Talk:Women in Uganda

Blindness

In My Story of St Dunstan's (1961) by Lord Fraser of Lonsdale, the situation of blind women in Uganda is held up as an anomaly. Sir Clutha Mackenzie undertook "a thorough survey of the blind in the four territories of British East Africa". Fraser summarises:

Evidently blindness was no bar to marriage, the dowry price for a young blind woman being the same as that for a sighted girl. [Fraser presumably means bride price, not dowry, a common mistake.] It was taken for granted that she would be able to do all the normal duties of a housewife and mother, and invariably she did....[Mackenzie reported that] "unmarried blind girls in advanced countries stand much less chance of marriage than those of Uganda." He asked their husbands why they had married blind girls. "Because a blind girl is less apt to run away," he was told. In all other respects, he saw, there was no appreciable difference between blind and sighted wives.

This is from pages 354-355, in the chapter entitled "Victory over blindness". BrainyBabe (talk) 22:02, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

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