Rosebell Kagumire discusses the many silences surrounding rape as the 16 days of activism against gender based violence is observed all around the world. #I6Days: No justice as Uganda female journalist commits…
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01:32am After an intense full day of writing and attempts to say ” goodnight world†my mind insists that there seems to be more to write about. To say a little bit…
Ethiopian Women Unleashed. That is the name of the project designed by the Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations (NEWA) in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Foundation. “Ethiopian Women Unleashed: Stories of Accomplished…
And, Not for cynics will visions erase the colored dots they've drawn through the line of possibilities their doubt would like to have thrown Not for cynics will dreams forsake the multiple…
Still on the issue of Agency, the following post was originally published on Open Democracy in August 2012. It is re-posted here with the permission of the author, Sehin Teferra, who is…
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/57606236" iframe="true" /] Pull up your skirt and jump, Aurora You are not a child of fear Let the hems carry dirt Singe the frills into melted matte It's not your…
Dr. Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma 2010-2020 has been declared the African Women’s Decade by the African Union General Assembly – a decade which aims to bring African women’s issues to the center of…
What words come to mind when you think of taxes and tax collectors? I highly doubt passionate and formidable will make it to your vocabulary. But in the midst of an environment…
In a post from March 2012 here, i discussed the issue of modern day slavery of Ethiopian women in the middle-east and how countries like Indonesia and the Philippines insisted on better…