Otutu Chidinma Janefrances
3 min readApr 6, 2022

Body count in African societies

…to be decided for women-

Yours truly,

Society.

Photo by Meg on Unsplash

Let’s be honest, how many of us can boldly say our body count out loud? I mean it’s all good if it’s 2 or 3 or 5, but when it starts to hit 10 or 27 or even 35, the story changes.

Since the beginning of time, it has been decided for women that they are for man’s ̶p̶l̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶e̶. We can trace from the…