Anane-Adjei
A COMMUNICATION consultant, Nana Agyei-Kodie Anane-Agyei, has advised successful people to pay regular visits to their local communities where they started life or their education to instill confidence and hope in the rural people, especially children.
He said children needed role models to inspire them to reach greater heights adding “the best role models are the ones who they can easily identify with.”
He said the practice will help children in rural communities to realize that people who were once like them are now influential and this would encourage them to work harder to make it in life.
Mr. Anane-Adjei mentioned this during a media interaction ahead of his book launch in Sunyani.
The launching of the book titled: ‘Story of An African Society in the Heart of the World’ is expected to take place on July 28, under the chairmanship of the Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadieyo Agyemang Badu II.
The book tells the story of the African society (culture, language, migration, customs and traditions with emphasis on the chieftaincy institution, among others) from the perspective of Brong Ahafo region and Ghana.
It outlines the origin and early history of traditional societies in the region, tourism, investment potential, human resource and proper stewardship of the environment.
It also profiles some eminent citizens and their contributions to national development and calls on the present generation to think of the legacies they would bequeath to succeeding generations.
Mr. Anane-Adjei proposed that customs relating to chieftaincy must be modernized to suit current trends. In his view, chiefs, like presidents, must be accorded all courtesies when they willingly resign or step aside due to incapacitation.
“It must be borne in mind that the chieftaincy institution is a very important and sacrosanct office that all of us must be proud of and supportive. The chief’s stool is a kingpin of development. The day that our chieftaincy institution crumbles, we shall cease to have any cultural identity,” he pointed out.
The current trend is that if a chief does not die on the stool his stool is not blackened when he resigns. That also means his name would be expunged from records of the palace.
“A chief would not hesitate to step aside if he is sure of enjoying the chiefly courtesies when he is out of office,” he stated.
FROM Fred Tettey Alarti-Amoako, Sunyani
