Mwambo Kate's comment thread on TwoCents

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Mwambo Kate

COO and Head of International growth @ Enchird Technologi... • Yaoundé • 10 months, 2 weeks ago

<p>I can say it’s a social construct and gender norms .Just like how back in the day women kept their hair but now some secondary or preliminary institutions insist on low cut for girls . There were even debates wether it should be a thing of choice for girls to cut their hair or braid it or leave it long in secondary institutions.</p>

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Kathy

COO and Head of International growth @ Enchird Technologi... • Yaoundé, Cameroon • 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Suzanne, it’s social construct . It’s made by people like you and me . They set these precedents with justifiable reasons and then it becomes a norm . Hehege

Kathy

COO and Head of International growth @ Enchird Technologi... • Yaoundé, Cameroon • 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Eiii Ani 😂

Anita Koske

Migration Studies ERASMUS Joint Master Student. Building ... • Würzburg, Germany • 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Ah we can't even start on the topic in girls that one is even deeper, primary and highschools still making girls cleanshave because hair is unmanageable, this is one thing we had to fight to keep long hair back in the day!

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Suzanne Nanyonge

Translation and Journalism @ Buea • Buea, Cameroon • 10 months, 2 weeks ago

True thing, Katie.

But let's leave the girls and their hair issues for another day. Their own issues are more than guys' own. Besides, we hardly talk about guys and their hair, since it's a 'norm' for them to have low cut in our country for example. But when we look back at history, it was not always like that.. So what changed?

Everything is about society. It's just... 😪