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Decolonizing Sexuality: The Women Giving Africa The Modern Sex Ed It Needs

In countries and communities where sexuality is often kept under wraps, more and more women are taking up their microphones, pens and keyboards to talk about intimate issues without filters.

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In The News

A Brief History Of Patriarchy, And How To Topple It

Many people assume the patriarchy has always been there, but how did it really originate? History shows us that there can be another way.

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Society

Pssst, Russian Oligarchy, How About A Little Polygamy?

When there’s too much wealth inequality, there’s no strong middle class to drive economic growth. Dividing inheritances among more people would help. And that’s where harems come in.

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Society

Polygamy Fading Out Of Fashion For African Muslims, Men And Women Alike

GOMA – Young Muslim men in the Democratic Republic of Congo are less interested in having several wives than their fathers were. Facing rising prices and feuds over inheritance, the new generation doesn’t see how the benefits outweigh the costs of having multiple spouses in the same household. As for the women of the current […]

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Ideas

In Morocco, A Call For Polygamy To Reduce Ranks Of Unmarried Women

–Analysis– RABAT – Recent estimates from the Moroccan High Commission For Planning (HCP) found the median age for marriage in Morocco was 31 for men and 27 for women. There are many reasons for this – more years spent studying, and the high cost of housing and wedding ceremonies being the most obvious. Some, it […]

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Eyes on the U.S.

Latin America To Romney And Obama: Get Serious About Immigration

-Analysis- SANTIAGO – If Mitt Romney’s Mexican father had been deported or had not been able to enter the United States in July 1912, the Republican candidate would not have been born in Detroit in March 1947, Bain Capital would not have existed and, most probably, the citizens of the state of Massachusetts would not […]

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