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Women urged to stop promoting promiscuity on social media

“African women should put a stop to these and ensure the values of African culture are being propagated on various social media platforms for posterity,” she said.

• April 28, 2023
Oluwabunmi Ajao and CBAAC
Oluwabunmi Ajao and CBAAC

The Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC) has called on women to uphold the values in African culture and desist from promoting promiscuity on social media platforms.

Oluwabunmi Amao, Director-General, CBAAC, made the call during the International Women’s Day Conference, organised by Duchess International Magazine, in Kigali, Rwanda, on Thursday.

Mrs Amao, in a statement on Friday said that African culture was known to uphold good moral virtues but regrettably, some women find social media as a means of promoting immorality and promiscuity instead of their culture.

“This has partly lowered the African moral and cultural values to the extent that some used-to-be taboos have now become the norm.

“It is also a pity that women have used social media to market sex enhancement drugs (popularly known as Kayanmata), cosmetic surgeries that are injurious to health.

“They even go to the extent of preparing and selling solutions that would hypnotise men and even snatch the men from their wives.

“Weird money making ideas, public display of ill-gotten affluence, believed to be a shorter route to earning brand endorsement deals with some corporate organisations and so many other vices are some of the ills that social media have exposed us to which have in turn, negatively affected the values in the African culture.

“African women should put a stop to these and ensure the values of African culture are being propagated on various social media platforms for posterity,” she said.

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