{"id":4400,"date":"2020-10-20T13:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:59:09","slug":"heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00e9ro\u00efnes : 11 femmes africaines qui s&#039;en foutent et auxquelles il faut s&#039;incliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 12<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Page Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a210fb788334\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a210fb788334\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Society_is_a_mean_bitch\" >Society is a mean bitch!<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#African_heroines_have_been_given_a_raw_deal\" >African heroines have been given a raw deal<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Fuck_society_Long_live_African_heroines\" >Fuck society! Long live African heroines<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Dr_Stella_Nyanzi\" >Dr. Stella Nyanzi<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Winnie_Madikizela-Mandela_1936_%E2%80%93_2018\" >Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936 &#8211; 2018)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Funmilayo_Ransome-Kuti_1900%E2%80%931978\" >Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900\u20131978)\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_1938_%E2%80%93_To_date\" >Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1938 &#8211; To date)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Wangari_Maathai_1940_%E2%80%93_2011\" >Wangari Maathai (1940 &#8211; 2011)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Muthoni_wa_Kirima_1931_%E2%80%93_To_Date\" >Muthoni wa Kirima (1931 &#8211;\u00a0 To Date)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Mabel_Dove-Danquah_1905_%E2%80%93_1984\" >Mabel Dove-Danquah (1905 &#8211; 1984)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Vera_Chirwa_1932_%E2%80%93_To_date\" >Vera Chirwa (1932 &#8211; To date)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Bi_Kidude_1910_-2013\" >Bi Kidude (1910 -2013)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Brenda_Fassie_1964_%E2%80%93_2004\" >Brenda Fassie (1964 &#8211; 2004)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/fr\/heroines-11-african-women-who-didnt-give-a-fuck-that-you-need-to-bow-to\/#Bibi_Titi_Mohamed_1926_%E2%80%93_2000\" >Bibi Titi Mohamed (1926 &#8211;\u00a0 2000)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Society_is_a_mean_bitch\"><\/span>Society is a mean bitch!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seldom does it live up to its promise to honour, cherish, celebrate, treasure and\u00a0 simply acknowledge her sacrifice but will be quick to heap praises on some species who have suffered no more than she.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowhere is this truer than in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exotic-africa.com\/\">Africa<\/a> &#8211; the fucking cradle of mankind &#8211; where very little acknowledgment and treatment has been accorded to women who gallantly fought for their nation&#8217;s independence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the six decades since many African countries attained political independence, the stories of women in the liberation struggle is yet to be told authoritatively and celebrated. The little that is told is dealt with in a very casual manner you will be forgiven to think its village gossip.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"African_heroines_have_been_given_a_raw_deal\"><\/span>African heroines have been given a raw deal<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4413 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"11 African women who didn\u2019t give a fuck that you need to bow to. (You tube)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, notwithstanding the fact that quite a number of women were auspicious in the movement and fought like trojans if not <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazons <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alongside men with the sole objective of securing independence for their nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soon after their nations smelled victory of self determination, were they completely ignored,muzzled and told to shush by pre &#8211; independent Africa for what? Because they had a pussy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/10-amazing-african-bbws-you-should-know\/\">10 amazing African BBWs you should know<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In stark contrast, their male counterparts wasted no time in building universities, airports and major highways in their honor, going as far as affixing their faces on national currencies, how vain of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fuck_society_Long_live_African_heroines\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fuck society! Long live African heroines<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you know what?\u00a0 Fuck society! today i\u2019m gonna shout at the top of my lungs and celebrate African heroines whom without their sacrifice Mama Africa will not be where she is today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah today on Kenya\u2019s Mashujaa day, i\u2019m going to raise a toast to all African heroines for all their sacrifices, genius minds, killer beauty, irresistible charm, and fearless attitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know change is not easy, change is not pretty and yes! change is hell painful. More so just like any human they were not perfect but fuck they won\u2019t be forgotten dead or alive not under my watch.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dr_Stella_Nyanzi\"><\/span><b>Dr. Stella Nyanzi<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4411 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nyanzi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Stella Nyanzi. (Facebook)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nyanzi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nyanzi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Nyanzi.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Call her a parrot, go as far as labeling her a harlot it doesn\u2019t matter, Dr. Nyanzi is a fearless Ugandan academic who has balls to stand up to authority when it counts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She doesn\u2019t give a fuck who she offends in her quest to free up her country-people and make the pearl of Africa the beacon of hope in Africa. Using her wits and sharp tongue she smartly employs \u201cradical rudeness\u201d \u2013 an activist tactic with roots in Uganda\u2019s anti-colonial resistance movement, which uses public insult and naked protest to disrupt social norms and criticise those in power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The feminist writer who is now gunning to be Uganda\u2019s first woman\u2019s president spent almost 16 months inside Luzira prison in Uganda for writing a poem on Facebook about Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni\u2019s mother\u2019s vagina.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stella.nyanzi\/posts\/10156527462740053?_rdc=1&amp;_rdr\">In the untitled poem<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> she graphically described the vagina in grotesque terms (one line reads:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em> Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday. How horrifically cancerous a day! I wish the infectious dirty-brown discharge flooding Esiteri&#8217;s loose pussy had drowned you to death.Drowned you as vilely as you have sank and murdered the dreams and aspirations of millions of youths who languish in the deep sea of massive unemployment, and under-emplyment in Uganda.\u201d)<\/em>\u00a0framing the president\u2019s emergence from the birth canal as a metaphor for his increasingly oppressive near 35-year rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While in prison, Nyanzi released a poetry collection, No Roses from My Mouth, made up of 158 poems she wrote behind bars. With sections dedicated to prison, feminism and Uganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon her release in March this year, Nyanzi came out all guns blazing; Yes told you she isn\u2019t a pussy like some men. When she stepped out of the court in Kampala, she donned a tiara and a sash that read \u201cFUCK OPPRESSION\u201d and began to address crowds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s good to be out, but it\u2019s not necessarily freedom,\u201d she said, gazing out over the shores of Lake Victoria. \u201cWhen I got a phone, everyone was saying, \u2018Do not [use] Facebook, do not tweet, don\u2019t write anything stupid.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Fuck you, guys!\u2019\u201d she told the Guardian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An anthropologist by profession, Nyanzi is known for her studies of, and allyship with, marginalized groups, such as the sex worker and LGBT+ communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Winnie_Madikizela-Mandela_1936_%E2%80%93_2018\"><\/span><b>Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (<\/b><b>1936 &#8211; 2018)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4410 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Winnie-Madikizela-Mandela-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. (Daily News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Winnie-Madikizela-Mandela-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Winnie-Madikizela-Mandela-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Winnie-Madikizela-Mandela.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They slandered her but she didn\u2019t give a fuck, that is Winnie Madikizela-Mandela f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strikingly attractive and with a steely air &#8211; her given name, Nomzamo, means \u2018one who strives\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even in the face of nasty press coverage and public ridicule and male double standards she remained steadfast to her last breath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her uncompromising methods in the long struggle against white rule in South Africa and refusal to forgive contrasted sharply with the reconciliation espoused by her then husband Nelson Mandela as he worked to forge a stable, pluralistic democracy from the racial division and oppression of apartheid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her husband\u2019s 27-year incarceration, Madikizela-Mandela campaigned tirelessly for his release and for the rights of black South Africans, suffering years of detention, banishment and arrest by the white-minority regime that ran Africa\u2019s most advanced economy from 1948 to 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She remained steadfast and unbowed throughout, emerging to punch the air triumphantly in the clenched-fist salute of black power when Mandela was released from Cape Town\u2019s Victor Verster prison on Feb. 11, 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her legacy continues to steer debates to date but like Frank Sinatra sang, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My friends, I&#8217;ll say it clear I&#8217;ll state my case of which I&#8217;m certain I&#8217;ve lived a life that&#8217;s full I traveled each and every highway But more, much more than this I did it my way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viva <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winnie Madikizela-Mandela viva!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Funmilayo_Ransome-Kuti_1900%E2%80%931978\"><\/span><b>Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900\u20131978)\u00a0<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4409 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Funmilayo-Kuti-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. (everygirlafrica)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Funmilayo-Kuti-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Funmilayo-Kuti-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Funmilayo-Kuti.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Abeokuta, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was one of the first women to attend Abeokuta Grammar School in 1914, where she would go on to teach making her one of few women in early 1920s Nigeria to receive post-primary education,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ransome-Kuti didn\u2019t sit pretty and powder her face because she was a \u2018high class woman\u2019 Noo she used her privilege to coordinate the resistance against colonialism in Nigeria that not only targeted the British but also the local traditional figureheads they used to enforce their rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1944, she founded the Abeokuta Ladies\u2019 Club (later, the Abeokuta Women\u2019s Union), committed to defending women\u2019s political, social and economic rights, which became one of the most important women\u2019s movements of the twentieth century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the British colonial officers refused to give permits for demonstrations, Ransome-Kuti gave them the middle finger and mobilized local market women for what she called \u201cpicnics\u201d and festivals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her unwavering commitment to cooperation, solidarity and unity led her to play an active role in politics, notably in the pre-independence constitutional negotiations of 1946.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_1938_%E2%80%93_To_date\"><\/span><b>Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (<\/b><b>1938 &#8211; To date)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4408 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_ca_2016-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. (Black past)\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_ca_2016-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_ca_2016-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_ca_2016-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf_ca_2016.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you see Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stand up and salute! By the time she was in her early 20s she had given birth to four sons, leaving them with extended family while she travelled to the US to obtain her degree. She went on to serve as Liberia\u2019s finance minister, surviving two periods in jail for the positions she took in the increasingly perilous political environment of the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2006, Sirleaf became Africa\u2019s first elected female president and left office in late January, after overseeing the first democratic transfer of power in Liberia since 1944. During her two terms in office, Sirleaf tackled the spread of Ebola in the West African nation, developed the economy and championed the cause of women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2011, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman &#8220;for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women&#8217;s rights to full participation in peace-building work.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later she was awarded Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership joining only four African presidents who have been won namely, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique (2007), Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008), Pedro Pires of Cape Verde (2011), and Namibia\u2019s Hifikepunye Pohamba (2014).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Wangari_Maathai_1940_%E2%80%93_2011\"><\/span><b>Wangari Maathai (<\/b><b>1940 &#8211; 2011)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4406 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Wangari-Maathai-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wangari Maathai. (Daily News)\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Wangari-Maathai-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Wangari-Maathai-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Wangari-Maathai-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Wangari-Maathai.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A true heroine whose achievements\u2019 will be remembered long after her sad demise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No woman in Kenyan history faced a stronger government and paid the ultimate price like she did. From 1970, 80, and 90s she faced head on the then dreaded president Moi\u2019s government and almost brought it to its knees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In October 1989, Maathai learned of a plan to construct the 60-story Kenya Times Media Trust Complex in Uhuru Park; she opposed the move and wrote several protest letters. The government refused to respond to her inquiries and protests, instead responding through the media that Maathai was &#8220;a crazy woman&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government was so incensed with her bold protest that it sought to ban the Green Belt Movement, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation and women\u2019s rights,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> terming it a bogus organization and its members &#8220;a bunch of divorcees&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 28 February 1992, Maathai again led tens of wives and mothers of detained political detainees to Freedom corner at Uhuru Park where they proceeded to stage a hunger strike to pressure the government to release the political prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After four days of hunger strike, on 3 March 1992, the police forcibly removed the protesters. Maathai and three others were knocked unconscious by police and hospitalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her bold actions to inspire change, In 1984, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for &#8220;her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Muthoni_wa_Kirima_1931_%E2%80%93_To_Date\"><\/span><b>Muthoni wa Kirima (<\/b><b>1931 &#8211;\u00a0 To Date)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4405 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muthoni-wa-Kirima-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Muthoni wa Kirima. (chanyado.wordpress)\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muthoni-wa-Kirima-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muthoni-wa-Kirima.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muthoni sent chills down the spine of British soldiers for a \u2018no fucks fearless attitude,\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is the only woman to have risen through the Mau Mau ranks and achieved the rank of field marshal. During the struggle of Kenyan independence she led other women in giving the British colonists sleepless nights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She and a group of 162 women were described as \u201cthugs\u201d and \u201cwitches\u201d by the colonial government for their undying support for Mau Mau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her boldness she was subjected to physiological, physical and sexual abuse by the colonial government. Lesson here being; you must be ready to sacrifice and suffer in order to bring change.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mabel_Dove-Danquah_1905_%E2%80%93_1984\"><\/span><b>Mabel Dove-Danquah (<\/b><b>1905 &#8211; 1984)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4404 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mabel-Dove-Danquah-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mabel Dove-Danquah. (Twitter)\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mabel-Dove-Danquah-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mabel-Dove-Danquah.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dove-Danquah is a trail-blazing feminist who was well ahead of her time as an outspoken advocate for women\u2019s equality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mabel Ellen Dove Danquah was the daughter of Eva Buckman, a business woman from Osu and Francis Dove a lawyer from Sierra Leone, the first president of the Gold coast bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She later went to England and furthered her studies by completing a secretarial course, her father did not approve of. Dove would continue to do what was not expected of a woman. Using her column Women&#8217;s Corner by Marjorie Mensah in The Times West Africa (Ghana\u2019s first newspaper 1931\u201334)&#8221;she dared women to break with form, to derive inspiration from the suffragists, to denounce imperialism, and to fight for their rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danquah fiction work stands out because it not only challenged colonial and racial legacies, but also called into question male value systems that denied female subjectivity, and envisioned a \u201cnew woman\u201d who could challenge them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She was among a host of women Nkrumah and his Convention People\u2019s Party used to advance the struggle for independence and would go on to become the first African woman to be elected by popular vote to parliament in 1954.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Vera_Chirwa_1932_%E2%80%93_To_date\"><\/span><b>Vera Chirwa (<\/b><b>1932 &#8211; To date)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4403 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Vera-Chirwa-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vera Chirwa. (Pinterest)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Vera-Chirwa-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Vera-Chirwa.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Vera Chirwa is the first female lawyer from Malawi. Her name \u2018Mlangazua\u2019 means truth and she is indeed a fearless woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She endured exile and long years of imprisonment when she, along with her husband <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orton Chirwa<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, fell out with president Hastings Kamuzu Banda. She spent 12 years in prison, separated from her husband who died in prison in 1992, until she was freed in 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following her release, she turned down a lucrative position offer from Geneva, and instead took up the appointment as director of the Legal Resource Centre of the Malawian Law Society.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vera is a founding member of the Malawi Congress Party, which eventually led the country to win independence. She also founded the League of Malawian Women which did not only fight for the rights of women but was a leading supporter of the resistance against white domination in Malawi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vera has been a leading campaigner for human rights and the welfare of the people. She advocated for an end to the death penalty in the country, and was appointed by the African Commission on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights as a Special Reporter on prison condition in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vera Chirwa is the author of \u201cFearless Fighter: An Autobiography\u201d published by Zed Books in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bi_Kidude_1910_-2013\"><\/span><strong>Bi Kidude (1910 -2013)<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4414 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smoking-Bi-Kidude-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Bi Kidude. (artmatters)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smoking-Bi-Kidude-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smoking-Bi-Kidude.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Until she breath her last, Fatma binti Baraka, known as Bi Kidude was a legendary performer of Taarab, a style of Swahili Arab-influenced music, didn&#8217;t give a fuck.<\/p>\n<p>Form a young age she was determined to live her life as she pleases and even run away from a Koranic school at the age of 10.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>&#8220;What was special about Bi Kidude was she lived the life that she wanted to live,&#8221; DJ Rita Ray, who worked on her documentary, As Old As My Tongue, told the BBC&#8217;s Focus on Africa programme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i82\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>&#8220;When she started singing Taraab, the female singers sang beneath the veil. She removed the veil &#8211; that was really revolutionary and so controversial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She followed her own spirit. She ran away from two husbands, she was childless, she drank, she smoked, she really broke their rules but at the same time she embodied all the great cultural aspects of that island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Through her classic songs she sang against social injustice and fought against patriarchy, gender based violence and spoke her mind without giving a fuck.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brenda_Fassie_1964_%E2%80%93_2004\"><\/span><b>Brenda Fassie (<\/b><b>1964 &#8211; 2004)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4401 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Brenda-Fassie-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Fassie. (legacyprojectchicago)\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Brenda-Fassie-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Brenda-Fassie-768x944.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Brenda-Fassie.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She came she saw and she didn\u2019t give a fuck!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brenda Fassie was born on November 3, 1964 in Cape Town township of Langa. Born into a desperately poor family and the youngest of nine children, she loved singing from an early age. Her father died when she was two, and her mother, a cleaner, recognized her daughter&#8217;s talent early on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the age of four, Brenda, named after the US country singer Brenda Lee, was performing at church events, accompanied by her mother on the piano.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At 16, she left Cape Town for Soweto to pursue a singing career. She first joined the group Joy and later became lead singer for the group Brenda and the Big Dudes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1983, she released her debut recording, Weekend Special, a lament about a boyfriend who would see her only at weekends. It was an instant hit and catapulted her to the world arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of her biggest hits include \u201cNo No No Se\u0148or\u201d, \u201cToo Late for Mama\u201d and \u201cVulindela\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1990, the outspoken singer released the single \u201cBlack President\u201d, a tribute to the still imprisoned Nelson Mandela. She then declared that she would stop singing in English, declaring: &#8220;I am proud to be an African.&#8221; Her subsequent songs were in Zulu, Xhosa and Sotho.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brenda Fassie didn\u2019t give a fuck what society thought of her and lived freely at a time when millions of black people were cowering in fear of coming out because of stigma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After her marriage to Big Dudes, a fellow musician crumbled she moved in lesbian lover, Poppie Sihlahla. She was the subject of lurid press scrutiny but she stood steadfast and lived her life according to her own rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even when crack cocaine habit affected her health and career she fought it and went to rehab. Unlike other stars at the time who lived double lives she did not. She inspired by example when she confessed to drug and drink addiction, other prominent musicians went public about theirs. When she took her first lesbian lover, other black celebrities came out of the closet. She is survived by her son, Bongani.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bibi_Titi_Mohamed_1926_%E2%80%93_2000\"><\/span><b>Bibi Titi Mohamed (<\/b><b>1926 &#8211;\u00a0 2000)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4412 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bibi-Titi-Mohamed-3-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bibi Titi Mohamed. (Twitter)\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bibi-Titi-Mohamed-3-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bibi-Titi-Mohamed-3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in 1926 in central Dar es Salaam to a Muslim family, Bibi Titi Mohamed remains one of Tanzania\u2019s freedom heroines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bibi Titi&#8217;s father, a livestock trader and devoted Muslim refused to take her to school for fear of alienating her from the Muslim faith. The advent of Christian missionaries in Tanganyika around this time had created a marked wedge between these two faiths spewing mistrust, discord and antagonism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon her father&#8217;s demise, however, her mother took her to school.\u00a0 She soon discovered that women were discriminated against, and so decided to venture into politics in order to fight for women&#8217;s rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 1950s, she was the pioneer of those pushing for Tanganyika&#8217;s independence from British rule. Within a year of being recruited, as head of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) women\u2019s wing, she had attracted 5,000 women to join. Bibi Titi used women\u2019s cultural and economic network to mobilize, exchange information, sell party membership cards, announce rallies, organize marches, and raise money for TANU, which would go on to become the freedom party of modern Tanzania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Tanganyika&#8217;s independence and in the early years of Tanzania, the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Bibi Titi held different ministerial positions under President Julius Nyerere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortly after independence, Bibi Titi was arrested by the government of her former ally, Julius Nyerere, on trumped-up treason charges. She was sentenced to life in prison but was released after two years on pardon and she spent the rest of her life out of public view.<\/span><\/p>\n <img src='https:\/\/www.erotic-africa.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/dp-post-views\/images\/eyes.png' class='dppv_eyes' width='100' height='100'> 4288","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Temps de lecture: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 12<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 est une m\u00e9chante salope ! 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