Until recently I thought \u201cwife beating\u201d occurred mainly in rural communities amongst illiterate folks and not in urban areas like Accra. <\/p>\n
The whole neighbourhood of Nyaniba Estate was deprived of their sleep last night when a scream of a little girl woke us all up, \u2018daddy stop, daddy stop!!!!\u2019 was all we kept hearing. As happens in many Ghanaian communities, people both young and old rushed out of their beds, some with towels tied around their waist, others wearing boxer shorts, others with \u201cwrappers\u201d, managed to find their way to the house where the crying was coming from.<\/p>\n
The Mrs. of the house was half naked with blood on her body and with puffy eyes. According to the male perpetrator, his wife\u2019s phone rang at about 1.30 am and she picked up the phone to speak with the caller when her husband asked who the caller was, the woman said \u2018I will tell you in the morning\u2019. Out of anger the man decided to put his muscles to the test by beating his wife. <\/p>\n
My worry and confusion is that this is a well known and \u2018respected\u2019 man in society. The personal should be political; we must hold our leaders accountable for their personal lives as well. Our homes are full of \u2018boxers\u2019 and lions as husbands. Yet on Monday morning these same men are well dressed in the best of suits and ties. Are these the kind of Managers, Directors and Executives we work with? Mercy Lord!!!!!<\/p>\n
So after last night\u2019s incident, I tried to link \u2018girlhood\u2019 to womanhood. Is beating and suffering part of womanhood. As a child you were beaten for the slightest mistake. At that stage all you want to do is grow and become an adult, little did you know that even as an adult woman in Africa beating is possible?<\/p>\n
All who still think like I used to, that wife beating is the preserve of the \u2018illiterate\u2019 should sleep with an ear open and I am sure will hear a cry of another woman being beaten.<\/p>\n
We should as young women, be able to smell an abusive relationship a mile away before we get entangled into marriage with partners who may be potentially violent.<\/p>\n
Hilda Gorluuh
Programme Assistant
Grants Department, AWDF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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