Women matters with Blondie - A cautionary tale from West Africa

I know its only mid week, ladies but I found here an interesting article by mama Trudy Stephenson which couldn't wait until the weekend. Thank you mama for the cautionary statement.

"A cautionary tale from West Africa"
By Trudy Stevenson

Once upon a time not long ago, a Zimbabwean woman fell in love with a handsome transporter-businessman in southern Africa, who married her and took her back home to Guinea, several thousand kilometres away.

Only when she arrived there did she discover she was wife number 4 in a Muslim household. By this time she had a baby, so she tried to fit in, but the husband kept her destitute and the other wives mistreated her, forcing her to do most of the work and putting chilli pepper in her food so that she couldn't eat it.
Being in a French-speaking country with its own local languages, she couldn't communicate, and was forced to adopt the Muslim faith and culture. Soon she had another baby, but by now she was desperate to return to Zimbabwe. Her husband refused to allow her to take the children, saying that as the father, he had the legal right to keep them in Guinea.

She felt like a prisoner, and had no hope whatsoever of raising enough money to go home, even without her young children. Luckily for her, through her own Zimbabwe government, UN Women and IOM were notified and took up her case, removing her and her children first to a shelter run by the Guinea Association of Women Lawyers, and then sending them all back home to Zimbabwe with the help of the Guinea government.

This story has a happy ending, but how many other Zimbabwean women are languishing in foreign countries in similar circumstances?

Ladies, get to know your guy's family and friends before you are literally swept off your feet!"