as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer with a mission. but i never was aware that i had a mission when i started to write, you see. it didn t work it doesn t work like that. i maen, i don t sit at my desk and say, now i ve got to depict this, and depict that. no. first of all, i was rather young when i started writing, so i didn t even have any notion of where my would be read, or how, and stuff like that. so it wasn t a conscious decision, but
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she s been soccised into a certain space and she is being that woman in that space, that doesn t mean that, you know, that s all there is to her. my problem with seeing african women the words oppressed and so on and so forth it removes any agency from african women. as if we are just there, you know, to be oppressed, to make babies. and mind you and if you don t mind my saying it s not all african societies that practice female genital mutilation. and africa is not the only place where it is done. ,, the only place where it is done, ,, ., , , , done. sure. it happens in the middle east done. sure. it happens in the middle east as done. sure. it happens in the middle east as well. - done. sure. it happens in the middle east as well. yes. - done. sure. it happens in thej middle east as well. yes. but ou middle east as well. yes. but you have middle east as well. yes. but you have said middle east as well. yes. but you have said that middle east as well. yes. but you
as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer
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