Taste of Uganda’s house of thought (1)

As of 21st May.

And so Uganda’s house of thought sat…

Uganda’s house of thought decided to discuss teenage pregnancy…

The majority females that sat in this Uganda house of thought suggested vehemently that; every girl who got pregnant in school especially primary, must be chased out of school-😳😳😳

When asked to give rationale to support this “solution” these “thinkers” said,

“the presence of pregnant girls in schools will encourage more sex”😳😳😳😳

And there- their “thought process” was complete- any challenger from now on will be the begotten child of the permissive spirit of promiscuity-😭- such a prophet will be stoned with bitter rocks wrapped in the pretext of the preservation of cultural morality!

On the other hand- the women and men of “grand thoughts” ( the ones in the Uganda house of thought) will be paid handsomely for this deeply “insightful remedy”

By and by, only the girl child will be expected to leave school- “because the girl child made herself pregnant”

By the by- to these great minds sexual feelings and desires are stirred mostly by the seeing of pregnant girls -not by hormones or no sex education… so it makes complete sense- see no pregnant girls- have no sexual desires- have no sex- have no in-school pregnancies. Watch out world 🌎 – Uganda’s house of thought 🇺🇬 might have just found out the secret to ending all untimely sexual activity among our young populations.

Now, you’d be a fool to think that this can’t work. But don’t ask me how it will work- for I cannot think as greatly as these fellas. However, I am imagining that the coercive power in this “insightful remedy” will be fear- think about it- when we chase pregnant girls out of school- the other girls will be too scared to engage sexually with the very charming boys before them. Also, the causation equation hasn’t come to me yet- but this action is somewhat supposed to deter boys from wooing the girls even when they know they can get away with it. Quintessentially we will arrive at a point x-a place where both girl and boy are way too coy to toy with each other and voila- the calculation is perfect- no more teenage pregnancies

I mean it’s true that this “insightful remedy” and coercive power isn’t really a new trend- actually, it is how most Ugandan families have treated and reacted to teenage mothers-yet still in-school pregnancies persist at an alarming rate- but maybe doing what is failing will work because it has come from the divine utterance of “Uganda’s house of thought”

And while at this- we should trash the stats as well. I mean if nearly a quarter of Ugandan girls aged 15-18 get pregnant each year- it’s no biggie that these typically Primary six to senior four leavers are put out of school as punishment for daring to be fertile women. Also this abomination of early pregnancy has no other root cause than bad behavior- every girl that gives herself in for sex has no real solid other experiential pressures apart from their inability to control their sex drive- and of course the boy is just a victim to this cantankerous spirit of jezebel- so punish the girl- reward the boy with less crowded classrooms.

Oh also statistically less than 30% of the girls that are pushed out of school due to early pregnancies will go back to school. But that is not important- school has just made our women too big headed to control- so hey it’s a plus.😭😭😭

Wow Ugandan house of thought- if this is the kind of solution you are vomiting on us; I suggest you stop using our taxes in enforcing gender mainstreaming because clearly this one act is going to set the whole mission of women empowerment ten fold tracks further behind.

And my dear Ugandans we can’t afford to simply jest at wild proposals like these- we deserve better thinking and thinkers.

I know teenage pregnancies is a problem we are facing- I know abortion especially in our cultural context is a no go zone- but a pro-life country can cook up better solutions than chasing the girl child from school- Don’t you think so???

Yours Always-

Amanda from Uganda 🇺🇬