Of rape, infidelity and hitching abride Karamoja-style

By GRACE NAKATO

Rape is about power. Rape is not about pleasure or romance. Foolhardy is the rapist who attempts to kiss his victim, most especially if she hails from a village called Kichinjaji. You can be sure the maidens in that village have not heard of Mills & Boon — romance books that propagate the myth that when a woman says no she actually means yes and wants to be “taken by force”, impregnated and deserted. In those books when the man returns a few years down the line, the woman’s heart has mellowed and she can be wooed and walked down the aisle to marital bliss.