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Traditionally African women are at the heart of the socio-economic activities of their families.

As a wife, she shoulders her responsibilities very seriously taking care of her husband and his relations cooking and cleaning without support and recognition in most cases.

As a mother, she does everything that is necessary to safeguard her family’s interests, like mother hen she protects her children from perceived dangers. She feeds, clothes and educates her children particularly her daughters for their future role as wives and mothers. Thus, there is hardly any African man that can say categorically that his mother had nothing to do with what he became in life.

She is expected to take the blame for her children’s failings and so, she prays day and night that all should be well with her children. She rides the storm to ease her children’s pain.

Yes, mama Africa is like mother hen who sees her future generation as her sole responsibility in many ways.

Mama never expects anything back for her selfless services to her husband and children. In fact, she extends that commitment to her grand children.

Because of her traditional role, the African woman is silently powerful in the home, her community and her society. She takes her commitment seriously; she serves her children wholeheartedly and concerns herself with preparing them to take up their future roles in society. This position may be why she is absent from public services such as politics in particular.

Today throughout the world, African women are achieving great heights educationally and professionally. They occupy high-ranking positions in governments, educational institutions and banking/financial industries. In commerce, African women are making considerable progress across the world.

Whereas African women are making huge contribution to world development, there is a general reluctance on the part of men to recognise them as homemakers and Nation builders that they are. Thus Africa continues to lag behind the rest of the world in developmental greatness.

Women of Africa have the potential to make Africa great. After all, although the women lack the opportunity to impact actively in Africa’s politics and hence decision-making process, they continue to sustain their children without the means of doing so.
Although African women are potential partners in nation building, they usually made victims of violence and inter-wars rather than partners in conflict resolution.