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You Know the ‘Ghanaian Stupidity’ Has No Generational Boundaries When A Contemporary Musician-Tinny Says His Music Career is Not Progressing Because Someone Has ‘JUJU’ Him

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During my undergraduate Law School days in London, a bunch of white mates kept shouting my name out one afternoon—calling me to come and have a look at something they were staring at on a laptop.

After several minutes of ignoring their calls, I decided to end the nuisance by responding, by making a walk to the corner of the library, where they had gathered.

They had stumbled on an article which was not a satire (reported as a fact with an eyewitness account)—and the article stated that a cat had turned into a human being in Nigeria.

The ridiculousness of this was the reason why they were bothering me on the assumption that since I was from Ghana, I could explain to them if people still believed in such “hocus pocus,” only of contemporary relevance in the West in Harry Porter and other fictional books.

I looked at them in shame and said something along the lines; “a lot of people still believe in such Palaeolithic era nonsense” and quickly added that “it’s mostly the old generation with little or no education.”

Of course, I was lying with the second part of my answer. The African superstitious nonsense has no generational boundaries, both the old and the new are pathetically hooked on it as though it’s in the water given to us from birth.

Over the weekend, Ghanaian musician-Tinny stated that his musical career is not progressing because someone has ‘juju’ him in Benin. Like a typical African dodging responsibility for their actions, Tinny thinks there can be no other explanation for failure unless someone else is ‘doing’ you.

He does not only believe this to be true, he actually believes it’s plausible enough for him to serve it to the Ghanaian population which largely believes in such things.

Enlightenment and Science have taught us that, witches are incapable of flying and such mythical villains do not even exist. Yet, we continue to credit our own follies and incompetence to these imaginary characters.

Africa as a continent is stalling, largely because of such insane superstitious beliefs—which have led to many of our own being killed or subjected to torture while in chains at the numerous witch camps surrounding us.

Recently, it was reported that “a 13-year-old boy died mysteriously after setting a Bible ablaze in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region.

Residents believe he was struck by thunder when he set the holy book, belonging to his father, on fire.”

Graphic Online also reported in 2015 that a ghost had possessed a 12 year old girl—that a “ghost of a 29-year old man, Eugene Nana Asamoah was said to have possessed a 12-year girl only named as Jennifer at Essikado, creating uproar and accusation upon counter accusation at Essikado.”

In the same year, News came in from Nigeria with photos and a video of a poor woman sitting on the floor surrounded by a crowd, stating that, a bird fell from a ‘high tension’ electricity pole and the moment it landed on the floor, it turned into a human being.

The absurdity of these stories is not a problem, as absurd stories can be found everywhere. The problem with the situation in Ghana, is the fact that a large number of the population actually believes in these things.

And Tinny is just one of the millions.

As I stated  in one of my articles;

Though many African religious leaders (Pastors, Mallams,Imans etc)  do not practice or positively portray superstitions, they work tirelessly, pray hard and put mechanisms in place to fight or conquer the deeds of those (witches flying on brooms, wizards vanishing from end to another, dwarfs, fetish priests giving out black magic, etc)  who engage in superstitions.

The fact that religious leaders believe they have to fight, pray against or conquer these superstitions in itself is a strong credence that, to them, these things are real, exist and have real power to do what we envisage they do. Otherwise, why will you pray against the activities of witchcraft if you do not believe they are in action?

In Africa, nothing in life happens genuinely. No one dies without his or her death having been caused by another through some dubious means.  Accidents are never attributed to faults or incompetence of the people in charge or machine failure, they are always orchestrated by certain superstitious powers.

Holding solid superstitious beliefs and practicing them in the face of contradictory evidence is not uncommon in Africa. Even though this baffles my thinking faculty, it is the unfortunate ordeals that these believers bring to bear on others that worry me most.

Imagine a distressed mother who has just lost her pregnancy (miscarriage) having been confidently told that her aged grandmother or mother in the village bewitched her, and used her unborn baby for the witchcraft annual party that was held somewhere in the bush in the middle of the night.

The miscarriage may be devastating but the thought that your own mother or grandmother fried your innocent unborn child for a party is immensely diabolical.

It is not only the everyday people who buy into the several superstitious beliefs in Africa, many graduates attribute their inability to find their dream jobs to the evil activities of their relatives or people who do not wish them good.

It may shock you to know that, medical doctors who cannot help their patients frequently throw out sentences like ‘we cannot find what is wrong with you, your illness may be caused by some evil or dark powers so it is better to go and seek alternative help’.

If someone has ‘JUJU’ Tinny—why don’t he ‘JUJU’ the person back? Perhaps, he needs to purchase “back to sender” from one of those charlatan men of God. This why Obinim and his religious leader friends are stinking rich!



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