If you still think that you are an African, you are trading on the wrong stock. The yard stick for determining who is a true African still gets you off the claimers' list. At least there are a few indicators on which we can bank. 

You are cruising the most expensive machine in town probably a HAMMER and you have developed a technology to enable you travel to other planets. That's wonderful, but can you ride a bicycle? 

The challenging question and food for the thought to whoever is reading this article remains: Can you ride a bicycle? You are in Jerusalem but unaware that Christ has been crucified. Vast majority of the people today, especially the so called educated, cannot ride bicycles.   

You and I know that a bicycle is one of the cheapest means of transport but many of us don't own one. Fine, we have acquired bachelor's degrees, masters and PhDs and we own magnificent mansions and road trains but can all these describe an African man? 

Which kind of professor are you if you cannot ride a simple bicycle?  Frankly speaking a true African man should be able to own and ride a bicycle. The most unfortunate generation is that which has been raised in cities and receiving a formal education in which riding bicycles is not part of the curriculum. In the villages, however, learning to ride a bicycle was one of the pleasurable moments and big achievements. 

While the winds of modernization blow us to the other end of the planet it is unserious of us to forget where we came from. In Buganda for instance you cannot train your children to believe that fruits and bananas are manufactured from the supermarkets. 

A true muganda, who is an agriculturist, should reserve a small piece of land around his home for growing at least simple fruits. You will not assure anyone that you are a Muganda if you don't own at your home tools like a wheelbarrow, a hoe, a spade and so on. If you have to hire someone mow your compound grass then you are an unserious man. True men get involved in such activities. 

Hunting is one of the remarkable economic activities used to be carried out by our ancestral parents. It was also a sport. If you have ever done hunting get your hands up. Certainly none of you has done it. 

You can embrace culture by doing the hunting at least as a recreational activity if the laws governing wildlife permitted you. I heard one woman challenging her husband: What kind of man are you if you cannot repair a broken stool but always think of inviting a carpenter? Now if we have given women a chance to identify our weaknesses, we are losing it all.

Mbu women these days are complaining that men of today are no longer made of mahogany. They are a very weak species and cannot play the Board game  pakalast like their ancestors. 

The problem is that they are raised on chocolates instead of the traditional foods that used to produce metals out of men. We can doubt your credibility as a man if you are scared of even slaughtering a hen. Real men will not rest until they have produced a minimum of 12 children. 

Some one told me that a true African man has to organize one serious beating of his wife at least once in every two months. It is a sign of love and authority in a home. I only pray that women activists do not hang me after reading this.

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