Yesterday our little country was held spellbound by an act of God (Nature). The moon passed between our planet and the sun, and momentarily, parts of our country were plunged into darkness. But it was not the kind of darkness that follows day. This was a special darkness with the awe-inspiring corona of the sun blazing forth in full glory. For those few minutes that this natural phenomenon was taking place we were all united in marveling at the mysteries of creation.
People are reading all sorts of meanings in to this occurrence, and so must they; the main meaning we see in what happened yesterday is that as a nation, we have more things that unite us than separate us. It is perhaps God's own way of using such phenomena to tell us humans that hubris is not the answer, for after all, yesterday, every Ghanaian who had the opportunity of witnessing the total eclipse put aside all religious, ethnic, political and whatsoever difference to do obeisance to the majesty of our solar system.
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