Nana Sir Ofori Atta I (20th century, Ghana)
“I conceive that land belongs to a vast family
of whom many are dead, a few are living, and countless host are still unborn.”
(Oral Testimony to West African Lands
Committee, 1912)
This
quote from Nana Sir Ofori Atta describes that the land belongs to the people
whose family died for it, the people lives on the land and the people or the next
generation who did not born yet to take control their land. Per the author, the
true owners of the land are whose families live there for a while to protect
the land while living on it for their next generation.
The
link is a news article of the yahoo news about the people live on the border of
the United States and Mexico and their lands are divided between the fence of
two countries. In the link the story of the native American woman’s house
express the thought of Nana Sir. Her land is divided into two countries but
U.S. government let her go through the fence to take control his land. The fence
is protected with a pin code and she is the one who can unlock the wall between two borders. The story of old native woman narrates the idea of Nana Sir
that lands belongs to the true owners.
I am totally agreed with
the decision they made. The true owner must have the control over his land. On the
other hand, governments of both countries give her access to control the border
of both countries. That might be dangerous in an another prospective. Per the
right I believe given her permission to control her land over the boundaries of
two countries should not be unacceptable.
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