The situation is that this model of interaction and communication, tied with happy situations, especially in music platforms, is hard to obviate from in daily activities, as it is on the menu of what youths will be doing when they wake up in the morning, or at midday. The pattern is a network.
Why things might cool down arises from the intensity of being disturbed that is being heard from elders, especially clergy and a section of the public authorities.
Yet the concern expressed is not the same thing as hostility, and thus youth groups meet at night in various entertainment spots, the more visible among them being the miniskirt girls, either young women in street corners or selected concentrations with some darkness or distant street lighting.
Operations against them are half-hearted and that appears to be the model for those whose affinities are more troublesome.
Clerical platforms were seen to be especially active at the time of the expected arrival of United States Vice President Kamala Harris, and some quarters even started the rumour that the visitor will demand that unnatural affinities be legalized.
Nothing of the sort was on the table, the issue was not touched one way or another by a long shot, and thus youths did not feel any shift in the way things are, as the visitor left.
Preaching and sermons during Quaresma and Ramadan were replete with cautions.
A sister newspaper in this group set things rolling two months or so earlier with a report on school books that teach children same-sex relationships.
Authorities in the concerned ministry caught napping, looked into the issue, and rounded up copies of offending books, putting under stern warning school operators engaged in that malpractice.
At an interactive event of clerics and activists ahead of the arrival of VP Harris, an activist asserted that they were now putting online children’s cartoons largely to the same effect, and some other subtle ways could be seen, with a sobbing woman (on foreign television), and two women, embracing, sympathize.
While these heady exchanges were taking place in adult platforms, especially between clerics and activists though politicians chipped in somewhat, youths were on an illustrative event as to what is happening in their ranks.
A Tanzanian musician Faustina Mfinanga, who is popularly known as 'Nandy', was marking the birthday of her husband, not as popular as herself among the public but equally noticeable for aficionados. The young lady who has a child the fellow musician decided to make it an example.
Pundits had a stomach’s fill trying to figure out if the gesture was either deep love or mere style, not to say show off as such, but someone came up with a good reason for such a gesture, that for an endowed artist, it is inappropriate to stay with a car until it starts to look like you deserve.
For a commonplace listener, that means high-flung artists are in a position to change cars virtually like clothing, trying to get the point as to when one must change a car. At any point, but not five years!
Nandy was calling a bash to mark the hubby’s big day, and as usual, the current age either of the husband or the wife was their secret, but what the fans were going to celebrate is handing over a brand new Range Rover which pundits were saying costs around 80m/-.
If this is tied to the original problem, someone who can give an 80m/- gift to a loved one, and this is part of a fashion of changing cars, surely can spend upwards of 1m/- per week entertaining friends.
Assuming that there are numerous entertainers, and other categories of service providers awash with this kind of money on a daily or weekly basis, getting groups of youths for fun is easy.
As their songs show, their ins and outs are least marked by fidelity or loyalty of the old school of dance, or as clerics and activists have been trying to insist, especially those taking the mikes due to the reminders of lawful behaviour learned anew during the fasting month.
Whether they will remember later is another thing, as the needs of everyday life compel someone to choose a fruitful circle of friends, get away with some pocket money and enjoy that entertainment. It is a cycle of happiness.
As is usually the case in history, when new things come up they are first ignored, then as they spread to become more common or familiar, they are vehemently opposed, like the miniskirt in the past.
Finally, they become part of everyday life, even if with various sections of society they will still be kept out of sight, but society loses the energy to try and put an end to such behaviours.
For once, the simple reason is that the needs of a daily character push up the habit.
The miniskirt and its current resemblances are all part of trying to adapt to unemployment and poor prospects of marriage tied to the same, to try and live happily all the same.
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