3. Wrong use of the Internet:
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has helped to revolutionize the community tremendously. It has via the use of Internet, Communication satellites, mobile phones etc, helped to bring people together distance, culture or language notwithstanding. Through the activities of home videos, satellites and other media agents, values (faulty or correct), fashions (modern, modest and immodest) are traded across cultures and nations. In as much as ICT is helpful, consequential to human, and societal developments, the rate of abuse and the un-regulatory ways they are used call for great concern. Most of the youths and children that are exposed to some of their contents that most times are negative so quickly fall vulnerable. The parents of these children and their senior siblings in Diasporas are the ones promoting indecent and immoral practices and they are relayed through videos, pornography, and music as well as advertisement and fashion parades.
In as much as ICT is good and beneficial to humanity, the associative evils need to be checked and resisted.
4. Peer Pressure:
Peer pressure is a force that gravitate friends together and most times for evil or negative tendencies. The desire to belong and the fear of rejection have led many youths into evil or immoral acts sometimes against their will. Some of them lack the strong will to say no to evil for fear of being isolated. And apart from isolationism, peer conformity could be the result of faulty foundational home training. A child with healthy home training should be able to so quickly resolve identity crises, distil between rights and wrongs no matter how the wrongs are colored and then maintaining his/her integrity and the good name of the family. It is obvious that a mango tree will not bear orange fruits. The pressure of peers will be inconsequential when there is healthy parental upbringing and the fear of God in the life of any youth.
5. Fading Value:
Africa has a very rich culture that she needs to be proud of and preserve for posterity. But the unfortunate situation is that most cherished African values are fast fading due to non-patronage and modernization or acculturation. Today’s youths cannot tell very well what these values are. For instance, the beautiful hair braiding typical of African ladies are being traded for hair “roasting” in saloons, modern and dignifying dress patterns are giving ways to the skimpy, transparent and provocative dresses found all around today. Many of these youths that dress immodestly may not even know what is wrong with the way the dress because nothing suggests to them that is wrong. Their parents applaud them in those dresses, do not even ask how they came about those dresses and when they appear in public, they are cheered by their mates and friends and to make the matter worse, all around them, what they see on people is not reasonably different from what they wear. Their home videos, televisions and Internet providers do not differ either in the contents of what they relay as programs. How can these youths be different when the society has no good moral values as legacies to bequeath to them? It is odd for a vulture to look different in the midst of other vultures.
6. Demonization or Demonic Influence:
This is a strong factor that accounts for the stimulating and provocative ways that some youths dress on campuses today. Some of these youths particularly, the female ones, are agents of the devil on a mission to lure many men into immorality and away from God. This matter is spiritual and we may tend to oppose it as academics. But if we must be sincere, we should know that many of these youths are in cults and occults and their operations are sometimes mystical, magical and devilish. Several of them that had been confronted with a higher spiritual power had kowtowed and confessed to their evils and the origin of such powers. It should really bother us how and why youths of this generation have become wild, rudderless and aggressively immoral. Why on earth should a lady expose her intimate parts of the body to the full glare of people? These parts of the body are supposed to be sacred with only her legitimate husband being the “title holder” and in the privacy of their bedrooms. They have the spirit of Jezebel-the spirit that lures people into immorality.
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