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Ghanaian musician Mzbel has sparked a conversation about motherhood after revealing that, despite being a proud mother of two, she would not have chosen to have children if she knew then what she knows now.
Speaking to media personality ZionFelix on the Uncut Show, the 16 Years hitmaker described childbirth as “the biggest scam”, questioning why people would bring children into a world where they have to struggle to survive and meet basic needs.
“Why bring children into this world only for them to come and suffer? This world is nothing but a place of suffering,” she said, adding that she had stopped encouraging people to have babies.
ZionFelix suggested that parents could leave money and properties behind to secure their children's future. However, Mzbel argued that financial inheritance alone was not enough, explaining that children would still need someone to guide them and help them make sound decisions.
Her comments are particularly striking given her own journey to motherhood. Mzbel previously disclosed that she underwent several unsuccessful fertility treatments, including IVF, before eventually conceiving her daughter at age 44 after trying herbal medication. Although she recalled being extremely enthusiastic when she finally became pregnant, she said her perspective had since changed.
Mzbel was quick to stress that her views were personal and that she respected people who found joy in having children.
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Moral dent is when a headmaster allegedly rapes schoolgirls and the media tries to say they are lying. Moral dent is when there is an uproar of how ladies dress than getting mad at how old men grape lil kids and there is lil to no media coverage
I find this conversation interesting because some of our traders seem to have a very short memory. When COVID hit, how many of them saw an opportunity to cash in on people’s desperation? Face masks suddenly became twice as expensive, sanitizers were being sold like gold, and basic necessities became luxury items overnight.
Now that consumers have alternatives, suddenly it’s about protecting indigenous businesses and saving the market. But who was protecting the Ghanaian consumer when some local traders were exploiting a national crisis for profit?
Competition is healthy. It forces businesses to improve their pricing, customer service and value proposition. Consumers deserve choices, affordability and quality. You cannot expect people to remain loyal to your business simply because you are Ghanaian.
Of course, government should enforce fair trading rules and ensure everyone operates within the law. But perhaps GUTA should also have an honest conversation about pricing, excessive markups, customer treatment and accountability among its own members. Patriotism cannot become a licence to overcharge people. If you want consumers to buy Ghanaian, give them a compelling reason to.
Mop3 saaaa. Mtchew.
@Likejuicy1@ossaivictor1_@OgodoSandra As masculine as the men that kidnap your youngins and women to abuse and brutalize them? Even you as a woman if you knew your place, you wouldn't be here putting mouth in men matters.
We're losing our chaste and demure quiet women and baby factories! Omg world crisis!!! Aahhh😂
The kind of society where men can rape, abuse, molest children, brutalise women and commit horrific violence, and none of these bigots will scream, "We are losing our men!"
Okay....
And for you ugly homophobic or femphobic women that selectively chants this statement below.👇🏾
“Men used to go to war.”
Well, let me remind you, women used to shut up, cook, be baby factories, tolerate physical and sexual abuse from men, endure marital rape without legal recognition, be paid significantly less than their male counterparts, shave their hairs, drink their husband’s dead body water, surrender their careers after marriage, be denied education, voting rights, property ownership and inheritance, and remain trapped in abusive marriages because divorce was socially condemned.
Women were expected to remain quiet, obey, endure, reproduce and disappear into domestic responsibilities.
But somehow, the historical expectations imposed on women are no longer sacred traditions worth preserving, while men’s historical roles are suddenly presented as immutable laws of nature.
Funny how tradition becomes compulsory only when it conveniently serves the argument.
Let’s go all the way down there!!! 📌
@OgodoSandra@Candycr73832801@ossaivictor1_ This world is changing! You better change with it or adapt else you stay dumb and daft. Just like you (a woman) have a voice today, some men are refusing to go to war for stupid reasons. We'd rather play dress up and you're pissed? You've got issues to deal with, sorry.
@OgodoSandra@Candycr73832801@ossaivictor1_ To think its offensive to refer to a man as a woman explains how much you love yourself and your gender tho. Besides, traditionally and religiously a woman has no business opening her mouth when men are talking. You stay home and make babies and take abuse. 🤭
@OgodoSandra@Candycr73832801@ossaivictor1_ Yaasss guurl! You could never! 😂😂😂 Maybe y'all just jealous these men got it better than you could ever and you're scared your men gonna leave y'all for them! oopps it's already happening! 🤭
THIS IS NOT OK. WE ARE LOSING OUR VIRTUOUS WOMEN ALL IN THE NAME OF BABY MAMAS, SINGLE MOTHERS AND FORNICATION. 📌
Tokunbo Idowu, popularly known as TBoss, welcomed a daughter in August 2019 while unmarried. Her daughter’s paternity became a subject of widespread speculation, with Dino Melaye publicly denying being the father and distancing himself from any romantic relationship with her. Uti Nwachukwu also distanced himself from rumours linking him to TBoss. When asked about her daughter’s father’s identity, she famously responded, “How would that information help you or your life?”
In December 2019, TBoss also publicly defended the idea that babies are not exclusively for married people, embracing the position that parenthood need not be confined to marriage. That position, however, is fundamentally at odds with the biblical ideal of marriage and responsible parenthood, as well as traditional African expectations concerning marriage, family formation and the responsibilities that accompany raising children.
Her daughter is entirely innocent of her mother’s personal circumstances.
But when someone with such a publicly discussed personal history suddenly declares that Nigeria is losing its men because of expressive fashion, the hypocrisy is difficult to ignore.
You cannot invoke traditional morality to police grown men’s harmless self-expression while conveniently overlooking its expectations concerning marriage, sexual responsibility and family formation.
Marriage and responsible parenthood are deeply rooted in African traditional values. Christianity equally upholds marriage and condemns sexual immorality.
Single motherhood, baby-mama culture or fornication are not endorsed by biblical standards or traditional African ideals of marriage and family responsibility.
1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (KJV)
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers…”
Hebrews 13:4 (KJV)
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Deuteronomy 23:2 (KJV)
“A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord…”
And perhaps the most appropriate reminder of all:
Matthew 7:3 (KJV)
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam in thine own eye?”
The problem is not that TBoss is a single mother. The problem is the selective application of morality: expressive fashion becomes a national crisis, yet questions about her own sexual immorality, marriage and family responsibility are suddenly expected to attract nothing but kindness, understanding and unconditional acceptance.
Men wearing unconventional outfits are not destroying Nigeria. Non-marital family structures, hypocrisy, selective outrage and the refusal to apply moral standards consistently are far more deserving of public condemnation.
Tokunbo Idowu, the mirror is right here. 📌