The recent upsurge of amateur seks tape productions starring several of the country’s youth has led to the usual uproar about how the upcoming generation lacks a moral fibre and have been corrupted by too much exposure to western practices.
This is an old sentiment, rearing its head whenever something happens that people feel would not have happened during those good old days of African traditional living. There was more discipline back then, they would say nostalgically.
Whilst admittedly true, it’s unrealistic to expect that in such a globalised world, practices that we’ve associated with the west would not seep into the very fabric of our society. Everyone clamours for the big, church wedding these days, don’t they? Yet that was not the case way back when; during these good old days everyone keeps telling us about.
So leaving aside the question of why we think two consenting adults cannot decide to do whatever they want to do in the confines of their room, what is this moral fibre they keep talking about that the youth lack? Because I have looked around the whole country to find it and I’m sadly found wanting.
We live in a country where politicians live lavish lifestyles when the economy seems on the brink of teetering into an abyss. We live in a country where corruption at high levels is seen as normal and no one ever pays for their oh so obvious crimes.