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DROP THAT YAM

Apart from being a tuber foodstuff, it's also used in Ghana to make phone calls. Prior to a Tigo advert on Ghana Television, a yam is a non android phone with only radio and torch. Therefore if it's not a smartphone, then that's certainly a Yam. As human beings, there are many traits in our genes from birth or creation: Character, nature, dialect, behaviour, ethnicity and colour. Some others can be learnt, others are adopted both consciously and unawares. Most of them good, others not very helpful; those are the YAMS we must get rid of. Whether yours is small or bigger yam, I am quite doubtful. But these few acronyms can be insightful: Your Acquired Motives Your Attitudes and Mindset Your Adopted Mentality Your Accrued Memory Your Anachronistic Misconceptions That part of your character that society shuns is a yam. The little things you believe you cannot stop, this mediocre Mindset is even a bigger yam. Though learnt it from friends, you can do away w...