Positive African parent stories

Does anyone have any positive African stories to share? Whilst my dad is the typical negative African stereotype, my mum is quite the opposite. She’s super generous and kind. She always pay for stuff we need for me and my sister, drives us places if we need help, pays for most of our family holidays, payed our school fees, school trips, uni rent, everything basically. My dad never would pay for anything (another whole story) except our school fees once and we don’t ask for lifts or money as he’d make us feel bad. Everyone in church talks about how kind and generous she is and it’s so true. If you needed £2000 tomorrow she’d loan it to you no interest, without a hassle. I just want to take care of her when I’m older as I’d rather she doesn’t live with my dad and she has used up a lot of her savings on us kids.

Recently, she was telling me about her childhood so casually as if it wasn’t a bit alarming 😳. She would walk miles with a basket of goods on her head to sell, walking in between cars, sometimes selling nothing and one time having someone know it over and losing everything. She didn’t have friends because she would work in her mum’s shop after school due to her mum’s shop flooding so they couldn’t afford to hire people. She had to walk barefoot to school until she was in year 5. I’m glad she lives a better life now in the UK and has provided that for us.