Episodes
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Being from Sierra Leone from Ebola to Corona
From Sierra Leone to the world
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Women's Day 2020 - Generation Equality - Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff - Sierra Leone
Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff is a human rights lawyer and women's rights advocate that has been at the forefront of Sierra Leone's women's movement for three decades.
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Women's Day 2020 - Generation Equality - Dr. Aisha Fofana-Ibrahim - Sierra Leone
Dr. Aisha Fofana-Ibrahim is a feminist and Sierra Leone's foremost scholar on gender, and women's empowerment. She leads the Institute for Gender Research and Documentation (INGRADOC) at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.
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Women's Day 2020 - Generation Equality - Dr. Majeks - Walker - Sierra Leone
Dr. Majeks-Walker is a 72-year-old pioneer and leader of Sierra Leone's women's movement. She has dedicated her life to the fight for women's inclusion and representation across all aspects of public life especially in local, regional, and national government.
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GoWoman Podcast 4 - Speak the Unspeakable - Jeneba's Story
This is a conversation with a young Sierra Leonean woman who fought off her attacker. Promising to pay her school fees, a family friend lured Jeneba to his house. Upon arrival, he asked that in exchange for her fees, Jeneba should become his girlfriend. When she refused his advances he tried to...
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GoWoman Podcast 3 - Jane's Story
This is one woman's story about surviving child abuse, rape, and intimate partner violence. After years of suffering in silence, 25-year-old Jane has found the courage to tell her story as a survivor of repeated cases of gender-based violence in Sierra Leone. Tune in to bear witness to her…
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GoWoman Podcast 2 - Speaking the Unspeakable
At the age of 12, Bakie joined the all-female Bondo Secret Society where she was circumcised. At 13 she was sent away to live in the US as a means of protecting her from child sexual abuse. When she joined Sierra Leone's foreign service in 1978 she was told that she would quit when she got…
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The GoWoman Podcast - Ep 1 - I am not my mother
The GoWoman Podcast is a series exploring the issues and topics important to the 21st Century African Woman. The GoWoman is a free thinker.