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Political Empowerment of Women in Africa: Influence or Number?

In recent decades women’s political representation has significantly increased in Africa. From 2000 to 2018, the proportion of women parliamentarians almost doubled, and women’s representation in cabinet increased fivefold to 22% between 1980 and 2015.  Unfortunately, the numbers do not necessarily imply influence. Women’s political representation in Africa is more descriptive than substantive. Women represent almost half […]

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A society can only develop when it takes advantage of its diversity, in terms of gender and in terms of ethnicity. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Society has neglected the boy child

Historically, women have been marginalised in all spheres of society be in socially, economically or politically. Culture plays a central role in this process. You will find cultural rules in communities that prevent women from realising their full potential. As laws and policies got developed, the male lens not only dominated the discourse but also

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One in 200 people is a slave. Why?

Slavery affects more than 40 million people worldwide – more than at any other time in history by Kate Hodal How many slaves are there today, and who are they? The word “slavery” conjures up images of shackles and transatlantic ships – depictions that seem relegated firmly to the past. But more people are enslaved today

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Towards a Positive Masculinity

Something has to fill the void that toxic attitudes leave behind Watch the news on any given day and you’ll eventually hear a story about a woman being brutalised. Or killed. The perpetrators are almost always men. By no means representative of men in general, but men all the same. It’s tempting to write them

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