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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…
Read More » - History, Knowledge & Memory
How a 200-Year-Old Pipe Connects Maryland and Sierra Leone
Genetics has many stories to tell about enslaved people.
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South Sudan’s horrifying 10-day mass rape: ‘No one could hear me’
NHIALDIU, South Sudan — Wrapping an arm around her stomach, the young woman hung her head and recounted the day…
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A Brief History of What Happens When White Women Are Killed by Cops in America
Justine Damond was, by all accounts, the sort of woman who couldn’t help but nurture and protect the life around…
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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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Struggles Over Macroeconomic Policy and Gender Equality
By Prof Marjorie Mbilinyi The 2016 Africa Human Development Report: Accelerating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa provides a…
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WATCH: Real South African abortion stories
WARNING: While the content in the video above is not graphic, the stories told may upset sensitive viewers. We interviewed…
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Undress for redress: The rise of naked protests in Africa
“Women give life and so to put the most private symbols of motherhood into the public arena is to negate…
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South Africa: Woman Warns Young Girls – Stay Away From Sugar Daddies
By Karabo Ngoepe, News24 Growing up in abject poverty, Vinolia Masilo, 25, found herself dating older men just so that…
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WATCH: Tanzania bans Snura Mushi’s “shocking” twerking video “Chura” for breaching the moral fabric of society
Tanzania has banned a controversial twerking music video, Chura (frog dance) by Snura Mushi for breaching the moral fabric of…
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