Behind every successful man is a woman - My right black foot!

Behind every successful man, they said, is a woman. ‘They’ being these faceless, unknown philosophers who were probably failed poets in their day. Those wannabe wahenga and wahenguzi would have had us believe that success is unattainable without the soothing balm of a female working quietly in the background.

The problematic implication here is that cooking, cleaning and raising kids are distractions that no man bound for the stars can afford to get bogged down by. How can  you conquer the world when  you have to scrub ugali-hardened sufurias? How will that pioneer bring the world to heel if he also has to worry about clean socks and stains on shirts? And so  it was decreed that a man in the quest for glory must first hunt for a suitable companion with firm shoulders to support his dreams.