The cursed twins? Madagascar abandons twins because of the superstition that they bring bad luck.
Africa is bound by so many outdated superstitions and other issues considered taboo. Nothing better is seen in these superstitions and traditions they keep on holding from their ancestors than poverty that has engulfed the whole continent.
Madagascar is one of the most superstitious countries off the coast of Africa. They believe that twins bring bad luck to the community and to this day still hold this primitive ideology and philosophy about twins.
According to history, twins are immediately separated, or one is killed or abandoned in the forest after birth. Why? To avoid the harsh punishment from the traditional chief and the community, because families are not allowed to keep twins.
One of the bad lucks they believe could happen to them if families kept twins is that the whole village would die.
With this kind of superstition, what future do the Madagascar twin children have? This is the beginning of how children are traumatized, all for the sake of outdated, stupid superstitions. However, a media campaign and discussions with local leaders are taking place.
In another development, the country is implementing new ideas designed to change these traditional and superstitious beliefs. Until the harsh treatment of twins in Madagascar is eliminated, world organizations in charge of children's rights must step in to intervene.
The twins' children of Madagascar are like normal children in any part of the world. They need parental care, good health care, and education. The world must fight to end this senseless superstition in Madagascar.
Erykah Badu
Every musician and the public know that sex video clips for music sell. Competition in music these days is so strong that every artist wants to come out and produce something that no one else has ever done in the field of music.
Unfortunately, a respected singer like Erykah Badu, choice to make her video clip to promote or sell her music has rather given her disrespect or hatred in the eyes of the general public.
On the CNN American version, I watched the video clip over and over. The shocking part is how someone who is not insane or having no mental disorder could walk in public, a famous place for tourists where the assassination of President Kennedy took place decades ago, and shed off her clothes to be nude in the eyes of the public, then after a gunshot, she fell like someone playing a role in a film? All this is for a music video clip.
I think there are many ways Erykah should have chosen to make this clip. I don't know what was in her mind before she shot that clip. My question is, "Does she feel sorry for the assassination of President Kennedy, or does she feel good about it That was why she imitated his assassination.
Whatever reason Erykah did this for, I wish she could apologize to the Americans because, in my opinion, that was a total disrespect to the Kennedy family and the whole Americans.
Street children in Africa
Children these days are traditionally the subject of ridicule, humiliation, abuse, and mental torture. Besides South America and Asia, Africa is another continent yet to find a remedy for the number of children without any education.
The problems associated with street children vary. Broken homes, separation or divorce, parents' inability to bring up children, lack of education, and teenage pregnancy.
How do we assess the institution of marriage today in our society when so many divorces and activities of irresponsible parenting are causing havoc to our children?
Without much or any financial support, single mothers are left to face problems in bringing up children and earning money to give their children a good education.
The devil always has worked for idle hands. Lack of education forces young girls into prostitution. After giving birth out of hardship and frustration, the teenage mothers abandoned their children.
Later, the children grow up to be juvenile criminals, destitute, glue sniffers, and junkies. The question is, if a mother can't afford to feed her child, how then can the child get an education?
This is a burning issue that leaders of Third World Countries must consider as a priority, to create free or lower the cost of education for every child to be in school.
