{"id":54864,"date":"2018-10-17T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=54864"},"modified":"2018-10-17T03:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T03:12:40","slug":"lack-of-assertiveness-killing-ghanaians-lydia-forson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/lack-of-assertiveness-killing-ghanaians-lydia-forson\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack Of Assertiveness Killing Ghanaians \u2013 Lydia Forson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken actress, Lydia Forson is in the news again over her latest observation about<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaians which she did not hesitate to share.<\/p>\n<p>She revealed her observations as to why development in Ghana has been stalled though a post on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the Ghanaian culture and how mothers nurture their children<\/p>\n<p>is a prime factor in Ghana\u2019s very slow development.<\/p>\n<p>According to her,\u00a0 the religious up-bringing of Ghanaian children from childhood makes them<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026scared to stand up for ourselves when we\u2019re wronged\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She labelled it as the \u201cFa Ma Nyame\u201d attitude, a Twi expression which translates loosely as \u201cGive it to God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wendy-shay-collaborate-yemi-alade\/\">https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wendy-shay-collaborate-yemi-alade\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She however stressed that this attitude is the reason most people fail to speak up when<\/p>\n<p>they have to, thereby allowing others to take advantage of them.<\/p>\n<h3>The post read:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><em>\u201cThis , \u201c fa ma nyame\u201c, attitude that we\u2019ve been taught since childhood is why we continue to suffer as a nation. <\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>We\u2019re so scared to stand up for ourselves when we\u2019re wronged, and trust me people depend on you to\u201d fa ma nyame\u201d so they can take advantage of you,\u201d<\/em> she tweeted.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Read her post below:<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This , \u201c fa ma nyame \u201c , attitude that we\u2019ve been taught since childhood is why we continue to suffer as a nation. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re so scared to stand up for ourselves when we\u2019re wronged, and trust me people depend on you to\u201d fa ma nyame\u201d so they can take advantage of you.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; miss forson (@lydiaforson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lydiaforson\/status\/1052133019618865152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken actress, Lydia Forson is in the news again over her latest observation about Ghanaians which she did not hesitate to share. She revealed her observations as to why development in Ghana has been stalled though a post on twitter. According to her, the Ghanaian culture and how mothers nurture their children is a prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":32003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-54864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-lydia-forson-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54867,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54864\/revisions\/54867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}