Category: Gender & health

By Itai Muchena, Reading Politics, Ohio State University, US AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa The Legacy of the Berlin Conference of 1884 by Itai Muchena The hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that today divide Africa into 50 plus irregular nations under Eurocentric subjugation all started in Berlin, Germany on November 15, 1884. The infamous Berlin Conference still remains Africa’s greatest undoing in more ways than one, where colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent and tore apart the social, political and economic fabric that held the continent together. By the time independence returned to Africa between 1956 and 1994,...

By Reformed Open Community Schools (ROCS) Executive Director, Marlon Lester Phiri ROCS CALLS FOR FIRM COMMITMENT TO ADDRESS   For immediate release               1st June,2017  The Reformed Open Community Schools (ROCS) would like to call on the various stakeholders in the country to fully commit themselves towards addressing matters related to menstrual hygiene at all levels of the community in order to break the silence about taboos and raise awareness on the importance of good Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) for women and adolescent girls in the country. As an organisation that works for the promotion of education in community schools targeting vulnerable adolescent children, ROCS feels...