I SEE COLORS & OKADAS

I'm a huge fan of Bliss Patisserie on 110 Wilkinson Road, their salads are refreshing and after my slightly dubious Friday night out, i needed a hide away. An avocado banana milkshake,  grilled vegetables accompanied with fried chicken did the trick. This is how the world looked to me on Saturday afternoon (see photographs below), as aforementioned, i blame the rudeness performed on Friday evening. While waiting for my food, i stumbled upon this article

An “okadised” society: implications on teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone

I must preface this blog post with, please click on the link to read the entire report, Sierra-Leonean journalism always always has me in stitches by the end of the read regardless of how serious (or not) the subject matter is- the style of writing is ---priceless. But I digress, back to Okadisation, which in actuality is problematic. Now, I am easily seduced ( as are a plethora of people in Sierra-Leone) to go on an endless rant about my deep dislike/distaste of Okadas and Okada drivers alike. However, Okadisation according to this article is the 

the shift from traditional trekking to Okada riding between places. Sierra Leoneans no longer fancy walking; which has enormous health benefits but are rapidly cultivating the practice of moving around by Okada. In the pre-Okada era, students trekked, for example from Magburaka to Mathora government girls school (about 6 miles round trip), in the Tonkolili district. This is no more the practice in today’s school going pupils, making it an economically challenged practice for their poor relatives. Most parents can’t afford giving both lunch and Okada service fees on a daily basis to their children.

So instead, some young ladies got creative and:

“ [entered] into transactional sex with these riders to ferry them between their homes and schools as well as supplementing their ‘lunch’ at school.

In essence, this equates to high TEENAGE PREGANCIES BY THE OKADA BOYS COMMUNITY. I declare CONDOMS FOR OKADAZITION | A CLEVER INITIATIVE. If you support, please comment.

Fambul dem this is how we do…

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