Tag: african women in politics

“I don’t want to be a compliment to anybody else. I want to be me. I am not an entertainer. I do not want a borrowed rib!” So came the impassioned statement by Malawi presidential candidate Jessie Kabwila, a woman toughened by a strangely unapologetic anti-female prevailing political tradition in a country already headed by a woman president. Finding herself in the unusual position of running against a fellow woman in majority male-led Africa, Kabwila…