... "Do not cry, do not sit to mourn. You must do something: do something rather than mourn or expect help from anyone" (Elisabeth Abebe)
Taking advantage of the institute celebrated the day of the book devoted Africa, I wanted to go ahead and meet a few women here very close to the continent, some were born there and others not, but all are somehow related to the African soil and all have one thing in common: they have fought for it they wanted to, I think the phrase Elisabeth Abebe (you can find out more about it at the entrance) and the image of Miriam Makeba of more than 70 years and shortly before his death is sufficient to illustrate what I mean.
THE UNIVERSAL
Saturday March 5, 2011 12:00 AM
"On March 4, 1932 was born in South Africa Miriam Makeba, one of the greatest exponents of world culture. His favorite song, Pata Pata, can be heard on various stations.
Rather than talking about music of the singer and their impact, it is interesting to understand that Makeba was a person who managed to overcome the obstacles that were imposed by system to do what I wanted, singing. No matter the barriers and the disgraceful apartheid minority racist regime and would like to raise, His voice was always a melody emanating peace and freedom meet.
Miriam Makeba is an example of hope for humanity and is also a symbol para aquellos que se empecinan en alcanzar sus sueños y hacer que sus ideales se cumplan sin importar las trabas que los gobernantes de turno intenten colocar. La cantante sudafricana no sucumbió ante la arbitrariedad de un gobierno que le impidió volver a su país durante mucho tiempo y ante la medida de revocarle sus contratos y boicotear sus discos por parte de algunas instituciones. Siguió fiel a sus principios entonando una canción para la vida.
Makeba demostró que no hay arbitrariedad ni bayonetas que puedan silenciar el grito de justicia, democracia y libertad de los individuos y que pese a la represión siempre es posible triunfar con convicciones y valores si las metas están claras.(...)"
LUIS DANIEL ÁLVAREZ V.
Jane Goodall "... in Kenya was in contact with the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey (1903-1972) and, although it did not have adequate academic training, after expressing his interest in the study of animals, was hired as an assistant, and traveled with him and his wife (the archeologist Mary Leakey) to the Olduvai Gorge in search of fossil hominids.
Later, Leakey was offered the opportunity to study chimpanzees in their environment natural, in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. They moved in July 1960 for three months, accompanied by her mother, with reservations British authorities of letting a young woman lived alone with wildlife ... "(a biography of Jane Goodall, the link below)
Jane Goodall Biography
But long before the nineteenth century, other women decided to leave their life comfortable and civilized "and get into the mysterious African continent.
Even
long before other women shaped the history of Africa:
And there are women in Africa, that act and "do not feel to mourn, or expected that no one come to save "...
woman whose voice and words have marked paths:
Nadine Gordimer is a writer South African Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1991.
If you want to read a short story I leave him this link;
http://labibliotecadeorem.blogspot.com/2009/10/nadine-gordimer-un-hallazgo.html
sometimes with a different view things ...
And some have unfortunately lost their lives by opening new perspectives ...
For all the women I've known ...
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