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Table banking empowering women

Since the birth of time, women, especially in African societies, have traditionally played the role of nurturers.

So, while men took to the river, forest or land to look for food, it was mostly women’s role to ensure that it was turned into a meal for the family, storing the remains for tomorrow. This traditional order of things has greatly been disrupted by today’s realities, including modern systems of land tenure and rural-urban migration.

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