“Patriarchy doesn’t sleep.” The 10 rules that all young politicians need to know, according to Namibia’s first lady KalondoMonica.
“It’s always a lesson to see how power is used by those who have it, and how people who don’t have it behave around it,” she observed. “Power is corrosive. It does change people… When you have power, always remember how it felt not to have power, and behave accordingly.”
“There are rules to politics,” she said. “The worst thing about these rules is that many of them are unwritten and unspoken, and we often need a guide to ensure that we don’t break what we don’t even know exists.”
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