Azubike True Tales of a Teenager's Village Life in Africa
Azubike True Tales of a Teenager's Village Life in Africa has just been published and relased by Smashwords.
Have you ever read
that in many African villages, households, eek out living on less
than $5 per day!? Have you ever imagined that it was so difficult to
even make the $5 and that as little as the $5 was that all hands were
on deck to make it!? I mean father, mother and all children! Now if
parents and all their children had to do so much in those African
villages where they had to survive on $5 per day you can now sum up
the quantity of effort that had to be put in for some households to
make $10 to $20 per day! Do you know that some households have to put
in as much as 14 to 16 hours of serious labor every
day to
remain slightly above poverty- line and perhaps hope to afford the
luxury of giving education of a kind to the children? The parents in
those African villages simply have so much to do to stay away from
poverty line that without the support of their children and wards
they would practically tear themselves apart with work! While in the
advanced civilizations, governments are alive to their
responsibilities and would most likely not clean off their country’s
treasury into perpetually licking personal pockets, so they could
afford to talk and legislate against the so called ‘Child Labor’
because there were really no need for child labor in those countries
but isn’t it amazing and ironic
that here in Africa where most governments are to say the least
highly irresponsible and are even responsible for the total spread of
poverty in their respective countries by their frequent looting of
their nations’ treasuries and who perhaps treat the fact that many
households eek out their lives on just $2 as mere statistics would
turn around and join leaders of advanced nations to talk and
legislate shamelessly about ‘child labor’! Even the advanced
civilizations, let us not forget so fast that some 60,000 to 80,000
days ago when so much labor was required to keep plantations
producing at maximum capacity in the new found land
of America couldn’t recognize which labor was child labor or adult
labor to the low point of enslaving, a whole continent not even for
survival but for creation of wealth for themselves. By then the
citizens of now advanced nations was then talking of
inappropriateness of ‘White Labor’! The African village child has
so much to do to assist the parents and guardians for collective
survival. He has no choice than to support the parents and wouldn’t
have seen such support as ‘Child labor’ but rightly as an
exercise of responsible mentality. However, this meant that the
African village child has little or no time to read his book but read
his book he must if he hopes to beat poverty and the shadows of
creeping ignorance. So despite the fact that the African village
child has little amount of time to put into his studies but he is
going to sit in the same examination with African city children and
others elsewhere in advanced nations that have so much time to
themselves and surprisingly sometimes do much better than the
African city children! “Azubike…” is a true tale of a
responsible, obedient, struggling and excelling teenage African
Village child that would bring to your reading desk, the tale; of
industry, resilience, doggedness, studiousness, accountability,
adventure, excellence and surprisingly even fun! It is a tribute to
several millions of struggling African village children.
Book is available at
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/710345
