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Cry Like a Boy. Masculinity in conversation : Burundi. Part 1. - Copyright © africanews Cry Like A Boy By Khopotso Bodibe, Clarisse Shaka Last updated: 12/03 - 16:06 A group of men in Burundi is going against tradition to support and empower women by raising men's awareness of gender-based violence. The community is called the Abatangamuco, meaning "those who shed light" i...
As part of its #CryLikeaBoy series, Euronews follows up the publication of two exclusive podcast documentaries with this video testimony that sheds a unique light on the plight of Lesotho's mining families. @ejcnet #podcast
Cry like a Boy: because being tough all the time hurts 16/02/2021By Euronews From Burundi to Senegal, from Liberia to Lesotho, travel with us across Africa to discover the stories of men buckling under the pressure to conform to traditional male gender roles, and meet those who are defying centuries of stereotypes. Don’t show your emotions, be strong, be the breadwinner, don’t let a woman tell you what to do, be aggressive, don’t express your fears: these phrases are drummed into many men’s heads from childhood, telling them how to behave like “real men” The problem with these a...
There's an impoverished mountainous district of Lesotho where many illegal mineworkers live with their families. But women often wait there for their husbands for months and sometimes years. Many of the illegal mineworkers work in clandestine and abandoned mines in South Africa, run by criminal gangs. Some left to provide for their families, some died trying. In this second episode of our podcast series set in Lesotho, we talk about the fate of the people left behind by those men tasked by their families to provide, tasked to be breadwinners. Lesotho is the African country where families are ...
Is a man who cooks for his wife submissive? Is a husband supposed to be "king of the house" or a caring partner? How far does a man have to go to prove his "manhood?" In Burundi, husband Innocent came to the realisation that abusing and betraying his wife was ruining their lives. They were already facing challenges as they were in the grips of poverty. Innocent was preventing his wife Capitoline from not just being happy but from achieving her potential. "When you do that, you hinder her development," he said. Innocent's revelation turned his life upside down and for the better as he began to...