Before I say anything I must express my gratitude to my brother Badrudeen Shareef who was generous to afford me some space on his blog to express my opinion. Were it not by God’s grace and then him, probably you wouldn’t be reading this. It’s also worth noting that this is my first piece on this blog.
After this brief introduction let
me turn you to what I want to say. As Africans, We seem to be tied to some
Western strings. Almost everything in our lives is dictated by the ways of the
West. We seem to be taking their life as the marking scheme for our own; like parrots
we imitate everything without understanding. Some of us are now becoming effective tools with
which African culture is being supplanted.We are forsaking what is African in the
pursuit of `modernism’. This same modernism could be taking us back to the
period of ignorance, if studied critically.
