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She Is The Girl She Thinks She Is

Deeply, Know Thy-Self. Never be disturbed by others who are lost!

Nombuso Makhubu
4 min readFeb 22, 2021
This Imagery Is Timeless! The March 06, 2020, Rollingstone online publication titled “We Are The World: A Minute By Minute Breakdown” by Gavin Edwards.

Intro

She was sometimes a mystery to those that concerned themselves with her, otherwise, she was just the girl she was. This girl has her various matriarchy’s in her community to inform the decisions to follow her inner voice in this life-thing. If you may imagine growing up among people with fixed gender roles, then, yes, she was that girl in that institution. For the most part, she was born to become a mother and a wife, hopefully to a local. In this place, cultural relativism is important. Presumably, they prefer the life they ascribe to and whose practices they know from birth. This perspective we can understand.

Early Teen-hood:

This maiden was her father’s best friend, while her many brothers, cousin brothers, and uncles enjoyed her company at the manly gatherings: be it hunting and fishing, carving animal hides for house-hold uses, gathering medicinal herbs and processing remedies from them, or during arts and crafts that required skill's like cave-painting jobs, plumbing and construction, rock collecting, jewellery crafting, gathering wood for mending fences or farming using larger domesticated animals. She would be allowed to wear appropriate clothing, this encouraged her to…

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Nombuso Makhubu
Nombuso Makhubu

Written by Nombuso Makhubu

I am of southern African descent living in Ottawa, Canada. My academic qualifications are law, human rights and social justice, global action and engagement.

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