I Will Not Kneel If Men Don't Kneel | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie loves her Igbo culture but would like some things to change. Watch the full video here: • I will Not Kneel If Me...
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  • @Cherrydearie
    @Cherrydearie หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I love her. I love how gently she pushes for what she believes in and all the wonderful stories she's written and speeches she's given that I can't get enough of. There are certain things as an Igbo woman that I'm not interested in. Kolanut is one of them. The men can keep breaking and eating it to their hearts content. I'm not interested and never will be. There are things I don't think we should fight for equality about. Let the men play their roles and women do same, as long as each gender is respected and appreciated, there will be peace.

    • @africawebtv2
      @africawebtv2  หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Can we just commend you for the way you gently and gracefully disagree with Chimamanda on this issue and still showed your appreciation for her opinion without it diminishing your opinion of her? Reading many comments here, it is obvious that many people can no longer respect anyone they disagree with even on 1 issue. Thank you for being a class act.

    • @Cherrydearie
      @Cherrydearie หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@africawebtv2Thank you. We are all different humans, we can't always agree about everything. Respect for others is a choice we should all make consciously, irrespective of gender, race, religion or varying world view.

  • @Mrs.naturalez
    @Mrs.naturalez ปีที่แล้ว +94

    so grateful for a woman like this in our world

    • @blackseed9293
      @blackseed9293 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why? Because she embraces the culture of whites?

    • @olushayotriumph
      @olushayotriumph ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She's operating under a curse.
      To the woman He said,
      “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
      in pain you shall bring forth children.
      Your desire shall be contrary to your husband,
      but he shall rule over you.”
      - Ge 3:16

    • @msaniitz5588
      @msaniitz5588 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@olushayotriumph Wow. All of this desire to punch down. Talk about letting your insecurities show.

  • @landeno
    @landeno ปีที่แล้ว +183

    To all of you saying that she should practice her Western culture in Western society and other derogatory things, I will repeat what this wise woman said. Women are full human beings. This is what God himself says, yet men do not seem to want to accept this simple fact. Oppressors never want to let go of their oppression.

    • @theafricanblogger
      @theafricanblogger ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Absolute FACTS

    • @arizonaaliasofficial4733
      @arizonaaliasofficial4733 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Woman are FULL HUMAN BEINGS but should play THEIR ROLE because many Women want the GLORY of a Man's position but not the GRIME. MEN are not superior but bear the HEAVIER BURDEN in many ways 🙏🏿

    • @stevenkhoza7350
      @stevenkhoza7350 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When you buy clothes is for u to wear it not it to wear you,and is for you to maintain your clothes for best results not clothes to maintain u....will understand if she paid my family a lobola. Then I can accept she is my king ,even in the Bible the king was referred to man but not women. But however keep disgracing the commandments and accept the results

    • @landeno
      @landeno 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@stevenkhoza7350 what are you even talking about?

    • @mrlij6534
      @mrlij6534 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arizonaaliasofficial4733 they cant survive without men, they dont take into account the things around them that are provided to them by Men. just wake up nonchalantly in lala land and everything is there but they dont think about who provides these basic things to survive in this world. so yeah kneel to your tradition

  • @iphy634
    @iphy634 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    In the Yoruba culture, the men prostrate while the women kneel which I believe shows a recognition that women are full human beings…

    • @1972Ray
      @1972Ray 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the US, wealthy black men often partner with white women.

    • @thekjvsanitybiblestudybroa5972
      @thekjvsanitybiblestudybroa5972 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Thank you for this. You know most times when people have opportunity being uneducated in certain things, they sound as she's sounding. If she wanted to be against women kneeling she should have been against women kneeling unwillingly in the Igbo culture. So far she made it seem as though women are forced. Feminism is a curse

    • @iphy634
      @iphy634 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thekjvsanitybiblestudybroa5972 🤔 I think some women are actually forced especially during mourning periods of their late husbands. I believe she’s talking about context. It may be good to see the full video. There are some barbaric cultures tbh and they recognise women as second class citizens and not full human beings…

    • @Debs567
      @Debs567 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠Your absolutely right and well said!👌💯
      All this business of woman emancipation, feminism, is the devil’s work and fight against God’s true setup of family. Women think they are being empowered whereas they end up taking the role of a husband/ father in the home, which father is set to look up to God as the head as well.
      A woman is meant to be a helper to the husband… but the women with all this feminism end up taking it out of context.
      Go look at Erica Mukasa’s testimony on life is spiritual and see how the devil was using her in this regard and the so called feminism.
      So my dear sisters, as your listening, pick what is valuable, you don’t have to take another person’s opinion if it’s not making sense to you or contradicting with your beliefs.
      Therefore, am not against her in particular, coz I like her so much,but am against this particular message she has passed on.

    • @pdm8446
      @pdm8446 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      She was talking about her own Igbo culture, not a Yoruba culture. Also, this is a clip so we did not hear the full story. I, as an Igbo person do not even know the context of the situation where a woman is asked to kneel but not the man. I will need the full clip/story for it to make sense.

  • @yaa531
    @yaa531 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This Nigerian sister, really speaks profoundly!!! Namibia ❤

  • @LuLU-ep7wf
    @LuLU-ep7wf 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    i like how she thinks, speaks her mind!!!

  • @florencemutindi1291
    @florencemutindi1291 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    We don't have to fight for equality in everything sisters. We are not in a competition with men. Let's understand, play our roles respectively.

    • @mercyikhena7889
      @mercyikhena7889 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      She didn't fight sister there's nothing wrong if women are treated with respect not second class citizen. In Yoruba culture I heard if a woman is the first child they are seen as such. The world didn't end because of that.

    • @Lovelyone1
      @Lovelyone1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Oh shut up. It’s her culture and she knows what she’s talking about. I’m sure it doesn’t just stop at the couple of things she said. And yes, there is no competition…how can we compete with what we created????

    • @ChukwubuDike
      @ChukwubuDike หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      She's not fighting for the position or equality men but as human beings.
      There's nothing wrong in her request.

    • @ChukwubuDike
      @ChukwubuDike หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@mercyikhena7889exactly! I love the Yoruba culture for that.

    • @Feefee1
      @Feefee1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Lovelyone1You can make your point without being rude

  • @chimakalu5195
    @chimakalu5195 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Chimamanda. Pride of academic and professional success.

    • @tentaplayz3691
      @tentaplayz3691 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Pride always goeth before a fall

    • @Kakwasi
      @Kakwasi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Having male organs doesn't make you superior in any way

    • @chimakalu5195
      @chimakalu5195 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Only God knows where these people are taking our world to. Yet they still call themselves cultural and traditional people.

  • @biasis-tv6355
    @biasis-tv6355 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    She's accomplished so much: today almost 50% of bricklayers and construction workers are women, same can be said of oil rig workers and the frontline military. All thanks to her. I also love her success in getting women to still be fertile in their 60s+ and how she's made both x and y reproductive chromosomes also available in women, even growing male and female parts. At first, I just thought talk was cheap and that story telling was easy, especially in this age where men already put technology and infrastructures in place following centuries of hard work if one is literary inclined and has passion for reading and writing. But with all these 50%/"equality" successes now entering even her village in Africa, she deserves a Nobel! With her you keep learning, I have never in my entire life heard that women are not full human beings to the point some persons have to fight to make women full human beings...

    • @grufelonius2014
      @grufelonius2014 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol.... back up your stats... u are misinformed. Currently 3.2% of brick and block layers are female. 🤦‍♂️

    • @childrentoys4537
      @childrentoys4537 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Lol🤣🤣🤣. I see what you did here😅.

    • @solomondauda4206
      @solomondauda4206 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love your sarcasm.
      You said it all.

    • @ezeanyafrancis316
      @ezeanyafrancis316 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bombastic sarcasm 😂

    • @user-ew2yq6kq2r
      @user-ew2yq6kq2r หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      50% of brick layers are not women and Igbo culture doesn't respect accomplishments. Wait until she starts dealing with Igbo men of her age like us and she will get a rude awakening.

  • @nkiruobih670
    @nkiruobih670 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love love this woman. You would always be my role model

  • @omowumiayotunde8080
    @omowumiayotunde8080 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    sensual wisdom puffs u up and makes u challenge everything but Divine Wisdom levels ur head and keep u learning.

  • @halimchrisphotography5686
    @halimchrisphotography5686 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Education with sense....let's be wise and be mindful of what we embrace...so we don't tear down our values...

  • @sassyx2048
    @sassyx2048 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Love this woman shes the voice of reason she uses her voice not just Talk Talk.

    • @asionyekennedy2028
      @asionyekennedy2028 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol 😅 she is just a celebrity but can’t fight for anything . Can she stand to physically fight for all this or just by mouth .

  • @frances-salt7382
    @frances-salt7382 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Thank you, women like you are needed🙌🏽

  • @chijiokedaniel3859
    @chijiokedaniel3859 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I hope she gets to read this, there are traditions that are gender specific and having influence doesn't necessarily mean you change this norms, for example, most of the women giving thumbs up are not ready to pay groom price!!! Why should men be the one paying bride price? if you advocate for disrupting the cultural norm, it's only fair it goes both ways.

    • @user-ew2yq6kq2r
      @user-ew2yq6kq2r หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well, she doesn't stand a chance at changing Igbo culture. Everyone is allowed to be delusional

    • @ChukwubuDike
      @ChukwubuDike หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then if you have a problem with the bride price as a man and you feel cheated, speak up about it.
      If you don't speak up and give aloud reasons it will continue.
      Tradition is made for humans not humans for traditions.

    • @ChukwubuDike
      @ChukwubuDike หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@user-ew2yq6kq2rshe may not change the whole Igbo culture but she's changing some.
      She changed the showing of kolanut to women as well as she said. It may be a small step but it's a step in the right direction.
      Women can now inherit land from her father place because a woman fought to change that law.
      Women fought to change some wicked burial rites forced on women and the ridiculous time women should stay mourning her husband and not go to work or out of the house and so on and it has changed.
      Our culture is changing and changing for good.
      She was recently given a chieftaincy title Odelu ora 1. It has never been given to a woman before but her achievements demands such an honor.

    • @user-ew2yq6kq2r
      @user-ew2yq6kq2r หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@chijiokedaniel3859
      She doesn't stand a chance at changing Igbo culture. You don't get it yet. She is mostly dealing with brainwashed older Igbo not the reformed modern Igbo who are on the mission of restoring Igbo culture. Chimamanda is simply entertaining western feminists.

  • @Whitehorsehub
    @Whitehorsehub หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Emphasis on "IF MEN DO NOT KNEEL I WILL NOT KNEEL" feminism is not a movement of Equal opportunities but a battle of Testosterone
    Currently women in Nigeria army is just 28% and they aren't on the front line but for peace keeping
    If women want same equality with men let's start from the front line Army let them show more patriotism by dying in battle field like men no be cho...cho....cho

  • @temidayoodutokun3839
    @temidayoodutokun3839 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤ Love her so much I want to cry. ☺️

  • @mthabisisibanda8149
    @mthabisisibanda8149 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Kneeling is a strength...not a weakness

    • @arinzeemmanuella3244
      @arinzeemmanuella3244 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Shhhh

    • @Jireh_girl
      @Jireh_girl หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      So let the men demonstrate their strength by kneeling too.

    • @EarthlyGoddessOya
      @EarthlyGoddessOya หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Kneeling is submission,weakness!

    • @commentersname8576
      @commentersname8576 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Kneeling is subjugation.

  • @rebeccazikode5558
    @rebeccazikode5558 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The logarithms are sending Chimamanda's videos these days. I get to remember why I love her.

  • @olalekanobatoyinbo397
    @olalekanobatoyinbo397 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I respect chimamanda alot, the issue of kneeling down,and kolanut is a Significant cultural value in igboland. Not kneeling is disrespectful.

    • @nafurtetmaat8737
      @nafurtetmaat8737 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      A lot of traditions changed when the missionaries came to Africa with their patriarchy. Africa was very much Matriarchal b4 that.

    • @gracegeorge7285
      @gracegeorge7285 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      “Not kneeling is disrespectful!?” Kneel to who? The almighty God or to your fellow human and then make it a woman thing?

  • @ChukwuemekaKingsley-bn3jd
    @ChukwuemekaKingsley-bn3jd หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the problem with some igbo women who think that their being educated comes before tradition..the Yoruba woman can never go against their tradition and culture.

  • @rolandihaza505
    @rolandihaza505 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    No matter how educated you are in the Benin Kingdom, you have to respect the culture and traditions. Keep your education to yourself. That's why the Monarch still continues, and respected worldwide. She should strengthen the Igbo culture and not destroy it

  • @1anre
    @1anre 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    She's funny. Really funny

  • @majamaja8136
    @majamaja8136 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Continue shaking up the nigerian society , well done

  • @chukwuemekaalfred7244
    @chukwuemekaalfred7244 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That's the éducation we are talking about. Even God instructions nolonger count. I wonder a man with this type of woman

    • @gloriaokonye341
      @gloriaokonye341 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      So... In essence, you are comparing man made traditions with the word of God? Wow.
      Also, She's married to a doctor and has children. Cope.

  • @chinnyawesomewells5850
    @chinnyawesomewells5850 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I thank God everyday of my life than man is not God and God can never be man

  • @judeomonsakele4534
    @judeomonsakele4534 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Women and men are equally human, in my opinion. Gender parity in society is something I have always supported. It is, however, stupid to fail to recognize the complementary roles that each gender must play in society. That is natural, so even the wild beasts do not find it problematic.

  • @stepheniheagwara6153
    @stepheniheagwara6153 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Beautiful lady

  • @kingsleyegobi8644
    @kingsleyegobi8644 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    With no disrespect to anyone, I think civilization makes us think everyone can do anything or play any role. Mabi you should have paid your husbands groom price.

  • @DebbiePumphery-tf7yt
    @DebbiePumphery-tf7yt ปีที่แล้ว +7

    BEAUTIFUL. OPINIONATED. VERY. INTELLIGENT. PRAYERFUL. WITTY. JUST. GO. ON,. WITH. UR BAD. SELF. SISTA 🌿🥰🌿

  • @loveamber3976
    @loveamber3976 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love u as a person. But the Igbo culture won’t change bcos of u. Women have their roles and men too have their roles

  • @DominicEze-fq1bx
    @DominicEze-fq1bx หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What was the purpose of that cultural practice in the first place?
    Was it to belittle women and raise men's ego?
    The left arm and the right arm belongs to the same body and are both very essential to the body of a man. But should they fight for equality?
    My left hand is no less of a hand just because it doesn't function like my right hand and same goes for my right hand
    They are both there to help each other achieve a common goal; to better themselves.
    Men and woman are different and unique in nature but they remain the same in the body of our society.
    Men and women with healthy mind is what the society needs in order for it to function well.
    Let us not destroy the healthy cultures that appreciated the differences and uniqueness of men and women.
    True love is the only way.
    Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing

  • @tristankasalu2107
    @tristankasalu2107 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This one was one of those rebellious girls ,that girl who is always speaking back to elders

    • @TheCeciD
      @TheCeciD ปีที่แล้ว +33

      They’re the type of women who create change in the history ❤

    • @bantuspirituality4728
      @bantuspirituality4728 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@TheCeciDbut is it Spiritually righteous?

    • @pelumiadelaja
      @pelumiadelaja ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@bantuspirituality4728spiritually righteous how? Did the Bible or Quran say only women should kneel or that the kolanut in gatherings is for me?
      In what part of these holy books was it stated?

    • @olushayotriumph
      @olushayotriumph ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She's a cursed woman.
      To the woman He said,
      “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
      in pain you shall bring forth children.
      Your desire shall be contrary to your husband,
      but he shall rule over you.”
      - Ge 3:16

    • @hmuteka1
      @hmuteka1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@olushayotriumphwell well well. It’s a good thing we live in the 21st century where….(wait for it)…….(keep waiting)…………………………………………………………………women have rights 😂. We can initiate divorce if we end up with a guy who was hiding his shitty personality. We can get jobs and support ourselves. Buy our own homes and vehicles. Hell we can even choose to be single mothers if we don’t want men in our lives. Tell me what is it that a man brings to the relationship that a woman can’t get herself.
      Your time is up and the sooner you accept that the faster your inner turmoil will calm down. 😂

  • @ceoma1354
    @ceoma1354 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Kneeling is not an igbo culture. We only kneel on your wedding day. The man kneels too with his wife to be blessed. Other than that we dont kneel.

  • @user-md5kq5hg6k
    @user-md5kq5hg6k 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Well done, one step at a time.

  • @1maggotbrain
    @1maggotbrain 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this brilliant beautiful sisters message!

  • @goraytaylor
    @goraytaylor 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    l love her voice

  • @sophiemclarke6556
    @sophiemclarke6556 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Those men don't know that women are full human. WOW.

  • @solfloyd7086
    @solfloyd7086 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Feminist o Non sensenist, in some cultures it’s disrespectful. Kneeling sometimes doesn’t mean men is better than women.

    • @tentaplayz3691
      @tentaplayz3691 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly lol don't mind her

    • @TheCeciD
      @TheCeciD ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They why is it that only women kneels?

    • @lisa6356
      @lisa6356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@TheCeciDbecause women are less in that culture

  • @JohnpaulChisom-kg5ps
    @JohnpaulChisom-kg5ps หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jesus Christ have mercy on Chimamanda Adichie

  • @ulunnayaokere4624
    @ulunnayaokere4624 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Chimamanda, you always stand your ground and that is why I really like you.

  • @chigozieosuoha7189
    @chigozieosuoha7189 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love and cherish every hard working woman like Chimamanda, but I hate anything feminism because even God did not create us the same in nature let us forget about the word (equal) because all creature have equal rights before our God the creator but are not the same. God our creator out of his infinite wisdom made us man and woman and from the begining he give each one a role to play, a role to be father to the man and a role to be mother to the woman. So if anyone wants to context for equality let the person first begin with God the creator and ask why only women will be carrying pregnancy and suggest it should be shares 50/50 and from there everyone will be equal. See me see equal.

  • @arizonaaliasofficial4733
    @arizonaaliasofficial4733 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    She wants Men and Women to be EQUAL but Women do not fight wars defend or build the Village. I think she is Wise sometimes she wants this False Equivalency. Men do what Women DO NOT WANT TO DO. Women will always be glorified for what is in their NATURE, child birth and nurturing but Men have to BECOME SOMETHING TO BE CELEBRATED. Men are NOT superior to women but Play a DIFFERENT ROLE and this is a role Modern Women are jealous of UNTIL THEY ARE PLACED INTO THAT ROLE AND FEEL THE FULL BURDEN OF THAT POSITION 🙏🏿

    • @lisa6356
      @lisa6356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So having rights is the problem, got it. Men just date other men and have babie with each other. Women are waking up. The birth rate will soo start going down in Africa. Most men don't even like women. This is why I'm hoping the alphabet people will go to the continent next so men can be free to f*ck each and leave women a lone.

    • @dugebuwembo
      @dugebuwembo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Women birth future generations via their wombs, protecting us at our most vulnerable through motherhood women nurture & transmit culture and value to their children. Where would we be without our mothers? As wives they look after & support their husbands.
      Their role is critical in society, within the family unit, their breast sustains and builds our immune systems, without women there is no family, no children, no future.
      Shame on you for failing to see their value in society!

    • @dugebuwembo
      @dugebuwembo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yet the Amazons of dahomey fought wars, it was women who through peaceful protest ended the civil war in Liberia 🇱🇷.
      & by the way in numerous African cultures women are responsible for building the homestead and participate in the construction of & maintenance of buildings. This is the case across the Sahel in towns like Timbuktu and Djenne.
      Your views are antiquated.

    • @brinydemon0321
      @brinydemon0321 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@dugebuwemboexception, not the rule. I long for the day when men will finally relax and let women take over. Then we will see who will clean up the mess. Everyone is a feminist until its time to fight for your country.

  • @John_DoeMusic
    @John_DoeMusic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You can't practice traditions only when they benefit you, you're either traditional or modern liberal

    • @stadarkua3830
      @stadarkua3830 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tradition must make sense for every generation that comes. 'It is the way we have always done it' is a redundant argument and stagnates the culture.
      Traditions that make sense, that are inherently wise to all minds, will live on.

    • @John_DoeMusic
      @John_DoeMusic หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stadarkua3830 Nope! The traditions in this case are based on biological realities and the duties that come with it which isn't malleable even with so much technology and development.
      Eg - Women marry men who are taller,stronger,earn more than 50% of what they make even if they make a six figure income. The biological urges become even more stronger with more conveniences and comforts

  • @seraphinjj2012
    @seraphinjj2012 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    She’s brave and intelligent 😂

  • @DS-zg6ym
    @DS-zg6ym 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow she looks every bit like the queen of Egypt so beautiful 😍 🔥

    • @DS-zg6ym
      @DS-zg6ym 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CaptainTodger69 I don't care what part of the black 🖤 continent she is from she's still a cosmic African Queen belonging to the stars ✨

    • @DS-zg6ym
      @DS-zg6ym 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CaptainTodger69 what artifact thought 💭🤔 did you get that from? The whole black continent that includes Egypt landscapes are seeded by the black seeds of the black man sense antiquity 🔥

  • @freindlyghost4829
    @freindlyghost4829 หลายเดือนก่อน

    😂😂😂 GOIN Off the Thumbnail I was like ....Oh Jaguar Wright got braids! Lmmfao

  • @timporter6775
    @timporter6775 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    And so it begins......

  • @kolaqhazimedia
    @kolaqhazimedia ปีที่แล้ว +28

    A colonized mind, kneeling is not derragatory, men also prostrate, if you don’t respect elders , you are not African

    • @everythingentertainmenttv7910
      @everythingentertainmenttv7910 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      U get am right

    • @Profitfromcoaching
      @Profitfromcoaching 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I think you're describing Yoruba culture and not Igbo culture. A different context and different argument.

    • @msaniitz5588
      @msaniitz5588 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Within my ethnic group in East Africa, men would sort of bow with clasped hands, while women would kneel. It didn't take long for the men to stop bowing, while the girls still had to keep on kneeling (granted, even that is not done is ardently as before ... which I personally love). I agree with the importance of showing respect, though. That part is still there.

    • @byeshua2533
      @byeshua2533 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In Igbo’s culture we don’t bow or knee. She is not talking about Yoruba culture.

  • @EmpresswarriorC5
    @EmpresswarriorC5 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    a fabulous representation sis🎉

  • @princessnnekagrace5488
    @princessnnekagrace5488 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My dear princess even in the Bible there there's no equality God Christ men women children that is how God created world retrieve your steps and your statement it was Western into our own thank you and appreciate your work❤

  • @sefunmiegeh8552
    @sefunmiegeh8552 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    What she’s saying is none sense because males and females have their respective roles n requirements in an African community. Just because she’s able to master one book doesn’t mean she has mastered every book. She needs to open her little mind pls.

    • @augustinemmuogbana3382
      @augustinemmuogbana3382 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don't mind her.

    • @nafurtetmaat8737
      @nafurtetmaat8737 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      You are insulting. Having respective roles is one thing. But the act of them being submissive to men and putting women in positions that denigrate them and render them void of power need to change.

    • @lisa6356
      @lisa6356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@nafurtetmaat8737 I agree with you, however these pickmeishas can't see that.

    • @dugebuwembo
      @dugebuwembo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      She grew up in Nigeria 🇳🇬 she is a product of Igbo culture and knows it through & through. You cannot tell her about her own culture and she has every right to seek to challenge inequity within her culture and society as a member of that society.
      You are talking about her as if she is an outsider forcing change. Change has always happened in societies especially as economic and political realities have shifted. The Europe of today is not the same as the Europe of the Roman Empire! Britain of today isn't the same as Britain during the Tudor era... 🤷🏿‍♂️ 😪

    • @msaniitz5588
      @msaniitz5588 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@dugebuwembo I LOVE this comment. Exactly! No culture is actually static, not even our African ones. Yes, one shouldn't have to fix what isn't broke, but every culture should be able to adjust with change, and to continually re-assess whether it's truly meeting the best needs of everyone involved.

  • @onyekaohaka1198
    @onyekaohaka1198 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    She is right

  • @peacefulmoments56
    @peacefulmoments56 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow 🫶🏽

  • @oluwayemisiakaaka3163
    @oluwayemisiakaaka3163 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She is an Eagle. Love you dear!

  • @melissadclark1979
    @melissadclark1979 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🤗

  • @paulbup726
    @paulbup726 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am with her 💯 %. Some of these male dominated behaviours of the African culture were imported distortions to our culture reflecting the dominating ways of our conquerors. UBUNTU ❤

  • @olwenmoore4512
    @olwenmoore4512 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A lot of these things are not Af-rui-kan this was given to us Af-rui-kans by the slave drivers colonizers so I agree with you my Sister Divine love Peace an Blissings

  • @jennifereberechi1795
    @jennifereberechi1795 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I attended an event with about 50 in attendance. During lunch time, the MC asked for someone to come on stage to bless the kolanut, no one wanted to come forward, it lingered for an embarrassing 5 mins. I stood up and went. My dear brethren, 😅 I got the most embarrassing comment ever. I was told to return back to my seat... everyone laughed saying a woman cannot bless a kolanut. (I don't even eat kolanuts 😢..)

  • @Mitsy52
    @Mitsy52 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Strong woman 🎉

    • @rykson161
      @rykson161 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clown ! Overstepped her bounds with this one !

    • @rykson161
      @rykson161 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clown ! Overstepped her bounds with this one !

    • @rykson161
      @rykson161 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clown ! Overstepped her bounds with this one !

    • @rykson161
      @rykson161 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clown ! Overstepped her bounds with this one !

    • @rykson161
      @rykson161 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Clown ! Overstepped her bounds with this one !

  • @catherinekeke9813
    @catherinekeke9813 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Let our tradition be. Don't show me the kolanut, show only the men😂

    • @pdm8446
      @pdm8446 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I am an Igbo woman and I wonder how showing me the kolanut will help my life, but issorite!

    • @keneekenee5706
      @keneekenee5706 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You are funny

    • @KwekuTheTraveller
      @KwekuTheTraveller 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Honestly, I think we should leave certain things the way they are. One day they’ll tell us that women should start paying groom price😭
      Even in the Bible, God put men as the head. It doesn’t make the woman any less of a human, but what do I know. God abeg o

    • @keneekenee5706
      @keneekenee5706 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@KwekuTheTraveller You are very right, the culture of in the Bible days is very close to that of the Africans. Our culture is different, and that's what makes us unique and different. Most people are angry with Ayra Sta because she didn't kneel down to greet an elderly man, King Sunny Ade because we are Africans and we have a culture. And our culture is sweet

  • @gabrieludochukwukanmamicha5782
    @gabrieludochukwukanmamicha5782 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Igbo culture does not say that women are not full human beings. There are things for women, and there are things for men. Even in some heavy work, men are made to bear the heavier weight. Would you like to bear weight that men carry or to be treated with consideration that you are a woman?
    Modify culture with sense. Do not just gradually bring in feminism into culture.

  • @brettwilliams8971
    @brettwilliams8971 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Women can have full equallity along with equal work and equal compitition

  • @barbaraakinbowale4456
    @barbaraakinbowale4456 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome

  • @michaelmukopi8347
    @michaelmukopi8347 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Roe christians the bible does not subscrible to those weatern human rights claims.
    Bibke among many things twlls womwn ro submit to hubby and asks man to love his wife as Christ loved the church.
    That is balance and final

    • @nafurtetmaat8737
      @nafurtetmaat8737 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      People quote this same bible where god said man needed a help meet. Which means he wasn't getting it right. Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche and women like her are here to help.

  • @davidbochela1441
    @davidbochela1441 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    African culture is so deeper than your senses,you just stop to bow without mentioning men,but once you mention you already bow out of your regard.

  • @franakpan
    @franakpan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent ❤

  • @bridgettelerato4067
    @bridgettelerato4067 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember going to the villages in to my father's side they told us come and kneel actually sleep on the floor to greet our aunt and i refused i stand to greet her i said she's not jesus I'm not gonna bow down to any human

  • @commentersname8576
    @commentersname8576 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Reasonable men. 😂

  • @gatshenindlovu8224
    @gatshenindlovu8224 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kneeling doesn't affect you as a woman in any kind of way. Sometimes I think being too woke limits these women appreciation by all Africans. As a Zulu we expect our wives to kneel for us when they are giving us food, nothing is wrong with that.

    • @stadarkua3830
      @stadarkua3830 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂😂😂😂 well of course!

  • @robertnyirenda5364
    @robertnyirenda5364 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Trouble maker what is harmful in giving respect.

  • @TroverTube
    @TroverTube 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'm a fan of gender equality. But there are boundaries. Their are things in Igbo culture that only women are entitled to do too. You don't see men trying to change it.Things like 'men should break kolanut' has no negative impact on women. It doesnt bar women from buying kolanut, breaking it, and eating it alone in their privacy. Men breaking kolanut is only a ritual in a traditional gathering. So I disagree on changing this

  • @DaSageBlaze
    @DaSageBlaze หลายเดือนก่อน

    I beg you be oyibo 😂😂😂

  • @IsraelGideon-kq8vc
    @IsraelGideon-kq8vc หลายเดือนก่อน

    Foolishness is when you this that doing the exact same thing as Men makes you equal to Men. In the Yoruba culture women knewl while men lie flat on their stomach and everyone gets along fine.

  • @linettejenkins8600
    @linettejenkins8600 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Small increments of change, inch by inch.

  • @madihaq2252
    @madihaq2252 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Anyone! Please explain this central cultural piece she is referring to, what is it? TY in advance 💛

  • @ebukanwafor969
    @ebukanwafor969 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On this I disagree with you ,I respect your views a lot.

  • @enthroned_one
    @enthroned_one 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    CANT AGREE LESS

  • @gusiya1743
    @gusiya1743 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Feminism is now a civil right..

  • @angelinechris
    @angelinechris 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm aspiring to be like her.❤

  • @user-sj5yq5tz7z
    @user-sj5yq5tz7z 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    God created men and women and assigned each complimentary roles to play.You cant all be doing the same thing.Don’t confuse western values with African values.Physically men are the same world over but what e.g.makes Japanese Japanese,Chinese Chinese Arabs Arabs is their intrinsic values.

  • @chimakalu5195
    @chimakalu5195 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Chimamanda has fully embraced the western lifestyle
    let her practise it overseas and shouldn't bring her new culture in Africa.

    • @lesleyselahle3131
      @lesleyselahle3131 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ma nigga😂😂😂✊🏽

    • @LuzdoSol00
      @LuzdoSol00 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Whattttttt??????
      Speaking from the West. She is not even close. She is African trough and through.

    • @yaaasantewaa6193
      @yaaasantewaa6193 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I do agree that her feminism is european and not Afrikan- ame. Her economic status also has made her privileged in certain white american circles . Check out her audience. I however agree she is a very creative writer indeed.

    • @yaaasantewaa6193
      @yaaasantewaa6193 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@LuzdoSol00not anymore

    • @LuzdoSol00
      @LuzdoSol00 ปีที่แล้ว

      @yaaasantewaa6193 Or myself I may not know the real African feminist essence. Give me some other authors?

  • @LeeKemp
    @LeeKemp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 💯💯💯

  • @samuelafolayan7056
    @samuelafolayan7056 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Men don't knee but rather prostrate in my culture(Yoruba culture) and it's a taboo for men knee down for women but rather older men and women and as for opening the kolanut opening it for men to eat in Igbo land and women can't eat it; also a taboo.

  • @justafriend3408
    @justafriend3408 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Focus on yourself, not on men or women

  • @kiddmbra731
    @kiddmbra731 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I honestly thought she would realise the error of her ways 💀
    That's not the ending I expected 🚶🏽‍♂️

    • @tentaplayz3691
      @tentaplayz3691 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You honestly expected a happy ending with Chimamanda 💀💀

    • @marthangafor6414
      @marthangafor6414 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What's the reason behind women kneeling and not men?

    • @nafurtetmaat8737
      @nafurtetmaat8737 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@marthangafor6414 Great question!!

    • @brinydemon0321
      @brinydemon0321 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@nafurtetmaat8737ask the elders and do the research

    • @SASK_M_Y
      @SASK_M_Y 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@marthangafor6414may be you should Google or ask some of the igbo or yorubas.

  • @Boombastic82
    @Boombastic82 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I think literary Giants in Africa and enlightened African people would be very careful when it comes to African naturality and spirituality. Chinwe Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Buchi Echemeta, John Pepper Clark, Elechi Amadi, cyprian Ekwensi etc would take serious considerations before commenting on this. I am sure you cant go to Buckingham Palace and just chop knuckle with King and say whats up king Charles. The japanese Men and women bow their head to children when they greet them and there are many more practices which are ancient. Even in the animal kingdom the Hyena female is highly respected. The males follow her lead. There is a reason, the lions pride respects the male. He eats even before the cubs eat, you see the female in submission. There is a reason for that. The elephants are led by females to find water and good pastures for their male, female and calves. There is a reason for that. If it is natural u cant stop it. Some of the things Chimanda might be speaking against may be natural so in instances like this we need to be careful.

  • @mediateumoh1090
    @mediateumoh1090 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is a place withing the culture that is not repugnant to good conscience and equity like respect and respect is in line with the scripture.
    As much as you have human rights,God also set out the natural role of a woman and a man. God mad the Man lead the home and also the role of Dominion.The man did not give this role to himself.
    We must be careful with our new age concept and ideologies that wants to put the man at the same level with men in the name of women-equal- rights.

    • @tentaplayz3691
      @tentaplayz3691 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God bless you

    • @lisa6356
      @lisa6356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where was your God when the white man took your people's resources and continues till this day.

    • @dugebuwembo
      @dugebuwembo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nope the roles of women & men have varied across cultures globally for as long as human beings have existed, in fact long before the gestation of those desert religions that so many of you like to bow down to.
      Please refrain from using "scripture" to justify patriarchy!

    • @houseofprayermins
      @houseofprayermins 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dugebuwembo YOU CAN TRY TO AND CHANGE THAT NATURAL ORDER. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO THAT WILL LEAVE FOR YOUR CHILDREN A BROKEN SOCIETY LIKE THE GENDER EQUALITY SOCIETIES ARE ALREADY IN.
      THE SOCIETY HAS STARTED FEELING THE BRUNT AS WOMEN FEEL EQUAL TO MEN.
      WISDOM SHOULD SPEAK TO US TO KNOW THAT THEY ARE CREATED DIFFERENT FOR A REASON.
      PLEASE MIND YOU THAT INCLUSIVITY IS DIFFERENT FROM GENDER EQUALITY.

    • @houseofprayermins
      @houseofprayermins 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everything exist in a good order.
      You don't need patriarchy to understand that these roles are in the nature of men and Women untill confusion of our personae set in even the man stands confused as he is not sure of what role to play.
      As well as the Woman .
      Studying the evolution of society we found that at a time the Woman just started seeking to also work like the man, this was not the case before where the man was the worker and the woman was at home with the children.

  • @imnotanalien7839
    @imnotanalien7839 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do women work in the mines, are they construction workers, in the military?
    That is where the inequality is! It is unfair that only men are digging in mines. Women should be doing the dangerous jobs too! That’s equality!

    • @favouroladele0802
      @favouroladele0802 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes women do

    • @FashionNiche
      @FashionNiche หลายเดือนก่อน

      Women are in the military and do dangerous jobs too

  • @brendangwira7998
    @brendangwira7998 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I respect her views but my views are the opposite. I certainly do not want to see my husband kneeling for anyone, He is a king and priest and head of my home. I will submit to him and give him the respect he deserves because he is a great man. My husband does not have to cook or do chores etc, we are both employed full time but I make sure I cook for him every single day and should he choose to assist or cook that is entirely up to him. No kneeling please

    • @lisa6356
      @lisa6356 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's not traditional. You sound like a submissive provider to me.

    • @MzwandileZinja-ql2oy
      @MzwandileZinja-ql2oy หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are the great woman ❤

  • @alexismike313
    @alexismike313 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are my sister, I love you, but men have duties same as women and that doesn't make you lesser than men, in a football pitch you have eleven players and none is more important than the other. No wonder the bible says my people perish because they lack wisdom

  • @husseinmtende6575
    @husseinmtende6575 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I do apologize for this and suddenly she does not represent the bantu people

  • @faybrown8734
    @faybrown8734 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd get in trouble in Africa ... I drink kola nut (bissy) tea. Wahala😅

  • @kudzodarah7741
    @kudzodarah7741 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No not a few years to have this things changed but few to have women working in the power plant, invent new things that has never existed then we can give you people a leastening ear 👂

  • @eag5437
    @eag5437 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nonsense-Every village talk is possible in western land

  • @didi-dr1mj
    @didi-dr1mj 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thats how we got in trouble, us women

  • @samoramalamule1145
    @samoramalamule1145 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Eurocentric Ideology 😂

  • @hakizandabatiza9788
    @hakizandabatiza9788 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @AbusTrawally
    @AbusTrawally 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish to have a face to face discussion with you