The Strength of a Woman Writing Assignment

The Strength of a Woman
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Grandparents play an important role of taking care of their grandchildren and my grandmother did exactly that to us. Her advice was the best as we spent most of our early lives in her place as she taught us about the farm. Our grandfather was not in the picture because he died at the time of the war leaving my grandmother alone to take care of her eight children. My grandmother was born in a polygamous family with her father having four wives her mother included. In the African society, polygamy was and is still acceptable. Although the perception of polygamy has changed in the minds of the younger African generations previously it was a sign of wealth. Many men fought to marry as many wives as possible and had the obligation of taking dowry to their parents.
From the community that my grandmother came from cows and goats were variable assets to give during dowry. My grandmother was a child of her father’s fourth wife and being the youngest her children were also young and none had attained the circumcision age. My grandmother was the first-born daughter of her mother and their rest were boys making a family of five children. Her father was a wealthy man capable of taking care of all his children. His older wives and their children worked on the farm and they obtained different farm products. The land was fertile and therefore the produce was in plenty. In addition to the farm produce, there was also milk and meat from the cows and goats to supplement the diet.
One morning however in the life of my grandmother things took a different turn as her mother was found dead in her hat. The sudden death shocked everyone because she had died at a tender age and had not shown any sign of being sick. My grandmother, her three siblings, and her father cried furiously over the death of their mother but nothing would be changed. The younger brother could not even cry because he knew little of what was happening at the time. After mourning their mother, my grandmother at a tender age took the tough role of being the mother of her four siblings because her mother was no longer there.
The days and the nights seemed longer for my grandmothe...