Help me bring out the light in Struggling Daughters of Afri

Charles Wadaagu Start Date: Aug 9, 2020 - End Date: Feb 8, 2021
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Leadership/Training Program
  • Lusaka, Zambia
  • Accra, Ghana
  • Gaborone, Botswana
  • Maseru, Lesotho

My Travel Story

by: Charles Wadaagu Start Date: Aug 9, 2020 - End Date: Feb 8, 2021
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Leadership/Training Program
I am a Feminist Novelist and Poet as well as an Academic Author. Throughout my life, I have preoccupied my self with bringing out the light and life in the struggling but often despised and Marginalized women of Africa.  I have brought out the shine in the daughters of Africa through my Novels; ' In Tight Corners of Life, Sunrise at Midnight, and The Lion shall lie with the Lamb' This light has, however, been undermined by immense poverty, joblessness, domestic violence, fear, self-negation, inferiority complexes ordered by a culture of male dominance and exploitation

During the prolonged COVID 19 Lockdown, their have been many unfortunate reports  sending darkness and uncertainty in the dreams and destinies of the daughters of Africa. In Kenya over 4000 school girls were reported pregnant during the lockdown! In Uganda over 1000  school girls have been imprignanted during the lockdown. All over Africa, women continue to experience and live a sub-human life as a result of deliberati male domination, exploitation and marginalisation. Parents still force their premature daughters into marriage!  Girls are still denied Education! Many ladies in Africa still sacrifice themselves to get jobs or sustain them!

The proposed travel all enable me meet several  womel groups, leaders, opinion leaders, academics, women activist, who will  bring in ideas, experience, and information on how we can make the African Woman shine. There are also traditions and cultural views and attitudes that have to change in order for the African Woman to achieve her full potential.  A woman with five daughters and no son is regarded as childless in many parts of Africa! Among the  Bamasaba of Uganda and Kikunyu of Kenya, a woman married to an unciircumcized man is still regarded unmarried!

Please support this project. It will result into the production and publication of a documentary that will touch many lives . I will train Women my's Groups and engage cultural groups to come out cteativi to present a positive imagine of the African Daughter!
  • Lusaka, Zambia
  • Accra, Ghana
  • Gaborone, Botswana
  • Maseru, Lesotho