Machismo is destroying our social fabric

Grace Ogot [Courtesy]

I told my mother that, if a woman did not become angry at injustice, she would not be human. Those are the words of Nawal el Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist writer who has braved prison, exile and death threats in her fight against female oppression.

El Saadawi is not alone. Closer home, Grace Ogot exposed the plight of the girl chid in The Bamboo Hut; Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye explored possibilities in the development of an abused woman’s life at different stages in Coming to Birth.