This same article THE SPECTATOR published yesterday was first posted on 2 different social media platforms. From the very minute I posted, I knew I have done something right. The feedbacks, was overwhelming. My friend requests started increasing, my inbox was flooded with messages from known and unknown people telling me how the story has informed and opened their eyes to the bitter truth and the reality.
I also posted it on my own page “Kuburah Diamonds The Modern Muslim Woman” which has my number so it got others also calling and whatsapping me to come join their zongo advocacy groups which aims at mentoring the younger ones.
Hmmm am lost for words. My dad always said, if you want to tell a story, tell it when you have enough information, let your story depict the reality. Tell it to give a moral lesson. Let that story to motivate, inspire, educate and change somebody. I wrote this article using me as the case study plus the other stories I have personally witnessed and been told bout.
So it is not a fiction but the reality. Women, Change start with us, for a society or nation to grow, we ought to be the game changers. We sit in our homes and cry, government is not doing this and that for us, government is not developing our zongo community or paying attention to we the zongo women but we forget, these and more are some of the things we have to individually work on to improve our livelihood.
You can’t expect to spend so much on just your marriage outfits and end up going to your matrimonial home without a job or career and then want to throw rant and rave about how the government isn’t getting you a job or how the economy is hard. The same amount of we go over the top with for just outfits can be used as a start up for small businesses.
Don’t join the band wagon if you know very well you are not capable or you have to do it by all means just to creat an impression but later have to hustle to pay for it. If we take that bold decision to do things in moderation, we won’t blame anybody or the government for the hardship.
My zongo women, let’s start changing the story, let’s learn from the so many examples right before our eyes in our homes and the communities we live in, let’s dare to be different. There’s more to marriage than just changing clothes. Don’t go breaking the bank or borrowing just to look miserable after marriage. #zongo #zongowoman #zongostories #muslimmarriage #change #speak2change #write2change #share2change #educate2inform #spectatornespaper #socialmedia #groups #womenforum #womenempowerment #womengroups #changemakers #sayitjustthewayitis #motivate #inspire #lead #kuburahdiamonds
Writer: Adizah Kuburah Braimah
@Kuburah Diamonds The Modern Muslim Woman
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