Veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie in a recent submission has condemned the act of men kneeling down and proposing to their lovers.
While many people label such acts as romantic, Pete Edochie doesn’t see the need in it as he has frowned at the way Africans are adopting the doctrines and culture of the whites, thereby neglecting our own tradition and culture.
Pete Edochie condemned African men who kneel down to propose to their wives to be, all in the name of love stating that if a man does that, he is giving the woman power over him thereby making her the head of the marriage.
“Kneeling to propose to a woman is white people’s culture because women dominate there and have more right than men, it is not the African man’s ways,” he said.
To buttress his point, he used our traditional setting as an example and stated that it is a woman who kneels to give drink to a man to show her loyalty, humility and total submission to the man and that’s the way it should be.
“I didn’t kneel to propose to my wife and we’ve stayed 50years in our marriage, I took my time to woo her, when it’s time to settle down, I asked if she’ll marry me and that was it”, he said.
Pete Edochie also narrated how the Whites came to Africa pretending to be archaeologists but little did we know they came to destroy our culture and trade us.
Source: ghgossip.com
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not a single person commenting disagreed with chief edochie. then why do we keep on doing it? we have lost our identity and are helpless retracing our roots. we are hopless indeed!
Right on point sir, Africans are now copying everything the west does without even knowing the meanings to what they doing. We are now celebrating thanksgiving day, Halloween, black Friday etc. Our local languages are gradually becoming extinct because most parents will rather speak English with their kids than their native language. We prefer pizza, chicken, pasta, apple than kontomire and other local foods which are nutritious in value than the above mentioned foods. Coconut oil is a great medicine for cancer yet we want vegetable oil (we don't even know the vegetables used in making them ). It's not everything the west does which is great, let's stop copying blindly. Most of the guys going down on their knees to propose to their girlfriends for all you have not been outside the shores of Ghana. Copy copy will land our future.
You are 100% right sir but women who love to rock shoulders with men will not agree with you(gender equality lovers) .... Western cultures has finished Africans and their way of life
I can't agree with you more
If you think carefully about what the man is saying you would realise that he is saying something very sensible. Why should a man go on his knees to propose to a woman and after marriage expect her to submit, humble and respect him? It's totally wrong to do that as a man.
i am a woman, and i agree with you.
Marriage relationships should not be entered into on ground of sympathy, plea, or whatever, but love, understanding and compatibility. Ghanaians are now holier than the Pope, copying BLINDLY foreign cultures and abandoning theirs, forgetting that what identifies humanity is their culture. The craze of wedding couple dancing to entertain their guests is such instance. Some guys in the process dance like comedians.
He has hit the nail on its head.
Right on the point