With the abundance of male superheroes giving young boys a male reference in the animation they are exposed to, an Ethiopian social enterprise has set out to address the dearth of female super heroines by creating its own animation show. Tibeb Girls is an action-drama show about three young girls who use superpowers to fight the…
Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first lady is accused of assaulting Ms Engel, a 20year old South African model, with an extension cord after finding her in a hotel with her sons, Robert Jnr, 25, and Chatunga 21. Ms. Engels shared pictures of her wounded face on Twitter and said that Mrs. Mugabe’s guards looked on and…
On March 9th 2017, Earuyan Solutions facilitated a conversation with around 150 intergenerational women ,on AWiB’s monthly platform, under the title “Our Journey as Ethiopian Women – Building a Common Agenda. The 2017 IWD theme is #BeBoldForChange. The dialogue focused on what it means for Ethiopian women to be bold for change. Towards generating input for…
AfricanFeminism (AF) would like to share details of the #BeMyYellowValentine upcoming event created and sustained by the Yellow Movement team at Addis Ababa University (AAU). Share the love and support struggling female students at AAU cover their basic needs. Both international and Addis Ababa based interested individuals/companies can put in their valentine’s flower order or donate to the…
I was seating in my Saturday morning class on ‘Children and the Law’ when our lecturer asked us the relationship between our patriarchal society and the naming system of children. We were discussing the rights of children, a fundamental one being the right to name. One thing that was clear was that despite the very many…
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