Women Are Their Own Enemies (Part 2).

(From The Independent (The Gambia) - AAGM)

There are many instances when women mount obstacles against themselves in the struggle to find their feet in a male-dominated country like The Gambia. Such obstacles surface particularly when rural women encounter urban-based women who visit them as activists. The suspicion is always there. It is usually a cold and livid distrust. Two years ago an incident drew attention to this deep distrust when women activists who visited a village in the Lower River Division were taken aback by some fierce feminine resistance against their war to banish the ignorance besetting generations and generations of women and girls in the rural …