"Doing DNA Test Is Not African, Any Child That Calls An African Man Father Is His Child" - Actor, Ugezu Ugezu

Popular Nollywood actor and filmmaker, Ugezu Ugezu has condemned carrying out DNA test, stating that DNA test is against African belief and tradition.

Taking to his Instagram page on Monday, February 21, 2022, he noted that the issue of DNA is tearing many homes apart. He stated that carrying out a DNA test on a child is not an African thing.

He stated that any child who calls an African man father is an African man’s child, and that was how our forefathers lived their lives and enjoyed peace of mind.

He wrote;

“A child who calls an African man father is an African man’s child. Period. This DNA thing is not really an African thing. A child born to an African man is the African man’s child. Our fathers held this belief and enjoyed peace of mind. This DNA stuff is tearing many homes apart and destroying many innocent children. In THINGS FALL APART, the mother Earth rose against Okonkwo for killing the child who called him father. THINK!”

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His opinion generated mixed reactions. Read some comments below.

@okonlagos wrote, “Things have changed. Globalization has had the better of us as a people. The world including Africa has evolved. In today’s Africa, the values of chastity and fidelity with respect to the married woman has been eroded. Those were times where it was actually sacrilegious and very unimaginable for a woman to be married to a man as non-virgin, let alone have extra marital affair(s) to the extent of bearing a child outside her marital home. DNA was not needed because infidelity had very grave deterring consequences. This gave room for more paternal certainty than is the case now.”

@victoriainyama wrote, “Dède mù @ugezujugezu This is 2022….mud houses are not as cooling as before…..We don’t drink from clay pots….we are still suffering atrocities that our ancestors committed…DNA is very important just like mmàyì àjùjù in Traditional marriage. Ndewooooo.”

@nedu_042 wrote, “Our fathers/mothers are more faithful then this of our generation now. I think the solution to control it is DNA we can have some fears,”

@guaranty_fitness_world wrote, “We are in a new era now….. Then each house have their own gods which the worshipped. If you do anyhow you collect. But now Church have destroyed those believe and shrine. So the only hope left for man to identify his child is DNA.”

@queenofnaturemma wrote, “I don’t think DNA is what tearing home apart, INFIDELITY from both women and men is… Men feeling entitled to every woman’s body.
The worst is MARRIED WOMEN opening their sacred body which was bound to one man by African tradition then bring in another man’s child for her husband to train. Now, let’s think long term – what happens to that ignorant husband when he is 70 or 80 years then the truth came out and maybe due to civilization, his supposed child(ren) finds out that the man he/she calls father isn’t their biological father pls sir, with due respect, what do you think will happen to that man at that particular time?”

White hairs no mean say someone has sense.

It is true, this is a true definition of an African man

He is entitled to his opinion.