FMP Friday

This is a sequel to Yavi Madurai’s fortnight blog, The Future is Here: A New World Order has been Set in Motion on Africa’s Soil under the subtitle: BRICS and the AfCFTA Effect.     It was two weeks ago that South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the BRICS Summit…

There has been much ado about the XV BRICS Summit that concluded yesterday a few kilometers up the road from me in Johannesburg, South Africa. Although we have had 14 previous BRICS summits and BRICS has existed for just more than 14 years, nothing has really come out of the…

A meeting that will one day be recorded in history as the day the health and prosperity of African women & girls’ future was forever changed.     On August 9, 1956, four South African women catalysed women’s liberation on the African continent, leading a march of 20 000 multiracial women…

Nine months before the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was birthed, the Pan African Women’s Organisation (PAWO) was born on July 31, 1962, to bring together African women’s organizations on a platform for joint action to promote human rights and gender equality.     I bore witness to the day…

Beyonce’s ‘girl power anthem’ plays in my earphones, as I write this blog on 11th July 2023, exactly 20 years since The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa was signed. Better known as the Maputo Protocol, the African Union charter…