Opinion By Andrew Irumba
The rumours circulating about Canary Mugume and his wife are not new in today’s Africa. They are only a symptom of a much bigger crisis we have deliberately chosen not to confront. Africans have abandoned their ways, rejected their values, and swallowed western culture whole—without even rinsing it first.
By nature and divine order, God created man to be the head of the family. God extracted the woman from the man’s rib while he was asleep—not because He lacked enough dust to create another being, but because He intended to communicate hierarchy, order and purpose. African society understood this long before the Bible reached us. Our fathers led the home, and our mothers were their deputies. That clarity of roles created harmony.
Today, we have replaced this order with imported chaos.
Women emancipation, the type borrowed blindly from the West, has become Africa’s biggest domestic disaster. Suddenly every home has two masters competing for the same steering wheel. No wonder many families can’t move forward; the “car” spends all its time swerving, stalling or crashing.
The white man has taught African women and children that they can lead a home they didn’t establish. The same Western civilisation we are copying has no deep cultural foundation—no roots, no ancestral anchoring, no communal norms. Yet these were the bedrock that kept the African family strong and unshakeable.
Traditionally, an African woman wasn’t expected to go out chasing jobs; her responsibility of grooming children and nurturing the home was a full-time assignment. Fending for the household was given to men—right from the Bible. The man would provide; the woman would preserve. That harmony created stability.
But today’s setup?
Women are out chasing careers, leaving children to maids. And for what? Greed.
To get their own backdoor wealth. That’s why her money is “her ka-money,” yet the man’s earnings are automatically labeled “family money.” Hypocrisy at its finest.
We now have households with two ‘educated’ masters pretending to live in harmony. But even a herdsman knows he cannot keep two bulls in one kraal. At best, one must be castrated to maintain peace.
The truth Africans fear to confront is simple:
The collapse of our families is not witchcraft, not politics, not modernity. It is the abandonment of African order.
Return to African ways—return to roles, structure, culture, and divine arrangement—and you will return to stability, abundance and peace.
Andrew Irumba is Founding Speaker and Chairman Pan African Pyramid (www.panAfricanpyramid.com)
