The man was serious. She puts extensions in her eyebrows. She puts extensions on her finger nails and toe nails. Thank God, he did not give them beards. They would have put extensions on them too. Poor Black woman. Everything European or American must be better than ours. So we take European names as our first names to feel posh. Otherwise we think we are damned. In much of Southern Africa, suit and tie have become the national dress, which gives people an inflated sense of self-importance.
And the woe will still betide you regardless of the heat of the day. In fact, in some African countries you cannot see the President in his office without wearing a suit and a tie. Imagine, the African cannot go and see his President in the State House, the man he voted for, without wearing a European attire. Pure madness, if you ask me.
Yet the European settlers in Southern Africa who should make a fetish out of a suit and tie actually eschew that type of dressing. They like their simple shirts and shorts and the fresh air that comes with them. The African envelopes himself in a suit and tie, forgets all about fresh air, pushes pen and paper, and banks almost zero at the end of the year.
No wonder our women have become walking extensions. Do I pity those women, especially the ones who have added skin bleaching to the nonsense? You bet. Yes, the length and size of the wig, the length and colour of the finger and toe nails, and the length of the eyebrows are all tell-tale signs of what is in the head, the vital contents.
Sometimes some of these women look pretty awful, almost like witches or eagles, with those long finger nails. But who will bring them to order? They think the longer the nail extensions, the posher they are. Someone needs to deliver them from their madness.
