25/07/2024
Do Sala women have Influence today?
Well when we talk about Influence today we probably look at leadership that people like CHISELWA, MANINGA, LOONGO showed throughout the history of ba sala people.
With the gender bias that has been hitting the world it has been the world of people with muscle and the fittest. The influence of a sala woman has remained in her marriage life with her charming character to men and not allowing a man to infringe her rights.
Education?
Probably this is one area that has affected a modern day sala woman because most of them are given into marriages at a tender age, no sala girl I stared school with finished her garden 12, most of them are married in polygamous marriages today. Most of them were brilliant girls at school but they never went anywhere, today a woman needs education in order to exert the necessary influence in society.
There has been less influence in political leadership and indeed other leadership positions in as I can remember.
Mwembezhi constituency and Nangoma constituency are a typical sala land and as much as my memory saves me well there has been no Sala woman as an MP or councilor.
The influence of Sala women has dwindled, their voices are not heard in the modern day struggles of political and economical independence.
The Sala land need people like Loongo Inashamwenda, young women like queen CHISELWA, brave women like maninga who will be written in the books of history that they stood for something.
So what about failed failed marriages?
My brother and I had a view that sala women can't manage marriage but this isn't true. Marriage has not always favored an ambitious woman to some extent because an ambitious women will somehow break some norms and boundaries, most sala women are ambitious women the only problem is that their ambitiousness has been hindered by lack of proper education and they end up remaining down the ladder of development.
Are you a modern sala woman? Remember and know tat you were born a Lioness, you refused to be taken as a slave, you changed the course of history, you changed tribes and languages you mothered lions of the throne of Shakumbila chiefdom.
Reclaim your position of influence, get educated, get a business and be a lioness again and be counted.
