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Senegal: The Decade and its Consequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2019

Fatou Sow
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The significance of the UN Decade for Women, in Africa as a whole and in Senegal in particular, must be assessed not only in terms of what was gained and what was not, but also in terms of where we started and the odds we were up against. For women in Africa, the decade meant the droit a la parole — the right to speak out, and the right be heard -- whether this right was won or granted, exercised spontaneously or in organized ways, and even if it was controlled or censored. Discourse by women on women was opened. Women seized the right to speak for themselves about themselves, sometimes freely, and sometimes cautiously within imposed limits.

Type
FOCUS: Beyond Nairobi: Women’s Politics and Policies in Africa Revisited
Information
African Issues , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Summer 1989 , pp. 32 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1989 

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* Anne C. Rennick teaches French at the University of Texas at El Paso.

** Catherine Boone, Assistant Professor of Government at University of Texas at Austin, helped with the translation and editing of this article. ISSUE and the African Studies Association appreciate the support available for translation from U.T.-El Paso.