What’s next?

Being an African for a very long time, that is my whole life has made me understand many things and put them in different perspectives, for instance the social life and moral ethics. These are things that just come naturally. You don’t have to be in a class to be thought how to respect the elderly, maybe because of the nice schools we went through in our mothers hands being given a nice ‘kiboko’ whenever we ‘sinned’ to them. I remember growing up as a free lancer, never caring what tomorrow will bring coz you know dad went to work in the morning and so he will bring something home for the mother to cook, the dad was the working type, the mum the cooking wife.

Our rich luo traditions sometimes were really confusing , I never understood why we had to shave our hair when our grandmother passed away, but of cause you don’t ask the ‘whys’ or why they had to drink the ‘manyasi’ to be freed from some curses. Manyasi was some kind of drink that had some power or kind of miraculous ability to cleanse you from the curses that came when you don’t follow the taboos. I have always  wondered  how it tasted, maybe like coke, Russian water or some kind of ‘akech’ a very bitter herb for treating stomach upsets. Life as a naive ‘omera’ was then interesting.

When my mum was asked to join the heavenly nation in 08, things became a bit open for me, it was like an eye opener, things starting falling into place, and everything was now making sense, all the traditions and manyasi and all these shaving of the hair and many others were just a way of governing the society to maintain the social moral standards. Mum being away, I had to take things into consideration and do them; I had to practice the morality that she taught me in the Kiboko primary school of life and now I that became the child of the community, anybody older than me became my parent.

Then our generation became conspicuous, the newness of life started to show, the new born coming out with technology in their brains. I think most of my age group guys were born with no brain that had to develop out here in the world, but nowadays kids come with a full developed brain full of knowledge and technological knowhow. Rebellion towards our cultures, morality and ethics of the society has been a vivid thing, and life has become entirely individualistic. 

Social vices are becoming more as parents becoming busier locked in the offices leaving the kids to be raised by other kids in the name of nannies. Watching the old century movies made me understand that a nanny was the mother of your mother or daddy, but I think that truth is confidently being replaced with nannies being the sweet young ladies who nature the husband’s fantasies rather than raising the kids to grow based on good ethics and morality. 

I don’t know what’s coming next but I see kids of the next generation moving from their parent’s homes as early as they stop breast feeding.  Children are growing so fast and knowledge is spreading so fast that they won’t need the parental guidance. I can see the movies starting with words like, “parental guide is not necessary for the following program since children know everything”, God forbid. I don’t know how to restore us back coz am also a victim of all this, maybe all we can do is wait for that time but I believe that Jesus is coming back soon so maybe we won’t get the chance to see the kids coming out of the wombs playing the computer games, I don’t want to experience that…

Wake up lets journey on.