Nobel Prize campaign for African women !!

(Above is Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maatha in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded with the Nobel peace prize since it was created in 1901)

 The Italian Cooperation is working with over 30 local authorities and hundreds of personalities from the Italian and international institutional, cultural and entertainment worlds and civil society on a campaign to promote the group candidacy of African women for the Nobel Peace Prize.... I hope this passes...,a board of honoring the strong African Women who are really doing something for Afriiiika (i like to say it like that) I hope it wont be biased or limited, and I really hope its global and doesnt only limit itself to African women in Europa or so...
The Nobel Peace Prize for African Women (NOPPAW) campaign sponsored by Solidarietà e Cooperazione Cipsi and ChiAma l’Africa with the support of the foreign ministry’s DGCS and Minister Franco Frattini, is organising dozens of events around Italy to spotlight African women’s growing role in the continent’s daily life.

“African women are the continent’s compelling leaders, both in daily life and in social and political activities,” asserted Guido Barbera, President of Solidarietà e Cooperazione Cipsi. “Africa stands on their feet. Female entrepreneurs, politicians, promoters of rights, health, peace and co-existence; it is impossible to imagine the future of Africa without picturing the many ordinary women who carry the weight of this land every day, taking on its tragedies and bearing its hopes”.


“Today,” continued Eugenio Melandri, spokesperson for ChiAma l’Africa, “it is no longer enough to say or write that African women are wonderful, if their daily efforts to redeem the fate of their peoples are not met with the national and international political will to recognise them. The Nobel Peace Prize is one small attempt at letting each of them know that Africa is going to win this wager only thanks to them”.