IDENTITY : WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

As Ghana celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence this year - an event that symbolised the beginning of the end of colonialism in Africa - the BBC's competition for Africa explores the continent's identity.
Here, the BBC News website reader Margaret Kemunto describes who she is.

As a woman, in accordance with the customs of my people in western Kenya, I am born the property of my father.
This means I have no voice of my own and I only do as I am told.
Mostly this involves taking care of the men in my life.
My father raises me as he deems fit and, for a while, I bear his name.
I have no apologies for living my life to the full
Yet, unlike my father's sons, I cannot inherit his property.
I am under his care and rule until maturity when, for the highest price I can fetch, he hands me over to the care and rule of another man.
I live the rest of my life raising my husband's children and doing his bidding.
But is this all I am? Hell no!
I now reside in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
I am an intelligent and beautiful African woman.
I work, I study and I play. I love and I am loved.
I make my own decisions and I have no apologies for living my life to the full.
I make my contribution to the world and am neither man's beast of burden nor his liability.
So who am I?
I am a happy and fulfilled young African woman.

BBC NEWS REPORT.