CULTURE: ENEMY OF GENDER EQUALITY IN AFRICA

When I hear people ask men, organizations and even government to give women a chance to get involved in issues that concerns them, I simply empathize with them because that only prove their ignorance of the history of gender inequality in Africa.

In the beginning, African cultures does not allow a woman to be seen or heard. She was absolutely an object of domestic use in accordance to the dictates of the man that possesses her. The woman's worth was mainly valued by her height of domestic expertise and the sexaul ecstasy that she can perform.

Today, the global communities are asking for an equality of gender while people in my community still ask for little things. When a woman loose her husband to death, she is not permitted to remarry no matter her age and the duration of the marriage.
For those of them that did not have any children, this African culture is depriving them of having the privileged of getting remarried and having children. Ironically, this culture permits them to become mistresses and concubines. Truth is that they can never bear the name of another man except that of the late husband.

Advocating gender equality in Africa will be fighting the cultures and traditions that has kept us as one continent. An average African man irrespective of education, exposure and character-mix still places a limit to the extent a woman can excell in society.
Therefore, time has come for the world to hear us out. A womans place has gone beyond domestic chores and sexual  identity to standing tall amongst her equals in other continents of the world to say no to female genital mutilation, no to female battery and domestic violence against women, no to African cultures and traditions that fights and limits women, no to gender inequality and a big YES!!!! to female inclusion to sustainable development in Africa.