THE PROBLEM WITH AFRICAN 16

Someone shouted thief! Chief!! Thief!!! Before you could say ‘Jack’ the entire people on the street has descended on him. Many started beating him while asking the woman, what did he steal from you? My phone, he stole my phone. They didn’t ask, they didn’t investigate, they poured fuel on him and set him ablaze and immediately the fire started blazing, the son of the woman who was shouting thief! Thief!! Came to her, and asked her, ‘mom, what’s happening here?’ She replied, it’s the thief who stole my phone, which phone he asked because you left your phone at home and I came rushing to give it to you. That was when it dawned on her, the phone he had seen on him isn’t hers, she had assumed that he stole her phone and thus shouted and now he is dead over a crime he never committed. She felt so ashamed of herself and left the scene without saying a word, forever living with the weight of the guilt.
This is another issues with Africans; too lazy to investigate themselves. Whatsoever that requires mental exercising, an average African won’t engage in it, he rather relies on the intelligence handed over to them without investigating such intelligence.
This is the reason wrong tradition has prevailed in Africa. An African would do something because his father said it’s their tradition, he won’t investigate if such tradition is base on truth and would be helpful to his betterment.
Many of our girls are not married because of the tradition of over tasking suitors during marriage. Marriage is now a burden only very few African men can bear instead they cohabit with a woman for years and have many kids together to drive them out when they choose because they aren’t married because the traditional requirement for marriage is too high.
Many Africans are holding on to female circumcision insisting that without it women won’t be able to have kids. Just do a little research you’ll find that out to be false.
It's easy for an African to forward messages and videos and make it viral without any of them seating down to research the information they are making viral. The average African feels too weak to exercise his mental faculties.
If we must grow in Africa, we must learn to investigate every supposed truth handed down to us. we must research whether our traditional practices are helpful to us or not. We must learn to investigate before believing and continue practicing.
God bless you
Pastor Promise Ikpe