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THE LIBERALIZATION DIVIDE
winfridah chilyobwe mcekeni
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The liberalization of most of third world countries has brought a great divide between the rich and the poor, the literate and the...
Their Mothers' generation comes from the imperial era, where the native way of life, culture and values were misunderstood;- perceived savagery by the colonialist- and had to be abandoned to give way to what was confused for literacy. This is a generation, that went through a defining moment, when the African family unit was disturbed, setting the pattern of the present state of Africa's family affairs.
With the Mining rush in most of the African cities, men had to leave the families behind, living women to bring up the children. Women alike immigrated to be maids in the fast growing colonialist's households. This caused one of the largest displacement of mankind- one of the less or unrecorded statistics of human's displacement in the history of mankind. The biggest mistake was not to provide family housing and this was common in most mining cities.
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