(Originally published by Pambazuka News 653: SPECIAL ISSUE: Kwame Ture and the African revolution today) Kwame Ture was a champion of women’s rights and empowerment. Foremost he recognised, acknowledged and accepted that African women must lead their own emancipation On 24 May 1963, as 32 independent African countries met in the Ethiopian capital, Addis […]
African Women The Invisible Soldier: Black But Invisible
Society without women can be compared to humans without air. Africa without African women is like a mango tree without roots. The indispensible role that African women play in the development of society in general and community in particular cannot be matched or debated. However, despite this role African women from Toronto to Harare to London […]
50 Years of Pan-African Women’s Day
Pan-African Women’s Day (PAWD) is held annually across the world to celebrate the first Pan-African Women’s Conference and the creation of the Pan-African Women’s Organization (PAWO) in 1962 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. African women make up 51% of the African family world-wide and we know that they have been responsible for many victories throughout […]
A-AWRU 30th Anniversary Statement
We are celebrating the The All African Women’s Revolutionary Union (A-AWRU) 30th anniversary. The All African Women’s Revolutionary Union is the women’s wing of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party. It was born out of the political and ideological struggle for liberation of all African and all indigenous people over hundreds of years of colonialism, neo-colonialism […]