14/07/2025
📩 SUBJECT: "My Father is Still Breathing… But My Uncles Are Already Dividing His Life."
“Sliq… I’m sending this with so much pain, I don’t even know where to start.
My father is 67. He’s alive, not bedridden, still strong—he runs a small farm just outside Penhalonga. But ever since he fell sick for a few weeks in April, his two brothers—my uncles—started ‘meeting’ about what should happen to the land.
They’ve called meetings without my dad present. They’ve already said the eldest son must inherit the house, and they’re even suggesting my father should start ‘transferring’ land and cattle to names they chose. No one’s asked my dad what HE wants. And when I tried to speak up, one uncle said, ‘This is not a child’s conversation—it’s tradition.’
But Sliq… tradition can’t silence injustice, right? My mother is alive. My father is alive. And yet, it feels like we’re standing at a funeral that hasn’t happened. My father just wants peace. But I feel like if I keep quiet, I’m letting them steal his voice.
Is this normal? Is it right for elders to interfere in inheritance matters before a parent even passes? Or are we using ‘culture’ to cover control? Please, I need clarity. Because this… this is burning inside me.”
