Africans don’t deserve to be respected by other human race! Africans are a shame to the entire human race! Indeed, the black race is an inferior race! In fact, blacks are inferiority-complex- personified creatures! These are all my resolves as a Ghanaian, African, and a black man.

What is this news I’m reading? A female character in a Mexican Telenovela, shown on a Ghanaian TV screen, is to be flown into Ghana by management of the TV station, simply because viewers of the Telenovela/series are longing to meet or see her.

Read this news story I chanced on and read:

“Mexican actress Ana Brenda Contreras Perez, who played Maricruz in UTV’s popular telenovela ‘Corazón Indomable’ also known as ‘Wild At Heart’, is expected in Ghana, according to grapevine reports.

Maricruz has become a very popular name in Ghana especially among viewers of ‘Corazón Indomable’ who have even changed the programme’s name to ‘Maricruz.’

UTV would not officially comment on the reported coming of Maricruz to Ghana but a source at the station told NEWS-ONE such an arrangement was being discussed. Ana would be 28 years this December. Besides acting, she is also a musician and has been in showbiz since age 15.

The actress is in a love relationship with a bullfighter by name Alejandro Hank Amaya. They had planned to get married on Saturday November 23, last year but a few days to the date, they issued a press statement announcing they had postponed the wedding till further notice.

‘Corazón Indomable’ is a leading 2013 Mexican telenovela still under production and shown in Ghana by UTV from Mondays to Thursdays between 8:00pm and 9:00pm. It has a huge following and has become more topical in Ghana than ‘Acapulco Bay’, ‘Sunset Beach’ and ‘Esmeralda’ in the late 90s.”

Then reading this week’s – Monday 24th Feb, 2014 edition of Graphic Showbiz, the story of Maricruz’s coming is confirmed but with a headline that is actually asking a question.

When I heard that a new TV station is coming from the Despite Group of Companies, I was very excited, because I know what they are capable of doing as far as using our local language, the Akan language to be precise, in achieving feats in Ghana’s media circles. Today, I feel ashamed at them!

TV Africa touts itself with the corporate catchphrase “Projecting African Values,” yet, you watch TV Africa and they’ve also started showing foreign series. GTV, a television station set up by Ghanaians with all its associated expenses paid for by the same Ghanaians, shows these foreign telenovelas back and forth as though it was established for foreigners.

Are Program Managers of our various television stations implying that if they announce to the general public, asking them to submit well shot series for their channels, they can’t get quality Ghanaian series for their channels?

Granted the new Ghanaian series are not intriguing, what about our old quality and fascinating series’ such as; Ultimate Paradise, Things We Do For Love, Dada Boat, Thursday Theatre, Inspector Bediako, Sun City, Taxi Driver, and others? What is wrong if we bring them back unto our screens instead of showing foreign series or sequels?

I (and of course you too) really had fun watching those Ghanaian series in the 90s. We need a flashback of who we were, are now and where we are going; not foreigners on our screens who may not be that popular or relevant in their countries or continents.

One puerile justification management of the television stations give each time we criticize them for showing foreign Telenovela’s is that “from our research, the public like them, that is why we show them and gets revenue from sponsors to run the station.”

That alibi by management of the television stations is shallow and jejune! Fact is, Ghanaians did not mop up or took guns to any television station threatening them to show television series from Mexico or India.

It is the television stations who have changed the ‘taste’ and ‘preference’ of Ghanaians into loving and appreciating foreign contents. As a young boy growing up in the 90s, I recall vividly how most Ghanaian despised watching Nigerian movies. We watched our Ghanaian movies!

In fact, as media, culture and art practitioners, we should always bear in mind that we set the pace or agenda for the public to follow and not the other way round! The television stations should know that they can always change the taste of the people to love what is Ghanaian!

The most disappointing observation is that, it is the very Ghanaian companies which operate in Ghana that sponsors such foreign television series. We enrich foreigners against our own! I have spoken to many Multimedia Production houses who have shot quality series but can’t get sponsorship. Their creative works are simply decaying on CDs.

When they take their works to the television stations, it’s either they are given unfair business terms or avoided for poor work; yet some of their works are by far better than the foreign ones we are bombarded with.

What kind of human beings at all are we? Is it God who pumped this inferiority complex into our genes? Or is it our folly that makes us behave so? I feel sad as I pen down this piece. Maricruz in Ghana? Hmm! White people have every right not to respect Africans or the black race; because, we don’t deserve it! Until then……MOTWUM!!

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