IF WE DID NOT HAVE PAPA. WE WOULD :
1. Never open cans and jars.

2. Always have repairmen at the house for changing bulbs,fixing TV signals etc
3. Be broke because who would pay for our treats and family days out.
4. Always have to ward off the hyenas at our fence.
5. Always be beaten by Mama without a fair hearing.
6. Never have Mama relaxed because the six of us were a handful for 1 parent.
7. Never attend school or learn how to do Math problems.
8. Not have 15 heads of cattle at our boma when the men came to "borrow" my sister.
9. Not own our family land in the ancestral village where we call home.

10. Always be ripped off because our super-bargainer would be gone.
11. Not understand obedience,fear,respect and pass on the same to our children.We would be errant children who have mugshoots all over the place.
12. Hate rhumba and old school soul music.
13. Never have photographs of ourselves in nappies.
14. Never aspire to be more than an "average" student- who settles for an A or first degree/diploma if your father has his way?
15. Be nyef-nyef or weak children who cry at the smallest injury, not the strong adults we are.
16. Know how to speak only the white man's language.
17. Not understand why God is a Father and why man was made first.
18. Lack standards for the next generation of men to aspire to.
19. Have no idea what kind of men we want to be married to.
20. Not have brothers,significant others,bosses, colleagues,brothers and the many giants that have shaped our societies.