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How Cimarrón Is Changing the Narrative And Giving A Voice To Afro-Columbian Women Through Film
Heny Cuesta is filmmaker, activist, and cultural agent who is pushing for more representation of Black creators in the movie industry with Cimarrón Productions.
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Warsan Shire Quotes On Immigration, Beauty, Love And Feminism
Warsan Shire FSRL is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher. She was born on August 1988 to Somalian parents in Kenya. She has a B.A in Creative Writing and was awarded the inaugural Brunel University Afrcan Poetry Prize from a shortlist of 6 candidates out of 655.
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Ayomide Bello Is The First Nigerian Woman Canoeist To Qualify For The Olympics
17 year old Ayomide Bello is headed for the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo. Now more than ever, Nigerian women are making deep strides in areas of sports. For the first time, Nigeria would have its first ever female canoeist at the Olympics.
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Zulfat Suara Has Become The First Muslim Woman To Be Elected To Nashville Office
Zulfat Suara, a US-based Nigerian woman has made history by becoming the first Muslim to be elected to a Metro seat in Nashville.
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Tanzanian Governor, Paul Makonda Is Proposing A National Database Of Married Men To Protect Single Women
Paul Makonda, the governor of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar Es Salaam has just announced plans to create and publish a database of married men. According to him, this would help protect women from “heart breaks”.
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Kenya’s New Breast Milk Bank Is Helping The Fight Against Infant Mortality
Nairobi’s Pumwani Maternity Hospital has set up East Africa’s first breast milk bank, the second in Africa, to provide donated milk to babies in need.
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Shocking Misogynistic Quotes By Some Of The “Greatest” Men Who Ever Lived
Just in case you all thought misogyny was new and only just starting in the 21st century, we are here to tell you that it has always been in existence. Since time immemorial, men have always degraded women either through their words or actions. Today, it is seen everywhere, from songs to movie dialogues, etc.
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All You Need To Know About Serena Ventures, The Venture Capital Company Owned By Serena Williams
In 2014, Serena Williams launched Serena Ventures, a Micro Venture Capital company which aims to provide opportunities to founders.
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Taiwan Approves Same-Sex Marriage For The First Time In Asia
Taiwan becomes the first country in Asia to approve same sex marriage as legislature passes law allowing same-sex marriage. Taiwan’s lawmakers debated three different bills to legalise same-sex unions and the government’s bill, the most progressive of the three, was passed.
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More Women Are Being Sexually Assaulted On Indian Trains And Nobody Is Doing Anything About It
Sexual harassment of women and girls inside Indian trains has turned train travel into personal hells for female passengers. The criminal behaviours of male offenders escalate from pornographic comments to sexual touching, groping, public masturbation and ejaculation, violent assault and rape.
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Women and children in Somalia’s semi autonomous region of Puntland have taken to the streets to protest and vent their anger following the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl.
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Two Sisters Born To a Nigerian Father And English Mother Talk About Being Mixed Race In London
Thirteen-year-old Monifa and her 10-year-old sister Naima live in London, but were born in South Africa to an English mother and Nigerian father.
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She Made History By Entering A Holy Indian Shrine. Her Family Locked Her Out Of The House
A mother of two from a conservative family in southern India, Kanakadurga was told over and over again by her relatives how a good wife should behave.
She should obey her husband’s wishes. She should adapt to his family’s ways. And she should not even contemplate visiting the Sabarimala temple, one of Hinduism’s holiest shrines.
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Seeking Protection from Abuse: An Emirati Woman’s Ordeal
Hind Albolooki fled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the wake of threats from relatives for wanting to separate from an abusive husband.
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