A Heart of An African Woman Who Is Desperate to Succeed and Make Necessary Changes

You hear some men telling us how we women of these days are not like our fore mothers.
GOD FORBID I be like my fore mothers. Such a life is not worth living. More and more women are embracing gender equality. More and more women are breaking through that culture of silence. More and more women are claiming their rights. If you are looking for women who accepted oppression like our fore mothers, then you need to turn back the hands of time and go back to then.

When my sister had her first daughter, some distant relatives from her husband's family told them about circu**mcision. My sister shut them up immediately and asked them never to say such to her hearing ever again.
You chop of the clit**or!s of female children to stop them from enjoying s€x.

You take away their rights to their sxua**lity even from a very young ages.
You cage women on how to have s£x, when to get married, when to have children, how to dress, how to sit, how to live their lives for men, how to accept the fact that they are not full humans.... and just because our fore mothers accepted this, you think our generation will accept it?

Sorry to burst your bubbles, you are in for a rude awakening. I have got two nieces, 5 and 3. And one thing I know for sure, is that they will not accept any form of oppression. From the very minute I have my daughters, I will start sounding it in their ears that they are not inferior to any human. And that if any human tells them that humans are not equal, it simply means they, my daughters are superior.

My daughters will stand up for themselves, and go head-to-head with men and women. Don't tell me "it's not a competition". That's an unintelligent attempt at sounding politically correct. Life is a continuous competition. It's the survival of the fittest. You tell us that our voices are only on social media, but at least we have a voice.

And if you are on social media and you are yet to realize that social media is a major weapon of change for our generation, then you just might have been wasting your time all along.

Dear ladies,

WORK HARD, WORK SMART AND SUCCEED.
Don't allow yourself to be economically crippled. I am telling you this, not from a high horse, but from a heart of an African woman who is desperate to succeed and make necessary changes.
I spend hours of my days THINKING. I think about how I can influence the world. I'm thinking of what I would do so that when I die, the younger generation would remember me for a very long time.

Do not aim for mediocrity. Mediocrity is too close to failure, yet can be an illusion for success. I want to be rich, I want to be powerful. I'm struggling while climbing my way to the top. But I'm optimistic I'll get there. We live in a world with various forms of discrimination. Most often than not, to get your voice loud and heard, you need to be economically empowered for a start. Because, you know, he who pays the piper, dictates the tune. Do not accept less! Do not let anyone shut you up.

My parents do NOT refer to themselves as feminists. But when they were asked not to educate and empower their girls simply because they are females, they bluntly refused. That and many other bits are their own little bits. So, you see, you do not have to go by the "feminist" tag to do your bits. Let us leave the world a fairer place for the future generations. Do your little bits. Religion, culture and traditions are NOT and will never be sensible justifications for oppression of any gender or group.
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