Some two years ago I wrote an article to this column about the sleeping giant, an African immigrant, who was about to wake up. Now the giant woke up but still yarning in bed.
The immigration lotto has brought tremendous increase of t our population but are we effective? The answer is NO! Like any immigrant population we come together in Associations to provide socio-emotional needs among ourselves. This is very important. No doubt one will need emotional support during bereavement of childbirth. Are these parties enough to make our presence felt?
ORGANIZATIONS:
One interesting situation is that all organizations of the African immigrants have similar objective “to help one another” They all have dues and specific amount to pay during birth or during bereavement.
Unfortunately the professionals whose expertise and knowledge are needed see these organizations as insignificant and narrow-minded and do not join. They want to be ‘begged’ to be patrons as the tradition at home. My research reveals that Nigeria and South African professional are breaking this stereotype. Many Doctors engineers, nurses, Pharmacist, Teachers at all levels are steering their organizations.
Source: GhanaWeb
