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African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
Katrin Michael, who lived through chemical attacks unleashed by Saddam Hussein on Iraqi’s Kurdish population, now advocates for women’s concerns as part of the exiled Iraqi opposition movement.
Mindful that women and children constitute the vast majority of casualties in today’s conflicts, African women from conflict zones have gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to share their experience in alleviating suffering and influencing government policy.
After genocidal violence, the nation is preparing for an experiment in the limits and possibilities of justice. It is reviving a tribal system of wise persons sitting in deliberation and judgment and women, once excluded, will be the heart of it.
Six years after the genocide in Rwanda, women are getting stronger, learning new skills, taking on new roles as heads of household, builders, workers and traders. Slowly, hesitantly, Tutsi and Hutu women are talking about reconciliation.