Oroko Fathers running the Relay Race

As the world honoured and celebrated father’s day yesterday, my thoughts went out to the Oroko man as a father.

Oroko cultural display, a source of knowledge inherited from Oroko Fathers

Maybe am wrong or had wrong thoughts but I strongly believe that, the role of the Oroko father, is like no other father in the world. The Oroko father has developed the need to learn and educate himself enough so that he passes on the relay to his children. This relay is to ensure that the children have a better future, mindset and become responsible people.

The Oroko father has understood that he is in a relay race. This relay race is a fight of which he can't win solely by himself but must embrace it in a group with excess energy, dexterity, vigour and steam.

Therefore, for the Oroko man, being an Oroko father is not just to give birth. Rather, the real work is to bring up Oroko offspring being worthy of the Oroko name not only by culture and tradition but also mindset.

There are many Oroko men who have understood that the deal is not just to reproduce children but nurture and take care of their children in the ways of the Oroko land, Cameroon and the world at large.

Similarly, there are many Oroko adults and grown up men today not worthy of the name father. This group has been brainwashed for long thus lack the mindset to be a tangible source of important and necessary knowledge, inspiration to their children.

Happy Father's Day to all those Oroko men who have been and would be real Oroko fathers to their children not by simple reproduction but by the knowledge they pass on to their children.