Slay Queen?!

Chantelle and Nicole are two lovely girls whose curiosity and passion for knowledge is quite intriguing, and I say intriguing because Chantelle is only 7 years old and Nicole is also 5 years but their thirst to know and understand things is worth emulating. After watching Rapunzel a fairy tale story the girls got into an argument about who is Princess Rapunzel. Nicole persisted and screamed loudly ''I am Princess Rapunzel!" I must say I was awed by the response from the seven year old, she said and I quote “ you want to be a princess go ahead, you need a boy to come and save you from the castle I am a queen I don’t need anyone” I was really wowed by this statement. Then I heard the word ‘SLAY QUEEN’. When it comes to the word ‘slay queen’, one would think that it also has a very positive connotation so I thought but I was wrong.  

The urban dictionary defines ‘slay queen’ as a beautiful but dumb young woman who chases after wealthy men. They spend hours on snapchat and Instagram showing off things that they don’t even own. This term slay queen has taken social media by storm and gradually becoming socially accepted. The term slay queen has become pretty dominant in Ghana. Now how to identify a slay queen.

1.       Slay queens cannot go a day without make up. Some go to bed with their make up on as if they will meet Billionaire Dangote in their dreams.

2.       They show off fancy and luxurious things they can’t even afford. They will go out of their way to snap a picture in or around a lavish car.  

3.       Slay queens love to party. You will see them at every party, club and gathering that there is music. Even at funerals you will see them with their lips pouted and hands outstretched in search of the best selfie angle with the dead body.

4.        A slay queen cannot live without social media. Almost 95% of their social media page is made up of her pictures. Mirror selfies, beach selfies, club selfies, you name it. Every minute of her life needs to be documented.

5.       They have a weird way of talking like instead of hello they go like halooo.

6.       Now when it comes to intellect they have nothing to offer.

7.       Their taste in men is quite obvious. They don’t date broke men or men their age.  When a slay queen finally grabs someone with her long manicured fingers, you can be sure she will post about it a million times a day.

So these are a few points to know identify a slay queen.  Can we redefine this social cancer eating away the very existence of our females? Can our ladies become independent queens as Chantelle wants to be? These are questions I need you all to help me answer. I encountered a slay queen once and in our conversation I asked her what she thinks of global warming, and with a straight face, she told me she purchased her global warming at Accra Mall for 1500 cedi’s. Can you imagine that?

Let’s show our ladies the beauty of their brains and not their butts. The future of our girls is upon us. Yaa Asantewaa defied odds, Nana Konadu Agyemang had a vision, Michelle Obama made history. These are the real slay queens I think that term needs to be redefined. There is still hope in Africa for African women.