Mediocrity and the AfricanWoman

Women have always taken the responsibilities of care, child care, and family and somehow the African society has made it a norm to represent woman as someone who was raised to also raise children who will eventually end up in a Man’s kitchen.

Somehow, because of the society we live in, women tend to just want to be content so far they get married and give birth, the men are left to take care of the family. Recently the President of an African country referred to his wife as someone who belongs to the other rooms and not the public political rooms. This mindset has been transferred from one generation to another thus becoming the norm and standard. Although the millennial generation has improved especially in girl-child education, the mediocre mindset has failed to improve.

Being mediocre is to settle for less. It's the belief or feeling of inadequacy or getting an average result. Black women want others to recognize their efforts even when they are more than enough, they won't go for that job if they are not the perfect fit, they want that man to pay when they enter the same bus and a lot of other signs of mediocrity we see and experience every day.

You can’t just sit still and expect good or money to come by, even if you’re a full-time housewife. The question is this, above being a wife and mother, who are you? and what can you do? History has recorded great black women who were never mediocre. They stood for what they believed, lived and died for it, and contributed their lot to society to make a better world. Women like Margaret Thatcher, Harriet Tubman, Maya Angelou and so on contributed immensely to humanity.

How hungry are you for success? Will history also remember you? Who are you? Shake up yourself, brace up, you have a lot of chapters to write. You can begin to script your life NOW!