Blog #9

As I completed the viewing the video and reading chapter 24, I realized that this woman was serious about going to school and would use anything to get there. Comparing the story told by Kakenya Ntaiva.

There was a time and still is a time that women work from home and take care of two things home, family and duties on their job. “African woman have emerged as backbones of contemporary society. The contribution to the family and society are essential.” (Azevdo, p.454) In the culture the father was a strong influence on the whole family. She explained that she played the motherly role and helped her father.  Her father had to give her the permission to move forward like marriage, she would use her furthering her education to get her father to cooperate with her and her decisions.

In chapter 24 and in the video there was a mention of the female genitals mutilation, Kakenya also had had to deal with this type of behavior. As I listened to her explain her way of dealing this such thing, I find this to be unfair and away of taking away a woman’s real identity of being a woman. This was a bit disturbing when it was mention how it was legal and the large numbers given with that information. “The judge was ignorant of the reality that an estimated 80 million women worldwide have experienced genital mutilation.” (Azevedo, p.460)  

As I complete the reading s and finish watching the story of Kakenya, I was sad and happy. I am very happy to see again a woman has made a difference in many women’s lives. She was able to take a bad situation and turn it to a better experience foe other woman by learning from her encounters’ she came back and helped provide shelters and educate the woman on their rights