By Chero Emmanuel Achilingmoe.
Across Africa today, numerous international projects claim to fight against child marriages, early pregnancies, and child mothers. While these campaigns appear noble on the surface, they often carry hidden motives that threaten the very fabric of our traditional societies. These initiatives, driven by foreign interests, have become a new form of modern-day enslavement—a subtle continuation of colonial domination through social manipulation.
Before the intrusion of these so-called “protective” projects, African families had their own systems of discipline, moral upbringing, and communal responsibility. Our traditions valued children, protected young girls, and guided them through community-based mentorship—not foreign-funded activism.
However, under the guise of “human rights” and “gender equality,” these external programs have gradually usurped the authority of household heads and weakened the moral structures that once safeguarded our youth.
By teaching children to view parental guidance as oppression and family authority as abuse, these campaigns have bred disobedience, confusion, and vulnerability among our young people. The result has been a generation torn between foreign ideals and cultural identity—children who no longer respect their roots, and communities left fragmented.
True empowerment for African girls and boys will never come from foreign agendas but from restoring dignity, unity, and balance within our own cultural systems. Our ancestors raised strong women and responsible men long before foreign intervention. What we need today is not imported morality, but the revival of African values that promote respect, protection, and harmony within our homes.
It’s time Africa reclaims its narrative and safeguards its families from disguised forms of colonial control. Let our development be guided by our own wisdom, culture, and community spirit—not by external forces that profit from our division.
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