ARE WE PLAYING DUMBO OR IS IT A TRUE CASE OF SUPERSTITION?
What doesn’t kill you makes you better, at least that is what we are told but is it really the case. What doesn’t kill you in my opinion makes you bitter. Why? Why not!
Gbovuga, Michael Essien must be furious over reports in the local media claiming that the Ghanaian star injuries may not be mere injury but rather spiritual. At a point when the Ghanaian is understood to be undergoing treatment for the recurring injury comes this voodoo analysis and interpretation.
Essien will be out of action for the next six months after undergoing surgery to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus. The young man does not deserve this from some section of our society. Gbovuga must everything that happens in this country be linked to spirituality. I am disgusted at this baseless argument running on our airwaves and newspapers.
Michael Essien is not the only sport personality with recurring injuries. Players like Michael Owen, Owen Hargreaves and Sam Hutchinson have all suffered injuries with the latter having his career come to an abrupt end at age twenty-one. For Sam Hutchinson he never became a first team player for Chelsea although he was so talented. He had no choice than to hang his boot in such a painful manner.
Gbovuga for Hargreaves, he was in an outstanding form at the 2006 World Cup, with consistent performances for Bayern Munich, earned him a move to Manchester United for 17 Million Pounds in 2007. In his first season at United, Hargreaves played 34 games, including 23 out of 38 Premier League games.
However, over the following three seasons he played a part in only 5 matches, and last season alone lasted only five minutes in his return match before leaving the Old Trafford pitch for the final time.
Gbovuga, none of the above players’ countrymen said they were being attacked spiritually? Is it the case that whenever we don’t understand something we turn to superstition?
Gbovuga, in the mid 50s and 60s, there arose, a development transformation theory that said that Africa’s underdevelopment was as a result of Africans being; clannish, superstitious religiously oriented among other factors.
This theory stated that there was the need for Africans to move away from these factors to achieve modern development, pointing the media as a key accelerator of change to these ill- factors. The modernisation theory, as it was referred to, was engineered to find ways of developing Africa into a modern society like Europe.
Gbovu, our society has been described by some senior citizens as polarised and more superstitious than ever. Some have placed these superstitious tendencies on the door steps of our Art industry and the media as promoters. And I agree with this statement totally.
The movie industry which is said to be gaining its feet is said to be the accelerators of this opportunistic method of manipulating the minds of Ghanaians, aided by an unconscious media.
Arts, especially movies, have been described as an industry, meant to tell stories of people, change mindset for development and shape culture in general but unfortunately much cannot be said of the Ghanaian movie industry.
Our movie industry is full with stories on witchcraft, derailing of traditional religion and consciously or unconsciously Christianity centred while ironically, we live in a circular state. Gbovuga, this is not to say in any way that I am against Christianity.
Our movie industry, lack adequate creativity, because it is strange that upon all the great stories of men and women in our nation and the numerous scandals and history of this country , there is no single movie to retell, one of these stories to our young ones to shape their lives. A creative Producer would have made lot of millions with “the cocaine saga” that hit the country, if the same saga had happened in America by now. Ah dey liar?
In Ghana today, the advent of some Nigerian film Producers, Directors and Script writers injected into our industry to savage the then dead industry, had not done much as to shaping and motivating young ones but rather sought to push an agenda (consciously or unconsciously) of ‘superstition’ in the society. Stories on witchcraft, cultist, and tragedy have become the order of the day.
Nowadays, some people look suspicious when they receive gifts or money from neighbours because of the kind of stories the industry is feeding them. Now, every unfortunate incident in our society is blamed on the suspicion and superstition of witchcraft and traditional priests. Unfortunately Michael finds himself as the victim in this ridiculous statements made about his injury.
Some of these stories on witchcraft, which at the climax of the story introduces a pastor, who literally cast demons and curses, are indeed worrying and it seems there are no regulators in the movie industry to check it.
Comparing our industry to some American, Western and even South African movies, shows clear evidence of creativity deficiency in our industry.
There are several stories about great citizens of the U.S.A. in their movie industry that retells the story of these people to their young ones as well as the whole world like the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” which was a story of how a determine but financially broke young American worked his way to the top of the financial ladder of that country.
This was able to motivate the young ones to aim and work hard for future success. Some have blamed the thread in our movie industry as a result of inadequate financial support, inadequate expertise in animation or imagery work and grounded creative technical support.
If, there is a body with the mandate of regulating our movies industry, then it is time they take a critical look at the developing epic episode which has a potential of infecting the psyche of this country. I just heard that the Eastern Region floods are now being blamed on the gods. Ridiculous isn’t it?
Gbovuga, Michael Essien must be furious over reports in the local media claiming that the Ghanaian star injuries may not be mere injury but rather spiritual. At a point when the Ghanaian is understood to be undergoing treatment for the recurring injury comes this voodoo analysis and interpretation.
Essien will be out of action for the next six months after undergoing surgery to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus. The young man does not deserve this from some section of our society. Gbovuga must everything that happens in this country be linked to spirituality. I am disgusted at this baseless argument running on our airwaves and newspapers.
Michael Essien is not the only sport personality with recurring injuries. Players like Michael Owen, Owen Hargreaves and Sam Hutchinson have all suffered injuries with the latter having his career come to an abrupt end at age twenty-one. For Sam Hutchinson he never became a first team player for Chelsea although he was so talented. He had no choice than to hang his boot in such a painful manner.
Gbovuga for Hargreaves, he was in an outstanding form at the 2006 World Cup, with consistent performances for Bayern Munich, earned him a move to Manchester United for 17 Million Pounds in 2007. In his first season at United, Hargreaves played 34 games, including 23 out of 38 Premier League games.
However, over the following three seasons he played a part in only 5 matches, and last season alone lasted only five minutes in his return match before leaving the Old Trafford pitch for the final time.
Gbovuga, none of the above players’ countrymen said they were being attacked spiritually? Is it the case that whenever we don’t understand something we turn to superstition?
Gbovuga, in the mid 50s and 60s, there arose, a development transformation theory that said that Africa’s underdevelopment was as a result of Africans being; clannish, superstitious religiously oriented among other factors.
This theory stated that there was the need for Africans to move away from these factors to achieve modern development, pointing the media as a key accelerator of change to these ill- factors. The modernisation theory, as it was referred to, was engineered to find ways of developing Africa into a modern society like Europe.
Gbovu, our society has been described by some senior citizens as polarised and more superstitious than ever. Some have placed these superstitious tendencies on the door steps of our Art industry and the media as promoters. And I agree with this statement totally.
The movie industry which is said to be gaining its feet is said to be the accelerators of this opportunistic method of manipulating the minds of Ghanaians, aided by an unconscious media.
Arts, especially movies, have been described as an industry, meant to tell stories of people, change mindset for development and shape culture in general but unfortunately much cannot be said of the Ghanaian movie industry.
Our movie industry is full with stories on witchcraft, derailing of traditional religion and consciously or unconsciously Christianity centred while ironically, we live in a circular state. Gbovuga, this is not to say in any way that I am against Christianity.
Our movie industry, lack adequate creativity, because it is strange that upon all the great stories of men and women in our nation and the numerous scandals and history of this country , there is no single movie to retell, one of these stories to our young ones to shape their lives. A creative Producer would have made lot of millions with “the cocaine saga” that hit the country, if the same saga had happened in America by now. Ah dey liar?
In Ghana today, the advent of some Nigerian film Producers, Directors and Script writers injected into our industry to savage the then dead industry, had not done much as to shaping and motivating young ones but rather sought to push an agenda (consciously or unconsciously) of ‘superstition’ in the society. Stories on witchcraft, cultist, and tragedy have become the order of the day.
Nowadays, some people look suspicious when they receive gifts or money from neighbours because of the kind of stories the industry is feeding them. Now, every unfortunate incident in our society is blamed on the suspicion and superstition of witchcraft and traditional priests. Unfortunately Michael finds himself as the victim in this ridiculous statements made about his injury.
Some of these stories on witchcraft, which at the climax of the story introduces a pastor, who literally cast demons and curses, are indeed worrying and it seems there are no regulators in the movie industry to check it.
Comparing our industry to some American, Western and even South African movies, shows clear evidence of creativity deficiency in our industry.
There are several stories about great citizens of the U.S.A. in their movie industry that retells the story of these people to their young ones as well as the whole world like the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” which was a story of how a determine but financially broke young American worked his way to the top of the financial ladder of that country.
This was able to motivate the young ones to aim and work hard for future success. Some have blamed the thread in our movie industry as a result of inadequate financial support, inadequate expertise in animation or imagery work and grounded creative technical support.
If, there is a body with the mandate of regulating our movies industry, then it is time they take a critical look at the developing epic episode which has a potential of infecting the psyche of this country. I just heard that the Eastern Region floods are now being blamed on the gods. Ridiculous isn’t it?
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