Stories from Africa
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Posted on: 09/05/07
Stories from Africa
"Contradicting Advice"
By: Kwase from Sudan
4 September 2007
When I was nine years old, my grand father who was ninety-nine years old told me women cannot do jobs done by men.
One day my father told me to go digging with my sister. I could not believe my ears, simply because I respected my father and grand father.
I didn't know whose advice to go with. In African tradition, age determines who is right, therefore my grandfather was more correct than my father.
Today, however I have discovered on my own at age twenty-seven, that both men and women can do the same job very well. This is the most interesting and unforgettable experience of my life.
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