Woes of Africa by Prince Hasevi

As I was growing up, I used to listen to stories from people on how hunters used devices called "gun" and also read some stories on how hunters pursue their hunting ambitions in forests to kill some wild animals for games. There were interesting stories, whether fiction or nonfiction I enjoyed the captivating experience that the story offered and its lingering effects on my mind as a kid. But on my transition to adulthood, then I began to rely some awful about the turning point of my gun stories to the world of insecurity, which is instigated by people through the use of the same guns I used to enjoy stories about. The use of weapons like guns are no more the fairytale but rather destructive at every level of human and nature existence. Guns have become evil machinery, which motivate people to commit crimes, genocide, war, conflict even between bloodline families, ethnic groups, communities, countries and continents. Some used it to intimidate or suppress others and claim ...

July 4, 1968 Accra records heaviest rainfall in 9 years Accra registered a record rainfall of five inches in the last nine years. A spokesman for the Meteorological Services said the heaviest rain ever recorded in the city fell in June 1959, when a volume of 7.56 inches was registered. The rain nearly brought normal life in the city to a standstill, with offices and shops closed and schoolchildren taking a French leave. June 29, 1971 Houses collapse in the Twin-City The twin-city of Sekondi-Takoradi saw one of the worst floods in Ghana in recent years following a downpour which started at night. Several hundreds of dwelling houses collapsed, rendering thousands of people homeless. July 5, 1995 Flood havoc Rains which started at midnight caused flooding by morning in low areas of the Accra metropolis. The flood not only affected commuters and vehicles but also the Achimota VRA substation, resulting in power cuts. June 13, 1997 Accra floods Hours of intermittent downpour for two d...

Sometimes, there is a need to write to provoke or irritate someone who is acting irresponsibly. In Africa setting, young ones do not have the right to put out rudely or politely the faults or irresponsibility of their elders even if their actions or inactions are deliberately threatening the youths' inner hormonal sympathetic or epinephrine to socioeconomic and sociopsychological anxiety. I was scrolling through my facebook page and came across a daily graphic publication dated Monday, 18, 1960 with the caption "When the rains came to Accra". I could see sea-like flooding taking over streets and the houses of people. I could see this color fading pictorial representation of the situation on the grounds. My heart saddens me, I begin to ask myself some in-feeling or meditating questions, whether it is soliloquy or speaking to myself. Some of my unanswerable questions are, how far have we come? Who are responsible for these humanly controlled phenomena? What kind of God ...