We simply cannot cut off our noses to spite our faces, as the good, old maxim goes. Personally, I have tended to attribute this stygian cultural mess to two of our postcolonial “revolutionary” leaders, namely, the legendary and immortalized President Kwame Nkrumah and, in our own time, Chairman Jerry John Rawlings. Both leaders amply demonstrated how little they had any use for the Chieftaincy Establishment. Well, if Mr. Dontoh wants to fully appreciate precisely why “Ghanaians no longer pay [studious] attention to [our] indigenous norms and ethics,” this is clearly where it all began. Interestingly and incidentally, Mr. Dontoh is also known to be a member of a prominent Ghanaian royal family that staunchly backed the revolutionary activities and programs of the Convention People’s Party.

Source: GhanaWeb November 30, 2019 12:56 UTC