Nana Awere Damoah Quotes

The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.

Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.

I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.

Rome was not built in a day, but it was built everyday.