Dr. Kobby Mensah, a lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School has described power basically as influence.
Discussing ‘Men and Power’ in an interview with Nana Yaw Odame on season two of Men’s Lounge, he explained power as one’s ability to cause something to happen or cause someone to do what they want them to do.
He promulgated that power is an aspiration that everyone wants to achieve but men tend to wield it more.
According to him, power either controls you or you control it.
He said, ‘’The set-up of the world itself, being it cultural or religious, looks as though men have been conferred and it makes automatically swinging to that mood’’.
Dr. Mensah instanced that even with children, male kids assume some role or dominance regardless of how younger they are than the female. ‘’I think that there’s a set-up naturally that makes men demand. The demand, whether derived or conferred, they want to be in that position’’, he added.
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By: Maureen Dedei Quaye