Sat, 24 Feb 2018 09:47:39 +0000 ONE of Africa’s leading journalists is a lady called Methil Renuka. Methil was recently appointed managing editor of Forbes Africa magazine taking over from Chris Bishop. She previously worked at the same group under Forbes Woman Africa magazine. In her first editor’s note, she wrote something that I found to be very interesting. She recounted her days studying as a journalism student in the mid-90s; she was one of four women in a class of twenty. She recounted the words of her lecturer, “You girls will get married and cut chicken in the kitchen; that’s all you’ll eventually end up doing,” he added, “Are you sure you want to take the plunge?” The fact that she remembers like it was yesterday shows how troubling the sexist remarks were to her and probably the other three females. Methil writes, “Something in us changed that instant, a feat of mental re-engineering […]
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