Zimbabwe: Women Power, Does It Affect African Leadership?
Do African First ladies have any impact on their husbands? If yes, what has their impact been over the last 50 years of African independence? If no, are the First Ladies a breed apart from women in general the world over, who routinely use their God-given feminine to get what they want?
For millennia, men, having deceived themselves that they are the "stronger sex" (going by their physical strength), have described women as the "weaker sex". But by the time you finish reading this piece, you would be a very courageous man indeed (if you are a man) to still live in the illusion that women are the weaker sex.
The recent fall of the 62-year-old Dominique Strauss Khan (DSK), the powerful managing director (he has since resigned) of the powerful International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the feet of a 32-year-old woman from Guinea Conakry (a "chambermaid", brought to the fore the power that women have over men and this is irrespective of the man's station in life!
