It's such an irony how the United States keeps reminding me
of certain things about my ancestral homeland...negative past traditions that have since been jettisoned in the 21st Century.
Example: Every year, Americans of all races and religions
(including my fellow "born-again" Nigerian-American Christian folks)
celebrate Halloween...a day dedicated to the memory of idols, witches, monsters
and horrors...things that our 21st Century people back home in Africa will
frown at easily. Sometimes, I wonder if the situation were to be reversed…whereby
the Halloween was celebrated only in an African country…what would be the
reactions of Americans?
Of course, in righteous indignation, the Africans would have
been seen as a bunch of cave-age, fetish and idol-worshipping “barbarians”. And,
unlike the immigrant Africans who are joining in the Halloween celebration,
Americans (even if they were resident in Africa) would never have joined such a
celebration.
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