If a plane tries to take off without taxiing down the runway and gradually building up speed, it won’t succeed. And even if it takes off, if it lacks sufficient fuel and good maintenance, it won’t stay in the air long. It may even crush.
The important thing is not to be impatient. You can’t attain peace of mind nor social stability all at once. It takes time.
My name is Nana Ama McBrown born as Felicity Ama Agyemang in Kumasi, Ghana, on 15 August 1977.
My mother, Cecilia Agyenim Boateng, and father Kwabena Nkrumah, divorced when McBrown was young. With her father gone and her mother unable to take care of me and my six other siblings, me together with my siblings were adopted by Kofi McBrown and my aunt, Madam Betty Obiri Yeboah.
Along with my six siblings, we grew up in Kwadaso, Kumasi with my aunt and my adopted father. I consider my aunt my “real mother” and has spoken of my gratitude to her for having provided a stable and caring home for us.
I attended St. Peter’s International Residential School, and later moved on to Minnesota International and then to Central International. I continued to Kwadaso L.A. J.S.S, although I ended up dropping out and could not sit for the Basic Education Certificate Exams. I later attended College of Business where i obtained a secretarial certificate.
My acting career started after i answered an audition call on the radio by Miracle Films and I was hired to do costuming instead; however, on the set, i was given the lead role after the director, Samuel Nyamekye, felt that I was better suited for the role. In 2001, my first movie, That Day, was released, to launching my career.
My performance in That Day helped me land a spot on the TV series Tentacles.
In 2007, i appeared in the movie “Asoreba”, co-starring Agya Koo and Mercy Aseidu. Since then, i has had roles in a number of movies.
I was the host of television cooking show McBrown Kitchen and entertainment talk show United Showbiz on UTV until March 2023 and now on Onua TV which sparked a conversation on social media about my contractual obligations to Despite Media.
Some Ghanaians say that your scholastic ability or achievements is low, that is why you left UTV to ONUA TV.
If there is a university I wanted to get into, then I would have studied as much as it takes to get into that university, just as I did to obtain my secretarial certificate of business.
My success comes from my effort. I didn’t Play and dream around and become who I am today. Pipe dreams like “Ah, wouldn’t it be wonderful if I could become an actress or entertainer. There must be some way to get smart while fooling around,” will get you nowhere.
As a human being, my relationship with the land of Ghana and the people in it is very complex, but it is not something remote from my daily life. Rather, the Ghanaian people’s relationship is involved in everything i do, and it affects every aspect of my experience.
In modern Ghana, major problems have arisen in human affairs because we are inattentive to this relationship. While admitting its complexity, we can still seek to understand our relationship to the land of Ghana and bring it more clearly into our conscious awareness.
Following reasonable methods of inquiry, I propose that we start with observations of the most immediate facts of our mutual existence.
My Life and the land of Ghana
I am from Kwadaso, a town in the Kumasi Metropolitan, a district of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
My parents are just ordinary man and a woman who have spent their life pursuing daily necessities, making little contribution to the community and the villages outside Kwadaso.
However, when I consider the things surrounding me, I am astonished at the broad origins of the things that affect my life.
How does your research impact society, and moving it beyond to impact the public good, thereby benefiting the economy, society and discovery itself.
This is what defines my “Broader Impacts. For example, to strengthen my relationship with the community and the society at large, the Ghanaian shoemaker, the market sellers, carpenters, shoeshines, hairdressers, tv presenters, concert shows, tv, entertainment, and a television cooking show that interviews celebrities while cooking their favourite dishes.
These things inspired me, especially the TV programs inspired me and my abilities to fall in love with TV programs and today I represent these important engagements.
Why did described such trivial things?
MacBrown :
Because it will be easier for us as Ghanaians to perceive the extent of our interrelations with the larger community around us if we recognize the presence of such relationships in even the smallest aspects of an ordinary person’s life.
Being born in Kwadaso, provided me with good lenses to become skillful and precise as a Ghanaian to contribute to the larger Ghanaian society.
Hmmmmmm! If you think seriously about it, you can see that every aspect of this universe can be observed in this small area of our homeland. And because our homeland is the place where we live, where we walk, where we see and hear and gain impressions, it is possible for us to observe all these things directly.
Thus, it is possible for us to explain the general nature of complex phenomena anywhere in the world through use of examples which we can find in abundance even in the most remote Town of Kwadaso.
MacBrown:
Let me stress my basic position again; every aspect of the entire universe can be found in the small, limited area of our home community. But we have to be sensitive to these untold riches all around us and we must learn how to be effective observers.
You are right. Makiguchi writes that with this wealth of information and examples all around us: it is astounding that so many people, and teachers in particular, neglect this kind of basic and profound observation and just stick to books, using all their energy in memorising.
They read, forget what they have read, so start to read again, forgetting, reading, forgetting, reading and on and on.
First Soka Gakkai president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi suggests that it might help in understanding the principle with which he is concerned to consider the famous people whom we look up to and who have made great contributions to human culture.
Invariably, we find that these great geniuses of human history, Dante, John Louis Agassiz, Peter the Great, and many others, arrived at the discoveries for which we remember them in very simple surroundings and through the power of their own observations.
At this point, Makiguchi comes to one of his deepest convictions. When we consider such persons of genius, he says, we tend to believe that their great accomplishments were possible entirely because of their innate natural talents. “But,” we think, “I can’t be like that.
It’s impossible.” Thus we tend to see a wide difference between these great people of history and “ordinary people like us.”
MacBrown:
To this, just as Makiguchi responded, I am convinced that in the beginning of life there is very little difference between people. Every person has inborn natural talents and potential.
Then why do these differences come about?
MacBrown:
I believe it hinges upon whether or not a person learns to see and grasp the true nature of phenomena with penetrating insight and understanding. The “geniuses” you cited above honed their vision to a high degree simply through direct observation of the marvels of nature and the world around them.
The natural world can inspire us, foster our wisdom, and family, friends, neighbours and community groups can nurture us in so many ways. This immediate, direct experience available to us through the natural and social environments of our homelands can foster compassion, goodwill, friendship, kindness, sincerity, and humble hearts.
TSASI: IF we carry this line of reasoning further, we come to realise that from a cosmic perspective, we can think of Ghana as our Homeland.
MacBrown:
Some religions encourage Ghanaians to consider their true home as being beyond this present life and think of Ghana as but their temporary Home.
TSASI:
This is how we Ghanians have abandoned our direct intimate communication with natural phenomena and end up in slavery to the Bible. That is wrong and it’s a huge mistake.
Thank you all Nana Ama.
