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Girl code: Dear men, why do traditions favour you?

I am just against the society adjusting our lives to suit men’s happiness? (Photo: Shutterstock)

African society has always found a way of making us do things we never thought we would ever do. Sometimes, we find ourselves doing things not because we would wish to but because society dictates so.

For instance, who said women should sleep next to the wall and men near the door in a matrimonial bed? Have men ever considered how hard it is to jump over an obstacle in the wee hours of the night to go and answer the call of nature?

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