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Women Loom Large in African Secessionist Movements
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 May 2019
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In Cameroon and the former Spanish Sahara, “women are using traditional ideas about power to drives these secessionist movements,” said Jacqueline Bethel-Mougoue, a professor of history at Baylor University. In Cameroon, for example, female activists emphasize that “women’s traditional power is essential” to the movement.

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