In a nation as solipsistic as the US, we don’t hear much about politics in other countries. This is doubly true when it comes to woman-centered movements, and triply true when those movements are in Africa.
In an opinion piece for the Guardian, Minna Salami talks about feminist success stories the Western world has largely ignored:
What would have once sounded like a far-fetched feminist fantasy – namely women forming the majority of a parliament – is a reality in one country in the world: Rwanda.
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How many of those women received 90% of the vote like Kagame did… twice?
The Guardian for all its good work on the NSA has a bad habit of late carrying water for dictators like Assad and Kagame. No mention on here whatsoever that Kagame has been and remains a major player in the disaster in the Congo where the violence against women speaks for itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/opinion/Paul-Kagame-The-Darling-Dictator-of-the-day.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/magazine/paul-kagame-rwanda.html?pagewanted=all
I think this is a bad situation for a fist-pump.
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