Asabe is a young girl from Kano state North Western Nigeria. She is the first child in her of seven children. She has younger brothers and sisters. Her immediate younger brother is five years younger than Asabe. The culture in northern Nigeria does not allow young girls like Asabe to interact and make their own decisions like Asabe. She lives in a patriarchal society where men subjugate and oppress women because of their masculinity.
Asabe likes to play soccer and as such most of her friends are boys because girls are not allowed to play the game of soccer. The situation that Asabe has found herself made her disturbed and her parents are complaining that why would she play with boys instead of girls like her. But because of the paaion she has for the game of soccer, Asabe stood her ground to play soccer, a game she so much loves.
Asabe became lonely because she cannot play with girls and she is not permitted to play with boys and with time, the girls decided to stay out of Asabe's way. The adults in her community saw Asabe as a pervert.
Aasabe is a normal girl with a normal passion for any body growing up but because of the culture or society that Asabe has found herself in, she is narrowed and asked to be myopic in terms of her preference.
Women in African societies are oppressed under the garb of culture. Despite the fact the we live in the 21st century with so much innovations and changes in human philosophy and religious perspectives, Africa is greatly left behind as most Africans prefer their oppressive culture instead of the liberation that modernity brings.
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