Society

Conflict between work and home is a major issue globally. The incessantly growing day-to-day demands and the increasingly fast-paced economy have blurred the traditional line between work and home life.

Back in the day, when I was still an ardent fan of Nigerian movies, I used to think nagging mothers-in-law weren’t a reality but just a Nigerian stereotype. If you have watched a few of them, you have noticed how most of them are depicted as evil and a huge pain in the neck to their daughters-in-law.

So I bumped into an old friend sometime and much as I was happy to see her, I couldn’t help but notice that she spoke with what I can only assume was a British accent gone horribly wrong. Asking where she had disappeared to, she spoke without a twitch, ‘Namibia.’

Apparently we think that words are the only form of communication because we live in a highly verbal environment. Yet in reality there is a far greater amount of nonverbal communication going on all the time.

I recently had to play counsellor to a friend of mine who was nursing a broken heart after she had been accused of being money minded by her, now, ex-boyfriend.

Edith Nyiraneza, a resident of Kacyiru, says that two weeks back she happened to go to Nyamirambo, a Kigali suburb, by the only means she could afford, a taxi.“I wish I had another alternative because my trip was not easy at all considering the noise I had to bear with”, she complained. 

Although nowadays the best chefs in the world are men, culturally, it was a woman‘s role to prepare food and put it on the table with the help of her daughters.