I like revisiting some of the blogs to determine our current trend of things. Or do we forget these conversations as we sleep? May be some of them but we shouldn’t put the important topics in our dream bags.
Returning to our historical traditions, Africans were considered noble and wise – in having special roles for women, whom they valued and honored so much. Those ideas were eroding (in the name of modernization?) but women should and still do have some special places in our African societies.
The good old golden day’s roles somehow seem to change nowadays. The behavior of “economics” portrays the platform where women are no more only mothers, home-makers, care-takers, teachers, but are joining the men in going out to hunt / fend and return with bread for the entire home. The situation is a complicated model.
We are building on sandy soil in laying the foundations only by depending on the market economy along with its risks of short-term management, and not cognizant of the long-term effects. We ought not be angry but learn by going back to our roots. I speculate reconnecting to both social and economic life, in order to be more effective in our changing needs of societies in understanding the reasons why selling our food and blood makes no real sense - BECAUSE WE (not “I”) NEED TO BE DISCRIT, FED AND TO SLEEP TILL THE NEXT DAY DAWNS.
