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Last week Ato Kwame Dadzi wrote piece on Joy FM’s website in which he proudly agreed with Fredrick John D. Lugard that the African is,
“Concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future, or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the State he has reached. Through the ages the African appears to have evolved no organized religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural"
Despite repeated rejoinders and the insensitivity of the article, Ato Kwamena never came out to apologized to his readers, if not explain what he meant by “Lord Lugard sounds very insulting, doesn't he? The fact, though, is that he is dead right on almost all counts. I know most Africans will disagree with him.” Joy FM never said anything regarding Ato’s article, neither has the FM station reprimanded the monkey calling himself a journalist for using their network to insult millions of people.
Perhaps, Ato and Joy FM have no idea who Lugard was. Fredrick Lugard is not just a Social Darwinist who believes the African race is lower on the evolutionary tree, but even worse Lugard is a eugenicist. He believes in the systematic elimination of lower races, in this case Africans, by restricting their reproduction. If Lugard and others had their way you, Ato, would not be born because your ancestors are lower humans. The eugenics movement has been very popular in Europe and North in the 1920s and 1930. American States had eugenic laws, and Hitler used eugenics argument in his gassing of the Jews and the disable. Since the end of the Second World War the eugenics movement had gone underground. Who knows? Ato might be a member of that underground movement.
Ato, your readers didn’t just think you are wrong, most of them especially those familiar with the works of Lugard, think you are an idiot. When Ato’s piece was shown to a Professor of Sociology at school last week, even the white woman couldn’t help but gasped for air and wonder if you obtained your journalism diploma from the “Hitler institute of Social Darwinism.”
If Ato’s article were to appear on any major network in the world, people everywhere would take to the street and express their disgust. Even Neo-Nazis are these days politically correct and more sensitive than certain journalist and FM stations in Ghana. These journalist and FM stations prey on the ignorance to insult people and politicians with impunity, and abuse the freedom speech afforded by the constitution.
The likes of Ato are not journalist. They are masquerading monkeys, who think they can write about almost everything. But when subjected to the specificity of journalistic work, they go sluggish like a pregnant fat pig. Journalist of Ato’s like never writes anything specific, nor do they thoroughly investigate stuff before writing them out. Their work is always that of the egoistic man, whatever comes to their head in their awkward dream is true, and hence should be written for public consumption.
Ato, if you want to be a Journalist and not a masquerading monkey, here are some few suggestions for you. Investigate and write about the school feeding and how well it is doing. Investigate and write about Ghana’s agricultural policies or investigate and write about the Ghanaian villagers in mining areas whose water resources are polluted by mining companies everyday. By investigating and writing, it doesn’t mean you sit in Joy FM studios in Kokomelemele and write whatever garbage that comes from your head. You are urged to go to the villages, speak to responsible government officials, local farmers, opinion leaders and the companies. It also means you cross check your facts like a journalist before putting them out there.
These are what responsible journalists do on a daily basis, and not shield themselves under the armpit of nonsense spewing talk radio.
Abdul Sidibe
Calgary, Canada