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EXCERPT FROM 'DIARY OF A ZULU GIRL'
My starting point, if anyone ever tells you that marriage is easy or meant to be easy they are plain delusional. I . want you to consider all the temptation in today’s world as well as the pressures that stop you from over committing to any person. Look at Shaun the stylist? That guy will always be a reference point because he thought he did everything right. The marriage our parents had and enjoyed is not the marriage you should expect today and tomorrow. That’s the bottom line. Women will be quick to tell you how childish or immature Londiwe is but is she really in a world where people will lose their morals for money? How many women have dropped their panties simply because the other man had more money than the one they had for whatever reason? I rest my case.
THE BADASS WOMEN WRESTLERS OF SENEGAL
ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal — It was lunchtime and 67-year-old great-grandmother Marie-Thérèse Sambou was recalling a childhood spent crisscrossing nearby villages to take part in wrestling matches. “If you’re a Jola woman, you wrestle right until the day you have children.”
“Wrestling is how we prove our womanhood,” she said, sitting outside her home in a forest clearing in Djibetene, a tiny village set among the paddy fields of southern Senegal’s Casamance region.
Among the family members gathered around her — including nephews, nieces, and an old man gently extricating a thorn from a baby goat’s front leg — were two women who have each ranked among Africa’s top female wrestlers.
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The issue also spreads farther around the world. Charu Smita, a student from India, explains why many women come under pressure to lighten their skin. A social media campaign - #unfairandlovely - is working to challenge the widely-held belief in many parts of the world that fair skin is the most attractive.