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Economy
Community

Consider Marriage

or Slavery?

Robert Macharia

xchanging vows in a big well respected. Older women were
wedding ceremony is honored. They were regarded as
probably every child’s goddesses, givers of life. On the
Edream in Afrika. It is other hand, men were warriors,
in our DNA that as Afrikans we while the elders were destiny helpers
enjoy big and flashy things. We love oozing with wisdom. Something The author is a mentor, trainer and writer bear-
to dance, hosting big parties and went wrong from the beginning ing adequate experiences in business development
donning elegant clothes. We are nat- which compromised our place in and brand management success.
urally fun people, since we love our this beautiful continent preserved
food, drinks, songs and drums. With by our ancestors with their blood. LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/robertmmwangi
that in mind, my main question is; Though it all, God still ensured that
who started destroying us? Where our ancestors multiplied, even in ing women was never their thing.
did the bad apples fall after shaking slave trades which were transacted Mistreating a woman would be
the tree? through harsh conditions. That interpreted as a sign of weakness,
means, we are natural beings that are because women were naturally re-
Afrikans love big families, that is chosen and anointed. Unfortunately, spectful and sober decision makers.
the reason why the majority tend the colonial system of mistreating During the same period, Afrikan
to despise birth control. During each other was imposed on us. For men would provide food for their
our ancestors’ time, women were the original native Afrikans mistreat- families mentor their sons, and

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