“I don’t want an African past, I want an African future. I don’t want to imitate what Yaa Asantewaa did, I want to create something new for myself and my generation. So, if at this time we are still pounding fufu the same way Yaa Asantewaa pounded it – I grant you your right to eat your fufu, no matter the calories, but should you prepare it the same way it was prepared by your ancestors? So that we don’t look around and say: ‘Well this is our life, this is where we are, it’s okay. Imitating them is not being African, because if I want to become an authentic African, I don’t become an African by looking backwards, I become an African by looking forward.

Source: GhanaWeb March 06, 2018 14:26 UTC