Kofi Akosah-Sarpong indicts journalists for their complicitness in perpetuating the memes of superstition, a phenomenon all too common across Africa. "...All intellectual laziness aside, what worries me, and I have a lot of worries as a Ghanaian/African development journalist, is a lack of a questioning, critical response to such supernatual interpretation of events that affects practically all that matters in Ghana/Africa...While most Ghanaians accept journalistic inquiry into various wrong doings or oversights or the implications of petroluem prices on the average Ghanaian, journalists have failed in asking about the implications of the rain of prophetic and other spiritual activities in Ghana's development process... By throwing journalistic inquiry on prophetic, juju-marabou mediums, religion and other spiritual activities that are inhibiting the Ghanaian development process, Ghanaian journalists will help open up the dark recesses of the paranoids and conspiracy theorists who feed on Ghanaians deep-seated beliefs in the superstitions such as witchcraft and prophetic revelations that block people from finding rational, reasonable solutions to their problems..."
Via GhanaWeb
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It is good to see that some African bloggers are focusing more and more on the role of religious zealots, charlatans, and downright extremists in the everyday lives of people on the continent. The role of (so-called) preachers and pastors and prophets in the daily lives of the African diaspora here in Germany is simply amazing and often times very sad. As both you and Chippla say there is quite a bit of hypocrisy and religiosity going around, and a heck of a lot of abuse by these characters that is kept under very tight wraps and zipped lips within "the community".
Did you notice the Google Ads to the right of the Ghanaweb article by Kofi Akosah-Sarpong? 3 out of 4 ads displayed are for Distance Healers and God Loves You and Buy This Miracle Bible hacks. Cycle the page and check it out for yourself. No wonder people are so confused and gullable, there getting hit from all sides including money-hungry sleeze from the marketing and advertising industry.
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