Lagos — In Africa, childbearing is considered a blessing and in some communities shouts of joy erupt when a new baby arrives. This may be followed by naming ceremony or baby celebration. With tradition, it presupposes that a newly married couple is expected to have as many children as possible without giving consideration to the means of rearing such.
This culture was not fashioned out of naivety as any foreign writer on the topic would be quick to conclude but was imbibed as a result of the contribution of a bigger population to the economy.
In rural agriculture and animal rearing, the family that has the highest number of off-spring fare better during the farming period because the number of workers increases. It should be noted here that it was not traditional to employ permanent hands by families to do the cultivation an herds keeping. Though a family can hire paid labourers from time to time, the usual permanent workers are the members of the family.
Polygamy in Africa can best be understood in this light because men being the natural inheritors of family farms and herds tend to marry as many wives as their resources can allow them in order to have many workers. They are not slaves in any way because they benefit from the proceeds of their works as their daily nourishments come thereof.
In a nutshell, majority of the cattle herdsmen that traversed your locality with their herds were not employed workers but children or owners of the cattle though the situation are changing nowadays. The workers you saw in the large acres of farmland owned by a man in your neighbourhood are mostly his wives and children.
Times have changed and many Africans have become educated enough to leave rural farming to embrace white collar jobs but the allure of having as many children as possible remains in their subconscious. Of course, an average African would be having quarrels with his or her mother in-law if the person announces that she/he wants to have only one child or just two children.
This tradition led to population boom and in a society where social security does not exist, most of the children who were not lucky enough to be born by affluent parents suffer lots of setbacks. In several cases when one or two of the parents becomes deceased then they are left at the mercy of relatives. Very unlucky ones do not find relatives to take care of them and that is the birth of African street children.
Study reveals that the continent is producing a child every second, and by 2050 its population will reach 2 billion. Due to the aforementioned social pressure, African women bear 5.3 children each on average, compared with 2.1 in the United States, says the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research centre in Washington.
According to the study, nearly half of Africa's people are 15 or younger, a youth bulge that will struggle to find jobs and support its own children, and perhaps condemn the continent to more disillusionment and violence.
The readers should underline the last word in the foregoing paragraph; Violence. This goes with attendant crimes like robbery both armed and unarmed.
In most cases, the young person struggling to sell Gala or other items along the road while defying traffic is a product of overwhelmed parents who may not be able to take care of their children. They send them off to the city to trade or to serve as housekeepers. They are force to fend for themselves and in some cases the parents also expect some remittances back home.
The big question is, what is the plan of the government for these children and what are they doing to discourage parents from having more children. In some countries like China, some rewards are promised families with only one child and in the West, certain benefits accruable to families stop at the fourth child. Here in Africa, nothing is heard about any population control policy.
On the other hand, nations are not doing anything to adapt, build schools, health systems and economies to match their growing numbers. Nothing is done to avert disaster.
Some countries like India believe that their population has an innate strength to work hard and lift the country forward. Taking a lesson from them, African nations while working to control their population should also work to harness the big population they have at present because in human resources lie sciences and creativity that have propelled the world to this nuclear age. Governments should rescue children trapped by poverty because many of them have big potentials.
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TAKING CHARGE : SIMPLE STRATEGIES TO SURVIVE THE CASH CRUNCH
I. Collaborative Unit For Survival We Should Align With Persons And form A Cooperative Collaborating Unit
A. Extended Black Family Should be Our Strongest Collaborative Unit,
B. Apprentice Training Passing Our Skills On Through Generations
C. Cooperative Shopping & Research For Example : [ www.pacificgeek.com]
II. Global Opportunity For Securing Retirement Wealth
A. Nigerias Stock market
B. Ghana is offering around 20% Return On Treasury Notes
C. These Are Some Of The Countries That Are Offering Free Land To Black Africans : Ethiopia, Zimbabwe & Ghana
D. Travel & Tourism Opportunities : By Buying Land In Certain Tourist Rich Locales, Investors Can Thrive As Tourism Hosts [
e.g. One Africa Guest House In Cape Coast Ghana
III. Practicing Wellness By Being Aware
A. The So-Called HealthCare System Is The 3rd Leading Cause Of Death In America
B. Most Chronic Diseases Are Created By Malnutrition
C. The Standard American Diet Is Toxic
IV. Banking Usury Via Credit Card Schemes.
A. They Are Responsible For Ruining Entire Nations
B. Some Other Usury Schemes Payday Lenders & Check Cashing Stations
V. Buying Locally0Grown Food AND Making Organic Gardens
A. Some Highlights Of Setting Up Square Raised Gardens
1. After measuring lumber and building the boxed area : Landscaping Cloth should be laid down to keep weeds out of the bottom.
2. Fill the boxed area with composted dirt that is also mixed with peat moss to make the environment for the roots comfortable.
3. Using Crossing Strings, measure out 1 square foot grids.
a. Each grid can be used to plant your choice of produce.
4. Earth Boxes can be used for persons living in apartments
5. Green Bags can be used to store refrigerated produce in; helping it to stay consumable longer.
VI. Reviving Home-Based Industries :
A. Carpentry, Plumbing,
B. Canning & Preserving
C. Eating From Our Own Kitchens (as opposed to eating out )
VII. Do It Yourself
A. Auto mechanics
B. Sewing, Knitting, Crocheting
C. Childcare & Elder care
D. Home Schooling
E. Washing Our Own Vehicles
F. Landscaping
G. Using Our Extra Rooms To Board Persons
H. Copoerative Rent Sharing Heres where 2 or more persons can live in a home for a few years as they share in rent et al household duties
a. The advantage here will allow the collaborators to save money. With this saved money they can start businesses and continue to grow.
b. Many people coming to America have practiced this Cooperative Rent Sharing for Years
I. Rent Parties - This is a fun way to help someone
J. Beauty Care-From The Homes
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HeyNow Afrikan Family !
On Afrikans Investing In Technology , Afrikans abroad & In Afrika
Should Invest In The Technologies around the world And Have It
Shipped To Afrika With The Know-How To Do It Ourselves.. We
SHOULD NOT just allow countries to come into our countries and build
and settle on our lands.
America (The Whore Of Babylon) Is Trying To Re-vive it'as dying
soul via other ASIANS & CAUC - ASIANS , But Prophecy Is
Pronounced :
And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of
the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR
PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT
THEY SHALL FALL ! [Daniel 11:14 ]
ATTENTION AFRIKA , you have 300 million citizens spread
abroad that need your help getting back to our roots. While you
are looking to countries like America & China to uplift Afrika, Many
of us Black Afrikans spread abroad are proficient in a lot of useful
technologies. Here is a brief synopsis of some of the inventions
that Black Americans have produced. So please help us to get
home.
BLACK AFRICAN INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS
* Sarah Boone - IRONING BOARD - April 26, 1892
* John A. Burr - LAWN MOWER
* Marie V. Brittan Brown - HOME SECURITY SYSTEM - Dec 2, 1969
* Buridge & Marshman - TYPEWRITER
* George Carruthers - X-RAY MACHINE
* George Washington Carver - PEANUT BUTTER - PAINTS PAINT STAINS ETC
* W.A. Dietz - SHOE
* P.B. Downing - POSTAL LETTER BOX
* Charles R. Drew - BLOOD PLASMA STORAGE SYSTEM
* T. Elkins - TOILET (COMMODE)
* Robert Flemming Jr. - GUITAR
* George F. Grant - GOLF TEE
* J. Gregory - MOTOR
* Michael Harney - LANTERN
* Augustus Jackson - ICE CREAM
* B.F. Jackson - GAS BURNER
* H.A. Jackson - KITCHEN TABLE
* Ruane Jeter - DIGITAL TOASTER - April 14, 1987
* Isaac R. Johnson - BICYCLE FRAME
* John A. Johnson - WRENCH
* P. Johnson - EYE PROTECTOR (GOGGLES)
* W. Johnson - EGG BEATER
* Frederick M. Jones - DEFROSTER - REFRIGERATION CONTROLS AIR CONDITIONER
* Jones & Long - BOTTLE CAPS
* John H. Jordan - CLOTHES DRESSER
* Mary B. Kenner - SANITARY BELT (TAMPONS) - May 15, 1956
* Mary B. Kenner - BATHROOM TISSUE HOLDER - Nov 19, 1982
* Mary B. Kenner - BACKWASHER ( BATHTUB OR SHOWER MOUNTED) - July 29,1987
* Lewis Latimer & Nichols - ELECTIC LAMP
* W.A. Lavalette - PRINTING PRESS
* Maurice W. Lee PRESSURE COOKER
* A.L. Lewis - WINDOW CLEANER
* John L. Love - PENCIL SHARPENER
* Tony J. Marshall - FIRE EXTINGUISHER
* Alexander Miles - ELEVATOR
* Jan E. Matzeliger - SHOE LASTING MACHINE
* W.A. Martin - LOCK
* Garrett A. Morgan - GAS MASK - Traffic Signal
* Lydia Newman - HAIR BRUSH - Nov 15, 1898
* Alice H. Parker - HEATING FURNACE - Dec 23, 1919
* J.F. Pickering - AIR SHIP (BLIMP)
* Purdy & Sadgwar - FOLDING CHAIR
* W.B. Purvis - FOUNTAIN PEN
* L.P. Ray - DUST PAN
* W.H. Richardson - BABY BUGGY
* G.T. Sampson - CLOTHES DRYER
* .W. Smith - LAWN SPRINKLER
* J. Standard - REFRIGERATOR
* T.W. Stewart - MOP
* Paul E. Williams - HELICOPTER
* Granville T. Woods - Roller Coaster
* Thanks to The Black Inventors Museum *
* Address : P.O. Box 76128 - Los Angeles , Calif. (90076)
* Phone (310) 859-4602)
* Director : Ghanaian Mr. Hamza Salifa
AND
ONE AFRICA TOURS & SPECIALTY SERVICES LTD.
* Major Contributor of Information : SEESTAH Imahkus Nzinga Ababio Okofo
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P. O. Box CC 1251 - Cape Coast
Ghana - West Africa
What can you do to help us ?
Start with contacting Pan-Afrikanist organizations like BLACK
STAR MEDIA (Modelled after Marcus Garveys Vision For Afrika) : They are at
[ www.libradio.net ]. The CEO of BLACK STAR MEDIA is Keidi-Obi
Awadu. He has been on the frontline fighting for our freedom for
over 30 years.
It's Not A Question Of Other Learned Societies.
It's The INFERIORITY COMPLEX WE HAVE TO SHED
St. Paul In A Letter To The Christians In Rome Said :
" For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is
among you, NOT TO THINK OF HIMSELF MORE HIGHLY Than
He Ought To Think; but to think soberly, according AS GOD HAS
D EALT TO EVERY MAN THE MEASURE OF FAITH .
We All Should Think Highly Of Ourselves, Keeping In Our Mind
That God Gave Us Dominion Over The Earth
, NOT EACH OTHER. !!!!!!!!
So let's please help us to return to our Mama Afrika as Israel
under Moses escaped their exile !!!!!!!
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