African Women
- News & Current Affairs
Half the Nation, Half the Story: Will South Africa’s National Dialogue Truly Hear Women?
A new table — but will the seats be equal? When President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the National Dialogue initiative in…
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13 Must Reads For The Black Feminist In Training
You would think that after attending primary through secondary school with a 95% black student population, my black history education…
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Powerful Woman Portraits
“Powerful” is one of the words that come to mind when looking at Tim Okamura’s work. Born in Canada and…
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Lockdowns mean millions of women can’t reach birth control
JOHANNESBURG -- The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question:…
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Kenyan Women Group Pooled Cash to Build a 5-Storey Residential Block
By Samuel Abuya It is widely said and agreed, that iron sharpens iron. This can be said of a Kenyan…
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African female entrepreneurship rates highest in world
Female entrepreneurship rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are the highest in the world, according to a new report that says women’s…
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South Sudan's Women Deminers Brave Danger to Change Their Children's Future
A growing number of women deminers are clearing up bomb and unexploded ordnance – most of them mothers wanting to…
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A woman’s world for South Sudanese refugees
An estimated 86% of the more than 900,000 South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are women and children, says the UN.…
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White Woman Causes Outrage After Dressing Up In Seven Types Of Blackface
Be prepared to be stunned, confused and outraged. A white woman has sparked an online backlash after Photoshopping images of…
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How women are pushing back against rape culture in South Africa
South Africa’s sexual offense statistics are alarming. A high-profile court case sparked a national debate about rape culture as well…
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Let Go of Our Hair and Let Our Girls Learn
In recent weeks, there have been a number of news stories about black girls being discriminated against at school for…
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Black men must invest in black women or leave them the hell alone!!
Take a wild guess as to why black women don’t have much, just guess! Guess why their credit score is…
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'Vote for Women': How Africa Got Its First Female President
More than a decade ago, Liberia made history. A new biography of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounts how. In the fall…
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