SOUTHERN AFRICAN YOUTHS HANGING ON DEADLY FUN
By Madalitso Kateta
Youths in the southern African region are living under a deadly addiction to fun.It is an adction which according to youth advocates attending a three day Southern Africa Social Forum in the Malawian capital, Lilongwe have described as hanging on fun that has a negative impact to the youths health.
Interviews done at the Lilongwe gathering have revealed that youths in the region are in a situation which is leading them to early deaths to Aids as they have not understood the human rights concept that has been promoted since the inception of pluralistic politics in countries in the region.
Speaking in an interview, Kenedy Oulu, a VSO volunteer, working with Tutulane Youth Orgnisation at Chitipa in Malawi said that youths in the southern Africa region have taken fun to mean engaging in risky behaviors that can read them to death.
He said many youths in the region had become alcoholics, drug addicts and were also involved in risky sexual behaviors because they believed that was the way to have fun.
“Youths in the southern Africa region have corrupted fun to mean that they can engage them selves in sexual, drug and alcoholic acts but all these things are deadly as they always read them to death. In Kenya there is a saying ukikikungwa zaidi, unateteza zaidi which r literary means the more you drink the more slip”, he said.
He said that there was need for youths to critically look at the way they get fun as the concept fun was two fold which at times meant having the dangerous and expensive things in life.
“The reality is sex, alcoholism and drugs have become an undeniable thing in the young community, but there is a need for the youths to have a sense of responsibility by abstaining and think of their future” he said.
He said youths should rise and fight for their lives as usually they become casualties of their bad habits.
Yohane Banda another participant at the gathering said that youth’s should follow the realities of life as alcoholism, drugs, and premarital sex had landed them into early deaths.
“Youths should know that the western culture is good but they should also be responsible for their lives as most of the fun which they are getting hangs them on the death line”, said Banda who is one of Zambia’s up coming muscians.
While agreeing with Banda’s assertion Angelina Wakhutamoyo a Malawian youth who claimed is very responsible in the HIV/Aids fight said that many youths in the Sub-Saharan region have fallen victims to the HIV/Aids pandemic because they are involved in un constructive fun.
She said young men and women had stared to engage themselves in premarital sex, drugs and alcohol because they believed that was the way to get fun.
“The most dangerous pandemic that affects our youths today is not HIV/Aids it self, but the deadly fun in which most youths have gone into”, she said.
By Madalitso Kateta
Youths in the southern African region are living under a deadly addiction to fun.It is an adction which according to youth advocates attending a three day Southern Africa Social Forum in the Malawian capital, Lilongwe have described as hanging on fun that has a negative impact to the youths health.
Interviews done at the Lilongwe gathering have revealed that youths in the region are in a situation which is leading them to early deaths to Aids as they have not understood the human rights concept that has been promoted since the inception of pluralistic politics in countries in the region.
Speaking in an interview, Kenedy Oulu, a VSO volunteer, working with Tutulane Youth Orgnisation at Chitipa in Malawi said that youths in the southern Africa region have taken fun to mean engaging in risky behaviors that can read them to death.
He said many youths in the region had become alcoholics, drug addicts and were also involved in risky sexual behaviors because they believed that was the way to have fun.
“Youths in the southern Africa region have corrupted fun to mean that they can engage them selves in sexual, drug and alcoholic acts but all these things are deadly as they always read them to death. In Kenya there is a saying ukikikungwa zaidi, unateteza zaidi which r literary means the more you drink the more slip”, he said.
He said that there was need for youths to critically look at the way they get fun as the concept fun was two fold which at times meant having the dangerous and expensive things in life.
“The reality is sex, alcoholism and drugs have become an undeniable thing in the young community, but there is a need for the youths to have a sense of responsibility by abstaining and think of their future” he said.
He said youths should rise and fight for their lives as usually they become casualties of their bad habits.
Yohane Banda another participant at the gathering said that youth’s should follow the realities of life as alcoholism, drugs, and premarital sex had landed them into early deaths.
“Youths should know that the western culture is good but they should also be responsible for their lives as most of the fun which they are getting hangs them on the death line”, said Banda who is one of Zambia’s up coming muscians.
While agreeing with Banda’s assertion Angelina Wakhutamoyo a Malawian youth who claimed is very responsible in the HIV/Aids fight said that many youths in the Sub-Saharan region have fallen victims to the HIV/Aids pandemic because they are involved in un constructive fun.
She said young men and women had stared to engage themselves in premarital sex, drugs and alcohol because they believed that was the way to get fun.
“The most dangerous pandemic that affects our youths today is not HIV/Aids it self, but the deadly fun in which most youths have gone into”, she said.
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