Socio-Political/Economy

THE DANGER OF LOW EXPECTATIONS; A LESSON FROM J.H. MENSAH

I carried with me for years the image of a man I never met personally but spoke to briefly on phone. I might have been 17 or 18 years then and he was at the twilight of his long and illustrious political career. He had given his best years as a public servant for the country of his birth. Even at that young age, I silently wished he would have reneged on his retirement plans. But the hawks were circling around him and he knew the time had come for him gracefully bow out with his dignity intact.

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