Everyone needs support - both male and female. But considering what women have been through in the past and are still going through, I feel they deserve a little more support. Yes, we deserve a little more support.
And as an African woman living in an African country, I feel African women deserve even more support because we need to learn, unlearn and relearn a lot of things that will make us better women and help our communities to progress. That's why I am passionate about African women's empowerment.
Here are a few examples that need empowerment
- There are still African communities where girls are still denied access to school and are sent into early marriages.
- There are still African women who still think marriage is an achievement and that their happiness relies on being married.
- There are African women who see marriage as means to get out of poverty and are passing down this limiting mentality to other young girls which makes them ambitious career-wise.
- There are African women who want more from their lives but are afraid to go against beliefs and what people will say about their ambition because they are afraid of people's opinions.
- Others are afraid that being ambitious and fulfilling their dreams will scare away or intimidate potential husbands or partners.
All these and more are enough reasons to be passionate about empowering African women and encouraging them to follow their dreams for a better and fulfilled life.
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