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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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Are you the one making Earth Overpopulated?

Are we overpopulated? Yes, No. Let us see. Before I watched a few clips on You Tube and read articles from waitbutwhy.com, my point was vaguely ‘we are many’.

To say we are many intrigues a moral dilemma in me. If I raise such a topic before mom and dad, I won’t like it. It is questioning my existence wrongly. I am happy to be around! Once I said something similar to it and the response was, God is the one who gives life. It sounds primitive for it is a man in his lust that randomly sows life. In his activities of conquering and threats, lives are lost too. No God please.


Overpopulation defined as inability of the natural environment to provide for the needs of a population easily fits the current world. Unless the supply chain is local (village), among the foods you took today are ‘pumped’ with chemicals and two days or more from the market. There was also fear that you could not have found the seller present or the price same. We don’t trust tap water, rain water or open foods. We are more likely to fight for food too.

7.3 billion people in a world that could habitably accommodate 400 million people is a choice of greed. We may say that early child mortality and low life expectancy resulted to ‘insurance siring’ or after 11 billion heads the population will be constant after two-child maximum hence a world that knows where it is headed. It is false to think that of the future because a few will read this and think about it, many care not and I may be the only one among other few stubborn readers seeing the problem.

Having grown in difficult systems and experiences one would want to spare the agony of siring a baby to grow through the same. Most of children from large families with least offered care grow up to prefer small families. Instead of being married at 17, I can wait till 40 to marry. There is no hurry to reproduce though pleasure may be a necessity. This should not confuse us since time people never had poor folk. But why should I be the poor in slums or rural?

Not sure whether it is of advantage that we are many (Every 10 minutes four children are born in the world), there are reasons that I’d take with a Mh! The inventions, technology and discovery would be done by whom if we regulated wombs from the beginning? Then I may ask, those who aren’t born, the sperms that go wasted, explain that. The world may be lonely and challenging if we lacked some type of people as it is irritating and unpeaceful with some heads around.

In his expression to the matter, Luther King said that we should all be consciously set to solve the overpopulation phenomena as floods and measles descended on us then. Is going to Mars the solution? What if we fill Mars to Pluto? And why do we to expand and forth when Elephants are reducing and Sahara desert expanding? How selfish we are. We are domineering, thinking that our God gave us the reproducing blessing and harshly destroying ecologies that trees, fish and monkeys lived happily before us. To build on mountains, over rivers and in space in desire to explore curiosity and expand brings a new problem to the table.

Solution? No solution. Are you thinking or reproducing? China introduced a one-child policy and they feared lack of labour to support the economy come the legislators’ olden days. To have less of next generation sounds a big burden to them to feed the previous. Gas chambers? No. More of age friendly services, machines and homes. This problem has brought the world to the inhuman shame of supplying drinking water with anti-fertility chemicals. Can’t man, in his self-declared reason be responsible for the dispersal of his seeds?

 Innocent children are presently caught up in ISIS cleanup process. War. What if the 6 million Jews lived? All in the fight for resources. What still causes raids in the primitive African villages is the lack- or probably human fight factor. Children go to bed hungry. And religion keeps us busy that what happens much is the result of later days- a population deviation.


Sadly that in the article my points are pessimistic to overpopulation, I am not hateful that you and I exist. At least we can survive. But the mention of reproducing knots the bowels. And to see it heavily occurring among the poor and ignorant folk is an insult. For to live because others do, to perform for they do and to avoid for it will take care of itself is low below emancipation.


source; pakistanforpeace@wordpress.com

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