A Closer look at Valentine Celebration , the Reality, Fiction and cravings by Mkpisi Ndi Egede.
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One thing you can't take away from Africans at large and Nigeria in particular is borrowing anything that doesn't add Value to our lives, but makes us to smile like over grown babies.
We borrow anything but not sense, it must be senseless..
We borrow anything from White Weddings which is purely the Marital binge of the West, because they don't pay Bridge price or perform Igba Nkwu, then Bia Malu Ani, which have the backing of Nature, culture and ANCESTRAL blessings... Which no Western Nation has that privilege of any of those values..
They don't have ancestral history, they seems to just appear from no where like a bleached orchard or the Fulanis ..
Seldom you see a Caucasian aborigine, which was why they float on curses and delve into Homosexuality as way of life, then kick against spanking a Child with Rod of correction, get married to Animal, at old age get abandoned in Old People's home as discarded garbage, to them it's way of life but to us, it is hard core abomination.
Since they don't have Umunna nor Ikwu, talk less of Ibe to sit with them and perform some Marrital matured giving and taking, for lack of culture, they throw up Court registered process just to Ape something close to what we have in Africa where kindred played a vital role in such fraternity of expanded families ..
Well the Hired Court clerks and Court run- off workers serve as Witness at such weddings, as against our own Blood related Kindred that Form the nucleus of the Giving and taking in the Union.. We have in laws, which is bastardly alien to White/Caucasians... To us Marriage is a scared institution but to Caucasians, marriage is coming together to bring Kids that will be abandoned half way, so they become societial scums, as the parents must have divorced many years and remarried many times without tears or sorrows after all it is a tradition they generated.
They have marriage AUTHORIZE BY LAW, we are not same, ours is harnessing of general Wills, whereas theirs are contracted by a cleck who has no interest on the success or failure of the Union, and that's why no marriage Last more than a Decade with the Whites, as against ours which state FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE TILL DEATH DO THEM PART.. And your kinsmen, relations will always frown on such dissolution, plus if there is evidential case for disollution, the process involved both families, which is deterrent and lessons in shame or face savings.. Also reason why we had less divorce before the advent of WHATSAPP and Facebook, a Societal Virus that is causing more harm than good, but ka anyi na ejegodi..
But the horrific twist is that even as holy and rewarding ours are, our Idiotic Ladies , tries to borrow another Nzuzubility, now they prepare Cake on a traditional wedding, which is imported IDIOCY, there is no semblance to African tradition with Cake ..
That we borrowed School uniform, sorry I mean ASO EBI pronounced ASHEBI is not enough and strange enough, but for me, if I want to wear Uniform, I rather go back to school, Secondary at that, so I can wear it with it glamor , not na una Uwa nkea, ebido kwam yibe ka Nwata akwukwo(At the tail end of life, I will revert to dressing like student) , like Politicians will make us a Mobile Advert with picture printed Abada and Face Caps...
Most annoying is during burials, we buy assorted Abada, shared , sorry sold to friends, non friends and even Toxic relations because we are making merchandise of the death.
Now we are about to delve into another borrowed Culture called Valentine, but let's look at the interpretation given to Valentine by Google..
"Origins of Valentine’s Day: A Pagan Festival in February
While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial—which probably occurred around A.D. 270—others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus." end of Google definition..
We can see that it is even Fable or Pagan worship, but our Children will dress like Ochie Dibia with Red clothes, appear like Ndi Uchu and be moving about.. Then that February 14,the number of IKO Ana akwa makes Soddom and Gomorrah to protest to God for destroying them for less.
Young Girls will do anything for Valentine gift or game, whether it is from bossom of Devil, they careless.
In the days of our parents, this abomination is not manifesting because they learn to respect our Cultures, unlike now, the only things our Ladies respect is American or Western cultures, ona agho fa..
Young Girls LOOKIA, piako Ukwu gi (Close your legs) because even Covid is scary now and killing with vengeance, so don't Hop in and out a Bed and get settled with Covid, all in celebration of Fable called Valentine.
I can tell you that God has a reason he send CORONA to purge the world, please don't use your own PEN to add your name to the list of those that will go with Covid.
Boys, especially Umuazi Yahoo, I won't tell you to get sense, because it is waste of advise, after all if you have Sense you won't be swimming in Devils Sea called Ritual money making...
Read my Lips, you can't enjoy that money as all the days of your life, they will keep making you restless and making your life behave like NEPA, ibosi ipua Ara, another you are well... They will give you condition to enjoy the ill gotten money and none of the condition will be Air-conditioned.
Well, my own is for us to read the Book of Prophet Jeremiah 6vs 16 "This is what the LORD says: "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.'"
Let's retrace the ancient land mark, and see how we lost it and death has been our leveler..
The only benefit from Valentine Fiesta is that you will also Dress in Red like Nwanyi Dibia, then go out with another Guy who also decked in Red like Onye Dibia, both of you eat something and go to Bed and behave like Bingo.
Disadvantage... You join what you don't know the Meaning or what it represent, then whatever Cross that goes with it, stick with you.
As far as I am concern, be my Val may be an invite into a Coven and you happily smile and accept..
Call me Bush Man, Old School or any name that soothe your fancy I don't care, I want to know whatever I get involve with, so I can at least malu ife gbulum.
I am Mazi Odera POg JP, Last Born Mpa Nnukwu, Mkpisi Ndi Egede trying to understand what is imbeded in Valentine Umuazi ji eji ya AKWA Ajo iko and parents will be smiling like Ram that is tied to be used as Suya.
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