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Letter: Re - fake love
Thursday, 22 April 2010 11:29
In response to Jankey and Lalo KebbaDear commentators,
I thank you very much for your compliments and remarks. However, I deem it necessary to try to allay the fears of my good, learned sister, Jankeh and Lalo Kebba, and their ilk.
To start with, I would like to say that I am a defender of women’s rights. I have authored articles entitled “In Defence of Women”, “The Plight of
the Mindan”, etc, published in the Daily Observer newspaper of The Gambia. For this reason, one of my colleagues jokingly referred to me as “Musuchologist”.Hence, my new novel “Fake Love” is not biased against women as one may think. In addition to censuring treacherous women, it champions the cause of women in general and defends their interests and rights. Besides, it sensitises and enlightens them at the same time. It also criticises men who abuse women, and praises good-mannered women. Below are excerpts in this regard:
“I quite agree with you on that point. There are women of principle. They cannot be influenced by material resources because they respect themselves. Their conscience would not allow them to accept a gift or money from a man they are not ready to get married with. This should be the case. I know a Gambian lady called Ellen who falls under such category of principled women. She turned down a highly educated, renowned Gambian intellectual with a lucrative United Nations job in the United States of America when he approached her with a marriage proposal. Ellen rejected the proposal on the grounds that she was not yet ready for marriage… I hail women like Ellen.”
“After wedding a second wife, Ebrima provoked his first wife and had a quarrel with her, which he used to ask her out of his house. As she started packing her belongings to leave, the second wife followed suit. Ebrima, who was flabbergasted, asked the bride why she was packing. She replied that she had decided to leave with the first wife because he would treat her in the same manner he had treated the first wife in case he took another wife and that she considered it wiser to leave than to wait to be ejected. Hence, the first wife vacated the house with her two little girls and the second wife, leaving Ebrima in solitude and misery.”
“The bride acted rightly. That is the best way to deal with a perfidious person. It’s just simple logic. If she stayed, Ebrima might cast her out after marrying another woman. Men like Ebrima are very dangerous to women. They term women as materials that should be used and jettisoned when they are worn out. What a nasty game! Such men are stone-hearted. They are a disgrace to us.”
“She should not have stayed with the man as an unmarried partner in the first. She should have paid heed to the advice given to her not to do that. That might save her from the trauma and predicament she suffered. Gambian women should bear in mind that Gambian men are very fond of dumping girlfriends and fiancées who stay with them and choose other women when it comes to tying the knot. This is the norm, not the exception. They see those ladies who stay with them in their houses before they are married as cheap, untrustworthy women who cannot make good wives. Even if the women succeed in getting married to them, their marriages may be fragile and end abruptly due to lack of trust. Incredible but true! Such men are not better than the women they consider to be bad, but it is the women who should watch because they are the ones who suffer in most cases.”
Thank you for your attention.
Ebou Gaye
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