Me Too has lost much of the radical spirit with which it commenced for two key reasons. Firstly, as I argued at the Cambridge Union debate on the topic last week, the movement is now “in the hands of the media, and therefore in the hands of the male establishment who owns the media”. Secondly…
Tradition is the key challenge for African feminists in the 21st century
In the 1960s, an anticolonial political and military group in Angola, the MPLA (Movement for the Popular Liberation of Angola), began an intensive guerrilla warfare campaign against the Portuguese. The MPLA were a determined army whose efforts forced Portuguese resettlement. The MPLA was also a dual gender army. And with both men and women fighting…