Ashaiman women have vowed to march nude and sleep with the Deputy Prime Minster of Local Government & Rural Development, Maxwell Kofi Jumah. This is in protest of the Ashaiman-Adenta municipality’s decision to make Adenta the capital of Ashaiman. Yaa Asantewah, Queen Mother of Ejisu had once resisted white rule with her band of Ghanaian women. Now Madam K. K. Agogoe, Acting Queen Mother of the Ashaiman Market, has stated that since Ashaiman has been in existence for over 100 years, it is unfair to think of making Adenta the new capital. All Africa reports that at a recent hastily called meeting of Ashaiman elders the women unanimously demanded that the government decision be reversed. They pointed out that Ashaiman is logistically better suited for being the area’s capital. The meeting was attended by a veritable who’s who of the Ashaiman people. The importance of this protest is not in the meetings or even the location of the capital. Rather it is in the chutzpah of the women. One wishes that Bihar’s women would teach a similar lesson to the strongman Bahubali who has recently been accused of raping and murdering a woman.
African women have been a neglected lot. The international community has well nigh forgotten them. Africa is in the news whenever there is civil war in any one of the continent’s nations. White supremacists immediately point out why they should have never left Africa in the first place. The African people are barbarians who need whites to keep them in check. Only a few days back, Watson of DNA structure fame has unabashedly declared that whites are intellectually superior to blacks for the genes have so decreed. It is in this context that we ought to analyze this women’s uprising. They can manage their own and rightfully claim what belongs to them. And such women’s solidarity is to be seen together with such African female peer-groups like Empowering Hands. The latter is an organization started by escapee warlord-abused children. Here we must also remember that in Manipur women stripped to protest the Indian Army’s atrocities. It is these courageous women throughout the world, marginalized and ignored who are fast becoming beacons to a lost world. At least some where, some people have not yet become spineless. White supremacists of this world better beware black girl-power.

Why do women have to take these extreme measures to convince a hardened patriarchy? Are men losing the battle-of-the-sexes? Vengefully, only when women demean themselves, they will deign to hear. Sociologists need to study this issue in the above-mentioned global context.

Via: All Africa

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