🇬🇭Ghanaian Mallams Can Do Better

A Mallam in its actual sense is an honorific title given to an Islamic🕌 scholar 🎓 in Africa🌍.

However, this title means something else in Ghana as though Ghana is not a part of Africa.

This is not because Ghanaians have made it so, but simply because some spiritualists have over the years paraded themselves as Mallams hence giving it a different meaning all together.

These spiritualists have taken the title Mallam to a different level and now do social media consultation and advertisements 💻🖥🖱. I can't blame them since they have colleagues in clericals parading themselves as Pastors and carrying all sort of titles. 

They seem to have solutions 💡 to every problem in this world ranging from finance, marriage, sexual prowess, education, spiritual guidance to even turning corrosive acid to a base acid upon interaction with them.

It therefore beats my thinking why we have over 3000 Mallams in Ghana, who have solutions to the aforementioned problems and yet, people are suffering not to even talk of our economy. To me, I simply think they're not patriotic.

If our Mallams are really working, why should Ghana still be visiting the IMF and World Bank for loans? The government should make the Minister of Finance and Governor of Bank of Ghana to lie in the coffin which brings money.

If our Mallams were patriotic, Ghana's qualification to the World Cup🏆 will not be as difficult or seem impossible as things stand now😢.

If our Mallams were patriotic, since they have the solutions to financial problems💰, they could have saved UT and Capital Banks. Well, they didn't so what of the economy? Can't they save it too?😲😲

If they have the solutions to 💍marital issues, why will they watch Afia Schwarzenegger to cheat on her husband. Well for that I think they came in.

They changed Abrokwah's acid to water else our madam will have been an upgraded version of herself (I don't understand this line myself 😂😂😂).

What about Uncle Phunny Phase? Don't they know him? So what stopped them from giving him solutions to his 2 minutes ⌛'distin' if they indeed have the solution to sexual weakness?

If our Mallams had the solutions to academic problems📚, why didn't they help students to pass examinations😐?

I know most of you will argue out that they should be consulted first and you're 👉just as right as I think.👍

Maybe, we should have one Mallam in each financial institution to make sure the institutions don't go into a crunch.

They should have representatives at all governmental and organisational levels.

So we could have a Mallam on the board of governors in schools, we could also have them being board members at the central bank or even part of the economic team.

We could make some Mallams be a part of the technical bench of all national teams🏃🏋⛹🚴🏌🚵🏎🚣🏄🏇⚽🏅🏒🏓. This is what may get them involved and make them patriotic instead of wasting time on Facebook sending friend requests.

But upon ✌second thought🤔, I think Mallams have a problem. Why can't they accept their own friend requests? Is it an indication that African Electronics are still inferior or it's like salvation - a decision we are obliged to make.

Well, whatever the case be, like my friend, Komla Mensa Ahlijah, said in his role at The Ladder (a stage play to be reshown on the 30th of September) if these Mallams are given work to do instead of wasting time on social media, Ghana will be a better place to live in.

Credit: Fenuku Augustine

Sincerely, I think our current generation of Mallams are a big disgrace to Mallamhood but can do better if they put Ghana first before their interests.