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Today's man must take his rightful place in the home

Kenya: We called her Mama John. She would harvest sisal, process it (manually) and get fibre enough to make many ropes.

On this day, having worked a whole week, she boarded a matatu at dawn to a faraway market where she sold all her ropes, earning slightly more than Sh3,000.

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