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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that the economy is not going great. the political situation is very constrained, but he comes off a brilliantly executed world cup. he was speaking with the president of croatia, and now he is meeting with the president of the united states who is still the leader of the free world and the most powerful office in the whole world. what we just witnessed here with this safe landing, and him in the car, equals a victory for putin. i m not talking about travel safety, i m talking about world perception. she getting a pomp and circumstance big time meeting with the president of the united states in a historic location in helsinki that has been home to many big matters of importance. he is legitimatized, respected,
entirely on spending. there is another part called taxing and why it is that we should be considering something as drastic as a government shut down and it is drastic in terms of world perception and voter perception. i just don t understand. the rich are rich. they re called rich cause they re rich. there is basically no economic cost to them of a rise in their income tax. they will be rich anyway. what are you saying? we want them to be. i m saying we should have everything on the table. not just spending cuts. but also tax increases. oh, come on. you re just crazy. they never raise it on the rich. they make it on those making 250,000. i know people making $5 million or more and still making money. that s you in a week. we re going to take a quick