African Women: Changing the Narrative - Economic Empowerment

African Women Changing the Narrative

We are proud to have had the honour and privilege of documenting in film UN Women and Africa Union’s documentary series on ‘African Women Changing the Narrative - Our Story’.
We travelled to Zambia, Malawi, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to help African women amplify their voices as they change Africa’s narrative.

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1. African Women Changing the Narrative Trailer

2. African Women Changing the Narrative: “Women’s Leadership” - Watch African women occupy a space you thought they shied away from. African women were organised as the Pan African Women’s Organisation (PAWO) a year before the OAU was even formed! Watch the women tell their story.

3. Economic Empowerment: “A bank for African Women” - African women have started banks for African women and they are driving development through financing women’s busi-nesses. They not only run the banks, they also run huge business empires that straddle the globe.

4. Ending Child Marriage: “NO to Child Marriage; YES to Education” - African women take a stand against child marriages and help enact laws across the continent to outlaw child mar-riages and put children back to school.

5. Peace and Security: “Silencing Guns by 2020” - “There is no peace without women.. Women do not initiate wars but suffer most in times of conflict. In this video, women make a case for their inclusion in conflict prevention and peacekeeping.

6. Agriculture: “Retire the Hoe to the Museum” With 25% of the world’s arable land in Africa and more than half the workforce on that land being women, it is time that the hoe, as the preeminent farming implement in Africa, is consigned to the museum. Let’s grow women’s her gains and increase their worth.

7. Health - Ending Violence Against Women: Protecting Women’s Sexual & Reproductive Rights” - African women were a big part of the fight against Ebola and they lead in the protection of women’s sexual and reproductive rights. Watch African women’s contribution to ending violence against women and their effort to restore confidence in the health sector of a country devastated by the Ebola virus