A Modern Day Slave

Contemporary slavery, also known as modern slavery, refers to the institutions of slavery that continue to exist in the present day. Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million to 29 million. Modern slavery is a multi-billion dollar industry with estimates of up to $35 billion generated annually.

The ongoing american lottery currently has received a huge number than the previous year, specifically this year. The Global Slavery Index is an annual ranking of slavery conditions in countries. Ghana is ranked 21st globaly. Who is to be blamed for this canker? Our political leaders in Africa or the americans?

The economy of my beloved country Ghana, is like a bad breadth and our greedy political crew have no idea on it's genesis and it's revelation. We are in leadership crisis indeed. No wonder the greater population today from the lenght and breadth of the country. Through all of this societal ‘topsy-turvy’, the poor remain the victims, as the truth is hidden from them.

The intrinsic value of our society is devalued by such behaviour. We need policies that will ensure party politics does not have a negative effect on society, but ,rather, aids in the development of this society and its people let’s put an end to afflicting conditions and grasp progress!. For sure, the greedy white collar makes the sun ethemologically a curse for the 'ordinary Ghanaian populates'.

If the profit for a day sales in the scorching sun at Makola and Suame market made by the so-called ordinary Ghanaian tax payers was Gh¢5.00 with forcable tax inclusion. Then why won't this citizen make himself or herself available for the bright side of life. That's what every breadth prays for and hopes for eventhough it's a maybe.

In Kumasi Kejetia Market which is one of the largest market centres in West-Africa, hawkers and vendors are chased with guards to pay tax with no attention to the betterment of the modern day tax payer.

She would rather adhere to be a slave abroad rather than to be slaves in her own country. Aren't we slaves in our own land? Voting has lost it's sacred significance outrageously in our part of the world. Do we vote for leaders or readers?

Although this exploitation is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. I stand by my words and judgement eventhough am a disguised victim of this fustrating pain. I am to share my thought on it not as an apostle of ethics but with an eked to the voices that alarms for the movement against mancipation of the Negro.

The only place where black minds will find freedom to the awakening of thought is through the influence of Pan-Africanism in the trenches of ‘Black Consciousness’, that is where one will come to the full awareness of the intellect of a black mind.

Thereafter, Africans can shake off the oppressive weight that society has flung upon them and rejuvenate their mental capacity in order to be three times sharper than before; with the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. Innovation is part of our proud culture. Black minds, it is time for us to claim what’s rightfully ours!

To this end, the cruellest torture is that of a psychological stigmatisation that results in mental hunger which, in turn, leads to ignorance. Through those mind -poisoning attempts, black minds showed great determination to evade such attempts made by colonists. With the permission of time, black minds, if given access to great resources, can introduce advances in the field of knowledge as they carry the intellectual capacity.

In the era of African epistemic origins, before the western theoretical lies emerged, culturally, black minds were encouraged to realise their full potential in the context of ideas and the advancement of knowledge.

Lets make this simple analogy which doesn't require a Phd before one can eke. If for a year 1,000 graduates are instrumentally 'packaged'to the americans. Where lies our future as Africans. We are down to the grave. This is a grave decision. Do we need communicaters as leaders or educators?

This is the time the Black colour must rise and stop acting as a subordinate.

As a result of Black Consciousness influences, the native carries a mental ability to adapt to the continuous interchange of ideas; as a deep revival of the intrinsic value of a black person. During ancient African civilisation, black minds were the producers of ‘knowledge innovation’ that was used as a vehicle to express ideas, intellect and talents.

Black minds are still unappreciated as a mechanism of thinking ̶ as a well organised pedal of knowledge. This has occurred in order to oust blacks and elevate white dominance in the kingdom of knowledge, forgetting that black minds were the focal point in the formative years of knowledge.

After all, one doesn’t need a microscope or telescope to see the slow ascendancy of blacks in the narrow corridors of the academic world in Africa.

Africans with regards to the gospel of consciousness, and this revealed itself to be an ongoing problem for the existence of the colonial regime. Enlightenment meant that, if Africans could come to grasp their full potential, then colonialists were to repent and beg for forgiveness with their faces pressed against the ground. Overall, Pan-Africanism has been, and continues to be, a threat to all the forces that seek to keep Africa under-developed.

The memorable phrase "Africa for Africans”, as an ideal, is by far the most sensational revelation to the black mind. Pan-Africanism has, and continues to be, on the ‘qui vive’ for the realisation of Africa, deeply influencing the psychology of the native African.

Its clear, principled ideology is echoed in different continents by African , zealous reformers as an object of veneration, through which incredible dedication by fellow Africans unfolds – embodying the true, symbolic development of Africa and its people.

Africa needs us all and we must live for the ultimate course to see Africa rise to it's fullest. There is no doubt. This is purely modern slavery but we cant refuse simply because we have no 'choice'

Derrick Akwasi Brobbey (Offinso College of Education, Offinso)