Breaking this down into different grounds of propagation such as:
Identity
Religion
Gender
Marriage
Submission
And the chief of which is FEAR!
I'm shocked at the revelation of the reality some of his real life example cited, Chief of which is the Ghanaian Bride of the gods, where young females, many times underage are given to marriage to the Gods. The gods as the esteemed Prof cited would be the priest who is a suppose custodian of the sacredness of the gods and the gods themselves.
These priest a current century slave masters are to take over conjugal responsibility of these young children (female) as soon as they come to live in the shrine, children who were given for the purpose of meeting the domestic and sexual needs of the gods. Read the gods to be the chief priest.
I'm bothered that as recent as the past administration this was in fact in practise supported by supposed people of intellect the would be pan africanist who feels tradition should be left unquestioned, this practise still propagated by fear, fear which makes the community find and return fleeing young brides to their master or substitute the once that cannot be brought back.
And a cold sense of pain flushed through me when he cited an example with a father of a ten year old in Northern Nigeria who amputated the legs of his daughter because she fled the home of her betrothed, the father, who will guise this barbaric practise as punishment for her letting him down.
And whilst I was thinking that maybe slavery is what I should see in books, of stuffs that happened in time past, or recent Libya capture of Africans trying to flee their country through the Sahara for a better life, Prof. Soyinka in fact opened my eyes to see that slavery is not only in what I'd believed it to be, but it is in denial of identity, subjugation, religious brainwashing and extremism, forced marriages and the number one target recipient of twenty first century slavery, women. And of course fear.
His audacity in calling out in this his speech intellectuals who are well read but sides religious and traditional extremism and slavery makes me forfeit everything I already was told about him and listen to what he gat to say.
His guts, wow! I've always been thrilled by those who has guts, and I think blunt speaking people like the learned Prof who can in fact call out people who share cordial relationship with him when they begin to dance to the tune of silence or watering down big issues is the eyes to which I could borrow in seeing things I'd once looked at, for what they truly is.
I'll touch religion another time, both the Christian and the Islamic religious writings of women subjugation and slavery will be brought to the table and served proper writing justice, but I've openly opposed Paul's writings on women subjugation guise as submission, slave submission, and every other thing that seems to give full grown humans another identity different from what their will power and free choices makes them. And for will power I will say, free thinking will power not a will power influenced by either a heaven making quest or lives of servitude to any devotion.
But silently, it bothers me. Africa bothers me. And this talk has sparked up the flames of that bother. How all these jet age slavery can be here, be thriving, be propagated and what we think needs urgent redress is sexuality, who people seeks to love and what two adult desires to do with their own body. I'm pained, that we are not seeing these life threatening epidemic of slavery ravaging our collective image in the world's eye, we are not taking vehement steps to free slave captives which will include Child brides who are living in same streets with many of us, women subjugation and religious bondage but has in fact chosen to bother ourselves on the idea of invented believes brought to us by the chief slave masters and their books, and population why do the white force down our throat the need to populate and they themselves ain't doing half of what they would us do? Just why?
The answer isn't far fetched, it's still in that speech, of how black spouse where brought to slave women for copulation with the sole aim of propagating the slave race for increase human labor. And they have successfully installed this into our silent mindset this idea which in fact is the basis to which we have turned blind eyes to every other thing which are more threatening to sexuality which if we properly define will be to population increase, and Africa sadly will always have much more than enough slave to be shipped abroad and to other part of Africa where manual human laborers are in high demand because we have embraced the slave propagation idea of going into the world and multiply without even asking, after multiplication what becomes of our too numerous seeds?
Maybe we can stop to ask, or maybe we can still be dragging who makes heaven, enters paradise and who goes to hell!
it's me!
Chines Zoe
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