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One cool benign morning in 1973, a "good news" bearer ran to my grandfather with a message that my grandfather's cousin had just put to bed a set of twins. My granddad quickly rose from his obi chair, went with him his sharpest machete to the hut of his cousin and the babies...
Blocked the entrance and swore by cutting his palm that he would strike down anyone that dared approach the hut. Well, the culture then was that the babies must be sent to the evil forest and mother punished for the 'evil' deeds...
But my grandad stood his ground despite...
But my grandad stood his ground despite...
all attempts to subdue him. He was a well known warrior and they knew what he was capable of.
They called the village police, elders, traditionalists and what have you- but he stood his ground with his machete in the sky.
He succeeded in getting his cousin and little babies to
They called the village police, elders, traditionalists and what have you- but he stood his ground with his machete in the sky.
He succeeded in getting his cousin and little babies to
safety...
He was arrested, kept in jail for weeks but even while in jail, he kept dishing out promises to anyone that dared touch his cousin.
That was the last account of trying to kill twins in my village. He set a remarkable milestone in the review of that law and other
He was arrested, kept in jail for weeks but even while in jail, he kept dishing out promises to anyone that dared touch his cousin.
That was the last account of trying to kill twins in my village. He set a remarkable milestone in the review of that law and other
backward laws in our tradition.
The story is told till date.
Now, he never heard anything of some Mary Slessor or accounts of stopping the killing of twins somewhere else at the time, he only knew it was wrong and he fought for what he believed in. He knew it was wrong.
The story is told till date.
Now, he never heard anything of some Mary Slessor or accounts of stopping the killing of twins somewhere else at the time, he only knew it was wrong and he fought for what he believed in. He knew it was wrong.
The westerners created this movie of a literature and history on how they helped Africa see the light and exposure but that's not all true. Not true
We would have, on our own, built our system, developed our cultures, not at any pace but in our own lane...
We would have revised
We would have, on our own, built our system, developed our cultures, not at any pace but in our own lane...
We would have revised
a lot of controversial practices, modify and put a stop to those needed to be stopped.
So, the whites didn't really liberate us like they claim but tried to impose on us their own systems, of which we had our working systems
Mary Slessor didn't stop the killing of twins in Ugbo
So, the whites didn't really liberate us like they claim but tried to impose on us their own systems, of which we had our working systems
Mary Slessor didn't stop the killing of twins in Ugbo
WE DID!!!!!!!!!
