#17-21 Farmland restoration in Kenia … Women doing that work in drylands areas
Reporter Diana Wanyonyi from Mombasa investigates farmland degradation and restoration in the drylands area of her region. She talks with
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#12-21 Zimbabwe Diaspora … Outside the country but connected – and they care
In the premier edition of the podcast version of her radio show HotSeat, Violet Gonda interviewed Thandiwe Newton, filmstar and
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#10-21 Wangari Maathai … on the origins of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement
Long before she was a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, biologist Dr. Wangari Maathai came to San Francisco to receive the
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#04-21 Female Circumcision in Sudan … FGM is illegal again, but not forgotten
In 2020, Sudan’s transitional government outlawed female genital mutilation. Dr. Nahid Toubia thoroughly explained the practice, its health effects, its
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#02-21 Maternal Gift Stories … on Mothering, Activism, and Care
On April 24th, 2021, two well known activists came together online to tell stories from their lives about the gift
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#46-20 Uganda Women’s Network … Converting laws into actions
At the 63rd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meetings, Sheila Dallas-Katzman, President of the International Association of
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#44-20 Sizani Ngubane, R.I.P. … Great South African organizer claimed by COVID
One of the great organizers of our times, Sizani Ngubane of South Africa, has died of COVID-19. From 1997, here
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#43-20 Resisting Rape in Cameroon … Speaking the truth is step one
Girls and women in Cameroon are being urged to speak the truth about rapes they have experienced, for their mental
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#38-20 Reporting in Kenya Under COVID … Problems and opportunities for women journalists
The advent of COVID added new problems to an already increasingly precarious situation for journalists. More than 600 have been
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#36-20 COVID in Kenya … Its effects on women’s economic development
Measures taken by the Kenyan government to stop the spread of COVID include imposing a curfew, travel bans, and closing
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