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Handling a Man the African Way...

A man wonders why so many millions of a man's brothers and sisters are so wont to wish death on a man. An old man for that matter. Its so unAfrican. In a man's culture, men do not wish that a person dies - in a man's days of yore, when a wizard was caught inflangrante delicto , the thing to do was to cut off both ears, or hammer a nail onto the wizard's sneaky forehead.  Because death is too easy. Many of men have faced difficulties and chose to tie a rope around men's neck - it is easier to escape into bottomless oblivion than face a man's tribulations head on. Death is the easiest way out. Vakafa vakazorora . It is not just an adage. It is the truth. Why then would a man wish that a man dies? No; a man should not die. A man says a man should be kept alive and healthy - or kept in whatever state of being a man is when a man is finally caught. And a man needs to be taken to a man's home - not the one with that colourful roof on it; but the one i