bought a pocket book of Arican wisdom a few years ago and unlike all the
other wisdoms I know it is flavoured by hard worldly facts, for example: 'if
you mend a man's bollocks, he'll use them on your wife'. That is very much
the tone.
My walking partner on holiday confirmed something else about the inequality
between men and women. Women always know who their children are, men never
do. In Africa this is expressed by the great attention given to nephews. A
nephew born of ones sister is a more reliable male link, than one born of
your own wife! (Assuming of course that your mother didn't lie to you and
adopted either of you - evidently not a feature of African society).
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