Praise of A Child: A traditional song that expresses how precious a child is in Africa.

Good day steemians online reading this poem, This an African traditional poem to express how precious a child is to the parents.

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A child is like a rare bird.
A child is precious like coral
A child is precious like brass.
You cannot buy a child in the market
Not for all the money in the world
The child you can buy for money is a slave
We may have twenty slaves
we may have thirty labourers
Only a child bring us joy
One's child is one's child.
The buttocks of our child are not so flat
That we should tie the head or a square head
One's child is one's child.
Its better to leave behind a child
Then let the slaves inherit one's house
One must not rejoice too soon over a child
Only the one who is buried by his child
Is the one who has truly borne a child
On the day of our death, our hand cannot hold a single cowry
We need a child to inherit our belongings.

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What do you have to say in this our traditional believe that We need a child to inherit our belongings.?

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