By Ebenezer T. Bifubyeka AS Christmas creeps nearer, hair salons are being prepared to host wives for days and nights! And husbands will fall victims of circumstances!
One Joan, pretending to be sick, has suspended office duties solely to attend three-day hairdressing! She leaves the salon at 9:00pm each day!
Plaiting a style called Twist, Joan, 28, returns home too fatigued - after sitting in the salon, bending before hairdressers for the whole day! She screams when standing or sitting!
“I feel pain in the right ribs. I bent for a long time yesterday!” she reveals. This hairstyle is nice but it is so taxing. It wouldn’t have taken this long but hairdressers often leave me to attend to customers in need of quicker services like dyeing!” she grumbles.
Joan’s incident reminds me of former information minister, late Basoga Nsadhu’s anecdote he made during the launch of population and media development advocacy network (POPNET) at Hotel Africana, Kampala.
The minister said that during the previous Christmas season, one lady denied ‘conjugal rites’ to her husband because she didn’t want to ‘spoil’ her hair she had just ‘retouched!’
“On Christmas Eve, the wife reported home at around 10:00pm. She was coming from the salon! When her husband asked for ‘matrimonial rites,’ the wife vowed to keep seated overnight in a bid to keep her hair smart!
“She told the husband, ‘I don’t want to ‘disorganise’ my hair! Don’t you know tomorrow is Christmas? Can’t you be patient for a night!’?” Basoga quoted the wife obsessed with her hair, as saying.
Basoga went on narrating: “her husband strolled from the rest room to the dinning, picked a container of water, returned and poured it onto his wife’s smart hair! He then said to her, ‘Can we now go to bed?’ She joined him in the bedroom!”
Joan has proved Basoga’s story right. She discloses that her mother, 48, who resides in Mbarara town, often goes to visit her aunt who is a famous expert in hairdressing in Igara, Bushenyi. Joan spends there two or three days dressing her hair!
Joan’s frequent ‘absence’ at home ‘compels’ her husband to postpone his ‘matrimonial rites!’ Don’t you think such circumstances could prompt Joan’s husband to quench his ‘lust’ from outside the wedlock?
Asked why obsessed with time-consuming hairdressing, Joan boldly tells me, “The Baganda have a saying; ‘Ekitiibwa kya’bakyala kibeela mu nviili!’” meaning, “Women’s glory lies in their hair!”
Obviously, it’s a right of women to look catchy and sexy; but should this right abuse their innocent husbands’ ‘conjugal rights?’ If I am wrong I stand to be corrected.
Plaiting a style called Twist, Joan, 28, returns home too fatigued - after sitting in the salon, bending before hairdressers for the whole day! She screams when standing or sitting!
“I feel pain in the right ribs. I bent for a long time yesterday!” she reveals. This hairstyle is nice but it is so taxing. It wouldn’t have taken this long but hairdressers often leave me to attend to customers in need of quicker services like dyeing!” she grumbles.
Joan’s incident reminds me of former information minister, late Basoga Nsadhu’s anecdote he made during the launch of population and media development advocacy network (POPNET) at Hotel Africana, Kampala.
The minister said that during the previous Christmas season, one lady denied ‘conjugal rites’ to her husband because she didn’t want to ‘spoil’ her hair she had just ‘retouched!’
“On Christmas Eve, the wife reported home at around 10:00pm. She was coming from the salon! When her husband asked for ‘matrimonial rites,’ the wife vowed to keep seated overnight in a bid to keep her hair smart!
“She told the husband, ‘I don’t want to ‘disorganise’ my hair! Don’t you know tomorrow is Christmas? Can’t you be patient for a night!’?” Basoga quoted the wife obsessed with her hair, as saying.
Basoga went on narrating: “her husband strolled from the rest room to the dinning, picked a container of water, returned and poured it onto his wife’s smart hair! He then said to her, ‘Can we now go to bed?’ She joined him in the bedroom!”
Joan has proved Basoga’s story right. She discloses that her mother, 48, who resides in Mbarara town, often goes to visit her aunt who is a famous expert in hairdressing in Igara, Bushenyi. Joan spends there two or three days dressing her hair!
Joan’s frequent ‘absence’ at home ‘compels’ her husband to postpone his ‘matrimonial rites!’ Don’t you think such circumstances could prompt Joan’s husband to quench his ‘lust’ from outside the wedlock?
Asked why obsessed with time-consuming hairdressing, Joan boldly tells me, “The Baganda have a saying; ‘Ekitiibwa kya’bakyala kibeela mu nviili!’” meaning, “Women’s glory lies in their hair!”
Obviously, it’s a right of women to look catchy and sexy; but should this right abuse their innocent husbands’ ‘conjugal rights?’ If I am wrong I stand to be corrected.
However, Dr. James Mwesigye, 43, asserts, “I want my wife (aged 39) to dress her hair and look beautiful and smart. But I don’t want a salon to turn her home!”
Mwesigye is not de-campaigning hairdressing neither do I. But in my opinion as Ebenezer, sincerely speaking, I give total respect to women who carry short or even long but natural hair! Treated brown or reddish hair like that of vampires is ridiculous!
I salute the First Lady, Janet Museveni, Queen of Buganda, Lady Sylvia Nagginda (keeps long but natural hair), former Mbarara municipality MP, Eng. Winnie Byanyima and former ethics and integrity minister, Miria Matembe for keeping natural hair.
I utterly believe the above-mentioned prominent leaders have strong reasons (including maintaining their marriage, perhaps) for keeping natural hair(s). They are rich and respected - although they don’t make “modern” hairstyles. Aren’t they?
However, every woman in this country, in regard to ‘women emancipation,’ has a right to adorn her body the way she thinks fit. Likewise, husbands have a right of making love to their wives anytime they feel like. Husbands, as well, shouldn’t fall victims of their wives’ domestic irresponsibility. Should hairdressing override domestic responsibilities?
Ends.
Mwesigye is not de-campaigning hairdressing neither do I. But in my opinion as Ebenezer, sincerely speaking, I give total respect to women who carry short or even long but natural hair! Treated brown or reddish hair like that of vampires is ridiculous!
I salute the First Lady, Janet Museveni, Queen of Buganda, Lady Sylvia Nagginda (keeps long but natural hair), former Mbarara municipality MP, Eng. Winnie Byanyima and former ethics and integrity minister, Miria Matembe for keeping natural hair.
I utterly believe the above-mentioned prominent leaders have strong reasons (including maintaining their marriage, perhaps) for keeping natural hair(s). They are rich and respected - although they don’t make “modern” hairstyles. Aren’t they?
However, every woman in this country, in regard to ‘women emancipation,’ has a right to adorn her body the way she thinks fit. Likewise, husbands have a right of making love to their wives anytime they feel like. Husbands, as well, shouldn’t fall victims of their wives’ domestic irresponsibility. Should hairdressing override domestic responsibilities?
Ends.
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