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OPINION: Women empowerment is a big joke

If you take a brisk walk into the distant past, you will meet your great-grandfather obliviously enjoying the setting sun outside a newly built hut. It is crisp. In mint condition.

It belongs to his third wife, or fourth, or fifth. Does it matter? Absolutely not. He has on a leopard skin, covering just his loins. Children play around naked, as the older boys drive the animals in their respective shades. The day is breaking.

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