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Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh
When there is longstanding and widespread poverty, with its attendant violent orientation, during the male domination of women pushing the limitation of the participation of women in local and national decision making that affects them and designating women to the kitchen and bedroom instead of the Boardroom of decision-making. It is time to stand up for the participation of women. Therefore, this commentary is about promoting the Participation of women, Not the Domination of Women. Imagine that there continues to be a push to get a Law calling for women to have only 30 percent of the seats in the National Legislature of Liberia! Do the callers of this Law realize that males would be non-existent if women did not exist. It takes a male and a female to produce the entire population! Why should the domination of women continue with the limitation of women to 30 percent participation in the National Legislature?
Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh
Any commentary is useful to the extent that it can help people to learn how to use non-violence to solve a societal problem. This commentary is coming out at this time to help in calming the tensions about whether some persons have the morality to be credible to be elected or appointed to any position of trust. We can learn from Liberian culture. All the Liberian languages tell us that we all come from the same place. We are all children of the One and Only Creator, the Creator of the world and all human beings and non-human beings in the world. From this knowledge about our Common Creator, we learn how to respect one another. In each of the Liberian languages, this Creator has a name, as in the following examples: Nnangala in Kpelle; Kamba in Vehee (wrongly called Vai); Ahbie in Dahn (wrongly called Gio); Walla in Mahn (wrongly called Mano); Glaypor in Bassa, and Nyinhswa in Kraowihn (wrongly called Kru). Through the realizati