Being called Nze, Ozo, Ichie, Nana, Lolo, is so wrong, but you are happy to be called Knight, Sir, Count, Countess. The Oba of Benin or Asantehene cannot touch you or bless you, but you are happy to be Knighted by the Queen of England. Corporate has stopped meaning "to be business-like in your outlook" and now means wearing a suit even under the hottest weather conditions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
To drink palmwine is a sin but red wine (which contains as much as 15% alcohol) is used for communion, while the hypocrites and the ignorant happily lift up holy hands half drunk.
You say that couples who have been married under the custom of their people are living in sin because they have not gone to perform a 5,000 to 10,000 dollar ritual typical of another man's culture?
Barney, elf and fairy godmother are learning tools, but the masquerade from your village is an occultic symbol.
You celebrate Xmas but you cannot and will not celebrate the new yam festival. Now Halloween has been celebrated in Ghana for the 4th consecutive year...
How long o Africa?! How long?! How long will you diss the history and achievements of your fathers? When will you stop making yourselves second class?
If there's anything that is meant to be corrected, let us correct it. But stop acting like our ancestors were failures.
We need #RevivalInTheLand! #Stillgrowing
By: Ogochukwu Nweke
Hope you met the man under slavery?
Woow! Nyc
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