Are only black Africans African, or does this include white Zimbabweans and Arab Egyptians?
To be African is to inhabit an identity shaped by a complicated history, politics and geography.
Yet there is one aspect of this identity that receives far less discussion: namely, do we see Africans as male?.
All-male elections at the African Union highlighted the exclusion of talented women from power.
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