Journalists who have visited Niger are reporting finding a strange phenomenon: villages in which women and children are going hungry, while there is still food in their households.
Kim Sengupta of the UK’s Independent newspaper found that men had left their families, locking the grain store, while they were away.
“They’ve gone away to look for work or look for money and sometimes across the border in Nigeria. And you have this strange situation where there were women in the villages with stocks of sorghum and millet with hungry children, but no access to the food,” he says. (Story and photo source)
Niger men love their multiple wives and children enough to teach them the value of scrounging for food. Africa is filled with such wonderful traditions.
Men are allowed to drop their seed all over the place, and they don’t have to fend for anyone but themselves. Women and children are on their own except when it’s time to cater to their men. A rogue’s paradise.
Here’s another gem: “And men may be calculating — correctly — that if they don’t provide for their families, aid agencies will step in to fill the gap.”
Hmm…making babies with multiple women, knowing the state will feed them. Why does that sound familiar?
Wait just a minute…now that I think about it, it’s probably the white man’s fault! Those blue-eyed devils are forcing these oppressed men to starve their babies.
Racists!
