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Author: Okah Ewah Edede
Posted to the web: 11/26/2006 7:23:37 AM

ANALYTICAL DISCOURSE ON THE NIGERIAN WOMANAs we cruise to the end of a variegated civilian administration beset by catalogues of national cataclysms: abysmal disintegration in one hand, and unparalleled harmonization of disparate units in the other, and enhanced anti-corruption warfare in another instance, certain crucial posers assaults one’s mind: how relevant have our women folk been in all these historic and political events? How visible are the footprint of the Nigerian woman on the temporal and spatial sand of mundane existence? What measures of cohesion exists between the Nigerian woman and her sisters in the Diaspora? How sturdy, effective, and enduring are the bridges built by the various women oriented programmes, policies and dialogues of this valedictory government? Can these bridges, as well as the women plying them, hold their own in the unfolding political drama and episodes, which are purported to be hinged on gender integration, gender justice and equality, social regeneration and global harmonization? Illuminatingly the Nigerian woman clearly and distinctively hindered by western imperialism, Negroid neo-imperialism, and attendant institutionalized illiteracy, unfortunately have not fully awaken to the present realities of world politic. While her western sister was busy engaging her man in combat in furtherance to the women suffrage movement and ideology, the Nigerian woman and her African counterpart was busy idling away in petty gossips and senile activities. While the western woman fought and believed in the struggles of female liberation and emancipation, the Nigerian woman and her sisters in the African Diaspora were studiously engaged in infantile cheer-chorusing of their castrated male partners who were, and are still smarting from the physical and psychological dents of slavery and inferiority complex. The Nigerian women, unfortunately, have allowed themselves to be goaded by their ethically profaned male counterparts into, exhausting their energies and intellect on a wretched combat against perceived racism, neo-colonization and classicism. While they are busy cloning the males propensity to accuse his inadequacies and impotency on slavery and colonization, the women’s true battle for equality of the sexes suffers. As 2007 draws frightfully closer, the bridge metaphor should continue to be dominant and relevant in political discourses if the prevailing gaps and gulfs inherent in the Nigerian political arena are to be surmounted for the odds to favour women come post 2007 general election. Savant women and illuminati should force future dialogue and present discourses on reversing the retrogressive undulation of women as an essential aspect of political and social development. The positive contribution of women in the Diaspora e.g Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Mrs. Sirleaf Johnson and a host of others should serve as a valid point of dialectical disputation for women in the political discourse and dialogue in the twilights of Obasanjo administration. An analytical survey of the polity shows that men are the fiendish agents of chaos, anarchy and insecurity – this has lead to an incessant incursion of western imperialism, and both occidental and oriental derision and patronizing fascination for the dark Mephistophelean continent, were asinine and vindictive Hottentots and Neanderthals butcher their race in a primitive cannibalistic mode geared toward achieving mundane political and material calculation steeped in selfishness and ethno-tribal jingoism cum religious fanaticism and fundamentalism. The barbaric orientation of the average Nigerian cum African man is the sole reason why the dark race has remained in a state of inertia and retrogression. The African man has left us in a state of perpetual and eternally retarded development. This is sad indeed, but remains the absolute truth. As the 2007 general elections draws closer, Nigerian women should free themselves from the ancestral and generational fallacies, which their male counterparts have fettered them with, that they are the weaker sex created for the sole purpose of childbearing and kitchen chores. Women should rise up to the antics of men. They should realize they are the sacred feminine, and that men will always be what they are, insecure, egocentric maniacs. Men will always be men as the act out their absurd histrionic personality disorder. By Okah Ewah Edede08020919756mr.okahewahedede@yahoo.com