SURVEYING the plethora of problems faced by women in Africa, Marie-Claire Faray-Kele and the Women's International League for Peace (WILPF) argue that while divided in the diversity of their backgrounds, African women are united in their collective voice. Highlighting the detrimental role of spurious assumptions about 'tradition' in preventing women from speaking for themselves, the authors state that overcoming gender inequality represents the key solution for tackling poverty on the continent and allowing the wisdom of Africa's women to be harnessed.

DEVELOPMENT of women football is an issue that has been widely talked about in the media and though there seems to be gradual progress taking place, a look at Bauleni United, a Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) women’s league team which boasts of having young, skillful and disciplined players will show you how eager the girls are prepared to make this development a life-long reality.

I witnessed the team in action when they played a friendly game against American school where Bauleni emerged 4-1 winners recently.

Bauleni clad in a black and white stripe tutored the Americans on their neat playing surface while executing well calculated moves that resulted into classic goals.

Team coach, Kangwa Kaluba says the team has made a lot of strides since it’s formation in 2002 under the sports for all programme in the Lusaka Province Women Football League (LPWF) played at district level.
The budding team has accumulated a number of accolades which includes being crowned champions of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2004.