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Referring closely to The River and The Source by Margaret A.Ogola,Write an essay to support the statement,the destiny of any society lies in the hands of women

Referring closely to The River and The Source by Margaret A.Ogola,Write an essay to support the statement,the destiny of any society lies in the hands of women

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Martin
Women unlike men are the people who shape the destiny of any given society.

Akoko,more than any other woman in the River and the Source plays an important role in the destiny of a community.She is determined and does things that no one would ever have thought of .She allows Peter to join the Seminary hence continuity of the church.She allows Elizabeth Awiti to join a teacher training college so that she may be independent even in marriage.This saves Awiti from early marriage,she therefore through Akoko becomes the bedrock of her family.

Elizabeth Awiti is a trained primary school teacher.She is so bright in school that people prophesy that she would not get a man to marry her.She chooses a person she loves and one she can discuss issues with and not seen as a chattel.She is a strict but a motherly disciplinarian who guides all her children to prosperity.She remains the only girl in a class of eleven in primary school.

Wandia who is Aoros wife studied and became a doctor.In a group of six at the university of Nairobi,she asks the others to introduce themselves before they start working on the cadaver,so that they get to know each other.She is the one who proposes to Aoro,she beats Aoro in Anatomy,she becomes the first woman to get a doctorate in medicine and the chairperson of the Department of Pathology at the University of Nairobi.She becomes a role model not only to her children but also to Becky's whom she adopted.

It is clear from the illustration above that women in this society played a major role in shaping the destiny of the community unlike their male counterparts.
marto answered the question on June 16, 2017 at 06:03

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