The country’s top three political positions – Prime Minister, Finance minister, and Foreign minister – are now occupied by women. Within Wikipedia itself, white women are better covered than women of colour. And when you break it down further, African Americans in history, are covered far better than African women. OBSCURE FIGURESI have been doing a project of both the famous and obscure figures in African popular history over the last year, and I was gobsmacked to realise that thoroughbred horses are better profiled in terms of depth than African women on Wikipedia. Thus when you read history, many birth dates of women in African history are not known, but that of the majority of men is recorded.

Source: Daily Nation October 25, 2017 20:17 UTC