Strange things we do in Africa in the name of "It's Our Culture"

Informer

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1. We care more for the dead than we do for the living!

2. We spend more to bury a person than we do to try to save that life

3. We will not travel to go see a sick relative but to bury him /her

4. People will rarely respect you while alive but will want to "pay their last respects" to your dead body.

5. A person may NEVER receive roses in their entire life but they will get lots dumped on their graveyard!

6. We will spend a night at a neighbour's funeral and it will be our first time to see the inside of their house!

7. No one gives a damn to know your village until you die and they will all fill car after car to "escort you" when you are dead

8. We will take the dead to the temple while when he was still alive he didn't have anything to do with worship

9. We might not have granite tops in our kitchens but use the granite in the graveyard!

10. An entire village might not have a single house with cement floors but the only place cement will surely be used will be a graveyard!

I propose we have "Culture Reforms". We have a culture of "hypocrisy"... a culture that is "Pro-death" and NOT "Pro-life!" We need to value life BEFORE death.
 
Huu wimbo niliuelewa kama nilivyoelewa bandiko lako mkuu Informer

Don't scatter roses after I'm gone

A wreath of roses they placed on his grave
And while he was living, there were things that he craved
His life as a pauper was so very dim
He needed the flowers while he could enjoy them

Chorus:
Don't scatter roses after I'm gone
Give them to me, while I carry on
Now I need them to help me along
Don't scatter roses after I'm gone

Many times he was hungry, but you passed him by
He needed your help then, but you didn't try
To help when him needing to carry on
Now you give him flowers after he's gone?

Repeat Chorus (x2)

Don't scatter roses after I'm gone
 

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