Today I spent a lot of time in the campus library doing alot of research on african women writers and poets.its amazing how there are so many of them that existed and continue to exist but few are well known.Its funny what Capitalism can do.Make you create and believe something thats not real, not even there.Brilliant black women writers often find it difficult to penetrate the market and are often marginalised because of societal pressure that ceases to acknowledge the creativity of black, African women.Most of these women's stories; Micere Mugo Githae, The Late Ellen Kuzwayo, Ama Aidoo etc are over more than a decade ago; their stories are similar i.e having to prove to the publishers that their work is viable and should be taken into consideration.
Though we are living in the 21st century it is obvious to note that male chauvinists still exist in our present lives.Recently I was watching movies in the Students centre at my campus and in the movie, this lady was doing alot of physical stunts with her bike , you know jumping on walls and stuff, but she had a helmet so the audience could not know her identity, however after revealing her true identity-purely feminine, Everyone in the centre believed that it was a falsity, I asked why and I was told that women cant do that!
So marvelled am I but in retrospect maybe this is how we as women let it be.We let ourselves be damned like pieces of used bottles and smashed cans, we allow society to place us in the lowest rank of the ladder.
Struggle and set yourself free, Black, African woman!! Let us fight to unite.
I love poetry, I will write to free my mind regardless of what society labels me to be.
Peace and Blessings.
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