“Excuse me, at this stage of my life, I cook
when I like.The laundry? Abeg, even when we were newly married, it was
underlined, I don’t do laundry!
That was actress Joke Silva's comment when
asked in Saturday Tribune if she
still cook for her husband Olu Jacobs or wash his clothes.
In time past, African
women, especially wives were treated as a domestic figures, who do all the
house chores, while the man sits reading Newspaper, watching TV with his leg on
the table, better still chatting with friends. While the woman on the other
hand is restricted to the kitchen,(office) cooking and sweating, at the same
time paying attention to the baby, to see that the child is comfortable, serves
her husband, also clear the dishes they both used in eating, doing laundry for
the man, children and herself. These depict an ideal African wife back then. Does
that mean that the wives of nowadays are not ideal?
What's your opinion about her statement?
By Yvonne
Imohiosen
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