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" Unlike Giibwa’s parents, who did not monitor her, Grandmother had kept Kirabo close to her elbow for the past year. Whenever Kirabo left the house to go anywhere, she had to be in the company of other family members. She was at that perilous age where if a girl talked to a boy, grown-ups panicked: ‘Eh, eeeh, that girl does not fear men.’ Thus, girls performed outrage when a boy spoke to them. "

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi , A Girl Is a Body of Water


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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi quote : Unlike Giibwa’s parents, who did not monitor her, Grandmother had kept Kirabo close to her elbow for the past year. Whenever Kirabo left the house to go anywhere, she had to be in the company of other family members. She was at that perilous age where if a girl talked to a boy, grown-ups panicked: ‘Eh, eeeh, that girl does not fear men.’ Thus, girls performed outrage when a boy spoke to them.