Feisty woman challenges Kenya's male culture
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In a continent where men still dominate, Esther Passaris is an anomaly impossible to ignore -- and anyone who tries is likely to get an earful.
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âStrikeâ tells the story of a tough, resilient working woman who refuses to back down from her fight with the bosses.
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If there is one thing Kenyans of any political stripe can agree on, it is nyama choma.
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Dr. Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who started an environmental movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and who has campaigned for women&#39;s rights and greater
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Shukria Gul, a Pakistani woman infected with HIV by her late husband, campaigns fervently in this Islamic republic for funds and awareness to prevent it going down the path of rampant HIV/AIDS infection.
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Pentecostal women are demanding more of their husbands and themselves as they move beyond civil war.
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Lying in a hospital bed in this rural hub of Kenya's Rift Valley, a man describes surviving two machete wounds to his head and multiple slashes to his hands. He says he was attacked by people who now live by the rules of tribalism.
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After a wave of ethnic violence, Kenya has been in the process of segregating itself.
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Jacob Zuma, who survived rape and corruption charges to become the president-in-waiting of South Africa, has harsh words for Kenya and Nigeria, where recent elections were marred by alleged fraud, violence and disputed results.
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Fatma Benli has been a central, if reluctant, participant in the fight in Turkey over whether covered women should be allowed to go to college.
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Despite tough odds, some Mideast women are gaining power.
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Wangari Maathai rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa - poor women. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was praised by the awarding committee as &quot;a source
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Using golf clubs, rocks and machetes, neighbour turns on neighbour in Kenya's slums
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Women now entering their 30s want prospective partners willing to break from traditional gender roles.
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Looting, arson and murder have become hallmarks of Kenya's conflict over a disputed presidential election. Another, less talked about tactic in the violence that has degenerated into ethnic clashes: rape.
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OSLO -- The first African woman and the first Kenyan to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award yesterday to the beat of drums and dancers that broke with the usual stodgy ceremony.
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To Mauritaniaâs men, fat is sexy, so women resort to force-feeding and steroid use in pursuit of obesity.