Cultural bias against daughters still lingers

My good friend Ted Malanda reckons that this maneno of married women inheriting from their fathers is monkey business. “When you have sons, and you throw married daughters into the same shamba,” he says, “hio ni ulcers watu wanatafuta.”

To be honest, I can see his point. I see where he’s coming from because women are peculiarly positioned in African society. They are supposed to go and come at the same time. When you get married, you leave your parents' home and are welcomed into your husband’s boma.