Obama, Kalu and African father-son relationship

On my return to Nigeria, I read about Orji Uzor Kalu's hint on Father-son relationship and Funke Adetutu's plea for women to take over affairs, reflected on my novel entitled "when women take over" in English or its French version 'les femmes au pouvoir' and finally went through Obama's bee approach to character formation to get inspiration to write this article.

The African man is a species about going extinct or like a gene about receding or even an Eagle losing its feathers; for, about 3 million African-Americans to be in jail or rehab centre and, a particular man in Toronto Canada searching for African descent fathers to give bearing to the decadent African descent youths in Canada, we posit that systemic failure is about setting in. Kalu and Obama's experiences provide for a reconstruction. African feminist crusaders should have a rethink. Now that Chinua Achebe is saying that his book, "things fall apart" has more of feminist undertone than meets the eyes, feminist crusaders should really re-assess it. Unoka was not seen as a man there and the killing of Ikemefuna has a feminist propping. Those revelations are not for this article; however, the brave Kalu we know missed a fatherly caution. He said it all in his Saturday's Sun.

There is a Yoruba adage that says, the strength of cutting a big tree belongs to the youth but knowing exactly where the tree will fall belongs to the elder. The Igbo say a child's demise is inevitable when the child closes his ears to the wisdom of the elders and that what causes the demise of an elder is when he sees from his mind and wisdom and fails to say what he had seen.

The point here is that the elder's courage to say the truth and the real reading of what his mind sees exculpates him and frees him from death whereas the child's heeding to wisdom opens great vistas of life to him.