You will quite agree with me that every spectator is an amazing player, and by amazing I mean the type of player that knows what to do when to do what to do, and how to do it like a pro. The only problem is they are not part of the game at least not yet, a good question will be why the discrepancy between spectating and playing? The best answer to this is Experience, “Experience and knowledge no be mate”

And by now you should be wondering what on earth is the aforementioned related to the stated topic? The simple answer I will give is this “you cannot understand the culture of violence, especially to women and children if your culture is not a proponent of violence”.

So, to put things clear enough I will avoid any attempt to explain why normal human beings not only support cultures that are visibly and deadly but take a step further to limit and even eliminate any meaningful step towards the emancipation of those enslaved by such practices.

This is how it starts; we have reached a point somehow in our mind-frame that consciously or otherwise women are not so instrumental in decision making and this starts in the home front where mummy only decides what the children eat, the kind of clothes they wear but it is daddy alone that decides which kind of school they go, the location the house is built, and any other serious decision like financial decisions taken solely by daddy, and somehow daddy thinks that mummy is not that smart enough to make certain decisions, and somehow, mummy accepts that her band of influence is restricted to less serious decisions like matters like managing and maintaining the homefront.

It is no longer common to see female CEOs relatively compared to their male counterparts, we have more male than female professors in our university system, we’ve reserved a large chunk of strategic government positions for men alone and somehow we’ve accepted it as a norm in the west and north Central Africa that women should be used in the kitchen and the other room and we see any attempt to change this norm as toxic feminism.

We accept somehow that a large chunk of inherited wealth should be given to male children and in this part of the world women are given peanuts, that is if they are even given the peanuts at all, and what this does to our mentality is it convinces the male folks that they are a superior gender, Hence even when the society advocates for gender equality by nature of its nature, the society has made this an impossible feat.

You see we can talk all day about gender inequality, we can complain about the unimaginable wickedness towards women and children we can even initiate programs to alleviate the effects of the aforementioned, but until we go back to the root cause which is correcting the fixed and erroneous mindset of male superiority and dominance that was passed down to us by our ancestors our exercise will be completely futile.