Bloggers troll women daily! This story brings to light how women leaders have been bullied, maligned, slut shamed, and have had malicious stories planted about them on online platforms the moment they announce their political bids. “I felt so naked. I felt very naked.” Sarah Wanjiku Thiga, who vied for the Member of County Assembly…
The local community is yet to embrace female leadership. The story explores how cultural barriers prevent women from getting elected into leadership positions in Kajiado County of Kenya Out of over fifteen women political aspirants for various elective seats including senator, member of Parliament and member of county assembly in Kajiado county in the year…
Angela Benedicto talks to Fadhila Sadala of AWiM News about why she decided to establish an organisation in Tanzania tackling gender-based violence. — Growing up in Tanzania, Angela Benedicto always wanted to be a lawyer to defend human rights. However, she had a passion to be a woman activist fighting for women’s and girls’ rights…
AWiM18 left some prints on my heart. I say this because I had always considered women’s rights talk an unusual or unnecessary boisterousness. The whole idea of gender sensitivity to me was troubling in the sense that I thought it was uncalled for. Life I believe was filled with too many challenges and didn’t see…
It started as a fight for water and grass and turned into a series of wars that never seemed to end until women said enough and proposed a better system where everyone’s livestock gets to graze. Women from Isiolo, Kenya told Mercy Adhiambo how they brought order and peace to their community through environmental conservation….
They overcame a lot of hurdles to emerge victorious. For Nigerian women in politics, the road to success in the electoral process is long, expensive and exhausting. From being an aspirant and contestant in the party primaries to becoming a candidate, there is indeed a story to tell. How did the five female lawmakers at…
Par Ambroisine MEMEDE, Etonam SOSSOU et Héléna MARTELOT Au centre Kekeli, niché dans le quartier Nyékonakpoè à Lomé, Justine , 12 ans, élève en classe de 5ème, survivante de violences sexuelles, raconte d’une voix tremblante son quotidien d’avant : « Chaque soir, il me demandait de me déshabiller… J’avais l’impression d’étouffer sous son poids. »…
This story is part of the African Women in Media (AWiM) Peace and Security Journalism Programme in partnership with UNESCO, through the IPDC framework.
“I do not just make clothes, I create East African stories. Every fabric I use has crossed a border, carrying culture, craft, and connection,” she remarks as she receives a shipment of earthy Ugandan bark cloth just hours after the arrival of a consignment of vibrant Tanzanian khanga fabrics. Mary Wamboi, a designer with…
The AWiM2022 conference has commenced and it has gathered together an array of innovative experts to dissect the media’s role in issues affecting African women today. This year it’s all taking place in Morocco and many of the conversations revolve around the shifting opinions in the country. Though many positive changes have occurred in Moroccan…
Jennifer Nagut from Maero village in Uganda displays the bananas at her stall in Busia, Kenya. She is among several Ugandan women who cross the border every day to sell nutritious foodstuffs to Kenya/Photo by Faith Matete It is dawn, and the flickers of the weak morning sun are illuminating the skies of…
1. Tell us about yourself I am a graduate of English from the University of Ilorin. I started my career as a Freelance Journalist with Herald Group of Newspapers in Ilorin, and over the years I have gained experience in the Marketing Communications industry working with leading Advertising and Public Relations agencies. Presently, I head…
