9 September | By Sainey Darboe
It might be the newest show in town, but the The Sisters Show has set tongues wagging as they take on burning issues affecting continental Africans and the diaspora.
In the episode of The Sisters Show on African Parenting, Amy started off with commentary on the immense influence African parents have on the relationships their kids choose.
Her words: âLetâs be honest. Letâs keep it 100. I went through the same thing. I was in a very serious relationship...you guys know exactly what am talking about. I was in love but at the same time my mom, and Jai backing her up sometimes was like, âno you canât get marriedâ. At that point I was like âif my parents donât want me to get in this then am outâ.â
In the course of a self-deprecating joke, Amy continued:
âI was in my twenties then, right, and then now every single time my mum sees me itâs like why are you not married. Iâm like wait, hold on you are confusing me at this point right now because when I was young I canât get married, I canât go out, I canât talk to any boys and now Iâm in my thirties you want me get married. Iâm like nobody wants me. When they wanted me you said noâ.
But her sisters Olay, Mamaran, Juka
and Jay Ceesay werenât going to let this fly laying down as they put up a robust defense.
The oldest of Ceesay sisters, Jay, quarterbacked defense efforts enunciating:
âBack home growing up I was the first child. My parents were very strict. But for some reason I had more trust from my parents because I guess I was not the child that likes to go out a lot. I was very focused on education. And with my mum as long as you are really interested in school then she was not as strictâ.
Their strict mum, she observed, wanted to give them things she couldnât have and wanted to have.
Juka chimed in with her own view saying âparents want to live through you vicariouslyâ.
Oulay and Mamaran piled on as well noting the strict parenting âcomes from a good placeâ, while crediting it for their success.
Mammaran added: â I think it always comes from a good place.I think what they really wanted from us is to be really good people and good role models in society and not just being in every relationship out there and thatâs the main point they try to nurture us to be those kind of peopleâ.
But in the end Amy deferred to her older and wiser sisters,revealing:
âI agree with you guys because honest to god, this second,if you,Iâm gonna be honest, I have seen thesame exact person again and in my head I was like âwhat the hell was I thinkingâ.Because I was not mature enough to get into that partâ.