POWER TO BE AFRIKACHILDREN/YOUTH AGAIN

POWER TO BE AFRIKACHILDREN/YOUTH AGAIN, By (c) 2012 by Prof. Afrikadzata Deku, Docteur d'Etat; Doctorat d'Etat (PhD); AFRIKALION@AOL.COM,

And yet Continental/Diaspora Afrikan children from Ancient to pre-slavery and pre-colonial Continental Afrika had no need to be lawless, criminals, disrespectful, dangerous etc. like most of today's Foreignized children/Youth .

All because, throughout ancient/traditional Continental Afrika at Home and Abroad, for 3 million years children were and are still being considered the most precious, the most sought after blessings by all Continental Afrikans or human beings worth the name.

For three million years, Continental Afrika has not only offered the world its first child but has taught the world how to value, protect, train, educate, love and advise children for them to become positive forces for their community.

In other words, traditional Continental Afrika believes children are the most important possessions one can ever have and be honored with.

So everything is done to encourage, reward, support and appreciate all Continental Afrikans to have children. Because the more children one has in Ancient/Traditional Continental Afrika, the more blessed one is.

Hence, having material things in life is more important than having and looking after children.

In traditional Continental Afrika, it is unthinkable, abnormal or even criminal for a normal human being to proclaim with pride "I do not want children" or "children will retard my career" or "I do not have time to marry or have or raise kids."

Such declarations can only be considered dangerous for the survival and continuity of the society.

Because if the parents of those who refuse to have and raise children so as to protect their own selfish individual interests, comforts and privacy etc. also say no to having and looking after children, they will not be born in the first place to say they prefer their career, money, education, liberty, freedom, privacy etc. to having and looking after children.

But because Foreign society considers having and looking after children as a secondary matter, a source of burden and headache, children and their welfare become also less important affair.

But in ancient/traditional Continental Afrika, children they know they are everything for their parents and community.

They know they have a host of parents, grand-parents, sisters, brothers, and a sea of relatives and elders to love them, care for them, nourish them, advise them, support them, protect and guide them 24 hours a day.

They also know no matter what happens society will not neglect, abuse, maltreat, abandon, jail or punish them.

In fact, children in traditional Continental Afrika have no time, no need, no interest in engaging in drugs, alcohol abuse, prostitution, sex, school drop-out, juvenile delinquency or crimes.

Because they see their parents, adults and elders doing their best for them and giving them the best of their world, they learn to respect, love, appreciate and listen to their parents, adults and elders.

This is so because children in Ancient/Traditional Continental Afrika know their parents, adults and elders are 100 percent for them.

They see daily evidence of their devotion, love, care, affection etc. for them.

And they know they can always count on them for support, care and advice.

Hence, common sense tells them it is to their interest to accept and apply advice from their parents, adults and elders.

Since they have already been to where they are now going as children.

By listening and respecting their elders who have PhDs in Life Experience and Wisdom from the University of Life, Ancient/traditional Continental Afrikan children know they can never go wrong.

Just as the crop that is well catered for is bound to produce fruits, so are the well-nursed Ancient/traditional Continental Afrikan children know society expects nothing but excellent harvests from them.

Besides, while in Foreign world children are the responsibility of the nucleus family - father and mother, in traditional Continental Afrikan world, the raising of children and their total welfare and well-being is the responsibility of all.

It is the duty of each community to have and raise all of its children no matter what.

Because each community knows there will be no community without its well-bred children.

And children in every community also know there will be no children worth the name with the daily love, care, attention, advice, support etc. of their parents, adults and elders.

In this way, the community (parents, adults and elders) exist for their children and their children for them.

There will be no community without its children and vice-versa.

So instead of constantly fighting each other as we see it daily in the Foreign world, Traditional/Ancient Continental Afrikan children learn to complement their parents, adults and elders.

They know whatever they do will reflect what kind of home or training they come from.

By sharing their life's experience with their young ones, elders save their children from committing the same mistakes they have made in finding the various truths that have made life worth and easy living.

And by respecting their elders, children are rewarded with the advice, experience and wisdom of their elders they need to improve and better their lives.

By constantly guiding and guarding their youth on their journey to maturity and responsible adulthood, elders in Ancient/Traditional Continental Afrika ensure and guarantee their immortality vis-avis their young ones who will always remain grateful to their parents, adults and elders for investing 100 percent of their time, energy and expertise on them.

Hence , in traditional Continental Afrika, elders are elders because of the sound and trustworthy advice they can provide the young ones.

The respect they have depends on how useful they are to their community via their services to the youth.

And likewise, children are rewarded and respected as children because of their ability to learn, listen, take advice and benefit from life's experiences and

wisdom of their parents, adults and elders.

In this way, Ancient/traditional Continental Afrikan children are problem-and-crime free because they have all the love, attention, care, guidance and protection they need and want to be children.

Hence, when they too become adults, they too make sure they give the best of

their world, time, energy and expertise to their children.

In this way, harmony, love, trust and respect are created, maintained and transferred from one generation to another.

By recognizing the truth that they need each other and there will be no children without elders and vice-versa, children and their parents/adults/elders have learned to support each other, understand, love and care for each other rather than hate or fight each other.

That is why in Ancient/traditional Continental Afrika, children are considered the reflection of their adults.

They are like a drum. Whatever music adults play on it, they will get.

If children are bad, it is because somewhere elders are not doing their job as parents, grandparents, relatives and elders.

So instead of blaming them or punishing them, elders will rather find and correct what they are doing wrong.

Once that is done, then everything becomes normal again.

Because it is normal for children to respect their elders, it is normal for them to bear fruits in the community.

But before this happens, they must be taught how to do so.

They must be given the tools they need to say no to negative things and yes to positive things.

It is not enough for parents/adults to spend 96 percent of their time, energy, attention, love, and expertise on themselves - career, good job, good salary, fast car etc. which they spend little or no time, attention, love etc. on the training, education, advice, guidance and protection of their children as we see in the Foreign world.

In traditional Continental Afrika, on the other hand, good children mean good parents/adults and bad children also mean bad parents/adults.

Whatever investment adults make in their children, so they get in return.

Parents/adults of every traditional Continental Afrikan society are considered farmers.

Whatever they sow for their children, so they get.
By COPYRIGHT (2012) Prof Afrikadzata Deku, Docteur d'Etat, PhD; *Doctorat d'Etat (Ph.D.) * D.E.S.S. (M. Phil) * Diplome De L' I.I.A.P.(Post-Grad. Dipl.) * M.Sc. * BA. Double Majors *,

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