mkeiy wrote:Muriel wrote:KulaRaha wrote:Where are the guys who will blame the white man for his problems?
Of course the white man is to blame.
We should embrace our peculiarities and not fight against them like Mr. Adebayor is doing - obviously at the instigation of white man lifestyle.
Is writing here on Wazua, in English one of those "peculiarities" of ours?
Thing is, times have changed. We no longer graze,farm and gather. We no longer use horns to call out the village.
The African "UJAMAA" you are preaching no longer sustainable.
The sort of ujamaa, if a brother/sister is making it big, the rest of the grown , healthy siblings just sit back to reap. Reap what?
I believe even the Bible says if you have not worked, you shouldn't eat. Yet we have people/communities that believe my bro's/sis' is mine.
Here in Kenya we have tribes which practice more "ujamaa" than others. Those which embrace hard work thrive. The bowl-handlers are always struggling. Tend to bear more kids. Kind of IRRESPONSIBLE you would say. The bowl-handlers also tend to have a myriad of beliefs and myths. The sort of beliefs Adebayor's family has been having. For a footballer, what would "powers" do? Score goals for him? A lot of BS right there.
The non-Africans to a greater extent, live the hard_work-way. You pick your bills. FULL STOP.
Mothers/sisters also need to style up. We have mothers who abandon their husbands and run to the well-off child,more so, a daughter leaving the husband struggling out there.
To women; you were with your husband before the rich kid was born, stick with your husband and stop the joy-riding.
RESPONSIBLE,HARD WORK! RESPONSIBLE HARD WORK! RESPONSIBLE HARD WORK! There are some among us e.g. Tokyo etc who advocate for abandoning of white man thought systems. They often ask of what we, Africans, had before the white man came. We had ubuntu. Ujamaa.
That Mr. Adebayo's mom and sisters are abusing and misusing ubuntu is not reason to abandon it. Indeed, theirs is a completely unrefined ubuntu. However if there were millions of Mr. Adebayos and only a few Mrs. Adebayos then their demands will not be so prominent.
It is from our poverty in which we speak that we feel Mrs. Adebayo is being unreasonable and sympathise with Mr. Adebayo.
'We', including Tokyo and others, should come out strongly for ubuntu, the indiginous African spirit. I call upon 'us' to strengthen it, the poor show by Mrs. Adebayo notwithstanding.
I would be surprised if 'we' say otherwise.