The Children's Story: WHY ANANSI -THE SPIDER ALWAYS HIDES AT THE CORNER

Ananse the spider: African folktales.

Grouping children and telling them stories is one of the African traditions. This is a story about the spider known by the Akans, Fantis, or Twi in Ghana as "Anansi."

According to the story, Anansi visited his mother-in-law on an empty stomach. He was really starving to death. 

On arrival, he was welcomed by his in-law, and since her delicious meal of beans was ready, his mother-in-law served him.

 Even though Anansi was on the edge of collapsing with hunger, he refused to eat the food with the excuse that he had eaten a couple of minutes ago.

According to the narrator of the story, Anansi was just playing gently. He was actually feeling shy about eating at his mother-in-law's house. 

This is actually a stupid thing to do by Anansi; after all, what is the shamefulness in this when someone eats at the wife's mother's house?

Just then, someone knocked on the door. As soon as the mother-in-law went to answer the call, Anansi sneaked into the kitchen to fill his hat full of the hot bean stew and quickly put it on his head.

The extremely hot cooked bean stew was peeling off his hair from his skull. He told his mother-in-law that he wants to leave. Then, both went out talking. 

He told his mother-in-law, "Please go back to the house; I can go on my own." His mother-in-law, not suspecting anything, decided to escort him further.

When Anansi couldn't persuade his wife's mother to return home, and also couldn't stand the pain any longer, he lifted his hat, and the hot beans spilled all over his body.

The shocked mother-in-law stood motionless, watching as her son-in-law fled in agony. The shame Anansi cast on himself was too much to bear; from that period, he went into hiding.

This is the reason Anansi the Spider is always seen at the corners of buildings or places. Actually hiding from his disgrace.

HOME OFFICE MUST CONSIDER GAMU

Rejected X Factor hopeful Gamu Nhengu must leave the UK voluntarily, the UK Border Agency has said.


The 18-year-old singer was allowed to stay in the country as a dependent while her mother, Nokuthula Ngazana, studied at university. But the visa has now run out, and the family's application to remain in the UK has been rejected as they did not meet all the criteria set down by the Home Office.

Gamu Nhengu must leave the UK?

They must now leave the UK voluntarily or face deportation to their native Zimbabwe. A spokesman for the Home Office said the decision to axe the student from X Factor was the "business" of the television show. 

He could not say whether the omission by Judge Cheryl Cole had been decided after talks between immigration officials and the program's bosses.  

A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The applications made by Miss Ngazana and her family were considered in line with the published immigration rules.

"Miss Ngazana's application was refused as it did not meet all of the conditions for approval. Her family, who had applied as her dependents, was therefore also refused." 

So far, more than 210,000 fans have signed up to a Facebook page called Gamu Should Have Got Through, protesting against the decision by Cheryl on Sunday to leave Gamu out of the final 12.

At least one of the rejected contestants will be given a lifeline over the weekend as a wild card on Saturday night's program. Bosses have denied reports that Cheryl was influenced by fears that Gamu's visa was due to run out. 

A spokeswoman for the ITV1 talent show said: "Gamu's visa being processed was not the reason that she didn't make the final 12." This is really a sad story that has touched many people across the world.

STEVE BIKO: LEGEND OF A POLITICAL HERO

The great Steve Biko

He sacrificed his life to make what South Africa is today.

In the political history of South Africa, many are those who fought against the evil apartheid, oppression, mass arrests, detention without trial, etc. 

Along the line with Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Chief Buthelezi, etc, in the struggle to emancipate blacks from hardships was Steve Bantu Biko, who died in detention before he could see the fall of apartheid years ago, in South Africa.

Although Steve Biko is gone, his great achievement and his part in the struggle to free South Africa, under the previous white minority rule, will always be remembered. 

Steve Biko, the man popularly known as the "Father of Black Consciousness Movement," was born in King William's Town, Cape Province in South Africa, on December 18, 1946. He lost his father at the tender age of four.

After his primary and secondary school education in South Africa, he left for the Lovedale institution in Alice. He received his higher education at the Roman Catholic Marianhill in Natal and entered the medical school of the University of Natal in 1965. 

As an active member of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), his heart was increasingly in politics. He left NUSAS and formed the South African Students Organization (SASO).

Regarded as one of the fearless critics in South Africa, along the line with Nelson Mandela, despite both having different views and options, Biko faced the white regime squarely. 

Not by violence, but through his writings, which he named "I write what I like." The white regime found his writings as nothing but the simple truth and thought his letters posed a threat to national security. He writes:

Black consciousness seeks to talk to the Black man in a language of his own. It is only by making familiar the basic setup in the Black world that one will be aware of the urgent need for the reawakening of the sleeping masses. 

He stressed, "It urges black people to judge themselves as human beings and not to be fooled by the white society, which has white-washed itself to enjoy privileges at the expense of blacks; Biko pointed out that the logic behind white domination is to prepare the Blackman to serve and give him respect. 

Even in sports, Whitman wants to do everything for themselves, all by themselves, by keeping Blacks to stand at touchlines to witness the game they are playing.

In his writings, he always stressed and talked openly against whites, saying that "there is no doubt that the color question in South African politics was originally introduced for economic reasons. 

Because the selfish white leaders installed a barrier between blacks and whites so that they could enjoy what belonged to Blacks. 

To avoid influencing the various Black groups in South Africa, which gave him much support and recognition, Steve Biko was arrested and detained many times under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act in South Africa.

In many cases, he was always released. But on August 18, 1977, when Steve Biko was arrested and detained under the same offense of terrorism, little did everybody know that he would not be seen again. 

He was taken to Port Elizabeth, stripped naked, and tortured to death. His autopsy stated that he died of brain damage. Those responsible for his death lied that he died on a hunger strike in detention.

Unfortunately, Steve Biko wasn't alive to see what he sacrificed his life for: the fall of apartheid. However, on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of his death, it is worthwhile to say that "September 12 of every year should be declared as a public holiday in the Republic of South Africa, in honor of that great man.

If a day in America is observed as a holiday for the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., then the late Steve Biko should be given that recognition, too, in South Africa. Steve Biko died at the age of 31. He left behind a widow and two boys aged seven and three.