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Why this hostility against women in Africa?

In the now highly acclaimed TED talk entitled “The Danger of a Single Story”, award-winning author Chimamanda Adichie makes the point that when you show a person as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, that is what they become.

In other words, to define a person, especially to define a person in the media, perception is more important than reality. Women leaders in Kenya have been especially susceptible to twisted attacks by a male-dominated patriarchal system that is unable and unwilling to countenance women as part of the power structure.

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