"Only few African mothers, especially those in polygamous homes, would do just that - leave the fates of their children in the hands of God to determine rather than manipulate them."
We all, especially Africans, hailed the ascendancy of President Barak Obama to the Presidency of the United States of America but not many realised the greatest lessons to learn from how he came to power.
In the life of President Barak Obama, humanity is reminded of a certain unchanging principle of life. The principle is that all of us but women in particular should “do our best and leave everything about our children’s fate in the hands of God. The same lessons go for our children's education, career, marriage, parenting, etc.
Obama’s father, a man from Kenya found his way to America years back. He did what an average African would do – get hooked to an American lady? For one reason or the other, the marriage did not work. So there was a divorce. But there were links that could not be broken, their children. Somewhere along the line, Obama died. That was enough to deal a permanent blow to the linkage of young Obamas with their Kenyan roots.
But alas, like the Biblical Ruth, their mother left them to freely relate with their 'rich' African heritage. This is not withstanding the fact that their biological grandmother in particular, was dead. Lady Obama threw young Obama into the mouths of what an average African woman would call “lions in their den”, thereby exposing her children to ‘maximum’ risk imaginable on planet earth.
Young Obamas in their innocency enjoyed the whole drama. And God kept them safe! Today, in spite of the deadly exposures, Barak Obama has become the first Black-American President!
This is a lesson to our over-protective but would they not rather rejoice and cite the example of Obama without the willingness to take the risks his mother took? Only few African mothers, especially those in polygamous homes, would do just that - leave the fates of their children in the hands of God to determine rather than manipulate them. Also, whether by design or default, Obama’s father found a good woman albeit, in a distant land just as Ruth was to Israelites such that even in death, God’s name is glorified through him. Again, an African couples take divorce as the end of a relationship but the Obama’s, especially the woman who ought not to forgive saw it the other way round. Today her name is recorded in history as the “Ruth of our time”! Obama’s mother, like the biblical Ruth, is a lesson to W O M A N H O O D! .
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