(Tomorrow message of Wiseman’s Wisdom)
It was leap time, the people were very happy and sound, Diaspora and Djiboutian were full of the town of Borama, the house where Hodden lives was sited appropriate place, just corner of south west of Borama near Awlay mountain. Between the house and the mountain, there were a big garden, trees and plants of wondrous beauty grown their, whose stem are so light, that they are waved to and fro by the slightest motion of the earth, all most as if they were living being. The birds were signing with different beautiful voices and just fly about among our trees, you could see their, the bushes that the rays of the sun falling on the flourishing green grass washed by the rain. There was a big house and it was the most beautiful house in the town at that time, beside the house there was a garden full of pure green and shady yellow trees, the fruits were glittered like gold and whose Sand resembled a bright, burning sun, strangely beautiful green was spread over the whole so that one might have fancied over raised very high in the air with the sky. There was a wonderful girl living that area named Hoddan.
Hodden was a slight girl, very sweet & insubstantial, she was a beautiful girl, aged less then twenty years old, her emergence and age of maturity was extremely well, her stander of life was classic, Hodden indeed was a girl whom Allah endowed prettiness, apparently she was tall with long black plaited hair, square faced, straight nose and black sparkling eyes. However beautiful is in the eye of the beholder, different people found different things beautiful.
Nevertheless Memory meant life: remembering the humanity extinguished by the death camps and hoping to survive to tell what had been endured and experienced through human lives, from now memories are very important to the couples, friends, families, co-workers, staffs and intimate friends for that reason, I evoked my long term memory to bring into being a live a true story to my friends, because this is an experience. For the time being I have seen Hodden many times, since we have been attending in the same class In our early childhood, and have seen several occasions in our adulthood age, therefore I decided her to take as an example to compare her and her colleagues as one side and those who come up with modeling as another part, in addition to that she was one of the best Somali ladies who found guilty and avoided of using showcasing and coloring, and therefore she kept away from it.
In contrast I would like to point out here the (beauty of color), they used to say in America that every body wants to look like the girl next door, but the neighborhoods have changed, so the girl next door can be any body now, when young girls look at these photo, I want them to think, she's just like me Iman says, (in her last Book of Beauty of Color), I want them to know she's like you and look at who she's became I want them to find what makes them unique, at one time, the modeling industry fact was as dark as any woman might be but that is changing with holly showcasing women of coloring.
Somalia and Africa as a whole most women changed their color, in order to be very attractive, while man are looking/seeking for an eye-catching women, therefore using skin bleaching is increasing now days in to our society, its harmful thing, women get several sickness including cancer, skin disease and other infection, women are not be able to stay for a while in the kitchen because her skin will not resist the fire, also if her skin got wounded it take too long to recover the injured or it might not be recovered
Causes of Skin Bleaching
Man is the major cause of women’s skin bleaching, most of Somali women who uses skin bleaching found unattractive themselves, because men looks for an attractive white women, let me clarify to this point, as man looks for white women the more increase of using coloring, although there is no general definition that states beauty, and depends on the desire/choose of the person, hence there is a general agreement that man like with white women, tall, with long black hair.
Culture is one more major cause of skin bleaching because, In Somali culture, most people believes that (casaan qurux kama qatana) as values, because they believe white as a beauty, for instances man at the first sight with two women, one black and the other one white will give high priority to the white one. As a wise man proverb says (Doqon iyo Habeen baa madow)
Illiteracy is an additional nucleus factor that handle skin peroxide, As we are all familiar, 27% of Somali people are educated/literate while the rest, which is 73%, are uneducated in the last statistics carried out in Somalia at the end of 1990s, there fore in this situation we can understand, that Somali women might not be able to read the attached label of the chemical mixture, or might not have at least common knowledge to deal and respond the current unpredictable situations.
Finally Imitation and advertisement is another core major problems of skin bleaching, to come up with your counterpart, you need to follow your generation, and your rank, because if your next door buys a satellite, you must also buy the same, in order to start with, or to follow some one as a model, for that reason women feels guilty as man looks for an attractive women, hence they want what makes them unique, on the other side advertisement is also another core issues which increases the consumption of skin bleaching.
Conversely Hodden was one of the few ladies who didn't change her color she was as dark as any women might be (Marin dhalal xiga, mas ciideed) and mysterious girls, and of course she was proud of it, most people used to call her the gorgeous like the male ostrich, she still be dressed in the fine clothes she was the leader of custom, ritual and tradition every one knows.
Effect of Skin Bleaching
First and for most, skin bleaching has both negative and positive impact, the unenthusiastic impact including Health problem and financial crises are two features of central and corner stone of family destruction. On the other hand, positive impact is the commercial or Business booming, in which supermarkets, Busharo’s and shops get profits and increased their income
Mohamed Sheikh Farah
Hargeisa, Somaliland
Mohamed Farah a BBA from Amoud University; currently he works with International Organizations at program level in Education Projects sub-sector. He has been working with SCD, (child focused organization) of rights and welfare of children programs for the last two years.
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