Saw this info online and decided to bring it here for my readers.Even an Ex-President knows the truth about gender equality and African tradition.Nice.Enjoy reading as culled from Reuters Africa.
Banda, Malawi's first female president and the second woman to lead an African country after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, told delegates at a conference on African women's empowerment that a confrontational western style would not work in Africa.
She described how she had once received women's leadership training in New York, where participants were told to be assertive, stand straight and look people in the eye.
"If I had done that, for example while talking to a traditional ruler in Africa, I would have been rejected immediately," Banda said, explaining that she believed in feminism and in equal rights for women, but also in "doing things the African way".
"If you want to take the western route, all you will get is rejection, frustration. Confrontation will never work," she said in a speech at the Sheroes Forum in Dubai.
"If you want to fight men to get equal rights, you will get frustrated," said Banda.
"When you don't have the money, you can't stand for elective power, not in Africa," she added.
Culled from Reuters Africa
No comments:
Post a Comment