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Well, Madam, that's quite a rant, it wd b rude not to respond since you bothered. U congratulate yourself for being able to "read beyond the headlines" yet your entire threat is predicated on those headlines.
Well, Madam, that's quite a rant, it wd b rude not to respond since you bothered. U congratulate yourself for being able to "read beyond the headlines" yet your entire threat is predicated on those headlines.
You title yourself a PanAfricanist&yet direct your vitriol at the one African leader who more than anyone else is putting PanaAfrican ideas into action. You r absolutely right to reserve the right to comment on any African nation, or any nation for that matter, what a shame
you fail to use that right for anything worthwhile. U dismiss #Rwanda's gender equality achievements as "posturing", Rwandan women as "gatekeepers for patriarchy" so much for support for the sisterhood. Of course far from posturing, gender equality policies in Rwanda begun in law
Whether in inheriting land, equality within marriage etc...a girl child born in Rwanda today has the exact same opportunities as her brother. Yet to you that's "posturing." As far I know no one in Rwanda claimed "exceptionalism" but it is exceptional, something you clearly
recognise but lack the generosity and frankly the intellectual honesty to give credit where it's due. Should you really not be gazing in the mirror if you want to understand what posturing really looks like. Your posturing as a PanAfricanist is most egregious of all:
No true PanAfricanist can fail to be gladened by an example of what Africans can achieve if PanAfrican ideas are put into action. And that under the most challenging of circumstances. Every cliche beloved of Western media and commentators seems to trip oh so easily from your
supposedly "PanAfrican tongue". Your feminism credentials, whatever they may be are not enhanced because you parrot "Dictator" "Patriarchy" #PaulKagame has done and will do more for women than you can ever achieve with little more than vituperative hot air.
There is no dictatorship in Rwanda. What there is, is equality for all, where women are building the nation that any self respecting PanAfricanist can only applaud, but you throw brickbats. You talk of jailing prospective female presidential candidates on "trumped up charges"
Based on what? On your apparent to rant against #Rwanda? One presumes you mean Ingabire and Rwigara. One was in jail for genocide related crimes, the other, another posturing woman, for forging signatures. And do you know how the authorities knew she had forged
signatures? Allow me to enlighten u: whoever she paid to gather the names, added some names from a rival party, which complained. But why bother with facts, you have handy terms like "Patriarchy" and "Dictator" just throw those about, claim an ability to read beyond the Headlines
And tweet. Judging from your understanding of that reading beyond the headlines, I fear your literacy may need remedial support. I wonder, have you ever been to Rwanda? If you want to see a land where "matriarchy" walks hand in hand with "patriarchy" in equality
Do visit either Rwanda or the Scandinavian nations. Only they are ahead of Rwanda. And if you wish to see Africa would like, if the ideal of PanAfricanism were put into action, do visit. And if you want to see why #PaulKagame is much admired not only nationally
but internationally, do visit. And if you really want to learn how to read beyond the headlines, do ask. And finally, what an absurd notion that somehow 2020 is a new parallel universe where nothing of 2019 may venture. Why wouldn't there be more ignorance in 2020 than there was
In 2019?
