By Tinzwei Dear sister Sarah, Naïve. Reticent – or African chocolate. This is precisely how I remember you Sarah – 20 years b...
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By Tinzwei
Dear sister Sarah,
Naïve. Reticent – or African
chocolate. This is precisely how I remember you Sarah – 20 years before. As children
we teased you for your skin shade. Then, it was glistening – courtesy of the
Vaseline brand trendy in our era. Most of all, it was natural.
‘Charcoal’ was a moniker
bestowed upon your guiltless spirit. We presumed it was a pastime disregarding it
was everlasting. After a decade – we separated. At college, you sampled cocoa
butter cream – your hair retired from the hot stretching comb. Then, one day you
met a boy and the shift to dark and lovely commenced – a hair ointment popularised
nowadays. And when you were rewarded with a scholarship, the heavens had opened
– Africa could have unveiled its original version of Lupita Nyong’o, in advance.
Thereafter, we never met – but I credit social media – we became linked.
Browsing through your
picture portfolio – I could not cease to wonder what had struck you. You
evolved from African toffee dark to pallid peach – if I may say. I felt the
transformation. This is not the Sarah I knew. Not that I was invidious of your
amendment – it was sudden that it brought darkness. Then – the axiom ‘she is
using…’ reached my ears. It means one is applying and addicted to skin
lightening. Has this also invaded your makeup table – sister Sarah in search of
beauty? But will it not evolve into a beast devouring your skin, health and all.
Finally, I discovered
it albeit belatedly. Even some relatives are engaged – my sister. I was in the
dark. Then I pondered. Sarah, were you affected or infected by what we labelled
you that made you to eradicate the confidence God invested in you. I sincerely
regret if my mocking became part of your decision – Sarah, my home girl.
Gradually – you have become
a Caucasian in disguise. After your edification and exposure, why opt to become
a beauty with a beast future? If education failed to persuade you – then how
did bleaching creams succeed?
Your intelligence must
have trained Africa of her original splendour – and it emanates from within, not
the exterior. If you could peddle your uniqueness to a cream, I shudder to know
what an uneducated lady in remote areas would react. Has freedom overburdened you
that you discount your wellbeing? Who has invented the phrase that relegates
blackness even it means erasing your identify – assuming fake coating to please
the mirror. And even if it means staying in the surgery for eternity – they can
sacrifice.
I shall not dispute your rights – since you
are a lawyer, you know best. But also, the best doctors succumb to HIV and AIDS.
Your intellect and ordinary beauty will take you places even among strangers and
not your borrowed identity – dearest Sarah. Sarah, your rights are writing your
own obituary. Sarah, my dear – I know you are too busy to read my post but I trust
someone does – hopefully not your hubby for he might be an accomplice. Anyway,
I prefer the original Sarah. By the way, do you still remember Joyce – yes that
one? She is now in a victim, she was also ‘using…’
PS: Vaseline is still
available. If you care Sarah, I can send you a jar. – Tinzwei
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