Normalizing child abuse in Africa is evidence of Africa's Cowardice AND collective mental instability—a succinct metaphor: the fucking empress is a butt-naked idiot, like a $20 toothless Las Vegas crackhead putana.
Child abuse in Africa cannot be discussed only as a private family problem. It is also connected to a much larger culture of power, fear, humiliation, poverty and authoritarianism—one in which people who have very little control over their lives sometimes exercise extraordinary control over those beneath them. Consider the ordinary worker who has almost no authority in the workplace. He is intimidated, humiliated or ignored by his superiors throughout the day. Yet when he returns home, he may become an authoritarian in his own household, using his children or partner as emotional punching bags. The person who appears quiet, respectful and almost saintly before his boss can become frighteningly domineering at home. It is a kind of Jekyll-and-Hyde contradiction: civility upward, brutality downward. The same contradiction can exist at the level of national leadership. A government may present itself beautifully at the United Nations, the African Union, the European institutions, BRICS and...
