The general adoption
of western culture (if it’s culture at all) is so strange and alarming. This
goes to none but my sisters at home. It may just be them or yours as well. They
have thrown out core African values. At some point, I thought it to be the never-ending
viewing of Telemundo series, but I traced it back to the time we had no satellite,
yet, their attitude which I’m putting forward soon was there, or still played
by them.
You can imagine that
my sisters cannot serve me food? Should I have even asked? If I should be back
from school, or if food is ready, they just go to the kitchen, allocate my
share in a plate, shout out my name, or walk past me saying, “Kwayan woo ngu
hin kitchen,” that is, “Your food is in the kitchen.”
I consider this very
terrible. If it has been bad in other places, then it’s ‘badder’ at my place.
My sister’s are all my seniors by age and educationally. Nevertheless, by being
Africans, they should know better that it costs nothing to serve meals to your
younger ones. I don’t see this as degrading in any way.
Come to think of it,
they all have boyfriends for God’s sake. Do they not serve meals to them? They
dare not tell them to go to the kitchen and pick their meals. They dare not!
That could only mean
they place more value on their boyfriends than on me – their brother. One thing
is sure. I will always be their brother, but, will that boyfriend become their
husband eventually? It’s just a probability.
It could then be discounting. Yes, discounting. I say this with(out) responsibility. They have also refused to be influenced by Zee World, the Indian channel they have all flocked unto. Now, Indian culture a fortiori African culture is hardly different. It therefore means they have closed their senses to the good taste of culture. They have refuse
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