Tenacity and Perseverance.
One of the most important things for human beings is tenacity. In a way we can say that life is a struggle to never lose hope. Buddhism teaches that we are all born with a noble mission and that we can all shine in our own special and unique way.
A closer look at political elites from Ghana. There is a sense amongst Ghanaians that Ghana is a miserable place, until they visit and realise it’s very different.
This newsletter examines differences between Ghana’s economy and Ghanians’ feelings, and how those feelings are associated with Ghanaians characteristics and their political oriented minds.
This newsletter also examined the relationship between the NDC and the NPP political ideology of elected politicians.
To this end, we studied NDC politicians from relating their self-reports based on measures of political ideology.
“Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and a capitalist mixed economy.”
Tsasi : Our findings also show that, NPP in line with the congruence, a result showed quite good was their model of personality, openness to experience is their best and most consistent correlate of political ideology, with NPP politicians high on openness to experience being more likely to be found among the NPP political party.
The Party’s policy is to liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property-owning democracy in this land, with right to life, freedom and justice, as the principles to which the Government and laws of the land should be dedicated in order specifically to enrich life, property and liberty of each and every citizen.
We aim to bring together like-minded citizens of the country so that they may strive for Freedom and Justice by the appreciation and protection of human rights and the rule of Law through the practice of true democracy.
Views of the NPP party have grown more negative in recent years across Ghana amongst Ghanaians and even some economies, and unfavourable opinion has soared over the past year, a new 8-country Assumpta Research Center survey shows.
Today, a majority in each of the surveyed countries has an unfavourable opinion of Ghana. And in these countries negative views have reached their highest points since President Nana Akufo Addo began polling on the topic for Ghana to manufacture its own products produced in Ghana, and develop a new generation of talented Ghanaian producers with their local industries.
Tsasi: The rise in unfavourable views amongst Ghanaians themselves in Ghana comes amid widespread criticism over how the president handled the coronavirus pandemic.
Across the nations survey, 59% Ghanaians say Ghana has done a bad job dealing with the outbreak. This is much more than say the same of the way the COVID-19 pandemic was handled by their own country or by international organisations like the World Health Organization or the European Union.
Indeed, across the world, even Italy, China and many other countries also the U.S. receives more negative evaluations from the survey saying the U.S. has handled the coronavirus outbreak poorly.
Tsasi: Disapproval of how Ghana has handled the COVID-19 pandemic also colours Ghanaian people’s confidence in Nana Akufo Addo.
59% Ghanaians say they have not too much or no confidence in him to do the right thing regarding their affairs, including the rise of fuel prices, rise of taxes, rise of transportation, rise of food prices, families can’t afford to purchase school books and many more.
Assumpta: This lack of confidence in Nana Akufo Addo is at historic highs in many countries for which Namibia is an exception.
In Namibia, 83% percent of Namibians says too much confidence in the Ghanaian president Nana Akufo Addo has grown by double digits since last year. For example, Ghana gained its independence from the colonial powers to have their rights respected to become happy.
Can Ghanaians now turn it into strength?
The new approach to beat poverty,
Tsasi: Let me share this experience of Baaba, a Hausa herdsman herding goats and cows in his Wa village, one of the poorest parts of northern Ghana.
Before I was preparing to leave Ghana in 1989 to Wa, I first went to Obuasi, a gold Mining town in the Ashanti region, as a gold mining community, it was also very poor.
For as Long as I can remember, I heard that Baba was an enthusiastic herdsman who have no income but gave his all taking care of his goats and cows.
Baba’s name is also written on the lips of the children in the town, but still have not enough to buy clothing for himself and his family.
I stayed in the town with him for one night because the border between Ghana and Burkina Faso was closed.
The excitement of Baba and his family was felt because I had to spend the night with them.
On that very night, I had the occasion to ask Baba the list of problems and requirements of himself and each of his people.
He said: “I have been poor because I inherited this work from my father who died poor because of health problems including some of my own children of which two have already died.
Our lives here are in isolation, inhospitable areas; many here are physically handicapped, and so on.
Also listed is the help given by the Rawlings government was a water pump, and Petrol generators for light.
Assumpta: How did he do it?
Tsasi: In the strength of perseverance. When you don’t get the expected result, when you fail, when you are discouraged, when you lose the will to live: in these moments, you have to get up and move forward toward your goal.
This kind of tenacity is important. Say to yourself, ‘Even if don’t have skills, it’s okay. No matter how others see me! However, I’m not giving up!”.
The real winners in life are those who have persevered through trials, sometimes to the brink of despair, and have persistently kept going, again and again.
Even if you fail, you must not be discouraged. Those who tend to belittle or underestimate themselves lose. Those who are patient and persevere, eventually win.
Tsasi :We recite the Daimoku and continue Buddhist practice to develop this tenacity, don’t forget and do the same.
Assumpta: I think we need to consider the way we report growth. Mostly we talk about our GDP charts, but in the case of Baba nothing has changed, no growth in that area.
This is because when sickness or isolation kill these men and women, where then is our GDP growth?
Therefore, Baba’s experience gives us a much better idea how Ghana can turn those miserable places into strength. We advance by persevering towards Absolute Victory. Have a nice weekend. Thank you.
