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Things un-African: Part One…cancer of Westernisation upon us

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WHY are we so desperate to defend adultery by giving it palatable names?
What is a ‘small house’ but sheer adultery!
Those who peddle sexual immorality know the end result is a morally weak people who cannot stand up for anything.
If our homes are consumed, plundered and splintered by adultery, how can we hold a nation together?
This is what our detractors are after.
And when we are so fructured we cannot hold a nation together, we would be ripe for implosion while they get what they are after — our wealth.
When Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart, he was saying that the ways of the whiteman had struck and destroyed us at the heart of our being.
The centre could not hold anymore.
As a consequence, blacks are so amenable to vices that destroy us.
We have to stop and think why we have become a nation that subsists on ARVs and that other whole regime of props.
We have forgotten who we are and where we come from.
Prostitution is an abomination and it is condemned in the strongest of terms among our people.
The temerity to sanitise prostitution by calling it a ‘small house’ and attempting so strenuously to legitimise it is an injustice against the soul of our people.
These are things that are not African, they are not part of our culture and heritage.
When you ‘sleep’ with someone who is not your wife or husband, that is adultery or fornication in the case of the unmarried.
These things are not of God, they are not of Musikavanhu.
That children strut semi-naked on our streets and in our homes, their skimpy clothing barely covering the essentials while leaving nothing to the imagination does not reflect the attitudes, values and feelings which hold us together as a people, but the moral decay peddled by the West.
Some of them seem so normal and yet if you open their facebook pages, you would be shocked.
They bare it all in a manner that is shocking to those parents and elders who still expect our world, our society to be the right side up.
This is not what they are meant to be.
Can they build a great Zimbabwe when they are so pre-occupied with sensuality and gratification of the flesh?
This lasciviousness flourishes because we have allowed the cancer of Westernisation to flourish among the young.
Why is the net closing in on our children?
Since Zimbabwe gives our enemies sleepless nights, these young ones, in their eyes, have to be destroyed.
Our young hold the promise of Zimbabwe, the torch of Zimbabwe which if extinguished would help our enemies rest easy.
The way they tried to eliminate the children during the liberation struggle is the same way they are after them right now.
They lost then — are we going to let them win now?
Our children are the custodians of Zimbabwe and if we fail them, there is no future for our country.
Our children answered the call to free Zimbabwe and joined the liberation struggle.
They will still answer the call to build us a great Zimbabwe, but are we assisting them or are we leaving them prey to the marauding robbers from the West.
The way our mothers brought us up is no more the way it is done today.
No immoral tendency could survive in that culture which is now under siege from the West.
Any tendency towards sexual immorality was nipped in the bud. You had to watch your step and you had to be proper.
We are not telling the truth when we claim our children are different from us; we are not being honest because they too can be the best Zimbabwe needs but we are not assisting them the way we were assisted by their grandparents and their great grandparents.
The calibre of Mbuya Nehanda and her compatriots is light miles superior to anyone steeped in wantonness.
When we do not raise our children according to our culture, we are not preparing them to inherit Zimbabwe, to be its true heirs.

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