The people of Black Africa have for several years suffered much of debasements in the hands of other world’s people. After slave trade, Black Africans have not known peace and love within themselves. Even during colonialism, Black Africans have not known happiness after they were brainwashed by the rapacious slave and country merchants who came to Africa in guise of preaching salvation, but were robbers and armed robbers.
These rapacious merchants made Africans to see anything that has African background as evil, Satanic and Demonic. The Black Africans have really lost their way of dressing, feeding, speaking, languages, schooling and even the culture of being ‘your brother’s keeper’. But we have known now who the real devil is.
Many of us had thought that the devil was a black man, but we now know who the devil is.
A lot of us had thought that our schooled parents (because no educated parent would do what our parents are doing today) could help teach their children the way of Africa: culture, language, and all that, since we have cried foul and blue murder of this single act occasioned by colonialism. But rather, the today’s African parents took to gangsters’ lifestyle by culturing their children poorly abstract from the African way.
Imagine, an African child is born, he begins to learn things, but instead of learning his mother’s tongue, the mother would rather use her tongue to teach him other people’s mothers’ tongues.
When you visit many African homes today, you here different kinds of languages in one home; the same people speaking entirely different languages, practicing different kinds of culture, you see the same people answering entirely different kinds of names, none their own.
Our literate parents do want to measure up with those we accused that looted our wealth, our resources, but are abetting to their more thieving.
Our parents do not reminisce the negative effects of this aberration on the child. The Child, since he was not brought up in the way ought to; he begins to be insultive and turns nuisance in the society he found himself.
And we have to think, if these anomalies of bringing up a child in an alien form in African land, what the implication could be in the future. What would you as a father or mother be proud of from the grave if you see your generation doing abstractly different thing together, none, African. What would be your pride as a father, mother if your generations are upholding the ways, your father did not teach you?
It is embarrassing that when we are supposed to be wise is when we are unwise. We have literate parents who would prefer to bring up their children as illiterate of their own culture. Check if you are that literate parent who acts in an illiterate way. It is not good!
