In trying to understand some goings-on in Ghana in recent times, my mind wandered off to an encounter across the Atlantic with a six-year-old nephew some years ago! In our Ghanaian culture, a child is not allowed to tell an adult he is not making sense or, more directly, talking nonsense, even if the adult himself knows that is exactly what he is doing! Indeed, some adults get offended when told by colleagues/friends that they are not making sense.