AFRICAN WOMAN WHERE IS YOUR GLORY: BIBLICAL VIEW

Abstract

The word woman can generally be used, to mean any female human, or specifically, to mean an adult female human as contrasted with girl. Women are very special in every human society because they have unique roles and functions. Their tender nature subjects them to attention, making the opposite sex easily influenced to their feminine charms. In an attempt to show off their natural endowments, women have totally derailed in that age long societal values that gave them a special place of respectability. If one is honest enough to carry out an indebt study of the behaviuoral attitude of our women in our socio contemporary life, compared with the past, one will rightly agree that women are on a journey into doom. One of the said consequences of colonialism is the harsh manner in which our colonizers impacted their ways of lives to Africans. The chaotic Nigerian situation today is as a result of gross carelessness, lack of planning, and lack of advisable attitude of our leaders on very sensitive issues. Without doubt we are faced with a painful reversal of our cherished values, whose importance explains the essence of our being. Nudity is now a highly condemnable act. It is worse when women are involved by virtue of exposing their sensitive private parts. The unguarded desire to show off sexually has driven our women to lowering their quality and value through all forms of provocative dresses and immodest behaviuors. In our religious and social circles, one is always at loss to make a distinction between a cheap street woman and a woman of honour. One of the essential qualities of fashion is communication whereby, most of our women just adopt any fashion around them without being selective. It seems women are pursuing shadow. They have left what they are supposed to do and decided to be dancing to the tune of men by making themselves very cheap. This is worrisome.