AssumptaGH International Publications featured Joselyn Dumas in it monthly NewsLetter Magazine. “ALWAYS WITH JOSELYN”.
A voice of courage and hope to save the younger generation of Ghanaians by creating awareness to remind them of their worth.
Children:
Our dialogue with you begins with our question. “Is Ghana really better than ever?
Joselyn:
Ghana has never been worse. But as an influential actress I insist that young people have never looked so good, and only your pessimism is holding you back.
Children:
We live in Ghana, a country with political crisis, health crisis, education crisis, crisis of the entire judicial system, low wages, high unemployment, tax burden and crisis in the state morgue.
For too long after Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown, things have been accepted as normal that cannot be accepted as normal. It is accepted that government or state-owned companies are not paid well.
If we listen to the media and broadcast news and quickly summarize the headlines, there is no other conclusion to be drawn than that Ghana is about to go down the drain.
Joselyn:
Well, optimists and pessimists inhabit different worlds, reacting to the same circumstances in completely different ways.
Let’s say you ask a friend from school to have lunch with you and he declines. How do you react?
Children :
Because he doesn’t like me or because I’m not interesting or attractive.
Joselyn:
That’s exactly how a pessimist might think: “He doesn’t like me; or it’s because I’m not interesting or attractive. Such thoughts cause further repetitive gloomy negative thoughts that repeat over and over in your mind without end or completion, gradually leading you to feel worthless.
Conversely, a person with an optimistic approach to life might think that her friend is simply busy and consider trying again another time.
Children :
It seems like my personal experience with my teacher who always angrily scolds and criticises me for everything I do and I react thinking “I really hate him” and from there I go to think about all the things I don’t like about my teacher.
Joselyn:
Your teacher scolding you is a one-time, passing event, but you make it permanent by thinking, “It’s always like this” and “No matter what I do, it will never change.”
On the other hand, the optimistic person thinks, “Teacher is in a bad mood today. It’s always like this, ‘he must have something on his mind,'” limiting the event to that day and not extending further.
With this I would like to tell you about the history of Ghana and how Kwame Nkrumah the founder of Ghana then the Gold Coast Civilization discovered his (Greater Self) after his overthrow on February 24th 1966 the first coup of Ghana , and what would have been the first of many to shake up the then newly independent Ghana, it happened.
Children
Yes Yes Yes Yes. We cannot lose sight of reality and, in an extreme version of optimism, gleefully blame everything bad that happens to our country.
This is another characteristic of pessimism when personalised. That is, thinking that anything bad that happens is your fault and anything good must be attributed to other people or to chance.
For example, when the overthrow of optimist Kwame Nkrumah happened when the then president was on an official trip to Hanoi, Vietnam, when news of his overthrow spread.
He said: “What happened in Ghana will continue. It will happen in many other African countries. It will go on until all of Africa is destroyed and a new Africa will rise from the ashes”.
Unlike many of the people on that trip with Kwame Nkrumah who were thrown in jail upon returning from that trip, Chris Hesse was Kwame Nkrumah’s personal photographer. Chris Hesse has helped document the visual history of the country’s political leadership and development. He also worked for the United Nations, serving as a photographer, documenting the Congo crisis in the 1960s.
Chris Hesse went on to become one of Ghana’s best filmmakers of all time, working as a videographer for all the presidents who have come after Nkrumah.
This is the power of the mind. The mind that we have seen in the story of the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah is a wonderful thing. As Milton wrote in Paradise Lost), “The mind is his place, and of itself can make heaven out of hell, and hell out of heaven.
Children :
You mean, “The more painful the sufferings that afflict us and the fiercer the waves of adversity that assail our society, the brightest young people should shine with the light of boundless hope and courage.
Joselyn:
Whatever we have done in the last ten years since the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah is clearly working as Kwame Nkrumah said: “What happened in Ghana will continue. It will happen in many other African countries. It will continue until the whole of Africa is destroyed. and from the ashes a new Africa will rise”.
And so the political and economic agreements that have brought Ghana to this point are the ones that we ourselves should abide by. So optimism, after all, means more than believing things aren’t as bad as you imagined, it means having justified faith that they’ll soon get even better.
If there are other friends who want to join us in the next episode, let them join. So far we conclude today’s episode. Thank you all.
