FYI Feminist Activity in Africa

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Eiman--Ken Libby is still around!

Oh no!

Jan

>Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:25:53 -0500
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>Subject: FYI Feminist Activity in Africa
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>        Femeconers,
>
>        I just spied this item on another net, and thought some may benefit
>and take heart from this.   If you know more about the activities
>mentioned, please contact Teena and see if you can inform the rest of us.
>
>        Appreciating all the contributions,
>        Kenneth Libby
>        U of Tennessee, Knoxville
>        THLIBBY@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>"piti" is Sanskirt for "interest and joy in the service of others"
>
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>From:   IN%"ECONOMY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx"  "Economic Problems in Less Developed
>        Countries" 24-MAR-1994 15:01:31.91
>From: "Arthur R. McGee" <amcgee@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Women's World Banking (fwd)
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>From: tjneal@xxxxxxxxxxx (Teena J Neal)
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
>Subject: Women's World Banking
>Date: 15 Mar 1994 21:55:26 GMT
>Organization: University of Guelph
>
>At the African Studies Association meeting in Boston, USA, December 1993,
>I gave a paper on colonial women's organizations in Kenya as agents of
>counter-insurgency during the Mau Mau war of independence in the 1950s.
>The now official state women's organization - Maendeleo ya Wanawake - was
>used to try and crush indigenous Kenyan women's collectives which were
>actively participating in the freedom struggle. When I made this argument,
>a Kenyan women spoke in remarkable resonance from the floor:
>
>"It is important to mention that UNIFEM commissioned a meeting on women
>and credit and there was a coalition that was formed - the International
>Coalition for Women and Credit - which is chaired by a woman, the head of
>the SEWA Bank (Self-Employed Women's Association) and we have the Grameen
>Bank, we have all the organizations of the wolrd which are dealing with
>women and credit...So what we are saying is that the fight is now on the
>international forum. We drafted a manifesto. We are saying that the women
>of the world have to get together. We have to use the UN forum and ensure
>that the same UN is going to tell our government, going to tell the World
>Bank, going to tell the international agencies giving access to credit,
>that we demand - *this time we are demanding* - that a certain amount of
>money, that a certain percentage...should actually be directed to women.
>We have been talking in conferences, we have been coming up with
>documents...it hasn't worked. Now we are going to action."
>
>This woman (name unknown) also spoke of how Moi (current prez of Kenya) is
>trying to place women from Maendeleo ya Wanawake on the policy board of
>this international coalition - that they are trying to use bourgeois women
>to subvert the initiatives of grassroots women once again, and that "it
>won't work".
>
>I am very interested to know more about these initiatives and to support
>these women in their organizing and presentation to the UN in any way
>possible. Does anybody have any information about this or comments? I know
>that they are planning on meeting 4 times between now and February 1995.
>Is anyone out there involved or know of any leads of where i can find out
>more? Any replies much appreciated, either to the net or to me personally
>at: tjneal@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Sincerely,
>tj
>
>--Boundary (ID HHA+CyH6kAzRhK0vx7gI6w)--
>
>
Janet