--Great one:
I am not endorsing the policy, so as not to be understood. I am saying that, as scholars, let us come up with policy statements.
TF
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 8:58 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Marry 5 wives or be jailed - Swaziland King orders country men - Adomonline.comI wonder how well thought out the policy is.
Five wives is a lot. Then the children that will come of of these unions. The economic and emotional challenges of it all.
Who is going to foot all those bills, year after year?
What of the emotional care and life guidance for the children, as important as food?
What of the emotional and erotic dynamics of the relationship between the man and the women? How will that be heathily sustained, if all, across time?
I'm not able to understand how anyone can mandate something of such grave consequences on a nation.
Can the economy bear the weight of such a policy? What happens in the next one to two generations emerging from such a policy?
Nigeria''s Muslim North is struggling with the burden of a population bulge facilitated by religiously enabled polygamy in the midst of poverty, and the links of this to the controversial Almajiri institution, in which children beg in the context of their Islamic schooling, with some parents accussed of using this to avoid caring for their own children, a problem some also link with the recurrence of violence and terrorism in the region.
Southern Nigeria is struggling with the tension between a youth heavy population and economic limitations. Stories of online fraud and ritual murder in the pursuit of money are now common place.
Churches are generating huge monies by giving succour in the midst of people struggling in the face of minimal care from govt.
Would anyone want to invite such problems?
Why not encourage immigration from men from elsewhere? Why not enable a vibrant economy that will facilitate self reliance and encourage others migrating there to live?
They could also facilitate emigration for the women. Empower them with skills and help them move to where are more men.
They could also help build online dating networks through which their women could reach out to men from elsewhere who would move to to Swaziland to be with the women or take the women out of Swaziland. Such networks seem to be active in Eastern Europe and possibly elsewhere.
The challenge requires creative thinking and long range planning and implementation or serious problems will emerge from it.
Italy started selling houses in villages for one euro in other to help populate the villages.
One village offered free housing to any family that moves there and puts a child in the local school, in order to help revive the village through young families.
Incentives. No force
Someone should please advise the Swazi king. Wives are not objects you acquire. A marriage is not the same as owning an object. 5 women!
Thanks
Toyin
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 14:38 Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Great ones:
As scholars, we should not be caught trivializing issues like this. In a "beer parlor," yes.
Eritrea faced that same challenge some years back. Demographic shifts occur and societies need to respond.
TF
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Marry 5 wives or be jailed - Swaziland King orders country men - Adomonline.comHe should export those virgins to Nigeria where they have excess men who need wives.
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