As Cholera sweeps across Ghana, somehow having taken on epidemic proportions despite the fact we live in a twenty first century world; one often wonders what needs to happen for us to change our attitudes and perceptions.
But then you read something like the following Daily Graphic report and then you realise we would probably be stuck in theses our ancient mindsets of religion and superstition for a long time to come, and that mindset would continue to be detrimental to development and enlightenment so long as we apply it in the manner we do down here.
Residents of Anomabo, a fishing community in the Central Region, have revealed that two of their gods require that they defecate at the beaches. The reason, ostensibly, is that the gods use the faecal matter to produce fish for them.
These two gods who love faeces so much, are known as Ekitsaba and Obosanti. If the residents fail to comply, they revealed, these deities would get angry and they either get very low yield after fishing; or even in extreme cases they kill.