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Women Loom Large in African Secessionist Movements
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 May 2019

In Cameroon and the former Spanish Sahara, “women are using traditional ideas about power to drives these secessionist movements,” said Jacqueline Bethel-Mougoue, a professor of history at Baylor University. In Cameroon, for example, female activists emphasize that “women’s traditional power is essential” to the movement.

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