“This is intriguing. I am here in the US. You are struggling with the same Puritan ideology we struggle with over here. There are different threads woven into the fabric of your challenges and contradictions, but the common denominator we have is England. The conflicts rising out of the loins of policy makers, religious zealots, and greedy men who see women as chattel come from somewhere, and that somewhere is hidden by the questions you and I don't ask or are reluctant to ask. Nigerians are as resistant to ripping apart the assumptions, and teachings, dichotomies of Christian and Islamic faiths to ‘see’ the source of their angst as African-Americans are over here. Doing that kind of spiritual work penetrates into the heart of the matter. If Christians and Muslims, here and there, were honest in their quest to understand what women suffer at the hands of men, or try to explain to their daughters why men are not blamed, and shamed in party raids they need to turn upside down the creation story the two religions hold dear to their hearts. But who among us has that kind of integrity?” - Gregory E. Woods, (Dawn Wolf), Keeper of Stories
another related story from Nigeria
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