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BUT THE AFRICA TODAY GIVES ME NOTHING BUT HEADACHE themes AFRICA MY MOTHERLAND HOW PROUD I WAS TO SEE YOU MY HEART SETTLED WHEN I SAW GREAT SONS AND DAUGHTERS FIGHTING TO PUT YOU ON TOP THEY SAW YOU AS THE FOUNTAIN OF HOPE FOR THE HUMAN RACE THEY NEVER RESTED FOR EVEN A MINUTE ALL THE WANTED WAS TO SEE YOU ABOVE ALL FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, THEY STOOD BY ONE ANOTHER ALL IN THE NAME OF UNITY AND DEVELOPMENT THIS AND MANY MORE GAVE BIRTH TO ORGANIZATION OF AFRICAN UNION NOW AFRICA UNION  WHEN DEATH CHASED THEM THEY NEVER RUN AWAY WHEN THE OPPRESSORS CHASED THEM, THEY NEVER RUN FROM THEIR NEST THEY STOOD BY THEIR GROUND AND HELD HANDS FIRMLY THEY CONQUERED WITH A ROAR LIKE THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH THE OPPRESSORS SAW NO REST UNTIL FREEDOM WAS GIVEN THE AFRICA I SEE TODAY IS THE AFRICA THAT HAS RISE TO OPPRESSORS RULE IN THE GHANA NATIONAL ANTHEM WE HAVE "AND HELP US TO RESIST OPPRESSORS' RULE" YET TODAY WE HAVE GIVEN CHANCE TO THE OPPRESSORS RULE IN A...

themes NEVER ENTANGLE YOURSELF WITH SOMETHING THAT IS NOT YOURS. MOST OF A TIME PEOPLE TIE THEIR NECKS WITH THE QUEEN’S LANGUAGE, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN GHANA AND SOME ANGLOPHONE COUNTRIES IN AFRICA. I USUALLY FEEL PROUD OF MY NIGERIAN COUNTERPARTS WHO SPEAK WITH THEIR ACCENT AS COMPARED TO THOSE IN GHANA WHO SPEAK WITH THE SO-CALLED SLANG IN THEIR SPEECH. JUST RECENTLY I NOTICED THAT A LADY FROM GHANA BLOCKED A GUY ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM WHATSAPP SIMPLY BECAUSE OF GRAMMATICALLY ERROR IN HIS SENTENCE. AWAY FROM THAT, NOT LONG AGO SOME GHANAIANS INCLUDING MYSELF TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO REGISTER OUR DISPLEASURE IN THE WAY AND MANNER SOME MEDIA PUNDITS MADE FUN OF THE SPEECH OF GHANA’S RISING ACTOR, ABRAHAM ATTAH. THANKS THEY TOOK AWAY PRIDE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR ACTIONS AND I HOPE THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN IN THE FUTURE. WHEN THE TIDES WERE HIGH, MANASSEH AWUNI AZURE, GHANA’S PROUD JOURNALIST TOOK TO THE ISSUE TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY DID THAT NOT TO MOCK HIM...

The auditions of Face of GIJ has ended for the 2015/2016 academic year and it was all splendid for the seventeen girls that partook as they all showed their worth and what they have got to prove their powers and talents in the field of music, dance and acting on stage and courage show. The prestigious occasion was graced by Miss Bentie Abigail Baciara, popularly known as Bacy who was crown Ghana's Most Beautiful 2014 in a toghtly contested event. The attention is not on Bacy but rather the prestigious contest or audition. Over the past, it has been that winner of Miss Akwaaba automatically vies for the Face Of GIJ pageant. Last year, the winner of Miss Akwaaba won the Face of GIJ with confidence and most students agreed that she deserved but it would a different person with such qualities could have been crowned because it is obviously becoming a tradition. Now lets move to the recent contestants who were audited. Seventeen people or let me say beautiful girls contested ...