Navigating gender dynamics - lessons only experience can teach

Burdened by the weight of being an adult, my brain has had to offload a lot of unnecessary academic stuff to create space for survival tactics. Now, I know that besides a regular job, a bale of mtumba clothes can fetch some profit. I have also internalised that spending some fuel to drive to the ghettos to buy food supplies can actually reflect as genius saving plan.

To calculate the price of each unit of mtumba cloth in a secured bale by relying purely on speculation set against the risk factors is an intricate mathematical formula that no mwalimu wa maths can comprehend. It explains why such practical elements of life did not feature in our entire syllabus of mathematics despite being the most frequent subject in the timetable. For many, school was largely a scam.