PEOPLE IN ACCRA LISTEN TO ME IF YOU’RE NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW. ANY TYPE OF 24 HOUR STORE GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW AND PUT YOUR HAND IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON. THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY AS OF RIGHT NOW.
you must create because the thing you’d make doesn’t exist anywhere else. nobody has your exact combination of experiences and wounds and obsessions, which means the work only you could make is genuinely irreplaceable. if you don’t make it, it simply never exists. the world just goes without it, never knowing what it missed. that’s the most exciting thing about being you. the thing is waiting and you’re the only door it has.
If NPP starts it, NDC must make it look bad. If NDC starts it, NPP must make it look useless. Then we pretend to be shocked when every government abandons what the last one began. Ghana is not underdeveloped by accident.
“People know exactly what they’re doing”
Until it’s you. Then suddenly, your intentions matter. Everyone wants grace for themselves, but rarely wants to extend it to others.