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Thomas Sankara: Women's Liberation & the African Freedom Struggle

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The Economic Emancipation of Women

The educated and economically independent woman is sought after as lover and wife in good times and abandoned as soon as bad times arrive. The education, an economic emancipation of women, if not well understood and channelled in a constructive direction, can be a source of misfortune for the woman, and thus for society as a whole. An educated woman has trouble finding a husband, it is said. The woman with independent means is suspect. They are all condemned to remain single. How could such women possibly feel alone in these conditions? We must collectively remain alert to women's access to productive work. It is this work that emancipates and liberates women by assuring them economic independence and a greater

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