Nigeria: Buhari's 'Wife Belongs in the Kitchen' Comment Stirs Controversy

17 October 2016

Nigerians have taken to social media to pour out their anger and make fun of their leader. While on a state visit to Berlin, Buhari said his wife belongs in the kitchen, living room and the other room.

An number of Facebook users on DW's Hausa Facebook page who viewed the DW interview where President Muhammadu Buhari made the sexist remarks said they were alarmed by their president's view of his wife. "Both in Islam and modern thinking, it is not like the woman's position is in the kitchen only. But this Mumu (stupid person) is not ashamed to tell the world that his wife belongs to his kitchen in this 21st century... Being only half literate is a disease," Alaji from Kano commented.

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