Radio talk host Daddy Freeze has criticised veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie for his comment on Nigerian men kneeling down to propose to ladies.
Pete Edochie stirred controversy on social media after his scathing remarks about men who kneel down to propose to their women.
OduNews.com reports that Pete Edochie claims men who kneel down while proposing are ‘compound buffoons’.
This statement did not go well with Daddy Freeze as he had a divergent view regarding African cultures and traditions, which Edochie so much upheld.
He said;
“I personally believe many African cultures and traditions are wicked, sexist and should either be discarded or at the very least overhauled.
“Examples include, but are not limited to: Child marriage, female genital mutilation, widows drinking the water of dead husbands corpse, preference of male children over female, women having to ‘give a man his children’ if there is a divorce and arranged marriages,”
According to him, kneeling before a woman is a ‘cute’ culture, that had no physical or spiritual implication and could never be compared to the physical and emotional trauma of female circumcision, child marriages or the arranged marriages that were part of our ‘culture’.
“I believe kneeling to propose is a personal choice and is honestly not this deep as many people who fight for the preservation of our culture still pray to a white Jesus, and read the King James translation done by the man who sold our ancestors like cattle.
or the preservation of our culture still pray to a white Jesus, and read the King James translation done by the man who sold our ancestors like cattle.
He concluded by saying;
“I would rather we focused our energies on expunging wicked and barbaric cultures and traditions, because if we Africans weren’t wicked, Mary Slessor would never have become famous for abolishing the killing of twins.
“Also, quite a few of these traditions have been infused into our imported religions, leading many into the delusion that they are ordained by God,”
