Married men suffering as society abandons African food culture

Eating from the same plate is an undisputable romantic gesture across cultures. Feeding each other comes so naturally when a couple is head over heels in love, especially in the formative years. In native Africa, it was common for a woman to eat from the same pot as her husband in her first years of marriage. This would perhaps continue until wife number two and her subsequent followers joined the fray. Somehow, they were bound to arrive at some point regardless of how much a man loved the wife of his youth. Having many wives was a measure of a man's influence in society and a strategy for creating long-term wealth. Siring many children was an easy way of building a reliable pool of free workforce that would herd cattle and work the farms dutifully.

Visiting an African home, therefore, meant experiencing an endless supply of food. Of course, we have largely lost touch with our roots with men today caged under the wings of one woman and surviving off one meal a day to stay alive. Our men now well emasculated carry lunch boxes to the office fitted with one featherweight pancake and an egg chop laced with a stern warning not to eat food served by any female colleagues. That these grown men who sport thick beards and drive huge cars heed such lousy instructions is something that beats logic and can only go a long way to emphasize how emasculated this breed of males are.