Most Africans are gullibly stupid but I do not want to gear this towards the bigger world when my own people are championing absurdity day and night…
I am not sure if there is any research out there on how gullible any group of people are, but if there is, I wouldn’t be shocked to see Ghanaians on top of the ladder—that is how much we fail to reason and subject things to logical evaluation.
In all aspects of our existence, we are led by pure silliness and our deductions rest on superstition, myths and hearsay—far below what any reasonable person will engage his or mind in.
We have so many things curtailing our progress as human beings but the biggest challenge is our own mindsets which define the path of our thoughts.
It is only in Ghana that no one dies naturally and anytime someone dies, an old witch must have killed the person in spirit and then days later, it manifests in our world.
We believe in all manner of nonsense, ranging from witches to spiritualists, giving these things undeserving attention and powers in our lives. And though difficult for some people to see, our credulity in such things stems from our belief in God—-and anything super natural or spiritual.
There is this assumption that, if there is a God, then there must be a devil. And if there are angels, then there must be demons including witches and all manner of imaginative spirits which operates mostly at night. I wonder what these spirits do during the day…
Interestingly, the Ghanaian has built a defence for his absurd beliefs which does not sit well with the various 21st century developments. Commonly, you will hear the Ghanaian say, everything that has a name exist so witches, wizards and all the various things they come up with in their wild dreams do exist, because they have names…
Now the question is; does a unicorn exist? It has a name too. What about Cinderella in the famous fairy tale, did she or does she exist too?
Few years ago, an Auntie of mine died and at the funeral were pockets of people who whispered to each other, about the person they know killed my Auntie—and this person is another family member.
The whispering went on until this person heard it and she broke down in tears. How can everyone be accusing this “innocent” woman who has come out to mourn her sister as the killer—and it is not that they saw her poison her or shoot her with a gun. Neither did they have any evidence to that effect but they believed she killed her in spirit as she is a witch, in fact, they said she is a Queen at night. If these people truly believed this woman was a Queen witch, didn’t it occur to them she would come after them at night and kill them all for the whispering and humiliation?
If indeed we can kill people at night this way in spirit and have them die within few days, then what the heck are we wasting money on fighting Boko Haram, the ISIS, the Talibans and the Somalia Pirates who continue to torture our very existence? Why don’t we deal with them at night while they sleep and eradicate them in the next few days?
Why did it take us so long to finally find Osama Bin Laden in flesh to shoot him down when we could have hired some Ghanaian witches to just finish him at night? We are beyond delusion, we are just stupid and that is why we are not going anywhere as people.
No wonder we are fighting a disease caused by filth-cholera in the 21st century when the same disease was last seen in London in the 1860s. If we can’t even keep our environment clean as human beings, how can we keep our minds straight and condemn our own stupidity that lives in our thoughts?
Science has become a great leader and achiever in our word today, obliterating superstition and the unnecessary belief in the many mid night wild black cats that used to torment the weak and children in those dark days of human existence. Yet, most Ghanaians are so deep in their superstitious beliefs, living in the 21st century as if they are living in the 12th century…
The many superstitious claims and accusations surrounding Castro and Janet Bandu’s recent disappearance reflect our state of mind as people, this is how most of us think and this is how we live our lives—we gravitate towards such nonsense, making us a bunch of credulous fools failing to use our brains despite having found ourselves in an enlightened 21st century.
Instead of building various Science Research Centers, we’ve built Witch camps to contain suspected witches and wizards—and then we proudly shout, forward ever, backwards never….
Well done. You have said it all
This is so true. Ghanaians believe everything. Very gullible
I have also thought about the way Ghanaians believe in witchcraft that we think they can kill people. Out here in Europe I have not heard a white person die and whitches being blame but in the Ghanaian community you always hear the family in Ghana sent some cockroach to come and visit and kill the person. SMDH
if you are an old woman in a poor community in Ghana you are likely to be called a witch. very sad
Damn! I Am that I Am. Love the position. Hot Damn! Can we meet up in TO?
What civilized country will do this to innocent kids? And yet they call themselves Christians or followers of the man who said “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”. Such is the rot and denseness of the ghanaian mindset that nothing remains pristine once it has gone through it. Everything gets corrupted. Voodoo Christianity is what is been practised in Ghanaian communities today. Attending church is a meaningless action they partake in. They don’t know much of the words of the man they pretend to follow. Sad really! There is darkness in their thoughts 24/7.