By Emmanuella Sarfo
His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson has called on Ghanaians to reflect on their national history as a means of finding clarity and purpose during challenging times.
Delivering the sermon at Ghana’s first National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving on Tuesday, July 1, Cardinal Turkson described the country as standing at yet another crossroads,
“Crossroad examples are always with us. We live, and we face them all the time.”
“But let us, like the people of Israel, find solutions to how we discern the real path in crossroad experiences from going into our past. For it is our past that indicates to us how well we lived and how happy we were,” he said.
He recalled key moments in Ghana’s post-independence journey, including the establishment of institutions like the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), which he said reflected the country’s early aspirations for freedom, justice, and technological advancement.
“There have been experiences in the past that animate and spur us, but there have also been experiences in the past that we do not want to revisit,” he noted.
“But when we revisit our past, it is to enable us to reset the well-being for all—what we call the common good.”
Cardinal Turkson concluded with a call to both leadership and citizens to embrace inclusive development and national unity, stressing that true progress must uplift every Ghanaian.