While meeting the German chancellor Angela Merkel who is arguably one of the world's most powerful women, Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari made the above statement in response to a journalist’s question. Rather than dwell over Mr Buhari’s response, this competition of ideas aims to esteem the kitchen's essential function which supplies food and life to both sexes even if one seems derided.
Furthermore, the esteeming of the Kitchen runs a commentary on the future of the home: how the Kitchen is the last bastion of surviving rooms in the dying notion of a home because of the waning tradition, for instance, of family converging at the dining table for dinner. With the advent of television; and ubiquity of the mobile phone, other rooms in a home have become autonomous. The kitchen thus remains the only hub, where the remote possibilities of socialization and indeed life exists.
