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Advice African women are often given

Love the best way you can, life is too damn short to follow pointless pieces of advice.

African women

Have you ever wondered why people find it so easy to tell women what to do and not do? Particularly as concerns their bodies, their emotions etc.?

I wondered recently about the many rules we're given which restrict event the way we choose to do the simplest, most natural thing: love.  Here are a few rules passed on to me or 'sisters' I know. This list is far from exhaustive.

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People, my people this right here is why we're messed up. In a world full of hate we make love complicated. Then again the complication may be limited to one gender.

Because while your calculating whether who loves who more the guy is likely breezing through. It is worthy to note here that these complications, like the pieces of advice above are often spearheaded by other women. We are undoubtedly gatekeepers of patriarchy.

By Monique Kwachou

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