TROBBY Mapulanga, 18, seems contented. She got married last year and has a five months old baby on her back. Her life revolves around drawing water from a near communal borehole in chief Chiwala's area in Masaiti district.
She was only 17 when she got married last year to a man who works as a general worker at an upcoming cement plant in the district. The girl, although has a desire to go back to school but she is not sure her husband would allow her. As things stand, she is trapped and the world may never know what she ought to become in life.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article