The standard and tradition and culture make it hard for women to strive, it is as if it was designed to slow the level of their participation in African society, men solely dominant the affairs and the image everyone has about taking the mantle of leadership is not encouraging.
From the scratch men have been told a lot of things, always being at the top while women attend to their needs. It is hard for any lady to cope with the condition and at some point it becomes part of them and they accept it.
Giving women chance in modern African society could be a positive response to the problems facing Africa, the isolation of women from African political setting will keep being a great burden to reckon.
As a young girl growing up in African society your life revolves around the kitchen and everything about it. While you were made to understand that is where you belong and outside that you’re uncalled for and it is not something to be proud while many girls become extremely vulnerable due to their lack of exposure.
Girl education in Africa is deteriorating while all the attentions are being focus on satisfying the boy’s need first, gender inequality has always been a plague in Africa and it is time to talk more about it.
It is good thing that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was able to serve as the first female president in Africa from Liberia and other top position in ECOWAS on the other it is not welcoming how long it takes and why no other lady has come closer to that.
Wider participation of women and including them in the major decisions could benefit Africa, it is not time to fight for who is a man or who is a woman, it is way deeper than that it is about the betterment of the society and future generations.
The journey of a relentless chaser
Lack of education will make a lady to starts thinking about marriage at the age of 15, you have years ahead of you focus more on yourself and try to read meaning into your being and inspire the society.
The level of rape and sexual assaults on women take a bad shape and nobody is willing to end it, you live in a world where people talk to much on social media and will never take an action, women also have bright future in African society.
It has been a long fight in Africa society but you can always start from somewhere, if women are giving chance to express themselves and contribute to the major decision making body it might be long awaited answers to the problems facing Africa.
