beautiful things for the world were being put in straitjackets because
to quote from the movie, “Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I
will show you a happy man.” This is an America where they still lash in school
by the way,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parents define their roles
as strict guides, where they guide their children into what <i>they</i> want them to
do, not what the child would naturally be inclined or is interested to do and pursue.
You find a lot of the time , parents talk <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at</i> their kids, school authorities talk <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at </i>the students. It’s never <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">with </i>the children and they never <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">listen</i> to the kids.<br />
<br />
Drawing yet another parallel, it is needless to point out that in schools and homes
here in Ghana, from when you are of a discerning age, a myopic view of your capabilities and the world is hammered in your head. All other options are made nonexistent. A
good English student is told by his teachers and parents that he should become
a lawyer. A good math student is told by her teachers and parents that she is
to become an engineer or doctor. What if he wants to become a writer/ What if
she wants to become an actress? Why are those options not options at all?<br />
<br />
In Dead Poets Society, the revolution began when an English teacher appears
on the scene, John Keating (played by Robin Williams), and he is very different,
almost frighteningly so. He challenges the straitjacketed students to question
the conventional views of the system, of their parents, of their teachers and school heads. He challenges them to think outside the box, he teaches
them about the dangers of conformity, losing your voice in the cacophony of the
masses’, and your sense of self. And he uses such techniques as asking the
pupils to stand on their desks to teach them that (which teacher asks his students to stand on
their desks?!).<br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One scene which was especially
poignant to me was where he did a little experiment on uniformity and how
people are naturally inclined to conform. He asked three of his students to walk
in a designated area, one following the other in succession. At first they
walked with footsteps that did not rhyme, one simply following the other in front of
him. In a matter of seconds, all three marched uniformly, left with left, and
right with right. And John Keating pointed out with that very natural, almost 'miss-able' occurence, that humans are naturally
inclined to conform, and lose their individuality in their conformity. The march
symbolized “the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of
others, maintaining your own beliefs though they may be odd, or unpopular”,
then he declared the lesson, referencing, ‘The Road not Travelled by Robert Frost.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I— </span></div>
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And did that make all the difference! John Keating drew quite a following,
disciples of sorts from his pupils, headed by Neil who became the leader of the
Dead Poets Society, a defunct club started by Keating himself when he had been
a pupil in school many years ago, now revived by Neil and his friends. So what
does the club do? They run off after lights out in the boarding school, to a
little cave in the woods, and what do they do? They recite poetry form the
greats such as Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Herrick, and even their own poetry. And
this had to be done in secret because the Headmasters of convention, uniformity and tradition would
punish them for daring to be different. Shocked huh? What was so wrong with
this that the school board made it look like a mini Ku Klux Klan? What my
English teachers would have given for us to run off and learn, share poetry of
the greats!<br />
<br />
Neil’s story is representative of a lot of Ghanaian children’s imprisoned minds. Neil was a beautiful free spirit who was killed by the very oppressive
spirit of conformity and tradition. He was an extremely persuasive friend,
kindhearted and unlike many, rarely in tune with all the emotional nuances of
his friends. A truly beautiful soul who had that indefinable quality of a
person that could change the world or contribute to it in an epic way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved to act, loved poetry, and after being
bitten by the possibility of being more than he was told, led others to love
poetry, and wanted to make acting his life’s work. But his father insisted he become
a doctor, because “Neil had all the opportunities he didn’t have when he was
growing up.” After an impressive performance where he received a standing
ovation, instead of getting a jolly pat on the back by his father, his father
decided to take him to military school. That night he shot himself. And the sad
thing about that was though his father mourned for his death, he did not feel
or understand <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he </i>had driven his son
to death. Instead, he had John Keating fired.<br />
<br />
Did that mean that conformity would always win over freethinkers? Did that
mean conformity would never understand the danger it presents even to itself
when it shoots itself in the foot? I was extremely shaken by this. <br />
<br />
In the last scene, after John Keating had been dismissed and he was
gathering up his things, a Moment in movie history was made. Ever the image of
progression and forward-thinking, though a battered image, Keating was leaving with
a sad smile, till he was stopped by the moving picture of his students standing
on their desks in tribute, a last salute to the man who had taught them that to
really live.<br />
<br />
Today, mourning the tragic death of Robin Williams we all stand on our desks
in a last salute to a man who embodied the spirit of Carpe Diem, and enjoined
all others all over the world to seize that day (in laughter) with him. Seemingly
plagued by his own demons, he refused to lash out on the world but instead created
something beautiful with it: laughter, and shared it with the world, crossing
all racial, religious and national borders.<br />
<br />
Moral lesson? Carpe Diem, Seize the day the way Robert Williams did with his
life, write your own verse in the world, make your own mark, make your lives
extraordinary, become the freethinker that begins the revolution, for in Williams’ own words as John Keating, ‘we are food for the worms’
You do not want to die, realizing you had never lived at all.<br />
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an earlier blog post of the same title, the month of July was dedicated to
celebrating women in music in a TV show I host, 30Minitz. This is the last edition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Being a woman in the
industry means dealing with a lot of distractions you could otherwise avoid if you
were male, particularly in the hyper-religious country that is our very own
Ghana. – “When will she get married?’ ‘Do you think she will ever find a
husband?’ ‘I’m sure she slept her way to the top.’ ‘This music business is not
for respectable women’ ‘Did you hear about her nudes/sex tape?’ ‘I hear she
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featured two female musicians I admire tremendously: the indigenously African
Noella Wiyaala and alternative/ soul/ afro-soul singer Efya. One thing that
strikes me about these two is that they both have a strong sense of self, and
would proudly wear their own banners and not bow to societal pressures and
expectations of ‘what a female musician should be and look like.’ Both artistes
have one thing forefront in their minds: To take their music beyond Ghana to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Noella Wiyaala serves you that authentic
taste of Africa, the kind you don’t get anymore. She makes rich, indigenous
African music, singing in her powerful, deep voice the tongue of Sisaala from
Wa, in the northern part of Ghana. Her rhythms are universal. Noella dabbles in
Afro pop, Afro rock, and my particular favourite, tribal folk music. (She does
a pretty remarkable one in this clip). She has released a one-off dancehall
track, a frankly sexual number called ‘Rock my Body’. In this clip, she speaks
candidly about her experiences as a young female artiste in the Ghanaian music
industry; the inevitable sexual preconceptions many women have to deal with and
how she overcame them, male manipulation of the feminine image and self
expression, and being natural and being true to yourself.</i></span></div>
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herself in Ghana that she is one of the VERY FEW who can switch genres and make
mainstream Ghanaians love alternative music or soul (music mainstream Ghana
cannot fathom! But they will love it once it’s coming from Efya). In this clip
she speaks about the influence her mother had on her image and sense of self, becoming global and leaving a legacy, as well as making </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">real</span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> music.</span></i></div>
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a wise old woman once whispered in my ear<br />
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If I danced long<br />
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laugh me into her warm endless depths<br />
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that big, roaring laughter that shook
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If I laughed long and hard enough for the Sea<br />
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She-Sea-Sea-She…</div>
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If I became the Sea…long and hard enough...<br />
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She would become
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were all hungry for something. Houses, Sex, food, love, wealth, cars, dreams;
whatever it was, we all had castles in the air we wanted to see built.</span><br />
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</span>yearned and I yearned as much as they did. My life was one long starvation
for my yearning and though I yearned as much as everyone did, smoked as much as
everyone smoked, drank as much as everyone drank, was happy as much as everyone
faked, I knew somewhere in the back of my drugged mind that death stared at us
benignly. We were juicy fat, depressed pigs garnished for the kill. We did not
care. We just laughed more, smoked more, had sex more, wept more. We yearned
for life so much we lived centuries in a few days. </span></div>
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life responsibilities, but with responsibilities came reality, and reality
stared at you in the face each minute and screamed, “Go fucking die!” So they
drifted back to insanity and us, and whispered things like, “I was trying to
get that law degree” or “I was trying to get that promotion” or “I wanted to
get married and settle down, you know?” Then they smoked and drank some more
till they felt nothing. Till they felt death who held us to her bosom like her
favourite children. She loved us so much she made us live. If only for a few
months more.</span></div>
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our families for support but living like millionaires. We fucked men, women,
and everything else in between. You couldn’t understand us. No one could
understand us, products of a materialistic age that defined you by what you
were able to acquire. Slaves we were to acquisition so much that when we were
set free, we did not know what to do. </span></div>
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Hope was the delusion of the minds of those who could not believe the ridiculousness of
their lives so they hoped. They hoped with their sterling degrees and various
honours they would find jobs. They hoped that their bosses would increase their
paychecks. They hoped that they would save enough to buy a house. They hoped
that they would have a nice, happy family and go golfing on weekends. And they
hoped those things would make them happy. Happiness was a product to be bought in
the black market and they could get it if they worked hard enough. They hoped
and hoped and hoped in a system that had grabbed Hope by the neck, fucked her
silly and thrown her to wolves where she died a slow painful death. But they
still hoped.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We
were beatniks of sorts, a resurgence of Hippies, Ghanaian style living wild and
free, not just because we were young but also because we were prisoners.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
of us sought some form of redemption, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any
</i>form of redemption from this damned life. So we stumbled on religion. We
believed fervently in a God that would cleanse us of our sins. We had to
believe that we were sinners condemned to live a life of damnation unless Jesus
Christ swooped down to save our asses. And all Jesus Christ wanted us to do was
call him our Lord and personal savior? We could do that! We could definitely do
that. I mean, who could believe the truth that our lives were damned for no
reason at all and still be sane? Who could believe the truth that there was no
hidden cause for our wretched lives and still have their heads screwed on? So
we believed fanatically, if you may, that we<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
had</i> to be sinners, for eating some forbidden fruit in some utopian garden.
Whatever it was we ate, we had to have done something to anger God. And for
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Reality was Reality, and pastors became liars, reverends became
politicians, and the Bible became cause for war. </span></div>
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So we smoked some more, drank some more, had sex some more.
A couple of us left suicidal notes and they became poetry to the distressed
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Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-49384496202182782472014-07-25T11:13:00.004-07:002014-07-26T02:40:52.012-07:00Telling the African Woman's Story - Leila Djansi<br />
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"I want to continue telling stories that would change lives. In African culture, we don't talk. I keep saying the reason why Africans speak in proverbs is because we are not direct. So I just want to keep telling stories that allow people to talk." ~ Leila Djansi<br />
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Leila Djansi is one of the few film directors I admire. Why? Her stories. There is always a resonant note embedded in her films and the stories she chooses to tell. Being a writer as well, gives her especial power to share the African Woman's narrative in film in an industry that has largely ignored or is disinterested with those parts of the truth of human lives. She is particularly interested in the African cultural nuances, thus weaves her stories around them and places them on the perfect platform for discussion, rumination and many times, debate. My two favourites have been Sinking Sands and Ties That bind. Both films tell the African Woman's story and the unique cultural influences that either alienate or embrace them. Issues she has raised for discussion in the past are marital rape (a problem many Ghanaian currently refuse to acknowledge <i>can </i>exist), domestic violence and childbirth.<br />
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She is currently working on a new web-series, <i>Poisoned Bait, </i>which explores marriage, and women in marriage, as nuanced by Ghana and Africa, and its ongoing transformation under the liberal pressures of the 21st Century.<br />
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In this interview, Leila Djansi talks about her work ethics, her writing process, being the only African in her class in the Savannah College of Art and Design, her creative choices and her secret dream to direct a James Bond movie!<br />
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Please click the link below for the interview:<br />
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Being a woman in any field requires you to be something more than you are, requires you to have to strive harder, ask harder, <i>demand </i>harder, act harder for the same things your male counterparts may have served to them on a platinum platter.<br />
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In spite of the battles women have had to fight and win in the past to create this fairly 'Utopian world' for the women of 2014, our Utopia <i>can</i> be a Utopian hell instead. <br />
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I dedicated this month of July on a music TV show I host, 30Minitz, to the celebration of Ghanaian women in music. The aim for this is to raise a month-long discourse about the Ghanaian music industry and it's relations with women. We commemorate Ghanaian female musicians who have had to break through numerous barriers raised against them simply for being female; Religious barriers (It's 'dishonorable' for a woman to get into the cheap, 'sexualized' business of music), Image barriers (women being forced into boxes that define female musicians as sexual objects), Relevance barriers (women have to fight harder for their art to be taken seriously and to remain relevant). Women generally have to have that extra oomph to be successful in the industry. <br />
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In the video below, I present to you Ghanaian dancehall artiste MzVee and Afrobeats artiste Eazzy (also of Big Brother Fame). We discuss what it means to be female in
the industry, the importance of fighting for an image that's true to
you, the biological clock and whether it has to influence your timeline for success
and much more! <br />
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<i>MzVee, a rising star who is already garnering a solid following, was discovered on Vodafone Icons and started out with her group D3, hoping to be the Ghanaian Destiny's Child. The group however, had to split before they made any history and MzVee launched herself in Dancehall, a genre she loves.There being next to no females in Ghanaian Dancehall presently, Kaakie trailblazed a way for female dancehall musicians of our time like MzVee to have her voice heard too . In this video, she talks about how male-dominating but embracing the Ghanaian Dancehall world has been, and how the females are hoping to overturn that dominance. She also speaks about being a 'Natural Girl', a movement she is passionate about that encourages women to be true to themselves. </i><br />
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<i>"When I entered the industry, I noticed that females didn't have a stand in music," says Eazzy.</i><br />
<i> Eazzy has earned maestro status in Ghanaian Afrobeats music. Her rap, her energy-filled style, are fairly avant-garde for Ghanaian female musicians in her time. She is unapologetic about her sexiness and has made a name for Ghana and Ghanaian Afrobeat music across Africa. Two years ago, Eazzy represented Ghana in the Big Brother House, and realizing the mad love Africa had for her music was something to be proud of. In this video, Eazzy shares candidly her battle with the derogatory and 'over-sexualized' Ghanaian perception of women in music (Google 'Eazzy news Ghana' and the first headlines that pop up are about her relationship with her ex Keitta, and whether or not they had sex on live TV, not her musical prowess), being a female in the rap business, and she calls for the addition of a Female Artiste of the Year category to the Ghana Music Awards categories. </i><br />
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30Minitz: Celebrating Women in Music continues this week on Viasat 1 at 4pm. This week's show would highlight <i> </i>Noella Wiyaala, a rare Northern Star. <br />
<br />Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-61713949684554530772014-07-10T07:43:00.002-07:002014-07-16T11:55:12.771-07:00Remembering Maya Angelou - Ama Ata Aidoo Speaks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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spirit of Ghana during the days of independence and the part African American
greats like Maya and Malcolm X played in the New Ghana, and so much more. For the interview, please click the link below:<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/darkmosaic/ama-ata-aidoo-on-maya-angelou">Ama Ata Aidoo remembers Maya Angelou</a></span>Dark Mosaichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04003061452547123496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5162814777322597989.post-57818647881088959212014-06-05T14:33:00.001-07:002014-06-05T14:33:20.411-07:00#UNCENSORED: YOU ARE THE MUSIC YOU CHOOSE: Why Toni Braxton, Heather Headley, etc. are bad for you<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is something incredibly powerful about music.
To say music is spiritual is stating the obvious. I have come to believe, truly
believe, that music is a magic humanity was taught by the great God, to enable
us tap into her power whenever we felt the need to get close to her. But
with music, as is with everything powerful, it can be used for good
or for bad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your music-scape, so to speak, defines the
experiences you attract to yourself, both good and bad. The magic of music works
this way: The selection of tone, rhythm, lyrics, beat of the piece create an
atmosphere your brain (both conscious and subconscious areas) taps into. The atmosphere at
first lasts for just in that moment. But constancy, repetition of
that kind of music creates this very tangible atmosphere, a presence in your life.
It becomes what your mind begins to draw from to formulate and form
thoughts in your mind that are similar to the mood and thoughts of the music
piece. When thoughts become dominant they manifest in your actions. Your
choices and your choices of experience begin to be defined by the constant
state of your mind, which is currently being dictated to by the music-sphere you
created around yourself. You draw to yourself what is constantly in your mind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So imagine a young susceptible girl of 13 years old
whose musicsphere was heartbreak love songs. I listened to all versions of
Karyn White, Heather Headley, Toni Braxton, - and these were quite<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>depressing women most of the time. A lot of
the time, the music-sphere they began to create in my subconscious drummed in the message that my love
relationships would always be fraught with heartbreak, betrayal and
disappointment. Long before I began my very first love relationship, I’d
subconsciously created a script for myself, drawn from the invisible scripts of
my music-sphere, and whoever I was yet to have love relationships already had the role they were going to play without even having the freedom to choose. In retrospect, I realised I attracted to me all the heartbreak scripts in the universe without ever
knowing that I attracted them to myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So this was the script: I was the good, very loving
girl who fell in love with an incredibly remarkable man. But he would not love me
the same. His feelings would always be up for question. He would cheat and
cheat and come running back to me each time. And I would always accept him back
because I loved him with all the truth and completeness of unconditional love.
But it would break me. I would be depressed. And would remain in this state of
depression for the rest of my life under the umbrella of a synthetic hope that
he would realize one day that ‘I was the woman he truly loved’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You see what I did there? All from the music sphere
I had created for myself? I was the creator, writer and director, and I cheated
myself out of any of the good roles. I made myself the doormat. I won’t lie,
there was this guilty pleasure in being the wronged but honourable one.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> And guess what? That’s how much of my love life
played out. Word for word. I blamed the guys, I was in a constant state of
depression for much of my teenage years and it continued because, hey, that was
what I told the universe I wanted without realizing it! I went through relationship
after relationship with 98% of the guys treating me like the doormat. Many
times, in retrospect, they probably didn’t even mean to! I gave them their roles before they even had the chance to decide for
themselves. And I went through the motions of the 'honourable wronged one'
faithfully. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I did this till I sunk so deep in my depression, I stopped caring about the
script anymore. And of course, the human spirit always finds a way to defend
itself, recuperate so to speak. I did it in a more damaging way. I reversed the roles. And I
put myself in the only power position I knew, the power position I had created according to
my script: the one who did the ‘doormatting’, who had
little regard, loved less, took what was wanted then vanished, and made the
other feel used. So this was the role I took on for myself, playing yet another
script, a script borne out of reaction, not reason. Not that anything before
was reasonable. And of course, all I did being the ‘User’ was hurt others and
myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[<i>Note: all of this was probably all happening in my
mind. I was probably introduced to Mr. Right over and over again but I didn’t
have the capacity to see him and recognize him for what he truly was. </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And about the musicians that created this depressing
music-sphere in the first place, I find that they were usually women who sang
these songs and created this depressing atmosphere in their songs. Artistes
like Toni Braxton, Heather Headley and songs like ‘One last cry’, ‘Unbreak my
heart’, ‘How could an Angel break my heart’, ‘Ain’t it funny’, ‘Superwoman’
were a few of what dominated my music-sphere. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only hope that the way it affected mine,
they being the creators didn’t get a double dose. (Musicians draw from their own
‘atmospheres’ to create right?). A very interesting truth is that any
heartbreak song I heard by a male artiste in those times had a completely reverse but fitting script: They accepted they
did the cheating, they did the heartbreaking and 'doormatting', and were at the
point where they realized they were wrong and truly loved the woman they had
used but she had gotten fed up and left. So the crooning was a more like a moan
for losing something really good they could have had. For example, Tank’s ‘Maybe
I Deserve’ and She’s Gone’ by Brutha, ‘Put that Woman first’ by Jaheim.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Who teaches us to think and say these things and
create these gory scripts for ourselves, already defined male and female roles
even in unhappiness?</i>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyway, you might be wondering what happened to my
musicsphere around the time of me playing the reverse script? Playing the
unfeeling, uncaring rebel who’d ‘been through it all’, I didn’t listen to any
of the music that had gotten me on this trip anyway. See, I had become a very
different person from the guileless, starry-eyed teenager looking for True Love
with a lot of heartbreak. I was a bruised, fallen angel of sorts, the resentful
devil’s angel who had too many painful experiences to remain in that innocence.
And in a reverse way, that helped in the sense that, the music that used to
appeal to me didn’t anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then slowly, ever so slowly, the musicsphere I had
created for myself for years, began to fade. It began to slowly lose the power
it had over my subconscious and subsequently my choices and experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then as if the blinkers had been knocked off my
eyes, I began to see the ridiculousness of my life, and choices, for what it
really was. The good change did not happen suddenly because I had created such
a backlog of consequences but it's happening .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A script of self-empowerment instead of
self-deprecation began to be formed in my subconscious. By what music would you
ask? The music of life and nature. A sweet silence that hums a tune of power in
your mind and you hear it only if you are willing to listen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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