06 Feb, 2026
11 mins read

The Price of Silence: How Women Can Inherit Trauma They Didn’t Create

Silence is often celebrated in African families as a symbol of dignity, restraint, and respectability. But silence also has a darker side. It is in silence that abuse festers, secrets calcify, and wounds are passed from one generation to the next. What remains unsaid between mothers and daughters does not disappear; it lingers in the […]