African women

Women everywhere have had to push the grain in society. Everyday women fight

for their human rights. We live in an age where women have gained access, and freedoms

to explore a wide range of interest, and life styles more than they ever could in the past. We have a long ways to go. In the past, women have been oppressed to a point where they were treated as a completely different species. They were in a country that seemed to be a dark tunnel with no hope, dreams, or sense of fulfillment. Some women still are in the dark tunnel, while others are still there.
Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of those women that came out of her dark tunnel. Tsitsi was born in 1959 in what was then Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe. (www.arts.uwa.edu) Although she was born in Africa she spent most of her childhood in Britain. (www.emory.edu) She did make her return to Africa. In 1975 she returned to Rhodesia and her completed her primary and secondary education. (www.arts.uwa.edu) She was n...