Social Talk With UNCLE PAPINA
There was a time when African town parents would give their sons a familiar piece of advice: Once, a man said to his son, ‘My son, you are a man now, go look for a wife but go and find a village wife.’ That was not a mere advice, it was wisdom.
Girls in the village were expected to be properly raised – to attend to their elders, be responsible to their fathers and husbands, be polite, decent, responsible, and virtuous women. For a moment, one got the impression that the African culture was frozen in the village, living in the womb of theses women.
The values that guarded our culture aren't surviving longer
But times have changed.
Having trouped far and near mainly through villages—it becomes very ridiculous, at this time of the world, to hear someone telling a man to go and look for a wife back to the village. Yes, there is much lecherous conduct in towns and cities, but there is something like accountability moreover.
However, it looks like there is no order at all – or rather, like a chaos has seized the village. This is a blatant indication of how marriage and divorce are as common as rainfall and have no second thought. Local parties have become den of innocence where young girls are sexually harassed by men with no other intention other than satisfying their sue. And hold it, what was once a middle ground has turned into a war zone: women, not men, getting drunk.
Even more disturbing, children are growing up with no visible features of their fathers – the price to pay for risky freedom where many men imply a woman during such late-night cerebrations.
Where are we heading as Africans?
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