"The black man is capable of managing his own affairs”, the clear words of the greatest African leader ever,  Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as part of his Independence Declaration on the eve of 6th March, 1957 at the Old Polo Grounds. These words have now become a Pan-African saying as most Africans have realized the sacrosanct inputs of African masses in their own cherished continent’s progress.


Head of Human Resource Management Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Felicity Asiedu Appiah on the occasion of commemorating the birthday of Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah would have loved to ask the main independence leader a simple question of what he found in Ghanaians at the time for which he declared that ‘the black man was capable of managing his own affairs’?

Dr. Felicity expresses worry over the inability of Ghana to fully rely on her own natural resources and economy for survival after sixty one years of independence from colonial rule in an interview with Focus FM News.

According to her, it is high time Ghanaians showed maximum patriotism towards the development of the country.

”Patriotism is very important. I wish that people are very pessimistic about Ghana and whether we are ever going to survive,” she said.

The Head of Department says radical transformation is needed to change Ghanaians’’slavish mentality’ towards work.

According to the Human Resource Expert, the attitude of some Ghanaians who hypocritically adorn their walls with values they cannot protect and defend at their work places have to stop, adding that “religion has become an enslaving tool instead of a liberating one, patriotism as a value is dead”.

She believes that individuals need to work effectively to contribute to the development of the nation.

”As individuals working in our various organizations, we need to do what we can do best. Just brighten the corner where you are and do your best’, she advised.

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