The swell of public anger rose so high in the last three weeks in Egypt, it sustained the push for what many now call the “Egyptian Revolution.” The protests and the popular movement ousted President Hosni Mubarak who had led Egypt under the emergency law since the assassination of Anwar Sadat on October 6, 1981.

In fairness to man, he never begrudges the woman headship of the ‘house’. The power house that is; –kitchen! The ‘dining’? Don’t even think about it! Any time ‘man’ puts the ‘woman’ ahead of himself outside of the kitchen, beware there’s some chestnuts to be pulled out of the fire. Man is like the proverbial sex-hungry cockerel; covetously ready to bribe with the ‘grain’ and prepared to swallow ‘pebbles’; but who no sooner have his ‘mating fill’ than he grows crest-pride and dismissive.

Pioneer African nationalist leaders who fought for independence were no doubt gallant agitators but they certainly were not democrats. What they sought after was power not democracy.

There are battles in your life that appear obviously mightier than your strength, and tougher than your wisdom. Because of the complex nature of the battles, you don’t know what else to do. You have done all you know to do, but all to no avail. When you switch over to praise, God will show up in your favour.

I must confess that I was a bit upset about the image that some of the readers who responded to the piece above are giving to our Nigerian women.