“HAVE WE BECOME ANOTHER SWAZILAND”

Culture in African circles is thought to be a crucial part to ones up bringing as it entails a lot of things regarded good by elders within society. However when morals are thrown to dogs’ culture starts to stink sinking deep in a septic tank of ridicule.
Recently the Mlakho wa Alomwe cultural grouping organized their yearly cultural fest where this year a new product was showcased. Much as culture is versatile and that we need to accept our uniqueness, I was rather taken aback when amongst the parading dances and groups were these girls of the ages of 13 – 20yrs wriggling their erotic waists and shaking their fresh naked pointed breasts in different directions. however not concerned with the waist wriggling or the fluffy or pointed breast rather it’s the fact that these fests are attended by many people including children who may find these scenes a little uncomfortable. Imagine these girls were parading their naked top to everyone including the head of state who was present, maybe they were in a way advertising their products who knows what happened to some of those later that night. Watching such scenes from the public broadcaster MBCTV with the able and artistic hands and eyes of their cameramen one could evidently see some of these girls giving it there all in this October basking sunlight unknowingly of the fact that some camera man is doing what he gets paid for so that some of us critical minds can have something to look at. One fact that cannot be ruled out is that where there is a crowd a lot of things are bound to happen and am certain that some of these girls were re-payed of their sweat in the gone afternoon by some generous men.
Remember some months ago when demonstrations had reached their peak, other people were of the view that people get violent because they don’t know what to do after say handing over their sentiments to the DCs just like that case so is our issue here, a lot of people attended but they were not told what to do afterwards hence a lot happened through that night coupled with the naked breasted ladies that might have excited the lobido of some.
This flashing of breasts by young girls has been neglected for such a long time and mostly exploited by the Chewas, Ngonis, and now the lomwes have come in. This to some extent is an insult to these girls who are forced to show their inner beings in the name of culture.
But look at the age of these girls, what do you hold and think for their future?
Would you think such girls would have aspirations of making it big in life?
What sort of future queens are we preparing?
Maybe after crippling our economy, human rights to the Zim-Way, transforming our peaceful flag to match the transitional Libya one worse still to supplement the Kenyan one, defiantly gracing dic-tators we have thought that our culture needs upgrading too. Have we maybe become another Swaziland where such scenes are part of their rotten chauvinistic culture?
These girls have a voice even if it maybe husky but the bottom line remains that Malawi to quote some of the leaders is a God fearing nation and culturally endowed therefore these naked young girls showing people their fluffy stinking breasts should not be part of our upbringing if we want to have citizens (girls) that will meaningfully participate in the development of the nation in the coming years.
We can do better in promoting our culture than promoting and advertising fluffy pointed breasts.
Just another thought!