Local non-profit helps Kenyan women break through the glass ceiling
Education is a crucial challenge for many throughout Africa - particularly for girls. And there's a trickle-down effect: African women are severely underrepresented in decision-making positions on the continent. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa, women hold less than 18% of parliamentary seats.
University of San Francisco political science professor Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg wants to change that. The Kenyan, who earned her PhD here in the U.S., wants to ensure more girls from her native country get the education they need to become leaders in their communities. So she founded Akili Dada , an organization based in both Nairobi, Kenya, and Belmont, California, that provides full scholarships to the poorest but smartest girls in the country. Akili Dada in Swahili means "sisters in intellect."
Professor Mathau-Rutenberg joined KALW's Hana Baba to talk about U.S. philanthropy in Africa and Akili Dada.
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WANJIRU KAMAU-RUTENBERG: There's a way in which perhaps conversation in the U.S. about philanthropy positions Africans, in particular, as passive victims. Africans can only be recipients of aid. And when it comes to who thinks about what kind of aid and what it should look like, well, you know, we come up with the ideas over here. Well, that's not really worked, so how can we move that along and get to a place where there's more of an even conversation? I'm really invested in that. I'm really passionate about that space. Because it's a space that I occupy and I want to see better. Not just as Akili Dada's founder and director, because it impacts my organization, but just as an African and as an American. Think about the United States. Women make, what, 75 cents to the dollar? It's much less across the continent, the African continent. Certainly in Kenya, women make much less compared to men for the same work. So, when you're a family and you've got limited resources and you've got to pick who to invest in. It's really an economic decision to say, "Let's send the boy to school because he's going to make more." So, yes, it's cultural, but this is real economics underlying the decisions that families make. And that's where my kind of thinking of how we do philanthropy is really about trying to get beyond the hype and really trying to look at decisions that families make.
HANA BABA: Here are some numbers from your website, as a matter of fact, that in Kenya, women constitute a mere 0.5% of top management in government ministries. They constitute 1.3% of top management in state corporations. And in Parliament, National Assemblies Parliament, right, it's 10%. Many countries have their reasons for why women aren't predominant in leadership positions. Tell me about some of the reasons in Kenya.
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The night I was in the Sahara
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I liked these pictures alot, I really like these places that people take care of the atmosphere of it not just the quality of food.
I wonder what was that song that fitted the place , because you said it was softly played.
I am in love with this kind of fooooooooood , I guess that rice and chicken meal is called Mandy ,right ? I am not sure but they serve the Mandy with that tomato sauce , and sometimes it's spicy. I don't have that expecince in Arabian food I just like to eat them
By the way , the decore of that place is from many countries and from many cultures,for example these red hats -we call it Tarboush- hanged on the wall beside these musical instruments are from old Egyptian cultures which was originally Turkish , but for a second it revealed that you were in Morocco or something because they still have it there , while the rest of decore reveals you are in another countries , but the colors of the cloths they used were a great choice , they revealed really you are in sahara
And this coffe looks like Egyptian coffee also by the way , which is really different from coffe most of people know. But it's nice.
It was a good tour you took us in, Myra.
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