For what exactly are we praying?

Femi Akomolafe writing in Humanist Association of Ghana:
“Oh, my body, make me a man that ask questions.”Frantz Fanon.

So, once again, the president assembled some Christian priests and together they prayed for the nation. At the end of the jamboree, they declared a 7-day prayer for the country.

Ah!

Are we ever going to learn in this country?

Those familiar with my writings will agree that I have consistently maintained the principled stance that prayers are no substitutes for thinking and planning.

My younger brother’s favourite saying is: ‘Prayer is not a strategy,’ and I fully subscribe to it.

It is difficult to know for what exactly we in Africa continue to pray.

Why do people forget that Modern China is just eight (8) years older than Modern Ghana?
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