But when it comes to my sisters and unwanted or unwelcome touches, there are no compromises about the principle. “Bina na ngai na respect (dance with me with respect)”, as the Lingala song has it. #METOONow I am almost sure that the era of the presumptuous male (the “androcene’ epoch, if we can indulge in a new coinage) is done and gone. A handshake does not even have to go anywhere beyond the elbow to become something else. Others insist that in order to properly greet anyone, male or female, you have to put a hand around them (uguhubiira, in Kinyarwanda).

Source: Daily Nation April 13, 2019 08:26 UTC