Veteran Nollywood actor Pete Edochie has bemoaned the growing loss of traditional African values due to modernization characterised by men kneeling to propose to female spouses.
The thespian who lamented the trend in a recent interview on the Libation podcast said that he is a custodian of the Igbo culture and he is against men kneeling down to give rings to women.
He said, ‘‘I am being seen as a custodian, an uncompromising custodian of our culture. When I said you shouldn’t kneel down and give rings to women, it caused a bit of bad backlash. Most of those people raised their voices at me, but I wasn’t angry because revolutionaries don’t get appreciated.
Pete Edochie, who became well-known in 2020 for opposing kneeling to ask ladies to marry him, claimed that it was culturally inappropriate and troublesome from a symbolic standpoint.
“In church, you kneel before a superior spiritual entity. So if you kneel to a woman, you’re acknowledging her superiority. It has destroyed the white people—they don’t know it,” he asserted.
‘‘It’s not in our culture to kneel, culture is eclectic. In it’s dynamism, it grows. You adapt and you adopt, there are aspects that you can clip off but adopting these things does not have to be at the expense of our culture.’’ He added.
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