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THE AFRICAN WOMAN.

Welcome to Africa – the blackest continent of the predominantly blue world, the second largest and second most populous continent. Undoubtedly, like in the other continents, there are more women in Africa than men. These women – from  cultural, evolution and historic points of view – are termed “African women”.
More often than not, the term “African Woman” is misapprehended by many and as a result, defined stereotypically. To some sect of people – often times the majority, the term “African Woman” implies a poor woman in rural Africa that needs helping; she’s a pitiable woman, they add. Nonetheless, there’s much to the term than they think.  As a young lad of Africa, I stand out to describe our women in the following ways:
An African woman is a beautiful woman with an African heritage, usually packaged in a dark skin, carrying thick kinky or coiled hair on her wisdom-filled head. She comes in varieties of shapes and sizes  ranging from slim/slender to fat/thick.

Her positive habitual and character prowess are things that are worth vouching for, without a second thought. Mindful of this, the African woman is powerful, unique and brave, to say the least. Phenomenally, she’s resilient – passionate in the pursuit of her dreams and enthusiastic in her drive to succeed, notwithstanding the price it comes with.
Traditionally, the womanhood of the African woman is much significant in her matrimonial home. Her role in matrimony puzzles the mind. First, she becomes a new wife, then eventually a mother. Even prior to her becoming a mother, she suffers quite hectic ordeals of carrying a foetus for nine months in the womb. After conceiving, she nurses the child, caters for the child until he or she becomes a “real being”. She does all these without a monthly salary.

Fatima Markham stirs a pot of pasta. Laughter and jokes abound in the kitchen of the Muslim Center of Detroit where African American Muslim women cook lunch for the local residents to be served at a soup kitchen at the Muslim Center of Detroit. The soup kitchen in the building on Davison Avenue in Detroit is open every Saturday for lunch. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Photo by Marcin Szczepanski