women rights in Africa... Ugandan story!!!
We all do agree that women rights are a stumbling block in development especially for Africa!
Courts haven’t been good enough to protecting the rights either. The case below demonstrates how women can do protect their properties without the use of coercive apparatus.
This is an extract from a paper on women’s rights to land in Uganda. Beyond these more obvious challenges to customary practices are the daily individual acts of resistance that often elude notice.
In one dramatic incident of this kind, a recently widowed woman, Noerena Mubiru, of Mubende, was confronted by her husband's relatives one Sunday morning before she left for church. They had come to grab her properties, a customary practice in some patrimonial Ugandan societies. The 10 relatives presented the widow with a list of things they intended to take back to their village.
In desperation, the widow stripped naked and walked into the living room where the relatives had assembled. She stood in front of them, pointing to her private parts, saying: "You see, this was one of the properties my late husband loved most."
She continued demanding that, "If anybody wants to remove his property, he will have to start with this (pointing to her private parts) and then I can show you the rest," she declared. The father-in-law fainted and the relatives fled as fast as they could!
Courts haven’t been good enough to protecting the rights either. The case below demonstrates how women can do protect their properties without the use of coercive apparatus.
This is an extract from a paper on women’s rights to land in Uganda. Beyond these more obvious challenges to customary practices are the daily individual acts of resistance that often elude notice.
In one dramatic incident of this kind, a recently widowed woman, Noerena Mubiru, of Mubende, was confronted by her husband's relatives one Sunday morning before she left for church. They had come to grab her properties, a customary practice in some patrimonial Ugandan societies. The 10 relatives presented the widow with a list of things they intended to take back to their village.
In desperation, the widow stripped naked and walked into the living room where the relatives had assembled. She stood in front of them, pointing to her private parts, saying: "You see, this was one of the properties my late husband loved most."
She continued demanding that, "If anybody wants to remove his property, he will have to start with this (pointing to her private parts) and then I can show you the rest," she declared. The father-in-law fainted and the relatives fled as fast as they could!
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