Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
Women are tough; women are resilient and have an undying hope.
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
I don't for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have - women have never been enslaved. But still, many of the psychological and economic problems are the same.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.
Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.