Join us at Pan African Women's Day to celebrate our victories and re-commit to the struggle.
Sisters, Its our Time
It’s time for Pan African Women’s Day (PAWD) 2012. This PAWD celebratory conference is being led by and for our future leaders, the Sister Youth of our community and Nation.
We are celebrating Pan African Women’s Day in July 31st (AU declared Pan African Women’s Day) and August 9th (South African Women’s Day).
There are events being held from Washington DC to Accra, Ghana and many other cities in between.
Sisters, it is our time!
We are calling for African Women to “Embrace our power and Occupy the Space”.
What does that mean?
Our theme reflects our present realities: the African Union (AU) has declared this the Decade of the African Woman 2010 to 2020. The theme and call is a grassroots approach to addressing the challenging situation in Africa and the needs of the people at the local and village level which more than anything reflects the role and condition of the women. Some of the objectives are fighting poverty and encouraging and supporting economic empowerment. Providing or at least advocating agricultural and food security. Health and maternal mortality. Education, science and technology. Most important, peace and security and stopping the violence against women and girls.
These are lofty goals but African women have not only had huge challenges, which are a reflection of the challenges of Africa as a whole, but we also have made signficant advances.
Africa had its first female President elected in 2006 with Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf. Sister Waangari Maathai is our first African Woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She recently made her transition but she made considerable contribution to the environmental movement in Africa and the world and in providing alternatives for African women for economic and cultural security.
Several African states have elected women to their parliaments with 48% holding seats in Rwanda to Tanzania and South Africa holding 30% of parliamentary seats. Today, we learned that South African Minister Dlamina Zuma won the chair position to the African Union. This is our Time!!!
Celebrating Pan African Women's Day allows us to acknowledge our accomplishments as African Women organizers and to commit ourselves to the continued education and liberation work for our future generations. We highlight the herstoric contributions of 50,000 South African Women who marched on the apartheid government in 1955 August 9th to demand the end of colonialism in Africa, to honor those great African Women warriors who have made significant contributions to our struggle for unity, for peace, and for the African Liberation movement.
“Africa had its first female President elected in 2006 with Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf. Sister Waangari Maathai is our first African Woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.”
With strong representation of young Sister activists, cultural artists, wellness providers and social scientist, we will offer an energize program with lively panels and workshops and in Los Angeles, we will have our first Sister Speaks Concert introducing Sister Nusaiba Legacy, youth organizer, mother and cultural artist out of New York.
What we need is a place to share educational and enlightening and uplifting information, edutainment and also allow sisters voices to be heard.
It is our time. Join us in celebrating Pan African Women's Day, Empowering Sisters throughout the Diaspora. Learn about the Decade of the African Woman and celebrate the recent election of Chairwoman Dlamina Zuma to the African Union. Help us to expand our work for African Unity through strong. loving and committed Pan African Sisterhood and Organization!
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