GOOD ENOUGH?

This drama deals with AIDS. One of the significant developments in the fight against AIDS has been the church stepping up and helping with care of sufferers. There has been home based care training in many denominations. The need for this is because the medical systems are not able to manage the care of the numbers of people with AIDS. Media coverage of the topic rarely mentions this.

Churches organize training by NGOs in what the disease is, how it is transmitted and how to deal with it, and especially how to take care of someone and not get it yourself. This is the training Father mentions in the drama. The most important thing the training does is to deal with fear. Grandfather knows nothing about the disease and therefore lives in fear.

I hope the other aspect I write about in this drama is clear. That is that the ancestors should not be disrespected. Neither should they be feared. They are the reason we are here, and they did their best with what they knew. But they can not affect our lives today.

You may note the use of the word "human" in the discussion between Grandfather and Father. It is a very significant word in African tradition. It resonates for Africans in ways it does not for Westerners. In other dramas Father has made the point to Grandfather that the ancestors were just humans and in their afterlife have the same consequences as other humans who have died. And they can not influence this life.

I only have this recorded in French, for your listening pleasure.