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Today is Friday, July 14th, A.D. 2023. This is The Africa Review in Five, written by Paul Schlehlein and presented by Yamikani Katunga
The Rotten Fruit from Affirmative Action
This month marks the 20th anniversary that the Maputo Protocol was adopted, a women-specific document urging affirmative action on behalf of females in Africa.
This document lists a number of women’s rights, including the right not to be discriminated against, which according to this document, means that “states are required to integrate a gender perspective in their policy decisions.”
Here we see again the evils of affirmative action at play, this time not in relation to race but to gender. This is not about equal opportunity. It is about forcing equality.
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