Africans Punishing Children

There is no doubt that Africans have continued the migration believed to have been started approximately 160,000 years ago. In almost every country you visit in the World, there are pockets of recent descendants of African people either taken there by slavery or migrated there themselves.

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Much of the time Africans prefer to teach their traditions and cultures to their children so that it is not lost, but many children now being born on foreign soil have no connection to these traditions and cultures and sometimes view them as outdated and useless in this advanced technological age.

Part of being a teenager in the Westernized World is going through the very well sculptured "rebellious stage" which usually involves getting in with some gang of hooligans, incessant partying and general disrespect for any form of authority ~ usually parents and teachers. However, because the same kind of support is not available for African families in the West, parents are forced to get creative in order to curb their wayward children.

Many parents punish their children by sending them back to Africa to live with a relative and there is a movie out that tackles this issue.

An intimate look at the complex issues that shapes the lives of the children of black immigrants the World over, this movie takes you on a journey that challenges what you may think about African parenting and allows you to experience the World of a child, growing into a young man, allowing a punishment to become a lesson to find his roots.

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