By: Ayuel Mangok Angui
The western world has imported the freedom to Africans and it has never taught us about the meaning of freedom and what is supposed to be done when we are free in the Society. Freedom is the most important thing in human life, because we are born to be free and do what is good for us in order to achieve what we want to own in our lives.
Before the western civilization, Africa was the continent in the world, whose freedom was limited to the requirements of the Society. The people who had broken the traditional cultural norms by that time were punished and were forced to pay fine as a penalty for their misconduct against the constitution of the Society.
When the western democratic was introduced to the Africans by the European colonial masters, freedom has been misused in its right manner ,where all of us are expected to do what is benefitting the Society ,and that is why it is harming the young generations in Africa.
As a consequence of too much freedom, the young generations of today have indulged themselves in drug abuse and prostitution in order to satisfy their own interest, and most of them die at the early ages. This has contributed to the decline in the population of Africa compare to the other continents in the world.
On the other hand, too much freedom in our Society has encouraged too much divorce between or among many marriage couples of today and this has led to the increase in the number of gold diggers who have lost their homes and wanted to remarry only for the purpose of getting wealth from the people.
Moreover, most of the children have defected from the family‘s home on the face of searching for freedom and as a result of this, formation of gangs have become common everywhere and this has led to the increment in rampant attack and robbery of people on the street at night .
According to the African traditional Society ,the main roles of parents is to advice their children and tell them to behave and conform with the norms or principles of a particular Society, but because of the influence from the western culture, most of the parents have abandoned their responsibilities at homes as it was expected before ,and that is the reason why many children are affected by western culture, and have chosen the freedom and misuse it wrongly as the only way of living in the African society.
More and more, too much freedom is not only harming the young generations, but it is also hurting the youths to adhere to the regulations and requirements needed for the Africans to follow and the great number of the youths has involved themselves in gang activities, drug abuse and sexual intercourse as the young do. This has made them to fail in contributing positively toward the development of African communities, and this has made Africa remains behind in terms of development.
As a truth to tell for the sake of the continent Africa, I am writing to inform the African leaders in all the African nations that too much freedom that we have allowed to predominant in our countries is harming the young generations and the youths in our modern society, and we have to minimize it in order to meet with our norms and principles of our Society.
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