#FixTheCountry: The tale of a wisest king ever lived

Many years ago, Goka had a king, he was so wise and caring.

He didn't want to see any of his subjects live in poverty.

Everyday, he visited their homes, and those who were idle hands or had no work to do, he either employed them or taught them a trade that will feed them and their dependents.

But there was this particular subject of the wise king who always had a deaf ear to the good counsels of the king. His name was Agyapade or Inheritance.

Agyapade lived on his late father's property. Agyapade's father was an apothecary (or a medicine man), and he had this tree in front of his house with leaves that healed almost all ailments that plagued mankind. Even the Covid-19 we battle today would have bowed before the healing powers of the said magic tree.

When the father lived, these leaves were picked freely by the sick, and they will only come back and give some "thank-you-money" when its usefulness heals their sickness.

But upon the death of this good medicine man, his son Agyapade customised this blessed ancient tree. He enriched himself to bursting by selling the leaves at a cut-throat price to the poor sick people.

That alone is not a cause for worry to the Goka people and their wise king, but Agyapade will not join the major trades of the people. He'll not go to farm, or apply his hands on any craft, but sat at home always and insulted those who tilled the land as fools.

This infuriated the wise king. And one night, as all souls went to their slumber, sleeping, he (the wise king ) ordered his servants to cut down the magic healing tree, for he's discovered its undefiled type deep into the sacred forest.

Before the first cock crew, and Agyapade was up inspecting this his money-making-tree, as he does all mornings, he was welcomed by an unpleasant spectacle. The tree was down, and nothing even remained of the roots to give him the slightest hope of it sprouting again.

Agyapade wept for many days for his misery. How was he going to feed and live ostentatiously like before?

The wise king then came back to Agyapade and reproached him, telling him how foolish he was to banking all his hopes on one tree, which is easily made lifeless by the might of the axe.

Agyapade from that day forward worked for himself, and wherever he heard of a new trade, he followed, learnt and put its knowledge to use.

In no time, Agyapade's handiworks rewarded him greatly with deserving riches. And he changed his name to _Mabrɛmanya_ (I Worked To Gained).

Moral Lesson:

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Don't stop learning. Keep on changing yourself to the needs of the times, so you don't go hungry.

Today, many a Ghanaian and invariably, all African, are calling for the elected leaders to fix the country (#FixTheCountry). The people were promised a lot by the politician, using the numerous bequeathed resources as the fat cow that will be milked to quench our hunger.

Yes, the resources in gold, diamond, crude oil and name them; are exploited every day but they who were promised still lives in the squalor we were not long ago promised a reprieve from.

It's not substituting and alternating powers to our traditional parties, as seen in NPP to NDC and vice versa here in Ghana that will solve Africa's problems.

The status quo needs a complete overhaul. Africa needs a new building strategy. We can't continue banking on our inherited resources. The very resources that is effectively channelled through a long and wide alleys that irrigates the handiworks of a third country - the West and the East.

Resources depletes, they're not static. And as seen in the parable above, if like Agyapade's tree, our resources get their alternatives, we'll weep for want of food.

Or we're playing ostrich to the many changes of the world? Now clean energy is replacing greenhouse gas emitters in fossil fuels. Who knows what's next in line to our touted resources to suffer a fate of rejection?

We have the men, the talented African needs a fertile ground in good leadership to make ends meet out of his handiworks.

The *New Africa Movement* I lead, presents an alternative to the rebuilding of Africa. It doesn't lie in agitating for the incumbency to #FixTheCountry, for they're all sellouts, and whatever they'll do inflates our irredeemable debts, and mortgaging our sovereignty.

Rally round the new flag of Africa and join this crusade. Africa will be rescued and marched to the promised land soon with our own creativity. And our name will be changed to _Yabrɛyanya_ (We Worked For).

Written by: Charles Yeboah (Sir Lord)

The Founder of The New Africa Movement

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