INSIGHT: Oppression of African women -- The origins

Unbeknown to many, most of human history took place in Africa, where women were equal, if not superior, to men. For thousands of years, African societies were matriarchal and they prospered. By bringing an oppressive form of Colonial Christianity to Africa, Europeans replaced millennia of prosperous matriarchy with oppressive patriarchy.

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

INSIGHT: ICC is after justice,not African leaders

>There is growing discontent with the International Criminal Court (ICC), especially from African leaders, which needs to be looked into critically.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Jan

INSIGHT: What centre holds for these prevailing African scholars?

>I didn’t expect Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire’s Open Letter to Contemporary African Intellectuals to go viral. I thought it would simply be dismissed as a recycling of exhausted critiques and criticisms. Yet I shared it online enthusiastically.

 

9 years ago

Vijimambo

AFRICAN WOMEN FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT, INC

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Apr

‘Literature can be a tool to fight oppression’

He is seldom heard, he seldom speaks in public. The last time he gave a speech in front of a crowd was at the poetry prize giving event that has been named in his honour, Ebrahim Hussein Poetry Prize for Kiswahili writing.

 

11 years ago

Michuzi

Origins of the name "Massawe"

Basically Massawe has no meaning, but represent the society of pastoralists, traditional healers, agriculturalists etc. There are different sources, some information explains that Massawe were the legal specialists to Mangi (Chief) and they were experts in environments, particularly on rainfalls.
 As opposed to other developed nations, Tanzania has more that 100 tribes, reflecting an average of the same number of Mother Languages throughout the nation. However, with the influence of Mwalimu...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Feb

FEATURE: African women to the rescue

>Africa’s female presidents: From Sirleaf to Samba-Panza, Africa looks to its women to fix its broken states, Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi writes of Africa’s three female presidents.

 

10 years ago

BBC

African firms 'should promote women'

Africa's leading businesses need to do more to promote women into top positions, a new report says.

 

10 years ago

BBC

African Women ready for showpiece

Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon are favourites to win the African Women Championship which kicks-off in Namibia on Saturday.

 

9 years ago

BBC

Ghana's women clinch African Games

Ghana's women win the African Games football tournament for the first time when beating Cameroon 1-0 in Congo.

 

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