Shatta Bundle, people mocked this guy saaa and called him all sorts of ugly names in Ghana. RudeBoy in 9ja picked him up, paid him well as an Actor for the Audio Money Track. He was given serious respect and executive treatment by the RudeBoy Team when he went to 9ja.
Nigerian Comedians – all the way from Alibaba, Basket Mouth, Gordons, Bovi, SeyiLaw, Kenny Black, Akpororo, Sim Card, Funny Bone, Short Man Family, (the names are inexhaustible) have one time or the other created jokes that threw heavy punches and serious jabs at their President, both current and past ones, and most of their Governors. People laugh very heartily about it and move on.
We have had series of Ghanaian Comedians who have continuously worked so hard to be recognized and patronized, were many times what they needed most from us was just encouragement and support, somehow they hardly can sustain their career relevance in Ghana let alone go International. David Oscar, DKB, David Aglah, Khemical, Karlbos, Funny Face, etc have faced heavy destructive criticisms of different versions in their course of work.
Finally, we suddenly have the emergence of OBAmponsah, an extremely funny, intelligent and creative comedia who to the best of my knowledge, is the first and only young Ghanaian comedian that has gone International to perform on a huge platform like that of AY in Lagos.
He cracked a joke about John Mahama, and many people were ready to end his career, with all sorts of insults and death threats in his inboxes.
Even if he was wrong and we are more intolerant than the Nigerians, the question is, were there no other ways we could correct him in Love so he can learn, adjust and re-tool his comic scripts to fit our demographics if we are quite unhappy with mudslinging our Statesmen in the cloak of comic?
I can go on and on, even to the extent that “Mr. Eventuarry” the Taxi driver, who went viral, suddenly had the propensity of stardom when Nigerians began to call him up for features in events. His fame might not have lasted because he might have lacked the resources to sustain him as a possible actor or comedian, but at least, he had moments of ecstasy – he got to suddenly fly in a plane, check into perhaps a 5-Star Eko Hotels, got some good treats and all.
The latest one trending is Freedom Jacob Ceaser (FJC), Nana Kwame of the famous Petronia City and Wonder World popularly called Cheddar, an amazing, fantastic, unique guy! A Man putting Ghana’s name out there for all the good reasons. He shared his story and in it, he said he sold scraps and made a million pounds – “hin noorrrr that ooo, people bore”.
Okay, let us take the familiar route that he perhaps even exaggerated, my surprise is; what is the gain in trolling him, laughing at him, mocking him, creating memes, etc?
Why is it that all our young Stars who attempt to be great, somehow get into this our whirlwind of us finding flaws on their success and on many occasions even discounting the authenticity of it?
Why do we send negative energy to people who seemed to dare to be great especially in Ghana?
All these while this guy has been doing well, no one posted about him, no one shared his successes, no one made good write-ups about his great entrepreneurial strides. Immediately something was embarrassing to talk about him p33333, bam, your vim come? Why are you like this O’ Ghanaian?
I hate to usually do the comparison between us and the Nigerians, but sometimes I am compelled to do so even though I am a Ghanaian.
I lived in Nigeria for 2 decades and I see a very sharp contrast between how they celebrate their own, magnify their successful heroes, and market them well even outside Nigeria. This kind of attitude sends goodwill to the Universe, people who google the names of these people have a lot of good things to read about them and they have a positive opinion about their celebrated ones.
Some time ago I stumbled on a video by His Eminence, Archibishop Nicholas Duncan Williams, sharing along the same line of thought about the subtle vindictiveness and resentment of the Ghanaian towards other successful people. The thing is like disguised witchcraft because you can be doing it without realizing it ooo.
Look into the Mirror O Ghanaian, look into the mirror, and ask yourself; “how much of Success do I desire in my life, and what is my genuine feeling, attitude, thoughts towards other successful people around me?”
If something feels uncomfortable in you anytime you see someone do a bit better than you, and you suddenly feel some negative feeling – please book a deliverance session, you need help.
Source: thebiggodwin
