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Life in Words: African Women Poets →
africaisdonesuffering: Often we see the dominance of men in literary writing; anywhere from poetry to novels. Strong women writers can many times be seen as a rare commodity or something that does not happen all the time. When it comes to women of color, and specifically African women, such writers and their skills are downplayed or not recognized. Even writings concerning the history of...
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WatchWatch
b-sama: Winner Take All:  China’s Race For Resources and What It Means for the World DAMBISA MOYO Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance—their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life—few people who are not economists or traders know how commodity markets work. Almost every day, newspaper...
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South African named first woman to chair AU
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, 63, defeats incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon to win top post of 54-nation African Union Commission. South African diplomat and doctor Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been elected to become the first female head of the African Union Commission, ending a leadership battle that had threatened to divide the organisation. Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa’s home affairs minister and...
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Sierra Leonean minister becomes UN envoy on sexual... →
New York, US - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, currently the Minister of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, as his new Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. She will replace Margot Wallstrom, a Swedish politician with a long history of defending women’s rights, who had served in the position since it was created two years ago. A UN...
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Meet 21 year old Chibundu Onuzo, the UK’s No.1... →
dynamicafrica: Since 2010, Chibundu Onuzo has captured the world’s consciousness for accomplishing feat after feat. At only age 19, while still an undergraduate student at King’s College London, she made headlines globally by signing a two novel deal with U.K. publishing heavy weight, Faber & Faber which has published books by 12 Nobel Laureates and 6 Man Booker prizewinners. By clinching...
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afrikanwomen.tumblr.com new links
African women blog on facebook and twitter, I am pleased to join the team of waliafrica, an online magazine for african women.
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