Everyone is mentioning him and praising him for his good works. Many, including those who have never met him before are using him on their Social Media pages/handles. But while he was alive, not much celebrated him.

To those of us in the media, we dared celebrate him while he was alive. The simple commentary that would come from some of our colleagues and social media activists will be that ‘he has bribed us’ or ‘we are doing that because we want money or favour or recognition from him’.

Atsu was good but if you praised him during his lively days, you will be tagged as a stomach journalist. Now he is gone and everyone is praising him.

How does he appreciate and even feel good about the good things he did now that he’s gone?

We could have done it for him while he was alive.

There are many many players of his kind who do even more than what Atsu did, yet, most people are unable to praise them because of the fear of being tagged, mocked and called names by their own colleagues.

I pledge to start praising people for the good they do no matter what people will say from today. This is a lesson we must all learn.

Good people deserve to be praised while alive but maybe There is a very good reason why Ghanaian culture ‘frowns’ upon praising a good person when he is alive. Our ancestors realized that often when a black man is praised alive, he tends to relax and don’t get better so it’s better to hold till he accomplishes much more but if he dies in the process, he is given all the praise and a descent barrier. And this to me is Hypocrisy and Dishonesty to humanity

Long live our heroes dead and alive