Why are Some Africans so self destructive? -
03-28-2005, 07:03 PM
There is this Swedish channel that always airs African documentaries, from rural and urban areas including Kenya.
I can't remember the specific country{ my mind is kinda tired will tell the country when i remember}
lakini i was shocked beyond belife that some practices actually exist!
There was some two women suffering from some strange disease, and they don't have an actual doctor in the village, they have this Mganga cum Daktari who is multipurpose. So the guy sets his uchawi's on the ground, and the two women are covered with leso's and the mganga who barely looks 20 yrs old, starts to chant some in coherent stuff.
No sooner had he engaged in a sharp tone, the women started to roll on the ground! The guy in the background is explaining they have been possesed by good spirits that cure you of sicknesses!
The final stage into curinng them was the Mganga slitting his wrists, and slitting the womens, with the same knife mind you, then poured the blood into a ka basin and ordered them to drink it and after that declared them healed!!
Now if that mganga had used the same knife on himself and two other different women, then perhaps cured some extra patients isn't that a health hazard? Why are africans so self destructive? I feel so sad seeing such practices occuring in this day and age, and yet some people still complain that they want to preserve the culture that is evidently going to kill us one by one.
Some practices have to be killed, before they kill everyone.
Bana Africa needs education badly. We need someone to save us from our selves.
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