Several times I hear people say Africans are better than Americans because we have "Values and Respect" we raise our children better, we have long lasting marriages.
First of all, we don't raise children, we intimidate them into becoming timid docile adults who can't think for themselves, make life saving decisions but be asking "what do I do" after almost being murdered by their spouses, adults who won't leave when someone wants to clearly murder them because they have been told leaving a marriage is a shame and people will "talk" so you find an adult asking what to do in a clear situation.
We have intimidated kids into a total lack of curiosity. Instead of learning about diseases and seeking solutions to find cure, we simply tell them it's juju and say things like " what an old person can see sitting down, a young man can't see standing up" chikenan, this child whose curiosity may have helped us cure cancer is turned into one of them " Type Amen" characters on facebook stories of " This girl gave a stranger water and since then she became half paralyzed, may Destiny killers never see you", the now grown adult can't think or probe further to realise the lady may have had a stroke because the sitting down learned elder has told him Juju Exists and juju people sit and plot how to suck blood and steal destinies every day.
This is how a man will come back after 8 hours at work sit and wait for his wife who works 14 hours to come home and cook because they have told him that women must cook.
A woman will have N2 million in her account and wait for her husband to go and look for loan so they can pay school fees because they told her a man must provide
We create saddists: we flog kids into enjoying the pain of others. You flog a child till you draw blood then you are satisfied, child grows to be an adult who only finds joy when others are in pain.
We create robots; Don't question what the Pastor Said, don't think about doing good to others or saving a dying person just pay tithe even when you are owing your landlord. That is why thousands of women have died trying to prove they are Hebrew women when if they had actually stopped for a second to Read the Bible they would have seen the Hebrew women story was simply a white lie. They would have seen that only Sons of Levi can collect Tithes and the tribe of Levi disappeared 400 years ago. They would have read that tithes are meant to be shared with strangers who need help, widows and orphans but NO be a nasty person but just pay tithe, hence churches in every corner but wickedness in every cranny
We create adults who can't even think for themselves what they want in life, goals and dreams, Just grow, marry and born, chikenan, marry a certain kind of man of woman that is " wife or husband material" who cares if you are attracted to that kind of woman, she is wife material marry her, you can keep the type you like as a mistress because the kind of woman you like is not wife material.
We refuse to do away with redundant traditions like bride price because it is " symbolic" symbolic of what exactly? That's what we have been told na.
Violent relationships are " Normal" public display of affection even to ones child or spouse is " corruption or morals"
My dear Africans, leave that superiority chip biko.
This post was written by Aishatu Ella John
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