Kora Musician Baba the Storyteller

Here’s another one of those proverbs which was embedded somewhere in the back of my mind from years ago. Some years back when I was working in the community doing “Rites-of-Passage” programs, I was fond of using these words. I loved watching the way the youth would take a few seconds to contemplate the words and then flash bright smiles when the epiphany occured.

The greatest blessing during that time was hearing some of the children using these words amongst themselves. I can’t place it for sure but I think I might have absorbed these words during my “Kwame Nkrumah” period. I have different phases and crossroads which mark changes in my life for me and I usually label them. This one feels like something Nkrumah used to say. Don’t quote me on this, I’m just thinking aloud.

“To not know is not a bad thing. To not want to know is a very bad thing.”