The roads of life within the African continent and some African communities in the diaspora are dotted with traditions, beliefs, practices and laws that have continued to subject millions of women to conditions that continuously militate against personal dignity, genuine sense of personal achievements, self-actualisation and integrated holistic development of the society. A majority of the African woman’s rough roads starts from the day her mother gets married or the day she becomes pregnant. As the African woman passes through her childhood, the society systematically inflicts pains and deprivation on her. Undone yet, the next bumps on African woman’s rough road include the outright shameless open-eyed discrimination she is subjected to within the family. In some societies, the African woman’s rough roads continue in married life with inglorious wife battering, neglect, deprivation and institutionalized social injustice. Depending on whether she has children for her late husband, and whether these children include male or not, the African widow’s civil war with her late husband’s family could be summarily executed or systematically fought. Absurdity takes the stage when her late husband’s family would decide and impose one of their sons on the widow as the new ‘husband or care-taker’ whether she so wishes, likes or wants him, or not. One of the first casualties of the family’s new ‘caretaker’ is the children’s welfare. This writer urges all stakeholders , to studiously implement programmes aimed at mobilizing increased resources at all levels, and documenting and disseminating lessons learned from them.