In many African countries and cultures, the biased thinking that a child cannot be brought up to be disciplined without being caned and physically punished is still flourishing. We need to join hands to end torture in children.
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Short of appropriate limits, raising young people would become a dangerous “all-join” as Nigerians would say; A situation where everything is allowed, to any extent desired by the parts involved, for any reason, anywhere, and at any time. But this is not how life works.
One risk that social media has come with is the temptation to “record,” to “share,” to “post,” to “forward”, etc. There is, purportedly, not so much thinking involved. Today most people would assent that they tend to be more careful in public because they can end up becoming popular jokes and memes in a split second.
Open spaces greatly enrich the lives of city dwellers, affording them some quiet, cool air, breathing space to relax and walk, and a good outdoor environment for children to play freely. Cities should not be full of structures, buildings, businesses and service facilities all over. Open spaces with trees and green hugely contribute to the lives of the people and the value of the environment and enable interaction with nature.
It is common to hear in the media, news, public addresses, celebrations, etc. that leaders are praised so much. Often times the praises are exaggerated as compared to the performance of these leaders. It is high time we question when all this began and where it is taking us as a people. Why do we entertain it?
I attended a two-hour webinar on Food Loss and Food Waste facilitated by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the Philippines (SDSN Ph) together with the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability of the Ateneo de Manila University, Manila – Philippines.
When injustice becomes normalized, denial of rights becomes normative as well. Then honouring the people’s due rights becomes a kind of privilege or favour. Gender-based injustice, one of the oldest forms of discrimination, has had serious impacts on the wider society. We need to respond to it as a matter of urgency and with a lot of reasonableness and wit as it touches on people’s cultures.
Every story and history has a storyteller (narrator) who oftentimes influences the story based on their point of view. As such learning one’s history as written by another, as in this case, the history of the people of Africa as written by non-African people of Europe and America, endangers the integrity of the story being told, as these groups have had a contention in the past which has left behind deep wounds.
The target of literacy promotion initiatives is the actualization of the 4th Sustainable Development Goal, which is to “Ensure inclusive and equitable education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”
When people are literate and rightly educated, the society is assured of its sustainability.
In its integral sense, when uncorrupted, education imparts the fundamental societal values of justice, dignity, mutual acceptance and inclusion which are indispensable for peaceful living.