There is a poignant scene in Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, where Nana, the mother of the novel’s protagonist, Miriam, says to her daughter: “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that Mariam!”

These lines have been playing themselves in my mind since I watched rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes’s sit-down interview with Thembekile Mrototo on Bar Leader TV...