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African Perspective on Feminism

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The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked the first wave of feminism. We are now in the 21st century and the fight for feminism continues with more women fighting towards the same cause for gender equality. The main goal across continents has been to dismantle partriachal systems, however, the differences in geographical location have made the rates of attaining gender equality difficult to judge. The rate at which Africa is advancing the case for feminism is much lower than other continents and this can only be attributed to differences in context and location. Feminism has proved to be a contextual movement which should be tackled accordingly. Women in different societies are subjected to different challenges: women in North Africa fight more against traditional practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), whilst women in Europe fight more to enter political spaces. These are both fights against patriarchy but their intensity differs according to region. “Gender ...
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DO MORE!

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Kindness. It’s like walking with a plastic bag filled with water. A sharp thorn pricks the bag and small droplets of water drip from it forming a trail right behind you. 7.7+ billion people in the world. 7.7+ billion human hearts beating each second and over 8.7 million species on Earth, each carrying a gallon of affection, tenderness and concern for one another. Each day brings to us chances and opportunities to prick our gallons of kindness and make an impact in people’s lives, leaving them smiling. Thorns (people’s call for aid, assistance and support) prick us every moment of our lives but our response is determined by the thickness of our ‘plastic bags’- our ability and willingness to respond to nature’s call for help. 86 400 seconds in a day and we give ‘lack of time’ as a reason to not lend a helping hand to the disabled lady singing her lungs out, begging for food in the streets or the young teenager who has lost his bus fare to a robber. We give ‘lack of resources’ as j...
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Women's Land Rights (Zimbabwe)

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In such a patriarchal community, where women are seen as objects undeserving of any power to lead in any sector, it is close to impossible to find a significant number of women with power over land. The processes of acquiring land are simply too long and tedious to complete. With corruption, Chiokomuhomwe in Shona, being the talk of the century, women in desperate need of this asset go to great lengths to access it. Those who are well off pay the humongous amounts requested by officials, some sell their bodies in exchange for land. It all happens behind closed doors, but there is one event which made me realize that as a continent, we have a long way to go till we appreciate the value of women, let alone acknowledge their power of ownership over land. What would you do if you lost your property because of someone’s death? “I regret the day my father, Papa Jo, took his last breath. That very day marked the beginning of decades of toiling and suffering, an end to my short period...
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