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Reclaiming and Reinterpreting Heritage to Promote Feminist Values in African Culture

Introduction In African culture, women have always played a central role in shaping families, communities, and society. From the moment a child is born, it is women, primarily mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, who take on the responsibility of nurturing and raising the next generation. They teach children essential values such

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Feminism: breaking stigma and bias

Why do Black Men need Feminism: Breaking Boundaries and Stigmas

Introduction Growing up, a boy was taught how to hunt and kill because a man must provide for his family. One day, while walking in a grim, depressing forest looking for his grandfather’s lost cow, he remembers that: “Indoda indoda ngezinkomo zayo”, meaning that a man is a man with

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Nicholle Kobi’s Empowering Illustrations

The world is filled with beautiful artwork. However, artist Nicholle Kobi decided that the world was filled with beautiful artworks, but not enough that displayed black women in a positive light. The French-Congolese artist became determined to display the beauty and intellect of black women through her online illustrations. NICHOLE

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Are Women’s Rights Different?

WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS? Human rights apply to everyone. If they did not apply to particular groups, whether because of race or religion or gender, they would not be ‘human’. To unfairly give one group in society more rights than another gives that group more power- more access to food

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Women in politics: in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond

There is an inequality between the number of men and the number of women who are involved in politics across the world. In 1995, the percentage of female members of national parliaments across the world was 11.3%. By November 2018, this had increased to 24%. This number, however, is still

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Aminetou Mint Moctar: The Woman Campaigning to End Gavage

is head of Association des Femmes Chefs de Famille (Association of Women Heads of Household). This is a women’s rights charity in Nouakchott, the Capital of Mauritania. Her organisation is campaigning to criminalise a tradition thought to affect 75% of Mauritanian girls as young as five in rural areas, and

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#Nopiwouma: Senegal’s Online Movement for Women’s Rights

Last month around 100 people gathered in Dakar’s Obelisk Square wearing orange t-shirts, marching to end violence against women in Senegal. Their banners read #Nopiwouma, which means “I will not shut up” when translated from Wolof into English. HOW DID NOPIWOUMA BEGIN? According to Senegal’s National Statistics Agency, one in

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What Is Sexual Harassment?

Sexual harassment is unwanted behaviour of a sexual nature. This can be a whole range of behaviours – it may be sexual comments or jokes, sending or displaying pictures or videos of a sexual nature, or physical contact that is not wanted. People can be sexually harassed by strangers or

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