I will make no excuses for being a woman A woman, the woman, I am. I will make no excuses for being an opinionated female A female, the female, I am. I will make no excuses for being an emancipated lady A lady, the lady, I am. I will make no excuses for my curved …
Dear Somali youth. For many years. You sat all day by the bomb-shelled walls. Your future was massacred. Stolen from you. Your innocence too. You sat amongst people who lost their souls, and all hope. For 20 years, you watched the daily bombings, the killings. You lost your self worth and confidence. Your dignity had …
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I am the sister of the martyr. I am the aunt of the potato seller at the local market. I am the daughter of the local sheikh. I am the injured of the revolution. The protester. The jailed. The detained. I am the tortured. The exiled. The kidnapped. The raped. I am the veiled. The …
Impeded. By the lengthy stretch of an arms reach. I regressed. To the abuse of a mind’s dominating preach. Hindered. By the limits of a watchful eye’s sight. I employed. The guidance of visionary’s perception and insight. Splintered. Free of the chain’s contrived by the influences of a culture’s con. I surrendered To the spiritual healing of …
The Somalia Gender Hub aims to advance studies and the provision of data and evidence on gender and the situation of women in Somalia