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african women – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:09:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg african women – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 The First Lady and The Pregnant African Women http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-lady-and-the-pregnant-african-women http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-lady-and-the-pregnant-african-women#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:43:11 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=10331 Commentary/Ghana/Africa For the past years, the Ghana’s enlightenment movement have shown that rational choices are essential to how Africans distinguish and argue about their culture in relation to their progress. The enlightenment campaigners have identified cultural challenges – from the impact of witchcraft to developing policies from within the African culture – and raised their …

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]]> Three women Win Nobel Peace Prize http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/women-win-nobel-peace-prize http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/women-win-nobel-peace-prize#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:43:17 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9945 This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. They were recognised for their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”. Mrs Sirleaf is Africa’s first female elected …

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]]> Rapist Women Gang Terrorizing Men in Zimbabwe http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/rapist-women-gang-terrorizing-men-in-zimbabwe Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:02:16 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9518 Kitsepile Nyathi, allafrica Cases of men who have been sexually abused by women are common in the country and hardly a week passes without such a report being made in the media. The motives of these women are not known, but there is speculation that they may be doing this for ritual purposes. Indecently assaulting …

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]]> New Study Shows Four Women Raped Every 5 Minutes in the DRC http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/study-shows-fwomen-raped-5-minutes-in-the-drc Mon, 16 May 2011 23:35:30 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8799 Almost every minute of every day in different parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a woman is raped. So says a new study published by the American Journal of Public Health, the AJPH. The study says the incidence of sexual assault is 26 times higher than United Nations figures. Jocelyne Sambira reports. Duration: …

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]]> Rwanda: Gender Equality Through Hip-Hop http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/rwanda-gender-equality-hip-hop http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/rwanda-gender-equality-hip-hop#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 23:25:51 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8795 Emma Prince, allafrica Hip — Hip hop music was regarded as a man’s thing. Today, women rap and sometimes do it better than their male competitors. It all started as early as the 1980’s when African-American diva, MC Lyte emerged as the first lady rapper. She was then signed to an upcoming label, ‘Def Jam’. …

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]]> Who are The Women and Where are They? http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-women-sexual-violence-advocacy http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-women-sexual-violence-advocacy#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:11:47 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8526 This is not supposed to be an essay. I’m just kind of talking to myself about some things that cheese me off. Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once said “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women” I mentioned in one of my earlier articles that the problems …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/african-women-sexual-violence-advocacy/feed 5 Mob Justice: If It Happens at Legon, Imagine What Goes on at Mmaa Nse Hwee http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/mob-justice-africa-ghana-tanzania http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/mob-justice-africa-ghana-tanzania#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:11:13 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=8505 ][ad#GBAF-1-text] The urban dictionary defines mob justice as “When a large angry mob takes justice into their own hands. Usually ends with somebody getting hanged, torched or pitchfork’d. A common method of dispensing justice in the more rural areas of a country” Mob justice is a social and public health quandary in several communities in …

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