Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Parable Of The Hand Ball " It's The Same White Hands"- Letter To Ghana
Our Dear Ghana: We mourn with you over thawed dreams as stars slipped through our fingers. Carried away by powerful currents of cheats through our chequered history. We mourn, stopped by white hands. Our dreams dipped and within a split second history was frozen between bars.
Replay the scene and it all becomes all too familiar.The pain and loss, stab like the thousand daggers buried in our history, the same cheats, the same cheating white hands.
The same white hands have grappled and tried to choke the African dream, as shackled slaves trudged through deep African jungles. The same white hands shoved and lashed out. The same white hands fingered the trigger and at gun point, stole our ancient genealogical thrones ; those white hands raped our wild cocoa, palm oil and groundnut plantations. The same hands held the whips that fed their industrial revolution on the furrowed backs of our sweat and blood. Caucasian or South American in their hands our story is the same .
The same white hands signed and vowed independence. But with the same white hand stole the freedom of our great grand children, drowned in the womb in debt. They seduced our ignorance with sugar coated lollipops from MEMBERS ONLY "PARIS CLUB".
From America, to England, England to France, France to Germany, China to Uruguay ,Yes Uruguay! Our chequered autobiography is the same. Like an unending yarn playing back the years of shroud and lies.The cheating and the plunder of our innocence goes on. Always at knife edge. Always at the point when the African breathes in to exhale and take flight; each and every time on our precipice. Each and every time the same white hands snuffs ,the same white hands smother our dreams.This is the unending merry go round of our broken record.
Over and over again the record pin jumps over the crack in our collective lives as Africans. Therefore our song never embraces its last note. Our story is the same complete cracked crackle.The same white hands spin this unending tragedy over and over again. From our history to our governments, to our modern institutions,the same white hands dictate the games of our African lives.They handle the ball of our socio political life.They blow the whistle for foreign aid.They offer us a once in a lifetime opportunity. And they say leap. Leap because your whole life depends on this. And so we leaped. And we leaped and hit the bar, the bar they built, the bar that chants, "This is how far the African will ever go".
Broken and defrauded, this is our story, a thousand years rolled into a split second. It doesn't matter if the ball crossed the line. Win or lose, this is our parable.Today we mourn on our own Robben Island. But one day freedom shall come, and like Mandela we will rule the world.
Take heart our black stars. Like Spartans you lost this battle, but you won the war.The war over prejudice, the war over caucasian stereotypical commentaries of the laid back, clueless black African man. Today you displayed Spartan gladiatorial courage, aggression, strategy, passion and honour. You made us so proud, you gave us a glimpse of the new Black African in the 21st Century. And for this the black continent is grateful to you.
Thank You Ghana once again, for leading the way.
Written by Ata Ikidddeh
UK (Essex)
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Submitted by Ondase Ongalanu (not verified) on May 22, 2012 - 19:57.
This is a very good story. I specially feel touched when this was mentioned "Broken and defrauded, this is our story, a thousand years rolled into a split second. It doesn't matter if the ball crossed the line. Win or lose, this is our parable.Today we mourn on our own Robben Island. But one day freedom shall come, and like Mandela we will rule the world"..We love Ghana! Im glad to click this link
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Submitted by Ondase Ongalanu (not verified) on May 22, 2012 - 19:56.
This is a very good story. I specially feel touched when this was mentioned "Broken and defrauded, this is our story, a thousand years rolled into a split second. It doesn't matter if the ball crossed the line. Win or lose, this is our parable.Today we mourn on our own Robben Island. But one day freedom shall come, and like Mandela we will rule the world"..We love Ghana! Im glad to click this link
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Submitted by Joe OK Mz ( UAE) (not verified) on July 4, 2010 - 01:00.
It is unfortunate that while the Ghana guys did all the playing,the final glory went to the sleek and already physically/moraly defeated Uruguy.
Racial politics and discrimination had no hands in this, at least, not this time. Rather, a lesson has to be learnt by not only the players, but by all and sundry, that scientific logic is best applied in response to situations such as before taking that penalty kick, rather than mere impulse.
What the player missed mostly before taking that vital kick, was a sense of instant deep re-think ( a little deviation) from his usual mood before then, perhaps, atunning a higer sense that would result in exaggerated caution and equanimity.
A little tip ( one word) from the Coach, even from a distance, would have helped.
Still, kudos to the guys!!!
Submitted by Gaskia (not verified) on July 4, 2010 - 01:00.
The same white hand created the cool environment you enjoy where you work and live in the UK!Blackman should wake up and take their rightful place in the committee of nations instead of endless whinning and blame trading...,go put your house in order!No be today we begin hear wetin white hand do..,na wetin black hand wan do about it na him remain.Every day Obi is a boy...Obi is a boy eh,whenever will Obi become a man?Ghana I congrate and wish them a better performance/luck next time.
Submitted by uruogbo on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
my brother you are right....its the same white hands that stole billions of dollars from our treasury when babangida held sway..yes,the same white hands caused abacha to empty our coffers...indeed,the white hands were at work for eight years when obj mindlessly stole this nation to pulp..and right now, the white hands are stopping goodluck from replacing farida with ribadu...we see the hands of the white in the hatred of the igbo by the yoruba and vice verse,the boko haram, and all that....my brother,africans should better get their act together and compete in the financial,political and deplomatic global space.
Submitted by eye4eye (not verified) on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
@Carl Kash I stand. All whose opinion is that Ghana f*ckin blew their chance for no discernable reason other than the usual affliction of most Africans got it right.
Submitted by Poni (not verified) on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
Nobody stole fame from Ghana...the got the chance to be the winner in that game and blew the it, unlike the case of the Super Eagles where there was a handball and the referee pretended not to see8). Im so proud of them though, they did a really gooooood job.
Submitted by Biafra kwenu..!! (not verified) on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
JUBILANI..the world cup ball is remote..
controled,what do u people expect?
the ball was specifically designed to disgrace
teams that worked soo hard to achieve their
dream..watch out for more drama..shame on
FIFA for introducing egg as fball in SA.
Submitted by Remigius Chidozie (not verified) on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
But one day freedom shall come, and like Mandela we will rule the world.
Submitted by Arole Oodua (not verified) on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
U PEOPLE ARE SO SILLY,SUAREZ WAS GIVEN A REDCARD AND GHANA HAD THE CHANCE TO SCORE A PENALTY AND PUT THE GAME AWAY BUT THEY DIDNOT,SO ALLOW THIS RESENTFUL BS.
THEY FOUGHT GALLANTLY AND LOST FAIR AND SQUARE EVEN THEY KNEW IT(GODBLESS ALL THE PLAYERS).
Submitted by eyo (not verified) on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
The white man simply stole victory from the African. Shame on them.
Submitted by kashcarl on July 3, 2010 - 01:00.
The same white that gave Africa their God.
Did you notice that Team-Ghana just before the penalty shoot out, started praying to the God the white gave them, and what did Uruguay (the white) do? They just talked to one another.
Just before the shoot-out started, i told my friend that if Ghana after praying happens to lose the game, it will mean that there is no God in Africa. Guess what, they lost.
If it were to be [b]Corruption World cup competition[/b]......... African nations will carry the world cup for that. Nigeria leading
