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6th March

6th March

I promise I legit forgot that March came with 6th March and with that came Ghana’s Independence. How is that remotely even possible? If I hadn’t chance on a community post update with activities scheduled for public holidays, then this day would have come and gone and I wouldn’t have remembered a thing. I don’t know about you but that alone tells you a story no skilled author can.

“It’s Ghana’s Independence Day after all. Today we leave all the issues behind and celebrate Ghana’s Independence and welcome another year full of promised hope and prosperity. Another year to resist oppressor’s rule with all our will and might. Another year to defend the cause of freedom and of right. Another year to fill our breast with true humility, honesty, fearlessness”. – Mimi, 2021 (Ghana’s Independence day)

The time span between those two paragraphs is one year and and yet the change is fundamentally impossible to ignore.

6th March? Yeh or Nah

Yeh? I remember when 6th March used to be such a monumental day even for us as students in schools because we would be busy rehearsing march parades to go display on various parks all over the country. It was a big deal so much so that the march parade organized in the nation’s capital would be televised and we would be so eager to watch these.

In the wake of 6th March, the would be music composed by artist to bring more light to the day. Nkrumah’s funny “Ghana, your beloved country is free for forever” would be playing both on t.v and on people’s lips. If not anything at all, I promise the country despite every year’s challenges becomes happy, even if it’s faux, there is still that serenading feeling of oneness.

Nah? Because now 6th March is just like any other day. And why would it be any different when the nation is like taking Independence backwards. Our leaders in the bid to enforce laws on us strategically redraw their roles and functions to serve as sanction to us. The ordinary man also in the bid to survive come what may, develop tactful ways of manipulating each other and the system. Other than a public holiday, 6th March is little to nothing to write home about.

So what? Are we going to give up on our country? Are we going to depart and escape our home? Are we going to deject and neglect it’s people? No. Nope. At this point I don’t think that should be the questions we should be asking. At this stage what we should be asking is, ‘Now what’?

It’s 6th March, another year of Ghana’s Independence, the nation is in a mess. NOW WHAT. What are we going to do with the crumbles? What are we going to do with the left overs? What are we going to do with our lives that was so preciously given to us each and every day by our gracious creator; our freedom (however you view it) that was gruesomely achieved for us by great men of old. I doubt the existence of another Nkrumah to free us from the current slavery we have subjected ourselves to now. Whatever we do now, is on us individually.

On a lighter note, Happy Independence day fellow Ghanaians 😀 😄 😊. Don’t frown, it’s 6th March after all 😉.

Also check out; Ghana’s Independence Day.

I refuse to not see life as cupcakes and rainbows 😁😁😁.

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