Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
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Articles on African women
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The visibility of #MeToo makes it easy to overlook the very powerful campaigns against sexual violence in Africa.
With technology women are able to become agents of their own change.
The international media and her supporters continue to hoist Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf up as the matron of African women’s rights. But she does not deserve this title.
For most women, participating in the labour force is dependent on whether they have adequate child care they can rely on.
Distance learning provides a great way for women who are already working to improve their skills and meet their own standards for a successful career.
African women have had to explain themselves to a world that does not seem to understand them.
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
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Senior lecturer (Associate Professor), Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, University of Fort Hare
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Postdoctoral fellow, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor of Literature and Director, African Women's Studies Centre, University of Nairobi
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Lecturer in Information Systems, Bayero University, Kano
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Ethnomusicology and African Musical Arts lecturer, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Joe Loss Reader in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Research fellow, Royal Holloway University of London
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Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
