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African Peculiarities: Soap Operas Over the years, my stand on this has refused to change. Years of trying to comprehend why this craze has consumed our people have all been futile, as my heavily biased senses have refused to renege on their long-suffering stance. It has been a long race, in an attempt to comprehend the vile desecration that fills African screens and African minds, filth slowly seeping into African lives, Soap Operas. Our students in school, high on this illicit content, cheered on by some equally deluded teachers are participating in the wanton rape of creativity, a plastic generation that cannot be satisfied with the realities of life, because they have been binged on false and skewed perceptions of the basic human emotions, half-baked crap from Mexico and the Philippines, which informs their general perspective on life. Any person with a sane mind and a little understanding of Literature will know what I am talking about. A typical soap opera creates one dimension...