The Rural People

The hunger for a plate of food can make a virgin become a prostitute over-night, a principled person become a thief and even a man of ideas to become a fool.  The  need for food has driven most people at the rural areas to the point where they have lost faith in themselves.  Parents struggle daily to provide for their children without success as they try to find the push to go on living with the resultant effect of producing more children because hunger and ignorant are like twins.

Eleh was already a mother of three before she became 20 years. One of the few (disadvantaged) ladies that survive by being a loyalist to a notorious drug kingpin. When I asked Eleh what led her to such life style, she told me a story that left me stunned. She was given to marriage as a girl child at thirteen years to an old man who was her father's friend.

Comfort, when you have a girl as big as this and you don’t have money to send her to university get a suitor for her and after marriage let her continue the school in her husband's house. That was the opinion of my uncle to my mother when he was called to help in funding my academics.  Ironically, this represents the opinion of the majority of men in our rural areas who are

When I hear people ask men, organizations and   even government to  give  women a chance to get  involved in issues that concerns them,  I simply  empathize with them because that only prove their  ignorance  of the history  of   gender inequality in Africa.

'For children are His reward! They are His reward!!! Brethren prayers, prayers!!!' That was the sound I heard when I visited the birth center of a Traditional Birth Attendant.  Later, I heard the groaning of a woman in labour followed by a cry of a newborn baby as  the shout of 'praise the Lord' filled the air. Traditional Birth Attendants  (TBAs) are people

During one of my out-reach programs, I met Blessing (12 years) an orphan that lived with her elder sister (who was 14years) at 2015. I had asked all the orphans within the community to meet me there so when I asked her what her care giver does, she said “my sister does boyfriend work since she ran away from where she was