Many of the responses highlight the extent to which we reject what is more ours – as descendants of Africans. The trouble with these people is how much cling unto things not of them not by them and then embrace them as divinely given. This is precisely what the slave masters, colonialists, neo-colonialists and now neo-cons want it to be. When Europe went into Africa one of the first thing they do was to rubbish its culture. I dear say what it did not succeed in doing away then it is trying do so now because they know a people without a cultural identity to call their own is one without a history and is therefore without a future. That people is not seen it is not heard. It angers me immensely when those with a European social background judge African cultural practices negatively. Instead let the African see the reason for change or move on from some antiquated cultural practices themselves.