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The Silent Plight of Serer Widows: Senegal's Inheritance Injustice The Silent Plight of Serer Widows How Traditional Inheritance Systems Leave Senegal's Women Landless and Vulnerable The African Gourmet January 22, 2025 Women's Rights & Culture When Protection Becomes Predation In the fertile farmlands of Senegal's Fatick region, where the Serer people have maintained their cultural traditions for centuries, a quiet crisis unfolds each time a husband dies. While Serer funeral traditions honor the deceased with elaborate rites and community mourning, the living—specifically widows—often face systematic dispossession that leaves them economically stranded and socially isolated. As documented in Afr...

Africa averages around four coups per year. Burkina Faso has the most successful coups in Africa, eight. Seven African countries, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia had coups; an illegal and overt attempt to unseat sitting leaders in 2021. Africa averages around four coups and coup attempts per year however 2021 was unusually high with three failed coup attempts and four successful. The year 2022 has started with two coups on the African Continent. There were successful coups in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Guinea and failed military takeovers in Tunisia, Niger and Sudan. Burkina Faso, in West Africa, has had the most successful coups , with eight takeovers, four alleged coups and one failed coup. January 23, 2022 was the latest coup in Burkina Faso. A coup is a illegal seizure of power by a political group civilian or military who forcefully carries out the removal of the sitting government and its powers. A political or military coup causes intense sectar...

The Inadequacy of the Word Black The term black is widely used to describe a complex and diverse group of people with shared histories and cultural connections. However, this single word often fails to capture the true diversity within this group, and in some cases, it may even perpetuate harmful stereotypes. This article explores the limitations of the word black and considers the benefits of adopting a more inclusive term: Diaspora. Limitations of the Term Black The word black is a color that is often associated with negative connotations, such as darkness, suffering, and death.  These associations weren't accidental; they were historically constructed and reinforced to justify oppression and maintain power structures. For centuries, European colonizers and slave traders used the concept of "blackness" to dehumanize African people, associating it with inferiority and savagery.  This created a deeply ingrained prejudice that continues to impact society today. However, it...

In April 2020 more than 50 young men in a small village in Cabo Delgado province were murdered for reportedly resisting recruitment into al-Shabaab. In April 2020, more than 50 young men in the small village of Muidumbe in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, were murdered by suspected members of the Islamic State-affiliated militant group al-Shabaab. The men were reportedly killed for refusing to join al-Shabaab, which has been waging an insurgency in Cabo Delgado since 2017. The killings in Muidumbe were the latest in a series of atrocities committed by al-Shabaab in Cabo Delgado. In 2020, the group was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians, the displacement of tens of thousands more, and the destruction of entire villages. The violence in Cabo Delgado has had a devastating impact on the province. The economy has been crippled, and the provision of basic services, such as healthcare and education, has been severely hampered. The humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado is one ...