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Kenya is on the right path towards gender equality

Women recently celebrated the International Women’s Day, a day when the world commemorates the struggles and accomplishments and also explore the potential and opportunities that await future generations.

Women are the pillars of any given society.

As Africa’s Marxist revolutionary and Pan-Africanist theorist, the late President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, rightly put it: “The revolution and women’s liberation go together. We do not talk of women’s emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.”

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