Valentine Day is about love, chocolate and kisses. Mother’s Day is about extravagance, breakfast in bed and Women’s Fellowship service at church. International Women’s Day is about serious issues with dire consequences for millions of women in hundreds of countries. Marital or spousal rape is one. The first celebration of International Women’s Day occurred on March… Continue reading What I would Talk About if I Were a Celebrity: Spousal Rape
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Out of Zanzibar Comes the Magic Pill: Love in a Spice
Recently, I was doing a Google search for an Analytical Chemistry article on chromatographic separation when I came across one article that was about the separation of the constituents in nutmeg. One reference led me to the other until I finally stumbled upon one material that I found the most exciting. By this time I… Continue reading Out of Zanzibar Comes the Magic Pill: Love in a Spice
UN and Artists Use Music to Promote Maternal Health in Tanzania
9 February 2011 – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has teamed up with a group of artists from the United States and Tanzania to raise awareness, through music, on the need to have better maternal health services in the East African nation, where deaths related to childbearing remain a serious challenge. The collaboration, made… Continue reading UN and Artists Use Music to Promote Maternal Health in Tanzania
Female Circumcision or Better, Female Genital Mutilation: It’s not That Sexy
Since the last time we posted a news article from Uganda about female circumcision, there have been 63 visitors to this website from search engines (google, yahoo, bing) searching for information on the practice. I therefore decided to tackle it in detail. What is Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)? Female circumcision embraces a host of procedures… Continue reading Female Circumcision or Better, Female Genital Mutilation: It’s not That Sexy
Pleasure in Power: Politically Motivated Rape in Zimbabwe
A report from a study vividly describes politically motivated sexual violence against women in Zimbabwe. The violence against the women takes many forms including extreme violence, gang rape and insertion of objects (bottles and sticks) into the vagina. The aim of the study was to provide a valid and reliable description of cases of politically… Continue reading Pleasure in Power: Politically Motivated Rape in Zimbabwe
Sex Workers in Umunde Delta State Beat Three Customers Into Coma
But that was not what they negotiated for. While this may appear as entertainment, of course it does entertain, it reveals a major problem that African governments and leaders need to address if we as a people are going to meet the challenges of the millenium development goals. Food for thought.
Show Us The Women of Power
I have written a few articles about unfair stereotypes normally associate with Africa and things from Africa. To be fair to the outside world, African cultures play a major role in establishing some of these formulaic conceptions. One thing that easily comes to mind, and which worries me, is the pigeonhole role normally offered to… Continue reading Show Us The Women of Power
Correction: Give The Women of Africa an Option In Protection
In my article, Anti-HIV/AIDS Campaigns: Give The Women of Africa an Option In Protection I stated: The main disadvantage of the female condom is that it is three times more expensive than the male condom and therefore beyond the means of women in most African communities where the average income is less than a dollar… Continue reading Correction: Give The Women of Africa an Option In Protection