Absent Voices In Africa: Women Should Be Leading The Efforts To Breakthrough

These voices have been relegated in Africa, and very often not part of the decision and the leading voice in the continent, which is the lacuna that need to be filled. Women voices are the absent voices in Africa, with the turmoil that is going on in Africa, it is time for them to make their voices to be heard and form part of the conversations. Africa with the traditional set up that limit the chances of women joining the conversations and contributing to the major decision making, women representation in Africa is very low to compare the active participation of women in European politics, and the need to see things from different positions and have more options to the problems.

African society that strives on sexism and divisions among genders, women need to be breaking out of their shells in order to serve as leading voices, many factors are restrictive to this course, but if driven by the passion to represent, which other women who made the difference did, it is going to be breakthrough time in Africa, women are highly handicapped with the mainstream that “ it is for men” syndrome Africa, and important positions both in private and public sectors they are underrepresented, and it has become an issue of whether active participation in the conservations could change the narrative in Africa, and give younger girls the passion and platform to represent.

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The highest position held by a woman in Africa, internationally is the World Trade Organization Director General, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, from Nigeria, country that strives on aborting any political ambition of woman, and highly believed that women are second class citizens that are politically irrelevant, it serves as deterrent to young girls that aspire to be influential in the world of politics and even beyond public life. Amina Mohammed the Assist Secretary-General of United Nations, is also another figure from Nigeria, who could be a voice to younger generation in reaching the goals and dreams that have set for themselves.

Africa needs dynamism and flexibility across the system, and that’s what makes European system looks balanced and working, because all the voices are being heard, so they can deduce from different angles and arrive at the decision-making point. In some part of Africa training women educationally are seen as a waste of funds to use to train men to the highest education attainment in life, this is a dangerous reasoning that has held the system in captivity killing the notion of prosperous atmosphere, Africa is very far from arriving in that society, the drastic changes can arise where there is proper exposure and enlightenment of the masses.

These absent voices could be the missing link in Africa, if it is properly integrated into the driving force without compromise. This is beyond gender parity, it is a course that is going to provide Africa with options, the major problem is that leaders are static and authoritarian with their ideas and not open to wider consultations, and at the end the poor masses became greatest losers. In this time the continent is loosening all its grid in all sectors, it needs active inclusiveness to the matters affecting the populace, the absent voices could be the lead conservation that is going fill the lacuna in Africa.