The Impact Crew: A Modern Day Slave

Contemporary slavery, also known as modern day 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 American lottery has received a huge number than the previous years, specifically the just ended 2016/2017 lottery. The Global Slavery Index is an annual ranking of slavery conditions in countries. Ghana is ranked 21st globally. Who is to be blamed for this?

The economy of the African continent is like a bad breadth and our greedy political leaders have no idea on its genesis and its revelation. We are in leadership crisis indeed. No wonder the greater population today from the length 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 behavior. 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 Kumasi Kejetia market made by the so-called ordinary Ghanaian tax payers is Gh¢5.00 with a many stomachs to feed. Then why won't this citizen make his aspirations available for the bright side of life. That's what every breadth prays for and hopes for even though it's a maybe. In Kumasi Kejetia Market which is one of the largest market centers 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 its 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 judgment even though is a disguised victim of this frustrating 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 emancipation of the Negro. The only place where black minds will find freedom to the awakening of thought is through the influence of Pan-Africans 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 cruelest torture is that of a psychological stigmatization 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 realize their full potential in the context of ideas and the advancement of knowledge.

In a simple analogy which doesn't require a degree 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 communicators 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 civilization, 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 organized 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-Africans have been, and continue 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-Africans have, and continue to be, on the ‘qui vive’ for the realization 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 its fullest. There is no doubt. This is purely modern slavery but we can’t refuse simply because we have no 'choice'

Akwasi Brobbey
(Senior writer and editor at TIC)
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