Cyril Skosana
We are a generation that chats a lot, but we also lack
the knowledge our ancestors had. We live in a time where there is so much
technology that provides us with information. Our ancestors didn’t have such
luxuries. One need not leave their bed in order to access a library as some
have many journals and ebooks available on the internet, the internet that
moves with us.
Our elders also hold information that we desperately
need, but in our belief that we know more – we tend to not want to breastfeed
this information from them. If we feel we have breastfed from them, then maybe we
have lost what our forefathers had passed to us.
What our ancestors had that we seem to lack is knowledge.
We are a generation that lacks knowledge. We live in an era which is so advanced
that it has surpassed our average intelligence. Our forefathers had perfected
skills of communication –listening, decoding, encoding and giving a response–
which is what we seem to lack. You’d hear of information that was shared around
the fire. That information led to medicinal breakthroughs on this African
continent as medicine isn’t a new invention that came from the west.
