Boys to men
Adewale Ajadi discusses the role of character and the omoluwabi lessons that can be learnt form the UK’s black youth.
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November 26th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
I am black woman living in the US and I really enjoy your podcast. I hope that you do more. Your disuccsion on Boys to men and the “problems” of UK black youth seem to echo many of the concerns that are here in the US. Your discussion also focused on a lot of African-American artist which goes to show our black entertainers need to be very mindful of the messages they are transmitting around the world. In reference to your past podcast on Nigerian/Afrocentric business practice, please do more. These are very informative especially for we black folks on US who have been indoctrinated with the Western view of business which to me is very shortsighted and not people oriented at all. Take care rand keep up the good work.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I listened to your conversation on omoluwabi and I appreciate your concern for the lives of black youth all over the world. I would like to emphasize an issue that was briefly mentioned in your conversation and this has to be on the subject of poverty. Poverty breeds a lot of unimaginable things; crime and violence are very much predominant in the breeds of poverty. As a result of instinct to survive in a rich country and yet living in an impoverished state, a black youth results in the animal instinct of survival of the fittest, applying the law of the jungle, “kill or be killed”. Unfortunately or unfortunately killing a white person to survive is as good as committing suicide, whereas one can easily get away with killing and stealing from a black kid. Police department knows the difference in the amount of work they have to do in investigating crimes committed on a white person or white community and crimes committed in a black community if it is investigated at all. Ironically this also points to the double standard of living, governance, and protection for black people generally in the western worlds. Remember that an idle hand is a tool for the devil to use and idle hand is a jobless hand, a frustrated mind, and a poverty stricken hand. Killing and crimes are not prevalent among the rich black folks, except when influenced by drugs, which is another subject entirely.
Keep up with this good message of omoluwabi, and help black youth rise above their challenges, enlighten their mind that stealing, killing and committing crimes are not the solutions to their problems. The same mind can be used creatively to live successfully.