On saturday we celebrated the International Women's Day, and truly this day reminds us of the women in our lives...and it gave us a chance to remember in a special way these unsung heroes who have braved a lot to raise a whole six Billion+ of the world's population...
And in Africa we all know women haven't just braved the hazards ofjust raising the children, but worse still
the hostel treatment by men (leaders, their husbands and evetually their sons). They have been customarily trated as commodities and their rights have been seriously infringed.
I was very enthusiastic, of course I texted some of the ladies (they prefer being called that..I dont know why!) in my life and they were appreciative of the far that we have come from the medieval culture of mutilation, wife inheritance and aterialization
She was inseparable from her work, all of which was an effort at feeding her grandchildren whose parents have been unable to manage. It is this hard toil that an unknown number of ruffians living inside the forest as guards of shambas given to poor people in return for planting trees in the area, sought to punish by attacking the helpless woman to her death.
I would like to defend men from being labelled savages but clearly a good number are so good at being barbaric that it fits.
A woman who had braved the night to sleep in the cold, alone in a hut surrounded by thick forest and an unimaginable possibility of attack by wild animals... all for the sake of her children's children is gone. Not killed by an animal, or an accidental forest fire, or old age... but by a fellow human being, a man.
Her death is a representation of how African's are yet to appreciate their women. The undomesticated culture of men, even educated professors in academia, is not doing the other gender any good and enormous strides need to be made to give the woman her place in society
And in Africa we all know women haven't just braved the hazards ofjust raising the children, but worse still the hostel treatment by men (leaders, their husbands and evetually their sons). They have been customarily trated as commodities and their rights have been seriously infringed.
I was very enthusiastic, of course I texted some of the ladies (they prefer being called that..I dont know why!) in my life and they were appreciative of the far that we have come from the medieval culture of mutilation, wife inheritance and aterialization
Fifteen years ago it would have been a terrible joke to imagine that Africa would have a woman President! . . . not even that, . . . a legislatorI would not have written this..were it not for a distant Aunt of mine, a woman of great wisdom and a mother of eight who lost her life in the hands of a mob on the same day... She was the kind of woman who you would relate with at your age and be comfortable... even at her age, 70, she still braved the scorching Rift Valley sun and plant and harvest her crops.
She was inseparable from her work, all of which was an effort at feeding her grandchildren whose parents have been unable to manage. It is this hard toil that an unknown number of ruffians living inside the forest as guards of shambas given to poor people in return for planting trees in the area, sought to punish by attacking the helpless woman to her death.
I would like to defend men from being labelled savages but clearly a good number are so good at being barbaric that it fits.
A woman who had braved the night to sleep in the cold, alone in a hut surrounded by thick forest and an unimaginable possibility of attack by wild animals... all for the sake of her children's children is gone. Not killed by an animal, or an accidental forest fire, or old age... but by a fellow human being, a man.
Her death is a representation of how African's are yet to appreciate their women. The undomesticated culture of men, even educated professors in academia, is not doing the other gender any good and enormous strides need to be made to give the woman her place in society
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