Many Don’t Regard Their Creative Talents …Ebo Whyte Laments

Accomplished playwright, life coach and CEO of Roverman Productions, James Ebo Whyte, has noted that denial can be one of the damaging bi-products of conforming to what one may have been trained in school.

According to him, people fail to identify their unique talents, and have by so doing, denied themselves the right to their birthright.

Speaking in an EXCLUSIVE interview with The New Publisher, Uncle Ebo said a lot of people in Ghana and Africa in general may be struggling in life, simply because they do not make proper use of their God-given talents.

He said instead of people making productive use of their talents, they rather pursue courses in school that they barely have interest in, and eventually end up gaining nothing from it. He believes that, one of the keys to a better life is exploring one’s talent.

Citing himself as an example, he revealed that he went to school to train as a statistician and accountant, but he abandoned his certificates to become a playwright because he is blessed with writing skills.

“I was challenged to work in the area of my gift than to the area of my training. I trained as a statistician and a little bit as an accountant. But what happened was that it was impressed upon me that one of the reasons why many of us are struggling in Ghana and Africa in general is that we’ve all left the natural talents we have,” he disclosed.

“We have gone to school to learn a few things and that is what we are working with? You can have someone working, let’s say, as a journalist who could have been an excellent designer but the designing thing he didn’t learn from anywhere. It is just a part of him, so he doesn’t respect that one as much as working at the bank or something,” he added.

Currently described as one of the biggest playwrights Ghana has ever produced, Ebo has written and directed a lot of plays, and his career spans over 40 years.

His latest work, I Want Your Wife, which highlights marital issues and doom prophecies in the church, shows at the National Theatre on Saturday, July 6 and Sunday, July 7.

There will be an encore on July 13 and 14.  The drama aims to educate couples on how to keep their partners.