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
of wildlife charities. 0n the first stamps featuring king charles iii have been unveiled by the royal mail. more than 9,500 people are now known to have died following two devastating earthquakes which hit turkey and syria. that death toll is likely to rise significantly as rescue workers and civilians continue to search the rubble and survivors trapped beneath it succumb to their injuries and the bitterly cold weather. the earthquakes were the biggest in the region since 1939 and they triggered dozens of aftershocks along the east anatolian fault line, which is one of the world s most active areas for seismic activity. this is the scene live. this is gaziantep in the south east of turkey, the historic city of gaziantep. so many buildings destroyed, as in other cities in turkey and indeed threw into syria. and a delicate operation for the rescue as there, as they try to determine whether anyone still survives under collapsed buildings like this. international rescue teams
world powers condemn the self styled referendums being held in parts of ukraine on whether to join russia the home secretary tells police chiefs that common sense policing must take priority over diversity and inclusion initiatives as she sets out her priorities for her crime cutting agenda. hello and welcome. the government has defended its sweeping range of tax cuts from criticism that they favour the better off. the chancellor kwasi kwarteng s package of measures include scrapping the top rate of income tax for the highest earners and reducing the basic rate by a penny moves the government say will promote growth. the institute for fiscal studies says the richest who pay the most tax will benefit most. our political correspondent helen catt reports. it s an all out attempt to grow the economy with the biggest tax cuts in four decades. at spitalfields market in east london, they are taking stock of a mini budget that s signalled a massive shift in political direction.
her country shaped her fiction? anne enright, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. well, it s great to have you here. now, to an outsider, you do seem like a deeply rooted writer. that sounds so dull, doesn t it? yeah, no, ishould have gone places and done things, and i did a little, but, yeah, i returned to ireland. but would you acknowledge that those roots are hugely important to you? i pass the building where i was born when i go into town. so it is, it is quite close. yeah. it s fascinating because, just the other day, i interviewed a colombian novelist and he said to me, i only really was able to write about my country and the things that really mattered to me when i left it, when i had a little bit of space and distance and freedom to actually express what i really thought. but you ve always felt free enough from within. orfoolish enough one or the other to say whatever i wanted to say at any given time. yeah, um. ..so i think it was difficult in the deep pas
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