Charles, it would have amazing to know that at the age of 13, I was quite sure that I did not want to marry a Nigerian or an African. Wow, because I was angered. At the rate at which women were being treated and I said to myself I don't want to be a part of this,s so I think farmer things are changing but our parents their generation were also bound by this kind of cultural system or cultural beliefs that stifled the growth of of women so even as.
Young girl, for example, my parents, my mom especially would say I couldn't go out at a certain time, but my younger brother, a woman about five years older than was allowed to leeway had leeway mother myself and culture actually allows this to say, oh, he's a man, he can live alone. He can he can do what he wants because he's a man.
And I challenge that every single day and this was one of the reasons why I was. So I wasn't wayward as a child, but if I wanted something, I would get it because for me, I believe that it was my rights and I had every, I had every right like every other person, male or female.
So, you know, express myself and, you know, more or less, you know, take advantage of the opportunities that, you know, that came my way. So finally, to a very large extent. Have a way of more than a girl child that ordinarily would have would have found it easy to blossom this time for her growth the stifle the things that she's supposed to all that she's supposed to become because of the fear of and I don't blame parents sometimes because of the fear of the stigma attached to a lot of things that could happen to an average girl so you could talk about rape teenage pregnancies most times when.