Nana

Actualizing.

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside]

🏆 BACK 2 BACK 🏆

[Salome Maswime @MrsMaswime]

Excited to start my next chapter 🙌🏾 #Witsie
https://t.co/ZamdokVmJF

[Nana @MsSayitlikethat]

@Ladii_Leah Congratulations!!

[This is world @_10world]

Maghrib prayer facing the Indian Ocean - Zanzibar

[The Chanzo @TheChanzo]

Hofu yatanda kwa wafanyabiashara wa Coco Beach: Wadai kupewa mwezi mmoja kuondoka kumpisha mwekezaji

Wakizungumza na The Chanzo leo, wajasiriamali na wafanyabiashara wadogo kwenye fukwe za Coco wamesema baadhi ya viongozi na watendaji wa Halmashauri ya Kinondoni waliwaita na kuwapa taarifa ya kutakiwa kuondoka ndani ya siku 30 kupisha uwekezaji.

Katika malalamiko ya wafanyabiashara hao, wameeleza pia kusikitishwa na kauli za watendaji hao kwa mfanyabiashara wa kike, kauli zenye viashiria ya kutaka rushwa ya ngono.

Kufuatia malalamiko haya ya wafanyabiashara wadogo, The Chanzo inaendelea na jitihada za kuwapata halmashauri ya Manispaa ya kinondoni kutoa ufafanuzi juu ya madai ya wafanyabiashara hawa.

[Godbless E.J. Lema @godbless_lema]

CCM haijawahi kuwaza future generations hata siku moja , isipokuwa uchaguzi tu, mambo mengi yanayotokea ktk utawala wao ni basic issue tu. Umetumika vibaya ktk kila nyakati za utawala wa CCM , kudhalilisha, kuumiza na mabaya mengine mengi kama ambayo USA waliyatolea tamko.

Anayekutumia wewe hawezi kuwa na maarifa ya kutosha kwa sababu wewe ni liability. Kuanzia wakati wa JK, Magufuli, na sasa Samia. Ulimgeuka yoyote mwenye heshima yoyote kutokana na interest na sio integrity na haki. Nafikiri wanaokutumia wanafurahishwa na uzembe wa fikra za aina hii. Hata hivyo mambo yatakuwa tofauti sana ktk siku za usoni. Nafikiri siku zote huko nje ya kuta za jela kwa bahati mbaya. Unapaswa kuwa jela.

[Amelia Dimoldenberg @ameliadimz]

The one who’s in love always wins !!

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

It's Day 8 of me sharing African women who shaped the political and social fabric of our continent.

Today we talk about Felicitas Ntang. She is known in the UPC ( Union of the Cameroonian peoples) as amongst the few cameroonian women who joined the armed struggled against French colonialists.

In December 2017 while in Yaoundé, I learned about the women of UPC. In 2019 as I had started developing my book, I returned to Yaoundé and digged into UPC archives. That's when I came across Felicitas. She was UPC's underground agent and a skilled fighter. She joined the maquis when she was 19, living in the forest, fighting against French colonialists until Independence was declared.

Felicitas has petitioned the current government many times to recognize her contributions and the time she served her country. Yet she continued to be overlooked. In her own words: " I don’t want anything big from the government..All I want is a medal of recognition as one of the women who fought for Cameroon’s independence.”

Felicitas stands amongst the forgotten and often uncelebrated Cameroonian women who fought for independence such Marthe Ekemeyong, Marthe Ouandié,Marguerite Ngoyi, Gertrude Omog and so many others!

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

It's day 7 of sharing African women who shaped the political and social fabric of our continent yet you may or may not know them.

Today I am talking about Rebecca Allen Namugenze Mukasa, also known as Rebecca Mulira, was a Ugandan women's rights advocate and social activist. But mostly she was a panafrican and one of the pioneers of the Panafrican organization of African women in Addis Ababa in 1962 alongside Aoua Keita I talked on Day 3

Those who knew Rebecca described her as relentless. Again it takes relentlessness to be a woman in politics alongside your husband in the 50s and 60s while consistently asserting your own voice and individuality not as a wife of but as an activist yourself.

Rebecca's legacy in Uganda is known in different women organizations she worked with, women councils she chaired and the social activism she carried within the government.

And yet so little is also known about her. As we know women are not written properly in history, let alone African women

[Brenda @brendawambui]

Misogyny in action.

Olive Burrows raises a sentiment held by Nairobi residents to the Governor of Nairobi, Sakaja Johnson.

He laughs and dismisses her as "upset", a trope used to silence women, and her *colleague* Jeff Koinange quickly "moves on."

https://t.co/F1qncktvVX

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Hi, environmentalist here. This is bad.

[Akua Sheila Ajjie 🇰🇪 @sheilaajjie]

These fuckers. Reducing literal DEATHS to “this woman is emotional”. And on International Women’s Day at that…

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

It's day 6 of me sharing African women who shaped the social and political fabric of our continent yet you may or may not know about them.

Today, I am talking about Field Marshal Muthoni Kirima. One of the women who fought in the Mau Mau rebellion for independence of Kenya.

In 2018 in Nairobi through a friend, I met Muthoni who narrated to us her story in the forest part of the rebellion that cost the British Empire millions and millions of pounds until they granted Kenya's independence.

When Muthoni was narrating her story to us, she mentioned other women who were in the forest in the Mau Mau rebellion such as Wamuyu Gakuru, Grace Nyaguthii, and Njoki Waicere. One could never imagine what it means to be a woman in a rebellion while also surviving patriarchal violence from the same comrades.

Muthoni passed away in 2023 angry that in all the narrated stories about the Mau Mau rebellion, women were omitted or not celebrated as their male counterparts meanwhile the women were the heart of the movement. They carried information, mobilized, fundraiser, grabbed arms while also carrying the domestic work.

I carry Muthoni's anger today and the anger of all the women who dared, who organized, who worked and laid their entire lives for their nations and yet their contributions often erased.

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

Happy international women's day. It's Day 5 of me sharing about African women who shaped the political and social fabric of our continent.

Today I talk about Adja Arame Thioumbé Samb. She is known as the first woman to be imprisoned in Sénégal for political reasons. Adja Arame didn't attend school but she shaped the political landscape of Sénégal during the struggle for its independence that one can wonder why her name is barely mentioned today. She organized in UDS known as Union of Senegalese women. She mobilized thousands of women to distribute information for independence. They turned market women into great political agents who moved information and fundraised for independence.

When independence was declared; Adja who not only advocated for the abolition of imperialism, and the ruling of elites; became the enemy of the state. She spent her life in the opposition holding accountable the same people she fought alongside for Sénégal independence. She believed there can never be a free country where the ruling e elites prioritize their own interests at the expense of everyone else.

I wrote about Adja in my book(coming soon). Her story is so inspiring. What an honor to have references of women who shaped the way for us.

Adja was known to assert her voice and demand women to be always included in political spaces. She changed the stereotype that politics were for only educated women.

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

Day 4 of me sharing about African women who shaped the political and social fabric of our continent yet you may or may not know about them.

Today we talk about Aoua Keita. She is amongst the pioneers who founded the Pan African women organization of women in 1962. She and her comrades believed women's struggles are not isolated but very much connected and should be linked to other struggles of the African peoples.

I came across her name when I was in Bamako, Mali in 2018. I passed through a building that bears her name. It intrigued me and I learned that she was the first woman to be elected as a member of Parliament in Mali. Then I read her memoir: Aoua Keita, Femme d'Afrique and learned about her immense work organizing in different communities for the independence of Mali. In her memoir, Aoua narrates her journey as a woman in a political dominated spaces and the immense she did with other women. Her story reminds us how much we are the product of our foremothers. The African women who really organized immensely for our rights

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

Day 3 of me sharing about African women who shaped the political and social fabric of our continent yet you may or may not know about them.

Today we talk about Celestine Ouezzin Coulibaly. I came across Celestine while researching for my book. Her names came up a lot as she was amongst the early pioneers of RDA(a collective party that fought for independence for former french colonies in West Africa). What made me happy is that when I was researching my book, her name surfaced a lot in RDA archives and in Aoua Keita's memoir even Gisèle Rabesahala 's memoir. It reminded me how long feminist memory is. These women wrote about each other a lot; keeping their stories intertwined and kept together.

When Celestine's husband was murdered, she continued organizing in RDA even when her status was reduced as Daniel's widow. She spent her life highlighting that she joined RDA as a personal choice and fought for independence of Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast on her individuality and not as Daniel's wife.

In 1949, she gave one of the most memorable speech at the WILDF convention in Beijing, linking the struggles of African women to the struggles against imperialism.

I have written about Celestine in my book (coming out soon). So little is still known about her especially that she disappeared from public space after independence was declared in Burkina Faso and President Maurice Yameogo didn't include any woman in his cabinet.

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

Day 2 of me sharing African women you may or may not know but shaped the political and social fabric of our continent. So many women were part of armed movements in our continent but barely known and their stories as well

Today we talk about Wassis Leonie Hortense Abo. I learned about Leonie during my time in Kinshasa and Goma working with an organization that is addressing the high rates of rape and violence women and girls endure. Leonie Abo was amongst the women who inspired them . She was amongst the few women who joined the Kwilu rebellion right after the death of Lumumba to free Congo. Her story as a freedom fighter in the bush, is detailed in her memoir that i so recommend: Leonie Abo, Une femme du Congo.

You can also listen to this interview she did in 1992 talking about her life, how she joined the Kwilu rebellion and her life alongside Pierre Mulele:https://t.co/QvTfipvobs

In her memoir, Leonie Abo linked her story as a freedom fighter to her personal devotion to gender equality.

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

It's women's month. Each day, I will share about an African woman you might not know who shaped the political and social fabric of our continent.

Day 1: Adelaide-Casey Hartford(1868-1960). My favorite pan African feminist. She was a Sierra Leonean feminist who was very radical at her time. It was not common in the late 1800s for an African woman to start a school for African girls and advocate for the education of the African girl child.

She believed in cultural nationalism so much that she pushed her fellow Sierra Leoneans to hold onto their culture amidst colonial rule

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

Anyways i am happy to share that I have found an agent for my book: Mothers of Nations. It chronicles the stories of 20 women who were part of independence movements in Africa yet we barely know them. In the book, I argue that their erasure is intentional

Once we get it to a publisher and I have a publishing date, I will share with y'all.

I am excited. I have been talking about this book for years. I have done so much research to really really start a conversation.

Those who keep asking how far with the book, we are getting there.

[Hilda Newton @HildaNewton21]

"Ndugu zetu wametekwa sana, wameuwawa sana mpaka sasa wengine hawana familia hatumtaki Samia"