A country with no vision is a country with no hope. In democracies, manifestos are wrongly sold to voters as visions. Knowing your destiny from early on helps the winners in life to solve today's challenges correctly and over time reach the goal set off for. Like humans nations live their lives from the end, not the beginning or left to the chance of the blowing wind and storms anyhow. Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Julius Caesar, Pharaos, China's initiative of the modern Silk Road, etc. are visions not for four or eight years of political parties in power but visions for hundreds and even thousands of years.
The foundation of the above visions is based on a thorough analysis of today as today really is. To create a new progressive state starts with the values of society and its parameters. Defined assumptions like the ratio of city population to rural areas, level of education, social equality, etc are the pillars of the new concept. The visions of the future in one, two, and three hundred of years or more must be put down in black and white. The final step to connect the values of today with the future of tomorrow based on the assumptions is the defined system able to support the process and progress. A-level students of Germany know this simple truth creative enough to set up new nations. African academics in power in comparison are infants in Primary Schools. Unlike adults, children are self-centered little Narzists.
The identity (values) of Ghanaians are not Christianity or witchcraft but cocoa and gold. When gold is exploited and mining sites are empty cocoa still stays with Ghana...if the people of Ghana wish and take good care of the trees. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in 1965 mandated German Expert late Joachim Burmeister, Hamburg-Othmarschen, being number one in the world of chocolate production to set up CPC Cocoa Processing Company Ltd. in Tema. The state-run company declined over time from 700 workers to today around 200 poorly paid workers producing poor quality for the domestic and neighboring markets. CPC Ltd once listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange was delisted a few years ago receiving annually a subsidy of $ 12-14 Mio.. I was refused to buy the company being white and it was seen as a prestige object to the country.
Ghana has started the work on a National Cathedral among many existing churches overcrowding the nation. My suggestion instead to set up an internationally attractive Chocolate City and Chocolate Trail crisscrossing Ghana was rejected - only by Okyehene in his Adabraka Palace in the presence of late GIPC CEO Mawuena Trebarh seen as desirable. He failed his promise to bring CPC Ltd into my hands.
When history calls for you to come for your blessing and you decide to go your own way history or galamsey and poverty will come for you. God closes doors that no man can open.
God, have mercy on Ghana.