By: Brian Nabungolo <briannabungolo030@gmail.com>
Worth Noting:
- My cognitive dissonance ran back to our tiny village in Western, how a mama pima single- handled busaa and chang’a brewing business was unstoppable, attracted teetotalers from five villages without competition.
- She could rub shoulders with chiefs and cops who were not topers but those who were, they wouldn’t dare because the power of the brew was more strong to handcuff you to the makeshift benches with a metal cup glued to the mouth than to the police land cruiser.
- And for those cops who managed to raid that den, they found the reason why the flavoured liquor from that mama pima was the best.
The contemporary issue regarding the position of women and girl child in the society was inquisitive and touching untill I attended my second lecture class regarding the same issue.
While seated uncomfortably on a metal seat, favourably in front to get plausible sound of my lecturer and also avoid distraction from crushes and friends who have just been out for a weekend holiday and have a full packed narration of how they killed the weekend in pubs and how they nailed and laid innocent fresher, mine was to get the discourses of my lecturer prof Donald Oluchiri.
The contemporary issue about how we handle our she gender in our society was the topic. The impulsive way that we male gender bear the blame of not empowering the opposite gender, came to my disagreement with the statement just minutes of the lecture as it kicked off.
The ritual power of a woman? Yes how the women use this charm offensive tactic to reach greater heights in marriages and relationships struck me off. The power in them, power of cooking favorite dishes and of course inject in some body fluids – menstrual fluids, which is believed to have mysterious power in it that can make a man submissive, become a weaker link in the house and forever be entangled to that woman who is in love with without going astray bombard me, but no that much like those campus couple goals who were seated just infront of me. The lecture infact tipped the girls on what to do.
Laughters and mixed reactions from those couples who were inside side by side seated. The reminiscing of the famous Martha wangare’s led women march at Uhuru garden daring to stripe naked in the event of assault from police brutality vindicated how powerful the gender is compared to us men. That’s why Uganda government finds it hard to touch and whisk Human right activist Stella Nyanzi despite of Hot peppered Museveni government.
My cognitive dissonance ran back to our tiny village in Western, how a mama pima single- handled busaa and chang’a brewing business was unstoppable, attracted teetotalers from five villages without competition.She could rub shoulders with chiefs and cops who were not topers but those who were, they wouldn’t dare because the power of the brew was more strong to handcuff you to the makeshift benches with a metal cup glued to the mouth than to the police land cruiser.
And for those cops who managed to raid that den, they found the reason why the flavoured liquor from that mama pima was the best. Used inner clothes and other feminine private clothes were part and parcel of the chemical process of brewing the liquors that ended up attracting drinkers from south to the north.
That was the conglomeration by extension thinking of how the ritual power of Women makes them more powerful than men in the society. As the lecture ended, the underlining issues of women empowerment to me were no more. They have power!
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