Happy International Women's day 2015

 Past Heroines & Generational Legacies

When you think about women, what, probably, readily comes to mind are wives, mothers, home keepers, children bearers and so on. Does any man ever think of women in better lights than those? That is a very technical question to throw at men.

Women, from yesteryears till date, have played significant roles in the shaping and reshaping; negotiating and renegotiating of power relations throughout the world. Despite their contributions, however, they have often been regarded as the other sex, weaker vessels and the likes. That notwithstanding, women have always shown their importance by subtly taking over the affairs of the world through their management of the basic unit of political organisation - the family. A woman could control her children and influence men through this power.

As we celebrate the International Women's Day (2015), we take a retrospective look at two Nigerian female heroic figures who showed the world that there are two sides to a coin - figures who did not just influence their worlds but also passed down their attributes through their lineages. 

Check my next post for the two women

 

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